Chapter 1: A Slight Detour

Well, how did it start?

Oh right, introductions first. Sorry about that.

My name is Elin Ray, I'm 16 and I WAS pretty tall with black hair and blue eyes.

If your still interested in mine, and a lot of good peoples stories, then please read on.

I suppose it began when I received this invitation from this place known as the 'Pokemon Camp Tournament'. The letter read like this:

'Dear Sir/Madame

We at the Pokemon Camp Tournament have reviewed your battle performance via online results. The Pokemon Camp Tournament is a specific tournament that will be held in London, and will gather gamers from all over the world. The tournament will narrow a large number down to sixty, and those winners will go to a camp specifically for battles and activities between one another. If you do decide to accept, you must enter your details into the form below and send it to the address at the bottom of this letter. Food and accomodations will be included and no payment may be made, we hope you will participate.

Sincerely,

K. Walter, Head of the Pokemon Camp Tournament.'

Naturally, I asked (possibly begged) my mum if I could go, giving all of the reasons why it would be good for me, and she eventually agreed.

On the form was which team I would use, from Gen IV to Gen VI. I decided to go with my Black 2 team of Serperior, Lucario, Zoroark, Azumarill, Latios and Black Kyurem (Being extremely grateful legendaries were allowed.).

I sent the form back and got a response about five days later. I couldn't contain my excitement knowing I'd got in, I packed my 3DS and prepared to go in three days.

All of those participating in Britain were to be picked up in Suffolk by bus, so I was driven down and dropped off on the day, full of excitement. I was wearing a red jumper over a red and black striped shirt and jeans, with three spare sets of clothes in my bag. I quickly found the bus and walked over when I bumped into someone.

"Ah! Sorry!" I mumbled, rubbing my now sore head.

"It's alright, I wasn't looking where I was going."

My eyes widened in realization and I looked up to be met with a somewhat short guy with neat brown hair and large rimmed square glasses.

"Harrison?"

He looked at me and he gasped. "Elin? What are you doing here?"
he said he hated pokemon, which is something I wouldn't stand for seeing as ho
I stood up and brushed myself down in time with Harrison. "I got invited to the Pokemon Camp Tournament, what about you?"

"Same, so we're both going then?"

I nodded. "It looks like it."

We shared a quick handshake. Me and Harrison had been best friends for five years now, when I first met him he said he hated pokemon. I wasn't gonna take that lying down considering he hadn't played a single game. I lent him my Soulsilver cartridge and he instantly loved it, getting Heartgold shortly after.

We both walked to the bus. "So what team are you entering with?" I asked, trying to make conversation.

"Heartgold." He replied. "I heard the tournament is set out into different categories for the different generations."

I nodded. "Seems like they'll be Gen four, five and six winners by the end of it. I'm entering gen five with my Black 2 team. I hope we'll both be winners."

"Me too." Harrison smiled.

We got on the bus, giving our forms to signify who we were and sitting together.

"Wait...Elin? Is that you?"

I turned around to see a girl around Harrison's height with long dyed purple hair wearing a blue jacket.

"Liz? You got invited as well?"

"Yep. I think it's kinda creepy how they can check your results like that, but whatever, it helped me get on this thing."

I'd known Liz for almost a year now, but she was already someone I'd take a bullet for...okay maybe not a bullet but a large punch to the stomach or something like that.

Harrison turned to her. "Um, are you a friend of Elin's?"

Liz looked at the new face. "Yeah, are you?"

"Yes."

Let's call my friendships a coin. One side is friends I walk to school and talk with, the other is friends AT school. Harrison belongs to the walk side, Liz to the school side, that's just the way I set it out.

"Liz, this is my friend Harrison. Harrison, this is Liz, my friend." I explained.

The two gave greetings to each other as more people got onto the bus, some of them were around 18 whilst others were as young as 10! I didn't remember an age limit being on the form, was this okay?

Before I could think more though the bus set off for London. Our little group of three talked together. "So which gen are you using, Liz?"

"I'm using my Pokemon Y team." Liz said.

