Sorry about the lack of updates last week, I had a camp to go to and we weren't allowed to have electronic devices with us, so... ya. This chapter is a little longer then the others, think of it has an apology for not having any updates last week if you want to. Or you can see it as the meer fact that I didn't know where else to end it so I just kept going until I was satisfied. Now onto the reviews!

Akoza Heiwa: I wouldn't say she was spying, but just following Prophesor Hasting's ord- okay, ya, she was spying there's no other way around it. I have to agree, though, Summer is awsome,why else would I write a story with her as the main protagonist? Other then the severe lack of stories with her as the main protangonist.

RangerTakara: I wouldn't say she was stalking, stalking implies that she was following them around for a while and listened to their every converstation, which she didn't. Sorry I sort of wanted to get the tecnecality out of the way, I apologize if you thought I was rude/mean, I didn't mean it. As for who those people are, well... *shrugs* don't know. For all I know one of them might become relevent to the plot, though this is highly doubtful. Also I'm glad to see that you read the note at the bottom that said "important" in capital, bold letters.

Ranger Belle: Hey, don't worry about it, family does that sometimes and you just can't control it. Don't focus on it because you can't change the past, look on the bright side things. And, honestly, I'm glad I'm not the only person who sees Latias as a trickster. Let's face facts here, in the movie she was such a trickster. At the very start she was invisable and toyed with Ash by grabbing his line in the race and causing him to go off course, through allies and such; she pretended to be human a lot and at the end of the movie took Bianca's drawing of him and Pikachu and gave it to him, disguised as Bianca(it is Bianca, right?) and then kissed him. She loved to play with him and Pikachu, she's the younger of the two, the fun loving one while Latios is the older more mature one. As for if I'm going to use Summer's new backstory as a part of this, answer, probably yes, you'll see me bring it up a lot so, ya.

Disclaimer: I do not own nintendo, nor will I ever. I hope to work their someday, but I doubt I'd get in.

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Chapter 6

Small plans

"Alright, Latias" I mumble gently "Can you slow down so we don't fly past my partner?" The air flow around slowed down significantly and I looked down just to make sure that Pichu hadn't fallen off, ya… that should have been higher priority, but he was still there, and he was fine, he had curled himself up against my body and clung to it, his breathing was even and calm.

"So you made it." Ben said speaking a little loader then usual do to the wind that had just started to blow harder and colder do to the fact that we were close to Mt. Sorbet, a place where Articuno had lived.

With a nod a replied "I did." Silence filled the air, I could feel Pichu shifting trying to get warmer. "So…" I started "Did you find anything?"

He shook his head "I got nothing. What about you?"

"I saw them." That was really all I had to said and he'd understand it, but I continued anyway. "They were digging around the top of Faldera Volcano for something called a crystal shard, or something along those lines. One of them said that they can only be found around where legendaries live, specifically Kanto's, Johto's and Oblivia's legendaries. Another one of them said that some of them were fake and some were real."

"Well, it's something." Ben replied. "Come on, let's check Sophian Island, then we can head back to the Professor and you can tell him what you heard."

I nodded "Alright, let's get this over with." Ben aimed his Starraptor to the ground and smiled at me, I just smiled back as I watched him descend from the sky, to the ground below. "Alright, girl, time to land." I whispered, Latias nodded and I could feel the wind rush past us as the we descended to the forested area of the populated island.

When we landed I hopped off Latias and the female legendary took off as I smiled at her, I felt Pichu slowly climb up to take his perch on my shoulder, then I turned to Ben who had landed a few feet away from me, the smile still on my face. "Do you want to stay together, or split up again? I'll leave the choice to you."

Almost instantly Ben had replied saying "Let's stick together." Then he blushed? I didn't understand why he did it, there was nothing I could find in the simple statement that would be blush worthy. Maybe it was the whole idea he wanted to stick together or something, I don't know. Ben was always a bit of a mystery to me. Then again he was a boy, I was a girl, he probably thought I was a bit of a mystery as well.

"Alright." I responded, at this point Pichu had made it onto my right shoulder and was holding onto my scarf to stay on top of it. "So… where do you want to look first?" The question was answered by silence. It hung in the not-so-still air that was constantly moving from the wind that had picked up causing the trees to sway and rustle and leaves to fall from their branches. "Silence isn't an answer, I hope you know that."

