Author's Note: Hello everyone! It's time for a new chapter. Thankfully this chapter is a lot less sad than the last, that chapter hurt me to write. There is still one scene I would consiter sad in this chapter though. Anyway, I am working on drawing the cover picture now so that should be uploaded by the next chapter.

"Example" - Spoken out loud.

Example* - Telepathy.

'Example' - Thoughts.

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At first I felt an odd sucking sensation like I was being sucked up a too small tube, then blackness. That's all it was blackness…

'I think this might be worse than non-existence.' I thought after a while of nothingness. I couldn't feel anything, touch anything. I was fairly sure I didn't have a body, just a consciousness floating along the void. At least there wasn't pain, that was a plus. There weren't that many pluses about my situation so I took what I could get.

Doing nothing just seemed to make time stretch on forever for me in the past, but I couldn't tell how long I waited. It could have been hours, days, or even years that I waited. I didn't know if time worked the same here then in the living world.

After an indiscriminable amount of time later I saw a light. This was good because I wasn't sure how much longer I would have lasted without going insane. 'Ah, ol' light at the end of the tunnel, a bit clichéd but oh well. They always say don't go towards the light… but I think that advice is for dying people that have a chance to live so…' I went towards the light. As I got closer I saw that the light was pouring out of a large arching doorway.

Entering the doorway I suddenly found myself in a flat landscape. The sky was blue with clouds floating around and the ground seemed to stretch on infinitely in all directions. Instead of grass, dirt or stone covering the ground it seemed to be calm water. Since I seemed to be a floating consciousness I didn't fall into the water but hovered over it. The water didn't reflect the sky like I expected it to but seemed to show the earth below. I looked back from where I had come in but the doorway was gone.

'Is this supposed to be heaven? It is beautiful I suppose but there doesn't seem to be much to do besides look at the earth.'' It certainly was better than blackness at least. I hoped this wasn't my existence for eternity, I didn't want to be damned to 1000 years of cloud or earth watching.

A few seconds later the view of earth zoomed into California near where I lived before I moved to the hospital. By the time it stopped zooming closer I could easily see the cemetery but more importantly a funeral. I realized in growing dread that it was mine. It must have been a few days after my death. My parents, distant relatives I hadn't seen in years, my friends, even Hannah was there. There, in an open black coffin, was me… An unhealthy pale white face with the cheeks sunken in and eyes closed in a peaceful expression. My body was put in a dark blue dress, I felt sick at the thought of someone touching or preparing my body. Even with the dress I was dreadful looking though, I thought back to how much more beautiful I was before the cancer.

I felt scared and horrified, if I had eyes I would be in tears. I was dead, that was it, it felt so much more real to me. As I was having this mental crisis they closed the lid to my coffin and lowered it into the earth. My tombstone that was hidden behind the coffin was made out of marble with black veins. The black letters on the stone said:

"Here lies Olivia M. Goldstein,

A ray of sunshine to light up our blackened world.

She will be missed.

February 29, 2014 - February 3, 2023."

A lot of people were crying, a lot more people than I thought would be. They were currently doing speeches about me. My parents went up, then Hannah, then a few friends. I was saddened that I couldn't hear anything, I would have liked to hear their voices one last time. Everyone took a white rose and put it on my grave, saying their goodbyes for the final time.

When the funeral ended the water turned back into a reflective surface, only showing the sky above me. I stayed there just staring out into the infinite expanse feeling sad for myself for who knows how long before I heard a voice.

"I am truly sorry for your loss, young one." Said a deep and powerful voice behind me. I jumped in surprise.

I turned to see a big deer-like being. It had mainly white fur with many different dark grey and gold accents. It had a ring of gold around its belly area with an emerald colored oval gem at four different points. The face was dark and without a snout and with no visible mouth. It had green eyes with red pupils. It definitely had a regal and majestic look to it.

