Chapter 1: The City of light
Nathan
As the streets of Paris began to quiet, a lone man was walking to his favorite restaurant, thé Chez la Vieille. It was late, but the restaurant was open past midnight and he needed something to eat after how long his class ran. If there was one thing he hated about his semester abroad it was the time changes, not only did he have trouble adjusting to the time zone but his history professor insisted on studying with the class. In her own words, if you wanted an evening class then you would wait until you finished your study guide. Needless to say he was looking forward to going home next week.
At 5 foot 9, with blue eyes and black hair, Nathan Aldrich was an admittedly average boy from Buffalo, New York. He had celebrated his 18th birthday at home before heading to France for his 2020 semester, thanks to being bilingual he had gotten a scholarship. His mother was from Calais and had helped him prepare.
Nathan went into the restaurant, finding his favorite waiter Victor cleaning his last table for the night.
"pouvez-vous toujours me servir quelque chose à manger?" Nathan asked.
"For my favorite American, I'm sure I can find something, take a seat" Victor said as he motioned to the nearest table.
He poured Nathan some wine and headed to the kitchen, as Nathan drank the sweet red liquid he mused on the fact that he wouldn't be allowed to have wine when he went home. He was still three years from the U.S drinking age.
One of the many things he would admittedly miss about his time in Paris, it had been an incredible experience, but like all good things it had to come to an end. Hopefully his mom would take him to Calais like she promised a few years back.
Victor came back and said "your in luck, Gaston has two different options for you, Soupe à l'oignon or Coq au vin"
"I'll take the soup," Nathan replied.
"Excellent choice" Victor commented as he put a napkin and silverware on the table and headed back to the kitchen.
As Nathan waited, he took a moment to admire the illuminated streets of Paris, it was called the city of lights for a reason and it was truly beautiful with the streets vacant alowing the warm glow of the lights to shine unobstructed.
As Victor sat his soup down, Nathan heard it. A buzzing sound that was growing larger. He turned to Victor and asked, "do you hear that?"
"It's coming from outside, let me look" Victor replied.
As Victor opened the door and turned south, his gasped, he gave one last look at Nathan, his eyes were full of pure terror. Before screaming and running down the street, as if he was running from something far, far away.
Nathan got up and went outside, he chased Victor down, worried about his friend. His tunnel vision was too focused on Victor to see what he was running from.
As he caught up to Victor, he was sucking wind, needless to say his lackluster physical strength was showing Victor was fumbling for the keys in his car.
Nathan was about to open his mouth when a purple light glowed on Victor's face, like when a car's headlights were approaching.
Nathan turned around just in time to see a massive wall of purple light, piercing the ground and thousands of feet tall consuming Paris, it happened so fast that he didn't even have time to scream as the wave engulfed him, the purple energy blinding him for a split second.
Once he could see again, he felt a stinging pain in his mouth, like he had been chewing on a rusty wire. He turned to Victor and saw the wave of energy shooting off into the distance.
Then a searing pain caused him to double over, as if his entire body was on fire. He felt every single nerve pulsing and every pore on his skin throbbing at once. He was seeing spots as he looked at Victor who had also doubled over in agony.
He swore he was hallucinating, but it looked as though blue scales were appearing on Victor's arms. Before he could witness any more Victor began to vanish, his body dissolving in a purple flash but his face still emoting the whole time.
Nathan had no time to process Victor vanishing as his already agonizing pain grew worse. His clothes began to tighten as he grew in height, jet black scales consuming his flesh, his skull growing with horrid cracking sounds and forming into a short, draconian head with sharp teeth and red eyes. At the end of his head was a thundercloud-like crest tipped with light-blue coloration.
His clothes nearly disintegrated from his new size, now over nine feet tall and his body bulging with muscles. His beefy arms extenuate into splayed, seemingly webbed, somewhat baseball-mitt-like formations, with three-clawed, dark-colored hands on the undersides. His body was turning rigid in places, like armored plates.
His transformation finished with new wings forming a fanned, splayed, seemingly webbed shape with a small "wing-spike" on one edge. They looked a little small for a creature of his new size. The final new addition being a massive, round, conical and spiked tail formation, likened to an electricity generator, with a black inner portion and bands on the tip of the outside portion.
With a deafening roar the new Zekrom unleashed a torrent of blue lightning around him before passing out, the energy of the transformation stripping him of consciousness as fast as the wave had come and gone.
Among the many things Nathan didn't know when he passed out was the fact every living thing in Paris had been transformed, humans, cats, dogs and birds.
The energy wave continued its destructive path, picking up speed until it was moving at over 1,000 miles per hour. Soon the entire Southern Hemisphere and the rest of the world would be affected. As Colress had estimated, the wave would cross over the entire earth in a little over 12 hours, the two waves meeting each other in the North Pacific Ocean and crossing over slightly before dissipating, leaving an entirely new world in earth's place….
Author's note- Tell me what you think? I've got a lot of empty spaces going forward between main events and if you want me to incorporate a side character PM me with the following details, the next chapter with an opening for new characters will be in Manhattan.
Name
Age
Personality
Backstory
Pokemon form
I'd like to clarify some things about this wave to avoid questions down the road. If you have any questions besides the ones below feel free to PM me.
All humans and animals were converted, those who became water Pokémon like Victor were transported to the nearest body of water automatically. There are about 10,000 weaker legendaries worldwide(Entei, Raikou, Suicune, Kanto birds, Swords of justice, Lati, Heatran) that may seem like a lot but considering the earth's population of 7 billion it isn't all that much. If you want a new character to be one of these its fine.
Only one of the following(thus off limits for new characters)
1. Mew
2. Mewtwo
3. Lugia
4. Ho-oh
5. Regigigas
6. Kyogre
7. Groudon
8. Rayquaza
9. Tornadus
10. Thundurus
11. Landorus
12. Zekrom
13. Reshiram
14. Xerneas
15. Yveltal
16. Zygarde(dogs, snake and complete forms all one person)
17. Lunala
18. Solgaleo
19. Zacian
20. Zamazenta
Some legendary Pokémon omitted because of these reasons
1. Regi's made by regigigas
2. Lake guardians only 1 of each in entire multiverse(lakes are portals to their rifts)
3. Creation trio-only one of each in their own dimensions
4. Kyurem-Reshiram and Zekrom just appeared into existence via DNA bomb and thus never split to leave Kyurem behind.
5. Eternatus (never arrived via meteor)