1.Ash's Story (Part 3: Hoenn)

Chapter 12

We're riding on Mr. Briney's boat as we arrive at Route 109, which leads to Slateport City. Before we even found him, he said to us, "Oho! It looks as though you have delivered your chit well and properly. Ah, but that reminds me! I've had a message from President Stone, saying he has another favor to ask."

"What kind of favor?" Alice asked.

"It's about them Devon Parts that you recovered for him before. Seems as though they should go to some fellow called Stern at Slateport's shipyard. This old seadog will see you there safely! Weigh anchors! We're for Slateport!"

And that's how we're now at Route 109. Mr. Briney says, "Ahoy! We've made land in Slateport! I suppose you're off to visit Captain Stern and deliver those Devon Parts?"

"Yeah, but we should explore the Slateport City first." I say.

And it turns out that there is a Contest holding in Slateport City, so everyone is psyched up in the Pokemon Center, that also includes May.

"There are still two more weeks before the Pokemon Contest opens." Alice says after looking at the schedule.

"I guess everyone comes here early to have some Contest practice." Mark says. "And two weeks actually is a long time."

Then we decided to do some practice, and we decided to go to the beach. May tries to practice with Beautifly's Silver Wind. I say, "Wow, that's pretty good!"

But May spins too much as she falls to the ground, and then we decide to use frisbees to practice Beautifly's Gust, but the attack causes a giant sand wave that covers all of us. In the end, we decided to find another secluded place.

After failing another Silver Wind, we decided to continue with the frisbees, May managed to get two of them but failed to get the third one, which was caught by a green-haired boy.

"I'm sorry!" May says.

"Please don't tell me you're entering the Pokemon Contest with a cheesy act like that." The boy says while throwing back the frisbee.

May gets mad as the Frisbee is thrown at her feet. The boy jumps down and May angrily introduces herself. "My name is Drew, a Pokemon Coordinator."

"Really? That's just like us." I say, and Drew walks towards me. "Ash Ketchum, the winner of the Johto Grand Festival last year, right? It is a pleasure to meet you."

"Same here." I say as we shake hands, "Compared to your Pokemon, that girl's Pokemon has no style."

"Hey! You can make fun of me all you want but don't you dare making fun of my Pokemon!" May yells.

"Just calm down, little girl." Drew says.

"So Drew, right? Why don't you show what you got?" I ask.

"Why should I do it now? I know that you're also participating in the Hoenn Contest, too. How about I show you then?" Drew says to me, and I sigh, and it seems that Drew and May have a great rivalry against each other.

And since we realize we're trespassing on a private beach, so we decide to leave for another place. But just as we are looking around, we notice some people running and saying, "Hey! That's Lisia and Ali doing a shoot over there!"

"Are you serious?! Lisia! Let's go!"

The four of us perk up the names and Minami says, "Are they serious? Lisia is here?"

"Let's go check it out." I say.

As we rush to the Contest Hall, we see that Lisia is there with Ali the Altaria. She says, "Hiiiiii, ev-er-y-bo-dy! Lisia here! Me and my Altaria, Ali, have come to Slateport City's Contest Spectacular Hall for a bit of FUN!"