Fun and Games

"How do I look?" Anabel posed in front of Ash so that he can see her all around.

"Why... why are you dressed like a Cresselia?" Dawn was able to ask.

"I was looking through my stuff and found this costume here," Anabel answers. "I thought wearing it might jog something. It didn't, but I wanted to show it off to Ash."

"Ah-ah-ah-ah..." Ash was speechless.

Lucian was grinning evilly as Flint appears right next to him, "You're sick, you know that?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Lucian feigns ignorance, lifting his hands and shaking his head.

"I know you've been researching the legendary Psychic Pokemon Cresselia," Flint starts. "But to take advantage of your sister's amnesia to get her to wear a costume?"

"Perhaps I did her a favour," Lucian adjusts his glasses. "Hm?" Lucian watches as a truck pulls over.

"Hello!" the driver calls as he gets out. "Just when you least expect it, I am Cameron the photographer! You look so photogenic! Why not have your picture taken?"

"That's a great idea!" Melody cries.

"Huh?" everyone looks at her.

"Alright then! Get yourselves ready!"

Melody shoves Ash into Anabel.

"What?" Ash stumbles as Melody adjusts Ash and Anabel so that Anabel is holding Ash's arm and gets out of the way. *SNAP!*

"Good, good! We've got a nice picture! If anyone else wants to play dress up, I've got boxes of clothes in my truck of all sorts of Pokemon.

"REALLY!?" most of the girls dive for the truck.

Sure enough, there were boxes loaded with costumes of dozens of different Pokemon.

"Hey you guys!" Melody calls over to the guys. "Why don't you join us too!"

"Heh heh," Flint chuckles. "Sounds like fun!"

"Whenever you guys are ready," the cameraman tells them. "Just stand over here and I'll take a picture!"

Melody wears a Lugia dress, Bianca wears a Latias dress.
Lyra puts on a Meganium suit, May wears a Blaziken suit, Dawn in a Piplup suit.
Winona wears a Swellow dress as Bugsy puts on a Scizor suit.
Flint wears a Magmortar costume as Volkner wears an Electivire one.
Lucian tries on a Gallade uniform while Anabel tries on a Gardevoir.
Marley puts on an Arcanine themed dress.
Yellow wears a Butterfree dress, May wears a Beautifly one.
Melody tries a Slowking suit, Bianca in a Latios.
Jasmine and Brock wear Steelix.
Janine tries a Venomoth, Bugsy tries a Heracross.
Winona wears an Altaria, Ash puts on Staraptor, Ritchie's in a Charizard, Jasmine in a Skarmory, Janine in Crobat, Red wears Aerodactyl.
Ash puts on a Gible costume.
May puts on a familiar princess dress while Ash wears an Aaron costume.
Anabel puts on Gardevoir again as Ash tries on a Lucario.


"Hey Red," Yellow starts. "How does this look?" She was wearing Pikachu ears and a tail.

"Haha!" Red smiles. "That looks cute."

"Hey," Melody digs through the box. "There's some more in here. I know! Let's get the Pikachu owners to put these on!"

"What?" Ash, Red and Ritchie all tried to make a run for it but their Pikachus block them, smiling a sinister smile.

Red and Ritchie were captured first.

"Aww, there's no more," Melody sighs.

"Phew!" Ash wipes his head.

"Oh I wouldn't say that," Anabel smirks as she pulls out a big Pikachu costume.

"Oh no, no, NOOOO!"

*SNAP!* A picture of Yellow, Red and Ritchie with Pikachu ears and tail while Ash is in a Pikachu suit.


"Hey Marley," Anabel walks over to the black dressed girl. "Is it okay if I try on your clothes?"

"H-Huh?"

"Why didn't I think of that?" Melody puts on one nasty grin.

Anabel comes out wearing Marley's dress. "I can't believe this fits! Marley, how about I take a picture with your Arcanine?"
"S-sure!"

*SNAP!*

"Hey look," Ash looks through. "These look like Pyramid King Brandon's."

"Why don't you try them on?" Anabel suggests, the two of them take a picture together.

"Hey, Gardenia's clothes!" Dawn awes.

"Anabel!" Melody calls. "Want to try these on?"

"Huh? B-b-but my midriff and legs..." Anabel blushes as she looks at Ash while Candice and Zoey swapped clothes.

"Oh don't be like that, I'm sure he'll love to see more of you." Melody drags Anabel away as Lyra, Dawn and May swapped their clothes around.


"Oh AAAAaaaaasssshhh!" Melody calls out, dragging a changed Anabel with her.

"AWA-!" Ash's face reddened greatly, staring mostly at her midriff.

"Hurry hurry!" Melody grabbed Cameron and he snapped very quickly.

"I-I-I'm gonna change back now," Anabel shyly disappears again.

Flint and Volkner pose in each other's clothes.

"Saaaay," Brock sounded like he found something interesting. "Ash, remember this?"

"What is- AH!" Ash gulped as Brock took out a blond wig and an orange dress.

"What is that?" Ritchie asks.

"A long time ago he couldn't challenge Gym Leader Erika because he made fun of their perfume," Brock starts. "So in order to challenge her he put on a disguise and dressed like a girl. What do you say Ash? For old time's sake?"

"Uh uh! No way!" Ash backs up into Lucian.

"Well, this is interesting news..." Lucian has an evil grin on his face.

"AWAAAAAA-!"

"Phew," Anabel sighs. "Feels good to be back in my old clot- WHAT?" Anabel sees Ash in drag.

"Quick! Take a picture!" Dawn rushes the photographer. "So we can get him into the maid outfit next!"

"WHAT?" Ash tries to lift the dress up and scurry away, but he gets dragged back by Flint and Volkner by the arms.

"Why MEEEEEEE-?"

