As I moved forwards step by step, the tall grass around me gave the familiar feeling that I used to get when I walked about Professor Oak's yard. Each and every blade would push through my fur as I walked by them, and every step put me slightly closer to my goal. My goal was, of course, to find a man that I knew nothing about, and that would take me a long time. All that I knew is that his children were dead, and his grandchildren, if they were alive, made little contact with the rest of society. Most of all, I had an uncomfortable feeling of being watched.
Despite my feelings and thoughts, I kept walking.
"It might be impossible," I kept telling myself, but I would quickly rebut the idea of quitting,"I have to try anyway."
Every once in a while, I would tense up after hearing a bird pokemon fly overhead. I could probably fight one of them, but I was also a very small pokemon, and when it came to that, being eaten became my biggest worry. Every time that I thought about that, my mind raced back to all of the training that Oak had made me participate in, and how it seemed that even he lacked confidence in my ability to survive on my own.
Eventually, I began feeling hungry, and plopped down in the grass before opening my small backpack and grabbing an oran berry. It's juices dripped down my lip as I took a large bite out of my snack, and this made me happy as my mind drifted back to when some of my human friends and I had gone out to a restaurant together. At the restaurant, my friends tried introducing me to a piece of food that they called a burger. When I tried taking a bite of the human food, the taste that shot through my mouth disgusted me, I hate meat. It turned out to be fine though because I was able to get berries anyway, and we all had a nice time. That was really nice to go back to. I needed nice memories right then.
I dug into my bag to grab another berry when my paw came across a small metallic object. When I grabbed it out of my backpack, I quickly knew what it was. It was a pokedex.
I chose to hold it up to my own face, and it responded,"Pichu, the tiny mouse pokemon, can hold only a little bit of electricity in the electric sacs on its cheeks at this stage. It usually evolves into pikachu before it becomes five years old. Pikachu later evolves into raichu when it comes into contract with a thunderstone. Oddly enough, pichu has no relation to dedenne other than the electric typing. A fully grown raichu often lives to about twenty-five years of age, whereas a pikachu will live to nearly twenty. A pichu not evolving before a natural demise is uncharted. Pichu, however, has the highest rate of unnatural death amongst its evolutionary line, and often falls prey to medium and large bird pokemon, despite a type advantage, as well as other larger pokemon, such as meowth, poochyena, and ekans."
I chucked the machine to the ground, and curled up into a ball,"I'm eight years old, why in the world have I still not evolved. Stupid machine must be wrong."
Suddenly, I felt the wind above my changing direction causing my ears to twitch about wildly. For a moment, my instinct took over me, and dropped me into a lower, crouched position before I analyzed the situation, grabbed the pokedex, and held it up to the sky.
"Pidgeotto," the pokedex spoke in it's robotic voice,"Is a dangerous bird pokemon for smaller pokemon." Hearing this made me tense up more than I had before. Electricity began sparking from my cheeks. Suddenly, I felt the wind change again as the pidgeotto began charging me at full speed. In the time that I had, I took notice of the environment, noticing the tree just behind me. The pidgeotto would, if it got the chance, end it's charge by slamming me against the tree where I would be knocked out, and finished before I noticed.
"Alright," I breathed heavily as it approached, then in the last second, dove to the ground allowing the bird pokemon to hit the tree behind me, ending its charge. The pidgeotto was damaged, but then began flying again.
"Nice," It chirped in the pokemon language, which I understood just as well as I understood English,"You want to shock me?" It asked.
"It's a bait," I told myself, and held back. I would not make a stupid mistake which could end up with me shocking myself.
"A smart one?" it chirped wildly,"All the better of a prize!" It used gust with all of the force that it could muster. I jumped off to the side before I could be knocked off of my feet. It then turned, and continued its attack,"Just fall already!"
I kept jumping around the pidgeotto for a while, as its attack grew weaker and weaker, probably from exhaustion, and the pidgeotto grew more and more furious.
I was tiring myself out as well. Every step became a burden, and eventually, I did fall. The pidgeotto began charging me, and from the ground I would have no chance to dodge off to the side, so, I sat and waited. This time, I electrocuted the bird just before it could hit me. Even if I put little effort into the attack, it caused the tired pidgeotto to go veering off before crashing into the ground. It was knocked out.
"Incoming phone call," I heard my pokedex beeping loudly from my nearby backpack. I crawled over to it, and grabbed the device, and opened it. Inside, the screen lit up to show an incoming call, and that the green and red buttons that the pokedex was normally equipped with were used to accept or decline the incoming call. It was Professor Oak.
"Hello," I said after pressing the green button, and seeing Professor Oak's face light up onto the screen.
"Lulu," His face seemed relieved,"Are you alright?"
"Yes," I asked,"Why?"
"I am notified whenever your pokedex spots a potentially dangerous pokemon. I began calling you, but you didn't pick up for a while. I admit, I feared the worst."
I turned the pokedex around so that my screen faced the knocked out pidgeotto,"Does that satisfy you?"
He smiled sadly as I turned it back to myself,"I've given you a dangerous task, do you wish to return home?"
"No," I smiled with glee,"I will complete my quest."
"Good luck, Lulu."
