Darin's Legacy

Started by dnavarre June 22nd, 2007 8:37 AM
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Seen August 30th, 2007
Posted July 4th, 2007
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15.9 Years
Chapter 1

Darin stepped away from Pallet Town, his home. He stepped passed the welcome sign as his mother cried and cheered at the same time. The moon was riding high, and the wind was blowing cheerfully. Darin's red hair shuddered as he turned and hooked his pokeball into his belt at the same time. Professer Oak strode up to him and grasped Darin's hand. Darin shook vigorously as Oak spoke.

"Congratulations, Darin. Last year you were too late and the pokemon were taken, but today. Today you came out here at 1 A.M. and took yours happily."

"I know, Professer Oak. I know, and I'm excited!" replied Darin, his voice rising.

Professer Oak chuckled, "Darin, behind you is the dirt and grass road to Veridian City. In there you will fight the gym leader, his name escapes me. From Veridian, you will move north, through Veridian Forest, and to Pewter City. That is where you will get your Boulder Badge."

"And then?"

"Go wherever your heart leads!"

Darin nodded and turned, looking down the dirt path again he knew it would be a hard quest. Collecting the 8 badges was hard. Only two people from his town had managed to do so, he planned on being the third. A woman stepped from the shadows and spoke.

"Darin." Darin turned, surprised. "You are the last child in the village, Gary is in Veridian, Tracey is off somewhere. Please, when you travel to a town called Celadon, talk to the gym leader, Misty, and get my son, Ash's phone number." It was none other than Ash Ketchum's mom.

"Will do, ma'am."

"Thank you, you don't know what it means only seeing him once every year...and soon it won't be that much. There is no reason for him to come back here. He's done Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn. If he came back he would have to walk here, then all the way further where he is now." the woman started to cry, so she walked away.

Darin stepped backwards, another step from his home.

"Goodbye, son." whispered his mother as Darin turned and walked face-forward to Veridian City.



Darin's blue eyes gleamed as a cloud passed over the moon. He stooped and dunked his canteen into a cool river. He lifted it up to his lips and drank. He refilled it and spun the cap on. He hooked his canteen into his belt, the semicircle holding it still. He followed the river upsteam. The river traveled west, to the sea. He followed it north and soon came to a pond.

The water was sparkling, moonlight shining on it. Darin dipped a finger in the water, the touch sending waves through it like an echo. The beauty of the pond was amazing under the moonlight. A footstep broke his eyes from the sight. Beside him stepped the legendary Suicune. The legendary pokemon's sleek crystal blue fur was as beautiful as the pond. The creature bent down and drank from the pond, waves rippled over the surface.

The pokemon lifted her head and looked at the 13 year old. Darin lifted his hand shakily and moved it forward to Suicune. He stopped when Suicune moved. Suicune pressed her nose forward and sniffed his hand. Darin felt wonderful inside, in less than an hour he had gotten his first pokemon, set on a journey, seen a beautiful lake in the moonlight, and met a legendary pokemon.

Suicune stopped sniffing and nuzzled into his hand, the soft, beautiful, fur felt good on his skin. The pokemon stepped forward and nuzzled into his neck as he realized that it was just a baby. Darin slid his hand down the legendary pokemon's back, the fur sliding under his hand.

The creature cooed, letting out a whisper, "Cuuuune." Darin smiled.

"Are you all alone out here?" he asked, wondering if the pokemon could even understand him. The Suicune shook it's head and turned. It walked forward and looked back, it was trying to lead him somewhere. He followed it through the forest. The Suicune led him deep through it until they came to a small clearing. In the center was a Suicune, lying on the ground.

Darin ran up to it, the baby looked sad, its gleaming eyes were sparkling with tears. Darin crouched at the mother, it was covered in bruises and cuts. Its fur wasn't sparkling, its eyes were half closed, and its breathing was disfigured. He carefully placed his hand over the pokemon's heart and held his hand still when it flinched. He studied the heartbeat for a moment and checked her over carefully.

When he pulled his hand back a tear escaped him. He crawled over to the baby and hugged her.

Darin whispered into the baby's ears, "She's not going to make it." the baby Suicune's mouth opened and it whined. He cuddled the creature, trying to warm it. The mother weakly crawled to the baby and licked its cheek. Darin held both of the creatures while the moon steadily sank and the life slowly left the mother.

When morning came the forest was crying for its loss. The baby curled with her mother, tears streaming down her face. The crystal that grew from the back of her head was lowered, the two ribbon like tails were lying on the ground even though the wind was blowing. Darin stroked the baby's fur.

