"You did good, Luna," Zhak said to his female Umbreon, who was walking beside him along the path, "You did good.". She rubbed up against his leg in a loving way just like a cat would do, then continued to walk down the path they were both traveling down. Trees of a golden hue surrounded Zhak and his Pokemon, and the autumn wind rushed past his clothes (a green jacket, blue jeans, green bandana and red backpack) chilling him a little, but all-in-all, it felt very nice to him. A hoot-hoot was calling in the trees nearby, and there was a flock of spearows flying overhead, in the usual triangular formation of traveling in groups. The path they were taking went straight to the town of Alto Mare, where Zhak was going to its world famous market where he could get something from another region that cant you cant get anywhere else: The Hybrid Bitterroot that he needed to give to complete his herb collection and to grow it back home so he could make as many as he wanted. The sun was also setting, and Zhak needed a place to stay for the night. Luckily, he brought a sleeping bag with his backpack, and decided to sleep out in the open for tonight. He spotted a nice grassy hill out in an open space where he could see the whole sky above him, which was red with the setting sun.
Suddenly Luna sped away from Zhak, who was utterly confused by her action, but then saw her turn back toward him and motion with her head towards the hill. "What is it girl?" Zhak asked, running after her up the hill. At the top, Luna barked at him, indicating she found something. When Zhak reached the top of the hill, he saw that the hill's top was surrounded in a ring of berry bushes filled with not the oran berries that Zhak had been familiar to, but instead where filled with strange, unfamiliar berries that were red and blue in color, and shaped like rounded triangles. "What are these?" Zhak asked Luna, who was sitting down in front of him, her tail wagging on the ground, panting in happiness of her master's presence. Luna then walked over to one of the berries, and made a motion of eating one in front of Zhak, who responded by cautiously eating one of the berries he picked from the bush. Surprisingly, it didn't taste poisonous at all, or even bitter. Instead, it tasted really sweet, like fresh strawberries picked straight from the plant to your mouth. In fact, Zhak liked them so much, he opened his berry pouch and shoved the rest of the berries off of the bush into his pouch. "I could get some good money off of these…" Zhak said to himself before he popped another berry in his mouth to taste its sweetness again.
Eventually, nightfall came, and Zhak was drifting off with Luna sleeping beside him, curled up in a ball on top of the sleeping bag Zhak was in. But Zhak, even though sleeping, had a very hard time which was the dream, and which wasn't…
Zhak was woken up by a strange noise that sounded like rustling of leaves. As he opened his eyes, he found that Luna was no longer on top of him; She was standing face to face with a great creature who was rummaging through the bushes. Zhak just stared blankly at the creature, which was nothing he had ever seen before. It was dragonoid in appearance, and blue in color with white in some places, and didn't have any legs. It had instead fan like "tail wings" where its legs would have been. It didn't need legs anyway, for it was floating all by itself, indicating that it was a psychic type of being. Plus, was too busy to notice him anyway, for it had its face stuck in the bushes, eating some berries. Zhak slowly got up from his sleeping bag, being careful on not to disturb the creature, but was a little too careful, for he accidentally knocked over his lantern that was turned off to save power, and it went down with a loud "clang!". The creature then stopped what he was doing, and turned toward the sound, which was in Zhak's direction. That's when Zhak got a good look at it's face. It was slightly triangular, with a blue ring around the top of its head, and its eyes were a dark color that were almost black, and seemed to stare at his very soul.
Luna growled, then launched herself at the creature, ready to tackle it. But the creature's eyes glowed white suddenly, and a great light shone from it, engulfing Luna and Zhak. When the light subsided, Zhak found that Luna was in fact on the ground, eyes closed and not moving, but she was still breathing, indicating she was knocked unconscious by the creature. "Luna!" Zhak called to his Pokemon in dismay, but the Pokemon wouldn't respond, and he cried out in anguish at his fallen friend. The creature then started to slowly float towards Zhak, who was frozen in fear. The creature stopped when it's face was literally inches away from his face, and then it did something that was pretty unusual.
"…Can you remember, Latius?" The creature spoke in a male voice. Zhak was stunned out of his wits. How could a creature speak to him, let alone know English and actually could communicate with a human? The creature chuckled. "Im psychic," It answered his thought, "I can do many things, including communicating with humans." Zhak shook his head.
"Those berries i ate are giving me a crazy hallucination right now i bet…" He said outlaid, "Pokemon cant talk! Its all in my head!"
"Nope," The creature responded, "What your seeing right now is real. I guarantee it." He then put an clawed hand on Zhak's shoulder, and pain shot through Zhak's body. "You see?" The creature confirmed, "Its real life you're in, not a dream." Zhak then reached out, and laid a hand on the creature's head, and patted it to confirm that it was real. Zhak then took his hand back sharply.
"Wait," he said, "Why did you call me 'Latius'? My name's Zhak, not that title you called me…" The creature looked surprised.
"You really don't know?" The creature asked. Zhak shook his head. "Hmph" The creature then turned it's back toward Zhak, and looked back a him. "Get on." It said, indicating for him to jump on his back.
"W-what?" Zhak stammered, "Why?"
"There's a place i need to take you," The creature asked, "and i need to tell you who you are…" Zhak, with nothing else to do, ran back over to Luna, who was still passed out, picked her up, and then climbed onto the back of the blue creature, who then suddenly flew straight up into the air, and started to move forward with the speed of a jet fighter. Zhak yelped in surprise at the action that the creature did, and clenched onto the creature's neck with one arm, while holding Luna close to his body with another. Suddenly, Zhak was hit with a headache so painful, he passed out, still clutching onto both Luna and the creature's neck.