"So now Patrick's a pokèmon . . . . . huh I wonder who's next" James questioned from the front room as his trainer and close friend.

George was busy lift heavy object like Sofa's and large pots for his mother to clean under "this is not how intended to spend my Sunday morning" the chesnaught sighed to himself, a Sunday for him used to be laying in bed watching anime like Danganronpa or Ghost Stories, but recently his mother woke him up in order to help her clean the house by using his vine whip to reach places she couldn't and to lift heavy object for her to clean under.

"Hey everyone needs to clean their house you know, you will be doing it too when you move out" George's mother replied back, a sigh following her last statement as she continued to scrub at an unclean-able stain in the carpet.

"I know but I won't be doing it every Sunday, especially at 7 in the morning" yawned the chesnaught in reply to his mothers last comment, as the pair proceeded throughout the house cleaning everything they could, the eevee followed close behind them grabbing a few bin bags on his way through the house.

"At reast yow hav som hlp fwom moi" he said with bags in his mouth, making him sound like an infant which caused a chuckle from George although his mother had no idea what James was saying as she didn't understand the pokèmon tongue.

"You know josh you could help out too, you lazy butt!" Shouted the Chesnaught from the bottom of the stairs.

"Hhmmmm let me thing about that . . " there was a long pause between his sentence until " . . . nope I thing you two are doing an excellent job already without me so I'll stay up here while you do all the work, kay."

The chesnaught marched up this stairs with anger filling every inch of his being, he entered his brothers room and finding him laying on his bed which was dotted with all sorts of pokèmon hunting books and guides "now listen here you . . ." there was, like before, pause between his words as he noticed his mother standing in the doorway ". . . . your doing it next week."

Josh sighed and nodded in agreement as he stared at his mother, although George and Josh upset each other at times neither off them would want their mother to get mad at them, they both knew from experience that she could be quite menacing when she wanted to be. The Chesnaught began heading for the door but stopped in place as he noticed something on the walls of the stairwell which sent a shock off fear down his spine and all the way through to his tail.

Scratch marks from where he was being carelessly walking up and down the stairs, he slowly shifted his gaze towards his mother who looked ready to kill someone, her gaze alone could of set the chesnaught alight at any second, the pokenoid could hear his bothers attempts to hold his laughter back which were failing miserably, she soon enough turned her gaze to josh who also shivered a little bit he stopped laughing immediately.

"Don't you have school later today young man" their mother asked coldly, she excused his older brother but told him to be more careful from now on, he could see just his older brother looking at the walls behind him when he left the younger siblings room. "Anyways, get dressed were leaving in half an hour."

Josh looked confused 'why do I have to go back to school, I thought we broke up a week ago' he thought to himself still confused.

"You've forgotten haven't you . . . since your over ten you can go get yourself your first pokèmon, so no more of these thank you" his mother proceeded to take all the books scattered on the bed and place them in a pile next to the doorway "you can put all of these in the spare bedroom once you get back, but for now just decide what your going to get you can only pick once and only once so pick wisely okay" her calm tone made her words echoed through his mind as he changed into a pair of blue shorts and a black shirt with all three starter elements on the front, the fire symbol was covered in flames ,the water symbol had rain all around it and the grass symbol was covered in leaf's and vines.

Josh pulled on a pair of blue and white trainers then the young child left his room said goodbye to his brother and left the house to join his mother in the car, the engine sprang into action and the duo were off at a steady pace making it to the school in record time.

Once josh had entered the school alone, because he wanted to go in alone "I'm sending George and James to come get you at 3 so don't go wandering off or I'll know and there will be consequences, oh and have fun" as she waved him goodbye he couldn't help but wonder how she could go from loving mother to an evil psychopath in mere seconds.

He pushed the question aside and a new question arose in his mind, which pokèmon should he get, he wanted a fire type so he could have an advantage, even if its only a slight advantage, over his brother he also wanted something to help him beat the towns gym easily, he had narrowed down his answer to three possible candidates, trochic, cyndaquil or tepig.

He thought over the choices in his head and soon chose the one he thought was best for him. When he entered the boys gym he found a few tables and benches lined up against the far sides of the gymnasium, a gengar floated by one of the tables and some adults were standing by the other tables with each of the starter pokèmon on the table next to them, soon enough a few had been taken and new pokèmon replaced them, they were exactly the same as the one that left before them.

