So this is the story of how I became a Pokémon master of sorts. It was my senior year of high school and we had an assembly. Now normally when we have one of these I would sit in the back and make jokes with my group of friends, well that wasn't the case that day. We decided that sitting in the front row would make for an interesting experience we might be able to get one of us called on to be used as a volunteer. Well as fate would have it we weren't the only group to have that idea as a group of girls sat down next to us. Normally when telling a story I wouldn't take the time to mention this but I had a crush on one of the girls from that group. I know how cliché I bet next you're going to say that she is the most popular and prettiest girl in the school. Now most popular… not really, but prettiest I would say in my opinion yes she is. This however is not going to be some super romance that is about to erupt because that romance didn't turn out after all. The love interest if you will is a totally different girl.

So after our gym filled with kids ranging from sixth graders up to seniors. Before us stands our school principal and two people in suits in between two stands that held giant glass bowls that had a bunch of paper slips. The strange thing about these suits is that they have the Silph Co logo above their breast pockets. Now I have some experience with the games and my curiosity was peaked. Now my questions were answered when the principal took the mic. "Hello everybody I would like to encourage all of you to give our guests a warm welcome for coming here today. They are here to tell you about a project that you are being asked to take part in. Now to let me introduce you to our guests and have them tell you more about this project, welcome Jessie and James."

"Hello everybody I'm Jessie," she stated. "And I'm James," the strange man said. "We are here to talk to you about our project. At Silph Co we have discovered a bridge between worlds which means that we can now go to a different dimension." Jessie happily stated. "This dimension is one where we have these fascinating creatures called Pokémon. Now you might be curious as to how we know this, well we are from that dimension." James said with a hint of sass in his voice. "I know you're curious as to what we mean by that well these are a couple of examples of what Pokémon look like," Jessie stated. They then sent out their Pokémon Arbok and Weezing. Now after all the commotion settled down because no one has seen Pokémon before we got to the actual point of this assembly. "Well now that this is all settled down let's get down to the reason we actually came here for. We have already talked to your principal and our presidents have met we would like some of you students to take our Pokémon league challenge. Don't worry you will be compensated for this depending on how well you do." James said with a smirk. "That's what these bowls are for. We will be drawing your names from them." Jessie mentioned. This is where I couldn't help myself and had to put my two cents in here, "This seems like The Hunger Games here, do we get to volunteer as tribute or what?" "Well I don't know what that is but yes if you feel that someone doesn't deserve to be in the drawing than you can volunteer." James answered. Well my reply was " What does this challenge consist of." Jessie replied with " Well our world is pretty dangerous. Pokémon can attack you without warning and you could be seriously injured." James interjected with "This is why we are sorting you into groups of one boy and one girl, you also get the option to group together so all five pairings can travel together. "

Jessie decided it was time to start drawing and the first girl she pulled was Savanna, she didn't look too excited about this, but as she heard that her friend Layne was pulled to be her partner she seemed to relax a little. The next draws were Parker and Brittany, Keegan and Rachel, and Brook and Abby. The boys seemed excited about being picked and even happier about who they got for partners. The girls weren't as happy. The final pairing started off with the boy first. "Ryan" James stated, and as it left his mouth I looked at his older sister and say the look of despair as her baby brother was picked after all he was only 13 at time. I couldn't help myself after seeing that and stood up and yelled" Sit back down Hunter, I volunteer to take your spot." His sister was shocked. James just shrugged and let Jessie draw the next name. "Taylor you're the last pick", she said. Now it was my turn to be mad. That was my 12 year old sister that they just called. Like I would ever let them put her in any kind of danger. I started to freak and went at Jessie and James well I learned that Arboks have one hell of a squeeze. Jessie responded to all of this with "Well isn't that a shocker two volunteers in one round!" "Wait, what do you mean two volunteers?" I asked. James told me what had happened "During your little outbreak that pretty girl up that's walking down volunteered. You probably didn't hear with all your swearing." I looked up and it was Erica, Ryan's older sister, she just looked at me and gave me a shy little smile. "Well with everything picked out we are ready to leave. To our volunteers and the others that were drawn here are letters instructing you on what you need to bring and where and when to meet us. Have a wonderful day." Jessie cheerfully announced. I looked at Erica when everything calmed down and we were the only ones left in the gym, all of us who are part of this challenge just kind of looked at each other at finally Rachel asked " What are we going to do now?", well Keegan never without insight just spouted, " We fuck shit up!" "That's not the response she was looking for you dumbass." Brittany chimed. "Well the letter says bring clothes for cold weather and to swim in, a memento if we want, and that we need to meet at the park in three days." Savanna mentioned with a little bit of regret in her voice. Three days later we all met at the park, there was this purple portal floating in the middle and apparently that's our exit. First to arrive was Erica and I and I had to ask, "Why?" She responded with "You volunteered for my brother so I felt I needed to repay the favor." When everyone finally showed up I looked all of us and said "Let's go on in."

This is where our Story and better yet the Adventure begins...