March of Queen Delia

(It's decided that A Pokemon Fairy Tale will be continued, but
under a different name. The story is now divided into 2 parts. The
first part is how Ash and Misty fall in love with each other- "A
Pokemon Fairy Tale." The second part, "March of Queen Delia" is
all about the queen's reaction towards Ash and Misty's love. Hope
you enjoy this story! Well and do write some ideas about what the
next chapter should be in the review! Sorry that this took so long)

Ch.2

Prince Ketchum, Princess Erika, Misty and her sister Lily
walked across the streets. Erika and Lily were acting sneaky, and
Ash had no clue why they were doing so. There was absolutely
nothing to be afraid of. Misty was trying to think about it. She had
some idea. For some reason, Erika and Lily were afraid of the
soldiers in the streets.
They had entered the slums, and there should be lesser
soldiers. The streets were dark, since the clouds came and blocked
the moonlight. The dirty streets were full of puddles, and mice
crawled everywhere. Prince Ketchum was quite surprised and
scared of this place. Never he had known such a place existed in
his country, and he had never see a mouse in his life. He had seen
white mouse, electric mouse (Pikachu) and other mouse Pokemon,
but he had never seen sewer rats. Misty and Lily were used to the
environment, and this was a common sight. Erika was adaptive
enough to live through this. Pikachu dozed off in Erika's basket,
and they all quietly walk towards Misty's house.

"Doduo, Doduo" The sound of Doduo were heard, indicating
that soldier riding a Doduo was coming. Erika and Lily grabbed
Misty and Ash to the side, hiding away from the search parties.
"Why are we hiding?" asked Ash, and then Misty put her
hands over his mouth, muffling his words. The soldiers rode past
them, and they were safe.
"We will tell you in the house," said Erika, and they
continued their way to Misty's house.


Queen Delia was waiting impatiently as Gary's Alakazam
was trying to search for Prince Ketchum and Princess Erika. Gary
was confident in his Pokemon's skill, and Alakazam was trying to
search for the prince. Even if the psychic Pokemon was very
experienced and was in a high level, Pallet was just too big to find
one person.


Gisele was at her room, and woke Duplica up. The Ditto that
Duplica owned was in a pillow form, and woke up as well.
"Where's Misty?" asked Gisele. Duplica was still half asleep
and didn't answer. Her Ditto yawned, trying to go back to sleep.
"Misty is missing from the palace! Same with Princess Erika
and Prince Ketchum!" said Gisele as Duplica woke up. All of
Misty's things were gone, and something must be wrong for all 3
people to be missing at the same time.


Ash, Misty, Erika and Lily arrived at Misty's house, and Ash
was surprised at the condition. This wasn't fit for living… Daisy
and Violet were waiting at the table. The house was lit only by one
small candle on the table. Pikachu woke up from the little nap and
he could barely see his master's face because the house was so
dimly lit. He used his electricity and helped lighting up the room.
Ash, Misty and Erika took the seats, and Ash immediately
demanded to know what's happening.

"Well after you left to find Misty, I tried to find you guys,"
said Erika, as she let her short hair out of her hood. She put the
basket on the floor, and then continued explaining.
"I know that searching for both of you won't be easy, so I
dressed up as plain as I can to find you guys. Pikachu wanted to
come also so he hid in the basket that I found in the road," said
Erika. Ash was listening, and so did Misty, leaning on to Ash.
"Queen Delia was searching for me and Ash all over the
city," said Erika, as faint sounds of soldiers are heard. Ash was
surprised. His mother was using all these troops just to find 2
people, and he couldn't imagine what his mother will do to Misty
if she found out. In Ash's mind, he imagined Queen Delia all fired
up, in rage and on fire, scolding at him like crazy. It won't be a
pretty sight…

"So what should we do now?" asked Misty, and everyone
including Ash looked at Erika for solutions.
"Don't look at me! I don't know!" said Erika, and everyone
turned away disappointedly. Dark clouds outside covered the
beautiful night sky, and far away was sound of thunder. A
thunderstorm was on the way. Since Princess Erika and Prince
Ketchum won't be able to go back to the palace, they must stay in
Misty's house for the night, and wait until next morning.

