[5] The Daughter of Nurse Joy: Battle Frontier

Dark Contest

Today the gang had come to where the next Pokémon contest was. To Cora's surprise it was in Dark City.

"It's amazing that Dark City has a Pokémon contest hall." Mairin commented.

"Yeah, the last time we were here the people didn't want anything to do with Pokémon." Cora added.

"Well that incident has been over for the past few years now, so the people must have gotten over it by now." Alain stated.

Suddenly the kids, who Cora, Alain and Mairin met before, ran up to the gang.

"Hey Cora, Alain and Mairin!" said one of them.

"Hey kids," Cora greeted, "how have you all been?"

The kids explained that they had just become Pokémon trainers, and they had a starter Pokémon. One of them had a Bulbasaur, the second a Charmander and the third a Squirtle.

"Wow so you kids are trainers now." Cora said, amazed,

"I'm glad to see this city is still at peace." Mairin said, relieved.

The boys explained that Yas and Kaz abandoned their plans of becoming gym leaders and they decided to become builders with their Pokémon after they repaired Dark City.

"Well since they did a good job of rebuilding Dark City, I think that job suits them better than gym leader jobs." Alain commented.

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The kids led the gang to the Pokémon contest hall. The hall was just outside the city and the building was made out of wood like the other buildings in the city.

"When did they build the contest hall here?" Alain asked, surprised.

"About a year ago," The first kid replied, "at first we weren't sure about having a Pokémon contest hall built here because of what happened with Yas and Kaz."

"But after we learned what Pokémon contests were, we agreed because they were nothing like Pokémon gyms at all." Another kid added.

"It's true, they aren't like Pokémon gyms at all," Cora confirmed, "and this is something that Yas and Kaz wouldn't fight over."

"Absolutely." Alain and agreed.

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Cora signed up at once to enter the Pokémon contest, but she wasn't the only one. Harley was there. When he saw the gang, he tried to do his usual fake welcoming, but the gang ignored him. It was clear to Cora that she would have to face Harley again, but she wasn't going to let him win that easily.

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Soon it was time for the Pokémon contest. Lilian did the usual introductions and showed off the Dark Ribbon. The ribbon was brown with a lighter brown outline, and it was a bow ribbon like you see on presents. The kids were sitting in the audience seat with Alain and Mairin.

"Have you kids been watching the contests ever since this hall was built?" Alain asked.

"Yes, we love watching them." said one of the kids.

"We especially love to see the cool tricks the Pokémon do." another kid added.

It made Alain and Mairin happy to know that the people in Dark City liked Pokémon and Pokémon trainers now.

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The appeal rounds were on the way and Cora was up first. She called out Kaori (Vaporeon) and told her to use Bubble Beam. After Kaori blew bubbles, she burst them with Swift and then fired a Hydro Pump into the air.

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Next it was Harley's turn, and he used his Banette, doing the usual scary Will-O-Wisp and Scary Face combination thing.

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After the appeal rounds were finished, the board showed four trainers who made it to the battle rounds and Cora and Harley were two of them. The battle rounds started; Cora had to face Harley first. Harley had a new Pokémon, an Octillery. Cora's choice for the battle rounds was Cleo (Persian). Harley, being cocky and all, was convinced that his Octillery will triumph over Cora's Normal Pokémon. But Cleo defeats Harley's Octillery with Thunderbolt. So Harley suffered another defeat from Cora, which of course made Harley mad, and he left the contest hall in a huff.

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In the last round, Cora and Cleo went against a girl named Sarah with her Butterfree. Her Butterfree put up a good fight against Cleo with the moves Gust, Psybeam and Silver Wind. But Cleo proved to be stronger with the moves (To Cora's surprise) Flamethrower, Icy Wind and Hyper Beam and Butterfree got defeated. So Cora was the winner of the Dark City contest and won the Dark Ribbon, making this her fourth ribbon.

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After the contest was over, the gang had dinner at the restaurant they visited before, and the restaurant owner was happy to see Cora, Alain and Mairin again. The kids kept on saying to Cora that her Pokémon were awesome and congratulated Cora on her win.

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So today proved to the gang that Dark City was not a gang fighting place anymore, and the people of the city accepted Pokémon trainers and Pokémon again.

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Cora: Lucario (Aaron)(M), Kindleon (Wildfire)(F), Magby (Maggie)(F)

Alain: Sporeon (M), Kindleon (M), Ekans (M)

Mairin: Bircheon (Zelen)(M), Wilteon (Willy)(F), Nidoran (Queenie)(F)