Oliverqueen01- Oh hey guys it's thursday day of hype. A winner has been confirmed for the Kalos league and it's- we'll you'll know at the end this week. So enjoy this week's chapter which is sure to be eventful as always and as usual reviews/questions will be handled at the end along with the update to the Japanese airing of the episode.
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Chapter 22: Prom part 1
Prom night has finally arrived for our loveable group. Everyone was getting ready. It's here where we pick tonight.
"Okay guys how do I look?"
Delia, Pikachu and Froakie stared at Ash in amazement, he was wearing a black suit with a white shirt and a black tie. A silver wristwatch was on his left wrist and his hair was somewhat tamed for him.
"Oh look at you, you look as just as handsome as when your father took me to prom." Delia squealed in excitement.
"Pika Pika."
"Fro Froakie!"
Ash grinned at them. After tonight he would finally be free of high school but that was tomorrow. Tonight was party night and he had a very special person in his life that he just wanted to dance with tonight.
"Now remember Ash..." She said to him very sternly.
"I know, don't do anything stupid there or don't get any ideas about booking a hotel room for the night and taking Serena in it."
"Just making sure, you know how some parties go."
"I know."
A horn honked outside which shocked everyone in the house.
"That's Gary, I better go."
Ash grabbed the white flower he had purchased earlier in the week off the counter and headed towards the door. Delia stopped him to take a couple pictures and then he was off and out the door.
Meanwhile...
A blue haired woman looked at the dance hall with rage within her eyes.
"You took everything from me the day you showed up. I could have taken my revenge earlier but I had to wait for the perfect moment to present itself and here it is right in front of me. Tonight I'm getting my revenge and showing you why you don't ever mess with me."
"May hurry up! We're going to be late!" Selina yelled at her.
"Coming!"
May fasten the back end of her earring on her right ear and took one last look at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a red one shoulder dress with a silver belt in the middle along with red heels and a silver necklace/earring stud combo. Her hair was straighten out and curled in the front. Her face had a light touch of makeup.
"Perfect." she thought to herself.
May grabbed her purse and ran down the stairs to see Selina and Dawn waiting for her.
Dawn was wearing a short blue dress with matching heels and purse. Her hair was all wavy minus her bangs. On her wrists were white-gold bracelets, her neck was a small light blue pearl necklace and on her ears hung silver drop earrings with blue gemstones. Her face also had a light touch of makeup.
Finally Selina was wearing a gold cocktail dress with matching heels and purse. Her hair was all straighten, on her wrists were a silver watch on her left and a pair of bangles on her right. On her neck was a silver neck with a circle in the middle and on her ears were silver stud earrings. The only make up on her was a shade of right red light lipstick and silver eyeshadow.
"Woah, you look amazing." Selina said to May.
"Well you don't look bad yourself you know." May teased.
May kissed Selina on the lips as Dawn fake coughed to get their attention.
"Come on you two lovebirds, there's plenty of time tonight to do that." Dawn joked.
The three of them laughed before all of their parents interrupted them.
"Now then girls, it's time for the talk." Selina's dad said in a stern voice.
"Father, really do you think is a good time to talk about that?" asked Selina.
Selina's Dad glared at them. The three of them gulped as Selina's dad continued.
"Now then, tonight is your prom night, the most memorable night of your lives. This is also the night that boys will take advantage of you because of alcohol possibly being in the punch and after parties are a thing too. So what I'm trying to say is have fun tonight but also be very vigilant about everything going on around you. I don't doubt your friends but the other boys in the school are another story. Do i make myself clear?" He asked with authority in his voice.
The three girls nodded and then each of their respective parents broke them away from each other.
"May, you heard what was just said to you, Dawn and Selina. Now we trust you to make smart decisions tonight like you've been doing for all your life, but just know we want you to have fun with Selina and your friends tonight." Norman said to May.
"I will dad."
May hugged Norman and Caroline in joy and waited for the other two to finish.
"Now Dawn-" Johanna began.
"I know, mom but seriously there's no need to worry."
"That's when I worry the most."
The two bluenettes giggled and hugged.
"Father... was that really necessary?" Selina asked as she scolded her father.
"I got carried away didn't I?" He asked while scratching the back of his head.
"Yes, yes you did."
"Well doesn't change the fact that your our daughter and we care very much about you. After all in the fall you start college with your girlfriend and we just what nothing but happiness for you for all your life."
"I know, I love you guys too."
