You try and relax. You don't know why but you trust the slowpoke. Plus it would be too late anyway. If you shocked now it would just piss it off. You make peace with the fact that you probably just got yourself killed. You start to cry, "please Mr. Slowpoke don't eat me, I trusted you." It must not care because it glugs a few more times pulling you deeper. Before you know it your head is in the back of his throat. This is bad. He opens his mouth and fresh cool night air rushes in to your face. You breathe it in knowing this will be your last time. You cry but soon the slowpoke gulps one last time and every thing goes dark red then fades to black.
You are falling fast. You're in some sort of dark monochrom void free falling. Suddenly, you crash in to a solid dark gray floor but you are left unhurt. Confused you get up. You look around and see nothing but a gray and black endless void. Where the hell are you? You hear something behind you and you turn around. Your jaw drops. It's the slowpoke but he is now huge, as in the size of a mountain. Or maybe you're the size of a grass blade, but you have nothing for reference. He's eyes are a solid dark purple.
A booming voice rings out, "Lulu!" It must be the slowpoke but how does he know your name? He continues with a dark poetic rhythm, "your quest for a Thunder Stone is a dangerous one but if you keep a sound mind you will prevail. If you fail you will be doomed to a brutal fate. Before you now, all paths you see are valid but each path will mark your soul differently.
To the north, you will encounter a dark figure. If you save its soul you will save your own. If you fail, the path you take will be hard and no good deed will go unpunished. By the end of it you will become like the dark figure you encountered.
To the south, the path of an adventurer. Friends and danger you will encounter. The path is narrow and difficult but if you prevail, you will become all you want to be. Honesty and kindness will bring you favor. If you fail however, the life of the treacherous you will lead and you will become the thing you despise. Lies and deceit will become your friend and those who are kind to you will become food.
Be careful Lulu, for the choices you make now will determine the raichu you become. Now go forth with haste and do not look back."
"Wait! What," you yell at the slowpoke, that didn't make any sense at all. The slowpoke opens his mouth and begins sucking in air. The wind is so strong you get sucked into its mouth. You are flying towards the gaping maw. Once inside the slowpoke closes his mouth and everything goes dark.
You snap to, you look around. You're back in the real world sitting in front of a normal sized slowpoke. You are back at the watering hole but it is day again. You must have spent the whole night here, although you aren't sure. A rattata walks up to you, you look. It's the female rattata you met earlier. You ask her, "how long has it been?"
"What? I don't know, you just got here," the rattata looks at you like you are crazy.
"No, we met yesterday, remember? You walked up to me and called me a weirdo."
"What are you talking about but you are a weirdo, I'll say that much," she backs away slowly then runs off.
What is going on? You look back at the slowpoke and your ears start ringing. You feel a warm liquid run from your nose. You reach up and touch it, it's blood. You don't know how but you must have been teleported back in time to just a few minutes after you sat down in front of the slowpoke. You get a shiver down your spine, maybe it was all just a dream? You get up and leave the slowpoke. Now knowing what the slowpoke told you you look at your remaining options. What do you do?
