Ok, so I think that I got ash and Pikachu's personalities last chapter, and I tried to get them right in this one. I think that I definitely need improvement, but that, I guess, is why I joined. I want to be a fiction author, and think that seeing people's reactions to my fanfiction at the moment, and Pokémon, star-wars, the inheritance cycle [Christopher Paolini[(no, that is not how I came up with my OC's name)] and I have a interest in Redwall(I find it kind of ironic that Brian Jacques died almost exactly a year before I began reading) I have tried doing a Redwall fanfiction on another, but I lost interest by chapter 3. But enough about me and my life, on with the chapter!

Chapter 4

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday happy birthday to you, and many more!" came the united song of many of the professor's researchers, there children, Oak himself, and his mother. Unfortunately Chris couldn't be here, as he was at his aunt's, as she had gotten horribly sick, and he had to be there, as his mother was dead and his dad had a constant depression since.

"Ok Ash, time to open your presents!" called his mother. He went over to the pile on the table, and opened them one by one. There was a waterproof flashlight, a Swiss army knife, a custom Pokedex from the professor, embarrassingly, new underwear from his mom, a guidebook to how to approach wild Pokémon (he didn't really need that thanks to Christopher's lessons, but he could always highlight it as a way to remember the important stuff ). Then he came to Chris's present. It wasn't wrapped, as he had mailed it.

Inside was a lot of bubble wrap, and it appeared to be separated into several layers of Styrofoam. The first layer was what appeared to be a flat tablet. It was a modified version of the Holo caster of Christopher's own design, which allowed one to talk over any device with both a screen and voice functions, as well as an internet function that automatically plugged into a Pokémon centers wifi. Next was what appeared to be a journal, identical to Chris's. In short, it had a bronze, airtight case with a key-lock, but no key! Figuring it was on one of the next two layers, but the next layer only found note. It read "Hello Ash, Happy birthday, sorry I can't be there, but I sent you this set of presents. Also, since you plan on going to Kalos last, I figured it would be I while before you got these yourself, so I got you them early. Watch out for the one with your key, can be a real prankster (if you've seen, then you know what I mean. Hey, rhyme!)

Ash moves the last piece, and there they were. Two poke balls. One was blue, with a deeper blue diamond shaped sticker. The other was silver with a golden key. He picked them up, before throwing them up and saying, "come on out!" Two Pokémon materialized in front of him as he caught the balls on the way down.

One was a Pokémon that's body looked like a grey rock with blue crystals. Towards the top there was what appeared to be a ring of white fur, before a little round head with big blue eyes, and a blue crystal in the middle of the top. It was a Carbink.

The next was a little silver circular Pokémon that looked like a key ring. Its head was a sphere with a white face with a pink oval forehead, and its face looked like a keyhole with a dot on either side. It was a klefki.

Ash's eyes widened, while the Carbink blinked and said its name cheerfully. The Klefki hovered around his head, before coming to a stop and looking him right in the eye. Ash, overcoming his shock, smiled and said, "Hey, my name is Ash! You're Klefki, right?" the creature looked at him a bit longer, and then gave the closest it could give to a smile.

"Ash, what are those?" asked one of the people present.

"They're fairy types native to the Kalos region." He explained. "I guess that it could be as many as six years until I could catch these normally, as I intend to go through the regions in order of distance from Kanto, so Kalos would be sixth. Thus Chris decided to get them for me early, as it would be annoying to wait that long, since they're some of my favorites." He said smiling at the two Pokémon, who gave him happy looks right back. Then, everyone laughed as Daze flew up to them and tried dragging them away to show him his stuff!

"Every one smirked and rolled their eyes at this, while Ash smirked. "Well daze, looks like you got those new friends a little early, huh?" he chuckled as they followed him through the door. Most likely he wanted to show them his bed and toys. Nobody had a doubt in their minds over what ash's started would be!

Ash turned to the crowd, "Is it time for cake yet? I'm hungry." His stomach got the point across with its Charizard impression. Everyone laughs.

(Meanwhile upstairs)

:Poke-speech translator activated:

"And that's my red ball, had that since I hatched, there's my favorite blanket, and this is ash's hat. Don't touch! He had to send like, a million post cards to get that! well, actually, if he spelled his name properly the first nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred ninety times, he would have only needed one, but he was a bit excited, and wrote to fast and got it blurred…"

Daze rambled on and on, excited to finally have someone to talk to that could understand what he was saying. While Ash almost had its down, he tended to get words mixed up, like how he tended to get "cold" and "hungry" mixed up, and thus sent him outside, or set him by the fire when he was hungry!

"…and this is where Delia sleeps…" the other two were interested in the building, but they also wanted to get to know there new trainer, and thus, were trying to escape Daze's tour. But Christopher had warned him about how to expect Daze to react.

"Hey, Daze is it? We were wondering if we could go get to know Ash. You see, we were told he's really fun to be around, and I and Carbink never really had any friends, so could we please get to meet him?" the Klefki begged.

"Oh sorry, I just got so excited about having now friends and the suspense of having to wait at least two weeks got to me! Come on! I bet he's trying to pin the tail on the Rapidash, and is going to get Oak instead! With that, he shot down the stairs, and out the door. The Klefiki and Carbink fallowed and came out the door in time to see, Professor Oak jump straight up screaming with a flaming paper tail.

"Glad I never accepted that bet," murmured the Klefki. The Carbink fell laughing.

(Back With Ash)

"Sorry professor! That was not intentional!" Ash promised. "But not unexpected," someone murmured.

