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Multiple Pokemonality Disorder
By CrystalMask
Prologue
CINNABAR CITY, KANTO. 23/07/06
Cinnabar city was famous for having one of the most high class clubs in the world: "St. Caroline". Every single man and women in that club sported elegant and expensive clothes, they wore watches made of gold and silver and had a most refined way of talking and acting. The pokemon who belonged to such people were just as refined as their masters. They did not battle like other pokemon; they preferred to sit with their masters and listen to classical music. They did not get filthy at any time nor did they eat any pokemon food; they only ate food prepared by the greatest gourmets in the whole Kanto region.
Not far from that prestigious club, an eevee and a pichu played together in the mud.
"Come on, Moonlight!" the pichu laughed, throwing some mud right at the eevee's face. "Hit me harder, you weak little girl!"
The eevee wiped the mud of her face. "Hey! I'm not weak!" she snapped back. "I'm the toughest girl around!"
To prove her point, the eevee ran over to the pichu and tried to knock him down.
"Moony can't hit me!" the pichu exclaimed each time one of the eevee's attack missed. "Moony can't hit m-"
"Moonlight! Thunder!"
Both pokemon stopped their playing and turned around to see an eevee standing away from the mud, frowning at them.
"What in the world are you doing? That mud is disgusting!"
Thunder rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry, Shadow. I forgot you're too classy to play in the mud."
"Thunder! Don't be rude!" Moonlight scolded.
"Oh, look at me!" Thunder said, ignoring Moonlight. "I'm Shadow and i'm oh-so classy! I say chaps, shall we enjoy a nice spot of tea while we chit chat about the weather?"
Shadow rolled his eyes. "Oh ha ha ha, Thunder."
"Oh! How nice that you have joined me for tea, Moonlight!" he continued, now holding an imaginary cup. "How many lumps of sugar would you like in your tea, love?" Thunder proceeded to put three imaginary lumps of sugar into his imaginary cup.
Moonlight ignored Thunder as she walked over to Shadow. "Uh...How 'bout we go to the shore so I can get clean?" she suggested, smiling shyly at Shadow.
"I think that's a great idea." he agreed.
Both eevees walked away from Thunder, who was busy drinking his "tea". After a while of walking, they arrived to the shore of Cinnabar island. Moonlight quickly ran over to the sea and wiped the mud off her fur.
"I say, dear chap! This spot of tea is truly exquisite!" a voice yelled in the background.
Moonlight laughed despite herself. "He's just being silly." Moonlight said between giggles.
"I know, love." Shadow said, slightly irritated. "I am aware that your friend is lacking...how shall I say it? Class."
Moonlight walked out of the water and shook herself dry. Shadow softly licked his girlfriend on the cheek, making her blush at least 6 different shades of red.
"I just wish you made other friends." Shadow muttered, sitting next to Moonlight.
"Other friends?"
"Yes. Better friends."
"What do you mean better friends? Thunder is a great friend!" she replied.
"I know he's a good friend but he's not like us." Shadow tried to explain. "I mean, look at him! He rolls around in the mud!"
"So do I!"
"I know! But you're going to change! You have to change!"
"What do you mean I 'have' to change?! Don't you like how I am?!"
"Of course I do! But my master doesn't approve of me dating pokemon who aren't like us."
"Wait a second... You master doesn't approve of you dating people who aren't like you?"
Everything started making sense. She finally understood why Shadow always insisted on her not going to the club to look for him and that he'd look for her. She finally understood why he always seemed to be cautious when they walked near the club. Everything made perfect sense now.
"You...You're ashamed of me!" Moonlight gasped. "You're ashamed of what your classy friends and master would think if they saw you with me!"
"No! It's not like that!"
Moonlight started backing up. "Of course it is! You've always been ashamed of me!"
Shadow tried to go near her. "No! I love you!"
"Liar! Stay away from me!" she yelled, turning around and running away.
"Wait! Moonlight, wait!" Shadow screamed, chasing after her.
"Stop chasing me!" Moonlight yelled back. "I hate you! I never want to see you again!"
"Moonlight! Stop this instant!"
"Never! Leave me alone! Go back to your horrible master and your horrible friends!" she screamed, tears in her eyes.
Moonlight started running as fast as her legs could take her. As she ran, Shadow's voice faded away until the only thing she could hear was her unsteady breathing. Tears clouding her view, she could only rely on her nose to take her to the pokemon she needed to see. After a few minutes, she reached a small clearing.
"Thunder!" she cried desperately. "Thunder!"
