Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Bitter Return ❯ The Lone Walk ( Prologue )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
We fail to see...
How destructive we can be!
Taking without giving back!
'Til the damage can be seen!

Can you see? ...Can you see?

The more you take, the more you blame!
But, everything still feels the same!
The more you hurt, the more you strain!
The price you pay to play the game!

And all you seek, and all you gain!
And all you step on with no shame!
There are no rules, no one to blame!
The price you pay to play the game!

Apathy!...The chosen way to be!
Blindly look the other way...
While you waste away with me!
Can you see? ...Can you see?

What you pay to play the game!
What you pay to play the game...
-Price to Play, Staind

He knew the area. They were not too far off from the flock. From where he had met...that flock and the mistakes he had made there. Also the good memories of that flock came to mind.

Bones watched Dori, he knew what was out there and thought of the hillside where Dori had gone off to see last fall. Where he had found pain and pleasure. Bones hoped he wouldn't be going again. Last time he had to stay out here by himself till Dori returned.

Something told him he had to go. Dori sat plucking a few pokénip leaves he tossed them into the pouch with the stone. After a moment of thought Dori slipped the stone out. In his grasp he shut his eyes trying to feel and learn it's distinct electric pulse. He could feel the power within the stone, he let it call out to him, he had to know it, he had to dissect it till he could sense the other stones. Till he could feel the other stones and guide him towards them.

"Bones, Riley, you guys stay here I'm going to have a look into something." Dori slipped the stone back into the pouch.

He looked at the distant lights of the ampharos flock. A flock he knew so well, and among them still he hoped was Leliah. One of the first ewes he had been with, he remembered her well. He followed the stream knowing it would lead him to the hill, to where he had been guilty of quite a few disgraceful acts. He had done something he had
to seek forgiveness for.

He was a fool then thinking with his lower half more than with his brain. He had been gone a year, he had done some growing in that time. In some cases maybe growing was an exceptional thing but, for him...he had grown more distant to his kind. He had grown cold, his life had become apathy for most of his own kind. He bothered only with the lives of his friends, his closest friends like Bones.

But, when he wronged someone he felt the sting and the dishonor. He could not hide behind his shield of indifference. He felt the guilt worm and fester in him over the year. He had to make amends with Haris. There was no other way around it. He could only rid himself of his shame by confessing.