They soon came to the vendor and they each had some cotton candy. Brock was distracted by Alice's good looks, so Ash and Pikachu ate all of his cotton candy when he wasn't looking, and he soon cried out once he bit down and saw that he just had a stick left. Emi simply rolled her eyes playfully at that. Brock gave Ash and Pikachu a look before Ash laughed and ran into a rather large Pokemon.
"Whoa, that Pokemon is huge..." Akito's eyes widened.
"That's a Torterra." Emi told him.
"Amazing." Akito smiled.
"Hey, there." A brown-haired boy smiled to them as he stood with his Pokemon before a couple of other people came beside him.
"Is this yours?" Akito asked the brown-haired boy.
"Sure is." The boy smiled.
"You must be a strong Pokemon trainer." Akito smiled back.
"Wanna find out?" The boy smirked.
"Oh, you're on!" Akito smirked back before he took out one of his Pokeballs.
"Going with type advantage?" Estelle guessed.
"Why not?" Akito smiled innocently.
"This should be an interesting..." The redheaded girl commented.
"You can win this thing, Bro!" Vincent cheered.
Akito soon brought out all of his Pokemon to meet the new person. Ash then had Pikachu get ready for a battle and the new people smirked as they decided to battle to get to know these people they hadn't met before. As for Akito, he used his only Pokemon which were Ponyta and Pupitar.
"You two always look so happy together." Emi smiled to Akito as he was with Pupitar.
"Well, he was my first, like Pikachu is for you and Ash." Akito smiled back to her.
Ponyta looked ready to battle.
"Ponyta, you can go first." Akito smirked.
Torterra smirked and came towards Ponyta. Ponyta smirked back and started to stomp his front right hoof, looking ready to charge.
"Tackle him!" Akito cried out.
Ponyta soon used tackle against Torterra.
"Akito, Tackle is a Normal-type move." Estelle reminded.
"It's a warm-up, but it'll get better after this." Akito replied.
"If you say so." Estelle shrugged to her twin brother.
"Torterra, use Frenzy Plant!" The boy commanded.
"Taste this, Hothead!" Torterra smirked while attacking Ponyta back.
"Ponyta, dodge it and then use Flare Blitz!" Akito commanded.
"I'm on it!" Ponyta replied before doing just that.
"That kid isn't too bad, I have to admit." The boy commented.
After the move hit Torterra, it was soon left with burn which meant for the rest of the battle, it would keep losing some HP.
"Ponyta, I think you did it!" Pikachu beamed.
"Torterra, Razor Leaf!" The boy cried out to his Pokemon.
"Ponyta, counter it with Flame Wheel!" Akito told his pokemon.
Ponyta soon jumped right in front of Torterra with the finishing move while Torterra tried to win, but... Managed to lose.
"Way to go, Ponyta!" Akito smiled to his Pokemon.
Ponyta neighed out of victory before glowing white, telling them one thing.
"Ponyta...?" Akito asked.
"Akito... I think it's time..." Emi told him.
"Time?" Akito asked before his eyes widened. "Whoa! No way!"
Ponyta's body began to grow as the light expanded and where it even began to grow a horn from the forehead before the evolution was complete. Everyone looked away from the bright light and then looked excited.
"Ponyta... You're... You're... Um..." Akito smiled before pausing.
"Rapidash." Emi told him.
"Rapidash, that's what it was." Akito then said once he remembered now. Even after remembering the name, he knew that his Pokedex had to record this information as he and his siblings and cousin brought out their Pokedexes.
"Congratulations, Akito." Emi smiled.
"Thanks, Emi." Akito smiled back.
"Rapidash: The Fire Horse Pokemon, a fire-type." The Pokedex informed.
"No, duh." Akito rolled his eyes to that.
"Rapidash loves to gallop, whenever it sees someone running fast, it gets the urge to race." The Pokedex then continued.
"Your kind of Pokemon." Estelle smiled at her twin.
"Rapidash usually can be seen casually cantering in the fields and plains. However, when this Pokémon turns serious, its fiery manes flare and blaze as it gallops its way up to 150 mph." The Pokedex then finished.
