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Wow I have not published anything here in a while (let's ignore the other part on the not updating my other stories...I am not proud).
Astrid (Hero)-Axew
Oren (Partner)-Snivy
I hope you all enjoy this. Criticism is welcome as long as it's not doused in flames. Pokémon of any kind does not belong to me.
Chapter 1: Life Before
In the end, Astrid never did go back to the human world.
Oren often asked her how her life was there. She would simply shrug and say that it wasn't very interesting. Which was partially true.
She didn't like to talk about it very much. Not because she had a tortured and lonely life, but because nothing ever really happened there.
Astrid was born in a well to do family. Her father was kind and powerful in the business world. Her mother was very smart, very spoiled, and very beautiful.
Astrid had her mother's temper, her father's powerful silence and keen sense in business, and an extra dose of their intelligence. As for her looks, well, she liked to say she got it all from her late grandmother.
She didn't have any friends. She was so used to finding out they only wanted connections with her father that she scratched it out of her life. All she had were her parents and a few loyal servants. She was content, if not a little lonely.
Her entire life was strategically planned out for her. She would go to the best private school in the area, graduate, then go to college and finish her degree in Business and Economics, to later on become partners with her father in the company, which would later become entirely hers. Astrid never argued against this. She figured it was just how the world worked. Everything was in their place and all she had to do was smile prettily and get good grades.
Oh, she had her moments. In dark nights, the closed door protecting her from reality, she would dream. She would dream of adventures, , traveling the world and meeting new and interesting people and Pokémon. Who wouldn't treat her any differently because of her rich background, who would be her friends because they liked her, not her money. She would see it all, and live a long life and, her most forbidden thought, with someone she loves.
But the sun always came up. And the door always opened to reveal reality once again.
Astrid never really bothered in doing anything else in her life than to follow the plans. As long as it pleased her family, she would do it.
It never stopped her from dreaming, though.