Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If I did, this wouldn't even be a story.
YAY, another Ikarishipping! This is the sequel to my first story, Silver Tears. It place about 2-3 years after the events in Silver Tears (Let's just say they travel REEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY slow XDXDXDXDXD.)
Sorry for the OOCness in later chapters, I'll try to keep them in character as much as possible
Ok, now for the ages.
Dawn: 13
Paul: 14
Ash: 17
Brock: 21
And there are a few surprise characters you'll see later XDXDXD.
Anyways, enjoy XDXDXDXD.
Warning: Rated teen for mild cursing, temporary character death, and mild violence. Viewer's discretion advised.
Silver Sorrow
Chapter 1: Paul's Big Mistake
Two teenagers were in a hospital room, a young blue-haired girl and a violet-haired teenage boy. The young, blue-haired girl was on a hospital bed, suffering from a dangerously high fever. She was in critical condition, and things were looking grim for her. The violet haired teenage boy was beside her, crying and holding her ice cold hands. An oxygen mask covered the blue-haired girl's mouth and her skin was pale and sickly. She was barely breathing and her skin was glistening with sweat.
"Damn it Dawn, please don't die on me!" The violet haired boy sobbed, tears flowing from his eyes. "I love you so much!"
Dawn looked at the violet haired boy in the eye weakly and gave a weak smile "I love you too… Paul…"
"I met up with your brother!" Paul said softly. "He told me that my way of training my Pokemon was the wrong way! I was actually weakening them and lowering their stamina and self-esteem! I now realize what Ash had been trying to tell me since I first became his rival! I promise that I'll change for the better! And when you have another contest, I'll be there, I promise!"
Dawn smiled sadly, her breathing getting harder by the minute. "I'm sorry, Paul, but there is no next time! For me that is! It's over for me, I'm done for! But I'm really glad that I could see you for one last time! Tell everyone that I tried my best and that I'm sorry!" Paul's eyes widened in horror. It was as if she knew she was a goner!
"What do you mean, Dawn?" Paul asked frantically. "Don't give up now! You can get through this! Damn it! Please don't die on me, not now!"
Dawn gave Paul a weak and sad smile, her breathing extremely hard and irregular. She weakly lifted her head and quickly kissed Paul on the cheek. As soon as she parted her lips, she stared into his sad eyes. She felt weak, sad, and hopeless.
"Good-bye, Paul…" Dawn said weakly as she parted her lips, a sad and weak smile on her face. "No need to wo-" Before she could finish, Dawn's ocean blue eyes closed. Her head fell to one side, the same weak, sad smile still on her face. Paul's tears fell harder, holding the lifeless, blue-haired girl's hand in guilt and sorrow.
Paul woke up from the nightmare that he had experienced for the last few nights. His face was glistening with sweat. Even though it was just a nightmare, it seemed so real! He looked next to him. His girlfriend, Dawn, slept peacefully next to him, a gentle smile on her face. Paul sighed.
'It was that dream again…' Paul thought, 'Now I know it isn't coincidence, but I'd better not tell anyone about it because I don't want to cause any worry, especially to Dawn!'
Paul tried to fall asleep, but the dream seemed to be so real! Was it really a vision of the future? Was Dawn really going to die? No, he refused to believe! Soon, he grew exhausted from all his thoughts and fell into deep slumber, trying not to think about the terrible nightmare.
O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O
"Hey, sleepy head, wake up!" said an irritated female voice.
Paul groaned, and covered his head with his sheets. "5 more minutes, troublesome."
The female voice pouted, and then took out a Pokeball. "Piplup, you know what to do!" the voice ordered ordered. At this, the small blue penguin Pokemon shot a light stream of bubbles at Paul's face. Paul grunted as the bubbles popped in front of him. The purple haired teenager grumbled as he got out of his violet colored sleeping bag and came face-to-face with a young, teenage girl with ocean-blue eyes and silky blue hair. She wore a black tank top, a pink miniskirt, and a white bandanna with a Pokeball logo.
"What is it now, troublesome?" Paul growled, annoyed.
The girl, or as troublesome as Paul called her, pouted. "It's not troublesome, it's Dawn! Get it right! Anyways, we need to eat breakfast! Then we have to go to the next town for my contest! Please don't say you forgot!"
