I awoke, surrounded by absolute fluffiness. What was this? How did I get here? I winced my eyes open, and saw four shadowy figures standing over me, before closing them again.
"Hey, he's finally coming around." I heard one of them say. Sounded male, and fairly aged
I opened my eyes a little wider, and the figures became clearer, but I had to shut them again.
"Are you sure it's a he?" another person said. This one seemed female, but she was obviously younger. "I've never seen this species before, not even in the textbooks.
I finally opened my eyes all the way. Looking at the 4 figures, I could finally make out what they were.
To my left, there was a Lucario: a jackal, which normally had blue fur with black fur on its eyes and down its nose, as well as on the legs, plus a coat of light brown leather, which it like a tattered muscle shirt.. This one, however, was different. His blue fur was replaced with gold, which surprised me quite a bit.
Next to him was a Riolu, which is a pre-evolution Lucario. Riolu have floppy ears, and they're about half as tall as a Lucario, and are missing the coat of leather, they instead have a gold necklace. That is where the differences end. This Riolu, unlike the Lucario, was coloured normally, with the normal blue fur. He was standing on the foot of whatever bed I was in.
Next was another Riolu, golden again, and a little taller than the other Riolu. She, too, was on the foot of the bed.
Finally, there was another Lucario to my right. She seemed slightly less aged than the one on the left, and like the smaller Riolu, she maintained her average blue fur.
"Oh goody, you're awake!" the Lucario on the right exclaimed. Her voice made her seem like a standard housewife more than a fighting type Pokemon.
I rolled over on the pillow I was resting on, and pushed myself up to be at the same level as the Riolu who stood before me.
"What's your name?" one of them, the tall golden one, asked. She was probably a big sister type.
"My name is Mew." I said, using my thoughts to speak, sending everyone into shock.
"How did you..." the blue Riolu started.
"... Do that?" the golden Riolu finished.
"I'm a psychic type." I explained. "Do most psychics you know not talk like this?"
"Well..." the golden Lucario started. "Most people around here find it respectful to speak with their mouthes."
"Talk... With my mouth?" I asked. "Well, the thing is... My species does not have the required organs in the body to produce any sound from our mouth, except for different types of meows."
"That's alright." the blue Lucario said, before anybody else could think hard about it. "Still, Mew... That's a strange name. Most people are given nicknames based on their species name."
"Well what are yours?"
"I'm Lucy." the blue Lucario said.
"Riah." the golden Riolu said.
"Ricky." the blue Riolu said.
"Luke." the golden Lucario said.
"It's nice to meet you." I said.
"So, Mew, what species ARE you, exactly?" Lucy asked.
"I can't quite remember the name." I said. "Maybe I hit my head."
"I see." Luke said. "Well, until you remember what your species is, would you like to stay with us?"
I thought about it, and I nodded gleefully after a few seconds.
"Great!" Lucy said. "I'll set up the guest room for you!"
I smiled, as I floated around the room in a little dance of joy, surprising the Riolu children.
"You can FLY!?" Ricky asked.
"Sure can." I said, smiling even wider.
"That is so cool!" Riah shouted. "What other cool things can you do?"
"Well... Do you two have any activities that require you to use your hands?" I asked.
"Don't even get them started..." Luke said.
"DO YOU LIKE VIDEO GAMES!?" Riah and Ricky asked simultaneously.
Luke sighed, smiling. "Too late."
2 HOURS LATER
"Wow, you are not that good at video games, are you?" Ricky asked.
"You cheated, too!" Riah said. "Using psychic abilities on the controller, instead of using your hands!"
"My fingers weren't big enough for the machine." I said, innocently. "What was I supposed to do?"
"Excuses, excuses." Ricky said, as he started up another game of "Super Pokemon Bros".
Ricky and Riah picked Lucario, while I picked the only Psychic pokemon, Espeon.
While my experience grew, I lost every time.
"I think I'm done." I said. "I'm going to go see if your mother finished with the guest room."
