Silent Voice

Chapter 9: A Gift of Memory

The phone sounded. "Wonder who it is?" Yellow thought out loud.

Leavetty's tail glowed green without even looking up. When Yellow answered the phone, it was Green. Sighing, Yellow muttered, "still not used to you doing that."

"What?"

"Ooh, sorry Green, I forgot you were there. I was talking to Leavetty."

"Never mind, I couldn't care less. Came to tell you there'll be a dexholder meeting next week. Red's house. Grandfather's well enough for a visit, so we're kind of having a celebration."

"Wait, I thought the others didn't know!"

"The news got out eventually." Green sighed before continuing, "I told them."

Yellow smiled before asking, "anything else, Green?"

"No," Green replied, "I gotta go. Daisy's calling for me."

"Bye." Yellow hung up.

Stretching, Yellow's eyes locked with Omny, who was trying to use his tentacles to make interesting shadows on the wall. Omny was currently trying to do a pidgey, with Leavetty and Dody assisting.

"Dexholder meeting again?"

"Are you like Leavetty, Omny?" asked an alarmed Yellow.

"Leavetty told me."

"Oh dear, you nearly gave me a heart attack."

"Sorry, mistress, didn't mean to."

"It's fine, Omny. Really." Yellow stretched again.

"The meeting's a week away. And since it's in Pallet Town, it's pretty close. "Indeed, with Leavetty around, it would only take seconds.

"This, time, I think I'll take Dody out to run, since it's a short distance. Dody, do you think you're up?"

Her dodrio looked at her and uh, triple grinned. "Of course! Why not?"

"Kay! Now, I want to do something for Professor Oak. What should I do?"

Leavetty made a drawing motion with her tail.

"Draw? But what? And why?"

This got Leavetty thinking for a while. Then, she curled her tail around Yellow's arm, and led her out of her house.

After walking for a few minutes, they arrived at a path leading deep into the Viridian Forest. Despite having lived near the forest for as long as she could remember, Yellow didn't recall there was a path here. Leavetty confidently led Yellow in, while gesturing that all the pictures Professor Oak had had been lost in the fire.

The path seemed to twist and turn for a hundred times before they arrived.

Two tombstones stood stubbornly in the clearing before them. They were weathered, and the words on them illegible, except one: Oak. The only way Yellow could tell this was a burial site was because there were two rectangle bumps in the dirt in front of the tombstones.

Yellow stared. The final resting place of relatives of Green, Daisy and Professor Oak. But whose? Since some words could still be seen, she could guess that it could be great grandparents or...

Leavetty shook its head, detecting Yellow's thoughts. Leavetty then used her tail to rub the stone furiously, and when whatever dust, moss or weeds could be cleared off were swept off, Yellow saw a date that was only about nineteen years ago. The ages on the tombstones(which by some miracle Leavetty had been able to decipher and restore) read 25 and 27. They were young, so young the only possible answer was that this was the son of Professor Oak and the professor's daughter in law.