Pepper: CELEBRATE! THIS IS THE LONGEST CHAPTER SO FAR! :D *throws confetti and balloons and cake everywhere*
Gold: ...But I wanted to eat the cake... :(
Silver: You'll be okay.
Pepper: Okay, now that that's done. Welcome back! I didn't get many reviews last time, so I was sad, but I'm really coming to love this story, so I think I'd keep writing it whether you guys like it or not. XD
Gold: Pepper does not own Pokemon! :D And I forgot to do this a bunch of times. o3o *falls on Silver* Nuuuuurrrrrrrr... X3
Silver: NO. XI
Pepper: Cuddles! Cuddles everywhere! :D
Silver: This is not cuddling! DX
Gold: Nuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrr. :3
Thanks to Blue, we did end up going outside. Yellow suggested we do something nostalgic, like a game they all played when they were five and six. Blue jumped on that idea immediately, insisting that we play a game they called 'Rescue the Princess.' Silver made a groaning noise and told her to shut up. Yellow gently pointed out that we would have only been able to play that game if there were three of us. Silver muttered something that even I didn't catch. It was silent as the three of them thought.
Ruby and Sapphire had followed us outside and Sapphire was trying to get Ruby to play some sort of game that involved teeth and swipes of the paws. The black tom did an excellent job ignoring her tactics as she rolled around his paws and batted at his face. Emerald was inside still. Green had flopped onto his back in the grass and was watching wasps around a nearby nest. I got tired of standing, so I sat, leaning back on my hands.
"Why don't we play hide and seek?" Silver finally suggested. I didn't want to. That's the game that got Red caught. If he hadn't been hiding in the back of that truck he wouldn't have been found by that idiot fat man and reported to the men in white coats. However, Blue became all excited again and insisted that we play it, so Yellow agreed good-naturedly.
"It was your idea, so you count, Silver." Blue said. Silver gave her a slightly irritated look, but agreed nonetheless. As he started counting, all of them scattered, and I watched Blue scale the cherry blossom tree by Yellow's house in a matter of seconds. I decided I wasn't going to participate and stayed right where I was until Silver hit forty. He opened his eyes and stared at me for second.
"You were supposed to hide." He said.
"I didn't want to." I replied. He looked confused for a split second before he rolled his eyes and started to move away.
"Then help me find the others." He ordered without looking back. I stood up and trailed after him as he stalked right under the tree Blue was in and headed towards Yellow's disconnected garage. I would have laughed at him, but Blue wouldn't have appreciated it if I hinted at where she was, so I settled for grinning instead.
Green was the first one he found. The husky-hybrid was crouched behind a lawn mower in the garage. Yellow's mom gave us curious looks as she packed away some old trinkets into a box, but didn't say anything. Green went to wait in the general area we'd all started the game in. Yellow was well hidden under her mom's car, but Silver still found not long after Green. She went to wait with Green, teasing Silver about knowing where Blue was hiding as she passed.
"Maybe you should check inside?" I asked Silver as he circled the house for a third time in an effort to find Blue. I tried not to laugh after I said it.
"It's off limits." He informed me.
"That's boring." I replied. Silver gave me a strange look.
"Why are you grinning like that?" He asked, changing the subject. I shrugged.
"Like what?" I blinked at him innocently.
"Like you know something." He snapped. I began to slide towards Yellow, who was broken down in giggles, and Green, who looked incredibly amused. Silver didn't follow.
"I don't know what you mean." I replied. He narrowed his eyes.
"You know where Blue is, don't you?" He accused. I glanced towards the tree for an instant.
"Nope." My journey across the yard was cut short as Yellow and Green came up to us. Silver gave each of us a piercing stare. Green's face was clear and he looked completely in control of himself. I was still grinning stupidly, and Yellow was looking everywhere, but at Blue's tree with a small smile on her face.
"All of you know. Gold, tell me." He said, crossing his arms.
"What? Why me? Besides, I don't even know!" I said, pretending to be aghast.
