Episode 1

I chuckle to myself as I play another episode. The 12th one today. I've had little work left over from school today- and instead of catching up on homework that's in for later in the week

I spend my time on my 5th Pokémon marathon.

Ok- chill. It's not every Pokémon episode ever

That would be redicoulous

And near impossible as to how busy my life has been recently

No, I'm only watching a specific series

Obviously my favorite one as well. Because I believe it to be the best series ever

And it is.

I just love the plot, the characters, the- ahem- 'hint' of romance and the new Pokémon that came along with the new region

That's right- the XY and XYZ series

I reposition myself on my bed so my feet don't die on me...

Again

Once the intro- short but catchy- finnishes, I instinctively lean closer into the screen and listen carefully for the voice to introduce me to the new episode

"And-"

"HANNAH!" My mother interrupts from downstairs "GO TO BED! You have school tomorrow! And you have that test in the morning!"

"I have a test?" I ask down cheekily as I pause the video.

"Don't make me come up there!" My mother warns in a scolding voice.

I roll my eyes as I grumpily go to the door, iPad still in hand, as I kick the door shut with my swift moves

"There" I sigh as I tred back to my bed, and jump into it with a bounce

But before I can even press the 'play' button that taunts me on the screen, my mother's voice can be heard again in a much more angry tone

"HANNAH! Don't you dare make me come up there!" She screeches

I grumble to myself "it's almost like she's psychic" as I place the iPad down on the floor beside my bed, plugging it in as I do so.

Faster than a lightning attack, I quickly change into my pajamas

"I guess she's right" I tut to myself as I get into my bed. And I'm presented with the odd feeling of the mattress being both warm and cold from me sitting on top of it- only warming the top half doing so

"You'd better have plugged that iPad in!" Mums voice calls out

"Yes" I growl down to her, before getting nice and comfortable and turning off the bedside light.

...

... ...

... ... ...

"I can't sleep" I grumble

I roll over, the new position only feeling fresh for a few moments- but thats enough for me to clasp onto the dangling rope of sleep, as I slowly start to pull myself up into my dreaming state, a warm smile on my face as the memories of Pokémon fresh in my mind from only moments earlier

I open my eyes to be presented in a dark, gloomy atmosphere. I'm standing up and in normal day clothes

Ah so this is a dream

My consciousness seems to be working normally... check

I can control myself completely... check

And I'm in first person... check

Lucid dream is confirmed

I slowly begin to walk forward. Not scared, may I point out, I'm just curious as to what this dream presents

And whether or not it's a nightmare

The smokey atmosphere seams to thicken. I squint my eyes- like that'll do anything- and I raise a hand up to cast a shadow over my eyes as if it's bright

But it's not

It's dark.

I stop walking and sigh. This dream isn't very interesting. I plop myself onto the wet floor in annoyance

Doing so kicks up some leaves.

Leaves huh? I look down. The floor... what kind of dream makes the floor most interesting?

The floor is covered in leaves that float on water. The water isn't just a puddle though, it seams to go really deep down. I frown. I'm sitting on the water

Though I guess this is rather calm for how crazy the dreams I usually get are

I swivel around onto hands and knees, staring at my reflection in the puddle. I hesitantly raise a hand, before slowly reaching it down into the water. It goes through, this time the puddle actually acting like water

I take my hand out, it comes out dry

"Huh" I say "ok then, what about this"

With one sudden glimpse of bravery, I suck in air and hold my breath as I dive forward head first into the puddle

The world around me flips- rather nauseating me- as I come up on the other side of the puddle. I now stand on where there seams to be a scorch mark on an invisible floor

"This is a really weird dream" I stutter. I look up. A bright sun shines- quite close, taking up the whole of the sky. And even closer to me are thunder clouds, sudden bursts of lighting coming now and again, scorching the ground here and there

I take a deep breath out as I begin to walk forward through this altered reality. The atmosphere is still rather foggy- but it's easier to see with the really big sun

Like, really big

I rub my forehead from the sweat I produced from the heat coming off the sun

"I recon if I'm here much longer I'm going to boil" I say, before breaking into a pant

-ok, I know panting is an animal kind of thing, I've been told that lots, but... it's both fun, entertaining and it works! So if I look stupid, so what?

A ringing is heard in my ears. I wince as I press my hands against my ears, the heat being forced on me no longer apparent as the clouds fly away, the the sun shrinks to nothing quick enough for me to have stained eyes from the fast moving light

And speaking of light, a tall, bright beam of pure white light erupts from before me. Quite far away it seams

The beam sends out a blast of wind that- when it rushes past me- cools me down enough from the heat for me to feel comfortable in my skin

Confident my dream wants me to go into the light, I begin making my way to the Beacon

In fact, the light isn't as far as way as it seams, no- it's actually quite close.

