Alola, everyone! SerenityFaithful here with a brand new fanfic!

This story is one inspired by the new pokemon games, Sun and Moon.

Now, this story takes place a bit after the events of Sun/Moon, so if you haven't finished those games, there are going to be major spoilers referenced throughout the series. So if you haven't finished those games, I recommend you do so and then come back here.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters except for my own oc. Everything else is owned my the Pokemon company.

I also don't own the cover art. That picture was made by LazyTurtle: art/PKMN-Marowak-and-Meowth-Alola-ver-627379522

Without further ado, enjoy!

? POV

They say dreams are only illusions caused by the brain during slumber, that there is no more connection than that. But recently I've begun to have a feeling. Recently I had a vision...Something...Something was shown to me...these dreams and reality might be more connected than I thought. This could be the breakthrough I needed...I have to test this out.

...

...No...this isn't right...

THE MACHINE'S GOING TO-

*BOOM*

? POV

Mmm...Another morning...

I felt a gentle breeze blow on my skin as I started to hear sounds all around me.

My eyes opened wide to see the bright blue sky above me, with a few white clouds traveling by.

"Argh..." Why do I feel so...so...terrible? My entire body is aching...but what happened?

I felt a sudden headache as I started to get up.

"Ow...my head..." I groaned as I started to sit up, putting my hand on my head.

Looking down at myself, I seemed to not be harmed on the outside. My blue jeans weren't ripped, and my green hoodie jacket was fine too, only a little wrinkly. My hair was a little messy, but thanks to the pony tail, my red hair was just fine.

I took a look around, I appeared to be in an unfamiliar town. The buildings all had different colored roofs.

"No...nonono...this isn't my home..." I asked out loud as I began to look around.

I can't remember anything about this place...Okay, let's see, what can I remember? Let's see...My name is Ericka, I'm sixteen...I was at my home in Hawaii...But somehow, I end up in wherever this is. This looks nothing like Honolulu.

I began to stand up, but only to be met with sharp aches going down my legs.

"Argh...why am I aching so badly?" I asked myself.

I started to walk down the street, taking a good look at the nearby buildings. None of them seemed familiar to me, as they all seemed too bright and colorful to be my home.

Nothing seems familiar...What happened to me?

"Huh?"As I was walking along the street, I seemed to have stepped on something.

"Mrow?!" I looked down to see I was standing on a tail. At the end of that tail was a startled cat in the tall grass that had just woken up. The cat was different than most I'd ever seen it was purple with a gold coin glued to its head.

The cat had pulled its tail from under my foot.

"O-Oh...I'm sorry..." I apologized.

"Mrrrr..." The cat glared with anger at me.

"Uh...ehehe..." I sheepishly started to back up.

"Mrrr!" The cat started to run towards me.

"Gah!" I yelled as I started to run, with sharp pains still running through my body.

I ran quickly down the street, as fear and adrenaline rushed through my entire body.

"P-Please! I-I'm sorry! I didn't see you lying there!" I yelled.

"Mrow!" The cat cried in anger as it tried to pounce on me.

"Gah!" I yelled as I nearly dodged the cat.

I ran as hard as I could from the cat, but it seemed my luck had run out. It wasn't long before I had run into a dead end.

"Huff...Huff...D-Dead end?!" I yelled in disbelief.

I turned to the alley's entrance to see the cat had followed me to my dead-end path.

"Uh...N-Nice kitty?" I stuttered.

"Mrrrr..." The creature hissed and growled as it began to back me up to the end of the alleyway.

I tried to look around for a way out, but it seemed no use I was cornered.

Please oh please let this be just a really bad nightmare... I feared.

"Meow!" The cat growled.

"S-Someone help!" I screamed in fear.

"Rockruff! Use tackle!" A man yelled.

"Ruff!" I opened my eyes to see a little brown puppy charging towards the cat.

"Meo?-Mrow!" The purple cat turned around, only to be hit by the charging dog. The cat flew back a bit, falling on the ground.

"Grr...ruff!" The dog growled.

"You there!" I looked to the puppy's owner. The man was tall, and tan-looking, wearing a white hat on his head and a pair of glasses. He was wearing a white lab coat with no shirt underneath, gray shorts with a green rim, and green shoes. "Get away while that meowth is down!"

"O-Oh!" I stuttered as I scrambled to get on my feet, quickly limping, trying to get around the cat.

"Mrow..." The cat slowly rose to its feet.

I turned my head back at the sound of the cat.

