The dream is always the same. I'm sweating, sprinting down this long walls seem as if they are closing in and it's as if i'm running underwater. The harder i try to get to him the slower I run. I can see the fear in his eyes. Hes screaming something so hard the veins on his neck are straining, but i can't hear what he is trying to say. Then right as i make it to him, a door drops between us and everything goes dark… Then all i hear is a blood curdling scream. And i wake up.
I shot up in bed covered in sweat and looked at my hoothoot alarm clock. 7:27. "I don't know why i even set an alarm anymore. I never sleep long enough for it to go off" I say as i swing my legs over the side and get up to start the day. I grab a pair of torn jeans, a red t-shirt, and my favorite leather jacket. Then i go over to my desk and grab my belt with my 2 Pokemon and head out the door. I get to the kitchen and fix myself a bowl of Oran Bran and walk out the backdoor to the backyard. I reach to my belt and grab both pokeballs and launch them into the air nonchalantly. "Exercise time boys" Out of the flash of light from the pokeballs emerged two very large pokemon, the first one a large orange pokemon with a fire burning at the end of its tail. My Charizard ,Blaze, roared and let a jet of flame loose straight up, scaring the nearby bird pokemon out of their nesting spot. The second was much larger than the first, and much more fierce looking. Taking up most of the yard, the large blue snake-like pokemon dove towards the home-made pond behind him and turned to face me. Leviathan , my Gyarados, was always happier to be in water when given the chance. "Alright so who's up first" I ask, already zipping up my jacket, ready to face the wind as Blaze flew over to me and leaned down. "Alright then, Leviathan behave were just going to go twice around town and come right back, then you and me can head towards the river." The water pokemon let out a slight roar and then curled up underneath the water in the pond, content with his downtime. Hopping on the charizards back, i grip his sides with my knees as i've done a million times before. Then suddenly we shot off the ground and we were steadily rising until we were about a hundred feet above our beloved Cerulean City. Maybe i should back up a bit. My name is Justin Peeler. I am 19 years old, 6'6 and 280 pounds. I have short brown hair (think Dean Winchester) blue eyes and a wide set of shoulders. As you can imagine i'm not exactly what most people call "approachable" looking, when in all reality (in my opinion) i am one of the nicest people you can meet in Kanto. I live in cerulean city, just me and my pokemon and its been like that for about 5 years now. Not due to any crazy issues with my family or anything, but simply because my parents couldn't house my large statured pokemon, and really most people in kanto aren't living at home past the age they get their first pokemon anyways. Which due to the increase in danger these last few years, what with the disappearance of trainers all over the world, has been raised to 15 much to the dismay of children all over. Actually my generation was the first that the new age had been implemented. I didn't mind it all that much. After all, I was terrified to leave home as a 10 year old. The extra five years didn't bother me in the slightest. Once i reached the age of 15 i chose my starter, which i assume you've already made the connection, Charmander. We immediately became the best of friends. Went everywhere together. Even made it past the first gym on our own. He took down Brock's geodude and Onix both in one hit from his metal claw. The gym leader stood there dumbfounded. Having not been beaten that easily, let alone by a single fire type, in a long time. Once me and Blaze left Pewter city, we headed towards . When we finally got to the base i walked into the pokemon center to rest for the night and prepare for the arduous journey through the dark cave. As Nurse Joy takes Blaze back to take care of some poison he had gotten from a very angry group of oddish, I heard a voice. "You there, young man!" I turn and there's a man at a table with a fish tank. "How would you like to invest in one of the most power potent pokemon there is?" I looked at him slack-jawed. Sitting in the tank between us was the largest Magikarp i had ever seen. It must have been 5 feet long. Finally i tore my eyes away from the absolute unit and looked at the older man at the table. "Where on earth did you find this thing?" The man laughed," Caught Em myself over at the Lake of Rage in Johto. Its home to some of the toughest Gyarados known to man, including the long coveted "Red Gyarados"" I had heard of the place he was talking about. My Dad had been there back when he had been a trainer. "You mentioned investing?.. What exactly did you mean?." I asked wearily, not knowing exactly what angle he was playing. "Well boy i make a living by selling high grade pokemon to young trainers, so that they can be prepared later in life with power house pokemon. Mostly boys your age, thinking they can take on the world. Occasionally i'll get some snobby rich people buying their daughter some pokemon for protection or as a pet." He leaned backwards in his chair and grinned a toothy smile. "Anyways, for a small fine of 5000 dollars you can take this here Beaut' with you." I winced, "$5000? That's all the money i have to buy supplies to get through the mountain." He nodded " I understand, its a hefty price but you must understand. This Magikarp has more potential than any you can find in Kanto. Hell probably more than anywhere else. But if you'd rather take your chances with your one pokemon i understand." He bagan packing up his booth and went to return the massive Karp to an oddly colored pokeball he later identified as a net ball. "Wait!... Here. $5000. I'll take it." With that the man handed over the fish pokemons ball and went on his way counting his money. Ever since then the 3 of us, Me, Blaze, and Leviathan, were inseparable. I never actually went through . Since i spent all of the money i had buying Leviathan, we stayed near pewter city training for a few weeks, battling every trainer in sight, until eventually Blaze and our new friend evolved. I rode on the back of my starter straight over the eerie mountain and below i saw the glistening waters of the Cerulean Cape. And basically i never left. Sure i challenged Misty but she proved to be much more difficult than her predecessor. Once i shook of the defeat at the hands of her own Gyarados and a pokemon i didn't recognize until it spoke its name. Lanturn. Both of my Pokemon being part flying, she made short work of both of them. I since then bought a small cottage of the cape from a man named Bill who works on computers. I've been pretty content here, still joining in the occasional battle with passerbys and even the rowdier wild pokemon nearby. I was hoping today was one of the days the wild ones were up to battle. "Bring us down towards that group of trees bud." I said just loud enough for Blaze to hear over the wind. We started descending and landed in a clearing that was all too familiar. Then i heard a loud roar from behind me and felt the ground shake as something made its way through the trees.