Contest 2

Eight days had passed and it was now time for the Slateport City contest. Ash and May quickly signed up and they were ready for it. It wasn't time for the contest yet so the gang grabbed some lunch and waited for the contest to begin.

Three hours later it was time for the contest to begin. There was a new announcer for the contest named Vivian Meridian and she introduced the three judges, who were of course Mr. Contesta, Mr. Suziko and Slateport City's Nurse Joy. Next she showed off the Slateport ribbon, which was green with a circular pin in the middle.

"I cannot wait to see what performances the coordinators will put on for us today." She said.

In the waiting room May was feeling nervous because this was her first time competing in a contest.

"Stay calm May." Ash said. "Your Beautifly is feeling nervous too, aren't you Beautifly?"

Beautifly was out of it's Poke Ball and it was feeling nervous.

"You and Beautifly have worked hard for this just like I have with my Dustox." Ash said.

"Stay calm and both you and Beautifly will do great." Brock added.

Max and Tomo wished her luck as well.

The appeal rounds had begun and some Pokemon had started to show off in the performances. Now it was Ash's turn.

"Okay Dustox, I choose you." He said.

Dustox was ready for this. Ash ordered Dustox to use Poison Sting, then hit the Poison Sting darts with Gust and then he ordered her to hit the darts with Psybeam. There was a multi-colored sparkle flying around after the Psybeam attack hit the Poison Sting darts. Ash got a score of 28.5.

Next it was Drew's turn. He called out a Pokemon called Roselia. Roselia was a green grass/poison type Pokemon and it had three thorns on it's head and two big roses as hands; a red rose on the right and a blue rose on the left.

Ash, who was in the waiting room, looked Roselia up on the Pokedex.

"Roselia, the Thorn Pokemon. Roselia shoots sharp thorns as projectiles at any opponent that tries to steal the flowers on it's arms. The aroma of this Pokemon brings serenity to living things."

Drew first ordered Roselia to use Petal Dance, which made Roselia look like it was standing in a flower garden. Next Drew had Roselia do a combo of Stun Spore and Magical Leaf, which surrounded Roselia in leaves. Then finally Drew ordered Roselia to do a combo of Petal Dance and Magical Leaf, which made Roselia look like it had truly bloomed. Drew got a score of 29.4, which was the highest score currently.

The next coordinator was a blond-haired man named Robert and he was using a serpent-like Pokemon which had long pink ears and antennas, pink, blue and black scales and four large pink and blue fins on it's tail that looked like a fan.

Ash was amazed and looked it up on the Pokedex.

"Milotic, the Tender Pokemon. Milotic is said to be the most beautiful of all the Pokemon. It has the power to becalm such emotions as anger and hostility to quell bitter feuding,"

"Wow, so my Feebas will evolve into that." Ash said.

Robert ordered Milotic to use Safeguard and Milotic glowed a beautiful green color. It's beauty wowed the audience and Robert got a 30.0, the highest score of all.

Finally it was May's turn. Poor May was still feeling jittery, but Ash gave her some confidence to calm down and just have fun out there. May called out Beautifly and she threw five frisbees. one at a time at Beautifly and Beautifly broke them apart with String Shot. Then finally she told Beautifly to use Silver Wind and spin. Beautifly was surrounded by a Silver Wind tornado and it looked attractive. May got a score of 24.9 which wasn't bad for a first timer.

After the appeal rounds were over everyone saw the results for the second appeal.

"I think May did well out there." Max said.

"Yeah, but next is the difficult part for her." Brock said. "In the next round is the Pokemon battles and May isn't good at battling yet."

"You're right about that." Max said. "Ash and May practiced battling each other a few days ago, but May lost in under a minute."

The results showed that Robert, Drew, Ash and May made it past the appeal rounds and then they got the results of the battling rounds. Surprisingly, May and Drew were up against each other in the third match of the first battle round. Drew found it amusing and couldn't wait to battle May.

Ash was in the first match of the battle rounds and his Dustox easily defeated his opponent's Bellossom. Soon it was May and Drew's turn to battle each other. Drew called out Roselia and May called out Beautifly. Drew ordered Roselia to use Magical Leaf and May ordered Beautifly to fight back with Gust, but Beautifly was still hit by Magical Leaf.

"No Beautifly." May said, worried.

May started to lose points.

"This is bad." Max said. "I told you that May is still terrible at battling."

Ash was watching the battle in the waiting room.

"May didn't practice enough for this." Ash said. "She spent too much time on practicing the appeal rounds."

Drew ordered Roselia to use Stun Spore on Beautifly which paralyzed it.

"Oh no Beautifly, try to use Silver Wind." May said.

Beautifly did try to attack, but he was unable to move. Drew ordered Roselia to attack with Petal Dance, which hit Beautifly and caused it to faint. So May lost the round.

May was upset by this, but Ash told her that it was okay and she'll do better in the next Pokemon contest. He also said that he would help her practice more for Pokemon battles. Brock, Tomo and Max came into the waiting room too and told May to cheer up too. Ash won his next match in the battle round and Drew was defeated by Robert and his Milotic. Then finally it was Ash's turn to battle Robert. Dustox was doing quite well against Milotic especially since she knew Protect and Moonlight. Finally Robert ordered Milotic to use Iron Tail and Dustox was hit really hard. When the five minutes were up, Robert had more points than Ash so he was the winner of the Slateport contest and he received the ribbon. Ash congratulated Robert for his victory.

"Thank you Ash." Robert said. "And I hope that I will get to battle you in future contests."

So with the Pokemon contest having come to a end, it was time for the gang to leave Slateport City. Ash pointed out on his Pokemon contest paper that there was a contest in Newton Town and it was on the way to Mauville City, where he could get his third gym badge. So Newton Town was their next destination. May was over her sadness now and promised to practice battling some more.