Chapter 168: Grand Celebration, Semi-Finals 4 to 2 (Unfortunately lost to Xiao Shun, missed the cham
The process of the large-scale celebration went very quickly. After the list of the top four was announced, the semi-final matches were immediately held.
The big screen flashed, and after the matching results came out, Heimer met Xiao Shun as expected.
At this moment, Xiao Shun stood up in the audience and looked at Heimer with a smile.
However, at this time, Heimer was busy hugging Chandler and Butterfree and crying. He did not notice that his opponent in the top four was Shun, nor did he notice that Shun was watching him in the audience.
After returning to the players' dormitory, Heimer calmed himself down and then faced the fact that his opponent was Xiao Shun.
Faced with such a powerful opponent, Heimer can only move forward and not retreat, for himself and for his Pokémon.
At night, Heimer, Butterfree, and Chansey are in the ward of Natural Bird and Lizard King.
Bartha and Chandler happily told the Lizard King about today's battle, while Heimer was thinking about tomorrow's strategy while combing the feathers of the Natural Bird.
Tianran Bird felt much better after a day's sleep. At this moment, he was lying on the bed. He noticed that Heimer seemed to have cried again today, so he worriedly stroked Heimer's head gently with the feathers on his wings.
Chi Haimo: "I'm fine. I cried today because I was so happy after winning the game."
Although Heimer said this, Tianranniao was obviously still a little worried, because Heimer's expression at the moment did not look very good.
Thus, the action of targeting Hammer began again.
After a day of rest, Heimer and the Pokémon were in much better condition. However, Lizard King and Natural Bird were still unable to participate in subsequent competitions due to physical reasons.
Today is the day when the semi-finals of the grand celebration begin. The first match to start is the duel between Xiao Shun and Hai Mo.
In fact, Heimer was not yet mentally prepared to meet Xiaoshun.
Therefore, Hai Mo originally planned to hide in the bathroom backstage and wait for Xiao Shun to go on stage first, and then run up himself.
However, as if by a trick of fate, Xiao Shun happened to go to the toilet... and the cubicle that was opened was the one where Heimer was.
Because the door locks of the bathroom cubicles were broken, Xiao Shun stood in front of the cubicle where Heimer was and reached out to open the door.
At this moment, Heimer was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom cubicle with his lower body naked. When he saw the door suddenly open, Heimer was frightened and said embarrassedly.
Chi Haimo: "Xiao, Xiao Shun? What are you doing..."
Looking at the blushing Heimer, Xiao Shun said apologetically.
Xiao Shun: "Sorry, I, I...I'm sorry."
Heimer had thought of thousands of sad meetings, but he never expected it to be such an awkward meeting!!!
Xiao Shun hurriedly closed the door of Heimer's cubicle and stood in front of the sink in the bathroom a little embarrassedly.
(Aaaaaah, I shouldn't have hidden from the toilet!!! Anyway, why didn't I just sit on the toilet lid!!)
Just when Heimer was still reeling from the scene just now, Xiao Shun spoke first, and he spoke softly to Heimer.
Xiao Shun: "Heimer... I have something to tell you..."
Heimer was sitting on the toilet and heard these words again. For some reason, he instinctively reacted with fear.
After much thought, Heimer was finally ready. He spoke calmly to Xiao Shun.
Chi Haimo: "Well, go ahead."
Hearing Heimer's answer, Xiao Shun took a deep breath and spoke to Heimer in an apologetic tone.
Xiao Shun: "I'm sorry, I said so many sad things to you when we broke up... I was under too much pressure at that time, so I said those words to you all of a sudden that night. I'm really sorry for that..."
After listening to Xiao Shun's words, Heimer's face showed a complicated expression... He was silent for a while, then spoke to Xiao Shun gently.
Chi Haimo: "Well... let the past be the past. I... I didn't do well enough that night. Well, I clearly agreed with you to train with you in the evening, but I forgot to send you a message saying that I would be back later. Well... Now that we have apologized to each other, let's just pretend that what happened in the past never happened."
