"ARRGGHHH!" Sounded a scream of pain and surprise through the small house in Pallet town, as a 21 year old man fell hard to the wooden floor in his bedroom, smoking lightly as he recovered for the electrical charge from his most trusted and longest known friend, Pikachu, a small yellow rat looking creature with high red cheeks that can fire electrical charges as defense or attack- This creature is called a 'Pokémon'.

There are around 500 pokémon or more around the world and many more to discover. Each part of the world has its own pokémon and they all live in different elements or environment. Pokémon all over the world is friends with humans and they join together in small groups and battle against each other for fun and for competition. There is of course bad guys like Team Rocket, who uses pokémon for evil, but they are gone thanks to the man on the floor, the international pokémon champion and most known trainer through the world, Ash Ketchum.

He groaned as he got off the floor and sent an amused glare towards Pikachu, who was trying to look as innocent as possible, he smirked at his friend, not really caring that he just attacked him; he was literally immune of electricity by now. He got up and put his clothes on as he said "So what should we do today Pikachu?" He grabbed his belt, which held six pokéballs containing all of his best pokémon, his champion team. The pokémon was Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligator, which was his fully evolved Totodile, Pigeot, who he finally came back too, to get a good flying type for his pokémon league team, Glalie, his first ice type pokémon, which he got in the Hoenn region, and last but not least, Pikachu, his first pokémon, his best friend and the pokémon who always kept by his side no matter what.

In response to his question opened Pikachu his mouth and pointed with a finger inside it and rubbed his stomach. Ash laughed and said "You're right. Breakfast first, adventure later" Pikachu nodded happily in agreement and Ash laughed once again, as he let all of his pokémon out. Out came Charizard, who could barely stand straight in the room as tall as he was, Pigeot joined next to him and gave a happy chip as she nuzzled into Ash's chest, making him laugh and gently push the loving bird away. Glalie joined them with a happy look in his eyes as he flew around. Feraligator let out an excited growl and pulled Ash into a bone crushing hug. Ash laughed harder and returned the hug quickly, before he pushed him away playfully. He moved over to the kitchen began to make breakfast. He had learned from Brock a few years back when he realized that he couldn't always count on his friends to make dinner for him. He started to set up on the traditional beefs for Charizard and Feraligator, right now they pretended to be cool with Sceptile, but you could easily see the hungry looks they gave the beefs and the small smile, Sceptile got the normal fruit bowl with salad he enjoyed too much, even if he acted like he didn't. Pigeot got the bird foot Brock had special made for her and Pikachu got a dish same to Ash, which he happily enjoyed. Glalie was another case since he didn't eat, since he didn't have a mouth. Ash had researched with Oak a couple of years back about that and together they had discovered that Glalie sucked the nurturance out of the surroundings of him.

After half an hour, they all sat satisfied and Ash rubbed his now lightly expanded belly, he got quickly up and said happily "How about we got to the train in the mountains today guys?" He smirked as a collective groan came from his pokémon team, but they got up anyway and one by one they returned to their pokéballs and Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder. Soon after he was walking with Pikachu in the roads of the mountains, it had taken them nearly an hour to get to there and knew it would most likely take two more to get to the top of the mountain. When they reached to the top he was just about to let all his friends out, when he heard Pikachu cry "Pika Pi!"

Ash turned around and to his shock saw Pikachu standing, staring in wonder and a little fright, at a large glowing white circle hanging soundlessly in the middle of the air. Ash walked over to it, curious as ever before, and looked closely at it. It was a pure white dish hanging in midair and nothing more. It didn't remind Ash of anything he had seen before, and trust him when he says he had seen a lot.

He ignored the small tugging in his leg as Pikachu nervously tried to pull him back from the portal, Ash knew pokémon had some sort of special ability to feel when danger was near, but he couldn't help but fell this... Thing was not here to harm him. His eyes widened as he heard voices from the thing, and judged by Pikachu's yelp in surprise he heard them too "We got to stop Nightmare" Said a female voice from the portal. That was the only thing Ash could clearly hear, the rest was blurry with a few words such as 'forest' and 'eternal night' Now Ash was really curious, the voices behind the thing sounded like a female, it sounded like she were in trouble for the small amount of panic in her voice. Ash, always feeling like he should help people when needed, began to walk slowly towards the portal. Pikachu; not wanting to leave Ash on his own jumped onto his shoulder, still looking quite nervous, but knew there was no stopping Ash now that a person was in trouble. He slowly let his hand flow through the white surface of the circle and not surprised when it went right through. He slowly walked into the circle and the last thing he knew before darkness was pure pain.