Braving The Mountain

A/N: The Long Awaited Continuation... Of "What If: Red Cheated On Yellow."


Contains: SpecialShipping (Red x Yellow), Angst, and Coarse Language.

Following Yellow...

The Healer gripped onto her Pokeballs... The clouds at the very top made it intimidating. It would normally scare her little timid self. But this is nothing compared to how determined she is....

To Bring Down Red From The Mountain.

She ran inside Mt. Silver's caverns. The wave of disturbed Pokemon began to charge at her... Her Pokemon came to her defense. The Intensity of her feelings made her Pokemon levels soar through the 80's and 90's; it was seldom that she fought, but this was an exception.

Hours and hours of her fighting. Hours of her sweat, her Pokemon's work, their hours of battling. Yellow's perfect skin complexion was now dirtied by the vast amount of battles she had to go through to get to the top.

The Healer's pain of her lover's betrayal, her own Champion. That rage kept her fighting off the Pokemon that attempted to bring her down. The innocent Yellow's love for her champion made her all more determined. How she yearned for his touch, his kisses on her lips...

Her petite body made it more harder for her to hike to the top... The barren cavern was steep, barely any rocks for her to climb on. But Yellow wanted, needed, to get to the top, she needed to save the one she loved, like her champion had so long ago.

Red was the only thing on her mind.

Yellow remembered the day when Red asked her to be with him. No "Dates" neccisary, she knew she wanted to be with him. Through sickness and through health.

The blond could never forget their time together. As friends. As lovers.

She could never forget the time when his lips were on another... Never...

But the memories of Red and Yellow... Outweighed the cons. She saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

Her face was covered in swear, dirt, scars. But she didn't care. Yellow began to pant... Her feelings of Red were never truly screamed out... Something burned within her chest. Something that made her do what she did now...

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!" Yellow screamed out frantically, she called out his name over and over as she ran through the light at the end of the tunnel... The wind began to work against her. Attempting to push her back from the love of her life. The Petite girl slowly began to work her way forward, her mind, the determination Red influeneced on her was taking place.

The closer she was near the end of the tunnel, the harder the wind blew.

Yellow let out a loud scream. No. Never again. Never again shall she give up like she did before. Never again will Yellow let anyone stomp all over her like before... She let out a peircing scream, all of her strength... Her will...

She sprinted to the light at the end of the tunnel, and found herself into a winter wonderland. Yellow fell to her knees... Her body was slowly giving up on her...

"No...!" She let out a weak shout "N-... not when I got so f-far...!"

Her body was on the ground, she attempted to crawl, looking for Red

A snow storm was conjured... Her vision began to blur.

Tears flowed out of her eyes. Believing that this would be the end of her, that she was unable to accomplish this one mission...

A black figure stood in front of her... She looked up... Unable to see the person's face...

"Red.." Yellow whispered out... And went unconscious...

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Following Red...

The Champion's sorrow continued to run through his mind. The image of his little angel crying, furious, and loathing him... He stood at the cliff of Mount Silver.

His mind was clouded with guilt, he couldn't look at himself in the mirror. Red didn't count the days, nor the hours, since he excluded himself from the outside world. He scorned himself to Mount Silver.

Eventually, trainers came along. Demanding to battle the almighty champion... At first, he was baffeled. He wondered how someone could find and track him down to this very place, but nonetheless, he didn't turn down a challenge. He defeated the trainers that wanted to battle them

Even his fellow juniors... Green and Blue... Even the man that brought him into the affair, Gold. Silver, Crystal, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, Pearl, and Platina.

Each of them attempted to bring him down the mountain...

But Not Yellow.

His heart was slowly withering... He stood at the cliff of Mount. Silver...

But a gentle maiden's voice echoed out of the cave.

"Reeeeeeeeeed~!"

Red couldn't believe his ears. He could've sworn he heard this voice before... He decided to investigate it. He ran to the cave entrance... And prayed in his mind that he was sleeping...

He Saw Yellow.