He saw a group of girls huddled together in a small circle in the gym all staring at their new pokèmon, most had chosen trochic and there were one or two chikorita, he decided not to pick trochic and walked past the group not wanting to get any of their attention, that group of girls were the group that would make rumours and spread them like wildfire. "Oh. My. God! Your trochic is so cute" squealed one of the girls

"I know thank you, but hey did you hear like all the guys are gonna choose water types just for an advantage, guys are like so mean am I right" there were a few nods and words of agreement in the group.

'Well I'm about to prove that VERY wrong girls' Josh thought to himself as he approached the table, "alright kid, what'll it be, a fire type, grass type or water type" said one of the adults running the stand, he looked across the range of pokèmon starters and finalized his decisions "okay for my starter pokèmon, I want a Tepig" said Josh as he waited for the man to retrieve the pokèball of the unova fire type.

"Heh not a bad choice if I do say so myself" said a voice, it's location unknown to Josh.

"Wait who said that" as he looked around for the source of the voice.

"Upwards a lil" the child turned his head to see a gengar floating above him waving at him "hey, how ya doing" Josh jumped a little as the gengar spoke to him.

"You can talk?! . . . wait, why am I freaking out? You're just one of those pokenoid's aren't you." Josh regained his composure and watched the gengar.

The gengar raised an eyebrow "well aren't you calm about this. Most kids like them over were kinda freakin' out when I spoke to 'em" the ghost type flicked his finger towards the group of girls that Josh passed on his way in, he then pointed to a few boys who had a few water types with them.

"Wow those girls were right, all the guys are picking water types. Heh, except me of course, I chose a fire type . . . as you already know . ." there was a small gap of silence as the gengar floated towards the ground and grabbed the pokèball that was just placed on the counter.

"Well, go ahead an' say hello. The lil guy's gotta meet you" the new trainer happily accepted the pokèball and threw the pokèball in air.

A blue streak of light sprang from the opening gap in the pokèball as it landed on the ground it the took the shape of the unova fire type started and soon the light faded to leave the tepig sitting on the ground looking at its new surrounding, after a little nudge of encouragement from the gengar josh approached the tepig and knelt down to introduced himself "um . . . hi there I'm Joshua, but uhh, you can just call me Josh . . . your trainer its nice to meet you . . ." the tepig stared at the boy for a minuet and then approached before putting a leg in joshes direction.

"Tep tep" It responded happily, the gengar walked over and stood beside the tepig.

"He said hi, nice to meet ya" the tepig looked shocked at the gengar "yeah I know I can understand ya, just go with it, okay?" The tepig nodded and held his paw closer to his new trainer. Josh soon enough realized what his pokèmon was doing and extended a hand to shake its leg.

"Nice to meet you as well, I hope we can be good friends" the tepig nodded as his trainer rose to his nor all height "wanna go for a walk" asked the new trainer the pokèmon replied with a simple nod, Josh turned to the pokenoid "thanks again . . . um . . sorry I don't actually know your name."

The gengar shut his eyes and let a small grin show "oh right my name, well it's Tom and I guess I'll see ya around" Tom gave them a wave goodbye and phased through the floor, both Joshua and tepig looked amazed at this, until they heard a slightly muffled voice coming from inside the floor "uhh . . . I haven't actually gone anywhere, I can't see anything in here . . . I thought it'd look cool if I just went through the floor . . . did you guys leave yet? I'm gonna say you guys left already."

The tepig sighed and simply let out a "tep" to the floor "WHAT YOU GUYS HAVEN'T LEFT YET . . . . . ah well trick wasted I'll use on some other trainer" Josh just picked up tepig and turned around "okay were leaving now thanks again"

"No problem-o" Tom replied, the trainer started heading out the doorway and passed all the other trainers who he would try to challenge to a battle later 'well that was fun. I think I'll see Tom again real soon. I can feel it' Josh thought to himself as he headed up the stairs with his tepig in his arms.

Time skip . . .

Josh and his tepig had 2 hours and 30 minuets to kill, he knew that his mom would get mad if he walked home because she was protective like that, and not many kids wanted to battle him, as they were busy with their own friends, the few battles he did have we're ended very quickly when the newbie trainers panicked over their new Pokémon's wellbeing.

So, Joshua ended up wandering the playground with his tepig talking to it, asking it a few questions only ones that needed a yes or no answer to keep things simple, as they came to a stop by a wall of bushes on the edge of the playground josh showed tepig the trees that the kids would use as seats and helped him onto one of the bigger branches "so, when your ready do you wanna start to learn some moves?" The trainer asked his tepig curiously.