After another hour of stroking the baby's fur he hugged her. The baby nuzzled him sadly and licked his cheek. He stood and stepped back, the baby walked towards him. She ran up to him and barked sadly, not wanting him to go.

"Come on, Suicune, I'll take care of you...would you like that?" he asked the baby.

"Sui-cuuuune!" cried the baby, jumping on his foot.

"Come on, then, we are going to Veridian City."

Darin led the baby through the small woods, past the pond. A pokemon sprung from the grass at them, a Beedrill.

The pokemon was taller than a human and had two drills for hands. It stood on two skinny legs and had a stinger attached to its back. It stared at Darin with its large red eyes, its antenna moving. It held its drills in an attack position.

Darin looked at the baby Suicune, knowing it couldn't fight as a baby. He slowly reached into his belt and unhooked the pokeball. The Beedrill's wings shook irritatedly. He clicked the ball and it grew from its small version to the full one. He jumped back and threw the ball at the same time.

The ball hit the ground, bounced several feet into the air and opened. A shining red light shot from the ball to the ground. The red light took the shape of his pokemon, and it came into focus quickly. The ball shot back to Darin's hand, he caught it expertly.

The light died and Charmander stood, ready for action. Charmander's tail was aflame, the fire sheding light over the dimly lit area.

"Charmander, tackle!" commanded Darin. Charmander lunged at Beedrill only to be knocked back by one of its drills. Charmander crawled from the ground and was knocked back as Beedrill slammed his drill into Charmander's stomach. Charmander rolled backwards and stopped before he hit the water. He stood.

"Charmander, ember!" called Darin who was beside a tree with Suicune.

Charmander nodded and let a burst of flame from his mouth just as Beedrill dived at him from the air. The flames caught onto the bug pokemon, making it soar over Charmander. The flames started to stretch over the Beedrill's body, it was burned. It dropped and skimmed over the water, making water splash onto him, extuinguishing the flames.

The bug pokemon spun around and charged back at Charmander.

"Charmander, tackle when he gets closer." Charmander nodded and nailed the bug as it came closer. Beedrill pulled up, Charmander hanging onto its feet. Beedrill's stinger shifted and pointed at Charmander. Charmander gasped, his mouth quivered.

The two were about 20 feet in the air when the stinger slammed into the fire pokemon's body. Charmander dropped, the poison starting through his veins. Darin and Suicune were running as fast as they could towards the dropping pokemon. Darin dove and spun, Charmander barely hitting his arms. He had caught him. Darin stood and searched for the Beedrill, but it had gone.

He looked at Charmander, knowing the poison was in his body. He knew there was no poke-center in Pallet Town. Darin held Charmander in his arms and, with Suicune by his side, ran to Veridian City, his mind set on getting there before Charmander died of the poison.
Seen August 30th, 2007
Posted July 4th, 2007
9 posts
15.9 Years
Darin ran into Veridian City, his eyes searching for a pokemon center, Suicune beside him. He gaze stopped when he saw it standing like a beacon of light. He ran to it only to be pushed backwards by a teenager. Standing in front of Darin was hid old friend, Gary Oak.

"Hey, Darin, what are you doing here?"

"Gary! Can we talk later, my Charmander was attacked by a Beedrill and got poisoned, I don't think he has much time!"

Gary looked at the Charmander in Darin's arms, his brown hair fallling over his face, his face slightly confused. "Since when have you had a Charmander? But nevermind that, you're going to have some trouble going on."

Darin looked into Gary's eyes, "What?"

"Due to certain difficulties, such as Team Rocket, and other mishaps. You now have to fight a battle in a town to earn a stamp, that stamp will let you enter and leave at will, also to sue the marts and centers."

Darin's face dropped, "So, in order to heal my dying pokemon, I have to fight?"

Gary nodded sadly, "Yeah. But maybe they can make an exception, since he's dying. Come on." Gary led Darin to the center. Gary hadn't noticed Suicune, and Darin hadn't noticed him sneaking backwards into the forest.

"I'm sorry, but I am not allowed to heal pokemon without a Clearance Stamp, not even if its dying." stated Nurse Joy sadly.

Gary tried to reason with her, "Please, Nurse Joy, do it for me, do it for me."

"I'm sorry, Gary, but I'd get arrested if I did...and then we couldn't see eachother."

Gary sighed, "Ok, come on, Darin, we need to think."



The two left the poke-center, their hopes crushed. Gary spoke first, "So, Darin, when did you get that Charmander?"

"Early this morning, I got up at midnight, got dressed and went to Oak's lab, and I got him. Today was the starter of Starter Week. I'm sure to see several people heading to Pallet Town to try and get their own."

