Chapter 1: Welcome to Alola

It was a sunny day out on the ocean , the sunlight glistened off the relatively calm waters of the deep blue ocean below.

There were few cirrus clouds in the sky as a large passenger airplane soared through the air.

Onboard the airplane were dozens of people and a few small pokemon sitting on the laps of a few passengers.

The seats were arranged in three rows a left, right, and middle.

Sitting in the aisle seat of the middle row was a middle aged woman in her mid to late 30's. She had long light brown hair put back into a pony tail, and light brown eyes.

The woman wore a pink jacket over a yellow undershirt with a blue skirt.

She was trying to get some rest she she heard the intercom go off.

"Ladies and gentlemen we're now begging our descent, please return to your seat and fasten your seatbelt."

The woman turned to the seats to her right.

In the seats sat two teenage boys. One looked about sixteen years old, the other seventeen. One sat in the aisle seat while the other sat in the window seat. The young man in the aisle seat had light skin with spikey brown hair and light brown eyes.

He wore a red hat with a white arc in the front. A red jacket with a white collar and center down the jacket , and dark blue sleeves. He also wore light blue shorts.

Sitting beside him was another young man who had slightly tan skin, somewhat long and spikey raven black hair and brown eyes. He wore a green jacket similar to the other young man's only with a black vertical line down the center, no collar, and black short sleeves. He also wore grey shorts.

"Ash, Red, we're almost there."

The young man with the black hair looked excited as he grabbed the other young man's shoulder.

"Hey red, we're here." He said as the young man opened his eyes.

"Huh. we're here!"

"Look."

The two looked out the window and saw four large islands below them. The islands were covered in large tropical rainforests, a few volcano mounts, and small cities placed on them.

"Alola." Ash said.

"Our new home."

The plane slowly lowered its altitude until it reached a runway on one of the islands.

The plane set down and stopped in front of a gate.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Alola region, Hau'oli city of Melemele island.

Ash, Red, and their mother got up and gathered their things before leaving the airplane.

As they walked through the gate and made their way down into the main terminal.

There they saw a few local Alolans and some local pokemon waiting to greet the tourists.

"Alola!" One of them shouted.

The men were either shirtless or wore sleeveless white shirts with green shorts and flaming batons.

The women wore grass skirts had some kind of flower braided pokemon over their heads.

Beside them were small pink bird pokemon with feather skirts beside them.

As they passed them each said Alola.

"They certainly like to make a good impression on newcomers here." Delia said.

"Why do they keep saying Alola?" Ash asked.

"Come on Ash didn't you do any research before coming here. Alola is what you say here as a greeting and a goodbye, it means wishing good fortune." Red said.

They gathered their bags from bag claim and walked outside of the airport.

Outside they saw the city itself.

The city was a bit smaller than the ones they were use to from their old home. They also noticed that there seemed to be many trees growing in the city itself and several areas full of grass/ bushes.

There also seemed to be an unusually large number of pokemon in the city.

Flying above them were several small black birds with red feathers on their foreheads.

On the ground were some dark blue cats with a golden medallions on their heads.

"Wow, this place seems a lot more in tune with nature than cities back in Kanto." Ash said.

"I love it!" Red said.

"Alola!" They heard from another voice.

The three turned to see another man before them.

He was definitely a local Alolan with his tanned skin tone. He had black eyes with green clear shades over them and brown hair. He wore a white lab coat with no shirt underneath , grey shorts, and a white hat.

"Professor Kukui, I was hoping we wouldn't have to look hard for you." Delia said.

"So these must be your boys, Ash and Red correct?"

Ash and Red nodded.

"It's a pleasure to meet you professor." Ash said as he and Red shook his hands.

"I think you three will like it here in Alola. The house you bought is ready for you, I could drive you there."

"Thanks."

The four drove out of the city and up a dirt trail through the island interior going up.

"You guys here in Alola seem a lot more in touch with nature than other regions." Red said.

Kukui nodded.

"In Alola, humans and pokemon coexist in a very close relationship, our culture has developed different from other regions."

"Have you ever been to Kanto professor?" Ash asked.

"Once in my youth."

"This region seems nice, but I will miss Kanto." Ash said.

