Closing the door behind him as last of the family entered the blinding blizzard, Robert locked the door and pocketed the key into the inner pocket near his right breast. Turning to his family, who were all packed with supplies and in their gear, all but Saphia and Junior, he adjusted his backpacks straps. Draco clapped his hands together, but the sound of his hands clapping together was drowned out by the blizzards howling wind as it blew snow violently about their surroundings.

"The usual path, Pops?!" Draco shouted over the howling winds of the blizzard as it began to get stronger.

"There's no need to yell, I can hear you fine. Yes, we're going to the cave at the top of the mountain", Robert said as he looked at the ground.

On the ground was four feet of snow that had already piled up within the half hour, Junior was busy tunneling randomly through the thick snow. Reaching his arm through the roof of a tunnel the playful Riolu had dug, he pulled him out by the nape of his neck. The Riolu shook himself clean of any snow, but was covered up again as the blizzards wind blew snow back onto his blue fur. Draco turned towards the side of the house and then charged through the deep snow. Though the entire family, including the two new members, was going on this hiking trip for a day or two, or more, Draco was the only one excited at this. The others followed through the snow while the Gallade ahead of them continued to run through the snow, unaffected by the opposing wind. Looking to her side, Saphia stared at Robert as he held onto her son in his arms. Placing her paw on his arm, she gained his attention.

"Why does your son show such enthusiasm for this?" She asked as she walked closer to him so that they could hear one another better.

"Like I said before, he enjoys challenges, especially if it relates to working out. Plus we're going to a special spot that is perfect this time of year", Robert said as he covered the Riolu's eyes with his hand, shielding his eyes from the stinging snow.

"What do you mean by 'special spot'?" She asked as she leaned forward as she continued to tackle against the powerful wind.

"You'll see... Saphia...", he said as his blank expression seemed to show a darkening expression of sadness.

Turning his face away from hers, he stopped their conversation. Saphia continued to stare at Robert for a few seconds before looking forward again.

'Again with this name. What meaning does this name hold?' Saphia thought as she stared at Scarlet's back.

As they continued to trek through the snow, the invisible path started to angle upwards as they drew closer to the mountain. Draco had slowed down slightly to let everyone else catch up, occasionally checking to see if his snowboard was still strapped to his backpack, hoping that the wind hasn't torn it from his pack. After a few minutes more of hiking, they were now walking along a path that was heavily covered by snow, but was still usable. As they continued to travel up this path, the snow was getting lighter and lighter, but was still strong as ever. The slight change was noticable to the Lucario's sensitive ears as she heard the howling of the blizzard grow weaker at the slightest.

"Robert, why is the wind becoming weaker?" She asked as she looked over at the human.

"This mountain is one of the mountains that pushes away snow as we go higher. I don't understand how, but some say that the legendary pokemon, Regice is trying to keep its line of sight clear from a cave at the side of the mountain to the temple in the city", he said as he walked closer to the wall of the mountain. The others following suit ahead of the two.

"Why is it doing such a thing?" She asked as she turned her attention back to the back of Scarlet's snow covered backpack.

"A few month ago, the New Team Rocket actually came into the city and tried to steal the statue of Regigigas", he said as he brushed the snow off of his face, "but it's strange though", he said as he let out a deep sigh.

"What do you mean?" Saphia asked as the path made a slight turn to the right.

"The statue won't react unless all three of the Regi's are present. They're planning something and the higher ups keep asking me to come back to them. It annoys me. I've told them countless times that I will never return to that line of duty", he said.

"I see...", she said.

Suddenly, the snow immediately cleared up around them. A light blue beam shot down from above them, drawing a line across the path, separating Saphia and Draco from the others. Draco immediately lifted one arm up and a grassy green barrier formed around Susan, himself, and Scarlet as a bright yellow beam struck down at the top of the barrier. Saphia was about to fire an Aura Sphere from the source, but was stopped by Robert as he raised his arm in front of her.

"Regice! It's just us! It's okay!" Robert shouted into the blizzards supposed emptiness above.

Slowly, the whirling snow above them cleared up and finally sank down below the path that they were on, covering the ground from view. A loud whirring sound came from above, it was the legendary ice pokemon, Regice. Noticing the people who were coming up the path were ones it knew, the whirring that was coming from a Sheer Cold attack it was about to fire stopped as it slowly stopped the attack. Floating down from an opening in the cliff side, it touched down.

"Hey Regice, haven't seen you in a while", Draco laughed as he gave Regice a light jab, earning a few beeps and flashes from the beads on its clear surface.

"Regice, have they come back while we were gone these past few months?" Robert asked.

"*Beeping Sounds*", Regice beeped as it turned to Robert, suddenly stopping as it saw Saphia.

"Draco, do you think you can get my translator to be able to translate what it says?" Robert said as he took the earpiece out and held it out towards Draco.

"What? Seriously! Arceus damnit, when will I figure out how to make it translate its voice?" Draco swore as he snatched the piece out of his hand.

