Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon in anyway shape or form, all rights are reserved to Nintendo.
It was one day before my birthday and getting up from bed is always hard around this time of the year, I never thought I would lose both my parents on the same day of the year, even if I never met my mother. Peeking out over my warm protection that laid on top of me, being blinded by the light now coming from my window, but I have to endure it to get up.
I slowly get out of the bed trying to rub the sleep out of my eyes as I stood up, I walked to the long human sized mirror hanging on the wall near the door to see myself staring back at me, I saw a 14 almost 15 year old boy with short spiky black hair, light blue eyes with a small about of freckles doting his face, light tan skin all over, he was wearing a light blue short sleeve shirt with black long shorts, 'Yeah that's me, and almost another year gone and nothing has changed' I thought, I turned around to my room to see not much has change from last year, the walls were painted white, the bed had a blue and white striped blanket over the top and solid blue colour pillows on it, the bed it self has a wooden frame but nothing to special.
There was a dark stained wood desk in one corner of the room near the window that have photos of me and my Dad on it, and one of my Mum, it also has some work on it that I'm doing for school which I have been stuck on for a week now, hanging from the wooden chair was my belt that held Charmander's Pokeball on it.
I walked to the window and looked out to see a small number of houses on the hills around us and flower beds scatted around the houses and path, only being a 5 minute walk from the center of Pallet it was a nice looking area. I walked away from the window to my cupboard to pull out my favourite clothing. I got changed into a red short sleeve shirt and a grey long sleeve hooded jacket that I leave unzipped I then slipped on a pair of dark blue jeans just slightly too big for me so I can use the belt that has Charmander on it, next I put on black socks and white runners to finish off.
I head a knock coming from my door, "Sora you up yet, breakfast is ready" that was Tom's voice.
"Come in Tom and tell me how I look" I said in a loud voice so he could hear me, I don't know why I asked him to see how I looked but I guess there is a first time for everything. Tom walked in and I saw him, he has medium length blonde hair with the sides spiking out, solid brown eyes and pale lips, and light tan skin the same as me, he was wearing a dark green long sleeve shirt with a golden necklace around his neck, black sports pants with a white stripe going down the leg, he was wearing a belt where he kept Eevee's Pokeball, white socks and black runners to finish off.
"You look how you always do, like Sora" Tom said with a slight chuckle in his voice,"Now come on and get breakfast before mum feeds it to Eevee".
Tom and I rush down stairs to get some food, as we turned the corner I saw a plate of pancakes in front of a empty seat at the table waiting for me, I sat down and started to consume the apple pancakes in delight, at the stove I could see Marry, her long hazelnut colour hair reaching to her lower back, she turned to me and I saw hazelnut colour eyes and rosy cheeks with red lips, she was wearing an apron for cooking and had a white floral dress and white high heels, I never thought about it before but she really like the colour white, after all these years I just noticed.
"Good morning Sora, sleep well?", Marry ask while turning back to the stove to finish her home made Pokemon food, this food was the best in Pallet the Pokemon love it, I don't know what see puts in it but i'm surprised see never sold any of it I'm sure it would of been a hit, not like I know what it taste like or anything.
"It was fine thank you" I try to say while downing a load of pancakes, after swallowing "Hey Tom tonight can you help with this homework I have, I'm kind of stuck" I have never been a big fan of homework, I never found the point in doing the work at home when the teachers are supposed to teach you this stuff, but this is just me, I don't think Tom minded the extra work.
"Sure Sora, after school I will help but after that you really need to finish it on your own" Tom manage to say as he tried his best to to lick the syrup off his plate.
I released Charmander from his ball and Eevee walked into the kitchen, I wounder why Tom left Eevee out of her ball most of the day, maybe she didn't like it or Tom just liked having her around either way I've grown to love this fox just like Charmander.
"Charmander Char", "Eevee" the two Pokemon talked between each other I wish I knew what they were talking about, it would be so cool to understand Pokemon, just to have idle conversation with even one Pokemon would be great, I heard after a trainer has spent some time with there Pokemon they begin to understand what they are talking about, I wish It was like that with Charmander.
"Here you go you two, eat up" Marry turned from the stove and place two bowls of Pokemon food in front of them, just one smell made them go face first into the warm food.
After 10 minutes of eating and talking, we recalled our Pokemon and got ready to leave for school.
-1 Week Ago-
Deep within the mountains lied a deep under ground base, belonging to an evil group of unknown scientists, in one room in particular they were ending there research.
"We did it!" a scientist yelled out for all to hear, as the rest of the team surround the large monitor on the wall. After a short time the screen displayed the word 'Success', the scientists celebrated but soon fell silent as someone entered the room. The scientists slowly moved towards this one man.