"Oh, yeah!" Akito smiled.
"Congrats, Rapidash." Pupitar smiled at the newly evolved Pokemon.
"Why, thank you, Pupitar." Rapidash replied.
"Cool, and looks like you've learned some new moves." Akito smiled at Rapidash as he looked the new moves from the Pokedex while still seeing the same moves it still had.
"That's right," Rapidash smiled back before smirking. "I look forward to a race with you."
"You are so on!" Akito smirked back.
"Oi." Estelle rolled her eyes.
"That was a pretty good match, kid, that was some Ponyta you had." The boy said.
"Thanks, you and Torterra were pretty good too." Akito smiled.
"Thanks." The boy smiled back.
"Nice meeting you." Akito said.
"Yeah, it was nice meeting you too," The boy replied. "You're not bad for a kid."
"So, what are your names?" Vincent asked the boy and the girl next to him.
"Well, my name is Kai," The boy said before gesturing to the girl. "And this is Allegra."
"It's nice to meet you; my name is Akito and this is my twin sister Estelle and our older brother Vincent and that's our cousin Felicity and these are our friends Ash, Pikachu, Emi, Brock, and Dawn and finally, Alice and her Chimchar." Akito introduced.
"Hm, you all seem like quite the group." Kai commented.
"You got that right." Vincent said.
"You do too." Felicity added.
Alice smiled as she enjoyed this time so far as she sat with Chimchar.
"You look pretty." Maury smiled to Emi.
"Oh, uh, thank you." Emi smiled back, a bit bashfully.
"Why wouldn't she?" Estelle smiled. "Emi is the Pokemon Princess."
"That actually exists?" Allegra asked. "I thought maybe it was just a fairy tale."
"Believe it or not, so did I for a while." Emi replied.
"Amazing." Allegra smiled.
"So, your girlfriend is a princess." Alice said to Akito.
"Uh, yeah..." Akito replied. "Maybe a Queen someday... Though a lot nicer than that Queen of Hearts."
"You said it." Alice said.
Dinah even agreed while stretching.
"When you guys are done with these guys, I'll take you to my garden." Alice suggested.
"We'd like that." Vincent said.
Alice smiled to that.
After a while, the others decided to use their Pokemon to go against Maury since he seemed to like the competition, and it was soon all over.
"Wanna come to the garden with us?" Felicity asked.
"We have to go right now, but maybe we can meet up later." Maury suggested.
"Sounds nice." Felicity smiled.
"It was interesting meeting you guys." Kai said.
"Same to you." Akito replied.
They soon all went their separate ways and Alice took them into her garden where many other Pokemon were shown.
"So cute." Estelle smiled to Piplup who belonged to Dawn.
Piplup seemed to smile boastfully. They soon went to go and see the garden.
"This has got to be my favorite place in the whole town!" Alice smiled to them.
Pikachu soon ran with the other Pokemon as Chimchar led the way for them.
"This place is so peaceful." Estelle smiled.
"Mom would love it here." Vincent smiled back.
"She sure would." Akito added.
"This whole garden was designed by Godey, you know." Alice informed with a smile.
"What a beautiful spot!" Brock beamed. "It says: The design theme of architect Godey's brilliant garden is the harmony between humans and Pokemon."
Felicity smiled as that did sound brilliant. A bunch of cute Pokemon soon came out, and they came up to Emi as if they knew her.
"Hi, guys." Emi giggled to the cute Pokemon.
The cute Pokemon soon bowed to Emi as if she was royalty.
"Oh, thank you." Emi smiled and curtsied to them.
"I like this one," Akito said as he picked up a Shinx. "Kinda makes me think of a lion cub somewhat."
"He sure does." Estelle smiled.
"I've always liked these ones." Felicity said as she looked to the Marills.
The Pokemon all greeted each other in their own way and they decided to play and have fun together as Pokemon do.
"I've been playing in this garden ever since I was a little girl," Alice told the others. "So everyone here is my friend."
"Aw!" Estelle smiled.
Dinah smiled as she also enjoyed the Pokemon.
