Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Testing Whether or not I like this place ❯ Letter to Home ( Prologue )
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By: Test for Highwind 
The Nightmare Begins...
Anime/Manga: Pokemon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.23.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 333 | Status: Work In Progress
The Nightmare Begins...
Anime/Manga: Pokemon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.23.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 333 | Status: Work In Progress
>Red Dead Region
>Teaser/Prologue
Dear Ashley:
As I write this, I'm on the boat heading to Tengetsu. I don't know what I'll find there, but I can't support Pyrite with thr Red Suns still around Orre. I'm going to try to make
a living here doing whatever work I can find and earn some money to help everyone back home in Pyrite and hopefully pay off The Red Suns. I just wanted to know that I will miss you and this may be the last that
you hear from me for a very long time, but please do not worry about me, Maria's Growlithe is planty of protection. Please look after Shaun and the rest of the town for me while I'm gone.
Sincerely,
Dominic
>Chapter 1 Start
It was approaching noon when Dominic heard the frantic knocking at his door.
"HEY DOMINIC!"
It was Shaun...again. Every morning Shaun came to wake him up to do more of Maria's gruntwork, but today he showed up early. He heard the knocking again.
"I'm coming I'm coming," Dominic yawned back. 'This is just great,' thought Dominic, 'I'm getting ordered around by a 10-year-old kid, going to work nearly an hour early, and all after I stayed up fixing everything from last night after the Red Suns came by to collect their protection money' as he begrudging got dressed; dawning his dad's old worn jacket aon his way to the door.
"What does Maria want me to do today kid?" asked Dominic smugly as he swung the front door open to reveal the scrawny, sickly looking blonde kid. He couldn't help but feel a slight connection to the kid ever since both of their father got shipped off to fight in the war in the Ittao region near Johto and Kanto.
"There is no time for jokes right now! Now come on, it's urgent!" Shaun almost whimpered. Dominic was starting to notice something in Shaun's voice now. Was it anger? Frustration? Immpateince?
"What happened?" Dominic asked worringly, putting the thought aside to deal with this new issue.
"It's The Red Suns, they're looking for Mar-" suddenly Shaun's sentence was cut short by the sound of a gunshot...and a women screaming. Now he understood the sound in Shaun's voice...it was fear, no, terror.
Dominic pulled Shaun into his shack and began to panic. This was not good, usually as long as they kept the payments up, The Red Suns kept the damage minimal and the death count to zero. Something must have gone wrong last night.
"SHIIT" Dominic screamed as he tried to make sense of what was happening, "Didn't Maria gave them their bribe money yesterday?" He said turning back to Shaun, only to see the small boy now cowering in the courner of Dominic's shack. "Dammit!" Domminic said glaring at Shaun, "what the hell is going on!"
After a few seconds of silence Shaun answered, nearly crying as he did, "I don't know, I was walking back to Maria's after running to get her some Poffins for her Growlithe when the Red Suns ran past me," Shaun said now crying, "I didn't know what to do so I ran here as fast as I could."
He walked over to shaun and knelt down in front of the now bawling Shaun. "I'm sorry I yelled kid, I was just freaking out," said Dominic as he faked a smile. 'I have to stay calm,' thought Dominic, 'I have to go check on Maria.'
He stood up and and leaned down to Shaun, putting on the best tough gu façade, "I'm going to go to Maria's, but you need to just stay here and and wait for me to get back."
Shaun simply wiped his eyes off and nodded.
Finally mustering up the courage to head out, Dominic opening the ragged door to the shack and went out into the town. He looked around at the rundown buildings and the trash that littered the street. He began walking down the street toward Maria's home, also known as City Hall. As he walked down the path he noticed many other residents of Pyrite trying to figure out the source of the gun shot, and among them was a fourteen-year-old girl wearing a white t-shirt, jeans, and wearing her black hair up in a ponytail. He knew her, but from were?
"Hey!" he screamed as he ran up to the girl, "Do I know you?" He couldn't place it, but he knew that he had seen her before, and for some reason, she had a worried look on her face.
"Dominic? Is that you?" said the girl said as she turned to face him.
"Yes, and who are you?" said Dominic, trying to hide the embarrassment of not recognizing the woman stading in front of him
"It's me! Ashley! Maria's daughter!" said Maria said angryly, "DO YOU HONESTLY NOT REMEMBER ME?"
"No, not really, but nevemind that now, where is your mother?" Dominic responded getting back to business, he had to go see what the Red Suns were going in Pyrite, and looking for Maria no less.
"Why do you ask? You don't think that those Red Suns were after her do you?" asked Ashely with an even more worried look now.
"I-uh-well-Shaun told me that-uh", 'I don't think I can break it to her that her mom might be hurt,' thought Dominic worriedly, 'I god what I wouldn't do for a distra-" suddenly his thoughts were interupted by a woman screaming. Suddenly everyone started running toward the source of the second scream.
