Chapter 33: Battle the Doctor and the next Key
"Musharna use Psyshock and Drampa use Dragon Pulse!"
Musharna fired a beam of purple energy from the gem on her forehead that flew towards Hawlucha. Drampa fired purple energy that turned into a dragon and flew towards Sneasel.
"Sneasel intercept the Psyshock and use Shadow Claw and Hawlucha use Karate Chop on Dragon Pulse!"
Sneasel and Hawlucha ran across and past each other as Sneasel's right arm became surrounded by a black aura and it gave off a purple mist as Hawlucha's right fist became surrounded by a white light.
Both Pokemon leaped forward as Sneasel slashed the Psyshock destroying it as Hawlucha swung his right fist downwards slamming it on the Dragon Pulse's head destroying it as well.
As they landed, they dashed towards their opponents and leaped towards them. Sneasel slashed Musharna on her forehead and Hawlucha spun to the right as he swung his fist against Drampa's left cheek.
Both Pokemon were sent back. Sigmund narrowed his eyes, "Psychic Terrain!"
Musharna opened her eyes as the room changed into a room with psychic energy waves flowing around them.
"Psychic Terrain prevents priority moves from working." Victoria thought to herself.
"Hawlucha use Fire Punch!"
Hawlucha clasped his right fist as it became on fire and swung it towards Drampa.
"Thunderbolt!"
When Hawlucha slammed his fist under Drampa's chin, but Drampa's body was surrounded by yellow lightning, slamming into Hawlucha, making him shout in pain and it send him flying.
Hawlucha landed on his feet in front of Ash, raised his head and glared at his opponents.
"Dazzling Gleam on Sensual!"
"Use Icy Wind to dodge!"
Musharna turned to Sneasel as her jewel glowed pink and fired rainbow energy spikes that flew towards Sneasel.
Sneasel fired his Icy Wind on the ground projecting him in the air and avoided the Dazzling Gleam.
"Now use Night Slash!"
Sneasel cancelled his Icy Wind and created a purple energy blade in his right hand.
Sneasel spun around very fast, as he slashed Musharna, landed behind her, he pretended to sheath his Night Slash and when he did an explosion happened engulfing Musharna.
Sneasel did summersaults backwards and stopped in front of Ash and stared at his opponents.
Soon the smoke cleared revealing Musharna unconscious. Sigmund returned Musharna and took out a new Poke Ball, "Hypno appear!" Sigmund shouted as the Kanto Hypnosis Pokemon appeared.
Ash narrowed his eyes, "Hawlucha use Karate Chop!"
Hawlucha dashed towards Drampa as both of his fist became surrounded by a white light.
"Hypno use Hypnosis!"
Hypno ran in front of Drampa, started to wave his pendulum side to side and created pink waves.
When the waves hit Hawlucha, Hawlucha started to feel tired until he fell on the ground, his attack ceased its action and fell asleep.
"Hawlucha wake up!" Ash shouted but Hawlucha didn't.
"Dream Eater!"
Hypno eyes flashed red as a ghost version of himself appeared and flew towards Hawlucha.
It slammed into Hawlucha, shooting his eyes wide open as his energy got sucked away, before Hawlucha fell on the ground unconscious.
Ash gritted his teeth, "Thanks Hawlucha, get some rest." Ash returned Hawlucha as he took out a new Poke Ball.
"Noctowl I choose you!"
Ash shouted as Noctowl appeared in the air, with sparkles and next to Sneasel.
"Noctowl use Air Slash!"
Noctowl flapped his wings across each other, rapidly as he fired multiple light blue energy 'X's that flew towards Drampa.
"Drampa use Thunderbolt!"
"Icy Wind!"
Drampa's body was surrounded by yellow lightning and fired a yellow lightning bolt. Sneasel fired a gust of wind with light blue snow around it.
