Pokemon Kanto Adventure!
Summary: Her name is Ashley Ketchum, the daughter of Delia Ketchum. Her mother is rather protective of her only daughter and had asked Professor Oak, the researcher that gives starter pokemon out to brand new trainers, a special request in the case of the starter pokemon for her daughter, what she got surprised her in almost every way, making her journey start out differently but rather smartly.
Note: As it said in the summary, this will be a female Ash Ketchum story, I was interested in the idea since there aren't that many female Ash fanfiction, and I was in the mood what with reading other fanfictions and playing my ds. Not sure if I'll put Ashley in a pairing with anybody, maybe a bit later when she's older, which means I'll be following the other pokemon regions as well. I'm only getting her the best pokemon out there and this story is still following the anime which means she'll get Pidgey instead of Pidgeotto, and the three starter pokemon and butterfree, but she'll have other pokemon as well and the girl in this story will be a lot smarter in this fanfic than Ash ever actually is. There'll be some long chapters and some not long, don't know worry though, I'll try to update as much as I'm able to now that I got a laptop. Hope you guys enjoy, and please leave out any negative comments, if you don't like how it's written then stop reading, also if I have any mistakes, let me know and I'll fix to the best of my abilities, also, I don't think Ashley will get Pikachu in this story, but if you rather she still catch it, I'll put up a poll for you guy's to vote on. Which will be as soon as this chapter is loaded and everyone had reviewed.
Chapter One: The Beginning
A young girl of fourteen years old is currently in her room watching a document on the Kanto Pokemon starters which consists of Bulbasaur, the grass type, Charmander, the fire type, and Squirtle, the water type. She had a straight black hair that had bangs to match with brown eyes.
She didn't know which Pokemon she wanted, just that all of them were a good choice. She didn't know her mother had gone up to Professor Oak so she was trying to decide which starter she wanted. Her door to her bedroom opened and her mom popped her head in, "Ashley, sweetie, you need to get ready for bed if your going to bed early, I also made sure to set my alarm to wake to get me to wake you up early since you have a habit of accidentally breaking yours in your sleep." She said teasingly, making her daughter huff at her but nodded.
"Alright mom, I'll go to bed now since I want to get an early head start than Gary." She said cheekily, making her mother giggle at her daughter's exclaim.
Ashley climbed into her bed and instantly fell asleep.
The next day, her mother woke her up at precisely seven o'clock in the morning. Getting dressed and wearing her favorite purple sneakers, she immediately went out the door with a "Be back soon Mom!" And started a light jog towards the lab. She smiled excitedly when she saw a couple of Pidgey's flying up above with a content trill and giggled as she pushed herself faster and finally made it to the lab after few minutes. She knocked on the door for a second then went inside.
"Hey Professor Oak, it's Ashley Ketchum, I'm here for my starter pokemon, did I beat Gary here?" She asked when the old man came into the room and smiled at her. "You certainly did beat my grandson this morning, which means you have the element surprise if and when you two decide to have a pokemon battle, now follow me to the back room where you shall receive your starter pokemon." He said to her. She followed him eagerly. She looked inside the room only to find four pokeballs instead of the usual three and turned to Professor Oak in confusion. "Professor, why are there four pokeballs instead of the usual three?" She asked him.
He gave her a light chuckle at her inspection. "I'm glad you asked, you see, your mother, Delia, made a special request on a different pokemon for your starter since she was worried about your protection out in the real world now that you'll be seen as an adult as soon as you become a licensed pokemon trainer. Why don't you see what pokemon it is, and use this Pokedex to scan it if you're curious." He said as he handed her a red Pokedex.
She took the dex in her left hand and used her right to throw the Pokeball out in the air. "Go Pokeball!" A light flashed and a small four-legged shape came out with a bark. "Growl!" It was a Growlithe, a fire type with reddish-orange fur with black stripes and a fluffy tail. She pointed her Pokedex towards the pup. "Growlithe, the puppy Pokemon. Very protective of its territory, it will bark and bite to repel intruders from its space. This Growlithe is male and its move set is a bite, roar, and Ember." Dexter explained. She smiled brightly at the pokemon in awe and bent down to her knees. She held her hand out for it to sniff. "Hi Growlithe, my name is Ashley and I'm a brand new trainer, I was wondering if you'd like to become my friend and partner." She said hopefully.
