Pokémon: Kanto Summer Camp

Chapter 15

Serena starts freaking out.

Serena: "Oh-- oh my gosh... A-- Ash is gonna be so mad at me... I lost his necklace... Not just any necklace... It's been passed down through his entire family... he-- he's gonna kill me! What do I do now?"

She picks up her letter and puts it in her pocket and leaves the river.

As you hopefully remember, she was being watched.

Ursula: *laughing* "Miette, I think the necklace heard you talking about how it doesn't deserve Serena and it jumped in the river to get away, haha!"

Miette: "This is wonderful! Serena lost her necklace! Karma is an excellent thing!"

Ursula: "Did you catch all of that, Paul?"

Paul is sleeping on the ground.

Ursula: "Was that jerk actually sleeping that whole time? Ugh!"

Skip to 5:51pm. Serena just hurried back to her cabin and walked in.

Serena: "Hello?.... Anyone here?"

There's no response, so she goes to the back bedroom, closes the door and lays down in a bed.

Serena: *trembling* "Th-- this is bad. I don-- I don't know what to do. Ash is gonna be back in about 3 hours... I need to find out a way to get out of this so that Ash doesn't have to know it was me who lost it."

Ok, we're actually skipping to 9:03pm. Ash has come back to the campsite. He and Brock go back to their cabin. Drew's not there.

Brock: "Did you have fun, Ash?"

Ash: "Yep! This birthday's been a blast! Now, I'm gonna put my stuff up and then go hang with my best friend!"

Brock: "Oh, you mean that girl from earlier, Celery?"

Ash: "Umm... yes... that's her name..."

Ash goes to the back bedroom.

Ash: "No matter what gift anyone gives me, it won't come close to yours, mom."

He then opens the box that he's been keeping his necklace in... He sees that it's gone...

Ash: "Huh? What in the world?"

Pikachu: "Pika?"

He begins searching the room for about 5 minutes and then goes to the living room.

Ash: "Brock, the necklace from my mom is missing!"

Brock: "Really?!"

Ash: "Yes! I just searched the whole room. Where the heck could it be?!"

Brock: "Did you leave it somewhere else and just don't remember?"

Ash: "No, I always keep it in the same box in my room whenever I'm not wearing it. It was there before the 4 of us left earlier for the birthday hang-out."

Brock: "Well then, it's pretty obvious that someone stole it."

Ash: "I agree. I'm gonna go around to some other cabins to see if anyone heard about what may have happened." *He leaves the cabin.*

Back in Cabin 206, Serena's still laying down in that same bed. She went to sleep earlier and woke up hearing voices, which she knows belong to Misty and Iris. She checks the time on her Pokédex.

Serena: *thinking* (It's 9:14pm, so Ash is probably already back at the campsite. I'm not gonna go looking for him now because I still don't know how to get out of this. I need to find a good lie to tell h--)

The bedroom door opens.

Iris: "Huh? Serena, I didn't know you were even in this cabin at all."

Serena: "Hey, Iris. I've just been laying down thinking of some troubling things."