On the nameless coast, white waves beat against the golden beach, where a half-made raft lay.
At that moment, a half-grown boy emerged from the nearby woods, dragging a thick piece of wood.
Hey, hey, hey!
"Fuck, I'm so tired!"
Midway through dragging, the boy suddenly threw the wood to the ground and sat on it, panting heavily.
"Ah~ What sin have I committed to deserve this?"
"Gugugu~" Useless! Useless!
Just then, a Pidgey flew over from somewhere, landed on a branch, and laughed at him mercilessly. It made strange "debadeba" noises and looked very arrogant.
"You keep bothering me I still haven't found any lunch for today!"
The boy picked up a stone from the ground and threw it hard at the Pidgey.
"Gu~"
The Pidgey lightly flew up from the branch, and the stone didn't even touch its feathers. After that, it circled over the boy's head, teasing him sufficiently before leaving triumphantly.
"I can't stay on this island for even a minute. It's so frustrating." He stood up angrily and continued walking towards the beach, dragging the wood behind him.
By the time he dragged the wood to the half-finished raft, he was almost collapsing from exhaustion.
"What a sin! I'm just a child!"
This young man is our protagonist, Eddie. He is eight years old (approximately? He doesn't remember some things because he was too young) and has lived on this deserted island ever since he can remember.
As for how he came to this island, I'm sorry, he doesn't remember.
Eddie lived in a daze for the first eight years of his life. Why? Because he hadn't lived in the human world or received any instruction from humans. His knowledge, habits, intelligence, etc., hadn't been fully developed, so he lived like a simpleton.
Until recently, he saw a fight between two Nuzleaf in the forest. Perhaps the fight was too intense, and the two Nuzleaf started to go wild.
The other Pokémon watching knew to dodge, but the little simpleton, Eddie, didn't move at all. In the end, he was hit by the shock wave generated by the battle and struck his head on a rock.
This collision brought back his memories of his previous life.
Eddie is a time traveler who lived in a world called Earth in his previous life.
One day, he was walking on the street when he suddenly heard someone shouting "robbery." Then he saw a man running towards him with a lady's handbag.
The thief was running towards him, and he thought he should do something brave and righteous for once, so he planned to stop the thief.
However, he wasn't the only one who wanted to be brave; there was a girl next to him who also wanted to stop the thief. The two of them rushed forward together and accidentally bumped into each other.
Eddie was standing on the side of the road at the time and was knocked onto the road by the collision. He was directly hit and killed by an oncoming electric car speeding at a very high speed.
It's truly a death before the mission is accomplished! It makes me cry just talking about it. Even if he had died fighting the thief, it would sound better than being hit by an electric bike.
Frustrated~
Perhaps because his death was so miserable, God gave him another chance, and he was reborn into the world of Pokémon.
Eddie resigned himself to his fate and tied the newly brought wood to the raft, trying to finish the raft as soon as possible and leave the isolated island.
Halfway through tying the wood to the raft, a Gardevoir suddenly appeared beside Eddie. It was holding a bunch of fruits in its arms and called to Eddie with a gentle expression: "Sha~Shanai~" Baby, come here and eat!
"Here I come, here I come!"
Eddie walked to Gardevoir, sat on the leaves that Gardevoir had laid out, picked up a peach fruit piled on the leaves, casually rubbed it on his clothes twice, and then began to eat it.
His extremely simple outfit was made by Gardevoir using the silk of an orb-web spider and leaves. Apart from covering the key parts, it had no other function.
Fortunately, the climate on the island is hot, so even if he didn't wear clothes, he wouldn't get cold. Otherwise, it would be questionable whether Eddie could have grown to be eight years old.
Seeing Eddie eating enthusiastically, Gardevoir asked, "Gardevoir~Gardevoir~"Baby, are we really leaving here?
Gardevoir felt that her son had become strange since he fainted and woke up a few days ago. Not only did he give himself a name, but he also vowed to leave here.
Life here was good before; why do you have to leave? Gardevoir, who is very satisfied with her current life, doesn't understand.
