[4] The Daughter of Nurse Joy: Hoenn Adventure

The Hoenn Grand Festival

It wasn't long till the gangs finally made it to Slateport City, where the Hoenn Grand Festival was being placed. And they made it to the area where the stadium for the Grand Festival stood.

"Wow," May awed, "I can't believe that we're really here at the Hoenn Grand Festival stadium."

Cora laughed, "We're here all right." 

There were hotels and restaurants surrounding the stadium and they were where the contestants and their guests were going to stay and eat during the Hoenn Grand Festival.

"With us being here all ready, it feels like only yesterday that we started collecting ribbons, May." Cora commented.

"You're right, Cora." May agreed.

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The gang headed for the contest hall, where Cora and May had to register. The lady at the desk scanned Cora's ribbons and registered her in with her Rotom phone and did the same for May with her Pokédex. Then she gave them both a guidebook which explained the rules of the contest tournament and had maps of the stadium and where restaurants were.

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After the registering was done, the gang headed over to the door rooms, where they would be staying. The door rooms were outside the stadium, and surprisingly enough they were so big they were like hotels.

"Wow, I can't believe that we'll be staying here." May beamed happily.

"You should see what the dorm rooms are like that the Pokémon leagues." Alain commented.

"Yeah, those rooms were glamorous as well." Brock agreed.

"Surprise!" A female voice spoke out behind May which caused her to scream.

Everyone turned to female voice and were surprised who it was; it was Caroline.

"Mom?! What are you doing here?!" May gasped.

"Well I'm here to see my daughter participate in the Hoenn Grand Festival." Caroline answered, smiling.

"Is dad here too?" Max asked.

"He wanted to come too but he couldn't leave the gym. Although he did say he would watch it all on TV." Caroline replied.

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Caroline and the gangs checked out the rooms they were staying in.

"So what are the rules for this tournament, Cora?" Mairin asked.

Alain took a good look through the guidebook and looked at the rules. "Well for starters," he began, "like the Rubello Contest you use different Pokémon in each round of the tournament. Second you have to pass the preliminary rounds to get into the main tournament and get this; only 64 trainers out of 247 trainers will pass the preliminaries."

Cora and Mairin were surprised by that.

"Well then, I'll have to practice then." Cora decided.

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Cora and May decided to practice for the preliminary rounds at once since they wanted to pass the preliminary rounds. So everyone went outside so Cora and May could figure what to do. 

Just then at that moment Drew walked up to the gang.

"I see you made it here huh May?" Drew asked.

"Yes, Drew I did," May replied, "and so did Cora."

She and Cora showed Drew their five ribbons.

"Impressive, but I doubt you'll be going home with the Ribbon Cup." Drew taunted.