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.3

(Okay, lately it's all about Misty, let's change to Ash's point
of view for once. How is his life as a Prince of Pallet like? Later on
in this chapter there will be a switching of POV, point of view.)

Ash was sitting in his office near the top of the palace. He
looked out the window and he made no response to the beautiful
garden and the scenery. Probably he faced the garden everyday,
and it became common for him to have such a luxurious garden.
He believed that he had been doing an okay job for the city. The
city was rich. Paint was now a common thing in Pallet, unlike in
many other kingdoms. The palace was almost studded with glass,
and some other rich families had glass windows, which was like a
dream for many places. He had nothing to do usually, and would
just sit in his office, starring at nothing.
Ash clapped and immediately his secretary came in.
"You have any command, Prince Ketchum?" replied the
secretary as she stood up straight, obviously used to this position
very time the prince calls her.
"Will all you people ever stop calling me by 'Prince
Ketchum'? Just call me Ash!" said the prince angrily as the
secretary kneed on the floor, begging for forgiveness although she
didn't do anything wrong. Every time he gets a little upset then the
people starts begging for mercy.
"I command you to call me ASH!"
"Yes, Ash," said the scared secretary, afraid that disobeying
orders would cause her life. Working with a royal member was a
tough job. Ash nodded happily; finally someone in the palace
beside his mother is not going to call him "Prince Ketchum" Then
Ash asked for some work to do. The secretary hesitated, until Ash
lightly scolded her a little.
Ash carried a small stack (approximately 30 pages or
something…) and into his office. He read the sheets and knew that
it's just some small problems like the development of the new
Rock Hall. Those weren't such an important tasks. Ash asked the
secretary for some more important and useful jobs. The secretary
lied about there weren't any. Ash saw a (real) stack of paper (this
stack is real all right. It has about 200 pages,) labeled "Visitors
from the Celadon Kingdom."
"I'll take that one!" Ash snatched the stack quickly. The
secretary tried to persuade the prince to give it back. She wasn't
afraid that the prince would mess up or something. He really was a
smart guy and would get it done, but…

"Ash dear, how are you today?"
Ash and his secretary looked up and saw Ash's mother,
Queen Delia. (Okay, I don't know what is the true name for Ash's
mother, but a lot of other fanfics uses Delia as the name, so I'll go
with that one. If anyone knew the name, please tell me!) The
secretary kneed down to greet Queen Delia, while Ash just bowed
to his mother. The queen wore her favorite pink dress, and she
wore her crown today. She won't wear her crown unless she was
going out to the public or if people were going to visit the palace.
Ash knew that today was something important, or Queen Delia
was just going to take a walk outside.
"Good, just going to read this document," replied Ash as he
dropped down his stuff on to his desk.
"Dear, don't work yourself to sick! Just give it to the
secretary," as Queen Delia ordered the secretary to do the job, Ash
didn't allow the secretary to get it. Ash protested that he was bored
and decided to get something to do. Queen Delia still wasn't
convinced and ordered the secretary to keep a close eye on Ash
that he won't get sick "from all those hard work." Then she left off
to the garden to take a walk. The queen's servants who were
dressed in those white uniforms hurried along with the queen.

As Ash read the papers, he realized that he didn't really know
all these things well. He didn't know that there was a plan for an
addition to the West wing of the palace. Because Queen Delia had
not allowed her son to work very much she stopped nearly all the
stuff that was passed up to the prince to work. Ash decided that he
would need a talk with his mother about stopping those
assignments and all these over-protective stuff.
"Princess Erika is going to visit us tomorrow. Mother
mention that to me before… but l didn't know there is so much
work behind the scene…" mumbled Ash to himself as he finally
finished reading the documents. He would now finally have
something to do. He would do all those stuff mentioned in the
papers that weren't done yet.