The puppy pokemon gave her a teasing growl and then licked her hand unexpectedly, making her giggle at the feel of the tongue. She gingerly picked the Growlithe up in her arms and gave the Professor a wide smile. "Thank you, Professor, I promise to take good care of Growlithe no matter what." She promised him. He gave her a smile then handed out a small box with five other pokeballs and a badge case. She took her pokeballs and put them in her bag along with her badge case and took the wrapped box curiously. " What's this Professor?" She asked him. He gave her a smirk. " Why don't you open it." Curious along with Growlithe, they both looked inside the box only to see a fire stone. She gasped. "Wait, Professor Oak, why are you giving me this?" She asked him, shocked, growlithe barked excitedly.
"This Firestone is, of course, an evolution stone and Growlithe requires said stone to be able to evolve into Arcanine once it finally reached it's potential." He explained. Ashley made sure to gingerly put inside at the bottom of her bag where it can't easily fall out and bowed to Professor Oak. "Thank you sure, I promise that you won't regret this gift to me." She said gratefully. He chuckled at her and patted her on the head, "Don't thank me, do thank your mother Ashley, she used her savings into making sure you had this special request for protection." She gave him a wide grin and shook her head, " I will Professor."
She giggled when Growlithe gave her a lick on her chin as they continued down to her mother's. "Say Growlithe." She said, catching his attention. He yipped at her curiously. "My dream is to become one of the top Elite Pokemon trainers, and I was hoping you'd be right there with me along with any other pokemon friends we get along the way?" She asked him shyly. He barked at her in agreement making her smile. " Alright then, that's our dream, after we go see my mom, we'll go catch at least a pokemon or two on our way to the Pewter City Gym, which specializes in rock type pokemon, so on our way out, we'll train for a few weeks until then." He barked in agreement and wagged his tail at the word training.
She finally made it to her mom's house in about thirty minutes later and walked inside, Growlithe looking around curiously. "Mom, I'm back!" Ashley shouted. She heard footsteps from the kitchen and her mother came in with a smile. "Oh Ashley, I'm glad you made it in time, did everything go okay at Professor Oak's?" Ashley nodded to her mom and gave her a hug. "He told me what you did to get me Growlithe, thank you so much mom, I promise I'll do everything I can to make sure he's grown to his potential." She said and bent down to Growlithe's level. "Hey Growlithe, this is my mom, she's one of the reason's I want to become a good trainer." She said happily, making her mother giggle at her daughter.
Growlithe wagged his tail happily at seeing his trainer's mother before and gave a long sniff around her legs, memorizing her scent. Delia knelt down a bit and gave Growlithe a rub behind his ear, making him thumb his tail excitedly.
"Well mom, I got to get started on moving if I want to beat Gary." She gave a wave to her mother as her and her Growlithe started walking.
She smiled widely when her and her starter pokemon entered route 1 and gave a happy giggle which Growlithe gave a bark. "So what would be good to have on our team is a water type and perhaps a flying and fighting type. So what do you say Growlithe to getting some new friends?" She asked the pup who wagged his tail in agreement. They continued to walk around until finally what looked to be Pidgey flew to a stop in front of them started pecking around the ground curiously.
Ashley immediately took her pokedex out. "Pidgey, the tiny bird pokemon, a rather common sight in the forests and woods, It flaps it's wings at ground level to kick up blinding sand to protect themselves from others." Ashley grinned at the bird, it was watching her since the pokedex made a sound.
"Alright Growlithe, lets catch it and make it our first battle, what do you say buddy?" She asked her starter. He barked out a challenge and jumped to stand in front of the bird in a battle stance. The bird squawked a challenge of it's own and fluffed it's feathers, facing Growlithe and flapped it's wings in the air. Ashley could see the bird was preparing for what seems to be a powerful gust. "Growlithe don't let that Pidgey use it's gust and use Ember!" She said firmly. The pup barked affirmative and puffed in a huge breath and blew out small balls of fire that quickly hit the bird, making it squawked out in pain and started moving forward fast, it's beak flashing white as a sign of it using peck. "Dodge and use tackle, Growlithe!"She shouted.
