pokemon; Kidnapped Princesses & Tardy Heroes | Leaf & Dawn
Title: Kidnapped Princesses & Tardy Heroes
Friendship(s): Leaf&Dawn
Pairing(s): Red/Green, hints of Barry/Dawn
Summary: Dawn had always pictured Leaf as a frail, weepy kind of girl who couldn't protect herself from a blade of grass. The girl before her? Was nothing like that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Notes: So, a week or two ago I realized that I haven't written a single thing for my au_bingo card. I realized that this was a grievous error that must be rectified, and I immediately sat down and plotted out which line bingos I would do, and then plotted out specific stories. So, now I have about fifteen stories to write, because the plotbunnies kept coming, for six different fandoms. Only two of those have been written so far, though, and this is the first of them to be posted.
I'm not exactly happy with how this turned out, but I do like the universe I made, so there might be more written in it later. Crossposting to au_bingo once I get a line bingo, and also to pokegamefic once someone else posts there so I don't feel like a freak having two posts in a row. Oh, and this was written for the prompt Fantasy & Supernatural: Sword and Sorcery.
Kidnapped Princesses & Tardy HeroesWhen Dawn woke, it was to a lavishly-decorated-but-still-unfamiliar room around her, a pretty but unfamiliar girl sitting besides her, and an aching head. She sat up, and the unfamiliar girl turned her gaze away from the window and towards her.
"Oh, good, you're awake. I was a little worried, since you didn't even stir when they threw you in here like a lump of meat."
"They?" Dawn asked, still trying to get her bearings. She remembered going out to ride- well, sneaking out, really. She had told people, in her defense, just not people who would have stopped her. And her Ponyta needed more exercise than she could get from being led around in the courtyard. Alright. So she was riding, she remembered, and the next thing she knew there had been a sharp pain on the back of her head and she had fell and then everything had gone black. Which was odd, because she had put her wards up and everything just to prevent this sort of situation.
"Yeah, 'them'," the girl said. "They didn't give a name, and they wore these black masks over their faces so I couldn't see who they were." She rolled her eyes. "How original."
"Who are you?" Dawn asked. "Were you kidnapped, or were you-"
"Kidnapped," the girl said. "Like you. I'm Princess Leaf, from Kanto. And you are?"
"Princess Dawn, from Sinnoh," she replied after a moment's pause. She had heard of Leaf before- her father was always having to send out rescue parties for her, at least once a month. Dawn had always pictured her as a frail, weepy kind of girl who couldn't protect herself from a blade of grass. But this girl was nothing of the sort- in fact, she looked much tougher than Dawn herself.
"Thought so," said Leaf, plopping onto the sofa by Dawn's feet. "Not many people have blue hair, and those worth kidnapping are even less. I know Kris, and you're obviously not old enough to be your mother. Anyways, who's supposed to rescuing you?"
"Um," Dawn said, momentarily taken aback by the question. Leaf seemed entirely too carefree considering their situation, but she supposed it made sense when she took into consideration how many times she had been kidnapped in the last year alone. "Lucas is, but Barry will probably be out of the door and halfway here before Lucas even gets his boots on." She paused. "Um, and you?"
"My fiancées, probably," Leaf said with a shrug.
"Fiancées?" Dawn stared, unsure if she had heard the other princess correctly.
Leaf nodded. "Mm-hm. Yeah. Dad couldn't decide which one I should marry, so he told me that I should decide, which I guess was pretty nice of him, giving me a choice and all. But I haven't decided yet, since they're so busy making out with each other for me to choose."
"Oh." Dawn wasn't quite sure what to say to that, and she began to rack through her mind, trying to think of something.
Leaf helpfully solved her problem. "Soooooo," she said, drawing out the word. Some time when Dawn hadn't been looking, her smile had turned into something decidedly more wicked. "We both have a lovely set of princes coming to rescue us. What do you say to us making things a little...easier for them?"
Dawn stared for a moment. Then, slowly, she began to smile. "I think I like you," she declared.
"She does this on purpose, I swear," Green grumbled, ducking under another branch. "Watch, when we get there she'll be perfectly fine and all the bad guys will be tied up in a corner and we'd have gone through this stupid forbidden forest for nothing!"
He kicked the nearest rock rather viciously. Red silently watched as it flew through the air in an arc, disappearing in the foliage. Distantly, he could hear it land with a familiar plopping sound.
"Swamp ahead," he said. Green stared at him in horror for a moment.
"Not another one! This one better not have those nasty fire-breathing rats in it," he groaned, storming forward. Red followed.
Normally, Dawn preferred to be a bit more subtle with her magic. Wards to protect her from thieves and poisoners and kidnappers and that sort of thing, maybe a potion or two to slip in someone's food (Barry still hadn't forgiven her for turning him into a Chatot that one time), maybe some sort of elegant display (usually involving her Piplup and water) to entertain the populace on feast days. That sort of thing.
But sometimes, you didn't need to be subtle. Sometimes, you just needed a giant explosion.
"Wow," Leaf said appreciatively as she looked down at the charred rumble. "Can't say that I expected that. I need to get kidnapped with you more often."