Ash took off to the lower floors of the palace. In here, there
was a strange way of doing things that the higher one works in the
palace, the more important or high class you will be! So important
characters such as the prince (Ash, Prince Ketchum), the queen
(Queen Delia), the captain of the guards (Brock) and these
peoples' helpers, excluding servants, will live and work in the
highest parts of the palace. The lower you get, the lower job you
have. So the servants lived in the basement cause they were the
lowest class. Ash then took out a piece of paper he wrote that
includes his list of things he had to do. First thing was to check out
the Grass Hall to see if it's good enough for Princess Erika. It
would be rude to reject the visitors' first request for which hall to
pick, as everyone knew that Princess Erika loved grass element
Pokemon, and it would be likely for her to choose the Grass Hall.
Ash suddenly opened the Grass Hall door, and had surprised the
servants there.

"Is the hall ready for the visitors tomorrow?" asked Ash as
the servants quickly bowed and greeted him.
"Yes, your majesty," replied a red haired servants. In Ash's
eyes, that girl shouldn't be a servant. With her beauty and her
sweet voice it could take her to the road of stardom. But that's
none of his business. Now he should just worry about Princess
Erika's visit tomorrow.

(Shift to Misty)
Misty was shocked to receive a surprise visit from the prince.
Prince Ketchum usually gives a warning in advance that he will be
coming. As she answered the prince's question, she looked at the
prince right at the eye but only for a second, and then she turned
away. She could feel that the prince was reading her mind through
her eye, and wondered what was the prince thinking in his mind.
Duplica and her moved to the side of the room to allow the
prince to freely look around. Prince Ketchum moved towards the
huge window, which allows in natural sunlight. He looked around,
and he seemed to be delighted. He then moved towards them.
Misty was at first afraid that the prince would scold them, but the
delighted look on his face calmed her down.

(Back to Ash)
"Are you guys the new servants that we hired?"
"Yes, Prince Ketchum," said the girls in reply. Ash sighed.
He hated the way that everyone calls him "Prince Ketchum." Why
couldn't people just call him by his name? But he understood that
the girl's boss would be angry with them and punish them. He then
ordered the servants to work again, and decided that it is time to
slip away. But just as he was about to leave, he noticed something
about the red haired girl. He then ordered the other servant
(Duplica) to work first and ordered the girl to follow him into a
small meeting room nearby.

(Misty's POV)
Misty followed Prince Ketchum to the meeting room. In the
small room, there were only enough space for a table, and 4 chairs
with a candle stand at the side. Prince Ketchum told Misty to sit at
the chair, while he sat on the other side of the table. Misty looked
at the prince for a second time and was caught in the prince's
mesmerizing gaze again. She could see that the prince was reading
through her again, and tried to break the contact, but Prince
Ketchum's brown eyes and his handsome look were just too
tempting not to look.
"I think that you majesty, know how nervous l am," Misty
said, trying to break the silence and to stop the prince's gaze.
"Yes, I see that you can read through someone's eyes too.
One can lie about anything, but one can't lie with their eyes,"
Misty didn't get these complicated statements of the prince's, but
just nodded in agreement whatever the statement meant.
"Have l seen you somewhere before?" asked Prince Ketchum
as he saw that Misty was uncomfortable with the eye contacts, and
so broke the contact. Misty automatically seemed to be more at
ease and then replied.
"Yes, Prince Ketchum,"
"When?"
"When your majesty was walking along the main street, and
the crowd suddenly pushed me into the road in front of you,"
replied Misty as she lightly blushed, still embarrassed from that
event. Prince Ketchum lightly laughed, and Misty guessed that he
remembered about it.
"Yes, yes… I almost forgot," replied the prince politely.
Although the prince was always polite with everyone, but never
Misty had heard Prince Ketchum talk with such gentleness. She
was starting to fear that the prince was trying something.
"If I ask you a question, will you just tell me the answer
truthfully? Or are you just going to say some whatever good stuff
you think of because I'm a prince?" Misty was now more afraid.
Either whatever choice she made it still could be bad. If she just
going to answer his questions truthfully, then Prince Ketchum
might be mad. If she was just going to say nice stuff about it, then
the prince might really want to hear the truth. Either way, it was
just bad.
"I'll answer it truthfully," Misty decided. In the past her
father always tells them not to lie no matter what the condition is.
She's going listen to her father, and decided to tell the truth. She
hoped that she made the right choice.
"What'll you do if there is a visitor visiting us, and you will
be serving the visitor?"
"Well….um…, I'll think that your majesty had something
planned for the visitor to do, so before they come I'll first clean the
place well, get the tea and a little desert done from the kitchen, and
then just do whatever they requested," answered Misty. Prince
Ketchum seemed to be listening well and then suddenly stood up.
Misty slowly backed away slightly.

