The Dark Journey

This is a story of Luke Townsend in Sinnoh with his friends Carolyn and Vanessa leave their homes in Twinleaf town and embark on a dangerous Journey filled with thrills, new Pokémon, new regions, cities, new characters, and new villains, rivals and many more, including several old characters, and some new cameo characters from other things.

Chapter 1

Luke was quite tall for the average ten year old boy, with quite short brown hair, and was wearing shorts and a t-shirt for the hot, sunny weather they were having for the time being. Luke was sat by the lake with his feet dangling into the water, while he held his sketch pad on his knees with his pencil firmly in his right hand. Next to him were his best friends, Carolyn and Vanessa. Carolyn had long brown hair, and was slightly shorter than him, and was wearing a green top and jeans but had rolled them up so she could put her feet into the water as well. Vanessa had jet black coloured hair that was tied up at the back with a bobble, and was taller than Carolyn but still shorter than Luke. The three of them along with the rest of their class—which was only five others and their teacher Mrs Holden. They had come out here to Lake Verity to do some sketching of scenery for their artwork. They had seen numerous wild local Pokémon such as Bidoof and Psyduck drinking from the lake surface. To the left of the lake, was where the lake water entered the sea. There was a bridge that allowed people to cross over to the other side of the lake, or they would have to walk through the water to reach the other side.

"How's your sketching coming along then?" Carolyn asked, looking around at him.

Luke looked up from his pad, and looked around at Carolyn.

"It's ok I guess," Luke replied, glimpsing down at his sketch of the lake, and the cave in the middle and the mountains in the background.

"It's good," Carolyn commented, as she looked down at his pad, then she looked back at her own, that was all right, but she couldn't the water to look right with the flow as well as the detail on the Trees was difficult.

"Right class I'm afraid we have to return to the school back in Twinleaf town," Mrs. Holden said from behind them.

"Do we have to?" One of the other boys in the class complained. Luke looked over his shoulder to his left and saw it was Mike who was complaining to the teacher.

"Yes, finish your work," Mrs. Holden hurried them up.

Luke got to his feet as did the other ten year olds in the class. The two girls slowly made their way up to the feet, picking up their pencil cases and collecting their things. He looked over at Mrs. Holden who was already leading the rest of the class out of Lake Verity.

"Come on," Luke said to the two girls.

"You can go on without us," Carolyn said as she packed her small backpack.

"Ok then," Luke replied. He ran across the grass and ran out of Verity Lakefront.

Carolyn slung her backpack over her shoulder, and looked out across the lake once more to look at the Pokémon swimming in the lake and grazing by the edge of the water. Something appeared over the cave in the middle of the lake, an energy form of some sort.

"Vanessa...Look!" Carolyn pointed at the spirit, Vanessa instantly followed her gaze and she indeed saw a coloured spirit floating above the cave looking out at them. The spirit was in the shape of some sort of Pokémon. Then it disappeared, faded away into nothing.

"Aw wow!" Vanessa and Carolyn explained.

"What do you think it was?" Vanessa asked, turning to look at her friend.

"I dunno," Carolyn shrugged her shoulders. "Probably a Pokémon of some sort."

"Hmm." Vanessa replied. "We'll have to go and see Professor Rowan."

"Yeah, he will probably know what it was," Carolyn agreed as the two of them left the lake.

"Oh yeah, what are you getting for Luke's birthday on Friday?" Vanessa asked Carolyn as they came out onto the grassy footpath that eventually came to a fork, one path leading to the right which was the direction of Twinleaf Town, and the path also headed straight on towards Sandgem town.

"I'm not sure," Vanessa said. "He'll be getting his Pokémon Trainer's license."

"Yeah, that's true," Carolyn said. "Do you think we will be allowed to go with him on his Pokémon Journey?"

"Well yeah, our birthdays are coming up soon too," Vanessa replied, nodding her head.

"Yeah," Carolyn said. "I was thinking about getting him a Pokémon Necklace or something."

"Hmm, I dunno really." Vanessa said.

* * * *

Alex was dressed in silver armour, with the golden G on the front, which was the symbol of Team Galactic. Alex was sat behind the captain's seat of a submarine, along with his team mates Dyron and Silia. They were submerged under Lake Verity searching for the rare Pokémon Mesprit. They were heading towards the Cave in the centre of the lake to find the Pokémon as their boss wanted to create a brand new world through the ancient, legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh. But how this was to be achieved, was unknown to the rest of Team Galactic apart from their Boss, and the five Commanders of Team Galactic. They could see the huge rocks that belonged to the cave up ahead through the telescope.