"It is a nice region, plenty of interesting pokemon and places, there are some people here who think there isn't enough nature there, that the cities are too large, but I've been to Kanto. There's still plenty of nature left."

Eventually they reached a house along the trail.

"Here we are." Kukui said as they saw the house.

The four got out and went inside, looking around the house.

Ash and Red went to check out their rooms.

Delia was in the living area looking out at the area around her house.

"I must say Delia, a pokemon doctor of your reputation, it's an honor to have you come to Alola. A friend of mine at the local hospital is excited to have you there."

"It is exciting to meet so many new people and work with new pokemon."

"I must ask, what made you move out here."

Delia took a deep breath.

"It's been hard staying in Pallet town after the divorce." Delia said.

"I can imagine, how are the boys taking it?"

"Ash is taking it ok though that's not surprising to me, Red was more hurt by it. He seemed excited to get away from his father." Delia said.

"Well Alola is a good place for new beginnings, I'm exited to teach your boys"

"The boys seem excited to go to your school."

"Well I'll be here tomorrow at 10 to pick them up for their first day." Kukui said before he left.

"Alola." He said.

Inside Ash's room he set down his things and looked out the window.

He looked out at the rainforest like environment around him and the ocean below.

He saw some more bird pokemon flying through the air.

He had an optimistic look on his face before he saw his opened bag again.

His expression changed as he reached inside and took out a picture frame , looking at the picture of him as a small child with an man beside him.

Ash took a deep breath as he put the picture back.

"This is a new beginning." Ash said to himself.

Late that night Red was outside with a small black bird pokemon in his hand.

"Pikip!" It chirped.

Red petted the pokemon's head, its beak feeling warm as he touched it.

"You're a cute little pokemon aren't you. I hope I can find out what you are soon enough."

"Red, it's getting late, come on we need to get some rest." He heard as Ash came up beside him.

"Just give me a second I've found a pokemon." Red said as he revealed to Ash the small bird.

"What? How did you do that?"

"I don't know, I just saw him picking at a berry bush and just got him in my hand."

Ash seemed almost a little upset by this, but didn't let Red see it.

Red looked out at the ocean with an optimistic expression.

"This is a new beginning for us Ash. A chance to start over , a whole new world of people and pokemon. I'm really excited."

Ash gave a slight smile.

"Me too. Come on, we start school tomorrow we better get inside."

"Alright, goodbye little guy." Red said as he let the bird fly off.

"Alola!" he said as Ash turned to him.

"You're really doing that?"

"Come on we're in Alola Ash."

"Red, I have to ask."

"Ash what?"

"Leaving Kanto, and Satoshi, you seem to be taking it pretty well."

"I'm fine, we don't need dad anymore. Not after, look I'm fine."

"Alright, you're my little brother It's my job to take care of you, I just wanted to make sure you're ok."

"I'm fine, thanks Ash."

The two went inside.

Elsewhere in a nearby town a little boy with black hair, round glasses, and a blue school uniform like shirt.

The boy was alone and playing with a yoyo, he then began singing a song.

"I love you, I love, from the bottom of my heart. He says I'm in love with you right now. But behind such sweet words. There was a feeling of loneliness."

The following morning Ash and Red had eaten breakfast and were packing their things for Kukui's arrival.

Ash was going through his things and putting them in a bag.

He saw the picture from yesterday and looked at it hard.

"This is a new beginning, that means letting go of the past."

Red was already out of his room when he and Delia saw Ash come out.

"There you are, Kukui will be here any minute, are you ready?"

"Yeah I have everything I need." Ash said.

There was a knock on the door as Red opened it to see Kukui standing there.

"Alola." Kukui said.

"Alola professor." Red said.

"Are you two ready for your first day at the pokemon academy?"

"We're ready for a new beginning." Ash said.

"You two behave yourselves, work hard, and make sure to stop by home every once and a while." Delia said.

"We will mom."

"Watch out for each other." Delia said as she gave them both a hug and watched them leave with Kukui.

"Alola Delia."

After the car left, Delia let her Mr. Mime out of his pokeball as he began sweeping.

She took deep breath as she went into Ash's room.

