Raised in the shadows

by drammon

what if ash did have a father growing up but he was abusive, what if ash lost Delia when he was young due to his father.one day after playing in the forest with some of his pokemon friends, the pokemon's parents see ash and follow him home.what will happen to ash when he finds out that his friends weren't shiny, to begin with. this is my take on ash being raised by shadow pokemon

2. Chapter 2

Here is the next chapter for raised by the shadows, I do apologize for the long wait. My brother screwed up my laptop and it takes forever for me to text the chapters. I am saving up for another one but it will take me about a month or two to get enough. So please bear with me. Also, I do apologize for my grammar as I have said in my other stories, it is not my strong suit. Anyway, I said enough, so here is the next installment of raised in the shadows, I do not own pokemon.

"normal speech"

'pokespeach'

'thought'

*last time*

'S. absol, S. Umbreon, I want the both of you to stay here and keep watch over the hatchling's here alright. I'll be back in an hour or so, so you two can have the finishing blows.' states before vanishing back into the shadows. S. Umbreon just looks at the spot her leader vanished into before turning around and jumping onto the ash's bed. She then curled up at ashs feet and kept an eye out for if the door opens. Absol, on the other hand, sat down in one of the corners of the room and kept watch over ash and the others. Ash's friends though, they quickly curled themselves around Ash's body and tried to stay awake but quickly joined their friend in sleep.

*now*

*downstairs living room: Ketchum residence 12:30 A.M*

All was quiet downstairs, well almost quiet. Richard/dick Ketchum was currently passed out on the couch a fallen beer bottle was added to the rest on the floor. He was snoring loudly, proving that he was in a very deep sleep. This was both good and bad at the same time. Good for the beings in the shadow as they quickly dragged him into the darkness, but bad for Dick as once he awoke he would wish for death by alcohol poisoning.

'S. Mew P.O.V*

We had been successful in dragging the thing inside the shadows, I would've used my psychic powers to lift him into the shadows, but I need to focus on finding a secluded and secure location so we can begin. I began to hag slightly at the stench that seemed to roll of the things body.

'probably has no knowledge on how to bath.' I think to myself as the stench of B.O and old beer. I plugged my nose to stop the stench from invading my nose and continued my search for a location we can dispose of the body. I soon found the perfect spot, a cave on a small island far from any form of civilization. I quickly open a shadow portal and let the others leave first with the body.

Upon exiting the shadows I transform into a Caterpie and begin using string shot to tie up the things legs, and wrists. I then turn around to face the other five occupants within the cave.

One was a male Zoraork but instead of the crimson red hair on its neck and head, it was a neon green color, his eyes were the same neon color as its hair. Her claws were also a neon green.

The next was a female Pikachu. She had black fur instead of the signature yellow. The tips of her ears were crimson along with their eyes. And her entire tail was pure black.

The third one was a Lucario. He was pure black where he was supposed to be dark blue, the beige fur on his chest was snow white. The spikes coming out of his chest and paws were a deep crimson like his eyes. His was white.

The fourth was a Nidoqueen, though she was the oddest out of the six there due to her coloration. She is a shadow pokemon her color only become a darker form of blue rather than pitch black like the others, she could be mistaken for a shiny ignoring that her color was darker instead of lighter.

The fifth and final one of the group was a Charmeleon. He, like Nidoqueen, had a coloration different than that of a normal shadow pokemon. Instead of their dark orange scales, he had pale blue ones. His tail flame was blue instead of the usual red and yellow. there is one thing that they all have in common though, they all had a deep hatred for humans especially the one they had within the cave. their angered growls were being echoed through the cavern, and they seemed to grow in volume by the second. noticed Richard's body flinch, so he transformed back into his original form and signaled for silence, which she got after a few seconds.

"thank you. now you all know why we're here, the little hatchling has provided us with a new 'toy', and thankfully I was able to find this secluded island far away from any form of human civilization. we can be as... 'playful' as we want with our new toy, though you cannot kill it, that right belongs to and ." I state, letting a dark, bloodthirsty grin to appear on my face along with the other shadow pokemon in the cave. suddenly a groan is heard, turning around I notice that our toy has just woken up.