"Thank goodness it wasn't too difficult to find," Dyron said, from the seat next to Alex.

"Well, it shouldn't be too difficult to catch either." Silia said from the passenger seat behind them. Dyron steered the Submarine around to the entrance of the Cave, coming up to the surface.

"Time to go and catch us a Pokémon," Dyron said. "You got the Master Ball?"

"Of course I have," Alex replied as he got up from his seat. They opened up the top hatch of the Submarine and fresh new Oxygen came rushing through the Submarine. Alex and Silia, climbed through the hatch while Dyron waited in the Submarine to return.

The two of them swam a short distance and came onto the rocky ground that led to the cave on Lake Verity. They saw the entrance to the cave straight up ahead.

"We'll have to be quiet," Silia whispered. "More importantly we have to be quick as lightning."

"Of course," Alex agreed. The two of them came into the cave, it was as expected dimly lit—with sunlight coming through gaps of the roof of the cave but it did not seem to have suffered from a cave in. They could see the Pokémon Mesprit up ahead.

"There it is." Silia said, looking at the Pokémon, noticing its eyes were closed even from this distance. "Throw the Master Ball."

Alex took out the Master Ball and launched it into the air towards Mesprit.

"Easy as anything," Alex remarked as the Master Ball flew through the air, without Mesprit waking up. Suddenly Mesprit's eyes came to life. The entire cave became filled with light, due to the power of the Pokémon itself. They both noticed that Mesprit was levitating a few feet off the ground. A green shield of some sort appeared around Mesprit and the Master Ball bounced off the shield and fell to the ground.

"Oh dear," Alex shook his head, as he felt a wave of emotions come across him of anger—at Mesprit for waking up, disappointment that the Master Ball failed to catch the Mesprit Pokémon. Then this beam of energy came out of Mesprit's red jewel on its forehead and hit Alex. Alex suddenly began to feel drowsy, and tired.

"I...need...sleep." Alex began to stagger slightly as tiredness began to overpower him.

Silia took out her own Pokeball and released her Pokémon. "Go Stunky!" The Skunk like Pokémon came out of its Pokeball from a red light of energy.

"Use Poison Gas Stunky!" Silia called out.

Stunky stepped towards Mesprit but stopped short as Mesprit disappeared.

"W-what!" Silia exclaimed. The Mesprit had gone. "It's teleported itself outside of the cave." She looked over at Alex, who was lying on the ground in a heap. She ran over to Alex.

"Wake up! Wake up!" Silia shouted at him, but he didn't really move. "Stunky wake him up with Screech!" Silia looked over at Stunky who moved towards Alex at a quick pace. Stunky opened its mouth and emitted a loud screeching roar. Alex suddenly stirred.

"W-what...hap...happened?" Alex asked opening his eyes groggily.

"You were put to sleep by Mesprit, and then it fled." Silia said.

"H-how could you let this happen?" Alex asked getting to his feet.

"He was too strong for us," Silia shook her head.

"Where do you think he went?" Alex asked, looking down at Stunky on the ground.

"I'm not sure," Silia said. "We should get going; it doesn't look like he's going to return any time soon." She took out her Pokeball. "Return Stunky." She cried. The red light flashed and took Stunky back into his Pokeball, and she clipped it onto her belt.

"Let's get going." Alex said.

* * * *

Carolyn, Vanessa and the rest of the class had returned to the small school in Twinleaf town. They went back into the small building, passing their homes on the way back.

"You may go for lunch now," Mrs Holden said, from further up the corridor, then she walked back to her classroom.

"We saw a Spirit thing after you left," Carolyn said, turning to look at Luke, as did Vanessa.

"Both of us saw it. It looked like a Pokémon but like a Spirit." Vanessa said.

"Awesome, you should have taken a picture of it," Luke said, slightly disappointed.

"Damn, yeah but I didn't have my camera or my phone," Carolyn said, in a disappointed tone of voice. "At the time."

"Never mind, you might see it again another time." Luke replied.

"Okay, we'll go prepared next time." Vanessa decided.

"Let's go for lunch then." Carolyn said.

"Sure," Luke agreed.

* * * *

"Did you catch it then?" Dyron asked them, as Alex and Silia came into the main cabin onboard their submarine.

"No," Alex replied, nodding his head in disappointment. "It fled."

"Where do you think it went?" Dyron asked.

"If we knew where it went, we wouldn't be discussing it now, would we?" Silia shot back.

"I was only asking," Dyron replied. "Let's get out of here."

"If you say so." Silia said.