Story Notes:
This is planned to be a three chapter story, and I apologize for the really short first chapter. I used the online box to write my story in and because of how small it is, it makes the chapter look longer then it really is.
The Festival
The festival was an all day event, starting early in the morning and going well past midnight. Somehow there was always something to do regardless of what time it was. Everyone played games, had fun, and mingled. Mass amounts of berries were gathered throughout the day and were placed around The Great Tree in preparation for the feast that took place at every festival. Younger pokemon ran free, joking and playing games with each other. Nothing bad had ever happened at festival before so leaving children unattended was no big deal, especially when 99% of the pokemon would jump in to help if any trouble arose.
Most important however was the dancing. No matter what the time or where, there was always someone dancing. Fast dances, slow dances, and dances no one had ever seen, dancing was integral to the festival. All night and day grass pokemon danced around The Great Tree in celebration, and at dusk, one very special dance takes place as everyone prays to the tree. Due to the usual lack of music a few non-grass type pokemon were allowed to stay. A kricketune leading a small choir of kricketot provided the music for the occasion, no one minded.
Blossom and her friends were well on their way to the festival. It was just about noon which meant things would be getting really heated. Along the way they exchanged their usual friendly banter, talking about everything they could possibly do at the festival.
It was Clarra who brought up the subject of the dance. "So Blossom, when's your big dance?"
"Dusk," Blossom twirled as she explained how the dance worked. "I'll dance as the sun sets, and after it does the tree will glow like it does every year. Ohhhh I can't wait, I've been practicing for months."
"Well, we got plenty of time before dusk, let's get to partying!" The tangela girl said with a flip before rushing off ahead of the others.
Clarra giggled and rushed after her. "Wait up Maria!"
Blossom smiled and turned to Tony. "Come on Tony!" But her smile disappeared as she noticed his uneasy, almost nervous look. "...You okay Tony?"
"I'm fine...come on let's hurry." He rushed past Blossom, doing his best to hide his obviously fake smile. Blossom knew something was wrong but she didn't want to push the subject if he didn't want to talk about it, yet.
At the speed they were going it didn't take them long to reach the festival. It was a positively massive clearing in front of the great tree. Already there was a large crowd of grass pokemon talking and mingling, some of them dancing, some eating, and some playing games. But regardless of what they were doing everyone was smiling and laughing.
Maria, still giddy and excited, barged through the crowd, giggling, laughing, and knocking other pokemon over. "Hurry up you buncha slowpokes!" Surprisingly the crowd didn't turn into an angry mob and start chasing her. Most of them just continued to laugh, after getting over the initial shock of falling down anyway. It really showed how light hearted everyone at the event was.
Clarra moved ahead a little. "I'll... go and catch her before she breaks anything, you two have fun." With that the leafeon disappeared into the crowd, leaving Blossom and Tony alone. She turned to Tony with a large smile on her face. "Shall we?"
"Yeah, sure..."
Tony's false enthusiasm did little to fool Blossom. Noticing just how nervous he was Blossom figured now would be as good a time as any to get him to talk.
She sighed. "Tony, you've been acting weird for days now. What's wrong?"
He averted his eyes and said nothing.
"Do you need some alone time?"
"Yeah, thanks Blossom." For the first time that day Tony put on a genuine smile, though awkward, it was still a smile. Without another word he walked away from the festival, disappearing into the trees.
Blossom sighed again. "Oh well, I'm sure me, Maria, and Clarra will still have some fun."
There were a multitude of games to play at the festival, everything from the traditional Bobbing for Berries to Tag for the younger children. There weren't very many prizes but it was the fun that counted. Pokemon who could use vine whip used them in strength competitions or just to throw rocks at piles of things, a pokemon variant of 'Knock the bottles down; win a prize.' Those who could use razor leaf were given 'targets' to throw at, anything they could find, berries, rocks, pine cones, you name it. Sometimes they were stationary and sometimes they were thrown into the air like a shooting gallery. For everyone else there were dancing competitions, Blossom's personal favorite.
Blossom mostly watched as her friends participated in the festivities. She acted more like a cheerleader than anything. It was only after Maria and Clarra nagged at her for 10 minutes straight that she decided to enter one of the hourly dance competitions.
Her dancing was unmatched. She blew away the competition with ease, earning her a nice round of applause from the audience as well as her competition. Not wanting to be the center of attention just yet, Blossom waved a few times and made her way back to her friends.
"Blossom you were fantastic!" Maria was still hopping with excitement, and Blossom's dance only served to fuel the fire.
Clarra approached from behind. "Do you think he saw it?"
"He?" Blossom asked.
"Haven't you heard the rumors? Apparently Celebi attends the festival every year, but he likes to hide himself to avoid attention."
