One
I suppose that at this point in the story I should introduce myself.
My name is, technically, Gertrude Lafollette, but I go by Trudy. I've never been sure if that was a nickname or not, but does it really look like I care? Well, seeing as you can't actually look at me right now, I'll just tell you: I don't.
Anyhow, today is my alleged tenth birthday. Why alleged? I mean, honestly, can you imagine any good parent letting their kid just go out to be potentially murdered on their tenth birthday, all while still being responsible for up to six creatures? Seriously, at least wait until they turn fourteen or something. Fourteen is a much better age for being murdered. Believe me though; I'm not some sort of maniac (despite what my mother says, but you can't listen to that raging psychopath). I have evidence; the kind that proves my point.
Let me start off with my strongest argument: all of us "ten-year-olds" are oddly mature for our age, especially when taking into account that we have to take care of these possibly hellish monsters that follow us around until we inevitably die. The funniest part of it all is that I'm sure that I'm going to be one of those "unfortunate trainers" who are "sadly" killed in a fatal "accident" involving their "loving" pokémon. That's just my guess, anyways.
My second and last (and therefore weakest, I suppose) piece of evidence is that I have only very vague memories of my life up until just a couple of years ago. That's probably because of that part of my brain not being developed until a few years back, so who knows how many years it actually has been. If I had to guess, I would say it's been about fifteen or so years. Well, I have a little brother who I'm told is seven years old, and I can clearly remember the day he came home from the…hospital? Pokémon center…? The forest…? Whatever; that means that my memory was developed enough to remember that with clarity, so me being age eight when that happened seems logical.
Ugh, all this math is hurting my head. I've only recently learned basic addition and subtraction and I still don't know what multiplication and division are. It works out doesn't it, though? I don't know basic math, so what? Thanks to my ten (or more…) years of pokémon trainer school, I know a bunch of nifty catchphrases that I can say after winning against an opponent that will usually relate to what I said to bother another trainer into battling me in the first place! Obviously I have my priorities very straight, don't I?
Well, I've done enough ranting about my conspiracy theories for now, so I guess I'll have to open my eyes to start my so-called adventure.