"Are… you god? If so, I'm sorry for not believing in you." I somehow spoke aloud without a mouth. My sadness quickly melted as I looked upon the giant creature, turning slightly to fear instead.

He chuckled, his voice was deep so I think it was male. "My name is Arceus, I suppose I am as close to a god as is possible. I don't blame people in your world for not believing in me, there is no evidence of my existence so doing something like that would be cruel."

I was freaking out a little. I had no idea I would meet a god when I died, this was crazy! At this point the ball of light that made up my being started pacing nervously. Arceus watched my progress from side to side with a bemused smile. 'Wait, how could I tell he was bemused with a face like that?' I wondered amongst my other frantic thoughts.

"Calm down little one, you are doing fine." He said in a gentle reassuring voice that I wouldn't have thought possible with a voice as powerful as his, it did calm me down though. "Have you ever heard of Pokemon?" He asked

I thought about it, "Um, yes, I did. But I only heard about bits and pieces of the games and anime from my friends. I know that there are different monsters that people capture that they use to battle each other, but that's it." 'Why does god care about this?'

"Well the world of pokemon is actually real, just in another world. I am the creator of Pokemon and humans from that world." I would have been visibly shocked if I had a face. "The creator of the Pokemon franchise is actually originally from the Pokemon world and decided to make a fortune on it in your world."

"Excuse me Arceus Sir, that's really cool and all but how is it relevant?" I Interjected.

"Patience is a virtue, young one. I was just getting there." Arceus reprimanded me. My orb pinkened slightly in embarrassment.

Arceus seemed amused at my antics. "Normally a soul would pass on straight to what you would call heaven or eternal paradise after they die. But I have intercepted your soul before you could get there."

"But why? Am I not worthy enough to go to heaven?" My voice trembled a little bit. 'God himself stopped me from going to heaven, that can't be good.' "And if this isn't heaven, where are we?"

"This place is taken from your subconscious, it's a representation of what you imagine heaven to be like. Don't worry though, you will be able to go to heaven if you want to…" I sighed in relief. "but I have come to give you a choice which I rarely give to anyone. Since your short life was so filled with such suffering and hardship, I will let you be reborn into a life where your family loves you and you live a much longer life. This would be in the Pokemon world, not your original world."

"So it's either continue on to the afterlife or get a brand new life? Which would I be happier in?" I wondered out loud.

Arceus decided to explain my options in detail, "Well, Heaven is called paradise for a reason. You can meet with other deceased beings. You can do whatever you want, when you want to. Although there are also downsides. You don't currently have anyone who loves you in heaven at the moment so you would be lonely. A second thing, because you died as a child you would mentally be stuck as a child for eternity since you stop growing mentally and physically in the afterlife. If you are reborn you will get to grow up with a family that cares for you and in the end, when you die again, you still get to go to heaven anyway. The new life won't be without its fair share of hardships, no life is completely without them, but the good things heavily outweigh the bad."

I thought about it for only a moment before saying "If that's the case then I think I'll be reborn." I sounded contemplative but I was actually really excited. A new chance at life in a brand new world when I wasn't ready to die in the first place. It sounded like a dream come true!

"That's great!" Arceus sounded really happy and relieved for some reason. He did a sort of happy dance, he pranced from hoof to hoof. It looked so funny coming from someone who looked so regal, I could barely stop myself from laughing.

"Thank you, Arceus sir!" I said in an excitement filled voice.

Arceus laughed, "No need to be so formal, you're going to be my granddaughter after all!"

"What!" I basically shouted, feeling a little faint. 'The granddaughter of a god-like being?'

"What, did I forget to tell you?" He said in a confused voice. I nodded. "Well, my bad. You are going to be born as my daughter's child. She grew rather fond of you when you were alive so she asked me for a favor to get you as a daughter. You will actually be my first grandchild so I'm a bit excited."

