One day Ember was going to do some training with her two Aipoms (Shantae and Luffy), and she had Cobalt (Lucario) with her too. "Okay Shantae, Luffy," she said, "You two are going to learn Thunder Punch, Fire Punch and Ice Punch from Cobalt today."
Cobalt demonstrated the three punches and the Aipoms became eager to learn them. It was then Brock asked if his Croagunk would take part too because it could learn Ice and Thunder Punch too. So Cobalt had a lot of students to teach.
While Cobalt's teaching was going on, Dawn noticed a mini poster talking about an unofficial Pokémon contest at a Pokémon festival in a village not far from where they were. Instead of getting a ribbon, the winner of the contest got a year's supply of fruit. Dawn decided to enter with Pachirisu because it hasn't had a chance to shine yet. She showed it to Ember. "Want to take part too, Ember?" she asked.
Ember had a look at it. Shantae jumped onto Ember's shoulder.
"What's up Shantae, do you want to participate in this?" Ember questioned.
Shantae nodded yes.
"You really like contests don't you, Shantae?" Dawn asked.
Shantae jumped onto Dawn's shoulder.
"That's a yes." Alain confirmed.
Ember started at Dawn and Shantae, 'They look great together.' she thought.
Soon the gang came to the village where the festival was, with lots of stalls set up. Ember and Dawn signed up for the contest at once. Since there was time before the contest, the gang had some quick fun with the game stalls. Then it was time for the contest. Nurse Joy and the village chief were to be the judges. The chief showed off lots of bunches of bananas that were the prize for the winner. Then Nurse Joy pronounced the contest to begin.
Dawn, who was dressed in her contest dress, was up first. She sent out Pachirisu with a heart seal. Unfortunately, since this was the first contest for Pachirisu, he was nervous.
"Calm down Pachirisu, and you will be fine," Dawn assured Pachirisu, "now use Sweet Kiss."
Pachirisu blew a Sweet Kiss attack and the villagers fell in love with it. The Pachirisu used Spark, which created flower shaped sparks. To finish it off Pachirisu tried to use Discharge, but it ended up shocking the audience by accident. It looked like Pachirisu had a lot of electrical training to do.
Other coordinators were up after Dawn, but they were real amateurs, and the Pokémon didn't shine at all during their performances. Last up was Ember; she was wearing her normal clothes. She sent out Shantae (Aipom) with a party seal. They started off with Swift and then Shantae used Focus Punch to break the stars into particles. Then Ember told Shantae to use Double Team and Swift. The Shantae copies joined together in a circle and when she used Swift it created a big circle of stars. The audience loved it.
After the appeal round, only two people could make it into the battle round and Ember and Dawn were the two. Dawn sent out Pachirisu with a heart seal and Ember sent out Shantae with a party seal.
"Okay Pachirisu, use Spark!" Dawn ordered.
"Dodge that with Bounce, Shantae!" Shantae jumped to dodge Pachirisu's Spark attack and then hit it with her legs. "Now Double Team!" Shantae formed a line with copies of herself, while Pachirisu just looked helpless.
"Use Discharge on all the Shantae, Pachirisu!" Pachirisu fired a Discharge attack, but the Shantae used Swift to counter the attack. The Swift attack turned into a shower of stars and Dawn was losing more and more points while Ember still had all her points.
"Now Focus Punch, Shantae!" Shantae punched Pachirisu very hard, and then Pachirisu fainted.
So Ember became the winner of the Pokémon contest and was given the fruit as a prize. As there was way too much fruit for the gang to carry, they decided to share it with everyone. So everyone at the festival tucked into the fruit and the Pokémon had some too and they thanked Ember for sharing the fruit. Today had been a fun day for the gang and thanks to Cobalt; Luffy and Shantae learned Fire, Ice and Thunder Punch and Croagunk learnt Ice and Thunder Punch.
Pokémon Caught:
Ember: Shiny Piplup (Triton)(M), Budew (Hana)(F), Shinx (Raji)(M), Shiny Buneary (Usagi)(F), Staravia (Sora)(F), Burmy (Plant Cloak)(Liko)(M), Shiny Ariados (Arachne)(F), Turtwig (Silas)(M), Shiny Cranidos (Garnet)(F), Shieldon (Bertrand)(M), Pachirisu (Maizy)(F)
Alain: Staravia (M), Ariados (M), Cranidos (M), Shiny Shieldon (F)
Brock: Croagunk (M), Nuzleaf (M), Cranidos (M), Shieldon (M)
Dawn: Piplup (M), Burmy (Plant Cloak Form)(F), Buneary (F), Pokémon Egg, Shiny Pachirisu (M)
