"I hate the summer..." I muttered as the burning sun shone upon me.
Sweat began to appear on my forehead and back, and I felt surprised that someone like me could even sweat. Being extremely underweight, I felt the heat burning through my skin as I crossed the road.
With groceries, I slowly but steadily walked to my house. Walking home with a school park in sight, I could hear children playing cheerfully like it was nothing.
"How enviable," I told myself as I looked at those kids.
I was once like that, but as I grew older, all my childhood innocence disappeared, leaving me a husk of my former self. Sighing at the sight of these kids' energy, I took my attention off them and tried to return home hurriedly.
"Mister, could you return the ball?" A child shouted as the ball rolled over and stopped on the road, asking me for help.
Being called Mister at eighteen did make me cringe, but I did have the personality and energy of an old man. The thought of ignoring the kids did cross my mind, but one act of kindness for the day didn't seem so bad.
*BUURR!!!*
Walking on the road without checking if there were any vehicles on the road wasn't my brightest idea. Because our neighbor had little traffic, another truck blocked my view, and the heat was insane. I failed to see a truck drive by. That ended my life.
Comprehending what had just happened, my mind failed to adapt to the accident that had just occurred.
Did my life just end like that? Just once, out of the goodness of my heart, I got punished by fate itself. Despite "dying," few emotions emerged as my inner thoughts didn't mind such an outcome.
There was no pain in death, as death instantly took my life as if it were nothing. With the truck driving about 70 miles an hour, which was illegal since 30 miles an hour was the limit, I bet my body was flung, and my body stopped functioning due to it being weaker than an average person.
However, the few emotions I had mentioned then turned into worry as I knew my train of thought still worked.
Was I going to see nothing and think for an eternity? If so, this was worse than hell. How am I to think for eternity and not go insane!? Should I just practice how not to think? At least this way, it made this process less painful.
To my relief, a few minutes later, I felt a change. The dead me had felt a sensation. Was I still alive? Did I get hospitalized? Maybe I was still alive, but I was in a horrible condition.
What I found strange was my condition. I would have thought I would feel pain or numbness because of the condition I was in. But, to my surprise, I felt fine.
"Where am I?" I had expected to be in a hospital, but an unfamiliar roof dawned on me.
Confused, I started to be nervous, wondering where I was. Everything made no sense until my arms came into view, and I realized I had become someone younger.
"Holy shit..." Did I transmigrate? I told myself this in surprise, wondering what kind of world I transferred to.
Before I could think, I had a relapse. Memories of the previous owner started to flood in, and taking it all in was easier than I had thought. Like in some transmigration novels, I would have thought that my head would have hurt when memories of another person started to reappear.
Anyway, to my surprise, I transmigrated into the world of Pokemon. It was a childhood show and game I won't forget.
The body I had taken was that of a boy named Dan, the same one that I had. Dan was an orphan, but what made it exciting was that today was the day that he set out on his journey.
Today was this body's birthday, as it had turned fourteen, and at this age, anyone could begin their journey as a Pokemon trainer. Unlike in the anime, where children could start a journey at ten, the limit was fourteen.
Compared to Earth, where danger is more frequent, the people of this world mature quickly, and their bodies are much stronger.
"Dan! Are you awake?" To my surprise, a child's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm awake, Simon." As an orphan, I was in a room with three other children. Simon was the youngest of the four and also the most timid one. The only person he speaks a lot to is my predecessor and the owner of this orphanage.
While I had gained my memories, this world had interested me more, so Simon, being the least priority, was forgotten, and I do not apologize for this.
My two other roommates are Dave and Alvin. These two are troublemakers, but they barely interact with me or make trouble with me due to my petty nature.
While my predecessor was more active than me, we shared the same exact nature. When they first played a prank on me, they put something strange on my food.
My predecessor had retaliated with endless harassment. Until they begged for forgiveness, and our caretaker asked me to stop. That was when they became afraid of me.
"Have you decided which Pokemon you will get? When you get it, can I see?" Asking questions, Simon was excited to know what Pokemon I would get.
My predecessor hadn't decided which Pokemon to get and had decided to buy one on the spot when he saw one he liked. Since reserving a Pokemon cost a lot, and with many people buying a lot daily, it was impossible to choose one you wanted unless you had the money to. Being an orphan, I didn't have such an option.
"When I get mine, you will be the first to see. I can at least promise that." Before Simon asked any more questions, I told him this so he wouldn't ask more.
With 80,000 pokedollars in my bank, I could at least have a Pokemon with some potential. I didn't want Pokemon such as Patrat, Lillipup, and Purloin.
That's right. I'm in the Unova region, the game where Pokemon Black and White takes place, which is also based in NYC, America! It's also the region where I have my favorite Pokemon.
Before buying my Pokemon, I had to eat my breakfast and bid farewell to everyone in this orphanage. While I should be sad to part with the people I have known for years, an unsympathetic person like me couldn't muster such emotions. It wasn't time to say my goodbyes yet, so thinking about such things was unnecessary.
This is my first Pokemon FF.
I won't lie. I'm not that knowledgeable about the Pokémon world, so bear with me if you find some things unsatisfactory.