A familiar woman from before coughed and saw the adults in relief. "Oh, good... You're here..."

Cherry noticed the brown-haired woman. "Delia... Is that you?"

Delia blinked in surprise. "Cherry... Y-You're alive..."

"Well of course I'm alive!" Cherry glanced back at her.

"Well, I haven't seen you in 20 years..." Delia smiled to her.

The two shared a quick forced hug.

"What're you doing here?" Cherry asked.

"I was looking for my kids," Delia said to her. "H-Have you seen them?"

"Yes, we have seen them." Atticus said.

"I've been looking for them..." Delia bowed her head.

"Don't worry, they couldn't have gone too far." Cherry said, then heard the screech of Lugia.

"They're riding on Lugia." Atticus said.

"Come on, we can catch up with them!" Cherry told the others, going that way.

"Eloise!" Darla shrieked then, coming to the temple, she had running mascara down her cheeks, she then saw her daughter and happily gasped. "ELOISE!"

"Mommy!" Eloise yelled back, running to her and hugging her, more than she would on around Christmas time.

"Oh, Ellie... Mommy was so worried..." Darla sniffled as she nearly squeezed Eloise in the hug.

"Mommy, you're squeezing too tight!" Eloise squeaked.

"Oh, sorry, dear..." Darla chuckled, setting her daughter gently down on the ground and she wiped her eyes.

"Ash, Emi!" Delia's voice was heard as she was running over as Lugia landed.

Ash looked back with a gasp. "That's our mom!"

Delia came to her children, putting her hands on her hips and looked firm to them. "All right, start talking! You two are in big trouble!"

"But, Mrs. Ketchum, Ash just helped save the whole world..." Misty informed.

"As did Akito." Emi added.

"Oh, they did, did they?" Delia still sounded scolding. "Well... I could've lost my whole world..." she said with a frown, she was very worried about her kids, chosen one or not. "Every day I worry about you two and wonder if you're alright. I know I can't stop you from doing the things you need to do, I just can't help missing you all the time... You're a Pokemon trainer and took your sister with you, and that's just how it is... But next time, could you try to save the world just a little closer to home?"

Ash looked with Emi and they both shrugged, but looked back to their mother as Professor Oak and a woman named Professor Ivy also walked over. "I guess we could give it a try."

Delia smiled. "Every day, you're my heroes."

Ash smiled with Emi and Pikachu. "Thanks, Mom."

"Maman, are you feeling that way when you go without me or Papa?" Felicity asked.

"Of course I do, Flick..." Cherry said softly. "I had no choice but to leave you with your father for seven years... I've kept trying to rebel against my natural father and get myself home to you... He didn't want anything to do with you since you weren't the grandchild he wanted from an arranged courtship... I missed you every day..." she gently hugged her daughter.

"I have missed you the most of them all, Maman..." Felicity whispered, a tear rolling down her cheek.

"Aww!" Estelle said.

Atticus and Mo came to hug Akito, Estelle, and Vincent.

"We got to get back to Pallet Town and tell the other Pokemon researchers about this." Professor Oak informed.

Ariel and Eric swam up with Melody to their family members.

"Atticus, would you all like to stay for dinner?" Ariel offered. "We could all get to know each other better."

"We'd love that." Atticus said.

"So I guess you'll be continuing your journey with your brother, right?" Akito asked.

"Yeah... I better..." Emi smiled to Akito. "I'll miss you very much though..." she gently took his hands. "We'll have to meet up again sometime."

"Yeah." Akito said.

"Goodbye Akito..." Emi whispered, she then quickly kissed him on the cheek and went off with her family.

Pikachu looked back to the others, waved to them and told them goodbye as they were going away for now.

Ariel and Eric smiled, now they could settle this whole mess.

At dinner, Chef Louise made a nice grand buffet for everyone to eat what they pleased, once he left, the families talked with each other.

"After dinner, I'm going to show Eloise someone she needs to meet." Darla said.

"She hasn't met 'him' yet?" Ariel asked.

Darla shook her head. "I don't think she even knows him."

"Who?" Eloise looked frantic that she was being talked about like this. "Who haven't I seen?"

"You'll see~" Darla giggled.

Eloise sighed, she was tired of waiting like this, it nearly drove her crazy.

"Actually, I think she's going to meet him." Urchin's voice said.

Darla turned and gasped happily, rushing to him. "Urchin!" she hugged him after so long.

"Oh, Mommy, I've met this man," Eloise explained. "He helped me and Vincent look for Akito and Estelle! He's very nice and helpful..."

"He's more than that, honey..." Darla said, looking down at her daughter.

"Who is he then?" Eloise asked.

"Well... Dear, you know how you haven't met your father yet?" Darla asked her.

Eloise nodded, she did remember that, she was even convinced that she didn't even have one.

"Well... I wanted to wait until you were a little ready and I thought now would be a good time," Darla answered with a smile. "Every child should know who their father is... And... Urchin... He's... He... Well..." she ha a hard time saying it for some reason. "Urchin is..."

This was tough for Darla to say, but she knew she had to tell Eloise, so she took a deep breath and mustered all of the courage inside of her to tell Eloise.

"Eloise..." she finally got it out. "This is Urchin... Your father..."

Eloise's eyes became wide as dinner plates as she looked up to Urchin. "Y-You're my dad!?"

Urchin nodded with a smile.

"DADDY!" Eloise hugged him, then looked to Darla. "Why haven't I seen him before?"

