Pokemon: The Dark Chronicles

Getting Started: Catching Darkness

"Look at you, you're such a pitiful little Umbreon." 

My eyes opened and my ears shifted on my head, suddenly alert to the darkly feminine voice that called me. A quick scan of my surroundings revealed that I was in an endless plane of white grass blowing in an almost false wind. Above me was a similarly blank sky that also seemed to go on forever. 

I frowned recalling the voice that I had momentarily forgotten due to the utterly bizarre environment I was seeing I looked around "Who's here, who said that?" I had no idea what kind of person would say that, but I wasn't about to let them get away with it... if they were smaller than me. 

"What, stupid and deaf?" chuckled the voice "How are you ever going to stop what's coming?" 

Realizing the source was behind me I turned to spot a smallish mass of dark matter glaring at me with bloody crimson eyes. It was something out of a dream, just looking at it made me feel uncomfortable. 

"I... I don't know who or what you are but I don't think you're in the position to insult me... you're just a floating mass of talking crap." 

"Give it time Umbreon, you'll see in due time." 

I blinked and when I opened my eyes I found myself looking up at the regular boring old blue sky. Isn't it great that you only figure out you're in a dream when it's over, because I think it is.  

If you have the powers of observation you've picked up that I am an Umbreon. Good job, you should give yourself a pat on the back. Speaking of backs, I was actually laying on mine when I woke up form that utterly bizarre dream. The grass under me felt soft, but I was anything but comfortable. 

Just a few weeks prior I had left my family to live my own life and to get away from them. My only older sibling, a Flareon, had left years before and one of my younger siblings, an Espeon, had left several months before me and I felt it was about time for me to leave. Part of me did feel bad though, I left in the middle of the night without telling anyone... without saying goodbye to my mother and father or my other three siblings. I didn't think of myself as a bad person for doing it, just a young whippersnapper trying to live his life away from the grasp and gaze of the ones that gave him that life in the first place. 

Yawning I sluggishly rolled onto my feet and stretched as the sun's everlastingly annoying UV rays gripped my darkness loving form. My first thought was food and my second thought was how lazy I was feeling and wondered if the grass beneath me was enough to sustain my life force.  

Then an idea went off in my head as more and more of my brain cells started to work. I was living only a few hundred yards from a stupid little human town... Pallet was its name I think. All I would have to do was use my ninja like sneaky guy skills, swoop down like the badass mother lover I knew I was and take all the food I could get my hands (or paws) on. It was a flawless plan, it couldn't fail. 

No possible way. 

With my wits backing me I strode towards Pallet down looking prouder and more incredible than an Onix doing the worm. Nothing could even dream of stopping me. Hugging the wall of the building that was closest to the forest I peeked around the corner. Several little dainty houses dotted the sparse town and nothing too remarkable was within my sight.  

"Hm..." I spoke quietly "Looks like I'll be home fr-" 

"What are you doing?" sounded a male voice right next to me. Since we're all being brutally honest here, I almost crapped myself. No joking, I literally almost pooped myself when he said that. I jumped took a few stepped into the open and turned to the source of the voice.