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Hello! My name is Léa and I’m eight years old! I’m a Pokémon trainer. Oh, trainer… I have only one Pokémon since I’m six. This Pokémon is Arceus! Yes, it’s right, it’s Arceus! He is so strong and beautiful! It’s my dad who gave him to me when I was six. Before, I couldn’t go out that much because I was sick but now, I feel better since I have Arceus.
Now he is with me, I don’t need other pokemon. My Arceus, he is the strongest in the world! When a wild Bidoof try to attack me, he protects me without fear! And I can climb on his back, it’s just so funny and great! My daddy and mommy left me beginning my journey, so I’m going to collect all the badges and try to become the Pokémon League Champion!
But… Because I’m only eight years old, the older children are always making fun of me because I’m too young for them! It’s not funny at all! I hate when someone is laughing at me! And… I don’t need others pokémons because and so when they are laughing at me, I tell them to fight my Arceus! My Arceus, he is really strong and powerful and everything! The others said he is a Ditto but me, I know he is the real Arceus! And so, my Arceus, he fights them and beat them easily!
It’s only the Gym Leaders who are strong. But even them are surprised than me, I want to be a Pokémon trainer, but they accept to fight me and Arceus. Arceus still can beat them even if they are more intelligent than me because I’m a child, they can’t defeat my Arceus! He is really a big Arceus! And no another one exist!
At evening, when it’s really dark and chilly, I sleep against Arceus. Arceus, he is so warm! His fur, she is so soft! I can sleep well near him, it’s so nice! And when I wake up, he rubs his head against me, it’s so funny! I love Arceus so much! More than any other! But no more than my mommy and daddy, right? Because it’s them who gave me Arceus. Before, I was not feeling well but now I have Arceus, I’m always fine!
Always always always fine! Even now, after two years being with him, I feel really exhausted and… Arceus, he carries me on his back when I take a rest. I don’t know why I feel so sleepy but it’s not a problem because Arceus, he is here with me! And so, I’m never scared of resting because he watches over me. And… When I have a problem, he stays with me.
Always, always, always with me! Arceus is the best Pokémon! Daddy and mommy said it. Arceus, he is the God of Pokémon! I don’t know what God is, but he is the strongest of them! I already knew it because I defeated everyone! But… I don’t know if daddy and mommy already know it but it’s not really important.
But… Daddy and mommy are always worried because I’m alone and so they never stop calling me to have some news. And so, me, I give them news because I don’t want them to be sad because I’m not here anymore. I really love mommy and daddy… and I try to make them not worried about me because I have Arceus with me and they don’t have to be scared! The bad Pokémon can do nothing against him! And he is always here to protect me!
Daddy and mommy always tell me to take my medicine. I always listen to them and take them if I don’t want to be sick one more time. It’s really not funny to be sick. You must sit or lay down in a big hospital bed and look at the others who are playing together when you can’t. I was like that before I have Arceus. Now that I’m feeling better, I’m less scared even if I still don’t have friends. Why would I want that when I have Arceus? Arceus is everything for me, it’s the best friend I could hope!
With him, I’m living a lot of adventures, and I can have every badge a lot of trainers would love to have! Me, I know I’m not strong, it’s even the opposite… I’m a little weak, it’s what the man in white coat said to me when I was in hospital. And so, I have to take care of my health and I take all the medication the man gave to me. I always have small pills, capsules and so many others difficult things to swallow… but it’s not a problem because I have Arceus!
But… It’s annoying to take every day my medication but it’s not a problem. But yes… I would love to not take them anymore! But it’s not like I can do otherwise, hihihi! And with Arceus, even taking medication, it’s not annoying! And… And… And… Oh… I’m still a little tired, I think I will rest on him because I need to sleep.
Hmm… Sleeping on the fur of Arceus. It’s so soft and warm. I would love not waking anymore and continue to sleep but I know it’s better I don’t. Why are we going so fast? When I woke up, Arceus was galloping at full speed, me on him. I asked him what’s going on and he said we were followed. It’s right, my Arceus can speak! It’s perfect because I don’t need human friend when I have him!
Followed by who? By bad men or ladies who try to take my Arceus! But no one touch my Arceus! My Arceus take me at the summit of a mountain. He tells me, his name was Mount Coronet or something like that. He tells me, here, we will be safe! I love to live adventures with my Arceus! He brings me down and we were in a place, surrounded by pillars. Suddenly, he revealed big stairs who were going to the sky before turning towards me.
“If you climb with me, you will no longer be able to go back,” he whispered.
“But they will stop bothering us, theses villains who want to pull us apart?”
“It’s right, Léa. But where we are going, no one will separate us. You will not see anyone anymore. You will be alone with me.”
“I will not see mommy and daddy anymore? Will they be sad?” I asked until he nod positively.
Never see againt mommy and daddy? But theses people want to take away my only friend, Arceus. I know daddy and mommy wish for me to be happy and I’m happy with him. I mount on the back of Arceus and we climb the stairs together.
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“Time of death: 5H53 PM. Name of the patient: Léa Lanas.”
“Poor child… Dying so young…” whispered the nurse beside the doctor who was writing theses lines on the notebook. Reason of Death: Severe Leukemia.
Lying on a bed while the signal was cut out, a young girl with brown curls had her eyes closed. A smile on her lips, she was hugging a plushie depicting the Pokemon God. Up there, in the sky, they were together like in every story she made for herself.