I sighed with relief inwardly. Liz always beat me at Y, so I didn't want her to be in the same gen as me. "In that case, we can all win! I hope we do." I said.

All three of us nodded in agreement.

It took a couple more hours to arrive at London, and a hotel as well. We all got pretty basic rooms and were told that the tournament would be in an hour.

I managed to prep my team before we were called down to participate.

We were led to a room similar to other pokemon tournaments where we were all put into our gen categories. The tournament was three turns six-on-six single battle tournament style to have around twenty of us left, so we'd have sixty gen IV, V, and VI winners by the end of it.

We were all shuffled randomly and placed into our tournaments, I was in Gen V No. 18. I managed to win my first match with two pokemon remaining thanks to my Black Kyurem. Next round was a bit tougher, but I managed to beat my opponents Accelgor with my Serperior's Aerial Ace. For the final round my Azumarill just managed to pull through with a Superpower against an Umbreon, making me Gen V winner no. 18.

Afterwards the sixty winners were announced and were told that for being successful we would be successfully going to the camp for two weeks.

I wasn't interested in hanging out with the other twenty Gen V winners, so I went to find Harrison and Liz. I cannot tell you how relieved I was to find out they had won as well.

"Oh woooow! Hey there!"

I raised an eyebrow at the bubbly voice and turned to see a girl running towards me. She looked about 15 with pink (Pink?) hair in two pigtails complete with a giant pink bow to complete it. She was wearing an odd mix of an orange shirt and pink skirt and as she reached me i realized she had green eyes.

'Is she a cosplayer?' I thought to myself as she struggled to catch her breath. "Are you okay?"

She immediantely stood back up. "Yep! Your one of the winners right? I'm trying to say hello to as many people as possible!" She held out a hand. "I'm Sarah! It's great to meet you!"

I shook her hand with a smile. "It's nice to meet you, too! I'm Elin, Elin Ray. So what Gen did you use?"

"Me? I used number six, it's just so full of cute pokemon!" She squealed.

"I take it you like cute pokemon then?" I had heard about a competitor who had managed to win using a Sylveon overusing Attract and Swagger, was this her?

She nodded. "Uh-huh! They're my favourites, they can be strong as well you know!"

She didn't seem bad at all, I was glad that I'd have another friend apart from Harrison and Liz for two weeks.

I thought something caught my eye, so I looked...and frowned.

Coming towards us was a guy with cold gray eyes and spiky black hair. He had on a dark red T-Shirt complete with a flame design and baggy grey trousers, he had a constant glum look on his face.

I huffed. Connor. He was a complete jerk when it came to battling, he always gave me the cold shoulder ever since I beat his team of shiny legendaries with my Latios.

As soon as he saw me he just snorted and walked away.

Sarah puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. "Who was that guy? He was weird."

I rolled my eyes. "Ignore him. He's just a jerk." Inside I was seething, I'd have to spend two weeks with Connor? Brilliant. I'm not the kind of guy to judge but Connor was just an all around terrible person. "But anyway, I wanna say that it was great meeting you, and that I'm glad we'll be friends."

She smiled. "You too! I hope we'll see each other again soon!" She then skipped off.

I just smiled and went back to my search.

SPLITWORLDS

I finished packing my stuff as we all got onto the bus, now that the tournament was finished we were all off to the camp. Don't ask how sixty people managed to fit in one bus.

Me, Harrison and Liz were all sitting together again, and I was telling them about Sarah and Connor.

"Connor's here as well?" Harrison questioned.

"Sooooo your not exactly friends then?" Liz said, knowing the answer full well.

"He's a poor loser." I shrugged. "Won't admit when he loses, always thinks he's the strongest and that his ideas are the best, that kinda guy."

"Wow, sounds charming." Liz murmured sarcastically.

Harrison didn't really seem to be in the conversation. He was looking towards the back of the bus.

"Hey Harrison? You okay?" I asked.

He pointed. "Look at those three at the back, do you think they're okay?"

