pokemon adventure

chapter ninety nine

Chapter 99

Mulberry Contest,

Back at the Pewter Gym

And the King of Pokelantis

May was feeling under pressured today. The gang had come to a city called Mulberry City and there was a pokemon contest there. Bad news was this was the final pokemon contest being held in the Kanto region; so May had to win the ribbon here otherwise she wouldn't be able to enter the Kanto Grand Festival. Since Ash already had five ribbons he offered to help May train for this pokemon contest and May agreed. Another unfortunate thing for May is that Harley was there. Harley had already earned five ribbons for the Kanto Grand Festival, and since May still needed just one more Harley helped himself to picking on May for that. This of course maid May very cross with Harley and she vowed to get her fifth ribbon, and deal with Harley at the grand festival like she did at the Hoenn Grand Festival.

After doing some last training with Ash, May made her way to the waiting room in the contest hall while the others took their seats in the audience. May soon found out the other competitors in the waiting room also needed just one more ribbon like she did, so she really needed to give it her all in this last pokemon contest.

Now the pokemon contest started. Lillian did the usual introductions and showed off the Mulberry Ribbon. The Mulberry Ribbon was a gift bow and it was pink with a white outline. Harley was watching the audience seat, but he was hoping and cursing that May would lose and not earn the last ribbon. The thing with Harley not liking May was back when he was in kindergarten a girl that looked just like May ate his octopus shaped wiener without his permission. He was so upset by that and ever since then he has hated doppelgangers of that girl ever since, and sadly May was one of them. Harley was not the only watching the contest, Drew was too. He wanted to see if May would win her last ribbon here.

The appeal rounds started. All the competitors gave their all in this round since this was their last chance to earn a fifth ribbon. Soon it was May's turn and she was using her Combusken in the appeal rounds. She started off with Combusken showing his mega kick attack, then Combusken created a fiery tornado with fire spin and last of all May tossed a frisbee to Combusken and Combusken used sky uppercut to finish.

After the appeal round was over, the results came and May made it to the battle rounds. "Great, May made it to the second round" said Max. "She better watch it though," said Ash "since this is the last pokemon contest before the grand festival the other coordinators will be giving their all in the battle rounds too". The others saw the point. Harley was not happy that May made it to the second round and he hoped she would lose in the second round. Drew kept on watching.

Ash was right about the second rounds; the other coordinators were fighting their hardest to get to the finals. May was first up against an opponent who used a Skarmory and she was using Squirtle. Skarmory started with steel wing, but Squirtle used a fast rapid spin and Skarmory was bounced off when it tried to hit Squirtle with steel wing. It was almost like using the move counter. May then ordered Squirtle to use ice beam but Skarmory dodge it. Skarmory then attacked with swift, but Squirtle countered it with bubble attack. Soon the time was up and May had more points than her opponent, so May won the first battle round.

The battles went on until at last it was the final round. May had made it to the finals and just needed to defeat one more opponent. Her opponent was a woman named Janet and she was using a Banette. Bad news was Banette knew the move thunder, which was trouble for Squirtle. But as Squirtle knew protect, Banette was in trouble too. Banette fought hard with thunder, will o wisp and frustration, and Squirtle fought hard with ice beam, bubble, protect and bite. The fight went on and on until at last Squirtle took Banette down with a water gun attack. So May was the winner of the Mulberry Contest and she won her fifth ribbon at last. Harley was frustrated by this and he vowed to defeat May at the Kanto Grand Festival.