This FanFic is based in a world were nobody knows about Pokémon and contains light swearing and small amounts of violence. I have reread these chapters and realised how badly written they are. Please bear with - the now older - me as I go through the motions of correcting the errors. Hope you enjoy :P

Chapter 1: Here Is My Tail

"?" P.O.V.

Why today? Why now? Of all times, of all places and things, why was it this? I could have handled almost anything else, but not this. There is no feeling in me but anger, irritation, and humiliation.

Okay, let me back up a bit. It all started off completely normally. I was going to school. I was walking calmly – all very normal. I was even singing along to the invisible music in my head of one of my favourite songs:

"You and I in a little toy shop
I'll buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Doo do doo~ do dooo~
99 red balloons go by."

That's where it gets more than a bit weird. I was a couple of blocks away from school – 4 to be precise – then, since I wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings, I bumped into a band of gangsters. Am I wrong to think of that so strange? Especially at this time of day. (It's almost vampiristic how they only emerge at night) As you would most likely suspect, I got into a fight.

I can guess your just dying to know about me - note my so~ very well hidden sarcasm. Well I'll tell you the best I can. Firstly, I'm a girl. I have quite short, straight hair. Often I have people ask me if I dyed my hair. It's jet black and in certain lights has a strange yellow tint. In comparison to my friends, I'm quite tall. My parents often joke on how I'm all limbs. They sometimes call me "Limbsy"... They aren't the most creative with their names. My legs and arms look a bit like they've been stretched by medieval torture machines, but most of my relatives look like that. My pixie ears always seem to be hidden by my hair and I have a strange birthmark on the elbow of my right arm and left leg.

Where was I?

So, there I was, surrounded by a gang of scary, buff looking dudes. My natural instinct was to fight. I'm a decent enough fighter, if I do say so myself. The adrenaline kicked in while "they" kicked out. There was a slight throbbing on the top of my head and on my birthmarks. Not what I wanted but, unfortunately, what I needed. By the end, I had a couple of scratches and bruises that probably would show more by morning, while the gang of brutes ran off with their tail between their legs. A short, bitter laugh escaped my mouth at this thought. I sighed and looked behind me. I knew what to expect, but it still upset me. The sweet irony of it all. A long, thick, black worm was there. It had broken through the back of my pants, my favourite pants. A tail. My tail. As midnight black as my hair with a yellow ring near the tip. I knew what would happen next but I felt my head as if I might have some better luck. I guess it's a habit. Of course they were there. My ears. They look like my tail but are slightly shorter and thinner. I noticed both rings on my ears were glowing as well as my tail. The "birthmark" on my arm was glowing. My "birthmarks" are strange rings that are like my tail's and ear's but they are skin coloured and when my arm glows it's less noticeable than my tail.

I had a feeling my situation is getting worse, since the ring on my leg, which doesn't usually glow, is doing just that. The same thing happened to my tail when my ears came. And at this rate I'm going to be late for school. Yes, even if I transform I have to go to school. Thank god it's fantasy day.

When I got close to school, I ran from tree to tree, trying to avoid being detected. When I got about 3 meters from the main entrance I noticed that couldn't go any further unnoticed. Take a deep breath and count to 5 I said to myself. I did just that and faced for the worst. In the entrance corridor there were so many people it made my head hurt. I saw some of my friends, Tailor and his little brother Swain, Honau, Midge and Nixie. I also saw my little sister, Evangeline. I was going to be in shit when I got home later. The worst part was that Abdol was there. Strangely, Jess wasn't there but she would pitch up sooner or later. More likely sooner than later.

Oh God, my ANs were even more riddled with errors than the actual content of the well, that's what this process is all about. One chapter down, several to go. This has officially been EDITED. *puts a stamp on it*

Until next time

I'm out.