Well, I have had this idea stuck in my head for around 5 years. I decided to write some of it down three months ago, and I am currently at the third chapter.
But, for now I will only post the first chapter, because, not only is it a giant wall of writing on it's own, it is the only one I feel comfortable with posting for the moment. (this is probably because I have quintuple-checked it.)
So, I hope you like it, and for the sake of your eyes, yes, I will post it in black.
-aggs
Chapters Posted so far:
Chapter One: Gifts are Given in Many Ways ( http://www.pokebeach.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=80690&page=2 )
Gifts are Given in Many Ways
I walked to my locker and started reorganizing the fresh new materials that I had out in this morning. It was the first day of school, and I was giddy all day.
I was finally an 8th grader; I was on top of the middle school food chain. It felt good to not be afraid.
I grabbed my pokeball from my locker and put it in my bag.
The pokeball held Iris, my Evee who I loved more than any other thing besides my mother. I caught her when I was ten, and have been friends with her ever since. I wasn’t sure I what I wanted to evolve her into then, but later the decision was made for me.
My two friends walked up behind me, they were less optimistic then I was.
“Hey Martis; are you reorganizing your locker again?” Theo asked me. I turned to see him. He knew I was very tidy; I never kept one thing out of place. The question he was asking was more of a friendly tease than an actual question. I decided to say something witty and funny back.
“Yes, that makes me look like I have OCD, doesn’t it?” I asked them.
“No, not quite, your mother is a perfectionist though; don’t you ever notice how often she cleans her office?” Mika asked. I got my tidiness from my mother. Like me, she triple checks almost everything. I wasn’t ashamed of being tidy; I knew that it would pay up eventually.
I gave Mika some eye lasers then grabbed my bag, which now held only a few ounces of weight. I took one last look to check the cleaniness of my locker, then, closed it.
“So, how did you guys enjoy your first day?” I asked. Theo groaned and Mika got a faraway look in her eyes. That was their way of saying “Awful.”
“Was it really that bad?”
“Martis,” Mika started “we may be at the top of the food chain, but other 8th graders still bully us. Our position really hasn’t changed too much in the past few years.”
Maybe I was too optimistic, I didn’t really know, but what she said seemed to be really negative. We may be friends, but we don’t have too much in common, even if we do bond.
“I think you guys are taking this with a negative attitude.” I said, hoping they would be a little more positive if I told them what I thought.
Theo argued. “You’re lucky though Martis! You get too have an awesome birthday this weekend!”
It was true, I was turning fourteen that weekend, but would that really make someone optimistic or not? I thought that I would still be optimistic, birthday party or not.
“Maybe I am just being happy because of that, I don’t really know.” I admitted “I meet you guys outside. I have to use the restroom.”
Destinee was waiting for me in the bathroom. I don’t mean Destiny, I mean a bully, named Destinee. Funny. Right?
Not so much when she is punching you in the face, or duct-taping you to the wall.
“Hi, Destinee.” I said “How are you?” I try my best to look innocent when around her, maybe that made her go easy on me. She replied by dragging me into the bathroom, and shoving my head into one of the toilets.
Thankfully, Mr. President wasn’t in the Oval Office, if you know what I mean.
“I’m doing great now, loser, how about you?” She said.
I let her walk away before pulling my face out of the toilet. I rinsed my hair in the sink, then, I grabbed some paper towels to dry my face and hair. I didn’t have a brush, so the best I could do was comb my hair with my fingers. I looked average. I could maybe pass off telling Mika and Theo that I was fine, and that I hadn’t been bullied. I didn’t want them to worry about me because of some silly bully.
I walked out of the building after using the restroom. Mika and Theo looked at my hair for a moment confused, but disregarded it as we started talking.
Walking home was an issue though, it was pouring in rain. I ran home with Iris by my side. On our way home Iris slipped into the mud. I laughed so hard I fell in with her. It was a good thing I didn’t have any fragile items in my bag.
We came home soaking, and laughing. Mom got some towels as soon as she saw us.
