I have read many pokemon fanfics and I have wanted to make one myself so I made one. please enjoy my attempt at making an enjoyable story for you who reads this.

Oh and just to make it clear I unfortunately don't own pokemon.

Chapter 1: The beginning

I woke up to the sound of the alarm I set extra early in order to not miss this important day. Diffrent from all other mornings I was not having a second of doubt to jump out of my bed the moment after I woke up. I got dressed in a crimson red t-shirt, black jeans, a belt for up to six pokeballs and black sneakers. I then put on a silver necklace that had a coin hanging in it where a bird I think is Articuno is cut in. I supposedly got the necklace from my dad (who I can't remember) when I was born. As I open the door to my room I'm almost overwhelmed with the wonderful scent that came from the kitchen. I looked to see my mom now giving me a bright smile while making my favorite breakfast (obviously she wanted to make the most of the little time we have left with each other). The food was great as allways I know that if there is something I am going to miss during my journey it's my moms cooking. With a now filled belly, a rested body and most importantly a well packed back pack I now walked to where Professor Oak's lab where located.

After walking the familiar terrain of pallet town while deep in thought about my journey I noticed I had gotten to professor Oak's lab. I also noticed that I was the first one here and that i was half an hour early so I sat down and started to think of what pokemon I wanted as my starter. Even though I have been thinking about it nonstop this whole week it was still a very hard choice. I could either get charmander the little fire lizard who had great power and speed although its defense could be worked on. Charmander also evolved into the powerful charizard where it got flying type added to it's fire type. Then there where baulbasaur the grass and poison type pokemon who was capable of learning many different status inflicting moves and was thanks to that really great for capturing wild pokemons. Then it was squirtle the tiny turtle pokemon. Squirtle was a water pokemon with a very high defense and attack and a well trained blastoise was a really dangerous foe as it could take most attack,s and then send back it's own very powerful a blastoise was practically a walking tank. I was quite sure I had to count out squirtle since it was no secret to anyone that Gary wanted it and as Samuel Oak's grandson he was sure to get it. So that leaved charmander and baulbasaur. I guess I just have to take the one that's left I thought to myself. My thoughts where abruptly interrupted by the lab door opening and Oak walking out. The old man gave a smile and asked if I wanted to come in. I was glad that I didn't need to wait outside so I gave a small smile and nodded while standing up. I know that for most people not answering would be considered rude butt Oak knew that I didn't like talking very much and was quite at peace with silence. I've heard some people even thought I was mute and I can't blame them sometimes I even wish I was so I had an excuse.

Me and Oak had arrived at the three pokeballs that was supposed to go to the new trainers. I pointed at them looking confused. Oak seemed to not understand my confusion and looked at me like I had just mistaken a pidgey for a dragonite. These are the pokemon's that is supposed to go to the new trainers the professor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. We are five trainers this year is said with a voice that was obviously underused. Oak looked at me quizzically before it dawned on him. He had two pokemon's to little and that meant two trainers are gonna miss their journey by at least a month. He was panicking and mumbling by himself about how disappointed two trainers where going to be. I fully knew what this meant and no matter how exited I was for this trip I didn't want annyone else to miss out so I tapped the panicking elder on his shoulder. He broke out of his mumbling and looked at me with full his attention. I'll wait was the only words that came out of my mouth. Oak looked slightly shocked before asking "are you sure Ash you do know that would mean that you would have to wait another month to get you pokemon and everyone else will have an advantage.

Oak was speechless. This boy had just selflessly sacrificed his own journey that I knew he was extremely thrilled to start. I also had big hopes for this kid. Even though he rarely spoke he had proven again and again that he made up for that with being extremely intelligent. Ash was also kind and compassionate which was proven by his actions now and he was ambitious but he could prove tough to the few kids that had tried to pick a fight with him. All in all I had a feeling this kid would go far. Maybe even elite four level and the become the cha... Elite four that's it. My old friend/rival Agatha had recently sent me a young pokemon which was the offspring of her strongest fighter. She said that she didn't have the time to raise this one and she also said that I would most likely get him (it's a guy) a better home than she could. I think I now have an idea who this better home might be.

Ash could practically see the lightbulb over Oak's head when a short time after I told him to skip me. He stood up and started going into his storage department for pokeballs "wait here a second won't you he asked. I just nodded, whatever his plan was it was propably going to be something good. He wasn't the type to give a child false exceptions by even letting himself look like he had a solution.

