Title: Voice
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #25, Voice (Theme Set #2)
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, insanity, shonen-ai, shota

Once upon a time, he killed a man. It was laughably easy, he was still a child then, and there had been nothing but possessive lust in the orange eyes above him, so he had waited until the man’s back was turned, busy undoing his trousers, before he slid his knife between the ribs, and he had stood and watched while the man had clawed at his throat and spluttered curses, and so he had lost his voice.

It was not really a hard price to pay.

He didn’t need to speak to humans in any case, he had his beautiful pokémon and he had the spirits of the wind and water to talk to, and he danced through the Forest while Mother smiled at him.

Red stared in surprise as the Dragon Master moved, form blurring quickly as silversteel flickered into position on his fingertips. His blades sang a song of death, and as the Champion watched, the latest challenger crumpled, throat slit. Lance quirked an eyebrow as his dragons gathered around, and Red closed his eyes and covered his ears, not wanting to see them feast.

Then Lance turned and smiled at him, and Red held out his arms.

“It’s all right.” The Champion said. “I won’t hurt you.”

Lance did not reply verbally, but Red did not expect him to. To his knowledge, the Dragon Master had never spoken a word. He doubted he ever would. But Lance seemed to understand pokémon just fine, and he was nice enough, so Red liked him.

Lance was comfortably warm, and he just held him, and Lance knew that Red didn’t expect him to speech, so he wouldn’t…

End Fic

Completed 12/5/06

I have no idea why Lance would choose not to speak, really. Oh well.