Notice: this will be a dark story with death and killing.
The phoenix
It was a wicked summer, Shade had just finished helping his father around their Tauros farm in the outskirts of Twinleaf town, and he was resting under an oak tree at the edge of the farm, while watching as all the kids his age got to play with their starters. His mind immediately went to the conversation he and his father had with professor Rowan this morning:
"Professor, I am here for my starter" said shade, after waiting for over an hour because the lab assistants told him that he was the last in turn to receive his starter. The professor looked at him with hatred filling his eyes and said: "why in god's name would I give a filth like you a starter, get out of here and don't show me your face". This didn't sit well with Shade's father as he sighed and said: "Professor, believe me when I say we hate seeing you as much you hate seeing us, however the rules of the pokemon league strictly says that every kid wanting to start a pokemon journey at the legal age of 14 has a right to get a starter from the regions professor, and just because there has been bad blood between our families for ages does not give you the right to take this right away from him, it is bad enough that you denied him entry to the pokemon school because of it. So just hand us the starter and we will be on our way".
Suddenly the professor got so angry and started screaming insults at Shade's father for daring to speak in that tone with the professor, so naturally the father got angry and started shouting at the professor too. One thing led to another and suddenly the father's fist met the professor's face in a vicious right hook that sent him to the ground with a bleeding nose. Resulting in Shade and his father being forcibly removed from the lab.
Back to the present, Shade sighed as he resolved himself to report the professor to the league and try to train one of the young Tauros to become a battlin pokemon instead of a domesticated one.
Meanwhile, back in the lab professor Rowan was soothing with anger, everybody in the lab was avoiding him like a ticking bomb. While he was just staring at the ceiling with a hand holding an ice pack to his nose, and rage filling his thoughts. He got up, heading through the back door of the lab and thinking to himself: "How dare that low peasant lay his hands on me, I am the greatest professor in the Sinnoh region. I will make sure that he, his son and their stupid farm will ceise to exist after tonight".
Shade suddenly woke up at the middle of the night when the sound of a stampeding herd reached his ears, he checked his poketch to see the time and noticed it was a little past 12 am, he looked at his father who was still sleeping because of the ear plugs he pus at night, and decided to check to see what riled up the herd at this time without waking up his father, he got up to retrieve his flashlight and opened the door to check on the herd. Nothing in the world could have prepared him for what he saw then.
In the water next to the farm, a massive Gyarados was using flamethrower to burn their farm, and the fire was killing any Tauros it reached. Meanwhile in the middle of the farm a Toxicroak was laying waste to any Tauros that managed to escape the fire. Shade was watching this horrific scene with his eyes darting between the two pokemon as he identified them, these were none other than the professor's pokemon and they were out for blood, at that moment he noticed an Empoleon rising from the water with orange light in its mouth, and as soon as he noticed what it was aiming for, he screamed and fell to his knees in helplessness as he watched the hyper beam lunch and connect with the house, exploding it with his father inside. As tears fell from his eyes he noticed the Toxicroak approaching him, and as soon as the Toxicroak reached him he received a punch to his chest throwing him to the ground and he could do nothing but watch his house burning as Consciousness left him.
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At the same moment on the earth. Mike was heading to this fight club his friend told him about, this was his attempt at doing something interesting in his life. He was a 26 years old IT employee who spent most of his time sitting in a chair at work, and the rest of his time was spent lying down playing video games, coupled with the fact that he was fat since he was a little child, and with no close friends, his life was as boring as it comes.
However, fate was not in his favor that evening, because while he was walking in the alley leading to the club, a figure emerged from a dark corner with a gun pointed at his head, and started screaming for him to hand him everything in his pockets. Now Mike knew he was in trouble, because he did not bring anything with him in fear of losing his things at the club, he tried to tell the thief that he did not have anything on him, but the thief was having none of it. So in his panicked state he started running back hoping the thief would see him as a lost cause and leave him, however the bullet that settled in the back of his head told him that he was wrong. And as his life flashed in front of his eyes, he really regretted all of his life choices.
Mike was shocked when he woke up in hospital, all of his logic told him there is no way he should have survived that, and yet there he was awake. And while looking around the room he noticed a nurse with strange pink hair staring at him with unbelieving eyes.
After seeing his eyes open and getting over her shock he heard the nurse scream: "Shade You are Awake".
Note: Hello All, Thanks for reading this, this is my first story although I have read a lot of pokemon fanfic. This story has been nagging at my mind for almost a year so I thought I would give it a try, if you have any comments, notes or complaints about it please let me know.