Holding onto the past
Disclaimer I do not own pokemon they are property of gamnefreak and Nintendo
Authors note I wrote this in about 3 hours This one is a bit more personal to me. I hope many can see where I am coming from with this short story.
Editor Cedricdream
A lone umbreon sat in a dark cave, waiting for his only friend... no, that was not right... his new... roommate, in a sense. The new roommate would inherit the cave. The umbreon's family was gone. They weren't blood-related, but they were a family nonetheless. There were seven of them in all in this family.
Mel the snubbull, Terra the piplup, Kon the axew, Night the purrloin, Vic the taillow, Clara the Deino, and a little eevee.
We were a family of orphans that found each other. One way or another, we were abandoned by our families or were left alive after other pokémon destroyed our family.
I was abandoned by mine because I had a different fur color from my siblings. My mother was disgusted with me, calling me an abomination that would only bring misfortune to the rest of my brothers and sisters. One day I awoke and I was alone.
I came across my brother-to-be Mel. He was a snubbull who hated how he looked. He was always teased by other pokémon about looking too cute yet ugly as hell. When I found him, he was badly injured as he was just attacked by a pack of houndoom and they left him for dead. I dragged him to some bushes and nursed him back to health. He was grateful but told me I should have let him die. I told him he shouldn't let the world define him, that I was a freak because of my fur color. He said he wished it was his fur color that made him ugly.
We were like brothers after that. We always looked out for each other.
The next trio of misfits we came across was the foolish trio. From what they told us, they escaped from something called a daycare center, some place humans left their pokémon. After a while, however, their humans never came back, so they decided to escape. Kon said they ran off.
Terra was the leader. She would always lead them into trouble. The little piplup was always out for adventure, dragging the purrloin and axew with her. Night the purrloin was not much of a fighter, always hiding behind Kon the axew.
Mel and I had to reel them in as they joined us, or as Terra put it, "I will allow you to take a role that allows me to over see you." She was one crazy piplup.
Vic had fallen from the sky onto us, well... perhaps it would be better to say that he fell on Mel, knocking him out. Vic was bad at flying as he could only fly for short periods of time before falling from the sky.
The last one of our group was ......Clara.....God, I miss her... a Deino. I know, I shouldn't think of her that way. Hell, it would have never worked out at all.
But enough of what could have been. We became a pack of misfits. We overcame many troubles and opponents. We fought to protect our territory. We laughed, cried, had good days, and days where we wanted to kill each other...
We grew stronger and wiser. But... with that so-called wisdom and strength, we grew apart. Some wanted more than what we had. They wanted to see the world.
The first to leave was Vic. He wanted to finally to make the flight over the mountains. He said he would be back in a few days. That was the last we heard from him. I cried for days.
Knight and Kon wanted to see the world. They also said they'd be back one day to visit us after they traveled. They never returned. It was heartbreaking to think those we were close to had left us, never to be heard from again. They could be happy wherever they were, but we wouldn't know.
Terra and Clara had evolved into the final forms. It went downhill from there. They were always bickering. I tried my best to stop them, but one day it came to a head. Both were fighting, trying to take the other down. I got between them and took a brutal attack from both that nearly killed me. Luckily, I had evolved into an umbreon a season ago. Had I still been an eevee, I would have died. Terra ran off after her attack, probably out of guilt, and we never heard from her again.
I woke days later to see Clara flying off and Mel telling her to stay. She gave no response. Mel told me she left because she felt guilty over what had happened. She blamed herself for my injuries and decided to leave.
Needless to say, I was a wreck. I wanted to die. My family was gone once more. Mel stayed with me and tried to keep my spirits up.
One day, he came back with a manectric. She was lovely and had a good personality. He told me they would live with me in the cave so I wouldn't be alone. I told him no, that he should be happy with her, but to visit often when he could. He promised me that. He hugged me as his mate licked my face and they left. Mel had become a powerful granbull with no trouble standing up to anyone.
That was last spring. It is summer now. Four seasons have passed and he had yet to stop by. My new roommate is an ursaring named Blake.
Blake was a nice mon, but that was it. He was just not my family. I looked at the cave wall that was covered with our claw marks, showing it belonged to us all. Now they were gone. This fact pained me more than anything. They were all gone. I was alone once more. The emptiness in my heart hurt. I wanted to die again. Blake walked up to me, seeing the depressed look on my face.
"You can't hold on to the past forever, dark one..." he said sympathetically. I did not look at him.
"It is all I have," I said, somewhat harsher than I meant it to. "No female around here wants me as I am freak to many of them." My rings glow blue due to my fur mutation instead of yellow. "I was happy with them, and now I am alone. I looked for Mel and I could not find him nor his mate. I have looked for them all, and nothing. I have looked for Clara as she was the only one of her kind I knew in this area. Nothing... She didn't have to leave. I would have understood..." The tears fell from eyes unrestrained. Blake sighed and sat next to me.
"You will find a new family." He really was a lot nicer than he looked.
"No, I won't, Blake. Thank you for your kind words. My family has abandoned me once more." I got up and headed out of the cave. "I'll be back, I hope. If I don't, enjoy the cave but please leave the scratches where they are at it is all the proof I have left that we existed as a family."
I headed to the lake to quench my thirst. I drank from the cool waters and sighed as I headed to the bushes to eat some berries. I think back when Clara was still here and just evolved into a hydreigon, she was the biggest of us all. Surprisingly, she was very timid and self-conscious about her size. She was afraid we would shun her due to how she looked. I told her she looked lovely, and her face became deep red. She would always sleep with me in her arms.
After that, the fight happened between Terra and her. I never found out what happened. Mel refused to tell me as he promised Clara never to tell me.
Mel not telling me was most likely why he left like he did, why he never returned. He never wanted to keep the secret from me. Not wanting to betray me or Clara, he left so he could keep his word and not give in and tell me.
I wondered if there was anything for me out there. Here, there was nothing but past memories that I held onto. Perhaps, as Blake said, it was the past that holds onto me.
I just... want to see my family once more. Why does life have to be so painful? First my real family leaves me, then my new family leaves me.
I saw a buizel swimming alongside a golduck. There was one I thought that loved me. The buizel was fun and easy going, but in the end I was a means to get the golduck's attention. She left me as soon as the golduck asked her out. Small wonder why I hated to be with anyone else. I do wonder... if I left, would anyone look for me? Would anyone care if I simply vanished?
~the next day~
I had been awake since the sun rose. I saw some pidgey fly by and I sighed, thinking of Vic and his flight. Did he ever make it? Did he find someone? Is that why he didn't come back?
No friends, no family, nothing...I am too tired to care anymore. I think today is the day I do it...I leave the place I called home. I head out to find...what? Nothing? To be honest, I don't think it matters what happens to me as my family has left me again for the second time in my life.
I turned my head to look at Blake as he snores the day away. I told him not to worry about me. I would take his advice and leave the nest. He could have the cave. It was filled with memories that were too painful to be around anymore.
I got up and headed off. Now, I am at the tree line. I stopped and looked at the place I called home for many seasons and cried once more. Now it's just a hole on the cliffside. The place I called home is gone. I take my leave knowing I will not return. I just wish I could see her once more...tell the dark dragoness...I loved her.
I walk forward to join my friends of the past on an unknown path of life.
"It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday." --Boyz II Men