A Jewel in Water

Part 3

"Elliot, this is it…" Prince Elliot said to himself "Tell her…NOW!"

He barged into the room, and Misty snapped out of her Ash filled stupor, to see a very pale Prince Elliot. He was breathing hard and sweating. Almost like he had just run a marathon to speak to her. Could this be him proposing before anyone else? How sweet, he had a lot of guts to be the first one, and show it so obviously.

Misty was staring at him waiting for him to say something. In his point of view she looked very frustrated. He thought that she had already found out however, he just wanted to make sure that he, himself told her. But just as he was about to say something the maid scurried into the room.

"Princess! Princess!" she called as she entered the room. When she saw Misty she had a relieved but flustered expression on her face. "Princess, there is a COMMOTION outside."

Misty groaned "Why is he here?" she asked no one in particular "I thought that we sent him back to his Parents' castle!" She quickly walked after the maid leaving Elliot alone.

"Damn…Typical! Just typical! This is going to keep on happening until one day she will find out by mistake! Will I just let that happen? And what if she sees me with her? She will never trust me again." And with that Elliot left the room to convey his thoughts to a wall (another thing to add to Misty's list of imperfections). As Misty glided over to the big COMMOTION outside she looked down at her hands. In them she saw the two boxes in her hand. Rudy's dark blue box gave off an eerie aura while the one that Ash gave her gave off a friendly and light-hearted aura. She wondered what Prince Elliot wanted to talk to her about. Hopefully he wasn't going to give her another gift; that would strange beyond belief, however, if he did she wondered what colour the box would have been. Probably purple, seeing as she wore so much of it. But the weirdest thing was that Ash seemed to know her favourite colour, since she made everyone think it was orange because it was so rare that you would ever find something that exact colour of cerulean. So if everyone knew that all the cerulean things in the world would fly off the racks, because, not that she was bragging or anything, but she had a fairly large fanbase.

Just as Misty was pondering this she heard a noise that always irritated the hell out of her.

"Hey, babe!" the sixteen year old voice called.

"Excuse me? I thought you were at your parents' castle!" she yelled at him.

"Yeah…but do you expect me to just wait until you get married so I can't have you?" he stated.

"Sorry, but I have three more choices so, buh-bye," she said as she tried to push him out of the castle gates.

"Nuh-uh!" he said as he escaped out of her grip.

"Uh-huh," she said as she looked at him in annoyance. Then they started a "Uh-huh" and "Nuh-uh" fight. Misty was getting very annoyed but he seemed amused.

"No! The King said that I could be your fourth choice!" he lied.

Misty just gave up and told him to sleep in the spare room and wondered to find Elliot and ask him what he was about to say.

"That boy... He acts more like a six year old rather than a sixteen year old!" she murmured to herself.

Before that, Ash was in the PokeGarden (PG) cooing Pikachu and tying to convince him to stay there for a while longer.

"Look, Pikachu, if you appear on my shoulder that might jog her memory and that would ruin everything because she might banish me for doing that thing I did eight years ago." he sighed. Pikachu looked thoughtful and touched Ash's arm, finally understanding why his trainer couldn't be with him. Ash told Pikachu that he could stay in his room for the time being and eat as much PokéCham as he liked in there. Pikachu was overjoyed since this was his favourite food. But, it wasn't as if Pikachu was going to be alone in there. No way. Of course all of Ash's Pokémon would be there, naturally. Luckily, the King had been very generous in lending him the biggest room in the castle (other than the other already inhabited rooms, and it was MASSIVE! So being Pokémon Master really did have some perks. Other than the suspense everyday, wondering if you are going to lose one of your battles and giving up your title of Pokémon Master.

As he was collecting all his things to take to his room (and while Pikachu was eyeing him suspiciously to see if he was telling the truth about those PokéCham) he heard some shouting. Both of the voices he heard were pretty familiar. He knew that one of them belonged to Misty but he had no idea who the other one belonged to, so he went to investigate. As he turned the corner a big smile came to his face.

"Kenny!" Ash shouted and waved to him.

"Hey Ash!" Kenny waved back "How's it going?"

"Pretty good. Hey, I didn't know you knew Misty. How did you meet?" Ash asked

"Well, was walking down the street, concentrating on walking right and I heard a beautiful voice say to me 'Excuse Me' and that was it. All I had to do was look at her face and I was in love and don't tell anyone this but I am going to be her husband." He added.

"Good, good." Ash said as he looked around, distractedly.

"If you're looking for Dawn she is behind that bush over there," Kenny sniggered.

"Good god! Look bye Kenny I got to go," Ash replied hurriedly.

"Kenny! You are such a moron!" said a sixteen-year-old girl as she appeared from behind a bush. "Ash wait, please come back," but it was too late. Ash had left the building, or garden as it was.

"Dawn, just give up. He doesn't like you in that way. He told you about eighty times already." Kenny chortled.

"Well, what about you and 'what's her face' then?" Dawn replied back.

"DO NOT CALL THE LOVE OF MY LIFE THAT!" Kenny shouted.

"Too bad she doesn't love you back," Dawn giggled and just like that they sprung into a fully fledged argument about the loves of their lives. But just then a dark figure glided up to them and said

"Sounds like a lover's quarrel,"