Her yellow friend appeared almost instantly from one of the trees, dropping the pecha berries he had been picking, and ran over to his friend.
"What happened?!"
Moonlight proceeded to tell him all about the fight she had with Shadow. After she finished, Thunder was fuming.
"What's wrong with that guy?! Ashamed of you?! He should be honored!" he exclaimed furiously. He looked at Moonlight. "You're too good for him, understand?!"
Moonlight wiped her eyes and nodded. "You know what?" she sniffed. "I'm gonna teach him a lesson."
"A lesson? Are you gonna go and kick his butt?" Thunder asked hopefully.
"No. I'm gonna become all classy just like he wanted."
"What?" Thunder asked, thoroughly confused. "That doesn't make any sense! Why would you want to be like him?!"
"If I become all nice and fancy like his friends, he's gonna regret ever being ashamed of me! And when he wants me back, i'll be like 'no way, loser!'!"
"B-But Moonlight... You've lost your mind!"
"No! You'll see! It's the perfect revenge!" Moonlight exclaimed. "From now on, i'm gonna be fancy! No more rolling in the mud! No more being dirty! No more acting like a little kid!"
"Please tell me you're joking..."
Moonlight shook her head effusively. "And we're also leaving this place!"
"Leaving?!"
"Yes! We're gonna go in that boat headed to the Johto region! And we're gonna have lots of adventures! And then we're gonna come back and i'm going to get revenge on Shadow!"
"But why do you want to leave?!"
"Because I want to be as far away from that stupid idiot as possible, okay?!"
"But Moony, I do-"
"I said okay?!"
"Okay! Jeez! We'll go!"
Moonlight humphed and marched towards Cinnabar port. Thunder followed her reluctantly, convinced that he'd never understand girls as long as he lived.
OUTSKIRTS OF OLIVINE CITY, JOHTO. 30/11/06
Somewhere in the Johto region was a small house in the middle of a field. Inside the house, everything was a mess. Piles of dirty dishes all around the kitchen, research files and empty soda cans lay on the floor everywhere. Dust had covered almost all of the furniture until a small layer had formed.
A man was sleeping on a couch. His clothes were dirty and his whole body smelled as if though he hadn't taken a shower in weeks. Keys tied to a chain hung around his neck. Keys that opened the door of the basement.
In the basement, four pokemon were huddled together; two grovyles and two treeckos. All four of them had their hands and legs chained to the wall. Their bodies were covered with bruises and scars; some of them still bleeding.
"2 months..." the male grovyle said. "2 months we've been in this hellhole."
The female grovyle sighed. "Void. Don't start this now."
"Sarian?"
The female grovyle looked at her younger sister, a female treecko. "What is it, Laru?"
"Why hasn't Mommy come back for us?" Laru asked. "Doesn't Mommy loves us anymore?"
The two treeckos looked expectantly at their older sister.
Sarian thought for a moment before answering. "Mommy hasn't come for us because Mommy's trainer didn't want us to tag along."
"But then why did she tell us she'd be back when she left us in the meadow?" asked the male treecko.
Sarian tried in vain to stop her eyes from watering. "Mommy told us that because she didn't want us to follow her. Mommy's trainer wanted to get rid of us so he told Mommy to make us believe she was coming back so we wouldn't follow her and realize she'd left us until it was too late to find her."
Teardrops started falling from Laru's eyes. "But why did Mommy listen to her trainer?! Did she want to get rid of us too?!"
Sarian shook her head quickly. "Of course not! Mommy wanted to be with us but-"
"She didn't have a choice." Void finished.
"Why did the mean man have to be the one to find us?" asked the male treecko.
Sarian smiled sadly. "I guess because... we haven't had any luck this year."
A painful silence followed that statement as all four siblings felt their hearts on the verge of breaking.
After a while, Void looked at his little brother. "Have you decided what you want to be called yet?"
The treecko wasn't ready for this off topic question but he quickly shook his head. "No."
"Great because you're officially being called Void."
"B-But that's your name, big brother!"
Void smiled darkly. "That's okay. It won't be much use to me after Sarian and I die tonight."
"Die?!" yelled both treecko in unison. "What do you mean die?!".
They both looked at their brother who answered by turning away. Their views then shifted to their older sister, who looked as if about to cry.
"Void and I have been talking while you guys have been asleep. We've come up with a plan that'll save you both."
Laru grabbed her sister and started shaking her. "What about you guys?!" she cried desperately.
"We can't be saved." she answered, her voice breaking up.
