Well after a long time i finally got up from my lazy ass and started a new chapter for everyone. I would like to thank the one reader who reviewed to every chapter and was the one who encouraged me to continue this story.......and that reader is BichejoLostWing. This reader was the only one to give me an idea and i took it.

Now on with the chapter.

Frozen Heart and the Beast Within: Gary's Past! and what is this 'Gary Loves Ash?'

Everyone in the room was dead quite as they sat in a circle, staring at the paper that lie in the center. They were still recovering from the fear they felt when they saw Ash and the drawing.

"Maybe this picture is just a joke? Maybe he's just playing with us," said May, beads of sweat forming on her forehead. 'I wish I was right, but I know this is real,' she sighed in her mind. 'SHIT.'

The room remained silent until Gary had noticed the small writing on one of the blood pools.

'Turn your TV to channel 17 and watch the news'

Gary immediately stood up and ran to his television, turned it on, and flipped through the channels. Everyone else watched in confusion, thinking this was an inappropriate time to be watching TV. Gary had finally gotten to channel 17 before sitting back down with his friends, watching the screen anxiously.

'Viewers are advised that what you are about to see is extremely graphic, and that you should keep any children out of the room.'

The anchorwoman, who was all smiles during normal reports, frowned as she recited this latest piece of news. She cleared her throat and took a deep breath before beginning her report.

'Today, a body was found next to a small river in the vicinity of Pallet town. The policing have ruled this to be homicide, and are now searching the area for any evidence that could lead them to the sick criminal that would take the life of an innocent young boy.'

After she finished speaking, a picture of the corpse appeared on the screen.

The group gasped as they saw it.

The boy's chest was cut open, his internal organs spilling out onto the ground, along with copious amounts of blood. His legs and arms were shattered to the point where pieces of jagged bone jutted out from his flesh in multiple places. Twisted nails were impaled in every joint on his fingers and toes, and his natural nails had been torn off at their bases.

It was all the group could do not to vomit, but then May spoke up, her voice quiet and shaky with fear.

"Isn't that our classmate, Todd?"

Everyone narrowed their eyes, soon seeing that May was right.

The silence was broken again when Gary spoke.

"Don't tell me that Ash did that..."

Everyone stared at him, horrified by the thought.

"What did Todd ever do to him? He didn't deserve this.......Ash, what happened to you that made you become a monster?"

Everyone's eyes grew wide as their minds raced with questions.

"Wait! Gary, are you telling us that you know Ash?"

His friends glared at him.

"Yes! Back when we were kids, we were the best of friends."

"What happened that made you stop being his friend?"

Gary sighed. He had been hoping that he wouldn't have to tell a single soul about his true feelings for Ash, but apparently destiny was against him. Letting out one more sigh before blushing and looking up to his confused friends, he began to speak.

"Well you see, when Ash and I were kids, I developed feelings for him." He continued to blush and looked only at his carpet, avoiding his friends' eyes.

Everyone gasped, some blushing at the idea of Gary and Ash giving each other a passionate kiss. The fantasy didn't last long before Gary continued with his story.

"You see, I thought something was wrong with me because I knew that boys shouldn't like other boys, so to get rid of my feelings I started to act cold towards Ash, hoping to break my crush on him….."

Gary paused for a minute.

"Of course I felt bad when I teased and insulted him, but what I didn't expect was that by me being cruel to him, my lust for him grew out of control." Gary's face was now beet red.

"Soon after, I just wanted to jump him and rip his shirt off just to feel his tan skin. I wanted to taste those lips and make him moan while biting and kissing his neck." Everyone was blushing as Gary continued his day dream. "Man, I wanted to rock him back and forth, giving him pleasure that would rock both of our wor….." he stopped when he heard someone clear their throat, realizing that he had been reciting his innermost fantasies.

Gary wished he was somewhere far, far away from his friends as they fanned themselves.

"WOW! Gary, I didn't know you were like that!" Dawn then gave him a smirk which turned to a grin that spread from ear to ear.

After everyone calmed down, Brock spoke up, drawing the group's attention.

"So Ash was never like this before?"

Dawn spoke after him. "Yeah, what happened to him to make him the way he is now?"

Everyone turned to Gary, hoping that he would have the answers they sought.

"Well you see, after avoiding him by traveling around the region to capture and raise Pokemon to challenge the Pokemon league, I had hardly seen Ash."

The group's gaze was mostly on the ground, but was soon brought upward after Gary cleared his throat.

"After I finished the league and came home, I would occasionally see Ash, but something was different about him." Gary paused, trying his best to remember what happened back then before continuing. "Ash had started to wear long sleeves and seemed a lot frailer than I had remembered him, but what really caught my attention was when I saw him with bruises or bandages covering his face, as if someone was abusing him."

Everyone thought about what could have happened but they were cut off when Gary spoke again.

"After learning how to control my hormones….a bit….I had finally worked up the courage to ask him what was happening to him, and what he told me pissed me off."

Gary's hands had subconsciously curled into fists as the memories came back to him.

"He had told me that his father was beating him, and that I was the only person he could trust. But like always, my emotions came rushing up. I pushed him away and ran into the forest to hide my feelings. After that I hardly saw him."

Everyone was mad at Gary for what he had done to Ash, but dismissed their anger after they imagined what they would have done if they were in his shoes.

"After not seeing Ash for weeks, I decided to go to the Pokemon Center and talk to Nurse Joy about him. She explained everything to me, and I was so mad at myself for what I had done that I ran outside to find him and tell him my true feelings and help him any way I could."

Everyone was happy to hear that Gary had a change of heart, though they were curious about what Nurse Joy told him. But they decided to hold their questions, hoping that Gary would answer them somewhere during his story.

Gary read everyone's expression and let out a sigh before starting again.

"You see, Nurse Joy had told me that Ash kept going to the Pokemon Center with cuts and bruises, and she would clean them up, but then she told me something that really pissed me off." Gary paused.

"One day when Nurse Joy was fixing up an unconscious Ash, he began to sleep-talk. He said, 'I love Gary so much, I hope he finds me and helps me before I do something stupid….' After hearing that, I ran outside to look for him."

Everyone was shocked to hear Gary's past, but still held their questions and comments until he was finished.

"After I searched unsuccessfully for hours, I was about to give up, but then I found him standing on the edge of a cliff, enjoying the view. I watched him until I mustered up enough courage to talk to him, but then Ash turned around. I was shocked when I noticed that his pupils were gone, leaving the boy with cold, emotionless eyes. My heart sank after looking at him, but what completely destroyed me was that Ash raised his arms and jumped off the cliff, supposedly landing in the river below.

"The police searched everywhere, but didn't find his body. He was declared dead, and the search was called off. After that, I was really messed up, I'm still trying to put my emotions back together as we speak. Four years later, I finally felt normal again; everything was going well and I met all of you, but the day when Ash arrived in class, I froze, knowing that my love was still alive. But he was a different person."

Gary finished his story and waited for the responses of his friends, but they remained silent. Everyone wore a different expression, each trying to put all of the pieces of the story together before voicing their opinions.

Daisy was eavesdropping outside the door, against the wall with her knees pulled up to her chest, and all she could say after everything she heard was, "I can't believe Gary went through all that. What do I do to help him? Please Kami, give me a sign!"

She got up and went to her room to figure out what to do next.