My name is Joseph, and a week ago, everything was turned upside down

And this wasn't an exaggeration. I was eating dinner with my girlfriend when everything in my house turned upside down including me. it took me two bites and her to scream that I noticed the predicament. Unfortunately, she thought it was my doing and ran out of the house screaming that I was some…witch. Pretty sure I'm not a witch, but no matter. My girlfriend of three years just left me because I ate dinner and something stupid happened

It was a week later when it got really cold outside on the street near where I live. I'm walking back to my house when a youngish boy ran up to me, shoes crunching in the thin sidewalk snow "excuse me? are you a kind-hearted soul who…uh…" he looks at a piece of paper that looked like it was given to him "who is able to keep a secret?" I'm taken aback. Who was this kid and why did he think I could keep a secret? Of course, I can keep a secret, I can also call myself a rather generous person, whatever "uh…why?" better ask why he's asking. He smiles this big goofy smile "my daddy says I need to find someone kind-hearted and who can keep a secret, then bring them to him" he says. I shrug "uh…is your dad a nice person?" I ask. The kid nods, like it was an obvious answer "oh yes he's a very nice person. I mean, you exist, right?" that line confused me a lot. I wasn't really doing anything at the moment so why not see where this was going? "alright, I'll take you up on the offer" I say. The kid somehow smiles even bigger "awesome! My name's Mew. Now follow me!"

Mew grabs my hand and pulls me along. I trip trying to keep up with him. Soon, after turning down a few streets, we get to one of the many multifloored hotels "daddy got us a really big room, our family is really big to!" Mew says. I realized I was meeting this boy's whole family "wait…what am i…" I stutter before Mew runs ahead to the entrance of the building, then presses a button on a panel attached to the side of the entranceway "ah uh twenty-three!" Mew says into the microphone. A lady, sounding bored on the other end, responds "yeah alright" the door buzzes and Mew holds it open "come on!" he shouts to me. I put my hands on my waists and awkwardly look around "uh…I actually have something I have to do…I don't think I can do whatever it is your looking for me to do" I say, trying to get myself out of this situation. Mew then laughs "don't be silly, you have nothing to do! Come on!"

I couldn't get out of this with just words. I followed Mew in and we take the elevator "now hold on, big sister Palkia made a big rip in the place, which I guess is good because our family is real big" Mew explains to me. I raise an eyebrow "rip in the place? What does-" I'm interrupted by the elevator suddenly shaking violently. i grab the wood handles hard "what the hell?!" I shout, lights in the elevator flickering. Mew laughs "it's okay, this always happens when we go in this elevator. Only to our house because no ones supposed to know were here" Mew whispers that last part, which makes me shiver. The Elevator stops shaking and it dings "alright were here!" Mew says as the elevator doors open to the massive interior of a house "we bought some house on the third floor of this place, then big sister Palkia just…did her stuff!

The elevator entered into a living room, as big as a small house, the living room was as big as a condo! How rich was this family?! A few hallways branch out into other rooms of the house. A huge window looks out onto the street, where cars pass by down below. A man, maybe of early twenties with dark clothing and super blonde hair comes out from one of them, he looks up from a phone at Mew and me "hey Mew, you found someone?" I then realize his eyes were a weird, black with yellow irises, it freaked me out "yeah! This is him!" Mew shakes my arm, the shady man looks at me and nods "Joseph isn't it?" Joseph? He knows my name? "how do you…" I start but he interrupts "I've seen you a few times in your living room, you have this huge mirror. Then you met this chick at your work, she was okay, right? You married, right?" I was speechless, how did he know all of this? "aren't you supposed to be in your room Giratina? Daddy grounded you again" Mew says. This family has weird names, Giratina shrugs "whatever" he says, walking back into the hallway he came from. Mew grabs my hand and leads me into one of the hallways. A teenaged man and woman was arguing in one of the kitchens about how much salt to put into a casserole, a kid, maybe Mew's age, was real sword fighting with a man in blue robes, in one of the bedrooms, a man was sleeping next to a woman around my age, she looked cute. Basically, the house was huge. we get to this huge wooden door at the end of one of the hallways, Mew knocks "daddy?! I got you someone!" he shouts. A silence hangs in the air "come in" a rather deep voice calls from the other side. Mew pushes the door open and I follow him in to a massive office space.

Many paintings hung on the walls, each holding a creature or two that certainly aren't from earth. A larger painting of a white deer boasting a abstract-looking ring around it's body hung over a large wooden where an older looking man in a white suit sat. he looks up at me with menacing eyes "welcome, please, sit" I walk down the middle of the office and sit in a rather nice chair. Mew pulls up a smaller chair from the side of the room to the desk "Joseph, divorced. Currently living with his brother. Are you sure he's fit for the job?" the man asks, Mew nods "oh yes, you told me exactly to get someone with a…" "yes I know what I told you, but how do you know this information?" Mew slowly looks at me "uh…well…I asked him and he said…yes?" Mew explains. The older man covers his face with one hand and shakes his head "Mew, verbal answering doesn't mean they're telling the truth" the man sighs and looks up at me "alright, im going to have to erase his memories after this. Do you know what the painting around the room consists of?" the man asks me. I shake my head "I could guess…some kind of mythical creature portraits? I've certainly haven't seen them before heheh…" I say, trying to lighten the mood a bit. Mew laughs, the man stays silent "it's all of us, every member of the family from Mew here to me" the man looks behind him to the large picture of the deer. I suddenly had the feeling that the thing was him. The man looks to Mew "could you point him to you on the wall Mew?" he asks. Mew smiles, getting up "I'm riiiiight…" Mew suddenly jumps, taking off into the air. He flies up above the deer .painting to a smaller painting of a pink cat like creature "…here!" he says proudly. It was at this moment when I lost it "w-what the fuck?! I mean what the fuck dude?!" I yelled. The man seemed to be curious at Mew "Mew, you're flying" he says