Selina and her parents hugged. Once everyone was talked to by their parents, Selina's dad gave them a ride to the hall but not before the girls posed for a picture to remember this night. Once they were done they left for the hall leaving Johanna, Norman and Caroline and Selina's mother alone thinking that they were growing up so fast.
"Jesse are you ready? Tommy is here." Tess yelled from downstairs.
"Coming mom!"
Jesse gave herself one last look over. She was wearing a lavender dress that flowed to her legs and complemented her natural curves and had silver designs on the upper part of the dress. On her feet was a pair of matching lavender heels. On her right wrist was a pair of bangles, on her neck was a necklace with a white pearl in the middle. On her ears were a pair of silver dangling earrings and her hair was swept to one side. On her face was a light purple eyeshadow and light red lipstick.
She smiled at herself in the mirror and then headed downstairs to meet Tommy.
When she saw Tommy she gasped at him. He was wearing a beige coloured suit and a white shirt with a a purple tie. She thought he couldn't be more handsome than usual but that was clearly possible.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"Okay, now that you two have said hi to each other I think you need to take that flower you have behind your back Tommy and place it on Jesse's wrist. Don't you think?" Harry said jokingly while sipping his cup of tea.
Tommy grinned sheepishly as he took the white corsage flower out of the case and placed it on Jesse's wrist. Both Harry and Tess looked at them with loving eyes before Harry spoke.
"Now then, you two go on and have a good time and Tommy remember what I told you." Harry told him.
"Yes sir."
Tommy and Jesse promptly left short after taking photos. Harry and Jesse looked on as Tommy escorted Jesse to his father's car he got to borrow for the night and headed for the hall.
Drew was wearing a purple suit with a green tie. It was the suit that the other boys had picked out for him the day they went suit shopping and he had tried to pick the classic cliche blue ruffled tux. Amanda was beside him wearing a matching short purple strapless dress with silver sparkles and beads on the top and bottom of the dress. On her face was a brown eyeshadow and her lips were with red. On her neck was just a simple silver chain and her eyes held a pair of cascading silver-gold drop earrings. They had arrived early because Drew wanted to arrive early and want to see how everything was set up.
"Drew, where are your friends?" Amanda asked him.
"They should be coming soon, Hey I think that's Brock over there."
Drew and Amanda moved over and tapped the spiky haired boy who was in a black suit with green shirt and tie. On his arm was a girl unknown to them. She was in a short silver one strapped dress with matching heels and accessories. Her face had a pink lipstick on it and pink eyeshadow. Her hair was straighten. When Brock turned around he introduced Lucy to them.
"So have you heard from the others?" Drew asked the older boy.
"Tommy just picked up Jesse so he'll be here soon, Selina's dad is giving Selina, May and Dawn a ride, as for Ash, Gary, Leaf and Serena I haven't heard from them." Brock explained to them.
Drew nodded as the 4 of them handed their tickets to the staff member and headed inside to wait for the others.
Ash got into the car and saw leaf in a green cocktail dress with black designs on it, on her right hand were green and black bangles. Her hair was wavy with a hairclip on the left side of her face. She was wearing a silver pendant necklace and silver-gold earring studs. Gary on the other hand was wearing a navy blue suit with matching tie.
"Wow, um you look really nice Leaf." Ash said very shyly complementing the girl.
"Aw, thank you Ash."
"So have you heard from Serena?" She asked him.
"Ya, she said she'll meet us there."
Gary nodded as he began to drive. Tonight would be a very interesting night. About halfway to the hall his car began to sputter which caused Ash and Leaf to glare at him. They both prayed to Arceus that he would fix the car soon so they wouldn't miss tonight.
Leonard was straightening his blue tie with his dark blue suit while get laughed by his sister and Mick.
"So tell me again? Why does my brother have to sing?" Lisa asked as she combed her hair while in her black dress.
"Because, Hikari asked that new girl that's been hanging around them for an idea and she decided to go with this." Mick snickered as he fixed his red suit and tie.
"So Lenny has to sing in front of everyone? Oh this is going to be good." Lisa giggled as she put on her accessories.
Leonard sneered at them as they said goodbye to Mrs. Sonada and hopped in the car towards the hall.
"Bye mom!"
Grace dropped Serena in front of the hall at 7pm after Serena spent an hour fixing herself for tonight. She wanted tonight to go perfect. She was wearing a Green short dress with matching heels and accessories. Her hair that was semi-long now was straighten and curled which made it appeared wavy.