He shook his head and looked at me "Sorry, zoned out." I shrugged, as if to say 'whatever,' even though generally I was the who zoned out, he did it a lot to so it was completely understandable. "Um… you said that what they were looking for, crystal shards, right?"

I nodded "Yup. That's what they called it."

"And you said that they said that they were found around where legendaries live. So why don't we just check Mt. Sorbet seeing as that's the only place that is home to a legendary pokémon around here? Then we could just check the summit because no other legendary lives there and be done with it."

After thinking it through I realized how much sense it made, but he was forgetting something. "Okay, that works, but what about the Canal Ruins. You know, where we found Suicune."

"I know, you don't have to remind me, I'm not that forgetful. Am I?" My partner replied.

A smirk slowly made its way onto my previously emotionless face, then vanished "Actually-"

"You know what, on second thought, don't answer that." Ben interrupted quickly "Anyway, after we check the mountain we could check there. That good with you?"

"Don't see why it wouldn't."

"Alright let's go." With him having said that we were on our way to the mountain. Though for some reason something was nagging me. Maybe it was the idea that one of those goons sounded like my brother. Maybe it was the fact that Ben had given a small hint that he saw me the same way I saw him, as family, why else would he have blushed when he said he wanted to stick with me? Maybe it was that feeling of something being unraveled in my mind. Whatever it was, I didn't really care. I was with my bro- Ben, I was with my partner.

To be honest I almost laughed, I really could have, I had almost called Ben my brother in my mind. Sure he was more of a brother then mine was, and sure we kinda looked alike, but what difference did it make? We weren't related, my childhood might have been a little better if we were, but we aren't, and that's that. No more, no less. He's not a part of my family, as much as we look and act like we could be, we aren't. So why do I feel like we should? I shook my head, why am I even thinking about this stuff?

Slowly the light had started to fade away, and the air was getting colder, and the wind was blowing a little harder. Looking up I noticed that the sky had turned gold, it was twilight, the loneliest hour of the day. A time when it's not day, and it's not night, it's somewhere in the middle. Some people consider it as the night's guardian, fighting of the sun's rays of light until there is only the black or navy blue of night left. Twilight was my favorite time of day, maybe because of how I would manage to sneak out of my house and watch the reflection of it in the water. It would turn a golden blue in the light, and I would be entranced by it until the stars came out. At which point mom would come out and drag me inside, but my eyes would never leave the sky.

"Think we should stop for the night?" I asked, it was getting late, I could see the stars in the sky start to slowly appear, and the light from twilight was fading into inexistence.

Ben shrugged "I don't see why not. We could go back to Booker's and sleep there. Then when we wake up we can go to Mt. Sorbet."

"And then we could go to the Canal Ruins and check there. Then, finally, we can tell Professor Hastings about what we found." I continued his train of thought.

"What you found, you mean."

"No, what we found." I smiled before saying "But, yes, mostly what I found. Or heard, I should say."

Ben smirked, I think he expected me to say that, and if he did, I wouldn't be surprised. He continued the previous conversation, trying to get off the subject that I could easily gloat about "And, maybe, after that you can tell me why you were so interested in going to Kanto. I heard you say you used to live there, but you never told me -or anyone about it- until Professor Hastings brought it up."

I bit the inside of my cheek. Why? Why did he have to ask me that? I never told anyone for a reason. "Um…" What could I tell him? I could pretend everything was great, and just chose not to talk about it because no one else does. Then again, if I tell him the truth it would be a lot less of a burden on me. "Well…"

"You don't have to if you don't want to." Ben said quickly, as if sensing how uneasy I felt.

I sighed "I'll tell you what; I'll think on it and tell you my answer tomorrow. Deal?" Whenever I don't know what to say when it comes to answering a question, I would just say that. At this point it was almost second nature to me, like riding a bike to most people. It was a good idea when it came down to it. If you don't what to say, tell the person you'll think on it, works pretty much every time.

He shrugged "Don't see why not." I looked into his hazel eyes and smiled nodding a thank you. "We should probably get going before it gets to dark."

He was right, it was already long past twilight's golden gaze and the stars were fully lite, the sky was cloudless but the wind was frigid. Without saying a word I called Latias and hopped on, and let Pichu go in his normal spot when we're flying. I watched Ben get on his Starraptor and take off into the sky, with a nudge I got Latias to go into the air and the two of use flew together, though I knew Latias wanted to go faster and play around "Next time, Latias. There's always next time." I thought, and, actually, almost whispered into the female legend's ear.