Mew looks down at himself "whoa! I can fly again!" he says, beaming "isn't this great dad?!" "again…?" I repeat. The man looks to me "as you could have guessed, we are not human. We are gods. Gods of everything that makes up the universe and all who live in it. We take the form of the animals you see all over the walls, however…" the man trails off "something happened in the recent meeting. After a bright flash of something, we realized we had taken the forms of humans, and lost every bit of power we had. fortunately, we were able to find an okay place of residence for now in a pocket dimension residing inside of a building. You are now standing in this pocket dimension and, after about a week without any kind of the god-like powers we once had" the man looks up at Mew, flying around the room "Mew suddenly flying is a sight to behold"

The man looks back to me "and there may be a reason for it" he leans into a microphone connected to a PA system "Giratina, please come into my office for a moment" he says into the mic, which is lead by about thirty seconds of silence, waiting for Giratina to come forth. I turn to the man "uh, how did you know my name? why does everyone here know my name?" I ask him. He doesn't look up from one of his papers "everyone knows everyone around here. Daddy here is supposed to be the head of the family, the lead of all of us" Mew whispers to me "he goes by the name Arceus" suddenly, someone bursts into the room. Sure enough, the guy in the dark clothing and the weird eye colours is at the office doors "whoa dad! Since when did you want to talk to someone like me?" he says with a smug look on his face. Arceus sighs "shut up. I want you to do something" he asks. Giratina pulls up a chair "lay it on me" he says. Mew leans close "you have the terminology of Satan, right?" he whispers. I nod, wondering where he was going with this. Mew silently pointed at Giratina, giving me the impression that the Devil and god was literally in the same room "I need you to run an analysis on Joseph here, I'll allow you to use the room you designed for this occasion" Arceus says. Giratina is beaming "really?! What a turn of events that you…" "just do it before I change my mind"

Giratina leads me into a separate room. Mew stays behind with Arceus "so, how you holding up?" he asks me. I snap out of my daze "oh, uh, oh no I'm fine" I answer. Giratina takes that as an okay "did you know I used to be really into optics?" he says, breaking the weird tension hanging in the air. This surprises me "really? And your supposed to be the king of the underworld?" I ask. Giratina laughs "is that what dad said I was?" he asks. I chuckle along with him "Mew told me" I answer, Giratina nods "yeah, well, not really. I'm the god of the distortion world, the world that you see beyond mirrors. That's why I knew who you were when I saw you come out of the elevator. Did you have a life before now?" Giratina asks. I shrug "well, I'm a student teacher at a few high schools. I'm hoping to become an actual teacher once I finish university" I say. Giratina looks surprised "a teacher? No wonder Mew chose you on the street. Dad actually has been looking for someone who can teach" he says, smiling his weird grin. I decided to ask the question I wanted to ask "what did you look like before you turned human?" I ask. Giratina's face lightens up "oh I was a monster! Serpentine, six wings, two different forms! this human form does do it well" Giratina turns into a hallway and we find an airlocked door "through here, this is the only other room I'm legit aloud to be in other then my own room. Come on in!"

Inside was a rather large laboratory "I designed the lab myself, I was gonna show him during the latest meeting I had to go to until that thing with the light happened and we were suddenly human" Giratina says "now, no need for waiting for this, I want you, joseph, to stand in the booth over there" a small booth stands attached to one of the walls. the door opens on its own and I step inside "alright, this is not going to hurt, actually were technically not doing anything at all to you, which is kinda disappointing but whatever" I stand in the glass booth as the door closes. A radio of Giratina talking turns on "alright, here we go" he says, ribbing his hands together. He moves his arms around in a circular fashion, then pushes forwards. A black ball of electrical energy quickly appears, hovering in front of his hand. I'm taken aback "wow! It's been a while since I've done that" Giratina says, making the ball suddenly disappear

Giratina moves to a control panel "alright, using the power of science, were going to make that box you're in…completely wave proof using interference" he turns a dial on a panel, the sound from outside fade into nothing "alright, nothing's going in or out of that box of yours" the microphone loudly echoes through the chamber "now, for test two" Giratina makes the same arm movements as last time, but this time nothing happened. No ball of darkness appears. Giratina lowers his hands and quickly takes out his phone, calling someone "hey dad?! Your hypothesis about the waves and stuff? Yeah…you were right"