AN: Sorry about the delay in updates so this marathon update is my way of making it up to you.

AN2: this fic involves a smarter and more cunning Ash, as well as an Ash more dedicated to his training.

AN3: I'm sorry if this is rough to read

"Pokémon speak"

Lord of the Waters

Chapter one

-Ash-

With a happy laugh, Ash Ketchum ran down the streets of Pallet Town to the Laboratory of Professor Oak to get his first Pokémon and begin his Pokémon journey. Coming to a stop in front of the lab, and panting slightly, he straightened up and knocked on the door. Quickly the door opened to reveal a grinning Professor Oak, "Ah Ash," the professor said happily "you're just in time. The others are already here and I'm just about to give out the Pokémon.".

"Yes!" he cheered with a fist pump, eager to finally get his Pokémon.

Shaking his head in amusement the Professor lead him inside where he saw the three other trainers getting their Pokémon today. First was Gary Oak, the Professor's grandson and the town bully who was actually pretty disliked by most of the town due to his arrogance. Gary growing up had always boasted about how he would pick charizard but the moment that Gary learned that he wanted a water Pokémon as his starter the young Oak pulled a complete turn around and selected Squirtle as his future starter. The second trainer was a girl named Leaf Green who, while nice enough, he hadn't really interacted with much. The third and final of the waiting trainers was Mark Tyson, a bit of a loner but a good enough sort.

"Alright everyone," Professor Oak said once he walked in "today is the day you all become Pokémon trainers and begin your journeys. You will all be given your starter Pokémon, a pokedex, and five empty pokeballs to begin your travels. On your journey you will be allowed to carry six Pokémon with you, except one of you who has a special circumstance but we'll get to that later." At those words Gary smirked, probably thinking he was the one with the extra carry limit and the circumstance was being the professor's grandson. "Now as Mark was here first he gets first pick." The professor said gesturing to Mark who nodded and immediately selected the Charmander. "Then Leaf." the girl quickly skipped over and selected bulbasaur happily. "Now Gary.", before the words even finished leaving the professor's mouth Gary had strode forward and taken the pokeball with the Squirtle in it before turning to Ash.

"Oh well Loser," Gary sneered at him arrogantly "looks like you won't be getting a water type as your starter after all.".

"Actually he will Gary," Professor Oak said making the other three turn to him in confusion "Ash knew that there were four trainers starting out and asked me for a favor. He has always been partial to the Johto water starter so I called up Professor Elm who happily sent over a totodile for Ash to have as his starter Pokémon.", as he spoke, Professor Oak brought out another pokeball and handed it to him causing him to grin and let the Pokémon out, revealing an energetic Totodile bouncing up and down.

"What?!" Gary yelled angrily "I gave up on getting a charmander just to make sure he didn't get a water starter!" spinning around he pointed at Mark "You! Give me your Charmander!".

"No." Mark growled angrily before shoving past Gary and out of the building, pocketing his pokedex and pokeballs on the way out.

Sighing Professor oak turned to them and handed out the rest of the Pokedexes, "Alright," the professor continued "now I mentioned earlier that one of you had an extended carry limit and that person is Ash due to him being what's known as an type prodigy, in this case water.".

The other two trainers turned to stare at him in shock while he shifted uncomfortably, and remembered when he first learned about his gift.

-Flashback-

Groaning, he dropped the bag of Pokémon food on the ground before following it a moment later with a pant. Six year old Ash Ketchum was helping Professor Oak around the lab by feeding some of the different Pokémon, this time the water types which he had always been drawn to. Before he could open up the bag of feed however he heard the Professor yell "Look out!" before a strong gust of wind from some Pokémon's wings picked him up and threw him into the lake with a splash. Upon impact with the water he gasped in shock and sank quickly, feeling the water go down his throat. For a few moments he thrashed about and panicked, thinking he was drowning before the realization finally set in…he was alive, he was alive and actually breathing underwater.

Quickly he kicked up to the surface of the lake and surfaced with a splash and a gasp of air as he saw the aged professor swimming out to him frantically. After being taken inside and wrapped up in a towel by his mother, who the professor had summoned, he explained what had happened under the water and the two of them were shocked.