After scolding us, she told me to take off my shoes and socks and to go take a bath with Iris. As I walked into the air conditioning, I realized how cold and sticky I was. I headed quickly to the bathroom with Iris.
Once we were done, dinner was ready. I served Iris her poke-food. I gladly ate up the fried chicken mom served me, and had some small talk, but really, it all went in a flash. I was just so excited for my birthday.
Saturday finally came. I got up to go do some errands with Iris early in the morning.
First stop; pick up Mika. She came out with her Ralts, nicknamed Violet. She put Violet in her poke-ball, then grabbed her bike and started riding beside me.
“So, first, we have to go to that party store to go get supplies. Is that okay?” I asked. She nodded.
I didn’t say anything to try and wake her up, Mika is not a morning person. The last I had woke her up she pimp-slapped me.
Anyways, we arrived at the store, got some wrapper and silly string, (for the heck of it) and came to the outside market to get some food.
First, we went to Chef John’s. He served the pizza for the party. Normally, I would be working this week with him, but he told me to take the week off, due to my birthday. We picked up the pizza and headed for Theo’s house.
I dropped off the stuff at the house and left to pick up Theo. He came along with his Totodile. But before he even made it out the door, a woman who looked just like him ran out, I thought I recognized the woman from somewhere, I just couldn’t remember.
“Come on! Just let me work with him for a little while, Thee-thee!” I realized who the girl was by the nickname. It was Theo’s older sister, Annie. But she left to become a gym leader… I thought.
Theo never liked his sister because she was so talented. His parents always expected him to be as smart and talented as Annie, but it just didn’t happen. Annie didn’t quite understand that problem yet.
Theo groaned at the nickname.
“I need Tommy incase I run into a battle or something! You should know that!” He yelled at Annie “Now buzz off!”
He got on his bike as his sister slammed the door. Tommy was the nickname for his Totodile.
“Why is your sister here?” I asked.
Mika groaned. “She’s even louder then I remember…”
“Annie is having a…family visit.” He said. I didn’t bother asking, he seemed upset that his sister was here. Personally, I was jealous. It would be nice to have a sibling, especially one as smart and creative as Annie. My mom and Theo’s parents had different ways of showing love, though. I think if Theo’s parents understood his feelings, they would stop pushing him so hard.
But, it was not my argument. We fed our pokemon and ate from our lunch boxes at the picnic tables by the Old House.
Groville is the small town that I lived in. It was in the clearing of a large forest.
Long ago, before people were able to fly on pokemon, a man decided that when people are walking through the forest, there should be a place to rest. That was the creation of Groville. The forest was sacred, so no one has cut through it for room. Groville was a small town that has stayed a small town. The Old House was the very first house built here. It was a small cottage, only one room inside it. Now we use it as a museum. It had a nice picnic area beside it. We finished our lunches and stared at the dark clouds in the sky.
“Martis, would you like to battle?” Theo asked. I said accepted the request and asked Iris to come to my side. Theo said we we’re going to battle with one pokemon only, since that was all we had. I let Theo go first.
“Come on, Tommy; let’s start this off with a Water Gun!” The blast of water started to head for Iris.
“Iris, please dodge this attack!” Iris easily slipped to the side. She was very good with evasiveness. I then requested her to use Growl, so that later Theo’s attacks wouldn’t be as dangerous.
Theo answered with Bite. I let the bite hit Iris; she wouldn’t be easily weakened now. I told her to use Tail Whip; to get the Totodile off her.
The Totodile scrunched in pain. I took this moment to have Iris use Quick Attack. As my pokemon started to charge, Tommy got up. Theo immediately ordered Tommy to use Water Gun. The blast of water made
Iris slid on the new mud, and crash into Tommy. They both looked exhausted.
Beside me, I heard a laugh. I turned to see it was an older woman. She had blue hair that she wore a snow cap over, a black tank-top, and a pink miniskirt. She looked to be eighteen or so.
“Oh, I’m sorry! I just thought you and your friends pokemon battle ended in a funny way. My name is Dawn, it’s nice to meet you!” The woman held out her hand. I couldn’t believe who this woman was though! This was the girl who traveled with the one and only Ash! She must have been legendary!
