Chapter 1 – Why I'm this Way

My kind, Absol, is known for causing disasters, stereotypically scarred for as long as our species continues to exist. While it is becoming more known that we do not bring or cause disasters, that we only predict them and try to stop them in any way possible, by some manner of thinking, probably human's knack for ignorance, that we are still often hunted and killed on sight. Our kind used to be common, and we would live in packs from six to twenty of our kind, much like Mightyena, but now we are much rarer to find, and live very solitary lives, away from human civilization mostly.

My story begins just as anyone else's. My mother and father met in a chance occurrence. They mated and my father left short after. To most creatures, this would be an inexcusable act, but for an Absol, this is normal. We have grown to prefer our solitary lives, and this is preferred by mothers and father alike. The mothers care for their pups for around 6-8 months simply to teach them basic survival skills, before she leaves as well. I was slightly less fortunate than others of my kind, as my mother would be taken from me by a twist of fate, a desire to help, and the scum species known as humans.

The night before Arceus unleashed his curse on me, my mother had an extremely painful vision of a natural disaster. Our visions are always physically and emotionally painful. The only way to comprehend the pain of an Absol's vision is to imagine thousands of knives stabbing your head as you are forced to watch countless humans and pokemon perish before you. The more painful the vision is, the closer the disaster is to occurring. I watched my mother cry out in pain, knowing there was no way to help her. After about thirty minutes or so, my mother stopped screaming and falls on her side. I ran up to her just in time to hear her whisper a terrifying sentence.

"The dam is going to burst."

I had never myself seen the dam, but I knew that it was a few miles away from our den, not too far away from Basch Town. If the dam were to flood, the entire town would be wiped out. There would be very few survivors.

"What? How could the dam burst?!"

"I don't know how exactly. The vision wasn't clear."

I could see it in my mother's eyes. She was going to try to warn the town, or even try to prevent the dam from bursting. I had to try to convince her to stay away from the town.

"You can't try to save the town. If they see you, they will try to kill you." I pleaded, as she must have realized this easy possibility.

"I know, but if I save them, they might stop attempting to murder us on sight. We could have a permanent home. We could never have to hunt for food ever again." She had a point, as I had not learned to hunt yet, and food in the area near our den was already scarce.

"But…" Before I could continue my argument, I was interrupted.

"No, I am going to try to help. Stay in the den until I return"

Before I could argue she was already gone. I would always regret not being able to stop her. My mother, Solana.

I wouldn't just say behind. I had to see, had to know, if anything happened to her. I ran out towards the dam, and up the tallest tree. I could see the dam when I reached the top. Nothing appeared wrong with it, and I quickly became caught up in the view of the valley. To the left, Basch Town was off in the distance, the tops of its small houses visible in the clearing it was built in. To the right, the dam stood tall, blocking the lake nearby and controlling the flow of the small river that flowed through Basch Town. Nothing seemed to be wrong with the dam, and I began to assume my mother had seen wrong. I could see the dam's control center, built into the opposite side of the valley from me. It had an all glass front wall to allow the two humans inside to monitor the front of the dam and all around it.

As I was looking into the control room, I saw something that terrified me. My mother had entered the control room with the two humans. I assume she had seen a problem occur in there to cause the disaster, but I don't think she was expecting what would follow her entry. The human near the radio system began yelling into the microphone when he saw her and I assume he was calling for help. The other human grabbed a gun that was hanging on the wall for emergencies, and before he could aim it my mother, used a night slash to try to knock it out of his hands. The human flinched when he was hit, pulled the trigger, and accidentally shot the control panels. No more than thirty seconds after, the dam seemed to be moaning, and I soon saw why.

The flood gates had all opened suddenly and the dam couldn't handle the sudden change in water pressure flowing. A crack appeared near the center, and immediately shot up to the top of the dam. From this center crack, hundreds of smaller cracks began to shoot off. In less than a minute, the first chunk of concrete fell, and the rest of the dam followed immediately. The water from the lake rushed out at an unbelievable speed. The entire lake was flooding down into the valley, rushing toward the town, which was completely underwater in little time. Suddenly, I heard a scream from the control room that was loud enough to pierce through the glass wall. My mother had been clubbed by one of the humans, and she was unconscious. They then grabbed her, tied her legs together and carried her out of the room. I knew what would happen now.

She would be taken to where the human's executed pokemon that have caused horrible events to occur. The survivors would blame the disaster on her, as it seems for the first time ever; an Absol had actually caused a disaster in the attempt to stop it. How could this be possible? An Absol's vision could only predict disasters that would occur whether or not that Absol interfered. In my mother's attempt to stop a disaster, she had caused it!

I quickly jumped down from the tree I had been in and began running towards where I assumed the humans would go, considering their town was underwater, the only clearing that could be large enough to host such an event for all of the townsmen to see. It was farther away from my den than I had ever been, and I know that I would probably get lost trying to find it. But I had to try to find her, just in case there was any way to save her. I would have to try to find her scent.

Hours went by as I tried to find even a trace of my mother's scent, and it was dusk before I found the trail. I followed it until I heard the sound of a large crowd of humans. There were so many of them that I couldn't see past them without exposing myself. I found another tree and began to scale it, being careful to not make any noise to draw attention to myself. When I finally reached the top, I was horrified. The humans had set up a wooden stage of some kind. My mother was completely tied up in the center, with a male human yelling into the crowd next to her. I couldn't tell what exactly he was saying, but I was sure I heard the terms "White Demon" and "Spawn of Giratina himself." He seemed to be the person in charge.

Suddenly, he rose his hand up, and the entire crowd fell silent. My mother must have smelled me, because she suddenly lifted her head to look at me. The man on stage pulled out a small silver gun, which I would later learn is known as a revolver. He aimed it at her and my mother screamed out to me something that pokemon only said as a final goodbye.

"Ashes to Ashes!" she yelled to me. Her sudden yell startled some of the humans as they had no idea what she had said. Tears fell from my eyes as I realized she did not want me to try to save her.

"Dust to Dust!" I foolishly yelled back to my mother, finishing the goodbye and revealing myself to the entire crowd. The man with the revolver noticed me and fearing I would attack pulled the trigger with a loud BANG, ending my mother where she lied. I had no time to mourn, as the crowd was yelling for my own death, and I quickly began to scale down the tree. A rifle shot rang out, and the branch underneath me snapped, causing me to fall several feet onto the ground. Fear immediately kicked in, as another shot rang out hitting the ground less than a foot from me.

I ran, the sounds of the crowd behind me, back to where I thought my den was. More shots rang out with every few steps, and I heard bullets hitting everything around me. In about an hour of running, the shouts from the humans began to die out behind me, and gunfire completely disappeared. Following the scent of home, I finally reached my den and fell over, exhausted by the run I had just been forced to make, and fell asleep quickly. The last sound I heard was some distant humans, no doubt looking for me, and the sound of another Absol howling.

(A/N) My first chapter of my first story. Hopefully it doesn't suck like I seem to think it does and I do hope you enjoyed chapter 1. ~Night