A Pokemon Fairy Tale

(Okay, l know how bad my English is so you don't have to tell me
about it. E-mail me at Chikorita@usa.net for any opinion. l hope
you like it!)

Ch.2

Misty saw Jessie waiting for her and other new girls. She
stepped forward and joined the small group. Jessie did a simple
attendance, and then led them into the palace through the 3rd class
staff entrance. The 1st class was those bodyguards and soldiers. 2nd
class was some lower level of guards and the chef. 3rd class, the
lowest class, was servants, housekeepers and other stuff. Jessie was
a 2nd class member, but she was using the 3rd class door to teach
the new people how things worked.
"Everyday you come here and pick up your uniform here!"
Jessie explained as the girls toke their uniform and changed. Misty
looked at the uniform, which was a pure white dress. She changed
in the change room and entered her room. There were 3 people per
room. The bed weren't bunk beds, but a separate bed for each
person, which Misty was glad. The bed wasn't very comfortable,
but better than knowing someone was above you all the time. They
also got a small dresser for all 3 people to put their stuff in. Misty
unpacked her bags and put the clothes and other things into the
dresser.
"Hey girl, give me some room!" said the other girl beside
her. Misty apologized and moved her stuff over. After all 3 girls
put in their stuff, they sat down on the bed and talked.
"First think of some way to know which stuff is which
person's," suggested a blue hair girl. That girl was about Misty's
age and Misty noticed that she only had one Pokeball with her, so
only one Pokemon.
"Just put labels on them," suggested the other girl. This girl
had brown eyes and dark hair. From how she showed off all the
time, she seemed to be a bragger. The blue hair girl then agreed
and took out a small piece of paper for everyone. The 4th girl then
took out a piece of paper herself from her own bag.
"What's you guys' name?" asked Misty. "Mine is Misty,"
"Duplica," said the blue hair girl and released her Pokemon
from the Pokeball, a Ditto. Ditto climbed to Duplica's head and
transformed into a straw hat.
"Everyone calls me a star… but l'm just Gisele!" Gisele's
brown eyes sparkled as she said her lines, and Misty sweatdropped.
"I've never call you a star," replied Misty to Gisele's
comments. Duplica sweatdropped at Gisele also but just turned
away. Gisele seemed to be from a richer family compared to
Misty's, and Misty wondered why she came here. The way Gisele
talked was sure trying to show-off.

"You girls all ready?" shouted Jessie to Misty's room from
the end of the hallway. The girls shouted in reply a yes and then
Jessie came in and ordered everyone to sit in their bed and listen
up.
"Here are the rules. Wake up at 7, do your bed, eat breakfast
at the 3rd class meeting hall. Then go upstairs and pick up your
stuff and l'll teach you people what to do after later in the day,"
Jessie hurried to another room to explain the same thing again, but
then they heard her shouting again.
"I forgot to mention, no boys are allowed to be in your room
and everyone must be asleep by 10!"

"No boys? Too bad… now l won't find any cute guys
around," said Gisele playfully, joking around. Misty who do
everything seriously didn't like Gisele's style too much and liked
Duplica more. Duplica was quite quiet for a moment, then Misty
saw her Ditto transformed into a small Pokemon pin and she
pinned her Ditto to her uniform.
A blue Pokemon came into Misty's room. He/she had a
pitch-black tail with a separate pair of eyes.
"Wobbuffet, Wobbu wob wobu wobuffet!"
"Do you guys know this Wobbuffet?" asked Gisele as she
patted Wobbuffet. Wobbuffet stood still and his/her tail wagged.
Seemed like this Wobbuffet should belong to someone.
"Wobbuffet? Where are you?" Jessie shouted as she entered
the room. "There you are! You little stupid and useless blue slob!"
"Wobbuffet…." Said Wobbuffet then Jessie slapped
Wobbuffet and Wobbuffet's tail cried.
"Jessie! Don't be so mean. This Wobbuffet is quite cute!"
protested Misty as Wobbuffet hid behind Misty for protection.
"What do you mean, little girl? You don't have to teach me
how to handle my Pokemon!"
"Poor Wobbuffet… How can you even slap him!" said
Duplica as she sat in front of Wobbuffet, blocking Jessie to hit
Wobbuffet again.
"Arbok, teach these naughty children a lesson! Tail attack!"
Jessie's second Pokemon came out. Arbok screeched and hit
Gisele down to the floor.
"How could you do that you old bat!" said Misty as she
helped Gisele getting up.
"OLD… BAT? ARRR!" roared Jessie. Jessie pointed at
Misty and Arbok hit her to the wall. Jessie returned Wobbuffet and
Arbok and left the room. Misty was greatly disappointed at Jessie,
such a nice woman at first but then so cruel to one of her Pokemon.
Now she made Jessie mad and seemed like it was a bad start for a
day.