In an instant, the Champion ran to her through the blizzard. She fell to her knees... And dropped to the floor... Just as Red was at Yellow... He heard her say his name...

"Red..." Yellow whispered... She then closed her eyes...

Red picked her up and began to seek refuge into another cavern that's empty...

The champion set the Healer down and made a fire close to her... He looked at her worn out face, signifying that she fought her way up here. Guilt lingered within the champion's mind. He couldn't help it but stroke her hair...

Red ripped his sleeve and called out his Gyarados "Use water gun..." He held out his hand. The Gyarados took the hint, it lightly used water gun to make sure the water was on his hand... He smeared it on his sleeve and began to wipe away all the scars and dirt from her face.

He couldn't help but gaze upon the beauty of the little Angel. How peaceful she slept... How innocent... How beautiful...

How could he give this all up...?

"I'm sorry..." Red cried "I'm so sorry"

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Yellow let out a painful groan. Her body felt hot, burning, as if Ho-Oh was boiling her with it's Sacred Fire.

Her eyes fluttered opened and found herself looking at the cave ceiling "Wh-... Wh-
Where-...!"

"Y-... You're awake... O-Oh thank god...!"

Yellow turned to see the source of the voice... It Was Red.

Her heart fluttered for a second. Seeing her Champion... With that worried look, she found his jacket on top of her.

But her bitter hatred of betrayal restricted her from running to Red and holding him tight...

"Yeah... Thanks" Yellow replied bitterly...

An awkward silence filled the air.

Red sat at the opposite side of the fire... Knowing that he has to keep his distance; every ounce of his self control is stopping him from claiming the angel's soft, moist lips.

"What are you doing here...?" Red finally asked "Th-... This place is dangerous- y-you could have got yourself killed-!"

"I don't care"

The Champion was slightly appalled by her answer "Yellow..."

The Healer clenched her hands into a fist, her bangs covered her eyes, trying in vain not to look at Red, trying not to fall for those loving eyes... "I came here for you..."

"Wh-What-?"

"I came here for you." Yellow said once again "I-... I came here t-to bring you down from this mountain-"

"Yellow. I can't. I just can't-!"

"And why not...?!" Her voice was shaky, trying to be persistent of her pushy act

Red looked at her with a sincere look. Yellow's hair no longer blocked their eyes.

Pure eye to eye contact.

"Because I regret what I did to you" Red said bluntly "I can't. I can't live with the guilt that I scarred you. That I hurt you in that way. I can't, I can't forgive myself f-for continuing that sinful act of adultery... I just can't!" Tears rolled down his cheeks...

Yellow widened her eyes... "I can't forgive you what you've done... Red." She found herself standing

Red continued to cry.

"I can never forget... What you did" Tears ran down her cheeks, but she went closer to Red "Nor I can never forget our time together..." She was in front of her Champion.

The two were now face to face... The Blond couldn't bear the silence any longer... She placed a gentle kiss on the Champion. Red widened his eyes, surprised at her course of action, but accepted it nonetheless...

He wrapped his arms around Yellow, missing her scent, her lips, her heartbeat. Tears ran down her cheeks, her arms wrapped around Red's waist, she breathe in Red's wild like scent, missing the nature like smell, his touch, the way he made her feel when his body is pressed against hers... Their kiss eventually deepened.

Yellow pulled back reluctantly, she laid beside her Champion, the two wrapped their arms around each other, content with just sharing their body heat... She looked at him with a depressed look "Nothing will ever be the same..."

Red blinked twice, he nodded

"Are you willing... To go even slower... Red..." She asked finally...

Yellow has never seen Red's eyes so serious... He replied "As long as I have you with me... I don't care what speed we go at..."

She nuzzled her face onto Red "Then let's get down the mountain."

The Healer looked at her Champion...

The Champion looked at his Healer...

"I couldn't agree more" Red smiled.

When the Blizzard died down, the two went down the mountain hand in hand. Their love wasn't the same, it was no longer that same passionate fire that burned oh so bright.

That passion had an expiry date... This new love that these two share now, it didn't shine as bright as before, but it lasted... Until the day they will die.