Prologue: What Death and Being Reborn is Like
A long time ago a legend began about two powerful Pokémon, one being a Pokémon who appeared only in terrible nightmares. This dark entity was called Darkrai by the people in the lands; he would bring terrible nightmares to the people of any area he visited. But there was one who could counter this spell, the Pokémon of the moon Cresselia. Holding one of its feathers would bring good dreams and make Darkrai's powers useless. While Darkrai would hide in shadows to scare others Cresselia would appear at night to fight that nightmare bringing Pokémon. Their battles never ended with one the victory and one the loser. Instead the battles acted much like Yin and Yang, one being the light and the other being the dark. For many years the people lived with these two constantly fighting, however over the years people soon began to forget of these two great powers. However one day a young child found a prophecy inspired into a stone tablet, the tablet read the " For they are a warning, One day the lives of Pokémon Will change. For a long time the creatures of our world Will not die in battle. But there will come a day, Where he who creates nightmares, Will awaken a great and terrible thing. Only the one who can purify the beings of missing hearts Will be able to stop the darkness." One day a strange illness fell over the lands, Pokémon that once stood proud and tall after battle even if they had fainted suddenly began…to stop moving. Those who fainted died horrible deaths, no one could figure out a cure for this. It infected wild Pokémon, the Pokémon that helped out trainers and human alike. The illness frightened the people, soon the human race began to quarrel more and they got more violent trying to stop the force that plague these wondrous creatures. No one could figure out where they illness came from…
It felt…odd to say the least. He knew he was dead and yet he was still very aware of everything around him. Floating in an endless black void his eyes remained half way open staring into the blackness, he could vaguely feel something brush against his face or the limbs of his body or it would move his hair slightly. He wouldn't call it wind but something similar to that, he really had no idea what to call it but it was rather relaxing or annoying depending on when he could recall it touching him. As he remained there floating for hours or days even he honestly couldn't tell, time moved so slowly or quickly in the realm he remained in. He never said anything nor moved just remained floating…
At some point his eyes closed all the way and he felt his body drop like a rock, memories floated into his mind; his plans to take over the Organization XIII and teach that Xemnas a lesson or two, his scheming after meetings with Larxene in the privacy of his room, the pure joy of hearing that he would Lord of Castle Oblivion and rule over not one but FOUR higher ranking Nobodies, the schemes slowly being set into motion once he was in power, then…the betrayal of Vexen which lead to some of his plans being revealed, Naminé's betrayal, Axel's double crossing, his battle against Axel, and…his battle against Sora. He remembered being cut open, his darkness being ripped out of his heart and body as he reached out trying to grab Sora and then…he ended up hear. No…there was one other thing about this place he could recall...
The screams.
He could hear terrible screams that surrounded him, he couldn't figure out who was screaming or where it was coming from but they were terrible! But now…he couldn't hear them anymore. Perhaps he finally was going to where he would go once he fully died.
"Professor? Are Bulbasaurs supposed to look like that?"
"Hm…how particular!"
Marluxia opened his eyes and blinked a few times, looking around he appeared to be sitting on a tiled floor that was pure white. The walls were white, the only color were various books cases and the books that sat upon their shelves. The lighting of the room was bland and quite frankly, it reminded him of Vexen's lab. Wait was he in a lab? Why? He left someone touch him lightly "I've never seen a Bulbasaur with these colors before. I mean overall he has the typical color scheme but the tip of his bulb is an interesting color!" Wait bulb? Like a light bulb or a bulb you grow a plant with? What was going on?
He heard a soft feminine laugh
"Whatever reason he seems healthy!"
"I agree he seems plenty healthy, he should make a great first Pokémon for a new trainer." Wait…what the heck was a Pokémon? Was that some kind of new heartless? Also…why did he feel so terribly short?! He knew plenty well he wasn't one of the taller Nobodies (Heck Lexaeus was so tall that he HAD to be in the eight range he swore!) and he was only taller than a fair few members (Those being Roxas, Larxene, Luxord, Demyx, Zexion, Saïx, Axel, and Xigbar) but this felt…shorter than Roxas! It was a weird feeling. He felt like maybe…the size of a house cat? Maybe smaller? He wasn't sure, he moved to take a step and he felt his legs were super heavy for some reason. No it was whatever was on his back that was weighing him down! What was on his back, he happened to look up seeing a tall mirror (Like the type you find in dressing rooms). He was staring at some weird looking creature; it was short (Like it's belly was touching the ground almost), this bluish green color with darker colored spots all over its body, a large green bulb was sitting on its back though the very tip was tinted a similar pink to his hair, it's oddly shaped blue eyes stared back at him, on the edge of its stumpy legs (Or would that be feet?) it had three little white claws, and on either side of its mouth a single white tooth peeked out from underneath it's lips.
The more he looked at it he swore it semi reminded him of an oversize bull frog, curious about the creature he took a step forward. He could hear various voices behind him talking to each other; he paused when he took another step forward. The little creature was taking a step towards him as well, he waited for it to move but he finally set his foot down. The little creature set its foot down, he lifted his foot again and so did the creature. Blinking he ran forward so did the creature, no it wasn't a random creature in the room! IT WAS HIM! Marluxia nearly jumped back when he realized it, WHAT THE HECK?! He heard a soft laugh
"Awww….he's experiencing a mirror for the first time!" he heard a female voice coo at him. Looking behind him he saw a young woman with shoulder length black hair and purple eyes, she had a pair of dark purple goggles on her head and wore a cream colored shirt and dark blue pants with a white lab coat over it. She smiled at him "Newly hatched Pokémon I swear are the cutest of all the Pokémon stages." She told the male next to him. The man next to her was an older man with grayish blond hair with dark colored eyes; he wore a red shirt with tan pants with a similar white coat to the female's. He smiled
"Well I do admit when they are first experiencing things it's rather amusing to say the least." He laughed a bit. Marluxia looked around confused as to what was going on and why the heck he was a little…animal. He suddenly was being picked up by the female
"It's sad to see you go so soon, trainers come by every day to get their starters now a day I swear. But I guess its required seeing…"
"I know it's sad Jira, it's sad to see these young Pokémon have to grow up in our world filled with problems and sadness but perhaps they could lead those trainers to find a way to stop this disease…" Disease? What disease? Jira sighed
"I only can hope I suppose but in a way…I highly doubt it will ever happen in our life time Professor." She told him. The man smiled a bit (Though it was tinted with sadness)
"Well we should have them placed into their Pokéballs. I was asked by a mother to give her two children a Pokémon tomorrow seeing it's their tenth birthday." He told her
"Alright Professor." The female set Marluxia onto a metal table he hadn't noticed before picking up an odd looking little ball, it was red on top and white on the bottom in the middle was a small button. At first the ball was only the size of maybe a Ping-Pong ball but touching the button it grew to be the size of maybe a softball or perhaps a little bigger he couldn't be sure "Alright little one, time for you to rest up. Tomorrow could be a big day for you! Bulbasaur return." Jira ordered. Marluxia had no idea what a Bulbasaur was but a little red light shot out of the ball hitting him, he had no idea why but he felt drawn to enter the strange little ball. The red light surrounded him before he taken inside of the ball, the object opening briefly to let him in before shutting fully. Inside was rather…bland. Marluxia imagine this would be what the inside of a computer might look like with circuits running every which way but oddly he felt inclined…to nap. He curled up and found he could easily fall asleep.
This was the weirdest day ever…no doubts about that!