She handed her ticket to the doorman and went inside to meet up with the others. When she went inside what she saw amazed her. Everything was in white minus the walls, lights and the floor. All the streamers hanging from the ceiling were in the shapes of stars, moons and angels. The centrepiece on the tables were that of a glass pokeball and had flowers in them. Serena caught a glimpse at her friends and walked over to them and sat her purse down on the table.
"So, Ash hasn't arrived at all yet?" Serena asked them.
"No he texted me, he was coming with Gary and Leaf but Gary's car decided to give up in the middle of the drive but it shouldn't take them too long to get here after we know how much this night means to all of us." Tommy told her assuringly.
Serena agreed with Tommy's reasoning. Tonight was the last night that they could all spend together as friends. Tomorrow was graduation which meant sweaty cap and gowns and then they would all go their separate ways to achieve their dreams but that was tomorrow. Serena hoped that Ash would get here soon.
Once most of the seniors had piled into the hall which included Leonard, Mick and Lisa who had just arrived. Oak sr went on stage and spoke.
"Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to prom."
Everyone cheered as he continued speaking.
"Now I know tonight is a special night for all of you, but we still need to enforce some rules on your last night in front of us. No spiking the punch, no fighting and no pranks. As you see around you are your teachers who are acting as chaperones tonight to enforce the rules. But most of all remember to have fun. So without further ado I now declare your prom officially started. Dj please go ahead and play the first song!"
Everyone cheered as Oak stepped off the stage and the Dj began the night by playing a upbeat pop song. Brock, Drew and Tommy went over to the table with the punch and brought it back for the girls. Once they all drank their cup, they placed them on the table and went to the dance floor for the first dance of tonight.
After an hour of non-stop dancing, the group at down at the table. Serena decided to take her phone from her purse and text Ash.
"Where are you? I'm really looking forward to our dance tonight."
"I know, but we're on the Way, Gary's car ran out of gas somehow. We'll be there in 30 minutes. :)"
Serena smiled as she locked her phone. 30 more minutes and then the long wait of dancing with Ash tonight would be over. As she looked upon the dance floor she started to do a little thinking about everything since she moved to Kanto.
"This has been some year. Moving to Kanto with mom, leaving my friends behind in Kalos, coming here and meeting everyone at school, especially meeting Ash, falling for him and becoming his girlfriend. I couldn't ask for a better last year in high school."
"I'm going outside, I need to cool off a bit."
"Okay, don't take too long."
Mick kissed Lisa on the cheek and went outside leaving her and Leonard alone.
"So big bro, when's this song your supposed to sing going down? I'm so ready for you to share your pipes with the world." Lisa asked nudging Leonard in the side.
Leonard sneered at her before he spoke.
"Whenever Hi-Dawn wants it to. I haven't seen her since we got here so don't bring it up again to me and she's standing right behind me isn't she?" He asked in defeat.
Lisa nodded and giggled as Leonard turned around to see Dawn facing him. He had to admit to himself that she was looking good in her dress. He wouldn't admit to her but even when she didn't wear makeup, he thought that she was cute.
"So Leonard are you ready?" Dawn asked with a huge grin.
"We're doing this now?"
"No, tomorrow at Grad. Yes now." She replied laughing.
Leonard sighed as he answered yes. Dawn ran up to the DJ and told him what was going to happen. He let the song finish and then spoke.
"I hope your having a nice time here Dude and Dudettes." The dj said in a thick accent.
The crowd cheered before he spoke again.
"That's good, That's good. Now then before we get back to the dancing, this young lady here told me that someone here had to sing a song to her. Now is there a Leonard Sonada here in the house tonight?"
Lisa pushed Leonard into the middle of the dance floor as he sighed and raised his hand in front of everyone.
"Well then sir, the floor is all yours."
Leonard sighed as he began thinking to himself what could he have done in a past life to deserve this. He then began to sing.
(Note: I actually do somewhat own these lyrics :p)
"Something strange has come over me
Got me going out of my mind."
"You were always there for me, even when I was jerk but you never gave up on me."
"I never met a girl like you before, but you make me feel special inside."
"I don't know what's gotten into me
But, I think I know what it is."
Leonard walked up to Dawn and held her hand, causing her to blush very heavily.
"I think that I'm in love with you."