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It had now been fifteen minutes since the pokemon researcher left and I finaly saw him come back with a pokeball in his hand. Right as Oak was about to speak we heard the doorbell and he looked at the clock and remembered that now is when the other trainers where supposed to arrive. Excuse me but I'll have to leave again this time I promise I won't take as long. I just nodded at the professor's words and I knew that he was telling the truth. Soon after Oak was out of sight I heard the door open and heard the voices of Gary (the most annoying kid in pallet), Alexandra (everyone calls her Alex) and Keith (the typical big tough kid).

They all came in to the room with the pokeballs in it and they looked nervous with the obvious exception of Gary. Gary looked like he had just won a million dollars (A/N I know almost all pokemon fanfics says pokemon dollars but I just see that as a waste of words like we don't go around saying things like hey can I borrow ten animal dollars so I will just say dollars).

After all had chosen their starters, Gary got a cocky squirtle, Alex took a cheerful looking charmander and Keith got left with a strong looking baulbasaur.

Oak then walked up to us holding the pokeball i sade him get earlier. "I see that your choices are made". Gary then noticed the pokeball in his grandfather's hand. "Hey gramps what is that". Oak then gave a smirk and answered his impatient grandson. "This is the pokemon I'm planning on giving Ash as his starter. Just watch out Ash he can be a bit of a prankster and then his final state is quite some trouble if you're handling him wrong". I was glad to hear that he had a pokemon for me but I remembered something and made a concerned face. At the same time Alex asked the same thing I was wondering. "What about Jasmine"? Oak looked like he just remembered that she existed and then said well that's mostly her fault for being late. I was about to stand up to offer the pokemon I was about to get to Jasmine but it seemed the old man had read my mind. "Don't worry about giving up this pokemon to Jasmine. In all honesty I don't think she would be capable of handling him he is a complicated pokemon to start with. Jasmine who barely got through the test I made all potential trainers take with 52% correct when the minimum requirement was 50% could most likely not handle this one as good as you who aced my test with 100%. Even my own grandson only got 92%". Gary made a displeased sound at the news that Ash had beaten him in something, this was actually the first he had heard about the other trainers test result. I had heard enough and was now convinced to take that pokeball and it's content. I grabbed the metal ball and noticed that just the feeling of it in my hand felt right. I noticed that everyone in the room looked in anticipation to see what it was. Even Gary looked curious. I pressed the white button on the front of the ball. Out of the ball came a white light which then died down to reveal a black ball with a face that was surrounded by purple smoke. It looked around the room with a an analyzing gaze. After looking around the room twice it's eyes settled on the pokeball in my hand and it seemed the pokemon I recognized as a gastly knew what the pokeball in my hand meant. It slowly levitated closer to me until we where face to face and he looked me dead in the eyes whit a sinister grin. If there was one thing I knew about ghost types it was that the stupidest thing you could do would be to show it that it scared you whether it did or not. If it saw you scared of it it would at best disrespect you and not listen to your orders and in worst case it would straight up refuse you. I gave it a booted look even though it did it's best trying to scare me with scary faces and spreading it's toxic gases around me.

After 7 minutes the gas pokemon had finally given up it's attempts . I must admit I respect its dedication it would make a fine pokemon one day.

I was curious where Oak had gotten this pokemon. Gastly is not the rarest pokemon but it definitely not a pokemon you saw often. It's even rarer to see one at starter pokemon level since the weaker wild gastlys usually hides and the gengar line who is practically immortal don't really need to breed so they rarely create offspring. Before I could ask it seemed like Oak had once again read my mind. "The mother of gastly is elite four Agatha's strongest gengar in case that's what your wondering. The father is a dusknoir she recently acquired and thanks to that when gastly evolves he will have it much easier to learn all elemental punches because his father knew them all". I was astounded. The pokemon he had been assigned was the child of a champion level pokemon the (second only to legendary or mythical) highest rank a pokemon could possess. I know that this doesn't mean an instantly powerful pokemon but I now knew what Gastly was capable of becoming.

