"Why?" Astral said looking surprised. "Well the only way to get here is two ways… you either climb up this mountain or you teleport here, and something tells me you didn't climb that mountain. "No, I didn't." "And that's what surprises me… you couldn't have teleported here… absol's can't do that." "I had some help…" "I see… no need to tell me if you don't want to… but I do want to know why you are here… your clearly aren't just sightseeing."
"I'm exploring around, just trying to catch my bearings." "I highly don't believe you… you are here for a reason… lie to me again and you will find yourself a frozen popsicle." "Okay no need to threaten me. I need to know where I am because I'm trying to find team psyche." "I wasn't threating, just warning… I hate liars. As for team psyche… they use to live in that mansion in that mansion in that forest over there." "I was there a while ago."
"Well no since in going there now." "Why?" "I said they used to live there." "Do you know where they are now?" "Well… what's in it for me for helping?" "I don't understand." "Tell you what I'll make you a deal… you do a favor for me and I'll tell you where their new hideout is." "Okay, deal what do you want?" "On this mountain is a rare plant… it cures all ailments of the body… my daughter Icy's, twin brother, Ice, is very sick, and needs that plant."
"But I can't find it myself, as you can see I bring a blizzard where ever I go… I want you to go get this plant for me, and bring it back here." "Okay, where should I start?" "This is the map of the snowy mountain… the plant in question should be near the top… use this to find it. One more thing the picture of what the plant looks like is on the back of the map." "Okay, I will go now." Astral starts to romp through the snow.
He looks at the map and ground, and then he bumped into someone. "Hey watch where you are going!" "Sorry about that." Astral looks and sees a glaceon. "Uh, hi Crystal." "Who? I think this mountain air has gone to your head. I'm Janice… I don't know who this Crystal is, but you better watch where you are going next time." "Sorry I didn't mean to… I'm looking for a rare plant you see…" "Oh really?" Her mean face turned sad.
"No supplies, no protection from the cold… geez you must be hungry and tired." "I am hungry and a bit tired, but I got to find this plant." She gives a small smile, "Come to my cabin." "Okay, I'll follow." In the cabin… "Here a nice cup of hot chocolate." "Thanks." Sip, "Ah, that's good." "I'm impressed you made it up this high… you must be really in need of that plant." "Well Shayla is, I'm helping look for it."
"Let me see that map… ah ha I thought so." "What?" Looks at Janice with interest."Finding this plant won't be easy... but lucky for you I know exactly where you need to go to find it." "Where is it?" "I won't advice going there..." "Why not? It's important that I find it, please tell me." "Well because you need to go through beartic territory to get there." "Why is that bad?" "Because beartic's are extremely territorial."
"Oh..." "Yeah... they don't like others on their territory..." "Is there any way to get them to let me cross?" "Well, you can give them ice berries." "Where do I find those?" "I actually have some growing in my garden." "Are you willing to part with any?" "I am... if your willing to get me an ice jewel." "But I'm already on a hunt." "It's not off your path... just past beartic territory you can find ice jewel's... why do you think I'm growing ice berries."
"Good point." "Now since your going that way anyways you can pick me up an ice jewel on the way... they are sot after by many glaceon's" "Okay sounds like a deal." "Great, here's a picture of an ice jewel when you bring me the ice jewel our deal will be complete. Till then take as many ice berries you need in this basket." "Okay thanks." Grabs the basket then asks, "Where is the garden?" "This way... here it is. Oh one last thing..."
"Yes?" "When a pokémon gives a glaceon an ice jewel it means, will you be mine. You might want to grab another... just in case your trying to impress a glaceon." "Oh, thank you very much." "Don't worry giving me one... I'm perfectly happy single." "I won't worry about that." "Oh and give it to me when you come back... it looks nice when it's a necklace." She winks at Astral. "Okay thank you... how much does she know?"
After gathering the berries he saw Janice standing beside something... "Hey what are you doing over there?" "I'm just being sentimental, this is an icy rock." "Okay, what is it for?" "It's used to evolve eevee's into glaceon's." "Cool." "There is only one icy rock and mossy rock in this region. When I was little I saw a shiny eevee evolve into a shiny glaceon with this rock, see you when you get back..." Wink again.
"Hmm... okay..." He runs off, 'Wait a shiny eevee evolving into a shiny glaceon... how many shiny glaceon's do you think there is?' "Wait, she means... Crystal." 'Yep... she probably doesn't know Crystal personally but she did see a shiny eevee evolve into a shiny glaceon, she probably guessed from your outburst that Crystal was a glaceon, she connected the dots and figured it out.' "How did she find out so well, I think I know how... oh well I'm headed out."
"Stop right there pal." "What now?" "Your getting to close to beartic territory... just trying to save your skin." "I have something they may want." "Well your crazy... I'm Frost, a delibird. You don't want to be heading there right now..." "Why?" "They are to furious to talk to anyone seems they lost a cubchoo." Astral sighs, "I can help, it may help me in the long run." Near beartic territory... "Grrr... grr, grrrr..." "Uh hi, I want to help you find the lost cubchoo."
"Grrr?" "I have ice berries." "Move out of the way idiot." A female voice shouted, the female beartic looked at Astral, "You absol... you got a lot of nerve coming here!" "It's a long story..." "This is our territory so scram." "I really need to pass it's important." "Well your ice berries might have let you pass in other times but not now okay? We are dealing with something important right now." "I'm on a helping spree already, I want to help you."
"Well see those skarmory?" "Yes." "They said we took something of theirs and won't give back our cubchoo until we do." "I'll go talk to them, I'll be back." "We are the skarmory clan, I'm Steel the leader why are you here?" "Hi, I'm Astral, what did the beartic's steal?" "They took my daughter Stella, and what's worse is that they won't give her back... so we are keeping the cubchoo until they do.""Okay, give me a second."
He walks towards the beartics. "Well your back... you seem pretty set on this quest of yours." "Yes I am. Do you know anything about Stella?" "Stella... Steel's kid?" "Yes." "We keep telling them we didn't take her, but oh no they won't believe us. Said they found claw marks of a beartic where Stella was nesting but we had nothing to do with it." "Slow down I'm not accusing you. Do you know where she would be other than the nest?"
"I don't know... if I did would we be in this mess?" "No, I just thought it may have been overlooked." "Well I don't know where she is... ask any beartic and they will say the same thing!" "Calm down I'm trying to solve this and yelling won't help. I'll go see something, I'll be back." Walks back to Steel. "What do you want?" "May I have a look at the nest where Stella was taken?" "Sure do whatever you want, it is over there."
"But Steel absol's can't fly..." "I can climb and jump can't I?" "You can't climb to our nests, you have to fly there... unless of course you have beartic claws." "Oh could someone show me where the marks are?" "Will any skarmory take this suicidal absol to our nests?" "I will take him, I'm Estell." "Hi there and thank you." "Don't wiggle okay?" "Okay." She flew up and grabs Astral with her claws. "Wheee!" "Am I holding you tight there Astral?"
"Nope your good." "Well there is our nesting grounds, can you tuck and roll?" "Yeah I can." She let's go as Astral tucks his body then rolls, getting up Astral starts to look around. "Well the nest of Stella is this way, crazy absol..." "Okay." Following she lead him to a nest. "Well here it is... as you can see claw marks and the only way to get here is to fly or if you're a beartic you can use your claws to climb up the steep cliff."