Paul smirked. "What if I did?"
Dawn pouted. "You did forget, didn't you?" She asked.
Paul smirked. "Maybe…" He loved doing this to her. And she was always so cute when she was mad!
"ARG, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR SARCASM!!" Dawn shouted, frustrated. She then gave a puppy dog pout. Paul loved it when she pouted. She always looked so cute! "This is what I hate about you!"
Paul raised an eyebrow. "Really?" Paul said smirking, "Well, this is what I love abut you!" He said, kissing Dawn on the cheek. Dawn slightly blushed. She then left the tent to eat breakfast.
Paul soon followed, and groaned. He had been traveling with Dawn for a long time, and he still wasn't used to the cheerful and chill nature of Dawn's friends. Oh well, as long as he had Dawn, it didn't matter.
Ash, Brock and Dawn were all at the table, Ash, Paul's rival, was talking to Dawn, but had his mouth full. Paul simply rolled his eyes in disgust as specks of food flew from his mouth.
"Pathetic…" Paul grumbled. He then noticed the peaceful smile on Dawn's face as she laughed with her friends. Instantly, it reminded him of the same sad, weak smile on Dawn's face when she was dying in his dream. It made him shudder just thinking about it!
"Earth to Paul!" Dawn said, waving her hand in front of his face. Paul glanced at Dawn's face. She looked worried. "What's wrong? You look pale!"
"It's nothing," Paul said, grabbing his meal and eating inside Dawn's tent. Dawn pouted in worry.
"I wonder what's wrong." Ash said, blinking in confusion. "Paul always usually avoided us, but he'd never eat alone, especially with Dawn around."
Dawn looked sadly at the floor. 'Maybe he doesn't like me anymore!' She thought sadly. 'He has been avoiding me a lot lately.' The thought of this almost made Dawn cry, but she struggled to keep in her tears. She then took her empty plates, thanked Brock for the meal and started practicing for her contest.
Pokemon Contest: Appeal round
"Next up is Dawn from Twinleaf Town!" Marian said. Dawn clutched Ambipom's ball tightly. She bit her lip.
'I hope everyone is watching…' Dawn thought, now changed into her pink contest dress and her silky blue hair was now tied into a high ponytail.
As soon as Dawn entered, she saw everyone was there, except for Paul. This broke Dawn's heart.
'Paul, where are you?' She thought, worriedly 'Oh well, might as well get this over with.'
"Go, Ambipom!" Dawn shouted. "Start off with Swift!"
The Long-tail Pokemon emerged, it shot a twister of beautiful stars towards the air.
"Now finish with Double hit!" Dawn ordered.
Ambipom replied by swiftly striking the stars with its tail. This resulted in several fireworks. As Ambipom headed down, it landed on one of its arms expertly. The crowd and the judges loved Dawn's performance. Dawn smiled, satisfied. She then looked up hoping that Paul was there, but his seat was still empty. Dawn's smile turned into a frown, and she left the appeal stage glumly.
Contest Battle: Final Round
Dawn managed to make it to the final round. Though Paul wasn't there for any of it. This made Dawn lose focus on most of the battles, but she managed to pull through. She was in the middle of a contest battle with her rival, and childhood friend, Kenny.
"Piplup, Bubblebeam!" Dawn shouted.
"Prinplup, dodge and use Drill Peck!" Kenny ordered.
Prinplup managed to pull off an impressive dodge, making Dawn's points go slightly down. Prinplup then spun around, ready to attack.
"Piplup, use Whirlpool!" Dawn ordered.
Piplup nodded, and held a large whirlpool over its head. Before Prinplup could reach it, it was hit hard by the whirlpool, making Kenny's points go down a lot.
"Time up!" Marian said enthusiastically. "The winner is-"
'Please be me…' Dawn thought.
"-Dawn from Twinleaf Town!" Marian said in the same cheerful voice.
Dawn smiled cheerfully. 'Yes! I won!' She then looked at Paul's supposed seat, but it was still empty. Dawn cheerfulness quickly turned to sorrow once more. 'Though, it's not the same if Paul's not watching…'
"Grats, Dee-dee, You were awesome!" Kenny said cheerily.
