It was a distant future for everyone, but especially the Fudo siblings. Akito was about to have one of the biggest adventures of his life, but right now, he was having an internal struggle with a certain someone who was very important and made a difference in his life.
"Just say 'Will you marry me, Emi?'," Estelle told her twin brother. "It's that easy."
"But what if she says no?" Akito panicked about the girl he had known since he was only a seven-year-old.
"Oh, come on, why would she say no?" Estelle asked.
"Yeah... You're right..." Akito agreed.
"Why don't you practice tonight and try tomorrow?" Estelle suggested. "It's the anniversary of your first real date."
"That sounds like a perfect idea." Akito smiled.
Estelle smiled back.
"Fudo Twin powers activate!" Akito and Estelle beamed.
"Shape of: A thankful brother!" Akito held out his arms.
"Form of: A hugging sister!" Estelle did the same.
The two then shared a hug and laughed together as they acted like the Wonder Twins from the Super Friends.
"That's always fun." Estelle smiled.
"You guys are so weird..." Vincent muttered to his twin siblings.
"Twin Powers!" Akito and Estelle stuck their tongues out.
Vincent rolled his eyes and walked off. Akito soon started to have a vision.
"Vision Time." Estelle noticed.
Akito nodded as he then blinked while having the vision to see what it was all about, though he saw a place he had never seen or heard of before.
'This looks interesting.' Akito thought to himself.
There appeared to be a yellow wolf-like creature who was like a knight in armor as he was going to help someone who looked like a blue cat. They both seemed to be up against a very evil and dark-looking fairy who looked more like a vampire.
"Who's that?" Akito wondered. "Looks darker than Thorn and her band back in Oakhaven."
The evil, dark-looking fairy seemed to have sent a chill down his spine.
"She's worse than Aunt Cherry..." Akito frowned as he felt very scared and overwhelmed by the evil fairy. "She can't be from Anti-Fairy World, could she?" He saw that the evil and dark-looking fairy didn't have a dark crown floating over her head. She did have bat wings though, but since she didn't have a black crown, it meant that she wasn't an anti-fairy like Anti-Cosmo or Anti-Wanda and even their baby, Foop.
"Who is that?" Akito wondered as he didn't like this dark fairy.
The evil dark-looking fairy seemed to be as big as his mother.
"MOM!" Akito cried out.
Mo soon rushed over with a First Aid Kit. "Mommy's coming!"
"I don't like this, make it stop!" Akito begged as he didn't like this vision. "Who are these weird creatures and what is this strange place?! It looks like the boat ride in Willy Wonka's factory!"
A new fairy at the same size, only much nicer looking, soon appeared. Akito looked like he was having a breakdown until the fairy came and he settled down a little. The fairy seemed a lot like Princess Celestia, Cadence, and Flurry Heart in gentleness, kindness, and color scheme with violet and baby blues and hints of pure white.
"W-Who are you?" Akito asked.
"Hello, my child," The fairy greeted. "I am Queen Fyrona."
"Pleased to meet you, Your Highness." Akito said as he bowed.
"Pleased to meet you too," Queen Fyrona smiled. "You seem like such a treasured and helpful soul."
"So, mind telling me why my vision powers showed whatever was going on?" Akito asked her.
"Ah, that's right," Queen Fyrona replied. "You're not of my world. You also must've seen The Darkest Fairy. She was to be imprisoned by Jerdana's Orb."
"I guess she must be evil then." Akito concluded.
"Very much so," Queen Fyrona nodded. "I just had to take care of her before she destroyed our world of Neopia."
"Then my vision power must be warning me that she's going to be able to break herself out." Akito said.
"That sounds very likely." Queen Fyrona nodded.
"How can I get there?" Akito asked.
"There must be some way for your to teleport there such as with magic." Queen Fyorna replied.
"That sounds like a good plan-Oh, wait, I'm going to propose to my girlfriend Emi tomorrow." Akito said.
"Please don't take too long, I sense goodness in your soul." Queen Fyrona replied.