"Yes you do, and you're the only who'll tell me." He said. I rolled my eyes.
"Dunno why you thought that. My lips are sealed." I said with a smug smile and a shrug. Yellow started to giggle, almost like Blue had earlier. Silver glanced at her for a second, but his focus remained on me.
"So you do know." He replied.
"It's a possibility…" I said. I could just barely see Blue. I think she was laughing silently.
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"Nope."
"Gold."
"What?"
"Tell me."
"I can't." At this point I was working hard to contain my own laughter, and Yellow was distracting herself from the conversation by encouraging Sapphire and Ruby to come over. Even Green looked a little amused. Silver sighed.
"I didn't want to have to do this…" He said dramatically, a smirk beginning to spread across his face. Yellow looked up from Sapphire in confusion. Green rolled his eyes.
"What are you…?"
"Gold, I order you to tell me where Blue is." He said before I could finish. Apparently I had missed something because I had no idea what he was talking about.
"Um…no…?" I replied, somewhat confused. Was I really expected to do as I was told just because he'd said aloud that it was an order? He gave me an irritated look. Green started to laugh, but when Silver gave him a murderous glare, he shut right up.
"This is getting ridiculous. Just tell me where she is." He snapped. Yellow finally cracked.
"She's in the tree." She said. Silver turned to look and, sure enough, there was Blue, sliding down the tree and laughing like mad. She put an arm around Silver's shoulders.
"I can't believe you didn't figure it out on your own. I always used to hide in the tree!" She teased. He rolled his eyes.
"We haven't played this in a while." He defended himself.
"Yeah, okay." She said with grin, "Thanks for not giving me away Gold, though I still say Silver should work on your disobedience issue." She added.
"I'd rather keep my free thinking, thanks." I told her. She didn't reply and instead told Green that he would have to count this time. He grinned and went over to the corner of the yard. After a moment they all scattered again. I was going to just sit it out again, but I was yanked towards the back corner of the yard, where there was a thick clump of honeysuckle bushes. Before I could protest, my kidnapper, none other than Silver, shoved me into the center of them and slid in after me.
"What are you doing?" I snapped. Silver covered my mouth with his hand.
"Be quiet! We're hiding, duh!" He hissed. He peeked out of the spot through the leaves to see if Green was even done counting. I licked his hand because he'd obviously forgotten to remove it. He yanked it away like I'd bitten him.
"Did you just lick me?" He whisper-yelled, holding his hand suspended like he wasn't sure what to do with it. I gave him an innocent look in reply to his incredulous glare.
"Would it make you feel better if I lied and said no?" I asked. He kind of shook his head and glared at me for a second longer, like maybe I'd grown a second head, before he turned to look through the leaves again. He recoiled almost instantly, pressing us both flat against the fence, the smallest of smiles on his face. I pricked my ears and caught the sound of someone walking past our hiding spot, but I couldn't tell who because the stupid flowers hid their scent from me. Honeysuckle blooms are suffocating when you're surrounded by that many at once.
I assumed it was Green, though, based on Silver's reaction. He passed by without a pause, and after a moment Silver went to check our surroundings again. He relaxed and I guessed that Green was gone.
"You're getting way into this." I informed him.
"Sssshh!" He hissed. I rolled my eyes. He leaned back against the fence again. I didn't know how he could possibly be comfortable. It was cramped in that tiny space between the bushes and the fence. If I moved even a centimeter towards him, I'd practically be sitting on him. It was silent for what felt like forever.
My ears picked up a squeal that sounded like Yellow's and then Blue laughing. Green started laughing, too, which was a new sound. I couldn't imagine an appropriate facial expression for the sound. Silver grinned victoriously as he heard them. I was about to move out of hiding, but Silver pulled me back down before I was spotted.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"It's over…We're the last ones. It doesn't matter." I said. He shook his head.