"Remember that object the mean man threatened us with? The gun?" asked Void.
Both treecko nodded.
"I told you two that that little gun could kill one of us in less that a minute. Since he has that gun, we have no chance of escaping without all of us being killed. That's why the only way we can free you is if Sarian and I distract the man so you two can run away."
The two treecko sat down with their arms crossed. "We're not gonna run away if you aren't coming with us!"
Sarian tried to reason with her brother and sister. "But guys, you have to under-"
"We don't want to!"
Void slammed his fist against the floor. "Well tough luck 'cause you don't have a say in this!" he barked. "We're going to do it tonight whether you like it or not, and you're going to save yourselves whether you want to or not!"
Sarian immediately held her two younger siblings against her as tightly as she could and started crying. "Listen to me! When you get out of here, you're gonna go make lots of friends, okay? You're going to go live life and I forbid you to mourn our deaths endlessly, okay? I want you two to be happy! No matter what!" she ordered between sobs.
"You're gonna get strong, too!" Void followed. "You're gonna be strong so you'll be able to defend your friends and yourselves! You're gonna protect the life of your friends as if it was your life on the line!"
"And finally," Sarian said, "You're gonna make human friends."
The male treecko twisted his face into a horrified expression. "Humans?! But humans are mean! They're the reason you're gonna die!"
"No! Humans aren't all bad! Remember that just as there are bad humans, there are also really good humans! Remember Ana? The girl who used to play with us?"
"I liked Ana!" Laru said. "She used to give me chocolates whenever I saw her!"
Sarian smiled. "See? Humans and pokemon all start good but there are things that happen that make them turn bad. That's why I want you to teach humans how to be good to us, okay? If you do that then maybe no other pokemon will have to go through this situation."
Laru was about to say something but an alarm in the upstairs floor stopped her.
"Looks like we only have 20 minutes left to enjoy life." Sarian muttered in a terrifyingly calm voice.
"Okay, listen to me!" Void said quickly , "When the man comes down to feed us, the second he's close to me, i'm going to attack him. While I attack him, Sarian is gonna use her leaf blade to cut your chains and then she's gonna attack the human too. While we both attack him, you two are gonna run like hell towards the exit and you're going to get away from this place as fast as you can, got it?
And remember that no matter what you hear or how much you want to, you are never to come back here! In the minimal chance Sarian and I escape alive, we'll look for you and find you."
"You two have no idea how much Void and I love you. Whatever happens, we'll always be proud of who you are and we'll always be watching over you." Sarian said, playfully rubbing their heads.
All four siblings looked at the door the second it started opening. The man came in, grinning stupidly at them.
"You four have been quiet today." he said, walking towards them. "Maybe I won't experiment on you tonight."
Void eyed the man carefully. He saw the gun sticking from the man's pocket and felt his heart shrink.
The man served some pokemon food into a filthy bowl and then started walking towards Void. "You first, big boy."
Void waited patiently as the man got closer to him. The moment the man bent down to leave the food in front of him, he jumped on the man and brought him to the floor.
"Now Sarian!"
Sarian turned around and used a leaf blade attack to break the chains holding her two younger siblings. The chains broke with a snap, leaving the two treecko staring at their sister.
"Don't stand there! Run, you idiots!" she screamed as she went to help her brother.
Void saw the man take out his gun so, using all his lung power, he turned around and screamed. "Run! And never forget your new name, little brother!"
The two treecko quickly sprang to the door. As they ran through the house, struggling could be heard in the basement. Finally, they found the main door and just as they opened it, two gunshots rang in the air, crushing the hearts of the two siblings.
"We have to run!" screamed Laru, dragging her brother behind her.
In the meanwhile, the man ran out of the basement and out of the house, his eyes searching desperately for his two experiment guinea pigs. Laru turned around and saw the man right behind them.
"We're never gonna make it!" she cried, tears clouding her view. She failed to see a rock on the ground and tripped on it, landing on the floor with a huge thud.
"Laru!"
Her brother tried to pick her up but her two knees were bleeding.
"I can't get up," she wailed. "I'm so scared."
"I'm here!" he cried back, "I swear I won't leave you!"
She grabbed her brother and pushed him away from her. "No! You have to run!"
"B-But what about you?!"
"Forget me! I'll be fine! I'll be right behind you!" she said, trying to smile.
"Where are you?!" they heard the man scream, his voice not far behind.
Laru looked at her brother. "RUN, VOID!"
