"Pokémon Endless Journey - Volume 1: Red, Green, Blue and Yellow - The First Legend"

Chapter 30 – Championship:

"Green… You're the Champion?"

"Yup. I'll always be one step ahead of you." Green wore a smirk. Arrogant yet easy-going. "I was already expecting you to come. Thus why I haven't started celebrating yet."

"I see… Green!" Red pointed at his Rival. "I challenge you for the title of Champion!"

The Champion of Kanto chuckled. "Predictable."

The two moved to their respective side, as another screen turned on. Yellow made her way next to Blue.

"So…"

"Green kissed me."

"WHAT?!" Yellow blushed strongly as Blue smirked. "R-Really?!"

"Yup!" Blue had told Yellow about the deal she had made with Green. "I officially have a boyfriend."

"Congratulations!"

"When will you tie the knot with Red?"

"W-What?! I-I can't! I'm too young!"

As the girls conversed, Red and Green faced each other, the screen showing pictured of them with columns of six Poké Balls next to each.

"It'll be a six-on-six single battle. Both of us are allowed to withdraw. Agreed?"

"Agreed!" Red took out a Poké Ball, just like Green.

"Let's do this!"

"To the battlefield!"

The two Poké Balls opened simultaneously, letting out Venusaur and Charizard. Both Blue and Yellow were surprised by this. They couldn't tell whether it had been a gamble which Green won, or if it was just natural instinct on par with both Trainers.

'Ready? BEGIN!'

Charizard roared and fired a stream of flames from his mouth. Venusaur jumped aside, dodging the stream and fired multiple razor-sharp leaves from beneath his flower, but they were destroyed with a simple Flamethrower. A dark-purple aura surrounded his right claw and he struck the ground beneath, releasing a shadow that moved sneakily around and after resting underneath Venusaur, a Shadow Claw emerged from it, striking his abdomen. Angry, Venusaur released his eight vines, wrapping Charizard in them and then slamming his body against the floor time and time again, until Charizard spewed a fire ball that hit Venusaur, the damage making him flinch and retrieve the vines.

Both Trainers withdrew their Pokémon and thensent out their next choice, these being Beedrill and Pidgeot. While Pidgeot had the type advantage, Red knew he could count on Beedrill's experience and fighting spirit. Pidgeot flapped her wings, releasing multiple 'X' shaped blades from the tips. Beedrill flew across the field, close to the ground, barely evading the Air Cutter. Rolling around in midair, Beedrill stopped by spreading his arms, showing his vermillion glowing spears, and he rose up into the air. Pidgeot, surrounded by an invisible energy, dove down as well and the two struck each other with Twineedle and Aerial Ace multiple times, attempting to stay on top. As the two broke apart, Beedrill released a stream of white silk, which tied around Pidgeot's body, restraining her movement and bring her down to the ground. Beedrill crossed his spears, surrounded by a blueish aura, approaching Pidgeot fast. Pidgeot chirped in return, creating an orb of energy surrounded by streams of wind and fired it at Beedrill, who uncrossed his spears in an 'X' like fashion. The X-Scissors managed to beat Air Slash, but Beedrill was pushed back nonetheless.

Another swap took place, this time letting out Pikachu and Nidoking to the field. Pikachu started off by dashing at high speeds and attempting to use a Quick Attack, but Nidoking slammed his fist into the ground, creating golden cracks through the field. However, upon being struck, Pikachu disappeared. Confused, Nidoking looked around and spotted multiple copies of his opponent, all with the intent of striking him. All of the Pikachu dashed and disappeared upon touching him, until the last one of the group disappeared as well. Nidoking, confused, looked up and found Pikachu diving down and crashing into him head-first. Nidoking shook his head and growled, making his horn grow longer and glow white. He sprinted at Pikachu, head lowered down so the hit would land, but Pikachu retaliated with the use of Iron Tail, clashing attacks, until they were both pushed back as the result of the struggle.