She looked around and noticed something Ash had left behind.

Her eyes widened as she saw the picture he had left behind.

"Ash." she said in a concerned tone.

Ash and Red rode with Kukui down the road towards his school.

"You two are going to love our school."

"I can't wait to learn all about pokemon from someone as good as you." Red said.

"I'm a little nervous, us being new kids and all." Ash said.

"No need to worry, you have each other. Plus you'll be interested to hear we have two other new students coming in today, one even from Kanto."

"Really." Ash said.

"Here we are!"

Ash and Red saw the school and it looked beautiful.

The school seemed to be made out of mostly wood, and star yet seemed very well built and modern. There was a large blue and white wooden building connected to a massive tree with a few rooms built into it. Another building set beside a stream. A large pond, a racetrack, and several palm trees built around the entire school. A third building near a tower built into the blue building. The school itself was build on a ridge overlooking the ocean, providing a great view.

Kukui stopped the car and let the two out.

"Welcome to pokemon academy."

Ash and Red walked with Kukui into the courtyard when they heard the sound of an explosion.

In the courtyard near the track they saw a young man with dark skin , red and black hair, and a pair of red shorts with a large red and tan turtle like pokemon before him.

"Incinerate!" The young man shouted as his pokemon unleashed three blasts of fire into three dummies , completely destroying them.

"Nice job." The young man said.

"What is that?" Red asked.

"Turtonator. Kiawe!"

The young man turned to him.

"Alola professor!" He shouted before he came over with his Turtonator.

"Kiawe these are two of our new students, Ash and Red Ketchum. Ash, Red this is Kiawe he's one of our students here."

"Alola Ash, Red, welcome to Alola." Kiawe said.

"Pleasure to meet you Kiawe, Kukui said your pokemon was called a Turtonator." Red said.

"Oh yeah , this is my Turtonator. He's my partner pokemon."

"Really."

"What you think I'd have a Charizard or something." Kiawe said in a joking manner.

"We've never seen one before." Ash said.

"I have a feeling you two are going to see a lot of new pokemon here. " Kiawe said.

"We'll leave you two to your training." Kukui said as Kiawe and Turtonator went back to training.

"We use the track and courtyard for various exercises and training for land pokemon."

"The pond here is for our water pokemon."

In the water was a Lapras and a girl with short blue hair and blue eyes riding on his back.

"Lana!" Kukui shout as the girl turned to them.

"Alola professor." She said as the three approached the edge of the water.

"Lana these are new students, Ash and Red. Ash, Red this is Lana."

"Alola, Ash, Red." Lana said before a small blue seal like pokemon leapt up and out of the water.

"Pop!" The pokemon said.

"Woah what is that?" Ash asked.

"Popplio, one of Alola's starter pokemon. Lana is a bit of a water lover, all her pokemon are water pokemon." Kukui said.

"You guys are going to love it here." Lana said before Kukui lead them elsewhere.

They went towards the blue building beside the tree building.

"This is the main building, where most of the classes are." Kukui said as they went inside.

The inside looked just as nice as the outside, lots of wood.

They walked by a staircase and saw a door at the bottom with a large lock on it.

"What's down there?" Red asked.

"The headmaster's private area in the basement. Even I'm not allowed down there." Kukui said.

They went into a room that looked like a cafeteria like room with three people inside.

One was a young woman with long green hair and green eyes that had a fake flower tied around her head and overalls on.

She had a small pokemon that looked like a piece of fruit beside her.

She was in the kitchen area and looked like she was making something.

Sitting at a table was a younger overweight boy with spike orange hair and a white shirt on. He hd a spike grey rodent pokemon.

Sitting in the corner was a young woman around their age.

She had green eyes and long light blonde hair, she wore a white dress and a big white hat.

"Mallow, Lillie, Sophocles, these are two of our new students. Ash and Red from Kanto."

"Alola!" The green haired girl shouted as she ran out.

"I'm Mallow, it's so nice to meet you, you guys are going to love Alola, this is such a great school and."

Ash and Red sweat dropped.

"Easy there Mallow." Kukui said.

The boy seemed to be working on a machine of some kind, not paying attention to them.

The girl in white got up and came over to them.