"Well if he didn't see that one he'll definitely see Blossom's next one. Who knows, maybe he'll like your dance so much he'll want to meet you alone." Maria added a suggestive wink, making Blossom blush slightly.
"Yeah...maybe..."
Blossom didn't do much else that day; she conserved most of her energy until her big dance. The sun was approaching the horizon and the festival was in full swing. Most of the pokemon were dancing and in some cases, awkwardly hopping around due to lack of feet or hands. Regardless of dancing skill, or lack thereof, they danced without care, smiles stretched across their faces. For the most part the pokemon danced around the area where they were setting up the 'stage.' They were just fallen sticks and leaves arranged into a large circle around the base of the tree. There the ceremonial dance would take place, and the time was fast approaching.
As the sun just barely touched the horizon the dancing began to slow to a stop. The now massive crowd of grass pokemon stopped their dances and awkward shuffles as they all faced the stage. All of Blossom's friends, except for Tony who was watching from the edge of the forest, were in the front row, ready for the performance. An orange glow descended over the forest as Blossom appeared from the woods behind The Great Tree. She took her position center stage and breathed deep in preparation for the dance she had been practicing for so long. All those days of training alone in the woods, they all came down to this one moment.
The kricketune conductor rubbed his arms together, creating a beautiful melody to dance to. Blossom inhaled sharply and began her performance. The leaves of her skirt bounced and flew as Blossom twirled and danced about. She would spin on one leg and occasionally do a graceful leap through the air. The crowd's "oohs" and "aahs" made Blossom smile but otherwise she payed them no mind as she had to focus on the dance. She was in perfect rhythm with the music, flawlessly executing every step of her routine. She danced as the sun continued to drop, when it was completely out of sight the tree would glow and the performance would be over and it was just about that time. The sun was just about to set and Blossom was wrapping up her dance. One final spinning leap and she would be done. She flew through the air once more, spinning as she did so. But at the worst possible time she lost her footing and fell flat on her face, right as the sun set. Just as quickly she had fallen Blossom hopped to her feet and took a bow which hid her embarrassed face. Despite the minor screw-up the audience still cheered and the tree still glowed. A pale green color illuminated the entire clearing and almost immediately after, the music and dancing began again. Not a person in the crowd was frowning, except for Blossom who was embarrassed beyond belief. All that practice, gone down the tubes due to one simple mistake. Even after the dancing continued she simply stared at the ground in disbelief.
Clarra weaved her way through the crowd as she tried to find Blossom. It didn't take her very long since Blossom was the only person there who wasn't dancing.
"Blossom, nice... performance."
Blossom continued to stare at the ground; she didn't even appear to be breathing.
"Look we all make mistakes, and it's not like anyone is laughing or- Blossom wait!"
Halfway through Clarra's sentence, Blossom ran into the crowd. Her small size allowed her to get through with relative ease, unlike the much larger leafeon who lost her in a matter of seconds. Worried, but unable to do anything, Clarra could only sit back and hope nothing bad would happen to her.
The forest became dark and dense as Blossom ran farther and farther away from the festival. She ducked and dodged bushes and ran until she was out of breath. The music had long since faded into nothing, Blossom had run so deep into the forest that she began to fear for her own safety. She stopped and leaned against a tree to catch her breath while trying not to think about how embarrassed she was. But no matter how hard she tried the image kept coming back to her. The image of her hitting the ground face first. She didn't even notice that no one so much as chuckled at her performance, but she didn't feel that way. Nothing short of Celebi himself could convince her otherwise.
Blossom's attention was suddenly focused behind her as she heard the bushes rustling. Realizing just how far away from the party she was, Blossom feared for her own safety now more then ever. Even if she closer the sound of music and dancing would drown out her cries for help, she was completely at the mercy of the forest. Blossom's heart was pounding out of her chest, her breathing was erratic and she was noticeably trembling. She almost felt like fainting, that is until Tony stepped out of the bushes, alleviating all of fears in an instant.
She let out a long sigh. "Tony, boy am I glad to see you."
He said nothing. Blossom noticed he had a nervous look on his face and was refusing to make eye contact. "Tony is...something wrong?"
Tony bit his lip and inhaled lightly through his teeth. "Blossom, is there someone you...you know, like?" Blossom tilted her head but said nothing.
"Umm," Tony squirmed uncomfortably as he talked. "You know, like as in 'more than a friend' like."
Suddenly realizing what he meant, Blossom gently shook her head. While that fact relieved Tony slightly it also made him a little sad on the inside. "So there's no one, you've ever felt...attracted to?" Again Blossom shook her head.
It took Tony several tries to say what he wanted to. He was constantly tripping over his own words. Sometimes they came out as a jumbled mess and sometimes they didn't come out at all. But finally he couldn't stand it anymore and he yelled, "Blossom, would you be my mate?!"
