Ash and friends, after a day of traveling, have finally reached it, Camphrier Town! Entering through an arched entry of a rather thick concrete brick wall, the city appeared to have been around a long time. Filled with Lombard style arches, domes and houses made of what appears to be uniquely made bricks, the architecture certainly gives the place a feeling of history.
"Wow!" Trevor marveled. "This is the first time I've seen a town with Kalos Gothic architecture before! This town must be between 900-1000 years old!"
"How would you know that Trevor?" Serena asked, both confused and intrigued. "I thought you were only a fan of Pokemon?"
"It's not the only thing I know about. Architecture is cool too. I do live near the Lumiose Prism Tower after all."
"That's where you live?" Ash asked, not having learned that before.
"Yeah, him and his older sister. It's nice hanging out with them together." Shauna beamed. Looking around, the group spotted a giant castle, which despite the age, still stood proud and tall, overseeing everything on top of a hill.
"I bet that's where we'll find the answers." Trevor guessed. "Castles are the biggest keepers of secrets."
"Yay! I want to go into the castle!" Shauna agreed wholeheartedly. However, going up the hill seemed to have taken quite a bit of effort, as the group were breathing quite hard and felt ragged. "Uuuuuuuuuugh! When have stairs hated me so much?!" The same pink clad girl complained.
"Alright, ride's over squirt." Serena told her luggage that was Trevor, the only one unphased as she dropped the exhausted boy off her back.
"I've never walked uphill so much before in my life." Trevor groaned, hugging his aching legs close.
"It's like my legs are about to fall off." Ash remarked, panting all the while.
"Oh suck it up. Man, you guys need to work on your cardio." The female trainer stated, exasperated by their level of tiredness. Looking up at the castle, not only was it at the top of a hill, it was even surrounded by a moat! "Hey, can someone lower the drawbridge! We'd like to get in please!" Within a few seconds, the draw bridge lowered and an old butler came out. He appeared to be extremely old. Completely bald, very wrinkly like a pair of clothes crammed into a suitcase all day, trembling all over the place and is using a walker.
"Hello there. How can I help you young people out on this fine afternoon?"
"Sheesh gramps, just how old are you?!" Serena gasped. "Shouldn't you be like...retired? You look like you're over 100!"
"113 actually. I have been with the Shabboneau family in this here castle since 1900. I'd love to retire, but I have a lifelong contract, unbreakable until death. But it's been fine. I have loved raising the lords and mistresses of this beloved castle. Please, come in."
Horns were raised as they blasted out fanfare with the butler using a horn to speak loud enough. "Presenting the master of this castle, Lord Shabboneau!" But once the curtains were pushed aside, they were surprised to see what the king looked like. This king was...short. Very short. Like...not even two feet tall. Is it politically correct to call him a dwarf? I know it's called dwarfism but not every dwarf looks like Gimli from Lord of the Rings. I don't know and since I'm not trying to be offensive let's just move on.
"So, what brings you to my castle home?"
"E-excuse me, my L-Lord?" Trevor stepped forward, shaking from standing in front of a king of all people, but needed to do so for Professor Sycamore, he gulped and continued. "W-we came here on the behalf of Professor Sycamore to ask you if there is anything to learn about Mega Evolution."
"Oh dear. My apologies, but I've never heard of this. Have you Jeeves?"
"I'm sorry sir, I don't seem to recall. Then again I no longer have good memory so I hardly recall anything anymore."
"Ah yes, jolly good. I'm sorry my travelers, but I'm afraid there is nothing about this 'Mega Evolution' here. But, perhaps there is something you can help me with in return."
"What is it?" Ash asked.
"Oh, it's positively dreadful! We have a festival that we do every year where we harvest crops, a snorlax eats the roots, plows the fields as he does so, and we give him some of our harvest as thanks, and so on for a cycle that's been going on for hundreds of years. I would happily do so again, but Princess Allie from a nearby palace, Parfum Palace, has taken it! She just came, took it and left! She's nothing but a spoiled brat, but we couldn't stop her without getting into a royal family feud over it.
"So you want us to get it so that nothing happens."
