Chapter 12

Reunion

Amber woke up from her slumber to find that she had overslept. She sat up quickly and found that every muscle in her body was sore. Amber frantically looked around in the moonlight for Ash and Brock, and saw them under a makeshift shelter that was poorly made. She sighed. Why did Ash have to be so considerate? She started to walk over to them, but stopped when she thought she saw something out of the corner of her eye.

"Hello?"

She glaced around nervously, watching for any rustlings. Her three pokemon started stirring. Ash sat up.

"Huh? Did you say something?" he asked.

"Ash, I think someone's out there. . ."

Ash's eyes widened and he shook Brock. Brock sat up and rubbed his eyes blearily. He put on his shirt and stood up, stretching. Amber held back a giggle as he instinctively dug his pot out of his backpack and started making a fire while gathering ingredients from Ash's and her backpack. She forced herself to get serious again and started walking in a circle around the camp, scoping out the foliage around the camp. Her Pidgey opened its eyes and saw that she wasn't sleeping anymore, and it flew to her and perched on her shoulder.

"Who's here? Show yourself!" Amber called out, finding the weight on her shoulder comforting.

Brock finally came to reality and his eyes widened. He opened his mouth, but closed it immediately. Ash pulled his shirt on and ran toward Amber. Amber saw more movement out of the corner of her eye again. She heard Ash yelp in surprise and turned around to find-

A man looking over Ash and her. Amber's eyes widened. The man looked almost exactly like Ash. He had jet black hair that didn't spike out as much as Ash's, wore a black T-shirt with jeans, and, of all things, had a Pikachu perched on his shoulder. The Pikachu looked curiously at Ash's Pikachu. Ash and his Pikachu stared in amazement at the man. There was silence for a few moments, then the man finally spoke.

"Wow. You both have grown so much."

Amber started and found that she recognized the voice. As she tried to place it, Ash walked closer to the man and examined him from head to toe.

"Dad?"

The man looked at Ash with a sparkle of joy in his eyes. Amber cut in between them, her Raltz and Charmander finally coming to join them.

"Hold on, hold on. . . I'm a bit confused. Who are you exactly?" she asked in an impatient voice.

"I'm Travis Ketchum."

Da, da, daaa!! . . . Sorry, always wanted to say that. But anyways, this is a short chapter. Obviously. Although, I do have a few more chapters on FanFiction.net, cause I update it more. I’m going to update the tower with the chapters I put on said site, but I haven’t been that active with this story lately. I will eventually finish it, I will say that. Eventually. : P