"LION!" Felicity shrieked.
"Um, we have a tiny problem." Samson smiled sheepishly.
They soon saw Pikachu and Meowth missing.
"Pikachu?!" Ash and Emi gasped while Giselle hugged her Eevee.
"You guys!" Max cried out to the others.
"What is it, Max?" May asked her brother.
"You won't believe it!" Max told her. "I saw Mew!"
"He's right, Mew was with us, but then it teleported away with Pikachu and some cat Pokemon." Samson said.
"Oh, what an adorable little boy and a handsome young man," The maid smiled to Max and Samson. "Those costumes they're wearing are so precious and elegant. They look like a little doll and a knight in shining armor."
"You're not listening to us!" Max complained.
"We are, Max," May replied. "So, Mew just disappeared with Pikachu and a cat Pokemon?"
"Yeah, Meowth!" Max nodded.
Goliath nodded in agreement.
Max soon did a double take to Lucario before adjusting his glasses. "So, who are you?" he then asked.
"Oh, this is Lucario: a Pokemon who was sealed inside of the Staff of the Guardians," Brock introduced. "Somehow, we managed to set him free."
"WHOA!" Max yelped in shock.
"Yeah, I know," Emi said. "Now, where did Mew teleport to?"
"Oh, Max, are you sure you saw Mew and not a Pokemon who looked like it?" May huffed to her younger brother with her hands on her hips.
"Excuse me, but has anyone seen Meowth?" Jessie asked as she came while holding Molly's hand.
"We haven't seen him since the buffet table." James added.
"He's with Pikachu and Mew, though, we're not sure where they went." Estelle said.
"They were there..." Kidd's voice said before she came in. "I saw Mew flying like a Pidgey, it flew away with Meowth and Pikachu."
"Where did it fly off to?" Emi asked.
"Oh, dear, it was probably playing." The maid said as she held Mime Jr.
"Mew has a playful way at the palace here to play games and make mischief." Ilene replied.
"Basically like my little sister at the Plaza Hotel." Giselle teased.
"No argument here." Eloise said.
"It disappears with toys all the time, and then never to be seen again." The maid told them as she looked at a portrait of Mew.
"Meowth, never to be seen again?!" James whimpered.
"These two are the reason Mew flew off with Pikachu and Meowth." Samson said as he brought out the two Weaviles.
Everyone then turned to see the struggling and weakened Weaviles. Giselle gasped slightly to the sight of Samson as her cheeks turned as red pink as a rose's petals.
"Does anybody know where Mew took them?" Ash asked. "I have to go rescue Pikachu."
"Me too, Ash, Pikachu is both of ours." Emi reminded her brother.
"Don't worry, we'll all rescue them." Akito assured the Ketchum siblings.
Goliath snarled to the Weaviles who looked afraid of him.
"Down, Goliath, they won't hurt anyone now." Samson promised his pet.
"Let's find out who owns these two." Estelle said.
"How're you gonna do that?" Bobby scoffed. "It's not like you can talk to them."
"Don't you pay attention?" Bruce scolded his twin brother. "Eloise and her cousins can talk to animals and Pokemon!"
"Oh, right." Bobby said.
"Pikachu and Meowth could be anywhere with Mew..." Emi frowned out of sadness and even bowed her head.
"Maybe Mew took them to that big tree." Eloise said as she pointed to a big tree that was far away.
Estelle soon walked up to the two Weaviles. The Weaviles looked up to her with sneers.
"Who is your trainer?" Estelle asked the Weaviles.
"I don't see why we should tell you anything." The first Weavile glared.
"Yeah, what do you think we are, stupid?" The second Weavile added.
Goliath soon growled at them, looking like he would eat the two of them as a threat. The Weaviles screamed and held each other while shivering.
"WHO. IS. YOUR TRAINER?!" Estelle repeated firmly to the two Pokemon.
"Kidd Summers!" The Weaviles cried out. "Our trainer is Kidd Summers!"
"And where is she now?" Estelle sneered.
"We don't remember..." The second Weavile smiled nervously.
Goliath simply roared at the two Weaviles. The Weaviles whimpered and shook in fear of Goliath.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way..." Felicity even glared, sounding like her mother when she would interrogate villains with Batman in Gotham City.
"Okay, okay, she's outside of the castle!" The Weaviles panicked.
"And as for the others?" Estelle asked about Pikachu, Meowth, and Mew.
