Chapter One: Beginnings

[A/N] This is my first time doing something like this! I will try to put out a new chapter once a week, but I don't really know yet. Hope you like it!

[Edit 8.23.16] Wow. This story is already more than half a year old. This chapter is now a bit longer and a lot better. To any and all new readers, please remember that while writing this story, I have been getting progressively better at writing. If you give it a chance and get past the first 8 or so chapters, the story gets dramatically more interesting, I swear. More at the bottom. (Note: I don't own Pokemon!)

Erin's Perspective – Vainville Town

The shadow lifted from the window, and for the first time since dusk, light once again filtered into the room. Cutting through the slightly dusty air, past pink furniture and hangings, it beamed down on the face of a sixteen year old who, to that point, had been softly sleeping.

Erin woke up slowly. Something was weighing down on her, making it hard to think. Shaking her head, she groggily opened her eyes to the sight of stars.

Wait a second. I don't have stars on my ceiling.

As the realization cut across her clouded thoughts, she sat straight up. Her head hurt, and the world span around her as a wave of nausea overtook her. Where am I? As her head began to clear, she realized that she had no recollection of this room, or even going to bed, for that matter. She remembered math class. She had sat down at her desk and they had learned… about what?

I must have fainted, Erin decided. This… this is a hospital, or something… Tentatively convincing herself she must be right, she took a long look around the room. The bed she was in was made of some soft plush material, softer than any thing she had ever had at home. It was also bright pink. For that matter, basically the entire room she was sitting was a horrendous hot pink, a color Erin despised. She adored soft grays and the likes, always wearing her gray hoodie at home. Nevertheless, she didn't recognize her surroundings.

Something isn't right here.

A low tweet caught her attention, and she spun around in surprise. As she did so, a tiny bird flew into her chest, knocking her backwards in surprise. Staring at the red bird on her chest, Erin did the only logical thing someone in her situation could do.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Erin knocked the bird off with her hand and sat back up. That can't be what I thought it was. No. It's impossible. Something is seriously wrong right now. She looked wildly around the room until she came face to face with a girl staring at her across the room. Her jaw dropped.

To say that Erin was a Pokemon nerd was an understatement. She, along with her friend, had successfully binged the entire anime. However, more than any of the other series, they had fallen in love with X and Y. So obviously, she was beyond shocked to find herself face to face with her favorite character, Serena. "What the fuck is happening?" she questioned, not entirely sure who she was talking to.

Serena seemed to be equally shocked to find a stranger in the bed across from her. For a second, she sat doing nothing, then yelled, "Who the hell are you, and why are you in my room?"

This isn't possible, Erin decided. It just isn't possible. "My name is Erin. How did I get here?"

Serena shrugged. "I could ask you the same! MOM!"

She stood up, and Erin realized something. She was in the Pokemon world! She didn't know how, but she was sitting there, talking to her favorite character in her favorite show. How crazy is this?

A yell comes from downstairs. "Serena? Erin? Is everything OK up there?" It was Grace, Serena's mom. And she knew Erin's name. "I'm coming up." She walked up the stairs and entered the room. The two girls started shouting at the same time.

"Why is there another girl in my room? And do you always have send Fletchling to wake me up?"

"How do you know my name?"

"What in the name of Arceus are you two talking about? You're sisters! You too are crazy this morning." Grace turned around and went back down the stairs, and Serena and Erin just sat there, staring at each other in confusion and shock.

Later

They ate breakfast in silence. Erin stared into her buttered toast, and her mind ran with confusion. Grace was chatting along, with her Fletchling on her arm, but Serena was silent as well. She had just stopped paying attention when Grace spoke to them. "Now, I think that it's high time that you two go outside and practice on Rhyhorn."

Serena started whining. "Mom, do I have to?"

"Yes, now how many times do I have to tell you."

They stood up and headed outside, Erin in confusion, and Serena fuming. Once they reached the backyard, Serena stopped and called out to a rocky gray Pokemon. "Hi Rhyhorn!" She kept dragging her and they ducked behind a bush. It wasn't until they got back there that Erin got a good look at her for the first time. She had long, honey hair, falling in bunches around her head. She had a murderous look on her face, too, but Erin didn't notice that until she slammed her into the ground. She cried out as her face scratched against the ground.

"Who are you, and why does mom keep calling you my sister?" She was mad, madder than Erin had ever seen her on the show.

"I have no idea. One minute I was in math class, and the next minute I'm in a bed across the room from you," she said, completely truthfully.

"What? That makes no sense."