Dawn cried and grabbed Leonard and kissed him right on the lips. Leonard was a bit taken back by this but he liked it. Everyone around them sighed in affection for them. After they kissed both of them blushed at each other and went to go sit down as the music started back up again.
"How much longer Gary?" Ash asked
"And done. You know in retrospect in I think it was foolish to think that gas would carry us all the way there." Gary said sheepishly.
"Ya think?" Ash and Leaf yelled in unison.
Gary scratched his head with his arm behind him. Once he finished putting the gas in the car and payed for it. He drove off to the hall once more. Ash couldn't wait to get to the hall, like Serena he was looking forward to dancing with her. He hoped that all the dancing he had practised with the instructor was going to pay off.
"Hey guys I'm going to the washroom, be back in a bit."
Serena got up from the table and headed towards the washroom. Music was still blaring loudly as she made her way. Once she got inside she made her way to a stall and took care of business in there. She unlocked her phone and checked the time. It read 7:45 pm.
"Ash, will be here soon. Then we dance together."
Serena smiled at the thought as she put her phone back in her purse and cleaned herself up. Unbeknownst to her a certain other person had wormed there way in to the hall and was standing right behind Serena. When Serena turned around she saw who was standing behind her.
"Marlene! What are you doing here?! You don't go to school with us!"
"Well Ms little job stealer, it wasn't easy but it pays to know someone who works here. For example the cook who cooked the food tonight is my boyfriend." She answered with a evil smirk.
"Job stealer?! You set yourself up to be fired, In fact you deserved it for treating Dawn and May like crap for years and always taking advantage of Mr. Moriguchi's kindness for years before I showed up so don't you even dare say I stole your job you no good, backstabbing lying slut!" Serena yelled at her.
Marlene lost it when Serena called her a slut. She began to fight with Serena and got a couple of shots in while Serena also hit her back. But the final blow came when Marlene reached for Serena's dress and tore it from the straps. Serena realized what had happened and ran into the stall she was in earlier to cry.
Marlene left soon after with a smirk on her face.
"Hey, Serena's been in the washroom a real long time, do you think she's okay?" Jesse asked May and Dawn.
"I'm sure she's fine. She's probably fixing her makeup since Ash will be here soon." May replied.
"Probably." Dawn chimed in.
"Hey, I'm going to the washroom, care to join me?"
Dawn and May answered no as Jesse got up from the table and headed to the washroom. When she went inside she went to take care of her business. As she finished up she swore to herself that she was hearing something, something that felt like crying. She opened the doors one by one to find which stall it was coming from. When she opened the last stall what she saw shocked her to the core.
"Serena! Oh my Mew what happened to you?!" Jesse asked in shock.
Serena's dress was tore from the straps, her hair was ruffled, mascara was running down her face and to top it all off, her heels were broken. Jesse grabbed Serena by the shoulders and demanded Serena to tell her everything that happened. In between sobs Serena explained how Marlene had confronted her in the washroom. When she was done Jesse stood in shock and texted Dawn.
"Hey Dawn, your purse seems to be vibrating." Tommy said as he notice the object moving.
"Pass it here, it's probably Leaf complaining about Gary again." Dawn laughed as she opened her purse and took out her phone.
When Dawn saw the message she ran to May and pulled her off the floor.
"Hey what's the big idea? Pulling me off the dance floor like that?! It's not like I interrupted you dancing with Leonard." May asked in shock.
Dawn shoved her phone into May and what May read shocked her it was the message from Jesse.
"Dawn, Serena's in the bathroom crying about some person named Marlene who confronted her and tore her dress to pieces. I'm in here trying to help her to calm down. Come quick and help me with this." The message read.
May's fist curled up into a ball.
"I'll kill that bitch. Where is she?!" May yelled.
"May calm down please, don't ruin tonight over her. What will Selina say?" Dawn said in a attempt to calm the brunette down.
May looked at Selina who was dancing with some of her friends and immediately calmed down. Leonard then walked over to them.
"What's going on?" He asked
"Stay here, I have to go to the bathroom." Dawn replied.
Dawn rushed off to the bathroom to see what was happening leaving Leonard very confused.
"May.. what happened?" He asked again in a more serious tone.
May sighed as she explained who Marlene was and what she had done. When she finished Leonard took in all the information he heard and excused himself outside to find Mick. Luckily for him Mick was standing with one foot on a pillar.
"What's wrong is Lisa looking for me?" Mick asked jokingly.
