pokemon adventure

chapter ninety seven

Chapter 97

Gardenia Contest,

Ash Meets Anabel

And The Battle Tower

After leaving a city, the gang had come to a place called Gardenia Town. A pokemon contest was being held here and May wished to enter to earn her fourth ribbon. This time May had decided to use Eevee in the contest. Eevee had learned some new moves thanks to Ash's Eevees; it had learned dig, swift, headbutt, quick attack and bite. "Your Eevee looks ready for a pokemon contest at last May" said Ash. "You're right Ash and I have your Eevees to thank" said May. "No problem" said Ash. "Hey Ash I've been meaning to ask you, what are your two Eevee's going to evolve to?" said May. "I'll be evolving them into Glaceon and Leafeon" answered Ash. He showed May a Glaceon and Leafeon on his pokedex. "Wow they look amazing," said May "I wonder which one I should evolve my Eevee to?" "My advice is to ask Eevee what it wants to evolve to, but wait till it's strong enough to evolve first" said Ash. May clearly understood that Eevee was nowhere near ready to evolve yet.

Just then a woman came up to May. Her name was Yuma and she was a pokemon breeder and a former winner of the grand festival. Yuma had come to see the pokemon contest in Gardenia Town to find new coordinators to pass her coordinator skills to.

It was soon time for the pokemon contest to begin. Yuma sat in the audience seat next to Ash, Brock, Tomo and Max. Lilian did the usual introductions and showed off the Gardenia Ribbon. The Gardenia Ribbon was a bow shape ribbon and it was lavender colored with a white outline. Next the appeal round began to start. The first coordinator was a girl named Mollie and this was her first contest. Mollie's pokemon was a Raticate and it used hyper fang on a block of wood Mollie tossed to it. It gave off a good demonstration of Raticate's teeth. Next was May's turn and she used Squirtle. First Squirtle used rapid spin, which created a little sand storm. Then he did bubble and created a pyramid of bubbles, and last of all he did ice beam which burst the bubbles and created a big icy pillar. More pokemon showed off after May until the appeal round was over. The final results were eight trainers were to move on to the battle rounds and May was one of them. Yuma had been watching carefully at the coordinators and their pokemon.

Mollie, who also passed the appeal round, battled first with an Absol. Her opponent was a boy named Humphrey and he owned a Marshtomp. Absol started off with razor wind, but Marshtomp dodge the attack. Absol then went in with a quick attack, but Marshtomp made Absol slip with mud shot and then Marshtomp struck Absol with water gun. Poor Absol fainted on the spot after being hit by the water gun attack. "You can tell that girl Mollie is a starting coordinator" said Ash. "Yeah because she was taken down in an instant like May did when she started" said Brock.

May went on to defeating her opponents one by one with her Eevee, until at last she had to battle Humphrey in the final round. Eevee started off with using shadow ball but Marshtomp used protect, preventing shadow ball from hitting Marshtomp. Marshtomp fought back with mud shot, but Eevee used dig to dodge it. That was a bad idea though; Marshtomp had the ability to feel and sense where Eevee was in the ground thanks to its fin. As soon as Eevee came out of the hole, Marshtomp tackled it. "Oh man and Eevee just learnt dig too" said Max. "Yeah but its second new move swift will work" Ash pointed out. May told Eevee to use swift and Marshtomp got hit by the stars. Marshtomp fought back with water gun and Eevee dodged it. Then Marshtomp used mud shot multiple times on the ground and the ground became muddy. This was difficult for Eevee now because the mud was too slippery and thick so using attacks like tackle or quick attack was useless. Eevee used swift and Marshtomp used water gun to counter it. Eevee used shadow ball next and Marshtomp got hit by it. The battle was getting intense between May and Humphrey. Marshtomp then used mud shot, but Eevee was able to dodge it. Even with the muddy ground, Eevee could still dodge attacks. Eevee used shadow ball again and Marshtomp countered it with water gun.