Dreams are always meant to be their own reality. While in a dream, the logic of it you just accept while you live it. If you find yourself with a scientific diving team in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, you go along with it; if you're with bipedal bovines chasing after land dwelling fish people, you don't question it until you wake up. The exception to this of course, being when you Lucid Dream.

Is that what I'm experiencing right now? A Lucid Dream?

I feel like I'm suspended in air. It's not hot, cold, solid, or anything really. I can see, but there isn't anything to see. It's all distorted, like it hasn't decided what it should look like. I've tried to change the dream, you're supposed to be able to do that when you're Lucid Dreaming right? Nothing seems to change though.

I can't move, not like I'm trapped, just that my body isn't hearing what I'm telling it to do. I can feel the sensations but not respond to them. My nerves can only send and not receive. What's happening? How long have I even been here? What kind of dream is this?

"..r…o…"

!? What was that?

"ear…e now?"

A voice…? Is someone…talking to me?

"Can you hear me now?"

Who's there? I can't speak, I try to move my mouth but nothing happens.

"You'll wake up soon, when you do, what happens next will be up to you."

I don't know that voice, it sounds…like a girl? Soft and slightly high pitched, it sounds young but speaks like an educated adult.

"My name is Jirachi, I need you to find Jirachi when you wake up."

Jirachi? That's a strange name, who are you?

"You're the next human to have been chosen, you need to fulfill the wish. Saxon, you must find Jirachi, and reunite Humans and Pokémon."

Pokémon? What's a Pokémon? Who are you?! I keep trying over and over to respond to the voice, to Jirachi, but my mouth won't move. The world feels like it's fading away and I'm drifting away from it slowly.

"You're waking up now, don't be alarmed when you do. Remember, find Jirachi, and reunite our worlds."

This is the strangest dream I've ever had. This will be one to talk about, Jirachi is right though, I can feel myself waking up. I leave behind the distorted dream world and feel my body slowly begin to respond to me finally. I feel unusually drowsy and it's very bright right now; even with my eyes closed, I can feel the sun on me. How long did I sleep? Good thing it's the weekend.

"Hello? Are you all right?"

Huh? Who's talking now? Wait! Is someone in my house!? My eyes snap open.

My eyes burn for a moment from the sudden burst of light, but they quickly adjust to find….a beach!?

"Huh!?" I exclaim, not even registering my own voice working again. I'm sitting on a beach, right on the sand near the ocean. The sun is high in the sky, it must be near afternoon if not already afternoon. How in the world did I get from my room to the beach!?

"Whoa! What's wrong? Are you ok?!" That voice from before, it's not from my dream, but it sounds like a young boy. I turn my head around to look for the owner of the voice.

"WAAAAAA!?" I exclaim, there's a snake, a gigantic blue snake with a white belly and large eyes looking at me. I jump to my feet and launch myself backwards. Something's off, I feel so incredibly off balance and I trip and fall backwards at once. Something's on my back, I fell on it….it hurts? what is on my back that's hurting!? I sit up and look behind me, there's a blue tail there in the sand, slightly pushed in the from impact. I follow the tail to a blue body with red spines sticking out from several points. I quickly look at myself. I'm not myself, I have claws on my hands and feet, my body has scales, my face is long and my teeth feel sharp. What's happening to me?!

Chapter 1: Man and Pokémon

"whoa, hey! Are you all right!?" The voice of the boy snaps me back to reality for a moment. It's that snake thing, it's slithered over to me and it's looking at me with concerned eyes.

"I'm uh…." I try to say 'all right', but the words catch in my throat, what's ok about this!? "I don't know…no, I'm definitely not all right!" I have so many questions that I can't begin to sort them through my panic stricken brain. For starters, I don't even know how I'm talking with a mouth like this, or how this snake is talking without a mouth! "Who uh…who are you? Where am I? What happened to me!? Where is this!? How did I change into this…thing!?" I blurt out all the questions I can rationalize all at once; I spoke so fast that I couldn't recount what I asked if I tried.

"Hey hey, slow down!" The snake said, coiling itself up in front of me in a somewhat defensive way; if it had hands, they'd be raised in surrender I'd guess. "I'm Dratini of course, have you never seen one before?" He said in a matter of fact sort of way. I feel as though my brain is swelling in my skull from trying to absorb all of this, or rather any of this, as fact.

"What? No! I…" I don't even know where to begin, this has to be a dream, there can't be any other explanation! I grab my cheeks, if I can still call them that, and pinch. "Yeowch!" I cry out, I had forgotten that my fingers had claws, that was significantly more painful than I prepared myself for….the pain also tells me I'm awake. I can't accept that, so I pull at my face in a panic with all my might…!

