Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Linked Souls

CHAPTER 0: MAKE A BIRTHDAY WISH!

(DISCLAIMER: Thanks so much to anyone that reads this and also thanks to my friends for motivating me to keep going and especially my boyfriend for supporting me and being there from the start when making this project. I started writing this back in July 2021 as the idea came to me in a dream, rather ironically. I love telling stories, but have absolutely no experience in writing them, so I apologise if the writing style of this story is offputting or even unreadable at some points, though the further along the story goes the better my writing ability becomes since I learnt a few things from other pieces of media. This is a passion project of mine, I'm not doing this to gain anything other than to satiate my lust for developing worlds and stories of my own. I loved every second of making this, and I hope that you love reading it. I'll be releasing this in bulk chapters, kind of like seasons, with Chapters 1-12 being a season 1 equivelant, so updates to this story may take a fair bit of time to come out. But thank you all from the bottom of my heart, Hunter, Grim, Weebles, Gaht and Natalie Guest for motivating me to keep going with this project, this wouldn't be here today without you guys so thank you so much and I hope you enjoy what's been my life's work for the past couple of months.)

*The scene starts in a room with a single bed inside, in this single bed lies resting a boy, sleeping soundly. The room is silent with no noise other than the breathing of this sleeping boy. The sun's rays beam brightly through the curtains in the room and on to the lower half of the bed sheets. Next to the bed is a small desk where on top lies a phone with the time displaying "07:59". The phone suddenly starts making noise as an alarm goes off the moment the time hits 8am, with a message under the alarm saying "Happy Birthday Jesse"*

Boy: *groans loudly*

*Suddenly the boy in the bed wakes up and reaches out for his phone, his head is revealed. He has medium length brown hair and green eyes and a rather feminine face for a boy that looks as old as he does. He reads the alarm note and remembers the significance of today*

Voice from downstairs: "Jesse! It's your birthday today, remember? Come on downstairs I made us all pancakes"

*The boy, now fully awake, sits up in his bed, not looking very eager at the fact that it is his birthday today, nor prepared to go downstairs*

Jesse's Narration: "I know this is a bit abrupt, but hi, my name is Jesse and this here is me. In case you haven't already picked up, today is my birthday, my 18th birthday to be specific. Now for a normal person my age, the "eighteenth" birthday is usually quite a big deal as it's a pretty big milestone to hit, but not for me."

*Jesse gets dressed and opens his room door, preparing to go down the stairs*

Jesse's Narration: "I'm gonna be completely honest, I don't really like my life all that much. Yeah I have a roof over my head and I have food and water so I shouldn't really complain, but that's all I have. My family isn't exactly a rich family, but that's not the problem. The problem is we live in the middle of nowhere with pretty bad internet so I can't really talk to my very few friends and I just always feel so bored, so isolated, so... Lonely, all the time. Even my own brother doesn't interact with me, he's too absorbed with playing his little Pokémon game on his Switch. Me personally, I'm not really all that into it, nor anything else he plays on the very rare occasion he decides he wants to play something OTHER than Pokémon."

*Jesse walks past the living room and sees a slightly smaller boy with short hair and a bright light coming from the TV in the room*

Jesse's Narration: "Speaking of my brother, there he is on the couch doing exactly what I expected him to be doing. Which is playing that same Pokémon game of his he seems to spend most of his time on. He probably doesn't even know I've come downstairs yet he's so absorbed in that thing. Oh well, better keep moving I guess."