LO! (waves) I'm back...
Disclaimah: If I owned pokemon, everyone would adoreWataru and go on field trips to Japan. So NO, I don't own pokemon.
I think your fanfiction is coming on really great, Dragonair. Keep it up! I especially like your Harry Potter one. Poor Mr. Scruffy...
I saw your chapter 3 review, shadow/phantomness, and I thought XD and got an idea for Championshippy hints in this chapter. So if you (or anyone else!) want the Championshippy hints version of this chapter I can put it up like a chapter 8...except it isn't a chapter 8...it's another chapter 7...O.o
Actually...this is the last chapter...I've really enjoyed writing this, and I hope you've enjoyed reading it. Thankyou so much for your support along the way!
Yellow blinked and took the gym badge. She looked up at Clair, and saw a mixture of emotions reflected in the Dragon trainer's face.
"Why are you giving this to me, Clair? I don't understand..."
"And it's perfectly alright that you don't understand. Listen, Yellow. You didn't understand us. You and me both. We didn't understand you."
Yellow smiled. "Yeh. I think we both owe each other an apology. I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too Yellow. I was too harsh, too protective..." she sat down suddenly. "I...I'm glad he's ok, it's just...I wish I knew where he was."
"I don't know either. He won't tell me."
Clair sighed. "He definitely won't tell me then. There's been a rivalry between us since we were about 9."
"We've both been Lance's rival since we were about 9..." Yellow said.
"That's true." Clair said. "You're a great trainer, in your own special way."
"So are you, and I'm glad we battled. I hope to see you again, Clair."
They shook hands and Clair watched her walk away.
"Bye, cous." she whispered.
Now that all the stress had passed, Blackthorn seemed like a much more beautiful city. Yellow spent more time wandering around and sitting by the lake, sketching the occasional inquisitive Dratini. There was only one problem left lying.
Even after she had got the gym badge, and cleared up her arguments with Clair, there was still something bugging her. It wasn't the dream she had had that night when Lance had gotten so angry, but more that were turning the corner and making Yellow angry...
"FOR THE LOVE OF MEW!" Yellow screamed, waking her 'flat mate' up. "I know you like Hyper Beam, Lance, but that was stupid!"
"What..." Lance yawned.
"Hyper Beam, Hyper Beam, Hyper Beam! Dragonite used Hyper Beam! Lickitung used Hyper Beam! Yanma used Hyper Beam! MAGIKARP USED HYPER BEAM!"
"Sorry Yellow..."
"You damn well better be!" She rolled onto her side and tried to get more shut eye, only to have another dream about...
"Lance..." Yellow said the next morning. "Do you have a problem with Electrode?"
"Electrode? Oh, yeh. What happened was that there was this neighbour's Electrode and it didn't like me, so one day it tried to blow me up."
"Oh no, what happened?"
"I landed near the Cerulean Cape 3 hours later. I wasn't hurt luckily, because I fell in the water."
"Why didn't it like you?"
"It was probably allergic to redheads." Lance said, "But I don't like Electrodes that much anyway. Don't talk about it."
"Sorry about that."
Yellow sunbathed the entire day and played guessing games with Lance. When sunset came around she stretched and wandered back to the pokémon center.
"Sweet dreams." Lance cackled. "Not that I'm gonna know what they're about."
"Not funny." Yellow yawned before darkness enveloped her vision. She made an educated guess that she had had all of Lance's dreams.
"Morning Yellow..."
"I have to leave today."
"Well, congratulations. You finally realized that the gym badge Clair put in your hand was for keeps." Lance yawned.
"Lance, I've found out a lot about you in the last few days, from how you joined the Elite Four to why you're such an anti philanthropist, to your fear of...Electrodes..."
"I told you not to mention that Electrode."
"Sorry. But it's taught me a lot. And I'm glad of that, because I thought I would have to live my whole life knowing I had made someone suffer and never tried to mend it. Now I've tried to help your family out. It's lifted a heavy load off my mind."
"I guess I know a bit about you now. Yeh...none of my dreams scared you too much, did they? That one of yours about the Rage Candy Bars wasn't that pleasant..."
