AN: I almost immediately got to work on this after my last chapter. I'm so excited to properly start this!

NaturallyDark - Thanks for the review and the suggested pairings. The only one I'm unsure of is Loppuny x Weavile but I'll take the others into consideration. Also I took your advice and did it in this chapter and edited the last one. :)

Chapter 2. The Light Returns (RendShipping – PMD2)

Me, Dusknoir and Celebi all stared at the colossal beast before them. Primal Dialga, standing right next to the Passage of Time on frozen peak of Vast Ice Mountain. A soft wind began to gently blow, small snowflakes hitting my nose. I swatted them away as he faced Celebi when she began to speak.

"It's dangerous for Dialga to be that close to the Passage of Time! He could end up hitting it in the state he's in!," Celebi said. She was right, he could end up shattering it. He was like a madman, blind to common sense. Dialga stared back at them, growling mercilessly as he did. He occasionally made eye contact with Dusknoir, giving the ghost Pokemon a deep snarl.

"Come on. Let's defeat him and have him stop this reckless behaviour!," Dusknoir encouraged. I nodded and lunged forward towards Dialga, my Leaf Blade at the ready. I ended up hitting him on his neck, but he simply shrugged it off and hit me with a Roar of Time, which sent me hurtling backwards.

"Grovyle! Are you all right?," Celebi asked, coming to my aching body. She got an oran berry out of my bag and gave it to me. I took the berry out of her hand.

"I'll be fine. Thanks, Celebi.," I told her. Dusknoir suddenly attacked Dialga with a Shadow Punch, which made the giant step back a little. It obviously did more damage then my attack. I sprang back into action, burrowing down into the mountain. When I was directly below Dialga, I dug up and hit him. Thanks to him being part steel-type, it did a tremendous amount of damage. As soon as hit him, Celebi used Magical Leaf and sent him reeling back a bit more.

We kept attacking the insane Pokemon, whilst getting attacked in process. The fight went on for a while and we fainted a couple of times (thank Arceus for Reviver Seeds), but eventually the steel dragon was laying on the floor, with bruises and cuts.

"We... did it...," I spoke, breathing heavily. "We defeated Dialga!."

'We did it, Aria, Zeph. And we know you did it too.'

Another breeze flew past us as we expressed our joy to see our grim and lurid future completely switch around and turn into a beautiful and happy world. Sadly, the momentous occasion didn't last. Earlier as we were walking up to the peak of the mountain, I noticed my body glowing from time to time. It's happening again now, my body glowing more prominently. Celebi's, Dusknoir's and Dialga's too! I knew what was happening and so did everyone else: we were going to disappear. History has been altered, so we would have to disappear. Let me just say that it was worth it, to see this shit-hole turn into the magnificent place it is now.

Dialga's body glowed brighter than it was before, little gold bubbles forming around him. They appeared faster and in larger quantities than before, more showing up with every passing second. Soon enough, Dialga seemed to be fading and then... he was gone. The Dusknoir and Celebi started getting more bubbles while mine were slower.

'I wonder how Aria is doing right now... Is she disappearing? How is Zeph handling it?,' I thought to myself before I was interrupted by Dusknoir.

"Grovyle?," he asked. I turned my head to face him with a 'Hmm?'. "Grovyle... did I shine? Did I prove myself?"

I nodded my head at him. "Yes, Dusknoir. You shone bright."

"... I can... rest easy now.," he muttered before fading away like Dialga. It was just me, Celebi and the rumbling mountain beneath us.

"Grovyle...," Celebi said weakly. I stumbled over to her, as fast as my now heavier body could carry me. I sat next to her laying body, picked her up and held her in my arms. She was now considerably heavier now. 'Better not tell her that...'

"Hey Celebi. How are you doing there?," I asked her.

"Not that great. Don't know if you've noticed but I'm kind of going to disappear soon.," she replied sarcastically. This made me chuckle slightly before I saw the sun rising off in the far distance.

"Look, Celebi! The sun is rising!," I exclaimed, pointing towards the shining orb.

"I-It's beautiful, Grovyle. I didn't know... something like that existed," she said weakly as the amount of bubbles on her grew. I started to hug her tightly, as her face turned red. This made me chuckle again.

'She looks adorable like that...,' I thought silently to myself. Celebi suddenly spoke up.

"Grovyle, I-," she started before I cut her off, putting one of my claws on her lips.

"Don't worry, Cel. I know.," I told her. She was practically Blaziken-red now. I gently kissed her forehead, but eventually found myself kissing the air. She had faded away into nothingness. I was all alone now. The bubbles on me grew heavier and heavier and I soon found myself unable to move at all. 'At least I've done something to be proud of. I might disappear but memory of me will live on. Along with everyone else who helped. Celebi, Aria, Dusknoir, Zeph, the Sableye, everyone in the past and the future... thank you. I couldn't have done this without you all...,' I said in my head. I was my body start to disappear as well, soon I was nothing more than a memory.

"Ugh... ugh...," I groaned, trying to move my body. 'Huh? Why am I still alive? Was that all a dream? Is the future still a dreary wasteland?' When I opened my eyes my vision was blurred. After letting my eyes adjust my surroundings, instead of the usual dark grey colouring sky in the future normally was, I was met with an alluring blue and pink sky. I sat up, my body aching as I did so, and looked around. To my left and right was no other than the ghost and pixie I befriended, respectively. "Dusknoir? Celebi?," I asked. "Are you guys alright?."

"Grovyle? Wh-why are we still alive?," I heard the phantom ask. I also heard Celebi groan as she got up.

"Is it... some kind of miracle?," she asked.

"IT WAS NO MIRACLE.," a booming voice before us said. Straight in front of me was Dialga... but different. He was no longer threatening, and his body looked brighter, his streamers and diamond going back to their regular calm blue colour.

"What?," Dusknoir questioned him.

"AS I SAID, THIS WAS NO MIRACLE. THIS WAS DONE BY A BEING HIGHER THAN MYSELF.," the time lord said. "IT WAS FOR THE SACRFICES YOU ALL MADE."

"So we get to live on? In this future?," Celebi asked him.

"OF COURSE.,"

I walked over to the edge of the cliff to shout at the top of my voice. "Hey! Aria! Zeph! It's me, Grovyle! I'm sending you this this message to let you know that the Pokemon of the future have survived! We're still alive and we're going to work together to help rebuild the future!," I yelled as another strong wind blew past me.

"Okay, Aria! Let's give it all we've got again today!," Zeph said enthusiastically to the half-awake Pokemon next to him. Her response was a big yawn. "That's the spirit! Come on!," he said as he made his way out of their cave-like home, his partner dragging her paws behind him. As they made their way into Treasure Town, Aria felt a strong wind blow her fur around, actually waking her up fully.

"Stupid wind!," she yelled at it. She heard something whisper in her ear as the wind started to die down.

"It's... Grovyle! … sending you this message... let you know... Pokemon of the future have survived! We're still alive... work together... rebuild the future!," she heard. She instantly turned around but found nobody behind her.

"Hey Aria! What the matter?," she heard her friend call out to her from the Kangaskhan Storage.

"Uhhh... nothing!," she called back and ran towards her dear friend. 'Glad to know you're all still alive. I don't know if we'll ever meet again, but we'll remain friends forever.'

AN: Done! I'm really proud of how this turned out, even though there isn't much RendShipping in this... I hope that scene with Grovyle and Celebi was enough for all you shippers.