I Will Remember You [Dying Wish]

[David]

Benny shuffled back toward New Bark Town in a hurry, eyes looking to the ground in deep thought. He had almost reached Cherrygrove when someone had mentioned that Pokedex thingy and that Professor Elm was handing them out. Why hadn't he been given one when he had picked up Bulbasaur? Was it because Elm knows I'm not good enough? he contemplated, biting his lower lip in dismay while his lack of confidence sent waves of worry through his veins. Sure, Benny had failed the first time all those years ago, but Elm couldn't have still been judging him for that, right? He would just have to go to the lab and prove to the man that he was a reliable trainer who could be trusted with such a cool device that it seemed like everyone else was being given.

Unfortunately, deep in his own mind muck, Benny wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings. He had just made it to the edge, when all of a sudden there was someone right in front of him that he was about to crash into. "Ack-" he squawked, jumping back just in time so as to not completely tackle the poor boy. He slammed back onto a slippery bit of iced grass and lost his balance, falling hard to the ground. He winced, feeling a light bit of pain in his tailbone, and gritted his teeth in surprise. The whole thing was rather embarrassing, and he looked up at the boy with blush already dotting his cheeks. "I'm fine, I'm fine," he blurted out quickly with a slight sheepishness, not even hearing what was being said. Righting his glasses and getting himself back on his feet, he dusted off his backside a bit before turning his head to look at who he had almost sideswiped.

Obviously, in true Benny fashion, his first instinct was to smile widely, even in his embarrassment, and greet this Kent fellow back with enthusiam, "I'm so sorry about that. Yes, hello. I'm Benjamin but you can call me Benny." Yet, only a few seconds into listening to what Kent was saying, Benny could tell that this was not at all what he was expecting. The guy looked... almost like a ghost. Almost as if even had Benny run into him, he would have past right through Kent. Benny blinked a couple of times, his smiling face very obviously faltering, and he could barely hear a word the kid was saying. Then the next thing he knew, Kent was holding out a Pokeball that contained one of the bugs Benny had barely even noticed.

"O-Oh! Uhhh..." Benny blurted out, at a loss for words for one of the first times ever, "Wow... I uh..." His blue eyes slowly looked down at the Pokeball and then along the frail arm that held it until he landed back on Kent's face. And in that moment, all his selfish worries on whether or not Professor Elm liked him or not vanished. He cleared his throat, shook his shoulders a little bit, and then reached out to grab the Pokeball from Kent. "Yeah. I can definitely help with that," Benny replied, nodding his head with a smile that was a little weaker but still turned up one side of his lips. He brought the Pokeball in close to his chest, feeling as if this might be one of the most precious things he had on his person. "And don't worry about giving me anything," he tacked on, turning his head to the side a little, "Do you need help with anything else?"

The last part came out rather meekly since even Benny knew he couldn't do much for Kent. He was barely holding his own life together at the moment. "Or I guess... I'll just focus on Scatterbug," he murmured, blinking a few times, before giving a soft goodbye as he departed. And as he set off back into New Bark town, he still clutched the Pokeball, knowing that he would not forget Kent as he went.




Scatterbug
Name: Hope
Gender: Female
Level: 5
OT: Kent (NPC)
Attacks: Tackle, String Shot
Ability: Shield Dust
Nature/Personality: Brave. Hope has been by the side of a sickly boy, ready to protect him at all cost. That taught Hope to fiercely love and be protective over the ones she cares about. She will charge into any battle, ready to defend her trainer and Pokemon friends at all costs.

[Avalon]

Kent was used to people treating him like he was made of glass, or trying hard not to notice him. Ever since it had gotten out that he had fallen ill and been unable to be helped, any interactions with the outside world had been one of the two. He also knew that with his sickly pallor, he was liable to be mistaken for a ghost or creature of some sort. Still, he felt bad for spooking Benny badly enough to make him stumble like this. He reached out to try and help him up, but a brief coughing fit paralyzed him for long enough for the embarrassed Benny to rise to his feet.

"S-Sorry, my name is Kent. I'm a bug catcher, or I want to be. It's been kinda hard finding new Bugs, so it's just me and my Scatterbug my parents helped me catch before I got sick," the words were strained and hoarse, as if every word caused excruciating pain to come out. Nevertheless, Kent continued. He saw the Poke Balls that Benny carried, and recognized that Benny was much older and likely better traveled than him. Kent had no illusions that he would ever get to see the outside world, and that this might be the only chance for his little bug buddy to stretch his legs.

So Kent made his impassioned plea as Benny listened on, reaching out with a feeble hand to offer up a Poke Ball to the older and more anxious Trainer. Kent dreamed of seeing the Pokemon Vivillon, his favorite, but he would never be able to go on a journey and train his Scatterbug enough to make that happen himself. Add that to the fact that there were some 20 other forms and his own poor constitution would prevent him from making it to the other end of the Region, and he knew it was likely he would pass on before his dream could come true.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Benny! Take care of my little bug buddy, and when he evolves...just bring him back to me, I've got a lot of cool things my parents helped me find that I can use to repay you. Like TMs and gems and stuff," Kent explained, coughing into his hand once again after passing the bug's ball off to Benny. "Look, I need to get home before my parents get upset with me for staying out too long... I'll see you and my bug buddy later, okay?"

Kent, reluctantly saying goodbye to the ball containing his first and only friend as well as the man who had agreed to help them, returned to the warmth and safety of home. His parents tried their best to hide the seriousness of his case from him, but he could feel deep down that he might not have too much longer. He just hoped to spend his last days surrounded by the bugs he had grown to love and admire so much.

You've accepted Kent's Dying Wish!
Return here with any Vivillon you have evolved to receive your rewards!

((Hope has been added to Benny's party.))