Hello again, Nexus here, still with bad and broken English. First of all, I am grateful for anyone that has given their time to read this story that I'm writing, and I also thank anyone that had reviewed the first chapter of this story.

Now enjoy the second chapter, and feel free to review and criticized my work. Have Fun

The Event 2

~Calming down~

08:00 AM

"As of 8 AM, there hasn't been yet any speech from the president in regards to this event. We do have the info that the president didn't get affected but the vice president does-"

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"-reporting from where we are located. We can see a mass group of both people and those that get turned marching towards the Mosque-"

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"- in response to this event we will make a special division that will count how many people got affected in each province-"

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"-reporting from Banda Aceh, the situation here is very dire in here. We have seen some people start fighting with the transformed throughout the street-"

"Man the news has been crazy over this," I say to myself as I keep clicking the remote, changing from one channel to another. All of the available channels are full of breaking news.

After a while I stop changing the channel on the TV and stick to one channel before checking my phone, my brother gave it back to me after I'm done talking with my mom before. I open my WhatsApp and see the school group chat, which only consists of my classmates, have a lot of message in it. I quickly open it and see that everyone is as confused as me too. Most of the messages are asking about how everyone's doing at the time the message gets sent, though there are still some that have a chance to make a joke.

While I'm still scrolling down through the wall of messages I suddenly have a notification from Rian.

"Agung you there? are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm here, and I'm good" I reply to him with my paws. Thankfully it still registers my paws as fingers, though it's still hard to type without messing up one or two letters.

"Did you get turned too?" He asks me.

"Yeah. You get it too?" I reply.

There's a long pause for about 10 seconds before I see him typing again.

"Yeah... and it's not just me too"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Another long pause.

"Everyone in my house got turned"

"Oh..."

At this point, I don't have any more words that I can say and I'm just staring back at the messages he typed before. After a few seconds of possibly the longest pause in this chat, he starts typing again.

"How about in your place?"

"Well, only me that got turned"

"That's unfortunate, you won't be able to talk to your parents anymore"

"Wait how do you know about it?"

"The news said everyone that gets transformed is unable to talk to humans, but the transformed are still able to understand them"

"Oh, must have missed that," I reply, pretending not to know about it. "So what are you going to do now?"

"I don't know, maybe I will wait for any news regarding about this"

"Same with me I guess"

"Take care Agung. I'll talk to you later"

"You too"

After my last message, I see the status of his WhatsApp went offline which indicates he is going to do some stuff. You know I haven't seen what I look like, so I immediately open the camera app and try to take a selfie of myself.

"..." I look at the picture of myself for a while.

"What the hell is this?!" I scream after examining the picture.

"Agung are you okay there? what was that?" I heard my mom from my back before I turned around to face her and I quickly shows the picture of myself.

"What? that's just how you look now, are you shocked seeing your new face?" She asks.

I nod frantically. My mom then put her hand on top of my head and slowly stroked it, somehow it makes me feel relaxed.

"You're not the only one who was shocked by it. Remember this morning?" She says and starts to stroke my head a bit faster. The feeling is something else and I slowly close my eyes from how good it feels.

"Hey umm, Agung?" My mom says as she sounds a bit concerned now, "Is this your doing?"

"What?" I then quickly open my eyes and see that there is some sort of ribbons that is wrapping her hand that she used to stroke my head.

"Eh?! what is-" Before I can react, I suddenly get hit with an electrifying feeling that makes both of us paralyzed.

I don't know what just happen but for some reason, I can feel something, some sort of...happiness? worries? fear? is this an emotion? I quickly push my mom's hand on my head which makes me fall to my back on the sofa. We both stare at each other for a while before my mom starts moving her mouth.

"Agung... Did you just enjoy the pats?"

"Eh?"

My mom suddenly start laughing as my face start turning red from what she just said to me and I immediately shove my face into the sofa because of the embarrassment for me to scream because of it.

'Did we just exchange our emotions?!' I thought to myself as I still heard my mom laughing, but at a slower pace than before.

"Sorry, sorry," she says between the laugh. After a while, she finally stop her laugh, "I didn't expect you to like that, maybe because of your changes you starting to act more like a cat or something"

I then slowly get back up and try to grab my phone that I lightly throw before when looking at my selfies, but then, I suddenly have some idea. Since I have this ribbon-like thing, and it looks like I can move them, why don't I just grab my phone with it?

