Before starting off with my comment, I would like to thank VGS2 - u/1942933/ for giving me directions on how to update the following chapter. (since yesterday it was sort of a... disaster for me trying to figure things out...)

Hello! :D

2nd chapter up, I've been feeling motivated on continuing this story, even though it's already late for me to still love the ShellPWNage shipping since the game (PokePark 2) is out more than a year ago and the anime (Pokemon Best Wishes) is aired over two years ago as well.

but for me, I took a short break from Pokemon a while back and I'm still updated but only up to Gen V, I actually don't know anything about Gen VI, only the starters and a couple others.

And now, I am back on the Pokemon fandom and I am back only to love up to Gen V, but I'll try to keep up with the Pokemon that's in Gen VI, since I am fairly interested with it.

Now that's settled in...

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon!

Chapter 2

Dusk was falling rapidly as Snivy hides from her mother's guards and servants. She still doesn't like the fact that she's part of a royal heritage. It's not like she wants a normal life— it just that she doesn't want all this special treatment even though she grew fond of it, making her spoiled and bratty. The unlikely behaviour for a princess with a somewhat strict mother.

"She just wants me next to the throne." she snarled, throwing a pebble on the lake's surface and bouncing it with three skips 'til it sank into the bottom of the lake. "I can tell. My name is written all over it."

Snivy's in Verdant Court. And to where the large lake was. But night was already falling in place and it's getting darker and darker.

The footsteps of another Pokemon startled her, making her swiftly sprint off away from the side of the lake to a nearby dark area to hide herself.

Stunned to see who it was, it was her friend— yet rival —Oshawott.

Placing his white, rounded paws on his chin, he looked with a worried face placed on his white head. "Hmm, odd... I thought I heard her voice here..." he sighed with an obnoxious face. "Maybe it's just my imagination." he left without saying a word more.

Snivy waited for a mere more seconds before plopping down onto the ground gracefully. "Oshawott was looking for me?" she asked herself, crossing her arms together and snickering. "As if."

Looking into the horizon, the night won in the fight with day and the beautiful colors of black, midnight blue, orange, and red were merge together. It's not like she cares about those things. She just likes staring at it.

Snivy slowly make it through the Verdant Court to her place. She's ready for the scolding her mother has been storing for the whole day. The Princess is used to it. After all the shenanigans and mischief she had already done before, she really has to be used to it by now.

"How many times have I told you to be back before dark? What if something happens to you? Do you think I'll allow you to go back outside of the Court? I think not, young lady!" Queen Serperior scolded her daughter. The Queen wasn't surprised one bit when she saw her daughter mimicking her words with a mocking face.

The Queen continued scolding her only daughter, but was stopped to when she was cut off by her own daughter. "Mother, I'm old enough to take care of myself. You may call me young lady, and I may be old enough to take care of myself— but remember this, I will never take the next throne."

Her mother was stunned upon hearing those words from her own daughter. "Snivy." her mother gasped as her daughter just staringly glared at her with a menacing look on her face. "Might as well find yourself a new daughter while you're at it." Snivy gritted her teeth with anger as she pummeled herself with her paper thin hands.

"I would never do that, darling," she said daringly as her daughter avoided her mom's tail. "Well, that's a load of bullshit!" the stubborn Princess looked away from her own mother as she stared into the exit of the Verdant Court.

"I'm... going to Seasong Beach..." Snivy ran off as she head towards the said area.

Oshawott was just heading back to Seasong Beach, walking rather slow. He's still stunned on what happened before, and he's traumatized by getting eaten by that vortex back in Wish Park. And boy was he gonna get chills in his dreams.

A green blur suddenly passed him without a warning. To his curiosity, he was jumping to conclusions that it was the Princess of the Arbor Area, also known as his friend and rival, Snivy.

His heart skipped a beat as Snivy crossed into his minds for the millionth time today. Oshawott's still unsure of his feelings, but he knows that Snivy's too blind to see his emotions if she just keeps on teasing him and insulting him again and again without any hesitations at all. And to the fact that Oshawott and Snivy always argue 23/7 all the time. Why 23/7? Well, an Oshawott has to eat, right?

Oshawott didn't noticed that he was standing still uttering in his deep thoughts earlier. And it's already night time, hard to see paths but he made it out of the pathways from the somewhat canyon type of walls surrounding PokePark.

As tired as our sweet sea otter was, he really needs some of his beauty sleep after all the ruckus that happened today. Saving PokePark along with his buddies, Pikachu and Tepig, and his sort of rival and friend, Snivy.

Oshawott landed on his belly when he was finally greeted by the white bridge leading to the shelter he was staying due to being taken care of Samurott, the Cove Area's keeper.