Somehow the eerily quiet forest got even quieter after he said that. Blossom stared at Tony, completely speechless. With the strange way he had been acting combined with the circumstances, she didn't know how she hadn't seen it before. All of those awkward looks he had given her over the past few days, all of those awkward silences, they all suddenly made sense. Tony was in love, and with her!
"Tony..." Coming up with the right words was proving difficult for Blossom, but somehow she made it work. "Tony you're one of my best friends but...I...just don't like you that way."
"B-but...but I love you! I always have, can't you see that?!"
"I do but...no, just no Tony."
"What's wrong, please tell me. I can fix it, I can make this work! Just please, please Blossom."
Tony's voice was slowly breaking, as if he could break down and cry any moment, and that thought hurt Blossom more than she could show. As much as she wanted to just say yes to make him happy, it would only be a temporary happiness for him. After all, a relationship where only one person is contributing can never work.
"Tony it just wouldn't work out between us. I don't think I'm ready for something like that, and besides, you know what they say about relationships between close friends. I'm sure there's a girl out there for you, and she might be at the festival now." Blossom was trying every excuse she could in order to make Tony feel better, but as she could plainly see, none of them were working.
"...no...no no no no NO NO!"
Blossom winced at Tony's sudden increase in volume. Again he looked and sounded as if he was going to cry, but Blossom shivered slightly as his look changed into one she couldn't recognize. Something about the look scared her but she had no idea why.
"I love you too Blossom."
"Huh?"
He took a step forward and Blossom took a step back. "Yes I've always wanted to mate with you too."
"Tony...stop, I already said no."
"I'm sure no one will bother us when we're this deep in the woods. Would you like to?"
He had gone crazy; Blossom didn't want to wait around for whatever might happen next. She turned to run but didn't even make it a few feet before Tony was over top of her.
A tear fell from Blossom's eye as she was pinned down on her back by the almost twice as large roserade. Though he didn't have a lot of grip with his "hands" he didn't need much. Blossom was so small and frail that she had trouble standing in the wind.
"Tony, please stop." She managed to say weakly. He was listening but it barely mattered. He easily held her down with one "hand" as the other moved down towards her skirt. Blossom felt utterly powerless as Tony pushed her skirt to the side, revealing her slightly moist folds. He eyed them intently, noting every small detail as he took in the sight. Gently he rubbed one of his petals against it, making Blossom tense momentarily, but loosen up a short time later.
"Blossom, I want to make this pleasurable for the both of us alright?" He took her silence as the go ahead and lowered his mouth to her slit. Blossom felt his breath on her as he lingered in front of it for a moment, taking in the arousing smell. Lightly, he licked the front, causing Blossom to shiver as she stifled a moan.
"You're delicious Blossom."
Tony's "compliment" only served to make Blossom's tears fall faster. She could only clench her eyes shut as Tony went to work on her flower. He continued to lick the front side, savoring the flavor. Unwillingly Blossom became more and more aroused as Tony continued to lick. Each little movement of his tongue sent a tingle up her spine, which in turn caused more of her juices to flow. She couldn't stifle her moans any longer, they were loud, but the chance of anyone hearing them was slim to none seeing as the festival was back in full swing. Blossom's moans drove Tony to lick even harder than before. His tongue pushed deeper and deeper into her and as much as she hated to admit it, it felt good, but in a bad way. She felt wrong, and unclean, it was an absolutely horrible feeling. It was as if her body belonged to Tony now, and there was nothing she could do about it. His licks were rough now; his face was being buried deeper and deeper into her nether regions. Blossom was getting close and she could feel it. As much as she wanted to tell Tony to stop she knew it was no use. When convulsions began to wrack Blossom's body Tony knew it was time. He put his mouth over her and tried to catch as much of her cum as he could. She arched her back and did her best to stifle a yell as she came. It coated the inside of Tony's mouth in a second and small amounts of it dripped down to the forest floor.
Blossom was panting lightly as she came back down from her orgasm, and Tony was just finishing the last bit of her cum. "Did you enjoy that Blossom?" She whimpered weakly, but said nothing. "Good, then you'll love this." Tony's member was already protruding from under him. Blossom could barely see it from where she was sitting, but she didn't want to. It was an average size, for a roserade anyway. A reddish color, thin at the tip and thick at its base. Blossom could only hope it wouldn't hurt too much. Tony wasted no time pushing it into her folds. She let out a high pitched yelp as Tony made it halfway inside.