The Icy Wind slammed into the Thunderbolt and froze. Some of the Air Slash's slammed into the Frozen Thunderbolt smashing it into pieces and the others slammed into Drampa creating an explosion with smoke around him.
"DDDRRAAAMMM!" Drampa shouted in pain.
When the smoke cleared it revealed Drampa lying on the ground unconscious.
Sigmund returned Drampa and took out a new Poke Ball, "Raichu appear!" Sigmund shouted as an Alolan Raichu appeared hovering above the ground.
"A Raichu." Ash stated.
"Indeed, and this is as far as you go. Raichu use Thunderbolt and Hypno use Dazzling Gleam!"
Raichu fired yellow lightning from her body while Hypno raised his left hand, which created a white, soon rainbow energy spikes flew from it and both attacks flew towards Sneasel and Noctowl.
"Noctowl use Heat Wave and Sneasel use Icy Wind!"
Noctowl flapped his wings hard creating a gust of orange wind, while Sneasel fired a gust of wind with light blue snow coming from it.
All four attacks slammed into each other and created an explosion between them.
"Sneasel jumped on Noctowl and Noctowl fly in the smoke!"
Sneasel jumped backwards, did a backflip, landed on Noctowl's back as Noctowl flew into the smoke and both vanished once inside.
"Raichu and Hypno use Psychic and clear the smoke!" Raichu's and Hypno's eyes flowed blue as the smoke was surrounded by a blue lining, they pushed the smoke away and as it cleared.
But when they moved the smoke, they saw Noctowl, flapping his wings, "Heat Wave!"
Noctowl flapped his wings hard as he fired orange wind that flew towards the pair.
"Send it back with Psychic!" Their eyes glowed blue again.
Sigmund realized something, Sneasel wasn't on Noctowl's back. He saw Ash's smirk, "Wait, it's trick!" Sigmund shouted.
"Sneasel Night Slash!"
Sneasel dashed from behind Sigmund with two purple energy swords in each hand and leaped towards them.
Raichu and Hypno turned only to let Sneasel slash the side of their stomach's making them shout in pain.
Sneasel jumped to the side as Noctowl's Heat Wave slammed into the pair making them grunt in pain.
"Sneasel finish this with Shadow Claw!"
Sneasel landed, turned back to Raichu as well as Hypno and leaped towards them.
Sneasel clasped his fists as they became surrounded by an icy aura, "That's Ice Punch!" Victoria shouted.
Ash was surprised, but he quickly got over it and smirked, "Sneasel Ice Punch!"
Sneasel slammed his fists into Raichu and Hypno's face's, pushed them, sending them flying and crashed into a wall making dust stir around them.
Sneasel landed as the dust cleared revealing Raichu and Hypno lying in a crater both unconscious and soon the Psychic Terrain vanished as they found themselves in the room as they were in earlier.
"Yes Ash!" Victoria shouted happily.
"Keep it up and show Dr. Geezer who's boss!" Cain added on.
Sigmund narrowed his eyes. He's losing his cool.
Sigmund was about to return his Pokemon when suddenly Sneasel's body was surrounded by a blue aura.
Ash smiled when he saw what was happening, "Sneasel's evolving!" Ash shouted as Sneasel's body started grow a bit and his body started to change.
Soon the blue aura dispersed revealing a Weavile. His body colour was the same when he was a Sneasel, the crown, the collar and the feathers are dark blue, and the jewel are still the same colour.
"Weavile!" Weavile shouted.
Ash smiled at Weavile before he turned to Sigmund, "You see that?! By treating Pokemon and people with kindness and love you can evolve into a better version of yourself! Which is why you're going to lose!" Ash shouted.
"Pika!/Weav!/Noct!" All of Ash's Pokemon agreed.
Victoria and Cain were surprised by Ash's speech, but they found them in awe by this.
Sigmund said nothing as he returned Raichu and Hypno, "You know, it's funny that you should say that. Because I tried that once and it caused me to lose the one person that I had left." Sigmund replied in a serious, upset and furious tone.