"I know what we should do," Akito smiled. "Let's let out all of our Pokemon so they can hang out."
"Great idea!" Dawn beamed to that.
"I'm in too!" Brock added.
"Let's do it!" Emi added.
Everyone soon let out all of their Pokemon so that they could all play and hang out together.
"Oh, Dawn, your Pokemon are so cute~" Estelle cooed.
"Thanks." Dawn smiled.
"And I can already tell that one of them has a thing for Pikachu." Estelle smiled back.
"Yes, Buneary just seems to really love Pikachu's company." Dawn giggled to that.
"And Pachirisu looks almost like a little mischief maker." Vincent said.
Pachirusu smiled bashfully to that.
"I guess you could say that." Dawn giggled.
"Especially with how we first met her." Emi added.
"Oh, that sounds like an interesting story." Felicity commented.
Alice led them along while the Pokemon played together.
"Wanna hear it?" Emi offered.
"You know it." Akito said.
"Well, it seemed like such a nice day, but then Team Rocket succeeded in getting Pikachu from us..." Emi frowned at that part before smiling. "Luckily, he was able to escape though, and eventually, she came to bring him back to us, and we decided to become friends."
"Aw!" Estelle smiled.
"Not too long before, that's when I got Piplup." Dawn soon added.
"Dawn's pretty fun to hang out with..." Ash said before smirking. "Unless she has bed hair, and we're not allowed to go near her."
"Same old Ash." Vincent rolled his eyes playfully.
Ash smiled innocently with a modest shrug.
"Oh, yeah, you wanna say that to my face?!" Pikachu snapped.
"Huh?" Emi blinked and turned around.
The Pokemon appeared to hate each other for some reason and even began to fight like kids on the playground.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Back it up! What's going on?" Emi asked the Pokemon.
The Pokemon soon looked at her.
"Well?!" Emi demanded, almost sounding like a stern mother.
"Everything was just fine until this Shinx got in my way!" Pikachu glared.
"What?! That's not true!" Shinx argued.
"But you guys were getting along so well..." Felicity frowned.
"Maybe it would've been fine if these Wild Pokemon didn't come out of nowhere!" Mismagius snapped as even she was cranky.
Alice knew exactly how to calm the Pokemon down.
"Please! Stop!" Felicity begged, feeling fearful of the arguing Pokemon.
However, everything settled down as Alice took out her leaf and played a tune to settle them all down. The Pokemon soon settled down and looked calm now as they listened to the beautiful music, and they soon made up after the song.
"Huh... I wonder what got into them?" Vincent wondered.
An Aipom soon appeared and gave Shinx and Piplup some fruit to share and they did out of harmony. Akito decided to look into the Pokemons' memory from his vision power.
"What happened to you guys?" Felicity frowned.
Akito looked around, seeing the point-of-view from a Pokemon as the others were leaving so that the Pokemon could all play.
"This is fun, but I sure am hungry." Piplup smiled before waddling away from the playground.
"Okay, looks good so far." Akito said.
"Mm... Food." Piplup smiled to a tree, about to get a berry.
"Mine!" Pachirisu said while getting the fruit before Piplup did.
"Okay... How about this one?" Piplup then said, going to the next fruit. Unfortunately, he didn't get that one either.
"Sorry, buddy!" Aipom said while taking the other berry.
"Hmph, well, that's a little unfair." Akito commented.
Shinx soon jumped out for the last berry and Piplup then grabbed it with his beak and the two appeared to fight over it.
"So, that's how it all started." Akito said.
The two Pokemon soon bounced and ended up on the seesaw with the other Pokemon which sent some of them flying like Team Rocket. Buziel soon saw the two Marills coming right at Pachirisu and soon saved them from colliding. Akito looked concerned as this quickly turned into chaos for all of the Pokemon while he and the others were gone. He could now understand of how it all started.
Akito then blinked back into Present Day.
"Are they okay?" Felicity asked.
"Just a little argument with some berries." Akito told her.
"That's it?" Felicity asked with an anime sweat drop.
"Yeah, it appears so." Akito smiled sheepishly, feeling the same way.