"Tony, please don't!" As hard as she tried to get him to stop, Tony wouldn't listen. He didn't even slow down, as if he couldn't even hear her voice. Blossom squirmed at the feeling of him inside of her, luckily it didn't hurt much, but it still felt wrong. Tony let out a large sigh after he hilted her. "Here we go." He went slowly at first, holding Blossom down while moving his hips back and forth. Once again Blossom felt utterly powerless. The tears were flowing as hard as ever as she could do nothing to stop Tony from violating her. Still she couldn't help from moaning a little. She tried to stifle them as much as possible but as Tony sped up she lost what little composure she had. Her now loud moans drove Tony to go even faster. As loud as Blossom's sobs were they fell on deaf ears. He continued to pump regardless of how loud she cried.
"Blossom I'm getting close."
Hearing him say that, Blossom came to horrible revelation: she might get pregnant. Why she didn't realize it earlier baffled her, but now that she knew, she would do anything to stop it. Using every bit of strength she could muster, Blossom flailed and tried to get free. But to no avail, through all of her struggles she barely moved an inch, and Tony continued thrusting into her. His moans were growing louder and louder with each thrust. Blossom knew what it meant, and she was dreading the moment. "Tony please!" His thrusts started to become erratic and his member started to twitch inside of her. "Blossom I'm coming."
"NOOOOOOOO!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Luckily Blossom's yell was heard, Tony was thrown off of her just in the nick of time, his seed spilling across the ground. Blossom didn't take the time the look at her savior, the only thing in her mind was "Get away." She ran desperately through forest, tripping over everything in sight. But she couldn't slow down, the fear was too great.
Blossom had no idea how long she had ran, all she knew was that she couldn't run anymore. After she stopped to catch a breath all of her fatigue caught up to her. She collapsed on the ground, hoping and praying that she had got away.
Blossom awoke sometime later, it couldn't have been too long since the sun was still down. The first thing she noticed was the small bed of leaves she was lying on. The second was humming; someone was close by and humming a happy tune. Blossom's mind was still in survival mode; she didn't move or make a sound.
"Oh you're awake, I was beginning to worry."
She had no idea how he knew she was up but she didn't care, she had to move. The voice was coming from behind her so she hopped to her feet and ran forward as fast as she could. But she was running blind again, within a few seconds she hit something and it grabbed onto her shoulders. She flailed wildly in an attempt to get free, and much to her surprise whatever was holding her let go with no resistance. When she jumped back to get a look at her "attacker" her mouth hung wide open. There in front of her floated a smallish green pokemon with large bug eyes and wings, it was Celebi.
"Sorry if I scared you. By the way, you should have screamed earlier, I'd have been able to get here sooner." His voice was gentle but had a clearly masculine tone to it.
Blossom didn't know what to say. She simply continued to stare, mouth agape.
"...Blossom?"
"Y-you know my name?"
"I know everyone's name, comes with the territory."
"Oh..."
"Now don't take it that way Blossom, after all I doubt there's a person who doesn't know your name after seeing your wonderful performance."
Memories of Blossom's dance came rushing back to her, one part in particular. "But...I messed up really really bad. I ruined everything."
"Now now, we all make mistakes. The festival is still going strong, regardless of your little 'mishap.' No ones blaming you, and no one think any less of you. Besides, I thought you were fantastic."
Blossom couldn't help but blush a little. "Well I wasn't that great..."
"Nonsense, I've been coming to this festival for decades and I've never seen a dancer as passionate as you."
"Oh stop it." She didn't think it was possible but Blossom was blushing even harder than before. That is until she remembered something slightly unnerving. "...Where's Tony?"
"Oh him? You won't have to worry about him anymore. Just trust me."
"I see..."
"Look Blossom, I know it may seem hard now, but eventually you're going to have to move on and forget about what happened. It's a lot to ask I know, but if you dwell on it for the rest of your life you'll end up miserable." Celebi floated close and held her hands in between his. "And just remember, you have friends. Clarra, Maria...and me. If there's anything we could do for you-"
"Could you...stay here, with me?"
Celebi smiled. "Of course."
They sat in the forest together for hours. Blossom just didn't feel like partying that day. They remained mostly silent, listening only to the sounds of the forest around them. They were so deep in the woods that they couldn't even hear the festival anymore. Both of them sat until the next morning, when the festival was just wrapping up. Blossom had fallen asleep without knowing it, when she woke up Celebi was nowhere to be found. A small amount of sadness showed on her face, but something that rang in her ear brought her smile back.
Blossom met up with her friends back at the festival; luckily Tony was nowhere to be found. She didn't tell them about Celebi, or what happened in the forest. She just smiled and walked herself home.
"Blossom," Her mother greeted her as she entered her home. "Wonderful dance sweetie."
"I'll say!" Her father said from across the room.
Blossom sighed but still smiled. "Thanks, I'm gonna go rest now okay?"
