A three-shot fanfiction (I do hope so), written in the moods of Valentine's Day. :D

Yay to Soulsilvershipping!

Can You Tell Me?

It was quite abrupt, actually.

Soul just disappeared. Vanished. As if swallowed by the Earth (although it did happen at the Burned Tower, once). What was surprising was the fact that she failed to visit home when she promised to do so, and Soul - although not a perfect person - is not the one to break promises, which had everyone worried. Frantic even. Her mother was in nervous state of depression, especially calls to her Pokegear were unanswered. Gold? Even more so, although Krys did help calm him down (she's always the level-headed one in these situations). Even Morty, with his oh-so-special ability, failed to locate her.

Which brought him to the current situation. Him, of all people.

.x.

"Hello, Silver?" The unfamiliar voice and number made him wary.

"… Who's this?"

"It's Krys, duh." He could hear the smirk in her answer.

"Well, sorry for not knowing the number." Sarcasm dripped in his voice.

"I got your number from Gold's Pokegear. Thought I'd be the one to call you."

"Whatever it is, you made the right decision." Among the few people he knew, Gold was the one he was - in simpler terms - allergic to. If Gold did call him, he'd probably throw the Pokegear away as far as he could. He was okay with Krys though. Apart from Soul, she's the only other person who could tolerate his biting remarks – and replied his sarcastic words with her own.

If he's a softie, he could say that he liked Krystal (but he's not, so let's leave it at that).

"Hellooo? Krys to Sil-Sil!" That jolted him back to reality.

"Don't. Call. Me. That." He growled, but Krys wasn't the one to get scared.

"Did you heard what I said?" He sensed the impatience in her voice now.

"What?" He was thinking how did Gold got his number.

"Soul's disappeared. Last time heard or seen was last month."

A momentary silence. Then…

"SOUL'S WHAT?"

"Now you're listening."

.x.

"Wow, you're on time for once." Krys greeted him. Silver looked around before his silvery grey eyes rested on Krys. He had no idea why, of all places, Krys wanted to meet him at the park in Cherrygrove City.

"Right, knowing you, you're probably wondering why I asked you to meet me here." Silver nodded, allowing her to continue.

"Well, the last place she's been seen is actually in Ecruteak actually, at the Burned Tower. But I can't get away from Soul's mother for too long. She's in a fragile state ever since Soul vanished. Not to mention Gold too." She sat on the wooden bench, keeping a respectful distance between herself and him. For all his toleration for her, he still didn't like human contact.

"Makes sense."

"So I want you to go and search for her." Silver's face snapped towards her so fast that she jerked back.

"Why me?" Silver raised an eyebrow.

"Because, apart from me and Gold, you're one of the closest to her, which is saying something," she replied. There's something else too, but Krys didn't mention that. Soul is a quiet girl, who rarely talks and only shows her real self when she's with someone she's comfortable with. Silver knew that. He sighed before nodding.

"Fine, I'll try."

"Good, because if you refused, I'd force you to do it anyway."

.x.

He found her three days later, surprisingly, at Ilex Forest. Waaaay deep in the forest (to tell the truth, he got lost), where the sun could only penetrate ever so slightly as to give the whole place a surreal look and pretty much away from the traveler's route.

He found her fishing. Fishing, when the world turned upside down because she disappeared. She and her Typhlosion –who was wearing that stupid white hat - stared at him in surprise when he emerged from the bushes, his Feraligatr in tow.

"Silver? What are you doing here?" She had the nerve to ask him that.

"You didn't answer your Pokegear, disappeared so suddenly, made everyone worried about you, and you ask me what I'm doing here?" He made his way to her, each step trampling the ground with more force than necessary. She stood up slowly and backed away from him, as if afraid (not that she shouldn't be).

He walked towards to her, and she stepped back until her back collided against a tree. She winced at the jolt, but the next thing was Silver standing in front of her, offering her no way of escape. Her Typhlosion and his Feraligatr didn't do anything other than stared at them. They were knowledgeable enough to know that Silver wouldn't hurt Soul. Silver took a deep breath to calm himself.

"What the hell you're doing here, Soul?"

.x.

He had stood before her until she had weakly waved him away and told him she would explain, yet she didn't say a word after that. Instead, she fidgeted and fiddled and mumbled until Silver nearly lost his cool. The only reason he didn't was because Soul was totally not herself. Either that, or it was a side of her he'd never seen before.

He had called Krys (he had to fly on his Crobat to get the signal) to tell her he had found Soul, but did not disclose their current location when asked. He simply told Krys not to worry and ended the call.

Three hours later and they were sitting across the fire, eating dinner (all their pokemon are also out and eating) quietly.

"I am searching."

Silver looked up from his food, taken aback by that abrupt statement.

"Huh?"

"I am searching." Soul put her half-eaten food down, losing her appetite. Silver waited for her to continue, but when she doesn't, he prompts.

"Searching for what, exactly?" Up until now, Soul never met his eyes, but she does it now. Her face was expressionless, but her eyes tells him differently, the usual hazel brown now darker, troubled.

"… I don't know..." her voice was so low that he strained himself to listen it, above the crackling fire and the pokemon. "… can you tell me?"

Short, but that's my limit. I hope that they are not OOC.

Soul is a mixture of the game and my interpretation of her character (silent/quiet type, but cheery when with her close friends).

All the four's age are not really determined, but I'd say around 17-19, with Silver and Krys older than Gold and Soul.

I hope to update this daily, with the last arc on the 14th :D

R&R!