"Hey honey, look what I found out near the haunted house surrounded by ghost and psychic pokemon," said a man who was in his mid thirties and he presented a bundle to his wife. The woman just gave her husband a curious look before she took the bundle and unraveled it to see it was a baby no older then nine months.

"Are you saying that someone left this poor thing all by himself near the haunted house where all the troublemaker of pokemon stays?" asked the woman in shock as she started to rock the baby back and forth.

"I guess, but the weirdest thing was that all the ghost pokemon that are usually causing trouble seemed to be very fond of the child and actually got aggressive towards me when I tried to take it from them. It was only when I said that I meant the child no harm did they let me take the boy, but I get this feeling that they are watching us right now," said the man as he looked around the room.

"Don't be silly, you and I both know they don't leave that haunted house of theirs," said the woman shaking her head at her husband. She didn't shake her head for long, because a Gengar appeared before her with a large grin on its face. The woman screamed in fright and clutched the baby closely to her chest.

"Gengar," said Gengar with a smirk as it easily took the baby from her and held the baby up in front of it. The Gengar looked long and hard into the emerald eyes of the baby boy with a piercing gaze before it gave the child a large grin and handed the baby back to the woman. It then waved goodbye to the couple as it disappeared the same way it appeared.

"Well that sure was interesting," said the man snapping his wife out of her shock.

"Um yes, well tomorrow we will have to go register the child at the local hospital so that we can officially adopt him," said the woman as she held the baby close to her chest and started to sing. The man just smiled at the scene and didn't argue because he knew he wouldn't win the argument.

"His name shall be Harry Lavender," said the woman as she looked down upon her newly adopted son. What she didn't know was that Harry was the name his real mother gave to him as well, it was as if he was destined to have that name.

"Good strong name," said the man with a small smile.

Break

"Hey mom, can I go outside and play with Gengar," asked Harry with the puppy-eye look. The woman looked down upon her 8-year-old child and couldn't help, but give into his request, which caused the boy to cheer in happiness before giving her a hug then running outside to play with Gengar. The same Gengar that had appeared in their house seven years ago and held baby Harry in its arms while it gave the boy a piercing gaze. Since that day, Gengar had visited the child everyday and had eventually became Harry's best friend in the whole world.

'If only the two wouldn't cause such a ruckus through town,' thought the woman with a small smile as she returned to cleaning the dishes.

With Harry

"Hey Gengar, where are you?" yelled Harry as he looked for his best friend. He didn't have to yell for long before Gengar appeared in front of the boy and tackled him to the ground. The two wrestled around before Gengar had Harry pinned to the ground and started to yell out in victory.

"No fair, you only beat me because you are taller then me," said Harry trying to act mad, but the smile on his face betrayed him. Gengar just continued to grin before it helped Harry up on his feet. Harry looked up at his best friend before he tagged the pokemon and then disappeared with a light crack sound. Gengar just smirked before it disappeared as well and their game of tag began.

Some might think it weird to see a human able to disappear from one spot in the blink of an eye, but to the people of Lavender Town it was a normal occurrence. You see many psychics from all over the world traveled to Lavender Town and Saffron City because of the many psychic and ghost pokemon that resided around the cities. Some of these psychics were able to mimic the same abilities their psychic or ghost pokemon had so it wasn't rare to see someone teleport from one spot to another or levitate things with their minds.

The people of Lavender Town believed Harry to be psychic, which would explain his many abilities that he had. Of course, no one except for the psychic and ghost pokemon knew that Harry was something much different then an average psychic, but kept that secret to themselves since they didn't want to betray the boy by telling his secret. They were also scared of the powerful Gengar that had chosen Harry as its partner and was the one that had actually taught Harry how to control his unique abilities. The ghost pokemon was not only Harry's best friend, but also his mentor and protector until the boy had learned all he had to teach him and was strong enough to protect himself from any threats. For now though, all Harry had to worry about was making sure that Gengar didn't catch him so that he wouldn't become it.

Break

"Wow, Gengar look at that," said Harry as he watched some trainer battle with a wild Vulpix. The trainer was using a Wartortle to battle with the Vulpix, which gave him the upper hand because Vulpix was a fire type pokemon and was weak to water based attacks.

