3. RPA High

The Knight Challenge Part 4

Ash and his classmates finally arrive at Fiero City, the city which is surrounded by volcanos. May wipes her sweat on her forehead and she asks, "Is this place really that hot? I feel like my body is going to melt from this heat..."

Alice says, "This place sure is hot to tell you the truth. This is where the volcanoes of the region are, and this place is also famous for its hot spring resorts."

"Hot springs? Can we get in one?" Dawn asks excitedly.

"We are here for the Knight Challenge, not for playing." Misty says irritatingly, ever since the four of them betray their group, Misty and the others have been angry at them, but the other four just ignores their anger.

"Sure, Dawn." Ash ignores the orange-haired girl. "So the ones that are challenging the Fire Trial are Trip, Dawn, Serena, Gladion, and Emily. Now please come with us and I'll take you to the trial ground."

As the boys are taking Trip and Gladion to the males' only hot springs, Lillie takes the girls to the females' only ones.

"So we are doing the challenge in the hot spring?" Serena asks after they take off their clothes and wrapped in towels.

"Yes." Minami says. "And since boys and girls should be in the different pools., so Lillie will be helping you with the challenge instead."

Lillie brings some eggs and some pans that are seen on the stoves, and she says, "Helen is the one that creates the challenge, as she is a chef. The first task is quite tricky, as you need to use the hot produced from the hot springs to fry the egg."

Emily asks, "Fry an egg inside of the hot spring? That is new."

"It is new indeed." Golly says. "You can send out your Fire Type Pokemon for help, but you can't let them use moves since that might be considered cheating."

Dawn sends out Typhlosion, Serena sends out Delphox and Emily sends out Magmortar to help to fry the egg in the pan, they also watch out as they don't let them fall into the pool.

"How about this?" Serena asks once she finishes frying the egg into a sunny side up, she shows it to Lillie. Lillie smiles, "That looks delicious, I am sure that you cooked a perfect egg."

After Emily and Dawn are finished, Alice then takes out three big candles and a small raft. "Now the second one is the hardest task. Even though hot springs are hot, they are still made from water, and they can stop the flames. So what you need to do is to make sure that the candles stay on the raft floating within a minute without the flames put off."

"It really sounds hard..." Serena says, and at the same time, Misty and Iris are talking about something. "Since we aren't going to challenge the task and the fact that Dawn betrayed us, how about we ruin their challenge?"

"So that they won't be able to get those badges and we will be stronger. That is a good idea." Iris says as they have smirks on their faces. But their conversation is heard by May, Minami, and the others, as they are not going to let them ruin their challenge.

"Now start." Lillie says as the three rafts start to float. But after 30 seconds, Misty and Iris start to send waves to their candles. May and Golly send out Blastoise and Jellicent to block the two of them from getting closer to the raft and the waves made by them.

"Hey! What is that for?" Misty yells.

"It is my line, you won't be ruining their challenge." May says with an angry tone. "That is so low of you."

"I thought you are on our side!" Iris says.

"You are still little kids, don't you know the tides change?" Golly says, "At least she knows her errors and you don't. That makes you better than you guys."