Fragments of Thoughts
By Sheik Lovin' 'Yeah, the Mary Sue thing died. Please don't kill me' Rose-chan
Disclaimer: You enter ye ROOM. In ye ROOM is a rare RIGHTS TO THE POKEMON FRANCHISE. You can't get ye RIGHTS TO THE POKEMON FRANCHISE. It is BOLTED to the FLOOR and GUARDED by SHIGSY-BOTS.
Enter thou command: Leave room in sulk enter
If you actually read author notes, they're at the bottom. Weirdo.
Our first guest is Blaziken, the fire chicken that kicks all kinds of ass. Moltres has nothing on this guy.
Burning For Tomorrow
Call me shallow, call me single-minded, hell, call me stupid and suicidal, but if you asked what I lived for, what I'd look forward to when I woke each morning, what I could never give up no matter how old or weak or feeble I got, I would reply in a heartbeat: fighting. The challenge is the only thing I seem to have any interest in these days. Those around me are just…dull. They can't see the beauty of the fight, can't understand how I can only truly be at peace when I'm against an equal opponent, can't feel the sheer joy. Nothing comes close, my friend. Nothing.
I've tried to explain it to others, and I appear to have failed. They say, "Won't you get hurt?" They say, "But you'll lose some day, you'll get too old to fight." Yes, some day I will get old and feeble and another – hopefully like me – will defeat me in combat. And I say, "So what?" In fact, I look forward to the day when someone bests me. When I can happily accept that there is someone stronger than me and I can say I was proud to be a worthy opponent. Then they look at me and shake their heads and write me off as a lost cause, because who wants to be beaten?
Was I always like this? I doubt it. I like to think that I was a young Torchic ready to take on the world and any passing aliens looking for a fight and ready to beat them as well. I'd take on Mewtwo himself, logic and sanity be damned. It makes me smile to picture my younger self facing down the strongest of all of us and not even flinch. It wasn't at all like that, though, as back then I'd lived in the Lab all my life and I was terrified of Poison Sting. I would have probably fainted at the mere sight of Mewtwo, right before he imploded my mind.
It seems that I'll have to seek Mewtwo out if I ever want a decent opponent. I'm insanely more powerful than most of those I know due to…okay, my obsession, and everyone else is just so…weak. There is no joy in defeating the weak in a few seconds. It is boring and tedious and gets really old really fast (you wouldn't believe how many people want to take on the 'Super powerful Pokemon' even though they're horribly weak, unprepared and, frankly, stupid).
I think to myself that maybe tomorrow I'll get my wish. Maybe tomorrow I can give everything I've got. So really, if you think about it, tomorrow is what I live for. The unseen challenge waiting to take me on that I dream about so much. The one stronger than me, the one who'll carry my torch after my defeat. Will that day ever come? I don't know. I can't see the future. I can only train, prepare myself, and wait.
Personally, I'm looking forward to it.
-FIN-
A/N (wow, someone's reading this): The idea for this collection of shorts came barrelling out of nowhere at approximately 5:45 AM, starting (no, I have no idea why) with Relicanth. By 6:00 I had thought up a bunch of cool stuff I could write for various Pokemon and started writing stuff down. At 7:05 I am typing this after having finished the first short, and I also used 'stuff' twice in the last sentence.
So, yeah. Bunch of ideas for the other guys. I'll take requests and stuff, but unless I get a really cool idea for your Pokemon or it's coincidentally one of the ones I have ideas for already and is in the backlog, it won't appear for some time. That, and my eternal laziness and my inability to even come close to finish any writing project I start will also probably come into play at some point. Though you'll get extra points if you mention an awesome Pokemon I forgot about in my sleep-deprived state. (Curse you, Super Mario 64 DS! Curse you!)
Oh, and, uh, review. Yeah. Reviews are good.
