A/n: the cover page is Ash in his clothes his mom made for him
Underline means inanimate object talking
Bold means telepathy
Italics mean animal talk and thoughts
"I wish there was more vegetables" Ash sighed as he looked at the feast.
"Pika" pikachu agreed from the boy's shoulder.
"Min minun" Professor stated, having just finished his salad, along with his sister, Teach. They weren't as big of eaters as Ash and pikachu so they were fine with what they got.
"Something wrong Ash, was it?" a light brown haired girl asked with concern written all over her face.
"Yeah, I don't eat meat and neither do any pokemon. It's against the law in the pokeworld because the only animals there are pokemon and so I don't think I'd be okay with eating meat here either" Ash sighed.
"Oh, well I'll go with you to talk to Professor Dumbledore about it if you want?" the girl asked politely.
"That'd be great thanks, er, I never got your name" Ash stated.
"It's Hermione" She replied.
"Thanks, Hermione" Ash stated as they both got up and walked over to Professor Dumbledore.
"Excuse me, Professor Dumbledore sir, we needed to talk to you about something" Hermione stated politely.
"Just call me Professor Dumbledore, and what is it?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"Well you see, myself and all the pokemon can't eat meat, it's against the law in the pokeworld because the only animals there are pokemon. Is there anyway to get more vegetables for them and myself? Dudley, my cousin, was also given some pokemon by professor Oak as well so those pokemon would need vegetables as well" Ash stated, sounding sheepish.
"I don't see how that would be a problem, Mr. Ketchum" Snape stated, for some reason he liked this boy. There was something about him that seemed to draw himself to the boy. He was just glad he was raised by someone not related to a Potter. If he had been he was sure he would be terrible, even so he would have to keep an eye on Dudley.
"Professor Snape is right, there won't be a problem, we'll make sure to let the house elves, who make the meal, know" Professor Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Thanks" Ash smiled brightly and left to his table with Hermione. They sat down and began to chat, seeming like they were having the times of their life. Ash was telling his tales of his travels, with pikachu, snivy, and oshawott-who pikachu let out and which Ash swapped out for charizard and greninja on the train ride-reenacting what had happened. Ash had told all his pokemon about his journeys when he got home from Kalos. Hermione was enamored, then again she seemed to be drawn to Ash and just want to hang out with him in general. Though, if you looked closely at Ash and Hermione you could tell both of them a blush dusting across their cheeks. Ron,on the other hand, seemed to be drawn to Dudley. The two of them were hitting it off like no tomorrow.
"It's time to go! Gryffindors follow me!" Professor Mcgonagall shouted and the gryffindors followed.
"Oh joy, the castle's like a maze. Well I won't get lost!" Ash declared.
"Pika pikachu" the electric mouse argued.
"Hey! We did not get lost on all our journeys!" Ash denied.
"Pika pika pi pikachu" Pikachu pointed out.
"Yeah the journeys we didn't get lost on I wasn't allowed to have the map, but that proves nothing! Everything on map's look the same!" Ash argued.
"Pi pikachu pi pika" Pikachu argued back.
"Well the landscape likes to change on me!" Ash declared.
"Pika" pikachu stated with a roll of his eyes and Ash glared at him.
"Can you understand pikachu, Ash?" Hermione asked.
"No, it's more like a feeling, but that always happens whenever I get really really close to a pokemon. In fact my friend, Brock, said it's common for a trainer to be able to do that with pokemon he or she's close to" Ash responded.
"Amazing" Hermione stated in awe.
~The next day~
"Look at that owl!" several students shouted as a shiny noctowl came flying in, carrying in a big box.
"Noctowl!" Ash got out of his seat ran to greet Noctowl as he was flying down. He dropped the package in Ash's arms and perched on his shoulder.
"Noct Noctowl!" the shiny pokemon nipped at his hair in affection.
"Where'd you get the owl, Ketchum" Draco, a blonde slytherin Ash had the displeasure of meeting aboard the train, asked in a rude manner.
"Noctowl isn't an owl, he's a pokemon and he's rare even for his kind" Ash stated, stroking Noctowl's feathers as he pulled out a note.
"Dear Ash," he started "There is a new eevee evolution I thought you should know about. It's native in a region you have yet to visit, it's called the Alola region. I bet as soon as you get back this summer you're going to go there. Anyway, it's called a mumeon, we don't know how it evolves but I sent you an eevee that wants to become a mumeon, Lucario translated that for us. If anyone can figure out how to make his dream come true it's you. Though he's not your birthday present, your birthday present is another eevee, a shiny one to be exact. Her name is Silver, she's my umbreon's child and he decided to give her to you when she turned eight weeks. He had a litter of six with an espeon, that's why we had to give her a name. Either way happy birthday. Smell you later, Gary"
"Figures, that's just like Gary" Ash stated, shaking his head in amusement as he walked over to the table and opened his box. He saw some clothes his mother made him and Ash looked over to Professor Dumbledore for permission to wear them, to which he nodded. Next he saw thirteen pokeballs, looks like it's a good thing he decided to transfer all his pokemon-minus darkrai, mewtwo, and pikachu-and wait till later to rotate his pokemon.
