Chapter One - A New Beginning

Disclaimer - Don't own Harry Potter or Pokémon.

Summary: What if Harry escaped the Dursleys before he was 11? What if Harry was taken away by a powerful being? What if Harry went to the Pokémon world?

"" - Speech

'' - Thought/ Telepathy

Nine year old Harry Potter sat in the cupboard under the stairs, which was also his bedroom, holding onto his arm with tears in his eyes while trying to hold in the pained whimper that threatened to escape his mouth. The cause of his pain was his uncle as earlier in the day at breakfast Harry had spilt some of the grease onto his uncles new work shoes after his cousin Dudley had tripped him. The result of this had been his uncle dragging him out into the hallway and throwing him into the cupboard and quickly slamming the door before his arm was inside causing a sickening crack as it broke, which Harry quickly pulled in when the door opened to be slammed again. While sitting in the cupboard with nothing else to do Harry reflected back on the years that he had lived with his aunt and uncle, remembering the early years during which he wished that another relative would come and rescue him from his torment but over the years the hope had slowly died. Thinking this as Harry fell asleep the last bit of hope within him finally died, and in its place despair was born.

***Scene Change***

Deep underwater in an unknown cave at the bed of a lake there was a creature that was grey with a pink head that was sleeping peacefully while floating in the air. Although the creature was asleep its face was twisting into expressions of pain and sadness as if it was suffering through severe pain. After a few minutes its eyes snapped open and it looked at the wall of its cave with a glazed look that suggested it wasn't seeing the wall so much as seeing through it. As the creature stared at the wall it floated side to side in a way reminiscent of pacing and then finally nodded to itself and disappeared with a quiet "Mesprit."

***Dream World***

Once Harry had finally fallen asleep despite the pain in his arm he was dismayed to see that his suffering still wasn't over because he had entered into the realm of a nightmare. In front of him his uncle stood, purple in the face with rage. His uncle stepped forward and started yelling spit flying with every word "You ungrateful freak we give you a home food and clothes out of the goodness of our hearts and this is how you repay us!"

Harry shrunk further into a ball as his uncle carried on approaching him and before he knew it his uncle was upon him punching and kicking him in the face and the ribs while yelling abuse with each hit. And just as Harry felt the pain was too much he saw a light appear behind his uncle, and was overjoyed that it soon spread and engulfed his uncle, but before he could so much as breathe a sigh of relief Harry was shocked to see that it was still spreading and soon all Harry could see was white.

Harry woke up but kept his eyes tightly shut in fear of what he would see if he opened them while vaguely realising his arm was healed. But he was startled when he heard a soft feminine voice that seemed to be inside his head say 'Don't be scared little one your safe now and will not be returning to those monsters if I have anything to say about it.'

Harry finally opened his eyes hearing no sort of anger or danger from the voice and gazed, with eyes full of despair, with the strange creature that had been talking to him. After a few moments of just staring at the creature Harry then looked back down at his hands and nervously responded "Excuse me but who, o-o-or what are you?"

Mesprit looked at the child who was so nervous in her presence even while she focused her powers on calming him and responded 'Little one my name is Mesprit. And as for what I am firstly you need to know that I come from another world filled with creatures such as me called Pokémon which people form bonds with."

Harry looked back up and saw the kindness in Mesprit's eyes and then asked "Why have you brought me here, am I in trouble?"

Hearing this sadness crept into Mesprit's eyes at how he expected to be in trouble all the time 'No child you're not in trouble. I brought you here due to the fact that I sensed your lack of hope and deep despair over your life. So I have pulled you into the gap between our worlds to ask if you want to go to my world for a chance to be happy and have a family."

Harry looked shocked to hear this and then what had been offered started to sink in and he realised that he was being offered what he had wanted for years now a family that could get him away from the Dursleys. Realising this was perhaps his only chance he looked at Mesprit and nodded quickly and asked "Where would I go?"

Mesprit looked at him happily dues to slither of hope that had entered his eyes, but knew it would take a long time before he gained all of his back. 'You would go to Pallet Town and find a woman called Delia Ketchum who recently lost her son to a wild Pokémon attack.'

Harry again thought this through and decided that there was no bad side to this so he again nodded determinedly "I'll go."

'Good I'll be sending you to a forest just outside of Pallet Town all you need to do is follow the path to the right and Mrs Ketchum lives in the first house at the edge of the town, and I'm going to give you some knowledge of the world to help you settle. Also make sure you take my surprise with you.'

"What surpri…" But before Harry could finish Mesprit's eyes had started glowing blue and Harry's world went black.

***Scene Change***

Harry again found himself seeing black as he slowly regained consciousness, although this time he felt something wet rubbing on his cheek accompanied by the sound of sniffing. He sat up quickly trying to get away from, what he now saw was an orange and black dog like creat- Pokémon he corrected himself. As he looked at it a name appeared in his mind 'Growlithe'. Realising this was the surprise he quickly shuffled towards it and started scratching the top of its head which drew a happy whine from it along with a lick to his face.

After getting the Growlithe off of him, Harry stood and started down the path with Growlithe jumping around him and charging into bushes when there was a noise, causing great amusement for Harry. While travelling to Pallet, Harry and Growlithe had agreed on the name of Vulcan which Harry remembered was a god of fire.

Eventually the forest started to clear and Harry ran faster with Vulcan easily kept pace with him and even ran ahead at points only to double back and playfully bite at his feet. They then came up to a house which Harry approached and then timidly knocked on the door.

When the door opened a young looking woman with brown hair opened the door and looked down at him and then seeing him in to big clothes opened the door wider and said "Hello dear I'm Delia Ketchum would you like to come in for some food."