"We both wanted to wait until a good time," Darla said to her. "Also, it's summer and since the school is closed, we're going to be spending the summer with him from now on."

"Every summer, just the three of us?" Eloise asked with a thrilled smile.

Darla and Urchin nodded.

"Just us." Darla smiled.

Eloise smiled, hugging her parents together for the first time in her six-year-old life.

"Aw!" Estelle beamed. "I'm so happy for you, Eloise!"

"This is so great!" Eloise felt so special.

"I also had this news..." Darla sighed, this would be a little harder than delivering the news about Urchin being her father. "Eloise... It's up to you... Now, you're getting older, you're almost seven... Now, if you would like... You can either go to London with me to go to school with me and your Aunt Amber... Or, I can quit my job as a teacher and try to look for work in New York... Either way, I'll support your decision, honey..." she cupped her hands. "I know you didn't like school when you tried it when Nanny told me you did... But it's your choice, you can stay at the hotel to live in or you can live with me and your Aunt Amber in the boarding school we work at."

Eloise blinked, that was indeed a big decision.

"I'll let you think about it... Either way, you'll see me a lot more often." Darla smiled.

This truly was a difficult decision that Eloise had to make.

"You got time to think about it, dear... It's a long time until summer is over and everyone goes back to school." Darla smiled, her eyes shining like the Hollywood stars she once lived among.

Melody was talking with Akito, Estelle, and Vincent about the adventure she had with Felicity about how they helped each other defeat Morgana who was a threat to the sea and the crazy, jealous, younger sister of Ursula.

"You ever hear of Marina Del Rey though?" Estelle asked.

"Non..." Felicity shook her head.

"I can't remember... Name sounds familiar though..." Melody tried to think.

"Our dad and aunts and grandparents have met her and the Evil Manta Ray." Akito said.

"It was long before you were born, Melody," Ariel told her daughter. "And long before I met your father."

"Oh, that's probably why I don't know..." Melody shrugged.

"Have you guys seen Manta or Marina since then?" Cherry asked casually.

"Not really... But Manta has a son called Little Evil, though he's not evil at all... He's a very nice one, I befriended him sometime after Atticus, Jessica, and Darla went home." Ariel explained, smiling at that.

"That's great." Atticus said.

Cherry finished eating and slouched back in her chair, holding her full belly. "That was nice..."

"Indeed..." Forte agreed, despite the fact that he barely even ate anything on his plate.

Felicity happily flopped between her parents as she was now sleepy and full now too.

"Well... We better get home," Cherry picked up Felicity. "I promised Belle and Adam we would visit sometime soon..."

"I wish we could meet them." Estelle said

"Well, maybe someday you can..." Cherry shrugged. "There's always a grand Christmas celebration they have every year now..."

Forte jolted slightly about the mention of Christmas.

"Oh, sorry, Charles..." Cherry actually apologized to him.

"It's okay..." Forte assured her it was fine. "Also, it would be nice for Christopher and Princess Gabrielle to meet more children around their age as well..."

"We'll be there at Christmas." Atticus said.

Mo heard her phone go off. "Excuse me..." she told the others as she left the room briefly.

"I'll inform them with the help of Witherspoon." Forte said.

"Who's Witherspoon?" Akito asked.

"He's the castle carrying pigeon," Forte explained. "He often sent letters to the village for the Master when he was a beast."

"I remember that... We needed his help when he and Belle had that fight..." Cherry put on hand on her hip as they were getting ready to go back home.

"Oh, I was not aware, for you see, I was knocked unconscious for some misdeeds I've committed and left for dead until someone told me she was leaving when everyone was human again." Forte scoffed at her.

"THEY THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" Cherry nearly snapped, worrying her 'nieces and nephews' and she chuckled sheepishly. "It's a expression..." she lied.

"Whew, thank goodness." Vincent said.

Cherry, Forte, and Felicity went off to get back home to rest and relax for a little while.

Mo came back in with a smile to Atticus. "Honey, that was your sister... She says she would like to see us sometime, she's been left in charge of a daycare center and her daughter Bonnie will be there. She wants to know if it would be okay if the kids helped her out a little."

"What do you say, kids?" Atticus asked with a smile.

The three of them looked to each other with smiles, they also had not seen their Aunt Jessica since they were apart of a daycare system back when their aunt was merely a volunteer. "YES!" they cheered.

Ariel and Eric smiled, that sounded very lovely.

"Her friend Laurel's kids are going to donate toys for the kids," Mo added with a smile. "Her son's going to college. Also, maybe before we go, we can collect some old toys you guys never play with and give them to Sunnyside Daycare."

"Okay." The kids said.

After dinner, Ariel thanked them for coming and wished them on a safe journey to get back home. Melody was thrilled to meet her cousins and glad she was able to help them. Darla, Eloise, and Urchin were going to be staying behind for a little while longer. Like Darla promised, they were going to spend every summer all together from now on.

Meanwhile, Emi continued to look out to the ocean, already missing Akito and even though she did have her brother, he would always be in her heart next to her true love, and where Ash, Misty, Tracey, and Erin could tell that Emi was already missing Akito and knew exactly where she belonged.

"Ash, do you think we'll ever see our new friends again?" Emi asked her brother.

Ash looked back to her with a confident smile. "Who knows what the future will bring? You never know unless we see it ourselves..."

"Pika Pi..." Pikachu nodded.

Emi smiled, she actually hugged her brother and Pikachu as they were going home and she hoped that he was right as her heart told her that they would all meet again sometime very soon.

The End