Chapter 11
Ash had just finished eating when he felt-something touch his mind. Ash fell over onto his back in surprise.
"Ash? What's wrong?" Misty asked.
"He just tripped again." Brock said dismissively. Mew and Mewtwo knew what had happened.
'Quick! Get Pikachu over here! It's time to enter the other realm.' Mew called. Pikachu came running. 'Ash! Grab your bag! Where's my pokeball?" Ash did as told and put on his bag and dug out his pokeballs. 'You must return me.' Ash nodded and like usual.
"Mew! Return!" In a stream of garnet, Mew was recalled into the pokeball. "Pikachu?" Ash turned and found his pokemon running toward his trainer. Ash stretched out his arms and caught Pikachu as the pokemon jumped. Ash then looked around to the pokemon present. "Now what?" Ash asked.
'Now say goodbye.' Mewtwo replied.
"Wha? Goodby-" Before Ash could finish his sentence, an ashen light crept over his vision. Ash turned around to see no one there either. It was like he and Pikachu had just-disappeared. "Mew! What's going on?" Ash asked in a small voice.
'We are entering the second world. Hope you have seatbelts because, from what I remember, this is heck of a ride.' Ash groaned and looked out into the white that seemed endless.
"How long do we stay like this?"
'Not long I'm afraid.'
"What do you mean by that?" Ash asked.
"Look Ash!" Ash was interrupted by Pikachu and he looked out into the white. Pikachu had seen it before Ash; a brighter light was heading his way. Ash stared in horror as the light began to pick up speed and it seemed to be directed in their direction.
'That is what I mean.' Mew sent telepathically as the yellowish light engulfed them.
Krofost fortress.
A figure emerged from the doorway. It was unlike the figure that had gone in. The old figure of a twisted decrepit old man was gone, the figure that emerged from the chamber was in total contrast. It was a young boy with red spiky hair that resembled Gary Oak.
"I never thought that I would do this for anyone. Let alone a person who's supposed to be my greatest rival." Krofost picked up a bag in the armory and another in the kitchen.
'He should arrive any day now. I think it wise to look over in the forbidden regions first, most likely he'll show up there. Krofost picked up another bag from his keep and set out on the road.
"Look out council! I go to find myself and my destiny once more!" Shouted the sorcerer to no one. Krofost chuckled when no answer came and continued walking.
'Just you wait council, I'll see your downfall yet.'
Second World.
"Ooooo! That hurt!" Ash moaned as he opened his eyes. Mew popped out of his pokeball and snickered.
"Bet you wish you'd gone into a pokeball too." Ash blinked and then realized that Pikachu was in the same boat he was.
"Next time, warn me." Moaned Pikachu. "I hate to think about the trip home." Pikachu moaned as Ash got up. Ash noticed that his cloths had changed. Not a big deal, he had expected something to that degree. He wore a white shirt, black pants, a simpler green backpack and white boots. His belt was a contrast because it was a gold colour and his cloak was a gold colour as well
"Where are we Mew?" Mew flew up a little ways and took a quick look around. Mew floated back down to Ash and giggled.
"We're in luck! I think that the nearest kingdom is two days walk from here." Ash and Pikachu fell over.
"That's in luck! Geez! I wonder what bad luck would've been." Ash said in a whiney tone. Mew giggled and flew in Ash's personal space.
'You have Rapidash don't you? It won't even take half a day to ride there.' Ash laughed. Mew had thought of everything before they left. Ash looked down at his pokeballs and realized something.
"I don't recall being able to hold eight pokeballs at one time! What's going on here!" Ash demanded at Mew. Mew looked a little sheepish and sighed.
'Lugia and Ho-oh wanted some extra protection for you so, they convinced Charizard and another pokemon to come along with us. I think it was a Dragonite or a Dragonair, anyway you're allowed to use them in emergencies only.' Ash smiled. Charizard was back and he would finally get to meet a Dragonite! This might not be so bad a trip after all.
"So where to first?" Ash asked Mew. "You know this place best so I think you should be our guide for now." Mew landed on Ash's hat and pointed to the right.
"Let's go to the water kingdom Cerulean. There we can ask for safe passage across the sea so we can go to the kingdom tournaments!" Ash smiled at his pokemon's enthusiasm.
"Is that anything like a pokemon battle?" Pikachu asked. Mew nodded. "Alright! This place won't be so bad after all!" Ash pulled out Rapidash's pokeball and began a journey he was sure he would never forget.
Meanwhile
'There is no way I'm going to get out of this alive!' Thought a red haired girl as she was running. A band of men cloaked in darkness ran after their prize. 'They can run longer than I can, my only hope is to run my fastest and try to lose them. I can't allow them to get my cargo.'
"There's no use to run Princess." Yelled one of the men behind her. The girl pressed on, hoping against all odds that she would get away somehow. On throughout the forest they ran, pursuing the girl and her cargo of an unhatched poke egg.
'I can't go on like this, they'll get me sooner than later.' The girl was tired and badly hurt; scrapes and bruises marked her legs and arms. 'I swear I won't go back to being a prisoner, I won't!' The memories of her captivity for the last two days haunted her like a bad nightmare you remembered when you woke up. It was during her coronation that she and her egg had been kidnapped.
"You won't get away!" Shouted another voice behind her. Mysterious shuddered inwardly and ran harder. Ash had recalled Mew when she said she needed to take a nap so Mew showed Rapidash the way mentally. Ash was enjoying the ride when someone suddenly came out of the bushes to his right.
"Whoah! What the?" Ash said as soon as he realized he had company. It was a familiar face with fair red hair and blue eyes that almost matched his own now.
'I don't believe it! It's Misty's alternate self!' The Princess stood in mute shock as she stood before him; a prince, with two pokemon.
'I don't believe it! What would he be doing out here? A prince like this must be on his way to the tournaments but I've never heard of a prince having two pokemon before.' Before she could think about anything else, her pursuers caught up to her.
"Now surrender! You will come back with us! WHAT THE BLAZES?!!!" The man was in total shock as soon as he realized that the princess was not alone. It was a prince and a very powerful one at that.
"Who the devil are you?" Asked one of the four men that charged out of the bush after Misty's alternate. Even if she wasn't Misty, Ash felt he had to help her.
"These guys bothering you?" Ash asked the girl before him. The girl could only shake her head in a yes under the gaze of her blue-eyed savior. "Pikachu! Thunderbolt now!" The prince ordered. Mysterious could only marvel as the pokemon did as he was told.