Duplica helped Misty and Gisele to go up the wooden stairs
and up the floor. Jessie was already starting to explain their work.
"Okay you, you, you and you, you people will be working at
the kitchen!" Jessie said as she pointed several different people and
Gisele to work at the kitchen. More people were split into different
parts of the palace to work.
"And finally the rest of you, you will be cleaning the palace,
stuff like sweeping the floor, cleaning the furniture and such," said
Jessie.
"So will we have to serve the prince?" asked a girl. Jessie
nodded in reply. Misty blushed then. She wondered if Prince
Ketchum remembered her. But probably not, Prince Ketchum was
a superstar and he won't remember these unimportant things.
Duplica was still silent, but seemed satisfied by the looks of her
face, lightly smiling. Then Jessie split them to work in different
hall. The halls were decorated for different types of Pokemon
elements, such as Water Hall, Grass Hall, Lightning Hall and many
other halls. Misty hoped for the Water Hall, as rumors said that the
Water Hall is underwater, with a big glass wall to see all those
water Pokemon swimming freely, like an aquarium. Misty loved
the ocean, and she never saw how the ocean looked like deep
under and it would be cool to see it. But Misty was disappointed.
"You all will work in the Grass Hall this upcoming week
since there will be a guest visiting. Go and clean the hall nice and
neat, and don't mess up! The guest will be here within 2 days! So
be careful!" Jessie warned dangerously as she left to the kitchen.
The Grass Hall was filled with flowers growing. The room was
painted light green, and there was a great 2 stories high window to
allow in natural light from the outside. Just 2 stories below was the
Water Hall, but Misty would have to wait for a week to have the
chance. Misty smelled a pleasant scent in the hall, and Duplica
noticed it too. The flowers around were sweet, but this scent
wasn't too natural. Misty then stepped beside Duplica, who was by
the tall window, looking at the Palace's garden that was to their
right outside. Butterfrees flew around freely, as the ocean waves
from their left crashed against the shore.
"Hey! Get to work immediately! Or else l'll have to punish
you guys!" said Jessie who was in the hallway. Misty quickly
grabbed the bloom to sweep the expensive marble floor. Duplica
was washing the long wooden table in the middle of the giant hall.
Misty found the marble floor was very easy to clean due to its
smooth surface. Although this wasn't the Water Hall, the Grass
Hall was wonderful, even better than imagined. Then Misty
focused on her work, and thought about nothing else.

"I don't see why we have to do the cooking!"
"I don't think this is all that bad,"
Gisele was chopping the carrots, getting them ready for the
chef/chefs. The chef was a young man with short blue hair, and
with him cooking was a talking Meowth who knew how to talk
real fast. There were all kinds of people in the palace, and all kinds
of Pokemon too. Gisele hated this (in her opinion) ugly uniform.
She would never understand why Misty and Duplica thought that
the uniforms were great. Back at home she had all kinds of fancy
dresses, shoes and all kinds of clothing. If only her dad didn't
punish her for breaking his favorite vase and sent her here to work
for a month, she would still be at home, didn't have to work and
enjoy her high life. Working in the palace became a spot for many
upper class families to send their children to work there for
punishment. They automatically had clothing, shelter and food for
them, and the strict rules would teach those naughty children a
lesson. They also get pay too!
The talking Meowth complained again, but the chef named
James was quite delightful.
"Why do you have to come to this place?" asked James to the
talking Meowth, "with your ability to talk, you can be a famous
Pokemon Star!" The Meowth sighed as he remembered his past.
"When l was little, l was abandoned by my parents. I ran
away and joined a gang of Meowths and a Persian was the leader
of the gang," explained Meowth as James finished cooking and
handed them over to Gisele. Gisele placed the food on a table and
continued to listen.
"Then there was a female Meowth called Meowsi who l was
in love with in the first sight (you guys know, the female Meowth
in the anime "Go West Young Meowth!" l'm not so sure how to
spell her name so l just guessed,) She said that l'm just a normal
street Meowth, and l'm not even human. I with great difficulty
learned how to talk and speak human because of her, but she
rejected me because she said that l'm a walking talking freak
Meowth!" Meowth started to cry and James sarcastically cried
with Meowth. "So l must earn money to show that l'm not a freak!
When l earn enough money l will go back to her," Meowth stopped
crying and then asked James who the Meowth called Jimmy Boy
how did he came to here.
"You look familiar, maybe l saw you before," said the talking
Meowth. Meowth took out some wax and started making his
golden charm shiny.
"I'm from a rich family that has even more money than this
kingdom," everyone wowed as James talked.
"My parents forced me to marry a girl named Jessebelle. I
hated how Jessebelle said that us rich people must do everything
right. Those high class have rules for everything, so l ran away
from home and worked here," After those 2 hugged each other,
crying and feeling bad for each other, they got back to work. Then
Gisele heard something.