Withdrawing once again, Red and Green sent in their fourth Pokémon: Snorlax and Exeggutor. Starting things off with a flame around his right fist, Snorlax attempted to strike first, but Exeggutor stopped him from moving with the use of Psychic powers. Taking use of the opportunity, Exeggutor created multiple egg-shaped energy orbs around his body and spun, launching them all against Snorlax, exploding upon contact. Pushed out of the cloud of smoke, Snorlax jumped back forward after bumping a Fire Punch and an Ice Punch together, creating comet-shaped red flames with light blue highlights. Surprising Exeggutor with the quick recovery, Snorlax landed a few punches before Exeggutor unleashed a Leaf Storm all around his body, making them both jump back and gain distance.

Both were withdrawn as part of the pattern and the next to enter the battlefield were Vaporeon and Jolteon. With the type advantage and higher speed, Jolteon started things off by unleashing a Thunderbolt from his body, which Vaporeon evaded and retaliated with the use of Shadow Ball, an orb of purple and black energy. Jolteon, however, jumped from side to side, evading it as well and approaching with glowing hind legs. Anticipating the attack, Vaporeon's tail turned reddish-orange and she turned to the side, just like Jolteon, using her tail to protect herself from the Double Kick. Both jumped back and were recalled.

The last Pokémon to enter the field came forth: Aerodactyl and Kabutops. The round started with Kabutops enveloping his body with water and firing himself forward like a jet towards the Aerodactyl in the middle of the air. Aerodactyl replied by firing a dragon-shaped black and deep-blue flame. The collision created an explosion and black cloud of smoke, but Kabutops jumped out of it with a scythe raised, its blade colored pitch-black. With aerial advantage, Aerodactyl used his claw to grab Kabutops arm from the side, so the scythe wouldn't come into contact. He then flipped over and threw Kabutops down into the floor of the battlefield. He then dove down towards the opponent, his body surrounded in an silver aura and head down, aimed at Kabutops. However, Kabutops crossed his scythes, which started glowing and vibrating, releasing powerful silver sound waves, which made Aerodactyl stuck in midair and then hurled back up.

Red and Green withdrew their Pokémon and grinned at each other. "So, should we stop playing around?"

"Hey, you started it." Red pointed, chuckling. "But I don't want this to end so quickly."

"Don't worry." Green prepared a Poké Ball, ready to throw it. "I'll make sure of that."

"So cool!" Yellow and Blue blushed simultaneously.

Beedrill and Jolteon were sent in first. The first move was a clash of Pin Missiles, fired from spears and mane. After Beedrill flew up, Jolteon launched multiple Thunderbolts from his body, but the Poison Bee managed to evade them.

"Thunder Needles!" Under Green's command, Jolteon charged with electricity around his mane and then fired multiple arrows of electric energy, which flew up in Beedrill's direction.

"Ultimate Spear!" Beedrill became surrounded in a white aura for a second and then dove, striking the needles in mid-flight with a single spear, surrounding it with energy and diving at high speed.

Green's eyes flashed green and everything slowed down. After-images of Beedrill showed him moving in different directions. "Beedrill will be able to follow Jolteon if I tell him to dodge… I must counter." Green's vision returned to normal. "Double Kick!"

Jolteon bark and turned, lifting up his hind legs and using one to misdirect the spear, cancelling the attack, and using the second to kick Beedrill away. Beedrill rolled through the floor, shaking his head as he recovered. Beedrill followed up with the release of a stream of white silk, covering Jolteon and restraining his movement. Jolteon fired a massive blast of electricity from his body upwards, which arched and dove down towards Beedrill.

Red's eyes flashed Red, allowing him to see an opening in the situation. "Focus Energy on one spear!"

