A Jewel in Water

Part 5

"Oh my gosh!" Misty exclaimed.

"Here it comes…" Ash thought while wincing.

"What an adorable Pikachu!" she beamed "Aww its cheeks are so chubby and cute," she ran over and started squeezing Pikachu as if it was a little toy.

Ash exhaled deeply. What? That was all? No sudden recollection or anything? He may have still loved Misty, and may have been overjoyed by being given the chance to marry her, but did she really want to forget him so much that she wiped all memories related to him out of her brain?

"Princess," he said curtly. "You may touch Pikachu as much as you like, but please may you do it outside my room? I have some serious matters to attend to."

"Oh… No problem?" she left Pikachu in his room and left, completely forgetting what she wanted to ask him. What was the matter with him? Did she do something wrong?

Ash punched the wall and breathed out. Pikachu looked disinterested. Just his pride acting up again.

"That's it. I'm calling Brock. I can't wait any longer. Next time she sees me, I will be acting out my plan.

Meanwhile, May was walking down the grand hallways that lead to her room somewhere. After seeing Prince Elliot, she was immediately reminded of the boy she loved. Heck, she followed him all across the globe just to see him once in a while, as well as competing with him. But after the last Grand Festival in Unova, he… just disappeared. Everywhere she asked, no one had every heard of a 'Drew Hayden'. The love of her life had just disappeared like that. And here she was attempting to get to know one of her good friends suitors a bit better. No loyalty there at all. In frustration she tried to kick a nearby pillar, however she completely missed and managed to hit someone on the head with her flying shoe: Prince Elliot La Rousse.

"Great," she thought, "Just who I wanted to see, right?"

"Um, pardon me, but I believe this is your shoe?" he said with a smirk.

"Aha, ever so sorry" she said bowing her head in embarrassment.

"Haven't changed at all, eh?" he said.

"Huh? What?" she said, had she heard wrong?

"Oh, I said… you should try playing football. You have a very nice kick." He said swiftly.

"Oh right," she laughed. Apparently so.

"You wouldn't happen to have seen the Princess around here?" he asked hesitantly. He didn't want to leave May but his priorities lied elsewhere.

Mays eyes, which were sparkling with joy and nervousness, had dulled down. Of course he would look for Misty. If he weren't interested in her, he would not have accepted the offer of marriage from her. It wasn't May he was interested in. She said sullenly "Oh, she must be in her room. She was heading that way before."

"Thank you!" Elliot said, whilst looking at her with longing. He pulled himself away and headed towards Misty's room.

"I told you! The twerp told us to come over with all his Pokémon stuff, why don't you believe me?" Said a tall man with violet hair.

"Because last time you told us that, we ended up trekking all the way to Hoenn, from Kanto, to see a bottle cap exhibit," cried an equally as tall woman with long fuchsia hair.

"Quit your yapping you guys." A Meowth screamed angrily whist clawing its two companions faced. "I had enough of yous guys whilst we was walking down, now lets get to the twerp and get back to the beach we were at. Don't you wanna get back to our holiday?"

"Oh shut up Meowth! If you hadn't opened your big trap in the first place and made that deal with the twerp, we wouldn't be his personal delivery service in the first place!" snapped the woman.

"Why you-!" hissed the Meowth.

"Hello Brock?" said Ash as Brock picked up the phone.

"Hey Ash!" Brock called, "How's it going over there with Mistaay?"

"You see Brock that's the problem. Its not going anywhere, because I don't want it to."

"What the hell? Why not? You were so excited that day; you bloody blew my ear off with all the trash you were throwing. I lost a date because of you. What will happen if people think that I am actually in men? How will you help me out of that-,"

"Right Brock, shut up for a second. This is important. I need a plan to get back at Misty. She's forgotten me can you believe it?"

"It's that bad huh?"

"Yes, it is. So what can I do? HELP ME!" Ash pleaded.

"Well I have a good idea. If you don't mind changing your sexuality for a while."

"What? Is this payback for what I did to you?"

"Well partly. But also, I've seen it on TV but I wonder what its really like you know?"

"Oh yeah of course I know, so next time, you dress up as a girl and try to enter an all girls school, because I've always wondered what that's really like too, ok? MORON,"

"Oh my god, that would be such a good way to score chicks!"

"You-!" Ash started.

"Just kidding. But, seriously. Make her fall for you. But don't let on that you know and don't reciprocate her feelings. Then just hint that you're gay and she'll be shell-shocked. Then go surprise, kiss, and makeup and bam- you're married with 12 kids and no freedom."

"That sounds too complicated Brock,"

"Yeah, I thought it would be. A lot of intricate detail there too, that only I will be able to implement."

"Yeah, so that's such a great idea. How can you help me when you're not here? I thought you were in Sinnoh collecting some new species of berries they found."

"Well I was. But I thought that I was missing out on a lot of fun. And I was missing out on the chance to find some royal chicks. So…" The line cut off.

"Hello? Hello?" Ash called frantically. What happened?

"SURPRISE!"