"Don't count on it, all the kids have moved away, this town is dead, Darin. Jessica's mom gave her her first pokemon, a Meowth. Jordan got a Snubble. Arin got an Aron. And so on..."

"Wow, must be hard to be here then, didn't that old man die earlier?"

"Yeah, last week. And I'm the gym leader, not sure what happened to the last one. Another reason for the stamps is to see what pokemon you have, some people are trying to bring ones from other territories in here. We caught this earth one the other day, its called a Whismur, we quickly sent it away. The Johto league's pokemon are the only ones in this land with the Kanto ones."

"Man, that makes it easier." Gary raised an eye to this, "That means that the territories remain their own adventure. Kanto is my home territory, I'd hate to see it transformed with so many new pokemon...plus my pokedex only holds the ones from Kanto and Johto."

Gary looked at Charmander, "Is he the only pokemon you have?"

"No!" exclaimed Darin, remembering Suicune, "I have another! Now, where is she?" he looked around, searching for the blue pokemon.

"What are you looking for?" asked Gary.

"My other pokemon!"

"What is it?"

"A baby Suicune."

Gary gasped, "A Suicune!? Man, we need to find it!"

The two split up, searching for the baby.

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Darin found the Suicune nestled under a tree just past the town. He set down Charmander and woke the creature up.

"Suicune, come on, will you fight for me, for Charmander's life?"

Suicune looked at Charmander and at Darin and nodded, her eyes gleaming.

Darin took Suicune and Charmander back to town to fight the person he needed to. Darin walked into the poke-center and talked to Joy.

"Who do I need to fight to get the stamp?"

Joy looked at him with a confused look, "His name is Finn. You'll find him near the mart, but I don't see how you'll fight if you don't have a pokemon."

Darin snickered, "Oh, I have a pokemon. Can you watch Charmander until I return?"

Joy nodded and Darin placed the poisoned pokemon on a seat. Darin left and once again ran into Gary.

"Where are you going, Darin? Did you find Suicune?" Darin nodded and whistled. The baby Suicune stepped from beside the center and looked at the two. Gary's eyes shone, "Wow, it really is a Suicune! How did you catch it?"

Darin looked down, "I....I'll tell you later, I have a battle to win!" Darin jogged past Gary and to the poke-mart. Darin stood before a man that was next to the door. "Who do I have to fight for the stamp?"

The man looked up at Darin, "That would be me, the battle is one vs. one, anything poke-rules goes, accept?"

Darin nodded quickly.

---

The man stood on one side of the field, Darin on the other. Gary was the referee.

"One on one, any rules. release your pokemon, now!" Darin pointed a finger forward.

"I choose Suicune!" Suicune ran from behind him and onto the battlefield.

The man was taken back by the legendary pokemon's beauty, but did not falter to choose his own. "I choose Caterpie." He tossed his ball forward, the light erupting and leaving a Caterpie.

Darin was confused but liked the fact that the pokemon was seemingly weak.

"Suicune, tackle!" Suicune tackled her opponet with no effort.

The man was still calm even though his pokemon was being attacked, "Caterpie, string shot." The bug launched a string from its mouth that wrapped around Suicune. Suicune strugled with the string but only managed to get more tangled, Suicune fell to the ground, her feet tangled.

"Suicune! Use your teeth to bite through the string!" Suicune tried but could not reach the string beneath her neck.

"Caterpie, tackle until it's defeated." said the man simply. Caterpie tackled Suicune when Darin called out.

"Enough, I give up."

"Gary looked at Darin for a moment before pointing to the man, "Finn is the winner." Gary's voice was filled with disapointment.

"Boy," called the man to Darin, "You have captured a legendary pokemon, but have not trained it. I will give you this." He tossed a small pad to Darin.

Darin caught the pad and examined it, it was silver and a simple square, "What is it?" he asked.

The man replied, "It's a card, for your stamp. It will let you back the way you came, which will be shown on your pokegear so we know you can't cheat us. It will also allow you to heal and use the marts."

Darin smiled, "Thank you." he could heal Charmander, if it wasn't too late.

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Darin, Gary, and Suicune stood with Nurse Joy in the poke-center, Charmander was in the backroom in recovery.

Joy spoke, "Well, Darin, you were lucky. Another half-hour and Charmander would have died...I am sorry that I could do nothing earlier."

Darin looked at Joy, "It's ok, as long as he is going to be."

"He will be, it will be a while before he is healed, maybe you should train some."

"I'll do that, but first I have to do something."

Gary and Darin stepped from the center. "Hey, Gary." said Darin, "Can you watch Suicune for a minute?"

"Sure." replied Gary, already stroking the creature's fur.