They began to hear a pounding noise from the direction of the door- a door their kidnappers could no longer open, thanks to the lavish furniture they had provided them with. ("Ransom?" Dawn had asked. "Ransom," Leaf had agreed.) But it wouldn't deter them forever.
"Alright, let's go," Leaf said, adjusting her grip on the sword they had found hanging on the wall in one of the adjoining rooms.
("They gave us a sword?" Dawn had asked in disbelief when she had first saw it. Leaf had shrugged, only saying, "For every competent kidnappers there are at least twenty incompetent ones- they probably thought that we're too girly and weak to even pick this thing up.")
"I'll go first," Dawn offered, and before Leaf could respond she was already lowering herself down. Their kidnappers weren't completely stupid- they had put the two princesses on the third floor, not the ground floor- but the tower wasn't exactly well-built, and there were plenty of stones jutting out that someone could easily grasp once they got past the problem of the only window being not big enough for a Skitty to crawl through. (The explosion solved that problem nicely.)
Once she was close enough to the ground that jumping wouldn't break her leg, she did just that, landing on the ground. Leaf followed a moment later.
"So," Leaf said, looking around the clearing. "Want to- "
"Beat up those kidnappers now?" Dawn finished for her. "Gladly."
Red had just finished putting the last of the Burn Heals on Green's arm when a blond boy burst out of the bushes, sticks and leaves and what looked like a Starly nest stuck in his hair. "Did you kidnap her!" he demanded, brandishing a sword at them.
"No," Green said. "We didn't. But-"
The boy dashed past him, not even waiting for him to finish speaking. Green watched the cloud of dust disappear from his sight, then turned to Red. "He's going to get there before us, you know," he said, conversationally.
Red regarded him silently.
"And I'm really getting sick of those fire-breathing swamp-rats," he continued.
Red moved towards him.
"And it's not like Leaf is really ever in danger, and-"
"Shut up."
"Huh?" Green blinked at him- when did he get right there?- and Red took the opportunity to kiss him senseless.
Barry burst into the clearing, sword gleaming in the sunlight as he waved it about. "I'm here to save you, Dawn!" he announced loudly, and prepared to dash into the tower.
"Hey, Barry, over here!"
He stopped in his tracks, turning. There was a gaping hole in the side of the tower, and the stone was charred black around the edges. Below the hole in the tower, on a giant slab of stone only a few yards away, sat Dawn and a girl he had never seen before. To the side of the slab was a mound of black which, upon closer inspection, he realized was a pile of people, all knocked-out and tied-up.
Dawn waved.
Barry spluttered. "How did- you owe me two million for rescuing yourself!"
Friendship(s): Leaf&Dawn
Pairing(s): Red/Green, hints of Barry/Dawn
Summary: Dawn had always pictured Leaf as a frail, weepy kind of girl who couldn't protect herself from a blade of grass. The girl before her? Was nothing like that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Notes: So, a week or two ago I realized that I haven't written a single thing for my au_bingo card. I realized that this was a grievous error that must be rectified, and I immediately sat down and plotted out which line bingos I would do, and then plotted out specific stories. So, now I have about fifteen stories to write, because the plotbunnies kept coming, for six different fandoms. Only two of those have been written so far, though, and this is the first of them to be posted.
I'm not exactly happy with how this turned out, but I do like the universe I made, so there might be more written in it later. Crossposting to au_bingo once I get a line bingo, and also to pokegamefic once someone else posts there so I don't feel like a freak having two posts in a row. Oh, and this was written for the prompt Fantasy & Supernatural: Sword and Sorcery.
Kidnapped Princesses & Tardy HeroesWhen Dawn woke, it was to a lavishly-decorated-but-still-unfamiliar room around her, a pretty but unfamiliar girl sitting besides her, and an aching head. She sat up, and the unfamiliar girl turned her gaze away from the window and towards her.
"Oh, good, you're awake. I was a little worried, since you didn't even stir when they threw you in here like a lump of meat."
"They?" Dawn asked, still trying to get her bearings. She remembered going out to ride- well, sneaking out, really. She had told people, in her defense, just not people who would have stopped her. And her Ponyta needed more exercise than she could get from being led around in the courtyard. Alright. So she was riding, she remembered, and the next thing she knew there had been a sharp pain on the back of her head and she had fell and then everything had gone black. Which was odd, because she had put her wards up and everything just to prevent this sort of situation.
"Yeah, 'them'," the girl said. "They didn't give a name, and they wore these black masks over their faces so I couldn't see who they were." She rolled her eyes. "How original."
"Who are you?" Dawn asked. "Were you kidnapped, or were you-"
"Kidnapped," the girl said. "Like you. I'm Princess Leaf, from Kanto. And you are?"
"Princess Dawn, from Sinnoh," she replied after a moment's pause. She had heard of Leaf before- her father was always having to send out rescue parties for her, at least once a month. Dawn had always pictured her as a frail, weepy kind of girl who couldn't protect herself from a blade of grass. But this girl was nothing of the sort- in fact, she looked much tougher than Dawn herself.