"Pika!!" squealed the electric mouse, as it stopped lighting
the house up and rolled into a ball in fright. Ash quickly got to its
side, and Pikachu was all scared, hands over its head, his pointy
ears down. Ash had never seen Pikachu being so scared before.
The thunderstorm was getting closer to Pallet Kingdom, and bolts
of electricity were flying from clouds to clouds. The sea was
angry, as waves violently crashed the shore. Seemed like
something terrible was about to happen. That thunderstorm didn't
look very natural. Seemed like it was caused by something…


Gary at first was confident in his own Pokemon, but then
after the thunderstorm appeared, his psychic Pokemon seemed to
be troubled by something. The psychic power was seemed to be
disturbed. Queen Delia's Mimie also seemed nervous and scared of
something coming. Queen Delia saw Mimie's expression, and
knew that something was coming. The Pokemon could feel the
power coming. Since the thunderstorm arrived, all the Pokemon
was acting nervous. Alakazam then suddenly fell to the ground,
and Gary got to Alakazam's side. Not only that Alakazam had
decided to give out searching for Prince Ketchum and Princess
Erika, but Alakazam was also scared… scared of something in the
storm…
"Alakazam can't do it…" said Gary. Queen Delia could see
why… the looks of the Pokemon were horrible. Cap. Brock rushed
in now.
"Ma'am, all the Pokemon were going crazy!" reported
Brock, as the Pokeballs on his Pokemon belt were also shaking
violently. The Pokemon inside were freaked. Queen Delia didn't
know what to do at the moment.
"Try to call all of the Pokemon back into the Pokeball," said
Queen Delia, and she was no longer paying attention about the
search.


Gisele and Duplica were worried for Misty. She had
suddenly disappeared, with all of her stuff and her Pokemon. She
had planned to leave all along, but why won't she tell them? They
were her best friends in the palace? Duplica thought that there's
some connection between Misty, Princess Erika and Prince
Ketchum's disappearance. It's too strange to be just coincidence
that all 3 of them were missing at the same time. Something
happened to all 3 of them and then they were gone…
Ditto shivered as it transformed into a rock on the bed. Gisele
and Duplica looked at it. Ditto was still shivering, fearing of
something. All of Gisele's Pokeballs were moving, or shivering…
The Pokemon inside struggled against some unnatural forces.
Although they were in the basement level of the palace, the
thunder outside was loud and clear. What's wrong with the
thunderstorm?


Wild Pidgeys stayed low, hiding and sharing nests with their
worst enemies Spearows. This was a truly rare sight for a Spearow
not to attack a Pidgey, and sharing the same nest? Sandshrews dug
deep into the ground, as Sentrets and Furrets hid under bushes.
Hoothoots hooted with fright as they hid under small trees. All the
wild Pokemon were spooked.
The Pokemon that the search parties were riding on were all
going crazy, Ponytas going out of control, Doduos running wild
around the streets, Rapidashs screaming and dashing off in all
directions, and Dodrio acting all confused, pecking at the other
heads. Soldiers tried to calm and whip the Pokemon back to shape,
but then the Pokemon all ran off and hid.

The sky was no longer clear and beautiful like when Misty
and Ash were at the beach. The stars were all gone, and the
moonlight was covered by the thick thunderclouds. The sky was
dark, and thunderbolts were launched everywhere. The sky was
flashing in the center of the storm, as the god of thunder
screeched…


Ash could hardly sleep that night due to the new changes.
The room he was in now was far from what it was like in the
palace. The thunderstorm outside was loud, and he could hardly
sleep in peace. Mostly how Pikachu suffered from the storm
chilled his heart, and Misty's heart was also chilled just from
looking at the worried Ash. Erika didn't get the beds and was
sitting at the chair. Having to sleep without a bed was just new to
her. Misty's sisters looked at Princess Erika and Prince Ketchum,
and wondered how if they could withstand this place. They were
after all royalty members. Princess Erika was quite adaptive, but
Prince Ketchum might have some trouble.
How could they sleep? Ash thought about it. All the
Pokemon were suddenly acting weird. The condition of this room
was far from his room in the palace, and how were they going to
solve this problem now? His mother was sending troops all around
to search for him, and it was unimaginable if she found out about
Misty and him. They must think of a way to stop his mother from
sending all these troops around, protect Misty from his mother in
case if she was angry and the hardest of all, let her accept Misty. It
was almost an impossible task to let Queen Delia accept Misty.
She hated people talking about her behind her back, and people
"will" talk about her behind her back for sure if the prince loved a
servant… It was fine with Ash, but he knew his mother too well.
She would kill Misty the instant she knew… How could they have
the mood to sleep?

