"Every man dies. Not every man lives"
William Wallace
Chapter One
How it came to be
Day one, 1st of January 2009, 00:00 Midnight (Dutch time)
Our world as we know it came to an end at 20th of September, 2010 at exactly midnight, I know it sounds incredibly clichè .. we all thought that.
But at that exact moment scientists all over the world talked about "Black holes" and "Inter-galactic matter transportation" and lots and lots of "unexplainable earthquakes" for at that moment a roar sounded, heard all over the world, like thunder before the lightning and then the ground shook with such an enormous force that it was a miracle that the only damage were some cars and trees and after the 'earthquake' came the purple flash followed by silence.
Then Hell got loose of its chains as roars, squeaks and other sounds emitted from around us.
That night one third of the world population died, most cities were annihilated and several leaders of countries weren never found.
All because of them.
They appeared that night, no one had ever heard of them, they looked like aliens and some like animals, reptiles and even humans.
But they weren't, they were weird, alien, unknown.
I didn't hate them, they killed none of my family, we had a very small one for that fact just me and my parents, one aunt and my grandparents. But we were a small minority for those without losses were with less that those with. Whole families were wiped out, some small countries were now without any living people in it.
It was choas that first day.
Day Two, 2nd of January 2009
The army came, with food and supplies as they made a wall around the non-destroyed parts of Rotterdam, they did this to Den Haag and Amsterdam too because of them being important.
The army also spread words of the creatures we could see flying above us and some said that soon we would have to go back to our normal lives, I scowled at that.
The television screens only showed the news from several Europian countries and the United States that were using every minute of the day to talk about this chaos, me and other teens and some smaller children were bored out of our minds because this would obviously be another adult-only problem.
Day Three, 3d of January 2009
They had more information now, they send some tanks towards one of the 'Hot-Spots' with the creatures, we saw them live that day, they were weird and came in almost every colour.
Some had flaming limbs, others looked like they were plants and others looked completely alien to us. The none of the bigger creatures turned its big, yellow head and roared before yellow-orange sparks were appearing in its open mouth before a beam of yellow energie destroyed the tank and camera. Soon a game was formed 'Alien Killer' one of the players had to be the 'alien' and the others had to hind, Alien included, and the seeker had to find them all and point out who the alien was with the help of the 'normal' kids.
It was some weird version of hide-and-seek but it kept us from being bored, that and re-reading Harry Potter.
Day Four, 4th of January
I saw them, inside our walls, with our people.
They might think that we wouldn't notice them, hiding some sort of purple rat or brown bird under their jackets, or in their bags but we did.
Several of them were my friends, Daan Waterman for example actually showed me his while exclaiming "Look at it, it's so awesome and maybe it can do those things the others can too !"
I looked at the purple rat and scoothed away "it might kill you" I whispered.
"Do you want to die ?" I added.
Daan looked at me sceptically with a raised eyebrow "Do you ?"
But then an idea struck me "I want to see"
"What ?" he sounded confused.
"Where you got it of course, if it doesn't kill you even I might have a chance … right ?"
Daan looked thoughtfull for a moment before nodding "I guess, maybe others want to come too .. let's ask them" we quickly gathered our friends from school and clubs before making a plan.
Tomorrow we would go and see the creatures for ourselves.
That night I prayed, hoping to survive the next day.
Day Five, 5th of January
It was Saturday now at nine o'clock, Daan and seven others were waiting for me at the wall surrounding our outer most parts of the city that wasn't destroyed.
"Finally" he sighed "What were you thinking, coming here barely in time"
I shrugged "I wanted to pack some snacks and drinks .. you know how great a hiker I am"
He sighed again before grunting a "Fine, let's go"
We walked for a good hour to what once was the part of the town around 'Kralingse Bos' a forest in Rotterdam.
I ate an apple while walking, they were my favorite fruit, and was chatting animately to one of my other friends named Joanne, a average-sized girl with long brown hair that loved horses, she couldn't shut up about them.
"And then Browny started whinnieing and then he reared and Mark managed to stay on him and then Browny suddenly started trotting and actually jumped over the hurdle .. it was so dreamy " she sighed whistfully, she also had a huge crush on Mark, someone from her horseriding-class .. but I still liked her.