“Ni-nice to meet you…” I managed to breathe out “I’m Martis, an-and this is m-m-my friend Th-theo.”
She smiled and told us that she was there to judge a contest the next day. I knew what contest she was talking about, it was the “Growing Groville Contest!” contestants had to enter with grass pokemon.
I turned to see Mika reaction to this situation, only to see that she was gone.
“It was very nice to meet you Dawn, really, I mean…you’re famous, you know? But, I have to go home to get ready for a party.”
“Oh, alright! I hope to see you later, Theo and Martis!” She said as we headed for the pokemon center.
Nurse Joy was done with our pokemon pretty quickly; in fact she was done with them within five minutes. Only some washing and potions, and our pokemon were healed.
“Have a nice day!” she said as we walked out with our pokeballs.
Mika was at our house when we came back. She said that my mother had called my PokeNav, but she had to answer, because I was going out in battle. Mom had her help set things up.
My grandparents were talking in the kitchen. They seemed to both be excited and happy, which looked kind of sweet, for people their age, anyways.
“Oh, Martis and her friends are here Mother!” my mom exclaimed. She ran to hug me.
I hugged my mother back tightly, then my grandparents. After some talking, they brought out the cake.
“Happy Birthday Martis!”
I blew out the candles quickly, since it was making the ice cream melt.
I wish that I can stay with my friends and family forever… I wished. The party continued as I opened my eyes.
“Aw, that is so sweet!” My mother exclaimed as I pulled out the jacket Theo gave me. It was really cool. Light blue, almost white, with a lightning bolt in the middle.
“Thank you Theo! This is awesome!”
He grinned and said “Oh, no problem. I thought you would like it.”
I picked up an orange box. Inside it held a card and a package. First, I read the card.
“Only use this when you need it. For now, wear it as a necklace.
-Mika.”
Inside the package was a black gem attached to a string. I knew what
it was as soon as I saw it.
“No, Mika, this is way to-“
“No arguing, I don’t have an Evee to use it on, so I gave it to you. Take it. That way you can have an Umbreon someday.” She argued. I hugged her and tied the necklace around my neck.
It made my red hair look somewhat devilish, but that was okay.
Then, I saw a purple bag. Inside, it held a trainer bag, complete with the six poke-ball holders, and a pokedex.
“Wow…thank you so much Granny and Papa…” I was amazed. This had to cost hundreds of dollars!
“You were worth it, Martis! Now you will be prepared when you graduate Pokémon School!” Granny said. I hugged them both, and then looked at the last box. Inside, was a card. “Happy Birthday!” it said, and inside the rest of the box was some clothing, and on the very bottom was a note.
“Look outside.” It said. I walked outside with my mom. There was my bike, with a basket on the front, the perfect size for an Evee or an Eveelution. It was there so I would be able to ride my bike around without having Iris in her pokeball.
“Thanks, Mom!” I hugged her tightly.
Then it was time to go to bed. I picked up all of the present wrappers with my mom and said goodbye to Mika, Theo, and my grandparents.
“Happy birthday, Martis. Good night.” My mother said. She kissed my forehead and went into her bedroom.
“Good night.” It was just me and Iris in my bedroom. I clutched the gem against my neck. I knew there would be a day that I would need it. For the time being though, I decided to keep the gem under my pajama shirt.
“Martis!” said a harsh whisper. I turned to see Theo outside my window.
“What are you doing here, Theo?!”
“Come on, I need to play a prank on my sister!” he pleaded.
“Okay, we aren’t hurting her, are we?” When Theo asked me to join his pranks, I always made sure that I wouldn’t hurt anyone. I never liked to physically hurt people. A pacifist, you could have called me.
“Not physically.” He answered. That had been good enough for me.
“Okay.” I climbed out the window quietly.
We walked into the back door of his house, and into his sister’s lab.
