Sara: Hello dear readers! This is my first book/fanfic on this website! So, with that in mind I do not own Pokémon, so please support the series

Kat: Hello! I'm helping Sara out on this book, so you'll see me around the book/fanfic, but Sara is the one actually writing the story! Thanks and enjoy

Chapter 1: The New Journey

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BE...! I shut the alarm off and got slowly out of bed. I walked over to my dresser and got out my blue sweatshirt, blue tee-shirt and blue jeans and changed into them. I guess I'll introduce myself since I'm changing. My name's Sara and I just turned 10 and I'm going to Professor Mira's lab (There is no Prof. Mira! I just created her name!) to pick out my starter pokémon. I finally was ready, so I went down the stairs with my bag of food and supplies (map, water, etc.) and went to the table. I went outside and locked the door to my small house. I got on my bike and drove to Prof. Mira's lab.

It took a while until I was finally in Windleve (Wind-lay-ve) Town. Then, a pikachu ran in front of my bike. My breaks screeched and I ended inches away from it. I smiled at it and went around it and went towards the lab. When I got to the lab, I parked my bike to notice the pikachu followed me. I knelled down. "What's wrong, buddy?" I asked it. "Pika-pika! Pika-pik-pikachu!" He ran off and he looked worried, so I followed it. We finally got to a cliff and the pikachu pointed at it. I looked down and I only saw ground two feet below us. Then the ground started to crumble and the pikachu and I fell towards the ground. We were lucky to hit deep water. I somewhat saw a boy jump in after us, but I fainted.

I woke up to see a clear sky. "Hey! Are you alright?" I herd a boy say. I quickly sit up to see the boy that saved me with the pikachu.

"Um, I think so." I say.

"I was worried when you fell in the water and I came after you. I'm glad your okay. How did you get here anyways?" he then says.

"Well, Pikachu brought me here. You must have fell already. So I was going to climb down but both me and Pikachu fell because the ground caved in on us." I then say.

"Oh, well thanks. I climbed down the cliff. Anyways," he said, changing the subject, "I'm Ash, from Pallet Town! What's your name?"

"My name is Sara. Nice to meet you Ash." He smiled and stood up.

He gave me his hand. "Nice to meet you too. Let's get out of here." I took his hand and he helped me up.

"ASH? ARE YOU OKAY?" a girl voice above us said.

"May?" Ash yelled back, "I'm fine! Is there a way up other than climbing?"

"Misty, Dawn, Brock and Officer Jenny are here too! We'll throw down a rope." May yelled down.

"There's two of us though." Ash then yelled.

"What? How is that possible?" another girl asked.

"No time for explaining things, Misty! Just throw down the rope!"

The rope was thrown down and I gave it to Ash saying, "If you go first, you could help them bring me up." He nods and Pikachu went on his shoulder and the gang pulled him up. Ash scaled the cliff for a while until they got him up.

"Take a short break! I'll be fine!" I yell to them then. I then hear buzzing and turned around to see beedrill coming closer. "On second thought, now would be good."

"Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash commanded Pikachu and it shot a very powerful thunderbolt attack. The beedrill turn around and go the other way.

"Staravia! I choose you!" Ash then called throwing a pokéball. A bird then came out and then was commanded to help me up. The bird flew down and grabbed me by the shoulders and brought me up to the others.

"That was close. Are you okay?" A girl with a bandana in her hair asked.

"I'm fine." Ash then walked over to his friends.

"Guys, this is Sara. She was going to help me up before she fell herself. Sara, this is Misty, May, Dawn and Brock. Oh! And this is Officer Jenny." He said pointing to each of his friends.

I bow a little saying, "It's very nice to meet you."

"So your Sara? Professor Mira was looking for you. You should go and pick your pokémon before it's too late." Officer Jenny said.

"Your a new trainer?" Ash asked. I smiled a little, "Yeah. I am." I looked over to Officer Jenny, "Thanks." and with that, me, Ash and his friends all walked towards Prof. Mira's lab to start our journey together. I wonder what pokémon I'm going to choose.