We all stared at the back of the bus as discreetly as possible to see three people sitting there.

The first guy was kinda tall and seemed to be 17, he had short and rugged dark brown hair with grey eyes. He was wearing a blue shirt and denim jeans, and he was trying to cover his face with a red scarf.

The second was a girl who looked about 15. She was kinda short with dark brown eyes, obviously contacts. She had dyed hair, except it was dark green with straight-cut bangs that reached her shoulders, curling inward slightly. She was wearing a dark green half-jacket over a light blue polka-dotted dress with pink leggings and boots along with a green scarf. She was pretty...cute, I guess.

The third girl was 16 (I guessed.) and had long parted blonde hair with amber eyes. She was wearing a green jacket and cream coloured skinnies, she was trying to hide behind a book.

"They just seem a bit shy." I said. "I hope they find some friends at the camp. Maybe we should try and talk to them once we arrive."

"Let's give them a bit of space, just so they can start to feel comfortable." Harrison suggested, stretching out and relaxing.

I started looking around at my other future camp members. There were some secluded ones and a few jokers, you know the kind I mean. I saw this one guy who was wearing a Dragon Ball-Z jacket.

Liz noticed where I was looking. "Have you ever watched DBZ?"

I shrugged. "Just AMV's. I told you, I'm a One Piece fan."

She gave me a half-lidded look. "Fairy Tail's still the best."

We glared at each other, quickly followed by a heated discussion about which anime was better.

This went on for a while, time seemed to go by pretty quickly, so much so that we kinda lost track of our surroundings.

"Hey everybody! We're here!"

The drivers call snapped us out of our discussion, along with the rest of the busgoers.

We walked out of the bus single file to find ourselves in a thick, luscious forest, with tall trees and lots of flowers. In front of us was a large unlit campfire and two large wooden cabins, presumably male and female dorms.

I looked around at the forest and turned to my two friends. "Have either of you seen any forests like this in England?"

Harrison pushed his glasses back up. "Well, we could be further up north, maybe we're in Scotland."

Liz, however was focused on something else. "This place DOES have electricity tight? And internet? I mean, come on! I brought my 3DS with me!"

Liz had been obsessed with technology ever since her 'traumatic experience' camping without electricity for a week.

The driver, a short man with grey hair and a bushy moustache beard combo, stepped out and turned to Liz. "Don't worry, we have small generators for both dorms which supply electricity."

Liz sighed with relief as we all stepped out. We were quickly assigned to our gender specific dorms to set ourselves up. Whilst we were there I met two more familiar faces, Daniel and Michael.

Daniel had dark blue eyes and thin framed glasses plus shaggy brown hair. He had a beard moustache combo starting and was currently wearing his favourite leather jacket and blue jeans. Daniel's a pretty good friend to have once you get used to him.

Michael's hair was large and frizzy coupled with brown eyes. He was wearing one of his trademark gothic T-shirts and black trousers. I actually owe a lot to Michael, he's the guy who introduced me to Fanfiction. I went through the 'addicted' phase for a bit afterwards, but I passed through it...honest.

"Why didn't I see you guys at the tournament?" I asked.

"We were in gen six, I was winner number 2 and Michael was winner number 9." Daniel explained.

"We didn't really start talking with anyone JUST yet. More then half of them were gonna go after all." Michael elaborated.

I nodded in response, talking with them for a bit longer before we were all called out for tea. It seemed like the driver was organizing everything as he handed out burgers and hot-dogs, I was beginning to wonder if we'd see anyone else.

We all sat around the huge campfire eating away, I had glanced at Connor over to my left and tried to stay as far away as possible, so i found myself sitting between a guy and a girl.

I attempted to make conversation with one of them, so I turned to the girl. "So, why did you come here?"

She looked at me as she stuffed half a hot-dog in her mouth. I thought she looked about 16, same as me, she was slightly short, with long brown hair tied back by a white ribbon and light blue eyes. She was wearing a green tanktop and a dark blue skirt. "Pardon?" She asked.

