Chapter 1 – Take off

"Three months… Just three more months…"

Elvaia woke up suddenly, covered in cold sweat. "The same nightmare again…" she thought, as she held her head with both hands.

For the past week, Elvaia had been having the same dream over and over again. It's was always this dark shadow covering the Gaian Region, as if engulfing everything. It couldn't be a coincidence. It had to mean something. But what exactly?

Elvaia was still trying to figure what the dream meant. Suddenly, her train of thought was broken by some licking. Her Growlithe, named Arcee, had pounced up her bed, and started greeting her early in the morning.

"Stop it, Arcee!" Elvaia giggled as she pushed Arcee away. "I'll bring you for a walk, come on."

Elvaia got dressed with Arcee beside her waiting impatiently. Finally when she was done, Arcee bit her pants and started to pull her towards the doorway. Elvaia opened the front door, and to her surprise, there stood a man in a full black coat and a hat. His face could not be seen under the shadow of his hat. An Alakazam stood beside him. Its eyes look so deep and scary that it gave Elvaia a chill down a spine.

Arcee let out a deep growl, and started barking at the mysterious man.

"Are you Elvaia?" the man asked in a deep voice.

"Yeah, that's me… Who are you?" Elvaia asked suspiciously.

"Who I am doesn't matter. Take this."

The mysterious man passed Elvaia a small box, and immediately after that, teleported away with his Alakazam.

Petting Arcee to calm him down, Elvaia opened the box carefully. No traps or gadgets attached. But what lay inside of the box shocked her. There were two photographs, a letter and a Pokeball. The first picture showed the exact same scene of her dream, the giant shadow covering the whole of Gaian Region. The second picture showed the shadow covering the whole land of the Pokemon world.

The letter that came together read, "You have seen these images in your head. It's time someone took a stand to this threat. Good luck."

"Strange… No name or anything to identify that mysterious person by…" Elvaia thought. Just then, the Pokeball that was in the box started to rattle. Elvaia picked it up, examined it for a while before tossing it out in the air. "Come on out, whoever you are!"

What emerged from the Pokeball was an Elekid. It started discharging electricity everywhere as it ran around, crying. Elvaia and Arcee ran and hide behind a bush to escape from the electric discharges. After ten minutes, the Elekid fell to the floor, panting in exhaustion. It was no longer crying. Elvaia then approached the Elekid.

"What's wrong little guy? Miss the person who left you with me?"

The Elekid started whimpering and jumped up to hug Elvaia as it resumed crying. Only this time, there were no more discharges. Arcee approached the Elekid and started licking it.

"Come with me. Perhaps we can find out why you were brought here."

The Elekid nodded in agreement with tears in its eyes as it returned to its Pokeball on its own.

Elvaia went back to her room, packed some of her things into a backpack. She squatted down and petted Arcee. "Let's go out and try to figure what this dream and pictures are about."

Elvaia then took off, with Arcee following closely behind. As they left their hometown, the mysterious man looked over them from the rooftop of Elvaia's house.

"Let's hope the world will not fall into another Hundred Years of Darkness again… The Heroin from Atrion Town of the Gaian Region shall meet the others from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh. May this crisis be averted at last…"

With that, the mysterious man disappeared together with his Alakazam once again.