Looking at the endless sea outside, Gardevoir was a little scared.
Eddie couldn't help but sigh when he heard what Gardevoir said.
Speaking of Gardevoir, another wave of sad tears came. God knows how devastated he was when he regained consciousness and learned that his mother was a Gardevoir.
But don't get me wrong, he is a real human, not a Pokémon, nor half-human, half-Pokémon. Gardevoir is just his adoptive mother. (Probably? Anyway, where he came from, he doesn't know, and Gardevoir doesn't either.)
According to Gardevoir itself, it picked up Eddie on the beach.
As for why Eddie can understand Pokémon language? As a child raised by Pokémon and surrounded by all kinds of Pokémon since childhood, is it any wonder that he can learn Pokémon language?
Before he regained his sanity, Eddie lived in a daze, but because of this, he had a pure heart and the ability to communicate with Pokémon.
"The world outside is wonderful. It's so boring to stay here all your life. Once you see the outside world, you will know how good it is," Eddie replied.
Gardevoir looked puzzled: "How do you know that the world outside is exciting?"
"Oh, I just know it!" Eddie couldn't explain, so he had to change the subject. "Have you eaten? If you're done, let's start training!"
Although Gardevoir has evolved to its final form, it has always lived a lazy life, and its personality is a bit... well, if I have to describe it, it would be "my naive mother."
So after Eddie recovered, he began to train Gardevoir in a planned way.
At first, the lazy Gardevoir was reluctant to cooperate with the training plan Eddie had drawn up, but Eddie advised it:
"The world outside is very dangerous. If we don't have the ability to protect ourselves, are we going to die when we encounter danger? Isn't Mom afraid that her precious son will be bullied by bad guys?"
How can that be possible!
Gardevoir doesn't want the son she raised with great effort to be bullied by others. If someone wants to bully him, he can only bully him himself. Humph~
So Gardevoir had to accept the training with tears in her eyes.
Although this island is a deserted island, one good thing is that there are no powerful or dangerous Pokémon, so Gardevoir has been able to get by.
But no one knew what was going on outside. If they encountered danger, they would not have any means to deal with it. Wouldn't that be terrible? In any case, Eddie could not leave without any preparation.
If the "old mother" wants to leave with him, she must have some self-protection ability. If the "old mother" is unwilling to leave, Eddie will trick another Pokémon on the island into going with him.
Fortunately, although God mercilessly threw him on this deserted island, he also gave him some compensation.
After he regained consciousness, he found that he had a golden finger. This golden finger wasn't acquired after he regained consciousness but had existed from the beginning, but he was stupid and didn't know how to use it.
It is precisely because of this golden finger that Eddie has the confidence to survive in this unknown world.
After a few days of exploration, Eddie has roughly understood some of the functions of his golden finger.
After hearing Eddie's words, Gardevoir obediently lay down on the leaves on the ground.
Although the training is hard, Gardevoir really likes the "health care" before and after the training.
After Gardevoir lay down, Eddie put his hand on its back, and then Gardevoir felt a warm current flowing into its body along Eddie's palm.
With the appearance of this warm current, Gardevoir felt that every cell in its body began to tremble, and an extreme sense of pleasure surged throughout its body.
"Shanai~Nai~Nai~"
Gardevoir couldn't help but narrow her eyes and let out a series of ambiguous moans.
This is Eddie's golden finger, and it is also what Gardevoir considers great health care.
After Eddie regained consciousness, he strangely sensed a special energy in his body. This energy started from his heart and could be controlled by him to flow throughout his body, and could also be guided by him to flow out of his body.
After experimenting on different Pokémon on the island, he discovered that this energy could not only help Pokémon recover from fatigue but also purify and compress the energy in their bodies.
Each Pokémon has a unique set of energy circuits in its body, which Eddie discovered when he used his golden finger to examine their bodies.
Using the golden finger, Eddie can easily observe the structure and real-time changes of the energy circuit in the Pokémon's body.