The cat seemed to have anger in its eyes. It seemed to bend its legs as it watched me.

"Mrrr..MEOW!" The cat then pounced with its jaw wide open.

"AH!" I cried as I watched the alley cat pounce at me.

"Rup! Ruff!" The little dog barked as it ran in front of me, jumping into the air.

"MRRR!" The cat growled as it bit down on the dog.

"Rockruff! Use your bite attack as well!" The man yelled to his pet.

"Grrr...Ruff!" The dog obeyed as he bit down on the cat.

"Mrreow!" The cat flinched and stopped biting down on the dog.

I turned and saw the man pull out a little red and white ball from his pocket.

"Go! Pokeball!" The man yelled as he chucked the ball at the cat.

I watched in awe as the cat disappeared and entered the little ball. The capsule shook a couple times, before sparkling as the shaking stopped.

"Wh-What?" I said out loud. That cat went inside the capsule?!

The man whom had saved me from the cat approached me.

"Are you alright, miss?" He asked.

I turned to the man in the white lab coat.

"Yes sir. I'm a little shaken up, but thanks to you I'm safe..." I replied.

"That's a relief. I was so worried when I heard someone calling for help." The man replied with a smile.

"Ruff!" The little dog grabbed the ball in his mouth and brought it to his owner.

"Thank you, Rockruff." The man smiled at his pet as he bent down to take the ball from the dog's mouth.

"Ruff!" The dog barked as he wagged his tail back and forth.

"...You named your dog rockruff?" I asked.

"Did I name it? No. It's name is already rockruff, it's species that is." He replied as he took his dog in his arms and stood up. "While we're on the subject of names, my name is Professor Kukui. Rockruff here is my partner." He introduced.

"Ruff!" Rockruff smiled excitedly. Getting a better look at the dog, I could see he was almost like a spitz dog breed, only the main part of his fur was colored like chocolate milk, with the paws and tips of his ears being a darker shade of brown. He also had cream color fur around his neck which had little brown rocks poking out of his fur, like a collar.

"My name is Ericka. Thank you for saving me." I thanked.

"It was no trouble at all. Erm, by the way, how did you find yourself in that situation in the first place?" Kukui asked.

"Oh...I dunno. I was just walking down the street when I stepped on that cat's tail. It seemed startled and started to chase me." I replied.

"Cat? Don't you mean meowth?" Kukui asked.

"Um...I don't know...what's a meowth?" I asked.

"It's a kind of pokemon. A dark type to be exact." Kukui replied.

"Sorry, but what's a pokemon?" I asked.

Kukui and Rockruff blinked.

"You don't know what a pokemon is?" He asked.

"Quite frankly, no. I'm not familiar with anything I've seen today to tell you the truth." I explained.

"Nothing seems familiar? That's not good...Do you know where we are now? We're right in the center of Hau'oli city..." The professor wondered.

"No. I've never heard of a name like that..." I replied with disappointment.

Our conversation was interrupted by a sudden pain jolting through my body.

"Gyh..." I grunted as I bent over from the pain.

"Are you alright?!" The professor asked.

"I really don't know...I've been hurting all day...I don't have a clue what's going on..." I explained.

"Here...Let me help you..." The professor bent down and helped me stand up.

"T-Thanks..." I stuttered.

"You're in no shape to be standing around here, in a place you don't know. Let me help you to my house. There you can get some rest."

"Well...Alright. Thank you." I weakly smiled.

As we walked along, the pain in my body started to go away. I was slowly able to walk on my own as Professor Kukui and rockruff escorted me to their home to the east. Kukui's house was on a small beach. The house itself was damaged a little bit. With wooden boards patching up any holes in the wall, and the fence was practically in pieces.

"You'll have to excuse the mess. I study pokemon moves as a profession, but unfortunately my house can take quite a beating." Kukui admitted.

"So, you study pokemon moves? Oh yeah, that reminds me, you never explained what a pokemon is?" I reminded him.

"Well...what's there to explain? Pokemon are the creatures that inhabit this world. They come in all different shapes and sizes. Rockruff here is a pokemon, a rock type." Professor Kukui explained.

"Ruff!" Rockruff joined in.

"They inhabit the world?" I asked.

"Yeah. You could go anywhere and most likely run into a pokemon." The professor added.

Professor Kukui walked up to the door and opened it.

"Honey! I'm home!" He yelled inside.

He then turned to me.

"Come on in, Ericka." He instructed.

