Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. There, I've said it. Hope you're happy. Instead it belongs to game freak and all those other weird companies that helped them. Did 4 kids help with Pokemon? I don't remember. Maybe that was digimon, or maybe both? Ah, whatever.

Note: This is an AU version of 'From Reality to Fantasy' If you don't know what that means, it means I've changed one or two details and changed the plot of the story with that. You can find that story on my other account. Other than that, ta ta!

"What did you say!" talking

'That your lazy' thinking

Humans are weird poke speech

Chapter 1: A New Beginning

"Wake up brat!"

Terra Stardust groaned. Man she hated her stepfather. When her mother had died, she had to live with him, and it was hell. She shook her head, trying to remember the odd dream she had had. When an image of that Pokemon mew came to her, she sighed. Seriously, she needed to stop playing her gameboy before she went to bed.

Terra got up out of bed and stretched cat-like, going to her full height of 5'4, which was pretty decent considering she was 13. She grabbed her clothes, and put them on, then examined how she looked in the mirror.

Her hair was a little passed her shoulders and was silvery- white in color, and she had dyed her bangs black. Her eye color had earned her the title 'witch' at school, because it was a deep, yet brilliant shade of purple. She had on her trusty fuzzy leopard print hat on, and a navy blue shirt with a black vest. She had on knee length black shorts on with god only knows how many pockets, and a sturdy pair of black tennis shoes with silver stripes on the sides. Last but not least she had on a pair of fingerless black gloves with silver metal pieces on the knuckles.

When everything was in place, she grabbed her gray mini backpack and headed downstairs to see what the hell Bob (her step dad) wanted. She found him in the kitchen, having another beer. And since there was already 4 cans empty on the table, it definitely wasn't his first.

"Good you lazy brat, your up." He said in a totally wasted voice.

Terra's eyebrow ticked up and down at that, but she remained quiet. She walked over to the refrigerator and took out the half gallon of milk and poured herself a glass. She downed it quickly, and very sneakily, she put some food in her backpack. 'Today, I get out of this hellhole.' She thought.

After she had finished sneaking food into her backpack, she snuck behind Bob, and quietly made her way out the door. Right when she thought everything was going smooth though, Bob started shouting at the top of his lungs for her to get back there. Instead though, she bolted out the door and into the street like the devil was chasing her. The last thing she saw of the house was Bob framed against the door, redder than a tomato, and shouting,

"If you leave, you can never come back!"

"Fine with me!" Terra shouted back, proving her point by showing him how pretty her middle finger is all alone, otherwise known as the birdie.

Terra ran for what seemed like hours to her, but was probably only 20 minutes. She came to a stop in an alley. A perfect hiding place. She sat up against a wall, hidden by boxes and trashcans. She took out a doughnut from her backpack and began to eat that. When she was done, she sighed and closed her eyes in thought.

'Let's see. I've finally managed to escape, but what do I do now? I only have a little bit of money, only some food and clothes, and no-where to stay. But I can't go back, Bob would beat the crap out of me. Oh, I wish there was somewhere I could go where I would have a place to stay, a family to love me, and an adventure to embark on.'

While Terra was thinking these thoughts, she didn't even realize that a pink, blue eyed, cat-like creature was hovering above her, hearing her thoughts, but when it giggled is when she noticed something was there. She looked around for a minute, and then looked up, and her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when she saw the creature.

"Mew!" She questioned, rubbing her eyes, and then staring at the creature again.

Yep! said the mew, doing summersaults in the air.

Terra's eyes bugged out again.

"I can understand you? Holy crap! I have to be dreaming this!"

Nope! This is real!

"Well, if I'm not dreaming this, than why are you here?"

Well, you wished to have a family who loves you, somewhere to stay, and an adventure, didn't you?

"Well, yeah, but, how could you help?"

Well, I've known of your predicament for a while, so for the last few months, I've been sending dreams of you to the people who can be your new family. They really want to meet you, and through the dreams, know quite a bit about you. They just have to find you.

"Err. . . ok, but, where are they?"

In my world.

"You mean the Pokemon world? As in like, full of Pokemon and trainers and stuff? As in like, super cool adventures, badges, and leagues?"

The same.

"Sweet!"

So I take it you want to go?

"Yes!"

