Hi! This is an idea I had for a long time. Basically, Ash goes through a traumatizing experience as a young child, and I also wanted a good story about Ash being blind, though I don't know why. And don't worry, I'll still update all my other stories, I just need more time to write them.
On with the story!
If you think that this is just another story about a normal kid going on a journey, and then ending up champion, then you're wrong. My story has several more 'tests', way more issues. Many people thought that I shouldn't've gone at all. But I was determined to prove them all wrong. Because they didn't know me, they didn't understand. Battling is in my very blood, it is what I lived for. But all because of an incident, it was almost taken form me forever. My name is Ashton Satoshi Ketchum, and an incident when I was younger took away my sight, and it nearly took my dream as well. It all started on my eighth birthday.
The weather was perfect. The sky was a perfect sapphire blue and there were no clouds in sight. I had only just turned eight, and me and my friends, Leaf and Gary, were hanging out in the woods near Pallet Town, our hometown. Things were just perfect.
Leaf's parents had volunteered to watch us in case anything happens, like a wild pokemon attack. My mom was the one who had the idea of someone watching us, and since she was busy with other things, and Gary's parents were out of town, there wasn't really anyone else left to do it.
The three of us were playing hide-and-seek, and I was currently 'it'. I was looking near some bushes at the edge of the small clearing we were in when I heard the sound of a pokeball releasing a pokemon. Curious by nature as I am, I followed the sound. When I got to the source, I found a big, buff guy with military-styled dark brown hair, narrowed dark gray eyes and was wearing a rather weird pale gray outfit with darker gray spots (AN: Hunter J's henchmen outfit, I just don't know how to describe it). At his side was a Beedrill, a rather large bee with stingers for arms.
The man was talking to himself, and, though I wasn't really paying attention, I still heard everything and I just filed it away in my brain for later. I was too busy trying to listen for my friends to pay any real attention to the guy. I had closed my eyes so that I would pay attention to what I was hearing, not what I was seeing, so of course I didn't know that he had started scanning the near-by area and that I was in plain sight. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground with the Beedrill's right stinger on my throat.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? A little kid spying on me, eh," the man said while chuckling darkly. I was struggling not to panic but I guess that my fear showed in my eyes, making the man chuckle harder and slightly darker. "Aw, don't worry, I'm not going to kill you, yet. I've got to have orders from the hunter before I can. Though, you might be one of the few that she kills herself!" and with that, the guy starts full on laughing. He cut himself off from his laughing fit when his ear comm. beeped. He pressed his right pointer finger to his ear. He was silent for a minute, then, with a quick "yes, sir" to the person on the other side, he looked back at me with a smirk that just screamed 'you're dead'.
"Well, looks like your time is up. I'm just sorry that I can't see the light leave your eyes. Beedrill, Cross-Poison, now!" the man ordered. Immediately, the Beedrill released my throat and the two stingers turned sickly purple, and the next thing I knew was pain. The pain was althroughout my face and shoulders. I dimly heard the sound of a pokemon returning to a pokeball, but I didn't care. I heard the guy shout something like, "see you in the afterlife, kid", but I could care less. I don't know how long I've been there, but at some point I heard the sounds of my friends and Leaf's parents. I felt the strong arms of Leaf's father holding me, and I blacked out.
***three days later***
I woke up, feeling like I had been trampled on by a Tauros, frozen solid by a Beartic, and then defrosted by the full fire of a Magmortar, repeatedly. There was a really firm bed beneath my form and I could smell that over clean smell of hospitals. I could hear the heart rate monitor beeping and the Audinos and Chanseys chattering as they checked their assigned patients. I slowly opened my eyes, yet all I could see was black. At first I wondered if my eyes hadn't really opened, but when I tried again, there was no change. That was when I paniced.
It took maybe ten minutes before I was calm enough to not be a danger to myself. Once I had calmed down, everything stared to piece together in my head. I was in a hospital, there was a painful stinging all throughout my face and shoulders, and I couldn't see. I don't know what compelled me to do it, but I took a hold on the nearest living thing to me, an Audino, and I reached into her mind. It took me a minute to get over the shock of doing it, and then another to get over the shock of what the pokemon was seeing.
My face was filled with shock and hidden fear in that moment. That is how bad it was. My face had been ripped apart in an "x" formation, with the crossing over my nose, stiches over the slashes. My shoulders had slashes that went pretty deep and had stiches as well. I knew that they would leave scars for the rest of my life. My eyes were no longer brown and full of life, they were now an unfocused pale blue. I knew then why I couldn't see with my own eyes. I was blind.
Yes, I know, it's short. I will be making longer chapters soon. And please, review, I'm starting to get disappointed in you guys.