'I met Arceus's child before? The only person that fits would be Hannah, she seemed to be acting like a mother to me.' I thought. "Umm G-grandpa, who is your daughter?" I nervously said, remembering to call him Grandpa.

He beamed at me when I called him that and said, "That's a surprise! Your mother will tell you more. I'll see you again sometime after you've hatched." He raised his hoof in goodbye before he popped out of existence.

'Hatched! What does he mean by hatched?' Was all I could think before my world became darkness again.

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I woke up… was I awake? I couldn't tell for sure. I thought I opened my eyelids but nothing changed, just pitch black. Where was I? I felt so unbelievably warm and comfortable. I could feel I was in a warm gel-like substance. I couldn't breathe but I also didn't feel like I needed to. Something in my mind was soothing me and telling me that everything would be alright. I decided to believe it and let all of my stress wash away. I could tell I had a body again but it also felt foreign to me. I remembered that I would be reborn so maybe I'm just a baby again? I felt so weak and exhausted, I wasn't even sure I could move my limbs. I heard muffled voices outside… well wherever I was. They were soft and soothing but I couldn't make out what they said. I closed my eyes to concentrate on the words but I only ended up falling back into unconsciousness.

I became aware once again, unsure how much time had passed, I could hear a more masculine voice this time. Maybe I only became aware when I'm being spoken to, that makes sense. I felt my tail drift in front of my face. 'Wait a minute… tail?' I decided to push that earth shattering revelation to the back of my brain. My consciousness told me to go back to sleep so I obeyed.

I woke up an indiscernible amount of times, I wasn't really keeping track. Each time I awoke, a voice would always be present. The most frequent of the voices was a nice soft feminine one. 'Was that my mother?' I hoped it was, her voice was pleasant to listen to, even though I still couldn't discern the words being spoken. Every time I woke up a part of myself told me one simple thing, 'It's not time yet.' I still trusted the voice. I knew for certain that when it was time it would tell me. I could tell I was growing larger. The walls of my little "home" were getting closer and closer every time I woke up.

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I woke up again but this time I knew something was different. The walls were touching all sides of me and I was beginning to feel cramped. There was no more room to grow. The warm gel-like liquid was nearly all gone and I no longer felt warm and comfortable. There was no instinct to fall back asleep again. It was time.

My limbs were still sluggish and didn't respond well to my commands. That didn't stop me from hitting the wall with my shoulder as hard as I could. Pain rocketed up my side. 'Ow, that hurt! Ok, new plan.' I felt my "home" shake which was pretty disorienting. Someone seemed to have noticed my attempt because I heard an excited voice outside. It was the soft feminine voice I liked so much and they sounded like they were encouraging me. Getting a second wind with the encouragement, I put both my arms outward and pushed applying pressure to both sides equally. I felt the walls give a little but it was exhausting. There it was… a crack in the perfect wall that I spent so long enclosed in. The crack seemed to be glowing a warm orangish light, lighting up my world. With the last of my energy I launched my body at the crack and I was free.

Light besieged my brand new eyes, I had to instantly close them. Sound assaulted my ears so I pressed them flat against my head. The powerful scent of another animal hit my nose with an intensity I never experienced in my last life. I started to cry at the painful information overload. It sounded like a tiny kitten was mewling somewhere around me but I couldn't pinpoint its exact location.

"Oh, it's okay, don't cry, my little kitten." The soft angelic voice said. A soft, warm and furry body enveloped me in an embrace. My head was buried in her belly.

I felt so comforted by her presence and scent that I instinctually squeaked out the question, "Momma?" I was surprised that I sounded exactly like the kitten I heard earlier.

"Yes kitten, I am Momma." She laughed and it sounded like a sweet melody to my ears. "You are the cutest thing I've ever laid my eyes upon." I blushed at the compliment with my face still pressed to her stomach.