It was filled with strange devices that she came up with, the Rattata were in their tiny playground that she made, sleeping. She was really an extraordinary inventor. The inventor herself was sleeping with her head on the desk, cover in paper of research and data.
“What are we going to do to her?” I whispered.
“We are going to give her a magic marker moustache.”
I decided that this wasn’t going to get me killed, or make me feel guilty, at least for a while.
He started to do his work with the magic marker while I took cover. I walked just outside the house, so that I could see if there was movement I his parents bedroom. The lights were still off when Theo yelled and ran past me. That was then I saw one of the scariest moments of my life.
Annie, with half of a magic marker moustache on her face, running with rage towards me.
She screamed “THEO! YOU STUPID BAKA!”
I ran for dear life, cursing in different languages is generally a bad sign. I saw Theo run into the forest. I had to follow him. I ran into the forest. I knew it was dangerous, but a friend has to do what a friend has to do.
I caught up with him and laughed. He smiled back, and we slowed down.
“Okay, so what should we do now?” I asked.
“Well, she will probably wait for us to come out for a while. Let’s wait for a bit before coming out.” He stated. “In the meantime, let’s explore!”
He started to walk away from the clearing.
“But what if we get lost?” I questioned.
“We won’t go far, don’t be such a dweeb Martis.” He continued. I was reluctant to follow, but I did. After all, if I left him alone, he might get lost.
***
I looked at my watch and saw that we had been walking around in the forest for thirty minutes.
“Okay, it’s time to get out of here.” I announced.
“Alright then.” Theo and I started to walk back the way we came. Then, we heard a cry. Suddenly, I wish a brought my new pokedex.
“Theo, do you think that was a wild pokemon?”
“Nah, they only say those things to scare new trainers into being careful. Wild pokemon don’t run around and attack people.”
His argument was proved wrong by a Haunter floating towards Theo and I. With only one pokemon and no weapons, we were hopeless. Theo left Tommy home.
We looked at eachother, and then at the Haunter. We ran, not caring
which direction we went, as long as we went together. We ran and ran, the Haunter always continued to chase us no matter where we went.
After giving up on turning back, we started to tire.
It started to rain, hard. I tried my best to keep my balance, but Theo couldn’t. He slipped on the mud and his head hit a glass shard on the ground. The first thing I did was check if we were still being pursued. No, the Haunter was long gone. I looked down and saw that Theo was still on the ground, he had not moved.
“Theo?” I whispered. He was barely even breathing. I flipped him on to his back to see that not only was there a deep scar across his forehead, but he also was unconscious.
“Theo! Theo! Answer me!” I pleaded. He didn’t respond. I started to cry.
I knew that this wouldn’t help though, and I stood up. I let out Iris, and started walking back in the direction I ran with her, maybe to find the town. Later, I found that our searching was useless. We were stuck in the forest. There was no straight path to take, nothing to recognize, nothing at all to help us on our way. We were lost.
I tried to back to check on Theo. I later realized that I had abandoned Theo, and that I wouldn’t be able to find him. I left him there alone to die.
What kind of friend am I?!
I screamed in rage at myself and sat against a wide tree. It looked to be taller than the rest of the trees around. Iris looked at me with sad, confused eyes.
“I’m sorry I’ve been so awful to you, Iris! I wish I could make it up to you, give you a treat or something, but were lost…You and I are lost all because of me! Theo is really hurt because of me! What kind of monster am I?”
What kind of monster am I?
“I’m so sorry I brought you into this, Iris. I’m so sorry…” As I said that, Iris whimpered.
I felt a warm liquid on my face as the rain patted on my shoulders. I placed my hand on my cheek, and realized that the warm liquid was tears. I picked myself off the ground, and touched the tree I sat upon earlier, and stared.
I have abandoned my best friend….
I have caused my pokemon to suffer…
What kind of monster am I?
Suddenly, I felt a great vibration throughout my whole body. It started through my hand which was on the tree, then went through my whole body. It felt power enriching, great. But yet, I felt pain. Great, unbearable, pain rushed through my body. Suddenly everything went black.
