Okay, for a fic where somebody doesn't die… or get hurt in some way. Oh, and this one was inspired by Cantarella. Love Remains the Same officially made me change my alliance from Mangaquest to the pairing of Crystal and Euisine.
Crystal was an artist. After she beat the Champion, she had too much time on her hands, so she painted. Most of her paintings were of scenes, her battling Clair, Olivine at night, or Ecruteak at dawn. Of course, for those who she felt close to, she would paint them the way she felt about them.
For Ethan, she did splashes of red, gold, and black, with areas of blue. The blue was for her unrequited feelings, the red for her love, gold for the happiness she felt whenever he talked to her, the black for the hopeless dream of hers. For her Pokémon, splashes of pink, green, purple. Pink for love, green for life, and purple for the proud way her team carried themselves. For Lugia and Ho-Oh, silver and gold with streaks of rainbows.
Today, she was feeling miserable. She had argued with her mother, her mother yelling and Crystal signing frantically with her hands. She growled, and began painting harder. She was painting Suicune, the Pokémon that changed her world. Long, graceful strokes of blue, purple, and white against a background of black.
Crystal sighed, watching as the waves lapped against the beach. She sighed again, and picked up her painting to hold it against the light. It was such a pity only her Pokémon and she understood the language of her brush. Crystal dabbed a little more teal onto one of the rougher edges, thinking about the people she had met on her journey. What a pity she was mute.
"Crystal, I didn't know you painted," it was Euisine, and his voice was filled with wonder. Crystal whipped around, startled. She had been so sure she was alone at Cerulean Cape. Crystal frantically tried to hide the painting.
Euisine, however, gasped. "Suicune… Crystal, you got the painting perfect." He nodded towards the streaks of color across the canvas. Crystal wasn't sure what to think. Nobody had ever been able to tell what her paintings were, but seeing as Euisine was the expert on Suicune, it was no wonder he knew.
Crystal nodded, a small smile forming on her face. She was understood…
Crystal was in her room in New Bark Town, humming contently as she painted. Meganium could only watch in amusement as his trainer painted. Recently, the colors purple, red, and white, and gold had appeared frequently in Crystal's paintings. "Euisine," Crystal thought as she painted. "Euisine, Euisine, Euisine."