"Bzzz!" Beedrill raised his right spear, which glowed white, and acted like a lightning rod. It damaged him, but it still allowed him to attack by aiming his free spear and firing multiple energy arrows, which hit and made Jolteon flinch. Taking the opportunity, Beedrill jumped in, hovering close to the ground.

"Poison Jab and X-Scissor! Poisonous Cross!" Beedrill's spears started glowing purple and it grew into an aura. He crossed his spears and slammed them into Jolteon before uncrossing them and performing a slash. Jolteon fell to the side, knocked out.

Green withdrew the Lightning Pokémon and sent in Pidgeot, the Bird Pokémon. The two glared at each other, sharing a small rivalry. Beedrill and Pidgeot took the battle into the air and started off by dashing into each other, piercing with spears or beak. As the battle grew more and more intense, they resorted to different tactics, such as Beedrill firing multiple energy arrows in random directions, attempting to strike her down, or Pidgeot's use of a certain-hit attack, Aerial Ace. Striking his body, Beedrill flinched, which allowed her to strike him down with her wings, before flapping her wings and creating a Twister of blue winds. Beedrill hit the floor but, quick on his feet, evaded the attack.

"Hurricane, around you!" Green's command made Pidgeot fly around in a circle-like fashion, creating a hurricane that sucked Beedrill in. "Brave Bird! Grand Bird of Prey!" Surrounded in a reddish fire which became blue, Pidgeot travelled all around the Hurricane, striking Beedrill with great force. Hurled out of the Hurricane, Beedrill's spears glowed bright purple and he jabbed them at Pidgeot, causing quite some damage. Surrounding himself in a white aura, it quickly turned black. Pidgeot used Brave Bird once again, in order to match the combination of Focus Energy and Pursuit. Flying at high speeds, the two Pokémon continuously struck each other multiple times, Pidgeot being at a disadvantage due to the recoil damage she suffered. At the center of the stadium, facing each other straight on, Beedrill bearing a purple spear and Pidgeot surrounded in invisible energy, they struck each other, making them fall on the opposite sides of the field, fainted.

Both Trainers withdrew them and sent in Vaporeon and Nidoking.

"Hidden Wave!" Vaporeon created a cloud of black smoke through her mouth, hiding her from Nidoking. Relaxed, Nidoking awaited. The Bubble Jet Pokémon jumped out of the smoke, with a blue orb ready to be launched right in front of her mouth. Nidoking's horn grew and he stabbed it into the orb, making the wave of water explode in a dispersed way, so the attack had no effect on him. Taking advantage of the surprised Vaporeon, Nidoking grabbed her tail and started spinning around his feet, eventually tossing her to the other side of the field. Recovering from the Seismic Toss, Vaporeon retaliated by firing a powerful jet of water from her mouth. Nidoking knew how to dodge the Hydro Pump: forming an orb of water in his hands, he slammed it down between his feet, forming a wave, which he Surfed on in order to evade and approach.

"Crushing Horn!" Jumping off of the wave, Nidoking's arms began to glow reddish orange and his horn grew once more, glowing brightly white. Positioning his arms at the same level as his horn, he fell head and fists first into Vaporeon, striking her with ease. Vaporeon felt heavily damaged, unable to move swiftly, which allowed Nidoking to unleash a yellow thunderbolt from his horn, which made her fall unconscious.

Red withdrew her and sent in his most viable Pokémon to face Nidoking: Snorlax. Landing on the field, Snorlax and Nidoking glared at each other. Both pulled back a fist, Snorlax's being emitting icy energy, while Nidoking's focused his power tightly. Approaching each other, they struck each other's face at the same time, causing massive damage almost immediately. The two gained distance and Nidoking slammed his fist into the ground, creating golden cracks that poured out energy that damaged Snorlax. Infuriated by this, Snorlax made his forehead glow brightly blue and he ran, aiming his head coated in psychic energy at the opponent. Nidoking tried to block it with both his arms and was pushed back, feeling quite some damage.

"Weight of Thought!"

"Crushing Horn!"

