Pokémon High

A Little Further in Ash's Past (Chapter 4)

Warning: There is some of what some people call gruesome language(I point to myself) in this chapter. Also this is chapter 4.

-Ash's point of view-

It was burning. Burning to ash. I sat there in horror watching my home burn to the ground...  with my mother inside. This is was my fault. If I would kept my nose were it belonged then... my mom wouldn't be dead. Tears were running down my face cleaning the ash in it's way.

"You brought this upon your self." Came a cold, harsh voice behind me. I didn't have to turn around, I already knew who it was. Giovanni. He was standing there beside me watching the fire. It was night, and the flames burned bright hurting my eyes. The night was quiet, cold, but the wind was faint.

Team Rocket has taken everything from me. My Pokémon, and the only family I had left. Well almost everything. Pikachu had escaped from team Rocket, but me, I was still working on that.

I slammed my fist on the ground. He was right. I sealed my mother's fate with my own stupidity.

-Back to third person-

Ash woke up in cold sweat. He had the same dream he had every night, but it still haunted him.

"Pika-pi?" Said Pikachu in worried voice. Ash looked down at the Pokémon laying beside him.

"I'm okay." Ash got up. He was in his room, then he remembered that he had tell professor Oak everything. Ash didn't think he was able to stomach telling somebody else, but he was going to have to at some point.

There was a knock on the door interrupting Ash's train of thought. Ash rushed out of his room and to the front door. When he opened it Gary was standing there.

"Oh hay Gary."

"Sup Ashie-boy." Said Gary pushing past Ash into his house.

"Hay Gary you can't just barge in!" Ash shouted at Gary intruding into his house.

"Oh man Ashie-boy. Your house is a mess." He was right. There was dust and cobwebs every where, but Ash didn't exactly have the money to do anything about it.

"And so empty. Where is everything?" Gary noticed that there wasn't any furniture or anything in fact.

"Gary, please get out." Ash said as politely as possible.

"Ash where's Delia?"

"She's back in Kanto."

"Bull shit. Gramps told me she was missing. So where so she?" Ash didn't understand why Gary was being so impulsive all of a sudden.

"Gary, please get out." Ash said not as polite.

"No can do Ashie-boy. I want to help you."

"As I said yesterday, there's nothing you can do."

"Gramps also told me that your Pokémon are missing. I have a feeling that it some how involves team Rocket."

"Gary... get out."

"So it does."

"Get out... now."

"Why do you keep on dodging the subject?"

"Get out."

"Ash it's time you told me what happened back on Kanto."

"Get out."

Gary was getting angrier, and angrier every time Ash said that. "Ash stop keeping problems to your self. You know there are people that worry about you, and are willing to help."