My story begins in the Hoenn region of the Pokéworld. My mother was an Eevee, and my father was a Ditto. The owner of the farm was looking for Eevees that were shiny or had perfect IV's. I had neither, so I was released.

None of the wild Pokémon wanted anything to do with me. Somehow, they knew that I was the offspring of a Ditto. They considered me filth, and treated me as such. Not even Phil, the meanest of the Poochyenas, wanted to waste energy killing me, even after I gave him the chance. It seemed as if I would be alone forever…

However, one day, Arceus decided to show mercy. After trying to convince Phil to kill me for the 50th time, he finally gave in. He charged at me, ready to bite…

There was no pain. However, I was still here, still in this world…

A Ralts had taken the hit for me, teleporting us back to her home.

"Who are you?" I inquired.

"My name is Catherine, but everyone calls me Cathy," she responded, reaching for her stock of Oran Berries. "I bet you're also wondering why I saved you back there."

"Yes, that would be good to know. I'm Tenkai, by the way."

"Well, Tenkai," Cathy said with a chuckle, "the truth is, I've been watching you for a while now. I feel pity for you. In fact, I was going to introduce myself when you got attacked. You seem like a really nice Pokémon."

There was a look of shock on my face. Someone liked me, Tenkai, the Ditto-spawn? I was so flustered that I could only repeat the words "Thank you," over and over, for almost a minute.

Cathy giggled, "You're welcome," walked over, and hugged me.

I hugged back instinctively. It was the only thing I could do at the time. For the first time in my life, I felt loved. "Thank you," I kept repeating, starting to cry.

"That's it," she said, patting my back. "Let it out. You're safe here, my little Eevee."

Hi, everyone!

So, this was a story I wrote back in high school. It contains original content, as well as some things that happened with friends in a role-play thing that we did. I originally wrote this to be my character's backstory, because I kept making stuff up for my character and needed to have something concrete to go by. I am writing another story, but it contains some characters that originally showed up in this one, so I kinda feel I need to post this one before I do the other.

Hope you enjoy...? I'm cringing as much as you probably are going back through this, to be honest.