Snorlax became outlined in silver and threw himself head-first after preparing another Zen Headbutt. Nidoking repeated the same technique as before and the two crushed into each other. An explosion occurred, knocking them both back, unconscious.

After withdrawals, Red sent in Aerodactyl and Green his Exeggutor. Aerodactyl roared loudly, but was unable to scare off the happy-go-lucky Exeggutor. The Coconut Pokémon started things off by spinning over one single foot, launching up multiple yellow coconut-like spheres, each striking Aerodactyl. While not very damaging, they were heavy, and Aerodactyl didn't appreciate the last portion of Barrage which hit down on his head. Starting things off with Dragon Pulse, Aerodactyl fired a multicolored dragon-shaped beam from his mouth, which Exeggutor evaded by jumping from side to side. Then, the Coconut Pokémon jumped up high, surprising both Aerodactyl and Red, and flipped, making his left leg glowing brightly green. He then performed a heel drop with the power of Wood Hammer, slamming Aerodactyl down into the ground. After landing, Exeggutor was struck by Aerodactyl, who emerged from the cloud of dust with high speed and surrounded in invisible energy, surprising the happy-go-lucky Pokémon. However, upon attempting to strike once again Exeggutor's leaves glowed brightly green and unleased a Storm of Leaves all around him, striking Aerodactyl up.

"Forestry Tempest!" Following Green's order, Exeggutor jumped up high, riding the winds of the Leaf Stormwith his legs spread, both glowing green and striking Aerodactyl multiple times. Furious, Aerodactyl unleashed a dragon shaped black and deep blue flame from his mouth. The Dragon Rage hit Exeggutor and pushed him down against the floor of the battlefield, making the tornado of leaves vanish as a result. Standing back up, he was struck with an Aerial Ace, but anticipating the second coming, He attempted to use Leaf Storm, but failed somehow. Confused, Red pointed out Aerodactyl's Pressure Ability. Behind Exeggutor, Aerodactyl's claws grabbed his body and flew him up high. Then, after flipping him over, Aerodactyl fired another Dragon Pulse, dropping Exeggutor from the sky and causing him to faint.

Green still showed relaxation towards the situation. After withdrawing Exeggutor, he sent in his own fossil Pokémon: Kabutops.

The two Fossils glared at each other with might and they were quick to strike each other with scythes, using Fury Cutter, which made his scythes glow reddish purple, or with simple wing attacks. Fighting close to the ground, using their members like swords. However, Kabutops's attack kept increasing in power, showing by how the red aura around his scythes kept growing with each strike. Eventually slashing Aerodactyl, the Sheellfish Pokémon launched himself, surrounded by water. Aerodactyl fired a Dragon Pulse, causing an explosion that pushed Kabutops away and then prepared a Dragon Rage attack.

With the blades of his scythes painted black, Kabutos prepared his Night Slash. Dragon Claw was Aerodactyl's choice of countering. Sword fighting for a moment, Aerodactyl and Kabutops struggled until the body of the Sheelfish Pokémon began to glow green, radiating an aura, which launched lightning bolts of pure energy into Aerodactyl and started draining life force. Furious by this, Aerodactyl fired a Dragon Rage, but Kabutops escaped by stopping the Mega Drain and jumping back, disguising himself thanks to the cloud of smoke. "Crossing-River Killing!" Surrounded by water and with pitch black scythes, Kabutops spun forward, emerging from the smoke and slashing Aerodactyl multiple times and knocking him out due to the surper effective critical hit.

Red retrieved the fainted Pokémon and sent in Venusaur, who had the better type advantage towards the living fossil.