"'yawn' what time is- wait," the toy says, before he begins to try and break free from the string cuffs I put on him. giggling darkly I float up close to him, as he notices me his face starts to turn this disgusting color of purple. soon threats are thrown about him doing things to his own hatchling once he gets out. he soon flinches back when our growls return, much more ferocious than before.

"you think you will be alive long enough to do those things to our hatchling then you have another thing coming. he is all yours everyone and if he passes out just give him a squirt of water or jumpstart," I say in both pokespeech and through the toys mind, I then vanish into the shadows just as the toy is electrocuted by S. Pikachus thunderbolt. I quickly send them a reminder to keep him alive for S. Umbreon and S. Absol. I'm soon back in the human hatchling's home, our new base. noticing the trash around the place I quickly teleport back to the cave and fetch an S. Mr. Mime to help clean up the place. which was a challenge in itself as there were beer bottles and a few cigarette buds everywhere. in the kitchen, the sink was half full with a pot and pan and a dish, the carpets were stained with what I hope was beer. I then leave S. Mr. Mime to sweep up the rest of the floor, checking the clock that was on the wall above the T.V which reads '6:30' that shocked me as I didn't notice that 5 hours had passed. I quickly float up the stairs into the hatchlings room and had to stop my self at awwing at the cute scene.

Ash was currently lying on his back as S. Zorua, S. Pichu, and S. nidoran on Ash's chest and cheek. I then notice two pair's of crimson eyes staring at me, which I already knew were S. Umbreon and S. Absol. I give them a follow me motion with my paw and leave the room, they both follow me as quietly as possible. I then turn towards them before speaking.

"thank you both for keeping an eye on them for me," I said, they both nodded and then I continued

"I also made sure that the others don't do the finishing blow, that's all for you. I will be taking you two their now if you like,"I state. The both of them thank me and ask for me to do that. Quickly I open up another shadow portal and have it keyed into the area where the others are. I then turn back towards them.

'alright, this portal will take you there and I will keep it open for you and everyone so you all have a way back.' I then lead them through the portal to the island's cave, where, upon arrival are meet with the group of five from earlier standing in front of their toy which is now full of scratches, bruises, blood, and many other types of injuries. I barely noticed the slight rise and fall of the toy's chest showing that it is still alive though just barely. Turning back towards the group, I say.

'well done, how was your time with it' towards the group. S. Pikachu was the one to answer me with a grin on her face.

'a lot of fun, though we had a few close calls and I had to restart its heart a few times.' she replies I return a grin back to her.

'that's good, I'm leaving this portal open for you guys after you finish up. It will remain open for the next hour, so you can drag out its death as long as you want.' I tell them before heading back through the portal and into the hatchlings room. Though as soon as I arrive I notice the human hatchling was no longer in the bed, though his three friends were still asleep on the bed. Suddenly there was a very quiet noise coming from downstairs, quickly I flew out of the room and down the stairs to see what it was.

-probably S. Mr. Mime dropped a can or bottle on the ground- I thought at first as I reached downstairs. But as I got downstairs I didn't sense him anywhere, but I did sense someone in the kitchen along with a slight sizzling sound. Curious I float a few feet so I'm at the entrance of the kitchen and am shocked and angered at what I saw. The hatchling was currently standing on a stool in front of the stove, cooking. Squashing my anger down I slowly float until I am behind the hatchling, noticing the slight flinch he gave out, I placed the tip of my tail to the back of his head and began to release some calming energy into the hatchling. I smiled as I heard him give out a breath of relief, I then remove the tip od my tail from the back of his head just as he turned it staring at me with his crimson and chocolate brown eyes.

'Good morning hatchling,' I say to him, with a small smile. The hatchling does the same.

'g-good m-morning S. Mew' he replies and then turns back to the stove and continues his cooking, a frown appears on my face.

'what are you doing hatchling,' i ask already knowing the answer. The hatchling turns back to face me a frown on his face.

