My first Pokémon fanfic!
Sira flinched. She knew that she was a disgrace to her already disgraced species: it wasn't as if the other Absol had any qualms about telling her that. It still didn't make the words hurt any less. She had heard all the names: no-paw, half-paw, cripple, freak, three-paw, and every other insult imaginable. She scuffed her deformed paw on the ground dejectedly.
The front half of her right back paw was missing, and Sira cursed the fact every day. A voice shook her out of her thoughts.
"Why don't you leave, freak?" The other Absol continued to jeer, raking his claws against her fur as she ducked her head and flinched. "Go away. Go away and never come back!" The taunt made her fur bristle in anger, but she kept her head down, as was her place. But the comment had made her think. Why not leave? It wasn't as if she was wanted here. Even her mother refused to have anything to do with her.
Sira didn't say goodbye. The other Absol wouldn't have cared. She was a freak, an outcast among outcasts. And so she ran. Ran as fast as her damaged legs would carry her.
After running for fifteen minutes, she came across a human. She tried to run away, but the human had a Trapinch who kept running in front of her and preventing her from leaving. She heard the human shout "Bite!" and she flinched as the Trapinch's jaws closed around her flank. She lunged forward herself and but she lost her balance as the Trapinch dodged, and Sira heard the human's gasp of surprise as he saw her paw. Shaking his head, he sent his Trapinch back into the Pokéball. He walked away.
Sira ran for days, until she found a forest where she could easily hide from the scrutinizing gaze of humans and other Pokémon. And, if she was honest, she was also hiding from herself.