"Sarce bleu..." Felicity sighed.
"Thank you for playing your music, Alice." Emi told the blonde girl.
"Yes, what a beautiful song." Dawn added.
"My grandmother taught it to me." Alice smiled.
"We never got to meet your grandmother, what was she like?" Estelle asked Alice.
Before anything else could be said or done, a Pokemon soon appeared right for Alice.
"What, Gallade?" Alice asked the Pokemon.
"There's something you have to see!" Gallade told her. The Pokemon soon led the way to what he had to show Alice.
"Very well..." Alice said before running that way. "Chimchar! Dinah!"
"Guys, let's go too." Ash suggested.
"Yeah, might be something important." Akito said.
The others soon collected their Pokemon and ran off to follow after Gallade.
"Look at this." Gallade told Alice and the others, gesturing to pillars which seemed to had been disfigured somehow.
"Whoa, those are some weird looking pillars." Akito said.
Felicity let out a small gasp.
"Felicity?" Vincent asked.
"It's almost like part of my dream..." Felicity whispered.
"It's horrible," Alice frowned. "Who could've done this?"
"Who ever it was, he or she will pay for it." Estelle said.
"It was Darkrai!" A voice told them.
Everyone then looked around before finding someone else coming from behind the hedges.
"Alberto!" Alice recognized.
"It appears there have been recent sightings in town." The stranger informed.
"That's bad." Felicity said.
"Uh, excuse me, who's Darkrai?" Ash spoke up to Alberto.
"The Pokemon who wreaked this havoc!" Alberto proclaimed bravely.
"I'm sure there's a reason he's here." Akito said.
"Darkrai... That sounds like a frightening name..." Felicity shivered.
"Darkrai must live here in this garden." Alice said as not even she knew about the Pokemon.
"I've heard of Darkrai before," Brock added. "It's a Pokemon that makes you have nightmares."
"I-It does?" Felicity shivered.
"Nightmares?" Ash and Pikachu frowned.
Butch, Cassidy, and Raticate were soon shown in a tree, watching them all through special binoculars, and where they heard the same thing.
"That handsome hunk is in close proximity of Pikachu~" Cassidy gushed over Alberto.
"Lookin' like a Joe we should get to know." Butch suggested.
"Sure does." Raticate said.
Something was soon heard in the bushes.
"Something's in the bushes..." Vincent said. "I hope it's not a fox."
"Darkrai..." Alberto smirked before tossing a Pokeball, letting out a Lickilicky.
"That's the evolved form of Lickitongue." Akito said.
"Lickilicky, Hyper Beam!" Alberto commanded.
The Pokemon soon did that against the bush and they all heard a groan.
"That sounded like it hurt..." Emi frowned.
"Now what did you do that for?!" A voice asked, revealing a human, not a Pokemon before running into the tree and fell over.
"Tonio!" Alice frowned before she ran to him.
"Another friend of yours?" Estelle asked her.
"You could say that." Alice said as they went to go and help Tonio.
"Next time, maybe try and see if it's actually a Pokemon and not a person." Vincent suggested to Alberto.
They soon went to check out Tonio.
"So, who is this?" Felicity asked.
"This is my friend Tonio, he's a scientist." Alice informed.
"That must be amazing." Vincent said.
"So, Tonio, is it? What were you doing in those bushes?" Akito asked.
"I was investigating a space-time abnormality that I had detected," Tonio said as he looked on his computer before giving it to Alice and examined the pillars in shock. "Something has happened. It isn't possible..."
A piece soon broke off and hit him right on the forehead.
"Ooh! That had to hurt." Vincent winced.
"Uh, you okay, Tonio?" Akito asked with clenched teeth.
"No, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, really." Tonio smiled sheepishly as he held his head.
"Oh, Alice, you don't have to be so nice to him." Alberto smiled a bit smugly.
"She can be nice if she wants to." Estelle told Alberto.
"Well, as long as Alice remembers that she is to be my wife." Alberto smiled.
"WHAAAT?!" Akito, Estelle, Felicity, and Vincent asked, a bit melodramatically.