Normally, these energy circuits will autonomously absorb a special energy floating in the air and store this energy in the Pokémon's body, making the Pokémon stronger and stronger.
The reason why Pokémon can use skills is that this special energy in their bodies can resonate with another kind of energy in the air, temporarily called attribute energy.
For example, the Water Gun skill is formed by the resonance between the special energy in the Pokémon and the water energy in the air. Why does the power of water skills increase in rainy weather? It is because rainy weather can gather the surrounding water energy together, making this resonance more obvious and easier.
Eddie named this energy in the Pokémon's body the origin energy, because this energy is related to the strength of the Pokémon. It may not be accurate to say strength, but level. Because the amount of origin energy is not the only determining factor for whether a Pokémon is strong or weak.
The influence of the source energy on the level of Pokémon can be reflected in two aspects: quality and quantity. Under the same conditions, the Pokémon with more source energy stored in its body will have a higher level, and the Pokémon with higher quality source energy in its body will have a higher level.
In addition, the strength of Pokémon's control over the original energy in its body also affects the strength of its combat effectiveness, so Eddie said that the original energy only represents the level of the Pokémon rather than its strength.
The power of the Eddie Golden Finger lies in that it can help compress the Pokémon's original energy, allowing the Pokémon's limited energy circuit to store more original energy.
In addition, it can remove impurities from the Pokémon's source energy, making it purer. The purer the Pokémon's source energy is, the stronger its resonance with the external attribute energy will be, and the more powerful the Pokémon's skills will be.
When the energy circuit in the Pokémon's body absorbs energy from the air, it will also absorb some impurities to a greater or lesser extent, so the original energy in the Pokémon's body is not 100% pure.
According to Eddie's observation, 100% pure source energy should be light blue, as clear as the bright sky. But source energy containing impurities has more or less blue, purple, red, or green.
For example, Gardevoir's original energy is mixed with various colors, and Eddie is thankful that its purity can reach 60%.
Eddie carefully controlled the golden finger to move in Gardevoir's energy circuit, helping it to compress and purify the original energy.
He must concentrate fully during this process, otherwise, if the energy circuit of Gardevoir is damaged, that would be disastrous.
Each Pokémon has a different energy circuit, and there are slight differences between the same species. Gardevoir's energy circuit starts at the red sensor on its back and ends at the red sensor on its chest.
After controlling the golden finger to move around in a circle with difficulty, Eddie was exhausted and sweating, but Gardevoir was so comfortable that she almost fell asleep.
The process of Eddie helping Gardevoir compress and purify the original energy is also the process of him exercising the golden finger. Every time he helps Gardevoir do a "health check-up," he feels that his control over the golden finger has become stronger.
"Okay, get up and start training!"
Eddie shook Gardevoir to wake it up. Gardevoir reluctantly climbed up from the leaves, its eyes full of accusations.
"As a mother, shouldn't you protect your child well? You are so weak now, how are you going to protect me in the future?" Eddie's face, tanned by the sun, wrinkled into a ball. "I am so pitiful. I have to worry so much at such a young age. Will I not grow taller in the future?"
Hearing this, Gardevoir's face suddenly changed, and the maternal light in its heart was completely ignited. It clenched its fists and said: "Gardevoir~Gardevoir~" Baby, don't worry, Mom will become stronger!
"Alright, I'll trust you this once and see how you perform next time." He then climbed onto Gardevoir's back skillfully. "Okay, let's get started. Let's run ten laps around the beach today!"
"Sanae? Sanae~" Ten laps? Wasn't it only eight laps yesterday?
Eddie did not allow for rebuttal: "You are no longer the same person as you were yesterday. Stop talking nonsense and run!"
Gardevoir had no choice but to accept its fate and run around in circles on the beach.
After physical training, there was also skill training. Anyway, Gardevoir was busy all afternoon. Eddie fiddled with his raft whenever he had the chance.
Just like that, a week passed in the blink of an eye, and Eddie's raft was finally ready. He chose a sunny day and planned to set sail.