Starting off with Growth, Venusaur increased slightly in size, giving Kabutops the perfect opportunity to land a Fury Cutter. However, just as he was about to follow up, vines tied up around his arm, stopping him from moving. The confused Kabutops was slammed into the floor after Venusaur turned his body, Arm Wrestling him. Kabutops was then thrown to the other side of the field, and as soon as he glanced back it his opponent, a swarm of razor sharp leaves came his way. While a few hit him, Kabutops cut the following ones in half with the help of his scythes. Meanwhile, Venusaur gathered the light present in the room into his flower. After the Razor Leaf attack finished, Kabutops's scythes became pitch black and he ran towards his opponent.

"Solar Ball!" After being charged with solar energy, Venusaur created a white orb of energy above his flower and fired the Solar Beam into it, making it shine golden and become surrounded by streams of energy. He then hurled it at the charging Kabutops, hitting him straight on and causing him to faint. Venusaur roared proudly as Green swapped Pokémon, sending in his final Pokémon to the field.

"CHAAAAARRRR!" Charizard roared and made his presence known to Venusaur, who glared back. They started things off by using Double-Edge and Fire Punch. The two starter Pokémon collided, creating an explosion that pushed them both away. However, Charizard raised up into the air with the use of his wings. Vines emerged from within the smoke, attempting to tie around his body, but the dragon-like Pokémon evaded them with ease before releasing a stream of fire through his mouth. A Solar Beam dispersed the cloud of smoke and collided with the Flamethrower, reminiscent of the first battle between them two. It ended with an explosion, creating a cloud of smoke between the two, however, much to Venusaur's dismay, a 大-shaped flame flew across the air, going through the cloud of smoke. Flinching, Venusaur took the super effective hit, making him close to collapsing. Charizard flapped his wings, releasing multiple saw-blade like energy rings. Venusaur fired Razor Leaves, but they were ineffective to stop the Air Slash and the hit landed, making him faint.

Red withdrew his Pokémon and spoke words of consolation. After all, Venusaur and Charizard have been rivals in between themselves ever since the first day. Taking out his last Poké Ball, Red sent in his final Pokémon. The one he had his most hopes placed upon from the very beginning. Probably not the strongest, but definetly the best choice to face Charizard.

"Pikachu, let's do this!"

"Pikaaa!"

The final matchup was settled. Charizard and Pikachu dashed at each other, one bearing a fist surrounded in fire and the other a tail made out of iron. The two jumped back after colliding. Charizard landed and stomped on the ground, sending white seismic waves towards Pikachu. Creating a blue aura around his body, Pikachu created a surfing board which he used to ride a tidal wave, the Earthquake making its size increase.

Charizard released a stream of fire as he flew around the stadium, evaporating the water. Pikachu fell, making the board disappear, but as gravity took effect, his tail turned into Iron, which was useful to defend from a strike of Charizard's Steel Wing. Landing safely on all fours, Pikachu fired Thunderbolts from his body at the airborne Charizard. The Flame Pokémon evaded all of the lightning bolts, but was hit by a blast of electricity, which made him fall to the floor due to the damage. Turning to Pikachu, he noticed that not only had he multiplied but also that all of them prepared a Volt Tackle. Each copy hit him and disappeared, but after the last one in sight disappeared, under his Trainers instructions, Charizard aimed upwards and fired a大-shaped flame from his mouth, which hit the true Pikachu. Flinching and surprised, the Electric Mouse was ejected from the cloud of smoke, but after recovering in midair, he started flipping forward, creating an orb of electricity at the end of his tail and hurling it at Charizard. In return, Charizard fired a Dragon Rage, which collided with Electro Ball and caused a light explosion.

Landing on the floor, tired, Pikachu breathed heavily, but words of encouragement didn't allow him to faint. Pikachu created a tidal wave, but instead of surfing it, he just sent it towards the opponent. Being smaller than the regular attack, Charizard flew over the wave, but flinched upon seeing Pikachu right in front of him, using Volt Tackle.

"Shadow Clone Barrage, Final Showdown Version!"