The pokèmon nodded yes, his nose twitched a little, it twitched again as the pokèmon looked past his trainer and into the tree above, Josh soon caught on and turned to where the tepig was looking "what do you see up there"

The pokèmon climbed over his trainer and pointed upwards just out of Joshua's range of vision "tepig" said the pokèmon as he pointed further upwards.

"I'll go check it out you stay here okay" josh declared as he started to work his way up the branches and past his pokèmon.

When he got near the top of the tree he could see a sort of flower, it wasn't any type he had seen, this flower had three blues petals each separated by a greyish silver petal, a black streak marked every flower from the inside of the flower all the way to the top of the petal, the stem of the flower looked like it was pulsing with some sort of liquid, it disgusted the child a bit but not enough to make him go back down the tree, yet even with this feeling to turn around now he continued closer and closer it was if there was some strange sort of force driving him towards the flower.

He got closer and closer only and arms length away. His hand started to move forward closer and closer towards the plant joshes fingers were only centimetres away from the closest petal now, he wanted to pull away but he felt like he needed to do this like he was in some sort of trance, only a small gap separated the boy and the mysterious plant-

"TEP TEPIG!" Shouted his pokèmon from the other end of the branch, Joshua instantly snapped out of his trance and retreated his hand backwards, he cocked his head to the side to see his tepig on the end of the branch, it looked tired.

"Did you just climb all the way up he to check on me" the tepig replied with a nod followed by the pokèmon lowering its head onto the branch to rest. "Okay time to get you down, and away from this plant" Josh said calmly, as he began to shuffle towards the pokèmon. Before he could get to his pokèmon, however, he felt a sharp and large amount of pain run through his arm josh yelled out in pain.

He swiftly twisted his head to look down at his pained arm to find that it had been covered in a large vine that was rapidly spreading up his arm, thrones decorated the vine as it continued to snake its way up the child's arm "TEPIG GET THIS THING OFF ME" shouted the child as he tried to pull the vine off of himself, the thorns had dug into his skin and wouldn't release themselves no matter how hard he tried.

A sudden burst of embers scorched the vines right off of Joshua's now marked arm, what was left of the vine slid off his arm and fled into the tree tops far above "thanks tepig, let's get down before that thing comes back" the tepig nodded in agreement as he climbed onto his trainer as he decent the tree, wincing at times from where his arm still stung from the thorns.

Once he had descended the tree, he sat at the trunk of the tree and watched as tepig sat by his side he turned to his pokèmon and then at his arm, a faint marking had been the result of the vines they had really dug into his skin but for some reason the markings had faded, leaving only faint blue scars across his arm "damn it got me pretty bad. Thanks for the save . . . back . . . there." As he began to trail off he felt the world begin to turn as his eyes shut and he fell back on the tree unconscious.

A little later . . .

Tepig had no idea what had happened to his trainer and was desperately trying to shake him awake "tep tep tepig tep" the fire type nudged at his trainers arm trying to wake him, that's when the pokèmon saw it, blue fur covering the boy's arm and it was spreading. The fur had covered the entirety of his arms and had begun to change his hands, five fingers went to three as they begun to merge together and grey a grey bump began to push its way from the back of joshes hands.

It was dark inside his mind, it felt almost empty. Joshua had been staring at the blank space for a while until he heard a voice from above "okay this is no joke . . . . . TIME TO WAKE UP NOW" Josh felt himself begin to lift upwards towards the source of this voice, as he ascended higher and higher he felt his eyes get heavier and heavier and then they slammed shut refusing to open no matter how hard he tried to open them.

"Okay this is serious you need to wake up, come on wake up" Joshua's eyes fluttered open as he look around at his surroundings, tepig was on top of him sitting down and looking down at him.

"Ugh! My head hurts . . . what happened?" He looked around, failing to identify where the voice had came from.

"Well after you got out of the tree you kinda, went to sleep, I guess?" Tepig replied in an concerned tone, Josh stared at his tepig, momentarily dazed, before freaking out.

"WAIT SINCE WHEN YOU COULD YOU TALK ENGLISH" Joshua yelled in surprise.

Tepig looked a little shocked to hear his trainer shout like he did "never mind that now we've got bigger problems" the tepig pointed to his trainers arms which had fully changed and also pointed at the tail that had just appeared behind the child, Josh noticed this all in a sudden moment of realisation and tried to stand only to fall back onto the ground.