"We have a bigger problem." Leonard said to Mick as he explained everything that had happened while Mick was outside cooling down from dancing. When he was finished Mick had a look of shock and remembrance on his face.
"Now that you mention it, that girl over there seems suspicious." Mick answered as he pointed to Marlene who had no idea what was going on or what was about to happen to her. You see when you mess with one of Leonard's or Mick's friends they get the person responsible and make them suffer.
Leonard and Mick went behind her very quietly and counted to 3 with their fingers and caught Marlene by surprise. When she was caught she became screaming profanities at them. They just looked at her with serious looks on their faces.
"Who in the hell do you think you are?!" She yelled.
"Leonard Sonada."
"Mick Rokuda."
"You see, you messed with a friend of mine. Now your going to pay." Leonard told her with a serious look on his face.
Leonard looked at Mick and nodded to him as they both started to go back inside dragging Marlene along with them.
"Jesse where are you?" Dawn yelled out.
"Last stall!"
Dawn rushed to the last stall and opened the door to find Jesse and Serena. Dawn had tears in her eyes as she looked at Serena. She knew how much this night meant to her and now it was all ruined because of Marlene. Serena had drifted off while Dawn and Jesse talked.
"Poor thing, she was looking really forward to tonight and now.." Jesse said very sorrowfully.
"Ya, Ash will be here soon and there's nothing we can-"
A light bulb then went off in Dawn's head.
"Hey Jesse, can you stay here with her for a little while longer? I think I just got an idea to save tonight for Serena."
"Sure, tell Tommy and everyone what's going on."
Dawn nodded as she exited leaving Serena and Jesse. She ran back to May who was sitting with the others. She then noticed something missing but dismissed it at the time. She explained to everyone what happened.
"That's terrible." Brock said very shocked.
"We should kill Marlene." Drew said with a fist curled.
"Guys calm down. We can deal with her later. Right now we need to focus on Serena, Ash will be here soon and we need to fix her up before he arrives." Dawn said very seriously.
"I agree." Tommy said trying to calm everyone down too.
Everyone nodded in agreement, Serena was their friend and they knew they needed to fix tonight for her.
"So after I saw her I sorta got an idea on how to save her night, but I don't think May will agree with it." Dawn began with a shy look on her face.
"And why wouldn't I agree with it? How bad could it possibly be?"May joked.
"Well I know where we could get another dress from on short notice." Dawn answered looking at the ground.
May then quickly did the math and put two and two together. When she did a look of shock entered her face.
"No Dawn you don't mean-"
Dawn nodded before she answered.
"That's right. I'm going to call Mr. Moriguchi and ask him for the dress."
Oliverqueen01- Woo what a chapter and this was only part 1 of prom. Now your probably thinking why would I ruin Serena's dress? Well the line above answered that question. When i get to recap next week I'll answer why I did it in full. Now then I hoped everyone liked the dress and suit choices I made for everyone. (trust me it was hard XD) the song i wrote for Leonard to sing is a combination of original and a song called I think I love you by Jessica Simpson. So hopefully that was good. Next week will have one of two big amourshipping moments seeing as the last major one is in the epilogue. There will still be moments here and there but for this chapter I'm sorry there was hardly any. Anyway so... your probably now wondering... did Ash win and finally win a league? The answer is nope. He lost again as usual. sigh japan what are you doing? anyway enough of me babbling. Lets get to review responding.
Reviews/Questions
Monkeyboy0118- *throws a snickers* hopefully that will calm you down like in the commericals :p Serena leaving? In the story? No no no. Her dress did. In the anime? Remains to be seen. But homecoming? I hope you have a fun time there.
Espeon44- We'll see, depends what happens while I'm on break. I will say I have a back log of them to read, so on my break while writing I'm probably going to burn through most of it.
49ers (guest)- I believe this chapter answered your question. What happens next week will be the beginning of the end of the story.
Pokemonmeat- thank you, I'm glad you liked it. Like I said last week the battle was the first-ever one I've written. For the first one I think it went well and there's always room for improvement in the future.
Amour guest- es yes, keep up the amourshipping stuff and all that good jazz. I will don't worry about that :p
Smeng15- Thank you for the review. Ya it just seems natural to me that the characters need to tasteful yet somewhat true to their anime counterparts except for the ocs cause that's free domain. Well what will happen to Lopunny's clinging to Pikachu? Can't say cause i'm writing chapter 24 now which wraps up the Kanto gang adventure pre epilogue . So everything about that will be addressed in that chapter.
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