Hi there! This is my first FanFiction ever so be sure to review to help me make better ones in the future. (Maybe this is perfect anyway) So some of the ideas used in this story are based off of the Gerbilftw story "The Aura is with the Forgotten." Please note that I got permission to use these ideas from Gerbil himself. I've put my own spin on them of course so it won't be like reading the same story. Anyway, enough of me talking. ONWARDS! (Please note that people will die in this story)

"Ash! Can you come in for dinner please" Delia Ketchum called out to her three year old son.

At the mention of food, Ash Ketchum immediately dropped the ball he was playing with and raced inside. Delia smiled as she watched her son sit down at their small wooden table.

"Come on mummy, I'm hungry!" Ash whined.

After a simple dinner of bread and some cheese, Ash looked extremely tired so Delia carried him to bed. This was pretty much how life was for the Ketchums, peaceful. This peace went on for another two years. That was when everything changed.

The day was Ash's fifth birthday. Delia threw him a huge party to which all of his friends came. The festivities went on for hours until everyone decided to go home. Everybody was asleep in Pallet Town. A group of bandits walked along the dirt roads, occasionally peeking inside windows, searching for something.

"Boss! What exactly are we looking for?" one of the bandits asked the big burly man he had called boss.

"Anything of value!" he snarled "Now shut up or I'll feed you to the Houndoom," indicating the five black, horned dogs that they used.

"Hey boss I think I've found something!" Another bandit called out. The boss looked to where he was pointing and saw on top of a hill, a large manor.

"Ah this must be the fabled Oak Estate" he smiled to himself.

Inside the Ketchum residence, Ash had woken up to get some water from the well in his yard, his new Pichu clinging to his shoulder. That was when he saw a group of men walking down the path. He decided to follow them.

"An Adventure!" he thought to himself.

At the end of the path he heard the man in front shout "Alright then! Houndoom use flamethrower!"

Ash watched in horror as the big scary looking dogs shot fire at the big house that he knew belonged to his friend Professor Oak.

Ash, suddenly found his courage and shouted "You can't do that!" Every one of the bandits turned around and the Houndooms turned to look as well. In front of them was a short, young boy who looked to be no more than five years old. However there was something about him, something that made the boss a little uneasy.

He snapped out of it as a bandit said "Well what do we do boss? Kill him?" The boss shook his head.

"No, we can't just kill a child." The bandits then huddled and decided to just scare him away. So the big man stood up and pointed to Ash as he said "You don't want to be messing with us kid! Now run along!"

Ash however, stood his ground and yelled "Pichu, get him!" The small yellow mouse jumped off his shoulder and fired a small bolt of electricity at the man. However in doing so it hurt itself.

The big man just jumped back and snarled "Now you've made me angry boy." The bandit shouted to his men "Find out where this kid lives and kill his family!" Ash being as naïve as he was did not know that he was the bait and ran home to protect his mother. The bandits intended on this and ran after him.

After running all the way home Ash ran in to his mum's bedroom and shouted "Mum, get up! There are bad men coming!"

Delia who was half asleep, just told him to go back to sleep.

"There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who are chased and those who do the chasing!" The boss thought to himself as he ran in the front door he began his search. After 2 minutes of searching he found the little punk lying over a woman who could only be his mother. He grabbed the boy and dragged him outside where his fellow bandits were waiting.

"This will teach you to meddle in the affairs of The Phantom!" The man snarled "Now Houndoom!"

As he said this, the black dogs shot fire at the small house, burning everything that was inside. The man called Phantom held on to the screaming boy as he watched his home burn down. Once there was nothing left he let the boy go so he could see the damage himself. Ash found his mother's corpse just lying there in the dirt. Covered in burns and not breathing. Ash cried to his mother to wake up, but she never did.

The man behind him stood and watched the young boy. "You are lucky that I don't kill children." He said "I can however scar them." He turned to his cohorts "He likes lightning so much, why don't we mark him." And so the last thing Ash saw before he was knocked out was his charred mother, lying on the floor.

Phantom looked down on the unconscious boy and grabbed his dagger. He drew two identical lines on the boys cheeks. The lines resembled two horizontal lightning bolts. And then he turned, and left the town, his fellow bandits following slightly behind.

As Ash woke up he noticed his Pichu on his chest and when he remembered what had happened he broke into tears. But he soon stopped as a hand to his shoulder. He looked up to see Professor Oak who must have managed to stop the fire in his own house from burning.

"Ash, this is Sir Riley"The professor said, indicating another man standing beside him. Ash saw that he was wearing a large black cloak, a blue tunic, a grey undershirt and blue boots. He also had over his spiky black hair, a blue hat with a black stripe going around the whole thing. The man spoke.

"Ash, I know this must be hard, but from here on out, you can't cry about your mother. You need to be strong, it's what she would have wanted."

Ash just nodded and asked "Why are you here?"

Riley just simply stated "You're going to be travelling with me for a while."

Ash then noticed a small, blue, bipedal dog standing next to the man.

"Mister Riley, what is that?" Ash heard his answer not from the tall man, nor from Oak but inside his head.

"Hello Ash, my name is Riolu."

And there you have it, the first chapter of my first story completed. Be sure to let me know what you think and for now that's all. See you in the next chapter!