Void did as ordered. He looked at his sister one last time before running away. He hated himself. He hated his mom's trainer for leaving them. He hated his mom for obeying her trainer. He hated his older brother and sister for not having told them of their plan before. He hated himself for abandoning Laru. But most of all, he hated the man for what he did. He hated the man with every inch of his soul, body and heart.
Void's hate filled thoughts were put to a halt when he violently crashed against something. He looked up and saw a pichu on the ground, rubbing its head with its small paw. He then noticed an eevee, who quickly ran over to the pichu.
"Thunder!" she exclaimed. "Are you okay?"
The pichu grinned goofily. "I'm fine, Moony." he said airily. Thunder then looked at Void. "But I think our buddy here isn't."
Bruises and scars all over his body, dirty and smelly and, on top of that, crying; Void didn't look fine and dandy in any way. He just stared at the two pokemon, speechless, forgetting for a moment the reason of his current state.
"Oh my god!" Moonlight gasped, looking at Void's scars. "What happened to you?! Are you okay?! Have you eaten?! You look terrible!"
Moonlight's question snapped him out of his temporary daze. "My sister!" he exclaimed hurriedly. "My brother and sisters! They were...They were..." He drifted off. They were killed. Laru had probably been caught by the man... He was truly alone...Alone to wander th-
"They were what?" asked Thunder.
"M-murdered by a ...a human."
Thunder and Moonlight stared at Void, not sure if he was joking or serious. A gunshot, however, stopped all hesitation.
"Come back here, you fucking pokemon!"
Thunder looked towards the direction from where the voice came. "I think, my dear Moonlight and dude-who's-name-i-don't-know, now would be a great time to run for our lives." He turned around and saw Moonlight and Void running like hell.
"Hey! Wait for me!"
NEW BARK TOWN, JOHTO REGION. 13/01/07
2 houndour ran towards New Bark town. The smaller one, Tyler, was quiet and prudent. He wanted to stay out of trouble so he tried to stay away from human cities. The other houndour, Howldog, was reckless. He wasn't afraid to stand up against stronger foes even when all odds were against him nor was he afraid to do dangerous things.
"Howldog…This is a bad idea…" said Tyler in a worried voice.
"Don't be a coward!" Howldog scoffed, "The others think i don't have the guts but i'll prove them wrong!"
"But you could get killed! Or you could end up killing a human!"
Howldog rolled his eyes. "Pshh. One less human. Who's gonna care?"
Tyler wondered if Howldog really meant that or if he was trying to look tough. His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of car horns. They had already reached the city.
Howldog was studying the street. Cars were speeding by; an old woman and her two grandchildren were standing on the sidewalk and a woman was sitting on a bench reading a book.
"Okay," he said, mostly to himself, "When that green light flashes, I have to run to the sidewalk over there and run back. If I do that, I'll prove myself to the other houndours of the pack."
Tyler couldn't hide the anguish in his face. "But what if you get crushed by one of those things? Siro died like that last year."
Howldog grinned. "But I'm not like Siro. I won't be killed." He said confidently.
He would never admit it but he was actually very nervous. What if he did get killed? What if he killed a human? He shook his head. No. Nothing would happen today. He'd run quickly so that no car got the chance to crush him. He looked at the street light. In a matter of seconds, the red light turned yellow and then it turned the color he dreaded, green. Cars immediately started swooshing by. He couldn't stop now. He had to prove himself to the world. This would be his moment of glory.
"Run!" he yelled as he ran across, eye closed.
He was too terrified to open his eyes but a sense of impending doom forced him to open them and look at the cars. He stopped, paralyzed. Right in the middle of the street he sat, his eyes wide open as if though he was seeing a ghost.
It all happened very quickly. The owner of the car that was about to kill him smashed his foot violently against the brake pedal while he turned the steering wheel. Sadly, it wasn't enough to stop what was about to come. The car swerved towards the sidewalk and the only thing Howldog could hear was the scream of a girl when the car hit her grandmother. The driver of the car got out and ran towards the group of people huddle around the 68 year old woman.
Howldog couldn't move. He had no will over his body. The scene from seconds ago passed like a movie in his mind, endlessly repeating itself. He looked at the granddaughter. She was 14 years old at the most. He couldn't see her face but he could hear her cry. The grandson, a 20 year old boy, just stared in shock, still not processing the events that had just occurred. A man came and grabbed the old woman's wrist. After a few seconds, he got up and patted the shoulder of the grandson.
"I…I'm sorry but she'd dead."