I nodded and followed him inside. I noticed that as I was walking, Rockruff seemed to stay very close to me, as if he was excited about a new guest.

As I walked inside, everything seemed completely clean compared to the outside of the building. From what I could see, across from the door there was an aquarium, with some more strange creatures swimming around inside. To my right there was a staircase heading downstairs. To my left there was a table on top of a green carpet, with some a cough facing a flatscreen tv. Across from the tv there was a loft with a ladder to climb up to it. To the left of the loft, there was a small kitchen area.

"Wow..." I said as I took a look around.

"You like it? This is where I live." Kukui said as he walked over to the table.

"I love your house, I think it's awesome." I smiled.

"Why thank you." The professor smiled back.

"Ruff!" Rockruff smiled.

"Honey! Did you say you're home?" A woman yelled from down the stairs.

"Yes, Dear, and we have a guest!" Kukui yelled back.

I turned to the stairs as I saw a woman in a gray tank top, blue and black sweat pants, and had a dark green hairband holding her hair up.

The white-haired woman approached the professor.

"Hon, the machine's stabilizer is fried. I'm going to have to..." The woman paused as she saw me standing behind Kukui.

"Oh, I didn't realize we have a guest." She said, a little embarrassed.

"I just yelled down to you. Were you researching something big down there?"

"Yes...I must have been working so hard that I didn't hear you. Who is this?" She asked as she turned to me.

"This is Ericka. She was being chased by a wild meowth, so Rockruff and I saved her." Kukui explained.

"Ruff!" Rockruff barked proudly.

"Really now? I'm glad to see you're not hurt." The woman smiled.

"I'm glad to see that too...I've never seen a cat that mad before." I chuckled.

"Hahaha, I see you've got quite the humor there."

Professor Kukui turned to me.

"Ericka, this is my wife, Professor Burnet. She's studying the existence of other dimensions." He said.

"Other dimensions?! Is that even possible?" I asked.

"Oh yes, there are many dimensions that are known already, such as this dimension, the interdream dimension, Ultra space..."

"Okay, honey, I think she gets the idea." Kukui stopped her.

"I had no idea that there were such things as other dimensions. I of course hear about them in movies, but never thought they existed." I said.

"So, Honey, you were saying that the machine broke?" Kukui asked.

"Yes, the stabilizer on the machine just broke while I was trying to run it. It's a mess down there. I'm going to have to go to my lab in HeaHea city to get a replacement part." Burnet informed.

"So your machine didn't work, huh?" Kukui asked.

"I'm not sure yet if it worked. I still have to read the data from the experiment, but without all the parts working I can't access them. I'm going to have to visit my lab in Heahea city." Burnet said.

"Alright. Well, you'd better hurry before the next ship leaves." Kukui suggested.

"I know. I'll be sure to get there quickly."

Professor Burnet walked over to the door. She picked up a lab coat that was sitting by the door and put it on.

"I shouldn't be too long." Burnet said as she got her coat on.

The woman then turned to look at me.

"I'm sorry I have to leave just as you got here. I'll be sure to visit more when I get back." She assured me.

"Alright." I nodded in reply.

"See you two." Professor Burnet waved as she headed out the door.

Professor Kukui smiled lovingly at his wife as she left. As soon as she was out the door, Professor Kukui started to head to the kitchen area.

"Feel free to make yourself at home while I go get us something to drink." Kukui said as he walked over to the kitchen.

"Thank you." I thanked.

I turned my attention to the green couch and sat down on it.

As soon as I sat down, the little brown dog tried to jump onto the couch, only catching himself on his two front paws. Rockruff then climbed onto the seat next to me.

"Ruff!" Rockruff smiled as he wagged his tail at me.

"Hehe..." I smiled back at Rockruff as I petted his head.

"Ruff! Ruff!" Rockruff smiled at the petting, and inched closer to me, leaning on my lap.

"So what was your name again? Rockruff?" I asked it.

"Ruff!" Rockruff nodded in reply.

"You replied? I never expected a creature like you to understand my language." I commented.

"That's right. While pokemon can't talk themselves, they can understand human speech." Kukui said as he walked over from the kitchen area holding two mugs.

"I hope you like cocoa." Kukui said as he handed me one of the mugs.

"Cocoa? I love cocoa!" I smiled as I took the mug.

I saw that the cocoa had two marshmallows floating on the surface of the cocoa. I tilted the mug up to take a sip.

"Mmm...This is really good." I smiled.

