It was a gorgeous morning. The sun shone brightly and the flowers have just 
burst into bloom, but it was by far the darkest day of Ash Ketchum's life. Today 
was the day of the wedding. He was standing outside looking out onto the 
scenery. The wedding was to be held in his backyard which was huge and there was 
a forest surrounding it, but you could hardly recognize that it was a backyard. 
There were flowers and tables with food everywhere. At the far end of the 
backyard there was an ark of flowers and underneath it the altar.
 Rochell was rushing to get some last minute decorations set up. She was already 
in her dress. It was a beautiful long gown, with a long skirt that dragged along 
the ground after her. It came down low in the front and was held up by spaghetti 
straps. She also had on a long vale that fell over her face in the front. 
Diamonds outlined the top of the gown and in her ears there were diamond 
earrings and around her neck was a silver chain that slipped gently down her 
chest.
Ash caught himself thinking how Misty would look great in something like that, 
but was snapped out of his thoughts when Rochell shoved a vase filled with roses 
into his hands. 
"Go put this on one of the tables" she said briskly and brushing past him went 
back into the house.

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Misty parked her blue convertible in Ash's large driveway and stepped out of the 
car. She wore a long silver dress that fell over her shoes at the bottom and had 
no straps to hold it up at the top. Her hair pulled up and just one strand hung 
loose in the front. 
She noticed a lot of people were already there. She spotted Mrs. Ketchum, 
Professor Oak, Brock and the Elite Four. When she was about to greet them 
Rochell appeared out of nowhere. 
"Misty! You came!" she beamed. 
"Yeah" Misty replied looking at her. 
They stood there for a while not having anything else to say. 
"Uh, the place looks great" Misty said breaking the awkward silence. 
"Oh I know! Thanks!" Rochell smiled brightly "That reminds me, you just have to 
be my maid of honor!"
Misty's mouth fell open and the expression on her face was something between 
surprise and horror. 
"M-maid of honor? But Rochell, isn't it a little too late?" she stammered. 
"Oh nonsense! You'll be fine!"
"Well in that case, I'll um, be honored"
"Great!" Rochell squealed "Well I have to go welcome the other guests!" 
With that she walked off leaving Misty standing there shocked. Rochell's maid of 
honor. Perfect. What could possibly be worse?