"THAT CAME FROM CITY HALL!" shrieked Ashley as she took of toward her home.
"You got to be, this is not what I meant by a distraction!" groaned Dominic as he ran after Ashley and the rest of the town.
After a few minutes of weaving through Pyrite, finally came across city hall. Starding there was crowd of people yelling and screaming gathered outside of what of the run-down building. As they started to make their way through the crowd Dominic started hearing what sounded like a man yelling, but couldn't tell over the roar of the crowd. They finally broke through to the front of the mass of people are Dominic could believe what he saw before him.
In front of him was a truley gruesome scene. Straight in front of him were several Red Son grunts and one Sun Elite, competely cut off from the crowd by a semi circle of Garchomp and Solrock nipping and growling at the crowd to keep them at bay. Several feet from the Elite lay Maria, with a gunshot wound in her stomache being treated by Nurse Joy and her Chancey, as she spat curses at the Suns as he comtinued shouting at the townspeople.
"...YOU SAD PIECES OF SHIT SHORTED US ¥850000! NOW THE BOSS BACK HOME WANTS HIS MONEY, SO ARE YOU FINE FOLKS HERE GONNA DENY HIM HIS MONEY WILL YOU," he asked smirking, "NOW IF YOU DON'T WANNA COOPERATE WITH US, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SHOW YOU THE STRENGTH OF THE RED SONS OF ORRE!"
"I'm so sorry sir! We can't raise enough money to pay you right now," whimpered Maria through harsh breaths, "I gave you all we had. Please forgive us. We'll pay you the rest next time I swear!" It was truly a terrible sight, and something needed to be done about this, but Dominic couldn't find the courage to help her, he simply held on to Ashley's hand as hard as he could and closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable kil shot to come.
"NO! No more rain checks, no more IOUs, the boss wants his money now!" the grunt snarled, "you've got one hour to get it in my hand or else you won't see tomorrow." Suddenly the crowd grew silent, realizing the true wieght of the statment.
Then without warning a red blur made it's way through the mass of people, and spirnging into the air, and lating itself onto the Elite's right arm. The crowd stood in complete silnce as Maria's Growlithe continued to naw into the Sun's arm.
"GET THIS DAMN MUTT OF ME!" screamed the Red Sons Elite as his lackeys attempted to pry of the puppy pokemon. As they through the small dog to the ground it intantly ran up inbetween the Elite and it's owner. The Elite simplied glared at the thing as we wiped the pokemon's salivea off his arm.
"You little FUCK! I hope to got that mutt of yours doesn't have rabies Maria, or else it too can join you in the PokeCenter!" He snarled at Maria, instantly silencing everyone as they waited to see what would happen next. The growlithe stood there, eyes focused on the Elite, just waiting for his master to issue an attack.
Seeing the Growlithe tencing up for another go, he decided to bring his spectable to a glorious end. "Fine then, if you can't pay the extra cash, I guess I'll just have to take out my frustration another way." He then raised his gun up and pointed it toward Maria again. "You shorted us on your last payment you stupid cunt, do you have any last words before I take the rest of it out of your skull?"
"STOP NOW! THIS HAS GONE TO FAR, NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY TOWN AND NEVER SHOW YOUR SORRY FACES HERE AGAIN!"
They crowed grew deathly silent and Dominic opened his eyes wondering who made the bold, assine statement. THEY WERE LOOKING AT HIM! His heart began to race, he he really just said that? Had he really just questioned the Red Suns authority? No wait, that was a girls voice that said that..meaning. He slowly turned to his side to see Ashley glasreing up at the Elite with a look in her eyes that Dominic had never seen before, but as he looked closer he say that she was nearly o nthe verge of tears at the same time. Feeling the weight of everyone's eyes on her, Ashley look down and finished her statement, tears now streaming down her face as she screamed at the Red Sun, "...I you kill her stupid, no good, low down, piece of shi-" but then she suddenly stopped her rant mid sentence.
The grunt had now turned the barrel of the gun toward Ashley, smirking trying to hold in the urge to take her out then and there. "You think your so tough hey girlie? I wonder if you can stop a bullet?"
And that had finally been enough for Dominic, he snapped out of his daze and lept in front of his childhood friend "If you want to get to her, you have to go through me first." The second the words left his lips he knew he had made a bad choice, but he couldn't just stand by as Ashley died. He could never live with himself if he just stood by and watched as his friends die.
"Oh look fellas, another kid who thinks he can take us eh? Well I'll give you this kid, you got guts and for that, I won't kill you and your little girlfriend here." said the grunt. As the Red Sun said the words, Dominic started to feel a sense of relief, but the Red Sun quickly stole it away, "Who knows maybe you'll make a fine Red Sun someday kid," finished the grunt, "but until then...", the grunt turned the gun back at Maria, eyes still locked with Dominic's.