"Pikachuuuu!" Electricity sparked from the pokemon that singed and knocked the four captors unconscious. Mysterious found herself alone with this prince now and felt something she had never felt before.
"Are you lost or something?" Ash asked the girl in front of him. Mysterious came out of her mute stance and nodded. For some reason, she was having a difficult time speaking. Ash wasn't sure what to do so he decided on a course of action. " Here, you can come with me. I'm headed to Cerulean. Is that where you're from?" Ash asked.
"Yes." Was all she could say. Ash got down off of Rapidash and she tensed.
'It's like something out of a fairy tale.' Thought Mysterious as she watched the prince before her. 'He comes in on a white horse and rescues the damsel in distress. Oh, don't look at me with those eyes of yours! They're so-enchanting.' Ash moved toward her and she felt her heart skip a beat.
"Would you like to ride Rapidash for a while? You look like you're exhausted." Mysterious blinked. She was a princess that had been kidnapped for two days of course she was tired.
'DEAR LORD! I must look a mess to him! I'm dirty, bruised and slipshod. Why is he being so polite to me? Could it be that he likes me? Oh! Why am I thinking this way! Snap out of it girl!' Mysterious scolded herself mentally before she realized he was offering her a ride.
"I would love to." Before she could say another word, Ash helped hoist her onto Rapidash's back by picking her up by the waist.
'That's odd. I shouldn't be that strong.' Ash thought to himself as he picked Mysterious up. 'Must be a side effect of sorts.' Ash motioned to Pikachu and the pokemon jumped from the road onto Ash's shoulders. It was going to be a long walk. Mysterious stared at the boy as he took the reigns and began to walk the horse.
'What a strong prince. He picked me up as if I weighed nothing at all. I wonder what he's doing here.' She watched him lead the pokemon she now knew as a Rapidash and sighed inwardly. 'He's as calm as a lake on moon festivals eve. Cute too.' Mysterious then realized what she was doing and shook her head. 'What am I thinking! Snap out of it girl! You are sworn to never marry a man if he was a prince. Find true love, remember? But still..'
"Ash?" Pikachu said in a quiet tone. Ash turned his head towards Pikachu.
"Hmm?"
"She's fallen asleep." Ash turned around to see that Pikachu was right and that the girl he had saved earlier was fast asleep on Rapidash. "You should stop for the night." Pikachu said. Rapidash snorted.
"There is plenty of time to ride left in this day. I'm not the least bit tired! You should ride with her on me Master. She'll slip off any other way." Ash thought about it for a minute and agreed. Ash slipped himself behind his Misty look alike and cradled her in-between his reigns and arms. Ash had his arms around her and she was sitting sidesaddle.
"If we get too heavy, tell me and we'll stop." Ash ordered. Pikachu jumped into Ash's backpack and fell asleep too.
"I will." Ash looked to the road ahead of him and sighed. This was going to be a long trip. Ash stared out at the sunset until it got dark and still they traveled on. Ash felt the girl shiver and blushed as she snuggled closer to him.
"I think it's time we stopped for the night." Ash said as calmly as he could. Rapidash felt the shift in weight and realized his discomfort. Rapidash was a little tired too so he trotted over to the side of the road and stopped. "Mew? You awake." Ash asked. Mew popped out of the pokeball and smiled.
"Yep. Have been for a while too. Need some help?" Ash nodded and Mew used her power to lift her up so Ash could slide out from under her. Ash set up his new sleeping bag and realized that there was only one. Before Ash could order Mew to put her in the sleeping bag, something happened.
"What?" Ash gasped as the bag suddenly glowed and became two sleeping bags. Ash looked over his shoulder at Mew and she died down her psychic glow a bit. Ash put her to bed and snuggled in with Pikachu. Mew and Rapidash went into their pokeballs and all was silent. Morning came around and found Ash traveling the exact same way as the day before.
'I should stay in here. Another thing these people don't know about is pokeballs. All their pokemon are outside all the time.'
"No kidding." Ash asked aloud. Ash had found the poke egg that his Misty look alike friend this morning and was shocked. Ash made Pikachu keep it warm for her in his pack while they were traveling so Pikachu was listening to the conversation.
'Another thing you should watch for is the way you talk to me. If you suddenly start talking to me aloud like this, people will think you mad. Talk telepathically.'
'But it gives me a headache.' Ash sent back. Mew dismissed the idea and continued.
'Also, if anyone asks what kingdom we're from, say "a kingdom no more.". Got it?' Ash was puzzled for a minute.
'What do you mean "A kingdom no more?" Does it mean I don't have a kingdom or something like that.' Ash asked. Mew hesitated in response.
'It means that you're a wandering prince without a kingdom. Nobility will assume without you saying anything more that your kingdom was either destroyed or that you are on a quest for a tournament. Princes that fight in tournaments usually are denounced by the kingdoms that born them so they can fight with no ties to a kingdom.'
'Makes sense in a twisted sort of way.' Ash thought to himself. Just then, his Misty look alike snuggled closer to him on Rapidash again. Ash was very uncomfortable with his arms around a girl that resembled Misty. He was expecting her to wake up any moment and give him a sever thrashing because he was holding her.
'How much longer to Cerulean?' Ash asked Mew a bit panicked. Mew giggled in her pokeball and replied.
'Not soon enough for you I'm afraid.' Mew could almost feel his discomfort and nervousness as his new friend snuggled closer. Mysterious awoke to an uncomfortable bump on the walk. She was aware that someone else was with her and then she remembered the last day's events and blushed a bit.
'I'm with that prince. Where are we?' Mysterious didn't move any other part of her body but opened an eye a bit. She saw trees that she recognized as the outer trees of the aqua forest. 'I'm almost home.' Mysterious blushed a bit when she realized the way they were traveling; he was holding her between the reigns so she wouldn't slip or fall off. Mysterious blushed even more when she realized that she liked it. Then she heard a voice that she dreaded hearing a second time.
"Stop, you there!" It was General James, the one who she was sure had tried to kidnap her. Ash looked behind him and saw James look alike with about ten people charging toward him on foot. "Hand over that girl!" Ash didn't need to hear another word.
"I think its time you woke up anyway. Rapidash! Agility!" Mysterious was clutching to the prince for dear life as the Rapidash bolted into a dead run. "Sorry to wake you like this but I think you had better explain to me why I have eleven people chasing me." Ash asked.
"It's because they want my-" Mysterious froze. She felt for her poke egg in her front carrying case. "Stop! My poke egg is gone!" Ash sighed.
"No it isn't. Pikachu is keeping it warm for you in my bag. Who are these people that are after you?" Ash asked. Mysterious looked up into his eyes and found herself entranced again.
