Hi everyone, Nexus here. It's been a while since I write any story, I'm back with my new, rewritten version of the old story that I write a while ago. I'm still bad at English and I'm sorry for any errors that you might see when you read it. Have fun reading it.

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The Event 1

~Something changes the world~

August 21st, 2019

Palangkaraya, Central Borneo, Indonesia

02:30 PM Local Time

*Riiiing*

"I guess school time is over now. Thank you to everyone who already attending the class and I'll see you all next week" The teacher says as she stands up and leaves the class.

The students start packing up their belongings and books afterward. Most left the class immediately by the front door while some of them take the opportunity to start chatting with one another.

"Hey, do you guys wanna go to the Canteen for a second?" ask one of the students.

"Sorry I can't, I have to get back home early to help my parents with stuff" Reply one of them.

"Ah alright then, have a safe ride home"

"See you guys later," He says as he waved his hand at us and goes out of the class like the others.

"He looks pretty busy don't you agree Agung?" He says as he turns to me.

"Mhm," I reply with a nod.

"You wanna go to Canteen with me then?"

"Sure, my dad said he'll be a little late to pick me up," I say

"Nice, let's go then," Rian says as he leaves the classroom and I follow him soon.

My name is Muhammad Agung Irian and I usually being called Agung or Gung if you prefer the shorter one, though I kinda don't like that one. The one that I am currently talking with is one of my friends in the class, his name is Rian Fauzan and usually being called Rian. We have been close friends since I met him in middle school and now we both are in the same high school.

I still have some trouble getting more friends in here but Rian helped me get some more friends so that's nice. I am always shy about making new friends, I'm an introvert anyway. But despite that, I'm good at certain stuff like understanding English which not many people in my region know about it. I guess every person has their ups and downs.

As we get closer to the School's Canteen we see that there are a lot of students from another class and it looks like it's too cramped in there.

"I didn't expect it to be this crowded" Rian says with a sigh before he turns back to face me.

"I guess we can wait for a while then"

"Yeah I guess so" I reply to him

*15 minutes later*

"Looks like it's not as crowded as before now, let's go," Rian said to me as I still sitting on the floor.

"Woah hey wait for me" I hastily say as I quickly get up and start following him again.

As we enter the Canteen we see that there's barely anything left to buy, only some snacks and cold drinks that are still available. I who mostly like cold drinks immediately go to buy some and as for Rian, he buys some snacks and some cold drinks too. after that, we sit down on a nearby chair and start talking to one another, As we talk, another one of my friends shows up.

"You guys seriously go to the canteen without telling me," He says as he sits down on the next available chair. His name is Agus Satrio Kusumo and usually being called Agus. He is one of the friends that I made in this high school and also the first friend other than Rian.

"Hey sorry man, I thought you were already being picked up by your parents since you're usually the one who left early than Agung" Rian replies.

I giggle a little bit at that reply.

"Yeah apparently they gonna be late a little bit because their motorcycle run out of gas, at least they're not far from here" Agus replies.

"Well that's unfortunate," I say back

"Why you haven't been picked up by your dad Agung?" Agus asks as he looks at me.

"Oh my dad still has some work to do in his school"

"Ahh I see"

"Hey, you wanna some of this?" Rian says to Agus as he pushes his snack that he just buy closer to him.

"Sure" Agus then reach out to the snack and take some of it.

"You want too Agung?"

"Sure thanks" I also start taking some of it and the three of us eat them together and continue our talks.

*5 Minutes later*

Suddenly I feel my phone vibrating in my pocket, I quickly pick it up and see a message from my dad stating he's on his way to pick me up. I then tell Rian and Agus that my dad is going to be here soon and I should be going and they all reply "See you later" as I walk away from them.

I quickly go outside of the school and wait for him as the place where he works isn't very far away from my school. After some time I finally see him on his motorcycle and I quickly wave at him to tell him that I can see him, I can't just yell at him because it'll be rude to do.