"Over at that tree..." The second Weavile pointed out where Eloise had suspected where the other Pokemon were.
"That's going to take us a long time to get there." Emi said.
"So, is that a tree?" Giselle asked.
"It may appear to be one at the top of that mountain, though it's actually a rock formation." Ilene informed.
"It is?" The kids asked.
"Because of its great heritage, our ancestors have named it The Tree of Beginning." The maid informed.
"The Tree of Beginning, huh?" Ash repeated while everyone else looked amazed.
"That is where you will find Mew." Ilene replied.
"Well, then we better get going." Samson said.
"You're coming too?" Giselle blushed.
"I sure am," Samson said. "Both Goliath and I are."
"You do look brave and adventurous enough..." Giselle replied.
"Thank you, my fair lady." Samson took her hand.
Giselle blushed as she soon looked like when she, Nanny, and Eloise met their mother's friends in Paris, Madame and Monsieur Dupuis, though Monsieur was more forward than his wife when meeting Nanny.
"I would hate for you to get hurt, my dear.' Samson gave a small smile to the teenage blonde girl.
This caused Giselle to blush even brighter.
"Are you okay, Giselle?" Eloise asked. "Your face is red."
"I-I'm fine." Giselle smiled.
Eloise looked curious while Margarita and Yuko giggled to the teenage girl.
"Well, great, come on, guys." Ash said about finding Mew.
"You must remember that Mew can change its form to look like any Pokemon in the world," Ilene warned. "It rarely shows its true form to humans, so you may have trouble recognizing it."
"Not if we have our Pokedexes with us." Emi said.
"Good idea, Emi." Akito smiled.
"Yeah." Estelle added.
Emi blushed bashfully to their compliments.
"How are we ever going to find where Mew went though?" May asked.
"The legend says Lucario could lead the guardian to anyone," The maid smiled. "He has learned the power to see aura in all things."
"Lucario, do you really have the ability to see the aura?" Ilene asked the Pokemon behind her.
"I do." Lucario bowed his head.
"Cool." Vincent said.
"Could you lead Ash on his journey to find Mew?" Ilene asked Lucario.
"If that is your wish, it will be my honor." Lucario bowed.
'That's good.' Emi thought to herself.
"Hey, Ash, I'm going to the Tree of Beginning too." A voice said.
Everyone looked up and saw that it was Kidd.
"You are?" Ash and Emi asked her.
"And why's that?" Akito asked her.
"Hey, wait a minute, I know you!" Brock exploded as he came toward Kidd while Mime Jr. imitated his every move. "You're Kidd Summers! Comin' through... I've seen you on TV before, but you're even more captivating in person. I'm your biggest fan! Please forgive me for not recognizing you right away, you must have blinded me!"
The others muttered and flop sweated around Brock's behavior.
"Is she a good person?" Eloise asked.
"Good?!" Brock asked the city child. "She's AMAZING!"
"Care to tell us more?" Giselle muttered.
Brock cleared his throat and brought out a guidebook. "Kidd Summers has the world record for setting the most world records ever, and she's so soared higher, dived deeper, space traveled than any other human being in history!" he then informed. "She's also a surfing expert, a gourmet cook, and a badminton champ! Calling Kidd Summers a Super Woman is the understatement of the century! She's super duper, Eloise!"
Kidd Summers giggled innocently as Brock fawned over her.
"Wow." Emi said.
"It will be good to have you join us, Kidd, as long as this Brock boy is under control." Yuko added, trying to use English the best way she could since her English was a little rough when she first came to the Plaza Hotel during Eloise's birthday with her parents and Espeon.
"You sure said it, Yuko." Bobby nodded.
Bruce also nodded since his twin brother was cooperating for once.
"Thank you," Ilene told Kidd. "We welcome your help."
Kidd soon went to the balcony and sat on top of it. "I came here to explore The Tree of Beginning and solve the mystery of what it really is," she then told the others while looking out. "Yet another first for me."
"So, was that the reason why one of your Weaviles had a transmitter?" Samson asked.
"What gave you that idea?" Kidd asked innocently.
Samson simply showed the transmitter one of the Weaviles had. The Weaviles grumbled as they had been found out.
"Oh, so I see," Kidd replied. "I guess you're too smart for my precious Pokemon. I like that in a guy~"
Goliath simply kept Kidd away from Samson.
