Have you ever gone to sleep and woke up somewhere else?
Like, jumping in bed and waking up in your neighbours pool? Well how about waking up in the wilderness of another World?
If the first one happend to you, I'd like to hear the story behind that. If it is the second, let me tell you how I survived on day one...
I didn't expect to wake up in a sarcophagus, nor did I expect the feeling of being run over by a truck, wich considering my situation is quiet ironic.
Darkness was all around me and i didn't know where I was, but beeing the calm and collected cool guy, I didn't panic.
"Oh no I can't see... AAAAAH GOD I'M BLIND." And thats where the sobbing and crying started.
"Oh God why, WHY do this to me? Was it couse of those strange drugs Jimmy gave me?" I started panicking, kicking around hitting something hard "Come on!" Until suddenly a ray of light hit me.
I looked up and saw a gap, it was a stone lid!
'Oh I'm not blind... just stupid'
After my revelation, I pushed against the heavy stone lid until it gave way and fell to the ground next to the coffin
As I got up I started to look around, there were trees and ruins of some kind all around me, much of the ground was coverd in moos, mushrooms and roots.
Something felt strange...
"Hello, is anyone there?"
Did someone play a prank on me? Or was this a Hangover situation?
"Hello... we all had a good laugh hehe, jokes over..."
no answer... and after minutes of waiting I came to one conclusion.
" I'm fucked aren't I."
It took me a while before I understood that not only was the place different, but also my body and by that I mean I've never seen this thing before, which means that this is not my body!
Also it didn't feel real, something felt wrong...
And how did I realize that this wasn't my body? First of all, I didn't have any tribal tattoos.
Secondly, I have never been so ripped in my life.
thirdly, no matter how hard you train, you can't make a six pack out of a natural four pack, your muscles either have the shape or they don't.
but that raises the question if that isn't my body then where is it?
And why am i still high?
something is affecting my mind...
And if that's not my body, who does it belong to?
Also why am i high?
Before I could succumb to an existential crisis, I heard someone shouting something in the distance. It sounded like bet and Oz. Bet Oz? Everything is so coulorfull!
"be..li os bel ...os"
I got it now, someone made a bet with the Wizard of Oz and from the sad sounding cry, probably lost it.
It's trying to distract me...
Does that mean I am in Oz, I don't want to fight an evil witch.. thats what school is for!
But the closer the voice came, the clearer I heard what it was screaming .
"BELLIOS... BELLIOS YOU STUPID IDIOT I'M NOT ALLOWING THIS, YOU CAN'T DO THIS"
Ah so it wasn't bet Oz but Bellios, who names their child Bellios?
The colors are all wrong...
then I saw it, a little black creature with a bone skull mask rushing towards the ruins... it looked like a shiney Cubone? A giggel escaped me.
It looks wrong, as if it weren't alive...
At that moment I had a flash of realization, this had to be a dream, but not just any dream, but a Pokemon Master Journey dream! I am Ash! I am the Omega, I am Sigma... pffft
Don't belive it, its a lie...
I got up out of the tub, ripping some strange tubes out of my body, which was kinda disgusting! But who cares I have a Pokemon to catch!
It's wrong, wake up, WAKE UP...
I stood up and felt everything turning and changing. I almost puke and 'oh is that a butterfly?' A winged piece of Butter flew by me. 'No gotta focus, gotta catch em all!'
My mind...
'If I'm right, I can simply take a stone, throw it and through the power of my thoughts and friendship, it will turn it into a pokeball, capture the Cubone, starting my Pokemon Journey.'
It's forcing my mind to comply...
So I grabed a rock and followed the Cubone. While singing the pokemon Anthem
"I wanna be the very best..."
The little guy finally reached his destination, a clearing in the forest. There in the middle of it stood a throne and on it an old guy who was completely wired up, apparently some kind of life support system.
He gives me the creeps...
"Bellios, Bellios are you still alive?" and an ancient voice answered.
I hope not...
"Yes Cat, I am still alive!"
The old man turned to Cat, his long white beard falling over his lap and his long white hair flowing down his shoulders like water.
If there was ever a movie about a cancer-stricken Gandalf, he would have gotten the part.
Except Gandalf was a good guy...
He cleared his throat, started coughing, when he was finished he said
"But, I will die today."
It somehow feelt dishonest...
"I passed on as much as I could to the Hommunculus. My magic, my experiences, and more. It's up to you now, Cat, you felt it too. The Seal is broken and things are changing the eclipse gate was opend and the Humans are hunted down by Dragons! I won't be here much longer so you will have to teach the Homunculus the ways of Magic" Bellios started coughing.
