Finally, the time has come! I'll end this story, but I still have something else to say! Forgive me for not writing a good enough ending! Anyways, here's the final chapter!

Pokemon Ranger – The Ringtown Duo

Chapter 10 – Confession

A week had passed since the incident at Indigo Plateau. Solana had made a great recovery, but she wasn't able to move around that much yet. After getting dressed, Solana walked with Plusle on her shoulder out of her room in the Pokemon League building. As she opened the door, she saw Lunick who was contacting someone through his styler.

"It's a mission clear Leader, but I'm not sure that is the end of the attack... Maybe more trouble will come soon..." Lunick reported.

"Okay. Please give me the details later when you two return here, understand?" Spenser said from the other side.

"Okay, got it!" Lunick finally said before he cut the connection and noticed that Solana had come out of her room, "O-Oh hey, Solana! Are you feeling better now? We should head back to Fiore soon to report the full details to Leader."

"Well, at least now I feel better than last week. Thanks for concerning about me, Lunick," Solana's words made Lunick's face heat up and he turned away from her.

"S-Shall we head out now?" Lunick asked, his face was still turned away from her.

"Okay, but let's tell the others first that we'll be leaving soon!" Solana suggested and Lunick slowly nodded in agreement.

The two rangers walked out from the dorms on the left side of the building to the main room, but only found Nurse Joy and her Chansey there.

"Oh, there you two are. Champion Lance told me to tell you to go outside," Nurse Joy told them and they nodded.

"Thanks for treating my wounds the other day, Nurse Joy! We'll be going back to Ringtown today!" Solana said as she and Lunick walked towards the door.

"You're welcome and have a safe trip back home!" Nurse Joy waved a goodbye at them and they waved back before they walked outside.

When they got outside, they saw that the cracks and dents were still being fixed by the other elites. Sabrina was helping them with her Alakazam by carrying the needed materials with their psychic powers. Misty, who was holding Manaphy's egg, used her Starmie to water some plants and the newly planted grass. Lance was standing next to the door with Dragonite in front of him.

"Oh, there you are. Your Dragonite has been waiting for you to take you back home," Lance started.

"Yeah, I hope we can still meet again someday!" Lunick stated with a smile.

"Mai! Mai!" Minun supported his ranger's opinion.

"Thanks for letting us stay, Lance! We appreciate your kind offer," Solana thanked the dragon master.

"Nah, it was not a big deal... After all, you two had helped us take care of those rampaging wild pokemon although we didn't find out who the culprit was in the end," Lance replied with a smile.

"Yeah, it's too bad..." Lunick said before he and Solana along with their partners got on to Dragonite, "Well then, we'll be going back now!"

"Take care of yourselves, okay?" Lance finally said before Dragonite took off and dashed to the clouds.

A few minutes had passed since they left Kanto. They were surfing through the white clouds in the blue sky with an awkward silence between the two rangers. Both of them suddenly remembered about the confession last week when they were fighting against the rampaging pokemon.

Solana was holding on to Lunick's back with a flustered face. She did the confession back then without long thinking, but she wasn't sure whether he heard it or not back then. With that, she decided to confess again but Lunick spoke up first before she could.

"Solana, can I ask you about something?" Lunick asked.

"Y-Yes, what is it?" Solana was surprised as Lunick suddenly asked her.

"It's about what you told me a week ago... You weren't lying, were you?" Lunick asked.

"U-Um... how should I put this into words..." Solana panicked, but Lunick was as calm as ever.

"The truth is..." Lunick paused for a moment before he turned his head to her, "I also feel the same for you..."

Solana gasped as she was surprised. His eyes were locked with hers, which made Solana blush. But this time, Solana didn't try to turn away to hide her blushing face.

For all those years, she didn't know what he had been feeling. She didn't know how he really felt about her. But both of them had already fallen for each other without any of them noticed.

"Solana, I have a favor to ask you," Lunick turned back to the front, "Solana, would you be my girlfriend?"

"L-Lunick... I... I..." Solana cleared her throat to calm herself down, "O-Of course I would..."

"Y-You would!?" Lunick turned back to Solana with a surprised look and Solana nodded in reply, "G-Great then!"

The silence between them continued for two hours until they arrived back at the Ranger Base. Dragonite landed on the top floor of the base before Lunick and Solana with their partners on their shoulders jumped off from Dragonite.

"Thanks for the lift, Dragonite!" Lunick patted the dragon pokemon's back before he and Solana went inside the base.

They went to the ground floor of the base and met up with Spenser and Murph. They told Spenser about what happened in Indigo Plateau last week and what happened to Solana. While Lunick and Solana were talking to Spenser, Murph saw that Plusle and Minun were playing with Slowpoke after not seeing them for a while.

"I see... Solana, I'll have to keep you from doing any missions before you are in good shape. Lunick, you might have to work on missions a lot more during Solana's absence for the time being. Is that okay with you?" Spenser asked, turning to Lunick.

"No problem, Leader! I can manage!" Lunick replied confidently.

"Good. Now, you two can rest up for the rest of the day in the base. The trip back must be exhausting too, right?" Spenser asked with a smile and the two nodded in agreement.

"Yeah... We'll be in our rooms then, Leader!" Lunick took Solana's hand and they walked towards the elevator together.

They went into the elevator and went out once again once the doors reopened on the floor their rooms were on. They walked through the corridor in silence, still hand in hand. They stopped in front of Solana's room and stood there in silence for a few seconds until Lunick broke the silent moment between them.

"Well... I guess I'll see you at dinner tonight..." Lunick was going to let go of Solana's, but she held his hand tighter.

"J-Just a second, Lunick..." Lunick looked at Solana's blushing face in confusion.

"What is it? Is there something in my face?" Lunick asked densely.

"N-No, i-it's just that... I want togive you this..." Solana stepped closer and kissed Lunick on the cheek.

Lunick was surprised at Solana's actions, but so was Solana herself. Lunick quickly let go of Solana's hand and turned away from her.

"S-Sleep well, Solana..." Lunick ran away quickly in embarrassment before Solana could give a response.

"Y-You too, Lunick..." Solana whispered, but she knew that he couldn't hear her from that distance. Solana smiled before she entered her room.

Alright now, just I promised before, the sequel is confirmed but I still can't decide when it will be uploaded. Also to DA users in this site, this story is also going to be uploaded in my DA gallery soon. Thank you all for your support all this years, and I'll see you again in the sequel! Lastly, please review!

EDIT: The sequel's up! The title is: Darkness in Almia. Please read the sequel too and don't forget to leave a review!