The pup did as commanded and started running, effectively dodging the peck and gave a running start, ramming into the bird with a solid hit. it lay dizzily a bit on the ground, making Ashley grin in vistory, taking out a pokeball, she threw it in Pidgey's direction, the ball flashed red as it hit the bird head on. It shook, once, twice, then a third time it pinged and it was still. Ashley gave a wide grin and bent to take her pokeball and bent down to Growlithe's level, he was breathing heavily but otherwise, he was fine. She took out two bowls and filled them with water, she pushed one towards Growlithe who happily lapped up the water.
She threw the pokeball in the air and Pidgey came out with a chirp. it had some scratches on it but she noticed it didn't seem to be in pain. "Hi there Pidgey, my name is Ashley and this is my friend and starter Growlithe, I was wondering if you would be willing to join my team to hopefully one day become a Elite Trainer in the world."She asked the bird hopefully. The bird observed the human girl before it and eyed the Growlithe and saw it seemed it be in a good shape and remembered the battle from before and knew the girl was good. Having decided, the bird chirped yes and flew to the girls shoulder. Ashley grinned happily and rubbed the bird's chest. "Thank you Pidgey, You have no idea how much that you agreeing to be our friend meant to me. I was wondering, if you wouldn't if I scanned my pokedex to see what moves and what gender you are?" She asked, holding out the device.
Pidgey gave a nod and sat still as the girl pointed the pokedex in it's direction. "Pidgey, the tiny bird pokemon, this Pidgey is female and has the moves Peck, sand attack, and gust."
She put the pokedex away and gave the bird a gentle rub, smiling when she cooed happily. "You know, I should give you guys some names, I'd like to be able to call you out in a crowd without getting confused."She said as Pidgey and Growlithe looked to her. "Alright for Pidgey I have the name Esther, its the meaning of a beautiful star that lives outside of our home planet. What do you think?" Pidgey stood for a bit before giving out a chirp saying she liked the name Esther. Ashley grinned and faced Growlithe. "Alright, I got Caleb, it means dog in Hebrew." Growlithe looked thoughtful for a minute before shaking his head no. Ashley frowned and continued to think up names she knew of. She snapped her fingers, making her starter look at her. " I got it, how about Conall, it means strong as a wolf in Irish." She said. Growlithe tried out the name and barked in agreement, liking the name very much.
"Alright, Esther and Conall it is. I'm so happy that you guys like the names. Now, we'll move on a bit more and find a lake that we can camp next too, we'll be looking for a water type pokemon for our first gym in Pewter city gym, which specializes in rock type, so we'll be training for a few weeks till then." Esther and Conall nodded at the plan and followed their trainer onward.
Trainer: Ashley ketchum
Pokemon:
Esther(Pidgey: flying type}: Peck, Sand attack, gust. Level 5
Conall{Growlithe: Fire type}: Tackle, Ember, Growl. Level 6
Pokemon in this story will level up as they either battle or their catching a pokemon or when they train. This story is a bit different but it'll follow the cannon in the anime soon, which means that Brock and Misty shall be in the story soon, now the starter choice is a bit different, which is exactly what I'm hoping for. And yes this is a female Ash Ketchum story, no gender bending or any of the sort, she was born as a girl. though this story will not follow the cannon all the way, yeah she has a different starter, but she'll be smarter, sentisive, more protective than anything else. I'm thinking of her pairing her with someone in the Kanto Region but I have no clue who I should pair her up with, so please review if you want. I know I said in the beginning of the story that I would wait to pair her up with someone, but since she's fourteen in this story. I'd figured if she's the more mature version of Ash, why not pair her up in a relationship, there won't be sex in this fanfiction if your wondering, the relationship will be much more innocent, there'll be dates, a few shy kisses here and there, cuddles, and such. Now if you didn't like the story, don't say anything, just stop reading, no rude/hateful comments please. If you have any questions, either PM me or review and I'll answer them as good as I possibly can. I'll try to update as much as I'm able to, now the situation with Pikachu, do you guys want me to make Ashley catch him? I plan on making a voting poll for you guys to vote on whether or not she should catch Pikachu.