His plans Involve me...
Cat, close to tears, replied, "Bellios, I'll do what you say... but please don't leave me alone."
Bellios replied "I won't leave you alone, that's why I created the Homuncu- DODGE!!!"
Cat's skull mask was hit by a rock, causing it to fall off.
And it revealed that Cat was actually a cat
Cat and Bellios looked at where the stone came from and froze.
""the Homunculus!?!"" they both shouted at the same time.
"Hey, you don't have to get mean right away, the stone was just an accident. I had no way of knowing that, that Cubone was actually just a strangely proportioned cat that had just been cosplaying! After all you can't catch non Pokemon in a Pokeball!"
My mind is getting foggy...
the old man and the cat looked at the seemingly crazy homunculus in horror.
"The homunculus seems to have brain damage, in other words hes a retard. Cat it looks like you now have a disabled brother to look after, good luck." Said the ancient man.
It's trying to erase my mind...
Cat looked at him, as if Bellios just killed his cat.
"Bellios you... you... YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT how did you manage to screw this up? The world is screwd! because your retarded homunculus is now fucking retarded and can't take care of himself because he is RETARDED!!!"
They seem to get desperat...
"Hey i'm not retarded and I'm not a homungus or whatever your calling me. I am Jester!" Said the Homun- I mean Jester.
"I think I have a solution." Said the old man as if he didn't hear Jester. His eyes where twinkeling at Cat as he turned to Jester.
"Jester, when I snap my fingers, you will forget that you where ever retarded!" And Bellios snapped his fingers in his direction.
"I was never retarded!"
"Yes, of course"
"No I was never retarded you can't just state something and treat it as fact!"
"Whatever makes you sleep at night."
"...fuck you."
Cat looked completly lost and demoralized
My mind is hanging by a string...
"Your distracting me... why?"
Cat and the old man were petrified;
The subject went off-script. That hadn't happened in a long time.
The fog was gone and I am wide awake...
"Who are you really and what are you doing to me?"
The inviting image of a fairytale landscape transformed into a nightmare. The mushrooms rotted, the vibrant green grass withered, and the lush trees that had once been so full of life shriveled up and lost their leaves.
But that wasn't the only thing that changed.
Cat, who had previously been very cute, transformed into a grotesque version of a gigantic, anorexic looking tiger.
It looked like someone had covered a tiger skeleton with green rotten fur.
But Bellios was just as bad. His hair was falling out, and his entire demeanor was changing. His face now gaunt, the eyes sunken in, glowing a malicious green. He looked like a reanimated corpse an undead, and this undead wanted something from me.
"My body! I will have it!"
Oh god, I think he wants to steal my new sexy body... or does he wants to rape me? I should make sure and ask, then react accordingly depending on the answer.
"Are you a rapist?"
Bellios let out a cry of rage and stretched out his hands as if grasping something. Ethereal tentacles shot out from his back, darting towards me faster than I could react.
"Take Over: Artifical Soul"
For the first time in this fever dream, I felt something, something real...
PAIN
My mind, my entire being, was ablaze as the green tentacles wrapped around me
In that moment, I understood that Bellios wasn't attacking my body, but my mind my memory— the things, that made me who I am—he wanted to erase me.
First, he took away my memories of my parents, then my sister. But when he got to my brother, something came back.
I remembered the first anime we watched together on his computer.
Back then, anime fans were seen as weird. I often felt alone, because in my town, it seemed like no one but my brother and I cared about anime.
There was one anime that meant a lot to me: Naruto. He had it harder than I did—no one liked him, and he had no friends.
But despite his loneliness and all the obstacles he faced, he never gave up. And now, I won't give up either.
The tentacle reminded me of the moment in wich Naruto struggled to take the ninetails power and was almost taken over instead only saved by his mother.
Now, I was facing something similar with Bellios, but now I had an idea, lets do this, Naruto style, belive it!
I grabed the glowing green tentacle and pulled. It resisted at first, but then it started to give. Bellios cried out in pain.
"Cat! Do something! Stop him before it's too late!" he shouted.
Cat, the unsetteling version of a tiger Gollum, leapt at me. On instinct, I raised my hand. A surge of green energy burst forth, striking the beast and sending it crashing through the treeline.
The more green energy I pulled out of Bellios, the stronger I felt, and Bellios seemed to grow weaker and weaker until the energy was completely sucked out of him.
The world collapsed, and the light in Bellios's eyes went out.
now I was alone, floating in nothingness... and then... I opened my eyes.