I hope you all liked this story, it's better than anything I have posted before. Chapter Two is a lot better though!
-aggs
But, for now I will only post the first chapter, because, not only is it a giant wall of writing on it's own, it is the only one I feel comfortable with posting for the moment. (this is probably because I have quintuple-checked it.)
So, I hope you like it, and for the sake of your eyes, yes, I will post it in black.
-aggs
Chapters Posted so far:
Chapter One: Gifts are Given in Many Ways ( http://www.pokebeach.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=80690&page=2 )
Gifts are Given in Many Ways
I walked to my locker and started reorganizing the fresh new materials that I had out in this morning. It was the first day of school, and I was giddy all day.
I was finally an 8th grader; I was on top of the middle school food chain. It felt good to not be afraid.
I grabbed my pokeball from my locker and put it in my bag.
The pokeball held Iris, my Evee who I loved more than any other thing besides my mother. I caught her when I was ten, and have been friends with her ever since. I wasn’t sure I what I wanted to evolve her into then, but later the decision was made for me.
My two friends walked up behind me, they were less optimistic then I was.
“Hey Martis; are you reorganizing your locker again?” Theo asked me. I turned to see him. He knew I was very tidy; I never kept one thing out of place. The question he was asking was more of a friendly tease than an actual question. I decided to say something witty and funny back.
“Yes, that makes me look like I have OCD, doesn’t it?” I asked them.
“No, not quite, your mother is a perfectionist though; don’t you ever notice how often she cleans her office?” Mika asked. I got my tidiness from my mother. Like me, she triple checks almost everything. I wasn’t ashamed of being tidy; I knew that it would pay up eventually.
I gave Mika some eye lasers then grabbed my bag, which now held only a few ounces of weight. I took one last look to check the cleaniness of my locker, then, closed it.
“So, how did you guys enjoy your first day?” I asked. Theo groaned and Mika got a faraway look in her eyes. That was their way of saying “Awful.”
“Was it really that bad?”
“Martis,” Mika started “we may be at the top of the food chain, but other 8th graders still bully us. Our position really hasn’t changed too much in the past few years.”
Maybe I was too optimistic, I didn’t really know, but what she said seemed to be really negative. We may be friends, but we don’t have too much in common, even if we do bond.
“I think you guys are taking this with a negative attitude.” I said, hoping they would be a little more positive if I told them what I thought.
Theo argued. “You’re lucky though Martis! You get too have an awesome birthday this weekend!”
It was true, I was turning fourteen that weekend, but would that really make someone optimistic or not? I thought that I would still be optimistic, birthday party or not.
“Maybe I am just being happy because of that, I don’t really know.” I admitted “I meet you guys outside. I have to use the restroom.”
Destinee was waiting for me in the bathroom. I don’t mean Destiny, I mean a bully, named Destinee. Funny. Right?
Not so much when she is punching you in the face, or duct-taping you to the wall.
“Hi, Destinee.” I said “How are you?” I try my best to look innocent when around her, maybe that made her go easy on me. She replied by dragging me into the bathroom, and shoving my head into one of the toilets.
Thankfully, Mr. President wasn’t in the Oval Office, if you know what I mean.
“I’m doing great now, loser, how about you?” She said.
I let her walk away before pulling my face out of the toilet. I rinsed my hair in the sink, then, I grabbed some paper towels to dry my face and hair. I didn’t have a brush, so the best I could do was comb my hair with my fingers. I looked average. I could maybe pass off telling Mika and Theo that I was fine, and that I hadn’t been bullied. I didn’t want them to worry about me because of some silly bully.
I walked out of the building after using the restroom. Mika and Theo looked at my hair for a moment confused, but disregarded it as we started talking.
Walking home was an issue though, it was pouring in rain. I ran home with Iris by my side. On our way home Iris slipped into the mud. I laughed so hard I fell in with her. It was a good thing I didn’t have any fragile items in my bag.
We came home soaking, and laughing. Mom got some towels as soon as she saw us.
After scolding us, she told me to take off my shoes and socks and to go take a bath with Iris. As I walked into the air conditioning, I realized how cold and sticky I was. I headed quickly to the bathroom with Iris.