'He's putting his life in danger for a perfect stranger.' Mysterious felt herself slip a bit more in the saddle and almost fell off. Ash let go of the reigns for a moment to grab her. Mysterious blushed as he held her closer so she wouldn't fall off again.
"Well? Who are these people?" Ash asked again. Mysterious shook herself out of her daze and answered.
"That was General James. He was the one that I think that had me kidnapped. He thinks that if I go missing, he can take control of our kingdom." Ash stopped for a minute. Our kingdom? Ash then mentally scolded himself.
'She's a princess dope! Only people with pokemon are kings and queens remember? How could I be so naive?!' Ash then saw it for the first time.
"Is that your castle?" Ash asked. It loomed ahead like a mountain! It was a giant castle that looked like something out of a fairy tale and it was coming up on them fast. Ash guessed that it must've been three hundred years old just by looking at it.
"Yes! The bridge is to your right. Hurry! I think they just strung their bows." Ash turned his head to see from the corner of his eye about three people standing still over a rise and others in the distance. Ash knew that arrows and probably more arrows were about to be launched at them. Ash ducked as one whizzed by his head.
"I could use some help here." Ash muttered under his breath. Ash charged over the open drawbridge and into the courtyard.
'Uh oh.' Ash thought as Rapidash was forced to jump over some tables. That wouldn't have been a problem but there were people still on the tables. 'Some sort of celebration. Looks like we came at the wrong moment.' Ash thought as they knocked over a stall.
"Slow down!" squeaked a voice. Ash turned around to see that the men had followed them into the city.
"Speed up Rapidash! They're still after us!" Rapidash ran faster. "Tell us where to go!" Ash ordered his new friend. Mysterious gulped down her fear and cleared her throat.
"Take a right here!" Rapidash stormed around a corner. "Left!" Rapidash did a left as an arrow hit the wall where Ash's head was going to be. "Keep going straight until you come to a gate!" Rapidash did as told and they continued until they saw the gate.
'I wonder why they followed us into the city. If they're truly responsible for kidnapping a princess, why would the people let them enter like that.' Ash saw the gate up ahead and grinned.
"Now what?" Ash asked.
"Hope your Rapidash knows how to jump." Ash realized she meant for them to jump the gate. It wasn't that high for a gate but Rapidash was carrying two people.
'Could use some help here Mew.' Ash sent to his psychic pokemon.
'What would you do without me.' Mew sent back. Ash readied himself and gave the order.
"Jump Rapidash!" Ash felt his heart leap into his throat as the jump scaled the gate. Ash opened his eyes a few seconds later and found that they were in some kind of garden. Ash then let go of his death grip on the reigns and on the girl. Ash looked to see if the people had followed them and sure enough, they did. Ash was soon cornered in the garden with about ten people armed with long bows pointing at him.
'Now what?' Ash thought to himself. Mysterious smiled and looked at the fools that had followed into her mother's garden.
"What do we do now?" Asked Ash. Mysterious looked at the prince and wasn't surprised at what she saw. A look of pure determination and defiance crossed his face.
"Now you leave this to me. Oh Slowking!" She called in a sweet voice. Ash saw the men suddenly gasp in fear as a Slowking emerged from underbrush. "Would you mind getting my mother for me? Please?" The Slowking obeyed and turned off into the underbrush. The men grinned when the pokemon disappeared.
"Not smart princess. You won't be breathing by the time that pokemon gets your mother back here." Said one of the ten men. Ash didn't want to become a pincushion so he decided to take action before they did.
'Mew! Keep those arrows away from us!' Ash ordered as he held out his arm. The men stopped for a minute to make sense of what Ash was doing.
"Rapidash! Flamethrower! Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash ordered. Pikachu sprang from Ash's backpack onto his outstretched arm and obeyed.
"Pikachuuuuuu!" A bundle of electricity leapt from pokemon to people and after a sea of fire blew most of them off their feet. Mysterious still had trouble believing that she was with a prince that had two pokemon. Mysterious looked to the men, all unconscious and badly hurt. The prince's pokemon known as a Pikachu was in the middle of the grass calculating his victims.
"Nice one Pikachu." Mysterious looked back to the prince that held her and was stunned. He was praising his Pikachu's work? His pokemon should be honoured to serve him and here he is complimenting his pokemon like-like-
'Like it was a human. Who is this prince?' Ash had let out a sigh of relief as he saw that no one was moving. That had been a little too close for comfort. Ash saw more people coming and called Pikachu back to him. They were dressed in blue garb and armor; Ash didn't like what he was seeing. In the lead was the Slowking that the princess had ordered to get her mother; Ash didn't see any mother with them.
'I don't like this.' Ash thought as soon as they had him surrounded. Ash had one hand on the reigns and another on the pokeballs that he hoped held either Dragonite or Charizard. 'I had better be prepared for the worst. My little Misty look alike might have a mother who is distrusting of me; she might think I tried to kidnap her girl.' Just then a woman appeared from out of the archway that the blue soldiers had come from. Ash was in for a great big shock, Misty's alternate mom looked like Jessie!
"Mom!" Ash let go of the princess and she leapt off of Rapidash. The soldiers ignored her as she ran by them and leapt into the queen's arms. To Ash's surprise, it was a southern accent that replied to the princess.
"Mah baby! Mah sweet little baby! Yah home at last! Were have ya'll been? Ah've been worried sick." Ash then remembered someone that looked a lot like Jessie but wasn't her.
'Jessiebelle. So in this reality, Misty's mom is James fiancée. That's almost funny as it is weird.' Ash let a big grin slowly creep onto his face. 'Now that wouldn't be something you see everyday back home; Misty being emotionally nice.'
"Oh mother! I had the most terrible time! Four men in black kidnapped me and they took me into the woods! I managed to escape with my egg but they came after me. If it wasn't for this mans help, I would have been caught again." Ash felt the hairs on the back of his neck prick up under the queen's gaze.
"Sugar dumpl'n! Where's y'all pretty egg now? Ah swear if it hatches before time…" Ash let out a nervous laugh when the queen left the threat hanging.
"I have it. Pikachu was keeping it warm while we were traveling here." The queen gave Ash the once over. "Um-Pikachu? I think it's time to give her highness back her egg now." Ash pulled off his backpack and Pikachu came out first. Ash heard a gasp from the queen and looked up.
"Why I declare! Two? My, my, dear girl. Y'all had an exceptional escort." Ash carefully extracted the egg from his back and got off of Rapidash. A soldier came up from the group to take the reigns when Ash was down.