Pikachu disappeared upon making contact with Charizard, surprising him. However, he was struck from behind. Another Pikachu appeared on the side, and Charizard attacked him with a Fire Punch. From the right, another emerged, but he also disappeared upon coming into contact with Dragon Rage. Coming from below, a Pikachu struck his abdomen, and he slashed the one on the side, making it disappear as well. Two consecutive hits took place, but Charizard attacked the remaining ones without fail. Green's warning made him look up, where an airborne Pikachu fell towards him.

"Dragon Blast!" Charizard gathered red, deep-blue, yellow and black flames inside his mouth and fired a humongous dragon-shaped flame with the 大 kanji written on its head. However, instead of exploding upon coming into contact with Pikachu, it made him disappear. "Another copy?!" Charizard looked forward and found one last Pikachu right in front of him, smiling tiredly. The collision caused an explosion, making them both fall onto the floor. While Charizard's body didn't move due to exhaustion, Pikachu stood on his hind legs, heavily damaged and tired, showing a smile nonetheless.

"We… We won? Pikachu, we did it!" Red ran up to his Pikachu and picked him up in happiness.

"Pika, pika!"

"Chaaaar…"

"It's okay. You did great." Green withdrew his companion and approached Red. The girls closed in as well. "Although I don't like to admit it, you win. You're the Champion."

"I don't know what to say…" Red admitted, making Pikachu laugh. Yellow pulled down his shirt slightly, making him direct his eyes towards her.

"Congratulations, Red."

"Thanks…"

"Talk about a short-lived dream." Blue giggled.

"Red, follow me." Green requested. The four Trainers entered the room behind, where the Hall of Fame resided. A machine with six slots stood out, possessing the image of, from left to right, Kabutops, Nidoking, Pidgeot, Green, Charizard, Exeggutor and Jolteon, along with a mould of their foot or hand prints next to the machine.

Following Green's instructions, Red inserted his Poké Balls on the slots and after a while, the image of Aerodactyl, Vaporeon, Venusaur, Red, Pikachu resting on his Trainer's shoulder, Beedrill and Snorlax was created.

Placing their hands or feet, depending on the Pokémon, their own moulde was created.

Red was officially the Champion of Kanto.

A couple of weeks had passed ever since Red became Champion, and the first thing he did that morning, the day where the sun shined ever so brightly, was hopping onto his bicycle, wearing nothing but a short sleeved button shirt, his cap, swimming trunks, and a pair of sandals, and make his way to the shore.

While it took him a while, he eventually reached a beach where Yellow, Green and Blue awaited for him. Yellow dropped her straw hat in favour for a red ribbon tying up her ponytail, and wore a one-piece swimsuit, disguising most of her body. Green had a similar style to Red, though the colors differed from orange and red to green and black. Blue, on the other hand, while also dropping her hat, wore a two-piece deep blue bikini, with a water droplet drawn on one of the cups.

"Sorry guys! Am I late?"

"Barely." Green admitted.

Blue followed up. "So? Are we starting our beach day or not?!"

"Fine by me!" Red agreed, as he took out the Poké Balls from his waist and hurled them up. The other Trainers copied him and a total of 24 Pokémon came out.

The four had planned to play around the beach the entire day. The two Pikachus of course took a long walk through the beach, and while teased by Beedrill and Ditto, Yellow's Pikachu assured Red's and the two dashed faster than anyone else could.

Omastar was the first to jump into the water, while Aerodactyl flew across the wide sky and Kabutops rested on some rocks. While some thought he could be meditating, curious Butterfree and inquisitive Venomoth found out that he was indeed napping. As so, they decided to nap on his head, which made the other Fossil Pokémon laugh.

Nidoking and Snorlax tried out tests of strength, much to Nidoqueen's dismay, since she wanted to spend time with her lover.

As Vapreon and Blastoise jumped into the water, following Lapras, Flareon and Jolteon sunbathed together. However, they noticed a glare between both Charizard and Venusaur, which alarmed them. However, it turned into a pair of smirks and a thumbs up.