Darin stepped into the mart, nodding to Finn. Darin stepped up to the counter, "two pokeballs, please." The woman standing at the counter nodded and grabbed two from beneath the counter. She rang up the total and Darin payed. he put the balls in his belt and left the mart.

Gary was scratching behind Suicune's ears, the creature cooed happily. "Hey, Darin." said Gary to him.

"Gary, I'm going to train. I'll be back later, but I need a place to stay, you got one?"

"Yeah, I'll set a room up, I live in the gym, it has several rooms in the back."

"Ok, thanks, I'll be back soon."

Darin left to train in the forest, glad he saved Charmander, and that he met one of his old friends.
Seen August 30th, 2007
Posted July 4th, 2007
9 posts
15.9 Years
A tear escaped both Suicune, and Darin's eyes as the two came across the body of the baby Suicune's mother. The land had changed though, vines had crawled over her body and down into the ground on the other side. The vines where changing swiftly, covering the body. The late-afternoon sun barely breached the forest floor, but it was still enough to see what was happening. The vines where preserving the body; encasing it in vines.

The baby tried to rush to her mother, only stopped because Darin held her back. The creature whined pitifully and Darin strokes her fur lovingly.

"Don't worry, Suicune, it will be ok. You can live with me."

Suicune kept whining, tears streaming down her face. Darin was sent to drastic measures to keep the pokemon from running to her mom. Darin pulled one of the pokeballs from his bele and looked at it for a moment, his grip on Suicune slipping.

"I'm sorry, Suicune, but you can't be free if you're going to do this, not now anyway." Darin pressed the button and the pokeball grew to normal size. He dropped the ball onto the baby Suicune's body, red flashes encasing it, just as the vines were incasing her mother. A tear was the last thing Darin saw before the creature was in the ball, trying to break free. The tear fell, hitting the earth and shattering.

The ball shook, half of Darin wanted her to break free, the other half wanted her to stay in, for her own good. The ball shook from left to right, once. Twice. Three times, each weaker than the next. The final shake came, the fourth. The ball rolled over, the pokemon might actually escape. The ball rolled once more, back to its normal position and stopped. The ball glowed blue for a moment, signalling that Suicune had been caught.

Darin dropped to his knees, he had always thought that the first pokemon caught would make him feel wonderful. But instead it just made him sadder.

He grabbed the ball from the ground, tears in his eyes, and whispered to it, "I'm sorry, Suicune, I promise, one day I'll release you. But that day will be one where you are strong and a majestic pokemon." He clicked the ball and it shrunk. He placed it in his belt.

It was then that Darin notived that the earth was still. He looked up and saw that the vines had stopped, the body was molded. He stepped up to it and bent down, running his hands over the plants, wondering how they got there.

"Sauuuuuuur." came the sound of a pokemon from the right. Darin looked over and saw a Venosaur watching him, vines coming from his back. Darin stared at the creature's bulbous eyes, it didn't attack him. It was mourning a loss.

Darin walked well away from the clearing before releasing Suicune again. She was still sad.

"Suicune, I am sorry I had to capture you. I couldn't have you running for her, though. As the rules now, you are my pokemon, so I think it would be better to name you...Let's see, Suicune, you will be known as Krystal. Do you like it?" Suicune nodded slowly, her stare leaving him.

Darin stepped forward and petted Crystal, he then noticed that a white blotch had started to form in her fur, she was approaching one year of age. He looked into her tear-filled, silver eyes and kissed her head, just below the crystal, but just above the eyes.

Krystal sniffed the air because of the tears, as a human would when they cried, and caught a scent. She sniffed the air, the final tears dropping. She started spinning in circles like a dog and faced behind Darin. He turned and, in the distance of the trees, was a cave that sparkled like the moon and a purified ocean.

He and Krystal walked next to eachother to the cave, the lights enducing them. The two entered the cave cautiously, no sounds reaching their ears. They walked deeper in, the lights still shone. The cave was semi-empty and not very deep.

"Krystal...I'm sorry." Darin returned Krystal to her ball and dropped to his knees, tears once again returning to his eyes. In the cave lay several bodies of Suicune, all dead. They were bruised and broken-boned. "How did this happen?"

Behind Darin came a growl. He spun quickly and, ten feet from him, was an Entei.

The orangish-red dog pokemon stood before him, it's cloud like figure on its back whipped even though there was no wind. It stepped forward, growling. It looked around and sniffed, smelling for the scent of Suicune, its enemy, that it wanted so badly.

Darin whispered to himself, "Oh, man, Entei must must have been the one to kill all these Suicune." Even though it was a whisper, Entei still growled louder when it heard the name.

