Author's Note: This is an interesting little idea for a fic that was given to me by a friend, dooman1000/2dudeswriting. Since I can't really think of many ideas for PITRW at the moment, I thought I'd work on something fresh. This is a bit of a "What-If" story and will not affect the main story of PITRW. This is going to be a short story, maybe 6-10 chapters.

Pokérus

Chapter 1: The beginning

I sat in my room and stared at my iPod. There was not much to do on a Monday morning other than play games or watch little youtube videos until school started. With a small feeling of an impact on my bed, I turned and saw a small Buizel was jumping around. "Aqua, calm down" I said, then the Pokemon calmed down and sat still.

"Rates of Pokérus have almost doubled as of two weeks ago, but seems to be harmless. In related news, Doctor Crane has been studying Pokérus and recently made a discovery. 'It's nothing like I've ever seen before. This thing mutates rather quickly and can have the ability to produce toxins. I advise that any contact with infected pokemon should be avoided, Pokérus can become potentially lethal. A newer strain has also been found, but we still haven't found anything about it yet'". The news was on, but I don't know why I had it on. I never really had a reason to buy a TV since I downloaded or streamed episodes of my favorite shows from websites or the Pirate Bay.

My Buizel came up to my face and kissed me on the cheek, "Where can I get something to eat, Charles?" she asked me. I taught Aqua how to speak English a few months ago, and she got quite good at it after some training. We were also… in a bit of a relation. We made out and such, but never got into anything big. After a short breakfast, I went to school. It wasn't a far walk, so I was able to get there in about a twenty minute walk.

Inside the school wasn't too good. I could hear coughing coming from about a quarter of all the other students. I avoided most of them and made my way to each of my classes quickly before I could possible catch whatever is going around the school.

"Charles, can we go home? I don't like what's going on" Aqua whispered to me, staring at all the people who were coughing. I replied "Just calm down, school's over in an hour, plus we can hide in the library from everyone else during my spare". Not many people were in the library during the last period of school other than the librarian and people who were studying for finals, so Aqua and I sat in the far corner and watched a few episodes of one of my favorite animes, InuYasha. There was a small rumor that one of the students was hospitalized near dismissal after passing out. I was only there long enough to hear faint sirens before walking home.

The rest of the day was pretty quiet, other than the news which my Mom was watching. I was sitting in the living room and playing some game on my iPod, until I overheard "Mother reunited with her 'dead' son and a woman seems to have survived a horrible industrial accident. It seems luck is on our side today" from the TV, "In other news, multiple corpses missing from a morgue, could this be a hoax?".

I shook my head. Why would people steal somebodies body? I didn't pay any attention to it and got up from the couch I was sitting on and went upstairs to my room and laid on my bed. Aqua jumped up beside me and kissed me on the cheek, "Did you bring anything to eat?" she asked. I took a piece of meatloaf Mom said for supper and gave it to the Pokemon, and she nibbled on it beside me.

I stared out the window the rest of the night, bored out of my mind. I just hoped most of my evenings that something interesting might happen, something unusual, like something to change life as we know it. "Charles, I'm tired" Aqua said to me, yawning. I nodded in agreement and slowly closed my eyes with my Pokemon curled up beside me.

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