A/N: This story won't be about my characters going on an adventure and eventually having to save the region or something like that, it will just be a normal pokemon journey to the league.

I apologise as my grammar isn't the best.

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

It was a peaceful day in the Alola region, the sun was shining brightly along the shores and the cries of the pokemon both on the land and ocean could be heard. In one city in particular, people were on the beach and relaxing.

Standing and staring out towards the ocean was a boy that appeared to be ten years old or so, his bright blue eyes shining slightly from the light of the sun. Beside him was a small pokemon that was icy blue in colour.

The boy had raven black straight hair with bangs that barely cover his right eye along with his fair skin and lean build. He wore a white t-shirt with a blue and black open vest that reaches halfway down the top half of his body and has fingerless black gloves. He also had tight black jeans, a pair of blue running shoes and a black and blue backpack on his right shoulder.

The pokemon that was standing next to him was a bipedal pokemon, it had a brick patterned hide and a white underbelly and muzzle. Its almond-shaped blue eyes sparkling and claws on its feet and forepaws along with a conical tail. Its body was mainly icy blue in colour.

"Sandshrew, this might be the last time we see Alola from this angle in a very long time." The boy stated. The pokemon looked up at him and gave its own soft cry of agreement, the boy closed his eyes and smiled softly before giving a small sigh. "Alright, we should get going soon."

They were halted as they were about to head off from their position, the reason being that a loud sound rung in their ears. Sandshrews small pointed ears twitched at the sound before they turned to the source.

"Eh?" The boy blinked as he watched a figure quickly running in his direction, two figures specifically. As they ran, they left a dust cloud behind due to the speed that they were going, the boy squinted his eyes to see that it was another boy around his age and what appeared to be a Pikachu.

"I'm not going to lose to you!"

The boy could hear quite clearly since the person running had screamed it, he had deduced that they were most likely racing. Though his eyes widened when he looked further ahead and saw that they were heading straight for a cat pokemon which was black and red.

"Watch ou-!" The boy didn't get to say it in time as the boy that was running ended up stepping on the tail of the cat pokemon, it was Litten.

"I'm sorry!" The boy quickly apologised, but it was for nothing as the Litten fired a blast of flames at the face of the boy who got shot back with a red face. Sandshrew and the boy could only sweatdrop at the scene while the Pikachu touched the boys face only to recoil from the heat as the Litten walked off.

"Sandshrew, let's go!" The boy said to his pokemon who nodded firmly back, they quickly ran over to the downed form of the boy who was twitching on the ground. The Pikachu looked up at them and pointed at the boy.

They got a better look at the person who had spiky black hair, they didn't have a shirt on but did have a pair of black and white shorts. The boy kneeled down beside the downed male and looked at his face with narrowed eyes.

"Jeez, Litten's can sure pack a punch, this is an example of that..." The boy muttered. The Pikachu gave a small cry and pointed towards the retreating form of the cat pokemon. "Yep, that's a Litten."

"Ugh~..." The boy on the ground groaned as his mouth was releasing steam. The boy that was kneeling smiled softly as he then looked towards Sandshrew and not noticing the Pikachu raising its eye in confusion as it looked at his pokemon.

"Sandshrew, can you cool his face down for me?" The boy requested. The pokemon nodded happily before giving a blow which sent a cold breeze that washed over the downed boys face, the redness slowly went away before returning to its original colour much to the Pikachu's surprise. "Thanks, Sandshrew."

"Huh? Where am I?" The boy that was on the ground slowly stood up and blinked a few times before looking around and finally seeing the Pikachu. "Oh, Pikachu. What happened?"

The Pikachu began to speak as he pointed behind the boy, the boy turned around only the see the one that helped him kneeling down next to him. "Nice to see you're doing well, that Litten can sure cause some pain."

"Oh, hi! Thanks for the help." The boy thanked. He then looked around before laying his eyes back on the boy that helped him. "My name's Ash Ketchum, nice to meet you!"