"Thanks, boy." Samson smiled to his animal companion.
May looked to Ash and saw his worry, so smiled to comfort him. "I bet you Pikachu's already made friends with that Mew." she then soothed.
"I know, but I'm still worried," Ash replied. "I won't relax until I see Pikachu again."
"Same here." Emi said.
Akito took Emi's hand. Emi looked down and then back to him.
"Don't worry too much, I don't want you to get sick," Akito comforted as he looked into her eyes. "I'm sure that they're having fun."
"Oh, Akito, you always know just what to say..." Emi smiled. "How'd you get some romantic?"
"I get it from my dad." Akito smiled back.
Emi giggled and blushed. "Oh, if you were in school, you would be perfect for Ouran High School's Host Club," she then told him. "Only the handsomest and smartest boys get to be in the club~"
"I think he might be a shoe in." Vincent said.
"Oh, I don't know about that..." Akito replied while turning red as Emi's dress.
"I do," Emi hugged him. "High school seems far away, but I know you could do it... Do you think you'd ever go to high school?"
"Oh, I dunno," Akito shrugged. "Mom and Tech are such good tutors."
"So, then, how about in a few years?" Emi asked.
"I dunno..." Akito replied. "We'll see, okay?"
"Okay," Emi smiled. "Just don't forget about me~"
"I'll never forget you." Akito smiled back.
"I'll never forget you either..." Emi told him.
Akito and Emi smiled to each other before sharing another kiss, even though they were young kids, they knew that they were soulmates. Lucario soon left the scene as he had a lot on his mind right now.
"Is he okay?" Eloise asked about Lucario.
"He probably has a lot on his mind," Vincent suggested. "I mean, I would if I've been asleep for 1,000 years, and away from the people I've come to know and love."
"Lucario's an interesting case..." Eloise hummed in thought. "I'll have to work on him."
"And I think Giselle's mind is somewhere else." Yuko said.
Eloise looked over to her big sister. Giselle sighed as she had her mind elsewhere like Yuko said.
"Giselle, are you pretending?" Eloise asked her big sister. "You know that's what I like to do."
"I know that look." Vincent smiled.
Giselle soon blinked and looked over.
"Giselle, are you okay?" Eloise asked.
"Oh, um, yes, Ellie, I'm fine..." Giselle smiled to her little sister. "I was just... Thinking."
"About Samson?" Vincent whispered to her with playful smirk.
"W-What?" Giselle blushed. "No! Um,... Uh... Heh..."
The kids smirked to Giselle as she looked bashful.
"My, my, my, shouldn't we get going?" Giselle changed the subject.
"Yes, we should." Emi said.
"Come on, Giselle." Eloise said.
"Well, my lovely sister, we shall go on a venture..." Giselle told her before kissing her little sister's cheek before standing straight up. "So... Let's move, move, MOVE!" She soon bumped into Samson without looking.
"Oh, excuse me, Miss Giselle." Samson said to the blonde girl who was around his age.
"Oh, uh, no, no," Giselle blushed. "I wasn't looking where I was going."
"It's all right, neither was I..." Samson smiled to her.
Giselle sighed and took a breath before looking up to him. "Would you like to come with us?"
"I would love to..." Samson told her. "Goliath too, though, I can't go anywhere without him. You don't mind dogs, do you?"
"Oh, no," Giselle smiled. "Eloise and I have a dog back home."
"He looks like a cat." Eloise butted in.
'And that just ruined the moment.' Giselle thought to herself.
"Can I walk with you guys?" Eloise smiled up to her big sister.
Giselle sighed. "I suppose you can."
Eloise giggled as she then held both of their hands.
'Now I know how Nanny felt when she and Sir Wilkes took Eloise to the circus.' Giselle thought to herself with a slight roll of her eyes.
"She just ruined their moment, didn't she?" Estelle asked her twin brother.
"Yes," Akito sighed. "Yes, she did..."
"Eloise..." The others sighed.
"That's me, Eloise!" Eloise announced with pride. "I live on the tippy-top of the Plaza Hotel!"
"You two live in a hotel?" Samson asked Giselle.
"It's a long story, I'll tell you later when we're not concerned with Lucario." Giselle replied.
Goliath soon gave Eloise a ride.
Eloise oohed in amazement. "I've never actually rode on a lion before." she then smiled down.
Goliath smiled back up to her. They were all soon going on to begin their whole new adventure.
