Chapter Title: Of Dreams and Apologizes
Challenge: Form an unlikely romance between two characters.
Shipping/Character: Hints to MangaQuestShipping and ViridianShipping
Summary: The things you dream up with a stomach ache...
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the characters in the story. I also do not own the vague idea that this one-shot was based on.
There are only a few things in the world that can truely shake a man to his bones. One: nightmares. Oh, gosh, the realistic ones are the worst, leaving you gasping for breath and reminding yourself over and over that it's not real. Two: losing your best friend to someone else. Combining them... Well, I prayed I'd never see the day. But, unfortunately, fate has a funny way of completely ruining your life, so, when I had such a terrible dream, I wasn't exactly all that surprised. I was, however, very, very suspicious of Yellow for the next month.
You see, it all started on that fateful evenning... when I had a little to much to eat.
"Arg, I've never hated food more then I do now..."
The moan escaped my lips without my consent, but it didn't really matter. It was what I was thinking, and I always manage to blurt out what I think. My hand was clutching my stomach as Crystal lead me down the hallway toward my room. Who knew she was such a good cook? I'd gone for sixths - a new record on my part - on the mountain of mashed potatoes of hers. And now look where that'd gotten me! It was all her fault, after all, that I was feeling as crummy as I was...
"Why didn't you stop me on my thirds...?" I grumbled again, letting out a groan as she let go of me for a split second to open the door to my room. Thank goodness she always had a spare room set aside for me, or else I'd be doomed to sleep on the couch. But, unfortunately, that wasn't the task at hand. For some odd reason, whatever I say seems to hit Crystal in the heart - hard. And whenever she gets mad...
Smack!
"Ow! What the heck was that for?"
"Gold, you idiot! I worked hard to make that meal for you!" My hand rubbed the spot where she hit me on my right cheek. "I shouldn't even be surprised anymore..." I deserve it, part of me knows. The part that always knows when I've taken things to far. However, that's the part of me I tend to ignore. And, for this reason, I get in a whole lot more trouble with the blue-haired girl then I should. The reason I continued to annoy her.
"Hey, I'm just speaking the truth!"
"No, you're really not! You just enjoy putting the blame for your idiotic acts on the first person you can!"
She practically throws me onto the bed in anger. I know it's not just from tonight alone - she must really take pride in her cooking if it was - but all the other stupid things I do just to tick her off. I'm surprised she isn't throwing me out. But, I know why she isn't. It's the same reason I keep coming back, even though I know I'm going to get thrashed the moment I walk into that door. So it only made my dream that night that much weirder.
"Be thanful you had any meal at all!" she cried, wrapping up the lecture I had effectively tuned out most of.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, wake me up when your speech is over," I retorted, getting comfortable on her bed and resting my head on the palms of my hands. I should have seen the kick in the side coming.
"I don't even see why I bother..." she grumbled, turning around and exiting the room, leaving me in utter silence.
I kind of missed her being around in less then a second.
But my stomache was hurting like crazy, and all I wanted to do that night was sleep it off. And, you know how everyone says that when you're full, you fall asleep much faster? Well, it's either those people are big fat liars, or I'm the lucky exception, because I sat there for at least a good hour. I did manage to fall asleep, though... and I wish I hadn't. Because, when my eyes opened again, I wasn't in the same room at all.
"Wake up, you idiot."
"Wha...?"
"I said, wake up."
A sharp jab in my side made my eyes shoot open. For a while, I'd believed I was still in bed, and someone was rudely trying to arouse me. Well, I was certainly right about the rude - er, trying to wake me up part, but that was all. Because, when I opened my eyes, I was sitting in the middle of... "A flower feild? When the heck did I end up here?" My eyes darted to see who had woken me up. Oh, one of my seniors. Green. "Do you know where I am?" But he had already turned around and was walking away from me. "Hey, wait! Answer me!"
No responce.
"Hey, wait -" Suddenly, a giant rock appeared in front of my foot and I found myself face planting into the ground. "- up..."
Green had already gotten to far ahead of me, and I couldn't even see him anymore. However, I wasn't completely alone, because when I looked up...
"Get up, you lazy bum," a brown-haired female growled, grabbing my hand and yanking me to my feet.
"Sapphire, please be careful. If Master Gold is to save the world from the aliens, we can't be hurting him..."
"Shut up, Ruby, I know what I'm doing."
I held my head in confusion, starring at the duo who were arguing. 'Master'? 'Aliens'? Oh, gosh, and I thought the flower feild was weird. "Um, where am I?" Before I recieved an awnser, Ruby smacked me on the head with the staff in his hand. I swore, it hadn't been there a second ago. My hand flew to my injury and rubbed it like before. "Ow! Gosh, what's with you people and hurting me?"
