Chapter 4

"Brother I'm going with him, someone has to keep him out of trouble." Amy said.

"You mustn't follow directly with him." Josh replied "Keep your distance if you are going. He mustn't know that you are following him he is a human after all and even though he could reunite the two halves of our globe that doesn't mean that he wouldn't do any of the horrible things humans do on a daily basis."

"I'll keep my distance. As long as you can keep me informed of police activity. Did you install the tracker in his coat?"

"Indeed I did, it should be relatively easy to find him with the GPS I gave you. Although the cool thing about that is that this one was a more expensive model that can tell us when he is under ground or on a mountain not just his latitude and longitude."

"Thanks bro!"

Both siblings said their goodbyes and Amy left. Although she had no intentions on keeping her distance from Cash she was going to travel right along with him. She walked right into the café he was in and sat down at his table. He was too busy looking at his map and making notes on notebook paper to notice. The waitress serving him walked over. She was a Jynx but in a dress that matched the color scheme of the cafes décor.

"What will it be miss? The Jynx asked.

"Um just black decaf please." Amy replied. This made the Jynx recoil a bit. Amy just didn't seem the type of girl to want something so bitter and strong. In all honesty she seemed like a girly girl appearance wise.

"Are you sure? Or would you like a little sweetener?" The Jynx asked cautiously.

"No just your strongest unsweetened black decaf please." Amy said with a smile.

"Okay." The Jynx said writing it down. "What about tall dark and handsome over here would he like some?" The Jynx asked Amy. It was clear that Cash had been zoned out and hadn't responded to any attempt the Jynx had made of taking his order previously.

Amy grabbed a newspaper and smacked his pencil out of his hand. This caught his attention.

"Hey what the hell is the…" Then he noticed Amy and the Jynx.

"Your order sir?" The Jynx asked.

"Oh, uh do you have any Pepsi?" He asked.

"Yes sir we do." She replied. "I'm also going to have to ask you to remove your mask and coat."

"Well then I would like a small cup of pepsi with no ice cold please. I can't remove my mask though I have a rather discussing radiation burn from my chemotherapy and-"

"Sure thing. I don't really want to know anything else" The Jynx said she then wandered off looking rather sick.

"Amy what are you doing here?" Cash asked.

"I'm going to be travelling with you!" She said with a big smile on her face.

"Why?"

"To keep you out of trouble. No doubt you'll get into tons of that going…where are you going?"

"I don't quite know yet. I'm thinking meteor falls but I'd also like to go to route 120."

"Wow. It's been forever since I've been to Fortree and Fallarbor. They're just so far away you know?" Amy said remembering the vacations she used to take there.

"Who said anything about going to those cities? I'm going up the old hiker routes. That will shave several days off the trip and make it easier to avoid." He leaned forward to whisper in her ear. "The police and military."

Just then the Jynx returned with their coffee and Pepsi.

"Is-is that black decaf?" Cash asked. He had never seen a girl drink black coffee.

"Yeah why?" Amy replied taking a sip.

"It's just-" but he was cut off.

"The fact that I'm so girly makes it hard to believe that I drink this stuff? You're forgetting I'm a dark type."

"Oh…I forgot sorry." He said taking several gulps.

Suddenly a huge siren could be heard as at least a dozen police cars drove by. Sirens wailing lights flashing and then several military Humvees drove by.

"I think we should be going" Amy whispered in Cash's ear.

They left the café. Walking down the street in the opposite direction of the huge crowd of police cars and military personnel that had invaded Josh's house looking for any clues of Cash's whereabouts.

Amy pulled Cash's hand out of his trench coat pocket and held it as they walked.

"Why did you do that?" Cash asked astonished.

"It makes us seem less suspicious if were holding hands like a couple. Also that chemotherapy story was brilliant so we'll be sticking to that." Amy said.

They reached the end of town where route 110 met slate port. The sun was high in the sky. It was about 1:00 (13:00).

"Rout 110" Amy said. "By far one of the most beautiful routs in all of Hoenn. They say it's nearly as beautiful as Vermilion city's harbor."

"It is quite beautiful." Cash replied. "Especially the low road. By the way does the trick master still live by the low road?"

They both began to walk down the route towards where the trick house was. Cash noticed that the bike path was gone. Nothing left not even support columns.

"Cash, the trick master has been dead for nearly 14 years now. It was quite tragic, he was killed by team Magma." Amy said grimly. "His house was burnt down several years afterwards when the un-civil development agency was created by the new global Pokémon government. After his house was burnt down and the wreckage hauled off they re-buried him on the plot of land that his house was on.

They had now come to the edge of the low road. Where a small rotting picket fence was standing. Behind the fence and covered in some really thick briers was the trick master's epitaph.

"It's unfortunate that such a brilliant man and all of his understandings of stealth and trickery were lost at the hands of thieves and murderers." Cash said solemnly.

They then began to make their way down the low road although it was much longer than he remembered.