"Can't you even carry the dishes right!" scolded Jessie to a
young boy who was on the floor, picking up the pieces of broken
dishes and plates.
"Sorry, ma'am, I will be more careful,"
"I heard that before 67 times,"
"Please forgive me,"
"This is the last warning!"
Then Gisele heard Jessie's footsteps getting closer, and then
she pretended to work. Jessie walked into the kitchen, looked at
everything, and then proceeded on to somewhere else. Gisele
looked at the boy who finished picking up the pieces and put them
in the garbage. After he seemed to be dizzy and fell. Gisele, James
and the talking Meowth gasped and ran out of the kitchen to pick
him up.
Gisele sat him up on a chair, while James went to get
something for the boy to drink. Meowth felt his shoulder and it
was burning.
"OUCH! I BURN MY PAW!" screamed Meowth as he put
his hand in the water and spilled the soup that James made earlier.
"You little good for nothing cat! Now l've to remake the
soup again!" said James as he choked Meowth by his neck. Then
he stole Meowth's favorite gold charm and said that he only gives
it back if Meowth finished cooking the soup. Meowth cried
without his gold charm and got on to work.
"Thanks you, but l need to work now," said the boy but then
he didn't have the strength to get up. Gisele gave the boy
something to eat and then asked for his name.
"My name is Gisele, what's yours?"
"Joe," replied the boy unenthusiastically. "What if Jessie sees
us now? She will punish me and l'll get you in trouble as well!
Thanks for the help again but l don't want to drag you into this,"
James said worriedly that Jessie probably wouldn't come to
the kitchen since not long ago Jessie just passed the kitchen.
Meowth saw this opportunity and snatched his gold charm back
and put it back to his forehead.
"Get back to work!" said James as he commanded Meowth to
cook the soup. Meowth teased James as he jumped up and down,
leaping away from James. Then Meowth slipped and some kitchen
utilities dropped and made a huge "BANG" sound.

"What's that noise?" said Jessie as she hurried to the kitchen.
Then Meowth and James' leg shook for fear. They tried to run but
their legs weren't listening. Gisele and Joe gasped as Jessie
appeared and looked at the mess. Everyone wasn't working at all.
Gisele was just kneeling beside Joe, who was sitting on a chair,
doing nothing. James and Meowth were treating the place like a
playground.
"How dare you! I've given you guys warning before. I'll just
have to punish you all! Pokeball go!" Jessie threw out 2 Pokeballs
and out came Arbok and Lickitung.
Gisele thought to herself, she, Meowth and James could
certainly just endure the pain, but then Joe was sick with fever and
he couldn't take the damage from the Pokemon and then continue
working. Then she realized that she must fight back!
"Cubone go!" Gisele's Cubone came out and protected Joe
from Poison Sting by a Bonerang. James saw and realized that no
matter what now everyone in this kitchen will be in trouble since
one of them fought back.
"I choose you Wheezing, Victreebel!" But then Victreebel bit
James by the head as he struggled to get out. Wheezing wanted to
help his master but didn't know how. Meowth then charged with a
Fury Swipes but Lickitung slapped him away with a Lick attack.
Cubone now used Leer and Arbok was stunned. Cubone jumped
up and used Bone Club and fainted Arbok.
"Lickitung, Supersonic," Lickitung created a high tone voice
and Meowth closed his ears. Wheezing and Victreebel were
confused and battled each other.
"Tackle now!" Victreebel and Wheezing came to their senses
and charged for Lickitung, and knocked out Lickitung. Cubone
finished both Pokemon with a Bonerang and Jessie returned the 2
Pokemon. She quickly escaped, trying to tell this to the higher
departments.

"Sorry that l got all of you in this," said Joe as everyone
walked closer to Joe and surrounded him.
"Don't need to thanks," said Meowth as James explained.
"We place beauty over duty,"
Then Joe still worried about Jessie coming back to get them,
and he shivered in fear, imagining what Jessie could've done with
them. He shivered until Gisele grabbed his hands with hers, which
gave him support and strength. Gisele talked to comfort him.
"Don't worry, all 4 of us are in this together,"