"Exactly! Will you please do it? I'd love to play at the festival again."
"Alright then, let's go!"
"W-Wait, y-you mean b-back down those s-stairs we've barely been able to c-climb?!" Trevor gasped in horror.
"Oh don't worry about that. I can have my servants help you down so that you don't sweat a thing."
"Oh, thank you." The orange haired kid sighed.
After managing to get in for free since the group of teenagers couldn't afford a collective 4000 euro entry fee, it was something truly to behold. A huge hedge maze, trees trimmed to resemble Pokemon, a big gate to keep commoners and thieves out, etc. As they passed through the gate, maids threw flower petals out of baskets before retreating back so that Princess Allie walked into the proximity. Lowering her fan, they were surprised to see that the princess...was in her twenties. When Lord Shabboneau said she was a brat, they figured she was either a little kid or a badly mannered teenager like them. But a fully grown woman? Not only that, but she was very tall for a woman. She's not as tall as Lysandre at 2.6 meters tall, but she still towered over everybody around by a solid meter, having a height of 2.2 meters tall!
"Who might you trash be? I didn't authorize there could be visitors without paying a fee!"
"Hey, you are you calling trash, you pompous princess!" Serena growled, raising a clenched fist.
"Oh my, such a brutish girl. Ladies should be proper and delicate. Guards, take them away!" Guards came and surrounded the shocked teens, surprised by how quickly they came, and were pushed out of the gate.
"Please Princess Allie, we need a flute back from you so that Camphrier Town can have their festival!" Ash pleaded.
"Not going to happen. What's mine is mine and what's yours is also mine. I own this palace, I own the town, I even own the whole region! Everyone bows down to me! Hohohohoho!" The woman gave a royal laugh that made her sound like an owl.
"You're not a princess, you're a selfish awful person with likely horrible parents!" Serena yelled at her.
"Watch your tongue peasant, or I'll have you all executed!"
"Milady, executions have been outlawed since 1977." One of the maids brought up.
"It doesn't have to be known." Princess Allie chuckled. The entire group gasped, but Serena shook her head to get any fear out of it and continued to yell at the princess.
"Alright, listen up princess, how about we have a Pokemon battle?! One on one! If we win, we get that flute back!"
"Oh my, a battle with a commoner? Well, I guess I can do that. But if I win, then you all have to become my butlers and maids forever! Hohohohoho!" Everyone again gasped, but Serena still kept her game face and declared,
"You're on!"
"Alright, but I don't feel like battling you specifically. I think I'd rather battle your chocolate toned pink dressed friend there." Princess Allie pointed at Shauna.
"Me?!" The young girl yelped.
"Hey, that wasn't part of our agreement! I'm supposed to battle you!"
"You want the flute, right? Then let her battle me or no flute for you." The princess stuck her tongue out to mock them. Serena was reaching her boiling point when Shauna put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, it's okay. Even though I haven't been doing a lot of actual battling, I've been training with you and Ash the whole journey. I think I'll be fine." She gave her best friend a smile that Serena just couldn't frown at, though her smile wasn't as reassured as she'd like.
"Okay, if you're sure."
"Fabulous then! Let them in so that I can show these peasants where they rightfully belong." Princess Allie yelled ordered. Once they were in a part of the garden where none of the plants would be harmed, both girls sent out their Pokemon.
"Furfrou, go!" This normal type looked like a dog, but not just that, but very stylized. Her fur has been dyed purple at around the end of her fur with the rest of it pink. Her fur looked like bows around her ankles and spherical buns on the back of her head.
"Quilladin, style time!" Shauna yelled, summoning her first Pokemon. What used to be a hedgehog like creature was now a ball of plant like armor, covering the entirety of her body with the exception of her face, which now had a pointy nose that was red at the end. Her lower body and underside of her arms was also uncovered, colored a dark brown.
"Furfrou, use Headbutt! Princess Allie went first. With surprising speed for a pink pampered Poodle Pokemon, she managed to charge at such a pace Quilladin could barely react in shock before being bashed into, crying out from the impact as she was pushed down into the ground.