"I know!"

"Well, you aren't my sister."

"I know that!" Erin yelled. Suddenly, the impossibility of our situation dawned on her. "Hey, if you really are Serena, can you show me your Pokemon?"

Serena stared at her, truly confused now. "Of course I'm Serena, and I don't have any Pokemon."

Then it dawned on Erin. The X and Y anime series were her favorite, but the episodes she liked the best were always the ones where Serena played a major role, and everything happening reminded her of a few in particular. In the first couple episodes, she got woken up by her mom's Fletchling, and then is sent out to ride her Rhyhorn. A series of events exactly like this one.

I am inside of the anime.

"Serena," Erin said slowly. "We need to go inside and watch the news. Now." She thinks I am bonkers. "Look, I can explain all of this, but you just have to trust me on this one." she lead her back inside.

Grace took one look at her and cried, "Oh, Erin, look at your face." She took a wet washcloth and dabbed it over the scratches that Serena gave Erin when she shoved her. "Rhyhorn must have really thrown you." Erin looked over at Serena pouting. I don't remember her being this immature, she thought to herself. I guess I must not remember a lot of things about the show.

Erin's thoughts were silenced as the news came on.

"And now breaking news from Lumiose City! A Garchomp seems to have climbed up the Prism tower, and a trainer has followed him up. He removed an implement that seems to have been hurting Garchomp when his Pikachu fell of the tower. This heroic trainer actually jumped off after him, caught him, and was swept away by a mysterious Pokemon! We come to him now for his comments."

Erin tuned out of the program, and instead watched Serena's reaction. It was like a light had turned on in her eyes. In that moment, Erin realized exactly what she was going to do.

She's going to go and meet Ash. They're going to travel together. And I'm going to be there right along side them.

Serena turned to her mom, all thoughts of the day washed away. She took a deep sigh and squared her shoulders. "Mom," she said, "I'm going out."

Grace looked at her. "To where?"

"I'm going to go and get my first Pokemon, in Lumiose City."

"Okay."

"Okay? So I can really go?" Serena's eyes filled up.

"Yes, but you have to bring Erin."

"What?" Serena looked over at Erin and glared. She shrugged.

Serena looked like she was gearing up for a fight, but Erin interjected. "That's okay, I'll be fine going with Serena." Serena shot her daggers, but was silent, seeing that she was getting what she wanted.

Later

Erin sat downstairs while Serena went back up and changed into her traveling clothes. She noticed a small yellow bag sitting on the table. She stifled a gasp. It was her purse!

How weird is this? I get somehow transported here, and my purse comes along for the ride.

She grabbed it and she looked inside. It had her journal, along with some of her school stuff. She tossed her textbooks to the side. She wouldn't need it now, she figured. Eagerly, she grasped at a clasp holding shut the pocket that held her two most valuable possessions in her purse; her iPhone and her Pokemon Go bracelet.

Erin pulled the iPhone out first. As she grasped it, it changed, merging into a shiny Poketch. "Awesome," she murmured as she strapped it to her wrist.

Next she grabbed the bracelet. As she touched it, it changed into a ball, red on one half and white on the other. Erin gasped. Does it have a Pokemon inside?

She stood up, clutching the pokeball in one hand. "Pokemon, I choose you!" She threw it, and it hit the floor and bounced open, revealing… nothing.

"Aww," she whined. "It's just an empty pokeball." She put it back in the bag and exited the house to wait for Serena.

Serena came bouncing out of the house a minute later. "Bye mom!"

Grace called after her. "Make sure to practice your Rhyhorn racing!"

"I won't!" Serena started running down the path, and Erin jogged after her to keep up.

"Look," Erin said once they were out of the view of the house. "I know we got of on the wrong foot, but can we at least try to be civil to one another?"

"OK, I guess. I just don't understand anything that's happened this morning." She shook her head.

"Well, then let me formally introduce myself. My name is Erin, and I have no idea what is happening either." She cracked a wide grin.

"Well, my name is Serena, and I'm glad you feel the same way."

The two girls stared at each other silently, before started to giggle. "Well, it is nice to meet you," Erin said, breaking the silence. She stuck out her hand, and Serena took it. "I look forwards to traveling with you."

[A/N] That's it for chapter one. Erin and Serena will go on to meet a ton of people, some good, some bad, some mysterious. They'll win (and lose) some battles, and overall take a fantastic journey.

New readers, I hope you give me a chance on this story. Either way, read, review, and peace. I respond to any and all reviews. Pokefan87, signing out.