I waved my hands frantically. "S-Sorry! I was just trying to make conversation."

She smiled. "That's okay, I'm Kana Asa, but just call me Kana."

"I'm Elin Ray, it's nice to meet you." I said. "Why did you accept the invite?"

She shrugged. "Well, I guess it's because my best friend got an invite too, so I decided to join him, it's better then going alone after all."

I looked around. "Your friends here? Who is he?"

For some reason, she pointed to a nearby tree. I raised a head and an eyebrow and gasped. There was a guy sitting in the tree. He was eating a burger and looked like he didn't have a care in the world. From where i could see, he had medium length brown hair and was wearing a dark green shirt covered by an unzipped lighter green jacket and dark blue jeans.

"That's your friend? What's he doing up there?" I asked.

"Don't worry about the Tree Climber. He does it most of the time." Kana chuckled. "But if you want his real name it's Rei Kasai."

"Rei, huh?" I said.

I noticed the guy sitting next to me was looking up with a smile. He had long black hair with bright green eyes, gauges, a black T-shirt with a silver coloured hoodie, navy blue jeans, a black studded belt and converse jeans.

"Uh, hey there." I said with a small wave.

He turned to me with his big, careless smile. "Hey! Sorry for listening on your talk, your friend seems pretty cool! I'm Luke! Luke Thomas! It's nice to meet you, Elin and Kana!"

"Nice to meet you as well, Luke." I smiled.

Luke looked back to the tree. "Hey Kana? You and Rei seem pretty cool, can you introduce us some time?"

Kana shrugged. "I could try, Rei's kinda shy though, so I'll see what I can do."

"Great!" H ethen pondered for a bit. "Wonder if I could climb that high...?"

After I moved on to my third hot-dog, this time with extra mustard, I heard a familiar voice. "Heeeeeeeeeey! Eliiiiiiiiin! Over heeeeeere!"

I looked around for a minute before I saw Sarah sitting diagonally away from me, waving so hard I thought her arm would fall off. Her outburst had made everyone turn towards her.

"Is she a friend of yours?" Kana asked.

"Kinda, I met her back at the tournament, she seems pretty nice." I admitted.

I noticed Luke was staring a bit, so I gently poked him. "Luke? Are you okay?"

"Hey there!" Luke shouted suddenly.

"Oh! Hey!" Sarah shouted back.

"It's nice to meet you! I'm Luke!" He shouted.

"Hello Luke! I'm Sarah!"

This shouted conversation took place for a while, much to the dismay of others. I noticed that some of the more shy campers were trying to shuffle away from both of the conversationalists. I happened to see that blond girl trying to pull into herself, whilst a guy comforted her.

Now, he was the LAST guy I expected to be a comforter. He had black hair in a dyed bleach blond mohawk, his eyes looked sharp blue, and he had three studs in his right eyebrow. He also wore black spiked armbands, a black T-shirt with the union jack on the front, and torn blue jeans with a pair of black steel toed boots.

I shuddered. He looked pretty damn scary, and I'm not gonna lie, plus I'm not one for piercings. The two were polar opposites and yet they were so close? It just didn't seem...right.

I turned to Kana as Luke was still having his shouting conversation. "Hey Kana? Do you know who those two are?"

Kana looked at them and shook her head. "Not really, I've seen those two together a lot though, it's like he's her bodyguard or something."

Once Luke and Sarah had finished their conversation Luke suddenly stood up. "Okay! I've decided!" He then ran over to a tree and started climbing it with some difficulty.

"Luke! What are you doing!?" I called to him.

"Climbing!" He yelled in response. However as he reached for the next branch it snapped and he came tumbling down in a bunch of twigs and leaves. We all winced as he got an earful from the driver, he didn't seem to mind though, still smiling away.

I met up with Harrison and Liz again just before we were gonna settle down. "Did you guys make any new friends?" I asked.

Harrison sighed. "Well, I can tell you did." He glanced at Luke. "But yes, a lot of people here are really nice, do you see those two over there?"

I turned to where he was pointing to be met with a guy and girl.

