From: Nick -New and Improved- (ncnc123@aol.com-see-sig) Subject: [PW!] A new plan! Hito decides her future! Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000-12-05 19:18:36 PST Please read the quoted part, it's part of my story, but AOL sent it when I tried to push the space bar. >Last time, Hito Shakaku left the town of Porta Vista, >where she had spent the last few months. However, now >that she's left, a new thought has popped into her >head. An unsettling thought. Now that she's left Porta >Vista, where could she go? >---------------- > >She couldn't return to Viridian. It was not possible. >She couldn't go home. Because Hito Shakaku had no >home. > >When her parents died, in a freak fire, she was left >all alone. She had no other family. No aunts, no >uncles, no cousins. Not even any friends. And her >parents had left her in serious debt. > >For a while, Hito had known that the Shakaku breeding >farm was in some serious financial trouble. Not many >people in Viridian City had wanted a fire Pokemon, >which was all that her parents had raised. It had been >her father's idea, to have a breeding farm for fire >pokemon. He was born in Cinnibar, after all. > >But there was a local gym, a ground type gym. And many >people got their first pokemon through the gym, or >through Prof. Oak, down south in Pallet. And not >through Hito's parents. > >And so, not long after Hito had to sell off one of the >last Pokemon to the local gym in order to get money, >the bank forclosed on the house, taking all the things >inside. > >She'd been able to save a few things, including the >last pokemon on the farm, a Vulpix. It was her only >companion that had been with her through thick and >thin, for richer and poorer. > >But now that Hito didn't have a house to return to, >she couldn't return home. And she had just left the >place that had been her home for the past for months. > >What now? > >The wind whistled through the trees, as if to try and >answer her. To Hito, the trees, with their leaves >falling down onto the brick path that Hito walked on, >looked sad, as if telling her to go back, not to >leave, to go back and to stay in Porta Vista. > >The branches swayed as another gust of wind swirled >around her, beckoning her to go back. But she >couldn't. There was nothing for her there. Not now. >Not ever. > >What could she do now? She couldn't go home, and she couldn't return to Porta >Vista. What else was there to do? > >Hito brushed a strand of hair that had blown into her eyes when the wind blew >back behind her ear, and looked around. > >The trees were losing their leaves. That was understandable. It was fall. >Leaves always turned colors and fell off the trees in fall. The sky was gray >with clouds. It was probably going to rain soon. That would be perfect. It >fit >Hito's mood. > >The tree lined path Hito walked on was deserted. No one was around. > >A tree branch cracking caught Hito's attention as she walked. She looked >above >her. Nothing. > >Behind her. Also nothing. > >Then, straight in front of her, came the same noise again. Another tree >branch >cracking. And from behind a tree, bounded out a little baby Ratatta. It >bounded >out from the tree right in front of her, crossed the brick path, and hid >itself >behind another tree, to Hito's left. > >That was it! > >Before he died, Forest had wanted to become a Pokemon trainer. But he never >had >a chance to become one. So, Hito would fufill that dream for him. She would >go >to each of the gyms in Kanto, and gather all the badges. Even the recent >erpution of a volcano on Cinnibar wouldn't stop her. > >After all, it would be a while before she got to Cinnibar. And by then, >everything would be rebuilt, right? Of course it would. > Thank you, Ratatta, Hito thought to herself. You've helped me a lot. I hope you live well, wherever you may be. Goodbye, Splash, Hito thought to herself. Goodbye Porta Vista. Goodbye, my past! A new journey had begun for Hito. One that would take over her life, and give it meaning. She would fufill Forest's dream. The corner of Hito's mouth turned upwards, forming a slight smile. Had anyone been watching her before and after she decided to collect the eight Kanto badges, they would have noticed an extra bounce in Hito's step as she headed with determination that only she could see towards the first gym, in Pewter City. One thing, Hito thought. Only my future awaits! TBC.....?... No... TBC.....! (I'm having fun! Yippie! I'd forgotten how I liked to write with a slim chance of having it be read!)