"Hello." She said in a soft voice.

"You must be Lillie." Red said.

She nodded.

"Look at the time, class is starting soon. We better get to class." Kukui said.

The group walked over to the tree portion of the school and into a wooden classroom.

The classroom had several individual desks and a balcony overlooking the entire school as well as several tree branches sticking out of the walls.

When they got to the room they saw two people there already.

One was an older man with long white hair, black eyes, very tanned skin, a cyan shirt and white shorts.

"Alola!" He shouted as he saw them.

The man looked almost exactly like Professor Oak from their home town.

"Professor Oak?" Ash asked.

"Professor Samson Oak, you must know my cousin from Kanto. Ash and Red correct, he told me about you two."

Red saw the person sitting beside him.

"Oh boy." Red said as Ash saw who it was.

"Well if it isn't the Ketchum brothers."

"Gary." Ash said as they saw the young man with light skin, black eyes, and spike brown hair.

"What are you doing here?"

"What does it look like, I'm here to study so I can become the greatest trainer in the world." Gary said.

"His grandfather suggested he start here. It seems you three know each other perfect." Kukui said.

The other students they met came in and took their seats.

"Ash, Red, Gary, We'll assign you seats when the other three new students arrive." Kukui said as he went out to find them.

A minute later he came back with a young man and woman.

The young man looked like a local Alolan, he had tan skin, long brown hair and grey eyes. He wore a black short sleeves shirt and orange shorts.

Beside him was a young woman with short black hair that didn't go down to her shoulders, grey eyes, and light skin. She wore a red chicken like head, a white shirt and green short shorts with a red hand bag.

"Alola!" The boy said.

"Everyone this is Hau and Moon, they're new students as well. Hau , Moon, this is Ash, Red, and Gary."

"Alola." Gary said.

"This is going to be so exciting." Moon said.

The two came in.

"Alright why don't you pick some seats while I try to find our last new student." Kukui said as he left.

Ash saw most of the seats near the front had been taken by the other students and Gary quickly took the last one.

Hau and Moon took the mid ones with only one left.

Ash and Red looked at each other.

"Take it." Ash said.

"Thanks."

Red sad down as Ash saw there was only one desk left and it was bigger than the others.

He sat down and saw Lillie was directly in front of him.

"So for our new students allow me to explain the main basics of this school. Here we teach out students the best ways to raise healthy and powerful pokemon. We also train you to become better trainers, when you graduate you will be allowed to compete in Alola's island trials, but only after you graduate. Our new students will each be given a pokemon to start with." Samson said taking out a briefcase.

Moments later Kukui came back with the final student.

"Students, I'd like you to meet our last new student. All the way from kilos, Serena Achille."

The young woman looked Ash's age with light skin, light blue eyes. She had long honey blonde hair that went down here back and almost to her waist with the end having a band around it making a tail at the end only. She wore a white tank top like sleeveless shirt. She also wore a salmon colored skirt around her waist. A portion of her stomach was showing including her belly button. She wore white leggings around her legs from her knees down with a portion of her legs showing between the end of her skirt and the leggings. She wore a pink hat on top of her he'd with a blade band around it.

She had a very shy expression but looked happy none the less.

"Bonjour." She said in a very thick Kalos accent.

"It's Alola here." Sophocles said.

"Sophocles don't be rude." Kukui said as Serena looked a little embarrassed.

"Serena go ahead and find a seat." Samson said as Serena walked towards the back of the room looking for a seat.

Sophocles looked around.

"Hey where's Togedemaru?"

As Serena walked by Lillie, Lillie saw Sophocles's pokemon beside her.

"Shhhhhh!" She screamed and jumping up.

Lillie knocked Serena forward nearly making her face plant.

Ash quickly got up and caught Serena in his arms before she could hit the ground.

"Gotcha." Ash said.

"Thanks." Serena said before she looked up and saw Ash face.

Serena's face turned red as she gave a bashful look.

"I'm."

"Ash." She said.

"Yeah." Ash said a little confused.

Serena got back to her feet.

"Looks like we don't have enough desks, Ash your's is the biggest, do you mind sharing with Serena?" Kukui asked.

"Yeah no problem."