The phrase kept repeating itself in Howldog's mind. Dead. The old woman was dead. She was dead and he…He had been the cause of that death.
"You bastard!"
Howldog turned around and saw the grandson staring and pointing an accusing finger at him.
The man had a wild look on his face. A look that made Howldog want to scream in fear. This man was going to kill him. Howldog had never been so sure of something in his one year of life.
"Run!" screamed Tyler.
Howldog didn't have to be told twice. He turned the other way and started running. The man gave chase and he wasn't slow at all.
"Come back here!" the man screamed. "Come back here so I can fucking kill you!"
Howldog started running even faster. He managed to lose the man after a while. He was tired but he didn't want to stop running. He was scared. Terrified.
"Stop there, little dog!" A voice ordered.
Howldog screeched to a halt and turned around to find an arcanine. The arcanine was huge. His eyes looked at Howldog's, piercing through his soul.
"An arcanine? Arcanines aren't natives to the Johto region." Howldog said, backing up a few steps.
"Houndours aren't natives either but here we are." he answered back in a mocking voice.
"What do you want anyways?!" Howldog snapped. "Can't you see i'm busy?!"
The arcanine chuckled. "Don't get impertinent, little dog. I know what you did."
Howldog felt the blood drain from his face. "Y-You know?"
The arcanine smirked. "Not so tough now, huh? I do, in fact, now what you did, little dog. And I intend to make you pay for that."
"But I didn't do it on purpose!" Howldog exclaimed.
"Of course you didn't do it on purpose, little dog. But you were part of it, therefore, you are partly guilty."
Howldog growled. "Well...There's nothing you can do about it! I hate humans! Serves them right!"
The arcanine walked in circles around Howldog. "Serves them right, huh? Tell me, little dog, if someone killed your friend by accident, would his death not be important?"
"Of course it would be important!" Howldog answered.
"So let me get this straight," said the arcanine, sitting down in front of Howldog. "If a pokemon dies, it's a big deal. But if a human dies, it's not important? It's not important that a little girl is never going to see her loving grandmother again? It's not important that as we speak, she must be crying her poor little sou-"
"Stop it!" exclaimed Howldog. "I know what I did, okay?! I'm sorry, okay?! There's nothing I can do to make it better so just leave me alone!"
"Actually, there is a way to repay what you've done."
"Th-There is?"
The arcanine got up and started walking away. "Follow me, little dog."
After half an hour, Howldog and the arcanine reached a huge white building in Violet city. Howldog saw the initials P.T.H.C. painted on the front door of the building.
"Ah! There they are!" the arcanine said suddenly.
Howldog looked around and saw a three pokemon sitting in front of the building: a pichu, an eevee and a treecko. When they saw the arcanine, the three pokemon got up and ran over to them. Howldog realized that these pokemon were practically the same age he was.
"Mr. Arcanine!" the eevee exclaimed. "Did you find what you were looking for?"
The arcanine laughed. "Why yes. Here he is." he said, pointing at Howldog.
"Hi!" said the eevee. "My name's Moonlight!"
The pichu grinned. "I'm Thunder! Nice to meet ya!"
"My name is Void." the treecko said, offering a small smile.
"What's your name?" asked Thunder.
"My name's Howldog!" he said, sitting up straight in an attempt to look intimidating.
"Now that you've all been acquainted with each other," the arcanine said, gaining the attention of the four pokemon. "I think I should explain why I brought you here."
"The building behind me is the Pokemon Trainer Help Center. It is a center where very young humans are prepared for the day they can become qualified trainers at the age of ten. The human kids who come here are given special pokemon."
"Special pokemon?" asked Moonlight.
"Special pokemon are pokemon that have been trained to teach young humans how to interact with pokemon, what to give them, how to feed them and how to battle."
"But we can only understand human speech. We don't know how to speak it." Void said. "How are we supposed to teach them if we can't even communicate with them?"
"You'll be taught how to communicate with humans through signs."
"I have another question." said Moonlight. "How long are we going to stay with the human we have to train?"
"Each group stays with their human for 3 months. After three months, the group moves on to another human and so on."
"Group?" asked Howldog. "What do you mean group?"
"Special pokemon travel by groups of 4 pokemon. Each group will always consist of the same pokemon."
Thunder grinned. "So that means the four of us can be together?"
All four pokemon looked at the arcanine hopefully.
The arcanine smiled. "Correct. So would you like to work with me and other pokemon in the P.T.H.C.?"
All four pokemon nodded enthusiastically.
