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
Yes, this will be Championshipping…eventually, and Lance really is female. The ring Aphrodite gave her lets her turn into a boy though…
Chapter 3
“Let go of me!”
Ash hastily undid her poke belt with one hand – experience, maybe? And tossed it across the room. “No.”
“Damn you, what do you want? I can’t tell you any more! Father will kill me – no, he won’t, but the others will – damn it, Ash, the world doesn’t revolve around you! Go home! You’re not my boyfriend and you sure as hell don’t have any control over me, so leave me alone.”
“Oh, I think you’re lying, Lance…” Ash purred, as he began to nibble on her neck. She was awfully pretty…
“You’re bloody married to Misty! Let go of me!”
“No,” Ash said, but was suddenly flung backwards by a strange force. The girl’s blue eyes began to shift, going an odd golden shade at times…
“I won’t let you hurt us!”
“… Us?”
That cut through Ash’s hormone fogged brain as he hastily realized what he had been doing. Lance frowned. What was going on?
Did the ring she wore have some sort of… love spell on it?
That was impossible, right?
*************************Divine Plane********************
“Impossible? Of course not!” Aphrodite shook her head. “After all that effort… why, with your both forms, you could have had a hundred people already! Such a waste of my gift of love and beauty, not that you aren’t a heart-breaker, but why, I’d give you training if you thought your bedroom manners were lacking…”
“Perhaps she’s shy?” Phantomness offered.
“Well, no, not really, but I thought she was in love with Ash?”
“… Does he deserve it in this timeline?”
“…”
“See?”
*********************Mortal Plane**********************
“Do you want to know why I had to summon Lugia? Why you couldn’t do it?” Lance spat. Irritating boy…
He was attractive in a boyish charming country type, but after his actions…
“… Huh?”
“Your brain’s gone again? Ah, it happens often enough. Do you want to know or not?” Hands on her hips, ready to shift in case…
It’d serve him right….
“What are you saying?”
“You couldn’t summon Lugia because of her.” Lance’s smile took on a twisted quality. “Only one pure of heart can summon Lugia-san, and unfortunately, you no longer qualify. Such a pity…”
“Wait, what?”
“You are no longer worthy – the legendaries have stopped appearing since you married her three years ago. When you choose one person over your duty to the world, you could no longer support it. So now you’re no one special anymore.” There.
Ash frowned. “I don’t understand.”
“You’re not a bloody child anymore, Ash! Figure it out yourself!” With that, the Dragon Master walked across the room, clipped on her discarded poke belt, and left.
Ash shrugged and went home… resolving to put the incident out of his mind.
He would never cheat on Misty, right?
Of course right!
He would never cheat on his wife… it would be bad for their marriage… he’d been drugged or something, that was all!
He was overreacting. Maybe it had been a hallucination.
Right.
Lance waited until Ash was gone before she calmly began examining the ring.
“Oh my!”
What’s wrong, Master?
“There’s a… level ten… love spell on this? Dear Lugia…”
No wonder so many people have been stalking you…
“I do not find this amusing at all.”
Well… at least it might explain his actions…
“True, but that doesn’t mean I appreciated him groping me!”
Ah Master…perhaps…
“He’s married, dears. As in, he already has a wife. He's married to...Misty, my little sister, to be precise. Surely you’re not suggesting I steal her husband?”
…
“See?”
I’m tired…
“Well, go sleep then. I have enough to do without worrying about romance. Whoever thought Dragon Mastery was easy was a fool.”
I feel everything… whether it is love, pain, hate, death, or even new life….
But I don’t mind. I do it for the dragon pokemon after all. That’s why I saved the world. For the pokemon, certainly not for Ash bloody Ketchum!
Why can’t they understand that?
Is it so hard to beat it through their thick skulls?
Damn, he is kind of cute though… bad thought! Derailing them now!
End Chapter
Completed 7/31/05
Whee!
Ash: I’m scared! I really am! You’re a creepy writer!
Phantomness: Well, I’m in a bad mood. Stupid contact lenses… my eyes keep blurring and tearing up and they itch and then they got stuck in my eyes! Scared…
Lance: *sighs*