When we entered the forest we all turned silent as we walked, we heard the strange cries, growls and grunts from around us untill we broke into a clearing.
Part of the once green clearing was turning yellow, others were black like a fire had raged there before being put out and several creatures were looking at us with an unreadable expression in their foreign eyes.
I saw several bird-like things coloured in shades of brown, purple-rat-like things with rather big teeth looked at us while hiding behind a similar brown-rat-like thing.
In the back stood a creature that stood out the most, it was higher than a metre and was red, it had lizard-like skin and angry blue eyes, then my eyes widened.
Its tail was one fire ! On freaking fire !
I let out a shaky breath I realized I was holding and stepped back towards Daan "was this one here then as well ?" he nodded "Stay away from that one .. it's tail is on fire and that's just freaky .. believe me" I nodded, trying to keep my uncertainty hidden from view.
He seemed pleased as he quickly let his purple-rat go and followed after it calling "Come on Peter try biting through that tree or something !"
I sighed, he named the thing Peter, after his dog whom he named after his rabbit.
The guy was nuts, or unique .. depends on how you see it.
I was watching the others run after various creatures while taking occasional bites from my apple, which was rather hard thanks to my braces, it appeared that the creature's personalities varied like their body's for example, a big white-dog like one with a grey-black horn-thingie on its head was looking from afar while a small orange fox-like one was happily cuddling with Joanne.
Then I felt it, the feeling of someone staring at you very very hard from behind you and I turned around, ready to fend of Daan with his "Look at Peter !" exclamations or Joanne ready to continue talking about Mark.
I wasn't.
It was the red lizard-dragon one staring at me from the shadows, flaming tail swishing in the slight breeze and another patch of scorched grass around the fire coming from its tail.
His gaze was fixated on the partially-eaten apple in my hands and I saw a slight trail of drool coming from its jaws as it stared.
And stared.
And stared some more.
Then I got annoyed and grabbed another apple from my pack and rolled it towards the lizard with a sigh, being nice could give me some extra credit from the lizard resulting in me not being scorched when he decides to kill us all .. I hope.
The lizard whipped its head towards the apple rolling towards it and grabbed it with its claws before throwing it up and catching it in its jaws with deadly grace and then started staring at me again. I shuddered and grabbed another apple which I rolled towards the creature, who in turn just snatched the thing from the grass and eating the red fruit like it was some kind of foreign meal made by the very best cooks from the world .. or something like that.
And with that move, just rolling apples towards the mysterious creature I might have sealed my fate, just like Daan, just like Joanne, just like about three million other people around the whole world.
We sealed our fates, together we sealed the fate of our planet.
I sealed mine with an apple.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Reviews are very much appreciated, flames less, and I hope you enjoyed it this far. Upcoming chapters will be longer.
I always wanted to do a 'Pokèmon to our wold' story so here it is, the short first chapter of 'Apples' which will be my second story in this universe. If you read Purple Glory you might know my tendancy to make it rather evil and have many hardships awaiting my characters, this one will be partially the same but on the other hand very different because of the characters, setting and customs.
The story first takes place in Rotterdam, a Dutch city, because I am Dutch and only know Dutch customs I chose this one .. they are speaking English though.
Just to clear some major things up:
1. There are lots of 'creatures, thingie, red-brown like .. you get the point' because they don't know they are pokèmon, pokèmon don't exist in OUR world, nor does the anime,games etc, for them they are the aliens, the creatures, the things.
2. Contrary to what the last few lines said this will no "Saving the world on my own" story, I despise those, so there are 3 million others that will 'seal their fate'
3. Pokèmon wiping out entire cities ? Imagine a Dragonite using Draco Mateor, now imagine multiple using it on New York ? New York will be ruined, EVERY single pokèmon suddenly finds itself in a foreign place, weird people and guns pointed at them ? They'll get scared and attack, resulting in a major killing-spree like thing, destorying lots of cities.
4. Why aren't the kids and stuff afraid ? Honestly ? I wouldn't care if my town would get invaded by Aliens, as long as I get my books, computer and horseriding and ofcourse my family and dog, the main characted has no reason to mourn, or be affraid because nothing has attacked her yet, besides curiousity killed the cat didn't it ?