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"I remember it like it was yesterday.

The time after he left, I mean.

Oh it was a national hysteria. No champion had ever simply abdicated from his position, let alone do it by wandering into the insanely dangerous ridge with only his team late one night. Considering he had taken the crown from Green not even a fortnight earlier...

They looked for him everywhere of course. Green had to have known, but never let on, perhaps Red made him promise silence. They must have spent a fortune. But after several months, it became clear that Red did not want to be found. Red always...had a way with Pokemon. Like he trusted them more than he trusted his fellow humans. Perhaps rightfully so...he had many admirers but few friends.

But they say if you go deeply enough into the Silver Mountains, far off in Johto, and listen into the wind, you can hear claps of thunder, and the cries of a roaring Charizard...

Laughs Then again that is just the ramblings of an old man."

~Samuel "The Pokemon Professor" Oak, Ph.D., excerpt from Looker Report Cold Cases, 29th October 1997, 1332 KST Missing Persons Case No. 00368921, Kanto Champion Red

In the long hours that have passed this eve,
I wonder, where did my childhood leave,
although I search high and low,
there is no place my heart may go,
unmoved by stories since,
imagination too rigid to convince,
where I may love and reminisce,
is a place I dearly miss.