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Chapter 1: The Beginning

My first day at the Pokémon school. My starter, best friend and companion, Eevee, perched on my shoulder as my legs trembled beneath me. I was nervous, and Eevee could tell.

"Eevee!" it cried, as it tried to calm me down.

I smiled weakly, acknowledging its efforts, before I noticed the Alolan Professor Kukui strolling his way towards me.

"Toby! Are you ready for your first day at the Pokémon school?"

I opened my mouth to speak, but due to a mixture of tiredness from the sleepless night beforehand, and nerves, all I spoke was silence.

"Relax, I know it's a new environment and all, but these people are possibly the most friendly and most eccentric people I think in have ever met." Kukui reassured me.

Again, I smiled weakly. Words could do little to comfort me. Kukui patted me on the back, and we went into the classroom.

Inside the classroom were five people. A small, petite blonde girl with a wide hat, a girl with hair as blue as the ocean, which was in polar opposite to another girl, with hair as green as the forests of Alola. Of the opposite gender, there were two boys with dark hair. One of them was tall, and had red streaks. The other was smaller, but had an unmistakeble look of determination. Immediately, the blonde one was kind of cute, and she caught my eye, proceeding to blush, and looked away. Oblivious to this, Kukui coughed and started to speak.

"So, class, today is a new term, a new start, and we have a new student, Toby!"

The class cheered, and walked over to introduce themselves.

"Hey, I'm Mallow, nice to meet ya!" the green-haired girl revealed, the Steenie by her side chirping away in happiness

"I'm Lana, and this is my partner Popplio." said the blue haired female, Popplio on her shoulder, crying its distinctive cry.

"I'm Kiawe, and this is my Pokemon, Marowak!" said the fiery-headed trainer, in an aggressive tone.

"Marowak!" Immediately, and almost instinctively, Marowak charged over, looking for a sparring partner in the form of my shy Eevee. It was clear my faithful pal didn't like this, and headbutted Marowak with a ferocious Double-Edge, knocking it out cold as well as Eevee sustained recoil damage.

"Eevee!" I picked Eevee up, to see whether it had any real damage, before apologising to Kiawe.

"Relax, it's fine!" Kiawe reassured me, as he returned his Pokémon to his Pokéball. " That's a really strong Eevee you got there!"

I looked over to Eevee, glancing at her apologetic face.

"Yeah, I guess it is."

"Woah, any idea what Eeveelution you'll turn it into?" almost shouted the smaller, dark haired boy. He certainly felt no nerves when meeting new people. "I'm Ash by the way, and this is Pikachu!"

"Toby, and no, I don't think Eevee wants to evolve just yet. We're fine with it just the way it is."

"Ah, so you're like Pikachu then!" Ash cried. "You see, Pikachu doesn't want to evolve either!"

"Pika!" the boisterous yellow rodent agreed.

I smiled. He's certainly excited.

Lastly, the quiet blonde one. She certainly looked suspicious of me. Just staring at me. Or at least, she was, before I'd realised i'd been staring into her eyes for a solid 30 seconds before I realised.

"Oh-er i'm Toby. I practically shouted at her. (Great, going well, first day of school, definitely not showing any nerves, nope, none whatsoever)

The girl smiled, and blushed. "I'm Lillie, nice to meet you"

So, after that little incident, class went underway. It was the usual school stuff, talking about how when Exeggutor came to Alola, it's neck grew larger due to it needing more sun, because of this, it outgrew its need to rely on physic powers, and as such,' awakened the sleeping dragon inside'. Thus becoming a Grass/Dragon type instead of a Grass/Physic type. Stuff I had already learnt when I had a lot of spare time on my hands. Still, I answered the questions, as no-one else but Lillie seemed to be interested in answering them. Speaking of Lillie, every so often she would appear to cast a glance at me, before reverting her eyes back to the front every time I noticed it. Huh, maybe she's just curious. I am a new student after all. Or maybe she's still thinking of that moment before. I shuddered. That was quite possibly the worst scenario possibly.

"Toby?"

Kukui had just asked me a question and I wasn't concentrating. In fact I was staring at Lillie. Again. Oops. I sighed and apologised. For my own stupidity and for missing Kukui's question. Kukui sighed, before repeating his question. I smirked. Eeveelutions, my speciality. Much to everyone's surprise, I listed off every single Eeveelution, as well as Eevee, their types and ability. Kukui seemed satisfied enough, before remarking that I should put as much effort into learning about Eevees as I should in facing the front. I blushed, and Lillie smirked, before Kukui told her to put a little less effort in trying to style her hair in class every day. She blushed profusely, and the rest of the class giggled. This wasn't going to be too bad I thought.

Author's note

I have wrote the another 9 chapters so far, but i want to see the reaction on this one before uploading the rest. In terms of length, i suspect this will be around 50 chapters in total. i have a lot planned, and i want to share it with you. As well, the ages are around 14/15. (Yes boys, Ash has aged) and Sophocles won't be in this cause no one likes him, and the main character, Toby, replaces him. Also 6 is a nice, even number. The story in this has taken inspiration from both the anime and the games, because i adore them both. Also shout out to Pokespectre, for influencing and inspiring me to write this. Be sure to check out 'Alola to our saviour' and his other fanfictions. Also, please shout at me if i make any grammatical errors, bugs me to hell so please do. And, if you really want to, and i suggest you do, spread the word about this on twitter and stuff, I've put a lot of effort into this and i would love it if more people read this. Thank you, and feel free to leave a review!