"I'm glad you like it. I bought some special brand Tapu Cocoa the other day to bring home. It's one of my favorites too." Professor Kukui said.

I took another sip of the cocoa.

"So, you were telling me how you said nothing seemed familiar to you?" Kukui asked.

I removed the mug from my lips.

"Yeah. It's strange, but...I seemed to be unconscious somehow. After who knows how long I finally woke up, only to be in some unfamiliar city. I can remember many things, but not how I wound up in that city." I replied, trying to recall anything.

"So you said you can recall some things, right? What can you remember?" Kukui asked.

"Well...I can remember my name, my age, my family, my friends, my home, and a lot of other stuff...I just wish I knew what happened for me to get here..." I replied.

"Hmm...I'm afraid I can't explain that. But you said you could remember where you're from, right? Maybe if we start there we can get some clues."

"Alright...I'm from a city in Hawaii, Honolulu."

"Honolulu, Hawaii? Can't say I've heard of it."

"What? You don't?"

"At least, not from what I can recall. If you know the name of it, do you want to borrow my computer to search it up?"

"That'd be great, thanks." I thanked.

"Alright. Follow me downstairs, I have a laptop sitting on my desk." Professor Kukui said as he placed his mug of cocoa and got up from the couch.

I placed mine on the table as well and got up to follow him.

"Hopefully you'll be able to find some-What the?!"

"What is it?" I asked as I followed him down the stairs.

As I caught up to the professor, my eyes gazed from him to a whole room that seemed to be almost destroyed, like a bomb went off. The machine that Professor Burnet mentioned was completely black, as it seemed the explosion came from it.

"What happened in here?!" Kukui exclaimed.

"Wow...When Professor Burnet said it was a mess down here, she wasn't kidding..." I commented.

"Seeing this, I'm now even more relieved that she's not hurt, but look at this mess!" Kukui said as he looked around.

I walked over to the machine to take a look at it.

"What is this thing?"

"I'm not completely sure. It was supposed to be a machine my wife was experimenting with. She said something about figuring something out, but I didn't catch all of what she was saying." Kukui explained.

Kukui walked over to his desk, which was surprisingly unharmed.

"Oh good...my laptop is still working." Kukui said as he started doing something on his laptop.

"Here, Ericka. See if you can find your home city. I'm going to start cleaning up this mess." Kukui said as he walked away from the desk.

"Thanks, Professor." I said.

I walked over to his laptop which had the internet browser open. Only this search engine was called "Pokenet".

I typed in my home town into the search engine and hit enter.

"...Your search for "Honolulu, Hawaii" did not bring up any results. Did you mean Hau'oli City?" The computer screen read.

"It's no good. No results came up..." I said to the professor.

"So not even the internet knows your city...that's very odd." Kukui said as he came over to the desk.

"Ruff ruff!" As Kukui and I were staring at the screen, Rockruff came down the stairs.

"Rockruff. What's up?" Kukui asked as he turned to his dog.

"Ruff!" Rockruff motioned for us to follow him upstairs.

"Upstairs? Is someone here?" Kukui asked.

Kukui started to head up the stairs, followed by rockruff.

I turned my head to look at the computer screen again.

I can't believe no one's heard of my home...what is going on? I pondered.

I couldn't come up with any answers, so I decided to leave the computer for now, and follow the professor upstairs.

As I got up the stairs, I turned to the door to see the professor and a kid standing next to him. The kid was wearing a black shirt and yellow Hawaiian pants. His hair was a darn greenish color that was mostly tied up in a small ponytail, with some hair hanging down near his face.

"So Lillie is returning, huh? I can't wait to hear about her trip to Kanto." Kukui said as I walked up the stairs.

As I walked over to the two, the kid noticed me.

"Professor? Who is this?" The kid asked as he looked at me.

Kukui turned to see that I had approached them.

"Oh, I didn't see you come up." Kukui said to me.

"Hau, this is Ericka. She just arrived in Alola."

"Alola?" I asked.

"Alola, Ericka! It's great to meet a new face around here." Hau smiled.

...Did the kid think I was greeting him? Is "Alola" how these people greet each other?

"Uh, yeah. Hi." I shyly greeted.

"Anyway, I heard she'll be here in a couple days. At least that's what her letter said." Hau said to the professor.

"Really now? I'll be looking forward to hearing about her trip." Kukui smiled.

"Who?" I asked as I stepped closer.

Hau turned to me with a glowing smile on his face.

"We're talking about our friend Lillie. A few months ago she left to journey to Kanto." Hau explained.

