History’s Past, Present’s Future

Part One, Chapter One: A New Beginning

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Darkness enveloped a wasteland that was made completely of burnt wood and flesh, some of which still ablaze. Seven of them stood tall and proud inside a cleared area of a collapsed house.

“Imagine all of this green and filled with little houses.” A long haired woman said aloud to her friends before leaving.

The other six couldn’t even fathom what this land looked like before they were born. They were envious of such people that lived in it.

“Sabrina.” One of them stepped forward and said.

“Before you go, be sure you let them know who we are, so Gwen here won’t kill them on sight.” A slight chuckle escaped their mouths nearly the same time.

“Will do. God speed to you all.” Sabrina’s black-green hair and trim purple outfit began to slightly twitch as the wind picked up, when her eyes glowed a bright yellow. She then simply vanished.

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The rays of morning sunlight shown through a window and landed onto a sleeping girl nearing the age of fourteen.

She grunted softly, turned over to her side, and pulled the covers over her head. Like any other day, she would leave the window open in case of any passing Pokémon wanted to greet her, or in the worse case scenario be in any kind of trouble.

The girl giggled as she felt little talons land onto her blanket and their owner chirp softly into her exposed ear.

“Percy! Give me time to get up already, it is Saturday, I don’t have any reason to wake up so early.” The girl exclaimed while still giggling.

Her eyes opened slowly from under the covers, as the tiny bird Pokémon pulled them off with its beak.

“You silly Pidgey. I could have slept for a couple more minutes.”

The brown-feathered Pokémon tilted its head to look at her sideways, and chirped loudly once in the sound of its name.

“Alright, Alright, I’m up Percy, no need to get your feathers all in an uproar.”

Upon saying that, the Pidgey flew up onto her left shoulder and pecked her neck gently near the bottom, to let the girl know who it was.

“Wait a second, you’re not Percy.” The girl and the Pokémon stared at each other for a second, before the Pidgey puffed up and all of its feathers seemed to have stood out.

“I know who you are Percy, I wouldn’t forget that easily.” She said while laughing.

The girl got out of bed, and her nightshirt showed her true feelings of all Pidgeys, by saying, “I love Pidgeys!” In a large circle, accompanied by a picture of a Pidgey in flight in the center.

She headed towards her chest-of-drawers, and peered behind it, and grabbed what appeared to be a sack of some kind. She carried the monstrous striped sack over to the bed, untied it, and neatly spread the contents upon it.

“Here you are, I’m going to have to get you all some more soon.” The Pidgey chirped loudly again, and its friends all came in and joined him in eating their breakfast.

A woman much older than the girl with the Pidgeys came barging into her daughter’s room, and scared the Pidgeys off and out of the window.

“Ew, Nina! Don’t let those nasty things into your room; you never know where they’ve been…”

“…or what they might bring in.” Nina finished her mother’s sentence, while rolling her eyes. Her mother just simply didn’t understand the love she and the Pokémon shared.

Nina’s mother stared at Nina for a few moments as if trying to decide if she should be punished for this act of insubordination.

Her long and untidy hair, gave the appearance of laziness, and her face shown a color of being trashed the night before. Nina was the exact opposite; Nina’s hair, although she just woke up, was more tidy, looked healthy, and her face alive. They did share the same jade-colored eyes and slender figure though.

“Well, I see that you are finally up. Today is the day!” The mother said in a voice that was close to shouting, and finished,

“Pack your bags. Your father is ready to go and help build the new Viridian settlement.” She said staring at Nina’s step-father, who was outside of Nina’s window preparing the car for a trip.

“What? I just woke up, and this is what you have to tell me? Mother, please let’s not go, can’t Chuck drive back and forth from work? Why can’t we just stay here?” Nina’s lack of understanding of the situation had shown her age thoroughly in her mother’s eyes.

“And he’s not my father, my father died by the sting of a Seviper!” Nina never liked for Chuck to be called her father, even by a stranger that didn’t know any better, but she was more forgiving for those few people out there in the countryside.

“Nina! Don’t you dare take that tone with me! We are in quite the predicament with our funds, and your father barely working, we just can’t make ends meet here. The Viridian settlement will decide whether or not your father will build the surrounding cities over in Kanto.”

Before Nina had the chance to retaliate, “SPEE!” A Spearow flew into the window behind a frightened Pidgey.

“Huh? Percy, Gust attack!” The Pidgey flew around 180 degrees, and gave a look of determination towards the extremely aggressive tiny bird Pokémon, Spearow.

The unkempt head feathers on the Spearow seemed to bristle out as it flew in fast to peck the Pidgey, with malice in its eyes. Percy, seeming to have full control over the situation, strengthened her wingspan, and swooped both together inwards, which caused a large amount of wind, enough to knock Nina onto her bed, and the charging Spearow into a tree directly outside, which gave Percy an instant K.O.

“Get this ANIMAL out of my face!” Screamed Nina’s mother, as she was waving her arms frantically, as if trying to shoo Percy away from her.

