#Route 1 - Kanto#
In October, mid-autumn, the trees were slowly shedding their withered leaves. Winter was just around the corner. The weather was slowly getting colder. On one such cool fall day, under a tree in the woods on Route-1 near Pallet town, a boy about 10 years old sat on the grass and slept leaning against the tree.
[MC pov]
I woke up startled by the sound of a strong wind blowing and rustling the greenery around me. The reason for my startle could be that the clothes I was wearing were thin and I was sitting in the shade of a tree in the middle of nature and the cold autumn wind hit my face in the evening while I was sleeping leaning against the tree.
"Where the hell am I? The last thing I remember was lying on my bed and falling asleep.." I rubbed my eyes with my hands for a while to shake off the drowsiness. I opened my eyes and started to carefully examine my surroundings.
"Well.. I think it's because I'm in the forest. The air is so clean. I've been living in a crowded city for as long as I can remember. It's so refreshing to breathe here after the polluted air of the metropolis..." As I looked around, I saw an environment completely different from the gray pale colors and lifeless people of city life. Even though it was autumn, the colors were vibrant and many animals were running around. Animals.. 'Huh?'
"Wait a minute! Is that purple rat is a Rattata? Is that a walking onion up ahead!!! I must be imagining things." I rubbed my eyes again and opened them again.
"Yeah, it's still there, poking its purple head out of the bushes and checking around. Am I reincarnated into the Pokemon world? Really??" Am I experiencing the same thing that happened in dozens of fanfictions I read? Excitement was filling me. But I thought this might be a bad dream, so I pinched my arm and tried to wake up.
"Ugh.. That really hurts. And I'm still here. I can't believe it." Looking at my hands in amazement, I realized that there was a star-shaped potion on the grass to my left..
"No way. You reincarnated me into this world and gave me a golden finger? I must have been a very good person in my previous lives or I must have sold my soul to the demon to get such special privileges. I hope it's not the latter possibility.." I took the potion in my hand and started to examine it.
"It looks like it's made of plain yellow glass. Let's take the lid off and smell it." When I opened the lid and smelled it, I couldn't smell anything. "Is this an essence? If it's an essence, I wonder what type of essence it is.. I'm not very knowledgeable about essences. I hope it's something useful. Whatever. Even if I don't find anything useful, I don't have anything right now. It's good to have a skill if nothing else. Just not something that will turn me into a woman or an ugly monster." I took a deep breath and downed the potion.
'It looks like water. Am I being pranked or something? Anyway, I've been feeling thirsty since I woke up. I didn't have to look around for a source of freshwater. It's already enough for me to be reincarnated in this world..' Just as I was thinking like this, new information started to appear in my mind. My eyes opened wide with astonishment.
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~ Essence of the Custom Wishes of Full Control (A.N. I made it up. It doesn't exist anywhere else.)
The abilities you will gain when you drink this essence, which is clear like water and has no odor or flavor;
# You can reincarnate into any character you want in any universe you want, or you can transmigrate to that universe with any body you want.
# You can return to your body in previous universes at any time. If you wish, you can stop time in your previous world while you are in another world, or you can make it flow as slowly as you want.
# Depending on your wish, you may receive a new essence that you can use in that universe where you reincarnate or transmigrate.
# There is no limit to the number of essences you can use. You can use the essences you have acquired in previous universes in the new universe. You can lock your previous essence powers at your will. And of course, you can unlock them at any time you want.
# You are also immune to mind control or mental manipulation of any kind.
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"Wow.. Isn't that too powerful? Oh my Arceus.. I definitely sold my soul to the demon." I took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
"I'm supposed to wish for an essence right now, right? After all, I'm in a new world." Since I didn't know much about essences, I wished for an essence that would help me in this world and in the worlds I might visit in the future.
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~ Essence of the Elven Progenitor
By drinking this Essence that radiates a majestic forest aroma, you will gain multiple benefits:
# Gain a one-time chance to change your appearance and must keep the unique feature of pointed ears.
# As the Progenitor, all elves and half-elves will feel a natural suppression.
# Will gain all knowledge, be it magic, fighting, etc from every Elven civilization within the Omniverse. And you get unlimited and eidetic memory to hold this knowledge.