(Ash's POV)
Ash noticed the slow movements of Misty moving back, and
knew that she's probably afraid or something. He then patted her
on the shoulder, and Misty looked up. Ash looked at her right
back, and noticed several things about her that he never noticed in
anyone else. Those aqua eyes of hers were charming, and the way
that her eyes sparkles were just even more charming. Not very
many people would notice those sparkles, and not very many
people could read the mind of people through the eye, and Misty
was one of those people. Ash only knew her mother and himself
had such ability, and a little servant named Misty could do it too.

"Okay Misty, tomorrow at 7 in the morning, come to this
room again and I've something to tell you," said Ash as he opened
the door. Then there was Jessie, with her Pokemon Arbok and
Lickitung, carrying a chef, the talking Meowth who worked at the
kitchen, a light brown hair boy and a long dark hair girl. Misty
gasped as she saw Gisele carried away by Arbok.
"Hey Jessie, what did you do with Gisele? And all these
other people?" asked Misty worriedly as she tried to get to Gisele
but Arbok hissed her back. Ash decided to watch and so stayed
back a several steps.
"You stay out off this!" warned Jessie as she ordered the
Pokemon to continue on.
"No way! Gisele's my friend and I won't leave her behind!"
Misty said but then Arbok hissed again. This time Misty showed
no sign of fear and stood bravely against it. Ash now worried that
Jessie's Arbok might attack her for real and appeared behind
Misty.
"Oh! Prince Ketchum!" said Jessie as her Arbok stayed away
from Misty. Misty looked back at Prince Ketchum and she never
saw his eyes flared like now.
"How can you do this! They maybe lower in class than you,
but you have no right to do this! Now let them go and get out!"
scolded Ash angrily and Jessie's face immediately freaked out. She
returned her Pokemon and she ran out.

Ash kneed down and saw that the 4 people were hurt. Misty
shook Gisele and Gisele got up. Misty then helped Gisele walked
towards the meeting room to sit down, but with great difficulty.
"I'll help you," said Ash as he took off his white cape and
threw it down on to the marble floor. He helped carrying James
and Meowth also into the meeting room. James seemed
unconscious and Meowth was knocked out. Joe who still was
badly wounded but was still conscious, but didn't have the enough
strength to talk.
Gisele slowly sat down on the chair. The unconscious James
and Meowth were placed on to the floor. Prince Ketchum and
Misty sat in the chairs, listening to Gisele.
"Jessie beat us up because (coughed between conversation)
we didn't allow Jessie to take Joe away, so we fought back. We
didn't really wanted to disobey her, but Prince Ketchum, please
understand! Joe had a fever!" Gisele stood up when she talked, but
then fell back due to lack of strength. Ash nodded, understanding
the story. He looked at poor Joe and had noticed that his face was
dark purple.
"Oh no! Seems like Arbok used Poison Sting on him and he's
poisoned, I'll go get the palace's doctors. Misty you stay here and
take care of everyone," and off the prince went to search for the
doctor.
"Hey Misty, you're thinking of something," Gisele said slyly
as Misty pretended to be nothing. "What do you think about Prince
Ketchum?"
"He's a real nice guy," replied Misty, her face didn't change.
"Do you lie a lot?"
"No, but why do you ask that, Gisele?"
"Well you did a great job hiding your feelings for Prince
Ketchum," Misty blushed hard, no longer able to hide it.
"What about you? The one who cared about a boy who you
only know for about one day? Love at first sight?" replied Misty,
which caught Gisele for good.
"Well, we've got each other," replied back Gisele, her face
red also like Misty's. They both guessed out who they each other
loved…