Ash turned as he saw that the two new Pokémon had come out of the house. "Hey guys, how was the tour?" he asked, causing both of them to give Daze a dirty look, before the Carbink broke down laughing. Ash sweat dropped. "I assume he got really excited and dragged you around?" he smiled after saying this. It was very unlikely that this ISN'T what happened. He was proven right when they nodded.

After the party ended (and Ash knocking the professor in the punch bowl) Ash was sitting around his house talking to his two knew Pokémon. The Carbink was rather quite but laughed a lot, while the Klefki, who was male, was quite curious and tended to stare at things, which could get a little creepy. It also tended to fly circles around its trainers head.

He was currently trying to figure out names for them. "… Jewel? No. Crystal? No quite. Glimmer? Definitely not. Say, what do you think about Sapphire?" receiving a nod and a joyful "Car!" from the fairy/rock type. He turned to the floating key ring. "What about Keeper for you, since you're the "keeper of the keys." What do you think boy?" the klefiki began chanting its name a spinning circles around Ash's head, making the now ten year old smile.

Then he looked out the window and sighed. "I can hardly wait four more days! Then I'm a official trainer."

"Just make sure you can fall asleep that night!" came his mother's voice from the kitchen where she was doing the dishes. You usually stay up to late watching the Pokémon league finals!"

"Yes mom." He said in a depressed tone.

(Three days later)

"Can't I stay up? Please, I what to say high when Chris gets back!" begged Ash.

"Sorry Ash, but it's still no." Delia answered. Secretly there was another reason she couldn't let ash stay up. He, Christopher that is, had called earlier that day and made her promise not to let ash stay up, as there was something he didn't want him to learn. "You can say hello to him in the morning, so go to bed!"

Ash obeyed, but stayed awake. When he hered the door open, he whent to sneak out of his room, but herd his mother cooming. He dashed backinto his bed as fast as he could, dived under the covers and pretended to be asleep.

The door opened enough for his mother to look into the room, and then closed silently."is he asleep? Came a whisper, obviously male, Chris's voice, outside.

"Yes, he is,"came the reply.

"Good, I don't what ash making any dumb mistakes considering what I'm about to tell you."

The sound of footsteps followed . . .

. . . As did an extremely curious Ash! Slipping down the stairs he hid around the corner of the kitchen and listened as they talked over tea and coffee (as Chris couldn't stand coffee).

"Ok, so Delia, I have to admit, I haven't been off helping my aunt for the past two months, she recovered almost three weeks ago, and I've been searching mount silver since. Pleases do not interrupt me until I'm finished speaking. Now I looked up your husband's trained card, but there just wasn't any "Redrick Ketchum's in the base. But then I looked up "Red Ketchum." I photocopied the picture, and went to see the gym leaders he had fought, to see if they would be of any help."

"Speaking of them, what's with them and naming their kids after themselves? I mean, Brock started to go by his middle name, flint when he named his first-born Brock . . . alright so misty died in childbirth, so there last daughter being named after her was the dads choice, but still! Also, the member of the Kanto elite fours name is technically Lance the II. And . . . gah! I started ranting, sorry!"

Anyway, because they weren't the originals, that this Red faced, so they couldn't help, but all the others recognized him . . . well, except Sabrina, who still won't let me come into her gym since I beat her last year! Anyway, they said it was "hard to forget someone as important as that." I eventually contacted lance, the ORIGINAL, mind you, the one that retired five years ago, and asked him. He actually referred to the guy as Redrick, not Red! But anyway, I asked what happened to him. I went to mount silver, multiple times actually, but had to come back each time. I finally made it to the top though, and now, I found him. I managed to convince him to tell me his story, but . . . refused to tell me names. Either way, he didn't catch me taking a picture of him. Is this your husband?"

There was a gasp, and the sound of glass breaking, and then, "that's my husband!"

End of Chapter.

Ok, so this chapter stinks'. After posting the last chapter, I stopped writing until Boxing day! Well, I think the first chapter was shorter, but still. Also, I'm not revealing what else Christopher tells, Delia, or what Ash overhears. But this is still going to be one of the biggest keys to the plot. So yah, chris found Red(rick) Ketchum, and now knows why he left. Don't worry, he had a good reason! Its actually a theory I have about ash's dad being Red that I will post once all is revealed in my story and it will apply to ALL my story's. I came up with the idea that the gym leaders name their kids after themselves after I watched Pokémon origins and thought, "Why is Flint the gym leader instead of Brock?" before he introduced himself. So just so you know, I 'm not going to use the comic's for this, in fact, the only sources I'm using for this is the normal anime, and Pokémon origins anime. Don't like don't read, as some people put it.

Also, might as well tell you this, I intend to have ash capture multiple legendaries, but don't know which. I really want to add some of my personal favorites, but most of them are psychic types. I'm thinking about Mewtwo, Victini, Celebi, Cresselia, Shaymin. I am without a doubt adding Victiny, shaymin, Cresselia, and Diancie. He is going to be extreamly close to mewtwo even if he doesn't catch him. Like nearly Pikachu close.

Also, I'm thinking of doing a Unova region rewright, as I have yet to encounter one that's finished. But anyway, it's almost 1:00 am, I didn't sleep well last night, and I'm not thinking entirely properly, so forgive my spelling, grammar, and other mistakes as . . . nevermind! I'm posting this before I fall asleep typing! Good night! Oh, I better do a disclaimer, I do not . . . yawn . . . own . . . . . . Snore! (authers sister slaps him awake!) Ok I'm awake! I do not own pokemon and the only profit I make of of this is the advice I can get from others! Now goodnight! Sorry if I sound like a Ebenezer Scrooge, but I'm sleepy!