Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon if I did I would be a lot richer than I am. I also don't know how to make the thing above the e I word so pokemon will continue to be spelt without it.

Quick author's note. I like pokemon but I like to play the games more then watch the anime. However I prefer the story of the anime to the games so if I mess up the anime timeline a bit sorry but I did not know nor do I think I would care. Also, I will be changing how some moves work. The big one will be splash which I know is a normal move not a water one and that it was mistranslated as splash and should have been hop. This is also the reason why no water appears when the move is used. I have ideas on how to use splash as a water move so it is a water move in this fic.

What are the Odds

Prologue

People say that it is impossible for lightning to strike the same place twice; this is not true as though the odds are a bit high this can happen. Believe me it's true there are some trees that are struck by lightning often. The odds that a person could be stuck by lightning twice are one in nine million. The odds of being struck by lightning by two different bolts of lightning within seconds of each other are astronomical. Then there are the odds of winding up in another world which are so astronomical that most would say it's impossible. Unfortunately I know from first hand experience that this is not impossible. So this is the story of how none of the odds were in my favor and I ended up in the world of pokemon. I won't say more than that, don't want to ruin the story after all, but if you want to hear about my incredible luck whether it's good or bad keep reading.

Before going any farther into the story, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Persephone Diana Parpelluccio. I know crazy name but my mother loved Greek mythology, and my Dad went along with it. The fact that she suggested the name after she nearly broke his hand during her eleven hour labor probably has something to do with it. Usually I just go by Sephie, which is a lot less of a mouthful. I am a classical history major, and love to study ancient societies. I love ancient myths, and stories. History is so full of amazing details and while most of them are often false or exaggerated I live for the small interesting nuggets that pop up. One of my favorite things to do is to look at graffiti from ancient civilizations. There are some really great examples that were preserved when Pompeii was covered in ash. The graffiti gives little glimpses of what the common person was like during ancient times and makes history all the more real. One of the reasons that I like the Pokemon games so much is that they have their own myths and ancient history to find in the story, giving the game a more defined ad deeper world to explore. Of course, I am sure that my love of pokemon was one of the reasons that I ended up where I did. Here's how it all began.

The day started out perfectly. It was a Saturday my homework and reading were done, or could be put off till the next week, and the sun was out bringing the temperature up to a beautiful sixty-three degrees. (which after a winter at school in western NY is the best temperature in the world).I hadn't seen the sun since it left for the winter, so it seemed like a good idea to take my newly downloaded pokemon blue game outside to play. I could soak up my vitamin d, and play the original pokemon game complete with all its exploitable glitches to make the game fun. This would be the best day in a while. Boy was I wrong.

I was working on leveling up my magikarp, which was going to evolve into one of my all-time favorite pokemon, gyarados. I make sure to play with a gyarados every time I play with a fire or grass starter. I have loved the pokemon ever since I bought my first magikarp in leaf green for 500 pokedollars. I even name every gyarados the same as the first, Poseidon. This is not to be confused with the few kingdra I have had named, Triton.

Any way as I was saying I was grinding with Poseidon number nine, when the wonderful weather I was enjoying had taken a turn for the worse. Now I love spring. I love the weather being neither too hot nor too cold. I love the flowers that bloom. I even love the rain, that sweeps through the day and leaves everything smelling clean and fresh. I also like to blame my name, which I'm sure plays apart too1. Unfortunately, the spring weather can change at the drop of the hat.

I was so into my game that I never noticed that clouds had come in until a chilly breeze blew my hair into my face. I looked up to see dark thunderclouds rolling in above me and realized that I was minutes from being soaked. I hurriedly gathered up all my stuff to head back inside. It was as I was standing that the first bolt hit. The pain was the worst thing I had ever felt. Once when I was younger I got splashed by hot bacon grease, that burned me so badly that I still have the brown scar on my arm. The lightning strike took the pain I felt from that burn and multiplied it by a thousand. I stared screaming and crying my being begging for someone to help, for an escape from the pain. My luck must have been just terrible, a moment after the first bolt hit a second one hit me as well. My vison turned black and I was sure that I was going into shock, when I thought that I heard a voice that said "Help is here, young one."

The next time I woke I was sure I was delirious as that was the only explanation on why I saw a giant orange fish next to me screaming for help. The second time I woke up I hoped I was delirious or in a comma because standing at the foot of my bed were Nurse Joy, and Officer Jenny. Staying awake long enough to hear a kind "How are you feeling?" from Joy, and Jenny's forceful question of "How did you end up in a lightning strike in front of the pokemon center with a magikarp?", I hoped the next time I woke up I would be sane again.

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring; she is the daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades. The kidnapping of Persephone is one of my favorite myths. If you are looking into ancient myths, it is definitely one to check out.