"That's boring. The seeker has to find everyone before it's over." He insisted. I was about to say something else, but then Emerald came leaping in with a particularly loud cat-growl. Reflexively, I swear I wasn't doing it on purpose; I leapt away with a startled yelp, right into Silver's lap. Emerald hissed, and his fur stood up along his back. My brain still wasn't registering that I was more than a match for him, so when he swiped at the air, I flinched back.
"Emerald!" Yellow exclaimed, her voice taking a scolding tone. The cat gave another hiss before spinning around and going to Yellow. I jumped off Silver like he was a snake when my brain finally caught up. Immediately, I slithered from our hiding spot. But, Silver had looked kind of stunned so I wasn't surprised when he didn't follow.
"Oh, it was 'cause Gold was hiding there," Blue said when I came into view, "I wondered what that noise was."
"Do you know where Silver is?" Green inquired. I decided that if they didn't know, then it'd be best say I didn't see where he went.
"Wow, he's gotten way better at hiding, then." Yellow said. Blue scoffed.
"Green, your nose must be stopped up or something because you are just epic failing today." She teased him. Green looked a little ruffled.
"My nose is working fine," He said, "Pesky woman…" He added under his breath. Neither Yellow, nor Blue heard it, and I had to stop myself from laughing.
"Gold, you try tracking him down. He's your owner after all; you should be good at it." Blue said.
"What makes you think him being my owner has anything to do with how well I can find him?" I snapped. Blue shrugged.
"Green could find me anywhere. He knows my scent the best, so he could pick up even the slightest traces of it." She informed me proudly.
"I think that has more to do with how much time you've spent around each other." I pointed out, stuffing my hands in my pockets. Blue huffed at me.
"I think it goes way deeper than that. Green loves me like a family member." She insisted. Green rolled his eyes.
"Unfortunately." He muttered good-naturedly. She shoved him and he nearly fell over. I shook my head.
"Whatever. I don't even know Silver that well." I replied. Yellow set Emerald down and the cat wandered over to Sapphire and Ruby.
"Yet." She said with a smile.
"But you've been stuck to him like glue this entire time." Blue teased. Green smirked some. I then wished we'd moved away from Silver's hiding spot.
"Yeah right. I have not." I snapped.
"Don't try to tell me that crap! I've been here the whole time!" She exclaimed, grinning triumphantly. I glared at her.
"So, what's your point?" I muttered.
"You like him, at least to some degree." Blue said.
"So what?" I snapped, "You like him, too. Yellow likes him." Blue smiled a demonic smile.
"That's not quite what I meant, but if that's the way you wanna take it…" She said. Green and Yellow both gave quiet laughs. I turned red.
"I don't like Silver." I snapped. My tail was stiff and my ears were flat back. Blue just smiled wider.
"Well, if you say so." She replied. Green's tail waved back and forth slowly in delight at Blue's not so much a joke. I growled at her, and it stopped. Green tensed next to her. Right, like I would waste my energy on her. Before anything else could happen, though, Silver slipped out of hiding and stepped in front of me.
"Right, enough teasing for the day, okay? The last thing we need is another fight." He said peaceably. Blue gave a nod.
"It's probably about time I got back anyway. My mom wanted me home for at least the evening on my first day back." She said.
"See ya, Yellow." Silver said, following Blue to where the chauffer was still waiting. Blue stopped and waved to her before leaping into the car. Green slipped in after her and then Silver. The last thing I wanted to do was take a long car ride with Blue, Green, and Silver after that conversation, but I had no choice. Yellow waved to us as the car moved off down the street.
Gold: I see what you're doing here...=_=
Pepper: Lolwhut? :D
Silver: Awkward...o_o
Gold: I've become the character that everyone feels the need to make of, haven't I? T^T
Silver: That's what you're upset about? o.O
Pepper: No, Gold that's not what I'm doing at all! D:
Gold: Shuddup, I don't believe you. T^T *sulks in the corner*
Pepper: Don't forget to review, my readers. T^T Gold hates me now. *sobsobsob* *runs away in tears*
Silver: ...They'll be okay... o_o
