Origin Story: Part 1 - Haunted by the Truth

CH06: Worrisome Thoughts

You spent days walking through the woods, foraging for berries and plants as you walked past as well as gathering water. You were hungry, thirsty, but as long as you kept finding food and fresh water to drink, it didn't matter how many hours or days you may be starving, or if your throat is sore due to not drinking on a regular basis.

But, the only way you honestly survived for this long was with the help of your friends. Don and Spirit. They were always keeping an eye out for you, though Don seemed to be putting in more of the work. It was Don and his occasional flock of murkrow that would point out where the next drinking spot would be, or the best spot, and safest place to gather berries and edible plants before moving on. You'd love to eat some meat, if you were going to be honest with yourself, but you couldn't do that: harm another living being. Watch them die, but your own hands... You don't think you could do it. Not right now.

But then again, it's survival of the fittest out here in the middle of nowhere, where pokemon roam freely and humans are seen as a strange sighting or nuisance. On several occasions, you've had to make a run for it, being chased by one hoard of angry pokemon after another. But, you respected the territories that were drawn out by invisible borders, and eventually you found yourself close to a route, which will lead right into the port city.

Olivine City. That was the destination you had in mind. If you make your way into the city at night, sneak into the storage facility and your father's storage garage, you can be in and out of that city as quickly as possible, and then be on your way.

But... to where? Even after spending days upon days wandering the mountain ranges of Johto, you still didn't have an answer to that question.

Well... you could jump onto the first boat you see, or possibly backtrack into the woods, moving further up north and past the barely charted regions of the wilderness. Where there is barely civilization, and the nearest town won't be for miles around. It would be a risky move, but doable.

And if you die, or someone else dies, no one will never know about it. You'll just disappear out of existence... like the famous Pokemon Trainer Red, of Pallet Town, who disappeared into the north and never came back.

Yeah... you could be just like him... or you could be a bit smarter and simply jump onto the first boat or ship you see, and hope it's making its way out of the region, to a random location so you could start completely new. New name, new identity...

You forgot you're going to have to do that, now. Sure, you'd put yourself under alias names and codes all the time, but this time it's different. To start completely new, as a completely different person... what do you want to name yourself? Who do you want to be?? And what if someone figures out that you're lying?

So many questions, and right now you didn't have any answers.

But, you did know one thing: you're not alone anymore. Don is your eyes, and Spirit your ears, and maybe the three of you could start off fresh, in a completely new location... Or just Spirit and yourself, cause you doubt Don wants to stay as your lackey for the rest of his life. He's too much of a proud honchkrow to get tied up in your messes.

Regardless, the three of you set up camp along the edge of the route, before you would even step into the familiar paved roads of human civilization, in a cave high above the landscape, overlooking the route, with the city lights right there within your reach. It was a temporary nest for a bunch of murkrow, and they gladly let your strange group into their home, since you had food with you, of course.

It's been strange to not make a fire to stay warm, but your coat was more or less built for the sort of cold weather you'd find in the mountains. Though, you couldn't go through the snow. That's suicide, but staying along the creeks and river streams, and making a windy trail to this particular spot was doable. But, for the first time in a while, you got to rest your feet and finally get some much-needed sleep. You've been on high alert ever since you left that small town, and any abnormal noise woke you up from your light slumber. Now, you felt the need to close your eyes for as long as possible, and you crawled deeper into the cave, slumping down onto the cold floor with your coat wrapped tightly around you and your hood shielding your head from the rocky ground beneath.