Ash, Victoria and Cian were surprised by this, as Sigmund took out a new Poke Ball, "Now we'll finish this. Electivire and Rotom!" Sigmund shouted as Rotom appeared and Electivire ran until he was in front of Sigmund.
Ash dropped his surprised expression as he narrowed his eyes, "So, his Electivire finally joined the battle. He blocked Pikachu's Iron Tail without any effort." Ash thought to himself.
"Weavile use Night Slash and Noctowl use Zen Headbutt!"
Weavile created a purple energy sword in his right hand, as a blue orb appeared in front of Noctowl's 'horns'.
Weavile ran towards Electivire and Noctowl flew towards Electivire as well.
"Rotom use Will-o-Wisp on Weavile and Electivire use Ice Punch!"
Weavile leaped towards Electivire, was about to slash him, until Rotom appeared in front of Weavile with three dark-purple fire balls with a white lining around them and fired them.
They slammed into Weavile sending him flying and cancelled his attack and landed on the ground. Soon Weavile's body was surrounded by orange and yellow fire making him shout in pain.
When Noctowl was about to slam into Rotom. Rotom zipped behind Electivire, as Electivire's right fist was surrounded by an icy aura.
He swung his fist forward and both Pokemon slammed into other.
But Electivire easily overpowered, Electivire sent Noctowl flying and crashed into a wall behind Ash.
"Weavile! Noctowl!" Ash shouted in concern for both of his Pokemon, he turned to Noctowl and saw him unconscious.
Ash returned Noctowl and turned to Weavile, "Can you go on?" Ash asked in concern.
Weavile, slowly opened his eyes, slowly stood up and nodded his head.
Ash didn't look convince but he won't argue with Weavile since it's his choice to continue. He turned Sigmund as he took out another Poke Ball, "Charizard I choose you!" Ash shouted as Charizard appeared on the ground as he raised his head upwards and shot fire from his mouth.
Soon Charizard lowered his head, ceased shooting fire and growled at his opponents, "Wow. That Charizard sure looks strong." Cain said surprised.
"Yeah." Victoria replied a bit in awe when she saw him.
"Rotom use Thunderbolt!"
Rotom fire yellow lightning that flew towards Charizard.
"Flamethrower!"
Charizard shot orange and red fire from his mouth.
The two attacks collided with each other, but the Flamethrower overpowered the Thunderbolt and slammed into Rotom making him screech in pain.
"Electivire use Thunder Punch!"
Electivire dashed towards Charizard with both of his fist surrounded by yellow lightning.
"Dragon Claw!"
Charizard, stopped his Flamethrower, crossed his arms, but soon swung them outwards with his claws surrounded by a green aura and flew towards Electivire.
Electivire and Charizard slammed their attacks, creating shockwaves that flew throughout the area.
"Weavile use Night Slash!"
Weavile shook his head as he closed his eyes, before he opened them, stopped shaking his head and dashed towards Electivire as he created a purple energy blade in his right hand.
He ran behind Electivire, leaped towards him and slashed his back making him grunt in pain.
Charizard saw his chance, as he swung his claws outwards, swinging Electivire's arms outwards as well.
Charizard quickly slashed Electivire's chest making him screech in pain and sliding him across the ground.
But Electivire opened his eyes, slammed his hand on the ground ceasing his sliding, until he stopped, stood up and glared at his opponents as Weavile suffered from burn damage again.
"Rotom use Foul Play and Electivire use Fire Punch!"
Rotom flew towards Charizard as his body surrounded itself in a purple aura, while Electivire surrounded his right fist in orange and red fire and ran towards Weavile.
Ash narrowed his eyes, "We need to end this." Ash thought to himself as he turned to his mechanical arm.
Ash took out the Fire Z-Crystal and placed it in the hole.
"Charizard it's time to end this!" Ash shouted making Charizard nod in response.
Ash turned to Weavile, "Weavile get back." Ash ordered making Weavile nod in response as he ran back.
