Chapter 3
Atop Mt. Silver a figure stood at the edge of a cliff. His black clothing stood out against the contrasting ice and snow. The crisp wind blew from the north, billowing his hair to his right, while his eyes looked out towards the east, at unseen events playing out only in the young man's mind. The chill no longer bothered him, not after years of adaptation to the harsh climate. I need to stop thinking about it and actually do it. Standing here and dreaming is only wasting time.
He turned to the large black dragon next to him and spoke softly, "Charizard, I think it's time. Let the others know." We have trained here as hard as possible, and nobody has seen us in years. It's time to return to civilization and show the world the truth. I need to figure out my plan. I'm sure that warrant in my name is still effective.
The Charizard snapped its jaws and turned away from the cliff. With a flap of its wings it rose into the air and zoomed away towards the mountainside. The young man stood there for a minute longer, contemplating the results of his past actions, and the potential results of his future ones. It troubled him that he had been away for so long, but he knew that it had been necessary. He shook his head free of his troubling thoughts and turned towards where his pokemon had flown. A cave in the mountainside was a few dozen meters away from where he stood. He sighed and began the slow walk through the snow.
Inside the cave, six pokemon were in a flurry. They were busy packing up the residence they had all shared for the last four years. They had lived here for years with Red, training hard – far beyond what other pokemon went through. They longed to return to the world and test their skills against others. Thus, they were eager to be all packed and ready to leave.
Though, while the cave was large enough for all of them to live in comfortably, all of them moving together created quite a bit of confusion. Charizard and Dragonite almost collided in the air, saved only by a last minute swerve by both of them, resulting in a collision between Charizard and Aerodactyl, who was right behind Dragonite and couldn't see Charizard. This led to Aerodactyl tumbling from the air right onto Blastoise, who popped into its shell and rolled away, into the path of Venusaur.
However, by the time Red entered the cave, the packing was done and all six pokemon stood in a row waiting. He gave a rueful laugh and said, "You have been my best friends through thick and thin and have never let me down." His brown eyes conveyed what he didn't say. Normally hard, like the rock walls of the cave they lived in, when they fell on his pokemon they softened into molten chocolate. His pokemon could feel the love radiating from those liquid brown orbs, the only love left in their master's young, but cruel life.