Serena sat down beside Ash with her face still red.

"Alright now that we're all here, it's time for our new students to get their pokemon. We have one for each both you." Samson said as he opened his briefcase and revealing six pokeballs.

Three looked normal while one was all red with a yellow seal, one tan one, and another black one with a yellow lightning bolt on it.

Ash and the other new students came up as Kukui opened each of the pokeballs.

Six pokemon came out, a white vulpix, A Small Owl pokemon with a leaf bowtie, a small black and red cat, a Popplio, a Charmander that had red skin around his body instead of orange and a lighter shade of red on his stomach with a ruby red tail flame, out of the black pokeball came the last pokeball.

A Pikachu with a somewhat irritated look on his face.

"Each of you will get one pokemon to be your partner." Kukui said.

"So who get's to choose first?" Gary asked.

"Oh Gary you don't chose them, they chose you." Oak said.

"What?" Hau asked.

"Here we make the best bonds between trainers and pokemon. The best way for this to happen is for them to chose you. That's happened with all of our students." Kukui said.

"Moon, you go first."

Moon stepped up as the pokemon looked at her.

The Pikachu gave her an aggressive look as he growled at her, his cheeks sparking.

Moon quickly went past him until she saw the Litten.

"Lit!" It purred with a cheerful smile.

Moon knelt closer.

"Do you want to be my partner?"

"Lit!" The small pokemon leapt into Moon's arms as she nuzzled her face.

Kukui handed her Litten's pokeball before Gary stepped up and looked at the pokemon.

"Hmmm"

"Popp!" He heard as the Popplio gave an excited look towards him, clapping his flippers.

"Alright you'll do." Gary said as he took Popplio in his arms while Oak handed him the pokeball.

Hau stepped forward as he walked past all of the pokemon.

"How about you?" Hau asked as he reached his hand at the Pikachu.

"Pika chu!" Pikachu growled as he blasted Hau with electricity.

"Yahh!" Hau shouted in pain as he fell over.

"Hau!" Kukui shouted.

"I'm ok." Hau said as he got up.

"So not you then."

"Row!" He heard as he turned to the Rowlet who began hooting his name.

"Row!"

"I guess wants me."

Rowlet flew into Hau's arm as Kukui handed him the pokeball.

Serena stepped up and walked past each of the pokemon, the Pikachu still growling at her.

"Vul." She heard as she approached the white Vulpix who gave a happy look towards her.

"An ice Vulpix, that's something we don't have in Kalos." She then said something else in Kalos as the Vulpix seemed to like it.

"You like the Kalos language don't you. Want to come with me?" She asked as Vulpix nodded, jumping into her arms.

Kukui nodded as he handed Serena Vulpix's pokeball.

"You can go next Red." Ash said as his little brother came forward.

He saw the Pikachu growling with his cheeks sparking as he looked at the Charmander.

The Charmander had a serious look on his face as he looked Red up and down.

"Char."

"You look like you want to be challenged. You want to be a strong pokemon don't you."

"Char!"

"I can get you there."

Charmander looked at Red and believed what he said.

"Char." He said nodding before allowing Red to pick him up.

Oak handed Red Charmander's pokeball as Ash nervously stepped forward.

He looked at the Pikachu who continued growling with his cheeks sparking.

"Why did you bring that Pikachu out, he's been nothing but trouble?" Kukui asked.

Samson looked at Ash with interest.

"I don't think he wants to come with me." Ash said nervously.

"I'll go get you another." Kukui started.

"No, let them be." Samson said.

"What?"

"Do it."

The others watched with interest as Ash nervously looked at the Pikachu.

"I'm Ash and" He started reaching out slowly to Pikachu.

"Pika chu!" Pikachu shouted as he blasted Ash with electricity.

Ash grunted as he nearly fell over.

"Ash!" Serena, Red, and Kukui shouted.

The Pikachu leapt off the desk and ran through the classroom, Lillie looking terrified as she jumped out of the way.

Pikachu ran to the balcony and leapt onto the tree branches before climbing down and running away from the school.

"Ash are you ok?" Serena asked as she and Red helped him back up.

Ash rubbed the back of his head as Kukui looked concerned.