I get into a sitting position and make myself facing where my phone is, after that I start to imagine my ribbons moving towards it and sure enough, I see it slowly move towards it. My mom, who's still looking at me, gives me a proud expression as my ribbon went under my phone and slowly wraps it, and slowly I pull the ribbon that has my phone on it closer to me.

"Looks like you got yourself a new arm," my mom says with a little bit of a giggle.

After I have my phone back. I start to examine the selfie again. For some reason, I still have the same hairstyle as before but with a pink color, there's also some sort of V-shaped marker that is coming from my forehead and then went down to the back of my head. My ears are the weirdest ones, it looks like I have some sort of antenna now. I also see 2 bowties, one is on the right side of my ear while the other is on my neck, and from those bowties comes out 2 pairs of ribbon, which in total make me have 4 pairs of ribbon.

"Well, that's what you look like. Now if you excuse me I'm gonna go get-"

"Mom wait!" I yell at her.

"Hm?"

Immediately after that I quickly type on my phone and after I'm done I show it to my mom.

"What I heard whenever you talking? well, you keep saying something along the word 'Sylv' or 'Sylveon'"

I've heard that pokemon are only able to speak their own species' name. So that means I'm a Sylveon now?

"Where did the three of us go this morning? We all went to the Mosque to do praying together with other neighbors"

I then start typing once more.

"Why we are not scared?"

Instead of getting a straight answer from her like in previous questions, there's a slight pause from her as she looks down a bit. But after that, she immediately looks back at me.

"We were very scared. We don't know what just happened to you, let alone the world. We thought that today is the end of the world, but as the sun still rises in the east. I was a bit relieved and thought that maybe this is not the end of the world yet, rather this is more like a trial from Allah."

I start to see her eyes tearing up again and I immediately wipe it off with both of my ribbons.

"Oh.. sorry, looks like I'm tearing up again," My mom says as I still wipe her tears.

"All we can do now is just be patient and pray as much as we can, everything is in Allah's hand. We can't do anything else anyway. I hope that answers that question," My mom says in a reassuring tone.

Throughout the conversation with my mom, I didn't notice that my brother is peeking from his room, he looks at me with a sort of worried face. I then slowly reach out to his hand in an act to bring him out of there. He gladly holds my ribbons and slowly makes his way to me. We then stare at each other before being interrupted by the news on the TV.

"We have been informed that the President will shortly make an appearance regarding this event"

My brother and mom immediately sit down on the sofa and right next to me as the camera shifted from the reporter to an empty podium. After a while, the President emerges from the left of the screen and starts giving his speeches.

"Good morning, every citizen of Indonesia. As you all might have seen, the world around us has changed. Roughly last night at 10:45 PM Western Indonesia Time, 30% of the world's population has been turned into this so-called pokemon being. I know how everyone is feeling right now, worried, scared, and not knowing what happened to their loved ones."

The President paused for a few seconds before continuing his speech.

"But this is not the time to panic, we can handle this. From the reports, it was discovered that the person who turned in this event still maintain their original personality and memories, in other words, they are not animals, deep down they are still humans, only their appearance had changed. We also discovered that the transformed is still able to talk normally but humans will be unable to understand it. We will run more research regarding the people that get transformed to better understand them. That is all that I can say for today, we will give you more updates about this manner. Protect your loved ones, keep friendly ties, and be tolerant towards the people that get turned. Thank you." The President then gets off the podium and leaves from the view of the camera.

I'm lost for words. I still can't believe that 30% of the world's population has become pokemon, and despite that, the President delivers the speeches with a relatively calm expression. My mom then gets up from the sofa before turning around to face me.

"Well, looks like the President essentially still recognized everyone that got transformed as a citizen. Looks like everything will be back to normal pretty fast in here" My mom said with a bit of a happy note. But I don't think it'll be normal like it used to be.

Suddenly, I feel the phone that is on my paws vibrating and I quickly try to unlock the phone, it's a little bit hard to do with paws. After I manage to get it open, I see a new message from Rian on WhatsApp and I immediately open it.

"Hey Agung, have you seen the news?"