The gastly itself looked like he enjoyed the praise it got, sure it didn't know what an elite four was but it sounded good since it had the word elite in it. It was an amusing sight seeing a gastly basking in praise. I decided to get the introduction part over with by walking over to gastly and starting to talk it (witch slightly surprised the other kids). "Hey Gastly you know what this is"? I said holding up it's pokeball. The ghost type slowly nodded. "And you know what the fact that I'm the one holding it means right"? Gastly once again nodded quicker this time. "Good then we won't have a misunderstanding later on. So to make this quick I want to be your trainer, I've only seen you for a short time but I got a feeling we could do great things together". Gastly gave me a look asking me to explain myself. I gave a warm smile at that and continued. "Well you seem like your intelligent and cautious. The first thing you did when you got released was checking your surroundings instead of loudly announcing what pokemon you where like most would. The fact that you tested me with your attempts at scaring me meant that you want to know what you are dealing with. And also you haven't said a thing during the entire time I've known you which I kinda likes. So what do you say"? The other kids looked stunned, not at what I said, not at the fact that that I got a gastly and not at the fact that it seemed to like what I said and listen intently. Not even when gastly nodded at me and allowed me to pet him seemed to be the most surprising thing. No the thing they seemed most surprised at was that during this conversation with Gastly I've probably about as many words as the others have heard me say in their entire lives except for Gary since we have known each other for about forever. Even Oak seemed surprised at the long sentence I used.

The professor quickly got over it and pulled something out of his pockets. "Well seems it's now a good time to give you all a pokedex each". The old man said. He handed them out a pokedex to each and everyone of us. The moment I got it I scanned Gastly with it

Gastly the gas pokemon

This gastly is male and knows the moves hypnosis, lick, spite and mean look. It has the ability levitate which gives it full immunity to ground type moves and arena trap moves.

The move set was something to work on since he only knew one damage dealing move even though the other moves could be quite useful. But now is not the time for that now it's time to go home and get ready for my travels.

Walking my way home from professor Oak's lab to my moms house for the last time in long time. I had Gastly floating in my shadow next to me with a calm face on. A thought flew through my mind. "Do you want a nickname"? I asked. Gastly gave me a quizzical expression and I explained. "Some pokemon likes to have a nickname for different reasons, some just likes how their names sounds, some wants to feel different and some has trainers with more of the same type of pokemon and gets nicknames so that there won't be any confusion". Gastly gave an understanding look and then nodded. I made some attempts at names like Ghoul, Spectre, Litch and Reaper. He dismisses all of them instantly. I then got an idea, Draugr. Now Gastly looked interested. "Draugr is a name for undead warriors in the northern Sinnoh ancient mythology (A/N in real lif they exist in northern mythology). They where supposedly very powerful savage bloodthirsty warriors who slaughtered and sometimes even consumed their enemies". Gastly called out his name happily after hearing the explanation and I took that as a clear sign of approval. "So Draugr welcome to the team".

After the ten minutes of walking/floating side by side with Draugr we had finaly come to my moms house. I knocked on the door once and is now waiting. While waiting a slightly amusing sight appeared. Jasmine who had missed the entire thing and sadly will likely not get a pokemon came running. It seemed she finally woke up. On her way she stopped when she saw me and stopped. "Late as well are you". She asked slightly relieved thinking she wasn't the only one late. My answer was to simply point at Draugr and hoping she understood. She just stared wide eyed at the floating ghost in front of her before saying. "So you got a gastly. I must say it really suits you". I was unsure if it was an insult or not so i just ignored the comment. "Man i hope professor Oak still has at least one pokemon left, I could take any pokemon". She complained. "Well I gotta run don't want to be later than I already am". With those words she once again began running. I chuckled slightly. Jasmine was propably the one who talked mostly to me. I'm honestly not sure if it's to be nice, if she really likes one sided conversations or if she simply don't realize that I'm rarely even answering what she's saying. Whatever it was I must say, it is quite amusing how she can keep talking for what seems like hours about nothing at all and how she is so easily distracted by everything. Suddenly I remembered that my mom still hasn't come to great me so I did the one reasonable thing and knocked again.