"Master Gold, you must be quiet!" Ruby explained, leaning in close and whispering, "The enemy can feel your vibrations, but only if you're talking. Now hurry! We must get him to Corn Mountain before the Flargins find us!"
"What the -"
Twack!
"I said quiet!"
You can probably guess the confusion I was feeling with all of this. First, Green woke me up and walks away, and then Ruby and Sapphire come, speaking a whole lot of gibberish. Sapphire must have seen my confusion, too, since she was ever so kind enough to explain.
"Listen, Gold, you've been away for ten years. Before you disappeared, you were attacked by a giant, mutated Raichu named Sayryn who wanted world domination. While you were gone, Sayryn said he defeated you and, now that our one last hope was gone, he was going to turn us all into... cabbages and eat us for dinner!"
"What...?"
Twack!
"A resistance was formed when the Raichu sent an army of dumplings to destroy mankind. Green, Ruby, and I are all part of it. Red, Blue, Crystal, Silver, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, too."
"What about Yellow?"
Twack!
"She... Was kidnapped by the Raichu King..."
Okay, so, not only did the whole story make no sense whatsoever - maybe it was the pain from getting smacked by Ruby's staff so many times, but... - but she kept calling the weird Raichu something different every time. Her explaination didn't shed any light on anything. If anything, it only made things worse.
"We weren't able to stop him, though. Almost everyone has been... turned into cabbage and eaten!" Ruby wrapped up. "You're our only hope, Master Gold! Only you, with the pendant of Lyeant can possibly reverse the curse and save the world from King Sayryn's evil reign!"
"... You're crazy, you know that?"
Twack!
Suddenly, a large group of oversized marshmellows appeared over the side of the hill... with faces. They appeared to be running - no, jumping towards us. This was only getting weirder by the second.
"No! Ruby, we have to go! If we stay, then..."
"I'm sorry, Master Gold, but only you are immune to the witchcraft of the army of marshmellows! If we stay much longer, we too will turn into three headed cats who breathe fire!"
"Hey, that sounds pretty -"
Twack!
"Ow, I thought you were -"
Twack!
"Okay, okay, I get it, I -"
Twack!
"Bye, Gold! Make sure you see the wizard on your way to the castle atop Corn Mountain! Your destiny is waiting there!"
A cloud of smoke appeared, and the two Hoenn Dex Holders disappeared. Of course, this left me to face an army of marshmellows. I threw my arms up in front of my face in a futile attempt to protect myself from the mass of white blobs approaching. My eyes squeezed shut as I prepared from the moment when I was trampled by marshmellows. The moment I died. The moment that never came. When I opened my eyes, I was alone.
Completely and utterly alone.
"Woo hoo!" I cried, throwing my hands in the air in joy. "Who fought off an entire army of marshmellows without even trying?" Unfortunately, my victory was short lived. Because, within the next minute, the feild beneath me set up in flames, fire lapping hungrily at the once beautiful scene. I let out a shreik and fell backwards. The orange mass was growing and forming a circle around me, trapping me and limiting my movement. The circle grew smaller and smaller, and I found myself fearing for my life. That was, until a battle cry sounded in my ear.
"Back, I say, back!" Pearl cried, leaping down and blowing out the fire with nothing more then an exhale.
Diamond flew down in a similar manner, stomping on the flames and putting them out. "Yeah, stay away from the Phoniex Lord!"
Oh, gosh, not another title.
As fast as it came, the fire was gone, quenched by the combined effort of Diamond and Pearl. What on Earth were they doing here...?
"Phoniex Lord," Pearl said, standing on one knee and bowing to him, "we have brought the wizard Platinum for you! Miss Sapphire told us you required her presence."
"Erm, okay...? Mind... bringing her out...?"
Diamond disappeared for a moment, only to return with Platinum... dressed up in some cheap wizard outfit. "Here you are, Phoniex Lord," the dark blue haired boy said, presenting the female proudly to him. "I have brought the wizard as you wished." With that, both boys backed away slowly, waving their arms that made me groan aloud.
"You called, Master?"
"Erm, you see -"
"I had a premonision of darkness a few days ago. With the world's last hope's arrival, the colors red and yellow would combine to form a greater threat then anything. I fear for your safety, Master. The Corn Mountain is a dangerous place; betrayal and injury await you there." Red and yellow? She was probably refering to my seniors, Red and Yellow. It was kind of obvious that those two liked each other. But Yellow had been kidnapped, according to Sapphire. So... how...?
"Listen, Platinum -"
"You must call me the wizard."
"Platinum, wizard, whatever. I don't want to go to Corn Mountain. Heck, I don't even know what that is."
"Are you... an imposter, then?"
"No! I just..."