"I'm so sorry Ash, I'll."

Gary laughed a little before the class hear Samson Oak break out laughing.

"That's not very appropriate." Kukui said to him.

"Oh it is, our boy Ash has found his pokemon."

"What?" They all said.

"No doubt in my mind."

"Samson you can't be." Kukui started.

"What are you sitting around here for boy, that's your Pikachu who just ran off, go get him."

"Serious." Kukui said as he and Ash sweat dropped.

"Go get him?"

"Yes, and since he's your pokemon we won't burden any of the other students here with helping you, nor Kukui or myself."

"Samson are you mad!"

"I'll help him." Serena said.

"Me too." Red said.

"No, this is his responsibility." Samson said.

"I'm his brother."

"And this is his pokemon." Samson said.

"Samson." Kukui started.

"Kukui I'm the headmaster, Ash I wish you luck."

Ash sweat dropped before he left the room taking a deep breath.

He walked out of the school and towards the rainforest.

In the rainforest the Pikachu ran far inside before he thought he was far enough away.

He began looking around, seeing some pokemon around him.

He then found an Oran berry bush and began eating off of it.

After eating one he heard something behind him and turned to see a very large pokemon behind him.

Ash was carefully moving through the rainforest, despite the nervousness of being alone and looking for the violent Pikachu, he was amazed at the beauty of the environment.

The rainforest was more beautiful than anything he had ever seen, the pokemon he saw were also very different and unique from anything in Kanto.

He saw some grey bug pokemon on the ground , some bird like bugs in the air, and some of the black little birds he saw earlier with some bigger versions of them.

As Ash continued he heard a familiar sound in the distance.

"Pika!" He heard.

"Pikachu!"

Ash ran towards his voice and found Pikachu in the paws of a massive bear like pokemon with a black body and a pink head.

The pokemon slammed Pikachu violently into a pair of trees and then through a rock, smashing it.

"Pikachu!" Ash shouted.

The large pokemon slammed Pikachu into the ground again as Ash saw blood coming out of Pikachu's body.

"Pika." the pikachu said sounding like he was in great pain.

The bear pokemon seemed very amused by his actions and raised his arms up to smash Pikachu.

"Hey leave him alone!" Ash shouted as he picked up a rock and hurled it at the pokemon

The rock bounced off its head as it turned to Ash.

"Be-wear!" It shouted before running at Ash.

Ash ducked and moved to the side as the pokemon punched a rock, smashing it apart before he saw Ash running to pick up Pikachu.

It charged at him, but Ash ducked down , causing the pokemon to trip over his body and tumble across the ground as Ash picked up Pikachu.

"It's ok I've got you." Ash said as the pikachu slowly opened his eyes.

Ash saw a half eaten oran berry and quickly picked it up as the bear resumed chasing him.

"Eat it!" Ash said as pikachu slowly ate the half of the oran berry and felt some of his energy return to his body.

The bear pokemon picked up a rock and hurled it into Ash's back making him fall forward, grunting.

The Bear kept charging at them as Pikachu got up growling with his cheeks sparking.

Pikachu charged forward with electricity around his body before the Bear swung his arms narrowly missing Pikachu as he slammed into the bear's stomach and then unleashed Thunderbolt.

The bear yelped in pain as Pikachu filled him with electricity and continued to do so as the bear shook his head before stumbling backwards and falling off a cliffside into a stream of water below before being carried away by the current.

Pikachu fell onto the ground breathing deeply.

Ash got up and went over picking him up.

"It's ok, I've got you." Ash said before the two heard footsteps.

Ash turned and saw three men around them.

The men were wearing the same attire, black wife beater shirts with white x's on them, a skull like bandana over their heads, a black one over their mouths, black shorts, and white sneakers. Each of the men had blue hair and almost looked as if they were triplets as they looked exactly the same.

"What's going on, who are you guys?" Ash asked suspiciously as Pikachu kept breathing deeply.

The men didn't respond, they came forward squatting as they walked and waving their arms around in a stranger manner.

Ash began to back up when one jumped at Ash, tackling him to the ground as he tried to grab Pikachu.

"Hey let him go!" Ash said as he pulled him away.

