Journey Through Johto |Discontinued|

Chapter 2.34: True One

Zia, Todd, Sky, and Emmy have finally reached the base of a mountain. The mountain that they all saw the elusive Articuno fly up to.

"Monit, find anything?" Zia asked the Gliscor as he flew back down. "Nothing, just snow." He shivered from the cold. Zia realized maybe it wasn't the best idea to send a Pokémon 4x weak to ice up to a snowy mountain.

"Sorry, go warm up." She returned him. "It doesn't make sense, we all saw it fly this way." Todd said, exasperated. "Hehehe." They heard a disembodied giggle. Todd shivered and slowly turned around, screaming when he saw Hecate in his face.

The Mismagius giggled again and floated back around to face all of them. "Oh, please don't do that again." The photographer panted as he held his chest. "I most certainly will, with a reaction like yours." Hecate smirked, and Todd didn't need to understand her to get the meaning.

"Anyways, did you find anything?" Zia asked. "Oh, yes, yes, come." The Pokémon remembered and started to float away, the others following behind. She took them farther down the path where they saw another Pokémon encased in ice.

"It's Jigglypuff!"

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"We haven't seen this Jigglypuff since I found Kaida's egg." Zia said in shock, knowing it was that Jigglypuff by the microphone/marker in its grasp. "But what's it doing up here?" Emmy questioned. "Probably freezing." Sky deadpanned.

"I have a theory. I think Articuno may have done this." Todd hypothesized. "I guess there's one way to find out. Cyra, come on out." Zia released the Quilava. "Use your flamethrower to unfreeze Jigglypuff." She told her.

The Quilava nodded and breathed out the fire move, the ice slowly melting away as a water puddle formed on the ground. Finally, the singing Pokémon was able to move around again. "Jigglyp-" Zia was cut off when Todd pushed her out of the way, rushing up to the confused Pokémon.

"Jigglypuff, tell me, did you see it? You have to tell me. Jigglypuff, did Articuno do this to you?" He asked frantically only to be double-slapped by it. "Jiggly." It huffed, looking away.

"Nice blush, Todd." Zia joked, also annoyed with him because of how he pushed her. "Anyways. Jigglypuff, did you see where Articuno went?" She looked down at the pink Pokémon. It glanced at her for a moment before turning towards the tall mountain behind it.

"So it probably did go up to Snow Top Mountain. Fun." Zia sighed, wondering how great it was going to be to climb that.

"Hey guys, look." Todd stopped them as they headed towards the mountain. They saw a couple of Stantler to the side of the path. A mother and child. "This'll be great." Todd whispered as he held up his camera. After getting his photographing urge out of the way, they kept moving. "Over there." Sky got their attention and nodded up ahead where a log-cabin styled Pokémon Center laid, the roof having a sheet of snow on it.

Walking up to it, they noticed a message board beside the entrance. "'Welcome trainers. This is the Snow Top Peak Pokémon Center. The highest Pokémon Center in the world.' It says." Zia read aloud. "I have an idea. You all stand next to the sign and I'll take a picture as a souvenir." Todd directed.

Zia, Sky, Emmy, and the Jigglypuff agreed and stood beside the sign as Todd stepped back a couple of feet. "Hold it. Great." He said as he took the photo. "Oh, Officer Jenny!" Zia greeted as the mentioned pulled up in a snow mobile, a thick red coat over her uniform to keep warm.

"Hello, Champion Zia. Let's all go inside and warm up." Jenny said, recognizing the girl and her two distinct partners. The group went inside and warmed up next to the fireplace.