Chapter 1
Author's Note: My first Pokemon fan-fiction story, taking place during between Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explores of Time & Darkness and Beyond Time & Darkness anime special episodes.
I was on board a cruise ship, as we're sailing towards the South Pacific islands for family trip and also for business as well. One of my co-workers, whose traveling with us is playing a game on the Nintendo 3DS and it was Pokemon.
"Do you really believe there is a world of Pokemon?" I asked.
"Come on Chris, don't you ever use to believe it, when you play the games?" my co-worker Micheal stated.
"Yeah, but since I got stuck on PS4 games like Call of Duty, I don't really been to much of those stuff, unlike when I was a kid." I added.
"Just saying man." he said.
We're at the dining hall at our table, as our families greeted us. Everyone chatted while being severed some of the delicious food that we never get to experience except at restaurants.
"Alright everybody..." my father and my mother got our attention. "We wanted to congratulate to our son and Michael for your latest promotion. Especially, having to be apart of our wonderful celebration for these two young men taking steps for the Historic Society of American History. We're honored to have our family with Michael's family to be part of the men's celebration. To the future!"
"To the future!" We all raised our glasses, as my wife gave me a kiss, as she and my kids were sitting next to my younger siblings.
"Hey dad, we bought a present for you for your promotion." My son, Aaron handed me gift.
I opened the present and revealed it was a card for a congratulations card and a special crucifix necklace that engraved "The Lord's Prayer" with a locket inside of it is our family picture. "It's wonderful for you guys thank you."
"It'll be something for you to think about everyday when you're working hard." my wife Helen answered.
The three of us had a warming family hug, as I'm blessed man... however it didn't last long.
We started to hear an alarm going off in the ship's dinning room. Every became surprised and wondered why the alarm is going off.
All attention passengers and crew, all hands on deck! This is not a drill! Take passengers and crew to take roles of proceeding caution, this is not a drill! the intercom announced.
Everyone started to panic, as they started to rush towards the boat decks to get onto the lifeboats. My family started to calm us and started to gather everyone to the boat deck with my friends family. Aaron ran off outside to see what was going, Helen and I started to go after him. When we got outside, there was a rouge wave that was coming towards us. As a crew-member gave us life-jackets, the ship bounced from the smaller waves that knocked me over the railing and I held on for dear life.
"Chris!" Helen shouted, as she started to reach her hand out for me.
I managed to grab hold onto her, as I'm trying to pull myself. The water started to wet on the ship's exterior upper deck that made it slippery. "Please don't let go!" Helen begged.
"Hold on Dad!" Aaron shouted.
When I lifted my right foot to pull myself up to get back up towards the railing, my foot slipped and lost my bearing.
"CHRIS!" Helen screamed in horror, as I fell into the ocean's waters.
That was the last words I ever heard from my wife. When I landed on the water, I started to swim up, while the current is pushing me away from the ship. Miraculously, I was able to survive underwater for five minutes that the rouge wave was above that I struggled to resurface. Until I got up to the surface, I saw the wave crashed onto the ship where my family, Michael and his family were still on board. I couldn't able to save, as I watched the ship rolled over to it's keel. I started to swim back where I could be able to hold onto something as I could be able to find any land. When I got back towards the ship, most of the things surfaced from the capsize ship. Luckily, I saw my backpack with some of my belongings resurfaced that I had to carry it with me and saw a lifeboat raft that they only carried a few. I swam towards it and climbed on-board and pulled my backpack, before I put it on. There was a first-aid kit and some flares and flashlights that I had to put inside my backpack, in case I'm still stranded or washed up in a island. The ship started to make noises, as it began to capsize, as the waves started to come back and it took about five minutes for it to sank.
Paralyzed in sorrow, I could only do now is to watch my family perished on the doomed ship, as it sank to the bottom. A storm started to rumble, as I braced myself on the raft and I started to row away where the ship sank. Another rouge wave started to form and this time, it was coming towards.
"WHAT NOW?! YOU TOOK MY FAMILY AND YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE ME TOO!" I blasted at the wave, as I was rowing away.
The waves sped up and crashed over me, as the lifeboat started to capsize and tear apart, moments before I went unconscious.
Later, I started to hear only a few birds chirping, as if it was the morning. I was being shaken and heard someone's voice, but it was disoriented. I couldn't be able to move from the exhaustion from the wave that rolled me and brushed me somewhere.
"Please wake up!" I heard the disoriented voice going off again, with more voices followed.
I groaned and my eyes were blurry. I woke up to see beach sand and rocks. There's no wind and sound of waves crushing ashore. I realized I'm on land, but it may be an island where not a single human soul lived on that island. I was still wearing my life-jacket and my backpack was aside of me. My legs couldn't be able to move, as I rolled myself over to see some wood splinters on my both of my legs, as I a fair medium splinter embedded near towards my knee. I looked to see the sun is at it's rise for a new day, the skies are clear and air is clean.
"Where am I?" I asked myself.
"You're fine, you weren't moving and we were worried sick." a chimp looking creature with a fire on it's tail and standing next to another creature that looked like a penguin that it's blue and white.
"Luckily, we found you on shore and you were unconscious." a tall green looking creature with leaves attached to it.
It was a bleak moment to hear strange creatures talking, as if an animal would talk to me. I let out a big scream, as if the whole island could hear me.
"HELP ME! HEELLLLPPPPP!" I screamed, as I backed away.
"Calm down, we mean you no harm." the green leafed looking creature tried to calm me down.
"Wow, you're fine." the flaming chimp spoke.
"NO, I'M NOT FINE! I'm standing next to three creatures that speak the human language!" I shouted.
"Human... you're a human?" the blue mixed with white looking penguin questioned me.
"Yeah... what else do you think I was?" I questioned it with an answer.
"I'm a human as well, but I don't remember how I got here." he spoke.
"No... that can't be not true. I'm basically dreaming, I remember how I got here from sinking doomed ship, as well losing my family-" I stopped. "Wait a minute, haven't you guys seen anyone else washed up here?"
"I'm afraid not." the green leafed creature spoke. "You're the only is here."
"Anyway, I need to find somewhere to send a distress signal and to find someone take me back to the States."
The three creatures became puzzled. "What's 'the States'?" the green creature friendly asked me.
"The States, I'm from the United States of America. I'm from California in a town called Bodega Bay." I answered.
"Bodega Bay?" the chimp questioned.
"United States of America?" the green creature questioned also.
"I don't remember being over that kind of place, but I know I'm from else where, but we haven't hear that such place." the penguin spoke.
I shook my head to think I'm somewhere further away from my world perhaps.
"Alright, let's start from the beginning: I'm Chimchar." the chimp greeted. "And this is Grovyle. Finally, there's Piplup."
A "chimchar", "grovyle", and "piplup". I said to myself.
"A surprising thing to point out, you're still human." Piplup added.
"Yeah, when I found you, you're a Piplup." Chimchar spoke.
"I'M STILL NOT! I just can't remember who I'm." Piplup spoke, as Chimchar giggled from the humor.
"Okay, okay, you guys meaning to tell me... that you're-" I spoke.
"We're Pokemon." Chimchar stated.
I think I'm starting to lose my mind. I got washed up to an island where there are fictional creatures are Pokemon? Am I really dreaming or in reality I'm washed up on an abandoned island from Cast Away.