Gemstones..

"Come on Elena, you do know that I have enough money to pay for this stuff." Ash whined as Elena fed him some strawberry's coated with chocolate, their favorite fruit dipped with their favorite sweets.

"I know but I don't want you wasting your money on cheap things." Elena scolded lightly.

As the two of them explore the town for a bit, they bought some snacks to satisfy their stomachs for a while before dinner. They bought some sushi, strawberries, fried noodles and teriyaki to satisfy their taste buds. As usual Ash wanted to pay for all of those they purchase but Elena put her foot down which cause Ash and her to split the money for the things they bought, much to Ash's dismay.

"I still thing that I should be the one to pay for this things." Ash said with a bit of annoyance in his tone.

"Deal with it loved." Elena said forcibly.

"Fine but the next gift I'll give you; you'll accept it wholeheartedly okay." Ash sighed.

"Fine but just promised that it won't cause you half of your bank account." Elena said with a frowned, remembering Ash's large bank account.

Ash raised an eyebrow at that. "You do know that I'm secretly rich, right?" Ash exclaimed.

Elena sighed a bit at that. "I know that but you don't know how to spend that money properly, heck you barely spend that money for yourself. You usually either donate your cash to some reserve or give it to the orphanage." Elena said with a smile on how compassionate Ash is.

Ash laughed softly at that. "What do you expect? It's not my money to begin with anyway, it's the casino's money and those casinos have cheated and con a lot of people, I merely gave the money that they cheated to obtain to people who are actually needs it." Ash said with a laughed.

Elena laughed as well, remembering how good her Ash is in gambling. "When we first met, I never picture you to be extremely good in poker and blackjack." Elena said with a humorous laughed.

"Blame my father for that. He and his best friend thought me how to play and how to gamble not to mention the two of had brought me to a dozen of casino when I was young." Ash said with chuckled.

With Adan and Natasha.

"You and Alexander enjoyed corrupting young minds, don't you?" Natasha said as she elbowed the mid section of Adan, quite hard I may add.

"So he remembers me, after all." Adan said with a hard laugh.

With Brock and Gary.

They have one common reaction to what they heard just now.

"Ash is rich?" The two of them asked in shocked.

Back to the couple.

As the two of them walked together hand in hand, while occasionally feeding each other some snacks, people often times looked at them. The two of them paid the crowd no mind, feeling content with each other. The crowd didn't look at them because the two of them look very handsome and beautiful respectively, but because the two of them seemingly emits a calming aura that people seems to unconsciously notice.

As the two of them merrily explore the town, they noticed something that both of them found interesting. "Hey Ash, what do you think all those people are lining up for?" Elena asked as she pointed at a huge line of people going towards to a small hut.

"Don't know but I think it's interesting. Want to check it out?" Ash asked with interest in his tone. Elena nodded and they both approach the large line of people.

As they went in line themselves they notice two things that was happening on the hut where the people were lining up to enter. Five people entered at once and after five minutes the five leave with a sad and disappointed expression on their faces. That seems to intrigue both Ash and Elena.

"Ah sir, what's going on inside?" Elena asked the person in front of them.

The person that seems to be on his mid forty's glanced at the couple and smile. "Are you two new here?" The man asked with a smile.

"Yes sir. My name is Ashura," Ash introduced himself with a little disdain in his tone after mentioning his full name. "And this is my beloved girl friend, Elena." Ash said lovingly as he suddenly and surprisingly embraced Elena with his right arm.

Elena blushed at Ash's sudden embraced and introduction. "Please Ash, not in front of a stranger." Elena said but did not even attempt to removed Ash's right arm from her right shoulder, in fact she just leaned her head on his chest for further comfort.

The man chuckled at the interaction of the couple in front of him. "I see that the two of you are having a date." The man said with a chuckled which caused the two of them to blush lightly. "Well if you two must know, people are lining up because of a tradition in Twinleaf Festival." The man stated.

"A tradition sir?" Ash said in confusion.

"Yeah a tradition, you see young man, in that small hut their lives the oldest resident here in Twinleaf. She's rarely seen here in town because she prefers to stay in the forest at day and night and just go back home when she needs to rest. She's is also the wisest person in town, most politician in town always asked her for advised. But her real passion is that she's a collector of rare gem's stones and a remarkable jewel artisan." The man exclaimed.

"Gem stones, huh." Ash said with interest. Elena sighed; it seems that they're going to stay for a while.

"Yeah, she's the best jewelry artisan here in Sinnoh. She crafted the most authentic and the most beautiful jewelry which is world renowned, I may add. She is so good that she could make jewelry out of fake materials and an expert couldn't even tell the difference from the fake from the real. Sadly, she never sells her work." The man said with disappointment.

"Why not? I would guess that a great artisan like her would proudly display her masterpiece." Elena said in confusion, all of the artisan she knew proudly displays their art to the world to see.

Before the man could say anything, Ash spoke. "Maybe because of her principles as a jewelry artisan."

The man seemed to think momentarily before agreeing to what Ash said. "Probably, she is a person of great principals after all." The man stated with a chuckled.

"So you didn't actually answered are question. Why are so many people lining up to her house?" Elena asked once again.

"Sorry for that young lady." The man apologized softly. "You see every year, in every festival, she gives away five jewelry of her personal work to five lucky people. But first, they have to answer her riddle." The man exclaimed with a sighed. "The old woman tells the most complicated riddles in history, there have only been one person in the history of the festival to have answered her riddle, and that is saying something."

"Interesting." Ash then looked at Elena briefly before looking at that old hut. "Hey Elena, you don't mind if we stay for a while?" Ash asked as he looked at the old hut.

"Nah, I don't. I want to try her riddles out." Elena said, she was very interested after what she heard about that jewelry artisan.

"So you two are going to try to answer her riddles, huh?" The man asked the two of them answered by merely nodding. "Good luck then kids, trusts me her riddles are mind numbing at worst." The man then walk forward as the line began to progress. "The last time she gave her personal jewelry to somebody was probably twenty years ago. I think the name of the person was Alexander Ketchum, or something." The man recalled as he remembered the person who had gained a famous jewel coming from the old artisan. Both Ash and Elena froze at the mention of the names.

"Elena, where staying right?" Ash stated with a shock tone.

"Absolutely." Elena said with a soft voice.