Shadow By: DayDreamer General

Note: Here’s another story! Real tearjerker! Get the tissues!

Characters:

*Flashback*

Ash: 6

Delia Ketchum:??

Jake Ketchum:??

*End Flashback*

Ash: 9

Delia Ketchum: ??

Jake Ketchum: ??

Summary: The legend behind Shadow... The mysterious Growlithe loved, treasured, and adored by the entire Ketchum Family. The story of its disappearance... The who, what when and how it was gone forever of the Ketchum family... (Tearjerker! T_T)

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*Flashback**

“Daddy! Daddy!” My son, Ash exclaimed running towards his father.

“Well how’s my favorite little boy?” Jake Ketchum asked taking the seven-year-old into his arms

“Great! I saw a Caterpie!”

“You did?! Wow! That’s awesome huh?”

“Yeah!”

I, Delia Ketchum watched from afar as my son and husband talked animatedly. I smiled. The two most treasured people in my life walked towards me, a barking Growlithe at their heels. Shadow... I sighed as they came towards mw.

“So what’s for dinner tonight hon?” Jake asked.

“Beef stew.” I smiled. I bent down to scratch Shadow’s ears, “And for Shadow I have her favorite.

Shadow barked loudly at this. Ash giggled and reached out for Shadow. Together they wrestled on the ground. Shrieks and barks of laughter echoing in the distance.

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I watched my three masters eat happily while waiting for seconds. The youngest of them got up from the table and walked over to me, smiling. I knew that smile... At least he wasn’t going to wrestle me... he just wanted to talk... Sighing I lifted my head up, cheerfully.

“Hi Shadow!” My master exclaimed in a whisper.

I barked in response.

He giggled. I loved his giggle. It reminded me of bells... He sat by my side, scratching my ears as we both watched my other masters talking and laughing. What a beautiful day today was... I had chased off a team Rocket Member with my older male master. We always did that... I just don’t think that my younger and female master knew it....

The older male master always told me to keep things a secret and of course I did because I couldn’t speak human. No one understood me.... Sometime I longed to but other times I didn’t. I loved who I was and if speaking human meant keeping secrets I would rather not.

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My mommy and daddy are talking about weird stuff again... They’re weird sometimes like that but still I love them. I tottered over to Shadow and smiled. She lifted her head and barked softly. I sat by her and scratched her by her ears. Together we watched my parents talk and laugh. My mom, Delia Ketchum was sometimes strict but she was fun. She made me laugh and always told me stories of how my dad and her met. She told me how they used to argue a lot and fight but in the end they loved each other very much, went and had me and got married, in that order.

Sighing I stared around the kitchen. My dad was a Pokemon Master, my mom told me. And he was planning on having a Gym here in Pallet Town. But my dad told me other things too. He told me that he went to beat bad guys like Team... something... He never told me their name cuz he didn’t want me to tell mom. But I don’t know why. He knows I can keep a secret....

Today had been such a wonderful day... I saw a Caterpie and played hide and seek with Gary! He’s professor Oak’s grandson-whatever that means. My mom says she’s thinking about sending me to school. And I’d really like that... But my dad says it’s bad cuz it’s better to go and gain experience. He says that when I turn ten, I’ll be able to start my own Pokemon journeys just like he and mom did! He promised he’d take me to the Professor Oak’s lab and get my first Pokemon!

*End Flashback*

But that had been so long ago... Now I can’t stand to look at anything that reminds me of him... Every picture we took I put it in a box full of old memories under my bed... I can’t bear to remember him... It makes me too sad... I can’t even look at Shadow anymore... Even though she was my best friend... I just can’t look at her anymore. It makes me sad...

My dad left me... he left on a journey, mom said, and never came back... I don’t know why... I started to cry when she told me... My dad promised that he’d take a journey again but with me. He lied... I hated that... And not even when mom sent him a letter saying I was turning 10 the next day did he come back... He promised to get me my first Pokemon... But he lied...

And now I have to forget him forever...

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I stared at my son, tears glistening as he walked with Shadow mournfully. I knew what he was going to do... I seen the paper on which he had planned it all out... I cried... but I didn’t dare try and stop him. It was his decision... not mine... After all Jake had left Shadow to him in his testimony... Jake had died and I lied to Ash... I couldn’t tell him that Jake had died... he was too young... Only 7 years old... How could I say that to him? Hold could I tell ash that his father had died because of trying to rid the world of bad Ash would soon encounter and battle against himself...? I cried, sobbing uncontrollably as I watched Ash lead Shadow into the woods...

That would be the very last time I would ever see Shadow... Although I had said goodbye... Shadow didn’t understand me... She couldn’t... for she was only a Pokemon innocent of the meaning and plans behind a human's intentions... I cried... For ash... Jake... And for Shadow...

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My young master led me into the woods. I didn’t know why. Since it had been so long since he had last played with me because of the older male master’s disappearance, I trotted along unaware of what was about to happen... He led me to a rock all the way in the middle of a vast clearing.

“Stay.” He ordered me. “And don’t move until I come back, Shadow okay?”

I barked in agreement. And he walked away. Back into the direction of the house. Maybe he was going back for a toy... or something he forgot... I didn’t know because he didn’t tell me...

I just waited... I waited... and waited... and waited... for my three masters to come and find me... Patient minutes turned into expectant hours, hours into impatient hours, hours into blistering days, days into mournful weeks, weeks into resentful months, months into hopeless years... Up until now... Where I still wait... on the rock, for my three master to return to me...

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Note: T_T I cried!!!!!!!! It was so sad! Tell what you thought *blows nose*

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