When Xiao Shun heard this, a faint smile appeared on his face. He immediately looked a little happy and asked tentatively.
Xiao Shun: "Then, we..."
Heimer looked at the dilapidated door of the toilet cubicle in front of him and felt very sad.
Heimer took the tissue and completed the necessary steps of going to the toilet. Then he pressed the flush button on the toilet. With the sound of the toilet flushing, Heimer slowly spoke to Xiao Shun.
Chi Haimo: "Well, you are still my friend to me."
Hearing this, Xiao Shun's face showed obvious disappointment, but he immediately smiled and said.
Xiao Shun: "Yes, friends, of course, friends. Oh, by the way, Hai Mo, let's go on stage together later."
Chi Haimo: "Well, okay."
After Heimer confirmed that the toilet was flushed, he slowly opened the door of the toilet cubicle. After reorganizing their moods, he smiled and walked into the corridor leading to the main stage with Xiao Shun.
Before going on stage, Xiao Shun said to Hai Mo with a smile.
Xiao Shun: "Heimer, let's have a battle without regrets!"
Looking at Xiao Shun, who was just his friend in front of him, Heimer seemed to see through him, the Xiao Shun who was still his best friend back then.
Chi Haimo: "Well! No regrets!"
Xiao Shun: “Go all out!”
The two slowly walked onto the stage amid the cheers of the audience. From then on, the first battle of the semi-finals officially began.
Xiao Shun took out two Poké Balls and said to Hammer with a gentle smile.
Xiao Shun: "Come on then, let me see how much you have grown during this period of time."
Hearing this, Heimer smiled cheerfully.
Chi Haimo: "Hahahaha, okay, I'm also curious about your changes during this period of time."
Vivian: "Well, the first battle of the semi-finals of the Pokémon Contest Grand Celebration is about to begin. Both players, please take out your Pokémon."
Chi Haimo: "Show off on stage, Fire Chicken! Spoon Snake!"
The white light faded away, and Fire Chicken radiated powerful heat all over his body and made a handsome appearance, while Spoon Snake also waved his thick tail neatly and made a domineering appearance on stage.
Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, Desert Dragonfly, go ahead."
In a flash of white light, the poison rose gracefully danced with its rose flowers and appeared on the stage charmingly, while the desert dragonfly flapped its powerful wings and flew handsomely into the air above the stage.
Vivian: "Well, the five-minute countdown starts now!!!"
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, ride on the Spoon Snake, Spoon Snake, use Venom Fang!"
The rice spoon snake quickly twisted its body, lowered its head and came to the side of the fire chicken. The fire chicken immediately jumped up and sat on the rice spoon snake's head.
At this moment, the fierce toxin gathered immediately, and the red fangs of the rice spoon snake turned bright purple under the immersion of venom. The rice spoon snake opened his bloody mouth, kept the posture of the highly venomous fangs, and flew towards the poisonous rose and the desert dragonfly with the fire chick.
Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, Colorful Falling Petals, Desert Dragonfly, just use Dragon Dive."
Faced with the venomous fang attack of the scorpion snake, Xiao Shun immediately gave instructions and made a response strategy.
The blue-purple gradient light wrapped around the Desert Dragonfly's body in the shape of a dragon bone. As the Desert Dragonfly performed the Dragon Dive, the Poison Rose also immediately and gracefully rotated its body. The colorful petals surrounded the Desert Dragonfly like a vortex at this moment, and coordinated with the Desert Dragonfly's Dragon Dive, it attacked the Rice Spoon Snake and the Fire Chicken.
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, after jumping off the Spoon Snake, uses the Fire Spray. The Spoon Snake, keeping the Venomous Fangs posture, rushes towards the Desert Dragonfly."
The fire chicken jumped up with one claw, and the temperature of its body rose rapidly. The scorching flames quickly gathered and sprayed out immediately. After the colorful petals touched the spraying flames, they almost all turned into ashes. Xiao Shun's score was deducted at this moment.
Heimer got off to a winning start and successfully blocked the opponent's moves with his excellent instructions. However, the Desert Dragonfly actually maintained the dragon's dive posture and rushed into the jet of flames.