The girl was of average height with black, waist length straight hair worn down with brown eyes. She was wearing a black sundress with white pok-a-dots and a white belt, complete with a pair of black flats.

"That's Melanie." Harrison explained. "She's very nice, but you have to be patient with her so she can get comfortable with you. Just be careful okay?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Don't worry so much, you okay?"

He looked away. "N-Never mind." I dropped the subject.

The guy seemed to be 10, he was short and thin with curly black hair and sad brown eyes. He was wearing a dark blue shirt that had three white palm trees imprinted on the front with grey shorts and dark green slippers. And I'm pretty sure that if I squinted I could see braces.

"That's Louis Sierra." He sighed. "I don't really think I can call him my friend just yet, he seems to have low self-esteem, and he seemed like he didn't really want to talk to me."

I frowned. "Poor guy, and when only 10 as well."

"He's 13."

Liz double-glanced. "Well, I should know about looking younger then you are."

"So did you make any friends, Liz?" I asked.

She nodded. "Yep, I found someone." She then scanned over the area, and finally jumped when she found someone. "There she is!"

Me and Harrison glanced over to where she was pointing to see a young girl. She was kinda tall with no definite *ahem* build. Her hair was chestnut brown and was tied in a high ponytail, with bluish green eyes and skin that had a light pink hue shade.

"That's Nina." Liz told us. "She's really nice and friendly, so yeah, she's a good mate."

"She seems to be the youngest camper we've seen so far." Harrison thought aloud. "She only looks about 11."

I shrugged. "As long as she's happy, isn't all that really matters?"

"I guess so." Liz said. "Right then, I think I'm gonna go to bed."

I looked at my watch and gasped. "It's only 11PM! I thought you stayed up later, Liz!"

She turned to me and pondered for a second. "Did I mean that? What I meant was lie in bed and play pokemon until 3 in the morning."

I rolled my eyes as me and Harrison headed back to our cabin.

As we walked there I thought I saw someone, thinking it was Connor I turned away, but I glanced a bit and found myself looking at a girl.

She seemed to be 17, with shoulder length black hair that was hanging in her face, but I could still see her dark blue-grey eyes and how pale she was. She was wearing some pretty basic clothes, just a shirt and jeans. But what really caught my attention was the back of her left hand, which had 22 small scars on it. She quickly walked on without giving me a glance.

I turned to Harrison. "Hay Harrison? Do you know who that was?"

I pointed to her as Harrison adjusted his glasses. "Her? I saw her at the tournament, to be honest I was a bit curious about her, so I asked around a bit...her name is Victoria Raven. She rarely talks to anyone, and nobody knows much about her past. A lot of people compare her to a vampire because of her skin."

I looked at her as she entered her dorm. "She seemed so sad..."

"It's personal matters Elin, we can't get involved." We continued walking on.

"I guess so..." I sighed as we all walked in.

I talked with Harrison, Michael, Daniel and now Luke for a bit as well as battled them a few times.

"Hey Elin, your friend Sarah's really nice." Luke said as he was looking for someone to battle.

'Like peas in a pink pod.' I thought to myself as I watched Daniel win a battle via Link Battle, thank god this place had internet access.

Eventually I settled down, but that didn't mean everyone else did. I was kept awake for another hour as my camp-mates made bets as they battled. But, FINALLY we all managed to drift off to sleep.

SPLITWORLDS

I woke up abruptly in the middle of the night, but more rather 2 in the morning.

Damn it I needed the toilet.

I dragged myself out of bed to look for the toilet, I eventually found a quaint, SANITISED outhouse, thank god.

It was only when I was walking back to the cabin when I happened to glance skyward, and I gasped.

The night sky that was set before me was filled with stars, I cuold even see what looked like a galaxy so far away. They were all shining and sparkling against the black sky, billions of them, it was truly breathtaking.

'Woah, I've never seen a sky like that before...' I breathed inwardly. I was beginning to think we might have driven to a whole different continent or something.

