A Jewel in Water

Part 12

Ash held the box in his hand. The note had been stuffed back in, in a hurry, but he could still hear the rattling inside it. So she hadn't discarded the pokéball inside it.

"Come out!" Ash called, and out came a Caterpie, ready to fling a string shot at anyone in sight. However, when it saw Ash it calmed down. It looked extremely terrified. Ash picked it up and sat down in a chair, whilst stroking it for comfort.

"There there." He cooed. "Did you string shot her, like I told you?" The Caterpie nodded and
Ash smiled and gave it a Pokémon treat. He then took the note out of the box and laughed at the fact that it was completely screwed up. He opened it up and read.

"Hope you like this!

Well, I know you won't, but just enjoy the treat. I mean, it's from the world renowned Pokémon Master! Don't forget to show me the results!"

She had shown him the results, although it may have been more to vent her anger rather than to show him anything.

"Do you want to go back upstairs now?" Ash asked the Caterpie, but it shook its' head. It was obviously too traumatized by what Misty did to it to stay alone right now. Ash placed it on his shoulder. "Well, let's go up anyway. I've got a few things to sort out and a Pikachu that needs a scolding he said. He entered the main hall and headed up the central stairs, but as soon as he was halfway up, he saw Brock, May and Elliot walking down, talking heatedly. When Brock saw Ash, he pounced.

"Can you please expand on this text you sent me?" Brock asked him as he held up the phone. It read:

"Watch out for Misty. She's not going to be in a good mood."

"Have you seen her yet?" Ash questioned Brock.

"Yes." Brock admitted. "She was pretty peeved."

"What did you do to her?" pleaded May.

"I'll tell you in a minute, I need to go up and sort these things out." Ash said as he continued upstairs.

"Fine. Keep us in suspense." Sulked May and the trio went over to the secondary lounge to wait for Ash. Brock stopped and realised something, which made him call back to Ash.

"Hey, Ash!" he shouted. Ash turned to see what he wanted.

"What is it?"

"I was thinking that we could add two more acomplices." He said as to not let too much information out of the bag. It took Ash a couple of minutes to understand what Brock was actually saying.

"OH! Of course, yeah, fill them in." He carried on upstairs. The whole while May and Elliot were looking at the other two as if they were speaking in another language, but they also felt a bit put out. But then Brock came to save the day.

"Right guys, I've got something to tell you, and something that I'll need your help with."

Misty was especially annoyed. How could Ashton do that? She had had high hopes for him. He was officially going to be called number 15 and she would put Rudy as number 13. At least Rudy was nice to her, even if he just wanted to use her. How appearances could be deceiving, there was no way that she was going to speak to that person again, let alone consider marrying him.

Kenny sighed. The prank that they played on Rudy was almost ruined by Misty. He didn't know why she was so angry, but she almost sabotaged the whole operation. Lucky for them she decided not to tell Rudy what was on his face, but she was being such a spoil sport.

"The love of your life almost ruined the whole thing you know." Dawn said as they went around and looked for Rudy.

"I know. Why was she so angry in the first place…. Could she have been jealous of me?" he realised wrongly. This caused Dawn to go into hysterics.

"Jealous? Of you?" she laughed "Shouldn't you be more jealous of her? I mean here she is with three potential husbands. They could steal her away you know!" Kenny looked over at Dawn. This statement didn't really hurt his feelings a lot. He didn't know why, but he wouldn't have been very heartbroken if Misty decided to marry someone else. Why could that be, eh?

"What about you? Your precious Ashy could end up marrying Misty. Then we'd both look like losers." Yes. This topic was definitely irritating him more, than when they were talking about Misty marrying someone, instead of Dawn. Oh dear. But then they heard a commotion at the main door, from the second floor.

"Hey lets go check it out." Kenny yelled as he grabbed Dawns' arm and they ran downstairs together.

The maid was in a hurry. Since the King had left on a meeting, she needed to find the Princess and inform her that there was trouble outside. Then, she found her, storming up the stairs.

"Princess! There's trouble!" the maid called.

"Trouble? What now?" Misty moaned. The maid tried to ignore Misty's sudden change in attitude as they both hurried down to the main doors.

Rudy was on the lookout for Misty, as although she had stuck up for him in front of all the other idiots, she had run away so fast that he had no idea where she had disappeared to. He looked in the lounges but she wasn't there and just as he was about to go to her room (which would have been a good opportunity, whether she was there or not) he saw her and her maid coming down the stairs at lightning speed. They were heading to maid doors, where there were two guards seeming to be having a lot of trouble with some uninvited visitors. He went closer for another look.

If Kenny and Dawn had heard the shouting from the second floor, then a few meters away, there was no reason as to why Brock, May and Elliot wouldn't be able to hear anything. Brock was interrupted as he was explaining the 'Trick Misty' Plan to both of them. The shouting was far more interesting at this point and they all went to go investigate the noise.

Paul was sitting in the kitchen, feeling like a glutton that day. It was not a good idea to travel from Sinnoh to Kanto on an empty stomach. He grabbed about ten sandwiches and was about to take them up to his room, when surprise surprise, he heard all the noise coming from the front of the castle. He went over to investigate, or rather to check if he could catch Ash and challenge him to a long awaited Pokémon battle.

The eight people drew closer and closer to the source of the noise. Unbeknownst to them, what they would see would be familiar to each and every one of them.