# Your soul, mind and body become immortal and nigh-indestructible. While your mindset will gradually become immune to boredom, mimetic, insanity, etc.
# Your superior bloodline will assimilate any foreign bloodline within your body, while outright removing any and all weaknesses.
# Gain a body 25x stronger than your average Elf. Can be increased with training.
# Supernatural talent when it comes to armed and unarmed fighting. Unnatural and uncanny like grace whenever you move.
# Become a walking Tree of Life. And gaining:
- Nature becomes your domain, comes with Nature Manipulation, Plant Manipulation, etc.
- Once every month can squeeze out a Drop of Life which can cure/heal anything, purify curses, bless any weapon/armor with Extreme Durability.
- Your body will have so much vitality within your body, that any area you stay in will make everything slowly evolve. Any mutations will not harm you.
- Gain the ability to travel the Omniverse with no problems, as the spiritual branches guide your path.
- May create one Tree of Life per world that will fill the world with mana or any form of energy of your choosing. Able to use the Trees as a "Webway", teleporting between worlds, even universes.
# Runes and Enchantments are your forte, creating them with just a thought.
# You have high virility with the choice of which sex your baby will have and whether or not you will get pregnant.
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"..." I was stunned by the information that flooded my mind, I couldn't even react for a long time.
The sun was slowly setting and it was getting darker.
As the information of the new essence flowed into my mind, I began to recall the memories of this body. "I was really reincarnated into Ash Ketchum's body.."
'I'm 9 years old now. I have a few months left to become a pokemon trainer...' I immediately thought about the body I wanted and my 9-year-old body started to change. My height grew to 1.90m (~6'3''). Visible muscles started to appear all over my body. My hair grew to my waist and turned white. The color of my eyes turned bright green. My pants and t-shirt began to stretch and tear at the seams with this abnormal evolution.
"I guess I shouldn't have done the body selection here. In all the excitement, it never occurred to me to think about my clothes." I reached my hand to my ear and touched it. My ears had turned into long Elf ears.
In the Pokemon world, the superpowers humans were born with were either Aura or Psychic powers. As Ash, I already had a strong Aura. I remembered that the power of the aura was determined by the power of the spirit. I closed my eyes and tried to feel my immortal and near-indestructible spirit power brought by the essence.
I manipulated a little bit of this power and concentrated it in my hand and extended my shining hand with a green light to the grass next to me. And the grass visibly began to grow rapidly and daisies began to bloom. A relieved smile formed on my face. I closed my eyes again. Put my legs in the lotus position and sat comfortably.
The feeling of 'being one with nature', which is one of the things the essence brings, felt really great. I started radiating my aura out into the world. I could feel everything that was happening in a circle with a radius of 10 meters centered on the tree I was leaning back against. Of course, this was not my limit. At the moment I was not experimenting to see if there was a limit to this Aura field, I just wanted to play with the powers that come with the essence.
The Pokemon, startled by the abnormal growth of my body, were watching me through the bushes in the distance. It was the first time they had ever seen such a strange human. Even if they were startled, their curiosity overcame their fear. And they didn't turn and run away. They waited and watched with curiosity what I would evolve into.
I started using my aura to control nature and the vegetation around me started to come to life, as if it wasn't autumn. Plants began to grow and flowers began to bloom. The 7-meter tree that I was leaning on started to grow even more, growing up to 10 meters, branching and budding.
"Pidgee..!!!"
A Pidgey excitedly glided towards me from the tree I was leaning against. It circled around the tree, slowed down and perched on my shoulder. And began to rub its head against my cheek.
"Hahaha... A while ago you were watching me suspiciously from the tree. What happened? What's with the friendliness all of a sudden?" I started stroking the soft fur under its chin. I could tell it liked it when it closed its eyes, chirped cheerfully and leaned against my hand.
"Pidge... Pidgeyy!!!"
