Chapter 11
"I'm Now Lance's Daughter"
Officer Jenny took the paperwork and stamped an "OK" on the first paper in the pile with a big rubber stamp.
After that was done, Lance took my hand and Lorelei took his. Then together they led me out of the police station.
Once outside, Lance and Lorelei looked at each other before she asked "Lance, don't you think that we should all go back to League Headquarters to tell Agatha and Bruno about Rosella's adoption?"
Lance replied, "I do believe that is a good idea."
Then he said, "The only slight problem with it is I would need Rosella to follow us on her Skarmory, since Aerodactyl doesn't have room for three on its back."
Rosella began to wonder to herself, "Will Skara allow me to ride her?"
Lorelei said, "Lance, I'm sure that it's not as big of a problem as you're making it appear to be."
Lance replied, "You're probably right about that."
Then he said, "Let's go back to the Plateau, and Rosella I'm going to need you to follow us on your Skarmory to get there."
Next, Lance called out Aerodactyl and I called out Skarmory. Then Lance and Lorelei climbed onto Aerodactyl and I climbed onto Skara, and together we all flew back to the Indigo Plateau. While we were in the air, I had to make sure that I didn't lose sight of Lance, since I didn't know the way back to the Plateau and I was sure that Skara didn't know where it was either. Once we landed, Agatha and Bruno ran out of the Headquarters Building. Lance took this time to recall his Aerodactyl. Bruno saw that I was having some trouble climbing off of Skarmory, so he walked over and lifted me off of her and then set me back on the ground.
Bruno thought, "Man, Rosella is a lot lighter than she looks."
Agatha then ran over to where Bruno was and took a look at Rosella's Skarmory, since she hadn't ever seen one before. Agatha thought that Skarmory looked a little fearsome but she wasn't afraid of it. I then recalled Skarmory. Then Bruno took Agatha's hand and Agatha then took my left hand, and together we walked over to where Lance and Lorelei were standing.
Once they were there, Lance said, "Agatha, Bruno there is something that Lorelei and I need to tell you concerning Rosella."
"What is it?" Agatha asked.
"Yeah, please tell us." Bruno added.
Lorelei then said, "What we need to tell you is that we found out that Rosella was an orphan from Officer Jenny at the Police Station in Goldenrod City."
"I can't believe it. I mean how could we not have known?" Bruno said and asked.
Lorelei replied, "I don't know, but it was probably for good reasons."
Then Lance spoke up and said, "In a way Rosella isn't an orphan anymore."
"What do you mean?" Agatha then asked.
Lance answered "Rosella, really isn't an orphan any longer because Lorelei and I adopted her."
Then Lorelei said, "So technically, Rosella is now our daughter."
"That's wonderful." Bruno said.
"It sure is, Rosella really seems to be a very sweet young lady." Agatha said.
"Oh, she is very sweet and she's pretty clever too." Lance said.
"What do you mean?" Lorelei, Agatha, and Bruno asked.
"I mean Rosella has pulled some neat moves in a battle to get her Pokemon away from her opponent's attack, or to attack her opponent. For example, she told her Togepi to use return attack on one of Bugsy's Pokemon and she caught him completely off-guard because he wasn't expecting her to throw that at him. She also told her Vulpix to jump into the air to avoid being blown away by Scyther's swords dance, and to prepare its flamethrower while it was jumping."
"I can see what you mean." Bruno said.
"Yeah it's amazing how she can do that." Agatha said.
Lorelei then spoke up and said, "Why don't we go back to our Palace and show our daughter to the bedroom we are going to let her use now that she'll be living with us whenever she isn't out on her Pokemon Journey."
"That's a good idea, Lorelei." Agatha said.
As soon as we arrived at their Palace, we went inside and the Elite Four began to discuss which room they were going to let me use. This was going to take awhile.
Finally, Bruno spoke up and said, "The only slight problem she have is that the only bedroom we have that isn't either the servant's quarters or a designated guest room, is the tower room which may hold some unpleasant memories for her. If you get what I'm saying."
After Bruno said that, Agatha turned to me and asked "Rosella, is the room you first met us in alright with you if we gave you that room as your bedroom?"
"It is." I replied.
Then Lance said "Of course the room will be decorated with your room decorations that we'll bring over here, and we'll help you with that too."
I asked, "What about the other furniture in my home?"
Lance replied, "Don't worry we're going to bring everything from your home in New Bark Town to here. We'll put the furniture other than the stuff that will go in your room, in different rooms in the Palace."
"In other words, Sweetie nothing is going to be left behind." Lorelei said.
Next Agatha asked, "What are we going to do about her house once its completely empty of all her belongings?"
Bruno answered, "Most likely we'll have to sell her house since this will be her new home from here on."
Lorelei very gently gave me light kisses on the cheek and Lance when Lorelei was done, pulled me carefully into his arms and hugged me.
I knew that I had very affectionate parents, who really cared about me.
Lance when he was done, took my left hand and Lorelei would have taken my right hand if it hadn't been swollen.
So instead she took Lance's left hand. Bruno then spoke up and asked, "Lance, are you and Rosella planning on spending the night while you're here?"
Lance replied, "Yes, we are."
"In that case I'd better go get her bed from her bedroom, since one of the servants needed the bed that was in there for one of their children. I'll be back soon." Bruno said.
I then went back outside the Palace. Once I was outside I got in one of the League's moving vans that wasn't marked and drove it to New Bark Town. Once in New Bark Town, I located Rosella's house and parked the van and opened the back of it, before I went inside. I walked through the living room and went up the set of stairs I found. The stairs took me into Rosella's bedroom.