Pikachu was too tired and hurt to zap the man, so Ash punched him in the head twice, making him fall backwards.

Ash got up as the other came continued moving around him erratically with their arms waving and flailing around they hit Ash with their arms, knocking him down again as he he came over Ash, kicking him onto his back.

Ash picked up a rock and smashed it into his leg, making him fall over before smashing his head with it.

Ash put Pikachu down and faced the last one as he ran forward trying to smack Ash with his arms, fighting very strangely. Ash used the opening to charge forward, tackling him into a tree before punching him three times, the man fell over as Ash picked up Pikachu.

Ash saw another two men appear out of the rainforest and come at him before something hit them from behind and made them fall over.

Ash and Pikachu saw what looked like shurikens made of water before reverting to liquid.

"Huh?" Ash said as he and Pikachu saw something in the trees quickly move away.

Ash turned back to Pikachu.

"Are you ok?" Ash asked.

"Pika." Pikachu said in pain.

Ash began carrying him back towards the school as Pikachu looking up at him in a different way.

"Chu."

Back at the school Serena and Red were looking out the balcony in concern for Ash.

"I can't believe Ash was sent out there alone looking for that crazy Pikachu." Red said.

"I hope he's ok." Serena said.

"Huh so you're Serena right?"

"Yes."

"You seem pretty concerned for a guy you just met. You must really be a charismatic person." Red said.

"Well." She said nervously.

"Plus he did help you when Lillie tripped you."

Kukui was pacing the entrance to the school in concern.

"Professor!" He heard before he quickly turned and saw Ash with some scrapes, bruises, and dirt marks.

"Ash!" He shouted as he ran over.

Ash had a smile on his face.

"I found Pikachu." Ash said.

"Thank goodness you're ok." Ash carried Pikachu with Kukui to the medical center where the school Nurse who looked like a younger nurse Joy.

"What the hell did this poor Pikachu go through?" She asked as Ash and Kukui stood over him.

"Will he be ok?"

"He should be, just let me do my work."

"Well done young man." They heard as Samson came in behind them.

"You did more than well finding Pikachu."

"What happened out there?" Kukui asked.

"Some bear pokemon was attacking him, I distracted it while Pikachu blasted him with thunderbolt, after that weird guys dressed like punks tried to take him so I fought them off and was helped by some mysterious pokemon."

"Hmm strange, I'm glad you're ok."

"Now it's time to see if Pikachu wants you to be his trainer." Samson said.

"What?" Ash and Kukui said.

"I thought you said he was mine already? That's why I went after him?"

"What? Did I say that? H'mm maybe, but it's still Pikachu's choice. So Pikachu what do you say?"

Ash looked down at Pikachu as he looked up at Ash.

Pikachu gave Ash an unsure look before standing up.

"Wait!" The nurse said.

"Pika!" Pikachu said sounding determined.

Ash smiled looking determined.

He brought his fist down as Pikachu touched it with his paw.

"That settles it. You have your partner pokemon." Samson said before he laughed some more, Ash, Kukui, Pikachu, and the Nurse sweat dropped.

Samson handed Ash the black pokeball.

Later that day Pikachu had a few bandages on and climbed onto Ash's shoulder as he followed Kukui into one of the other buildings.

"These are the dormitories where you'll be staying, I hope you don't mind, you'll be rooming with Red."

"No problem." Ash said.

Ash entered the dormitories and saw they seemed a little more modern.

He walked past a fitness center where he saw Kiawe doing some pull ups.

Red was inside his room when he heard a knock on the door.

"Char." he heard as he turned and saw Ash standing there.

"Ash you're ok!"

"Yeah, so is Pikachu."

"Pika."

"I see you found Pikachu."

"Yeah." Ash said rubbing the side of his head.

Ash put his bag down and began unpacking.

The room was relatively large, clearly enough for two people. There were bunk beds , a table, a bathroom, a closet, a mini fridge, a dresser, and a microwave.

"Aside from what happened in the jungle, I'd say a pretty good first day." Ash said.

Yeah.

They heard another knock on the door before they turned and saw Serena standing there with her Vulpix.

"Hey."

"Hey Serena." Ash said.