*SNAP!* *SNAP!*

Anabel sees Ash's clothes just laying around...

"Glad that's finally over with," Ash sighs. "Hey, where's my clothes?"

"Over here!" Anabel calls, she poses for him wearing his clothes while his Pikachu has his hat. "How do I look?"

"Uh..." Ash can only blush.

*SNAP!*


Anabel is now trying on Yellow's clothes, "Hmm... something's missing..."

"I know!" Red gets an idea. "Hey, Yellow. How about letting her have some air?"

"A-are you sure Red?" Yellow questions.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine."

"Come on out Kitty!" Yellow calls out her Butterfree.

"Huh?" Anabel wonders as Yellow's Butter attaches itself to her back. "Whoa, whoa, WHOA!" Anabel is lifted off the ground as the Bug Pokemon flaps its wings. "Ahaha, hahaha! Whee! I'm flying! Look Ash! I'm flying!"

Ash watches happily as he sees Anabel soar around above him. Cameron quickly takes pictures of her flying around. Anabel decides to quickly change back to her usual clothes before taking off again.

Anabel floats next to Ash and grabs his hand, "Hold on tight now..."

"Wha-! Aaaaahhh!" Ash is lifted off the ground as Anabel flies higher... and higher... and higher...

"Wow! Look at the view from up here," Anabel searches around. "I can see the coliseum and the piers, and there's the park too!"

"Anabel look out!"

"Huh?" Anabel turns around to see a flock of Wingull flying towards her. "Oh no!" She dodges them quickly but losses her grip on Ash. "Ash!"

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

She dives down quickly under him and catches the free falling boy.

Ash instinctively wraps his arms around Anabel's neck, "Phew, thanks Anabel!"

"Y-you're welcome," Anabel blushes hard.

Cameron quickly takes pictures as they land slowly, while most of the girl's jaws were dropped.


"Thanks a lot for your time," Melody thanks the photographer. "Here's my e-mail, just forward them over to me."

"No problem!" the driver tells her. "I had a lot of fun myself too! I'll be back after the tournament too so one of you better win it!" Cameron smiles as he takes off.

"What are you going to do with all those pictures?" Volkner curiously asks.

"Oh, not much," Melody starts. "Just MyPoke, YouPoke and PokeBook them all."

"Ah-heh," Volkner droops while sweat dropping.

Everybody starts to return into the Pokemon Center but Anabel pulls Ash away.

"What is it Anabel?"

"Can we..." Anabel shyly turns away. "Take a walk in the park?"

"A walk in the park?"

"I felt something familiar when I saw it from above," the girl tells her. "I want to go there to see if I remember anything."

"Okay, let's go then!"


Ash leads Anabel up a familiar hill, "Does this place seem familiar Anabel?"

"A little..." Anabel looks around trying to jog her memory.

"When we first came here, you sang a song for me," Ash tells her.

"I did?"

"Yeah, you said it was from when you were very young. Unfortunately you only sang it once and I don't know how it went hehe," Ash scratches his head.

"That's okay Ash," Anabel smiles. "I'd sing it for you again if I could remember it."

Ash looks around the park from the top of the hill once again, "Hey look, a lake! I don't remember seeing it here before."

"I guess that means we never went there," Anabel tells him.

"No," Ash looks at her. "But back when we first met, had some fun in a lake near where you lived."

"Really?"

"Yeah! Hey, why don't we head over there and see if something happens?"

"If you say so."

Ash and Anabel quickly make their way over up to the railings of the lake.

"So, remember anything?"

"No," Anabel stares at the water. "Did you say we had fun IN the lake?"

"Yeah we did, it was great." Ash smiles.

"SHOVE!"

"Wha-AAAAHHH!" Anabel pushes Ash over the railing and into the water. Ash raises up as fast as he can. Breaking the water's surface, the first thing he sees is Anabel diving right at him!

The girl pushes the boy back down into the water. Ash opens his eyes to see Anabel staring right back at him. There was something in her eyes, she wanted something, she yearned for it.

Anabel?

Ash feels Anabel wrap her arms around his neck, she pulls him closer to her as she closes the distance between their faces. Ash feels her press her lips against his, his shock stunned him for a few seconds before she released him and they both swim up for air.

"PUWAAAAA, haaa, haaa."

"Haha! So it's true what they say," Anabel smiles. "It does taste better underwater. But, I don't remember us doing that before."

"What?" Ash almost went under again. "Of course we didn't do that before! We were only splashing around!"

"We were? Aww..." Anabel looks down, depressed.

"Payback time!"

"Wha-?" Anabel is splashed. "Ooh you're going to get it now!"

Anabel and Ash splash around in the lake, not a care in the world.

From above, Cynthia scouts around on her Garchomp. She spots the two playing around with each other happily.

"When every life meets another life, something will be born."

Cynthia smiles at the thought of what their future might have in store.


"Ash! Anabel! What happened to you two?" Lucian asks fiercely while everyone else just watched in surprise. "The both of you are all wet!"

"It's his fault," Anabel pointed at Ash.

"What? No it's not!"

"No matter how many times I told him it hurts, he just kept pushing harder and harder!"

"EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?!"

Anabel hugs herself and starts rubbing her body, "Mmmmm, but it felt soooooo gooooooood..."

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???!!!"

"Ash," the boy can feel a strong murderous intent coming from Lucian. "We need to talk..."


Author: You know, I'm starting to like amnesiac Anabel a lot more than regular Anabel. XD. Ah well, round 3 of the tournament is coming up soon.

Lucian/Dawn vs Brock/Conway
Flint/Volkner vs Barry/Wally Ace
Ash/Anabel vs 'Leo'/'Gaia'
Jasmine/Janine vs Red/Yellow

Which teams will win and advance to the finals? The quarter-finals will begin soon.