Once we were done, dinner was ready. I served Iris her poke-food. I gladly ate up the fried chicken mom served me, and had some small talk, but really, it all went in a flash. I was just so excited for my birthday.
Saturday finally came. I got up to go do some errands with Iris early in the morning.
First stop; pick up Mika. She came out with her Ralts, nicknamed Violet. She put Violet in her poke-ball, then grabbed her bike and started riding beside me.
“So, first, we have to go to that party store to go get supplies. Is that okay?” I asked. She nodded.
I didn’t say anything to try and wake her up, Mika is not a morning person. The last I had woke her up she pimp-slapped me.
Anyways, we arrived at the store, got some wrapper and silly string, (for the heck of it) and came to the outside market to get some food.
First, we went to Chef John’s. He served the pizza for the party. Normally, I would be working this week with him, but he told me to take the week off, due to my birthday. We picked up the pizza and headed for Theo’s house.
I dropped off the stuff at the house and left to pick up Theo. He came along with his Totodile. But before he even made it out the door, a woman who looked just like him ran out, I thought I recognized the woman from somewhere, I just couldn’t remember.
“Come on! Just let me work with him for a little while, Thee-thee!” I realized who the girl was by the nickname. It was Theo’s older sister, Annie. But she left to become a gym leader… I thought.
Theo never liked his sister because she was so talented. His parents always expected him to be as smart and talented as Annie, but it just didn’t happen. Annie didn’t quite understand that problem yet.
Theo groaned at the nickname.
“I need Tommy incase I run into a battle or something! You should know that!” He yelled at Annie “Now buzz off!”
He got on his bike as his sister slammed the door. Tommy was the nickname for his Totodile.
“Why is your sister here?” I asked.
Mika groaned. “She’s even louder then I remember…”
“Annie is having a…family visit.” He said. I didn’t bother asking, he seemed upset that his sister was here. Personally, I was jealous. It would be nice to have a sibling, especially one as smart and creative as Annie. My mom and Theo’s parents had different ways of showing love, though. I think if Theo’s parents understood his feelings, they would stop pushing him so hard.
But, it was not my argument. We fed our pokemon and ate from our lunch boxes at the picnic tables by the Old House.
Groville is the small town that I lived in. It was in the clearing of a large forest.
Long ago, before people were able to fly on pokemon, a man decided that when people are walking through the forest, there should be a place to rest. That was the creation of Groville. The forest was sacred, so no one has cut through it for room. Groville was a small town that has stayed a small town. The Old House was the very first house built here. It was a small cottage, only one room inside it. Now we use it as a museum. It had a nice picnic area beside it. We finished our lunches and stared at the dark clouds in the sky.
“Martis, would you like to battle?” Theo asked. I said accepted the request and asked Iris to come to my side. Theo said we we’re going to battle with one pokemon only, since that was all we had. I let Theo go first.
“Come on, Tommy; let’s start this off with a Water Gun!” The blast of water started to head for Iris.
“Iris, please dodge this attack!” Iris easily slipped to the side. She was very good with evasiveness. I then requested her to use Growl, so that later Theo’s attacks wouldn’t be as dangerous.
Theo answered with Bite. I let the bite hit Iris; she wouldn’t be easily weakened now. I told her to use Tail Whip; to get the Totodile off her.
The Totodile scrunched in pain. I took this moment to have Iris use Quick Attack. As my pokemon started to charge, Tommy got up. Theo immediately ordered Tommy to use Water Gun. The blast of water made
Iris slid on the new mud, and crash into Tommy. They both looked exhausted.
Beside me, I heard a laugh. I turned to see it was an older woman. She had blue hair that she wore a snow cap over, a black tank-top, and a pink miniskirt. She looked to be eighteen or so.
“Oh, I’m sorry! I just thought you and your friends pokemon battle ended in a funny way. My name is Dawn, it’s nice to meet you!” The woman held out her hand. I couldn’t believe who this woman was though! This was the girl who traveled with the one and only Ash! She must have been legendary!