"I just stopped by to make sure you and Pikachu were ok." She said sounding a little nervous.

"We're fine now." Ash said as Pikachu smiled a little.

"I'm glad to hear that. You know, I was thinking, well us and Gary, we're the only non locals here. Maybe we should stick by each other, help each other get accustomed to this place."

"Sure, sounds like a good idea." Red said.

"Yeah I'd love to get to know you more." Ash said as Serena blushed a little.

"Merci." She said softly.

Serena and Vulpix walked through the halls and up the stairs to the second floor where the girls rooms were.

As she walked through the halls she felt someone grab her from behind.

"Alola!" She heard as she jumped, turning to see Mallow standing there.

"Serena right! Welcome to Alola! I don't know if you got my name, it's Mallow. I'm a local, I hope we get to know each other really fast, I just love making new friends, it's so great meeting new people!" She said very fast as Serena and her Vulpix nervously sweat dropped.

"U'm I'm just looking for my room." Serena said.

"Oh yeah you're rooming with Lillie, she's just over there. I bet you two are going to get along great, just like you and me will. I"

"Ok I'm just going to of unpack" Serena said as she and Vulpix walked into the room where they saw Lillie reading a book on her bed.

"Hi, it's me Serena."

Lillie turned to her.

"Hello, I took the liberty of dividing up the closet and dresser evenly, therefore neither of us get's more room than the other."

Serena looked at the closet and saw half of it completely empty while the other was filled with very expensive looking cloths that were incredibly organized, hung up, and folded.

Serena looked in the dresser and saw more or less the same.

"Woah, I've never seen cloths this organized, and my Dad's an army officer. Wait these are limited edition designer labeled, I've seen these before, you can only get them in Kalos."

"You guys make good fashion over there." Lillie said.

"Ok I'm going to unpack." Serena said as she began unpacking her cloths into the closer.

"Vulpix make yourself at home." Serena said as Lillie saw her pokemon come over towards Serena's bed.

Lillie started to look afraid as the Vulpix got closer and jumped on Serena bet.

"Vulpix." She said as Serena turned to see Lillie hiding behind her bed.

"U'm are you ok?"

"Could you please put Vulpix in her pokeball."

"What but?"

"In her pokeball!" Lillie screamed.

Serena and Vulpix sweat dropped as Vulpix ran over to Serena, nudging her leg.

"Ok." Serena said as she put Vulpix in her pokeball.

Lillie slowly came up and sat on her bed.

Later that night in the same town a little boy and his Rockruff were playing outiside.

"Ha ha gotcha Rockruff." He said as he picked up Rockruff in his arms.

"We better get back inside." He started before the two heard something.

"I love you, I love, from the bottom of my heart. He says I'm in love with you right now. But behind such sweet words. There was a feeling of loneliness."

"Huh." The boy said before something grabbed them both and dragged them away.

"Ahh!" He screamed as the Rockruff barked out.

A woman came out a few minutes later.

"Tyler come on it's time for bed, Tyler." She said looking around.

"Tyler!" She screamed frantically.

Back in the school , Samson was smiling as he walked through the halls of the school before he reached the staircase and went down to the locked door.

He reached into his shirt and took out a key around his neck , unlocking the door and walking inside.

"We have some good students, I especially that Ketchum boy, I think they might be ready for some real training. I might be able get them ready in case 'they' return. Those students might have what it takes."

Author's note

I said I wouldn't be bake with Pokemon unless the Anime included Serena in sun and moon,

But I realized that writing Yugioh just wasn't the same as writing pokemon, and this reboot chapter 1 really made me feel like I was recapturing the magic of writing X and Y Ash's beginnings. Plus even if they do bring Serena back it won't be till like March and I will graduate soon after and considering my career I won't have much time to write fanfictions afterword, plus the last semester of senior year could be hectic. And if they don't include Serena in the Sun and Moon anime, we amourshippers deserve something, why not this.

So this story will be shifted to number one for my fanfiction priority, but will still update Yugioh once a week since I have most of the chapters prepared, but I may not update as fast as I did before with my other stories once school starts again since it will be more hectic with final semester work plus I need time to hang out with my friends.

So until next time,

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