'i-i'm cooking, why' he says I continue my questions with a simple.

'why,' he quickly replies stating that it was one of his 'jobs' causing my frown to deepen though my anger seemed to grow towards the toy's treatment of the hatchling. Though he used jobs plural meaning more than one.

'what other jobs do you do hatchling' i gently ask him, using some more of my power to relax him.

'u-um I h-had to do th-the cleaning, la-laundry, c-cooking br-breakfast, l-lunch and dinner, g-gardening, and sometimes the grocery shopping.' if I wasn't angry before I had become downright furious, not only was the hatchling was too young to do any of this. The closest store was all the way in Viridian city 3 DAYS AWAY FROM HERE. The hatchling could've been kidnapped so many times due to that things stupidity, no stupidity was too good for someone like him but I don't know any other word to describe him. I soon hear a slight whimper, which brings my attention back to reality. I notice that I had been accidentally releasing some of my energy, which was filled with anger hate and a need to kill. Quickly I bring it back down and send some calming energy into the hatchling while saying sorry a few times. After a few minutes hatchling had finished preparing breakfast and had placed it on the table and sat on the other side of the table with a rather small bowl with a few berries. Frowning I asked.

'Hatchling, why are you not eating the food you prepared.' I asked curiously, he shook his head.

'n-not su-supposed to' he said softly, causing my anger to almost leaking out again, almost. sighing softly I use psychic to lift the plate of food up and in front of the hatchling, and when he looked up at me confused I just gave him a small smile.

'Hatchling, from now on when you prepare food that he used to eat then you eat it, as we pokemon are unable to eat most of the food you eat. also now that you are living with us, you won't be doing any of the stuff you used to do when you lived with him.' I state and before he could reply, I use psychic to use the fork and get some food on it and stuff it into his mouth.

'Hatchling, i want you to eat first and later when everyone is back we will continue with our talk alright.' Ii said and feed two more fork-fulls of food into his mouth before letting him continue feeding himself.

*S. Mew P.O.V end*

*no-ones P.O.V*

for the next ten-twenty minutes after ash had finished his food, S. Mew had begun to tell him some of the adventures and Mis-Adventures during the past couple of years. S. Mew took great joy in having the young child laugh at some of the stories, though the most recent one had ash on the ground while he giggled in the air. though the sound of laughter soon died down at the sound of rushed movement upstairs and down the staircase. though the walking soon turned to banging as three small figures came tumbling down the stairs, before landing on the ground with a quickly got up from the ground and headed towards his friends, and asked them if they were alright.

'yea were fi-fine just a bit dizzy from the tumble.' stated before turning his head around and glared at S. Pichu, though it wasn' a good glare due to the dizzy spell he was still under. ash though gave each of his friends a quick look over to make sure none of them were injured from the tumble after he finished his quick check-over he lifted his three friends up and onto the couch. though as he was about to speak with his friends, one of the shadows on the wall near the kitchen seemed to grow and soon seven different shadow pokemon came through the shadows the first was an S. Pikachu and the last was an S. Zoraork. ash's friends were wondering who he was staring at and when they looked they cheered slightly as they noticed their parents were in the house, the three pokemon jumped off of the couch and rushed towards their parents before dragging them over to where Ash was.

'mom/dad, I want you to meet our friend ash,' the three friends state as they now stood in-front of ash who waved at them shyly along with a soft hello, which they returned with one of their own. S. Pikachu walked up to him and signaled for him to come closer, he did so and was now sitting on the ground in front of her.

'he's gone now, he won't ever be able to hurt you again,' she stated getting a few tears to come out of his eyes a smile appeared on his face though.

'thank you,' he replied with a slight hiccup, S. Umbreon then came up and slowly licked off the tears getting a few giggles from the boy who said to stop as it tickled. she then did but said one thing that had the tears coming down again.

'Welcome to the family Hatchling,' after she said that a huge cheer went on throughout the house as everyone present welcomed the new hatchling to their pack, though the three friends cheered the loudest out of everyone present and ash's smile seemed to grow a lot bigger than before thinking happily.

