Learning to Heal the Hurt
Book I: Fire Red
A Pokemon Fanfiction by Saya
Prologue
From two shining orbs comes an eternal glow,
Foraged ‘neath the earth below.
When two ancient Pokemon raged on the earth,
This is how the orbs were birthed.
When fire erupted from under the ground,
And the sea’s waves were all around,
The fire dragon came from the earth’s core,
And the water monster from the ocean floor.
The two clashed in an ancient battle,
Fire and water made the earth rattle.
The wind raged, surrounding the two
Making the nightmares of all come true.
The fire dragon glowed with embers,
It was so bright that you would remember.
The water monster blew off a coal;
It flew in the air and landed in the shoal.
The small raindrop from the water monster flew,
It shinned and simmered with a sapphire hue.
The fire dragon blew its hot breath
Which dried it out so it wasn’t wet.
The coal from the dragon and the drop from the monster,
Turned to two stones, that were even harder.
They laid to rest in the shoal and the shore,
Hoping, just hoping that there was more.
Finally, the two ancient Pokemon left.
They fell to their homes for an eternal rest.
And as for the orbs they still hope and pray
For the time when someone finds them, since that fateful day.
* * *
Its time was nearing. Its time was so close that the creature was acutely aware of it like a dagger lodged deep in its chest. Oh, how it had waited in timeless agony for this day, reaching out its searching tendrils, hoping for a repeatedly denied success. Years, centuries, and even millennia had passed with no hope in sight for its wavering senses. Yet it had refused to give up time and time again, for it held on desperately to the knowledge that a time would eventually come when it would be released from its dreadful prison.
It could feel that day drawing nearer and nearer with each agonizingly slow second that passed. It would rise again; it would be whole in mind and body as it had been before that terrible separation, it vowed to itself day after day. It would all begin when one unimportant, unknowing human laid its hands upon a stone. When one oblivious mortal found a stone the inevitable chain of events would be set into full swing. It knew, deep in its black heart, that the time when it would rise again was drawing swiftly nearer…
* * *
Who would have ever thought that my life could flip upside-down so quickly and unexpectedly? I mean, come on, I, Talia O’Connel, was thirteen and feeling like I was at the prime of my lifetime. I was an average kid living my average life in an almost -average home, and attending an average school. I had a mother but, unlike most kids, no father, and I was an only child. My father had died when I was a baby, leaving my mother a single parent to make her own way in life while raising and supporting me. I had to admit, she had done a pretty good job of it too.
I had friends, after school activities, and homework to take up most of my time. Like a normal kid I had the regular everyday troubles with grades and school, but nothing major ever came up; that is, except for the death of my only surviving relative, my Grandma. Even that wasn’t too tragic for me, as I hardly knew her anyway. She’d been suffering from the memory loss disease of Alzheimer’s for the last twenty years. You could say that I was an extremely sheltered kid who rarely ever encountered a harder task than choosing which outfit I was to wear each morning. Unknown to me, the years ahead would be the hardest, and most grueling I had ever faced in my life. I didn’t know it then, but what was about to happen would change my easy life forever.