Alright. A few things you should know. First, your money will be changed into their type of money. Second, I won't be able to accompany you once we get there. Three, you will be able to understand Pokemon. Why? Because somehow, you have DNA of a Pokemon, I'm not going to say which, and can understand them along with using some attacks. Alright?

"Umm. Ok."

All right. Here, take this. It's a pokeball. I believe you know what it is for. Now, we must be off.

Before Terra could ask /how/ they were going to get there, a pink glow came from mew, and surrounded both of them. Everything was pink for a moment, but when it faded away, Terra found herself in another alley, only there was something obviously different about this one.

"Holy crap. Everything's animated!" Then she looked at her hand. "So am I!"

Suddenly she heard a soft "meeeooowww" to her left. She looked and there laid a very thin meowth. What was strange about it was, where there was usually brown fur, it was black, and where there was cream fur, it was light gray. The gold piece was also silver, as well as it's claws.

When the meowth saw Terra, it tried to get up and run away, but it fell right back down. Terra, seeing that the cat was frightened and hungry, took out a can of tuna and opened it, then placed it in front of the meowth.

The meowth looked at it for a moment, and then sniffed it, then dug right into it like no tomorrow. Terra laughed, and opened another can for the starving kitty. When the meowth was done, she meowed happily and curled up by Terra.

Thank you The meowth said in poke language.

"Your welcome." Terra replied, petting the odd colored meowth.

You can understand me nice lady? The meowth said, surprised.

"Yeah, I guess I can. And my name is Terra by the way. What's yours?"

Don't have one.

"Hmmm. Well then, how about Rinoa? I always thought that was a cool name."

Ok.

"Well Rinoa, do you have any idea where we are? I know I don't."

We are in a place called Pallet Town, right by a scientist's lab.

"Oh. Ok. Thank you Rinoa. I'm going to go see."

Can I come with you? You are the nicest person I ever met, and if your going to be a trainer, I've always wanted to travel the world.

"You really want to?"

Yeah

"Well, alright."

Terra took out the pokeball that mew had given her and tossed it at Rinoa. She disappeared in a blast of red light into the ball. It wiggled around for a moment, then stopped. Terra picked up the pokeball, looked at it for a moment, then smiled the biggest smile she had ever had.

"I gotta meowth!"

After twirling around a bit, she released Rinoa. She put the ball into her pants pocket, and picked the feline up.

"Let's go find professor Oak. He can give me a pokedex so I can catch more Pokemon and get badges and stuff."

Meow!

Meanwhile, Professor Oak was thinking over some things. For the last few nights, him, along with Gary, Ash, Delilah, and even Pallet Officer Jenny had been having weird dreams about a 13-year-old girl. About her life, and her problems. All of them were very disgusted at the way her stepfather had treated the poor girl, and they all wanted to smack him around for treating the girl so cruelly. Unfortunately, there was one problem. She was in a dream, and you cannot affect dreams. Still, one had to wonder who the strange purple-eyed girl was. Delilah had been vowing up and down that if she ever met the girl, she could stay at her home and be the daughter she never had. Ash thought it would be cool to have a sister, so he didn't mind. Pallet Jenny would say that she would arrest 'that vile man' and keep him locked away in prison, then show the girl Terra how to think like a police officer. Oak himself could see she was a kind person and thought she would be a great help down in the lab. Now, if only they could find her. . .

A sudden knock on the door brought him out of his thoughts. He got up and walked out of his study and went and answered the door. When he did, he had to do a double take at what he saw. Standing there, holding an oddly colored meowth, stood Terra Stardust. The 13-year-old girl that him, along with the others, had been having visions about.

"Umm. Excuse me. My name is Terra Stardust. I was hoping to be able to get my trainer's license. I can get that here, can't I?"

"Huh? Oh. Yes, yes. Come inside and I'll set you up." Oak said, motioning her into the lab. "Wait here for a moment, I have to make a few phone calls."

"Err. Ok."

Oak went back to his study and went straight to the vidphone. He called up Delilah and Jenny, and told them about Terra. Since Ash and Gary were at school, they would have to wait until later to meet her. It only took 5 minutes for the two of them to get to the lab, and the three of them went into the lab where Terra was. She was sitting in a chair, petting her meowth, humming a tune and the meowth purring along to it.

"Terra, I'm back." Oak said. "I've brought a couple of other people with me. This is Delilah Ketchum, and this is Officer Jenny."

"Hello." Terra said to all of them.