Eevee and Raticate played around by happily wrestling, supervised by Pidgeot and Dratini. Exeggutor danced around, happily as usual.

While Green tried to relax most of the time, he was mostly disturbed by Blue, either by her loud laughs as she played with her Pokémon in the water, or by cold touches of her skin against his. At one point, he was dragged into the water by her!

Red simply enjoyed most of his time by swimming around and interacting with his Pokémon. Sometimes, he would scare Yellow and make her jump into the water if she were resting on Lapras's back. Of course, she would retort and yell at him, blushing.

Eating delicious food they prepared themselves with some help from their Pokémon, and volleyball game with teams consisting of Green, Blue, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Charizard and Blastoise, and Red, Yellow, Snorlax, both Pikachus and Raticate. Needless to say, the game didn't last as long as one predicted.

As the sunset, Blue and Green withdrew their Pokémon. Grabbing his arm, they started cleaning everything while Red withdrew his team. He glanced at Yellow, who had already withdrawn her own Pokémon as well, and was gazing at the vast ocean with the sun at the end of the horizon.

The cap wearing boy approached the girl. "I think it's time to go."

"…I really liked this day."

"We can always do this again. Not tomorrow though. I'm a bit tired."

"Of course." She giggled, feeling somewhat tired herself. As Red stared at the ocean, Yellow turned and found Blue sneaking a kiss into Green's lips, which made the youngling blush. She turned back around, staring at the sand with an embarrassed look. "Should I tell him…?"

"…Hey, umm, Yellow?"

"Yeah?" She turned to him and noticed a blush across his face, as he scratched the back of his head and looked away.

"Would you like to… I don't know… do something like this… just the two of us?"

"W-What?!"

"I mean… I still have to spend a whole day playing with you, don't I?"

Yellow recalled the broken promise. She was surprised by the fact that Red was still trying to mend it. "…You… don't need to."

"Eh?"

"That promise was just so we could spend more time together. And, right now… I travelled alongside you, and did so many things. Laughing, seeing you win battles, taking down evil organizations… I don't need that promise anymore." She smiled ever so cutely. "If you want to ask me out, just do it so."

"Haha… Yellow…" Red looked down to the sound, somewhat embarrassed. "Can I ask you to close your eyes?"

"E-Eh? Alright…" Yellow obeyed and her eyes became shut. A blush became stronger and stronger the more she thought of what could happen. "Is he going to kiss me?!"

However, she felt something else. The knot that tied her hair was loosened. She opened her eyes and found Red holding the red ribbon with a mocking grin. Her hair loosened and his blush became noticeable.

"W-What was that for?!"

"What? Can't I see you like that?"

"Y-You can, but…" Looking away for a second, she yelled angrily at him. "If you wanted to see my hair like this just ask! Even if it's embarrassing! Don't make me think that you're going to kiss me!"

Red flinched and so did she. She let it slip through her lips what she most desired. Far too afraid to move, she closed her eyes, bearing tears at their corners. However, she felt a hand cup her cheek. Slowly opening her eyes, she found an approaching pair of lips which touched hers softly, making her eyes widened. After four seconds, Red separated from her and smiled, blushing just as hard as her.

"Aren't you a little too young for this kind of kisses?"

"Red…" Gazing at his smile, her heart melted. "I love you, Red." What she bore inside her chest for so long was finally out. And it was replied with the best answer one could wish.

"I love you too."

IMPORTANT A/N: Hey everyone. Well, I suppose this is the end of the first volume, but still far from the end! In one week or so, maybe earlier, I will post the first chapter of Volume 2: Gold, Silver and Crystal. Be sure to read it if you want to see the continuation of this saga. In addition, I while create one, if not more, polls, in which I would like everyone to vote if it's not a bother. Also, remember, after 5 well-structured reviews from the same person makes requests possible. Hope all of you keep following the saga.