My name is Jackson. Jack for short of course. I was once a human. Now I'm a Fennekin. I was told I must save the world of Pokemon, but how am I to do that, when I may not be able to save myself.
When I first came here, I meet a Snivy, her name is Elise.
She is a part of a group of volunteers who explore places called Mystery Dungeons to survey land, help those in trouble, or capture criminals. She lives by herself in a run down hut, but she's happy.
She was ecstatic when I agreed to help her, but I was too nervous to tell her my past life. I feel it is best to lay low right now.
She's very happy to have me with her, but due to space restrictions, I have to live away from her, but this is no problem. I have found a place a mere 5 minute walk away. It's a hut like hers, but not as beaten up. It was abandoned, and now I live there.
Something else she doesn't know about me, is how I am succumbing to the very same darkness we are trying to get rid of.
It started not long after we started exploring. We had just come back from a rescue, when we had to split up to get to our respective homes. On the way there, I met a shady Pokemon. They were cloaked in shadows, I never got a good look at them, but they offered me a drink. I was quite parched at the time, so I accepted. I was high on adrenaline, I wasn't thinking straight.
He handed me a bottle, and as I was putting it in my bag, he vanished.
I got home, poured the liquid into a bowl, and began to drink.
My head got real fuzzy, but it felt good. When I woke up, my memory was a bit broken, but I felt like I had fun for some reason.
After the daily mission, a simple survey of an area, I felt lightheaded. I wanted to try that drink again.
The stranger approached me on my way home, and offered the drink, but this time for 100 coins. Which I supposed wasn't bad, we earned 500 per mission usually.
I paid him, thanked him, and went home to drink.
Eventually, I began itchy at the end of each day. My body craved that drink like it was a drug. After 1 month, things began to go horribly, horribly wrong.