Before
A Naruto-Neko original
Before the story of Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, there was my story, as a human. Before I am sent back to the world in which I am a Pokémon, with my new partner, I will tell you this story, so it won't be forgotten.
Time stopped, what feels like long ago. Darkness fell, and everything just stopped one day, except living creatures, it seems. It was a normal day. But there is no way to tell how long ago this started, as, well, there is no time to go by.
At first, there were some people who were excited, and thought we were all going to live forever. The thought of that stopped when we got hungry. Nothing grows, so, as you may expect, our time (so to speak, there is no time) is limited, and currently we set up a system where we've pooled every last morsel of food in a secure place, but it's only a matter of waiting for someone greedy to go and steal the food for themselves, at which point we'll all be screwed. There were some people who took it as a sign from God, and started repenting for some unknown deed. Some starved themselves to death, including some of my friends. And then the dissent to madness started, or that's what I've called it from my safe distance from the rest of humanity. That's how the rest of my friends went- they went insane, tired of the darkness, the fact that our world is ending. The fact that I haven't already gone insane is amazing; I sort of expected to go the same way as everyone else.
The reason I, Hanako, have not gone insane like the rest of humanity, is that I realized how much Pokémon are essential for our mental health at this point. The Pokémon who taught me this would be… Grovyle. My partner, my best friend.