The Infinite Sorrow CH.1
Alice awoke To the sound of talking. She looked outside. Theiw were dark clouds all aroung. a spearow flew across the sky and landed on a tree.Todays the day and its gonna rain...how original. she walked outside and saw Shadow watching Anthony outside with Taylor. They were discussing something. as she got closer, she heard their conversation.
"Will i ever see you again?"
"Dont worry anthony, we'll see each other again. now get ready you leave in 2 hours. I love you anthony." Anthony and his mom hug. Shadow turns away and runs to the forest. "Shadow, wait! Where are you-" Taylor spots Alice. "Hey Alice, run after him. Im not sure what's wrong."
"Im going too!" They ran after shadow, not too far behind.
* * *
Shadow eventually slowed down from a sprint to a jog, then a trot, a fast walk, to a walk. He arrived at the lake. I need to be alone. Im supposed to leave in 2 hours. and that means if i know my friends, they'll come looking for me. i dont need to talk right now. hmm... wait ive got an idea!. I'll trick them into going back to the ranch.
shadow walked into a patch of mud. Then carefully walked about 25 meters, with each step nearly stomping the ground. ugh, this will never work. Shadow heard rustling. NO! they couldnt have gotten here this fast!
He looked around for a place to hide. Nowhere! he looks at lake. He jumps in head first. Alice and Anthony walked out of the trees. "Shadow! Where are you!" he can barley hear them underwater. "i wonder where he went. look there's tracks in the mud. but..they abrubtly end" Oh god please leave, i can feel my lungs burning.
"hmm..... seems like he's leading us away."
"we better leave then, well never find him like this!" Shadow has nearly nothing left in his lungs. he swims upward. he cant see anything because of water in his eyes, but he can hear a few words. "Oh hiya! enjoy your swim?" Damn
* * *
"Tell me again why you ran off like that." Alice asks.
"look i dont wanna talk about it. please leave me alone." Alice looks at anthony. He's oblivious to it until he see's the fire in her eyes. "Oh, uh right, im gonna go over here and do....stuff." he trots off.
"Whats this really about."
"look i said i dont wanna talk about it." shadow starts walking away until alice trips him. he moves over on his back and trys to get up but alice pinned him on his chest.
"Im not letting you go until you tell me." alice says. shadow closes his eyes. Dont cry, dont show weakness.
"fine... ill tell you"
Shadow waited for Alice to loosen her grip, but she didn't
budge.
"Uh, Alice, you gonna let me up?"
"Not until you tell me why" ugh..... Shadow took in a deep
breath and exhaled. "Where are your parents?"
"There in a different city. Why?"
"Anthony's parent is here, sparky and Charlie have both come
from a different region"
"What are you getting at?"
"Where are my parents? My earliest memory is the white
coats! AM I A ORPHAN? OR DID MY PARENTS, IF I HAVE ANY, GIVE ME AWAY!?!?" there
were tears coming out from his eyes now.
You're
pathetic, weak. He couldn't control the tears anymore, and they were coming out like a river. Alice loosened her grip, and let go. The first chance he got,
shadow got up and took off. But Alice tackled him again. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"You know I can't...I would never forgive myself and neither
would anyone else." Shadows eyes glowed red. "I deserve to die in the woods.
I'm a freak. I was made in a lab for all I know... The day I was rescued was a
mistake. I should have died that day. I have no one. I-" Alice slapped him,
leaving a mark on his face.
"Don't you ever, say that. It was a miracle you survived.
Look, I know you don't know how you were born, or if you have parents, or
anything else. But you shouldn't have died. I know you've been experimented on,
and some of the stuff makes you different from Pokémon. Like your eyes. They were
normal one minute, and now that your angry their red. I'm not sure what they
did to you, but I'm here for you."
Shadow looked at her, this times his eyes blue from sadness. Shadow was
there for half an hour, crying on Alice's shoulder.
* * *
They got back to the farm, an hour late. They had an hour
left. It started sprinkling. Shadow, Anthony, and Alice all ran into to barn. But
before Shadow got in, he stopped. Alice looked at him, the understood why he
stopped. She walked in and in a minute, was out and nodded to him. He went
inside and looked around for the other Pokémon. He saw them all. I hate crowds. Well time to say my goodbyes. He went around saying goodbyes until
he got to Ace. "Look I know we never got to know each other well, but when I come
back, we need to hang out more." Ace nodded, not looking up. Then he went over
to Dan, who slapped him on the back. No words were needed for him. When he got
to Taylor, he almost couldn't keep from the tears. "Look I-" She shushed him. "No,
I know. I just want you to know I consider you part of my family." "Thank you"
she nodded, understanding. "One more thing everyone! Crystal can now understand
us. I'm not sure how, but she can." That started a huge discussion.
* * *
They went to crystals room. She was getting ready to leave.
Anthony couldn't believe that Crystal could understand her. "So Anthony,
Believe me now?" Shadow asked.
"Yes. Yes I do." Anthony says, amazed. "Hey Anthony and Shadow!
Ready to go?" Crystal asked. "As ready as well ever be." Anthony says. "Then
let's go!" they all walk out of her room, and go see her father. She says her
goodbye's and then their off. But before they leave, crystal pulls out 2 red
and white balls. "These are poke balls. When you don't feel like walking or are
hurt or anything else along those lines. Let's try them out. Anthony you first."