'Let him take Rapidash, it's a custom.' Mew said quickly from her pokeball. 'They'll take good care of him I promise.' Ash let the guard take the reigns.
"See you later. I'll check in on you." Ash said soothingly to Rapidash. Rapidash's reply left something to be desired.
"You had better or I'll be coming back for you." Ash smiled and turned his attention back to the royals. Ash walked up to the pair and handed the princess back her pokemon egg. Ash could have sworn she blushed when their hands made contact but ignored it.
'Naah! Misty would never blush for just coming into contact with me. Wait! This isn't Misty. I've got to try and forget my world for a while and concentrate on this one.' The blush was unnoticed by all there but one; a queen learns to notice things overtime. Queen Jessica Neron the third was always on the lookout for suitors and this one had just passed the qualifications.
'My daughter likes him. This is good! We could use him and his pokemon as a way to tip the military back to our side. I must explore this option further.' Ash felt a tug on his pant leg and held out his arm. Pikachu bounded up Ash's arms and took his normal perch on his shoulders. The queen giggled about something that Ash didn't pick up on and took her daughter by the waist.
"Ah find this amusing. Come, we must celebrate this. Ah'll have a manservant show ya'll to ah room. Ya'll must join us for the festival tonight prince." Ash blinked twice and then realized she was talking to him. They had already taken a corner around the hall when Ash answered.
"Sure. See you." Ash said quietly. Ash was then left to his own devices and the mercy of the soldiers there.
"So you saved the princess Mysterious did ya?" Laughed a burly soldier lifting up an unconscious man.
"What a lucky break for you sire. It's rumoured that she-" Ash's attention was now on the soldier that was being walloped on the head by another soldier in blue.
"Don't jinx it you noodle brain!" Growled the soldier that hit his comrade. The soldier rubbed his head where it was hit and went back to picking up unconscious men.
"What do you mean by that?" Ash asked. All the soldiers stopped when Ash asked the question. The burly soldier was the one that answered.
"Um-er. What he means by that is our princess isn't normally….friendly with princes. She seems to like you." Ash didn't understand what he meant by that so he ignored it.
"Like is an understatement. You must've really impressed her." Ash then realized what they meant and adverted the topic. Mysterious or Misty's alternate would never think of Ash like that. Or would she?
"What are you doing with those men?" Ash asked. Three of the soldiers stopped what they were doing and laughed. Ash didn't see what was so funny.
"We're taking them to the rehabilitation center. They're to be treated and returned to active duty." Growled an older soldier.
"Wish that there wasn't so many being rehabilitated lately. This is getting monotonous." Puffed a smaller soldier. Ash felt sorry for him, the soldier was having trouble because of his size.
"I'd rather be rehabilitated then put in prison." said the soldier Ash recognized as the one that was hit over the head.
"There's that as well, I would hate to go into that dungeon. Rats, real criminals and stale bread from what I heard." Added another new voice.
"Here comes the Commander! Back to work!" Growled the older soldier. Ash and Pikachu turned to see another familiar face on this world. The so-called commander was none other than Tracey or rather, Tracey's alternate personality.
'Whoah! Tracey sure looks intimidating in armor. I wonder if he still like to draw in this reality.' Ash wondered as he watched him come closer.
"Move it worms! The queen wants these men at the center by dusk! No goofing off or it'll be a half rationed week for all of you!" Ash gulped down a sweatdrop at his voice.
'Guess not. He sounds like an army drill sergeant! Geez! What do they have him on? Caffeine?' Ash had never seen so many people move so fast in his entire life before. The yard was clear in about a minute.
"You must be the sire that saved our Mysterious. Come, I have orders to show you a room." Ash was surprised at the sudden change in his voice.
"Ash, this is getting weird on us." Pikachu said in his ear. Ash nodded and then began to follow.
"I didn't really do that much." Ash said as they walked along the castle.
"What?" Asked Tracey. The prince before him was actually making conversation with him! This was a new one for the boys down at the pub.
"I didn't really do that much to save Mysterious. I drove off her attackers and brought her home." Tracey liked this guy already; he wasn't one to gloat on and on like some other princes.
"You're a bloody bloom'n hero if you got our princess to be silent for a moment. She was awake for most of the journey right?" The prince gave him a sideways look.
"Not really, she was so exhausted that she slept most of the way. Why? Is she that bad on a trip?" Tracey laughed loudly and gave the prince a wallop on the back.
"Bad? She complains about everything! If you make one wrong turn watch out! She'll bite your head off and then make you turn around." The prince smiled for some odd reason and returned the wallop on the back.
"Guess I was lucky then." Tracey Skalump was shaking off the surprise that a royal was talking to him! Him! A lowly commander! Not only that, he was laughing with him and playfully shoving him around like an equal!
"Guess you were."
'Who is this prince?' Tracey thought as he laughed at a mild attempt at a dig about women bossing men around. 'He talks and moves like someone of great importance but he seems to be on our level. Could he be an imposter? No, he has the pokemon to prove he's a prince. Could it be we have a challenger? Yes! A challenger on his way to the tournaments! How about that..'
Royal Chambers
"MOTHER!" Mysterious screamed at the queen. She was thoroughly embarrassed about having this conversation with her mother.
"Well? Ah know that y'all don't like discussing this matter." Mysterious stormed over to the other side of the room; her handmaid was having a grand time trying to keep up with her.
"I won't dignify that with a response!" Mysterious growled. Jessica moved from her seat on the chair to her daughter's side.
"Ah just want the truth. I know y'all like him n' all. Ah just want to know if he an you…." Mysterious was shaking in her dress.
"Mother, I was a mess when he found me. I had messy hair, ripped up cloths, dirty and I looked like a beggar! He never even touched me that night." Mysterious sobbed. Jessica was in a little bit of shock. "And when he found the egg that morning, he took it with us! Mother, he practically threw away a chance to have another pokemon. I-I know it sounds crazy but-" Jessica ran up to her daughter and threw her arms around her.
"I know, let it all out child." Mysterious sobbed and shook like a leaf in her mother's arms. "Ah never dreamed that someone would do anything like that. Mah poor baby! It must've been such a shock!"
"What's wrong with me!" Mysterious wailed. "I had every other suitor eating out of my hand and I'm eating out of his! Why didn't he try something? He knew I was a princess! Why didn't he want me?! Why? Why…?" Jessica didn't know how to respond to her daughter's cries.
'Who is this prince that he has my daughter, Mysterious the ice princess, acting like a cast out doll? I will not have it! No one rejects my daughter like this. He will be begging for her affection after this night is through.'