"You see Terra, for the last few nights, we have been seeing how your life is going. We know about your psychotic stepfather, and how sad you've been, and we want to fix that." Oak stated.

"How?" Terra asked.

"Well, since we can't let you go back to your stepfather, and since he's not your guardian anymore, you can stay with me and Ash. He won't mind. On the contrary, he really wants to meet you! You don't have to stay with me, but I've always wanted a daughter." Ms. Ketchum said, her eyes sparkling with hope.

"What do you mean?"

I think she wants to adopt you. Rinoa said.

"You want to adopt me?" Terra said, barely above a whisper to Ms. Ketchum.

"Well, if you're ok with it." Delilah answered. "Are you?"

Terra sat there for a moment, then set Rinoa on the ground, then suddenly launched herself at Ms. Ketchum and gave her a hug.

"Yes!"

Ms. Ketchum beamed and hugged Terra too.

"Well, alright, but I want to be aunt Jenny, ok?" Officer Jenny said.

Terra smiled and hugged her too.

Then Oak walked into the lab, which was weird cause no one saw him leave. In his hands were a red pokedex and some poke gear. He handed them both to Terra.

"This is your pokedex and your poke gear. Take good care of them both when you decide to start your journey."

"I will." Terra said, opening up her pokedex.

"I am Dex. Pokedex of Terra Stardust Ketchum. I record information on seen and captured Pokemon, along with badge and league information. I'm also good at poker." Said Dex in a teenage guy voice.

Terra sweat dropped.

"Okkaayyyyy . . . wonder what's in the poke gear?"

Terra opened up the gear and saw that inside was a storage place for items, a compass, flashlight, a Swiss army knife, a couple more pokeballs, a sleeping bag, cooking utensils, and everything else she would need for her Pokemon journey. What surprised her though was how light it actually was, considering how much was in there.

She attached the compass thing that had the knife and flashlight to her pants, and put the pokeballs in her pockets. The items she put into her mini backpack, but she wondered what she would do with the rest of it. Then she noticed a button on the side of them. Curious, she pressed it, and suddenly they all collapsed into hand held items. The others laughed at her surprised face, and she blushed in embarrassment and put those in her backpack too.

"Terra, if you ever need something to do, you can come to the lab and help the Pokemon here." Oak said after she finished putting away her stuff.

"And you can help me at the office." Jenny said kindly.

"Thank you." Terra said, blushing a bit.

"Well, we best be going now. See you later everyone." Delilah said.

Everyone waved goodbye as Delilah, Terra, and Rinoa left. They walked through the streets until they came to a medium sized home with a huge flower garden. They walked up the path, and to the door.

Delilah opened the door, and they stepped inside. She showed Terra around the house, where she would be staying, the bathroom, upon everything else. Suddenly, there was a shout from downstairs.

"Mom! I'm Home!"

Delilah and Terra went downstairs and saw Ash sitting on the couch.

"Hello sweetie. There's someone I'd like you to meet." Delilah said.

Ash turned around and saw Terra.

"Wow, aren't you that Terra girl?" Ash said.

"I guess . . ."

"She's also your new sister." Delilah said proudly.

"You adopted her?"

"Yep."

"Cool! Are you going on your Pokemon journey? I have already finished mine. Now I'm going to stick around here for a while, finish up with school 'an all. Anyway, I can help you get started if you want me to." Ash said to Terra.

"Okay, I think I'll stick around for a while. Just got here ya' know. It would be great if I could get some pointers. I'm really new to this."

"Alright, that's great! So, who is your Pokemon?"

Terra released her pokeball and out came Rinoa, who immediately went to get petted.

"Wow! I've never seen a meowth like that! That coloration is kinda odd, but really cool too! You should look up into it more when you get the chance."

"I'll do that." Terra answered, smiling.

"Alright you two. Let's go get some lunch. It's been an interesting day for all of us." Ms. Ketchum interrupted.

"Ok!" They both cheered and ran into the kitchen.

Outside, invisible to the normal human eye, mew looked into the Ketchum house and giggled. Her plan had worked out perfectly. Terra now had a home, a family, and an adventure waiting. She mentally patted herself on the back for this one. With that in mind, she disappeared to a place only she knew about.

Note: I had a headache when I wrote this, so if it gets confusing in some places, just tell me and I'll fix it later.

Note2: Review and I'll continue this story, don't, and I'll delete it. It's all up to you.