Alone:

I sat alone, looking up at the night sky. There wasn't anything better to do.

She was dead, and nothing in this world could bring her back. Not even Ho-oh.

Though I'd tried.

The north wind blew for a moment, and I looked down from the sky. The familiar figure was racing towards me.

Suicune. Not that she was mine, or anything. She… had chosen to be caught. By Her.

Her? Oh, my girlfriend. We were engaged. We had been planning to get married. Key word; 'had'. And it was their fault that she wasn't here with me.

The Rockets. Every time I think of them, I still get surges of hate.

They'd come after Suicune. Suicune was one of her pokemon. How the word had gone out, neither of us knew. She (Suicune) had made us vow to never speak a word about her. We never did. My girlfriend (I can't say her name, it still hurts far too much), had never used her in a battle. Ever. She'd lost battles because of it, but neither of us cared.

Somehow, the Rockets had found out. They went after us, and attacked.

Her other pokemon were killed, and mine were nearly dead. Even Psymachine (my Metagross). How bullets can damage a steel pokemon I'll never understand, but they can. Maybe it's the heat of friction. Luckily, his eyes were as tough as steel, otherwise he'd be blind.

When he had shielded us, they'd aimed for the eyes.

We tried to run, but she was shot down. By about ten automatic rounds. I know I was shot too, because I have gashes in my torso. They must have been grazes, because none of my vital organs were hit.

I'd be dead if it HAD hit. I never went to a hospital. The bullets left holes, so I guess they went straight through. And I didn't get infected, either. Suicune's work.

Anyway, somehow Suicune freed herself from her ball, and took me with her.

Why, I don't know. At the time, all I wanted to do was go down with Her. Still do, as a matter of fact.

After escaping, she agreed to stay with me. I guess it was an act of reconciliation, or something. I never have blamed her. She is one of the most pure beings in the world.

We went to war against the Rockets, after a while. That was something we both agreed on.

It didn't take long for us to cut through them. I'd never had more than five pokemon ever (I might explain later… but not now. It still hurts, thinking on the past too much), so Suicune became my sixth. Like I said, we managed to kill of most of the Rockets. Hiding her wasn't an issue anymore, they knew about her.

Mewtwo… he was another matter. When we tried to trash the Viridian gym, Giovanni took exception to that.

Of course, it didn't take us long to free him from the control Giovanni had over him. Erastrani blasted Giovanni with Hyper Beam, and I shattered the Master Ball that he had used to control Mewtwo.

To be honest, I didn't want to. But Suicune… well… she told me to do it for Her.As one last act of respect. I did it. Mewtwo fled after that. We haven't heard from him, but Suicune tells me that he DID thank her. Once, anyway.

The shards from that Master ball have left a lot of scars on my right arm. Especially the underside. Some of the cuts were very deep.

I never did say that I intended to kill Giovanni from the start, did I? That Hyper Beam, unfortunately, did too good of a job. It incinerated him. All I got to kill was his stupid Persian. I felt cheated about that, but I couldn't get to him through that stupid cat.

Well, that was my goal – kill the bastard. I think Suicune knew all along that it was my goal.

All the others knew, so I would be surprised if she didn't.

Before we went on our rampage, Suicune tried to have Her resurrected. But… Ho-oh couldn't bring Her back. For all the power in the great phoenix, she couldn't do it.

Even when I offered my life energies. Ho-oh said… well… that human resurrection… couldn't happen until the pure of heart came, and destroyed the evil. She mentioned a boy by the name of Ash, who she had made her champion… and other people of light in our world. Not that he knew, though most the others did.

As for us, when she flew away – that was when we agreed to the war. Before, I had been pulling for it while she begged me to wait.

It was reluctant… but she agreed.

Well, that brings us to now. Suicune and I are wanted. I'm a mass murderer, as are my pokemon. Suicune is wanted for being a legendary that actually… well, interfered would be the best word. She hasn't explained it to me. Other legendary pokemon leave us alone, though.

This is our refuge. It is a small clearing at Mount Silver. The air is thin, so no human could stay up here for long.

Well, unless they have the blessing of the north wind. I do, so I can stay up here for as long as I live.

Since Suicune refuses to let me kill myself, I guess this is second best.

Suicune gave me a measuring gaze, and walked a few paces away, then settled down. The rest of my pokemon didn't like the thin air, and kept to their balls.

I never had a problem. I guess that Suicune's has been fiddling with by body. I know she's rebuilt my lungs.

I sighed, and curled up to sleep. The air might have been cold, but it never bothered me anymore.

The north wind blows cold, remember. When you travel with the incarnation of that wind, you grow immune to cold. Mostly, anyway. I have no delusions about being able to survive at the North Pole – I would freeze.

I know I'll spend my days here, until I die. Hopefully, that will be soon.