"My feet, they feel like they're being flattened!" The transforming child quickly threw off his shoes and took a look at his feet, they were coal black and were changing shape at an alarming rate, the pained was of serious but it still drew heavy breathing and a few small whimpers of pain, 'great now I'm whimpering. What am I a dog?' Josh thought to himself as he tried to figure out what he was becoming, 'okay think blue fur, black feet, bumps on the back of your han- I mean paws theirs only one pokèmon with these features, I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be . . . GAH! What's it's name! Oh come on, you know this just think!'

"Uuhh, hey. Josh is it? Yeah that's it. I think you're turning into a riolu" tepig spoke as he began to look at his trainers new features.

Josh snapped his fingers together "that's the name, thanks tepig" as the changes continued Joshua's feet had stopped and his neck formed a yellow collar around itself, the fur had spread all around his body by the time his face had begun to change. Joshua's face grew outwards more as his muzzle began to take form, his ears became more pointed and were engulfed in blue fur like the rest of his newly changed body. Finally the fur around his eyes took its place, only this fur was black and I began to shape itself like a mask, this black fur travelled all the way down to his new nose, finally forming two black appendages that resembled mask ribbons both sides of the child's head just below his ears, black fur covered both of these new appendages as soon as they sprouted.

The new riolu had finally finished his transformation, the only parts of his human past that remained were his clothing, his eyes and his human mind. He sat their, motionless only staring at his new paws in shock.

"Josh, are you okay?" Asked his tepig with concern, as he got closer and closer to his trainer, then he proceeded to tap the riolu on his new leg, this caused him to flinch and look over to his pokèmon "oh. Uhh well . . . I'm okay now . . . it's just . . . of all times this had to happen, why now? When he's not here."

The tepig looked on at his trainer very confused "okay so my brother, got turned into to a pokèmon as well, I think he was the first one actually, luckily he can still speak english so their was no troubled with communicating with others, and that gengar to met earlier was also one of them as well . . ." there was a small pause between his words as he looked back to his new paws ". . . and now I'm one of them . . . you know if he was here, I bet he would of helped me get through this less stressfully. He could of helped me get back on my feet, literally and help me walk and stuff . . . but now I'll have to do it on my own . . ." tears were on the edges of the riolu's eyes by this point, threatening to fall and soak the ground beneath him.

He shut his eyes to stop the tears from flowing but opened them when he felt something on his chest, it was his tepig hugging him around his midsection "well . . . you've got me . . . haven't you?" The riolu returned the embrace and let a few tears flow down his cheeks "thanks for being here" he replied softly as they continued to hug for a little bit longer.

Time skip . . .

"Oh where could he be, surely he didn't . . ." the chesnaught trailed off as he thought about what might of happened to his brother James climbed on his shoulder and a little pat on the back ,well he tried at least but George appreciated his effort, he and James had been searching the playground for a few minuets now asking a few people if they had seen his brother most said no but a few pointed him in the right direction "no he's fine, I know it" he reassured himself as he let James down to do a quick scan of the other side of the playground.

"I'll check over their, George you go check in the bushes and don't worry he'll be okay, trust me on this okay?" The eevee walked off after giving a small nod to his friend. George began to head towards the bushed area of the playground when he saw something that got him by surprise a little, a riolu in human clothing walking towards him with a tepig by his side.

"Joshua?" The riolu took no time in running towards chesnaught as soon as he saw him.

The chesnaught, after getting over his small heart attack, also proceeded to run towards the riolu 'it has to be him, I can feel it'.

As the pair got closer and closer the riolu shouted "HEY BRO WHERE'VE YA BEEN? YOU'RE LATE!" that's when he knew it was his little brother, George ran at full speed towards his pokenoid brother. The riolu pokenoid kept running he was within a few feet of his pokenoid brother now but that's when he felt it, his leg stiffened and refused to move, he began to fall face forwards, josh wasted no time in preparing for the collision with the ground, he tightly shut his eyes and waited for the impact . . . but it never came.

The riolu opened his eyes to see the chesnaught above him holding him up straight "tell me are you're him . . . are you my brother?" The passing winds were all that could be heard for a fleeting moment.

Josh didn't know what else to do but raise his hands and say "in the fles- um I mean in the fur" he said in a sort of comedic way.