After waiting five more minutes and mentally scolding myself for forgetting my keys. I then got an idea. I looked at Draugr att nodded at the door to signal go look inside. Draugr seemed to understood as he floated inside looking for what he assumed was my mom, dad or a sibling to me. Half a minute later I heard a scream and guesses that Draugr must have found my mom in a bad situation. As I heard her running down the stairs screaming things like creep, you little monster and some words a ten year old should not hear from his own mother. Then with little warning Draugr flew out the front door and seconds later my mom opened it. It looked like she just got out of the shower since she was completely wet and wrapped up in a towel. She saw me and stopped like she had forgotten all about Draugr. "Welcome home I didn't know you would be home so early"? She said slightly embarrassed most likely wondering how long I had been waiting and how much I've heard. "This is Draugr he's my starter". I said in order to change the subject while I pointed at the amused ghost type. "So Oak saw you worthy of having a gastly it seems." She said while observing Draugr with interest. "Well let me just get your back pack and you're ready to leave. It's hard to imagine that my little boy is really leaving the home on a journey." She said with a sad smile which I returned.

After waiting ten minutes of waiting on the couch my mom finally came down now fully dressed and with my backpack in her hand. "Here you are sweetie now remember eat well, stay safe and change your underwear daily." I gave a challenging smirk at her attempts of embarrassing me which I know she really likes doing. I had learned to handle that years ago and it was very rarely she managed to make me feel embarrassed. I smiled and nodded at her before giving her a big hug possibly the last one for months. I then took my backpack and walked away out the door. I turned saw how Draugr floated next to me ready to leave. I turned around and gave my parting words. "Bye mom I love you." She waved at me trying to hold back her tears before saying. "Bye dear remember to call me at every pokemon center your visiting." I nodded reaffirmingly before walking out the house that was my home for ten years. I will truly miss this place.

As I walked to the two pillars at the end of the dirt road that showed that this is where you leave pallet town I saw something that made me and Draugr want to laugh. It was Jasmine whit a pair of rubber gloves pulling a pikachu on a leash while the pikachu tried resisting. It seemed that Oak had given her a recently caught pokemon instead of the starters that where born and raised for beginners. Newly caught pokemon often meant trouble if they where given as starters. After some thinking my decision was to just leave them to bonding in whatever way she felt was right.

After four hours of traveling route 1 just enjoying the silence with Draugr who really seemed to like being in my shadow. Propably because ghost types often dislikes sunshine. I really wanted to find something to fight to try out Draugr. But since almost all pokemon on route 1 were normal types which meant for Draugr who's only attacking move was lick which was ghost type the battles would be never ending. It's because ghost type moves can't hurt normal types and the same with normal type moves. The reason for why normal types can't hurt ghosts is because most physical objects (which is what normal type moves mostly consists of) just go through ghosts but why ghosts can't hurt normal types is still being theorized about. I was then brought out of my thoughts when I saw a river closing in. I had looked for this river of two reasons. One was that I could follow this river to safely get to Viridian city the second reason was because I could maybe find some water pokemon to try Draugr's current strength on.

As I got closer to the river I noticed something shining in the sand close to the water. Like the curious person I was I walked closer to see what it was. As I bent down and started to dig it up I felt some strong pain in my finger. Attached to my fingertip was the rusty hook from a fishing line that was broken. Even though I was in terrible pain I didn't want to just rip it out because I wanted to be on the safe side when taking something like this out. While thinking of how to solve this problem I didn't notice a pink dopey pokemon slowly walking closer to me. When I noticed it though I wasn't quite worried, most slowpokes wouldn't bother to start a fight without reason so I think it is more curious than anything else. It looked at the hook ant then on my face then he went back to the hook and then to my face. It then repeated that process 12 times before stopping at my face. Guessing what it was thinking about I said. "I didn't want this hook in my finger if that's what your wondering." After 7 seconds the slowpoke closed it's eyes and then slowly opened the again. But this time it's eyes where shining blue and where focusing on the hook. The hook started to shine the same blue as the slowpokes eyes as it was torn apart carefully before safely coming out of my finger. Then it used what I now recognized as confusion to throw the hook into the river. With the pain out of my finger I had quickly come to a decision, I want this slowpoke. It had just demonstrated a great control over confusion and also seemed very aware of its surroundings which is quite rare for a slowpoke. This was just a really great pokemon and I wanted it. "Draugr hypnosis" was the only words that left my mouth. But I didn't need more since Draugr understood it. He levitated in front of the slowpoke and started to create some purple lights that hit the pokemon making it fall asleep shortly after. After seeing the pokemon deep in slumber I threw one of the five empty pokeball's Oak gave me and after hitting the psychic type it turned it into red energy which was sucked into the ball. After shaking twice the pokeball made a clicking sound that was a signal of a successful capture. 'Now I have something to fight normal types with until Draugr learns some new moves'. Was what I thought to myself while I examined the pokeball.