"Great!" the arcanine exclaimed. "I'll be waiting for you inside. Feel free to talk to each other for a while before coming in."
The four pokemon watched as the arcanine disappeared inside the white building before turning to look at each other.
"So," said Thunder, looking at Howldog. "Looks like you're stuck with us! But don't worry, we're not so bad!"
"Void here," he continued, punching Void playfully, "is really smart. He looks like a really quiet guy but he's a cool dude."
Thunder then looked at Moonlight. "Moony is a cool girl. But don't say a bad word in front of her or else..." Thunder finished his sentence by moving his hand in a cutting motion in front of his neck.
Moonlight ignored Thunder. "You'll see Howldog! We're all really strong and i'm a good fighter!"
Thunder laughed. "Wooah Moony. Leave the fighting to us men. You're too weak to handle a real fight."
"Hey!" Moonlight protested. "I am not weak, you idiot!"
"Jeez Moonlight," Void said. "Don't get mad at Thunder. It's not his fault you were born into the weaker sex." he finished with a grin.
"Go jump off a bridge!" Moonlight yelled furiously. She turned around and marched furiously towards the center.
Thunder looked at Void. "Looks like we're getting our butts kicked tonight." he said, grinning.
The three new friends laughed as they made their way towards the P.T.H.C. Building.
3 YEARS LATER
NEW BARK HIGH, NEW BARK CITY, JOHTO REGION. 16/03/10
Ashlynn Villiers hated Math class. It bored her to no end. She'd much rather draw in her notebook than try and figure out the height of a tree based on the length of its shadow. She tied her long brown hair in a ponytail and proceeded to rest her forehead on her desk.
"Today's gonna be a long and boring day." she thought. "Just like always."
If only she knew how wrong she was.
TO BE CONTINUED
Warning: ridiculously long AN
For those of you who might be wondering why did I decide to re-write this story, i'm posting the letter I posted as a chapter the day before I posted this chapter.
"Before i begin, I KNOW i shouldn't post an author note via chapter form but this one is really important.
Okay so it's been 5-6 months since i last updated this story. Believe me; I haven't given up on it.
If some of you write, you should know that you normally get emotionally attached to your story. I mean, if you really LOVE your story and you're dying to tell it, you'll get attached to it.
This story means a lot to me. It means a lot to me because it's an OC fic. Obviously i don't own the core pokemon concept but everything else is purely mine. The characters, the plot, ect…
When i started writing it, i knew it wouldn't be as popular as the anime related fics. I knew it wouldn't be popular because i'm still an author in training. Yet here i am with few but precious followers who have stuck with me throughout the beginning of this fic and you guys have no idea how grateful I am. Even if you've never reviewed, just knowing you read my fic fills me with pride.
That's why I need to ask you something.
I've deleted fics before without telling anyone or caring what my readers think and I regret that A LOT. You guys are part of the creation of the story. You guys comment and motivate me to write therefore, in a way, this story also belongs to you.
As I said before, I haven't given up on this story. I want to finish this story. I won't be able to rest in peace unless I get this story out of my system. Sadly, I've found mistakes I've made plot wise. Mistakes that I want to change but in order to do so I have to completely rewrite the story.
But (asking the readers who have stuck with me from the beginning) I won't proceed if you absolutely don't want me to change anything.
A friend told me that I shouldn't care because it's my story and I should do whatever the hell I want with it but I think it's only fair I tell you what I want to do before I do it.
Now I'll explain what's going to change:
The main plot is going to be the same. The characters are also going to be the same (I've grown to attached to the characters).
I'm just going to change the way the story unfolds. Thankfully, I was only at the beginning of the story so you guys shouldn't be too disappointed.
p.s. If by any chance one of you guys really likes the story, I need a beta reader so he can give me advice on plot ideas and check my grammar and all that stuff.
I promise I won't disappoint and I SWEAR I'll never do this to you again. This time I have everything mapped out. I even made a timeline and all that stuff. I've done summaries of each chapter and what's going to happen in them, what can't happen in them, ect…"
There.
That's why.
And I reiterate (sp?), I did frigging character sheets and story sheets! Even I can't believe that!
The story won't be re-done again. I swear!
Now i'd like to say a few words regarding the updates. I've been writing for 3 hours each day so if I keep going at this rate, there should be an update every other saturday.
I hope you enjoyed the prologue. If you didn't then that's life, I guess.
BTW, if you did enjoy (or wish to offer constructive criticism) , please press that precious little review button a few spaces down and leave me a comment =D