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Hiya!
Welcome to chapter ten!
I am so sorry for being such a lazy and unreliable updater D:
But at least I do EVENTUALLY update unlike some people on here...
I was going to list all my excuses to you guys but then I thought: 'No. Stop making dumb excuses, Lisa. They probably don't care and it's not like they read the author's note anyway.'
Alrighty! On to chapter ten!
ENJOY!

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Recap!

All of a sudden, everything went quiet. The ground seemed to stabilize and the walls of the shed stopped threatening to collapse in on us.
I stood up and saw Red getting into a sitting position. I walked over to the entrance of the shed, my body swaying side to side as I went.

I peered outside and saw something that I had never expected to see.

"Uh, Red? I don't think we're in the same place anymore..."

End of Recap!

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Red's POV

I wandered towards the entrance, confused at what Gold had just said.

"What do you mean we're not in the same-" I started but cut myself short when I saw the view in front of me.

For some strange reason, it looked like we were on the top of a hill. The ground which the farm shed was on had detached from the pathway and had drifted away and collided into the side of a hill. The grass that covered the hill was a sickly yellow colour. Down at the bottom of the hill was a medium sized pond. The blue or clear colour that people usually associated with water was not there and was replaced with dark, murky brown muck.
I hadn't noticed it before, but there was a playground off to the side on the hill. It was completely deserted and looked as if it had come straight from a horror movie. The metal slide was stained and even though there was no wind, the rusted chain of the swing swung back and forth.
Everything looked different apart from the same eerie darkness that shrouded anything and everything.

"No." Gold said immediately.
"But I didn't say anything..."
"So? I still know what you're thinking. There is no freaking way you can get me to stay here."
"Fine." I huffed. "But can we at least stay here until we get your own wounds fixed up?"

Gold quickly whipped his arms behind his back. He jutted out his chin and narrowed his eyes at me.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm completely fine."
"Gold." I warned and slowly inched closer.
"Reeeed!" Gold mocked.

I kept on inching closer and when I was about a meter away he started to get weary. His facial expression went from playful to nervous very quickly. He started to back away slowly, but still refused to show me his arms.

"Red. Stop." Gold called to me nervously.
I continued to move closer while keeping an impassive look on my face.
"No, seriously. Stop!" Gold started to back away a lot quicker now.

Gold then realized that I wasn't going to stop and just as he was about to make a break for it, I sprinted forward and tackled him to the ground. Gold fell straight onto his back. I pinned Gold's arms above his head and put my face inches away from his own. A blush quickly spread across his face and I felt the need to chuckle at his cuteness, but I couldn't give up my act now.

"How about we go get these arms fixed up, hm?"
Gold's darting eyes refused to meet mine as he shook his head. He tried to push me off him but I wouldn't let him escape. We stayed that way for a while until I finally felt Gold's tense body relax under my hold. "...Fine." He mumbled quietly.
I let go of his wrists and patted the side of his face. "That's my boy."

I stood up and brushed the dirt off myself. I stuck my hand out and heaved Gold to his feet. Gold's face was still red and he tried to look at anything but me.

"Come on."I said a grabbed Gold's wrist and dragged him back into the farm shed.

We sat down on the hay bales once again and Gold got out the first-aid kit again. Just as he was about to open it, I took it away from him and opened it myself.

"Allow me." I smiled widely at him.
"Red, you don't have to..."
"But I want to. You fixed my arm up so now it's time I returned the favour."

Gold didn't reply, but I knew that he had given in.
I wiped the dried blood off Gold's scratched up arms. I took a closer look ad noticed that there were tiny shards of glass still lodged into his arms. Clearly he was still in a lot of pain.

"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked him as I wipe the tweezers with an antiseptic wipe.
"Tell you what?"
"That you are still in pain." I stated matter-of-factly.
"But I'm not-" Gold started but I quickly cut him off.
"I heard you crying in your sleep last night! You thought you had moved far away enough for me not to hear you, but I heard you as clear as day!"
"It's not the first time..." Gold trailed off.

My hands froze up as my mind went zipping back to a not-so distant memory. It was the night that I broke down in front of Gold and then spoke to him for the first time. The first time I had talked and cried since my father's death. But then I shunned Gold. I shut him out. I had listened to him cry himself to sleep and all through-out the night just because I felt insecure. I had kept my emotions locked up for so long that I had surprised even myself. The whole reason behind that incident was that damned letter...

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I sat on top of one of the boulders that I had been using to train earlier that day. I checked twice that Gold hadn't been following me. I flipped the envelope over and over again in my hands, debating whether I should open it or not. I finally decided and tore it open to reveal the contents. I pulled out a folded up piece of paper. It had my name written on it in cursive writing just like the envelope and I recognized it instantly as my mother's handwriting.
I slowly unfolded the piece of paper and saw writing. My mother must have written a letter to me.

My Dearest, Red.

If you are reading this, then that means Gold must have finally found you.
I have so much to say yet so little time as I'm writing this while I wait for Gold to finish getting ready.
The most important thing I want to say is that I love you.
You make me proud to be your mother.
It's not every day that someone's son becomes The Pokémon Grand Champion!
Ever since the day you were born, I knew that you were destined for greatness.
You have worked so hard to become the fine young man you are today.
You have trained endless hours with your Pokémon to achieve your goal.
You remind me so much of your father, Red.
You were both so determined to reach your goals.
Nothing in the world could stop you boys from getting there.
That's what I admired about him and now I get to see it in you every day.
At least I used to.
Please come home Red.
I miss you.
Blue misses you.
Professor Oak misses you.
And the rest of the world misses you.
It's your choice whether you want to come back home with Gold or not.
But I just want you to know that I'm proud and that your father would be to.