Suddenly it seemed like something flashed. I turned my eyes back towards the ground to see some sort of light coming from deeper in the forest.

Now, my first thought was to run back to the cabin as fast as possible and alert everybody. But, something about that light just felt...warm, and compelling. So much so that I felt myself walking towards it.

I kept walking deeper and deeper into the forest until I crouched down in a bush. In front of me was a large clearing, in the center was some sort of stone structure, it looked similar to a totem pole, but with weird symbols instead.

Then something floated out from behind it, checking it as if for damage. It was nothing like I'd ever seen before. It was small with a long tail that had what looked like a large bump on the end, its arms were pretty stubby, and it had large blue eyes.

My jaw dropped so much I thought I could taste dirt.

It was a frikkin Mew.

I covered my mouth to muffle my screams of excitement and confusion. There was an ACTUAL Mew FLOATING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! HOW WAS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE!?

My mind began racing with possible explanations. I was dreaming, I'd knocked myself out and was delirious, I was hallucinating. But the pokemon kept floating around the structure, still examining it.

I began to slowly take steps back to begin a sprint to the cabin.

SNAP!

I swore in my head as a twig cracked beneath my feet.

The Mew instantly picked up the sound and turned in my direction. I sighed knowing my cover was blown, and I walked out with my hands above my head. "It's okay, I'm not armed or anything."

The pokemon floated towards me and looked me in the eye, she then did what sounded like a small giggle. "It's alright, I knew you were here all along."

I lowered my hands in shock. It felt like her voice was ringing in all the corners of my mind. Oh yeah, her voice was feminine, so I can tell she was a girl. "How did you-?"

"I'm talking to you through psychic abilities." She explained. "Your Elin right? And you know who I am, of course."

I nodded. "Well, yeah...but, your a MEW! A real Mew! Don't you...um, please don't take this the wrong way, but don't you only exist in video games?"

She giggled again. "Well, in your world, yes."

I gasped. "My...world?"

She floated closer to me. "Elin, I must tell you that you and everyone else have been brought to our world for an important reason. There is no time to explain for the moment, please give me your hand."

I held out my hand and she took it in both of hers, closing her eyes for a minute as my hand felt all tingly. After a minute or so she took her hands away with a smile and a nod. "Yes, you are compatible."

"Compatible?" I frowned.

"Please don't be afraid, come with me." She led me over to the weird statue, which was still giving off a slightly faint white glow. Mew turned to me. "Elin, I beseech you, all I ask is that you touch this stone, and accept your destiny."

I was definitely having second thoughts about this. But looking at Mew with her large pleading eyes made me break.

So, gingerly, I reached a hand out and placed my palm on the statue, it was surprisingly warm to the touch.

Before I could react, the statue gave off a huge flash of light, temporarily blinding me as everything was washed in white.

Then darkness fell.

And that is Chapter 1 done! What did you guys think? Say so in a review, they do help.

Oh, and victory! I managed to fit in all of the OC's I've received one way or another! Thank you to those who sent them in! I can't believe I've got so many! Here's the credit to their creators:

DBZ jacket guy (Temporary name obviously): Wildlian

Red scarf guy (Temporary name! AGAIN!): SentientPixel

Victoria Raven: K.E. Holt

Green hair girl (I apologize to their respective authors, the names WILL be revealed, I'm not that bad a person.): visceraEffect

Mohawk guy: reven228

Nina: kitsunelover300

Rei Kasai and Kana Asa: CalzoneCannon

Luke Thomas: BloodStarGeneral

Melanie: Mizuki1-Kiruri13

Louis Sierra: Two-Tailed mouse

Thank you so much for your submissions! I respect all of your OC's and hope to give them as much screentime(?) as possible!

By the way, if you check the previous chapter you will see that Harrison, Sarah and Janine are all TAKEN as love interests. So you can't list them anymore! Also, to Two-Tailed mouse, sorry, but you fell just short on Janine as a love interest, don't worry, as you've seen I'm still including your OC, but if you want to make any changes just say so!

Finally, thank you for reading my story! See you next time!

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