A Pokemon Fairy Tale

(Okay, l know how bad my English is so you don't have to tell me
about it. This fanfic is sort of like a fairy tale, and l hope you like
it!)

Ch.5

When Misty returned, she couldn't see Princess Erika
anywhere, but could only see Prince Ketchum in the dining room.
She placed the perfumes on the table and then just stood behind
Princess Erika's seat.
Prince Ketchum just sat down in his seat, eyes staring at
nowhere. He was in deep thought about something. Misty wished
that he would look up at her, so she could read his mind through
the eyes.
"Misty?" asked Prince Ketchum.
"Yes sir?" replied Misty.
"Can you just… sit right here?" The prince moved a chair
beside him. Misty obeyed without second thoughts and sat on the
chair. Misty didn't know what the prince was thinking about
letting her sit right beside him, but as a servant she must obey
everything the prince ordered.
"Misty,"
"Yes?"
"I…" Misty had no idea what the prince was talking about,
hesitating and lost in words. Certainly what Prince Ketchum was
trying to say must be really hard to say due to embarrassment,
pride, or other. Just something that would have a great effect on
something.
"Hi guys, sorry for waiting," said Princess Erika as she
walked in and Misty quickly got back to her side. Erika saw her
perfume and then sprayed some more.
"Oh, Prince Ketchum, what are you trying to say to me
before?" asked Misty again but Prince Ketchum just said nothing
important. She believed that he's hiding something in his heart.
That was obviously no 'nothing.'
"Misty, let's go," commanded Erika as Misty followed Erika
back to the room.

Ash was lying on his bed, face buried in the white
comfortable pillow. He was punching the pillow at first, and now
used it to hide his face. Then his favorite Pokemon Pikachu came
in from the door and said a happy "Pikachu!" and entered the
prince's room.
"Pi?" said Pikachu as it saw the prince's face hidden in the
pillow. Pikachu ran up to the bed and stood beside Ash. Then
Ash's face got out of his hiding spot and faced Pikachu. Pikachu
lay down and stared right back at Ash.
"Pikachu?" asked Ash as Pikachu nodded in response,
showing that it's listening. Their eyes were only few inches apart
and they looked right at each other. Pikachu's ears went down,
showing a sad face. It wished that it had the ability to read the
mind through the eye like its master and Queen Delia. Ash sat up,
picked up Pikachu and placed it in his lap. Pikachu was delighted,
and lightly purred.
"Have you loved another Pokemon before?" asked Ash
suddenly. Pikachu was confused, wondering why its master would
want to ask something like that.
"Pika?" asked Pikachu back a "why." Ash continued to hold
Pikachu in a right way and patted its head. Pikachu purred in
delight and cuddled into a ball shape.
"Answer me!" urged Ash as he toke Pikachu by its ears and
hanged him.
"Pika," Pikachu shook its head, saying a no. Ash let go of
Pikachu's ears, and continued to bury his face in the pillow.
Pikachu thought about it, but there could be too many possibilities.
Ash got up again and asked Pikachu another question.
"Have you said 'I love you' before?" asked Ash.
"Pika!" said Pikachu triumphantly.
"How did you say it?" asked Ash delightfully, seeming to
find an answer to his problem.
"Pika pikachu! (To my mother!)" Ash sweatdropped and
sank back into the pillow. Ash then grabbed Pikachu by the ears
again and hanged him towards the wall.
"BE SERIOUS!" shouted Ash, as Pikachu's eyes were
watery, seeing that Ash was so sad, troubled and depressed. Ash
then dropped Pikachu back on the bed and just lay in his bed again.
He kept asking himself the same question over and over again.
"Why can 3 simple words be so hard to say?"

At night, after finishing her tough job of serving Princess
Erika, Misty got into the special room. Since she had to serve the
princess, the kingdom let her to now use the room as a reward for
doing a great job serving the visitors. A room all by herself, Misty
sat on the bed and kicked her shoes off. She placed her hands to
cover her face, held her knees and cried… Long time after there
was a knock at the door. Then Gisele lightly poked her head in and
sat down beside her.
"How's it going today?" asked Gisele as Misty who still held
her knees and put her head towards her chest, hiding her face,
lightly sobbing and sighed. Gisele patted Misty on the back,
thinking that she must be tired from all that hard work.
"Gisele?" asked Misty, face buried by her hands.
"What?"
"Have you ever said 'I love you' to someone?"
"No…" said Gisele and started to think. What does I love
you had to relate to Misty? Unless she was planning to say it to
someone… Misty then looked up at Gisele, eyes watery, red from
crying so much.
"How come just 3 simple words can be so hard to say?"
Misty buried herself in her hands again and began to cry all over
again. Gisele saw that it would be the best if she will be alone, and
so quietly left the room. Misty continued to cry.
"Whoever said love is happy is so wrong… How come love
can be so painful?"

