Look at me, only eighteen days until graduation! And I have a date, so I'm getting excited. XDDD -shot- Well this is my first, and only chapter to have two point of views. Again, I'm REALLY sorry for not updating, I've been caught up with my English assignment. We had to take a story, any story(For instance, Titanic) and make our own version. I chose Romeo and Juliet, and it's turning out really well! But if you read that, and then this, it's like "that's not the same author." This is like... Middle school writing and then my high school writing. SO DIFFERENT! Because this is just for a little project, you know? Anyays, enjoy the three page chapter~ By the way, this has a part with the spoiler that you could have won in the contest.

Chapter twenty one
Dream City: Log one
Keith

I thought back to our old plan. The plan was to travel to Dream City, come back, and then meet up with everyone at the inn at Riko. I guess some things don't go the way they were supposed to. Either way, we were already on our way and were happy campers. I guess, at least.

I turned around, behind me was N and White. Of course I had to be in front, I was the only one who could see Dream City in the entire group, thank goodness for the blood I was born with.

I snickered at my little thoughts. White looked a bit confused.

"What are you scheming now, Keith?" N asked me. I gave him a smile when White turned to him.

"As if Keith could scheme."

For White, I was known as an innocent, childlike adult. For N, as well as reality, I was more clever and strong then I appeared. I was keeping a life threatening secret, after all. Even though we were far in the future, it wouldn't be a good idea to mention it.

"We're close to Dream City, you know?" I asked to get their minds off of anything suspicious.

I was wondering though. Krista, the present day princess of Dream City. It would be interesting to see how the castle improved, as well as became to be what it was today. Back then, the castle stood tall with vines falling from the sides. Pokemon ran free through the area and people walked through as they pleased.

"Are you excited, Keith?" White asked me with pleading eyes. I had to pull a dumb move, just to keep my cover on.

"About?" I asked back. She laughed and gave my arm a small, soft punch.

"About going back to your home, silly." she said. I kinda knew that. I thought about my reply for a moment.

"Yes, of course but I'm a bit worried. How much do you think it's changed?"

"The castle hasn't changed much compared to your time, Keith." N said. "Recently, there was an article in the paper about the castle and princess Krista. She and her father commented on how the castle never changed." he added.

I sighed inn relief. The castle's looks, when I was thirteen, had a very calm aura and was always a comforting place. I might not have stayed there for a big portion of my life but it was still okay. My memory was a bit faded, because the place I could only call home was outside of Johto where Syler and I lived, but I could... I guess call it my "home I hated so I just didn't go there, ever."

"It's convenient how close Dream City is to Fiore." White had to say with a bright smile. It was a five hour walk, so yeah, it was very close. To travel from Johto to Kanto was about three days, so the travel from Fiore into Ryuta and then Dream City was pretty short.

"We've walked about five hours too, so we're really close..." I cut myself off because I felt a sudden jolt in my spine. I felt a bit uneasy and took a step back, accidentally bumping into N. I gave him a small sorry and looked up. The sky had an odd pattern where I was looking and I knew.

"What's wrong, Keith?" N asked me.

"Welcome to Dream City, guys." I silently said. It was good I didn't rush through without realising, or I could have been wiped away from the others through memory.

"We're here? So, uh..." White paused, reaching into her bag and pulling out a rope. "Here, let's tie ourselves together, then we'll still end up in the same place."

I took the rope and tied it gently, but firmly on White. N and I tied the rope on ourselves and all three of us stood in front of the barrier.

"Are you ready?" I hesitantly asked. I was more worried then I thought I would be.

"Yeah." White said. N just nodded.

I took a deep breath, not knowing what could even happen. I was sort of afraid... Even though I was born there, something felt different. It was like I was returning for the first time in two hundred years... Actually, it was like that so...

I took all of my courage in my hands and walked through the barrier, bringing the others with me.

N

It was warm from where I was lying. Things were a bit faint but I remembered a lot, like why I was here. I was going to retrieve an artifact for some people... Uh... White and them.

When I opened my eyes, I had a small surprise. Some guy toppled on top of me. Keith.

"Keith, get off of me!" I yelled to wake him up. He smacked my face, as if trying to hit the top of an alarm clock.

"Whoops, sorry." Keith said while he yawned and got up. I held back my anger.

"Thanks..." I said, standing up. I heard a groan of pain. White was dangling from the rope. "Oh, sorry." I said, untying the rope.

