Chapter 1. Savior
The summer time in the desert of Orre has always been hotter, it's a lot worse the in the other regions. Since Orre is the only region in the country that is only desert for thousands of miles all around and even past it, it was a place where no Pokémon were able to find a place to eat or live, it also wasn't a place for children to roam.
The desert heat was beating down on the young dark haired girl that hiked through the desert. The air has been dry all day and it was only getting worse by the minute. The dark haired girl continuously had to wipe sweat from her face and neck. She was not used to this kind of heat at all since she grew up in the north where is snowed almost all year around.
Naomi regretted wasting her money on new clothes. Before she left home, she took some money, any that she was able to find lying around in her house and in her brothers' room. Naomi knew that her older brothers' always kept money in their rooms in case of an emergency. They've even shown her where they hid it in case she might need some. She knew that if she was leaving then she should take anything that will help her get by on her own but also not to take too many things that might be too heavy.
But after thinking some things through, Naomi then realised that it would have been a better idea to have kept the money for transportation.
She continuously cursed herself for being stupid. "God!" she just shouted to the sky. "Why did I have to run away?"
Even though Naomi asked this, she knew very well why she left home at twelve. Her home life wasn't hard. She lived a very comfortable life where she didn't have to do much to get what she wanted, she got everything she ever asked for and even more. But she just had a hard thinking this was how she was meant to live her life. And so, she left.
Naomi wanted to cry.
She left home without a word. Everyone thought that she was going to school, she was supposed to walk to school for the first time on her own instead of being dropped off. She hadn't even eaten before she left. She hasn't said a word to her family before she left, she just went and never turned back.
Naomi quickly dried her tears, not wanting to lose any liquids and kept on walking in the hot and dry desert. She didn't care which direction though, every direction looks the same but she never changed direction from when she entered the desert. In her mind, she's walking in a giant sand box with no end. And if there were an end to this giant sand box, then she had no idea where the exit was. Naomi wanted to leave this desert so badly.
She kept on walking up until she collapsed. The sand was hot all over her skin. She could even feel it through her clothes. The warm sand made her want to cry, and that's what she did. She cried out of frustration.
The last thing Naomi remembered before the world went dark, she saw someone walking towards her who was limping while being completely covered.
Team Snaggem's a notorious gang that's been plaguing the Orre region for almost twenty years now. No one knows who started the gang and how long ago it was formed but twenty years ago, that was when they made themselves known all over the country.
Over the years, they've recruited a lot of young people to join Team Snaggem. People of all ages all gathered from all over the country and joined the powerful new gang. Most of the young members are orphans, some ran away from home while others just wandered and somehow found their way to the canyon.
There was this one member of Team Snaggem who has been with the gang since he was a young teen. When he was first found, he broke into the hideout and he made himself comfortable in one of the empty rooms. Somehow, he started tagging along with what everyone's been doing and soon everyone knew who he was. Over time, he has made sure that everyone knew his name. He was known as a goof by everyone and he was also known to exaggerate a lot at whatever he does.
One day during the hottest day of the summer, he ran all around the grounds of the Team Snaggem hideout. This wasn't something new for the other members to see him do, but this time he was being noisy about it. Most of the time when he would wail around with his arms in the air and everyone would laugh, but this time it's different.
He shrieked.
A lot of people began to be annoyed. After some time, they couldn't take hearing him shout and went to complain to the head of the gang. They all first started complaining to Gonzap.
But when anyone would go to his room, they wouldn't be able to enter since his door was locked. When they would call for him, they would just hear some noises that no man would want to be interrupted from.
Not knowing what else to do, the few people with a cellphone called the one that is supposed to take Gonzap's place if anything were to happen to him, Seth, his adoptive son, in a way.
Seth sighed, knowing that it was ridiculous and went outside to find his best-friend now just trying to hotwire one of the motorbikes. He watched his friend as he played with the wires in the bike's engine and a few times he zapped himself. Seth laughed at his friend under his breath.
This was something he hasn't done before. He's never attempted to steal anything before, it wasn't his style.
"Cail," Seth sighed as he walked to his friend. "What the hell are you doing now?" He took a few more steps and he found out which motorbike Cail was tinkering with. "That's my bike," he said while pushing Cail's head forward with his left hand.