Her father smiled back. "You do that, I'm sure you're tired just like everyone else." Blossom nodded and moved on to her room. Even though she had just woken up, she felt exhausted. As she fell asleep those words rang in her head one last time. "See you at the next festival, Blossom."Chapter End Notes:Hope you liked it. Again, thank Shinji for this. Last chapter comin soon
Most important however was the dancing. No matter what the time or where, there was always someone dancing. Fast dances, slow dances, and dances no one had ever seen, dancing was integral to the festival. All night and day grass pokemon danced around The Great Tree in celebration, and at dusk, one very special dance takes place as everyone prays to the tree. Due to the usual lack of music a few non-grass type pokemon were allowed to stay. A kricketune leading a small choir of kricketot provided the music for the occasion, no one minded.
Blossom and her friends were well on their way to the festival. It was just about noon which meant things would be getting really heated. Along the way they exchanged their usual friendly banter, talking about everything they could possibly do at the festival.
It was Clarra who brought up the subject of the dance. "So Blossom, when's your big dance?"
"Dusk," Blossom twirled as she explained how the dance worked. "I'll dance as the sun sets, and after it does the tree will glow like it does every year. Ohhhh I can't wait, I've been practicing for months."
"Well, we got plenty of time before dusk, let's get to partying!" The tangela girl said with a flip before rushing off ahead of the others.
Clarra giggled and rushed after her. "Wait up Maria!"
Blossom smiled and turned to Tony. "Come on Tony!" But her smile disappeared as she noticed his uneasy, almost nervous look. "...You okay Tony?"
"I'm fine...come on let's hurry." He rushed past Blossom, doing his best to hide his obviously fake smile. Blossom knew something was wrong but she didn't want to push the subject if he didn't want to talk about it, yet.
At the speed they were going it didn't take them long to reach the festival. It was a positively massive clearing in front of the great tree. Already there was a large crowd of grass pokemon talking and mingling, some of them dancing, some eating, and some playing games. But regardless of what they were doing everyone was smiling and laughing.
Maria, still giddy and excited, barged through the crowd, giggling, laughing, and knocking other pokemon over. "Hurry up you buncha slowpokes!" Surprisingly the crowd didn't turn into an angry mob and start chasing her. Most of them just continued to laugh, after getting over the initial shock of falling down anyway. It really showed how light hearted everyone at the event was.
Clarra moved ahead a little. "I'll... go and catch her before she breaks anything, you two have fun." With that the leafeon disappeared into the crowd, leaving Blossom and Tony alone. She turned to Tony with a large smile on her face. "Shall we?"
"Yeah, sure..."
Tony's false enthusiasm did little to fool Blossom. Noticing just how nervous he was Blossom figured now would be as good a time as any to get him to talk.
She sighed. "Tony, you've been acting weird for days now. What's wrong?"
He averted his eyes and said nothing.
"Do you need some alone time?"
"Yeah, thanks Blossom." For the first time that day Tony put on a genuine smile, though awkward, it was still a smile. Without another word he walked away from the festival, disappearing into the trees.
Blossom sighed again. "Oh well, I'm sure me, Maria, and Clarra will still have some fun."
There were a multitude of games to play at the festival, everything from the traditional Bobbing for Berries to Tag for the younger children. There weren't very many prizes but it was the fun that counted. Pokemon who could use vine whip used them in strength competitions or just to throw rocks at piles of things, a pokemon variant of 'Knock the bottles down; win a prize.' Those who could use razor leaf were given 'targets' to throw at, anything they could find, berries, rocks, pine cones, you name it. Sometimes they were stationary and sometimes they were thrown into the air like a shooting gallery. For everyone else there were dancing competitions, Blossom's personal favorite.
Blossom mostly watched as her friends participated in the festivities. She acted more like a cheerleader than anything. It was only after Maria and Clarra nagged at her for 10 minutes straight that she decided to enter one of the hourly dance competitions.
Her dancing was unmatched. She blew away the competition with ease, earning her a nice round of applause from the audience as well as her competition. Not wanting to be the center of attention just yet, Blossom waved a few times and made her way back to her friends.
"Blossom you were fantastic!" Maria was still hopping with excitement, and Blossom's dance only served to fuel the fire.
Clarra approached from behind. "Do you think he saw it?"
"He?" Blossom asked.
"Haven't you heard the rumors? Apparently Celebi attends the festival every year, but he likes to hide himself to avoid attention."
"Well if he didn't see that one he'll definitely see Blossom's next one. Who knows, maybe he'll like your dance so much he'll want to meet you alone." Maria added a suggestive wink, making Blossom blush slightly.
"Yeah...maybe..."
