The Ghost Behind Me (Starters AU)

Chapter 1: An Awful Night

(This is my first Wattpad story it might suck lmao)

(It's recommended you watch rare candies before reading this)

It was so dark out tonight. Everything seemed so blurry to me, I couldn't even walk in a straight line. I felt like I was going to fall over until I heard a voice call out to me. "Chespin! Chespin there you are!" The voice was familiar. It was Tepig! I looked at him, but it was still so blurry. I could hardly spit any words out. Today was the worst day to ever happen in my life. "Where were you Chespin? Mrs. Chesnaught was about to call the police." I was able to make his words out, but my ears seemed fuzzy. "I- I was just-" I wasn't able to even finish my sentence. Tears filled my eyes, which only made my vision blurrier. I felt like I couldn't even stand anymore. I fell to my knees crying louder. "Don't cry Chespin, we can fix your nose!" Tepig said, trying to comfort me. "It's not that." I told him. "It's just- Sure he was bad but- He didn't deserve to die. He was my friend." I was saying through my tears. It was hard to make out, I believe, but I think Tepig understood what I was saying. "Well, we should get back home, it's cold out here. You can explain it to your parents." He grabbed my arm and walked me back to our house.

I guess I should explain a bit, Tepig was recently adopted by my parents after his dad- Well, I'm not too sure what happened to his dad, but I do know that his dad is gone now. But, he's with us now so that's fun. We've both never had siblings, so it's a new experience for us both.

Anyways, I was able to make it home, and immediately my mom ran toward me. "Oh honey where were you? We were just about to call the police." I looked behind her to see my dad with the same shocked expression. "It's fine mom I was just-" I was going to say until I was cut off by her. "Oh my god honey what happened to your nose!" I didn't know how I was going to explain it to her. I'm not sure how she'd react to me telling her a government official cut my nose and shot my friend. "Should we take him to the emergency room?" I heard my dad say behind us. "We should, that cut looks pretty deep." I didn't wanna go anywhere. I wanted to go to bed, I wanted to lay down and sleep, and never wake up. I've never felt like that before. But now, It was different. Fennekin changed, and my best friend was dead. It would never be the same again. We all quickly got in the car, even though my nose wasn't bleeding out anymore.

I was laying in my bed, but I wasn't tired. I didn't want to do anything, in fact, I didn't know what to do. I touched my nose, and felt the bumps of each stitch that was put into my nose. Thoughts about what happened a few hours ago were racing through my mind. I didn't know how I was going to tell everyone that a government official killed my best friend right in front of me, for all they know, he killed himself. The police were forced to lie to the public so that they could keep their jobs. Even if I did tell anyone about what Dr. Sylveon did, do you think anyone would believe me? They'd probably think I went insane from blood loss, or something like that. Suddenly, I heard my door open. Who could it be? I thought to myself. I looked down to see.. Her. "Hey, I um, heard what happened." It was Fenn- Braxien. It was Braxien, she had come to talk to me, I guess. "Oh." I said, as I was getting off my bed. "Hey Fr- axien." I've been calling her Fennekin for so long, saying Braxien was hard to try and get used to, especially since I don't like what she did. Saying her new name just reminds me of, even looking at her reminds me of it. "Is this a bad time? I hope I'm not intruding." It was kind of a bad time, considering I didn't want to de dealt with, but I shouldn't be rude to her, not when she's trying to be nice and check on me. "No, it's not a bad time." I responded. "I'm doing better. I'm doing great, actually." The last part was an obvious lie. And by the look on her face, she was able to tell. "Look, I know you're upset about my change." She told me. She was right and wrong. I didn't like how she changed, but she looked really pretty now, and I'm honest about that. I giggled. "What do you mean? I love your change. It really payed off in the end honestly, you're so pretty now!" I was trying to be as nice and genuine as I can. But she looked confused and uncomfortable about that comment. "Thanks?" She replied. I started laughing now. I don't know why though, nothing was really that funny. Maybe the expression on her face, or her reaction to what I say. "F- Braxien, I just wanted to say I don't mind changing for you anymore." I said this hoping maybe it could fix our relationship. Afterall, she did say that I'd be awkward if I was in my first evolution. "Like, we won't be able to hang out with each other anymore, I'm just still in my first evolution." Her expression didn't seem to change. "I wouldn't worrying about that, I'm still only a couple months older than you." She replied. "But then we'll be complete." Her expression turned more sorrowful. "No, you shouldn't take them Chespin." I started laughing a bit more. This time at her stupidity. Why didn't that come into her head before she even got one. "I know! I'm gonna turn out to be a big fat piece of shit. Then, we won't be together either way." I was being honest about my second evolution. Quilladans are very ugly, at least according to other Pokemon. Like Mu- "No, it has nothing to do with that." She said, cutting off my train of thought. This time, I started getting emotional. "You wouldn't wanna spend time with me anyway. Grass and fire types don't mix." I realized now I was just mocking her words, what she told me in the hospital. "And I'm starting to get really really bad. I- I hurt you. And I hurt Mudkip too. Even though, I thought it was doing the right thing. But no, I was think about myself. I was selfish! And look what happened, Sylveon goes and kills Mudkip, and I had a chance to stop it. But I didn't because that was the right thing to do." I remembered when I held to knife in my hand. So so close to stabbing Sylveon. So close to being a murder, just to save my best friend. "And I was so close to killing him." I continued. "The fact I considered it freaks me out. And the fact I constantly beat myself up for not doing it. I can't shake it from my head! Mudkip corrupted me!" I felt guilty again. Blaming my best friend for an action I chose to do, an outcome I chose to think. Was that selfish?  Or did Mudkips actions give me that idea? "No Chespin you did the right thing!" Braxien told me. "You didn't stoop to his level. You.. didn't even stoop to my level." She said, her voice trailing. I just wanted the old Fennekin back, the one who doesn't take drugs just so she can do things everybody else did. "You're so lucky you had self control." She said. "I didn't have that. And now I just regret it all." I didn't feel like responding. I wanted Fennekin back, not this new Pokemon. It just isn't normal. "Are you even listening to me?" She asked. "I don't wanna talk to you, I wanna talk to Fennekin." I couldn't even bare to look at her, but I knew she was probably shocked by what I said. I heard her leave the room, and exit my house. "Dude are you okay?" Tepig asked me.