Contest Entry: Flowers for a Flower

    Saria yawned and stretched out her paws. She had been sunning herself on a rock to rejuvenate her leaves, as being a grass type you needed not much more than some sunlight to feel so much better. She hopped daintily off the rock and strolled over to a small Wild Flabebe nearby, saying hello and chatting happily with it. Suddenly the Flabebe pointed to something on the ground a ways away from them, and Saria bid the flower goodbye to check it out. Once she padded over to it, she noticed it was a Sweetheart! The brown chocolate treat was sweet tasting and she smiled as she picked it up.

    Once she had lifted her head however, she saw another sweet heart a few feet away. She walked over to it and dropped the first Sweetheart onto the second one, and after lifting head she once again saw another Sweetheart a few feet away. She wondered who left these treats out in the open as she slowly gathered them all up. Over time she simply followed the trail to a meadow and saw Ross sitting in the middle of a circle of small but beautiful flowers. Saria's ears perked up and she treaded through the break in the flower bed to sit beside Ross. He turned to look at her as he heard her approaching.

    "H-Hi Saria. You look, um, p-p-pretty today." Ross stuttered, turning his red face away just a bit in hopes she wouldn't notice. Saria did and giggled. "Thank you Ross. You look quite handsome yourself." At the compliment Ross's face got even redder and he found it hard to continue speaking, "I, uh, I g-grew these f-f-flowers. F-for you. I grew them for you!" Ross sputtered, his speech breaking up and he found it hard to put his sentences together the more he sat next to her. Saria gasped and asked, "You did all this for me?" Ross nodded his head in favor of not speaking and embarrassing himself further.

    Saria took a better look at the hand-grown flowers all around. For an electric type, the flowers looked like they had been taken care of well. She smiled and batted her eyelashes at Ross a bit as she thanked him, "That was very sweet of you Ross." Ross nodded again and cleared his throat. "H-Happy V-Valentin-Valentines D-Day-" As Ross stuttered a Joltik sprung up from one of the flowers and landed in front of the two. Saria shrieked, her fear of small insects causing her to hide behind Ross. In a small burst of bravery, Ross got up and stood protectively in front of Saria, pointing at the bug and saying loudly, "Foul insect, leave my Saria alone!"

    However brave this was on his part, the Joltik was not impressed and spat a small electric web at Ross, who was not expecting it and fall backwards on his rear, the small electrical current making his fur fluff up a bit. The Joltik then scuttled away and Saria decided to peek out from behind Ross at that moment. "Is it gone? Oh thank Arceus." Saria gave a relieved sigh and looked at Ross, the web now out of electricity, but still stuck on his face. She pawed at it to clear it off and then rubbed her cheek on Ross's. "Thank you for saving me from the big bad bug Ross."

    Ross had simply sat staring ahead with the web on his face before Saria had cleaned it off and shown him such affection that it kept his brain looping through loving thoughts of the grass type beside him. His yellow cheeks burned crimson once more and he hid his face in his paws. "Your welcome." He whispered so quietly she almost missed it. She smiled and sat peacefully down amongst the flowers with Ross until they heard a noise that shocked them both into turning around. Running towards them was Rupert and Napoleon, the latter chasing the poor Toxicroak.

    "Get back here you soda spilling amphibian!" Napoleon was so angry, and Ross could faintly see why. It seems as though Rupert had been drinking his favorite soda and had spilled it on Cotton's flowers by accident. The two ran towards the circle of flowers however, and Ross perked up at the realization that they could trample his own gift to Saria. "Guys wait please-!" Ross got up and held up his small paws in an attempt to stop them, but the two pushed him to the side and trampled a line past the flowers and further into the field. Cotton and Vanilla the Lopunnys ran towards them, but stopped and gasped at the sight of the trampled field. "Oh Ross I am so sorry if Napoleon ruined your date with Saria!" Cotton apologized at Ross's expense. He got up, his cheeks dirty with soft soil and shook his hands. "No no, it's all good! I just- I- oh..." Ross sat down after attempting to rebuttal Cotton's apology and thought to himself that things couldn't get any worse.

    Saria frowned sadly and then closed her eyes, and her leaves waved a bit in the wind before starting to glow. She then leaned down and touched the ground with her nose, a small flower bud sprouting where her nose was. Smiling she seemed satisfied and nudged Ross to show him the small bud. Ross looked over and she said, "You can grow it all back one flower at a time. That is what made it so beautiful in the first place. To make it even better, I'll help this time. Twice the love will make it look even better." Ross's ears perked up and his face was only dusted pink now. "What...I...Of course, I, uh, I would be honored!" Ross stuttered out, and Saria touched her nose to his cheek.

    Vanilla and Cotton awed in the background as Ross and Saria enjoyed the rest of Valentines Day together. Vincent gave the flowers to Veruka who accidentally sneezed fire on them and they died. Napoleon eventually was calmed down by Cotton and they enjoyed each other's company along with their daughter. Rupert escaped Napoleon's wrath and gave Vanilla a candy bouquet because flowers are so mainstream as Danny and Merry steal all the Sweethearts to sell to RGB in the background.