Blossom didn't do much else that day; she conserved most of her energy until her big dance. The sun was approaching the horizon and the festival was in full swing. Most of the pokemon were dancing and in some cases, awkwardly hopping around due to lack of feet or hands. Regardless of dancing skill, or lack thereof, they danced without care, smiles stretched across their faces. For the most part the pokemon danced around the area where they were setting up the 'stage.' They were just fallen sticks and leaves arranged into a large circle around the base of the tree. There the ceremonial dance would take place, and the time was fast approaching.
As the sun just barely touched the horizon the dancing began to slow to a stop. The now massive crowd of grass pokemon stopped their dances and awkward shuffles as they all faced the stage. All of Blossom's friends, except for Tony who was watching from the edge of the forest, were in the front row, ready for the performance. An orange glow descended over the forest as Blossom appeared from the woods behind The Great Tree. She took her position center stage and breathed deep in preparation for the dance she had been practicing for so long. All those days of training alone in the woods, they all came down to this one moment.
The kricketune conductor rubbed his arms together, creating a beautiful melody to dance to. Blossom inhaled sharply and began her performance. The leaves of her skirt bounced and flew as Blossom twirled and danced about. She would spin on one leg and occasionally do a graceful leap through the air. The crowd's "oohs" and "aahs" made Blossom smile but otherwise she payed them no mind as she had to focus on the dance. She was in perfect rhythm with the music, flawlessly executing every step of her routine. She danced as the sun continued to drop, when it was completely out of sight the tree would glow and the performance would be over and it was just about that time. The sun was just about to set and Blossom was wrapping up her dance. One final spinning leap and she would be done. She flew through the air once more, spinning as she did so. But at the worst possible time she lost her footing and fell flat on her face, right as the sun set. Just as quickly she had fallen Blossom hopped to her feet and took a bow which hid her embarrassed face. Despite the minor screw-up the audience still cheered and the tree still glowed. A pale green color illuminated the entire clearing and almost immediately after, the music and dancing began again. Not a person in the crowd was frowning, except for Blossom who was embarrassed beyond belief. All that practice, gone down the tubes due to one simple mistake. Even after the dancing continued she simply stared at the ground in disbelief.
Clarra weaved her way through the crowd as she tried to find Blossom. It didn't take her very long since Blossom was the only person there who wasn't dancing.
"Blossom, nice... performance."
Blossom continued to stare at the ground; she didn't even appear to be breathing.
"Look we all make mistakes, and it's not like anyone is laughing or- Blossom wait!"
Halfway through Clarra's sentence, Blossom ran into the crowd. Her small size allowed her to get through with relative ease, unlike the much larger leafeon who lost her in a matter of seconds. Worried, but unable to do anything, Clarra could only sit back and hope nothing bad would happen to her.
The forest became dark and dense as Blossom ran farther and farther away from the festival. She ducked and dodged bushes and ran until she was out of breath. The music had long since faded into nothing, Blossom had run so deep into the forest that she began to fear for her own safety. She stopped and leaned against a tree to catch her breath while trying not to think about how embarrassed she was. But no matter how hard she tried the image kept coming back to her. The image of her hitting the ground face first. She didn't even notice that no one so much as chuckled at her performance, but she didn't feel that way. Nothing short of Celebi himself could convince her otherwise.
Blossom's attention was suddenly focused behind her as she heard the bushes rustling. Realizing just how far away from the party she was, Blossom feared for her own safety now more then ever. Even if she closer the sound of music and dancing would drown out her cries for help, she was completely at the mercy of the forest. Blossom's heart was pounding out of her chest, her breathing was erratic and she was noticeably trembling. She almost felt like fainting, that is until Tony stepped out of the bushes, alleviating all of fears in an instant.
She let out a long sigh. "Tony, boy am I glad to see you."
He said nothing. Blossom noticed he had a nervous look on his face and was refusing to make eye contact. "Tony is...something wrong?"
Tony bit his lip and inhaled lightly through his teeth. "Blossom, is there someone you...you know, like?" Blossom tilted her head but said nothing.
"Umm," Tony squirmed uncomfortably as he talked. "You know, like as in 'more than a friend' like."
Suddenly realizing what he meant, Blossom gently shook her head. While that fact relieved Tony slightly it also made him a little sad on the inside. "So there's no one, you've ever felt...attracted to?" Again Blossom shook her head.
It took Tony several tries to say what he wanted to. He was constantly tripping over his own words. Sometimes they came out as a jumbled mess and sometimes they didn't come out at all. But finally he couldn't stand it anymore and he yelled, "Blossom, would you be my mate?!"
Somehow the eerily quiet forest got even quieter after he said that. Blossom stared at Tony, completely speechless. With the strange way he had been acting combined with the circumstances, she didn't know how she hadn't seen it before. All of those awkward looks he had given her over the past few days, all of those awkward silences, they all suddenly made sense. Tony was in love, and with her!