"Sir the tests showed that we are ready for stage two" One of the higher up scientists said while handing a report to the man. He flicked through it and a small smile could be found on his face.
"How long until the changes take affect?" He asked while he kept flicking through the report.
"Um... Well sir" the scientist finding it hard to find the right words, In front of his boss, "We tested it and found that it would take around year to fully develop".
The mans face suddenly turned serious once again, "That's not good enough".
"I'm sorry sir but we tried and we can't seem to improve on it, but at least with this we can at least test if it really works and what the symtoms show when changing, and with that information we can improve" the scientist backing up to try and get out of range of the boss.
"Very well then, we will test it" the boss said with a stern look, "I got a target in mind, inject that Professor Oak, that way we kill two pidgeys with one stone, it will take you about a week to get to Pallet Town so I suggest going now while it's still light out"
"Yes Sir!" two grunts said as they got prepared.
"Sir why the Professor and not someone that won't be noticed missing?" a scientist blurted out with out thinking.
"I have my reasons, now get back to work!", he said in a loud strong voice as the scientist went back to work.
It was now my birthday and the start of the weekend, while most people wake up early trying to find their presents, I get ready for the walk ahead of me. I hear a knock at my door and I turned to see that Tom is standing in the door way, we seem to do this every year and every time it's the same, I guess he's just concerned, with the way I act at this time I'm not surprised.
"You getting ready to heard out?" Tom asked with one of his concerned looks he usually gives me.
"Yeah I won't be back until late afternoon like always, don't wait up" I replied.
"Oh I won't" Tom said, "I will be in the forest a little later training Eevee, with any luck we might run into each other in the afternoon, well I'm about to head off, see ya".
"Bye" I said with a wave of my hand as he closed my door and walked down the hall. When I'm not around Tom usually went off my himself and trained Eevee, he has other friends but he would rather spend his time with me, but at a time like now Tom usually didn't want to be with anyone but me and since I wanted to be alone he would only get depressed. I finished getting ready and grabbed Charmander's ball, went down stairs to grab some lunch for later and headed out to the pond.
An hour later I find myself at the pond where my parents met, I released Charmander and we sat by the side of the pond in silence with only our thoughts to entertain us. This part of the forest got really thick with tall trees crowded around, the canopy above the pond only let a small amount of light through making it somewhat dark, the pond itself wasn't very big since it was only 5 meters from the middle of the pond.
'Mum, Dad... where ever you are I miss you' I thought, 'Please help guide me to safety for the next year'. Every year I come here and every time I only want to cry, the first few times I did but after awhile I manage to hold it back but this didn't stop me being sad. Charmander and I both had our lunch in silence and saw that it was almost 3:00pm "We should start heading back home Charmander before we forget... again", when we are here we are usually deep in thought and forget the time, last year we didn't get home until 8:00pm and we made everyone very worried. Charmander only nodded in reply as I returned him to his ball and set off back home.
We were near the forest exit and about 10 minutes from home when I got pushed to the ground and hit with a strong thud.
"Ow... hey what's the big idea" I look up and saw two men walk off to town, "Hey stop there".
The two men stopped and turned around, I found it strange that they wore the same thing, it was red colour clothing with silver mixed, it seemed to be some kind of uniform.
"Did you have a nice trip kid" one of them said as they both snicked.
"What do you think you are doing?" I ask getting all pumped up. I wasn't in the mood to be treated like this not on a day like this.
"Where looking for Professor Oak, he is an... old friend of ours and we would like to pay him a visit" the one on the left asked. I know that these guys will give the Professor trouble just by looking at them and I know they are not friends with him, the Professor would never be friends with this kind of people.
"He isn't here, he went to Viridian City for an appointment" I know full well that the Professor is in his lab, he doesn't really leave, but just by looking at these guys just made my blood boil and I know that if they find the Professor something will happen, and that something won't be good for Oak.
"Kid we're not people you want to mess with, now tell us where he is" they started to get irritated, just like I wanted, for them to take their mind off Oak and on me but I wish right now it wasn't me. I reached for Charmander's Pokeball slowly knowing that this is going to turn ugly.
"Would you look at that, the kid thinks he can fight us" one of them said laughing, "We will teach him to mess with Team Horizon" they quickly went for there Pokemon before I got the chance to ask them what in the world Team Horizon was.
"Go Beedrill!" the one on the right said, "You to Butterfree!" as the one on the left joined in.
"Go Charmander, use Flamethrower!" I said as a light came from my pokeball and now standing tall is my Charmander, he's mouth starts to heat up and molten fire trying to escape and shortly a big twister of fire burst out of Charmander's mouth hitting the Beedrill and knocking it back slightly.
"Let's get this over with, Beedrill use..." the man didn't get to finish his command when I gave mine.