"I ain't doin' nothing wrong," he said with a bit of pain in his voice from his head being forcefully shoved. His neck hurt, he actually heard it crack when it was pushed forward.
"Take your paws off my bike!" he commanded angrily.
"Building," Cail answered. He moved his head to the side to get out of his friend's grip and then turned around to face him. "Wanna help?"
"Hell no!" Seth replied. He grabbed his friend by his shirt and started dragging him.
He went to drag Cail away from his motorbike and take him back inside. Seth wasn't going to let his idiot friend keep doing what he was doing to his bike, but most of all he didn't want to hear everyone complain about the noise. He didn't mind that his friend was being an idiot since Seth listens to music when he doesn't have anything to do but he also didn't want anybody disturbing him when he was listening to his music.
However, Cail wasn't about to let himself be dragged away from what he was doing. He screamed, cried and squirmed as he was being pulled away. He had nothing to hold onto until he was dragged to the front entrance of the hideout. Cail clung onto the door the first second that he could and cried some more.
Seth being tired of his childish friend, though he was young then the idiot stopped. "Damn it, Cail! What are you even trying to build?" Seth said after being tired of pulling heavy weight.
"There's a girl," he spat.
"A girl?" he asked, somewhat surprised to hear what his friend just said. "Who's this girl?" Seth said as he released him.
"I don't know," he replied. "But I saw a girl in the desert. She looked like she was going to die."
The first thing Seth thought, not again. This wasn't the first time that he saw someone, either from a distance from the top of the hideout or from one of his visions. Every time he saw something or someone, he always wanted to go see what it was just for the hell of it as he always answered to anyone who asked.
Cail has this power that not anyone else has, he has the power of seeing in the future or he can distant place all in his sleep. He can sometimes see visions when he's awake but it only happened once since Seth met Cail. And when he did see this vision, it was hard to tell what it was because it was blurry and very unclear what the vision meant.
And Seth knew very well how stubborn his friend can be. He can't fight his stubborn friend. He's never won a fight against him since they've met.
Seth took another sigh and scratched his head in frustration. "God damn it! Fine!" he caved. "But tell me what your planning on doing to my bike?" he asked, glaringly.
"Add a side car," he plainly answered.
Seth rubbed his temples from the migraine that he was developing. In theory, the migraine came from his frustration over trying to control his friend. "And where are you going to get a side care?" he asked with a lot of doubt.
"Already made one," he said while pointing to the other motorbikes.
Seth looked around his friend and found out something that made him laugh. Cail took someone else's motorbike, an older looking one, took it apart to make a rusty looking sidecar. He took most of its parts and built a round seat with one wheel. The side car was tipped over because the wheel was on the left side of the car instead of being in the middle.
Cail impulsively ripped apart someone else's bike and turned it into a side car just because of a vision. Seth laughed so hard that his eyes had a few tears come from them.
"Go get this chick," he said, trying to stop laughing long enough to speak normally. He pulled himself within a few more seconds, still drying his tears. "But if you do anything to my bike that'll break it, I swear to god that you ain't getting off so easy."
And with that, Seth watched as his friend drove off into the desert. While watching Cail, he wished that his friend knew what he was doing, because for some reason, he had this feeling that something horrible was going to happen.
It was cool by the time Naomi regained consciousness. She was lying on her back when she came to and saw the sky was a pink like colour. At first she thought that she was dreaming when she saw the sky but after a few minutes of only staring at the sky, she finally realised she wasn't dreaming.
She quickly sat up to find that she was sleeping next to a desert oasis with a palm tree and all. She remembered reading about them when she was younger and always wanted to see an oasis but she never thought that she would ever get the chance to see one for herself.
But after a few seconds, Naomi started wondering how she ended up at an oasis in the first place. She remembers collapsing in the middle of the desert with nothing but sand for miles. She knew that there was no way that anyone would find her in a place like that, though she hoped someone would save her when she collapsed.
"Oh!" a voice suddenly said. "You've finally woken up. I was afraid that was going to be the end of you."