"Tony..." Coming up with the right words was proving difficult for Blossom, but somehow she made it work. "Tony you're one of my best friends but...I...just don't like you that way."
"B-but...but I love you! I always have, can't you see that?!"
"I do but...no, just no Tony."
"What's wrong, please tell me. I can fix it, I can make this work! Just please, please Blossom."
Tony's voice was slowly breaking, as if he could break down and cry any moment, and that thought hurt Blossom more than she could show. As much as she wanted to just say yes to make him happy, it would only be a temporary happiness for him. After all, a relationship where only one person is contributing can never work.
"Tony it just wouldn't work out between us. I don't think I'm ready for something like that, and besides, you know what they say about relationships between close friends. I'm sure there's a girl out there for you, and she might be at the festival now." Blossom was trying every excuse she could in order to make Tony feel better, but as she could plainly see, none of them were working.
"...no...no no no no NO NO!"
Blossom winced at Tony's sudden increase in volume. Again he looked and sounded as if he was going to cry, but Blossom shivered slightly as his look changed into one she couldn't recognize. Something about the look scared her but she had no idea why.
"I love you too Blossom."
"Huh?"
He took a step forward and Blossom took a step back. "Yes I've always wanted to mate with you too."
"Tony...stop, I already said no."
"I'm sure no one will bother us when we're this deep in the woods. Would you like to?"
He had gone crazy; Blossom didn't want to wait around for whatever might happen next. She turned to run but didn't even make it a few feet before Tony was over top of her.
A tear fell from Blossom's eye as she was pinned down on her back by the almost twice as large roserade. Though he didn't have a lot of grip with his "hands" he didn't need much. Blossom was so small and frail that she had trouble standing in the wind.
"Tony, please stop." She managed to say weakly. He was listening but it barely mattered. He easily held her down with one "hand" as the other moved down towards her skirt. Blossom felt utterly powerless as Tony pushed her skirt to the side, revealing her slightly moist folds. He eyed them intently, noting every small detail as he took in the sight. Gently he rubbed one of his petals against it, making Blossom tense momentarily, but loosen up a short time later.
"Blossom, I want to make this pleasurable for the both of us alright?" He took her silence as the go ahead and lowered his mouth to her slit. Blossom felt his breath on her as he lingered in front of it for a moment, taking in the arousing smell. Lightly, he licked the front, causing Blossom to shiver as she stifled a moan.
"You're delicious Blossom."
Tony's "compliment" only served to make Blossom's tears fall faster. She could only clench her eyes shut as Tony went to work on her flower. He continued to lick the front side, savoring the flavor. Unwillingly Blossom became more and more aroused as Tony continued to lick. Each little movement of his tongue sent a tingle up her spine, which in turn caused more of her juices to flow. She couldn't stifle her moans any longer, they were loud, but the chance of anyone hearing them was slim to none seeing as the festival was back in full swing. Blossom's moans drove Tony to lick even harder than before. His tongue pushed deeper and deeper into her and as much as she hated to admit it, it felt good, but in a bad way. She felt wrong, and unclean, it was an absolutely horrible feeling. It was as if her body belonged to Tony now, and there was nothing she could do about it. His licks were rough now; his face was being buried deeper and deeper into her nether regions. Blossom was getting close and she could feel it. As much as she wanted to tell Tony to stop she knew it was no use. When convulsions began to wrack Blossom's body Tony knew it was time. He put his mouth over her and tried to catch as much of her cum as he could. She arched her back and did her best to stifle a yell as she came. It coated the inside of Tony's mouth in a second and small amounts of it dripped down to the forest floor.
Blossom was panting lightly as she came back down from her orgasm, and Tony was just finishing the last bit of her cum. "Did you enjoy that Blossom?" She whimpered weakly, but said nothing. "Good, then you'll love this." Tony's member was already protruding from under him. Blossom could barely see it from where she was sitting, but she didn't want to. It was an average size, for a roserade anyway. A reddish color, thin at the tip and thick at its base. Blossom could only hope it wouldn't hurt too much. Tony wasted no time pushing it into her folds. She let out a high pitched yelp as Tony made it halfway inside.
"Tony, please don't!" As hard as she tried to get him to stop, Tony wouldn't listen. He didn't even slow down, as if he couldn't even hear her voice. Blossom squirmed at the feeling of him inside of her, luckily it didn't hurt much, but it still felt wrong. Tony let out a large sigh after he hilted her. "Here we go." He went slowly at first, holding Blossom down while moving his hips back and forth. Once again Blossom felt utterly powerless. The tears were flowing as hard as ever as she could do nothing to stop Tony from violating her. Still she couldn't help from moaning a little. She tried to stifle them as much as possible but as Tony sped up she lost what little composure she had. Her now loud moans drove Tony to go even faster. As loud as Blossom's sobs were they fell on deaf ears. He continued to pump regardless of how loud she cried.
