??? Pov
" honey why did you punch Gary," asks my mother as we walk from the school. I look away as she sighs and says," Halt dewayne ketchum, answer me."
" why, you'd just side with Gary just like everyone else," I say at my mother Delia ketchum," I know i was the second option."
" Halt, what's that supposed to mean!" She says in a slightly raised voice before trying to grab my coat. A second hand patchwork coat slightly ripping at the touch. Her eyes look at the coat before sighing, " halt you were never a second option. You were the only option for me. I'm sorry we're not like everyone else with the newest things but I still love you you know."
I look at my mother and remember the day we met like yesterday.
Flashback 6 years ago
' Really, just take me from my previous life and job, and dump me into a four year old body,' I think walking around this forest i was just dumped in by that body snatching pervert of a rob. 'Serves him right for trying to peep on little girls. Damn pedophile,' I think as I hear bushes rustle beside me and I look and soon back away as a large purple snake comes out of the bush it's belly swelled in an odd way that resembles a large rat.
"Ar. arboc," it looks at me and then the next thing I know is I'm struck by something massive and I crash through some bushes and into a stream. " fuck was that a pokemon?!" I say as I grab my side in pain and pull it away seing blood and a purple fluid coating my hand. I wince as the pain grows and burns and my vision blurs. I hear the hissing of the arbok as it comes closer. I try to crawl away but I'm struck again this time by several glowing purple needles. My vision starts failing and I cough out feeling my body burn from the poison, or is it venom, flowing through me. As the pokemon comes in for the kill I hear a voice shout " lucario use bone rush on that arbok, audino use heal pulse on that little boy." I black out shortly after those commands were issued.
Flashback end
' I'd later wake up in a hospital bed hooked up to several monitors and I'd be in a daze for a while but I'd eventually be adopted by Delia ketchum. The super mom of the protagonist of Pokémon. Life isn't all sunshine and daisies for us. Delia would be kicked out of her home by her family for adopting me, and we would move to kanto from the almia region. Delia would have to work several jobs trying to support us just so I could go to trainer school in the future. My past memories became blurred after the arbok incident and I didn't care. I look at it as a way to move on, damn I'm deep, or stupid. Probably both.
I sigh and look at Delia before looking away and saying, " I know it's just always like this. Apart from professor oak, no one here cares about us."
" plenty of people care, " says Delia trying to keep my spirits up," what about that one girl you talked about Serena."
" I lied saying she was my friend. After helping her with her pokemon search at that summer camp and helping her bandage her knee she hung onto Gary the entire time. She even laughed at me along with everyone else," I say as I stop and look ahead at this pokemon on the shortcuts path, wait three pokemon. Thier fur is dirty and tatted and all of them have several cuts lining thier body. Rushing towards them i kneel down and pull out some salve i made in class from oran berries and medicinal leeks as a project. Approaching cautiously i stop when one of the Pokémon move around and faces me. Anger fills its eyes as it launches at me and I intercept with my arm. It bites down drawing blood and a snap is heard through the forest.
Delia tries to rush forward but I just start using the salve on a cut on the Pokémons side. It flinches slightly and scratches me with its back paws but soon stops. The Pokémon let's go and just stays alert as I continue using my left hand to get its cuts cleaned. It stops and whimpers slightly while looking at the others which I slowly go towards them and start using the last bit of salve to heal them.
" halt" says Delia as she finally gets to us and checks my arm out. Pulling off the sleeve from the coat by ripping it she sees a large bite mark that's bleeding pretty good and my forearm is slightly bent and swelling. She gently touches it and I hiss in pain and see stars floating around my vision.
" Halt this was reckless, " she says looking me but I just continue checking the Pokémon with my only good hand.
'oh Halt, what's will i do with you,' she thinks looking at ne and how I ignore my well being for the Pokémon.
After going to the hospital to get my arm set and in a cast because it was broken, and the pokemon looked over by nurse joy in Vermillion city. All of us come back to pallet town with a clean bill of health and I finally know the identities of the pokemon. Fennekin, zorua and eevee, all three stayed with me and we became good friends.
Three years later
" and that's a critical hit by agatha's gengar on brunos nidorino knocking it out. With both elite four down to thier last pokemon what will it be." Says the announcer on the TV in my room as fennekin stares at the screen before clicking the dial Turning it to a pokemon contest and happily chirps. Zorua jumps on my bed with a bundle of clothes in her mouth before rushing over to get more as I'm packing my gear. Eevee or should I say sylveon uses her ribbons to help clean the room all the while singing her name happily. After changing the channel fennekin rushes out of the room to another room bringing back a set of towels on her back as well as some wash rags in her mouth. Grabbing the mentioned towel and wash rags and putting them in my large travel pack.
" look at this girls, just in a few hours we will be taking our journey through the world," I say as my pokemon chirp thier names before Delia looks into the room and smiles.
" looks like my little boy's all grown up and becoming a man. Oh how time flies, " she says as I nod and hug her after putting the travel backpack at the foot of my bed. " thanks mom, I'll miss you as well," I say genuinely as my pokemon also join in the touching moment.