The pokemon sniffed once more, then turned, bent down, and jumped above the cave, out of sight.

---

Darin sat in Gary's gym, in the back in a kitchen with Gary.

"You saw an Entei!" proclaimed Gary excitedly.

"Yeah." repled Darin, "And I'm sure it killed that lot of Suicunes, it was sniffing for mine!"

"That's horrible, but its a pokemon rivalry."

"Yeah, it's horrible, Krystal is probably crying right now."

"Who?"

"My Suicune, I had to capture it. She saw her dead mother and ran to her, so I had to tear them away...It hurts to do that to such a beautiful creature."

Gary nodded, "I hear ya, I wouldn't have been able to do it."

"I'm just not sure what I'm going to do now."

Gary looked up at Darin, "You could always release her."

Darin looked out of the window and to the moon, which wasn't as bright as normal. "I do not think she would like me then, she would be mad I captured her, and all she would do was run to her mom's body."

"I can't believe that all those Suicune are dead..."

"Me either."

A noise intterupted the conversation. Gary answered his computer-phone.



"Hello?"

A female's voice replied, a person appearing on the screen. "Hello, Gary? This is Professor Ivy."

"Oh, hey, Professor."

"Gary, I need you to do something for me, since I'm not allowed to transfer any pokemon from different regions to another I need you to come get one."

"Come get one? All the way in the Orange Islands? How am I to get there, I only have five pokemon, and none of them know surf!"

"Please, Gary, find a way! This pokemon is extremely rare!"

Gary looked at Darin for a moment before looking back, "I'll come get it, if you tell me what pokemon it is."

Ivy stared at him for a moment before sighing and speaking again, "It's two pokemon actually, a Raikou," Gary's eyebrows rose in surprise, "and, a Lugia, the Lugia was found abandoned on the shore. The Raikou was trying to help it survive."

Gary answered quickly, "Okay, I'm going to be there, but my friend, Darin, is starting his adventure, he's here with me right now. He is going to collect all the badges, and I'm going to travel with him. On our way to Cinnibar cove we'll drop down to the Orange Islands. We have time to compelte Orange Islands, and still finish the Kanto League."

Ivy sighed, "Okay, I'll hold them until then. Ivy out." The screen went blank and Gary looked at Darin.

"Hope you heard me."

Darin nodded, "Yeah, you're coming with me. And, thanks for coming, there's no way I could do it without a friend."

Gary nodded, "Okay then, get some sleep, tomorrow is when Charmander will be healed. Then you can take down Caterpie.

Darin smiled, went to the guest room, and slept.

------

Gary woke Darin, Charmander by his side.

"Hey, Darin, it's 10 A.M. I picked up Charmander, now come on, we need to battle Finn."

Darin nodded tiredly, got up and dressed and the two found Finn at the poke-mart.

"Hey, Finn, come on, I'm ready to fight again!"

Finn and Darin agreed on the same rules as last time, 1 vs. 1.

"I choose you, Caterpie!" He tossed his ball and Caterpie came out, rearing up.

"I choose you, Charmander!" Darin tossed his ball, Charmander was released. Charmander growled and stirred some dust with his tail.

"Caterpie, string shot!" commanded Finn. The bug shot out string, wrapping Charmander up.

"Charmander, burn the string whit your tail." said Darin calmly. Charmander's tail burned the string. "Now, Charmander, ember!" Charmander let a burst of flame from his mouth, enveloping Caterpie.

The bug pokemon slid free, his back half on fire. The Caterpie tried to move forward but fell to his side, fainted.

"Caterpie, return." said Finn calmly, the bug returning to it's ball. "Congratulations, Darin. Here is your Element Stamp." He placed the stamp on the Stamp Pad. The stamp was white and barely showed on the pad, but was still seeable. It wasn't much, just two circles near the upper-center.

"What does Element Stamp mean?"

Finn chuckled, "That Caterpie is a level 20, your Charmander is a level 5, well, 6 now. Using a flame on a bug was using an Element Advantage. And a smart move, I have 6 pokemon, each of different elements. I can beat any element if they are the same or weak against mine. Fire is good against bug, remember that."

Darin nodded and, with Gary, left Veridian City, they were headed to Pewter.
Seen June 11th, 2021
Posted August 6th, 2010
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16.9 Years
You won't believe this! I had a whole elaborately detailed fix-up of this fic to help you improve yesterday and then my internet messed up so I lost it all. I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like writing all that again at the moment.

When I get in the mood, I will. For now, just know that latioslegends isn't your only reader. Good job so far, but work on descriptiveness and sentence structure.
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