This is my first Zatch Bell fanfic EVER! In fact, it's possibly the first Zatch Bell EVER in this catagory that is official. Just sit back and enjoy this warm tale of Zatch, Kiyo, Rick (my charcter), and... those other guys.

Zatch Bell characters areowned by Tsutsuji Nakamura. Rick is the only character I own, so don't think he'll ACTUALLY appear in a Zatch Bell episode.

Chapter One: The Two Red Books

One day, Kiyo was walking down the street with Zatch. They were just coming down from the store where they had to buy some food for dinner.

"Boy Kiyo! Wasn't it great to get all that food for your mom! Luckily, I'm small, so I only have to carry a couple of groceries!" Zatch tells his best friend as he carried a bag full of Pocky packs. Kiyo, on the other hand, had to carry everything else. From apples to Zucchinis, Kiyo had to carry everything. "Yeah Zatch, lucky you."

Kiyo had his watch on his hand and the red book in his back pocket. If something happened to Zatch, Kiyo could never forgive himself. Also, Kiyo has to make sure nothing abnormal goes on today, since he's suppose to bring Zatch home early, since the blond haired Mamodo wanted to watch Saturday morning cartoons, even though there's never nothing good to watch…

On the other side of the corner, an American kid with red hair was walking on the other side of the corner. He just moved in from America, full on English and Japanese, and wanted to take a walk around his new neighborhood. He had a blank, red covered book filled every page with manga, which he was reading while walking around the corner.

While he was reading it, he turns the corner and crashes into our other heroes. They then fall to the ground and drop everything. The red book Kiyo owns then lands on some black mud conveniently next to them on the cracks of the book's cover. It then lands on the red manga book and imprints on the cover, making it identical to the true one.

"Oh, We're sorry!" Zatch tells the stranger picking up the closest red book he finds and giving it back to the guy. "You dropped your book." On the other side, Kiyo shook his head to regain his senses and saw the red book he owned on the ground, which he picked up and placed in his back pocket.

"Thanks, my small, blond amigo!" the guy says to Zatch as he takes it in his hands. "My name's Ricky! What's yours?" Zatch tells him, "My name is Zatch!" then points to Kiyo and tells him, "and this is my best friend, Kiyo!" They talked for a minute or two, learning about each other. While they were doing it, Rick was helping the two pick up all the groceries that fell to the ground and gave them a bag to put it all in. Kiyo was careful not to tell Rick that Zatch was a Mamodo, so that Rick won't freak out or anything.

"Well," Rick tells them as he turns for the way he came. "I must be going back to my home now. Bye!" He walks back from the corner and towards the place he came from, disappearing in the corner.

One hour later…

Kiyo and Zatch are back home, where Zatch was watching "One Piece" on TV while Kiyo was putting away the groceries. There were tons of them, so it took too long for him to put them all in the fridge.

After Kiyo was finish, he placed the red book from his pocket and placed it on the table right next to him, then watched as Zatch was starring blankly at the TV. Kiyo worried how other Mamodos might try to overthrow the two and might actually win, but he knew that they would do their best to win. "Hey Kiyo," Zatch asks our boy genius while still starring at the screen. "Do you think we'll see Rick again soon?" Kiyo then tells him, "Zatch, he's about my age. He'll most likely be in school Monday and you'd get to see him all the time."

Suddenly, the red book fell to the ground and landed on the spine, which opened it. Kiyo's eyes opened with horror as he saw the contents of the book. Instead of the inscriptions for spells in the pages, there were copies of the manga 'Dr. Slump' instead. He screamed as he saw the imposter of a book, sending Zatch to spring to his feet.

"What's wrong, Kiyo?" Zatch asks as he looks in confusion at the half frozen with fear teenager. "ZATCH! IT'S THE WRONG BOOK!" Kiyo yelled as the blond now started to panic to the news he heard. The two then searched the whole house to see if the book was around, but it was all in vain.

Suddenly, an idea came to Kiyo. He remembered Rick having a red book similar to his when they first meet. He remembered both books falling to the ground landing in mud, possibly, making an imprint on the book and 'duplicating' it. "Zatch, Rick must've got our book by accident and we took his!" Zatch tells him, "Well, we better find him before he reads it and I blow up the house!" The two then ran out the door into the night, trying to find the friend they meet earlier to get their book back.

To Be Continued…