Ash did the fire dance, when he was done Charizard was surrounded by an orange aura, soon he opened his mouth and gathered fire energy in the form into an orb.
"Let's end this! INFERNO OVERDRIVE!"
Ash shouted as Charizard reared his head up before snapping it forward as it fired the orb as it grew larger.
Both Pokemon saw this coming, both tried to slow down, but the Z-Move slammed into them, created a massive explosion shaking the whole building and caused the windows to smash on the floor they are on.
Sigmund, Victoria, Heather and Cain turned away due to the brightness and they covered their eyes.
Soon when the light died down, everyone turned back and saw Electivire and Rotom lying on the ground unconscious.
After a minute Sigmund sighed as he closed his eyes, but soon opened them and returned his Pokemon, "You won, so I'll honour our agreement. But I will warn you, do not believe that your charade will help this child. We'll settle this shortly." Sigmund told them as he walked away and up some stairs.
Once he was out of sight Ash returned Weavile as well as Charizard and everyone ran towards Heather.
"Heather are you ok?" Cain asked.
". . ." Heather said nothing and continued to stare at the ground.
"(Sigh) Whatever. We got you back and that's what's important." Cain replied.
Ash turned in the direction that Sigmund went, "Guys, look after Heather. I'll go and see if I can find Anna." Ash told Victoria and Cain making them nod in response as Ash ran upstairs.
Once he was upstairs, he saw Sigmund talking to Sirius, "So you failed Doctor?" Sirius asked.
Ash narrowed his eyes as he clasped his right fist tightly. Anna saw Ash, "ASH!" Anna shouted making Sirius and Sigmund turn and saw him.
"Well, you are alive." Sirius told Ash a bit surprised.
"It's gonna take a lot more then what your boss did to get rid of me!" Ash shouted.
Anna was confused when Ash said that, "What does that mean?" Anna thought to herself.
"So, it would seem. And Doctor, your job was to keep the children captive, not mine. All I wanted was to get a certain artefact." Sirius explained as the turned to the Doctor.
"The Ruby Ring?" Ash asked.
Sirius turned to Ash, "Indeed, however imagine my surprise when I saw this girl carrying the Amethyst." Sirius answered as he held his right hand up showing a pendent with a small metal chain with a purple gem attached to it.
Ash was surprised when he the Amethyst, "Give me back my pendent please! It was the only gift I got from my father, PLEASE!" Anna begged with tears threating to fall from her eyes.
Sirius turned to Anna, "Your father gave this to you . . . He always was a fool." Sirius replied.
Anna gasped when she heard that, "Y-you knew m-my father?!" Anna asked shocked.
"Heheheh. I believe this concludes our business." Sirius replied as he turned to Ash.
"Make no mistake Ash. You are on Solaris's radar and anyone who ends up on his radar . . . dies. So, until then, Doctor?" Sirius told Ash before asking the Sigmund.
"Right." He answered before the lights switched off and whole room went dark.
After about 10 seconds the lights turned on, with Sirius and Sigmund gone, "Damnit!" Ash thought to himself before running up to Anna and untied her.
Once she was untied, she pounced towards she, hugged him and cried on his chest, "H-He has my pendent . . . Daddy's pendent. I don't even know daddy and yet he does? How is that fair?!" Anna asked as she continued to cry on Ash's chest.
Ash and Pikachu frowned when they heard that. Ash wrapped his arms around Anna and rubbing her head trying to calm him down, "I promise Anna I'm going to do everything in my power to get you your pendent back." Ash swore.
Anna looked up at him, "R-really?" Anna asked.
Ash nodded, "Of course. But for now, let's get you out of here." Ash answered making Anna nod in response.
Anna grabbed Ash's arms, but she noticed that his left arm was harder than his right arm.
She lifted the sleeve and gasped by what she saw, "Wh-what happened to your?" Anna asked in shock.