"It's Avery Helios, it's a great pleasure. Litten's can give someone a serious burn if they wanted to, be glad you only just got it and had it treated immediately, thank my Sandshrew here." Avery stated. Ash then looked down to see the icy blue pokemon wave at him.

"Oh, thank you, Sandshrew. But, how come he's blue, and not yellow?" Ash wondered. He and the Pikachu were looking at Avery's pokemon in confusion. Avery blinked before he gave a small smile.

"You guys aren't from Alola, are you?"

"Nope, we actually just came here today! I'm from Pallet Town in the Kanto Region!" Ash explained. Avery nodded his head in understanding at this.

"That explains it, Alola is quite unique to other regions you see. Some pokemon here are different from those from outside, my Sandshrew is an example of that, instead of being a ground type, it's an ice and steel type instead. We call this regional variant." Avery explained. He sweatdropped though when he saw Ash and Pikachu having stars in their eyes.

"That's cool! So this Sandshrew is an ice and steel type!" Ash marvelled. The Pikachu was speaking to Sandshrew as whatever they said seemed to show that they were getting along just fine. "I didn't know there was such a thing."

"It's more common knowledge here, so it's understandable." Avery, Ash and their pokemon then heard a loud voice calling in their direction, they turned their heads to see a woman significantly older than them.

"Avery! It's almost time to go!"

The woman had long black hair that reached her lower back, her eyes the same colour as Avery's and had a lean body. She was wearing a simple white t-shirt and a long black dress. "Oh, be there in a second! Sorry, Ash! Mom's calling me, I'm heading off to the Kalos region soon."

"Really? You're going to love it there!" Ash exclaimed. Pikachu nodded his head in agreement as Avery blinked.

"You've been there?"

"Yep! I actually had my previous journey through there collecting badges, I didn't win the league but I had lots of fun!" Ash responded. "Are you going to challenge the gyms there?"

"Yep, I wanted to try something new. I've been here in Alola for a long time, I want to see new horizons, gyms are different to the island challenge here so I want to see what they're like."

"Island challenge?" Ash and Pikachu blinked.

"You'll find out some day, I'll leave it to you to find out what that is yourself," Avery smirked as Sandshrew climbed up onto his shoulder and nodded in agreement to which Ash and Pikachu pouted at. "Haha~! Anyway, I gotta go, see you again some time, Ash!"

"Alright! Have fun!" Ash called out to the retreating form of Avery as they both waved bye to one another.

"So, Avery." His mother called out. Avery turned his head towards his mother while they were walking down the streets towards the airport. "Who was your friend that you were talking to at the beach?"

"Oh, that was Ash. I actually met him not too long ago before you arrived, he apparently had a journey through Kalos and said it was fun, so I'm more excited to start my journey now!" Avery replied. Sandshrew then jumped onto his shoulder and cheered as well.

"That's great! That reminds me, you do have everything that I had bought you, right?" His mother asked. He nodded his head and showed his backpack which his mother began to check everything. "You have a Pokedex, a navigation device, and everything else... great!"

Avery closed his backpack up and swung it back over his shoulder as he looked back at his mom while now holding Sandshrew in his arms. "I'm capable of organising and preparing myself, Mom. I know what I'm doing."

"I know, but I just have to make sure that you don't forget anything." She replied. Avery loved his mom but she could get kind of annoying when she panics in things that involve him. "We're almost at the car, should be around the corner. Oh, and by the way..."

"Hm?"

"We ended up picking Olivia up while we were on our way here, she wanted to see you off." His mother stated. Avery froze for a second as he heard this, so did Sandshrew as their faces were slightly pale.

"Y-You're kidding, right?" Avery stuttered. Avery's eyes dilating slightly at the thought while Sandshrew had eyes as wide as plates. His mother just smiled innocently making him gulp. "You know that she almost suffocated Sandshrew and I last time, right?"

"You're just over exaggerating, you weren't going to suffocate." His mother stated. Avery and Sandshrew just gave deadpanned looks before sighing in defeat, his mother was hard to deal with. "Look, we've arrived!"