"Is Gary that jerk Gary in your story?" Hermione asked.
"He doesn't stay a jerk forever, after all we're friends now, but I'm just after I got my first badge in Johto so you wouldn't know that yet" Ash stated, holding back a laugh at her first remark.
"Pi pika!" pikachu pointed to the pokeballs, seeming very excited.
"Oh! We do have to see our new friends. Hey Hermione, Ron, Dudley, do you want to come with me to see what pokemon I got for my birthday yesterday?" Ash asked, practically bouncing on his heels. He was always excited when it came to pokemon. When his friends nodded Ash rushed past with pikachu at his heels, his friends following. Too bad they didn't see professor Quirrell and sent him twirling. Yes, twirling he was literally sent twirling, though a more accurate term would be spinning.
"I-I-I-I-I-I o-o-o-o-o-officially h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hate h-h-h-h-h-him" Professor Quirrell stated before fainting from all the spinning.
"I think he's my new favorite" Snape decided then and there. He suspected Quirrell of working with Voldemort but couldn't prove it. So any, even though he probably shouldn't think this, any chance to see Quirrell like this was worth while. He also decided to not be hard on the gryffindor class of this year and, since he saw Draco being mean to Ash, he would make Draco's life miserable. This also meant he would be favoring the gryffindors in that class, and since Ron was friends with Ash he wouldn't do what he had been doing to his brothers. Though most classes were use to Snape favoring slytherin in his class that they wouldn't make as much as a fuss, the slytherin would, well at least Ash's year slytherin would. The other slytherin would just laugh at their misery, the only reason for that being that Snape would still favor most slytherin, as long as they didn't pick on the weasleys which they learned quickly and the reason why. This would also lead to the unspoken agreement between Fred and George after that to not prank Snape. They saw how much Snape hated Quirrell and would go on pranking sprees against him. This also lead to the older slytherin being nice to Ash and any and all his friends. This all would end up happening because of one Ash Ketchum. Though because classes wouldn't start till later none of this hadn't happened yet.
~With Ash and the others~
"Come on out!" Ash shouted, letting out two eevee, one shiny and one not, a magikarp that swam in the air like all fish pokemon did once they were captured(it was from Misty), a mudkip(from Brock), a torchic(from May), a shiny male ralts as well as a dawn stone(from Max as he started his journey with that Ralts he promised to come back for about three years ago as Ash had gone through Hoenn when he was twelve, Max was nine. A note was included with it, stating how much it wanted to evolve right after it evolved into kirlia. It looked appalled that a male like him would look so feminine after evolving), a piplup(from Dawn), a drilbur(from Iris), a poochyena(from Cilan apparently he found those pokemon adorable and thought Ash should have one. He did after all catch one from his current journey in Johto), a shiny fennekin(from Serena, though Ash didn't know how many eggs Braixen went through to get the shiny, Braixen wanted to do it though because she wanted to repay Ash in some way for helping her trainer), a shiny chespin(from Clement, Clement was surprised when the first egg chespin had with his mate, his heliolisk, was a shiny), a helioptile(from Bonnie, technically Clement since she can't start her journey till next month and it was also from Chespin and Heliolisk), and finally a Venonat(from Tracey along with a note that stated she, the Venonat, expressed the hatred of evolving).
"Whoa are all these pokemon yours?" Ron asked, his jaw practically dropping to the floor.
"Now they are. Hi I'm Ash, your new trainer, that is if you'll have me" the raven stated to the pokemon, who responded with happy cries. Their previous trainers spoke highly of the boy who was going to be their trainer now.
"Yes! This is the greatest day ever! The brown head trainer said you'd be able to help me achieve my dream of evolving into a mumeon" the non-shiny eevee stated.
"I wasn't expecting you to be telepathic, Gary forgot to mention that. Then again it doesn't surprise me by now, I've seen too much for it" Ash stated to the eevee.
"Yeah, is it true you've seen all the legendaries with the exception of raikou?" the eevee asked, bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Yep, I've seen an illusion of raikou created by a zoroark though!" Ash stated, excitedly.
"Whoa that Zoroark must've been powerful to do that!" eevee stated with awe.
"Yeah, once her son was old enough to go out on his own he joined my team. He's on it now, though he sure surprised me in Kalos" Ash stated with a chuckle.
"Pi pika!" pikachu shouted.
"Well yeah he did give us quite the scare, he can speak in telepathy as well" Ash stated with a smile.
"Is anyone else besides me confused?" Ron asked and the two other humans and plusle and minun nodded in agreement.
