15TH DAY IN HIDING
It's been about half a month since Aiden's house was burned down and we were chased away. We've been traveling across the Lush Continent, hiding in various dungeons and foraging food from wherever we can find it, whether it's finding discarded stuff or taking things from our pursuers. Food and supplies are always scarce, but we've been barely hanging on with what we've got.
I've tried asking Uxie for help several times, both verbally and through my thoughts, and I've yet to experience anything close to an answer. Come to think of it, they said something about leaving this continent, didn't he? We're probably on our own, then. We've been on our own for what seems like ages now.
Aiden's been very optimistic even after we've been on the run. It's kind of odd, honestly. Despite everything that's happened, her home being burned down, the team she was so passionate about being basically dismantled, she still manages to smile whenever I talk with her. It's... a little unsettling. I mean, she'll joke around as if our entire lives weren't completely uprooted in a single day, as if we don't face the possibility of death with each passing day. I just can't understand how she could be so optimistic, but I have to admit that it's infectious. Her energy as well as this journal are the only things keeping me going. Though sometimes I wonder whether her optimism is genuine or not...
It really seems like the entire world is against me. It makes sense, I suppose. I'm a human. I'm an outsider to the Pokémon of this world. I should have expected for something like this to happen eventually, it was inevitable. Yet, I have to hold out hope. I don't know how we're ever gonna get out of this mess, but I have to remain optimistic that we can both pull through somehow, as Uxie told me.
32ND DAY IN HIDING
We had a close call with a group of Pokémon who ambushed us the other day. Aiden tried to reason with them, as she has with multiple groups trying to catch me. Of course, they wouldn't listen. Some Pokémon have apparently even set large bounties on my head- everyone's pretty much convinced that my existence is a threat to their world, that humans and Pokémon can never coexist. And honestly, who can blame them- they may be right. I kind of want to talk with Aiden about this, but I know that she'll say the same thing she's always been saying. That I'm not actually a threat, that I'm innocent. Well how can she know? I'll probably just keep these thoughts between this journal and myself. No need to burden her with my rambling.
68TH DAY IN HIDING
It's been two months now since we've gone into hiding, and things have only gotten harder. We're running out of places to go, and food is seemingly becoming more scarce over time. It's not as if we can hire a ride Pokémon to flee the continent with, seeing as we're wanted across the entire continent. Plus, our escapes continue to grow narrower as more and more experienced Pokémon join the hunt- some members of the police have even joined in, despite all we've done for them. It's only a matter of time before I'm caught, and to be completely honest, that thought's becoming less scary with each passing day. I don't know why Aiden insists on jeopardizing her career, putting on a forced smile, denying herself a carefree livelihood for my sake. For someone who could lead to this world's destruction. Someone who doesn't belong.
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I'm tired of letting Aiden down over and over. I'm tired of sitting idly while she suffers because of me. I'm tired of being nothing but a parasite who drags others down.
Today, I'm going to make things right.
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rising Spirits
Adventure"All things... must eventually come to pass..." Trevor, a timid human turned Meowth, has been thrust into an unfamiliar world of talking Pokémon who view his kind as inexplicably tied to the looming, unseen threat which threatens their world. With n...
