pokemon adventure

chapter hundred sixty- one

Chapter 161

The Sinnoh Grand Festival

      A week after the Arrowroot Town pokemon contest, the gang finally made it to Lake Valor. Ash and Dawn were happy they finally got there because it wasn't long till the Grand Festival was going to start. Right now the gang were at the lakeside resort, attending the coordinator meet and great that was held there.

Coordinators, who had won five contest ribbons, had gathered there and everyone was helping themselves to the food being served. Rhonda the Sinnoh TV reporter was interviewing the coordinators. Right now she was interviewing Nando who was there. When she saw Ash and Dawn she wasted no time interviewing them as well. Of course Dawn had to check with a mirror if she still looked nice for it.

After the interviews the gang had a talk with Nando. "When I first met you I couldn't decide on whether to do contests or gym battles," said Nando "but thanks to you suggesting I do both I found the joy of doing both. I am truly grateful for that". "How many gym badges have you got?" asked Ash. Nando showed off his badge case and revealed he had seven badges. Two of them were from different gyms. "Wow so you only need one more badge just like Ash and I do" said Tomo. "Then I hope we'll meet up again in the Sinnoh League" said Ash. "Same here" said Nando.

During the rest of the meet and greet, the gang met up with their friends who also arrived at Lake Valor. First they met Kenny, who of course went on teasing Dawn like usual. Next, to Dawn's dismay, they met up with Ursula who acted proud and snobbish like usual. Then at last they ran into Zoey who was pleased that Ash and Dawn made it. She looked forward to facing them in the festival. Of course there was a talk between Ash, Dawn, Zoey and Kenny that both of them wished to win this Grand Festival. Ursula just acted proud thinking they were all acting like young children, but truth is told she also wanted to win this festival but didn't admit it.

That night Dawn had all of her pokemon out; Piplup, Ariados, Buneary, Wormadam, Pachirisu, Mamoswine, Cyndaquil, Cherrim, Drifloon, Togekiss, Chatot, Clefairy, Phione, Mespirit and Smoochum. Prof Rowan gave Dawn special permission to let her have all the pokemon with her. "Everyone this is it;" Dawn said to her pokemon "the Grand Festival starts tomorrow". The pokemon were excited to hear about this. Dawn showed off Johanna's old first ribbon to her pokemon. "I am going to work extra hard to honour this," she said "Ash, Brock, Tomo and all of you it's because of all of you that I have made it this far. Thank you". "Now is the time to put everything you've learnt from the pokemon contests into to this Grand Festival Dawn" said Ash. "You're right Ash" said Dawn. She turned to all of her pokemon. "I know all of you are in great shape and all ready for this. So let's give one big final push. All her pokemon cheered, all excited for tomorrow.

The next day Ash and Tomo were outside with Pikachu and Growlithe. "Well today is the start of the Sinnoh Grand Festival" said Ash. "I can't wait for it to start," said Tomo "do you think you'll win this Grand Festival this time Ash?" "Well since I took second place at the Kanto Grand Festival, I may win first place at this one" said Ash. "Don't be so sure on that Ash" said a voice. The voice came from Kenny; he heard everything Ash just said. "I'm afraid the one who will be winning this competition is me". "Oh we'll see about that Kenny" said Ash. "You and I can settle our past contest challenges here Ash" said Kenny. "I accept that" smiled Ash. This was true; Ash and Kenny did have a score to settle with, especially since they had battled with each other a few times in contests. "Since you're out here, where is Dawn?" said Kenny. "She's been going crazy since this morning," said Ash "but Tomo and I ran away before she could let us have it". "I hear you, that's Dawn alright" laughed Kenny.