"Aww, are you just disappointed you lost?" Ricky asked.
"No, I'm just tired." I said. "Being asleep when your not tired takes a lot out of a Pokemon."
Riah sighed, as she stood up. "I'll show you where it is." she said, as the two of us walked out the door. "I'm curious, what's the last thing you remember? You know, from BEFORE you woke up."
"Taking a Shadow Ball to the face." I put simply, and the two of us stayed silent until we reached the some room, designed for cleaning.
"You may want to clean yourself up before going to bed." Riah said.
Agreeing, I went into the bathroom, and looked in the mirror.
My two cat ears perked up, as I saw how much dirt I had all over my nice, smooth, petit pink body and large feet. The part especially dirty was my skinny tail, with a lot of fur on the very end, the fur having caught a lot of dirt.
After I used a cloth to clean myself, I floated out of the bathroom, and proceeded to follow Riah to the guest room in silence.
When we got there, I looked inside. It wasn't much.
The guest room was just a bed. It had red sheet, and a white pillow. There was nothing fancy about it.
I walked into the room, and hopped onto the bed. "Thanks for showing me where this was."
"It was no trouble." Riah said, smiling. "Well, have a good night."
She took a step away from the door, but then poked her head back. "Quick question: are you a boy or a girl?"
"Neither." I said.
"Are you sure?" Riah asked. I answered by pointing between my legs, in which she mouthed an "Oohhhh", before leaving.
With her gone, I flopped my body onto the pillow, and almost instantly went lights out.
THE NEXT DAY
I woke up, feeling full of energy, much more than the previous day, as I flew down the stairs to the place I was resting when I first arrived. It happened to be next to a kitchen, so I sat in a yellow stool, where I saw Lucy working in some room, which smelled like something delicious was in it.
"Ah, Mew, good to see you're awake." Lucy said, turning herself away from her cooking. "How was the room?"
"Quite bland, no offense." I said. "I enjoyed the comfiness of the pillow, but there could have been a little more decoration."
"Oh, I'm sorry..." Lucy said, feeling down.
"No no no, don't be sorry!" I said, waving my small, skinny hands at her. "Sorry means you did something wrong! You did nothing wrong, the room was nice!"
"Why thank you, Mew..." Lucy said, wiping a tear from her eye. "That actually means a lot."
I gave her a smile.
"What is this concoction I smell?" I asked, sniffing the air in the direction of the kitchen.
"A blend of Razz Berries, Cirtus Berries, and steak." Lucy said.
I stared her in the face, confused. "What's steak?"
"Bits of certain animalistic Pokemon." Lucy said. "I thought it was pretty gruesome at first, but it just tastes SO GOOD."
"Killing Pokemon for a meal?" I asked. "Is that not a form of cannibalism?"
Lucy shook her head.
"I'll try some!" I exclaimed, proudly.
"Alright!" Lucy exclaimed, as she went to work in the food-making room. "So, do you think your going to enroll at a school?"
I looked at her, puzzled. "What's school?"
Lucy stopped dead in her tracks. "You mean... You've never been to a school?"
"Not that I can remember." I said. "Why? What is it?"
"It's a place where you learn things!" Lucy exclaimed, abandoning her meal to come over and explain what school was to me. "It's practically mandatory for kids like yourself!"
"I'm not a kid." I said.
"Oh really? How old are you?" Lucy asked, grinning.
"..."
"You don't know, do you?" Lucy said, waggling her jackal-like finger at me. "Alright. Once you've eaten your food, I'll take you, Ricky, and Riah to school."
"Will I have to start at the beginning?" I asked.
"There isn't really a beginning." Lucy said. "Some classes will be with people your age, some older, some younger."
"Ah, I understand." I said. "I thought people were divided into age groups."
"... How old are you, again?" Lucy asked.
I shrugged.
Lucy sighed. "Well I'll try to get you in, but don't hold hold your breath."
"I do not know the meaning of this expression." I said.