Princess Erika hurried to Misty's room. She peeked from a
small hole and looked at inside. Misty was lying in her bed, face
turned against the wall. She seemed to be tired, too tire to cry
anymore.
"Mind if I come in?" asked Princess Erika as she slowly
entered the room and sat down on the bed beside Misty. Misty
quickly sat up.
"Princess Erika? What are you doing here?" asked Misty
softly.
"To see you, dear,"
"Why do you want to? You're a princess and I'm just a little
servant," she turned away from Erika.
"I've met up with Gisele a while ago, she told me
everything,"
"Traitor Gisele," Misty pretended to sound angry but didn't
do such a good job in lying. Erika saw through her easily. She was
usually good with seeing what people were feeling. This case was
a little complicated.
"Love is so painful right?" asked Erika again.
"Huh? Why should you, a princess, care about me, this
useless junk?" Misty slowly slid away from Princess Erika. But
Erika just slid closer to her every time she tried to go away.
"A princess is a person too, and people should care about one
another. Forget that I'm a princess, just count me as a friend,"
Erika said passionately, and offered her shoulder to let Misty lean
on (don't think THAT way!). Erika lightly giggled, but the giggle
was a short live one.
"You love him, right?" asked Erika. Misty would probably
tell. This was probably her low point, and people usually crack up
secrets in low points. Misty knew that a simple yes would do, but
she was too tired and just nodded. Erika sighed. Things now got
complicated and simpler at the same time. Simpler because now
Erika knew who Misty's target was, and complicated because of
the class difference. Misty was only a servant, and Ash was a
prince. Certainly a problem would occur because of that. Also
Queen Delia was a problem now too. She would never let her only
son marry a little poor servant.
"Love is just painful, I wished I never loved…" said Misty
again. Erika grabbed Misty by the shoulders and forced Misty to
face her.
"Too late now, you must make the best out of it. You either
quit now or just tell him," Then Erika got up and headed for the
door. Misty then covered herself with the blankets, faced the wall
and began to think. Erika took a last look at Misty, such a beautiful
young little girl, maybe a little too much of a pressure for her. But
she must decide now, or she would be painful forever.

Erika noticed that the candlelight around the whole palace
was gone, signaling that most people were asleep already. The only
light in the whole palace was from her own room, the moonlight
from the window and then she noticed that the top of the palace
was also dimly lit up, the prince's room…
Erika took a candle and walked upward to the prince's room.
She knocked on the door and there was no response. Surely Ash
wasn't asleep yet but didn't welcome any visitors. But she busted
in anyway, and entered the room without permission. Ash was
lying in his bed with his pillow covered his face.
"Hello?" said Princess Erika as she grabbed a nearby chair
and sat beside Ash. Ash recognized that kind voice of Erika's and
sat up. With eyes also red and watery like Misty's, Erika was
99.9% sure that he was tired from crying. Ash unenthusiastically
answered, then sighed. Pikachu was long asleep beside Ash.
"Love is so painful, right?" asked Erika. She decided to use
the same speech that she used for Misty on Ash.
"Huh? Why should you, a princess, care about a stupid prince
who can't even say 3 little words?"
"What is that I lo… lo… thing you're trying to say to Misty
earlier?" asked Erika. She knew the answer, but she just had to ask.
"I think that lo thing missed 2 letters at the end, perhaps if you add
a 've' to the 'lo' things will work out,"
"Yeah right, it's impossible, there's always the class
difference and mother will probably kill me if she knew who I
loved," Something very true, Erika thought about that problem too
but didn't find a solution for it.
"That is some nasty problems,"
"Love is just painful, I wished I never loved…"
Erika looked at Ash with curiosity. Ash didn't know what so
curious about, but then he didn't had the mood to play mind
games.
"You and Misty are truly a couple, you guys say nearly the
exact same thing!" Then Erika noticed that it was midnight, and so
she went back to her own room. Ash didn't sleep though because
he couldn't sleep. He tried to force himself say "I love you" before,
but then he was just too afraid. Afraid that Misty didn't love him
back, afraid that Misty might break his heart…

The next morning, Erika woke up. She looked outside the
window and noticed that the sun was up long, long ago, probably
because she slept so late. Then she noticed that Misty was there
like usual, standing still beside the bed waiting for orders. But she
knew what happened last night, and decided to go to breakfast first
without Misty and let her to rest.
She arrived at the breakfast table. Queen Delia was already
finished eating. Prince Ketchum's spot was empty. He must be still
in his room.
"Sorry I'm late," said Erika as Queen Delia acted like she
didn't mind at all. Erika quickly finished eating and then left the
room fast. Queen Delia stared at Erika's unusual behavior. She was
usually polite, waiting until everyone was finished eating, and then
she would slowly leave the room. She must be in a big hurry.