"Blossom I'm getting close."
Hearing him say that, Blossom came to horrible revelation: she might get pregnant. Why she didn't realize it earlier baffled her, but now that she knew, she would do anything to stop it. Using every bit of strength she could muster, Blossom flailed and tried to get free. But to no avail, through all of her struggles she barely moved an inch, and Tony continued thrusting into her. His moans were growing louder and louder with each thrust. Blossom knew what it meant, and she was dreading the moment. "Tony please!" His thrusts started to become erratic and his member started to twitch inside of her. "Blossom I'm coming."
"NOOOOOOOO!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Luckily Blossom's yell was heard, Tony was thrown off of her just in the nick of time, his seed spilling across the ground. Blossom didn't take the time the look at her savior, the only thing in her mind was "Get away." She ran desperately through forest, tripping over everything in sight. But she couldn't slow down, the fear was too great.
Blossom had no idea how long she had ran, all she knew was that she couldn't run anymore. After she stopped to catch a breath all of her fatigue caught up to her. She collapsed on the ground, hoping and praying that she had got away.
Blossom awoke sometime later, it couldn't have been too long since the sun was still down. The first thing she noticed was the small bed of leaves she was lying on. The second was humming; someone was close by and humming a happy tune. Blossom's mind was still in survival mode; she didn't move or make a sound.
"Oh you're awake, I was beginning to worry."
She had no idea how he knew she was up but she didn't care, she had to move. The voice was coming from behind her so she hopped to her feet and ran forward as fast as she could. But she was running blind again, within a few seconds she hit something and it grabbed onto her shoulders. She flailed wildly in an attempt to get free, and much to her surprise whatever was holding her let go with no resistance. When she jumped back to get a look at her "attacker" her mouth hung wide open. There in front of her floated a smallish green pokemon with large bug eyes and wings, it was Celebi.
"Sorry if I scared you. By the way, you should have screamed earlier, I'd have been able to get here sooner." His voice was gentle but had a clearly masculine tone to it.
Blossom didn't know what to say. She simply continued to stare, mouth agape.
"...Blossom?"
"Y-you know my name?"
"I know everyone's name, comes with the territory."
"Oh..."
"Now don't take it that way Blossom, after all I doubt there's a person who doesn't know your name after seeing your wonderful performance."
Memories of Blossom's dance came rushing back to her, one part in particular. "But...I messed up really really bad. I ruined everything."
"Now now, we all make mistakes. The festival is still going strong, regardless of your little 'mishap.' No ones blaming you, and no one think any less of you. Besides, I thought you were fantastic."
Blossom couldn't help but blush a little. "Well I wasn't that great..."
"Nonsense, I've been coming to this festival for decades and I've never seen a dancer as passionate as you."
"Oh stop it." She didn't think it was possible but Blossom was blushing even harder than before. That is until she remembered something slightly unnerving. "...Where's Tony?"
"Oh him? You won't have to worry about him anymore. Just trust me."
"I see..."
"Look Blossom, I know it may seem hard now, but eventually you're going to have to move on and forget about what happened. It's a lot to ask I know, but if you dwell on it for the rest of your life you'll end up miserable." Celebi floated close and held her hands in between his. "And just remember, you have friends. Clarra, Maria...and me. If there's anything we could do for you-"
"Could you...stay here, with me?"
Celebi smiled. "Of course."
They sat in the forest together for hours. Blossom just didn't feel like partying that day. They remained mostly silent, listening only to the sounds of the forest around them. They were so deep in the woods that they couldn't even hear the festival anymore. Both of them sat until the next morning, when the festival was just wrapping up. Blossom had fallen asleep without knowing it, when she woke up Celebi was nowhere to be found. A small amount of sadness showed on her face, but something that rang in her ear brought her smile back.
Blossom met up with her friends back at the festival; luckily Tony was nowhere to be found. She didn't tell them about Celebi, or what happened in the forest. She just smiled and walked herself home.
"Blossom," Her mother greeted her as she entered her home. "Wonderful dance sweetie."
"I'll say!" Her father said from across the room.
Blossom sighed but still smiled. "Thanks, I'm gonna go rest now okay?"
Her father smiled back. "You do that, I'm sure you're tired just like everyone else." Blossom nodded and moved on to her room. Even though she had just woken up, she felt exhausted. As she fell asleep those words rang in her head one last time. "See you at the next festival, Blossom."Chapter End Notes:Hope you liked it. Again, thank Shinji for this. Last chapter comin soon