The Kings of the Ghost and Poison kingdoms were Dragunov the Drapion, and Dave the Gengar. They were not real fans of Harold. Harold's personality was not a pleasant one. Worse, he considered their age old alliance a necessary evil. He only wanted them around long enough to be powerful enough to destroy them. They however, did like Ace. Despite his appearance as his father's mini-me, he had been sure to make sure his allies would like him.
The formal meetings between the leaders was for the planning of the campaign against their unexpecting foes to the south. Dragunov share Ace's reservations on the war, but in the end, he agreed that he'd support Harold and Dave. Ace watched on as his Father set about tearing his kingdom down. They may make early gains, but RGS's new foes would have no problem making peace to restore them to neutrality in the TWW, and then they'd crush the forces of DPG.
Then came the extravagant ball Harold had decided to host for their guests. Ace generally tried to stay off to the side, but the daughters of his father's aristocratic guests found him anyway. He knew his father wanted him to meet them. So he tried to keep the conversation casual. He quickly found a way to get many of them to leave him alone though. He turned the conversation to one of science and stargazing. Many of them left at that.
A few stuck around. Mostly the ones who were still clueless about what he was talking about, but still (likely at their father's insistence) stuck by Ace. Then there were a few who actually knew what they were talking about. Among the latter was an Absol who Ace had to admit was rather cute in her lavender dress. If he hadn't been in love with Jewel, he might have considered her as a possible mate as his father insisted.
Jewel during this time, generally kept away from Ace, more so so he wouldn't be embarrassed by all the girls flirting with him when she was right there. Although when the music for the dances started, Jewel did manage to get Ace away for a bit. Something he was grateful for.
The Ambassador to the Fairy/Psychic kingdom was an aged Milotic named Mikayla. She greeted Kareena and Matthew in the main hall, and invited them to her chambers in Hinwil palace.
Mikayla: Greeting you two, I'm Mikayla, local Ambassador of Peace. I was made aware that you two arrived from the ambassadors.
Kareena: Yes, I'm Kareena, this is my apprentice, Matthew. We are traveling around to inform the rulers that the Ambassadors are hosting a peace conference in hopes of finally ending the millennia of warfare.
Mikayla: I'm sure the Queen will be happy to attend. You can tell her tomorrow, she's ended sessions for today.
Matthew: Isn't it a bit early?
Mikayla: Faith is quite old, she can't keep up with everything like she once could. In the meantime, I'll ask the servants to get you some rooms for the night.
Kareena: Thank you Mikayla.
Ash had volunteered to visit the curators to retrieve their people's history. A few other electric types had joined him with a cart. He walked into the front door of the great building. Thomas the Luxray looked up at the old Pikachu and greeted him.
Tomas: Can I help you sir?
Ash: Yes, have you heard of the encampment around the Tower of the Ambassadors?
Tomas: Yes… A bunch of free'd RGS slaves yeah?
Ash: Yes, they sent me to see if you had any old records of our people before, you know.
Tomas: I'll take a look. Come with me.
The two spend hours scouring the library for the useful texts. The head curator (a VERY old smeargle) comes over to them and tells Ash that he will have ALL the related writings copied for the new republic and its people.
Then Ash spots an odd group down a side row, a Blind Espeon, an Umbreon, and a furry Vaporeon. He glances at the titles of the works, and realizes that each work is next to its identical copy, but written in human. The Umbreon and Vaporeon were waving at each other for a reason Ash didn't understand. Then as if to prove a point, the Vaporeon in an exasperated tone, spoke in a crackly voice, like he'd never really used it.
Sign: I can, don't be ridiculous.
Ash: Um, sorry to interrupt, whatever it is you're doing, but I'm curious what you were just doing.
Halogen: And you are?
Ash: My name's Ash, interim leader of the Electric republic, you?
Halogen: I'm Halogen, my sister's Eclipse, she'd mute, and then He's Sign, who only speaks with Eclipse through those gestures. I have to speak for them as Eclipse is mute, as I said, and Sign, well, nobody understands what he says with his words.
Ash: What do you… *looks at sign* He just said that he could do something and not to be ridiculous.
Halogen: YOU UNDERSTAND HIM?!
Sign: You understand me? How old are you?
Ash: Uh, yeah Sign, I understand you, what does my age have to do with anything?
*gestures from Eclipse*
Sign: You have to be at least 4000, it was about then that pokemon started to lose their ability to understand human.
Ash: You can speak human? I'm aware of two pokemon that can do that, other than you, and one's long dead, and the other's a mythical. Must have taken forever to learn.
*Eclipse gestures*
Sign: I always could, I guess. Something to do with my father's past… *sigh* I wonder what happened to him.
Ash: I'll be honest I never knew pokemon had forgotten how to understand human.
Halogen: Probably because there was no way for you to tell.
Tomas: Ash, sorry to but in, but I think we have everything.
Ash: Yeah, thanks Tomas, *glances at the eeveelutions* You three are welcome to visit at any time if you want.
*Eclipse gestures* *sign returns*
Halogen: We may do that at some point Ash.
I really should change the format so it's less like a script. I'm not sure why I even chose to do it that way. I also basically got no work done over break. *sigh* so much for hoping to get a real buffer going.