"Oh, you had that one did you? Hehehehe...no, not that bad. But the one about Dratini...I cried through that one, Lance. Because I finally saw."
Yellow looked out over the lake through her window. A Dragonair jumped out of the glistening waters, curved in a great arc and splashed back into the depths. The Viridian trainer smiled, because finally she saw the beauty, she had finally seen why.
Yellow picked up her rucksack and began to walk out of the pokémon center. In the lounge the same person from a couple of days ago approached her with the phone.
"Er, it's that Red guy again." he said.
Yellow shakily took the phone. Oh no, not Red! What would she say to him? Lance was laughing at her again.
"Hi...Red..." she shivered.
"Hi Yel...Yellow, are you OK?"
"Yeh...fine...why?"
"Um, you seem a bit nervous..."
"A little. I'm...leaving Blackthorn City...today!"
"Ok...what's wrong Yellow? Have you missed me?"
Yellow shook more. "Oh...yeh! Of course I have!" Lance screeched with laughter and Yellow turned the colour of a ripe plum.
"So you won the gym badge, hunh?" Red continued, "Second battle against the Dragons, not that bad, eh?"
"No, not that bad." Yellow switched back to the phone conversation as Lance took on the chore of trying to stop laughing. "None of it's been that bad."
"Don't lie, Yellow." Lance heaved. "Lying is bad..."
"Shut up."
"I guess I'll be seeing you soon then Yellow. You heading back to Viridian?"
"Yep. Home's good." Yellow chirped. "See you Red!"
"Bye!"
Yellow hung up and walked out of the pokémon center. She breathed in the morning air and set off down the street.
"I'm sorry about that, Yellow." Lance hiccupped, obviously still extremely amused.
Yellow sighed as she turned the corner. "There are times I've felt like laughing at you."
"Thanks."
"Like the dream I had last night. You like sushi a bit too much, don't you?"
"It's...not that bad." Lance lied.
"Well, last night was one of those dreams you sort of forget what happened..."
"Good." Lance sighed. "I wish...I wish the Dratini dream had been like that..."
"No." Yellow shook her head, even though she knew Lance couldn't see her. "You shouldn't. Don't worry about that. Your desire was strong, and had I not been there, as ignorant and uninformed as I was, you would have succeeded."
"So now you agree."
"No, I don't agree. But I understand."
Yellow looked around to see that she had passed through the city and was facing the mountains that lead to the Indigo Plateau, then the route to Viridian.
"Home." she sighed. "Time to go home."
"I wish I could go home, to Viridian city." Lance said.
Yellow suddenly felt a guilty pang again. "That's a point. You never told me where you are."
The trainer in yellow set off towards the Silver Mountains as Lance sighed and spoke to her one last time.
"I don't know. I think it's like a place people go when they're not dead or alive, and they just can't decide what they are." Lance said. "But I don't want you to feel bad for putting me here, because I've discovered so much. Because I finally saw."
Yellow smiled at the voice that faded gradually out of her head. "You and me both."
END
ARGH! POTENTIAL SPECIALSHIPPING! (cries) Do you see why I wrote a Championshippy hints version of this now? (bangs head on keyboard) ghbjhjfjhjghj...Ow...
Yes, the implication is that the Megavolt put Lance in that world he went to after the Dratini incident with the polluted lake. Lance never says that he's alive; he always says he's not dead, and the place where he is is where people and pokémon go when they're not alive and not dead.
So Bye byes...I have a couple of things in the works right now, including a Championshippy one shot that I'm editing and asking my friend's opinion, there's an Elitefourshippy about the Elite Four's problems with fans that I only have half written down on refill at the moment and can't be bothered writing up. But if anyone wants it I'll write it O.o...oh, and there's a weird quest fanfic where the author gets all the gym leaders, Elite Fours, Ash, Brock, Misty and Pkmn trainer Red (you know, the weird guy in pokémon GSC who only says ... and stands at Mount Silver all his life) to come on a quest for absolutely no reason. Randomness...
See ya! This is still open to reviews and opinions and stuff.