Naomi turned to the voice and found an old woman with silver hair. She's a very small woman with a slight hunched back. She looked to be half the height of Naomi and very round. She had thick eyebrows. The old woman also has big square glasses. She also wore a brown cloak of some kind. She looked like any little old woman that you would meet in a movie or a manga.
"Who are you?" Naomi asked.
The old woman smiled at the young girl while she gave her a small loaf of bread and some water from the oasis on a leaf. "Have some water but drink it slowly. You'll get sick if you drink too fast."
Naomi graciously took the leaf with the water and started drinking from it. The water felt good in her dry throat and so she started chugging down on the water. But she had too much of it and threw up.
"Oh dear child," the old woman said as she went up to the young girl and started rubbing her back as she continued to empty her stomach. "I warned you about drinking it too fast."
At that moment, the old woman and Naomi heard the sound of a gun clicking. They looked back and behind them was a boy in about his late teens with a shotgun. He had long green hair and brown eyes.
"Howdy," he happily greeted. "I'll be takin' the kid," he said a pointed the gun towards the old woman.
"What?" Naomi said standing up. "No," she said, a little shocked at what she just heard. "No, no way. What makes you think that I'll be going anywhere with you?"
He didn't answer her. He dropped his gun on the motorbike that somehow got there, Naomi never heard it drive by, and he walked straight for the young girl and picked her up over his shoulder like she weighed nothing.
"Let me go!" Naomi screeched and punched the back of her kidnapper.
While she was being taken away, Naomi noticed that the old woman that saved her wouldn't even come and try to help her this time.
The members of Team Snaggem were having too much fun playing with their new 'toy'. When Cail brought back the girl that he had found in the desert with him, he ran inside to his friend's room while completely forgetting about the girl that he had brought back with him. Had had completely forgotten that he bound the girl's hands and feet and that the girl had no way of going anywhere on her own. He only just found out that she wasn't following him by the time he reached Seth's room.
Cail just busted into the room, he kicked open the door, causing the door hinges to bend out of shape. The door slammed on the ground causing a few things that Seth kept on his floor to break and flatten.
Seth was only mildly surprised, not enough to jump though. But he was certainly angry at the broken door. "You're paying for that."
Cail took a look back to see the damage but shrugged like it was nothing. He then took another look behind and finally noticed who was missing. "Oh…" he simply said.
"What?" Seth asked, a little annoyed.
Cail didn't answer. He just left before he forgot about the girl that he found. He sometimes gets sidetracked very easily and he knew this so he went to get her right away before he gets distracted.
He ran all the way to the front entrance, the door was wide open and there was noise. Cail peeked out of the entrance and saw a crowed in the corner of the canyon. They were cheering and throwing rocks and other objects in the corner. Completely forgetting what he was earlier doing, Cail went to see what the crowd was cheering about. And to his surprise, the girl that he brought back was the center of everyone's attention.
The girl's hands weren't bound anymore, she has the rope wrapped around her left hand and the rope had blood soaked in it. The girl looked as if she were thrown against the canyon wall by the way she sat on the ground. She cried looking up at the bunch that mistreated her with her large gray, almost silver eyes. The young girl's hair was all tattered and covering her face, it didn't completely cover all of the injuries that she had. She had a huge gash on her forehead. The blood from her forehead flowed down her forehead towards passed her chin and over another cut on the side of her mouth. She was also covered with bruises and sand. Her clothes were ripped in a few places.
Cail was shocked that this could have happened to her in only a few minutes. But the thing that shocked him the most was how even with what just happened to her, she was still able to stand up again. Teary eyes and all, the young girl was able to stand her ground with the angriest eyes anyone has even seen against the people who made her look the way she did. The crowd laughed as they saw her wearing that brave face, but Cail liked what he saw in the girl's expression.
This might be the same girl I saw in the vision seven years ago, Cail thought to himself.
Cail squeezed himself through the crowd until he stood in front of the girl. He tried holding out his hand to the young injured girl but she slapped it away and backed away until her back was on the rocks. He continued to try to help her and got rejected every time.
So finally, he decided to just pick her up over his shoulder again and carried her inside, "C'mon now, you brat."