Ash frowned, "I'll tell you later ok?" Ash answered making Anna nod in response.
Ash turned around, bent down, allowing Anna to climb on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Ash stood up and walked downstairs.
Ash saw Victoria, Cain and Heather, "Hey Ash." Victoria greeted as she ran up to him and hugged him.
"Hey Vicky." Ash replied unable to return the hug due to him carrying Anna.
Soon Victoria broke apart, turned and saw Anna, "Are you Anna?" Victoria asked.
Anna nodded in response, "Y-yes." Anna answered a bit nervous.
"I'm Victoria." Victoria greeted.
Anna nodded in response. Cain walked up to them with Heather on his back, "So what happened?" Cain asked.
Ash sighed, "Sigmund and Sirius got away." Ash answered.
Victoria lowered her head while Cain looked annoyed, "For now let's get out of here." Ash continued making everyone nod in response and soon everyone walked out of the room.
Once they were out of the building, they saw Charlotte, Shelly and Noel waiting outside for them, "Yo! What's up?!" Charlotte asked.
"Noel!" Anna shouted when she saw Noel as Ash lowered her as the siblings ran to each other and hugged each other.
"I'm glad you're ok." Noel told his sister.
"I'm glad too, but . . . they took daddy's pendent." Anna told Noel.
Noel's eyes wide open and turned to his sister, "Really?" Noel asked in a shocked tone.
Anna nodded with tears falling from her eyes, "We'll get it back." Noel told Anna making her wipe her tears away before she nodded in response.
"Alright, so are we all still going to go to my sister's house in Tanzan Cove?" Charlotte asked.
"I-I don't have anywhere e-else to go so y-yes please." Shelly answered.
"Yeah, Nostra isn't feeling too good." Anna added on making everyone turn to her.
"Nostra isn't feeling too good. Don't you mean you're not feeling too good, you look pale." Charlotte replied.
Anna shook her head, "N-no. I-I'm fine." Anna replied.
". . . Kay, if you say so. Anyway, let's go to the railnet exit." Charlotte replied, before started to walk away with everyone else following her.
After about a 10-minute walk they found themselves blocked by a metal door, "Well, it's just one door after another. Now what?" Charlotte asked getting annoyed.
Ash and Victoria turned to each other, nodded their heads and turned to Charlotte, "We can take care of that." Ash answered.
Charlotte turned to him, "If you can, do it." Charlotte replied as she walked to the side.
Ash and Victoria walked up to the front of the barricade. Ash replaced one of his Poke Balls for a new one.
"Infernape I choose you!"
"Gallade Hi-yah!" Ash and Victoria shouted as Infernape and Gallade appeared.
"Infernape use Mach Punch!"
"Gallade use Drain Punch!" Infernape and Gallade ran towards the gate as Infernape's right fist was surrounded by a white light and Gallade's right fist became surrounded by a green aura.
Both Pokemon slammed their attacks on the gate and broke through the gate leaving a hole at the centre.
Infernape and Gallade stopped their attacks, "Thanks Infernape." Ash thanked Infernape.
"Thank you as well, Gallade." Victoria added on as they both returned their Pokemon.
Ash and Victoria turned to everyone else, "Well now we can proceed." Ash told everyone as they walked through the hole and outside the cave, but it was still night-time with the moon luminating the area.
"Ah, fresh air!" Cain shouted.
Heather jumped off Cain's back, released her Salamence, hopped on his back and was about to fly away.
Everyone saw this, Ash released his Charizard and blocked them from leaving.
Heather turned and glared at Ash, "Listen I know the reason why you're not saying a word. It's because you're realizing what your dad taught you about how cruel the world can be is turning out to be true." Ash told Heather making everyone turn to him.
Heather turned to the front and looked down making her hair shadow her eyes, ". . ." Heather said nothing.
She rubbed Salamence's neck before he flew up, away and out of sight.