He then stops next to me and I immediately get up to his motorcycle without saying a word. The ride home is like the other, with no interaction between me and my dad. There are two reasons for that, one is because talking while riding a motorcycle is dangerous to do, and second, my dad is deaf and he can barely hear anything even with his hearing aid, that is also one of the reasons I can't yell at him before.

Throughout the ride, we stop at different places. The first stop is an electronic shop, my dad goes here to pick up the new hearing aid that he purchased a few weeks ago. The second stop that we have is an ATM, he went there to store some of his money in the bank account. After all of those stops, we finally arrive at my house.

After the motorcycle stop moving and my dad turns it off, I immediately get off the motorcycle and quickly takes off both of my shoes after taking them off I put my socks inside the shoes and put it in the shoe cabinet.

As I enter the house I immediately smell something good, it's soo good that I don't have the right words to describe it, It's like the smell that you feel after going through weeks of the journey, and at the end of that journey, you're being rewarded with the most delicious food ever exists. I then quickly go to the kitchen where I can see my mom currently cooking something.

"Oh hi there Agung, I didn't hear you arrived with father. How was the school?" My mom says as she still facing at the pan and cooking.

"Same as usual. What are you cooking mom? It smells really good" I say

"A fried chicken that's being mixed with garlic and cinnamon"

"Wow, I don't know it'll smell this good. Can I eat it later"

"Of course, this is our dinner anyway"

"Ahh, I see. I'll be taking a bath first, then"

I quickly go inside my bedroom, dropping my bag onto the mattress. During that time, I chance a peek at the analog clock hanging on the wall: it's only 3:30 PM, just at the right time for me to grab the towel that hanging off the hook on the back of my room door, our family doesn't share one sole towel; rather, every member has their own towel that they hang inside their respective rooms. After I grab my own towel I immediately go outside of my bedroom and dash into the bathroom.

A couple of minutes later, I left the bathroom in a relaxed mood. Even though we don't have any heaters here, it was still a refreshing experience. While I'm going back to my room, my mom is on her way to the bathroom. As I get closer to her, she immediately lifts her hands to her sides, like she's about to catch me like a chicken.

This is pretty common when my mom's in a good mood, and I always have a countermeasure, though. I often either grab her left or right hand first, then lower it down, go behind her, and put my chin on the back of her neck - that usually makes her feel tickled by it. This is the most effective tactic I've used so far when she's like this, but it's not the only one I have. The other countermeasure only works when she does it after I took a bath in the afternoon. As she keeps getting closer to me I slowly open my mouth and say

"Mom not now, I've already taken ablution"

After hearing that from me, she immediately lower her hand before chuckling a little bit.

"Alright alright, sorry about that"

After that, she immediately passes me and goes straight into the bathroom.

The reason she dropped her hands down after I said that was because of our religious teaching; we were all Muslims. The teaching dictated that a woman cannot touch a man who has already taken an ablution to pray since it'll make his praying illegitimate.

Before I have a chance to enter my bedroom, I see my older brother at the front door taking his shoes off and putting the socks that he wears inside them before putting the shoes into the shoe cabinet, just like what I do when I arrived.

His name is Praditya Purnama and usually being called either Raditya or Radit. He's 2 years older than me and he goes to the school where my dad works. He sometimes arrives at the house a little late because he's enrolled in one of the extracurriculars in his school. He is taller than me and looks very thin but despite that, he's stronger than me, both physically and mentally. He is also very sociable than me and has more friends too. But I don't feel any envy towards him, instead, I feel grateful about it, everyone has their upside and downside anyway.

Before he can see me I immediately get into my room and close the door of my room. Even though he's my brother we barely talk to each other like we used to when we were still kids, I'm not entirely sure why but every time he talks to me or to mom and dad he always sounds angry and infuriated. I just hope there's nothing wrong happened with him.

6:15 PM

I can't hold it anymore, The urge of wanting to eat the food that my mom cooked is too strong. As I look at the dining table I can see other things that my mom also cooks other than the main dishes.