Dominic couldn't help but look as he say the man pull the trigger, smiling the whole time...
>End Chaper 1
>Teaser/Prologue
Dear Ashley:
As I write this, I'm on the boat heading to Tengetsu. I don't know what I'll find there, but I can't support Pyrite with thr Red Suns still around Orre. I'm going to try to make
a living here doing whatever work I can find and earn some money to help everyone back home in Pyrite and hopefully pay off The Red Suns. I just wanted to know that I will miss you and this may be the last that
you hear from me for a very long time, but please do not worry about me, Maria's Growlithe is planty of protection. Please look after Shaun and the rest of the town for me while I'm gone.
Sincerely,
Dominic
>Chapter 1 Start
It was approaching noon when Dominic heard the frantic knocking at his door.
"HEY DOMINIC!"
It was Shaun...again. Every morning Shaun came to wake him up to do more of Maria's gruntwork, but today he showed up early. He heard the knocking again.
"I'm coming I'm coming," Dominic yawned back. 'This is just great,' thought Dominic, 'I'm getting ordered around by a 10-year-old kid, going to work nearly an hour early, and all after I stayed up fixing everything from last night after the Red Suns came by to collect their protection money' as he begrudging got dressed; dawning his dad's old worn jacket aon his way to the door.
"What does Maria want me to do today kid?" asked Dominic smugly as he swung the front door open to reveal the scrawny, sickly looking blonde kid. He couldn't help but feel a slight connection to the kid ever since both of their father got shipped off to fight in the war in the Ittao region near Johto and Kanto.
"There is no time for jokes right now! Now come on, it's urgent!" Shaun almost whimpered. Dominic was starting to notice something in Shaun's voice now. Was it anger? Frustration? Immpateince?
"What happened?" Dominic asked worringly, putting the thought aside to deal with this new issue.
"It's The Red Suns, they're looking for Mar-" suddenly Shaun's sentence was cut short by the sound of a gunshot...and a women screaming. Now he understood the sound in Shaun's voice...it was fear, no, terror.
Dominic pulled Shaun into his shack and began to panic. This was not good, usually as long as they kept the payments up, The Red Suns kept the damage minimal and the death count to zero. Something must have gone wrong last night.
"SHIIT" Dominic screamed as he tried to make sense of what was happening, "Didn't Maria gave them their bribe money yesterday?" He said turning back to Shaun, only to see the small boy now cowering in the courner of Dominic's shack. "Dammit!" Domminic said glaring at Shaun, "what the hell is going on!"
After a few seconds of silence Shaun answered, nearly crying as he did, "I don't know, I was walking back to Maria's after running to get her some Poffins for her Growlithe when the Red Suns ran past me," Shaun said now crying, "I didn't know what to do so I ran here as fast as I could."
He walked over to shaun and knelt down in front of the now bawling Shaun. "I'm sorry I yelled kid, I was just freaking out," said Dominic as he faked a smile. 'I have to stay calm,' thought Dominic, 'I have to go check on Maria.'
He stood up and and leaned down to Shaun, putting on the best tough gu façade, "I'm going to go to Maria's, but you need to just stay here and and wait for me to get back."
Shaun simply wiped his eyes off and nodded.
Finally mustering up the courage to head out, Dominic opening the ragged door to the shack and went out into the town. He looked around at the rundown buildings and the trash that littered the street. He began walking down the street toward Maria's home, also known as City Hall. As he walked down the path he noticed many other residents of Pyrite trying to figure out the source of the gun shot, and among them was a fourteen-year-old girl wearing a white t-shirt, jeans, and wearing her black hair up in a ponytail. He knew her, but from were?
"Hey!" he screamed as he ran up to the girl, "Do I know you?" He couldn't place it, but he knew that he had seen her before, and for some reason, she had a worried look on her face.
"Dominic? Is that you?" said the girl said as she turned to face him.
"Yes, and who are you?" said Dominic, trying to hide the embarrassment of not recognizing the woman stading in front of him
"It's me! Ashley! Maria's daughter!" said Maria said angryly, "DO YOU HONESTLY NOT REMEMBER ME?"
"No, not really, but nevemind that now, where is your mother?" Dominic responded getting back to business, he had to go see what the Red Suns were going in Pyrite, and looking for Maria no less.
"Why do you ask? You don't think that those Red Suns were after her do you?" asked Ashely with an even more worried look now.
"I-uh-well-Shaun told me that-uh", 'I don't think I can break it to her that her mom might be hurt,' thought Dominic worriedly, 'I god what I wouldn't do for a distra-" suddenly his thoughts were interupted by a woman screaming. Suddenly everyone started running toward the source of the second scream.
"THAT CAME FROM CITY HALL!" shrieked Ashley as she took of toward her home.
