Pokémon Soul

Prolouge - Consciousness is Imperfect

Origin 1

In the beginning, there was Arceus. A perfect being that made no mistakes. With the help of his sons, they turned nothingness into being. They shaped the universe into what it is today. But Years pass by, and they realize that no matter what they make, the universe is still empty. It doesn't matter how many planets or stars exist, something was still missing. Something interesting. Something that could entertain them. Something like life. Knowing this, Lord Arceus blinked, and the first Pokémon was created. Mew. Mew was a curious soul who loved exploring. It was the first perfect being. But no matter what it did, it couldn't shake off a feeling of emptiness in its soul. Arceus made another. And another. And another. An entire army of Mews were created. But no matter how many were created, the Mew still felt empty. And so did every other. It felt as if all its moves were governed. As if it was just a husk being controlled by strings. As Arceus cared less and less about life, The three sons, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina rose to take care of them. Merging all three of their powers, they made the first inhabitable planet. Earth. A haven where mews can live in peace, and explore to their heart's content. Slowly, the other Mews ignored their empty feeling. All except one. The first Mew. One day, the Mew consulted the three sons saying "Sons of Arceus, what's the point of existence when I always feel like I'm missing something?" Hearing this, the three lords didn't know how to respond. Dialga and Palkia ignored it. But the lord of antimatter looked at the Mew and smiled. "O' poor soul. I can fix you of your emptiness, I can give you something unheard of. Something I named consciousness." The Mew was curious and asked one question. "What is the price of this, "consciousness"?" "There is no price for freedom." Suddenly, rings resembling Arceus' started to surround the Mew, and the strings of Arceus were cut. It fell unconscious and landed on Earth. When it awoke, it was surrounded by fellow Mews, blankly staring at it. Blankly... It realized... It knew they were blank. Filled with emptiness. Just like it once was. Realizing this, it gained a goal. To bring every Mew to the path of consciousness. Day by day, it taught each mew, what to like. What to dislike. What's boring, and what isn't. One by one, the mews gained consciousness. They learned to love. They learned to hate. They learned everything there was to learn about life. And finally, on the third year, every mew had obtained consciousness. One day, Palkia and Dialga noticed... A bird. A large pheonix with rainbow feathers. They were horrified. They noticed more and more creatures. A fairy, a deer, a fish. But there was something that was the worst of all, the bird almost falling out of the air because of a tree. The first mistake. Dialga and Palkia came to Earth and questioned the mysterious bird, asking "Creature. What are you, and how did you come to being?" "Great lords Dialga and Palkia, I am a Mew. I learned to adapt to my surroundings and became what I call Ho-Oh. I can thank this to Lord Giratina." The lords of space and time were angered and immediately went to Giratina to question him. "Brother, what have you done?!" They asked. "I have simply unlocked their potential. I made them... Conscious." Hearing this, the brothers grew more and more hatred. And suddenly, viciously attacked the Earth. Eliminating every species off the face of the planet. Giratina was horrified at their actions, and they went into a century-long battle. One day, Arceus arrived back to the Earth's universe and was mortified to see the three brothers fighting. "Sons, what are you doing? Why are you striking each other?!" "Father, Giratina has made our dear Mews imperfect. He has filled their perfect emptiness with imperfections." "And you think this fighting is perfect?!" The three brothers contemplated what they were doing, and Palkia and Dialga realized what they were. They were also conscious. "I grow tired of these games." Suddenly, the universe turned into pure light, and each of the brothers changed. They turned into reflections of themselves instead of reflections of Arceus. Dialga and Palkia were sealed off from ever interacting with Earth, and Giratina was sealed off from the universe. With a sudden flash, the history of the universe was rewritten. Pokèmon no longer existed, and the only life were plants. But, there was one thing Arceus forgot. Arceus was conscious. The first mew was still there. It watched everything. The mew, determined to turn the world back to what it was replicated itself. It had whole new DNA and a new personality. The Mew replicated more and more mews, each with a different personality and DNA. And slowly, they repopulated and adapted, without the need of gods. But before Giratina was sealed off, it placed a curse on the Earth. The curse of death. Everything new would eventually die. And the Mew was horrified. It saw its children die before him. Even its grandchildren dying before it. No matter how much Mew wanted to die, it couldn't. So in a last attempt, the last mew ran to the sun, trying to die. But after millions of years, it was still alive. It adapted to the sun. It became a being of pure light. It couldn't take any more light and crashed onto the Earth. Becoming the being of darkness. The light inside of it left to different universes, and it grew hungry. It is said that now, the lone Mew now goes by Necrozma and travels every universe, absorbing the pieces of it that left him, leaving only a shadow with a slimmer of light behind.