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Where am I?

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Am I dreaming this?

.......My head hurts.....

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I feel......a pleasant breeze........

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I'm hearing a voice.....

Is someone there?

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"Hello? Please wake up..." a voice said.

Gill felt horrible. His head hurt, and he couldn't remember much. Did something happen? He woke up and saw....a Charmander standing right in front of him.

"You're awake! I was getting worried, Squirtle."

Gill stood transfixed. The Charmander was talking...talking to him! Gill couldn't remember a time Pokemon talked! And why on earth did he call him Squirtle?

"Who's Squirtle? That's not my name." Gill said.

"Are you sure?" the Charmander asked, "You look like the average Squirtle to me in every way."

"What are you talking about? I'm a human- hold on...I look like a Squirtle?" Gill looked around. The he was in a grassy plain. There was a puddle of water nearby....he looked into it. The reflection was that of a Squirtle staring at him.

"WHOA! What's this?" Gill asked in shock. It was true...he had been transformed into a pokemon! A Squirtle! But how and why? For some reason, he couldn't remember a thing.

The Charmander watched Gill. "Uhh, you're kind of weird. If you don't want me to call you Squirtle, what should I call you?"

"Call me? Oh.....you can call me.....Gill..."

"Gill?" The Charmander asked rather strangely. "Well....that's a funny name!" he said laughing. Gill was a little embarrassed by this guy, but what could he do?

"Uhh, Charmander...where-"

"Please..." the Charmander said, "You can call me, Pyro."

"Pyro?" Gill asked...

"I like to call myself that for some reason. Most people back in town don't call me it, but I think Charmander is a bit too simple to me. There are more Charmanders, you know?"

Gill was not sure what this guy was saying, but slowly nodded, and even smiled. "Okay, Pyro it is."

The two suddenly heard a scream.

"What's that?" Pyro asked.

"I don't know." Gill said.

A butterfree came flying their way. Pyro stopped her.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"It's horrible! My baby, oh my poor baby!"

"What's wrong, Butterfree?" Pyro asked again.

"I don't know what to do! My Caterpie, he fell down into a cavern?

"What?" Pyro said astonished.

"There was a huge fissure that just opened in the ground, and it swallowed my Caterpie. I tried to go rettieve him myself, but when I entered, I was attacked by other pokemon! He's too young to crawl back out himself!"

"You were attacked by other pokemon?!" Pyro asked.

"I'm so scared. Those pokemon must be enraged and out of control by the sudden fissure. What am I gonna do?"

As Butterfree went on, Pyro turned to Gill.

"Gill....hey I know we just met, but this sounds bad...we have to go help!"

Gill was a bit on edge. Here he was, transformed into a Squirtle, not having any memory about why this happened. And all he could remember was that he was a human named Gill. But this was a situation, and he had to help, so he nodded to Pyro, and said, "Okay. Let's go."