                                 *      *      *

Misty was in the back room of Ash's house along with the other two maids and the 
best men. The maids were two of Rochell's friends, one of them had long blue 
hair and reminded Misty a lot of her sister Violet, especially since every other 
word that came out of her mouth was 'like.' The other girl had short red hair 
and had a slight southern accent. She reminded Misty of Jessiebell. The best men 
if course was Brock. 
Rochell came into the room and announced that the wedding was about to begin. A 
minute later the music began and Misty followed by the other two maids walked 
out.
As she walked down the aisle she noticed Ash was already at the altar. To tell 
the truth she was surprised he hadn't confessed yet but she guessed Ash knew 
what he was doing. 
She took her place on the left of the altar and waited patiently. Finally 
Rochell came out escorted by her dad. He was an inch or so taller than her but 
he bent over and limped slightly as he walked. He led her to the altar and then 
took his place in the front row of the chairs. 
The music stopped and the priest opened his book and began to read. When he got 
to the part where he asked Ash if he took Rochell to be his wife Ash sighed and 
shook his head.
"No sir, I don't."
Gasps and horrified whispers were heard from the crowd.
"WHAT?!" Rochell screamed at him "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T?!"
Ash turned around to face everyone. 
"Well it seems like I have some explaining to do. To tell the truth, I don't 
really love this woman. The only reason I was marrying her is because she was 
blackmailing me into it" he paused, then continued. "I cheated during my last 
pokemon battle with Lance"
The crowd was silent. Everyone was too shocked to say anything. Then Lance got 
up.
"This is unbelievable. We had never, NEVER had a trainer cheat during a pokemon 
battle! Do you know that this means you don't deserve this title? Not only that 
but we'll make sure you will never again train pokemon!" he shouted.
Ash swallowed painfully and nodded. Right then Misty had had enough, she threw 
down the bouquet and stepped forward. 
"I think you are making a mistake, he at least deserves a second chance!"
Lance glared at her. 
"And who are you?!"
"I'm Misty Waterflower. Cerulean City gym leader and pokemon master" she said 
proudly.
Lance frowned.
"Yes I remember you now"
She nodded.
"Like I said you are making a mistake. Remember how the league was before Ash? 
The underprivileged trainers couldn't afford traveling to collect badges, the 
conditions under which the pokemon had to live in the research centers were 
horrible and there wasn't enough resources to study them. But now look how it 
all changed. Ash had done more for the league then any other pokemon master in 
it's history. Please, if you just give him another chance I know he will earn 
his title properly" 
Everyone had been listening closely throughout her entire speech and now that 
she was finished all eyes were on Lance.
He stood in thought for a while then smiled
"Yes, I supposed Ash has proven himself and does deserve a second chance"
Ash smiled his eyes shimmering with tears.
"Thank you" he said "And thank you Misty"
With that he hugged her close and she hugged him back smiling. 
"Any time Ash" she whispered. 
Rochell who seemed to be in shock the entire time was now angered beyond belief. 
In blind rage she grabbed Misty's shoulders and yanked her away from Ash, then 
spun her around so that she was facing her and hit her was hard as she could 
across the face.
"It's all your fault! You set him up to this didn't you?!" she screamed as she 
hit her again and again. Then throwing Misty onto the ground she leaped at Ash 
and catching him by surprise knocked him onto the ground. There she repeatedly 
hit him as hard as she could until Brock had realized what was happening and 
dragged her off. As he did that she clawed at Ash's face leaving five bloody 
scratches across both of his cheeks. 
"I hate you Ash Ketchum! I hate you! How could you do this to me?!"
"No, how could you do this to me?!"  Ash yelled getting to his feet "You ruined 
the best time of my life! It has been a dream to become world's greatest pokemon 
master and I couldn't even enjoy it because of you!"
"But Ash I love you!" 
"Well I don't love you!" he screamed at her.
Those words had sent her off the edge. She bit Brock's arm and as he yelped in 
pain jumped on Ash tearing at his hair and face. Ash had tried hitting her but 
he couldn't see anything. To his luck someone called security and two office 
Jennys ran in and dragged Rochell away.
"You pick that scrawny bitch over me?! I hope you rot in hell Ash Ketchum!! Fuck 
you!!!" she screamed as she was dragged away.

                            *      *      *

The sun was already setting and Ash and Misty were sitting on the steps of Ash's 
house. Misty dress was torn and stained with blood and she had a split lip and 
several bruises forming on her face. Ash was just wearing his tuxedo pants and 
his shirt was unbuttoned at top and also stained with blood. He had five 
scratched on either side of his face and more on his neck. There were also 
bruises forming on his face. 
"So what's going to happen to Rochell" Misty asked breaking the silence.
"She'll probably be put in a mental institution. The doctors believe she started 
loosing her sanity after her mother's death" Ash replied quietly. 
"I kind of feel bad for her" Misty said "She had a tough childhood, no wonder 
she went insane"
"Yeah" Ash nodded.
They sat in silence a little longer then Ash turned to Misty.
"Mist, what you did was probably the greatest thing anyone ever did to me. Thank 
you so much"
"Ash I told you already, it was nothing" she said smiling "Besides, you still 
have to win that match you know. And no cheating this time" she added jokingly.
"No kidding" he replied. "But I still want to thank you properly"
With that he softly kissed her on the lips. 
   
THE END


Oh my gosh I cant believe its finished! I really enjoyed writing this! 
Personally I think, this is my best fic yet but you be the judge. Anyway I'm 
starting this new fic, I don't know what I'm gonna call it yet but it will have 
a LOT of action, I can tell you that, so you have something to look forward to 
^_^ Anyhow, please tell me what you thought of this. Also, I apologize for the 
language, but it was nessesary. I mean, if someone just ruined *your* fanfic you 
wouldn't just go like "Oh okay, whatever" right? Ja ne! 
~Misty~