"Alice, is this true?" Akito asked.
"No, it's not, and he knows it!" Alice replied with a glare to Alberto.
Tonio seemed to sigh in relief over that.
"Come on, I'm too young to think about marriage." Alice huffed.
"So then he lied." Akito said as he tightened his right hand into a fist.
"Please forgive me," Alberto smiled to Alice. "This isn't the time or place for that kind of talk. Now that that's done, why don't you come to my place for a little dinner?"
"Falcon PUNCH!" Akito cried out as he ran towards Alberto to get him away from Alice.
Alberto was surprised by that and was soon sent flying away from Alice. Akito glared since Alice was one of his friends and she clearly deserved better.
"Tonio, who is that guy?" Ash asked.
"Baron Alberto." Tonio frowned.
"He is a friend of yours or just a jerk?" Vincent asked.
"I feel more the latter than the former to be honest." Tonio replied.
"Uh..." Felicity said, feeling confused.
"He's a jerk." Tonio clarified.
"Works for me." Felicity smiled bashfully.
Something soon strange began to happen just like when they were in the hot-air balloon.
"There it is again." Akito said.
"I feel like I'm gonna faint every time that happens." Estelle groaned.
"Such strange phenomenon." Tonio commented as he looked to his computer.
"I'm afraid we're not alone." Gallade warned the others.
Estelle and Akito soon sent out their Pokemon just in case sense their Pokemon seemed to be the most powerful.
"Don't worry, Mama, whatever it is, I'll help." Teddy bravely told Estelle.
"That's what I like to hear." Estelle beamed to his bravery.
"Whoever it is, I'll burn him or her to a crisp." Rapidash told Akito.
"Do your best, which is to be awesome." Akito smirked to his newly evolved Pokemon.
"You better believe it." Rapidash smirked back.
"I believe in you, but to be a great Pokemon, you should believe in yourself." Vincent advised his Pokemon, almost like a father would to his son as he brought out Vulpix.
The Pokemon then all looked brave and confident as they went out.
"I know I can do it." Mismagius smiled.
"I wish I could be brave and confident like my Pokemon." Felicity sighed to herself.
Suddenly, the clouds became dark, almost like a rainstorm was on the way. Rapidash didn't want to go back into its Pokeball with Pupitar already knowing those clouds weren't rain clouds.
"Strange... Is it going to rain?" Estelle wondered.
"I don't think so." Akito replied.
"Do not come here..." A dark voice demanded.
"Th-That voice." Felicity shivered.
"Darkrai?" Tonio frowned.
Something soon came out as the sun soon came out of the dark clouds.
"Darkrai?" Dawn asked.
"'Fraid so." Ash replied.
"Th-That's what I've been dreaming about." Felicity told her cousins.
"But how did he get into your dream?" Estelle asked.
"I don't wanna find out." Felicity trembled.
"So you've been scaring Felicity!" Akito glared to the Dark Pokemon. "Go, Pupitar!"
"Ooh, what's that?" Cassidy asked.
"That's Darkrai." Raticate smirked.
Pupitar charged at Darkrai, ready to attack it.
"Pupitar, Rock Slide!" Akito told his Pokemon.
Pupitar soon used Rock Slide against Darkrai. Darkrai then disappeared in thin air.
"It's gone!" Ash and Emi gasped.
"Look, the shadow!" Pikachu pointed out to them.
"After that shadow!" Vincent exclaimed.
"Boy, that's something I never thought I'd have to do." Akito commented before he tried to run after the shadow.
The shadow kept moving around before forming back into Darkrai and shot Dark Void back at them.
"Don't let that attack hit any of us!" Estelle told the others.
Everyone tried to avoid the attack, but Ash and Emi were both victims.
"No! Guys!" Pikachu cried out for the siblings.
"This is gonna cost us..." Felicity muttered slightly.
"They're now fast asleep." Estelle sighed.
"Who can help us?" Felicity asked.
"I will." A voice said right behind them which startled them.
Everyone then looked in surprise and found that it was Cherry.
"Aunt Cherry?" The Fudo siblings asked out of confusion. "What are you doing here?"