"You got to be, this is not what I meant by a distraction!" groaned Dominic as he ran after Ashley and the rest of the town.
After a few minutes of weaving through Pyrite, finally came across city hall. Starding there was crowd of people yelling and screaming gathered outside of what of the run-down building. As they started to make their way through the crowd Dominic started hearing what sounded like a man yelling, but couldn't tell over the roar of the crowd. They finally broke through to the front of the mass of people are Dominic could believe what he saw before him.
In front of him was a truley gruesome scene. Straight in front of him were several Red Son grunts and one Sun Elite, competely cut off from the crowd by a semi circle of Garchomp and Solrock nipping and growling at the crowd to keep them at bay. Several feet from the Elite lay Maria, with a gunshot wound in her stomache being treated by Nurse Joy and her Chancey, as she spat curses at the Suns as he comtinued shouting at the townspeople.
"...YOU SAD PIECES OF SHIT SHORTED US ¥850000! NOW THE BOSS BACK HOME WANTS HIS MONEY, SO ARE YOU FINE FOLKS HERE GONNA DENY HIM HIS MONEY WILL YOU," he asked smirking, "NOW IF YOU DON'T WANNA COOPERATE WITH US, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SHOW YOU THE STRENGTH OF THE RED SONS OF ORRE!"
"I'm so sorry sir! We can't raise enough money to pay you right now," whimpered Maria through harsh breaths, "I gave you all we had. Please forgive us. We'll pay you the rest next time I swear!" It was truly a terrible sight, and something needed to be done about this, but Dominic couldn't find the courage to help her, he simply held on to Ashley's hand as hard as he could and closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable kil shot to come.
"NO! No more rain checks, no more IOUs, the boss wants his money now!" the grunt snarled, "you've got one hour to get it in my hand or else you won't see tomorrow." Suddenly the crowd grew silent, realizing the true wieght of the statment.
Then without warning a red blur made it's way through the mass of people, and spirnging into the air, and lating itself onto the Elite's right arm. The crowd stood in complete silnce as Maria's Growlithe continued to naw into the Sun's arm.
"GET THIS DAMN MUTT OF ME!" screamed the Red Sons Elite as his lackeys attempted to pry of the puppy pokemon. As they through the small dog to the ground it intantly ran up inbetween the Elite and it's owner. The Elite simplied glared at the thing as we wiped the pokemon's salivea off his arm.
"You little FUCK! I hope to got that mutt of yours doesn't have rabies Maria, or else it too can join you in the PokeCenter!" He snarled at Maria, instantly silencing everyone as they waited to see what would happen next. The growlithe stood there, eyes focused on the Elite, just waiting for his master to issue an attack.
Seeing the Growlithe tencing up for another go, he decided to bring his spectable to a glorious end. "Fine then, if you can't pay the extra cash, I guess I'll just have to take out my frustration another way." He then raised his gun up and pointed it toward Maria again. "You shorted us on your last payment you stupid cunt, do you have any last words before I take the rest of it out of your skull?"
"STOP NOW! THIS HAS GONE TO FAR, NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY TOWN AND NEVER SHOW YOUR SORRY FACES HERE AGAIN!"
They crowed grew deathly silent and Dominic opened his eyes wondering who made the bold, assine statement. THEY WERE LOOKING AT HIM! His heart began to race, he he really just said that? Had he really just questioned the Red Suns authority? No wait, that was a girls voice that said that..meaning. He slowly turned to his side to see Ashley glasreing up at the Elite with a look in her eyes that Dominic had never seen before, but as he looked closer he say that she was nearly o nthe verge of tears at the same time. Feeling the weight of everyone's eyes on her, Ashley look down and finished her statement, tears now streaming down her face as she screamed at the Red Sun, "...I you kill her stupid, no good, low down, piece of shi-" but then she suddenly stopped her rant mid sentence.
The grunt had now turned the barrel of the gun toward Ashley, smirking trying to hold in the urge to take her out then and there. "You think your so tough hey girlie? I wonder if you can stop a bullet?"
And that had finally been enough for Dominic, he snapped out of his daze and lept in front of his childhood friend "If you want to get to her, you have to go through me first." The second the words left his lips he knew he had made a bad choice, but he couldn't just stand by as Ashley died. He could never live with himself if he just stood by and watched as his friends die.
"Oh look fellas, another kid who thinks he can take us eh? Well I'll give you this kid, you got guts and for that, I won't kill you and your little girlfriend here." said the grunt. As the Red Sun said the words, Dominic started to feel a sense of relief, but the Red Sun quickly stole it away, "Who knows maybe you'll make a fine Red Sun someday kid," finished the grunt, "but until then...", the grunt turned the gun back at Maria, eyes still locked with Dominic's.
Dominic couldn't help but look as he say the man pull the trigger, smiling the whole time...
>End Chaper 1