I suddenly felt very hungry. Smelling something very sweet, my instincts took over control of my body. I started kneading and nursing at my mother's belly, the sweet nourishment filling me. When I became full, after a full 10 minutes, I realized just what I was doing. I pushed myself away and said, "I'm sorry! That was super weird. I didn't realize what I was doing until I was full!" I quickly explained myself with a blush on my face hoping my new mom wouldn't think I'm weird.

"Calm down kitten. You were just hungry, it's not weird, it's natural." She said in a groggy but reassuring voice to calm me. "You don't even have any baby teeth grown in yet, so you have to nurse."

But I wasn't panicking anymore, I was focused on another detail that absolutely shocked me. I saw who my mother was for the first time. "You…you're Sakura, my imaginary friend from the hospital!"

Sakura or Mom laughed hard, when she calmed down a little she smiled lovingly at me. "Yes kitten. I saw you in the hospital, heard about your childhood and started to love you immediately. My heart broke when you passed, I wanted to adopt you even when you were human. Now you're my actual child!" Mom sounded super happy.

'Wait, Sakura was small compared to me before. Either she grew or I…' I looked down to examine myself and squeaked in surprise. I found that I had fur and it was the exact shade as Mom's! 'How did I not realize I was crawling around on four legs?' I had paws and a tail that stretched out to be multiple times longer than my body. My tail twitched and swooshed around behind me. I felt my face with my paws only to feel a small muzzle and cat ears! I felt my ears twitch at the slightest sound pointing in every which way. I was probably a third the size of a human baby. If I was still human and saw my current body right now I knew I would really want to snuggle me with it. "I'm like you?" I asked.

Mom, who was previously watching myself-examination with interest, said, "Yes, as I said you are my kitten!" She sounded extremely proud of that fact.

"For some reason when Arceus said I was going to be reborn I thought I was going to be human. What are we?" I asked with a little caution.

"Oh, Arceus." She said in an exasperated voice. "Oh of course he didn't tell you all the details, that is so like him!" She huffed and eyed me with a hint of concern. "I'm sorry he didn't tell you that you weren't going to be human. Are you okay with being my daughter?" She was tearing up a little. There was an obvious fear of rejection in her expression.

I didn't allow for even a moment of hesitation when responding. "Yes, I would love to be your daughter. Mom!" I was a little disappointed that I wasn't human but I didn't let it show in my voice. I decided to think of this as a new chance, I was never extremely happy as a human. That may be because I was abused and had cancer, but I still didn't like it. This was a second chance to be a child when my last parents forced me to grow up too fast. I could definitely get used to being carefree and spoiled. I decided right then and there to give this whole 'being a baby again' thing a chance.

Mom's happy reaction was immediate and she hugged me fiercely. I felt love radiate in my chest. After a while she stopped hugging me and just rubbed my back with her paw while we cuddled.

"Oh, this is our home." She indicated to the giant room we were currently in. I stared in amazement. 'How did I not notice this before?' The room seemed to be made entirely of stone. There were large outcroppings of glowing crystal that gave off a nice ambient light. aMom laughed at my expression. If you think this is amazing you should see the rest of it, I love this place! I also baby proofed the room."

I laughed at the absolute absurdity of what I saw. There were pillows and blankets covering every inch of the floor except for a small pond in the corner of the room. The pillows wern't all the same color and size of coarse. The pillows on the ground were all a random assorment of colors, it looked like a unicorn had barfed all over the floor. Some of the pillows towered over us and some were miniscule. "And of course the entertainment." Mom pointed behind me to a massive pile of toys and games. There were action figures, what looked like lego sets, board games, dolls, you name it and it was probably in that pile.

"You were really excited for me weren't you? Where did you even get this stuff?" I asked with a raised brow.

"Well I liked playing with toys and games for all my life, I always was a little bit of an adult-kitten as they would say. So some of it I had before you existed. There is a town somewhat near to our home that kind of worships me so they were happy to get these things for me. And I was excited for you but also nervous. You took about 5 years to exit your egg and I had to keep busy to stop worrying." She explained.

