Kamon: Newbark Town

7th March 1588

Brock lead me into a patch of grass in the middle of the night. Humans desert this route, but the pokemon love it. The air was cold and the tips of the grass were covered in frost. "The Royal Family and I agree that we should do thing to occupy your mind until Iris becomes single," Brock told me. The message suited the atmosphere, for it was cold. I wished to myself that Brock would leave and take his useless advice with him.

"Why?"

"If King Lance knows about your compassionate feelings towards The Queen, you may be in mortal danger."

"Mortal danger?"

"I'm sure you're aware that King Lance and your father have burned heretics," Brock explained to me. "So much beauty gone to waste." He held his hand on his chest as if he was trying to pull his heart out. "If only The Queen hadn't had a miscarriage."

"They deserve it," I muttered. "They were idiots to be eating dragon meat in the first place."

"We all want what's best for you."

"Queen Iris is the one that's best for me."

"But Sire," Brock said as he held onto my shoulder. "You and Iris have hardly spoken to each other yet. And she's already interested in Cilan Dento."

"Cilan Dento..."

"One of the famous Dento triplets."

"Blackadder hates him."

"What did Blackadder say?"

"Blackadder says that Cilan looks like a jynx's backside."

"Your brother is bringing Hyrule back to life," Brock told me. If I haven't heard it from enough people. Oh how great and glorious my big brother is. The same brother who stormed out because he couldn't marry Misty Waterflower. What an ungrateful brute. My parents give him so much and I have to settle with the leftovers. That's what I get for being the youngest son. "He really wants to marry Princess May."

As soon as Brock mentioned May, I gazed at him. He got my attention. It stunned me because Ash had spent half his life dreaming about making Misty his queen, and now suddenly he loves May. Father clearly told him that Ash could never marry for love, but listening to Brock talk about how Ash wants to become the King of Hoenn, and how he does all these good deeds.

I think the rumors are true: I think my brother is a womanizer.

"And I'm the one that's left out," I muttered. I walked back to Newbark Town as I rubbed my eyes and yawned.

"Nobody wants to see The Silver Prince kneeling on the scaffold," Brock said. "So for the time being, you have to listen to us. You and Iris will be together in time."

"So that's what I have to do is it?" I marched to the door of Ethan's house and stopped at the first step. "Wait and fight: that's my life in a nutshell."

"Things will get better," Brock promised me. He had a warm smile on his face. "Trust your pokemon and confide with your true friends."