'Being one with nature, I know what it means. This tree is its home. It wants to thank me for revitalizing and improving the tree and the surroundings of its home.'
"I was just testing my powers. No need to thank me little one. But I'm glad I was able to make your house better." So I started rubbing my face against its neck, the fluffy bundle of feathers was so soft.
After playing with Pidgey for a while, I saw that the sun had almost set.
'I have to go home. Otherwise Delia will be very worried.'
Despite his mother's warnings, Ash always escaped to the woods around Pallet Town. He would watch the Pokemon from afar. But he was always home before sunset. He was afraid that if he went home late and made Delia worried, he would be grounded and would not be able to leave the house for a long time.
Of course, I wasn't afraid of the punishment of not being able to leave the house, I just wanted to get home quickly so that a single mother wouldn't have to worry about losing her only child.
(Ash's father has always been a matter of controversy. In this ff, I'm assuming his father is dead based on a video I watched on yt. In the video, Lt. Surge said that an electric Pokemon saved his life during the Great Pokemon War. I'm assuming his father died in the Great Pokemon War.)
I said goodbye to Pidgey, Rattata, Oddish and the Caterpie who gathered around me as I played with Pidgey and started walking towards my new home amid their sad chirps.
'Delia will have a heart attack if she sees me like this. I'm going to use my aura to turn my body back into something similar to how I was before. My eyes will stay green. I'll turn my hair black again, but unfortunately most of my muscles will be going for now. I tell Delia that a strange power in the forest changed my body. I'll use my aura and healing power to heal my mother's body. So she'll believe what I say.'
As I walked home, my body was returning to the way it was before the essence change. I can change the aura into other kinds of energies. I changed the aura into mana and repaired most of my clothes with the repair spell, one of the spells from the Elven essence. My height was 1.40m(~4'7'') before the change. I will stop at 1.50m(~4'11'') for now.
As I left the forest and approached the house, I saw Delia in the garden of the house, looking around anxiously. Delia was 29 years old, 1.60m(~5'3'') tall. She was a beautiful woman with amber colored eyes and long reddish brown hair tied in a ponytail.
I started running towards her at a fast pace so that she would see me and wouldn't worry any more. She immediately saw me running out of the forest and towards home. Her worried expression relaxed when she saw that I was okay. But as I got closer to her, she saw the changes in my body and the torn clothes and I think she started to worry again because she thought something bad happened to me.
"Ash!!! I always told you not to go into those woods. What happened to your clothes? Are you all right? You're not hurt, are you? How did your hair and height get this long?" Delia started asking random questions as she ran towards her son.
Without giving Delia a chance to ask any more questions, I picked her up by her slim waist and started walking quickly towards the house. I don't want the neighbors to hear us. She wrapped her legs around my waist in surprise. She didn't expect me to show such strength. In the meantime, I started to explain a little to calm her down. "Mom! Calm down. Nothing bad happened to me. I'll answer your questions one by one. Let's go inside the house first."
I was a little shorter than her and when I hugged her, my head was right up against her neck. I looked over her shoulder and carefully climbed the front steps, opened the door with one hand and entered the house.
I tried to put her down by inhaling her fragrant vanilla perfume from her neck. But Delia was wrapped around my neck and didn't seem to want to get off. She was also sniffing my neck. Elf essence ftw..
"Mom, aren't you going to take off your shoes?" I asked. But two clattering sounds on the floor behind me made me realize that I didn't need to put her down. So I hugged her even closer and caressed her back as I took off my shoes and started walking towards the living room.
When I sat down on the living room sofa, Delia sat on my lap. Then I started to tell her what had happened.
"Mom, nothing bad happened to me. You don't have to worry. I fell asleep under a tree in the forest and when I woke up my body was like this. I don't feel bad. On top of that, I have a special abilities now, do you want to see it?" I told Delia with childish excitement. And I patted her on the back twice and wanted to move away from her a little and look at her face.
She calmed down a little and moved away from me and took my face in her hands and started to look into my eyes.