Misty closed her eyes, but she couldn't sleep. Poor Pikachu
was shivering in fright in Ash's hands. Ash must be worried. The
thunderstorm outside was also very unusual. How could she sleep
when Ash was so upset? She wasn't psychic, but she could guess
that Ash was sad about Pikachu for sure. She could also feel that
he was also worrying about something, but she didn't know what.
She didn't want anyone else to notice that she's awake, especially
Ash, and so she let her eyes remained close, pretending to be
asleep.

When Misty woke up the next morning, she found that
Princess Erika was not in her spot anymore, and she was missing
with Daisy. They must be off somewhere else. Lily was making
breakfast for everyone, and Misty guessed that Violet was off to
the market or early to work. Her father was dead asleep, and Ash
too. Pikachu was asleep, and Misty believed that Ash must have
stayed up very late until Pikachu went to sleep. He must be tired,
and Misty didn't want to disturb Ash's sleep. She decided to take a
look outside and see if Queen Delia was sending troops around to
search for Ash again.

Misty took a walk outside in the slums. The morning sun was
bright, waking up the whole kingdom with sunshine. But things
seemed a little different. Empty barrels that were usually at the side
were now rolling along the narrow streets of the slums. Other
people noticed it too, but they didn't have the time to investigate.
The roofs of taller buildings were destroyed, and junks of bricks
and wood were all over the floor. The streets of the slums were
already narrow enough. She then saw a city notice posted on the
wall by soldiers. She quickly got into the crowd of people and read
the message. It reads…

To all Pallet citizens,

Due to the unusual thunderstorm last night, much of Pallet's
tall buildings was struck by lightning and was severely damaged.
The Pallet Kingdom decided to send out soldiers to help citizens
rebuilding their homes as soon as possible. All duties, services and
works were stopped, and everyone must help rebuilding the city.
Works and services would be stopped until further notice,

Prince Ketchum

"Very interesting…" said a woman dressing in all green.
Although all of what Princess Erika called perfume and make-up
were gone, the color of Erika's clothes shown her identity. Daisy
was beside Erika, reading the notice. Misty could hardly recognize
Erika without those make-ups and the unusual scent of perfume. If
Erika wore another color, she would be unrecognizable. She better
think of something for Ash to wear too. After the crowd finish
reading the notice the trio walked back to Misty's house together.
"Very interesting… If I guess right Queen Delia didn't want
the citizens to know that Ash and I are missing, so she used the
name of Ash for the notice. Also she must stop the search to act
normal, I guess…"


"Queen Delia, you're a genius to use Prince Ketchum's name
for the notice. The citizens of Pallet won't suspect a thing! So
should we continue the search?" asked Cap. Brock. Queen Delia
didn't answer, and he believed that it meant to keep searching. He
quickly stepped out but then Queen Delia called him back.
"No, just help rebuild first… it may cause curiosity in town,"
said Queen Delia calmly, as if not worried about her son missing at
all. Cap. Brock confusedly walked off. Queen Delia lightly
laughed. Why should she send the troops around when Gary and
his Pokemon can find him any second by now?


Ash and Pikachu were awake when Misty came back. They
all sat around the wooden table. Ash knew about the notice from
Lily and Violet already. He believed that some scheme was going
on in his mother's mind, he knew her too well and too long.
"So what are we going to do about you guys?" said Lily, as
she looked at Ash and Misty. They looked down at the floor,
staring at nothing. A silence came, and nobody dared to speak,
unless they had a great idea.
"Forget me," said Misty. Everyone turned to her, and Ash
looked in her icy eyes, searching for what she meant in her. She
strongly stared back. Erika gasped at Misty's decision.
"Forget me. Just go back to the palace and pretend that we
never meet before,"