This will not be a romance story
In Alola a girl with platinum blonde hair sits on her bed while scrolling through her social media.
"Ugh Raichu I'm bored!" She said loud enough for her Pokémon to hear while it was in the kitchen.
"Rai!" It responded and came back into the girls room only to see her fall off her bed.
"Ow..." She said as she got up and then looked at her partner who was giving her a concerned look.
"I dropped my phone and I went to grab it."
The floating Pokémon sighed and went back to the kitchen.
"Raichuuu don't leave me!" The girl cried out as she was still staring at her phone.
Then she saw it, the thing that would change her life forever.
"OH SHIT RAICHU LOOK AT THIS!" She screamed out of pure joy and ran to the kitchen. Her Raichu was making pancakes for himself and almost dropped the ingredients when his trainer screamed.
"Raichu I found out where he is! I finally found him!"
In Galar with Bede
"Hatterene use G- Max Smite!" I yelled out to Hatterene who then knocked out the opposing Pokémon. I walked up to the challenger whose name I already forgot,
"Well done." I don't feel like talking today so I quickly walked away and heard the crowd cheering for me. My life is so much better then before so why am I unhappy? I feel like something is missing but I just can't figure out what it is. I've been feeling like this even before Rose took me in, I always felt like there could me something else or someone else that I'm missing. I walked into the changing room and sat down, I have friends, I have Opal and she's like a grandmother to me, and I having loving fans so what am I missing?
"Get off the floor." I recognized the voice immediately, time for a lecture on how bad that battle was.
"What's wrong Bede? You were distracted during battle and it almost made you lose."
Should I tell her? Opal is like family and I've talked to her about a lot before but she'll probably just think it's teenager things. "It's nothing." I said trying to avoid eye contact.
"No it's not, if it was nothing then you wouldn't have almost lost the battle and you wouldn't have been sitting on the ground." She right. Ever since I've become the gym leader I've only lost to seven challengers and the champion and to be honest the ground is disgusting enough to wonder if they ever clean it.
"Tell me what's wrong because you're obviously upset."
"I feel like something is missing. I have no idea what though because I have everything I need. I have you and you're like family to me and all the other gym leaders are my friends and I have lots of fans and it's all I've ever wanted but why am I not happy?" I started crying. Why can't I just be happy with what I have?! Why would I ever need more then what I already have. I got Rose out of my life and I have people who actually care about me, what more could I need? Opal took me over to the seats,
"Bede" She wiped away the tears and looked at me with the most serious look I've ever seen on her. "You want your real family."
My real family? They all left me to fend for myself. Why would I ever want to see them again? I was in that orphanage for years constantly getting into fights and knowing I had a family helped me get through it because I hoped that they'd come back for me but they never did.
"They all left me. My family never cared about me, if they did they would've come to find me."
"Maybe they are searching for you."
"They probably all forget about me."
"I doubt it."
"How would you know?" I said angrily as I got up. "None of them want me! If they did they would've come for me already but it's been ten years already!" I yelled and punched the wall, pain ran through my arm but I needed it to calm down.
"One of them came for you."
"What?" I turned to Opal with tears still blinding me.
"You told me your sisters name was (Y/n). While you were getting ready for your match she came in with an Alolan Raichu."
Alolan? Has she been in Alola this entire time..? No, it's probably not even her.
"She has the same platinum blonde hair as you and she's 20 which is four years older then you, you told me she was ten when you she got adopted."
"Tell her to leave." I can't see her even if it might not be her. It must be something else that's making me feel empty.
"Bede I won't force you but I will guilt trip you. She started crying out of pure joy when I told her you where here. She hugged her Raichu and almost yelled when she said she had been looking for you ever since she had to move to Alola. She loves you Bede, she remembered you and has been looking for you for ten years."
"I don't care. Just tell her to leave." Opal sighed but walked out. I sighed, her guilt trip worked. She been looking for ten years but hasn't been able to find me until now. Why now? Why not before Rose got to me? Rose and Oleana just used me. Rose tricked me into believing he cared about me but left me as soon as he could. I have to see if it's really her. I have to ask why she was just able to leave me like she did. I ran out to the main room (lobby?) to see Opal by the door so I ran to her.
"Where is she?" I asked desperately and she just smiled.
"I told her to walk slowly." She pointed outside.
I burst through the doors to see a girl with a Pokémon that almost looks like Raichu, but why is it floating? Wait that must be the Alolan form.
"(Y/n)?" I almost whispered, Opal was right about the hair.
She jumped out of surprise but when she turned around and saw me her eyes went wide and filled with tears.
"Bede it's really you!" She said as she ran towards me and gave me a hug. I flinched, is it really her?
"Oh you have no idea how long I've been looking for you I spent year trying to find you but the other day I was just sitting around doing nothing and bam! I found an article about you saying you became the new gym leader and you were already annihilating everyone who challenged you. I'm so proud of who you've become!" Her Raichu happily flew around me.
I was in shock. Who does she think she is? I spent years fighting just to survive and she was just in Alola with all its sandy beaches and.. dumb stuff! I've never been to Alola but it must be boring.
"Why are you here?" I said angrily, she looked surprised that I was upset.
"What? I've spent years looking for my little brother and now when I finally find him the first thing he says to me is why are you here." She said while shaking her head.
"After all this time do you really think I'd forgive you for leaving?! I had to fight everyday just to survive and when I finally found a father figure he ends up almost destroying the region! Where were you during all of that? Sitting around and doing nothing while I'm struggling just to survive." Tears started flowing as the memories from the orphanage came back.
The fighting, the pain, the constant bullying.
"How could you just leave like I was nothing?!" I yelled not sure of what else to say.