"Counter with Bite, quick!" Shauna pleaded. Opening her mouth, the Spiny Armor Pokemon bit down, but even though it appeared to have hurt her opponent since the canine growled, there wasn't much damage.
"Hahaha! It's no use! Furfrou's fur coat ability can absorb physical attacks! Headbutt again!" Furfrou rammed her head into the grass starter once more, managing to keep a lead in this battle.
"Come on Shauna! I know you can do this!" Serena encouraged her friend.
"Yeah, I bet she's never battled before in her life!" Ash added optimistically.
"Please, I don't want to be a servant! Win for us, please!" Trevor pleaded, crying his eyes out at the possibility of losing his future.
"I'll do my best!" Shauna responded. "Don't worry Quilladin, we'll win this! Push Furfou back with Vine Whip!" Sprouting two vines from her back, the grass starter started whipping the normal type away. "Now use Rollout!" Jumping and curling into a more round ball, Quilladin started to begin her attack, but Princess Allie was having none of it.
"Stop it with Rock Smash!" Her front paws glowing white, Furfrou stood up on her hind legs before slamming them down on the rolling starter, managing to stalemate the challenger and yet was being pushed back by inches. She growled as she tried to stop Quilladin but the spikes of the plant armor was preventing her from pressing too hard. Shauna then thought of something, and smiled.
"Use Vine Whip as well!" Producing vines while rolling, the rapid fire swatting of the vines was able to distract the Poodle Pokemon enough that Quilladin was able succeed with her Rollout attack, running over the pink canine. She weakly howled with how she sort of looked like roadkill without being dead. But she was able to get up, shaking her head.
"Hey, you ruined her styled fur! You'll pay for that! Fight harder Furfrou!" Princess Allie demanded. "Use Headbutt!" Taking a prepared stance as Quilladin turned to make a third attempt, the normal type charged with all her might, but when the two collided, the Poodle Pokemon was downright flattened into the ground thanks to the downward spinning. "No! You get up right now! Rock Smash!" The princess tried to get up again, but she was again bashed into from what was an unstoppable wrecking ball that was the Spiky Armor Pokemon. Crashing into the ground at her owner's feet, Furfrou was defeated.
"Yay, we did it Quilladin!" Shauna cheered as she ran and hugged her starter whom hugged her back.
"Oh thank goodness." Trevor sighed.
"Yeah, I knew you could do it!" Serena shouted with a smile.
"Yeah, you were awesome!" Ash complimented. However, their celebration was cut short from a frustrated scream.
"No fair! No fair! No fair!" Princess Allie whined as she jumped up and down on her feet, kicking the air and stomping the ground, totally being a sore loser. "I was supposed to win! I'm rich! I'm beautiful! I am a princess!" With tears that were black from running mascara coming down from her eyes, she pointed at Shauna. "Guards, seize her for beating your princess!"
"That is enough Allie!" A man's voice bellowed out. Everyone flinched when they saw a king and queen of the palace came into the proximity of the area. "Allie, what has gotten into you?!"
"Oh Daddy, these mean old peasant filth beat up my poor Furfrou because I took some flute that was mine! Send them to a dungeon! Execute them! Anything!"
"Allie, we never raised you to be this way!" The princesses' mother scolded. "Of course, we did raise you to be an arrogant, petty and self-entitled princess with no empathy for anyone, but not a whiny loser. If there's one thing about our, is that we keep our word. If they want a flute, then give it to them.
"But Mommy, it's mine! Everything is mine!" The princess tried begging them off the ground, on her stomach while slamming her fists against the ground, but the king was having none of it.
"Such shameless sobbing! Your grounded! Guards, take Allie to the dungeon!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The spoiled woman-child cried as she was dragged by some guards gripping her ankles, dragged off to the palace.
"Is she going to be alright?" Shauna asked, now somewhat concerned for the princess.
"Oh, don't worry about my daughter. I'm sure a good fifty years in there when she becomes old and ugly will teach her a lesson. Besides, we already have seven other daughters and two sons. It's not like she's anything special." The king explained, although that didn't make things any better for the teens.
"You wanted a flute, right?" The queen asked.