"Regice, would you like to come with us while we go to the top? You don't have to come all the way if you don't wish to", Robert said as Draco's eyes glowed as he used Psychic on the tiny gadget.

The legendary took a few seconds to notice that it had been asked a question. Bowing to motion yes, not having a neck and all, it began to float behind Robert as they began to walk again. Everything was silent around them, but further away from Regice's control over the blizzard, the blizzard raged on undisturbed. Finally, a heavenly voice entered Saphia's mind.

'My dear... I am truly sorry', the voice echoed from within Saphia's mind.

'Telepathy... is that you, Regice? And what do you mean that you are sorry?' Saphia used her telepathy back.

'I know of your past... I am truly sorry. Your loss could have been stopped... For that, I am sorry,' Regice stopped, earning the attention of the others. All but Draco who was drowned in the work of his little gadget.

Raising it's block of ice like arms, a small orb floated out of its body. Bringing its arms down and then moving them towards Saphia, the orb floated towards the Lucario. Everyone watched as the orb slowly gained a new shape as it slowly set itself down onto Saphia's paw that she had blindly extended out. The light of the object disappeared, the object falling onto her paws.

"I am truly, truly, sorry child... a token of what you've lost has been returned to you", Regice's heaven like voice echoed outwards as Regice slowly floated up into the air, "until we may meet again...", it said before turning pure white and disappearing as the blizzard returned to them.

"Whoa, that was sick", Scarlet said as she wowed at the voice she had heard.

"What did it give you?" Susan asked as she looked at Saphia's paw.

Saphia's eyes were wide open at what she saw. Her eyes soon turned to a sad glare as she tightened her paw on the object. Walking towards Robert, she went behind him and quickly unzipped a pocket on his pack and then quickly closed it, the object tucked into the said pocket. Everyone fell silent as Saphia quickly walked further up the path, leaving everyone behind in their dumbfound state, Robert's expression was still blank as ever.

"Momma?" Junior whispered as he peered out of the opening of Roberts jacket.

"Bingo. Pops, mind testing the translator on... Regi...ice. Oh come on, just when I finish this, its gone", Draco groaned as he used his Psychic to return the device to Robert.

"...Eeeeh, did I miss something?" He asked as he looked back and forth at Saphia and then at the others.

~Time Skip: Two Hours~

It has been a long while since they've started their way up the mountain, and they were close to the top already. Out of everyone there, Saphia was the only one who was breathing hard.

"Are you tired?" Draco smiled as he walked backwards, staring at Saphia as he did so.

"I am, how are you not?" She asked as she breathed in and out in quick repetitions.

"Well when you've been fighting in wars for a few years, you get used to tough things", Scarlet said as she pushed Draco into the wall before running up ahead.

"What the hell?! Get back here!" Draco shouted as he blasted the snow off of himself with Psychic and then charged after her.

"Ah those two", Susan said as she let out one of her throaty giggles, "now that Mary's no longer someone that Draco's in love with, maybe Scarlet can finally confess to him", Mary said as she looked up at Robert.

"Scarlet's not the kind of person who goes and does something like that. I'm still surprised that she of all people is nervous to do this", Robert said.

"Well love does things to people. You understand don't you?" Susan asked Robert, but quickly paused as she noticed what she had said.

"Yes, I do", he said, not showing any such emotions she was expecting for him to let out.

"Come on, Saphia. We're high enough where the snow's not coming down as hard, it should be easier. We'll be at the top soon", Robert said as he continued to walk on ahead.

Saphia stopped when Susan did, looking at Robert and then at Susan as she tried to understand what was going on. Above them was Scarlet and Draco. Draco had stopped kneeled down by the edge of the cliffside as he looked down, Scarlet stopped a little ways further up the path when he did.

'Again... these feelings I pick up from Pops... I was expecting him to feel angry or depressed when somethings mentioned of 'her'...', Draco thought as he followed Robert with his eyes as he came closer to the bend of the path.

'Wait a second...', he suddenly thought as he looked down at Saphia as she began to walk again, he smiled.

'*Chuckle* I get it n-*Splat*', Draco's train of thought was knocked out as a snowball struck him at the back of his head, causing him to stand and turn around.

"Gotcha'!" Scarlet cheered as she ran back up the path.

Not chasing after her, rubbing the back of his head, he smiled to himself as Robert came closer and closer from down the path.

'Maybe Mom was right...', he thought as he looked back down at Susan, 'love does make people do things... maybe I should tell her...', Draco chuckled as he looked above him at the cliff side where Scarlet was sticking her tongue at him.

"What are you chuckling about?" Robert asked as he came up to his sons' side.

"Nothing Pops. Nothing", he smiled as he walked forward.

A few minutes more and they were almost at the top. The blizzard had become very weak at where they were walking up no. Nothing but sheets of ice encasing the stoney sloped sides of the mountain, there was hardly any snow up here as well. The group wasn't all together, Susan and Saphia lagged behind to talk about something Saphia had brought up. She wanted to know about this Regice pokemon that they came across a little ways back on the path.