Ash had just finished eating when he felt-something touch his mind. Ash fell over onto his back in surprise.
"Ash? What's wrong?" Misty asked.
"He just tripped again." Brock said dismissively. Mew and Mewtwo knew what had happened.
'Quick! Get Pikachu over here! It's time to enter the other realm.' Mew called. Pikachu came running. 'Ash! Grab your bag! Where's my pokeball?" Ash did as told and put on his bag and dug out his pokeballs. 'You must return me.' Ash nodded and like usual.
"Mew! Return!" In a stream of garnet, Mew was recalled into the pokeball. "Pikachu?" Ash turned and found his pokemon running toward his trainer. Ash stretched out his arms and caught Pikachu as the pokemon jumped. Ash then looked around to the pokemon present. "Now what?" Ash asked.
'Now say goodbye.' Mewtwo replied.
"Wha? Goodby-" Before Ash could finish his sentence, an ashen light crept over his vision. Ash turned around to see no one there either. It was like he and Pikachu had just-disappeared. "Mew! What's going on?" Ash asked in a small voice.
'We are entering the second world. Hope you have seatbelts because, from what I remember, this is heck of a ride.' Ash groaned and looked out into the white that seemed endless.
"How long do we stay like this?"
'Not long I'm afraid.'
"What do you mean by that?" Ash asked.
"Look Ash!" Ash was interrupted by Pikachu and he looked out into the white. Pikachu had seen it before Ash; a brighter light was heading his way. Ash stared in horror as the light began to pick up speed and it seemed to be directed in their direction.
'That is what I mean.' Mew sent telepathically as the yellowish light engulfed them.
Krofost fortress.
A figure emerged from the doorway. It was unlike the figure that had gone in. The old figure of a twisted decrepit old man was gone, the figure that emerged from the chamber was in total contrast. It was a young boy with red spiky hair that resembled Gary Oak.
"I never thought that I would do this for anyone. Let alone a person who's supposed to be my greatest rival." Krofost picked up a bag in the armory and another in the kitchen.
'He should arrive any day now. I think it wise to look over in the forbidden regions first, most likely he'll show up there. Krofost picked up another bag from his keep and set out on the road.
"Look out council! I go to find myself and my destiny once more!" Shouted the sorcerer to no one. Krofost chuckled when no answer came and continued walking.
'Just you wait council, I'll see your downfall yet.'
Second World.
"Ooooo! That hurt!" Ash moaned as he opened his eyes. Mew popped out of his pokeball and snickered.
"Bet you wish you'd gone into a pokeball too." Ash blinked and then realized that Pikachu was in the same boat he was.
"Next time, warn me." Moaned Pikachu. "I hate to think about the trip home." Pikachu moaned as Ash got up. Ash noticed that his cloths had changed. Not a big deal, he had expected something to that degree. He wore a white shirt, black pants, a simpler green backpack and white boots. His belt was a contrast because it was a gold colour and his cloak was a gold colour as well
"Where are we Mew?" Mew flew up a little ways and took a quick look around. Mew floated back down to Ash and giggled.
"We're in luck! I think that the nearest kingdom is two days walk from here." Ash and Pikachu fell over.
"That's in luck! Geez! I wonder what bad luck would've been." Ash said in a whiney tone. Mew giggled and flew in Ash's personal space.
'You have Rapidash don't you? It won't even take half a day to ride there.' Ash laughed. Mew had thought of everything before they left. Ash looked down at his pokeballs and realized something.
"I don't recall being able to hold eight pokeballs at one time! What's going on here!" Ash demanded at Mew. Mew looked a little sheepish and sighed.
'Lugia and Ho-oh wanted some extra protection for you so, they convinced Charizard and another pokemon to come along with us. I think it was a Dragonite or a Dragonair, anyway you're allowed to use them in emergencies only.' Ash smiled. Charizard was back and he would finally get to meet a Dragonite! This might not be so bad a trip after all.
"So where to first?" Ash asked Mew. "You know this place best so I think you should be our guide for now." Mew landed on Ash's hat and pointed to the right.
"Let's go to the water kingdom Cerulean. There we can ask for safe passage across the sea so we can go to the kingdom tournaments!" Ash smiled at his pokemon's enthusiasm.
"Is that anything like a pokemon battle?" Pikachu asked. Mew nodded. "Alright! This place won't be so bad after all!" Ash pulled out Rapidash's pokeball and began a journey he was sure he would never forget.
Meanwhile
'There is no way I'm going to get out of this alive!' Thought a red haired girl as she was running. A band of men cloaked in darkness ran after their prize. 'They can run longer than I can, my only hope is to run my fastest and try to lose them. I can't allow them to get my cargo.'
"There's no use to run Princess." Yelled one of the men behind her. The girl pressed on, hoping against all odds that she would get away somehow. On throughout the forest they ran, pursuing the girl and her cargo of an unhatched poke egg.
'I can't go on like this, they'll get me sooner than later.' The girl was tired and badly hurt; scrapes and bruises marked her legs and arms. 'I swear I won't go back to being a prisoner, I won't!' The memories of her captivity for the last two days haunted her like a bad nightmare you remembered when you woke up. It was during her coronation that she and her egg had been kidnapped.
"You won't get away!" Shouted another voice behind her. Mysterious shuddered inwardly and ran harder. Ash had recalled Mew when she said she needed to take a nap so Mew showed Rapidash the way mentally. Ash was enjoying the ride when someone suddenly came out of the bushes to his right.
"Whoah! What the?" Ash said as soon as he realized he had company. It was a familiar face with fair red hair and blue eyes that almost matched his own now.
'I don't believe it! It's Misty's alternate self!' The Princess stood in mute shock as she stood before him; a prince, with two pokemon.
'I don't believe it! What would he be doing out here? A prince like this must be on his way to the tournaments but I've never heard of a prince having two pokemon before.' Before she could think about anything else, her pursuers caught up to her.
"Now surrender! You will come back with us! WHAT THE BLAZES?!!!" The man was in total shock as soon as he realized that the princess was not alone. It was a prince and a very powerful one at that.
"Who the devil are you?" Asked one of the four men that charged out of the bush after Misty's alternate. Even if she wasn't Misty, Ash felt he had to help her.
"These guys bothering you?" Ash asked the girl before him. The girl could only shake her head in a yes under the gaze of her blue-eyed savior. "Pikachu! Thunderbolt now!" The prince ordered. Mysterious could only marvel as the pokemon did as he was told.
"Pikachuuuu!" Electricity sparked from the pokemon that singed and knocked the four captors unconscious. Mysterious found herself alone with this prince now and felt something she had never felt before.