"Yeah, why you ask?" I reply back

"Nothing really, I thought you didn't watch it so I want you to know about it"

"Ahh, I see"

"Anyway, I'm gonna go to my uncle's house with my parents. I heard that my uncle got turned too, looks like all of my family members got affected by this"

"Oh damn. That's unfortunate, at least you are still able to talk with them." I reply again to him but before long I remember something and start typing again as fast as possible before he can send any new messages.

"Wait how are you going to get there if your parents are pokemon now?" I ask him.

"Well apparently my parents are still able to walk with two of their legs" He replies.

"Wait is there any pokemon that stands on two legs," I thought to myself before continue typing.

"Ahh I see, well then see you later"

"See you later too," Rian says before going offline again.

"Was that Rian?" My mom asks me as she still standing and looking at me. I then nod immediately.

"How is he doing?"

Even though my mom doesn't have any relation or ties with him or his parent, she is still curious and wants to know more about him because he's the first friend that I ever made. I then show the chat messages that I had with him to my mom.

"I see, that is unfortunate for him and his family member. At least you two still get along and can understand him," My mom says.

"Hey, honey are you ready yet?" My dad says, emerging from my parent's room.

"Oh, yeah I'm almost ready," My mom replies to him before going into my parents' room.

'Ready for what?' I thought to myself as I saw my mom going to the room. I then tried to push my ribbon out to one of her hands again.

But before I was able to reach her with my ribbon, I suddenly get pulled back by my brother which makes me land on his lap. I then quickly look up at his face.

"Soo Agung..." well this is new, didn't expect him to talk to me directly "...this might be embarrassing. Can I pat you?"

"Eh?" My face quickly goes red again after hearing that.

"Uhh no thanks, I'm good for now hehe..." I say to my brother, hoping that it'll give him a clue that I don't want it. But sadly it didn't work.

"I'm going to guess that is a yes" He then slowly put his hand on my head and gently rub it.

If my mom's pat was good, this one is different. This has a more subtle and comforting feeling to it, I don't even have a chance to express how it feels, the more he rubs my head the more it feels good. I start to purr subconsciously and slowly nuzzle my brother. The more he does it, the louder my purr.

After a while, he stops rubbing my head and slowly pull his hand away, but I don't want it to stop. I immediately grab the hand that he's trying to pull away from my head and put it back on my head. He tries to pull it again but I keep putting it back on my head, I even wrap his hand with the ribbons so he won't be able to take it off my head.

"Agung, I know you want more pat. But non now, please, mom and dad are looking at you," Says my brother as he keeps trying to pull his hand off.

After that, I finally get back to my sense and gasps for a bit before I quickly untangle my ribbons and let go of my brother's hand. I then look up at my parent who is standing at the side of the sofa. I see my mom covering her mouth as she trying not to laugh and my dad just smiling at me. They both are in their formal set of clothes.

"Come on Agung, we're going to be late," Says my mom after he takes off her hand from her mouth.

I'm still confused as to why they are all in their formal clothing, I then pick up my phone and quickly type a question before showing it to my mom.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about something. One of your uncles texted dad before to tell him to go there and tells us to arrive quickly, but look at the time now," Says my mom as she then shifts her focus from me to the clock on the wall.

08:45 AM

I didn't expect the time has moved this fast.

"They also said to bring you there too," Says my dad.

Well, I can't decline that. I then quickly get off the sofa and start to grab my mom's hand with my ribbon.

"Radit you stay here to secure the house. We are not sure if there will be some thieves that have become pokemon and then try to steal anything from the house," Says my dad to my brother.

"Yeah, yeah dad," Reply my brother to my dad's request.

My mom then suddenly pick me up out of nowhere which makes me a little bit shocked. She then put me on her lap.

"It's easier to bring you like this when we are on the motorcycle," Says my mom

The three of us then walk out of the house onto the front terrace and my dad starts to lock the front door of the house twice. After that, he walks to the motorcycle that's parked on the terrace and slowly pushes it out off the terrace, bringing it down onto the ground. My dad quickly turns on the engine before my mom gets up onto the motorcycle with me still on her lap, and after that my dad starts to pull on the gas pedal and off we go.

I think and wish everything will be fine.

Chapter 2 end