Chapter 2-Lost

Tabitha woke up with the sun shining on her face. It startled her because her room was usually dark enough that it kept out sunlight. She realized she was laying down on something and lazily opened her eyes. Looking around her she noticed she was not in her room anymore and jumped up in shock. She noticed she was on a deserted beach with several palm trees and that she had been lying in a beach chair. The sand was warm on her feet and tickled her toes and she looked down to realize that she was in nothing but her Pajamas. By the beach chair her backpack was lying on the ground and several of her school books and papers were spread all over the place. Grumbling to herself she started gathering up all of her supplies to put them back in her backpack not knowing where she was or how she had gotten there.

"Hey Professor Willow?" A voice behind her yelled.

She jumped but did not turn around, "Aaron cut it out you know my name is Tabitha and you never use that nickname unless it's Pokémon Club related.

"Um…right. Well Tabitha then, what is this animal called, it looks like a Donphan but it's not blue and red, not only that but what exactly is Bee o log ee?"

"Aaron stop goofing off, its Biology, you know that better than anyone else so quit acting like you don't know what an Elephant is."

"An Erephant? What are you talking about this is clearly a shiny Donphan!"

Tabitha looked behind her sighing angrily and came face to face with a young man. His eyes were a piercing blue and flashed across the pages in the book he had picked up. He had black hair and was wearing what looked like toy Pokéballs around his waist. He looked up at Tabitha showing some interest in her and laughed cheerfully at her. He then handed her the Biology book to put back in her bag.

"Um…who exactly are you?" Tabitha asked confused as she placed the book in her bag.

"My name is Joey I like to wear shorts and my Rattata is top notch!"

"Okay…um…Joey, whatever you say. Did Aaron set you up to play this prank on me or something? Where are we at anyway?"

"Wow for someone who is called Professor Willow you sure don't know very much do you?"

"As I said that is just a nickname my stupid friend Aaron gave me so what do you want?"

"Well I was actually wondering why you were not ready to start on your Pokémon journey yet. You brought a backpack but it is stuffed full of books with weird pictures of things in them. That food chain in your Bee o log ee book is not one of my favorites."

"What is wrong with the food chain?"

"Well, see it put Pokémon trainers on top and Caterpies and Weedles at the bottom. Not only that but it showed that Rattata can be eaten by a Meowth! It made me really sad."

"I'm sure your Rattata will not be eaten by a Meowth because there is no such thing as a Rattata, it's a Pokémon from the first gen number 19 in the Kanto and National Pokédex."

"Oh you mean those things that only Pokémon Trainers that Professor's see have potential get? For some reason they did not see much Potential in me teaming up with Rattata." Joey looked down sadly as he pulled a Pokéball from his waist, "But Rattata is in like the top percent of Rattata's so one day we will show them won't we!"

Joey threw the Pokéball and out popped an ugly looking purple Rat that stood one foot from the ground. It looked up at Tabitha curiously and showed its gnarled teeth to her. It then looked over at its trainer and climbed up onto his shoulders. Tabitha gasped not believing her eyes, there was no way this could be true, none at all. Whatever that Rat thing was it scared her to pieces.

"What is that thing?" she screamed, "Put it back where it was hiding."

"Geez you sure are rude Professor Willow. This is my Rattata and you are the cool new Professor in town. Do you have any of those handy Pokédex things? I mean my Rattata's strength obviously surprised you right?"

"I'm the Professor in town? What are you talking about?"

"Oh, yeah, well you are technically not a Professor yet you have to travel all around the Pokémon world and get all the badges first to prove you can be a Professor. From what I have heard and what you have said you seem to have a pretty good grip on Pokémon. So why did you bring that bag full of unrelated books? Do you not know what all you need to start a Pokémon journey."

"No…It's just…I mean…this has gotta be a dream. I was working on my Biology and fell asleep that explains everything. Plus the Pokémon club meeting we had today. Wake up Tabitha Wake up!"

Tabitha started pinching and slapping herself to snap her out of the dream, but it was no use. She closed her eyes for five minutes and told herself when she opened them she would wake up back in her room, it did not work either. Joey looked at her very concerned and left for a few minutes when he came back he had brought someone with him, someone that looked exactly like Professor Oak from the Pokémon video games.

"No way is this real…" Tabitha said quietly as she passed out.