"It means that you should lower your expectations." Lucy said
"Lower his expectations about what?" Ricky asked, as he and his sister descended the stairs into the room.
"I was thinking about putting Mew in school." Lucy said. "Although he's not a fan of starting from the beginning."
"I'm not planning on staying in this... Rather welcoming house much longer, anyways." I said. "Once I know where I belong, I'm going to go to wherever that is."
"Doesn't the school have to identify your species to be able to get you into school?" Riah asked. "How is Mew getting in?"
Lucy looked down, depressed. "That thought hadn't crossed my mind."
"Maybe this 'school' has more information on me than you four have." I said. "If it is a place of learning, it stands to reason that the people there would be intelligent."
"He's got a point." Ricky said.
"Would you people stop referring to me as a 'he'?" I said. "I am neither a he nor a she."
"How do you know?" Ricky asked. "Did you remember something?"
"No, I have not." I said, as Lucy set 3 steaks on the table. "I just know that males and females have some organ between their legs."
"Oh right." Ricky said, looking below my waist. "That."
I took one of the steak off the table, threw it in the air, and caught it with my mouth.
"That's... Unsanitary..." Lucy said.
"Oh, I'm sorry." I said, putting my hand over my mouth, as I swallowed the steak whole.
Lucy stared in disbelief at first, but then she smiled, and giggled. "You are one funny Pokemon, Mew."
ON THE RIDE TO SCHOOL
"I'm still missing the concept of this 'school'." I said, as I sat in the back seat of a black machine on rubber, small cylinders, which I was informed is called a track, the rubber cylinders called tires, driven by Lucy. "Why go to an entirely different building to learn things if one can learn these same things from their own houses?"
"Some people do." Lucy said. "However, some people enjoy school better than what you just described, which is called 'homeschool'."
"Why do people find it more enjoyable than working from one's house?" I asked.
"There's more activites at school." Riah said. "There's a playground, there's a gymnasium for sports, 8 different arenas, even a statue of Arceus."
"Arenas?" I asked. "What kind of arenas?"
"Well, they're really just different gymnasiums, but they're intended for battling, each one with a different type." Riah explained. "Every school in every region has to have 8 gyms, each with their choice of type, plus one leader for each gym, and each leader pairs up with 2 of his best students."
"What are the 8 types are in this region?" I asked.
"In Sinnoh, there's a grass gym, a water gym, a rock gym, a ghost gym, a fighting gym, a steel gym, an ice gym, and a electric gym." Riah said. "Students can challenge the leader and his best students to a battle, and if they win, they get a badge."
"With all 8 badges, you're allowed to challenge the Elite Four, which is a group of five people, one of which is the leader of the whole school, and they all have their own types." Ricky said. "You can challenge them any time after you get 8 badges, but you have to beat them in order to graduate."
"I feel like they should be called the Elite Five." I said. "Have either of you gotten any of your badges?"
"Not yet." Ricky said. "Our training isn't experienced enough, and we're still Riolu."
"Your father was a Riolu when he beat the Elite Four." Lucy said. "Of course, his name was Richard back then."
"Your names change when you evolve?" I asked. "This is all too confusing."
"Well you'll get used to it." Riah said, as Lucy drove the truck into the parking lot of a large building, with tons of Pokemon. Jigglypuffs, Eevees, Kirlias, Pikachus, and even a few Pokemon from other regions, such as Sylveons.
I frowned. Not a single Pokemon there looked like me.
Riah noticed my face. "Something wrong?"
"I don't see myself." I said. "My species, I mean."
"Oh, that's not so bad. So you'll be a rare Pokemon that the school only has one of." Riah said. "You won't be the first here without the rest of his- sorry, ITS species."
The disappointment did not leave me lips, but my eyes did perk up.
"Besides," Riah said. "you may be the alone in your species for now, but at least you're not alone in this school. You have friends. You have Ricky and me."
I smiled. "Thanks."
Riah smiled back, before jumping out of the car. "WOO! School time!"
