Wooo Chapter 4. Prepare yourself because it's gonna get emotional.

Again I wanna thank everyone who had read the previous chapter and following this story.

Encounter

~A New Threat In The New World~

10:22 PM

Our house is completely trashed. A glass cabinet in the guest room is on the floor with all of its glasses shattered, some sofas in the living room have deep scratches on them, and also a few scratch marks on my room's door, not to mention some on the walls too. The damage is more apparent in the living room. A wooden chair is completely broken and our TV is probably broken too because it's on the floor and I can see some shards of the screen on the floor. The kitchen is not good either, the food that my mom prepared at the dining table this morning is completely gone. Is someone eaten all of them?

After looking at the damage to our house, we all start looking for my brother in the house. He's not in his room or any place in the house, we haven't checked my room though. When I try to open it I hear a clicking sound inside the room and after that, the door opens slowly, and sure enough, my brother is the one who opens it. He looks distressed and scared, he then looks down to see me and we made eye contact. Suddenly he goes down to my height and hugs me very tightly.

"Woah hey, Radit what happened in here?" I ask him, but he didn't answer, instead, he hug me more.

My mom and dad see him hugging me and they both quickly approach us. While he still hugging me, I notice something on his right hand. A scratch, It's not too deep and not too big but still noticeable and it looks like it had stopped bleeding. Something might have attacked him and it's not a cat, no cat will make this kind of a mess, and even if it's a tiger he'll be bleeding a lot. Suddenly I have some kind of revelation.

'Wait if It's big enough to cause this much damage but small enough to give someone a scratch like that. Does that mean the ones that do this are someone that gets transformed?!' I thought to myself as I start to connect the dots in my head. Could it be they're the same kind as me?

I then quickly turn my head to see the crowd that had gathered when we arrive before. I didn't see anyone that might be the culprit of this, most of them look humanoid. Suddenly I smell a strong and sharp scent coming from my brother's arm that has a scratch mark on it. As I sniff it more, the scent becomes more powerful and I can somewhat track it. Without thinking I immediately push my brother away to get out of his hug and start running to follow the scent, I ran past my mom and dad without me noticing. I don't know what I'm currently thinking, all I know is that I have to follow this scent. Yes, I might be the kind who always protects my family and everyone else that I care about, but this one is different.

As I follow the scent, I didn't notice that I'm in my backyard. I don't fully remember why I'm here and I didn't have enough time to think about it because the scent that I smell before is back. This time is closer and stronger, I sniff the air a few times before finally being able to locate it. It comes from a field of tall grass a few meters away from the fence of my backyard.

I slowly get out of the fence and start walking out into the field, I'm not sure if it's because of my size but the grass is taller than it used to be. The closer I go the stronger it smells, after walking for a few meters into the field I feel like the scent is just right in front of me. I slowly open the tall grass that is in front of me and that's when I see it.

Just as I expected, it looks like a cat, but they have the same size as me, maybe a bit smaller. It's fully covered in yellow sharp fur and it doesn't have any tail, its ears are as big as mine but more pointy and I also see white fur around its neck that is also pointy, I quickly able to recognize them, It's a jolteon. I then try to approach them to ask why they attacked my house and my brother, but they suddenly turn their back and start hissing. I then see their body start to glow in a yellowish light and look like about to charge at me.

"Woah Woah hey!" I say to calm them down, but it looks like they don't listen.

They immediately charge straight at me and I manage to dodge them, but that's not enough, they start to turn to where I am and as they get closer to me again they immediately jump and dive straight at me with their mouth open like they're about to bite me. I still haven't gotten used to my new body yet so dodging is a very tiring thing to do.

I dodge them again and after it, I quickly throw a punch to their face with my ribbon that makes them flinch a little bit, and then I throw another punch, still on their face, and another, and another. At first, it was slow but the more I do it the faster my ribbon goes, and at the end, I punch them with all of the energy that I have and it makes them slide away from me a little bit, but after all of that, I didn't see any bruises on them.

At this point, I'm almost out of energy. I'm panting very hard and also sweating a lot, I am still able to stand up but I don't think I can dodge another attack from them. I then see them ready to charge at me with their mouth open again and I try to punch them again, but it doesn't do anything. They then manage to bite me on my ears and I start to scream, not because of the pain, but because of the electrifying feeling that's going through my body.

I was being electrocuted for about 5 seconds before they let go of their bite and kick me in the face which make them fly backward before landing again on the ground. As for me, I'm barely able to keep myself up, I'm currently just laying on the ground while facing them with blurry vision. I manage to pull Swift and hit them in their eyes which makes them whine before running away. That move drain the last bit of my energy as I slowly close my eyes and before I completely lost consciousness I can hear footsteps approaching me and calling out my name.

...

I don't know how long has it been, but as I slowly open my eyes back. I can see a lightbulb on the ceiling that I don't recognize before, I then try to look around and see that I'm laying on someone's bed, I say that because this isn't my room. The wall has a light green color while mine is a dark blue. I slowly get myself up before being hit by a strong headache which makes me fall back onto the bed.

As I lay on the bed I try to remember what just happened. I remember I was fighting a jolteon in a grass field behind my house and I fainted from their attack. Why did they attack my house, my brother, and me back then, if any pokemon that exist in our world now is from people that got turned, then why do they act like an animal? is that going to happen to me soon?