I was glad that she was going slow so we didn't leave him behind, it was nice to be able to fly with him. We didn't talk, but I was fine with that. To tell the truth, I was pretty tired, but, at the same, I didn't want to go to sleep. What if I had that dream again? Sure I could possibly get more information out of it, but I'd seen it enough times already. The first time was about a week ago, though it was so blurry, and there wasn't any sound so I had no clue what was going on. Then there was yesterday night, the first I had actually been able to somewhat tell and hear what was happening. Then finally earlier today.

Part of me still wanted to know why the heck I was in my own dream. Let's face facts, that's not something that happens very often. Well, okay, it happens all the time if you want to get technical because you're yourself in your dreams. But you don't ever actually see yourself in your dream. To say it confused me was an understatement. If someone asked me to explain it to them I would have just shrugged and said that I didn't understand it.

I shook my head, "No, stop thinking about that stupid dream. That's all it was, a dream, get over it."

"You alright, Summer?" the question broke the silence that was dominating the air. I had thought we would have gotten there already, then again, Latias is going slower than usual so Ben could keep up. I had actually forgot he was there because of how quiet we had gotten. The wind around was even colder than before, and clouds had started to form in the air around use, the moon was out and full giving off it's silver rays that seemed to be reflected everywhere you turned your gaze.

"I'm fine, just thinking."

"You sure?"

"Positive." We smiled at each other. I could feel Pichu curling up inside my scarf telling me how sleepy he was. And, you know what, I was fine with that. So long as he didn't fall out, why shouldn't he be allowed to sleep in my scarf while we're flying. 'Sides Ben was here, and I was on Latias, so if he did fall one of us would catch him, at least I would hope so.

Looking down I saw Cocona Village, and in front of us was the endless expanse of sea. My eyes locked onto where Dolce Island used to be, no matter how many times I told myself to get over it and get used to it, I don't think I'll ever be able to. I saw that my partner had started to descend and I felt Latias do the same, my right hand moved to pat her head as a quick thanks.

When we landed, and dismounted I could feel the grains of sand out from under my sneakers, I could hear the water lapping the shore gently, the air smelled like the ocean. It was a nice change from the scent of smoke and ash the was found in Faldera Volcano. I saw Ben walk away to Booker's, and, after a moment of staring at the scene before me, I did to.

The door creaked open and we walked inside, closing it on the way. "I'll set up a makeshift bed on the floor for me, and you can use mine." I whispered, I knew that the others had to be asleep at this point, there was no way they wouldn't be.

"No" He replied after a few seconds, his voice was silent, like the sound of footsteps on carpet, and calm, like a spring breeze. "I'll take the floor, I don't care really."

I raised an eyebrow, Pichu had already hopped off my shoulder and ran to his small bed where he had curled up and fallen asleep on his pillow. "You sure?" I questioned "Because it's no big deal if you want the mattress."

"I'm fine, okay. " He rolled his eyes, annoyed that I was still offering it to him even when he said it was okay. "You don't have to keep offering it to me, okay."

With a nod I walked to the closet and pulled out a think black quilt and unfolded it until it was only folded in half, length wise. Then I placed it on the ground next to Pichu's pillow. I pulled put a dark brown pillow and tossed it to him, I heard him give a silent "ah" in surprise and I didn't even have to look back to know he was giving me a look that said 'Really?' finally I grabbed a deep blue blanket and tossed it to him.

Slowly I closed the closet door and walked to my bed. After removing my goggles, scarf, and sneakers I laid down and smiled at Ben who was doing the same. His oak wood brown hair still pointed upward, just like always, the smile disappeared and was replaced by a frown. In some ways he reminded me of… "Stop it!" my mind intervened "Stop thinking about them and get over it!" The frown was replaced with a look of indifference as he turned to me and whispered

"Night." Then he turned on his side and I could tell he had closed his eyes by the time I had replied.

"Night…" With that silence filled the room, and there would be no sound, at least, for now.

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Thanks for being so patient with me guys/gals you're just great. Anyway I got the idea for the little speal about the hour of twilight from Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, they didn't exactly put it that way, but that's how they made me see twilight. All I have to say is go watch/play it, it has to be my favorite LoZ game next to Wind Waker. Now that I'm done shamelessly promoting all I have to say is that I'll see you soon with another chapter.

Later,

Ember