Title: Heated
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #45, Heated
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, Shonen-ai

He was burning.

He was being burned alive. The flames pressed around him, the smoky fumes causing him to cough uncontrollably as he fell to his knees. They were going to kill him, destroy him, and all because he had red eyes.

A sign of the devil, they hissed, and they had wanted to tear them out, but the Priest had decreed it more merciful this way.

Now he hopefully would find a way into heaven…

Sudden silence! The heat was gone, and he glanced down in shock, seeing flames frozen into solid ice. A form wrapped in flame-red and night-black, a strange… giant blue snake? He was not sure.

The man laughed, high and shrill, and the not-snake spat out… snow?

Ice!

The others ran, the people scattered, all thoughts of burning now far from their minds, and then the man walked towards him, long crimson hair shining in the sunlight.

“That was foolish of them.” He said, as he flicked his fingers. Red gaped as the frozen flames fell away, and he cautiously stepped away from the wooden post he had been changed to.

He recognized that voice…

Golden eyes met crimson, and he gasped. “Lance? You’re not dead?”

“No.” His lover held him close. “They did try their best to kill me, but I wasn’t quite dead. She found me and saved me.” He pointed to the blue creature, which smiled sweetly at Red.

Red grinned, as a blush tinted his cheeks. “So now we’re both leaving?”

“You have no friend here, hai?”

Red nodded, and they both climbed on Hakuryuu as they sped off, and the heat was so much more pleasant now that it was internal.

End Fic

Completed 11/18/06