"Tell me, Susan... what is this Regice? I wish to know what links he holds with my past", she said as she walked alongside the Mightyena.

"I don't know anything that could have it related to your past, but I can tell you of Regice. Regice is one of the legendary's that is one of its own. All of the Regi's but Regigigas has more than one of its kind. The Regi's are all formed normally in nature, I find it quite amazing for such pokemon to be born like that", Susan said.

"I see... so there are many more of this, Regice?" Saphia asked.

"Yes there is, but few of them come out from their birth places. Some move on to protect things of great value, but I never did understand how they would know. Legendary's will be legendary's", she smiled as she looked ahead, smiling more as she did so.

"Yo'! Mom! Are you two gonna lag behind?! We're already here!" Draco shouted as he stood by the underside of a large round disc of clouds that spanned out further than you could see.

It was like a blanket that was pierced by a single knife that held it straight out into the sky. Snow swirled around the mountain base beneath them. The snow was being sucked down before it could even snow down onto the path that they were on. Saphia stopped in her tracks as she gazed upon what she has seen. Susan let out one of her throaty giggles as she saw her reaction, but kept on moving forward as the Lucario continued to gaze upon the clouds. Saphia broke out of her trance when she noticed a backpack go flying into the air.

"Let's go!" Draco wooped as he leaped off the narrow path with his snowboard planted underneath his feet.

Saphia watched in shock as she saw Draco disappear in another think blanket of clouds that had formed around the higher parts of the path. Walking towards the others who were also watching Draco, she asked.

"Why did he jump?" Saphia asked as she kept her gaze at the little hole in the clouds.

"He wanted to go snowboarding. He'll be back", Robert said as he picked up Draco's pack and walked towards the perfectly straight wall that seemed to form a right angle, only with slight indents for climbing.

"Susan", he called out the Mightyena's name.

"Alrighty deary", she said as she walked towards Robert, who was placing Junior down on her back, he had fallen asleep already.

Crouching down slightly, Robert cupped his hands together as he held them straight down. Susan then charged at him and jumped at him. Landing her paws on his hands, he launched her through the clouds.

"Saphia, let's get to the top. We'll be camping there tonight and then go look around in the morning", he said as he turned around and began to climb up.

Saphia watched him climb, and slowly started to copy what he was doing. After a slight climb, they finally broke through the top of the blanket of clouds. Saphia's mouth dropped open. Susan was lying down by the mouth of a cave with Junior now awake on her back, laughing as he looked at the view that was above the clouds. At the peak, the sunset provided an amazing array of colors along with the creeping night sky, provided an amazing display of color in the sky.

"Amazing...", Saphia said as she looked around.

"You should see this place during the sunrise. It looks better", Susan smiled as Robert walked into the cave with his and Draco's bag.

"Yo'! Bubby! I forgot the sleeping bags at home!" Scarlet called out from the depths of the cave.

"It's okay, we can make due without them", Robert said.

"Who-*thud*" Draco came flying out of the clouds and landed on his back, his board clunked against the ice and stone floor.

"Come on Draco, time to get camp started. We'll sleep after that", Robert said as he began to open his bag.

"Yeah yeah... Oh, and I got some branches from a tree I crashed into", Draco said as he lifted his arm where a branch was stabbed through his sleeve.

Draco stared at Scarlet for a brief moment, but quickly turned away when Scarlet turned around to walk to Robert. He sighed and shook his head.

"Tonight... tonight I will", he breathed in before walking towards Robert and pulled out the branch from his sleeve.

~Time Skip: Midnight~

Everyone laid around a pit of fire that Draco had carved out of the icy floor with his Psychic and lit the branches he had brought back with his Fire Punch. Though the fire pit maker wasn't in the cave, he had left the cave a little while ago. A pop from the fire came as a branch snapped from the fire, waking Scarlet from her sleep.

"Hmm?" She moaned as she looked around and noticed that it was nothing.

Turning to go back to sleep on her backpack, she noticed something in front of the fire, it was carvings.

"Scarlet, please come to the top of the cave...', the carvings read that were signed by a quickly drawn "G".

Scratching her head, she noticed that Draco wasn't in the cave. Moaning as she stretched, she got up and slowly walked towards the mouth of the cave and noticed that there were holes in the wall beside her that provided a perfect ladder.

"Huh... never saw that", she whispered as she turned and slowly climbed up.

As the top of the cliffside came into view, she saw a green lump at the top, it was most likely the top of Draco's hair.

"Draco?" She called out his name as she climbed onto the top of the cave.

Draco turned to her, the blue and black night sky that was illuminated by the moon shined down on the mirror like ice around them. He approached her.

Cliffhangers! AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA -insert more evil laughs- Sorry for the wait :P I don't really have much to say as an update. Also, sorry for making this a little quick on events, but I kind of got stuck on what to write for the filler parts that went too quickly :P Looks like Draco's gonna do a little confessing~... Or not?

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