The 18 Heroes: Origins
Prologue: Remembering Blue
Red woke up in a dark room, lit only by the shape of Char's tail. He sat up, wiping his eyes. Had he been crying? No, he decided. He stood up, and then Char looked at him and let out a fiery breath.
Suddenly, the voices came back.
"Why do you even exist? I wish you were dead!"
"Go away. I said, GO AWAY! I don't want anything to do with someone like you!"
"Gramps, who's that? Is he starting his journey today? Should we get the Pokemon ready?"
"If it weren't for that person sitting right there, I would've been deserving of a much greater achievement than this. But for now, I guess I'll have to make do."
The glare on his face.
The swish of his jacket as he turned away with a humph.
Red's face contorted into an expression of pure insanity. He began to glow with that dark red light, and his eyes turned crimson. He suddenly slugged his arm into a nearby boulder, completely shattering it. Focus Punch, he thought. He began to walk around, destroying large rocks without feeling any pain, moving as if he were a robot. Unable to stand the rampage of its beloved trainer, Char slapped Red with his large wing, knocking Red back into his senses.
"Wha-what happened, Char?!" Red shrieked. Suddenly, he took in his surroundings.
Dark, dark cave. Rimmed with ice.
Cold. So cold...I feel like dying.
Then he remembered. He had ran to this mountain, Mt. Silver, from his home. He was the Champion of the Indigo Kanto League, and he had ran away. He walked over to Char and leaned against his warm body.
Why did I run away? The answer to that came almost immediately after he asked that question.
Oh yeah. Blue...Blue's mad at me. Because he was supposed to be Champion, and I took it from him...
And then a month after I won the League he became the Viridian City Leader...just to torment me...
Blue's not my friend anymore either...not anymore...
He told me to die...to disappear...
Red began to cry. His sobs streaked down Char's body, down Red's face, and Char let out a moaning growl. Red began to talk through his tears.
"Why, blue? Why? Why do I have to die? You never deserved that title, and you knew it, but you still...you still hated me, for no reason...Why? I thought that we'd still be friends..." he wailed coutinuously, and he began to glow a deep crimson again. A bright blue light shone from his forehead, and his arms moved slowly and cradled the ball of light, then he hurled it toward the walls of the small cave.
Boom. The entire wall was destroyed.
Aura Sphere.
Red stopped glowing. He remembered another thing:
And then...I decided that I couldn't take it anymore...decided to go train harder...
As if that would ever make Blue be my friend again...but I don't want to have to live in his shadow anymore.
He sighed heavily, then returned Char to its Pokeball. He checked his bag to make sure nothing was stolen, and then pulled out Char's Pokeball again.
"Remember, Char? Back when I met you for the first time? Back then nothing was wrong with me and Blue...absolutely nothing...in fact, we were best friends..." he said sadly.
And he placed the Pokeball back into his bag, and walked out of the cave into a cold hailstorm.
What did I ever do to make everything go wrong?
A/N: RMW2 here!
I said earlier that Origins wouldn't be here until I finished the guide to this whole series, but I got bored and wrote this at school, and then...this happened. Yeah.
This first book is based on the anime of the same name, but I'm making everything longer. And then there's the whole Type-Power thing I created for everyone, not just Red and Blue...Red has Fist (Fighting) power, and because he only recently found out along with Blue about this, he can't control himself, which explains his insanity.
His team is Charizard, Pikachu, Lapras, Snorlax, Jolteon, and Mewtwo.
See you in the next chapter!
RMW2, out! (copyright Lack-two of the Dexholders.)