The light of the swooping dragon at this moment was like a layer of flaming armor, dazzling.
(This is!!!)
Chi Haimo: "Oh no, it's a spoon snake, get out of the way!"
Although Heimer discovered something was wrong, it was too late. The Desert Snake could no longer stop itself, so it could only open its mouth ferociously, revealing its bright purple fangs, and collided directly with the Desert Dragonfly, which was wrapped in fire armor and performing Dragon Dive.
The final result was not beyond everyone's expectations. Snake was no match for this powerful attack and was directly knocked away.
Because of this, Heimer had more than half of his points deducted, and Xiao Shun also had some points deducted.
(Well, no, we need to get the game back on track.)
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, use Jet Flame on Poison Rose! Rice Spoon Snake adjusts its posture and uses Poison Tail!"
When the spoon snake was about to hit the ground, it quickly inserted its tail into the ground to force itself to land smoothly, so that Heimer did not suffer further points deduction.
At this moment, the Fire Chicken increased its own temperature again, and the scorching flames spread into a sea of fire and rushed towards the Poison Rose at a rapid speed.
Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, ride on the Desert Dragonfly!"
Poison Rose smiled evilly, jumped up gracefully, and sat on the back of the Desert Dragonfly, which immediately flapped its wings and flew into the air. This beautiful dodge caused Heimer to lose some points.
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, spray flames!"
The scorching flames gathered in the Fire Chicken's mouth again. After the jet of flames successfully hit the Desert Dragonfly, in order to avoid being burned by the flames, Poison Rose immediately jumped from the Desert Dragonfly's back and landed on the stage. Because the Desert Dragonfly was injured, Xiao Shun was deducted some points.
(The Desert Dragonfly is really hard to deal with. The advantage of flying high in the sky can help Poison Rose easily dodge many attacks. Well, we must get rid of it quickly. Fire-attribute skills are not very effective against it. However, this is the only skill that can hit a Desert Dragonfly in mid-air. Well, if the distance can be closer, other skills can be used. Well... That's right!)
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, use the tail of the Spoon Snake to jump into the air!"
As soon as Heimer's instructions were given, Fire Chicken immediately ran towards the Spoon Snake. After Fire Chicken used its agile body to quickly jump onto the blade on the Spoon Snake's tail, the Spoon Snake immediately swung its strong tail, like firing a cannonball, and slammed Fire Chicken towards the Desert Dragonfly and Poison Rose flying in the air.
Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, Colorful Falling Petals, Desert Dragonfly, Dragon Wave."
After hearing Xiao Shun's instructions, Poison Rose lightly waved two bunches of roses, and the gorgeous and dazzling pink petals spun and flew towards the Fire Chicken.
The desert dragonfly was flying in the air, quickly gathering the power of dragon attributes, and a dazzling blue-purple gradient light immediately shot out from the mouth of the desert dragonfly. The dragon attribute power turned into a handsome dragon shape, and with the help of falling petals, it rushed straight down towards the fire chicken, forming an effective pincer attack.
Faced with this wave of powerful attacks, Heimer shouted immediately.
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, use Shadow Clone!"
Fire Chicken instantly created many clones in the air, and the combination of Dragon Wave and Falling Petals missed the target, and Xiao Shun's score was deducted a lot.
Chi Haimo: "Take advantage of this moment, after Fire Chicken removes the shadow clone, Fansho Snake uses its poisonous tail to jump into the air and help Fire Chicken again!"
Hearing Heimer's voice, all the shadows of Fire Chicken disappeared, and at this moment, Snake slapped the ground with its poisonous tail, allowing itself to leap into the air.
At this moment, in mid-air on the stage, the spoon snake removed its poisonous tail, and the Fire Chicken once again used the power of the spoon snake's tail to jump into the air again.
This time, the snake used all its strength, and with a whoosh, it flew in front of the desert dragonfly.
Xiao Shun: "Desert Dragonfly, Dragon Wave!"
Chi Haimo: "Fire Chicken, Shadow Claw!"