"Bede.. I probably remember more then you if you're saying this. I'm sorry, I didn't want to leave you but they were so persistent saying that they wanted me. We tried to run away but they caught us and I even bit one of them thinking it would make them not want me but they just said they'll fix me. I begged them to take you too but they wouldn't listen. I know about Rose I read the article and learned about everything and I'm sorry I wish I would've gotten to you sooner but a lot happened to make kinda impossible to look for you for about two years."
She really fought just to stay with me? I guess it was wrong of me to assume things when I couldn't even remember everything.
"What was so important that made you stop looking for two years?"
"Well I didn't fully stop looking I stayed up through nights, but umm... this'll be hard to explain. Let me just show you."
She dug through her bag which I didn't even notice until now and she brought out a master ball. She stepped back, "Lunala come on out!"
A bat like Pokémon came out. Wait... Lunala? The legendary Pokémon?!
"I was helping this one and I was traveling through dimensions to try and those people. There was one dimension where I'm glad I got to, Alola had been taken over by an ultra beast called Guzzlord and it absolutely destroyed everything so I caught it." I wasn't paying much attention until the end, my sister helped a legendary Pokémon, traveled through dimensions and caught a Pokémon that destroyed an entire region. What else is she going to tell me?!
"Where is it now?"
"On an island with all the other Pokémon I've caught."
"Wait so you captured a Pokémon that destroyed an entire region in another dimension and you just put it on an island?"
"Hmm that makes it sound dangerous when you say it like that. I promise you all it needed was a bit of love and food and it calmed down."
What the hell is wrong with her? A bit of love and food? It destroyed a whole region keep it in its poké ball!
"What else have you done?" Maybe if she tells me a good reason of why she's taken so long I'll forgive her.
"Well I became the very first champion of the Alola region the rest is kinda boring though, I ended up fighting more ultra beasts and another legendary which I guess stole all the light from a different world or something, I didn't really pay attention to that story. Then I helped the island guardians with some stuff I can't remember and other small things."
The very first champion? Ultra beasts? And another legendary? Saying I'm shocked is an understatement. My sister did all of those things while I did what? Ruined something important to the people of stow on side, got disqualified from the gym challenge, treated people horribly, and helped Rose almost destroy the region. I started crying again, I'm just a worthless person who can't do anything right.
"Oh hey what's wrong did I say something bad?!" Great now I made her feel bad, arecus kill me now.
"Ugh I feel so stupid crying I'm sorry it's just you've done so much yet all I've done was help almost destroy the region." I looked up at her and saw her shocked face.
"Bede that's not true! I've only reading some articles but Rose and that Oleana person manipulated you and used you for they're own selfish reasons none of that was your fault."
"I should've been smarter!" I yelled loud enough for the Pokémon around us to get startled and her Raichu who had gone over to play with a Phantump had come back over to us.
"You couldn't have known, not everyone who ends up in that situation can realize that they're being manipulated and even if they do some find ways to justify it. Bede you can't blame yourself for what happened it wasn't your fault."
"But I helped it happen!" I shook my head, it's true I had tried to justify what Rose did saying that he was only trying to help the future of the region. The tears were like a waterfall now and I couldn't stop it, then I felt arms warp around me.
"Bede it's okay, it wasn't you who let that Pokémon lose. It's not your fault."
I've tired to tell myself that but there's always this listen voice in the back of my head. It tells me so many horrible things like,
"Rose never actually wanted you he just needed a powerful trainer and you couldn't even be that"
"Everyone hates you because you helped Rose almost destroy the region"
"Opal only felted bad for you"
"The rest of the gym leaders hate your attitude"
"It's all your fault."
It's all so painful and annoying. The voice was always there and I can't keep it quiet, but what really ticks me off is that it's my own voice. How does (Y/n) really feel about what I did? Even if she told me it's not her fault and even having her hugging me I still feel like she's lying. How could she be fine with it? How is the region okay with it?
Then she let go and started going through her bag, she pulled out to poké balls.
"Wanna go for a ride to clear you mind? It always helps me when I'm feeling sad."
She threw them into the air and out came a Dragonite and Charizard then she went over to dragonite and hopped on.
Raihan would like her. (?)
Charizard walked over to me and nudged my arm.
"He used to be a therapy Pokémon so he can tell when people are sad! Surprising right?"
"A Charizard as a therapy Pokémon? That a bit hard to believe but from everything else you've told me I'd believe it." I don't want to act like my usual self around her, but why? Why is she different when she's like everyone else? Probably because she's my sister, but I just met her today. I've known the gym leaders for awhile but I haven't felt this way about anyone other then Opal and she still took time to get used to.
"Have you ever ridden on a Pokémon before?"
I realized I had been staring at Charizard and he was staring back,
"Never and I had never planned to because we have Pokémon taxis."
"Hm well just get on him. Me and my friends have ridden him plenty of times so he's used to other people and I think he already likes you."
Charizard smiles and it was surprisingly cute. I got in and he immediately took off which almost made me fall off, he was going so fast and it was making me feel sick.
"Charizard slow down he's never down this before!" (Y/n) yelled as she caught up to me.
"How can you stand this? I feel like I'm already sick." My eyes were closed, as much as I didn't want to admit it I was afraid to open them.
"I've been doing this for years you'll get used to it pretty quickly and you should open your eyes the view is beautiful." She shouted and I could barely hear her but I opened then and she was right, the view is beautiful. She started going faster and looked back at, she had tears in her eyes and a smile on her face.
I guess I finally found my family.
Was that a bad ending? I can write more if you guys want me to I just wanted to get this one out because I've been working on it for about a month. I also wanted to celebrate 500 reads! Thank you all for taking the time to read these. I know I'm not good at writing but I enjoy it and for everyone whose voted and added it to there reading lists or libraries I really appreciate it!