Akito sighed before bowing. "I'll try, Your Majesty." His eyes soon stopped glowing.
Drell came over and looked him dead in the eyes. Akito gasped since he didn't know that Drell was there and fell backward.
"He must've seen something intense." Drell said to a very worried Mo and Atticus who was sure it was nothing too serious.
"I did, I saw an evil fairy in my vision in a place called Neopia." Akito said.
"Oh, my," Drell gasped. "He saw The Darkest Fairy."
"You know her?" Akito and Atticus asked.
"I used to date her when Hilda and I weren't on speaking terms before we got married." Drell explained nervously.
"So, did you see her when she was imprisoned?" Akito asked.
"Hmm..." Drell hummed in thought. "That must've been sometime after we broke up before I started seeing Ursula and Morgana's mother."
"Alright, so then me and Emi need to get there right away." Akito said.
"Aww... Do you want Emi to go with you?" Drell cooed.
"Yeah..." Akito blushed. "Could she come too, Drell?"
"Well..." Drell paused for a moment with a small teasing smirk.
"Neopia could be the perfect place for him to propose to her." Estelle whispered to Drell.
"Yes, it's quite a peaceful environment," Drell whispered back. "Um... Whenever Dr. Sloth isn't around that is," he then cleared his throat and spoke louder to Akito. "Very well, Akito, you can bring Emi with you, and I'm sure the Neopets will love her due to her strong connection with Pokemon."
"Thank you, Drell!" Akito smiled as he hugged him tightly.
Drell smiled back before wincing. "Okay, please let go now..."
Akito giggled and then let go before looking curious. "Ooh... I feel strange... Like I have butterflies in my stomach about seeing Emi tomorrow."
"That's normal," Atticus smiled. "I felt the same way when I was about to ask your mother to marry me."
"Aw!" Estelle smiled.
Atticus and Mo smiled back to their kids.
"You don't think it's too early, do you?" Akito asked as he looked at the ring he got for Emi. "I really feel like I've been in love with Emi since the moment I first laid eyes on her."
"You know your father proposed to me at the age you are now." Mo said.
"He did?" Akito asked before turning to Atticus. "You did?"
"Yeah, don't you remember that story I told you about our prom before graduation?" Atticus smiled.
"So it's destiny." Akito remarked.
"Yeah, besides the prom part." Atticus said.
"Well, that's true..." Akito replied. "Thanks, Mom... Thanks, Dad."
"Let's see the ring then." Atticus smiled.
Akito smiled back and then took out the tiny black box and opened the ring to show his parents. It was silver with white sparkles and the gem appeared to be like a Pokeball with silver at the bottom with shimmering ruby at the top.
"Oh, it's so beautiful." Mo smiled.
"Where did you get this, son?" Atticus asked.
"I... I made it..." Akito smiled bashfully and shuffled his feet. "Uncle Sombra taught me how when he made a ring for Princess Celestia."
"Yep, definitely fate." Atticus said.
Akito smiled bashfully as he then put the ring back. "I know she'll love it."
Atticus and Mo nodded in agreement about that.
"Alright, let's do it." Akito said to Drell.
Drell nodded to that. "All right... But first..." he then said before looking to the family. "Who wants to try my famous pot roast?"
"Didn't you used to make that for Hilda when you'd be late for your dates?" Atticus smirked.
"Don't judge me!" Drell replied. "But yes..."
"Okay." Mo said.
Drell then used his magic to make all of them dinner.
"Mm." Estelle smiled.
"Bon appetite." Drell smiled, using a cheesy French accent.
"Oh, my baby's getting married," Mo smiled tearfully to Akito. "And Emi is such a lovely girl."
"I knew that they were meant to be; I'm so glad I made that storm blow him, Estelle, and Felicity into the Orange Islands." Drell said before covering his mouth.
"WHAT?!" The others asked.
