Akito and the Spell of the Unknown

chapter 1

Felicity had just informed her father that her mother wasn't in her room. They searched the whole house and somehow she had vanished. While this happened, Akito and Estelle were eagerly and anxiously getting ready to go on their next trip with Ash Ketchum and friends.

"This is going to be so exciting." Akito said.

"Yeah." Estelle nodded.

"Are you guys about ready?" Mo asked her younger children.

Estelle looked back with a smile. "You bet!"

"You know it." Akito said.

"And I am going to be coming with you two." Vincent said.

"Oh, we know." Estelle said with a smile.

"You think you got everything?" Mo asked them.

"We should." Akito said as he came to his mother and brother.

"Oh, I'll be right back!" Estelle realized she was missing something. She then rushed off to the bathroom.

"Take your time, dear," Mo chuckled. "Your friends aren't going anywhere!"

"Oh, I can not wait to see the looks on their faces when they see our Pokemon." Vincent said as he hugged his Vulpix before returning him to his pokeball.

"That'll be quite the surprise of the century." Mo giggled in return.

Akito tapped his foot. "Come on, Estelle, we have to go!"

"I'm coming, you can't rush perfection!" Estelle called back with a small tease.

"Perfection for what? We're meeting our friends, it's not a date." Akito told his twin.

"Isn't it a date for you since Emi's gonna be there?" Estelle laughed a little.

Akito blushed once she said that. "Please hurry up so then I can make sure I look perfect too." he said.

Estelle laughed and eventually came out. Akito then rushed to the bathroom to comb his hair down.

"I've never seen him that anxious to get cleaned up," Mo laughed a little. "Why didn't he meet Emi a long time ago?"

"Yeah, because then he would be able to get clean like that more often." Vincent laughed a little.

"I heard that!" Akito called out from the bathroom.

The family hid small laughs.

Eventually Akito left the bathroom and came out. "Okay, I'm ready."

"Where's your bandanna?" Mo asked him.

"Uhh..." Akito blushed and put it back on over his neatly combed hair. "Here."

"There it is." Mo said.

"But, Mom, which do I look better?" Akito asked. "With bandanna on or without bandanna on?"

"Do what you think is better..." Mo insisted.

Akito hummed, he looked to his bandanna, he had worn it ever since he was a baby and felt weird about it. He remembered his first adventure with the Pokemon where it was lost in the water and he felt so weird without it. "I guess I could hang onto it... Is your bandanna important to you too, Mom?" he asked.

"Yes, it was the last birthday present my biological parents were able to get for me," Mo said as she patted her own bandanna. "We were a very dirt poor family and we were dangerously close to living on the streets."

That did make it special and where Akito didn't want to leave without his bandanna, so just decided to keep it in his pocket.

"All set to go?" Mo asked them.