She threw one at Anthony. In a second, he's engulfed in a white light. The ball
moves 3 times, then stops. "Ok, he's in"
"Uh...can I walk most of the time?"
"Sure." She threw the ball and Anthony came out. "Whoa, that's
weird." Crystal pulls out another ball and smiles at shadow. "Yeah, yeah let's
just-"
* * *
In a second, Shadow came out. "Feels like your sleeping and
dreaming." Crystal smiles. "Ok let's go!" They walk outside, ready to take on the world. "First stop, saffron city gym!" they walked through the forest. "It's about a day's walk from our little farm. Just let me say goodbye to the other Pokémon please." "Sure thing Crystal." She walked into the barn. Anthony and shadow stayed out there, they just couldn't say goodbye again. There was the fear of crying.
She came out, her eyes a little red. Shadow felt sad. "Hey your eyes changed!"
"Huh? Oh yeah, so apparently, my eyes change my mood..."
"Wow really?"
"Yeah I know you don't want a-"
"That's so awesome!"
"Really? I thought you wouldn't like me because of it"
"Are you kidding? That's-"Anthony cleared his throat and said "Shall we keep on moving, or would we like to sit here all day?" They continued on with their journey. Along the way they talked about various things, like when they would be back, what colors meant what with shadows eyes (so far red meant angry, blue meant sad, and purple meant happy), along with what the gym leader's types are.
"So I'm a fire type" Anthony states. "This means I'm good against grass, ice, bug, and steel. But weak against water, fire, dragon, and rock"
"So I'm dark, and that means I'm good against...?"
Crystal explained "You're dark so that means you're best against psychic and ghost, and bad against fighting and dark steel. Stay away from them, you'll be badly injured if your do."
They continued walking on. It started to rain even harder now. Eventually, there was lighting and thunder, so Crystal led Shadow and Anthony under a huge oak tree. "Wait for it to die down!" But it didn't die down. In fact, it rained even harder. Shadow looked at Anthony. He looked sick. His flame was dying out!
"Crystal, we need to find Anthony a dry place, it's raining too hard! His flame's dying!" Crystal looked back and saw it was true. She picked him up, and looked for a place to take him. There was nothing. Shadow helped her look. He thought he saw something in the distance. "Crystal look!" Crystal, in panic, looked where shadow said to look. "It's a cave!" they ran towards the cave. Halfway there, shadow slipped, got back up, and slipped again. Eventually he got to the Cave. There, Crystal was tending to Anthony. He looked better; but not as good as he should be. "I'm ok..." Anthony mumbled. "Shhhhh....just go to sleep," Anthony's head hit Crystals lap and he fell asleep. "It was too hard to even go out there, so we better stay in here for a while" Thunder boomed the air, as if agreeing with her. Shadow walked around deeper into the cave, wondering what was in there. "Hello?" he asks. A screech echoed back, then 7 golbats and 4 zubats raced out of the dark and out into the pouring rain.
"Talk about a bat out of hell" crystal says. She continues care for Anthony. Lightning lights up the cave. Then Thunder. Shadow walks over to crystal and curls up into a ball.
* * *
Crystal wakes up, with the birds chirping, and the breeze rolling in. She looks at Anthony, his flame completely blazing. Then she looks at shadow, who is still sleeping. She gets up, and looks outside. The storm now gone. Instead of the dark clouds, there were white clouds. She walks over to shadow and shakes him, then goes over the Anthony, and shakes him. Anthony's up in a second, but shadows still sleeping. "Meh... 5 more...hmm...zzzz" She goes over to him and throws her pokeball. Then she walks with Anthony towards saffron city. "Let him sleep a little longer" she looks at Anthony and smiles.
* * *
Shadow wakes up. "Good morning, Sleepyhead!" He looks around to see Crystal and Anthony. Then he notices the towers. "Are we-?" "Yes were in Saffron city." Anthony finishes his sentence. Shadow goes over to him and punches him. "Next time let me finish my sentence, An-Tony!" Anthony punches him back playfully. Then they laughed. "Alright you two, there will be more time to punch each other later. Let's look around town, and then well go find the gym leader." They nod, and then head off looking around for stores. The first store they got to was a toy store. Shadow wanted to go in; even after Anthony begged him it was for little kids and it wasn't meant for Pokémon. He went inside and was instantly in a wonderland. Everything was just amazing. It was like being in another world filled with magical wonders, mysteries, and secrets. He was in there for what felt like hours. Then they moved on to a food store. Nothing big there except for marshmallows! They were so good. "Wait until make them in smores" she chuckled. Anthony loved the next store: Clothing. He tried on clothes made just for cyndaquil's (So they don't burn) He loved it. Shadow on the other hand felt it was humiliating. "Hey we went to the toy store, so were gonna go to the place I want" Anthony stated. Shadow looked around for crystal. She saw him talking to someone. "So I noticed your umbreon. He's different isn't he?"
"No what makes you say that?" she said nervously
"Well his eyes are different. And he just has a different vibe. Oh I'm sorry, how rude of me. I'm Oscar. This little geodude is Crusher. Hey were on our way to the gym leader and off to the next city. Would you like to come with us?"
"Well...uh... let me think" Should she go with him?
A) Yes
B) No ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey this is my first fan based choice. I'm leaving it up to you guys to pick. Anyway good luck. I'm about to go to my 2nd period.