"Sorry...but what's Kanto?" I asked.

Hau's energetic smile turned into confusion.

"You don't know what Kanto is? Kanto is a region across the sea." Hau said as he looked at me funny.

Kukui stepped in.

"You'll have to excuse her, Hau. Ericka here found herself in Alola, but she has no knowledge of anything here." Kukui explained to Hau.

"No knowledge of anything? So...what does that mean?" Hau asked.

"I don't know...I woke up this afternoon somewhere in the city...but I can't recall how I ended up there. Nothing seems familiar to me. The towns, the cities, everything seems foreign to me." I said with a gloomy look.

Hau's face of confusion changed to a compassionate look.

"Oh...that's a bummer..." Hau replied.

Hau then turned to the professor.

"Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about Lillie. She said she'll be docking in Hau'oli city on Thursday."

"Good to know, Hau. Thanks for stopping by. Say hi to your old Hala for me." Kukui said.

"I will." Hau smiled back.

Hau then turned to me.

"It was nice to meet you, Ericka. I hope things work out for you." He said as he began to step out the door.

"Thanks..." I waved.

I watched as Hau left Kukui's house, and watched the door close behind him.

"..." I turned silently and started to walk towards the couch.

"Ruff?" Rockruff woofed as he watched me.

I, feeling defeated, sat on the couch with fear.

"Ericka...How are you feeling?" Kukui asked.

"Honestly...I'm worried...nothing is familiar to me...nothing at all...I'm far from home, and I don't know where the heck I am." I said as tears started to well up in my eyes.

"Roo..." Rockruff looked compassionately at me as he jumped onto the couch.

Kukui looked at me sympathetically as he walked over to me on the couch.

"Look...I know how hard this must be for you. I can tell it's not easy. I can't give you any answers, but I will do what I can to help. For now, while you're trying to figure things out, you're free to stay here. It may not be much, but you can stay up in the loft for now if you'd like." Kukui said as he tried to comfort me.

I looked up at the professor, with tears running down my face.

"Thank you, Professor Kukui. I think I'll have to take you up on that." I said, trying to smile.

Later that evening.

After dinner, Kukui told me to check out where I would be staying. He insisted I climb up the ladder first. When I got to the top, I saw a small bed to my left, and a bookcase across from me, with a wooden railing on my right.

"Wow..." I said as I took a look around.

"Do you like it?" Kukui asked as he followed me on the ladder.

"I love it. It looks awesome." I smiled.

"Good. I hope you find it comfortable. about a year ago we had Lillie stay up here, but nothing has really changed." Kukui said.

"This is really nice, thank you." I smiled at Kukui.

"You're welcome. I hope you have a good night." Kukui said as he started to climb down the ladder.

"T-Thank you. G-Good night." I stuttered.

I took a look around the room and laid down on the bed.

It felt weird not having anything of my own with me. I don't have any change of clothes, or any of my belongings.

Feeling worried, I pulled thee blanket over my body and tried to start falling asleep.

...

...Is this really happening? ...I'm so scared... I'm worried... I don't recognize a thing about this place. What could have happened to me to make me unconscious? Or aching? I can't remember what happened.

...What if I never go home?

...What if I never see my family or friends again? Do they even know I'm gone?

"Ruff..."

I lifted my head up to see that Rockruff had climbed up the ladder (somehow), and started to walk over to my bed.

"Hey, Rockruff." I said to the dog.

"Roo..." Rockruff jumped onto the bed, next to me, and snuggled up to me, almost trying to comfort me.

Strangely enough, it was comforting. This little dog sure looked different than any I'd seen, but he's a real friend.

"Thanks, Rockruff." I smiled at my new friend.

"Ruff..." Rockruff replied. I placed my arm over the little dog as the two of us began to fall asleep.

Maybe it isn't all bad...but hopefully tomorrow will bring some answers...For now, I need to get some sleep.

Goodnight Rockruff. Goodnight Professor Kukui. I hope we'll figure something out tomorrow.

Wow, guess that was quite a welcome to Alola, huh? So what do you guys think? Did you guys enjoy this first chapter? This is a brand new fanfic series that I'm hoping I'll be able to work on, depending on how this series goes.

To help with the story, I'm going to post a little question at the end of each chapter. Call it a Question of the Chapter if you will.

Alright, so here we go: What was your favorite pokemon you came across while playing Sun/Moon?

Okay, hope you all liked this chapter and hope to see you next time. :)

Serenity out!