"5 years!" I exclaimed, my mouth hanging comically open.

"Yeah… I was so worried you were a stillborn." She teared up a little. "You were the first legendary to be born this way, out of an egg. No one knew how long you were supposed to take to hatch or if you would even be a full ledgendary when you hatched. I couldn't stop thinking that something went wrong, I didn't know what to do." I hugged her tighter. "Arceus kept reassuring me you were fine but… I'm just so glad you're safe."

"All of our family also came by to talk to you in your egg." She wiped her eyes of the evidence she was crying. "Arceus was especially funny about it, he took the time to come by every single week to talk to you. You'd think being a god and all would make him too busy." Mom chuckled and shook her head. "You will probably have him wrapped around your little paw the first time he sees you."

"I wondered who all the different voices I could hear were." I murmured but speaking louder I asked, "I have a family other than Arceus and you that care about me?" I was excited about prospect of having an extensive family.

"Yes, yes. I have a massive amount of brothers and sisters that would love to spoil their only niece rotten. You will meet them as soon as you can float by yourself. Anyway…" Mom cleared her throat. "To answer your earlier question, we are a legendary psychic-type pokemon, Mew. That used to be my only name since I was the only one of our kind but I guess I use the name you picked for me, Sakura, intead. It does have a nice ring to it." I was happy she picked the name I came up with for her. "Can I choose a name for you? I know you already had a name but…"

"Yes!" I interrupted her almost immediately. I was used to being called Olivia but it was something my abusive parents named me. It would always leave a bad taste in my mouth because of that. Sakura was my new mother. It only made sense that she was able to name me.

Mom smiled lovingly at me and said, "I already have the perfect name for you, kitten. Your emerald eyes remind me of nature and your fur is the color of a pink rose, so would Rosalyn be okay?"

I thought about it but it seemed better and better every time I ran it through my mind. "I love it!"

"I'm glad, Rosie." She booped my nose with her paw and giggled at my purplexed expression. "So like I said, we are mew. We are the most powerful psychics in the world. We aren't strong physically so we use our powers to compensate." She started floating with her own powers. "Since we aren't fast on the ground we fly." She hovered a pillow off the floor and launched it at the stone wall. "Since we can't pick things up with our paws that effectively we can levitate stuff. We could do anything a human could and more but it'll take a while to build your powers. I also have a few duties that Arceus expects me to do which I will pass on to you one day. After millenia of doing them, a gal could use a retirement. That day is far in the future though, when you grow up a bit more."

I stared at her in awe. That was kinda cool, I was definitely growing to the idea of being a mew. I actually looked forward to the day I would carry out these "duties". A life without any meaning at all was a rather boring life after all and I wanted to help my new mother out. 'Arceus wasn't lying when he said I would have a long life, are we immortal?' I couldn't help but crave a long life after my last one was so short.

After we talked for a long while more about Pokemon and the new world I lived in Mom decided it was play time. She juggled an impressive amount of toys and did other cool tricks which made me smile and giggle. We played two board games, one was named ekans and ladders and the other was a pokemon trading card game. The card game served a double purpose of having fun and learning about more pokemon. I had a blast, I definitely loved my new mom. But eventually the fun had to come to an end.

I yawned, still exhausted from breaking out of my egg. "Bedtime kitten! We already stayed up too late." Mom levatated my small body over to a mound of pillows and blankets. The floating without anyhing to support me felt weird but I went limp, completely trusting her. The pillows were so comfortable and soft. There were also a lot of plushies of what I suspected to be a bunch of different pokemon. It was actually quite adorable and I decided to call my new bed the cuddle pile. Mom joined the cuddle pile and curled up with me, with the added warmth and comfort, I almost instantly fell asleep.

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And that's the end of the chapter! Rosalyn got a new mother, a new name, a new family, and a huge info dump on the world she now lives in. Remember to review, it really helps.