George gave a wide grin in return "heh . . . so it is you . . . well" the Chesnaught swooped up his little brother and pulled him into a massive hug "dontyoueverscaremelikethatagainohmygodiwassoworriedmomisgonnaflipoutand . . .and . . ." he was breathing heavily after say such a large amount in one sentence with stopping for a breather ". . . and I'm glad your okay. Now, look at you. A riolu ain't half bad, plus we're technically still family due to us both being fighting types" he let his brother go and allowed him to stand on the ground only to wobbled and lean onto his brother for support. "Not use to walking I see, don't worry you'll get use to your new body by tomorrow morning at the latest, but don't leave the house until you can at least walk in a straight line got it" Josh simply nodded at his brother through the whole conversation.

Joshua was about to say something when he noticed that tepig was by his side "oh right I completely forgot . . . tepig this is my older brother George, and George this is my new pokèmon tepig" the tepig held out one of his two front feet.

"Nice to meet you" he said very nervously, the chesnaught blinked a couple of times before grabbing the tepig's leg and shook it gently.

"Well its nice to meet you, now why don't we get out of here, grab James, go home and try and explain this all to mom" Josh felt a large chill go down his spine 'how am I gonna explain this to mom oh god I'm dead meat.'

"Okay where is he, I checked every inch of this place and still nothing" James sighed to himself as he began to turn back and head to the centre of the now empty playground.

"HEY JAMES I'VE GOT HIM" George shouted as he walked towards the eevee, cradled in his arms he held his brother and his new pokèmon.

James didn't get the hint however "no no no NO you must be blind that is not your bother, not in a million years" James came over to inspect the riolu "so you found a riolu wearing some kids clothes doesn't mean its him, the kids probably playing a prank on ya, dressing a pokèmon up with his clothes and sending over to you YHEA REAL NICE JOSH NOW WHERE ARE YOU!"

"Ugh! Do you have to yell? My ears are still really sensitive! And yeah I'm right here." Josh proclaimed as he held his ears and looked away from the eevee.

James turned around so fast he almost fell down because of twisted legs "wait a second that annoying voice, that oh so annoying voice, it can only belong to one person . . . . oh arceus it really is you" eevee said in a baffled voice. Josh rolled his eyes and spoke in a grumpy tone "my voice isn't annoying."

"To be honest it really isn't" admitted his brother.

"Oh wait wha- DON'T TAKE HIS SIDE YOU'RE MY FRIEND!" James yelled angrily. Joshua continued to hold his ears as the pair bickered 'I hate these new ears . . .'

"Yeah but he's my brother first and your friend second" Josh interrupted as he proceeded to stick his tongue out and pull the skin under his eye, following it with a "nnhhheeeyyy" to mock James further. George just sighed disappointedly 'I liked it better when you two couldn't bicker like this . . .'

The group had finally begun to walk towards the stairs that led to the rest of the school and the exit, when they all noticed a dark shadowy circle on the floor "wow I gotta admit that was really childish of ya kid" came a voice from below the ground.

"Tom? Is that you down there?" Asked the riolu, soon enough the gengar rose from the shadowy circle and gave a wave and a wink.

"Hey-ya, welcome to the pokenoid race" the gengar floated over and came to face the chesnaught "well are you satisfied now I'm outta that room of mine, oh and I decided to ditched that old gloomy personality of mine, didn't really fit the all smiling gengar now did it" Tom grinned as he proceeded to hover back down to the ground.

"Well, I'm glad about that but I just want to know why your doing here?" George asked, the grin on the gengar's face fell into a small, guilty looking, frown.

"Well, to be honest, I was sorta dragged here by my parents to help out with the event, I even helped your bro become friends with his pokèmon. Oh and you're welcome for that, by the way." Tom winked again and started floating towards the stairs "anyways . . . I'll let ya go now, but hey I'll see ya round, kay." The group said their farewells as the gengar floated down the stairs backwards, throwing the group finger guns as he floated out of sight.

"Pft! Cheap magic trick right their, anyways let's get going, your mom will probably be a lot angrier if your late" James pointed out. The brothers both nodded as George scooped James into his arms and hurried them all home.

- - - - - - - The Authors Note! - - - - - - -

I want to apologise for not uploading anything for a very long time, almost a year or so since my last update! Yikes! Anyways, I'd like to announce that I am still working on this, if very slowly, and that I do intend to finish this once and for all. I hope to update this again soon, but until then, I hope you can enjoy the story that I provide you with.