pokemon adventure

chapter hundred fifty six

Chapter 156

Dawn's double training,

The Draco-meteor Tutor

And Ash vs Barry again

There were two big bits of news going around the Sinnoh region. The first big news was Team Galactic's defeat. The commanders Saturn, Mars and Jupiter were condemned to stay in jail for life for stealing the meteorites from Veilstone city, stealing the adamant and lustrous orbs from the Eterna and Celestic museums, nearly trying to destroy Iron island and for nearly trying to destroy the whole world. Charon was jailed for life too and so were the grunts. Looker and the police shut down Team Galactic's headquarters on Mt Coronet so everything to do with Team Galactic was all over now. As Cyrus had gone to another dimension he was no threat anymore either. The second big news was Pokemon Hunter J's death. The police had divers and water pokemon dive into Lake Valor to see if they could find Hunter J or her crew. The ship was completely destroyed when it exploded in the lake after Mespirit and Uxie made it fall into the lake, and they found Hunter J and her crew all dead. So Sinnoh was not only free from Team Galactic, it was also free from Hunter J at last and no one was missing the villains one bit.

One day the gang were visiting a town called Brussel Town because Zoey was entering a pokemon contest there to earn her fifth ribbon. But they weren't the only ones there; Candice was there watching Zoey too. "Candice what are you doing here?" said Dawn "shouldn't you be at the gym?" "I haven't had any challengers lately so I decided to come here once I heard Zo-Zo was going to participate in this contest for her fifth ribbon," said Candice "so Dawn why didn't you compete?" "I'm entering the pokemon contest in Daybreak Town," said Dawn "and when I heard Zoey was competing here for her fifth ribbon I had to come and watch". "What a nice friend you there" smiled Candice. It wasn't long till Zoey defeated her final opponent and won her fifth ribbon. The Brussel Ribbon was green with white outlines. Candice and the gang congratulated Zoey at once because she was qualified to enter the grand festival.

To celebrate Zoey's victory Candice held a sweets party for her; there was ice cream, cakes and puddings for everyone. "So Dawn how have you been doing?" asked Zoey. "I've been working hard" said Dawn. "Dawn said she was competing in the Daybreak contest" said Candice. "oh that one is a double performance and double battle" said Zoey. "That's right," said Dawn "because I messed up at the double performance at the Hearthome contest I felt I really wanted to jump back in and challenge myself one more time for a battle performance. After all Zoey you did say to me back then that if you want to improve you should never be satisfied with where you are". "That's good you remembered," said Zoey "I look forward to seeing you at the grand festival".

Suddenly Tomo ended up crying in pain because his tongue was feeling very hot. He gulped down some water at once. "Phew this ice cream bar is spicy" said Tomo. "That's because this is a Snowpoint tomato berry ice cream bar," said Candice "it has yummy ice cream on the outside, with a tomato berry jelly on the inside". "No wonder it's spicy" said Tomo, remembering how spicy a tomato berry was. "Why would you fill an ice cream bar with that?" asked Dawn. "Well sometimes certain things you didn't think would go together actually end up very well together" said Candice. "I see" said Dawn, surprised with that. Everyone continued tucking into all the sweets.

Later that night Dawn was outside with Piplup, Pachirisu, Buneary and Phione. She wanted to practice some double performances with them for the Daybreak Contest. "Okay let's try this," said Dawn "Phione use bubble". Phione release bubbles into the air. "Now Buneary ice beam". Buneary released ice beam which froze the bubbles and popped them into icy-blue sparkles. "Nice, okay Piplup and Pachirisu it's your turn. Piplup use whirlpool". Piplup created a big whirlpool. "Now Pachirisu use discharge". Pachirisu released discharge onto the whirlpool, making the whirlpool electrifying and all lit up. "That works great too". Just then there was the sound of clapping. Zoey had been watching Dawn and was impressed with how Dawn was working with her pokemon. Dawn admitted that she was still nervous about the Daybreak contest because she had never entered a double contest battle before, so she didn't really know what combinations to make for the battle rounds. Zoey offered to help; as she now had five contest ribbons, she agreed to help Dawn practice for her fifth ribbon. Dawn accepted the help at once.