"Yes." Ash replied. "For the festival."
"Oh yes, very good." She said with an eye roll, snapping her fingers so that a maid handed Shauna the flute. "Alright, off you go. Shoo, shoo." The queen ushered them off since their presence was no longer warranted.
"Alright, fine. This place stinks anyway." Serena sighed as she walked off.
"Thank you." The pink clad girl thanked before running off.
Reaching Camphrier Town, everyone waited in anticipation as Lord Shabboneau waited anxiously for the group. Everyone did. And then, their prayers have been answered!
"Hey, Lord Shabbo-Shabba-uhhhh...Lord Shabbiness! I've got your flute back!" Shauna yelled as she and her friends came to the tiny Lord.
"Oh, thank you!" Lord Shabboneau said with extreme gratefulness. He took the flute and started playing. A grumble was heard, attracting the teen's attention as they spotted a snorlax right int the square.
"Whoa! How did we miss that?!" Trevor gasped. The big sleeping giant woke up from its sleep, rubbed its eyes before smelling something, and smiled as it went over to the 880 lbs. of food, and started scarfing it down joyfully.
"Everyone, give a big round of applause for the kind teenagers who saved our festival!" Lord Shabboneau requested. Everyone present clapped as the four felt proud of themselves. Ash then felt both his hands being clasped. Serena to his left, Shauna to his right. He didn't know why they took his hands, but they appeared to be in the middle of appreciating the applause of the crowd, so he just went with it as he raised his hands high, laughing with the situation. But then he realized something. Something was missing.
"Wait, why isn't Jeeves here? I don't see him anywhere."
"Oh, he died of old age while you were gone." The Lord replied, looking somewhat sad.
"Huh?! But were were only gone for like half an hour!" Serena said, shocked at this.
"Well, he's been awaiting death for quite a few decades now anyway." The Lord replied. "He loved working here, but it's a miracle he kept working for as long as he had. Don't worry though. Jeeves said on his 100th birthday he has no regrets in his life, and likely wouldn't for however long he'd live."
"Well, at least there's that." Shauna anxiously chuckled.
"Too true. Anyway, let's continue with the festival!" Everyone agreed as they went to enjoy themselves for the remainder of the day.
A/N: Hey, sorry it took so long. I was on a four day trip to a nearby island where my girlfriend kept me quite busy. Anyway, how did I do with Princess Allie? Did I parody her properly or did I make her even more just unbearable? Also, I have another list of potential Megas I'd like to offer for judgement, new or old but improved.
1. Gogoat Type: grass ability: Thick Fat Mega: 120/110 spa/spd: 100/90 spe: 88
2. Snorlax Type: normal ability: Multiscale Mega: 150/150 spa/spd: 20/150 spe: 10
3. Crobat Type: poison/flying ability: Moxie Mega: atk/def: 120/105 spa/spd: 20/105 spe: 200
4. Haxorous Type: dragon ability: Huge Power Mega: atk/def: 150/115 spa/spd: 39/115 spe: 145
5. Absol Type: dark ability: Serene Grace Mega: atk/def: 105/90 spa/spd: 130/90 spe: 105
6. Salamance Type: dragon/flying ability: Aerilate Mega: Mega: atk/def: 180/90 spa/spd: 95/90 spe: 150
7. Mienshao Type: fighting ability: Speed Boost Mega: atk/def: 130/85 spa/spd: 100/85 spe: 145
8. Barbaracle Type: water/rock ability: Multiscale Mega: atk/def: 120/120 spa/spd: 30/120 spe: 38
9. Clawitzer Type: water ability: Mega Launcher Mega: atk/def: 39/90 spa/spd: 120/120 spe: 60
10: Gyarados Type: Water/dragon ability: Adaptability Mega: atk/def: 125/130 spa/spd: 30/130 spe: 130
None of you left reviews about the other list I made last chapter so how about taking a look at that along with this and tell me what you think. I'm really trying to give a lot of strong Pokemon some love they deserve because some Pokemon that aren't OU needs a Mega Evolution so they can compete. Not in a smogon competitive wise more like direct gameplay but it's the thought that counts. Leave a review please.