At the northern end of Akala Island is where a heavily wooded tropical rainforest can be found. The locals here call it the Lush Jungle. It is famous for producing ingredients for delicious meals. Restaurant owners and renowned chefs would pay a high price just to get their hands on the freshest ingredients picked from the Lush Jungle itself.

Unfortunately, the Lush Jungle is also home to a wide variety of territorial and powerful pokemon who made their home there. As such, restaurant owners who wish to procure the rarer ingredients from Lush Jungle itself often have to employ the help of competent pokemon trainers to do so. Trainers of Akala Island who want to rise to the top of the world also often head to the Lush Jungle to train by throwing themselves headfirst into danger. It is a risky move at best and stupid move at worst, but Alolans are known for their bullheaded tenacity. Their belief in a 'trial by fire' is a long standing tradition that had permeated throughout their lands since the beginning of time when their ancestors first settled down here.

Outside of known human settlements within the region, Alola can be a treacherous place to travel around in. Likewise, Akala Island is an island fraught with danger. The Wela Volcano Park, Akala Outskirts, Brooklet Hill are some of the most dangerous places on Akala Island. Nobody in the right mind would ever live there. The Lush Jungle is no different.

However, there are always people who are exceptions to the norm.

Everyone is welcome to visit the Lush Jungle whenever they like as long as they can make it out alive at the end of the day. One would have thought that the Lush Jungle belongs to the Government itself. In reality, it is in actuality private land. The Lush Jungle had always been the private property of the Kahale tribe, it's just not a well publicised fact and a knowledge that had been largely forgotten in the course of time.

The tribe had dwindled significantly over the years. Even then, their descendants live on. Throughout the centuries many had moved out of the tropical rainforest which is their ancestral land in order to seek a better life elsewhere. Over time, these Kahale tribesmen would also build their own family outside the tribe, their children often not knowing that they are also descendants of the Kahale tribe of the Lush Jungle.

The outward migration of population from the tribal grounds of the Kahale lands located in the Lush Jungle was the main reason for the dwindling population. Many had thought that the tribe no longer exists but if you are one of the few who frequents the Lush Jungle to get supplies for restaurant owners or to train your skills as a pokemon trainer, you would know better.

There are still two people who live in the depths of the Lush Jungle, the last of the Kahale tribe.

The section of the forest where people go to gather ingredients or to train is the outer section of the Lush Jungle. Nobody ever ventures into the depths of it for it is home to a diverse variety of powerful and territorial pokemon. The only people that these wild pokemon would never harm are the two remaining people who live alongside them. The ancient pact formed between the Kahale tribe and the pokemon living there was what allowed it to happen. The Kahale tribe would protect the Lush Jungle and the pokemon living there and in return, the pokemon there would protect the Kahale tribe.

Pokemon are creatures who kept their word once they had given it. Technically speaking, the pokemon living in the Lush Jungle no longer need the protection offered by the Kahale tribe because times have changed. Even then, despite the fact that the tribe had dwindled to only two people and there are only two people left to protect, the promise formed from the pact centuries ago is still in effect. The descendants of the pokemon living in the Lush Jungle and the descendants of the Kahale tribe still live alongside each other and protect each other, just like how their ancestors did.

Today, only a handful of people would know that there used to be a Kahale tribe. Anybody who visits the Lush Jungle without asking for permission from the Kahale tribe are technically trespassing on private land. Even then, the two remaining members of the Kahale tribe didn't put up a fuss. To them, the gift of mother nature should be shared to all. The Lush Jungle will always be open to those who truly need the gifts of mother nature. Of course, that's assuming that you have the skills needed to make it out alive once you go in there.

The people who know the identities of the two Kahale tribemens are usually the older folks of Paniola Town because it is the nearest human settlement to the Lush Jungle. The two Kahales are husband and wife. The husband isn't a Kahale by blood. He took on his wife's family name when he married her and by extension, becoming a Kahale tribesman. Only the wife has true Kahale blood running through her veins. She is the true last Kahale.

In recent years, Paniola folks had never seen the last Kahale. For almost a decade now, the person they would interact with is her husband, Akamu Kahale. A large man with dark tanned skin and black hair. He easily towers over most people. The muscles barely concealed under his shirt deters even the bravest of thugs from trying to mess with him. His squarish face and stern gaze adds onto the intimidating factor and the way he grew out his beard in a chin strap instinctively caused strangers to take a step away from him. He is also not a man of many words and people who saw him for the first time usually tried to get out of his way as soon as possible. His presence alone makes you want to cower in fright.