Facing the dragon wave that was about to be launched from the mouth of the Desert Dragonfly, Fire Chicken was not at all panicked. He swiftly adjusted his posture in mid-air and used the Shadow Claw to slap the Desert Dragonfly in the face.
The Desert Dragonfly's head tilted to one side after being attacked by Shadow Claw, but soon he immediately used Dragon Wave on Fire Chicken, and Fire Chicken fell directly from mid-air after being hit.
Both sides' points were deducted at this moment, but Heimer's score was deducted more.
Chi Haimo: "Spoon Snake, quickly catch the Fire Chicken!"
After hearing Heimer's instructions, Snake immediately twisted its body and quickly reached the place where Turkey Chick was about to fall.
Xiao Shun saw the opportunity and immediately shouted to Poison Rose.
Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, now is the time. After using the paralysis powder on them, immediately use Falling Petals!"
At this moment, the poison rose had arrived next to the spoon snake at some point, and just when the fire chicken was about to fall, orange powder sprayed out from the rose. The spoon snake and the fire chicken had no time to dodge and immediately became paralyzed.
But Poison Rose did not give them any chance to breathe. She quickly gathered the power of grass, and the sea of flowers spread rapidly. The Spoon Snake and the Fire Chicken were directly rushed to the edge of the stage by the colorful sea of falling flowers, and Heimer's score was deducted a lot because of this.
Xiao Shun: "It's time to decide the winner. Poison rose, colorful petals falling! Desert dragonfly, dragon wave!"
Chi Haimo: "Spoon Snake! Fire Chicken! Get out of the way quickly!!!"
This time, the dragon's wave dispersed into dots of blue-purple gradient light powder, which mixed with the falling petals and quickly shot towards the Fire Chicken and the Rice Spoon Snake like a blue-purple gradient flower meteor shower.
Because of the paralyzed state, Toad and Snake were unable to move and were directly knocked away by this combination of moves.
Seeing this, Heimer was about to continue giving instructions, but the five-minute countdown returned to zero at this moment.
At this moment, Xiao Shun and Hai Mo looked at the big screen nervously, waiting for Vivian to announce the result of the game.
Vivian looked at the remaining scores of the two on the screen and said with expectation but great regret.
Vivian: "The first match of the Grand Celebration Semi-Finals, the final winner is Xiao Shun!!!"
The whole audience burst into applause, and the audience were cheering for Xiao Shun and Hai Mo's wonderful performances.
When Heimer heard the result of the game, he immediately went forward to feed the paralysis-relieving medicine to Snake and Chicken. After seeing them gradually recover from the paralysis, Heimer spoke to them gently.
Chi Haimo: "Thank you for your hard work, Fire Chicken, Rice Spoon Snake."
Fire Chicken: "Xia Mo..."
Spoon Snake: "Hamen..."
Seeing the very sad expressions of Torch and Snake, Heimer spoke to them gently.
Chi Haimo: "Hey, don't be so sad, we have made it to the semi-finals, which is also a very good result. Moreover, for me, no matter what the result is, you are all awesome, and the other Pokémon are also awesome."
Hearing Heimer's gentle words, Torch and Snake perked up a little.
Heimer gently touched Chickadee and Snake, then put them back into the Poké Ball.
Afterwards, Heimer walked up to Xiao Shun with a gentle smile and said.
Chi Haimo: "Xiao Shun, congratulations on advancing to the finals."
Hearing Heimer's blessing, Xiao Shun smiled happily and said to Heimer.
Xiao Shun: "Thank you, Heimer."
Not long after Xiao Shun won, the second game of the semi-finals began immediately. With his outstanding strength, Robert defeated his opponent instantly and advanced to the finals.
Finally, in the finals of the grand celebration of the gorgeous competition held the day after tomorrow, although Shun's Desert Dragonfly and Rainwing Moth cooperated very well with Shun, they were still defeated by Robert's Milotic and Psychic Doll.
Therefore, the champion of this Hoenn Region Grand Prix was successfully won by contestant Robert.
【【Heimer's performance in the Hoenn region's large-scale celebration was in the top four.】】