"Are you lost or something?" Ash asked the girl in front of him. Mysterious came out of her mute stance and nodded. For some reason, she was having a difficult time speaking. Ash wasn't sure what to do so he decided on a course of action. " Here, you can come with me. I'm headed to Cerulean. Is that where you're from?" Ash asked.
"Yes." Was all she could say. Ash got down off of Rapidash and she tensed.
'It's like something out of a fairy tale.' Thought Mysterious as she watched the prince before her. 'He comes in on a white horse and rescues the damsel in distress. Oh, don't look at me with those eyes of yours! They're so-enchanting.' Ash moved toward her and she felt her heart skip a beat.
"Would you like to ride Rapidash for a while? You look like you're exhausted." Mysterious blinked. She was a princess that had been kidnapped for two days of course she was tired.
'DEAR LORD! I must look a mess to him! I'm dirty, bruised and slipshod. Why is he being so polite to me? Could it be that he likes me? Oh! Why am I thinking this way! Snap out of it girl!' Mysterious scolded herself mentally before she realized he was offering her a ride.
"I would love to." Before she could say another word, Ash helped hoist her onto Rapidash's back by picking her up by the waist.
'That's odd. I shouldn't be that strong.' Ash thought to himself as he picked Mysterious up. 'Must be a side effect of sorts.' Ash motioned to Pikachu and the pokemon jumped from the road onto Ash's shoulders. It was going to be a long walk. Mysterious stared at the boy as he took the reigns and began to walk the horse.
'What a strong prince. He picked me up as if I weighed nothing at all. I wonder what he's doing here.' She watched him lead the pokemon she now knew as a Rapidash and sighed inwardly. 'He's as calm as a lake on moon festivals eve. Cute too.' Mysterious then realized what she was doing and shook her head. 'What am I thinking! Snap out of it girl! You are sworn to never marry a man if he was a prince. Find true love, remember? But still..'
"Ash?" Pikachu said in a quiet tone. Ash turned his head towards Pikachu.
"Hmm?"
"She's fallen asleep." Ash turned around to see that Pikachu was right and that the girl he had saved earlier was fast asleep on Rapidash. "You should stop for the night." Pikachu said. Rapidash snorted.
"There is plenty of time to ride left in this day. I'm not the least bit tired! You should ride with her on me Master. She'll slip off any other way." Ash thought about it for a minute and agreed. Ash slipped himself behind his Misty look alike and cradled her in-between his reigns and arms. Ash had his arms around her and she was sitting sidesaddle.
"If we get too heavy, tell me and we'll stop." Ash ordered. Pikachu jumped into Ash's backpack and fell asleep too.
"I will." Ash looked to the road ahead of him and sighed. This was going to be a long trip. Ash stared out at the sunset until it got dark and still they traveled on. Ash felt the girl shiver and blushed as she snuggled closer to him.
"I think it's time we stopped for the night." Ash said as calmly as he could. Rapidash felt the shift in weight and realized his discomfort. Rapidash was a little tired too so he trotted over to the side of the road and stopped. "Mew? You awake." Ash asked. Mew popped out of the pokeball and smiled.
"Yep. Have been for a while too. Need some help?" Ash nodded and Mew used her power to lift her up so Ash could slide out from under her. Ash set up his new sleeping bag and realized that there was only one. Before Ash could order Mew to put her in the sleeping bag, something happened.
"What?" Ash gasped as the bag suddenly glowed and became two sleeping bags. Ash looked over his shoulder at Mew and she died down her psychic glow a bit. Ash put her to bed and snuggled in with Pikachu. Mew and Rapidash went into their pokeballs and all was silent. Morning came around and found Ash traveling the exact same way as the day before.
'I should stay in here. Another thing these people don't know about is pokeballs. All their pokemon are outside all the time.'
"No kidding." Ash asked aloud. Ash had found the poke egg that his Misty look alike friend this morning and was shocked. Ash made Pikachu keep it warm for her in his pack while they were traveling so Pikachu was listening to the conversation.
'Another thing you should watch for is the way you talk to me. If you suddenly start talking to me aloud like this, people will think you mad. Talk telepathically.'
'But it gives me a headache.' Ash sent back. Mew dismissed the idea and continued.
'Also, if anyone asks what kingdom we're from, say "a kingdom no more.". Got it?' Ash was puzzled for a minute.
'What do you mean "A kingdom no more?" Does it mean I don't have a kingdom or something like that.' Ash asked. Mew hesitated in response.
'It means that you're a wandering prince without a kingdom. Nobility will assume without you saying anything more that your kingdom was either destroyed or that you are on a quest for a tournament. Princes that fight in tournaments usually are denounced by the kingdoms that born them so they can fight with no ties to a kingdom.'
'Makes sense in a twisted sort of way.' Ash thought to himself. Just then, his Misty look alike snuggled closer to him on Rapidash again. Ash was very uncomfortable with his arms around a girl that resembled Misty. He was expecting her to wake up any moment and give him a sever thrashing because he was holding her.
'How much longer to Cerulean?' Ash asked Mew a bit panicked. Mew giggled in her pokeball and replied.
'Not soon enough for you I'm afraid.' Mew could almost feel his discomfort and nervousness as his new friend snuggled closer. Mysterious awoke to an uncomfortable bump on the walk. She was aware that someone else was with her and then she remembered the last day's events and blushed a bit.
'I'm with that prince. Where are we?' Mysterious didn't move any other part of her body but opened an eye a bit. She saw trees that she recognized as the outer trees of the aqua forest. 'I'm almost home.' Mysterious blushed a bit when she realized the way they were traveling; he was holding her between the reigns so she wouldn't slip or fall off. Mysterious blushed even more when she realized that she liked it. Then she heard a voice that she dreaded hearing a second time.
"Stop, you there!" It was General James, the one who she was sure had tried to kidnap her. Ash looked behind him and saw James look alike with about ten people charging toward him on foot. "Hand over that girl!" Ash didn't need to hear another word.
"I think its time you woke up anyway. Rapidash! Agility!" Mysterious was clutching to the prince for dear life as the Rapidash bolted into a dead run. "Sorry to wake you like this but I think you had better explain to me why I have eleven people chasing me." Ash asked.
"It's because they want my-" Mysterious froze. She felt for her poke egg in her front carrying case. "Stop! My poke egg is gone!" Ash sighed.
"No it isn't. Pikachu is keeping it warm for you in my bag. Who are these people that are after you?" Ash asked. Mysterious looked up into his eyes and found herself entranced again.