First, there's Tempe, one of the best traditional food in Indonesia, It is made out of soybeans with natural culturing and controlled fermentation that binds the soybean into cake form. My mom didn't make it from the scratch though, instead, she buy it from the local grocery store nearby.

The other thing that I see is fried tofu and Sayur Bayam, one of the most popular vegetables in our country and it consists of prepared vegetables that are being served in a bowl like soup.

Now with that aside, I don't care much about the other dishes. What I care about the most is the fried chicken that my mom made before. I quickly wash my hands, take a plate and spoon from the dish rack, fill the plate with two scoops of rice, and take around 2 fried chicken. Even though we have a dining table, we only use it to put the food that has been cooked. Instead, we all eat in the living room while watching the TV.

8:25 PM

"...Remember Agung, don't sleep too late," My mom says as she stands at the doorframe of my room.

"I know, I know. I'm not a kid anymore" I reply to her.

"Don't forget to close the- ughh" I grunt as I see my mom leave the door of my room not closed again. I then get off my bed and walk towards the door to close it back and after that, I hear the light switch from the living room get flipped.

I may not be a kid anymore, but I'm still scared to sleep in full darkness so my dad made me a night lamp from the scratch. The whole thing is just a lamp socket that has been connected with a cable with a plug head at the end of it. After I closed the door I immediately plug in the night lamp and turn off the main lamp of my room before I am finally able to sleep.

August 22nd, 2019

04:34 AM

"Are you sure it's still him? I mean look at it"

"I'm not sure either, but let's wait till it wakes up"

Those are the voices that I heard when I still have my eyes closed, although they kinda sound muffled I can still make up most of it. It's the sound of one male and one female, which I quickly assume it's my mom and dad. When I open my eyes, I'm currently staring at the wall of my room, which might explain why the sound was muffled.

After I notice that I immediately roll to the other side of my body to see why my mom and dad are in my room, it takes me a while till I can see clearly because of the eye discharge. When I clean my eyes I see both of my mom and dad standing and directly looking at me. They both look shocked and I was able to see some of the tears in my mom's eyes.

"Mom, dad, why are you in my room?" I ask both of them despite my dad being deaf.

But instead of getting a straight answer, my mom starts pouring tears from her eyes and put her face onto my dad's shoulder. That sight make me very shocked and I immediately thought of what just happened.

'Did I do something? is there something wrong? why did she start crying?' Those are just a portion of the thoughts that I'm having at the moment.

My dad then starts to calm her down by hugging and stroking her back slowly. My dad occasionally looked back at me as he still trying to calm her down.

"I'm pretty sure that's still him," My dad says to my mother.

'Still him? what is that supposed to mean?' I thought to myself again before I'm trying to reach out to my mom and dad with my right hand, and that's when I see it.

My hand

It's covered with white fur and at the end of it, there is a bit of color pink. 'Huh?!' I thought to myself before I start checking on my left hand, It is also covered in the same white fur and with the same pink pattern at the end of it. I then start touching my face and I also feel the same fur.

My shoulder, fur.

My back is also fur.

When I touch my neck I didn't feel any fur, instead, I met with a squishy feeling, like some sort of jelly. when I try to squeeze it I immediately feel something moving from it, I then try to get a grasp of what's moving from it before I manage to get it.

It looks like some sort of ribbon that is very thin and flexible, when I try to take it off I immediately feel some sort of pain that I never experienced before. The feeling is soo painful that I slump back onto my bed with labored breaths and I can feel myself losing consciousness. The last thing that I hear is from my mom and dad who frantically call out my name.

*A few hours later*

"Ughh... oww, was that a dream?" I say to myself as I slowly look around my room.