Lucario was looking at the portrait of Sir Aaron however.
"How well did you know Sir Aaron?" Emi asked Lucario.
Lucario soon tackled her down since he didn't know she was there.
"Hey, get off of my sister!" Ash scolded. "Why'd you do that?!"
"You snuck up behind me..." Lucario defended. "That is always a mistake."
"Sorry, didn't mean to." Emi said.
"Hey, Lucario," Ash said as he helped Emi up. "I'm really glad you're coming along to help us find Pikachu."
"This Pikachu, are you its masters?" Lucario asked the Ketchum siblings.
"Not exactly." Emi said.
"Are you kidding?" Ash added with a chuckle as he handed Emi her hat. "No, Pikachu, Emi, and I are best friends."
"Friends?" Lucario repeated.
"Yeah." Emi smiled.
"If one of your friends was gone, you'd wanna bring him back too, wouldn't ya?" Ash added.
"I don't have any friends, and I don't want any." Lucario replied drearily.
"That sounds sad and lonely." Emi said.
Lucario soon walked out into the balcony.
"Nice attitude..." Ash angrily pouted to Lucario.
"He must not trust other humans." Emi said.
"I guess I can't blame him..." Ash said to his sister. "I'd hate to imagine what happened between him and Sir Aaron."
"If only we could know what happened." Emi said.
"You okay, Emi?" Ash asked.
"I'm fine..." Emi told him. "I just didn't like him flipping me over like that. I'm also worried about Pikachu..."
"So am I..." Ash admitted.
"But I'm sure Akito's right." Emi said.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Ash admitted.
"So, when should we leave?" Estelle asked.
"I'd say as soon as possible, but we need a plan." Ash replied.
"Ash is right..." Eloise said before she took Ditto off her head and she then went to a corner to stand on her head for as long as she could.
"Hmm..." Ditto hummed as he began to think with Eloise.
"Think, think, think..." Eloise told herself. "My mother says I need to be more tranquil."
"She's right about that." Giselle whispered to herself playfully since Eloise was a handful of a little girl.
"What if I give you kids a ride?" Kidd offered which soon made Eloise fall backwards and her skirt flew to the back of her blouse.
"We'd appreciate that." Vincent said.
"Come with me." Kidd invited.
The others smiled and thanked Kidd as they went to her vehicle politely, and where since Goliath was too big to fit in, he was turned back into his dog form. Once he was a dog again, he stuck his head out the window, as it was a thing that dogs enjoyed. Because of this, Giselle was able to sit next to Samson.
"Giselle, that's an interesting accent you have, are you from Manchester?" Samson asked the blonde girl.
"Oh, no," Giselle replied. "I'm actually from a small town away from New York City, but my nanny says she grew up close to Hertfordshire with Uncle Gavin."
"That's nice to know." Samson smiled.
"So, where do you live, Samson?" Giselle asked.
"Oh, you know, here and there." Samson said.
"You travel?" Giselle asked.
"Yeah, and it's a good thing too, because there's usually something happening." Samson said.
"You sound like an adventurer," Giselle replied. "Sometimes my little sister has adventures."
"Well, adventures are dangerous; I can tell you that me and Goliath have fought many foes and dangers." Samson told her.
"Oh, I'm sure they can be..." Giselle frowned. "My little sister found out the owner's daughter was going to marry a conman, and he even tried to lock her in the boiler room while they were going to get married."
"If I ever see him; I'll send him packing." Samson assured her.
"He was arrested on Christmas Eve last year, but I appreciate it..." Giselle giggled bashfully.
"You have an adorable giggle." Samson told the girl.
"Oh, um, thank you..." Giselle smiled as she turned as bright red in her face as her heart-shaped earrings.
'Aw!' Estelle thought to herself.
Samson and Giselle smiled to each other.
"Uh, does your little sister have a twin?" Samson asked.
"Huh?" Giselle asked before she looked over to see that Ditto became a male version of Eloise, but in a black suit with a red tie similar to her black suspenders and pink bow. "Oh, no, Alois has returned!" she then called out playfully.
"Don't mind us, Giselle." Eloise giggled innocently.
"Sometimes Ditto likes to be a twin with Eloise to mess with nasty people at the hotel." Giselle explained to Samson.
Ditto simply nodded with a giggle.
"So, where do you live?" Samson asked.
"The Plaza." Giselle said like it was obvious.
