as our heroes rest, a new creation is made
"Now, with this sample of young ash's hair. I should be able to make a copy then we can get pikachu!" James fits a hair sample in a weird machine. The machine sucks up electricity and comes alive. It uses the sample and makes a copy. It falls out the machine. "Yes, master?" It sounded exactly like ash. "Dont call me master" james stand up tall. "What should i call you?" The new ash askes. "Call me james. This is jessie and meowth. Your name is shadow ash. But infront of people call yourself ash" james explains. "James! You did him wrong!" Jessie shouts. She crosses her arms and pouts. "Huh? Uhh" james looks at ash. Instead of brown he had red eyes and his hair is slightly greyer. "Never mind! Noone can tell the difference. First target is his new boyfriend! Clemont" james sets shadow ash on his quest
Meanwhile, with our new couple!
Clemont holds ash tighter, he's having a bad dream. Clemont screams and wakes up, breathing heavy. Ash wakes up too. "Hey, whats wrong?" Ash cuddles him, calming him down. "Oh... it was just a nightmare" clemont took a deep breath and lay back down
"What was the dream?" Ash asks. "It was another you, set out to kill me. And i found out it had killed the real you" clemont shakes his head, he doesnt want to picture his boyfriend dead. "I assure you, nothing like that will happen. Its 6 now, allmost dinner time" ash holds the frightened clemont close and looks outside. There was a bad feeling in ash which told him it was true. "Lets get ready, then after dinner we can have a battle!" Ash rubs clemont and gets up. "but, i have a horrible feeling my dream is true" clemont looks down. "Even if it is true, ill protect you. If i die, please look after pikachu and all my other pokemon" ash says, lifting clemont's chin to look into his sparkling blue eyes. They get dressed, clemont in his typical all in one but ash put on a tux. "Why the tux, ash?" Clemont asks. "Oh? Havent you heard, diantha is on this boat and is joining us for dinner!" Ash smiles. Clemonts gets undressed and puts on a tux too. He fails at the bow though. Ash unties clemont and does his bow for him. "Hey clemont, lemme try on your glasses" ash pulls them off his face. "Ash, you do realise i cant see you, right?" He asks. Ash looks in the mirror. "These glasses are magical. They make anyone who wears them cute." Ash says. Clemont blushes as his vision is finally regained. He can see ash's face perfectly. "Your even cuter when you blush" ash pinches clemonts cheek. They head out into the main hall and meet the girls, who are wearing fancy dresses sith dedenne and pikachu, who are wearing mini tuxedos. "You two look so cute!" Serena fixes ash's bowtie that was slightly slanted. Pikachu raises its tiny paw into a fist. "PIKA PIKACHU!" He shouts. Ash picks pikachu up and puts it on his shoulder. Diantha, the kalos champion approached them with gardiviour. "Ready to go?" She smiles.
After ordering food and drinks and settling on their table they talk. "Im so glad to have people i know on this boat. Everyone has been stopping me, asling for an autograph!" Diantha laughs awkwardly. "Well, if you need us we are in rooms 11A and B" serena blushes, she was sitting with not only a champion, but a movie star! "So ash, i heard off serena that you and clemont are dating now?" Diantha looks directly into ashs eyes, making clemont jealous. "Yeah, well, thats a long story." Ash rubs his nose. Clemont, who is blushing, hugs his boyfriend. "Whats wrong clemont?" Ash hugs him back. "I was thinking about the dream.." clemont closes his eyes as ash holds him closer. "Dream?" Bonnie asks. "Basically, clemont dreamt about a shadow of me who killed me and him" ash looks down worried. "Deep down, we feel this might happen. No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves that it is fake" clemont cuddles up to ash more. "A shadow ash..." diantha says. "You sound like you know something" serena says. "Yes, i habe heard of a machine that reaches into the shadow realm and pulls out the shadow of a certian person using their DNA. You can tell if your shadow had been pulled by you not havin a shadow on the ground, or, you light up darkness. Its pretty creepy, i know. The shadow can return to the shadow realm if the shadow's owner consumes it or dies" diantha explains. Ash's face darkens, he know has figured clemont's dream could be a vision. "How can you tell the shadow from the real?" Clemont asks, shaking. He didnt want to lose ash forever. "Well, usually, the shadow is paler and has red eyes. Their hair is also slightly greyer than the real" diantha explains. Ash stands up and walks out to the open, he had no shadow. "Ash..." serena looks at his feet. "Ash's shadow is after him. Thats for sure" diantha explains. He sits back down and looks at his meal, he didnt feel hungry. "Eat something ash, we will figure something out" serena says. Bonnie looks around, a whole cake shoved in her mouth. "But how. Im scheduled to die. I dont want to leave clemont behind!" Ash shouts, upset. "There is another thing, ash. If you die, your shadow will too. So your shadow wont kill you, unless it has enough power to take your place. To consume your shadow, you either need to touch its chest or stare it in its eyes" diantha explains. "Im going to the restroom" ash gets up and stumbles towards the toilets. "Ill watch him" clemont follows.
