Half-Human

Chapter 4

Hola!

Nemona: Hola!

Arven: Hi.

Nemona: Do I get protagonist now?

Arven: No you don't, I do.

Me: No you don't, does.

Arven+Nemona: Again?!

Me: Well, she is the protagonist anyway, soooooo...

Arven+Nemona: *pout their lips and turn away from me* Hmph.

Me: Tough luck. Right, over to Thalia!

"Where are we anyways?" I turned to the Pokémon.

"Dunno. Oh, it's Koraidon." It said. 

I had run away from Arven and Nemona because of, well, Nemona was just being annoying and Arven... Arven called his own Pokémon a brute. What is that? If you're just gonna abuse the Pokemon you have, give it to someone else who'll actually take care of it! And Pokémon shouldn't have to put up with humans. Pokémon shouldn't even be passed between people!

I just don't get how people are so mean, and don't seem to understand how Pokémon feel. All these professors are constantly jabbing about how humans should 'live in harmony with Pokémon", but how is trapping them in a ball and commanding them to hurt and impale their species living in harmony? That's food chain! Humans are at the top, and Pokémon are underneath.

I kept on thinking to myself as I walked through the middle of unfamiliar places, until my stomach growled loudly. "Oops! Guess I better eat then."

"Yeah," my travelling buddy replied, as his stomach groaned even louder than mine.

If only Arven were here to cook up something... 

No! I don't like Arven, after everything he said to poor Koraidon. I only like the cooking, and that's it. I began to look for berries with Koraidon, being careful not to eat the spicy ones.

"So Koraidon," I asked through a mouthful of Oran berries, "why do you even stay with Arven?

"They made me to."

"Who's 'they', if you don't mind me asking?"

"Professor Sada. She has the other Koraidon."

"Professor Sada... I've heard that name before... that Professor who went into Area Zero and never came back! The one that I heard some people talk about!"

"Yup, that's the one."

"So does that mean..." I hesitated for a moment " he's Sada's son?!"

Koraidon nodded. "I guess I kind of ruined his life, since I'm the reason that his mom's always away. Well, far away."

"Far away?"

"Up there," he said, pointing to the sky, "for all her tireless hard work and effort."

"Wow. So maybe I was a bit too mean to him then. Man I feel bad. But still that isn't an excuse for him to call you brute. If he has something bad to say, he should keep it in his brain."

"But still..."

"Yeah, I know. I'll apologise. If I find him." I spat out a seed and stuck it in the soil whilst huffing. "Ugh, I feel bad. I shouldn't have said everything I said then. I guess maybe he might understand a little bit about how I feel. Man, I messed up. Humans have rubbed off on me. So where should we go?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe if Arven were to return me, you could follow the red stuff of something."

"Yeah, but he probably wouldn't. And I wouldnt let that happen anyway." I looked thoughtfully at the ground.