"Oh... I thought maybe you were just staying there for a visit until you'd check out..." Samson replied.
"No, Eloise and I live in the hotel with Nanny," Giselle explained. "Though, we did have a small house before Eloise was born... It was me, my father, and my mother... Though, of course, soon enough, Mother was pregnant with Eloise, so she hired Nanny to come help out a little, but that was back when Nanny was coming to clean up the house, make me lunch, or help with homework, and help Mother during the pregnancy."
"That was nice of her." Samson smiled.
"Namny's the best..." Giselle sighed happily.
"She's my mostly companion." Eloise piped up.
"Ellie..." Giselle sighed to her younger sister's interruptions.
Ditto could understand why Giselle sighed.
"Uh, kid, I think you should sit with your friends," Samson suggested. "I'd like to be alone with your sister, no offense though."
Ditto nodded as he took Eloise back to the others.
"So, you live in a hotel?" Samson asked.
"On the top floor." Giselle nodded.
"Whoa, your family must be loaded." Samson smiled.
"You could say that," Giselle replied. "Our mother knows the Owner."
"That's good." Samson said.
"Yes... Our mother seems to know everyone there is to know..." Giselle replied. "I've been to boarding school in London, but I soon came to New York as soon as I could. I knew I had to help Eloise grow up since Mother seemed to refuse, even though Nanny is a wonderful caretaker."
"She must be really busy." Samson said, referring to Giselle's mother.
"Oh, Mother?" Giselle replied. "Yes... She works in the fashion industry. She usually travels around the world, but her main work is in Paris, France. She once took us to a fashion show though, and Eloise, uh, I think she ate her strawberry shortcake too fast because she threw up in Coco Chanel."
"Whoa." Samson said.
"I guess you could say I've had my own adventures," Giselle replied. "We've been to Paris, Hollywood, and Moscow just last year."
"Amazing." Samson smiled.
Giselle smiled back, she really loved talking with him, and he seemed to love hearing her stories.
As they rode along, it was getting really foggy really fast.
"It's so foggy, I can't see a thing." Estelle said.
"This fog is thicker than Nanny's vision before glasses," Eloise agreed. "She is 'rawther' far-sighted."
"It sure is getting heavier." Kidd nodded since she was the one driving.
"Should we stop for the night?" Emi asked.
"Perhaps," Kidd replied. 'We'd only have luck at this if Lucario was our navigator."
"And where that might be a possibility." Bruce said.
"Lucario can see through fog?" May asked.
"Yeah, it's guided by aura." Kidd replied.
"What is this 'aura'?" Yuko asked as she felt confused by that word.
"Yeah, what is it?" Molly added.
"Well, it's the living essence inside of every creature." Kidd informed.
"Can you tell us what it looks like then?" Max asked. "Huh?"
"I think it's supposed to be invisible to most of us, Max." Brock told the young boy.
"Seriously?" Estelle asked.
"That's what an aura is." Kidd nodded.
"Ash, Lucario said the aura that you have is just like Sir Aaron's." Emi memorized.
"I wonder if you can sense aura too since you're the Pokemon Princess." Ash replied.
"Hmm... That's a good question..." Emi said before closing her eyes and covering her head. "Um... I sense a lot of them right now actually."
"I think that's because we're all here." Ash chuckled.
"Oh, good point." Emi smiled bashfully.
"That's great, so you can sense aura." Akito smiled at his girlfriend.
"Well, at least we know it works..." Emi smiled back. "So, Lucario can see auras too?"
"That's right," Kidd replied. "Long ago, where humans could sense aura and control its power, like Sir Aaron for instance. Apparently, he passed his skills onto Lucario."
"So, where do we stop?" Vincent asked.
"I'll let you know when we get there." Kidd told him.
"I hope it's not too far." Vincent said before petting Vulpix.
There was soon a heavy bump which nearly knocked everyone out of their seats.
"What was that?" Margarita asked.
"Must've been a rock or something." Kidd muttered as she continued to drive through the bumpy road.
"I just hope Pikachu is okay..." Emi hoped.
"Same here." Ash said
Akito gently squeezed Emi's hand. Emi looked back to him with bright pink cheeks and smiled to him and he smiled back to her. Kidd soon stopped the vehicle.
"I'm hungry." Emi pouted.
"No worries, Emi." Brock smiled as he knew what to do.
"Wahoo!" Emi smiled.