"Wha—-!? What're you doing!?" I hear Dratini exclaim through my desperate yells. I pull, I pinch, and I scratch; my nerves plead with me to stop, but I refuse, this can't be real, it can't it can't it can't—-! This has to be a dream!

My delirious panicked attack at my new form is stopped forcefully by Dratini coiling around me and binding my arms "Stop it! Stop!" I hear him yelling "Totodile, stop it! Please!" Hearing him address me as 'Totodile' makes me stop, out of confusion rather than calm though. "What are you doing!? What's gotten into you!? Why are you hurting yourself so much?!" He demands of me.

"What did you call me?" I ask the only logical thing that can make it past my brain at the moment. The heat building in my face, along with the stinging, tells me I did a lot of harm to myself just now.

"Totodile of course!" Dratini says in an exasperated, but nonetheless kind, voice. "You're a Totodile aren't you?"

"What? What's a Totodile?" I ask somewhat numbly, I suddenly feel dizzy and exhausted. My heart is pounding, my face is hot and cut, everything is wrong. I fall back onto the ground in a sitting position. Dratini looks at me with concern before uncoiling himself from me hesitantly and releasing me. I look back down at my 'tail', the sensation of the coarse sand against it tells me I have nerves that feel and that it's a part of me. I focus for a moment on trying to move it. It twitches slightly, it's the strangest sensation I've ever felt. It feels like if someone took the muscles of my eyebrow, enlarged it, and attached it to my backside. The muscles move naturally, but my brain is struggling to understand how to control it.

I look back at Dratini, it's staring at me concerned, almost helpless. "I'm sorry…" I say, I can't imagine what it must look like to him, I must look like a psychopath….given the situation I may actually be crazy "Do I um….Do I know you, Dratini?" I asked tentatively.

"Well no, you and I haven't met before…" He says in reply "I was just moving along the beach and found you on the ground. I thought maybe you had an accident so I came to see if you were ok….What happened to you?" He asks. Question of the century I would say.

"I don't know…I was at home asleep….now I'm here and I'm completely changed, I don't know anything…Where is this, and what am I?" I ask him, hoping to at least have some answers.

"Well, this here is Woven Island." Dratini replies, tilting his head slightly as he looks quizzically at me "what do you mean, 'what am i'? You're a Totodile, right? I've seen them before."

"No, I'm a human!" I interject. Well at least I was a human, now…ugh I don't even know.

"What's a 'Human'?" Dratini asks.

"Wha—!?" I'm so dumbfounded by the question I don't even know how to answer. On the list of things I never thought I'd have to do in my life, describing what a human is might just be at the top; right next to turning into a blue tailed 'Totodile' talking to a snake. "Well…it's um…well…uh…." I stammer, I don't know what to say or where to begin.

"Where did you come from? What happened to you?" Dratini asks, he looks worried; he must sense my stress and worries I'll hurt myself again. I can't blame him at this point.

"….I don't know, I don't know what happened…" I said somewhat quietly. I feel a burning sensation in my throat, I force it back down. I need to get a grip and figure this out, or nothing is going to change. I was asleep, then I had that strange dream….oh!

"You're waking up now, don't be alarmed when you do. Remember, find me, find Jirachi, and reunite our worlds."

That's right, that voice, Jirachi…they must have done this to me. "Dratini, do you know anyone named 'Jirachi'?"

"Huh?" Dratini looks flabbergasted, guess if it were that easy I wouldn't be in this situation.

"When I was asleep, when I was human, I had this dream." I explain what I saw and what I heard. Dratini listens and watches with complete fascination. I'd say I wouldn't believe it if someone told me, but I have so little to actually tell that it wouldn't be worth calling it a lie.

"So you think this 'Jirachi' brought you here?" Dratini asks when I finish, I nod in reply "Golly…I've never heard of a Jirachi before, I'm sorry."

"It's ok…I guess I'll just…man I don't even know." I say, trying to place a hand on my head. I become aware for the first time how short my arms are, I can't reach my own forehead. I settle instead to place it on the ground. Even if the goal is easy to say, I know nothing about where I am or where I'm supposed to look.

"Hey, it'll be ok Totodile." Dratini says, his eyes looking at my solemnly "Why don't I help you get back to town, and we can figure things out from there, ok?" He asks kindly. I let out a small sigh, it's a start, I suppose.

"Yeah…yeah that'll work for now…thanks Dratini." I try to stand up. My legs feel completely wrong; looking down, I realize that I now have hind legs. This, coupled with my new found tail, makes normal standing and walking a real challenge for me. Dratini slithers next to me and observes me in a worried fashion. "Oh, by the way…my name is Saxon." I say, introducing myself, realizing he's been calling me 'Totodile' this whole time.

"Name?" He asks in a perplexed tone. "What's a name?" The question causes causes me to fall back down, I give up, this is too much for me. This is only the first day, and I already feel completely overwhelmed.