While I keep thinking of the reasons for it, I hear a footstep coming out outside the door of the room and when I look there I can see a sylveon bringing a tray with their ribbons and I see a bowl of soup and some glass of water on the tray. The sylveon then looks at me with a warm smile as they walk into the room and put the tray down on the small table next to the bed.

"Looks like you're finally awake," He says as he jumps into the bed and sits on the edge of it.

I slowly try to get up again with a groan while still holding my head because of the headache that I got before.

"Ugh... where am I?" I ask.

"You're in my house right now," He replies.

"How do I get here?"

"Your parents found you laying unconscious in a grass field behind your house and they ask the people that gathered in front of your house for a doctor, luckily my dad is among the crowd back then and he is a private doctor so he gladly accepts the offer, the name's Joy by the way"

As we talk I slowly grab the glass of water from the tray and slowly drink it.

"Joy huh, that's an interesting name for a boy, aren't that sound too girly?" I say as a joke to him.

"Hey who's the one who looks more girly in here, look at those ribbons and bowtie," He replies with a chuckle.

We both keep calling each other out as a joke and we have a great laugh together before finally settling down.

"Hehe, well that was fun. by the way you haven't said your name," Joy asks me.

"Oh right, the name's Agung" I reply

"Alright Agung, I'm gonna tell your parents that you already woke up," He says before jumping off the bed and starts walking out of the room.

You know, despite everything that had happened on this day, how am I able to stay calm? people just suddenly become pokemon overnight, our house got attacked by someone as a pokemon, and I just got into a fight with them which make me pass out. What is wrong with me? do I just get carried away because I'm a pokemon now or am I just too ignorant? or am I liking this?

As I keep thinking to myself I start to scan the room where I'm in which could be Joy's room. Looks like Joy is someone who likes to collect stuff that he likes, I see some posters of art on the wall and also a few figurines on the desk, a few of which are pokemon related. Is he a fan of pokemon just like my cousins?

Suddenly I hear a few footsteps approaching the room and when I turn my head I can see both of my parents, my brother, and possibly Joy's father far behind. My mom immediately runs straight at me and hugs me as I see a bit of a tear in her eyes in which I immediately hug her tight with my ribbons in turn. As my ribbons make a contact with her I start to send my feelings to her which consist of guilt, sadness, and forgiveness. After both of us were finally able to calm down my mom asks me what happened back then and I tell everything that I still remember with my phone.

"So, someone who gets turned suddenly attacks you with no reason when you tried to ask them why they attacked our house?" Asks my mom and I nod immediately.

"And you find them in there because you smell their scent from the injuries that Radit gets on his hand"

I nod again.

"But you don't know why you suddenly went to find them"

And I nod again. She then gets off the edge of the bed before hugging me again but not as tight as before.

"Look Agung, I can't tell you what you're supposed to do and not, I and your dad are getting older and we can't always keep our eyes on you like when you're still a kid. But whatever you do, see the risks first before deciding, you are the one who controls your destiny in the future," She says to me before letting me go and start walking towards Joy's father and start talking about something.

After they were both done my mom walk back toward me and start kneeling in front of me.

"Agung you're gonna stay here for a while since our house is not gonna get any repair soon. As for us, we're gonna stay at your uncle's house. I'm starting to get worried about the safety around our house after all of this, so we gonna stay there from now on. Once the house gets any repairs, it's gonna be fully yours. I hope you can maintain it properly, and don't forget what I teach you about how to do work in the house..." she then kisses me on the forehead before saying "...I love you"

As she says that I immediately burst into tears and start crying before hugging her again with my paws and ribbons. I'm not the kind of person who likes to cling to my parents, but the thought of myself being left alone by my parents and living on my own is scary to me. That is one of the things that I don't want to happen. At least not until I'm fully adult, and yet here we are, my mom left me alone to maintain the house that I've grown up in with both of my parents throughout my life and it feels overwhelming to me. My mom then starts to stroke my back to calm me down.

"I know it's hard for you, but there are no other choices, and you're not the only one who's going to face the cruelness of this world. I hope you can grow in the future and be able to handle and overcome it," She says in a reassuring tone as I keep crying more and more even though everyone else is still in the room.

I then slowly let her go out of my hug and she looks at me in the eyes before turning back and slowly walking to my dad and brother before they two approaches me and gave me another hug which makes me cry even more than before. My dad slowly wipes my tears off before kissing me on my forehead just like my mom and my brother does the same too, but without wiping my tears off.

They both then slowly walk towards my mom who is standing next to the door frame and as they reach her, my parents and brother start waving at me and saying goodbye to me who's still trying to wipe my tears off, though I managed to wave back at them. As they go out of the room I can hear their footsteps walking to what I assume is the front door, I hear it being opened and I immediately get off the bed and start running to where the sound is coming from, when I found it I can see my mom's back.

I quickly run to her while still crying before immediately leaping onto her back and hugging her as my last hug to her. My mom was surprised by that but she then pick me up and put me on her lap and trying to calm me down again. When I'm being put on my mom's lap I can see that it's already dark outside. She then let me go from her lap and put me down on the floor and she gives me one last wave at me before finally going out of Joy's house and closing the door.

All I can do is see the door slowly close while I'm still crying on the floor and I see my mom slowly get out of my vision. After that, I suddenly start to feel dizzy followed by a headache. My vision suddenly starts to get blurry again before I feel my body swinging and finally collapse on the floor. As I slowly close my eyes again I can hear Joy and his father calling me out and what I can only think at the moment is my parents, my brother, and most importantly my mom...

Chapter 4 End