“Ni-nice to meet you…” I managed to breathe out “I’m Martis, an-and this is m-m-my friend Th-theo.”
She smiled and told us that she was there to judge a contest the next day. I knew what contest she was talking about, it was the “Growing Groville Contest!” contestants had to enter with grass pokemon.
I turned to see Mika reaction to this situation, only to see that she was gone.
“It was very nice to meet you Dawn, really, I mean…you’re famous, you know? But, I have to go home to get ready for a party.”
“Oh, alright! I hope to see you later, Theo and Martis!” She said as we headed for the pokemon center.
Nurse Joy was done with our pokemon pretty quickly; in fact she was done with them within five minutes. Only some washing and potions, and our pokemon were healed.
“Have a nice day!” she said as we walked out with our pokeballs.
Mika was at our house when we came back. She said that my mother had called my PokeNav, but she had to answer, because I was going out in battle. Mom had her help set things up.
My grandparents were talking in the kitchen. They seemed to both be excited and happy, which looked kind of sweet, for people their age, anyways.
“Oh, Martis and her friends are here Mother!” my mom exclaimed. She ran to hug me.
I hugged my mother back tightly, then my grandparents. After some talking, they brought out the cake.
“Happy Birthday Martis!”
I blew out the candles quickly, since it was making the ice cream melt.
I wish that I can stay with my friends and family forever… I wished. The party continued as I opened my eyes.
“Aw, that is so sweet!” My mother exclaimed as I pulled out the jacket Theo gave me. It was really cool. Light blue, almost white, with a lightning bolt in the middle.
“Thank you Theo! This is awesome!”
He grinned and said “Oh, no problem. I thought you would like it.”
I picked up an orange box. Inside it held a card and a package. First, I read the card.
“Only use this when you need it. For now, wear it as a necklace.
-Mika.”
Inside the package was a black gem attached to a string. I knew what
it was as soon as I saw it.
“No, Mika, this is way to-“
“No arguing, I don’t have an Evee to use it on, so I gave it to you. Take it. That way you can have an Umbreon someday.” She argued. I hugged her and tied the necklace around my neck.
It made my red hair look somewhat devilish, but that was okay.
Then, I saw a purple bag. Inside, it held a trainer bag, complete with the six poke-ball holders, and a pokedex.
“Wow…thank you so much Granny and Papa…” I was amazed. This had to cost hundreds of dollars!
“You were worth it, Martis! Now you will be prepared when you graduate Pokémon School!” Granny said. I hugged them both, and then looked at the last box. Inside, was a card. “Happy Birthday!” it said, and inside the rest of the box was some clothing, and on the very bottom was a note.
“Look outside.” It said. I walked outside with my mom. There was my bike, with a basket on the front, the perfect size for an Evee or an Eveelution. It was there so I would be able to ride my bike around without having Iris in her pokeball.
“Thanks, Mom!” I hugged her tightly.
Then it was time to go to bed. I picked up all of the present wrappers with my mom and said goodbye to Mika, Theo, and my grandparents.
“Happy birthday, Martis. Good night.” My mother said. She kissed my forehead and went into her bedroom.
“Good night.” It was just me and Iris in my bedroom. I clutched the gem against my neck. I knew there would be a day that I would need it. For the time being though, I decided to keep the gem under my pajama shirt.
“Martis!” said a harsh whisper. I turned to see Theo outside my window.
“What are you doing here, Theo?!”
“Come on, I need to play a prank on my sister!” he pleaded.
“Okay, we aren’t hurting her, are we?” When Theo asked me to join his pranks, I always made sure that I wouldn’t hurt anyone. I never liked to physically hurt people. A pacifist, you could have called me.
“Not physically.” He answered. That had been good enough for me.
“Okay.” I climbed out the window quietly.
We walked into the back door of his house, and into his sister’s lab.
It was filled with strange devices that she came up with, the Rattata were in their tiny playground that she made, sleeping. She was really an extraordinary inventor. The inventor herself was sleeping with her head on the desk, cover in paper of research and data.