'He's putting his life in danger for a perfect stranger.' Mysterious felt herself slip a bit more in the saddle and almost fell off. Ash let go of the reigns for a moment to grab her. Mysterious blushed as he held her closer so she wouldn't fall off again.
"Well? Who are these people?" Ash asked again. Mysterious shook herself out of her daze and answered.
"That was General James. He was the one that I think that had me kidnapped. He thinks that if I go missing, he can take control of our kingdom." Ash stopped for a minute. Our kingdom? Ash then mentally scolded himself.
'She's a princess dope! Only people with pokemon are kings and queens remember? How could I be so naive?!' Ash then saw it for the first time.
"Is that your castle?" Ash asked. It loomed ahead like a mountain! It was a giant castle that looked like something out of a fairy tale and it was coming up on them fast. Ash guessed that it must've been three hundred years old just by looking at it.
"Yes! The bridge is to your right. Hurry! I think they just strung their bows." Ash turned his head to see from the corner of his eye about three people standing still over a rise and others in the distance. Ash knew that arrows and probably more arrows were about to be launched at them. Ash ducked as one whizzed by his head.
"I could use some help here." Ash muttered under his breath. Ash charged over the open drawbridge and into the courtyard.
'Uh oh.' Ash thought as Rapidash was forced to jump over some tables. That wouldn't have been a problem but there were people still on the tables. 'Some sort of celebration. Looks like we came at the wrong moment.' Ash thought as they knocked over a stall.
"Slow down!" squeaked a voice. Ash turned around to see that the men had followed them into the city.
"Speed up Rapidash! They're still after us!" Rapidash ran faster. "Tell us where to go!" Ash ordered his new friend. Mysterious gulped down her fear and cleared her throat.
"Take a right here!" Rapidash stormed around a corner. "Left!" Rapidash did a left as an arrow hit the wall where Ash's head was going to be. "Keep going straight until you come to a gate!" Rapidash did as told and they continued until they saw the gate.
'I wonder why they followed us into the city. If they're truly responsible for kidnapping a princess, why would the people let them enter like that.' Ash saw the gate up ahead and grinned.
"Now what?" Ash asked.
"Hope your Rapidash knows how to jump." Ash realized she meant for them to jump the gate. It wasn't that high for a gate but Rapidash was carrying two people.
'Could use some help here Mew.' Ash sent to his psychic pokemon.
'What would you do without me.' Mew sent back. Ash readied himself and gave the order.
"Jump Rapidash!" Ash felt his heart leap into his throat as the jump scaled the gate. Ash opened his eyes a few seconds later and found that they were in some kind of garden. Ash then let go of his death grip on the reigns and on the girl. Ash looked to see if the people had followed them and sure enough, they did. Ash was soon cornered in the garden with about ten people armed with long bows pointing at him.
'Now what?' Ash thought to himself. Mysterious smiled and looked at the fools that had followed into her mother's garden.
"What do we do now?" Asked Ash. Mysterious looked at the prince and wasn't surprised at what she saw. A look of pure determination and defiance crossed his face.
"Now you leave this to me. Oh Slowking!" She called in a sweet voice. Ash saw the men suddenly gasp in fear as a Slowking emerged from underbrush. "Would you mind getting my mother for me? Please?" The Slowking obeyed and turned off into the underbrush. The men grinned when the pokemon disappeared.
"Not smart princess. You won't be breathing by the time that pokemon gets your mother back here." Said one of the ten men. Ash didn't want to become a pincushion so he decided to take action before they did.
'Mew! Keep those arrows away from us!' Ash ordered as he held out his arm. The men stopped for a minute to make sense of what Ash was doing.
"Rapidash! Flamethrower! Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash ordered. Pikachu sprang from Ash's backpack onto his outstretched arm and obeyed.
"Pikachuuuuuu!" A bundle of electricity leapt from pokemon to people and after a sea of fire blew most of them off their feet. Mysterious still had trouble believing that she was with a prince that had two pokemon. Mysterious looked to the men, all unconscious and badly hurt. The prince's pokemon known as a Pikachu was in the middle of the grass calculating his victims.
"Nice one Pikachu." Mysterious looked back to the prince that held her and was stunned. He was praising his Pikachu's work? His pokemon should be honoured to serve him and here he is complimenting his pokemon like-like-
'Like it was a human. Who is this prince?' Ash had let out a sigh of relief as he saw that no one was moving. That had been a little too close for comfort. Ash saw more people coming and called Pikachu back to him. They were dressed in blue garb and armor; Ash didn't like what he was seeing. In the lead was the Slowking that the princess had ordered to get her mother; Ash didn't see any mother with them.
'I don't like this.' Ash thought as soon as they had him surrounded. Ash had one hand on the reigns and another on the pokeballs that he hoped held either Dragonite or Charizard. 'I had better be prepared for the worst. My little Misty look alike might have a mother who is distrusting of me; she might think I tried to kidnap her girl.' Just then a woman appeared from out of the archway that the blue soldiers had come from. Ash was in for a great big shock, Misty's alternate mom looked like Jessie!
"Mom!" Ash let go of the princess and she leapt off of Rapidash. The soldiers ignored her as she ran by them and leapt into the queen's arms. To Ash's surprise, it was a southern accent that replied to the princess.
"Mah baby! Mah sweet little baby! Yah home at last! Were have ya'll been? Ah've been worried sick." Ash then remembered someone that looked a lot like Jessie but wasn't her.
'Jessiebelle. So in this reality, Misty's mom is James fiancée. That's almost funny as it is weird.' Ash let a big grin slowly creep onto his face. 'Now that wouldn't be something you see everyday back home; Misty being emotionally nice.'
"Oh mother! I had the most terrible time! Four men in black kidnapped me and they took me into the woods! I managed to escape with my egg but they came after me. If it wasn't for this mans help, I would have been caught again." Ash felt the hairs on the back of his neck prick up under the queen's gaze.
"Sugar dumpl'n! Where's y'all pretty egg now? Ah swear if it hatches before time…" Ash let out a nervous laugh when the queen left the threat hanging.
"I have it. Pikachu was keeping it warm while we were traveling here." The queen gave Ash the once over. "Um-Pikachu? I think it's time to give her highness back her egg now." Ash pulled off his backpack and Pikachu came out first. Ash heard a gasp from the queen and looked up.
"Why I declare! Two? My, my, dear girl. Y'all had an exceptional escort." Ash carefully extracted the egg from his back and got off of Rapidash. A soldier came up from the group to take the reigns when Ash was down.
