Sashia nodded as she watched the appel before smirking to herself and retuning her Ninetails and sent out Mermaid instead as she told Mermaid with method they would use. She also added a ring on her finger with a glowing blue crystal in it.

Liam saw a few more appeals on the screen and waitied for them to finish.

"Nor mine." Liam commented. "It would be fair to assume all three of us will move on to the next round, but there is one coordinator I am curious about." Liam stated. "She was in here with a white Ninetales."

Shiranui was perplexed at the mention of a white Ninetales. He pulled out his Pokédex and asked it, "Dexter, what info do you have on a white Ninetales?"
"Ninetales: Alola Form, the Fox Pokémon. Possessing a calm demeanor, this Pokémon was revered as a deity incarnate before it was identified as a regional variant of Ninetales." He saw on the Pokédex the Alolan variant was an Ice/Fairy type instead of Fire and remembered what Majin said about Alolan variants of Kantonian species.
"I must have one of those," he mused as he completed his Battle Round appearance by letting his shiny Aegislash out and having him take his place on Shiranui's back.

"Ice/Fairy?" Liam asked making sure he heard right. He was slightly worried about that.

"They may be strong against Dragon types, but they carry the weaknesses of both their types," Shiranui pointed out.

"Poison, steel, and fire." Liam replied. "I'm still uneasy about an ice/fairy."

"If it makes you feel better, they're not native to this region," Shiranui assured, knowing Liam was only uneasy because both of an Alolan Ninetales' types were strong against Dragon types.

Finally it came to Sashia turn to impress the judges she smiled and return Mermaid to her pokeball before she walked past Liam and his friend, they might now notice the Z ring on her finger with the glowing blue crystal.
She then ran into the contest field to an eruption of cheers before she bowed. "And now our final contestant of the lavender town Pokemon contest Sashia fertar" MC said.
"Alright Mermaid, lets show them what we got" Sashia said as Mermaid exploded out of her contest ball surrounded by Sparkling bubbles.
"Mermaid, let use contest move Pink rain" Sashia said.
Mermaid tail began to sparking as pink love hearts were sent flying into the air before she used Hydro pump to hit each one making them explode into sparking pink rain which fell all around them showing off Mermaid true beauty staying true to her name of most beautiful Pokemon but Sashia was not done as she began to dance her ring glowing brightly as Mermaid took a powerful looking golden Aura. Before using a powerful Vortex of water well sending attract hearts into it which made the water turn a pretty pink color which made a more beautiful pink sparkling rain which made Mermaid beauty shine even more before the two of them bowed to a mighty cheer and standing ovation from the crowd.
The Judges were at a loss for words before Tucker got over his shock to say "Never in my career have I even seen a Milotic beauty shine so powerful. Yours moves were unlike anything I have ever seen. You must have trained very hard".
Mr contester said "That was so ... Remarkable amazing".
The head judge could only say "You are certainly going to be a very impressive contenders for any contest Sashia, you truly let Milotic beauty show and you left not just us speechless and amazed but the audience as well".
Sashia ended up racking up a very impressive Perfect 30 from the judge conferring her place for the next round.

"Wow," Shiranui commented, checking his Pokédex on the vortex move.
"Hydro Vortex, a Water-type Z-Move. The user creates a huge whirling current using its Z-Power to swallow the target with full force. The power varies, depending on the original move."
"Not even Wallace or Juan could pull that off," he added.

Sashia thanked the judge and blew kisses to the crowd before her and mermaid made the journey back to the green room where people were asking her about the Vortex and how she pulled it off. It took her a few minutes to escape them so she could wave to the lads she had met before sitting down to give Mermaid a clean and to clean her Z ring

"Well, those Z moves look like they would do well in contests." Liam agreed.

"Judging by the vortex and how they gave her a perfect score, I'm inclined to agree on that," replied Shiranui, "We're going to have our work cut out competing in this run of contests."

Overhearing them Sashia said "Well, the only place to learn Z moves is in the Aloha region where I study with my grandmother for a year did all the Trials and grand trials to get every z crystal"

"I've heard quite a bit about Alola and how different it was to the other regions," replied Shiranui.

"It sounds like the trails would be fun." Liam commented. Lillian came on the screen to annouce the top 8.

Sashia
Shiranui
Liam
Johana
4 unnamed coordinators. The top eight were than shuffled up.

1 RP
2 Shiranui Tsukiko
3 RP
4 Sashia Fertar
5 RP
6 Liam Coleman
7 RP
8 Johana

Shiranui saw he would be facing Sashia in the semis.

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His first opponent had sent out a Farfetch'd and Shiranui sent his shiny Aegislash into battle. Some of the people were astonished to find out the sword on Shiranui's back was an actual Pokémon. Farfetch'd put up a good fight, but Yoto's demonstration of various swordplay moves won Shiranui the first spot in the semi-final by a knockout.

1 RP/Farfetch'd
2 Shiranui Tsukiko/Aegislash
3 RP/?
4 Sashia Fertar/?
5 RP/?
6 Liam Coleman/?
7 RP/?
8 Johana/?

(Sorry about the delay)

Sashia nodded and immediately went to the arena before taking her Z ring off for this match thinking that he would not need it, which in the end she did not. Her Ice fox showed off it amazing beauty and grace and took down the Eletivire with ease once again to cheers and standing ovation which made Pokémon and Trainer bow to the crowd before returning to the green room where Sashia winked at Shiranui and said "I look forward to facing you in the Semis"

"I won't be that easy to beat," replied Shiranui.

Liam sent Grimm, the Dusknoir out. He defeated the opposing Ariados. Johanna's Umbreon defeated the opposing Snorlax.

1 RP/Farfetch'd
2 Shiranui Tsukiko/Aegislash
3 RP/Electrvire
4 Sashia Fertar/Alolan Ninetails
5 RP/Ariados
6 Liam Coleman/Dusknoir
7 RP/Snorlax
8 Johana/Umbreon