"I'll talk to you later."
"Goodbye," he hung up the phone, and I turned to my backpack. Quickly, I ate two oran berries. I looked out to the sunset, and saw large buildings on the horizon.
Rejuvenated after eating the berries, I began running as fast as I could towards Viridian City. I came across a large river, then looked around for a way across. I ran to a makeshift bridge of wet rocks, and quickly began jumping from rock to rock, but slipped into the water halfway in. The current began dragging me downstream, but I began swimming to the opposite end of the river as best I could.
"Gyarrrrr!" I heard from upstream. The current of the water itself, then shifted as some force pulled me upstream, my backpack, already a burden in the water, felt even heavier, and I grew closer and closer to whatever had made the noise.
What seemed to be an attack from it had actually, unintentionally helped me, by pulling me back to the rocks that I had fallen off of. I climbed back onto a rock, then crossed the rest of the way, before the Gyrados could make its way to the rocks and attack me.
I noticed clouds beginning to roll in over me, and a human girl chasing after a human boy on a bike,"Thief!" She yelled.
I didn't have time to worry about it, and continued to to the now closer buildings.
Once I was nearly half of the way to the city, lightning struck the ground not far ahead of me. Just after that, the clouds cleared out, and I saw the most beautiful pokemon that I had ever seen. It was a bird trailed by rainbows.
When I made it to the entrance of Viridian City, a tall female woman in a blue outfit walked up to me from her kiosk just inside of the gate,"Do you know anything about pokemon thieves around here."
"Pi?" I answered confused in the pokemon language, so that I would not draw attention to myself, then walked to the nearby pokemon center.
I saw the boy from before, and took notice of the fact that he had been in my class at school, it was Ash Ketchum.
"Hi Professor Oak," I heard Ash say to a wall, which I then noticed had a screen with Professor Oak's face on it. I then noticed that it was a video call just like on my pokedex. I jumped up behind Ash, and waved to Oak. Next, they began talking about the beautiful bird pokemon, then they finished speaking just before the girl from before ran in, and began chewing Ash out for stealing her bike, and allowing his pikachu to destroy said bike. Their conversation, then turned to the pikachu's well being.
That would explain why neither the nurse, nor her chansey assistant were attending anyone else. All that I wanted was a room to sleep for the night. Suddenly, an alarm began going off.
"Warning, a group of dangerous pokemon thieves have been spotted in the area!"
"You've got to be kidding me," I said under my breath.
"Prepare for trouble," echoed through the room as the ceiling blasted open.
Everyone retreated into a back room, but I simply ran for the back door, and made my way into the forest beyond. I had no business staying there. As I tried to create a safe place for me to sleep for the night in the middle of a clearing, there was a loud boom, and when I looked back, all that I saw was a wall of flames and smoke. Luckily, the flames did not spread into the forest, and I was able to create a small den to rest in. After a long day, I had trouble staying awake, even with the horrific idea of being attacked by night, resting in the trenches of my mind.
The world around me was grey, yet strangely familiar. Once again, I was dreaming.
"Good evening, Lulu," I heard the mysterious voice from before,"I am sure that you still don't have any idea who I am."
"Can we change that?"
A cloaked man slowly walked out of a thick grey fog,"Not yet," his voice crackled.
"It is obvious that you know who I am, but I want to know who you are. Are you a friend or a foe?"
"That depends on what you believe, Lulu," He approached me, allowing a glimpse under the man's hood. I noticed that a long scar ran across his pale, balding head,"More importantly," he continued,"I know who you are, Lulu, who you are supposed to be."
"Please," I was overcome with curiosity,"tell me."
"I can't do that right now," The man had a deep chuckle to match his mysterious voice.
"That doesn't matter," I told myself,"it's just a dream anyway, it's just my mind toying with my emotions towards that subject."
"Oh no," the man came closer to me as he carefully looked over my now fading body,"You must be waking up."
I shot awake, and once again, it was morning. I had not been attacked during the night, and the only other thing that I could see in the clearing was a large rock. I grabbed my pokedex from my backpack, then called Professor Oak.
"Good Morning, Lulu," He yawned. A small cup of coffee was in one of his hands.
"Good Morning!" I responded before moving to a more serious tone,"I've been wanting to talk to you."
"About what," Oak's tired tone moved to match mine.
"I've been having a strange, recurring dream lately, and every time, I am talking to a mysterious man with an odd voice in a foggy grey world."
"It's no ordinary dream, Lulu," Oak's face moved fearfully,"It's a connected dream."
"A what?" I asked.
"A connected dream is a shared dream between two organisms, usually a human with a large amount of pokemon knowledge or a powerful psychic, human or pokemon, and somebody who they want to communicate with for personal reasons."
"Who would want to talk to me, and why?"
"I could name a few people," Oak muttered.
"Like who?" I asked.
"There is an evil group out there, and not the goons who call themselves Team Rocket. This group is elite and deadly. Their leader is an unknown man who is known for both his intelligence and for his psychic ability. The rest is shrouded in mystery, but my working theory is that they are connected to the group who started the recent war. Be careful, and beware the new moon!"
"Thank you," I nodded,"I'll talk to you later."
"Goodbye."
"Goodbye."