'Let him take Rapidash, it's a custom.' Mew said quickly from her pokeball. 'They'll take good care of him I promise.' Ash let the guard take the reigns.
"See you later. I'll check in on you." Ash said soothingly to Rapidash. Rapidash's reply left something to be desired.
"You had better or I'll be coming back for you." Ash smiled and turned his attention back to the royals. Ash walked up to the pair and handed the princess back her pokemon egg. Ash could have sworn she blushed when their hands made contact but ignored it.
'Naah! Misty would never blush for just coming into contact with me. Wait! This isn't Misty. I've got to try and forget my world for a while and concentrate on this one.' The blush was unnoticed by all there but one; a queen learns to notice things overtime. Queen Jessica Neron the third was always on the lookout for suitors and this one had just passed the qualifications.
'My daughter likes him. This is good! We could use him and his pokemon as a way to tip the military back to our side. I must explore this option further.' Ash felt a tug on his pant leg and held out his arm. Pikachu bounded up Ash's arms and took his normal perch on his shoulders. The queen giggled about something that Ash didn't pick up on and took her daughter by the waist.
"Ah find this amusing. Come, we must celebrate this. Ah'll have a manservant show ya'll to ah room. Ya'll must join us for the festival tonight prince." Ash blinked twice and then realized she was talking to him. They had already taken a corner around the hall when Ash answered.
"Sure. See you." Ash said quietly. Ash was then left to his own devices and the mercy of the soldiers there.
"So you saved the princess Mysterious did ya?" Laughed a burly soldier lifting up an unconscious man.
"What a lucky break for you sire. It's rumoured that she-" Ash's attention was now on the soldier that was being walloped on the head by another soldier in blue.
"Don't jinx it you noodle brain!" Growled the soldier that hit his comrade. The soldier rubbed his head where it was hit and went back to picking up unconscious men.
"What do you mean by that?" Ash asked. All the soldiers stopped when Ash asked the question. The burly soldier was the one that answered.
"Um-er. What he means by that is our princess isn't normally….friendly with princes. She seems to like you." Ash didn't understand what he meant by that so he ignored it.
"Like is an understatement. You must've really impressed her." Ash then realized what they meant and adverted the topic. Mysterious or Misty's alternate would never think of Ash like that. Or would she?
"What are you doing with those men?" Ash asked. Three of the soldiers stopped what they were doing and laughed. Ash didn't see what was so funny.
"We're taking them to the rehabilitation center. They're to be treated and returned to active duty." Growled an older soldier.
"Wish that there wasn't so many being rehabilitated lately. This is getting monotonous." Puffed a smaller soldier. Ash felt sorry for him, the soldier was having trouble because of his size.
"I'd rather be rehabilitated then put in prison." said the soldier Ash recognized as the one that was hit over the head.
"There's that as well, I would hate to go into that dungeon. Rats, real criminals and stale bread from what I heard." Added another new voice.
"Here comes the Commander! Back to work!" Growled the older soldier. Ash and Pikachu turned to see another familiar face on this world. The so-called commander was none other than Tracey or rather, Tracey's alternate personality.
'Whoah! Tracey sure looks intimidating in armor. I wonder if he still like to draw in this reality.' Ash wondered as he watched him come closer.
"Move it worms! The queen wants these men at the center by dusk! No goofing off or it'll be a half rationed week for all of you!" Ash gulped down a sweatdrop at his voice.
'Guess not. He sounds like an army drill sergeant! Geez! What do they have him on? Caffeine?' Ash had never seen so many people move so fast in his entire life before. The yard was clear in about a minute.
"You must be the sire that saved our Mysterious. Come, I have orders to show you a room." Ash was surprised at the sudden change in his voice.
"Ash, this is getting weird on us." Pikachu said in his ear. Ash nodded and then began to follow.
"I didn't really do that much." Ash said as they walked along the castle.
"What?" Asked Tracey. The prince before him was actually making conversation with him! This was a new one for the boys down at the pub.
"I didn't really do that much to save Mysterious. I drove off her attackers and brought her home." Tracey liked this guy already; he wasn't one to gloat on and on like some other princes.
"You're a bloody bloom'n hero if you got our princess to be silent for a moment. She was awake for most of the journey right?" The prince gave him a sideways look.
"Not really, she was so exhausted that she slept most of the way. Why? Is she that bad on a trip?" Tracey laughed loudly and gave the prince a wallop on the back.
"Bad? She complains about everything! If you make one wrong turn watch out! She'll bite your head off and then make you turn around." The prince smiled for some odd reason and returned the wallop on the back.
"Guess I was lucky then." Tracey Skalump was shaking off the surprise that a royal was talking to him! Him! A lowly commander! Not only that, he was laughing with him and playfully shoving him around like an equal!
"Guess you were."
'Who is this prince?' Tracey thought as he laughed at a mild attempt at a dig about women bossing men around. 'He talks and moves like someone of great importance but he seems to be on our level. Could he be an imposter? No, he has the pokemon to prove he's a prince. Could it be we have a challenger? Yes! A challenger on his way to the tournaments! How about that..'
Royal Chambers
"MOTHER!" Mysterious screamed at the queen. She was thoroughly embarrassed about having this conversation with her mother.
"Well? Ah know that y'all don't like discussing this matter." Mysterious stormed over to the other side of the room; her handmaid was having a grand time trying to keep up with her.
"I won't dignify that with a response!" Mysterious growled. Jessica moved from her seat on the chair to her daughter's side.
"Ah just want the truth. I know y'all like him n' all. Ah just want to know if he an you…." Mysterious was shaking in her dress.
"Mother, I was a mess when he found me. I had messy hair, ripped up cloths, dirty and I looked like a beggar! He never even touched me that night." Mysterious sobbed. Jessica was in a little bit of shock. "And when he found the egg that morning, he took it with us! Mother, he practically threw away a chance to have another pokemon. I-I know it sounds crazy but-" Jessica ran up to her daughter and threw her arms around her.
"I know, let it all out child." Mysterious sobbed and shook like a leaf in her mother's arms. "Ah never dreamed that someone would do anything like that. Mah poor baby! It must've been such a shock!"
"What's wrong with me!" Mysterious wailed. "I had every other suitor eating out of my hand and I'm eating out of his! Why didn't he try something? He knew I was a princess! Why didn't he want me?! Why? Why…?" Jessica didn't know how to respond to her daughter's cries.
'Who is this prince that he has my daughter, Mysterious the ice princess, acting like a cast out doll? I will not have it! No one rejects my daughter like this. He will be begging for her affection after this night is through.'