"Charmander, Flamethrower - Tackle combination attack" I called out, soon after Charmander started to charge at the Beedrill while using a Flamethrower, now I didn't like to battle but when I did Charmander and I were the best there was, I liked to experiment a lot and tried to combine attacks together, at first it didn't work but after hours of practice Charmander got it, a Flamethrower - Tackle combination attack can be done when using the Flamethrower just right and the Pokemon can become a bullet on fire, well it can be a bullet at the right speeds, but Charmander didn't know how to run that fast.
The men were in shock at what Charmander was doing and didn't give a command, even the Beedrill was stun at this sight. Charmander soon reached the Beedrill and Slammed into it knocking it to the ground and putting it out of the fight.
"What just happened?" The Beedrill's Trainer said as he returned it to it's ball, "That Pokemon is strong, Be careful".
"Butterfree, Gust" And soon Butterfree's wings sped up and released a strong gust of wind knocking Charmander back into a tree, but he soon got back to his feet with what looked like a smile on his face. "Charmander Char" He said proudly.
"Butterfree, Stun Spore, we can use a Pokemon like that" The man said, as Butterfree blew Stunspore at Charmander.
"Charmander, quickly Flamethrower again!" I called out hoping that he can get that move in before the Stunspore hit him, and sure enough Charmander manage to let off one strong Flamethrower at Butterfree knocking it out before falling to the ground himself unable to move.
The man returned his Butterfree and I returned my Charmander. "Looks like we will need to teach you a lesson the old way" the man said as they moved closer to me, and took a swing at me. I stepped back and just avoided it and I followed up with a kick to the gut of one of the men, and a punch to the face to the other, knocking them both back slightly.
"Now your going to pay for that kid" he said with blood dripping from his mouth, and he pulled out a syringe and took the cap off. "What do you think your doing?" the other man said trying to stop him but got pushed back by his friend. "I'm going to teach this kid not to mess with us".
I'm really scared at this point and hoped that I can get out of this in someway, I put my hand around my necklace and thought about my mum and dad hoping they would protect me, I Knew nothing would happen but at this point I didn't know what to do, Charmander was stunned and unable to battle, and I could fight if my life depended on it, and funny enough it was. I saw the man getting closer as I tried to back off only to fail by backing up right into a tree, the man lunged a me with the syringe and I grabbed his arm just in time to pull it to the side, we struggled a lot more as he tried to impale me with that needle, 'I can't let these men get away with this' I thought, but I was just a kid and not as strong as them I will show weakness at some point. The other man came up from behind his friend and gave me a knuckle sandwich, I lost my grip for a second but that is all he needed to plunge that needle into my stomach, and injected me with the liquid that was inside and I fell to the ground and started to feel cold. 'Ow... er... pain... cold...' these were the words that came to my mind right then and there, what ever that was it started to take away what strength I had left.
"Great now we need to take him back to the boss and not the Professor" the man said with a scared look, knowing that the boss will flip "I don't care what the punishment is at least this guy won't have a very happy life from now on" the other one said, it was clear that he didn't like kids very much especially what I did to their Pokemon.
I could barely understand them as I tried to stand up and recover from what just happened but only failed and fell back down to my knees trying my best not to pass out, but the two men grabbed my arms and started to drag me into the forest, I was about to give up and pass out until I heard a noise.
"Eevee, Bite!" and then I dropped to the ground as one of the men was in pain from a bite caused my an Eevee... wait an Eevee!
I tried to turn around and only just manage to do so as I saw Tom with a fierce look on his face, but that sapped the rest of my strength as I passed out.
"Put my friend down!" He said with a loud roar, "Eevee, Tackle". Eevee charged at the other man and knocked him flat on his back, "Now Sand Attack", "Eev!" Eevee replied and kicked up dust and dirt and blinded the two men for awhile, Tom ran over and dragged me to safety at the other side of the clearing, Eevee joined him.
"You will pay for that kid!" the men said trying to get up, reaching for their Pokemon but remembering that there Pokemon can't fight after what I did to them. "We will just take both of you then".
"I don't think so, now you better get out of here, Eevee Quick Attack both of them!" The small fox Pokemon charged at the men at lighting speed, and knocked them back for the second time, and returned to Tom.
"The boss ain't going to like this" said one of the men, "Just... just shut up and run!" , as both of them got up and ran into the forest.
Tom stood there for a short time checking if the men came back which luckily they didn't, he then looked at me as I sat against a tree knocked out, he saw blood coming from my stomach and acted quickly pulling me up and putting my arm over his shoulder, "Eevee run into town and find mum!" He said quickly to the small Pokemon "Eevee" she nodded and ran out of the forest and into town. he looked at me and shook his head, "Oh Sora what happened to you".