After walking for about two more hours I decided it was getting late and started setting up camp for the night. After starting a fire and taking out my sleeping bag I started to heat a can of trainers meals I had brought with me. It's not the tastiest thing to eat but it's not unpleasant eaither. I had already stocked up two weeks worth of food thanks to my backpack having a storage system similar to a pokeball in they way that it turns everything put in it into energy I can then revert back to psychically form. After eating was done (Draugr didn't eat anything but he didn't really need to either, gastlys can go a very long time without nourishment) I decided to introduce myself to my new teammate. I opened the pokeball and out came the pink pokemon still sleeping. I gave it a mint berry and watched as it woke up. It looked at me (or at least my in my direction it's hard to say when it comes to slowpokes) and let out a yawn. I took up my pokedex and scanned it.

Slowpoke the dopey pokemon

This slowpoke is male and knows the moves curse, tackle, yawn, growl, water gun and confusion. It has the ability own tempo which makes it immune to being confused.

"You have quite the nice move set the slowpoke." I told the psychic type who just now seemed to have noticed my existence. I held up Slowpoke's pokeball and asked and important question to Slowpoke. "Do you know what this is?" After twenty seconds Slowpoke nodded. "And do you know what this means?" This time it only took fourteen seconds to nod. "Good then we have this part out of the way. I'm telling you know I'm aspiring to become the greatest trainer in the world and after only seeing your control of confusion I knew you had good potential. I want to grow strong with you by my side as my partner and friend. I want you, me, Draugr here (pointing at Draugr) and everyone who will in the future join our team to grow to be the best we can be." I stood up and thanks to the fire in front of me my red eyes looked like they where burning while I finished my speech. "So Slowpoke, will you join me?" I said little to dramatic while holding out my hand towards the now eagerly listening pokemon. The slowpoke walked up to me and with some difficulties put his front left paw in my hand. He looked up at me with determination you would think was impossible for a slowpoke as he nodded slowly to me. Now that I knew he was with me I decided to ask one more question that would be important for the future. "Do you want a nickname?" Slowpoke looked at me with and empty stare before nodding. The naming process was harder than I thought. He was surprisingly picky with what he would be named but it seemed he liked names leaning towards royalty and great leaders. I guess he wants to become a slowking one day and I'm not one to say no to that dream. In the end he settled for Ceasar. After that I noticed it got pretty dark so it was an easy choice to go to sleep now. As I got comfortable in my sleeping bag (I didn't set up a tent since it is summer and it's quite warm outside and there is not supposed to be any bad weather for a while) I felt a slight weight on my chest and noticed that Ceasar had put his head there. I took out one of my arms from the bag and laid it over the slowpoke. Draugr just floated over me. As a gastly he barely ever needs to sleep so he just seems content at watching me sleep. "Goodnight you to." Was the last thing I said before dozing of. It had been a very exiting day and I could feel that this journey will be a great one.

And done. This was the first chapter of Crimson and I hope you people enjoyed it.

Just to make some things clear here.

1. Ash will not travel with Brock or Misty, it's not that I don't like them travel traveling with Ash it's more that they don't fit the way I want my story to go. Ash will not travel with anyone else besides possibly some short periods of time but nothing major I think.

2. Ash will not catch any cannon pokemon so no charizard, no pidgeot and especially no pikachu. Ok I will have one but he is not from the Kanto series and don't recommend any cannon Ash pokemon since I won't add any.

3. I will not follow the cannon story that much a lot of things will be done differently and a lot of things will not happen at all.

4. No aura or psychic powers. I won't have the ability to talk to pokemon either that I know some people like to give Ash.

5. I know I gave Ash a pokemon on his first day but I still don't want him to catch to many so don't be to down of your suggestions don't come up. I want to give each of his pokemon more personality so I can't have to many pokemons for him or else they would just get lost in the crowd so to say.

Leave suggestions of possible pokemons Ash can catch later. I want ideas of where/how he got it. Any possible personality for the pokemon and also I don't want any of the more loved pokemon to appear I want the ones you don't find in many fanfics. So no greninja, no lucario, no dragonite (don't know if dragonite is especially loved but whatever) and Ash won't get any legendaries.