"Your eye color has changed. You've grown so much all of a sudden. What will we do if people ask questions? What if they take you away from me?" After she calmed down a bit, she was more worried again. I couldn't stand her worrying so much, even though I knew it was for my own good. I wrapped my arms around her waist. Kissed her forehead and released my aura to cover the entire room.
[Mommy Delia Pov]
The kiss on my forehead erased all my worries. I can't think of anything right now. I've felt such a sense of relief twice in my life. The first time was when he came out of the woods and picked me up like a feather and carried me home. The second time was now.. When he kissed me on the forehead.
I can't understand how my mischievous, disobedient son grew up like this in one day. I was going to have to say goodbye to him after couple of months.. Because he already wanted to be a Pokemon trainer. I panicked when I saw my son growing up so suddenly. I felt like he was going to leave home early.
After kissing my forehead, a green energy began to emanate from my son's body that filled the entire room. When he released this energy, his black hair below his shoulders turned silver. His hair seemed to shine under the light of the room. When I touched his hair, it felt like silk. I couldn't help envying the texture of my son's hair.
When the energy passed through my body, even though I was 29 years old, I felt as if my body, which had been tired from years of restaurant work, had returned to my 18s.
'Is this the special power he was just talking about? I wonder what kind of special effects it has?' When I looked around, the plants in the pots by the window had started to grow and bloom.
I couldn't help thinking, 'Did my son turn into a grass-type pokemon?'
"Hahaha.. Mom, I'm so strong now, I don't think anyone can do anything to us. You don't have to worry. Now I have a surprise for you. But we need a mirror to show it to you." He laughed sweetly as if he knew what I was thinking and told me not to worry Again.. But when something like this happens, I can't help but worry.
He hugged me tightly again and got up from the couch and started walking towards the door of the room. These hugs made me strangely feel like I was in the safest place in the world.
I hugged my son's neck and put my nose in the crevice between his neck and his muscular shoulder again and took a deep breath. The smell came from the power he had gained. He smelled like spring. This smell was very relaxing to my body. I couldn't stop myself from inhaling it again and again..
"My room is closer. Let's go to the mirror in my room." I said dazedly. When I touched my nose to my son's skin, he started to caress my back with one of his hands on my waist. Even though he was holding me with one hand, I didn't feel uncomfortable and he didn't seem to feel my weight. I had to admit that I was a bit chubby and it was really shocking that he could carry me like that and move freely.
When he left the living room, he headed towards my room. I couldn't help focusing on his silver hair again, no trace of its previous tangled mess. No matter how much he washed it, it always had a rough texture. Now it has a silky texture. And it fell straight over his shoulders.
Before I knew it, we were in my room, my son standing with his back close to the mirror. When I lifted my head and looked in the mirror, I experienced my third shock of the day. I touched my face with my mouth open in astonishment. The slight wrinkles on my forehead, my skin, which had been neglected for years, looked like it did when I was young. It was as if I had traveled back in time.
"How can this be possible?" I lost control of my body from the shock. My feet, which were wrapped around my son's waist, dropped to the ground. My only support was my son, who hugged me tightly and caressed my back.
"Hahahah.. You believe that I can suddenly grow bigger and stronger, that I can manipulate plants, that I can change the color of my hair. It's so unbelievable to you that you can getting younger.. Mom, Professor Oak might know something about this. We can ask him later if you like." I feel that my son has grown mentally too. He wasn't so quick-witted before..
He quickly princess carried me and lay down on my bed with me.
"Mom, I'm a little hungry. But I'll wait for you to get over the shock of the news. How are you feeling? Do you want some water or something?" He cuddled me, my head on his chest, caressing my hair. His heartbeat was very strong. I don't think a normal person's heartbeat is like that.. And I feel my face blushing a little because of our closeness in bed.
"Give me half an hour to gather my thoughts. I'm really overwhelmed by what has happened in these 15-20 minutes. We'll talk about consulting Professor Oak later. And some water would be nice." I said, hugging him.
The pitcher on the bedside table flew up and filled the cup. And the cup full of water floated towards my hand. As I sipped from the cup, I couldn't help thinking about what I would see more of today.
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