Love, Mom.

I could feel the tears pouring down my cheeks as I finished off the last sentence of the letter. I folded the letter up and put it back into the envelope. As I did, I noticed something fall onto my lap. I picked it up and looked at it. My heart basically shattered into a billion pieces when I saw what it was. It was a picture of my mother, father and I when I was five. Both of my parents had an arm around each other's waists and were smiling normally at the camera. I on the other hand was on my father's shoulders with a big, goofy grin. My two front teeth were missing so it just made me look even sillier. I still remembered that day like it was yesterday...

I heard a startled cry and I instantly knew who it was. I carefully slipped the photo into my pocket and hopped off the rock to go and deal with that troublesome child.

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I slowly reached into my pocket and brought out the photo of my now broken up family. I saw Gold lift his head up to look at me.

"This was in with the letter that my mother gave to me..." I said referring to the photo. "My mother said a lot of things in that letter, including the reason as to why you were at Mount Silver in the first place. I guess I hadn't really paid that much attention to it then, but I sure am now."
Gold's eyes went wide and it looked like he was about to say something but I start talking again before he can.
"So what are you? Their little servant or something? The only reason you came to Mount Silver was to drag me back home."
"It's not like that!" Gold insisted. "They needed someone strong enough to go and find you! I was the only one who could! You had been missing for three years!"
"Oh, so you were chosen because there was no one else? Probably not a good choice on their part since their 'hero' twisted his ankle on his first hike up the mountain. Who said I wanted to be found anyway?"
"That's not what I meant! I'm the only one who is even remotely close to your level of skill. And I damaged my ankle because I was basically freezing to death out there. Why are you acting like this?!" Gold shouted desperately at me.

Why was I acting like this? Probably because I realized that I had been tricked into believing that Gold could actually have been my friend when he was only here on a little errand run.

"Well, what's done is done." I said and Gold winced as I pulled a piece of glass out of his arm.

The rest of the time I fixed Gold's arm was spent in an extremely awkward silence. I bandaged up both of his arms and then examined my work. I scowled in distaste and packed the first aid-kit up and put it away in Gold's bag. Gold was watching me with sad eyes in silence.

Gold's POV

I rubbed my bandaged arms softly as I watched Red.
What was I going to do? He was acting like he hated me... What if he did hate me? If that was true then I knew I would take it a lot worse than anyone else would. I felt like I had become close to Red in those past couple of days though I doubted that he felt the same way.

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Blue's POV

I placed the two hats inside my backpack and continued my trek up the mountain. There was snow all inside my clothing from falling straight into it and it pricked at my skin. My body wasn't even warm enough for the snow to melt!

The ground suddenly started sloping upwards beneath my feet and I had to quickly adjust to avoid falling over again. As if walking on flat ground wasn't hard enough. I was basically crawling up the side of the snow covered mountain. After about fifteen minutes of painful crawling, I finally made it to the top of the hill. Laid out before my eyes was a snowy clearing. Bits of decimated boulders littered the ground while some had escaped the massacre.
What the Distortion World could have done this?! Unless it was caused by a human. Maybe Red trained his Pokémon up here... I didn't really know. There was literally nothing but snow. Nothing. I took a risky move and started to wander around aimlessly, searching for Red and Gold.

I saw the faint silhouette of something large and I squinted out of habit even though I knew that it wouldn't help me at all. I moved closer to it and it took the form of a large, rock cave. It had a giant opening at the front in the shape of a mouth. Snow coated it all and it looked like a winter wonderland.
I didn't get to admire it for long as a cold blast of wind and snow attacked my face. I sputtered snow out of my mouth yet again and shuffled towards the entrance of the cave in a hurry. I was desperate to get out of that weather because visions of me suffocating in snow started to haunt my mind again.

I entered the cave and checked my surroundings. Blankets and sleeping-bags littered the floor of the cave. Over one side of the cave, there was a kitchen sort-of thing. Well, I guessed that it was a kitchen since there was food stocked over there. Over the other side of the cave there was a dark tunnel leading off deeper into the cave. But the thing in the middle of the cave was what caught my attention.

A hand-made fireplace took up most of the space on the floor. The creepy thing about it was that the coals which should have long ago gone out were still ablaze with fire. All of a sudden, the giant blaze of fire in the middle of the fireplace shrunk into a tiny little flame.

I stood there gaping at it. What the heck was going on?!

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A/N

THIS AUTHOR'S NOTE IS IMPORTANT SO PLEASE READ!

Just to clear some things up. Blue and the rest of the world are on a different sort of time-zone thingy to Red and Gold. While the time in the Distortion World seems to be zipping by, it's still the day that Red and Gold fell into there in Blue's world. So Blue is a bit behind.

You would not BELIEVE how long it took me to write that chapter!
This chapter is like 200 words less than the last chapter but it took longer to write :P
I'm sorry but I won't be updating next week. I have exams that whole week and I really should be studying. If you're lucky, I might update at the end of the week, but I promise NOTHING!
Anyway, I hope you guys liked that chapter and you eagerly look forward to the next one! :D

Li xx

(EDIT!)

Please forget about that whole fireplace thing because I've sort of dropped the idea that I had in my mind. But Blue is still in a different time-zone-like-thing to Red and Gold.