pokemon adventure

chapter hundred forty - eight

Chapter 148

Piplup's choice,

The Sandalstraw Contest

And Pokemon Ping pong

One day the gang came to Sandalstraw Town and Dawn of course wanted to train for the pokemon contest right away. She released her other five pokemon; Ambipom, Cherrim, Clefairy, Chatot and Drifloon. Ash decided to enter this contest too and he sent out Snover, Zangoose, Prinplup, Luxio and Roselia. "Okay everyone it's training day for the pokemon contest," said Dawn "and I'm going for my fifth ribbon". As Ash had three ribbons this ribbon would be his fourth. Just then Piplup started to feel giddy and fell over. "Piplup are you okay?" asked Dawn. Piplup pointed out that he was okay, but Dawn wasn't sure about that.

Suddenly somebody ran into Ash; it was Barry. Barry had come to Sandalstraw Town too and so had Kenny. "I take it you two are here to enter the Sandalstraw Contest too right Ash and Dawn?" asked Kenny. "Of course" replied Dawn. "Oh so you know these guys Kenny?" asked Barry. Kenny explained to Barry that he knew Dawn and met Ash, Brock and Tomo the first time in Floaroma Town. Barry then explained he met Kenny some time ago and he also explained he was in Sandalstraw Town because of a pokemon ping ball tournament. Pokemon ping ball was a sport when pokemon and people play ping pong together in a group. "That sounds fun" said Ash. Barry released his Empoleon to show off that they were ready for the tournament.

Suddenly Piplup started to glow. This meant Piplup was close to evolving. But then Piplup started to use bide and the glowing stopped and then he collapsed from exhaustion. "Oh no Piplup what's wrong?" asked Dawn, holding Piplup in her arms. "We need to take Piplup to Nurse Joy right away" said Brock. It wasn't long till Piplup was being treated by Nurse Joy. "Is Piplup going to be okay?" Dawn asked, worriedly. "No need to worry Dawn," said Nurse Joy "Piplup will be just fine, it just needs plenty of rest now". Dawn was relieved to hear that.

While Piplup was recovering, the group had dinner in the cafeteria. Dawn was talking about how she surprised and excited she felt that Piplup was closer to evolving. Barry and Kenny talked to Dawn about how different it was to train, battle and do contests when Piplup evolves to Prinplup and then Empoleon. Even Ash reminded her of what his Prinplup and Grotle were like when they evolved from their previous forms. "Hey no need to worry," said Dawn "I went through that with Swinub when it evolved to Piloswine and then Mamoswine". "Uh even though he was disobedient when he evolved?" teased Tomo. "Hey that's over now thank you Tomo" said Dawn, crossly. The others giggled. Brock was thinking though; he was wondering why Piplup used bide to stop itself from evolving.

That night Piplup had recovered and he couldn't get back to sleep. The thing was he was imagining himself as a Prinplup, while looking at his reflection in a window. But he didn't want that; he wanted to stay as Piplup. Just then Dawn came in with some food for Piplup. "Hey Piplup," said Dawn "I'm sorry I didn't notice that you were going to evolve. But isn't it great? Soon you will become a Prinplup and that's awesome". Piplup chirped out loud trying to tell Dawn that he didn't want to evolve, but Dawn didn't understand. "No need to worry Piplup," said Dawn "it's natural to be scared but I'm going to be right here with you when you do evolve". Again Piplup tried to tell Dawn that he didn't want to evolve, but she still didn't understand. "Calm down Piplup you still need to rest from your exhaustion" said Dawn.

Suddenly Piplup started to glow again. "Oh that glow again," said Dawn "this time let your evolution happen okay Piplup?" But Piplup used bide again to stop the evolution. "Piplup why do you use bide to stop evolving?" asked Dawn. She tried to tell Piplup of all the wonderful things he could do as a Prinplup, but Piplup got angry. He was angry that Dawn didn't understand his feelings. Piplup opened the window, jumped out of it and ran off. "Piplup come back!" shouted Dawn. She ran after him at once.