Pokemon New Journey: Kanto (Eng. Version)

Episode 1

About the story: I would like to retrace the original story by changing parts, adding sub-plots I invented or were inspired by the game or manga, making it a little more mature and realistic. I have already made a detailed list of all the events that will have to happen in each episode until the end of the Indigo League and then continue with the following series.

P.s .: I will probably post this series also on other sites which I will let you know later so that there is no misunderstanding about who is the author of the ff (it's always me but with different and absurd names xD)

The story of Pokemon does not belong to me, only the main character and those of my creation are mine, along with the events purely fruit of my imagination.

I hope you enjoy the episode and the reading :).

Episode 1

It was pitch dark and then pain. The only thing he could feel was pure and simple pain. He didn't even understand exactly what was hurting him. Chris- no… Yuki, his name was Yuki… right? Suddenly his mind was flooded with hundreds of memories. Completely different people and worlds that clashed within his poor mind. It's like a new Big Bang was happening.

One thing is for sure, his head felt exactly like a giant mass had just burst inside it.

There are rumors, but they seem to come from outside. Yuki isn't sure where outside is, he doesn't even know where he is. It is as if he was surrounded by infinite darkness.

But then he saw it. A small and faint light far away from him. Yuki tried to cling to it, as if it were his only lifeline in that place and, actually, as far as he knew it could be so.

But then he hesitated. Blocked by a passing thought. A small concern, which until then he had relegated to the back of his head, emerged forcefully. Like a castaway lost in the sea of memories and thoughts that was drowning and being dragged down, lower and lower. Until, perhaps by sheer dumb luck, he was able to go back up and fill his lungs with the much desired air.

‘It must be wonderful’ Yuki thought dispassionately, he, on the contrary, felt heavily the lack of oxygen around him. As if it had all been sucked away by that castaway, by a thought that he had tried to wipe out, but which had returned to the surface with all the strength that only the will to live can give you.

Even if he didn't want to admit it, Yuki understood it, particularly in this situation. After all, the screams, the voices of despair he had heard earlier came from outside, from the light.

He wasn't so sure he wanted to reach it anymore. He wasn't mad even if his friends tried to convince him otherwise.

Friends. Were they real? Or had he imagined it all and had never been Chris? Should he have continued to pursue his journey into the light and try to understand what was happening to him? Or the best choice was to stay where he was now? He had no idea.

“Usually in movies, light represents the moment in which you pass away" the cursed castaway murmured treacherously from inside his head. Yuki couldn't stop himself from taking a small step back. Of course, his life as Chris was exhausting, he didn't have a family but he had some dear friends.

And then there was his life as Yuki. It was similar to Chris's but, at the same time, completely different. His character was virtually identical in both realities but there was a very important difference. Yuki was not talking about the abyssal difference between the two worlds that he had just realized, and I assure you that this discrepancy between the two realities did exist; even his dear castaway who had risked drowning just at the thought - nice way to die isn't it? Drowned in a sea of memories and worries - could attest to this.