“This is yet another reason. Just look at your room now! Crumbs all over your floor and bed because of a senseless battle between two very nasty animals! On top of that, your posters are askew, papers flying out of your window, clothes knocked out of your laundry sack! Clean up this room! No, we’re leaving, gather your things. You have exactly 30 minutes to do so!”

By the time Nina’s mother gathered herself and slammed Nina’s door behind her, Percy was in the loving arms of a very excited Nina.

Nina looked outside at Chuck who wore a very wide smile and gave Nina a, “thumbs up” for a job well done. She smiled back, and started to pack what little stuff she actually had into an old purple and green book bag of hers.

The house was completely empty by that afternoon. Chuck had already made several trips to take their stuff to the Viridian city settlement, and now all that was left was the three of them and some of their personal belongings.

Chuck and Nina’s Mom in the front seat of an old yellow 2-door pickup truck, and Nina in the back of the truck, watching her house and her friends disappear into the woods as they set off to the Viridian settlement.

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Brantley, a boy that was just a few months older than Nina, was gathering firewood, deep into the forest between the Pallet and Viridian settlements.

Broad shoulders and a lean figure wrapped up in a red flannel shirt and heavy denim jeans; short brown-auburn hair, and blue eyes accompanied his appearance.

The firewood sat perfectly on his arms as he kept looking back at his Eevee that was hopping in the distance with a tiny sled attached to a blue collar that was around its neck.

“Eevee” it squealed every time Brantley did so, and Eevee was eagerly trying to catch up with him, but the sled would slow it down.

Grinning, Brantley would stop and let his Eevee get close to him, before setting off again.

The brown and white Pokémon settled down in a nice patch of long-bladed grass, grew a face of determination, and began to glow violently, and hundreds of stars flew from its mouth at breakneck speed. The last star that flew out, the Eevee quickly hopped on to, and flew towards Brantley.

The wind felt cool running through its white mane around its neck, and it squealed just before slamming into the back of a piece of firewood. Brantley noticed what had happened, laid the firewood down, and knelt down onto the forest floor, and picked his Eevee up from the ground, and hugged it.

“See? I told you that you could do it Eevee. Now, you just need a little practice jumping onto one of the logs.” He said rubbing the Eevee’s head gently.

“Eevee” it exclaimed sadly as its ears fell limp to the side of its head.

Brantley’s gaze narrowed, and began to look serious, and then smiled and followed that with a hearty laugh.

“Eevee, you’re too hard on yourself, the sled slows you down, I don’t expect you to do it on your first try, it will take some practice. I’m not disappointed in you at all. I know if I tried, I’d miss the star each time, and probably Headbutt the ground, and have many more bruises than you. So cheer up.”

The Eevee’s gaze returned to Brantley, eyes lit up, ears fully erect, and licked Brantley’s cheek.

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The morning breeze was passing Brantley and his Eevee, and they came across a pack of Kecleon fighting. Eevee’s eyes were darting from one place to another at the Pokémon that were disappearing and reappearing all over the place, and eventually got dizzy. One Kecleon in particular held out some sort of ball that it kept tossing to its reappearing friend. It took Brantley a minute, but he saw a small green Chameleon-looking Pokémon jumping up and down as they started pass the ball again.

“It’s okay Eevee, we just need to keep on going, most Pokémon just need to grow up on their own, besides the bigger Kecleons look like they must be the smaller one’s family.” Brantley exclaimed while looking straight ahead and kept on walking.

As they continued further, Brantley felt Eevee running on the logs above, and jumping at something. Eventually, a soft, nearly weightless puff of white something hit Brantley’s other hand, and he looked up to see a whole cloud of Jumpluffs were passing by with every gust of wind that flew past.

When Brantley looked ahead again, he nearly ran into a large, purple, and intimidating-looking Pokémon.

Brantley and Eevee both froze, and Brantley gave a semi bow, and said, “We ask to pass through here Nidoking.”

The bipedal Pokémon looked at them with its massive stare, and it moved aside with a grunt.

“Thank you.” Brantley said as he came up from the bow, and continued on.

“All of this belongs to the Pokémon!” I can’t believe they are just going to tear it down. Where will all of the Pokémon go?” Brantley said heatedly towards Eevee, as their house was in sight, feeling that he should do something towards keeping the forest alive.

Brantley laid the firewood down onto the soft grass, near the large mounds of where Digletts and Dugtrios were living at, and noticed a note on the wooden door to his cabin.

“Brantley, I have to take a short leave from this place, and I leave the cabin to you along with all of my possessions. I have trained you well, and trust you to make every right decision with what you are faced with. Inside my cherry oak jewelry box, I have placed something for you that will help you with your journey as a Pokémon Trainer. The rocket team will be in the area again soon, as they are the reason I left, you must flee also, you cannot stay for long, just remember, you can always call this place home, as long as you NEED it. –Samuel Oak”.

Brantley finished reading letter, folded it, and placed it in his pocket.