The girl screamed, kicked and squirmed as Cail carried her off. He didn't mind though. No matter how much she resisted while he's carrying her, he knew that he won't drop her and that she wouldn't be able to get away from him. He had a good grip on the girl and it was almost impossible for her to get away.
By the time Cail was at Seth's front door, the girl was finally calm and he gently placed the girl in the cover of Seth's room. He would have liked to stay to try to find out who this girl was but he had to go to the washroom and left immediately after he placed the girl on the floor.
Sitting in the opposite direction was Seth. He was sitting on his bed reviewing an old magazine from when he first learnt how to read and when the two were in the room alone, he looked at the young girl that was sitting across from him. He sat there watching her to see if what she would do but even after waiting for almost ten minutes, she hadn't made any sort of movement.
The girl didn't even notice him in the other side of the room. She kept her head low and her eyes looking towards the filthy floor. She didn't want to look up to see where she was, she didn't want to be at the new place that she was forcefully taken to. She would rather watch the dirty floor with leftover takeout that looked moldy then to look or even speak to anyone that kidnapped her away from the woman that saved her life.
And now that Seth was finally able to see the girl, he finally understood the real reason why Cail went to get that girl. Even all beaten up, he knew then and there this was the girl. When they first met, Cail had a vision of Seth and a girl with long dark hair and silver eyes. This made him wonder what's so special about this girl, why Cail saw this girl and what made him go nuts for almost a year after seeing that vision.
Seth grew tired of waiting and he just decided to be the first to speak. "Aren't you going to say something?" he asked. "Or even move?" he continued with his question while becoming to get annoyed that his question wasn't getting answered.
Seth waited for the girl to answer for a few more minutes but he still had no answer.
She hadn't moved an inch.
He wondered if she was even breathing, thinking that she might be dead and Cail hadn't noticed when he picked her up. And if she were dead, he wasn't about to have her stay in his room. If she were dead then he would find some place to bury her so that no one from Team Snaggem would get pinned for murder, he hoped in his mind.
At first, he just walked up to her and stood there looking at her, kind of hoping that she might have flinched. He tried to make her move once by lightly taping her leg with foot and still no response.
"Can you speak?" he asked while crouching down to eye level with the girl.
He saw the girl moving slightly which meant that she was still breathing and alive. And now that he knew that, Seth became annoyed that she wasn't reacting or answering him.
He took the girl's jaw in his hand and raised her head to face him. To his surprise, Seth wasn't expecting a kid. Her face was swollen with bruises and covered in cuts and blood, but even at that she was a child. He found her to be a cute girl and he loved the way that her eyes looked, they were surprisingly silver, just like how Cail described them in his vision. Her eyes were the only thing left on the girl that was fully alive and they were raging with anger.
You usually wouldn't expect such a young girl to have that sort of eyes she wore. They almost look like she could kill with only a glare.
"Hey! You're a cute thing," he teased.
Automatically, the girl spat at him but completely missed him.
She then turned her eyes towards the floor, looking away from the boy.
He chuckled. "Fine," he said as she stood back up. "I'll leave yea alone for now. But first, let's take care of your face. Its gushing out and swelling like a pumpkin." Seth said this while he gave her his jacket.
He then left the girl alone in his room, and that was when he ran into his friend coming back from the washroom.
"Hey man," Cail greeted his friend with his arm in the air waving. "How's our little princess?"
"I like her eyes," Seth answered. "But she's just a kid. You never said that she would be a kid."
Cail shrugged. "How'd I know?"
Cail walked around his friend and took a look in the room. Seth joined him, wondering what she would do. They were both surprised at what they found. The girl took out a pokéball from her shirt pocket and she held it in her arms as if it's the most precious thing in the world, and she then began to cry.
And so that is the first chapter. I wanted to post this right after the prologue but with college homework and it literally creatively draining me from any sort of artsy thing, including writing, i couldn't do anything. I struggled to finish editing this and i am so freaking relieved that i finished it.
I would love to have opinions on what you guys think of the story plot so far. And as for the grammar, please give me advice on how i can improve that too. I am still struggling on to try and write in English though i want to be an English author...*face palm* i fail. Lol ^.^
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Thank you for reading this chapter and i hope to .com/art/Naomi-1-Chapter-1-Savior-282172316 up the next chapter really soon.