Before I can think about anything else the first thing that crosses my mind is the sight of my hand that is covered in some white fur, I gasp before I start to close my eyes, moving my right hand to the front of my face, taking a deep breath, and then open my eyes to see if it's still covered in fur. It is, in fact, still covered in fur. I then facepalm myself with my hand, or should I call it paws now since it looks like one? As I put my paw away from my face I quickly see the clock.

07:41 AM

"Oh crap, I forgot about school!" I yell as I try to stand up on top of my bed before unfortunately tripping at the edge of it and I land straight on the floor with my face first.

"...owwww"

After that fall I quickly get up on my knees while still rubbing my head from the pain. "I don't think I can go to school anymore as this," I thought to myself before I remember something more important, my phone. If I remember correctly it should be charged at the top of my desk, but there's something else that I noticed.

Everything looks huge than how it used to be, the desk looks twice as big as before, including the bed too. I never visualize how cats look at the world but I would guess this is how they look at it.

That aside, I still need to learn how to walk properly. I haven't seen much about what happened with my body but judging by my hands that are now paws I guess I'm some sort of cat.

"Alright let's do this," I say to myself as I put both of my front paws, or my front legs at this point, on the floor and start pushing myself up.

"Okay that one's done, time to try the back paws" I then look back to see both of my legs as I try to put them in comfortable positions like how I do it with my front leg, one other thing that I see is that I have a pink fluffy tail.

"Why do I have to get a pink tail?! ugh anyway, now I can stand up. Let's try walking"

There are a lot of cats that sometimes come to our house for either sleep or want some food, and I always pay attention to how they walk with their 4 legs. First, they will use their front right leg and after that follow with the back left leg, next do the opposite which will be the front left leg and then the back right leg, and repeat from the start. It feels like I'm learning how to walk again.

After a few steps I'm finally getting used to it and I also start to move a little bit faster. After I walk for about 2 meters I finally reach my desk, but there's still an obstacle in the way, how do I get up there?

Easy, I quickly shift my view from the desk to the chair that I usually use to sit down while playing games on my laptop. "Alright take it easy" I then start to prepare myself to jump onto the chair. I've seen how cats do it too, they will lower their bodies and then lunch themselves like some kind of spring, and so that's what I did, I successfully jump onto my chair and after that, I immediately jump again to the desk.

Somehow, I didn't see my phone here, the charger for my phone isn't here either. Suddenly there's another thing that crosses my mind, the house is strangely quiet, did something happen when I passed out? I keep thinking about what could happen.

Seeing that my phone isn't at my desk now, I slowly turn around to face the chair so I could come down but midway through my turning I suddenly get startled by the close-up face of someone. I scream as loud as I can and I'm soo shocked that I subconsciously curled up like a ball.

But before long I hear a laugh from someone and I am quickly able to recognize that voice. I look back at the face that I saw before and sure enough, that is my brother, doing some sick jokes.

"Oh my god, Agung you should have seen your face when I scared you," He says with laughter.

While he keeps laughing, all I'm doing is just making a pouting face at him while still curled up. After that, I also hear some footsteps of someone walking and sure enough, that is my mom and dad, both in their own Muslim clothes, including my brother too.

"Come on Radit, you know that he's not liking that, not to mention what he has become now" My mom says to my brother.

"Hehe I just wanna play with him"

"Anyway, Agung, How are you feeling now?" My mom asks me.

"Good I guess?"

Everyone suddenly went silent for a second after I answer that question.

"I think he still understands us but we can't understand him now" Say my brother.

'Wait what?' I thought to myself. 'Did my voice change too?'

"Well that's unfortunate, Oh yeah one more thing"

My mom then starts walking towards me.

"Agung, I don't know what happened with you, but you're not alone. The news said that roughly 30% of the world population get turned into this creature called Pokemon, and it seems like you're also get affected by it"

As she keeps talking I can see tears start forming in her eyes.

"But no matter what happened, you're still our son and a part of our family" Her eyes start to tear up more, and so does mine.

I took the initiative to wipe the tears from one of her eyes with my paw and she does the same to me before we finally hug each other.

Chapter 1 end