"Thought so," said Leaf, plopping onto the sofa by Dawn's feet. "Not many people have blue hair, and those worth kidnapping are even less. I know Kris, and you're obviously not old enough to be your mother. Anyways, who's supposed to rescuing you?"
"Um," Dawn said, momentarily taken aback by the question. Leaf seemed entirely too carefree considering their situation, but she supposed it made sense when she took into consideration how many times she had been kidnapped in the last year alone. "Lucas is, but Barry will probably be out of the door and halfway here before Lucas even gets his boots on." She paused. "Um, and you?"
"My fiancées, probably," Leaf said with a shrug.
"Fiancées?" Dawn stared, unsure if she had heard the other princess correctly.
Leaf nodded. "Mm-hm. Yeah. Dad couldn't decide which one I should marry, so he told me that I should decide, which I guess was pretty nice of him, giving me a choice and all. But I haven't decided yet, since they're so busy making out with each other for me to choose."
"Oh." Dawn wasn't quite sure what to say to that, and she began to rack through her mind, trying to think of something.
Leaf helpfully solved her problem. "Soooooo," she said, drawing out the word. Some time when Dawn hadn't been looking, her smile had turned into something decidedly more wicked. "We both have a lovely set of princes coming to rescue us. What do you say to us making things a little...easier for them?"
Dawn stared for a moment. Then, slowly, she began to smile. "I think I like you," she declared.
"She does this on purpose, I swear," Green grumbled, ducking under another branch. "Watch, when we get there she'll be perfectly fine and all the bad guys will be tied up in a corner and we'd have gone through this stupid forbidden forest for nothing!"
He kicked the nearest rock rather viciously. Red silently watched as it flew through the air in an arc, disappearing in the foliage. Distantly, he could hear it land with a familiar plopping sound.
"Swamp ahead," he said. Green stared at him in horror for a moment.
"Not another one! This one better not have those nasty fire-breathing rats in it," he groaned, storming forward. Red followed.
Normally, Dawn preferred to be a bit more subtle with her magic. Wards to protect her from thieves and poisoners and kidnappers and that sort of thing, maybe a potion or two to slip in someone's food (Barry still hadn't forgiven her for turning him into a Chatot that one time), maybe some sort of elegant display (usually involving her Piplup and water) to entertain the populace on feast days. That sort of thing.
But sometimes, you didn't need to be subtle. Sometimes, you just needed a giant explosion.
"Wow," Leaf said appreciatively as she looked down at the charred rumble. "Can't say that I expected that. I need to get kidnapped with you more often."
They began to hear a pounding noise from the direction of the door- a door their kidnappers could no longer open, thanks to the lavish furniture they had provided them with. ("Ransom?" Dawn had asked. "Ransom," Leaf had agreed.) But it wouldn't deter them forever.
"Alright, let's go," Leaf said, adjusting her grip on the sword they had found hanging on the wall in one of the adjoining rooms.
("They gave us a sword?" Dawn had asked in disbelief when she had first saw it. Leaf had shrugged, only saying, "For every competent kidnappers there are at least twenty incompetent ones- they probably thought that we're too girly and weak to even pick this thing up.")
"I'll go first," Dawn offered, and before Leaf could respond she was already lowering herself down. Their kidnappers weren't completely stupid- they had put the two princesses on the third floor, not the ground floor- but the tower wasn't exactly well-built, and there were plenty of stones jutting out that someone could easily grasp once they got past the problem of the only window being not big enough for a Skitty to crawl through. (The explosion solved that problem nicely.)
Once she was close enough to the ground that jumping wouldn't break her leg, she did just that, landing on the ground. Leaf followed a moment later.
"So," Leaf said, looking around the clearing. "Want to- "
"Beat up those kidnappers now?" Dawn finished for her. "Gladly."
Red had just finished putting the last of the Burn Heals on Green's arm when a blond boy burst out of the bushes, sticks and leaves and what looked like a Starly nest stuck in his hair. "Did you kidnap her!" he demanded, brandishing a sword at them.
"No," Green said. "We didn't. But-"
The boy dashed past him, not even waiting for him to finish speaking. Green watched the cloud of dust disappear from his sight, then turned to Red. "He's going to get there before us, you know," he said, conversationally.
Red regarded him silently.
"And I'm really getting sick of those fire-breathing swamp-rats," he continued.
Red moved towards him.
"And it's not like Leaf is really ever in danger, and-"
"Shut up."
"Huh?" Green blinked at him- when did he get right there?- and Red took the opportunity to kiss him senseless.
Barry burst into the clearing, sword gleaming in the sunlight as he waved it about. "I'm here to save you, Dawn!" he announced loudly, and prepared to dash into the tower.
"Hey, Barry, over here!"
He stopped in his tracks, turning. There was a gaping hole in the side of the tower, and the stone was charred black around the edges. Below the hole in the tower, on a giant slab of stone only a few yards away, sat Dawn and a girl he had never seen before. To the side of the slab was a mound of black which, upon closer inspection, he realized was a pile of people, all knocked-out and tied-up.
Dawn waved.
Barry spluttered. "How did- you owe me two million for rescuing yourself!"