"Rude awakening..." White joked. I laughed. It kinda was... "Well who's ready to go to the castle?" she said all of a sudden. I gave Keith an uncomfortable look. I really didn't feel like facing Krista...

The princess gave us, well mostly me, cold looks. Her face brightened after a while but you could tell her smiles were fake.

"So we meet again, Prince N." she said. Her voice was filled with anger. It proved she wasn't happy to see me.

"Hello, Princess Krista." I said, bowing my head in respect. Krista then looked at White and Keith suspiciously.

"And what is this?" she asked. Krista pointed to Keith. "Your beat up, useless servant?" then pointed to White. "Your new fiancée?"

"White and I are not engaged, nor will be. We are friends and will never share intimacy." I protested. She chuckled. White took my hand, making me blush.

"N, we don't have to hide anything... I know that she was once your fiancée but... She must understand..." White said. What was she saying? She took out her pin. "Just play along, she will treat us with less hostility, won't she?" she asked through her thoughts.I took my own pin.

"I don't know, actually. Krista used to be a kind soul. Those artifacts might be effecting that."

"Well, N, I've seen right through you." Krista replied to it. White turned into me in a hugging manner without using her arms.

I looked over to Keith, who I hadn't heard a word, or joke, looked very surprised, much like he did when we walked in. His breaths were slow and steady until he made a movement. Keith stepped forwards to the princess. Walking turned to running as he ran up and tightly hugged her. Krista flushed red and quickly struggled to become free.

"Someone get this commoner off of me!" she yelled, the guards coming and stealing Keith's grip. He kicked at the guards, trying to get back to her.

"Skyler, open your eyes! This isn't you!" he yelled back. For the first time, I saw Keith actually fighting as if it was for his life, as well as silently crying to himself.

"How dare you call me Skyler, stupid." Krista said once Keith was out of her reach. "As my great, great grandmother, you should well know she's long dead." she lectured him. Keith cringed. He knew it wasn't who he loved but memories were returning to him and everything was putting him clutched my shirt, getting agitated. I patted her back to calm her down but it didn't work. Krista kept talking.

"While I may look as fair as miss Skyler, she was quite unfortunate. She was such a useless commoner who married the young king. Such a stupid man, like yourself. He was too rash to even hold a crown. Too bad he was..." Krista was cut off by Keith becoming free of the guards and starting to fight back.

"Don't you dare call Skyler useless, she was anything then useless!" Keith started yelling again. I went and held the other guard as White attacked held back Krista's arms behind her back and yelled.

"And no one calls my friends stupid, either. You have no right to look down on anyone, even though you're a royal. A royal pain!"

I suddenly felt something bad going through me. I had the urge to run and protect White from Krista, even though she was harmless... Wasn't she?

I then saw a streak of red slashing away.

"Unfortunately for you, this is where you die." Krista said calmly. I looked closer, her holding a knife which was what slashed White's cheek. She has grabbed it from under her dress, a dagger carrier tied on her leg. I went to defend White but Krista did the unexpected.

"Hypno, why don't you hypnotise these people?" she yelled at the pokemon behind her. Crap...

The Hypnos came infront of me and used a hypnosis attack to freeze us. I didn't believe in hypnosis but I was trapped in the spell, not able to protect White like I wanted.

"So, you're a cheater." White said, able to move.

"You avoided the hypnosis. Too bad for me." Krista said, taking the dagger to her face, ready for White to attack. "Because you're a simple commoner, you wouldn't know that princesses like me aren't just silly little fluffs of pink. We're highly trained and will kill when we have to." she I knew how to fight. It was how I even stayed alive when White attacked me the first day we met. White smirked.

"Look, I don't care

whether you know about combat or not, this is a matter of getting through. I'm not engaged to N, nor will I ever be. I don't roll that way, falling in love. This is about me and getting home." White exclaimed, taking the beads from her hair and skilfully wrapping them around a few turns, Krista was almost suffocated from the beads. White had too much of a gentle nature to kill though.

She left Krista unconscious though just so we could get the we started to leave, the hypnosis finally wearing off on me and Keith, White looked back at a still unconscious Krista. She held the artifact firmly in her hand.

"That should teach you." she said.

"By the way, my little fiancée. When's the wedding?" I asked, kidding. I licked my thumb and washed away the remaining blood on White's cheek. She flinched from that but, to my surprise, didn't kill me.

Sorry if something doesn't make sense, when I pasted the spoiler part into the chapter, some things went missing. I tried my best to restore it but I'm not sure...

Hope you enjoyed~