"Oh, I think Hilda's calling me..." Drell smiled nervously. "I'll see you guys in Neopia," He soon got grabbed by Atticus stopping him from leaving. "Saw that coming." He muttered in misfortune.
"So, Drell, what's this about the Orange Islands?" Atticus firmly asked the warlock.
"Um..." Drell gulped.
"Yes?" Atticus asked.
"Aw, all right..." Drell gave in. "I thought you guys could use a little more excitement, and I thought, 'Hey, Pokemon are great companions, why not let the kids meet some?', so I then got you guys to the Orange Islands where you met Ash and Emi Ketchum. I didn't think it would work the way it did, I thought you'd get your very own Pokemon so you could all know what they were, but once I saw Akito and Emi together, it reminded me of when I first met Hilda and I thought they were so cute together that I had to let you all become friends!"
"Well, thanks." Akito smiled.
"You're welcome," Drell smiled back. "You guys just looked so cute together when you first met. I haven't seen a more adorable moment within the Pokemon world than Ash's Pikachu and Buneary from... Uh... Misty... May...?" he then looked puzzled. "Ash's had so many female companions over the years... Which one had Buneary besides Connie and Atlas's daughter?"
"Dawn." Estelle reminded him.
"Dawn, that was it!" Drell then remembered and snapped his fingers, though not in a magical way so nothing happened. "Yeah, that was kinda cute when Buneary got so nervous around Pikachu, it was like puppy love, or should I say Pokemon Love?"
"We always thought it was cute too." Estelle smiled.
Soon enough, everyone sat down together to eat. Felicity soon came over with help with her English homework and of course, she knew she could count on her cousins to help her.
"I'm sorry, guys, some English words still confuse me." Felicity told them.
"Ah, it's no problem," Akito replied. "Just a good thing you came when you did, you might've missed us tomorrow."
"Why's that?" Felicity asked.
"We're going to a place called Neopia." Akito replied.
"Neopia?" Felicity repeated.
"We don't know what it is, but we're gonna find out," Estelle said. "Akito says though there are strange creatures though he hasn't seen before."
"Uh, I'm afraid only Akito and Emi can go there, but after the Darkest Fairy is defeated, then we can join them." Drell said.
"You mean we can't go too?" Estelle pouted.
"Sorry, kids," Drell replied. "I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun though, especially Meridell. I hope you guys enjoy it, it'll be a lot like your Grandpa Patrick and mine's childhood of when we were friends with Princess Fiona's cousin, Arthur."
"I'm sure it will be fun too." Akito said.
Estelle pouted as she would be left out, though on the other hand, Akito and Emi would have some privacy and Akito could pop the question to the girl of his dreams.
"I'm sure you'll love it there." Drell insisted.
"I never get to have adventures." Felicity pouted.
"Yes, you have." Drell said.
Felicity looked up at him.
"I'll let you spend a little more time at home tonight, but tomorrow, bright and early." Drell told Akito.
"Yes, sir." Akito replied as he made sure his ring for Emi would be safe.
"Great." Drell said.
"I have so many butterflies in my stomach..." Akito said as he hugged himself. "I'm so nervous about proposing to Emi, I mean, we've known each other since we were seven and now we're practically adults!"
"That's just how men feel when they're going to propose to the woman they love." Drell said.
"Yeah..." Akito replied. "I mean, my hands are even sweaty and my heart feels like it's beating in my head."
"Yep," Drell said. "Totally understandable feeling."
Akito smiled bashfully before yawning. Drell patted him on the head and let him get some sleep. Akito smiled as he then lay down in bed, he looked to the framed photo of Emi next to his ring before his eyes felt heavy and he fell asleep, and where soon, the next day would come.
Akito's alarm clock went off. Akito groaned and turned it off before getting ready for the day and emailed Emi to have her come right over as he would hold the ring in secret until the right moment since it was the anniversary of their first real date and the perfect day to ask her to marry him. After about two hours passed, the doorbell rang.
"Could someone get that?!" Akito asked as he was freshening up. "I'm not ready yet!"