As I walk I squint as the light intensifies from how close I am to its presence. The light... it multiplied as I get closer? No... it splits.

In fact, it's not one light, it's four. Each of different colours

As I get closer this becomes more apparent to me as I can single out each colour of all four, one's yellow, one's red another's green and the last is blue

Huh... it's actually not that bright now that I'm close up

Not as light as I'd thought it would be anyway...

Each beam... there's something in them... yeah- a figure in each. All are different sizes, different shapes even. I can't pick out any features yet, other than their colours... they all match to the colour beam they're within.

As I get closer, I begin to presume what they are

I hope they're what they think

I think they are...

Are they?

Yeah! I think they are!

Yes! Definitely! They're Pokémon!

Pikachu, charizard, sceptile And greninja!

All of them are producing the light

But what does this all mean? Dreams are said to be figments of something in your life... emotions or thoughts personified or made into a scene

Then what on earth is this all meant to mean?

I dare to get closer, the intense pressure of the light and energy radiating off each of them

They all seam to be in pain, using up all of their power to create up this light

"What is this for?" I shout at them, they don't even react "what is the point of this dream? Of this light you seem to be sacrificing so much for to produce? There's no-one here but me!"

"It is for you my darling" a male, deep voice comes from above me. I look up to where I heard it, seeing nothing

"Fear not, this is your destiny" the disembodied voice reassures

"Wot" is all I think of to say, completely baffled by this all. This is not a dream someone like me would be able to whip up- my dreams are far more wild and power filled

The voice, along with another, female voice chuckle

"Who are you?" I ask, my focus being taken off the exhausted Pokémon before me

"Oh, you'll know if you saw us- we wouldn't want to ruin the Surprise" the female giggles cheerily- almost menacingly, the source being invisible and all

I pout childishly, and I look back at the Pokémon. The energy they produce leans into each other. As they all cross paths the Pokémon begin to glow

"What-" I begin, but the male disembodied voice interjects with "just watch"

I shut up and watch as all the Pokémon give out cries, the light conjoining into a bright ball of white light

Their bodies change, some only by little, some quite drastically.

After a few moments of me silently watching this presentation, the white ball of light suddenly dimmens. The Pokémon stop growing to reveal their new forms

Ash-pikachu, mega charizard X, mega sceptile and ash-greninja

They all stand there limp and unmoving. I ask aloud, my eyes not moving from them "What was that about? Are they Ash's Pokémon? Because he has all these Pokémon and pikachu and greninja are-"

"You ask lots of questions!" The female voice giggles "just look up!"

I quickly cock my head up to see, where the white ball of light once was, a feather. Just a single feather. It gracefully falls, swaying side to side as glides down. The chimming of high-pitched bells can be heard as this happens

I watch it silently, mesmerized by some aura it gives off. I can't physically take my eyes off of it, but I don't want to. It- it's beautiful

After its long decent, it finally touches the floor. Once it does, the Pokémon suddenly collapse to the floor, no sound made, no preparation. It was like they were hanging by a single string, and once the feather made contact with the floor, something cut it- letting them fall.

I wait a moment, uncertain as to what to do with myself, before slowly getting closer to the scene. I stand in between the Pokémon and I look either side at the four Pokémon whom lay there; out cold. What is this all about?

I look across to where the feature should have landed, only to see a hat turned upside.

It just sits there

A hat.

a hat

What- what does this all mean

I take a few steps forward to the hat and I stand just before it. I look into the cap and see the feather sitting in there, glowing lightly and looking pretty

"H- What?" I ask to nobody in particular

I bend down to pick up the feature, twidling it between my thumb and finger, the bell ringing from it as I do so. It glows like a rainbow

The rainbow wing

Courtesy of Ho-oh.

I pin it in my hair as I bend down to look at the cap.

I reach to pick it up, and I flip it over to see...

Ash's hat

Ash's kalos hat

But it's torn, worn, burnt. Barely recognisable

But I recognize it

I look up "what is this?" I ask, trying to address the disembodied voices, but they're gone

Or at least they don't answer

I sigh as I throw the hat back down onto the floor "I want to wake up now" I say as I take the feather out of my hair again and I it. It glows lightly before my vision fades, and I loose consciousness in this dream world

Let's just wake up and get in with the day

But...

But I don't want to go back to normal

And with that, the feature gives off one last, bright glow before I wake up softly.