'I have a family again' he then was tackled to the ground by his three friends getting some laughs out of him and the others in the room.

*time skip: 6 years later*

six years, it had been six long years since ash had joined the shadow pokemon pack in his nearby forest and he's loved every minute of it. he has two great memma's (sorry if I spelled that wrong), they were S. Umbreon and S. Absol as well as an uncle in S. Mew who would have him tag along in some of his pranks against most of the human's and Gary. He was able to continue living in his house after they had dealt with Richard, though S. Mew had enlarged the inside a lot since the entire pack would stay both in the house and in the cave in the woods. when he came back from school one day he had almost passed out as he never expected, when he entered his home to have seen a living room the same size as one of those palaces around the world luckily it would revert back when another human would near their home.

Ash had also changed a lot during the past 6 years, both physically and attitude wise. after getting some more food in him he appeared much more healthy then he used to be and had some more lean muscle on him. he was currently standing at 5 foot 7, he had mostly worn black and white clothing or black and red his uncle had even entered him into a competition and he had won a hat with the indigo league symbol on the front but instead of it being red and white, his uncle had changed it to black and white while turning the symbol on the front of the hat crimson. he had become colder towards the humans, two years ago he had attacked Gary who had been making fun of Ash's new look claiming him to be some sort of freakish goth, he was sorted out with a broken nose. though he still held some kindness towards the humans, though it was very little and very few were included it was mostly just professor oak. his hair had changed a bit to, it was still raven black but it held some snow-white highlights along with one of the bundles of hair that would be pushed out of the gap in the hat when it was turned back-words was pure white.

ash wasn't the only one to change over the past six years, his best friends had changed as well. S. Zorua hadn't really changed that much though had become one of the main pranksters within the group. S. Pichu had evolved during the fourth year and, much to his embarrassment and everyone's laughter was gushed over by his overly affectionate mother for the day, S Nidoran had also evolved into a Nidorina just this week.

it was the night before ash was heading out for his journey, and was having difficulty deciding on what pokemon he was going to choose, he was torn between the three starters that were to be chosen. he was leaning towards Squirtle but knowing Gary he would take it before anyone had a chance to decide on which one they want. he then shrugged deciding on choosing whichever one he wanted when he went there the next morning, after setting his alarm and put on his pajamas he went into bed which was shared with his three friends his uncle reinforced it to be able to handle S. Nidorina's weight. after saying goodnight to his friends he quickly fell asleep.

*time skip: 09:30*

ash was currently downstairs eating breakfast with his uncle S. Mew and his best friends S. Pikachu, S. Zorua, and S. Nidorina. they were currently eating at the table excited chatter between ash and his friends about what starter he should get. soon it was ten minutes before ash had to be at Prof. Oak's lab to get his starter. he stood up and placed his bowl in the sink and headed out the door, his friends had stayed behind as they don't like the other humans around pallet or any, in general, it was just that pallet rubbed them in the wrong way. ash's journey towards oak's lab was a rather quick one, seeing as he only lived about a five-minute walk away from it.

when he had gotten to the stairs leading up to oaks lab, he notices a slight crowd already by the stairs he groaned as he realized Gary was already their, getting his ego pumped by the crowd.

'he already has a big enough head, soon it might take him off the face of the earth.' he thinks to himself with a chuckle at an image of Gary's head blowing up like a hot air balloon and taking off into the skies. shaking his head ash shifted through the crowd, trying to get to the stairs. though unlucky for him he seemed to gather the peacock's attention.

"Well, well, well if it ain't Ashy-boy. what are you doing here, don't you know today is the day competent trainers get their pokemon starters today." Gary said with his cocky attitude along with a cocky smirk on his face. ash's only reply was a blank bored stare directed towards him, which he snarled at inwardly. turning around he (ash) began walking up the stairs, only to feel a slight pull on the back of his shirt stopping him from moving forward.

