What? Am I... dead? I woke up surrounded by white light... I'm in an empty void... what is this place?

I struggled to push myself up... I was weak... The ladt thing I remember was adventuring near a volcano in the region with my Arcanine... Is this the afterlife? Geez... it's not at all as good as the stories say...

A large black orb appeared in front of me... I reached out for it, just to have a mysterious force push me back on the ground. I got back up and reached out for it again... it floated away, I ran after it and I ran for simple minutes, about eight, when the orb stopped.

"What... Are you?" I said.

"I am what you seek..." A voice from inside the orb replied in a dark, gloomy voice. A big purple and black ring formed around it, then a few more, and all of them started spinning around the orb. The rings got closer and closer to the orb until they all vanished inside of it. Then, a large arch made of some sort of silver material appeared in front of me... some sort of black portal appeared inside it. I didn't know what to do. I walked up to it, and jumped through it...

I glided through the other side... there was low gravity here. There were large crystals of all colors drifting around in this new, seemingly endless space. I looked farther and there we many more portals surrounded by different color arches, the shape of them slightly related to the silver arch I just went through, except their shapes in multiple spots were twisted, pulled, compressed, and distorted. I jumped along the crystals, until I started getting pulled towsrds one... I was moving the opposite direction... but I was being pulled towards a portal that my back was facing. I tried to run away but the pull got stronger and stronger... and eventually, I couldn't fight back. I took a look at the portal I was getting dragged into... It was many shades of blue with a tan arch... I closed my eyes as I phased through...

I emerged from the other side of the portal... there were blue skies, rocks, small palm trees, and sand... what was this place? I was too focused on what this place was that I didn't notice I emerged from the portal in the air and I was falling at a fairly high speed. I yelled, then I hit the ground hard.

I blacked out...