Hello, everyone, and welcome to my Pokeshipping Week 2018 special story, An Amazing Mermaid Love! Of course, you COULD just call it AAML to match one of the names of the best ships ever! Anyways, I originally wanted to do what most peeps do during shipping weeks, which is get a list of seven themes and write a short story for each one of them, but I didn't get the themes. So instead, I decided to write my own seven part story that will be uploaded throughout Pokeshipping Week, making this the first time I uploaded daily since the early days of this profile (which we don't talk about). I all hope you enjoy it! Let's go!
"Where do you think you are going, you little brat?!" a woman with brown hair yelled at her son, who was running towards the shore, covering his right eye.
"Away from you!" the boy shouted as he ran as fast as he could away from her.
"Come back here, boy!" his mother shouted, but the boy with ebony black hair just kept running away from his mother until he reached his secret spot: a rocky cave besides a beach. When he got there, sat down in a fetal pose and began to cry.
"What did I ever do wrong to deserve this life?!" he asked nobody in particular. The boy, whose name was Ashton Satoshi "Ash" Ketchum, continued to cry as he looked back at his horrible life.
It had all started when he was only three years old. His father was a well respected Pokemon trainer, and he had a powerful team of Pokemon, a positive relationship with everyone in his hometown of Pallet, and, most importantly, a loving wife and a child who would hopefully continue his legacy someday.. However, one day, a group of Team Rocket grunts came storming into Pallet Town and demanded that he hand over all of his Pokemon. Ash's dad, however, refused and ended up getting killed in a Pokemon fight with them after an attack from one of the grunt's Pokemon misfired and struck him in the heart. The entire town was hit hard by it, but his wife, Delia, got hit the hardest. She hardly paid attention to Ash, and when she started to notice him again one month after her husband got murdered, she changed.
She started yelling at her son, saying it was her fault that his father has died. His fault that they were financially in trouble because of his death. His fault that they were going to lose their house soon. His fault for this, his fault for that. It was not long before the yelling became hitting.
Luckily for Delia, she found love two years after the death of Ash's father. It was in the form of his father's friendly rival's father, Professor Samuel Oak. Ash quickly rejected their marriage, but there was nothing that he could do about it. And since his father's rival and his wife have also lost their lives in the Rocket invasion, his new stepbrother would be the professor's bratty grandson, Gary Shigeru Motherfucking Oak.
Over the next five years, Delia and Gary have treated Ash more like a servant rather than a son and brother, respectively. They have repeatedly beaten him up, made him do work late into the night, and even went so far as to say he couldn't go on a Pokemon journey when he turned ten.
"You are with us forever, Ashy" Gary said.
And if you thought it couldn't get worse for Ash, his school life was no better, as Gary was in the same class as Ash. And although Ash was a lot smarter than Gary, the professor's grandson had the teacher rig the grades so that Ash always gets Fs and he always gets As. And the bad grades led to more abuse from Delia. To make it worse, the person who gave Ash all of his terrible grades was his own step father.
"When will the whole cycle of abuse ever end?!" Ash said to no one in particular, leaving his thoughts and looking towards the ocean.
"What's wrong?" he heard a voice asked. He looked around, and saw that a girl found a way into the cave while he was not looking.
And that wraps up the first chapter of AAML. Next time, Ash is going to meet the girl, and I have a good feeling you all know who it is going to be. How is he going to react to her (and the little secret she has)? Well, find out next chapter! Oh, and I DO plan on updating LR tomorrow. See you next time, and dare to Pokeship!