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Hey everyone, I've got a question. How has training Pokemon changed you?
Allow me to go first. I've spent my life training 2 types of Pokemon. Dragons and fighters.
Throughout my 28 years as a trainer, my Pokemon have taught me very important lessons. If any of you remember the disasterous mid flight breakup of Poke-packaging flight 107, then you may remember that all the crew were transported safely to the ground by what they called an "orange blur."
Well, some of you may not believe me, but this orange blur was my Dragonite. Let me tell you, I have never seen a Pokemon move that fast before or since. I also had never seen a Pokemon give its own life to ensure the completion of a task before. That second part is what stayed with me. It wasn't until later that I learned what my Dragonite taught me.
After I lost my Dragonite, I found myself depressed. I travelled all around the world visiting various Pokemon graveyards trying to find out how people coped with loss. It wasn't until I arrived in a graveyard in Hoenn that I found the answer. believe it or not, the graveyard itself wasn't for Pokemon, but for people. There I found a lone Banette. It was not timid, nor was it hostile. In fact, it was quite amicable. It would travel through the graveyard and tend to the resting places of the deceased and guide people through the labyrinthine passageways between graves. When I asked around, I learned that the Banette had been doing this for nearly 45 years. I stayed in a nearby cabin for 3 months with an older fellow who had lost the last of his family 2 years prior. Over time, I would follow this Banette around and track it's movement patterns. One day, I realized that it was treating a rather modest grave near the edge of the graveyard as a sort of marker. When I stopped to look at this grave, I found myself surprised. It belonged to a girl who died almost 47 years ago, at the age of 8. She had no surviving kin except for one. The old man I had been staying with. TBC.
