A Jewel in Water

Part 11

This was it. It was a time where everyone had come together to fight against the arrogant, annoying guy that was Rudy. May went and collected everyone she could find. Paul thought it to be below himself to get involved with this prank. Completely childish. But as you probably could tell, Kenny was over the moon. Soon the whole group was assembled, excluding Ash, who was now on the ground floor, and Misty who was making her way over from the fourth. Rudy walked up the central stairs and when his eyes met the eyes of the group standing there watching him, he grew a tad suspicious.

"What are you all doing there?" he asked them.

"We are just throwing stuff down, seeing how long it takes to reach the ground." Kenny answered quickly.

"How stupid." Rudy snorted and walked ahead. He could hear the stifled laughter coming from them. Then up ahead was Misty walking down the stairs. When he saw her his face lit up. But the constant laughter in the background made him realise that something was wrong. They wouldn't be laughing like that… unless they had done something. And since all the laughter seemed to be diverted towards him, then they must have pranked him. Then it clicked… slightly.

"Misty, my dear!" he said as he ran towards her. If only Ash was there to see this. "It seems these imbecilic people have taken all the mirrors from the room and discarded them somewhere." But instead of looking as happy as the others, Misty seemed to be in a particularly bad mood. She looked over to the big group that were leaning against the banister, and lost it.

"Do you have nothing better to do?" she snapped. Everyone looked shocked at her. Brock made his way over to Misty, but a text stopped him from saying anything to her. All the while Misty carried on nagging everyone. Everyone except Rudy which overjoyed him.

"Brock, Elliot and May. Kindly return his mirrors to his room. Now." She said shortly. The three set off, gloomily back to where the mirrors were. Rudy should have been able to see them, I mean they were right next to his door. What an idiot.

"I wonder what's get her so annoyed." Asked May. Brock looked at his phone and opened the message. It was from Ash.

"I think I know why she was so annoyed." Brock laughed a bit. "What happened to her is probably bound to make anyone mad, especially if it's from someone they had high hopes for."

Ash was still sitting in the room where he was having his chat with the King before he was interrupted by Rudy. Pikachu had managed to slip back to Ashs' room and avoided any telling off. Ash put his head on his hand and looked into the hallway. Had Misty opened his box present by now? And where the hell was Jessie, James and Meowth with all his luggage? Ash took out his phone and dialled their number.

"Ugh. What do you want twerp?" Answered Jessie on the other side. Ash smiled. How he loved tormenting these guys. After the many years of harassment from them during his quest to become the Pokémon Master, when he had finally succeeded, the only thing that stopped Jessie, James and Meowth from being sent to jail, along with the rest of Team Rocket, was Ash's proposition:

"Looks like someone's finally knocked down Team Rocket, eh?" Ash smiled at the three people standing on his Match Grounds.

"Don't look so smug twerp. We know it was you. We're here to tell you our last words before we get locked up." Snarled James.

"Last words, huh?" Ash looked blankly to the distance. However once he had finished thinking, another smile was brought on his face. "What about if I said that these wouldn't be the last days of your freedom?"

"What you talking about?" asked Meowth suspiciously.

"I don't like the look on his face guys…" whispered Jessie.

"You work for me, or you sit in jail. Your choice," stated Ash.

"WHAT?" all three of them said in unison.

"Work for you?" Jessie exclaimed.

"There's no way we will ever work for a twerp like you!" shouted Meowth.

"…. Hang on guys," thought James. He motioned for them to huddle together. "Think about it. All we have to do is work for the guy. We will have a job, and won't have to go to jail. It's perfect!" he whispered.

"but-," Jessie started but was interrupted by Meowth.

"No Jessie, James is right. We can pull one over on the twerp after he accepts us. He'll help us stay outta jail!"

"So we accept?"

"We accept." What they didn't know was that Ash had huddled in with them from the start and heard everything.

"Excellent! You'll start tomorrow." Oops.

It was so nice to be able to torment your tormenters.

"Where abouts are you?" Ash asked them. He had purposely not given them any money to get from Sinnoh to Kanto, but he was starting to regret it.

"Good news, it's good news. Don't thunder shock us." James pleaded.

"Aha, that's great, so you're near?" Ash asked.

"Yep, just passed the day care centre, we'll be at the castle in about half an hour."

"Excellent, and when you get here, ask for me. I know you'll probably be angry after all this, so I have a treat for you!"

"Ugh. I don't even want to know what that treat is." Ash could hear Jessie say in the background. And then he hung up.

"Who was that you were talking to?" Ash turned around and saw Misty, looking ever so angry as she walked towards him.

"Ah, some extremely close friends of mine. Known them as long as I've known Pikachu in fact." He had forgotten that Misty had forgotten their past. "So about 12 years."

"Female?"

"One of them."

"I see." She then stopped about a metre away from Ash, and flung the cerulean coloured box at him. "Instead of flirting over the phone with your lovers, shouldn't you have found out what I liked if you were going to give me a present?" she screamed. Oh, she had definitely opened the box.

"I'm sorry, I don't follow." Ash lied.

"You somehow knew what my favourite colour was, so why didn't you know what Pokémon I liked?" she continued screaming.

"Ah, the present?" Ash tried not to laugh. He bent down and picked up the box.

"It's ruined my whole room, and that note you put in it? How dare you!" shouted Misty.

"I just wanted to make an impact on you!" Ash fakely justified his actions.

"Oh you've definitely made an impact you idiot. Just stay away from me." She stormed out of the room.

"You'll regret saying that Misty. But if you insist, I will stay away from you." Ash thought to himself.