“What are we going to do to her?” I whispered.
“We are going to give her a magic marker moustache.”
I decided that this wasn’t going to get me killed, or make me feel guilty, at least for a while.
He started to do his work with the magic marker while I took cover. I walked just outside the house, so that I could see if there was movement I his parents bedroom. The lights were still off when Theo yelled and ran past me. That was then I saw one of the scariest moments of my life.
Annie, with half of a magic marker moustache on her face, running with rage towards me.
She screamed “THEO! YOU STUPID BAKA!”
I ran for dear life, cursing in different languages is generally a bad sign. I saw Theo run into the forest. I had to follow him. I ran into the forest. I knew it was dangerous, but a friend has to do what a friend has to do.
I caught up with him and laughed. He smiled back, and we slowed down.
“Okay, so what should we do now?” I asked.
“Well, she will probably wait for us to come out for a while. Let’s wait for a bit before coming out.” He stated. “In the meantime, let’s explore!”
He started to walk away from the clearing.
“But what if we get lost?” I questioned.
“We won’t go far, don’t be such a dweeb Martis.” He continued. I was reluctant to follow, but I did. After all, if I left him alone, he might get lost.
***
I looked at my watch and saw that we had been walking around in the forest for thirty minutes.
“Okay, it’s time to get out of here.” I announced.
“Alright then.” Theo and I started to walk back the way we came. Then, we heard a cry. Suddenly, I wish a brought my new pokedex.
“Theo, do you think that was a wild pokemon?”
“Nah, they only say those things to scare new trainers into being careful. Wild pokemon don’t run around and attack people.”
His argument was proved wrong by a Haunter floating towards Theo and I. With only one pokemon and no weapons, we were hopeless. Theo left Tommy home.
We looked at eachother, and then at the Haunter. We ran, not caring
which direction we went, as long as we went together. We ran and ran, the Haunter always continued to chase us no matter where we went.
After giving up on turning back, we started to tire.
It started to rain, hard. I tried my best to keep my balance, but Theo couldn’t. He slipped on the mud and his head hit a glass shard on the ground. The first thing I did was check if we were still being pursued. No, the Haunter was long gone. I looked down and saw that Theo was still on the ground, he had not moved.
“Theo?” I whispered. He was barely even breathing. I flipped him on to his back to see that not only was there a deep scar across his forehead, but he also was unconscious.
“Theo! Theo! Answer me!” I pleaded. He didn’t respond. I started to cry.
I knew that this wouldn’t help though, and I stood up. I let out Iris, and started walking back in the direction I ran with her, maybe to find the town. Later, I found that our searching was useless. We were stuck in the forest. There was no straight path to take, nothing to recognize, nothing at all to help us on our way. We were lost.
I tried to back to check on Theo. I later realized that I had abandoned Theo, and that I wouldn’t be able to find him. I left him there alone to die.
What kind of friend am I?!
I screamed in rage at myself and sat against a wide tree. It looked to be taller than the rest of the trees around. Iris looked at me with sad, confused eyes.
“I’m sorry I’ve been so awful to you, Iris! I wish I could make it up to you, give you a treat or something, but were lost…You and I are lost all because of me! Theo is really hurt because of me! What kind of monster am I?”
What kind of monster am I?
“I’m so sorry I brought you into this, Iris. I’m so sorry…” As I said that, Iris whimpered.
I felt a warm liquid on my face as the rain patted on my shoulders. I placed my hand on my cheek, and realized that the warm liquid was tears. I picked myself off the ground, and touched the tree I sat upon earlier, and stared.
I have abandoned my best friend….
I have caused my pokemon to suffer…
What kind of monster am I?
Suddenly, I felt a great vibration throughout my whole body. It started through my hand which was on the tree, then went through my whole body. It felt power enriching, great. But yet, I felt pain. Great, unbearable, pain rushed through my body. Suddenly everything went black.
I hope you all liked this story, it's better than anything I have posted before. Chapter Two is a lot better though!
-aggs