"It happened when we first met too" Dudley stated to Ron.
"Sorry guys, I guess I should've explained better" Ash laughed nervously.
"I can't wait till you get to the part of the Zoroark in your story" Hermione decided. Just then an owl came flying towards Ron and dropping a newspaper and a few letters in his hands before taking off in the opposite direction. Though not before hitting a statue on its way out.
"I knew I should've gotten mail! It just came in late! Then again I should've expected that with that owl sending mail" Ron stated, then mumbled the last part, but not before sticking his tongue out at Dudley who had said he wouldn't get mail.
"Min minun!" Professor argued.
"Professor is right, your mail is probably booby trapped" Dudley stated, a playful smirk dancing on his face.
"Amazing! You said he only got his pokemon a month ago and he's already that close?" Hermione asked Ash.
"Yes, though that sometimes happens, it happened with me and pikachu, I told you about that remember?" Ash stated and Hermione nodded.
"Though I still can't believe that you and pikachu hated each other at first.
"Him and pikachu, I don't believe it!" Ron stated, in disbelief.
"Well it only happened because I stood in front of pikachu to keep him from getting hit by spearows. Then he jumped on my shoulder and knocked them out with a powerful thundershock" Ash smiled.
"Pi pika!" pikachu.
"There weren't that many spearows, it's more like fifty not one hundred" Ash corrected.
"No wonder pikachu is your best friend now, I would be too if you did that for me" Ron stated.
"I would do that for all my pokemon, it's nothing new. Besides anyone else would do the same" Ash stated with a sheepish smile.
"No its only you" Ron stated.
"Hey, can I see the newspaper?" Dudley asked and Ron tossed it to him.
"Huh, that's weird. It says that someone broke into the vault that Hagrid and we went to, Ash. There really was only that package in there" Dudley stated.
"Yeah that is weird, I still can't help but wonder what was in that package" Ash stated.
"Really you two went to that vault before coming here?" Hermione asked with surprise.
"Yeah, anyway I'm going to have to send six of you to professor Oak, but don't worry I'll rotate you in tomorrow. I rotate my pokemon everyday now" Ash stated. So poochyena, magikarp, drilbur, torchic, mudkip, and ralts volunteered to go to professor Oak, which Ash returned them and transferred them to him.
~Later and after Ash changed~
"Welcome to flying class, now when I blow the whistle you'll start telling your broom to go up. Remember to say it cleanly and clearly" with that the woman with yellow cat eyes blew the whistle.
"Up" Ash stated like everyone else, but his along with Draco's, was the only one to jump eagerly into his hand.
"Come on! Ride me! Ride me! Ride me!" the broom in Ash's hand spoke, though no one else seemed to hear the broom.
"You can't make me come up" the broom that Dudley was trying to get up stated.
"If you listen to Dudley I'll do what you want later" Ash whispered to the broom and Dudley raised a questioning eyebrow.
"You'll ride me later then" the broom stated and Ash nodded, after that the broom practically jumped into Dudley's hand.
"Whoa! Can the brooms talk or something?" Dudley whisper asked Ash.
"Yeah, they can" Ash nodded.
"I'm surprised you can understand them. Very few people besides me can" Madam Hooch, the cat eyed professor, stated to Ash with a smile.
"Alright, on the count of three we take off, push off gently by you foot. One...two…" She was about to say three only Dudley's broom got over eager to get this over with and took off on its own accord. She rushed to Dudley who fell off and glared at the broom.
"You will not be allowed to have Ash ride you today and he might not ever if he gets his own broom, however unlikely" Madam Hooch scolded the broom who seemed to wilt as she took Dudley to the office, Professor and Teach at her heels. Dudley was suddenly very glad he told them to wait on the ground otherwise they would've been hurt to. Though one of his pokeballs, one of the four he gotten from professor Oak, his charmander he named Uryu, after one of his favorite anime characters, had fallen out of his pocket. (A/n: if you can guess what Anime Uryu is from you can be mentioned. Here's a clue he wears glasses, that's all you're getting)
"One of those creatures you and your stupid cousin are so found of, huh? Should've left it at home" Draco smirked, picking up the pokeball.
"Give him back, Draco" Ash growled, marching over to him.
"You want it? Go get it!" Draco shouted, throwing it towards a window. On instinct Ash jumped on his broom and rushed toward the pokeball. He caught it at the last second and kept himself from crashing into the window. He flew back down with his friends surrounding him.
"Blimey, Ash that was amazing!" Ron stated.
"I'm just glad the poor things okay, which one is it?" Hermione asked, worried about the pokemon.
"It's Uryu, I'm glad he's okay too" Ash agreed, well at least he did.
"Ash Ketchum!" Professor Mcgonagall stated, from the doorway and making a come here motion with her finger.
"Wish me luck guys" Ash stated, sulkingly making his way towards her.
To Be Continued!