Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.
Hello everybody, this right here is really my first attempt at creating any type of story, I only recently found this site and read a number of stories, I myself have a lot of free time so I might as well use it to improve my skills, so here I am.
When trying to write this story I took inspiration from one story (Well many stories but this one is my favourite), going by the name of New Species, now at first it might sound like that story but I'm really trying to use that kind of concept and many others to try and create a new and different story, but any ideas I give full create to their creators like IcecreamSyndrome.
Now I have read many stories only to find out that it wasn't finish or discontinued, since I have so much free time my goal is to finish this story, I'm not one to let stuff go unfinished.
Now I'm no writer so I don't know any fancy words to add to my stories but as time goes by I will try my best to improve my ability to do this kind of thing.
A teenage boy sat in front of a camera in a small empty room which only has a few boxes scatted around the floor, "Hello", the boy started to talk into the active camera "My name is Sora Johnson, I'm a 16 year old boy who lives in a town called Pallet in the Kanto region, well more like used to live" he went on saying, "I wish I could tell you that I was at home sitting next to my mum and dad receiving a warm, soothing hug telling me this is all a dream, that everything in the past year were nothing but my mind playing tricks on me, but this is just one of those times where you have to accept the fact that this is reality", Sora didn't move from his spot in front of the camera but it was clear he didn't want to be here with a hint of a tears running down the side of his face thinking back to the cruel and painful past, "I'm here talking now, to help document about what has happened to me in the past year, so others may learn about how this happened to me and maybe find a cure in the future" Wiping away the few tears now on his face, taking a moment to calm down before continuing with his story, "Now that I'm entering my final weeks before the end, I would like to tell you my story from the beginning".
When I was born, my mother died while giving birth to me leaving my father and I all alone, in my early years he did everything he could to make sure I had a life my mother always wanted, he would play with me and make the food and all of the other motherly stuff, when he went back to work when I was around 4 years old, he would leave me with his trusted friend Mark and I stayed with him until my father got home. He worked as a research assistant for Professor Oak, but he would send my father off on tasks which would take him weeks to complete.
While I was with Mark I meet his son Tom, he was the same age as me but older by a few months but even so, we got along really well and became best friends, I'm glade we did and that point on I never felt alone when my father was gone, we both went to the same school and took the same classes he was becoming more like a brother to me than a friend which in some ways only made me sad rather than happy. Mark and his wife Marry became like a second family as well, but I only wish for the times my father would be home so we can be a family again, but at the age of 10 my life turned upside down.
On my birthday it was a happy and sad time for me since it was when my mother died but I got to see my father for the first time in months after Professor Oak sent him across Kanto to grab a sample from some forest, he sent me a letter a day before my birthday saying he would stop by Professor Oak's lab before coming home, I couldn't wait to see my dad and tell him everything I have achieved at school, that I have made new friends, but as Tom and I were playing outside waiting for dad to get home we heard a loud explosion come from Professor Oak's lab and as soon as I heard that my heart sank fearing that something terrible happened to my father.
Mark, Marry, Tom and I were in the house waiting for my dad to arrive, it has been hours since that explosion happened and we were fearing the worst when he didn't show up when he said he world. At 4:00pm their was a knock at the door and I perked my head up knowing in my heart it must of been dad, I ran to the door and opened it wide only to find an officer at the door holding his hat, my world soon came crumbling down.
I don't remember much from that day, I was told that an evil group of people going by the name of Team Rocket attacked the lab in the hope of stealing some Pokemon, my dad tried to stop the group and protect the Pokemon, he was always like this but his good nature was his down fall when he got killed by the group for getting in the way, Professor Oak tried to stop them from doing this but was only to be knocked out. Days, weeks went by as I locked myself in my room isolated from the world outside only to open the door to grab food that was left for me and homework from school so I didn't fall behind, shortly after Professor Oak came to the house and wanted to give me something, I wouldn't let him In the room but he spoke to me through the door.
"Sora I'm sorry for want happened 2 weeks ago" I could hear his nervous and saddened voice continue, "I tried my best to save you father but there was nothing I could do, I only came here to give you a few things" I could hear him searching for something in his pockets, "These were your fathers, we found them not to long ago, he told me that the necklace was your present and said it used to be your mothers". I slowly raised my head from my desk and looked to the door 'My mothers...' I thought to myself, I got up from my desk slowly making my way to the locked door, I fumbled around with the lock until it was undone, I slowly opened the door removing myself from isolation to look at someone for the first time in 2 weeks, when I was looking at the Professor it felt like I have never seen a human being before this point in time, Professor Oak was standing there wishing that I could open up to the would once again but that wouldn't happen not now anyway, I soon started to stare at the two Items the Professor was holding I soon drawn my attention to the necklace in his right hand thinking to myself that this was the last thing my dad will ever give me, with that sad thought in my mind I took the two Items and headed back for my bed while Professor Oak stood at the door way, he had a concerned look maybe thinking if this was the best time to give me these but he shook the thought back before heading down to Mark and Marry.
I sat on the bed looking at the necklace, it looked like two claws crossed together with a star in the middle and a dark kind of stone in the center, I saw my dad wearing this when we were together but I never paid it any mind, but thinking back I wished he told me that this was my mothers, that it was one of the few things left of her but I guess now it also belonged to my dad, I took the two ends of the string and hung it around my neck vowing to never remove it.
I looked at the Pokeball and knew straight away what it was, it was my fathers personal Pokemon he always had with him while he was out so he could protect himself from danger and also have company so he wasn't alone for weeks on end, but this time not even his Pokemon could save him, I released it from its ball with a flash of light to find a Charmander now standing tall in my room, we both looked at each other, he knew what happened and he was just as sad as I was at this point, the Charmander walked to me and and put his claw on my knee, he has spent more time with my dad than I have and he must miss him even more, the only thing I did was reach down and gave the Charmander a hug, he did the same.
Years went by since that day and I tried to put it all behind me, I keep Charmander's ball close to me and my necklace even closer, Tom's family took me in full time and tried to comfort me with what happened, it took them a month to get me out of my room and a week after that to get me back to school and into the outside world again. At the age of 13 Tom got his first Pokemon from his Mum and Dad, it was an Eevee they got from a old friend not to long ago, Tom and I were so excited that we trained and played with our Pokemon which was really one of the only times that help take my mind off my family.
When Tom and I trained I used to always win with Charmander since he was well trained being with my dad for so long, but Tom never got mad but enjoyed the time he had battling, he told me that he wanted to be a Pokemon Master some day but after he finished his schooling, I never found much joy from battling Pokemon except when it was with friends, I always wanted to be friends with them and learn more about them kind of like my father, but this thought made me sad.
Now at the age of 14 and with my birthday coming up in a few days which in turn will make me 15. For the last 4 years I always took a walk into the forest where a pond laid, my father use to take me here all the time and said it was the place where him and my mother met I only wish he told me how they did, so to remember them on my birthday I come to this spot by myself and prayed to my parents to give me strength for the next year, and on my 15th birthday is when my life changed forever...
A/N: Well that was the first chapter of the story it was mostly just background information on the main character, I have already written the next few chapters of this story so it will start getting interesting soon.