Charizard was about to intercept them, "Charizard no." Ash told Charizard making him turn to him. He saw his expression showing full seriousness and Charizard nodded his head before Ash returned him.
"Aaaaand she's gone, she didn't even say, 'thank you everyone, for saving me'." Cain replied.
"N-not like I wanted to he-help my friend a-anyway." Shelly replied upset by the fact Heather just left without say 'thanks' or 'goodbye'.
"Anyway, I'm still gonna follow her. I'm still worried about her. I'll catch up with you guys later. Bye-bye." Cain told everyone as he walked in the direction Heather went and past everyone.
"See ya princess." Charlotte told Cain.
"And goodbye my prince." Cain replied before he walked into the forest and was now out of sight.
"Alright we'll let's get to my house, so the kids can rest." Charlotte continued before she started to walk North.
"She called us 'kids'. But isn't she a few years younger than me, Anna and Shelly?" Noel asked.
"It doesn't matter. Let's go." Victoria replied as they all followed her.
They walked into a cave. As they walked through the cave Charlotte saw a metal post that is sticking out of the wall, "This metal junk is new." Charlotte explained confused.
Suddenly the ground started to shake a bit, "W-w-w-w what was that?" Shelly asked sacred.
"I don't know shrimp, but I doubt it's anything good. Let's keep moving." Charlotte answered with everyone nodding in response as they continued to walk.
Soon they got outside of the cave. When they were outside, they saw a pond with flowers everywhere and a wooden house that was quite big on the other side of the pond.
"That's my sister's house." Charlotte said as she pointed at the house.
Soon everyone walked around the pond and Charlotte stopped, "Hold one. One, two, three . . . eight." Charlotte counted the flowers.
"One, two . . . eight. Eight . . .eight . . . (Sigh) Laura's been at it again. I swear that sister of mine." Charlotte explained annoyed before she started walking towards the house again.
Everyone turned to each other confused by what Charlotte was on about before turning back to her and followed her.
Soon Charlotte opened the door, and everyone walked inside.
Once everyone was inside Charlotte closed the door and everyone saw a woman with pink hair. The same woman Ash saw leaving the Orphanage a few days ago.
"Ummm . . . Charlotte what are you doing here?" The pink hair women asked confused.
Charlotte put her hands in her pockets as she walked towards her, "We had enough of that geezer Laura, so we strapped him to his own table, gave him the shock of his life and escaped that hellhole." Charlotte answered.
The woman who is now identified as Laura gasped as her eyes wide open in shock, "Yo-you didn't, did you?!" Laura asked.
Charlotte chuckled, "I wished, but no we didn't. But I wasn't lying when I said we escaped from that place. And we need to lay low for a while." Charlotte answered.
She turned to everyone else, "Ash, Victoria and Shelly. This is Laura, my sister." Charlotte introduced.
Laura turned to them, "It's a pleasure to meet you . . ." Laura replied a bit nervous.
"I-it's a pleasure to me-meet you too." Shelly replied nervous as well as she bowed sightly.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Victoria greeted her.
"Yeah, same here." Ash added on.
Charlotte turned her head towards her sister, "It's because of them we managed to escape from the Doctor, who is now a part of Team Meteor and it could be too dangerous to let them back into the city." Charlotte added on making Laura nod her head in response.
"Um, Laura is there anywhere, that Anna can sleep? 'Nostra' is feeling too good." Noel asked Laura while referring to Anna instead of Nostra.
Laura nodded, "Of course Noel. Follow me Anna." Laura answered as she walked upstairs with Noel and Anna following her.
Shelly turned to Charlotte, "Um, Charlotte I don't m-mean to be r-rude but . . . What happened to your parents?" Shelly asked.
Charlotte's expression turned serious as well as sad and looked down, "I'd rather not talk about it. It brings up too many painful memories." Charlotte answered in a sad and hurt tone.
Ash, Victoria and Shelly can tell the amount of hurt in Charlotte's tone when she said that.