"Don't call me that!" Dawn said glumly. She then went to accept the ribbon. Kenny looked puzzled. What was wrong with Dawn?
Dawn accepted the ribbon given by Marian, but instead of holding high as usual, she just smiled at the crowd, and left to get changed to her normal clothes.
'I wonder what Paul was doing that would make him miss my contest…' Dawn thought. 'I need some fresh air before I go and change my clothes." She left the contest building, and met with an unexpected surprise. A tear fell from her eyes.
"Paul, how could you?" Dawn muttered softly to herself, more tears falling from her face. "Is this really more important then my contest? Do you not love me anymore?"
What Paul was doing was completely something he could do any time. He was training his Pokemon, using his same, old 5 on 1 tactic. Dawn turned to walk away, tears in her eyes. But Paul noticed her.
"Dawn, what's wrong?" Paul asked. "You look so sad!"
Dawn turned around, face filled with rage. "Why'd you miss my contest?" She asked angrily. "Did it slip your mind? Is your memory that bad? I told you this morning for Pete's sake!"
Paul raised an eyebrow. "Of course I remembered-"
"Then why'd you not come, huh? Is training more important than my contest?" Dawn asked angrily. Her face then returned to sorrow. Her voice became softer "Why Paul? Do you hate me now? Am I really that troublesome?"
It was now Paul's turn to snap. "I didn't come because I didn't feel like coming!" He said harshly. "I don't need to waste my time watching some weak, pathetic girl show off her cutesy, weak Pokemon! I have much better things to be doing! Does that answer your question now?" Paul paused. What did he just say right now? He couldn't believe that those harmful words came out of his mouth. He hoped that she didn't take him seriously.
But Dawn did take it seriously, and it was all she needed to hear. She stared down, covering her eyes. "So I'm a waste of time, huh?" She said glumly, "Fine, if that's how you feel about me, you're better off traveling on your own!" Dawn turned around, a single tear falling to the ground. This left Paul in panic. What had he done? He just hurt the feelings of Dawn and had broken her heart, again! Wait a minute, this was all too familiar. It was happening exactly like his dream.
"Dawn, wait," Paul shouted. He couldn't let his nightmare come true! "I'm-"
Dawn turned around. Her teary face was bright red with rage. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT FOLLOWING ME!! THIS 'PATHETIC GIRL AND HER WEAK, CUTESY POKEMON' WAS BETTER OFF ALONE ANYWAYS!!" Dawn said in an extremely harsh and angry tone. It almost, no, it really hurt him. At this, Dawn ran into the contest building, But Paul noticed the trail of tears that followed her. He stood there, frozen in terror. This was going too much like his nightmare!
'Oh, no…What have I done?' Paul thought in horror. 'If this is going like my nightmare, if Dawn is left alone, she'll be in great danger!'
O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O
Dawn continued to running, heading to the changing room. Her face was filled with tears. 'That jerk! I can't believe that I was actually in love with him! I can't believe that I thought he could change!'
Dawn was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't know that she had bumped into someone. Dawn and the person she bumped into fell to the floor. She was about to apologize, but her eyes widened when she found out that she had bumped into a mysterious cloaked figure who loomed over her creepily, emitting a strange, ominous aura that sent a chill down Dawn's spine.
Mahahahahaha, cliff hanger. (I'll be doing this a lot so…yeah…) How I love torturing my readers. XDXDXD
Wow, after writing this chapter, I discovered that my writing has improved a lot since I wrote Silver Tears. O.o
Lol, the dream would've made an excellent prologue! But I was feeling nice and just made it part of the first chapter, so feel grateful XDXDXDXD!
Arg, Paul you jerk! Why'd you hurt Dawn's feelings? (Paul: -Vein pops- Cause you made me!)
Arg, the contest sucked a lot, I know. But I wanted to rush it so I could get on with teh drama and fluff XDXDXDXDXD. After all, this is an Ikarishipping fic made by meh XDXDXDXD.
Anyways, sorry for the short chapter, it was a lot shorter than I expected. I promise the next few one chapters will be longer.
Ooooooo, who could the cloaked figure be? And what'll happen to Dawn? Find out in the next chapter!
Anyways, review!
Honou