"Master Gold, your destiny awaits you there are Corn Mountain. Go there - a certain person very close to you is waiting for you. I shall use my wand -" She pulled out a stinking magic marker. "- to grant you a safe journey there, but I cannot guarentee your safety inside the castle. Now go forth, brave warrior, and save the world!"
I thought for sure she meant Crystal when she said 'someone very close to you', and I was almost bouncing off the walls at the thought of seeing her. What kind of idiotic thing would she do? If she was like everyone else I'd met so far, she'd be kneeling at my feet, begging me to save her and all of mankind! "Revenge for giving me that stupid stomache ache... I'll make sure I get back at you, even in dream form..."
The journey to the Castle of Corn Mountain was much, much easier then expected. Seriously, I literally teleported there without even trying. But when I stepped inside...
"Gold, what are you doing here?"
"Silver! What... What... Well, I just happen to be here to save the world! What are you doing here?"
"Gold... I have a confession..." There was a moment of uncharacteristic silence from the boy. And then... "I've loved you all this time! I came here because Red told me you'd come!"
"What the heck?" Okay, so this dream had officially become a nightmare. Silver? Liking me? This broke the weirdness scale by far! "Okay... But I don't like you..." Silence. Absolute silence. "You're not gonna... beat me, are you?"
"Of course not - I don't love you anymore."
"Oh, thank goodness..."
"I love Yellow now."
"What the heck?"
Suddenly, Yellow appeared by Silver's side. "Oh, Silver," she cooed, dreamy eyed and evrything, "I thought my feelings for you were one sided! Come - let us frolic into the sunset together!"
"Yes, let's!"
The two unlikely love birds took each other's hands and, after Yellow's arm turned into a giant canon and blasted a gaping hole in the wall, the two pranced off into the sunset. "What... the heck...?" I swore, that was becoming my catch phrase. Anyways, that was the least of my worries. Suddenly, a giant statue of the couple who had raced off appeared, slowly growing up through the flooring. I scrambled to get away, barely making it out of the Castle of Corn Mountain before the ever growing statue took the whole thing down. It contiued to grow, not only taller, but wider as well, until it's top reached the clouds and beyond. And, even then, it continued to grow.
But even that wasn't the end of it.
Huge, dark gray clouds began to form in the sky, and soon, the entire ground was frozen and covered with snow. And then, in a second, everything melt and grew really, really hot. And it continued on like this - freezing, then melting, then freezing, then melting, until I thought I was going to get a headache. But, oh no, that wasn't what was giving me a headache. That was coming from the giant group of fire-breathing, three headed cats Ruby had been talking about earlier. They chanted, "Silver and Yellow; save us, Gold! Silver and Yellow; save us, Gold!"
They grew in numbers and got so loud, I wanted to scream. And they grew louder... And louder... And louder... And then... One distinct voice shown out through the rest.
"Gold! Gold, wake up! Please - get up!"
My eyes shot open to find myself surround by - no, not a terrain shifting from a drought to a blizzard, not a stone castle, not charred grass, not even that flower feild, but the room Crystal had set aside for me. I let out a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat that was dripping down my face off with my sleave. "It's over..." I mutter, sitting up. "It was all a dream..."
"A dream...? Must have been some nightmare; when I came in to wake you up, you were thrashing like wild. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine - now." I paused, thinking over what she'd just said to me. Wake him up? No, she always let him sleep in for as long as he wanted. Something else had dragged her in here. Suddenly, a smile spread across my face when I realised why. "Wake me up, huh? No, that's not it. You wanted to apologize for last night, didn't you!" Her face flushing told me all I needed to know that she had, in fact, woken me up to say she was sorry for scolding him.
"Wh-what? Why in the name of Arceus would I want to apologize? It was your fault in the first place!"
"Mm-hm..." I said, grinning like a maniac. "That's exactly what you want me to think."
"It's the truth!" she cried, all rilled up again. She must have realised that this was only giving me more pleasure, since she turned around and began to storm out of the room. "Whatever, think what you want! There's no point in arguing if nothing gets through your thick skull!"
"Oh, Crystal, before you go..." She spun around to glare at me. "I have one word of advise for you: for the love of Pete, keep Silver away from Yellow!"
What is this, I don't even... I find that, in this chapter, the prompt wasn't what the entire chapter revolved around. Actually, the more chapters I write and plot, the more they seem to stray from the actual prompt... Hm. I actually have a lot written so far. I have all the one-shots up to three, then I'm half way done with four, finished five, thirteen, and fifteen. And then I've plotted a lot more. Wow, I've been busy. ._.
And am I the only one who wonders why I have more favorites right now then reviews...? When does that ever happen?
Well, anyways... Read! Review! I hope you all enjoyed this very much!