I thought of her as immature from the instant I saw her, but in that moment, I learned that she could be sincere when she had to.
Ricky hopped out the other door, closing it behind him, before running to catch up with his sister.
I, too, flew out of the car as fast as I could, using Psychic to close the door as I flew.
AT THE OFFICE
"New student?" a female Empoleon asked. "This one doesn't even look like he's with your family."
Standing on the large desk, I cringed at the word "he".
"It's not." Lucy said, emphasizing the "it's". "We adopted it yesterday, and little Mew here was so excited about the prospect of going to a school like this one."
"Hmm..." the Empoleon hummed. "I just need to look something up quickly."
She used the tips of her wings to type three letters into her computer... Wait, was she typing my name!?
"So, Mew..." the Empoleon said. "I think the leader of the Elite Four will be pleased to have you join our school, I will just need to make a quick call."
She stood up from her chair, walked into another room, and I waited with Lucy. Ricky and Riah had already gone to what they called their "classes".
After a long wait, the Empoleon returned. "Well, the leader gave me the green light, so long as you pass a simple test."
"That's absurd." Lucy said. "Ricky and Riah didn't have to take a test."
"Well, we need to know what type of Pokemon Mew is." the Empoleon said. "Unless you know, then we'll need it to take the test."
"I'll do it." I said. "What's the test?"
"It's fairly simple." the Empoleon said, pushing a button on her desk, which projected her voice across the school. "Could I have have Eeks down to the office, please?"
"Is Eeks an Ekans?" I asked.
"A lot of people think that, but no." the Empoleon said. "Actually, knowing it, Eeks should be here in just a bit."
I looked around for Eeks, but I didn't see him.
"What do you want?" I heard a voice by me ask. I turned around, and looked at a fan. I hardly paid any attention to it before, but nonetheless, I noticed that the colour was different.
And it was talking, too.
"Ah, Eeks, you're here." the Empoleon said. "I would like you to test this young fellow here."
"By 'test', do you mean..." Eeks started.
"The Ghost Gym is available for use." the Empoleon said, which answered everyones questions.
I didn't know what was weirder. The fact that someone was already challenging me to a battle on the first day, or the fact that the Empoleon was making me fight a fan!
"Alright, I guess I have time." Eeks said, as an orange blob phased out of it.
No wait, it was the orange blob.
Once it left the fan, I could see that Eeks looked like an orange head attached to 2 lightning bolts.
So Eeks was a Rotom.
Rotom... Eeks...
"Why 'Eeks'?" I asked.
The Empoleon was about to answer, but Eeks cut her off. "None of your business, now come on, I'll take you to the gym."
I nodded, as the two of us began floating down a long hallway.
"By the way..." Eeks started. "what's your type?"
"I'm a psychic." I said, grinning. "Don't let that hold you back, though."
Eeks grunted. "I wasn't going to, anyways."
"Why'd you ask?"
"Why'd you ask why I had my name?"
"Why didn't you tell me why you had your name?"
"Why did you tell me your type?"
"Because I was asked." I put simply.
Instead of asking anything more, or saying another word, Eeks simply opened a door, which looked like it led to a graveyard. "After you." it said.
Wanting to be with my new friends, as well as get some answers, I floated into the room, and Eeks followed, closing the door behind it.
"So this is the ghost gym?" I asked. I studied the area. There was a purple haze everywhere, so thick that I couldn't see the floor, although I guessed that it was purple too. "Seems interesting."
"Well, just make a good punching bag." Eeks said. "Wouldn't wanna disappoint everyone in the AUDIENCE!"
Suddenly, a bunch of red camera lights turned on, signaling that the battle would be broadcasted.
All over the school.
"Well..." I said. "Guess I better put on a good show."
Thanks for reading to the end! To those of you wondering, Eeks is the Rotom from Black and White, which I know, takes place in Unova. I got a plotpoint explaining it, don't worry.
Also, there may be a few of you wondering why I made Mew the main character. Let's just say that I write a lot of stories with clones...
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