Laura walked back downstairs, "Poor thing went straight to sleep. She has quite a nasty fever." Laura explained.
"Is there any medicine around?" Victoria asked.
"No, I'm afraid not. But there the Poke Mart in Spinal Town should have some. Ash if you don't mind can you go tomorrow and get some. Because they'll most likely closed by now." Laura requested.
Ash nodded, "Of course." Ash answered.
"But how about all of you get some sleep. It's nearly 10." Laura told everyone making them nod in response.
"I'll take the room as I always take." Charlotte replied as she walked up stairs.
Laura turned to the others, "You see we only have three beds left. So, do you won't mind that if two of you share a bed." Laura explained.
Ash and Victoria turned to each other, blushed and turned away. Laura saw this and smirked, "Well Ash and Victoria you two don't mind sharing one, do you?" Laura asked.
Ash's and Victoria's blush grew bigger, "N-n-n-n-n-n-n, no we d-d-d-don't mind. Right A-A-A-Ash?" Victoria asked while stuttering.
"O-o-o-only if y-y-y-you're ok w-w-w-with it?" Ash answered and asked while stuttering as well.
Victoria simply nodded in response.
Laura smiled while Shelly blushed slightly when she saw the blushes on their faces, "We'll see you guys tomorrow." Laura said as she grabbed Shelly's right hand, guided her to her room leaving Ash and Vitoria alone.
Victoria released her Pikachu. Her Pikachu and Ash's Pikachu took the couch, laid next to each other and fell asleep.
Ash took a deep breath, when he did, he lost the blush and turned to Victoria, "We should get some sleep as well." Ash told Victoria making her nod in response as well.
They walked upstairs, and Laura told them that their room is in the back. Victoria changed into her nightgown with Ash changed into a black singlet and a pair of boxes that was black as well with a blue and white Poke Ball on the right side.
Ash and Victoria laid on the bed on their sides, while facing away from each other, but their bodies touching each other due to the limited amount of space returning their blushes.
Both tried to sleep but they couldn't due to their situation.
After a bit of silence. Victoria decided to break it, "Ash. Can you turn towards me please?" Victoria requested.
Ash glanced towards her, "Are you sure?" Ash asked.
Victoria turned around, "Yes, I'm ok with it." Victoria answered as Ash turned around so that they are facing each other.
Soon Victoria decided to take a step further, she sat up, crawled towards Ash making him lay on his back, until she was on top of Ash and straddling his stomach.
Ash blushed harder than before when she saw her nightgown as the moonlight reflected it making it sparkle and causing her to look even more beautiful.
"V-Vicky?" Ash asked.
"Ash I know that you've been under a lot of stress and you've been carrying the problems of so many people. But just know that from now on you don't have to face them alone anymore. I'm here for you, I'll bear any burdens that you're carrying, and I'll never leave you." Victoria told Ash.
Ash's mouth and eyes were widened a bit before he closed his mouth, lowered his eyes and smiled.
He sat upwards causing Victoria to now sit on his lap and he cupped Victoria's left cheek with his right hand, "Thank you Vicky. I'm so glad that I have you with me. Vicky I can tell you this with confidence. Victoria, I love you." Ash told Victoria in a warm, caring and yet serious tone.
Victoria's eyes widen a bit with tears coming from them but soon she smiled, "Thank you Ashy. I love you to." Victoria replied as the two leaned closer, they closed their eyes and their lips touched each other, feeling the love that they have for each other.
Soon they broke apart and the two stared into each other's eyes, "When all of this is done we'll go on a date." Ash told Victoria making her nod in response.
"I'll look forward to it." Victoria replied as Ash wrapped his arms around Victoria and fell back and landed on the bed with Victoria lying on his chest.
"Let's get some sleep." Ash told Victoria making her nod in response.
"Goodnight Ashy. I love you." Victoria told Ash.
"I love you too." Ash replied as they closed their eyes and soon fell asleep with both holding in each other arms.