"The Birthday"

A story by Tyrus, an author-in-training.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon

It was quite early in the morning and the sun was rising, the beautiful chirps of Pidgey and a lone beam of light shining on a special boy's face had woke him up.

"Huh?" Ash said groggily as he rose for the long, yet fun, day ahead of him. His eyes widened at the realization that it was his 10th birthday, the day he was old enough to get his Pokémon Trainer's License and eat some delicious birthday cake. He quietly made his way to his mom's room.

"Mom?" He said as he lightly shook her shoulder, in attempt to wake her.

"Huh? What is it Ash?" She said with a yawn.

"It's my birthday, remember?" He said.

"Oh that's right, let's go get some breakfast." She said as she got up to go downstairs with Ash following suit.

She got out some eggs and bacon from the fridge and put a pan on the stove and cranked the heat up to 6 and finally she got some cooking oil out and poured a capful into the pan.

"Remember Ash, don't stand around the stove while I'm cooking with this..." She said as she put away the cooking oil. "If you aren't careful you could get oil spat on you." Just as she said this some oil jumped from the pan and on to her arm "ow, it stings so step back a bit" thus, proving her point. Ash was listing to her words intently and took a few steps backwards.

She finally finished cooking the scrambled eggs and bacon. Ash looked at the small spread on the table with sparkles in his eyes and a look that said "FEED ME!"

"Here is your plate." She said as she moved a large plate onto the table and grabbed a large amount of scrambled eggs and 4 strips of bacon and got a medium plate for herself and put some scrambled eggs and 2 strips of bacon on it. "And here is mine."

"Thanks mom!" Ash said gratefully.

"No need to thank me Ash, it's your birthday." She corrected.

He began to, albeit messy, stuff his face. He was finished in an instant and decided to go watch some cartoons. When he turned on the T.V. a news report displayed and went to weather, it read: "It'll be warm today with blue skies and some clouds in Pallet Town. And in Viridian City it will be slightly cold with showers and lightning which will later move onto Pallet Town at approximately 6:26PM."

Delia was concerned with the Viridian weather report and decided to make a note of the later weather.

There was a light knock at the door. Ash got up from sitting in front of the T.V. and walked towards the door, wondering who it could be.

"I'll get it!" He said as he opened the door to see his friend Serena looking at him shyly.

"Hi Serena!" He greeted the honey-blonde.

"Happy birthday Ash." She said rather quietly.

"Thanks! Hey why are you here so early?"

"I wanted to be here before everyone else."

"Right, come in!"

She nodded and walked inside and sat on the armchair.

"Hi Serena, goodness your here early." Delia said.

"Yeah." She confirmed

Ash went up to his room, turned on his HD CRT T.V. and began setting up his Nintendo Wii, plugging in the cords to there respective places, and went to his closet to look for a game to play.

"Maybe Mario Kart Wii?" Ash mused. Serena walked into his room and looked at Ash's Wii and said "Hi, I have a Wii at home too but mine is red and it came with a game."

"Really? What was the game?" Ash asked curious about the game.

"I can't remember." She answered.

He went back to looking for a multi-player game and brought out two and held it in both hands and turned to face Serena.

"Which game should we play later?" He said, holding New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Mario Kart Wii in his left and right hand respectively.

She pointed to the one in his left hand. "I'm not so good at racing games so that one." She said.

They went downstairs to get a cup of juice, after Delia poured some into their cups a knock was heard at the door.

"I wonder who that could be?" Ash said to himself. He walked towards the door and opened it.

It was Gary.