Frozen Resolve

Chapter 6 : Catnip

"That's a shame...one other question, how did you train yourself to fight like this? You must have gone through some exceedingly harsh training to fight like this, a normal Rockruff like your kind should have been able to take an attack from me, not to mention the quick wits you had" Pycardas asked. "Oh..."

"What is Randy gonna say now? He can't just say that he's a human or a supermon" I wondered. "Err...that would be...school? Yeah, school" Randy replied with a nervous laugh. "School?" Della asked. "Thank you for your valuable response, Silverwood. You shall be reunited with your friends, you shall have a few of my queens accompany you when you have your departure, to assure your friends won't be attacked by Mightyenas packs roaming in the night"

"How did I do there?" Randy asked as he padded towards us. "Randy, I'm so happy that you won! More importantly, you're alive and you saved all of us!" I exclaimed and hugged him. "HEY! NO HUGS!" he screamed as a blush grew on his face. "Sorry, got a little too happy" I apologized. "You're not turning into Blossom, are you?" he grumbled. "Wait...of course not, you have a boyfriend" he muttered. "Yeah, of course, I do!" I blurted out, realizing what I said, I covered my mouth immediately.

"I-I...I mean I don't have a boyfriend, of course not! I-I only have a crush!...n-no! I...I mean I only have...forget that! It's not funny!" I yelled in embarrassment as I felt my face getting hotter. "Won't he be jealous?" Randy asked with a smirk. "POW!" "Owww!"

"Why...Icy...? What was that for...?" Randy groaned and lay on the ground, clutching his belly as I gave him a cold gaze. "Two reasons. One, mentioning that stupid topic. Two, scaring us to death back there by playing dead" I growled. "Big sis Icy, you're so cool!" Della said with a look of astonishment. "I'd prefer the word...cold...or...cruel..." Randy muttered. "I wasn't scared," Derp said with an innocent smile. "That's because you can't see!"

"I'm glad they let us bury dad's body..." Della said as her voice trailed off, we were on our way back, but this time Randy was carrying Della on his back since her right hind leg got injured, which was now wrapped up by the bandages I gave her. "Randy...how did you manage to travel so far...with this thing on your back?" I groaned while Derp rode on my back as we slowly headed towards the crossroads via the long path.

"Icy, you need to chill off, Della is heavier than him. Derp is only about the weight of my backpack when I was back home" Randy said with a smile. "Randy, shut up with your stupid humor! You're so annoying!" I yelled at him as my legs felt like buckling under the weight of the Deino. "Annoying in a good way," he said with a smirk. "Other than that, you owe me 4 ice creams"

After a walk that felt like an eternity, we finally passed the Crossroads and got back to town. "This scent...is that...dad?" Derp shouted and jumped off my back. "I can...finally take a break..." I muttered and stretched, my back ached like crap as my legs finally gave away under me. "That's one of them"

"This is so sweet..." I said quietly as my eyes watered from the touching scene of the father and son reunion. "Well, we have another one to deal with," Randy said with a smile as the Haxorus walked towards us with Derp in one of his arms. "Thanks for finding my son, here's 400 poke'" he said and gave us a bag of poke'. "Bye guys, thanks for the piggyback ride!" Derp shouted and left with his father.

"Della, where do you plan on going now...?" Randy asked. "Randy, why did you have to ask?!" I yelled and tried to slap him, but my aching paws just couldn't bring me to do it. "Sorry..." Randy apologized. "It's fine...but I don't know..." Della said and tears started to flow down her eyes again.

"Icy, what is the age requirement for joining an adventurer team?" Randy asked all of a sudden. "Randy, you can't just let a child join a team like us, it's going to be too dangerous," I said to him, then he let out a long sigh. "Della, do you have a mother...or I mean do you know where she is?" Randy asked. "I don't know, hopefully, she'll come here," Della said with a sob.