I laid still for a moment, my body entirely unmoving. My eyes were closed as I slowly and groggily rustled from my sleep. I laid on my back, which felt soft, my bed I assume. I rolled slightly to feel it being more... uncomfortable. I lazily opened my eyes to see golden flowers where my bed should be. I looked up in my extremely tired state to see light falling down. Was I in a cave? My mind said to stand but my body didn't comply immediately. Something was definitely wrong. My eyes slowly opened and I looked at my hands for an explanation of why they weren't working and that's a paw. Why was there a paw there. I shook it to realize this paw was my paw. Yeah this was not right, I never had paws before this. While still laying down in a delusional state, I checked to see what else was wrong. The second thing to notice was my body, it was smaller and covered in blue and black fur, legs coming down from them ending with paws as well. I quickly shot up at this point and felt my face. Furred as well, my hands - excuse me - paws felt a black mass on the side of my face that gradually got bigger as my paw traced it down until it ended. I looked around me in a lazy panic. An unfamiliar place in an unfamiliar body.

I stood and started walking away from my little flower bed and venturing further, hopefully to find any idea of how I got here and what happened to me. "Maybe this is all a dream" I said out loud to nobody in particular. "Yeah.. Just a very strange… hyper-realistic dream…" I said in relief at my answer, it must have been correct.

"I doubt it" I heard a higher pitched voice say, with a small amount of cynicism. I looked around to find its location. I looked down to find a flower… with a smiling face. "Howdy" it said much more cheerful this time.

"Okay thank you for the confirmation" I said as I walked away, planning how to wake myself up. "No, come back!" it whined. I ignored it pleas. Maybe pinching myself would work? It always works in the movies. "I said COME BACK!" Its voice became much darker and raspier than before, but at the same time a little screechie. I turned and rolled my eyes " I can.. umm.. help wake you up!" It said with a giddy little grin.

"I'm listening" I said as I sat down. I decided to just go with the flow of this dream and see where it takes me, maybe it could be fun. I looked at the flower intently as he scrambled for an answer. It was amusing to say the least.
"Alright, alls ya gots to do is run into these... friendliness pellets" It said with a huge smile. I looked at him intently as he pulled out a white spherical seed like object. "Go" He stated much more grim this time. He started chucking them at me at rapid speed and I instinctively dodged the first two. "Run. into. them..!" He said as his smile began to widen. The third scraped my arm and I whimpered in pain. I looked quickly at the scratch as blood started to ooze down slowly. I covered it with my remaining paw as the flower started to laugh. I dodged more intently this time, his aim wasn't especially great and I seemed to be more nimble in this form. He continued chucking those seeds as I decided to run. If this was a dream, why did that hurt? As I was running another struck me on the leg, sending me falling onto the flower bed that I awoke on. I tumbled face first as the familiar aroma filled my nostrils. The flower only laughed louder when I fell. I curled up into a ball holding my leg awaiting my demise. Suddenly I heard the sound of flames and a scream. I was terrified at this point, 'The flower could breath fire?!' I stayed in my little flower domain, curled up with eyes closed. I didn't dare to move at all.
Suddenly I heard the sound of footsteps coming toward me. I accepted my fate as I uncurled my body and slowly opened my eyes, just as a clawed hand reached my shoulder. My eyes snapped open to see a mysterious figure, orange in color with a horn like object protruding from the back of his head. I have no Idea why, but he looked somehow familiar. He dragged me up and shook me a bit. "Hey, hey are you OK?". This probably doesn't need to be said but I was completely confused. I looked around nervously before he noticed the scratch on my arm and the seed lodged in my leg. "Damn let's get him back to Haven." I looked to his left and saw a blue turtle like creature, with winged ears and an odd tail that was just as familiar as the fire lizard. They both picked me up and carried me on my way. I was a little pissed that they would just pick me up like that, but I wasn't about to complain about it.

I looked around as they carried me, well the blue creature just kinda slung me over his shoulder while the red/orange one went ahead, drinking something I could probably guess out of his flask. I looked at my surroundings. A purple like cave infested with creatures. Not like the creatures that were carrying me, they were something else entirely, monsters even. The two creatures I was with didn't seem too fond of them. I saw a few trees in this cave, definitely an interesting cave, with some reflective material along the walls. I caught further glimpses of myself as we went through. I had some sort of black mask, my ears were now triangular and on top of my head, and most notably, my eyes were a crimson red. As we took a sudden turn, the Red/Orange Lizard (as he will now be known to me) decided to strike up a conversation.
"So er.. How did you get way out here little riolu?" My eyes were glazed at this point, not really listening to him at all, just casually observing my surroundings. "Hey, you." He spoke up. It still didn't really dawn on me he was trying to talk to me, I assumed the blue turtle was named riolu. What an odd name for an odd creature. He poked my arm with a claw. "Yes you." I looked at him slightly confused. Ok It seems I am the one with the name riolu. I sighed "I have no idea".

"Do you know where you are" He stated, questioning how I got there
"Nope" I retorted
"Do you know why you were here"
"Nope"
"Do you remember anything before getting here"
"Nope"
"Do you know who attacked you
"Nope" I said, Enjoying our little game we had going. The Red/Orange Lizard seemed to disagree, becoming more and more frustrated with each line of questioning.
"Well what the hell do you remember?" He practically yelled. It was a good question. I thought hard and long. What happened before I woke up on those flowers. Not much at all. Everytime I tried to remember my mind would just fuzz out.
"How about, at the very least, your name" He said, placing a clawed hand between his eyebrows, visibly frustrated

My name? Hm. What was my name. It was a very good question and the answer was on the tip of my tongue. How did I not remember my name, come on! Now I was the one becoming frustrated. I sighed and shook my head not having an answer to give. His look of frustration turned to one of worry. "Looks like you've got amnesia" He said taking another swig from his flask. The blue turtle silent as ever on the issue. The Red/Orange Fire Lizard sighed "Let's hurry back to Haven and let you see Chan". The rest of the trip was relatively silent.
After around around 25 minutes of walking (well they did most of the walking) we arrived in a small village within the cave. It seemed to be perfectly placed into this opening, with light escaping every now and then from the roof high above. I looked and saw a few buildings around, some shops, and some tent-like objects on the outskirts. Most notable was a giant sign that we were about to pass under which read 'Welcome to Haven - A safe place for pokemon'. Pokemon? Why did that name sound so familiar.. Pokemon. Pokemon. Wait a second…
"I remember!".