Erika quickly took the spiral stairs up to Ash's room. The
door was closed shut. Erika opened the door, and found Ash lying
motionless on the bed, in the same pose as last night. He didn't
move a muscle in the whole night, and didn't sleep at all. Erika ran
towards him to check if he's okay, but then she tripped over her
own green dress.
"Ouch! Hey Ash can't you even give me a hand?" asked
Erika. Ash was still motionless. Pikachu woke up and helped Erika
getting up.
"Even your Pikachu is better than you, seems like you're
addicted to Misty," said Erika as she got up. Pikachu sighed at the
condition of Ash. It wished that it could help in any way, but there
was nothing it can do.
"Pikachu, take care of him," said Erika as she headed down
the long stairs again to Misty's room. Pikachu replied a yes with a
nod and just sat on the bed near Ash. It noticed that Ash's eyes
were closed, finally tired to sleep.

Misty was packing her stuff up in her bag. She tied a rope to
shut the bag so the stuff won't fall out. Erika gasped as she noticed
Misty's action. Misty decided to leave.
"You can't do this! Ash is half dead, half alive thinking about
you all the time! You can't leave him in such important time!" said
Erika. Misty closed her eyes, determined to leave.
"Thanks, Princess Erika, but Prince Ketchum will be much
better off without me. He's a star, and what am I? Queen Delia
certainly won't allow us to be together, I don't even know if Prince
Ketchum loves me the way I love him. I've already tell Jessie and
got my pay. Bye Princess Erika, thanks anyway,"
"You are sure about this?" asked Erika again, hoping that
Misty would change her mind. Misty didn't answer, but her action
answered the question. She stepped out of the room and went down
to the entrance of the palace.
Misty stood in the front entrance of the Pallet Palace. She had
a great time in there, all those friends she made, Princess Erika,
and most important Prince Ketchum. She took one last look at the
great palace, and whispered to herself.
"Goodbye and farewell. Ash, I love you," Misty ran off the
palace, afraid that she would turn back. She must keep moving…

Ash slowly opened his eyes. Pikachu and Princess Erika were
waiting for him. The room was filled with the pleasant smell of
Erika's perfume.
"Huh? What's wrong?" asked Ash as the sun outside was
setting. He must have dozed off in the morning. He still sounded
just as unenthusiastic as before.
"Ash, wake up now! M…" said Erika worriedly but her
sentence was interrupted.
"Hi Ash, oh Princess Erika! Let's go to dinner now," said
Queen Delia as she cut Erika off. Erika protested and asked if she
and Ash could eat dinner later because of some very important
things to do. But Queen Delia declined Erika's protest, and forced
the 2 to go dine.

"What's wrong with you 2?" said Queen Delia. They are in
this private room to dine tonight. There were only 3 people in this
room, Queen Delia, Prince Ketchum and Princess Erika. Not even
Captain Brock was here. But Queen Delia seemed like the only one
to be eating. Ash was still troubled, inside a deep thought with
mixtures of feelings about Misty. Erika was too much in shocked
about Misty's departure to eat. Erika wanted to tell Ash about it,
but Ash's response could only be very good or very bad. Very
good was that Ash would strive to his feet and dash outside for
Misty. Very bad was for Ash to sit on his bed and cried all day,
unable to accept the fact that Misty left.

After dinner, Erika dragged Ash by his white cape to the
outside of Misty's room. She told Ash to be mentally prepared for
"something" and open the door. Ash gulped and opened the door.
Things were certainly wrong here. Misty was missing!
"Erika! Where did you hide her?" said Ash as he grabbed
Erika by her shoulders and shook her.
"Stop shaking me! Misty left in the afternoon when you're
taking a nap!"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? If I can't find Misty then
I'll execute you the next morning!" Ash pushed Erika out of the
way to the side. Erika fell on the floor and Ash rushed outside.
Pikachu used his special shortcut of sliding down the stairs and
found Erika lying on the floor. It quickly got off the slide to the
princess's side.
"Pika, pika?" it looked at Erika with great curiosity of what
happened. Then Erika pushed Pikachu by the head to help her get
up. Pikachu scolded her but she didn't care and rushed outside
after Ash. Pikachu followed to see what happened. When the
yellow mouse got outside it saw Erika standing at the entrance,
staring outside at the Pallet city.
"Ash is… gone…"

The moon was high up in the night sky of Pallet. Misty was
in her favorite place of the whole kingdom, the beach. The stars
were shimmering brightly, and they formed sort of a river made of
only stars. She guessed that's what those scientists called the
Milky Way. It's so romantic, a river made up of stars. She wished
that the stars won't be so high and so people could really walk
along the side of the Milky Way. Walking with your beloved ones
will be so romantic. But this dream would never be true. First of all
no one can reach that high, and Misty would never get to. Even if
she could really reach that high, the one she loved would never go
with her. She sat down on the sand and looked at the night sky and
the beach. She suddenly got this feeling inside her, feeling that she
didn't know what it is. Misty began to sing,