Avery turned his head forwards and saw a black coloured limo parked on the side of the road, in front was an old man who held a gentle smile wearing a butler outfit. "Welcome back, Miss Helios and Young Master Helios."

"Hey, Droy, nice to see you," Avery said. This man was none other than the head butler of his house, and a person that Avery played a lot with and battled against with Sandshrew. "How far is the airport?"

"It'll only take a couple of minutes, the flight will be for a much longer period of time but you should feel comfortable in it," Droy replied.

"Thank you." Avery turned his head to see that his mother was getting into the vehicle, he smiled softly before he started walking... only to stop when a loud voice called out to him.

"Avery!"

"Oh no..." He slowly turned his head upwards to see that from the other side of the car came a girl that got out before running over to him. She appeared to be a bit younger than Avery was and a couple of centimetres shorter.

She had long neat blonde hair that reached her lower back and was wearing really short white pants, a pink top, a handbag on her shoulder, white running shoes, and finally, she had a pair of light blue eyes.

"H-Hey, Olivia." Avery managed to say. He watched as the girl stopped in front of him, she then looked up at his eyes and grabbed his shoulders before shaking him. "Oi! What are you doing?!"

"Were you going to leave without even telling me, you were, weren't you?!" She yelled with an angered expression. He had to cover his ears at the loud voice she had, he had to admit, she was probably as loud as an Exploud!

"No, I wasn't, I swear... it's totally the truth." Avery responded. He said the last part with a sweatdrop behind his head as the girl changed her expression from anger to satisfaction in less than a second...

"Oh, I see, thank goodness. But now that I know that you were going to go to the Kalos region for a while, I have to be there to see you off! Let's go!" She cheered. He watched as she got back into the car.

"You can come out now, Sandshrew..." His backpack on his shoulder shook a bit before opening as Sandshrew's head popped out.

The car trip had probably taken around half an hour or so before they had finally arrived at their destination, the airport. He quickly got himself checked into the plane as him and his mother along with Olivia were now waiting for his plane to arrive.

They were sitting in the main area where many others were waiting for their flight, they were sitting on a bunch of seats. Avery was looking out to the sky through the large windows while Sandshrew was sleeping on his lap while leaning against his stomach.

"Did you check to make sure you do in fact have everything?" His mother asked. He sweatdropped from the question, he had lost count the number of times that his mother asked the same question in the last five hours.

"Yes, mother. I already have everything that I need for my journey, if I run out, then I can just visit the stores and restock." Avery replied. They were all sitting before perking up at the sound of the loudspeaker.

Flight 17 will be taking off shortly, please report to the gate immediately.

"Well, there's my flight." Avery said. He then nudged Sandshrew and waking him up, Avery nodded at the pokemon who understood and got up from his lap and onto the ground. "I should get going now."

"Alright, be safe, Avery." His mother stated. Avery nodded his head with a smile as he swung his backpack onto his shoulder and Sandshrew climbed up to his shoulder. They flinched when Olivia suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Make sure to call when you arrive!" She ordered.

"I know! Don't worry, I'll make sure to contact you guys when we arrive in the Kalos region." Avery quickly replied. Olivia nodded her head firmly with a smile on her face.

"Good! Now, let me give you both a goodbye hug!"

Sandshrew and Avery widened their eyes as they grew pale, Sandshrew's already icy blue body was turning more white as she approached.

"H-Hold on, Olivia! We can talk about thi- Gah!" Avery didn't get to finish his sentence as Olivia lunged herself at them and pulled them into a strong hug as they both began to struggle from the grip she had.

Despite her smaller stature and body structure, she possessed unfathomable strength in her arms. He might be exaggerating but he could swear that she was way too strong physically for her age!

"P-Please let go of us!" Avery begged. Olivia released them much to their relief as they both took a deep inhale of air as they exhaled it in relief. "Thank you... but, I should be going now, I'll speak to you later!"

He began walking towards the gate while Sandshrew ran after him and climbed back onto his shoulder as they both waved back to his mother and Olivia who waved back at them while they were walking.

"Alright, here we come, Kalos!"