Luke Hail's Story

Jamie woke up cold and wet. At first, he thought his older brother threw a bucket of water on him again, until he looked around. He wasn't in his bed. He wasn't even in his room. He was washed up on a lake, cold and uncomfortable. Jeremy almost started taking his wet clothes off till he noticed other people were around. And other Pokemon. But one caught his eye in particular, a squirtle. He noticed the squirtle was wearing a strange band, and then realized the same band was on his wrist. He tried to take it off, but he couldn't. It was magically bound to him or something.

That is when he heard the voices. "I think they are over here!"

Jamie didn't wait or the others. He just bolted, right then and there, with Squirtle bolting right behind him. He didn't want to find out who they were, and something about their voices scared him.

Luke felt a tiny nudge on his side, prodding him awake. At first, he assumed that it was his mother waking him up from his bed, so he instinctively let out a groan and rolled over. It was only then he felt what was underneath him. Whatever it was, it was unpleasant, damp, and cold. Groggily, his eyes fluttered open. A throbbing headache make him grasp his head in pain.

A tiny voice got his attention. "Eevee!" it said shrilly.

He woke up almost instantly to the sound of someone running away. He looked around, afraid and confused as to where it was. He seemed to be on a beach somewhere, not in his bed. His first thought that he might be dreaming, but it felt too real.

"Eevee!" The voice said again. Luke's eyes fell upon the Pokemon. It was looking worriedly up at him, but gave a quick glance of relief as he focused on her.

"w-wha-" Luke began, but then was cut off.

He saw another boy bolting through some of the underbrush, and then the sound of far-off voices made his blood run cold. For some reason, he knew that these voices were dangerous, and he should not stick around for them. Panic was rising inside him as he breathed hard and desperately jumped to his feet, almost tripping as he did. The first thing is he spotted two other kids near him, who were unconscious. He didn't want to leave them here.

"Hey, you two!" Luke shook Elysia and Devi. "We gotta go!"

"Mrrg...but I can't juggle!" Devi murmurs as she slowly wakes up. "Whozzat?" She rubs her eyes and gets to her knees, yawning. She glances at the two random people, only vaguely interested, but something green catches the corner of her eye and she focuses her attention on that. It's a Treecko with some sort of band around its ankle. It tugs on Devi's wrist and she looks down to see that she has the same sort of band around her arm. "What the heck...?" Treecko seems to yell at her, pointing toward the source of a muffled sound coming from the woods. Finally comprehending what Luke had said, she jumps to her feet, hearing malicious-sounding voices coming their way. "Well, why didn't you say so? I'm out of here." She starts running in the opposite direction from where the voices are coming from, Treecko trying to keep up.

"Bisharp, mommy said I didn't have to get out of bed today!" Elysia mumbled as she rubbed her eyes and began to sit up. Her hands felt around for a moment. The floor was wet? Did her mother have water pokémon at home today? Elysia didn't feel like swimming with her water-type friends today... Then her hearing began to focus a little more. There were people and other pokémon around. Then she finally began to wake up a little more, and opened her eyes to see that her hat was moving around on the floor beside her. "What in the world is going on?" As she moved to pick her hat up, Elysia spotted that there was a Ralts hanging onto the other end. As she stood up and brushed herself down quickly, she scooped up the little Ralts and spotted that it had a cute little belt around its waist. It kind of looked like the band she had on her wrist, too. Before she had a chance to introduce herself to her new pokémon friend, she spotted others running , before registering what Luke had said. Both Ralts and Elysia shuddered as the voices began to draw closer. It was like Luke said, it was definitely time to go. "Let's get out of here. Lead the way!" she said, as she pulled Ralts into her arms, grabbing Luke's arm as she headed in the opposite direction.

Luke ran with Elysia beside him with an Eevee trailing closely. Although this entire commotion was utter chaos and he didn't know what was going on, he somehow know that this Eevee was on his side. He didn't even stop to think about it; he instinctively looked behind to make sure the Pokemon was still following him. As if it had read him, Eevee nodded before continuing to focus on running.

So many thoughts rushed through his mind. Where were they? Why were they hear? Why were the voices so scary? Luke had heard of Team Rocket and other such organizations, could it be them? He had to stop thinking of these things before he started to panic and perhaps pass out.

As they sprinted through the forest, the voices became more distant until finally they were unheard all together. Still, Luke ran to be positive, even though his lungs screamed and his veins pumped battery acid. Finally, after he was sure they had escaped, he slowed to a jog and eventually a halt, hands on his knees talking huge lungfuls of humid air, which only irritated his throat more. For the first time out of the madness, he was able to think about his situation. He slunk down against a tree trunk in disbelief, his eyes wandering into the distant blankly. He wasn't sure of anything right now, he could still just be in a nightmare. He began to tremble; a mixture of fear and adrenaline. Luke was unsure of what to do.

