Mulberry Contest

May was feeling pressured today. The gang had come to Mulberry City and there was a Pokemon contest being held there. The bad news was that this was the final Pokemon contest being held in the Kanto Region; so May had to win the ribbon here otherwise she wouldn't be able to enter the Kanto Grand Festival. Since Ash already had five ribbons he offered to help May train for this Pokemon contest and May agreed to his offer. Another unfortunate thing for May is that Harley was there. Harley had already earned five ribbons for the Kanto Grand Festival and since May still needed one more Harley couldn't help but pick on May. This of course made her very angry with Harley and she vowed to get her fifth ribbon and deal with Harley at the Grand Festival like she did in the Hoenn Grand Festival.

After doing some training with Ash, May made her way to the waiting room in the contest hall while the others took their seats in the audience. May soon found out the other competitors in the waiting room also needed one more ribbon like she did, so she really needed to give it her all in this last Pokemon contest.

Now the Pokemon contest started. Lillian did the usual introductions and showed off the Mulberry Ribbon. The Mulberry Ribbon was a gift bow and it was pink with a white outline. Harley was watching from the audience, but he was hoping and cursing that May would lose and not earn the last ribbon. The reason Harley didn't like May was that back in kindergarten a girl that looked just like her ate his octopus shaped wiener without his permission. He was so upset by that and since then he has hated doppelgangers of that girl and sadly May was one of them. Harley was not the only one watching the contest, Drew was too. He wanted to see if May would win her last ribbon here.

The appeal rounds started. The competitors gave it their all in this round since this was their last chance to earn their fifth ribbon. Soon it was May's turn and she was using her Combusken in the appeal rounds. She started off with Combusken showing his Mega Kick, then Combusken created a fiery tornado with Fire Spin and finally May tossed a frisbee to Combusken and Combusken used Sky Uppercut to end it.

After the appeal round was over, the results came and May made it to the battle rounds.

"Great, May made it to the second round." Max said.

"She better watch out though." Ash said. "Since this is the last Pokemon before the Grand Festival the other coordinators will be giving it their all in the battle rounds too."

The others saw the point he was making. Harley was not happy that May made it to the second round and he hoped she would lose in it. Drew kept on watching.

Ash was right about the second round. The other coordinators were fighting their hardest to get to the finals. May was first up against an opponent who used a Skarmory and she was using Squirtle. Skarmory started with Steel Wing, but Squirtle used a fast Rapid Spin and Skarmory bounced off when it tried to hit Squirtle with Steel Wing. It was almost like using the move Counter. May then ordered Squirtle to use Ice Beam but Skarmory dodged it. Skarmory then attacked with Swift, but Squirtle countered it with Bubble. Soon time was up and May had more points than her opponent, so she won the first battle round.

The battles continued until it was the final round. May had made it to the finals and just needed to defeat one more opponent. Her opponent was a woman named Janet and she was using a Banette. The bad news was that Banette knew Thunder, which was a problem for Squirtle. But because Squirtle knew Protect, Banette was in trouble too. Banette fought hard with Thunder, Will-O-Wisp and Frustration and Squirtle fought hard with Ice Beam, Bubble, Protect and Bite. The battle went on and on until Squirtle took Banette down with Water Gun. So May was the winner of the Mulberry contest and she obtained her fifth ribbon. Harley was frustrated by this and vowed to defeat May at the Kanto Grand Festival.

That evening Ash and May were looking over the info of the Kanto Grand Festival; it said it was going to take place at the Indigo Plateau.

"Wow it will be just going through the Indigo League again, but this time for Pokemon contests." Ash chuckled.

"I can't wait for this." May said.

Just then Drew showed up. He congratulated May for earning her place in the Kanto Grand Festival, and he also said he would look forward to going up against Ash and May in the competition.

Now that May had five contest ribbons, Ash could now look forward to taking on the last battle facility.