However, the children of Paniola Town love him because he always has the sweetest and nicest berries to give them, freshly grown and plucked from the Lush Jungle in an area that is untouched by man. The moment they heard that their big bro Akamu is in town they would immediately flock to the market where they know the man will be buying groceries and daily essentials. The people who know him on a personal level would know that despite his stern look and intimidating figure, the man has a soft and gentle heart.

"Akamu! Here to stock up again?"

"Yes, the usual please." Kiku, one of the shop owners which Akamu usually goes to for supplies, watched with a big smile on his face as the gruff man went about looking at the items on display. Within two minutes, a large carton was moved out of the storage by Kiku and Akamu paid for it.

"How's Mary?"

Marianne Kahale, or better known as Mary among those who know her. She's Akamu's wife and the last Kahale.

"She's well. Thanks for asking."

The large man easily lifted the carton with one hand and exited the shop after grunting out a thank you. Kiku waved his farewell, knowing that Akamu is not one to engage in conversations. That is more of Mary's thing. He watched as Akamu loaded the carton onto a wagon that was being pulled along by a mudsdale. The wagon is already being loaded with several other cartons, each with the logo of the other shops that are also located along Paniola's market. From this alone, Kiku knows that Akamu must have sold the produce he and his wife had grown in the Lush Jungle to their buyers before coming to make his rounds here to get his supplies.

"Big bro Akamu!"

A bunch of children intercepted the large man before he and the mudsdale could leave. Akamu simply shook his head in fond exasperation before poking his hand into a large cloth bag hung from mudsdale's back. When his hand reemerged seconds later, it was filled with berries so fresh that one look and you would know that it must have been plucked just right before Akamu made his way here.

Akamu patted the children on their heads with a fond smile on his face after giving the children their treats. With a slight tug at the mudsdale's harness, he began his long trek back home to the Lush Jungle.

"Bye bye big bro Akamu!"

The large man waved a lazy farewell without turning back as the mudsdale gave an audible snort, its heels clicking along the dirt path of Paniola Town. The children left soon after to play or go after whatever had caught their fancy.

Kiku went back to rearranging the goods on display in his shop. He had been living here in Paniola Town his entire life. Alola as a whole is a region full of mysteries and danger. Alolans live in constant danger due to how untamed the wilderness is. In other regions, the main threat to the region's safety is often whatever criminal groups had sprung up there. In Alola, the main threat to the region's safety is the region itself. People rarely venture out of their hometowns unless absolutely necessary or unless you are a pokemon trainer. Only pokemon trainers have the necessary skills to survive whatever mother nature throws at them the moment they leave the protection of their towns and cities.

That is why Akamu is a mystery. Nobody really knows where he came from or what his past is, just that he appeared within the Kahale tribe one fine day. Not even them, the Paniola folks, and they are probably the only ones left in the world who knew that there is still a Kahale tribe.

He isn't even sure if Akamu's wife knows. Kiku had known Marianne Kahale since she was a little girl and he remembered how that little girl once used to tell him about the mysterious boy who suddenly appeared within her tribe's grounds unannounced from out of nowhere. The boy without a past and name. That boy was Akamu. The name Akamu was a name given to him by the Kahale tribe when there used to be more of them around.

Kiku sighed at the fond memory. It has been years since he had seen Mary. She never ventures out of the Lush Jungle ever since that tragedy. Such a tragedy should not have happened to such a warm and kind girl. He had seen how distraught the girl was after that incident, transforming her into a shell of her former self. Seeing the mutilated corpses of her tribesmen would have done that. It was a tragedy that occurred after an extremely powerful unknown pokemon had somehow appeared within the Lush Jungle without prior warning. Kiku has a feeling that the pokemon might be an Ultra Beast, the demons that plagued Alola since the beginning of time, but nobody had ever confirmed anything and asking Akamu or Mary for details would have been insensitive.

"-another attack by Team Rocket-"

The information sounding out from the old radio that he always left on when he is tending to the shop caught his brief attention. International news is not something that he paid attention to often because he had never left Paniola Town and so it doesn't affect him, but it seems that the outside world is getting increasingly chaotic. First, Team Magma and Team Aqua in Hoenn, then Team Rocket and even Team Plasma. Then there was Team Galactic in Sinnoh about a year or two ago.