Jamie kept running. A squirtle right right behind him. He could feel a jolt of pain each time he used his left leg, but it didn't bother him as much. It only really bothered him when he was walking, not running, oddly enough. His plan? Simple fact, its hard to track anything in a cave. So that is where he had been running for. A cave. The fact it was going to rain soon didn't hurt. And there was a mountain nearby.

But first, he made his first big mistake. He ran as fast as possible in a direction, when he knew nothing about an area. So very soon, he found himself tumbling down a hill he did not realize was there. The squirtle came up to him and nudged his hand. "Squirt, why are you following me?"

It seemed happy, for a moment, as if it wanted to follow him. Jamie, not hearing the voices of the hunters at the moment, looked at the Squirtle. "I am probably going to call you Squirt. Squirt, or Shell. Actually, Shell sounds better".

it seemed happy with this name. He looked down at himself however, and realized tumbling down that hill while wet made him muddy. If he had known he was going to get kidnapped last night, and dropped into a lake, he would have worn something more water friendly. However, all the clothes he was currently wearing were not good wet at all. In other words, he would be uncomfortable, unless he found someone with a fire pokemon, a fire place, or a change in clothes. Or all tree.

He stood up, when someone ran right into him, though he did not see who...

Elysia struggled for air as they came to a stop in the forest. She looked to Luke, then to what she thought to be his Eevee, then to Ralts, who looked up at her with an adorable little smile on her face, thought Elysia seemed to be able to tell that the Ralts was scared. And Ralts knew exactly the same about her. It was weird. They could both pick up how the other was feeling, yet she had never met this pokémon before in her entire life. It seemed strange... But Elysia felt happy, if even for a moment. The happy feelings took a back seat to her concerns. Were these pokémon alright? Who was the boy she had latched onto in the heat of the madness? He didn't look too well, and Elysia thought that maybe if she approached him, they'd be able to try and make at least a little sense of what was going on around them. "Excuse me...?" She said shyly, approaching an exhausted Luke.

Luke flinched as her voice pierced the quiet. It was like he had forgotten she was there, but he soon got his bearings and the glaze over his eyes began to clear. He rubbed his eyes to focus himself before standing up.

"I-I'm sorry about that; the rude awakening I mean. What's your name?" he asked the girl.

Elysia smiled at Luke, and held her hand out to greet him. "I'm Elysia Wood. Pleased to meet you." She was always one for being kind to people, no matter what situation she might be in, even as she stood there in a world she wasn't familiar with. "Um, what's your name?"

Luke dusted himself off. "It's nice to meet you too. My name's Luke. Luke Hail."

As he finished dusting himself, his hand ran across his other wrist, where something solid and heavy rattled against hand. Confused, he peered down and saw it for the first time: a metallic bracelet with a glowing red light. It looked pretty sinister, so he tried to get it off. It wouldn't budge so he pulled at it even harder, but it still wouldn't come off. It seemed to be stuck on his wrist for the time being.

He then peered past his wrist to an Eevee at his feet. It was still with him. I wonder why? Luke thought.

He then noticed the Eevee had the same thing he had on his wrist, though it was a color around its neck. "A-are you okay?" he asked it.

"Eevee," the little creature nodded.

"A-are you... my Pokemon?" Luke asked.

Eevee hesitated, as if she was surprised by the question. Then she nodded.

Luke took a look at Elysia. "This is getting weirder and weirder."

Slowly sneaking out from behind the tree, Alex walked up nervously to the couple, introducing himself. "Hi... My name's Alex.." He managed to pull off a smile, but it took some effort. Overhearing the earlier conversation, he knew the boy's name was Luke. "I believe your name is Luke..." Oops! He shouldn't have said that... Luke might get angry because Alex was 'overhearing' the conversation. Giving his hand out to Elysia, he introduced himself. "Oh man... This will not end good." When Alex was shaking hands with Elysia, he noticed the band on Luke's wrist, and the band on his Pokemon. Alex couldn't hide it, because it was on his wrist too, just it was black. Riolu had it as well... What did it mean? It wasn't dark magic, that isn't real... Or was it?

Elysia happily introduced herself to Alex, while Ralts looked up at the pair from behind her feet. There was something bothering the little pokémon, and Elysia could feel it too, even when she shook Alex's hand. A lilac band shook on her wrist as they shook hands, and Elysia noticed there were more bands than just hers and Ralts'. "This is too weird... What's going on?" Her hand let go of Alex's, and she nervously backed off a little. "This has to be some kind of strange lucid dream... I'll wake up soon. This'll all be over!" She looked at Alex, then Luke. Why would she be dreaming about boys? Especially ones she'd never met before... She was confused. Very confused.