Chapter 4: The Legend and Search for the Spirit of the Forest

It was the next morning when White woke up sitting up rubbing her forehead looking around noticing she was sleeping in a guest room at Lyra's and Silver's home. She glanced at the floor smiling lightly as she saw N asleep on a blow up mattress. He was squeezing his pillow hugging it close muttering stuff in his sleep, she even thought she heard her name a couple times. She shook her head glancing out the window that was the bed she slept on noticing the sun was up in the sky a bit guessing it was probably around 9 in the morning. She got up going over to where N slept leaning down kissing his cheek gently whispering, "Wake up, N, or I will spray you with water."

N's eyes flew open when he felt White's soft lips against his cheek a blush appearing on his face as he quickly said, "No need to do that, White..."

He was surprised with how long he had slept as he glanced to the clock on the wall then to White knowing he was normally up at dawn though they had stayed out pretty late last night talking about random stuff from the past 5 years.

"Come on, let's go down stairs and talk to Lyra and Silver now," White said taking N's hand pulling him up which wasn't easy since even if he wasn't heavy he was still taller then her 5' 7" body by a few inches at least.

"Yeah, we need to ask them about that legend of the time traveling pokemon," N said nodding reaching up with his free hand to wipe the sleep from his eyes yawning lightly before looking down at White kissing her forehead lightly.

White's face quickly turned pink as she felt N kiss her forehead as she looked up into his gray eyes smiling saying, "Exactly... let's go."

She kept a hold of his hand leading him downstairs where the smell of pancakes was coming up from. She figured it was Lyra making chocolate chip pancakes which White knew Lyra loved. She pulled N downstairs with her saying, "Come on let's get down there before Lyra and Silver eat all the pancakes."

N chuckled with a nod as they got downstairs seeing Silver sitting at the dinning room table reading the Johto Gazette. There were also 12 pokemon surrounding 6 bowls of pokemon food in a little area off the kitchen. The pokemon were both Lyra and Silver's teams which were eating there breakfast happily. Silver glanced up seeing N and White asking, "Do you need bowls for your pokemon to eat out of?"

"Yeah please," White said nodding glancing at N who was shaking his head no for his team, "You don't N?"

"No, I like to feed my pokemon outside and I have plenty of bowls in my bag," N said heading back upstairs quickly grabbing his bag before coming back down heading into the backyard.

White went to the door watching N with a smile as he filled the bowls then called out his Zekrom, Carracosta, Klinklang, Zoroark, Archeops, and Vanilluxe so they could eat.

N looked over at White asking, "Do you want to call out your team so they can eat with mine? I'm sure Reshiram wants to get caught up with her brother."

White nodded pulling out the 6 pokeballs calling out her Reshiram, Lilligant, Samurott, Hydreigon, Golurk, and Mienshao. Reshiram went over to Zekrom to talk with him and eat as well.

N came over wrapping his arm around White's shoulder leading her back inside over to the table sitting down as Lyra came into the dinning room from the kitchen with a platter full of chocolate chip pancakes. Quickly everyone grabbed a few and started to eat.

"So did you two want to ask us something?" Lyra asked cheerfully looking at N and White with a happy smile.

"Oh yeah, we were wondering if you knew anything about the legend of the time traveling pokemon?" White asked looking at Lyra before taking a bite of her syrup covered pancake.

Silver looked up from his food at White and N saying, "Everyone knows the Legend of the Spirit of the Forest. The pokemon that is the guardian of Ilex Forest. It is said that the pokemon can travel through time, though why would you need to?"

N looked at Silver before saying, "Because I want to go back to see a memory of mine that is fading quickly. It's about my sister who we believe is now the one who is running Team Plasma."

"I see," Lyra said in response then glanced at Silver before gulping knowing she had never told him of the time where she met Celebi and went back in time to see Silver's father, Giovanni, "I've met the guardian before, which by the way the pokemon's name is Celebi."

"Wait what?" Silver asked looking at Lyra wide eyed now his silver eyes were full of confusion for once in his life, "You never told me that."

"I know," Lyra said looking as Silver into his eyes then down, "It's because Celebi sent me back in time to a cave during the time the younger me was trying to take down Team Rocket. The cave was the home of Giovanni, your father ... we battled I won. I convinced him that he shouldn't return to Team Rocket like he was about to."

Silver's eyes looked hurt as he looked down as well saying, "So you met my father... I understand why you didn't tell me. Don't worry about it, but how did you meet Celebi."

"Because of a gold ball that I found during my journey... it summons Celebi when placed into the Ilex Shrine," Lyra said with a shrug, "I still have the ball, Professor Elm said it was the GS Ball. It's in the attic along with most of those old Legendary summoning items I picked up through my travels. I'll go get it."

White and N was speechless after hearing Silver and Lyra's conversations watching as Lyra got up heading upstairs toward the attic to grab the GS ball.

"So I guess you two are going to Ilex Forest as soon as Lyra gets back?" Silver asked looking at them knowing he would need to get the full story from Lyra about her meeting with his father later when it was just the two of them.

"Yeah," N said nodding looking at Silver now, "Since we know that this could be our chance to figure out if my sister really is the one in charge of Team Plasma now."

"Well, don't do anything unless you are sure your supposed to when you go back in time," Silver said with a nod, "You wouldn't want to mess with the time stream after all."

White nodded looking down then asked, "Though how are we supposed to know what we should do?"

"I guess we should just trust our choices," N said with a shrug looking at White beside him as Lyra came back down with the gold GS Ball. It looked like a pokeball with a gold top and a white bottom.

Lyra handed the ball to White saying, "Here you go, the GS ball. Go deep within Ilex Forest and there should be a shrine that as a spot in it where the ball will fit. It will open up and fill the forest with music. Celebi should appear in response to you, Celebi should know where you want to go... She did for me."

"Hmm what do you mean?" White asked looking at Lyra in wonder of why she would want to go see Silver's father.

Lyra looked at White with a small smile saying, "At the time I had just met up with Silver, who was my rival at the time, we battled then Silver was being usual jerky self. I kept wondering why he hid his emotions and was a jerk to me all the time when I wondered into Ilex Forest since I always found it peaceful in there. That's when I found the shrine and the gs ball was vibrating in response to it in my pocket so I figured it belonged there so I placed it into the shrine, celebi showed up one minuet and the next I was in the cave. It answered a lot of questions for me."

"Wow... alright well then let's go," White said looking at N as they both got up heading outside calling back there pokemon before getting on Reshiram flying off.

Lyra watched out the window with a smile as they flew off feeling Silver come up behind her wrapping his arms around her whispering in her ear, "You know I'm sorry for how I treated you back then. I was just afraid of feeling love for you since I had always viewed that feeling as weak."

"I know, don't worry about it," Lyra said smiling over at Silver turning around in his arms kissing him gently, "I'm glad you finally got over that view though as we grew older."

"So am I," Silver whispered softly holding his wife close.