Broken Wings
by: Fullmetal234
Chapter 9: Finale
Disclaimer: Pokemon (c) Nintendo, Game Freak
Claimer: Story Plot (c) FM234
After completing her gym leader duties for the day Winona left for the lake. This lake was always a special place to her. She would vist the lake every time she was depressed, after a tiring day, or just to see the beautiful scenery of the sunset's rays on the surface of the water.
Her body relaxed as the wind blew through her hair, her eyes still locked on the sunset. She stood there for a few minutes and she felt someone was behind her.
"Winona." a familar voice came from behind her. She turned around to see who spoke to her. Only to see a man with turquoise hair and eyes.
"Wallace?" she said not expecting him to be here.
"How have you been lately?" he asked her. She took awhile to respond uncertain to tell him the truth.
"Not very good." she confessed to him. She turned to the lake with a hint of sorrow in her eyes. Wallace stood next to her.
"I can tell." he said to her sincerly. Winona turned back to him.
"How?" she asked him curiously. Wallace took awhile to answer because he is admiring the gorgeous scenery in front of them.
"Well, we did dated for a long time, so I can obviously tell how you're feeling." he said.
"I see. Thank you Wallace for your concern." she gave a friendly smile. Wallace returned the gesture.
"Of course, that's what friends are for right?" he said.
"Right." Winona agreed. "By the way Wallace shouldn't you be at the Pokemon League. You must be quite busy at this time of year with your responsibilities as Champion?" she asked.
"You don't know yet? I thought the news would have already spread around Hoenn." he said
"What do you mean?" she asked him confused.
"I'm not Champion anymore." he said. Taken aback with great shock, Winona's large lavender eyes gaze upon the now former champion. Someone finally beat Wallace, the strongest Water-type pokemon master. Not once did Winona believed that moment would ever come in this lifetime, especially with her ex. That amused her deeply.
"Heh. So someone actually managed to take your place as the greatest Pokemon Hoenn Master?" she said.
"Yeah, I tell you that boy and his Sceptile had shown fierce detrimination. Those two did not know the meaning of quit, they fought until the end." he said smiling.
After she heard the part about the boy and his Sceptile she thought, 'Could it be?'
"It's getting late. I have to get going. Have a wonderful evening Winona." he said snapping Winona out of her thoughts.
"Oh yes, you too." she said waving goodbye. Wallace waved back and left. Winona saw the sun setting and the sky turned black with the stars shining in the sky. She was about leave until she felt another presence behind her. She thought it was Wallace again, but when she turned around it wasn't him.
She gasped and cannot believe who is standing right before her. She thought that a year ago would be the last time she would ever see him again. The boy who managed to find the shattered pieces of her sorrowful heart, inspire her damaged and broken wings to soar once more. Him...
"Brendan... Y-you came back. Y-y-you..."
Mutiple emotions of pain, joy, regret, and anticipation collided with each other, one trying to dominate one on another. One did somehow emerged victories with no given effort at all- love. Her undying affection which never diminished from her sensitive soul came bubbling to the surface with silent tears trickling their way down their porclain skin. Judging by the young hero's misty eyes and torn reaction towards her emotional quiet break down, he felt the same way. Then she finally figured out his burdened feelings for her, but she could not yet capture that realization.
"I defeated him, Winona," a wide and prideful grin forced upon his lips while his voice quivered and shook when he spoke her name which made the young gym leader's spine tingle with pure excitement. That smirk did not reach to his nervous glint of his stormy grey eyes. "I finally beat Wallace!"
At that very moment, Winona couldn't comprehend how she was suddenly inside his strong embrace. Suffocating emotions exploded within her body she experienced a dizzy spell. All she could focus was his loving affection towards her; she recripocated his feelings by returning it. With that action, it sets Brendan off with sobs racking his entire build.
"I-I t-t-thought if I co-could just succeed W-Wallace's title as the Poke-kemon Champion, you would sh-shift your devotion from him to me. I-I thought that I could make you l-love m-m-me."
"Br-Brendan."
Winona always felt so moved from her beloved's words, much more than Wallace can ever invent a romantic speech under his sophisticated tongue. He fought for her love, a love she willingly gave before he left her to pursue it. Urging to comfort the boy in her arms, she reluctantly pulled away to brush her lips across his sun-kissed skin.
"You didn't need to prove yourself to be worthy for me," she breathes against his tear-stained, reddened cheek. She rubbed her face against his before whispering those four words that caused Brendan's heart to fly sky high: "Welcome back, my Champion."
And thank you for fixing my broken wings.
THE END.
Merry Christmas everyone I have finally finished my first fanfiction. I'm sorry for the delay for such a short chapter. I plan to make more Pokémon stories, but I'm going focus on Hyrule Warriors Destiny Collision until I finish it. Thank you everyone who enjoyed this story have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