Alola may be dangerous, but at least it isn't chaotic. It is times like this that it made Kiku appreciate his homeland even more. Paniola Town is not exactly known to be the home of accomplished trainers so they will really be in a pickle if a large scale terrorist attack like the one that happened in Lilycove ever took place in their town. The strongest trainer they currently have is probably that hotheaded Kiawe boy who cannot stop dancing even if the sky fell on his head. Kiku is hesitant to consider Akamu as part of Paniola's people because he technically doesn't live in Paniola, but Akamu's strength as a trainer isn't something to scoff at either. If it comes to a fight between Kiawe and Akamu, Akamu would probably still win despite the type disadvantage against Kiawe's Fire types. Akamu has a lot more experience than Kiawe when it comes to pokemon battling, Kiku knows that much despite not being a trainer himself.

In any case, it seems that times are changing once again. Kiku isn't sure if the chaos taking place outside Alola would ever affect him and Paniola Town and it makes him uneasy. It's like every known region is starting to have problems popping up here and there, almost as if saying that Alola is next.

He switched the radio channel until he found one which the DJ is currently broadcasting the latest pop song by some Unovan singer. There. Out of sight, out of mind.

Even then, Kiku cannot help but hope that he is just overthinking about things.

AN: If I have to use a single phrase to describe the creation process behind this story, it will be "pain in the ass".

To be honest publishing this story is more for the sake of the readers who are already an existing fan of my interpretation of the pokemon universe, but I will try to let this story appeal to new readers as well. To the readers who have stuck by my pokemon stories for some time now, you would have probably known that I have wanted to write a story about Alola since a while ago. I have like 5 different versions of what I think my story could be and every single one ended up dead because I could not find a way to continue it past chapter 4. I kid you not, I have like 5 different versions of chapter 1 sitting in my computer, each portraying the mc in a very different light, personality, and even age. It took me almost half a year to even get this first chapter out, a chapter that I genuinely like and think has the potential that I think meets my expectations.

It's obvious from the title that the mc here would specialise in Fairy types. Honestly, it was supposed to be Bug types and it was a very close call between Fairy and Bug but I guess Fairy won out in the end. I have always wanted to write an mc that is older in age but I'm hesitant to write it as an old man or woman right off the bat because I'm not one and hence would not really understand how an elderly would think, but I guess writing an mc around 30 y/o should be manageable for me. If all goes well I might be able to get a few more chapters out in the next few days for this story. If you genuinely like reading my stories but hate the waiting process, I have published stories from other fandoms as well. If you like Kimetsu no Yaiba, I have only just posted another short story up on the site yesterday, titled Drifting with the Cloud. If you have the same reading speed as me you can use that to kill about one hour of your time.

For new and old fans alike who enjoy immersing yourselves in my pokemon universe, with Fairy Guardian, I now have 7 pokemon stories published in total and they are all linked, or will be interconnected intimately in the future. If you are interested in knowing what the other stories are, they are as follows:

I Just Want To Travel The World, MC: Velda Vera

The Sun of Sunyshore, MC: Volkner Tide

Ordinary Researcher, MC: Shannon Juniper

Reach for the Skies, MC: Skye Bale

Rocket's Exterminator, MC: Jayce

Histories of the Earth, MC: Nova Labelle

Fairy Guardian, MC: Akamu Kahale

(Ranked according to the Publish Date from oldest to newest)

Hopefully with this story finally published I can get my other pokemon stories going. Especially Ordinary Researcher and Histories of the Earth. I've been stuck on those for quite some time now and I think it is about time I amp up the pace a little. Hopefully, I will be able to churn something out. I already have a brief idea in mind on how all 7 of the ocs will finally meet. It's just the blank period between the meeting and the current point in their individual story arcs that I am having trouble filling. Once I've got that over and done with I guess the 7 of them can finally go about saving the world, starting from a certain region that I'm excited to write about.

Presenting to you, Fairy Guardian.

As usual, hope you enjoy the story.

Character and pokemon list:

Name: Akamu Kahale

Age: 30

Pokemon Team

1. ?

Name: Marianne "Mary" Kahale

Age: 28

Pokemon on hand

1. ?