Mo wiped her hands with a towel and opened the door after she just finished washing the dishes, and where that she saw that it was Emi. "Oh, hello, Emi, dear, come on in." The woman of the house smiled.
"Thanks, Mrs. Fudo," Emi smiled back as she stepped into the house. "Where's Akito?"
"He's just upstairs, he should be down soon." Mo smiled to her.
And where she was right as Akito was soon ready. Scruffy was asleep on Akito's bed.
"Wish me luck, boy," Akito smiled as he hugged his pet dog. "Today's the day mine and Emi's lives will change for the better." He soon left the room and went downstairs.
Scruffy smiled before going back to sleep.
"Hello, Emi." Akito smiled as he bowed to his girlfriend.
"Good day, Akito." Emi smiled back with a curtsy.
"So, shall we go?" Akito asked.
"Let's." Emi smiled.
The two then linked arms and went off together.
"Goodbye, Akito, have fun!" Mo called out.
"Goodbye, Mom!" Akito called back with a smile. "And take care while we're gone!"
"We will!" Mo smiled.
Drell soon took out magic powder to send Akito and Emi into Neopia.
"It's a lovely day..." Akito told Emi before he picked a flower and held it out to her. "For such a lovely person in my life."
"Aw!" Emi smiled.
Akito then put the flower in her hair. "Together, we ran through the meadow and fell into the flowers laughing together... We told each other our own hopes and dreams..." he told her in an enchanting voice as he took her hands. "You taught me how to be myself when no one else could."
Emi smiled as that was enchanting.
"The waters..." Akito put his hand in the lake before taking it back out as it dripped. "We first met when I was almost drowning."
"You were fine, I didn't know who you were, but I was worried." Emi smiled as that was how they first met.
"Alright, I've got the spell." Drell said.
Akito and Emi glared slightly as their date was interrupted.
"Let's go, people!" Drell replied as he showed the spell and was about to recite it. He soon saw that he interrupted them. He smiled sheepishly and dashed off.
"You were saying?" Emi asked Akito.
"Uh... Well... You're just an amazing girl..." Akito smiled bashfully. "The feelings you make me feel are indescribable."
Emi smiled from her heart as that was touching.
"You make me have Ninjasks dance in my stomach..." Akito continued. "You make me wanna save you and be as brave as a Shaymin. You make me feel as strong as a Machoke. Emi... I love you and if I could spend every day of the rest of my life with you, I would be as happy as a Pichu on an adventure..." he then reached into his pocket before getting down on one knee.
Emi gasped and gushed with tears in her eyes once she saw where this was going.
"Emi Ketchum, will you marry me?" Akito asked with a smile as he opened the ring box to show the ring.
"Oh... Akito..." Emi smiled back with tears in her eyes. "Yes... Yes, I will marry you!"
Akito soon smiled and placed the ring on Emi's middle finger of her right hand. Emi giggled and squealed before grabbing him into a big kiss on the lips. Akito smiled back as he kissed her right back and they both fell into the water together, but they coughed and laughed as this was the best date of their lives. Drell was happy for Akito and Emi. The two came out of the water and dried each other off.
"Oh, Akito, what a perfect ring," Emi smiled. "Where in the world did you get it?"
"I made it myself." Akito replied.
"That's amazing." Emi smiled.
"I'm glad you like it." Akito blushed while shuffling his feet against the grass.
They were about to kiss again only to remember the second reason why they were there. Drell tapped his foot impatiently to the young couple.
"Oh, right." Akito and Emi smiled sheepishly.
"Ready to go then?" Drell asked.
"Yes, Drell," Emi sighed. "Take us to where we need to go."
Drell nodded as he took the magic powder out of the bag and blew it on them to take them to a land far away from their very own, and where it worked as they were transported.
"Ah... Young love..." Drell smiled. "Just as precious as Phineas and Isabella." He soon saw that he had used a magic powder that would transport Akito and Emi to two different places in Neopia. "Oops..." He said before darting off.