"sorry Ashy-boy, nobody like yourself doesn't get to go first," Gary stated cockily before heading up the stairs, sighing while shaking his head ash followed suit. after about 2 minutes he arrives at the top to see Gary talking to two other people. one was a female from the same trainer school he went to along with Gary, her name is Midori Leaf (unoriginal name i know). she was currently 2 inches shorter than Gary, she had waist length brown hair, along with brown eyes. she was currently wearing her favorite sun-hat, a sleeveless pale green shirt, a red mini-skirt, some scrunched up knee high pale green socks, and had a simple pair of slip-on white sneakers with a red stripe on the middle of them. he was friends with her for about a week before she fell under Gary's sway.

The other person was one he did not know. the person was about an inch and a half taller than Gary, though he had the same hairstyle as him except his hair was black with some light blue highlights, he also has sky blue eyes. he was currently wearing a black t-shirt under his blue hoodie jacket, some dark blue jeans, and had on some black sneakers with electric blue laces. he was currently leaning his back against oak's lab. after a few moments, Gary had decided he had waited long enough and slammed the door inwards shouting out 'Gramps'. a rather loud bang was heard from upstairs, and then some rushed steps going down the stairs. as the person reached the bottom everyone got a good look at him. his hair was all grey and his eyes were black, he was currently wearing his signature lab coat and beige pants. and from the look of it he seemed both tired and angry.

'probably pulled an all-nighter again.' ash thinks to himself, knowing the prof. a bit more than the rest, you see about 2-3 years ago he had to ask prof. Oak if he could work part-time at his laboratory and sanctuary, under the guise of wanting to be prepared when his journey started. prof. oak had accepted and ash began to learn how to take care of the pokemon within the sanctuary, how to prepare their food, how to heal their injuries, how to groom them (which everyone at his home enjoyed), etc. etc. He would head there after school on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.

"-Follow me please," Oak had said, causing ash to shake his head to regain focus as prof. Oak began to lead them to the back of the lab near the entrance to his sanctuary. there was a table in front of the four soon to be trainers holding three Pokeballs. each Pokeball had on one sticker to show what type was inside of it, one had a flame sticker, another had a droplet of water sticker, and the last one had a leaf sticker. ash had rolled his eyes when he saw the three Pokeballs on the table.

'probably forgot about there being 4 new trainers coming in today instead of three.' ash thinks to himself, he then notices that the other boy the one he never met before notice this as well. prof. Oak is currently rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

"the four of you could already tell by the three Pokeballs on the table that I was only expecting three trainers today. the fourth person with us is Dante, his family has moved all the way to pallet town a few days ago and I was only alerted to his arrival last night. don't worry though you all will be getting your starters today through one of you must remain behind while I contact the other professors to see if they have any pokemon they have for new trainers." he states. no one but Dante and ash seemed to think about getting the other pokemon, Dante because his parents had only notified prof. oak the night before while ash was thinking about having something different than the normal trio of Kanto. after a few moments, he took a step back signaling to oak that he would wait, oak then gave him a nod and a slight smile, while Dante did the same through his face was neutral.

"thank you ash, now one by one I want each of you to come up and choose your starter. the Pokeball with the flame sticker holds Charmander, the one with the water droplet sticker holds Squirtle, and the one with the leaf holds Bulbasaur." Oak states towards the three trainers. after a minute or two they leave with their new pokemon Gary with Squirtle, Leaf with Bulbasaur and Dante with Charmander. they were each given a Pokedex and 5 Pokeballs by one of Oak's assistants as they left. oak then signaled for ash to follow him to the second floor.

"now then, let's get you a starter pokemon," he said as he began typing on the computer.

to be continued...

as I have said before I do apologize for my grammar as it is not my strong suit, and I also apologize for the lateness of this chapter as texting this up was not my intention at all. also I have a question for you all, what starter should ash get it can be from any region except for Alola, no offense to the people who read this and like that game but I think that it and the series for it on t.v are bad. also if you have any recommendations on what I should do with this story then please let me know in the reviews, I do check them every time you post so please leave some constructive criticism. Ja Ne.