Professor Oak then went on to explain to him about Type Prodigies, who were trainers that had a natural affinity for one type of Pokémon that was so strong that they couldn't be hurt by that type of attack and could even use the attacks of that type themselves. Some could even speak to their designated type. One of the only other living Prodigies was Sabrina, the Saffron City Gym leader, who was a prodigy in Psychic types. Along with their natural skill and with their specific Pokémon types the league allows them to carry any number of Pokémon of that that type as well as their normal full team of six.

-End Flashback-

"Well," the professor said after explaining about Prodigies to the other two "I wish you all the best of luck.".

Nodding goodbye to the old man he quickly rushed out of the lab and was met by his mother who asked excitedly "Alright Ash, now did you get Squirtle?".

"Nope," he said happily before pointing to his totodile who he had decided to keep out of the pokeball "I got a totodile.".

"AWWWWW!" his mother cooed over his energetic Pokémon, "He's adorable! Are you going to nickname him?".

At that question both his mother and Totodile gazed at him curiously before he shook his head in the negative, "No," he answered "if I nickname any of my Pokémon it will be after they fully evolve as evolution can change their personalities, even if only slightly, which can make a once fitting nickname useless.".

Totodile nodded at that logic while his mother chuckled, "Alright then Ash. Good luck on your journey and call me when you get to every city, alright?".

"I will mom," he promised, hugging her tightly "I love you.".

"I love you too Ash." She said happily as she hugged him back before laughing and playfully shooing him down the road "Now go on, go become a water Pokémon master.".

"You got it mom!" he cheered before running down the road and out of pallet town. About ten minutes outside the town limits he walked over to a pond and knelt at the water before splashing out a pattern on its surface while Totodile watched confused. Quickly the surface of the water exploded outward with a splash as three massive Pokémon were revealed.

The first was a shiny magicarp that was enormous, while a normal magicarp was about three feet high this one was round twelve feet tall and quite energetic. The second one to surface was another shiny Pokémon, this one a feebas, that was about ten feet high. The third and final one was a kabuto, not shiny, that was about two feet long, around double the length of a normal Kabuto. "Hey guys!" he said excitedly as the trio of huge water Pokémon splashed around him "I started my journey today, I can finally catch you!".

The trio of Pokémon cheered and he quickly introduced them to Totodile who they took an instant liking too as he explained to his starter how he had met the trio when he was little and they were trying to hide from the bigger water Pokémon as, at the time, they were only the size of regular Pokémon.

He quickly caught the trio and, as he knew Kabuto had a fear of enclosed spaces, released the fossil Pokémon and let it clamp onto his back like a backpack before he continued his way to Viridian, following the river.

After about two hours of walking he came across a bend in the river where, after cornering it, he saw an orange haired girl fishing ahead of him. Before he could move around her the water next to him began to bubble furiously before two Pokémon burst out of it and tackled him to the ground happily. Looking down he exclaimed "Krabby! Shellder! What's up guys?".

"Nothing much," Krabby answered and he grinned at the thrill of being able to understand Pokémon "we came back this way hoping to run into you and we thought we'd say hi. When are you gonna become a trainer and catch us?".

"I just became a trainer today." I answered and the two Pokémon did a little victory dance making him laugh. Before he could pull out his pokeballs however he saw the orange haired girl run over and threw a pair of pokeballs at the two Pokémon on his chest with a greedy look in her eye. Reacting quickly he spun around and hissed softly so she couldn't hear "Kabuto, harden." And felt Kabuto shiver as it used the move and pokeballs bounced off.

"Hey!" the orange haired girl yelled angrily "Hands off! Those are my Pokémon!".

"No they aren't!" he growled "You haven't caught them and they want to come with me. Right guys?". The two Pokémon quickly nodded in agreement before dropping down and hitting the capture buttons on his last two empty pokeballs which clicked instantly, "See?" he pointed out.

Growling the girl yelled "I'm Misty Waterflower! I'm going to be the greatest Water Pokémon trainer in the world and those Pokémon should belong to me!".

Snorting he taunted "Dream on you arrogant brat," he ignored the girl's affronted gasp "I am going to be the world's greatest water Pokémon master and there isn't anything you can do about it.". With that he stood up and walked away, ignoring the spluttering and raging girl as he smirked, "Got me a two wanabe rivals, a full team, two shinnies, and a fossil Pokémon already. Not bad for the first day of my journey.".