Chapter 4

Finders Keepers…

"So, you're The Dawn Berlitz?" Jun said it as if everyone knew her.

"Yea, what's so special about me?" Dawn said as she rubbed her bare legs, trying to keep them warm next to the fire.

"Well, I don't know, but I used to hear people talking about you when they walked through the woods and stuff." Jun was putting food down in bowls for his pokemon.

"Oh, I am rather popular I guess." Dawn's pokemon were eating too now. "So, have you lived here all your life?" She asked.

"No, not all of it." He sighed and looked out across the wood. "I love it here." He said.

"So, how'd you end up here?" Dawn asked. Jun continued to stare out over the trees.

"Look how the tree tops sway. If you look carefully you can just see Twinleaf. Hey have you heard the legend about this cave, it inspired me to stay here after…" He paused. "Well, I used to come here as a boy, I love it! Want to hear the legend?" Dawn knew he was just avoiding explaining what had happened to him for him to end up here. She figured it must have been bad and decided to leave it, but this legend sounded interesting and she was willing to give it a listen.

" (1) Well, long ago a legendary pokemon called Giratina destroyed Sinnoh. It was then, soon after, banished to a horrible dark place where there is nothing living called the distortion world. Unfortunately it came back and sought refuge deep inside this cavern. It planned to drag this world, Sinnoh, into the distortion world, so he would rule and everyone would be his slave."

"Well, what happened next?" Dawn was gripped by now and had virtually forgotten all about waning to know how Jun came to the forest.

"Well, he was stopped wasn't he. Mesprit, Uxie and Azelf. Heard of them?" It was a rhetorical question and he continued. "The legendaries of the lakes. Well, they for that thingy called the red chain which can summon Dialga or Palkia, the legends of Time and Space, who made Sinnoh, and sealed Giratina into the distortion world in the first place. So, what did they do? Made the red chain, Palkia appears and bam. Giratina's down. Next thing he knows he has no memory. Can't even remember who he is. Uxie's memory wipe power. Anyway, it all happened deep inside here." Jun beamed when he had finished his long speech.

"Well, nice story, but I best go now, loads of people will be worried sick. Also I'm looking for someone, so, see you round ok?" Dawn began to pack up her stuff.

"Um, wait, do you have to go?" Jun seemed suddenly much more upset and lonely. Dawn looked at him, his head was bowed and his lower lip was trembling. "I'll tell you how I got here?"

Ash was reading his book that professor Oak had bought him. Study well and you will go far! He remembered Oak saying it as he gave it to him as a going away present. He was sat on his bed in Jubilife Cities pokemon centre. He sighed before turning the TV on.

"And there has been a sighting of Dawn Berlitz in Eterna forest. Three months after she went missing and she's with a boy. Yes, definitely a boy! She seems to be content. Back to the studio with her parents!" The reporter was in a helicopter and the pictures were at first normal but soon changed to heat censored so you could see what they were up to. Ash turned off the TV and in rage set out to find this guy who she was with. He didn't know why he was so angry but he just was. He wanted his partner back, he needed his partner back. He grabbed his back, picked up the three pokemon he had acquired after leaving hospital that day and set out at 8pm to find her. Outside the pokemon centre it was cold and although it was a very bright miraculous city he was in he still felt very lonely and insecure. He wandered along the path towards Floaroma town he noticed flowers blowing in the wind and realised he was close. Eterna forest was only just north of Floaroma town and he knew he could make it to Floaroma town. He was running like when he was running away from Dawn's kiss. He thought back and didn't realise why he was running. It was all his fault. ALL HIS FAULT!

"Yes, it is all your fault!" Ash woke with a start to notice bright blue skies and bright brown hair. Gary. But, what was he doing here in Sinnoh? "Didn't expect me to be here did you?" Ash opened his mouth to speak but no words came out. "Well, since your little accident I took over as the person who would do Sinnoh's Pokedex. And what does that mean, I get Dawn too. HA!" Ash was angry now, he wanted to his Gary full in the face. "Anyway," Gary went on. "It is all your fault that Dawn is missing, and since you obviously don't want to help her by looking for her then I guess I'm the only one who will, and then she'll be all mine."

"But I do want to help her!" Ash spat out.

"Huh, how? By falling asleep on your way to Floaroma town?" It was true. As ash looked around him he realised what Gary said had made perfect sense. He had actually fallen asleep, not knowing it, on his way to Floaroma town. And he must have been thinking out load. Ash stood up and pushed Gary out of the way.

"Move!" He ordered. "I'm going to save Dawn." Then he set off, away from Gary, towards Floaroma.

"Good luck!" Gary shouted sarcastically.

Ash arrived in Floaroma town just before lunch time and boy was he hungry. He ate as much as he could but half way through his meal he was interrupted.

"Mr Ketchum?" said a sweet voice.

"Yes?" Ash said with a mouth full.

"We have something to show you…" Ash looked up at nurse Joy, the person he was talking to.

"Ok, one sec." Ash stored as much food into his mouth as he could before standing up and following nurse joy into the back room of the pokemon centre. She led him through a track of tables and equipment until they got to the end where they found a small yellow and brown mouse pokemon. It lay on it's back and had many scratched and burn marks on it. A number of wires and pads were attached to it. It opened it's eyes slightly at it's owners arrival.

"Pika…" It said weakly closing it's eyes again. Ash swallowed hard and bit his lip. Tears welled up in his eyes.

"Mr Ketchum, does this mean anything to you?" The nurse looked anxiously.

"Yea, yea it does." Ash whispered.

Wow, I really lost this story, I thought this idea up as I wrote it so tell me if it is rubbish now and whether I should give up of not. Please R&R and keep reading.

Oh, and (1) in the story is a reference to my other story Giratina's Back. Just go to my profile and go to my stories and you'll find it, for the in depth description.

-El Ch!b!