Out here in the quiet of the night…
Beneath the stars… and the moon…
We both know that we've got something in our mind…
We won't admit,
But it's true…
You look at me, I look away…

Ash kicked the sand in the beach. He looked at the beautiful
night sky. The Milky Way was so beautiful tonight, with the
silvery full moon above, a perfect scene for a couple to date here in
the beach with the stars above. He wondered that what would
Misty think in a time like this. How much he wished that Misty
would be here in his hands and share these beautiful moments? He
sat down on a giant rock and stared at the palace bathing in
moonlight. He heard a sweet voice from somewhere sang, and the
words were so beautiful. He decided to sing back.

I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know how to start…
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid,
That you might break my heart…
Oh, why should anything so easy be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling and…
To say that…
I love you.

Misty heard a response to her short little song. She was glad
that someone else in the world was feeling just the same as her.
She looked around and noticed nobody. This person was just,
somewhere. Maybe it was only her conscious. But she was going
to sing back, and this time she would listen up if it was only her
mind singing back or if it was sung by a real person.

I practice all the things that I could say…
Line by line,
Every word,
I tell myself…
Today could be the day.
But every time,
I lose my nerve.
I look at you, you look away…

I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know how to start…
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid,
That you might break my heart…
Oh, why should anything so easy be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling and…
To say that…
I love you.

Misty remembered that these words were coming from her
heart. A song that she made up just now, so how could anyone else
sing in a response to it unless the person was a famous singer. She
listened for the source of the other voice and see who was
responding to her song.

Ash noticed that the other person was using his lines as a
chorus, and then he tried to see the other person. Still there was no
one in the beach. Even if there was someone in the beach, it was
too dark to see. The only source of light was the moon and the
stars. The ocean waves slowly landed on the shore, making it a
little harder to hear the source of the voice. Who could be singing
at a time like this? He decided to look for the other. He continued
to sing the song so if the other person was looking for him the
other might find him by listening to him.

Why?
Why do you turn away?
It must be…
You're afraid like me.
I've tried,
But I can't pretend that I…
Don't feel for you, the way I do…
Can't you see…?

I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know how to start…
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid,
That you might break my heart…
Oh, why should anything so easy be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling and…
To say that…
I love you.

Then Misty saw the other person, standing right in front of
her. Dressed in a white cape but now dirty. It's a he, with black
hair and seemed to be rich. His dark eyes were so familiar as if she
saw those eyes before, but the night was so dark to see any other
feature until he got closer…

Ash couldn't see the other that well. Then the light of the
moon shone on the girl whose red hair was so beautiful. He could
see that she was wearing blue. Her blue Pokeballs were attached to
a Poke-belt, saying that what contained inside were water or ice
Pokemon.

Now the young man was close enough for Misty to see his
face. She gasped at who it was…
With the moon behind the young woman's back, she was
hidden in the shadow, but Ash had good eyesight to see in the dark
slightly better than average people. It was a familiar face, then his
eyes seemed surprised at who the young lady was.

Ash was right in front of Misty. One tried to escape from
each other, but fate brought them together by a song from the
heart. The sky was especially clear tonight, as if it was especially
clearer for the two. The stars seemed to dance to their song of love.
They were destined for each other, and could read what's in each
other's heart, and so were able to sing the same song that was
written in the heart.
Ash looked at Misty's blue eyes, sparkling even brighter than
the stars in the sky. He didn't know why he could sing that song so
well and know the words to it. Maybe he loved her too much that
he could read her mind. Ash grabbed Misty by her hands and felt
her caring hands. Misty sweetly smiled and they sang to each
other.

I wanna say…
But I am afraid…
I love you…

The song was finished and Ash was right in front of her. So
romantic to have the stars dance for them and the ocean at the side.
She didn't have to ask, but could feel that Ash felt the same way
too. A mysterious force was acting on both of them again, and
Misty let go of herself to wherever her heart takes her to. She
closed her eyes, and so did Ash, and their lips met, and kissed…


(Author speaking) Whew! Finally completed by 3 o'clock at
night. I was listening to "Misty's Song" in "2BA Pokemon
Master" CD and decided to put it into the story. I don't own the
song (I wish) and it belongs to… whoever made it. And I have to
say, I did an okay job in the end. Well, tell me if you enjoy it in
your review, and if this isn't in much of a demand, that I'll stop
writing it. Tell me if you like this story and want this to be
continue further. You readers must be serious and do speaks the
truth in your review, as your vote will determine if the story will
continue to live on or if the life of the story comes to an end.
Thank you for reading!
From Chikorita