pokemon adventure

chapter thirty eight

Chapter 38

The Fishing Contest, The Beauty Contest,

And the Grass pokemon tournament

Today the gang were at a stream and Misty was training her Goldeen. Misty hardly had that much of a chance to train Goldeen, because usually she had been in towns, cities and other places that didn't have any places for Goldeen to swim. Misty's Goldeen was actually quite strong for a fish type pokemon; she battled really well in the water and she knew many moves; peck, horn attack, fury attack, flail, water fall, ice beam, agility, supersonic, horn drill, aqua ring, mega horn and poison jab. She also had the egg move hydro pump. So even though Misty's Goldeen didn't look much, she was a good battler. Suddenly Goldeen started to glow and then she evolved into a Seaking. "Wow Seaking," said Misty "you look more magnificent than ever". "I've got to say Misty," said Brock "all of your water pokemon are looking greater every time you train them". "Thanks Brock and I am proud of all of them," said Misty. Right now she has Staryu, Totodile, Seaking and her two Poliwhirls. "Are you going to evolve your two Poliwhirls into Politoed yet Misty?" asked Ash. "No not yet," replied Misty "I think they still need some more experience before they evolve''.

Suddenly a Poliwrath came out of nowhere and punched one of Misty's Poliwhirl really hard. "Hey what did you do that for?" demanded Misty, tending to her Poliwhirl. "Because that Poliwhirl of yours is a wimp" said a voice. The voice belonged to a boy, with blue-green hair, and he was carrying a fishing rod. "How dare you call my Poliwhirl a wimp!" shouted Misty. "Well it is your wimp," said the boy "and so are your other Poliwhirl, your Staryu and your Totodile. None of them have evolved yet". "Hey just because they hadn't evolved, that does not mean that they aren't great pokemon" said Ash. "That's right;" said Brock "pokemon can be strong even without evolving". "Whatever" scoffed the boy. Apparently he was one of those trainers that believe that pokemon are only strong when they evolve. Misty wanted to battle him, but the boy said he had business to do and walked off with his Poliwrath. "That little brat!" growled Misty.

The gang were just about to walk down a road, when they noticed a lot of people with fishing rods. "I wonder what's going on," said Ash. He asked one of the fishermen what was up. "The Seaking catching contest is on today" said the fisherman. "Seaking catching contest huh?" said Ash "that sounds interesting, let's check it out". Tomo, Misty and Brock agreed to that idea. The Seaking competition was held at a gigantic lake and lots of people, with fishing rods, were there. A man, who was in charge, explained the rules; 1. Those who were entering the competition needed to use only one pokemon to help the fisherman catch the biggest Seaking they could find. 2. They could use any rod, reel, lure and bait they wanted to. 3. They only used one pokeball called a lake ball to catch the Seaking. The lake ball was a green, blue, white and yellow poke ball. 4. After the time was up they all had to have their Seaking weighed to see who wins. Ash thought that this was nearly a bit like the bug catching contest, but different. The first prize was a gold trophy and lots of chocolate bars.

Just then they saw the rude Poliwrath trainer, which they met earlier. Apparently the trainer's name was Andreas and he had won the Seaking catching competition lots of times before. Misty wasn't impressed; she was still angry at him for insulting her Poliwhirls. "I'm going to defeat him in this Seaking catching competition," she said "I have been fishing ever since I learnt to walk. And I am going to make that brat pay for insulting my pokemon". Misty signed up with one of her Poliwhirls at once and Ash signed up with Pikachu. Brock and Tomo decided to just watch Ash and Misty compete in the competition. They found a motor boat, got their rods ready and soon it was time for the competition to start.

Brock drove the motor boat to a fishing spot by Misty's direction. Misty knew exactly where the perfect spots for fishing were, having to have fished millions of times in the past. So far Ash and Misty haven't caught anything yet; fishing always took time. Andreas had caught a big Seaking, but he let it go again. What Andreas did was that after catching a Seaking, he would release it and go after another Seaking but bigger. Misty wasn't willing to give up; she was desperate to defeat Andreas.