Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
The next morning, we emerged from the cave and found everything quite beautiful outside. Well, at least I did. The sun was actually shining on the snow, making it sparkle. "It's beautiful." I whispered to myself.
"You coming?" Ry said. I looked over and saw him standing next to his Dragonite who grinned and looked quite happy. "I think it would be safer if you rode on Dragonair this way Dragonite won't tire as easily." He said and let out his Dragonair from her Pokeball. I was able to get onto Dragonair's back without any problems. As we flew high, I held on so I wouldn't fall because I had a fear of flying. I shut my eyes tightly and put every ounce of my trust into this Dragonair. We flew for about an hour and I heard Ry say that we had reached the summit. We descended from the cold air. He returned his to Pokemon and the two of us began to travel on foot.
"Do you even know where you're going?" I asked him.
"No, not really." He paused. "Today's a nice day, huh?"
"It is." I had to agree. I could actually feel the sunlight hitting my face, which was usually rare because where I was in the mountain, it was usually cold and windy. It was much more peaceful up here.
"It should be around here somewhere."
"What are you mumbling about? What should be here?" I asked him.
"I was told by someone that the Master is kind of living in a cabin up here."
"And you didn't tell me this before because…" I paused. "You wanted me to come with you. You figured that if you led me to believe you didn't have an exact location, then I would come and help." My temper began to get the best of me again, so I had to count to ten again.
"You're right."
"You just wanted me to reunite with my father, huh?"
"Sort of." Ry said. "But I still am looking for him to save everyone and get him to go help and destroy Cyrus."
"Don't you think if he wanted to help, he would have by now?"
"You have a point, but I think we can convince him." I decided not to argue with him and go along with this, even though it might be painful to see my biological father again.
"Who told you his whereabouts anyway?" I asked.
"Well, Kobe told me that Lance told him that he was up here." Ry said.
"Kobe? You mean Kobe Walters? You're insane! Why would you listen to him?" Kobe Walters was a nice kid and all I guess if you like the lying and deceiving type. He was about a year older than Ry and I. He had brown hair just like his mother's but resembled his father in every way, shape, and form besides his hair color.
"Yeah. But hear me out. I went to find Lance and he actually told me that Kobe told me the truth."
"Well, that makes me feel better I guess. But next time, tell me Lance told you that, not Kobe Walters."
"You've got it, Gracie." I rolled my eyes at his way of always being cheerful. As I rolled my eyes, I saw something that resembled a cabin in the distance. It looked as if it had once been covered by snow but the blizzard's winds must have exposed it to the open.
"I think I see the cabin." I stated, pointing ahead of me. Ry turned around and I could just imagine the grin on his face when he said,
"Let's go." He sprinted off towards the cabin, too overexcited for his own good. The Master would probably kick us out and say that he had no intentions of helping us out; or the regions for that matter. I ran after him anyway because I knew Ry wouldn't slow down for me. However, he stopped in front of the door and waited for me to catch up to him. I stood there, staring at the door. Ry knocked on the door. However, it only creaked open. This startled the both of us, but only made me jump.
It wasn't really creepy because the lights were on, so I followed Ry inside. It was nice and warm with a fire blazing in the fireplace. I was surprised I didn't notice the smoke coming from the chimney before. I thought he would want to keep it more secret, but I guess he figured most people couldn't make it to the top of Mount Silver. I made it close to the top without any Pokemon really. Ry told me that was because I was lucky I didn't encounter any wild Pokemon and I had my biological father's strength. I slapped him in the arm for that comment. A small yellow rodent, a Pikachu, somehow managed to jump up into my arms. I remembered this Pikachu. He was his starter Pokemon. I pet the Pikachu. I had nothing against him, just his owner. "Who's down there Pikachu?" I heard a voice. His voice.
"Mr. Pokemon Master, sir. My name's Ry and I'm here to ask you something." The man came from a room and stood in front of us. His hair was black and in his usual messy style. His clothes were still the same and wore that stupid hat.
"Pikapi! Pika Pika chu Pikachu Pikachupi." Pikachu said and jumped out of my arms onto his shoulder.
"Grace, is that really you?" He asked.
"Yes it is." I said, not in the happiest of voices. I felt the tension in the room.
"Anyway, why are you two here? And how'd you find me?" He asked.
"I was told by Lance that you were here and I had to find you, sir."
"Call me Ash."
"Okay. Um, so Lance told me to come here and get you to destroy Cyrus in Isshu." Ry said bravely.
"If I wanted to help, I would have already. Nothing can be done, that's a fact. So you should just give up trying to save anyone." He said.
"Please, sir er, Ash, I already tried myself and so did Kobe Walters and we both failed. Please, you're the only one who can end this." Ry pleaded. My biological father said nothing.
"Ry, I told you that he wouldn't help. He's too cold hearted to even try to help. Even my dad is trying and he isn't as good of a Pokemon trainer as him, but he's still trying. He could even be dead as we speak." I clenched my fists together in anger.
"Dad?" He questioned me. "Who do you call dad? Your mother remarried?"
"I call Gary Oak my father. I call him Gary, but when I talk about him I refer to him as my father. And no, mom didn't remarry. You just happened to leave her with nothing so Gary was nice enough to let us live with him until mom saved up enough money to get her own place with me and Emma." I couldn't even look him in the eyes. "I hate that mom still loves you. I hate it. She even went with Gary in hopes that you'd be out there fighting too. I have no idea where Emma is."
"Please help us." Ry said again. "I can't live like this, knowing that my parents could be dead when I get back. I can't stop thinking about them living in that hole deep in the ground I had Steelix make for them. Other people have it worse. They're like living skeletons and they're all starving or being exploded to death." Ry said and began to rummage through his backpack. "I have pictures." He handed them to Ash who took them and began to look through them.
"Who's this?" He asked.
"That's my mom." I gasped when I saw the picture. That looked nothing like the picture he had shown me. Her face looked like a skull with skin stretched over it and the life in her blue eyes were gone. "And that's a picture of my little sister, Hallie." My eyes actually teared when I noticed the little girl in her mother's arms.
"How old is she?" I asked, forgetting how old she was.
"She's only seven now. And I have a little brother, Trevor. He's nine. His dream is to become a Pokemon Master, but I don't think that he'll even make it to ten and I doubt the war will be over at any time soon unless you help." Ry said. I looked up at my biological father. My blue-green eyes met his dark brown ones.
"Trust me, if I didn't need your help, I wouldn't have come here too." I said to him. After looking through even more Polaroid photos of sick children, Ash said that he would help us. Surprisingly, this made me smile. He dropped the stack of photos when he got to the last few. I bent down to pick them up to see what made him drop the photos. It was just a picture of Ry, Aimi, Trevor, and Hallie with their parents before the war started. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"I know those two." He said, pointing to the lavender haired male and the magenta haired female.
"You mean you know my parents?" Ry asked, very surprised.
"Their names…Jessie and James, right?"
"Yeah. But how did-"
"Long story." He said and shook his head and I handed the pictures back to Ry who put them back in the bag.
"We'll leave tomorrow. We have to get to Isshu soon." Ry announced. I smiled and agreed with him. However, I gave my biological father a cold stare. He wouldn't be getting away with abandoning the three of us that easily.