I rolled up the Blue Carpet that covered the floor thinking, "I'll bet Rosella will want to lay the carpet back down in her new room."
I carried the carpet downstairs and loaded it into the back of the van. Once that was done, I began to take apart Rosella's Blue Feathery Bed. When I had taken it completely apart, I picked up most of the parts to her bed and took them downstairs and put the load I was carrying in the van. Next I went back upstairs and lifted up the largest part of the bed, the mattress, and hauled it down the stairs and loaded it in the van behind the parts of Rosella's bed frame. Then I went back upstairs and took all of the books off of the bookshelf before I took it downstairs and loaded it. I went back up and took armfuls of books and took them downstairs and loaded them in the van. Then I went back to her room and unplugged her computer before I took it downstairs and loaded it. I did the same with the table, her Nintendo 64 system, her T.V., her plant, and her dolls both the big ones and the small ones. I then went back to the living room and loaded everything in the back of the van before I walked into the kitchen. In the kitchen, I found that the stove and the fridge were built into the wall so he knew that I couldn't take those. I walked through every room in the house just to make sure that I had gotten everything. I found some linens for her bed in the laundry room and I stuffed them in a garbage sack so that I could take them back to our Palace and wash them there. I now found that I hadn't forgotten anything so I walked back downstairs and went to the van and closed the back, before I climbed in and drove back to the Plateau. Once I got back to the Palace, I parked the van and unloaded the frame to Rosella's bed and carried that inside and up into her new tower bedroom, and set it up. Next I unloaded the mattress and hauled it up the stairs into the tower, and lifted it onto the bed frame. I knew that Agatha or Lorelei would need to put sheets on the bed, since there weren't any on it. I went back down and unloaded everything that I had taken out of Rosella's room and took them up into the tower and set everything up, except for the dolls, because I knew that Rosella would want to arrange them herself. I left the rest of the furniture in the back of the van, since he didn't know where Lance, Agatha, or Lorelei wanted to put it. So I just left it where it was for the moment. Then I went to find out where everyone was. I found them in the living room. Lance had his daughter sit on a cushioned chair and then removed the gauze around her wrist and applied an ointment that would take the sting out of the swollenness of her wrist. After Lance did that he wrapped his daughter's wrist once again with more gauze so that it could finish healing. Lorelei was sitting beside Rosella in another chair holding her left hand, and Agatha was sitting in her usual rocking chair reading a book.
When I walked in everyone looked up and Lorelei asked, "Did you get everything?"
I replied, "I think so, but I may have missed something that wasn't majorly obvious."
I went on, "I set up her bed in the tower along with everything else that was in her bedroom in New Bark Town.
I left the other pieces of furniture in the van, since I didn't know where to put them.
Lance said, "We'll figure out where we want to put the extra furniture tomorrow."
"The only thing I noticed when I was setting up her bed was it didn't have sheets. I don't know why."
Lance's daughter spoke up and said, "There weren't any sheets on the bed because I had pulled them off to wash them the morning I was to start my journey."
Lorelei then said, "I'll fix the 'no sheets problem', I'll be right back."
As soon as Lorelei left, Bruno took the chair Lorelei had been sitting in. I walked out of the room and went to the hall closet and pulled Ice Blue Sheets and an Ice Blue Homemade Quilt out of the closet, and then I headed up to Rosella's bedroom. When I got to her bedroom, I set the quilt and the top sheet on the table. Before I took the bottom sheet and spread it across the mattress. Next I took the top sheet and spread it across the bed and tucked it in at the sides. Then I took the quilt and spread it across the bed sheets and tucked in the sides of the quilt. Now that my daughter's bed was done, I walked to my room and went through my pajama drawer until I found a nightgown that was small enough for her to wear without tripping over the hem of it.. I set the nightgown on my bed, before I opened my closet door and rummaged around through my outfits until I found a robe that was small enough for Rosella to wear without tripping over the hem of it. I picked up the nightgown from my bed and took the robe from my closet, and then walked back to Rosella's bedroom and set the robe and the nightgown on the table. I then walked back downstairs to the living room. I saw when I came back into the room that Rosella had fallen asleep and that Lance had picked her up and had taken her over to the sofa where he had been sitting. He had sat back down and he had laid Rosella's head in his lap, and while she was sleeping he ran his fingers through her hair.
Lance saw Lorelei and asked, "Is everything all set?"
Lorelei replied "Yes, everything is ready, and from the looks of it I'll take that it wasn't a moment too soon."
"You got that right." Lance said.
Then he said "Poor girl, she's been so tired since we rescued her from the rockets."
Then Lorelei asked, "Come on Lance, why don't you pick her up and take her to her bedroom now?"
"That's a good idea." Lance said.
Lance then tenderly pulled his daughter into his arms so that he didn't accidentally wake her when he stood up, and together Lance and Lorelei took their daughter up to her bedroom. When they got to her room, Lance laid her on the bed before he turned and left the room. Lorelei then undressed her before she dressed her in the nightgown she had found for her. She then pulled the covers back and tucked Rosella in. As Lorelei left, she turned off the light and closed the door behind her leaving it open a crack or two. Rosella didn't know it yet, but the four Legendary Pokemon she hoped to someday capture were watching over her and Mew decided to go to her and protect her. Mew also decided to watch over her and to only show herself if she absolutely had to. Mew felt as though she were drawn to Rosella by some powerful unknown force that she had never felt before. Mew thought, "Maybe Rosella is the girl I'm destined to be with. I'll just have to keep an eye on her to find out."