"Here at lassst!" he awed, hugging himself from exhaustion.

Oshawott entered the blue shack, closing the door behind him. "Samurott! I'm home. You'll never guess what happened toda...y..." Oshawott's voice trailed off seeing Samurott talking to Snivy. So Snivy was the blur he saw earlier as he was headed here to Seasong Beach.

Raising a brow, he said, "We have a visitor? What a surprise. Never knew royalty would be here before me." he said, rolling his eyes as he just smiled at Samurott and glanced at Snivy for a second. Even if he's acting like a dork and an idiot to the Grass-Type Pokemon, oh how he just falls for her every time he sees those sharp, maroon-colored eyes. And her vines always has that gentle touch when not in battle, when her tail glows every time she uses Leaf Blade. The endless ways Oshawott couldn't describe on why he had fallen head over heels for the Grass Snake Pokemon.

"Now, now, Oshawott. Princess Snivy here decided that she would stay for the night." Samurott smiled as Snivy just glared at Samurott for calling her a "Princess". Snivy innocently giggled, "Sir Samurott, there's no need to call me a Princess," she pausing. "Call me Snivy instead." she smiled ever so gracefully which made Oshawott suspicious.

Reacting on what Samurott just said, Oshawott's mouth was gaping open after he said that.

"Wait. What?!"

Oshawott was too tired to get an argument going to whatever Snivy was about to confront, he just shook his head and smirked. "You know what. I'm fine with that. I'm sleeping."

And with that, Oshawott went upstairs and curled up on a small mattress which was his, grabbed his scalchop that was resting on his stomach and placed it beside him like a teddy bear, hugging it tightly.

Oshawott spawned in his dream. Mouth gaping open to when he finds the setting he was in was indeed very familiar.

"Oshawott!" the otter turned his head to see four of his friends at the end of the cliff. He gasped as he saw that this dream is familiar— in fact, it was more of a flashback. But it is, yet, still a dream.

Snivy was there, Piplup, Tepig, and Pikachu as well. And the Water-Type slowly stepped back to when he saw himself grabbing onto Snivy's vines, holding on for his life. He doesn't know what to do. But he knows what will happen. To the fact that it was what happened just earlier in Wish Park.

The swirling vortex was strong, Oshawott watched as he saw himself smiling in the dream, then smiling at Snivy before letting go. He even knows what he said on that exact moment. Watching himself drift to the vortex, he remembered how he was so scared of the dark. Still to this point, he still is. It's just that he wants to overcome that fear with his eyes wide open, but deep inside he's still scared.

The memories started flooding into his mind again, the horror of what that black hole looks like is too eye-tearing for him to remember. Inside there was cold, dark, and empty. And while he was there, he was like a spectator in the dream— it's like he was invisible to Pikachu, Snivy, Tepig, and Piplup.

Oshawott saw everything, but his attention was caught by when he heard Snivy gasped loud enough for him to hear, and Tepig tried to pull her in back to the cliff, but Tepig wasn't enough to keep them both together on the platform. Unfortunately, Tepig came drifting fast to the black hole with Snivy being ahead of the Fire-Type.

To Oshawott's surprise, he can freely move— and float as well —to his heart's content in his dream world. And with that power, he floated beside Snivy who has tears building up in her sharp-pointed, maroon-tinted eyes. Oshawott frowned, seeing the only girl that is probably meant something to him... crying.

Not knowing what to do, Oshawott tried hugging the Grass Snake, but his arms went through her like what a Ghost-Type can do.

This saddened Oshawott, but his vision started to become more blurry, and then a dark shadow casted behind him, making him flinch at the sudden blinding path. "Wh-What's h-h-happening?!" he asked, yelling as he grabbed his scalchop from his stomach and covered his mouth with it. "D-Don't eat m-me!" he yelled as everything started to become black in his sight— everything, except for Snivy.

"Snivy!"

The sight of Snivy made Oshawott drift over to her real fast. Oshawott grabbed her hands, which made him blush but that doesn't matter right now. And for some reason, he can now grab Snivy but it seems like Snivy doesn't know that Oshawott was even there. Snivy did try to save Oshawott earlier in the dream and in reality as well.

Snivy started glancing to every inch in sight, "Oshawott! If you hear me, say something!"

"Snivy?!" Oshawott said, not the dream Oshawott, but real Oshawott. Unfortunately, Snivy didn't hear Oshawott's response.

"Ahh!"

Oshawott spun around to see Snivy being pulled in by a dark vortex and Oshawott extended his paws to reach Snivy, but sadly enough, it feels like he was bring pulled in back by something in his sleep...

And in real life as well.