Harry just watched the fight in awe as Gengar used his ghost powers to create an illusion over the boy and itself so that they wouldn't be caught. It wasn't too much longer before the trainer, his Wartortle had taken down the Vulpix, and the trainer threw a pokeball and captured the fox pokemon. After catching Vulpix, the trainer attached the pokeball to his belt, recalled his Wartortle, and then continued on his journey. Once the trainer was gone, Gengar released his illusion and Harry came jumping into the clearing with a huge grin on his face.

"That battle was so awesome, I can't wait until I'm old enough to travel the world and become a powerful pokemon trainer," yelled Harry with stars in his eyes.

"What do you say Gengar, will you become my partner and help me become a powerful trainer?" asked Harry giving his best friend a pleading look. Gengar decided to have some fun and adopted a thinking pose and pretended like he was thinking about the idea.

"Oh please!" yelled Harry before glomping Gengar to the ground. Gengar just gave Harry a large grin before nodding his head at the boy.

"Yeah! Thank you so much, together we will become an unbeatable team," cheered Harry happily before he started to think of all the pokemon he would like to capture and train. He was interrupted though when Gengar hit him over the head and pointed at the sky.

"Aww man, it is night time already. I better head back home before mom starts to worry, I'll see you tomorrow Gengar," said harry with a frown before giving Gengar a big hug the disappearing with a small crack. Gengar just watched the boy leave with a large smile before it disappeared as well for the night.

Break

"Mom, Dad, wake up!" yelled Harry excitedly as he jumped up and down on their bed with Gengar bouncing up and down with him. The two adults just groaned before they slowly got up from bed.

"Harry, why are you so hyper this morning?" asked the boy's father before he yawned loudly.

"Today is the day I get my first official pokemon since I can't start off with Gengar," said Harry cheerfully. When Harry first found out that he had to get a starter pokemon because his Gengar was just too powerful to be his starter pokemon, he was really upset, but decided that he would just get the starter pokemon and then officially catch Gengar afterwards that way they couldn't say anything about him having a Gengar so early.

"Are you sure you want to become a Pokemon trainer? I mean there are many other things you can become," said the woman, trying to convince her little boy to stay at home because she didn't want to let him go.

"Honey, he is old enough to make his own choices in life. If this is what he wants to do then we must respect that and be there for him," said the man as he put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry mom, I promise to check in with you at every town and visit as much as possible," said Harry as he gave his mother a big hug. The woman just smiled at her son and she held him tightly.

"Alright, go ahead and head to the pokemon center and get your starter pokemon and I'll have breakfast ready for you when you get back," said the woman as she shooed her son out of their room.

"Later Mom, Dad," yelled Harry as he ran out of their room and off to the local pokemon center.

At the Pokemon Center

"Hello Harry, I have been wondering when you would show up. I don't think I ever seen you get up so early in the day," said Nurse Joy with a small yawn before she smiled down at the boy. The boy was tall for his age, standing at a height of 5'5" and would no doubt grow taller as he age, but the features that stood out most on him were his emerald green eyes that seemed to glow in the night and the lightning shaped scar on his forehead.

'He is going to be a heartbreaker when he gets older,' thought Nurse Joy as she took a good look at the boy whom was always causing some kind of mischief in town with his ever faithful Gengar.

"Well today is the day I become an official pokemon trainer," said Harry happily.

"Come on to the back with me and we will get you your first official pokemon," said Nurse Joy with a kind smile as she led the way to where the three-starter pokemon were waiting. Harry just followed Nurse Joy and a few minutes later, they had reached a small room that contained a table with three pokeballs on it.

"In front of each pokeball, is the name of what pokemon is contained in that pokeball and some basic information on that pokemon. Feel free to pick whatever starter pokemon you wish to have," said Nurse Joy as she signaled for him to choose a pokeball.

"Well, no offense to Squirtle, but I rather start off with a fire or grass type pokemon," said Harry immediately examining the pokeballs that contained Charmander and Bulbasaur. He looked at each pokeball closely before he made his decision and grabbed the pokeball containing the pokemon he wanted as his starter pokemon.