This is my first fic about pokemon and it really did take some planning because the teams needed to be good and colorful (meaning they needed to have many different pokemon types and -kinds)

So I do hope you enjoy this a lot. The ships that are in this fic are straight [insert gasp here] and they would be Gladion x Moon (if you didn't know she is the female player character) and Hau x Lillie

It's been six years since Moon became the first champion of Alola and Lillie left for her journey to Kanto region. Moon managed to catch all the Ultra Beasts around the Alola region as well as the island guardians. She also managed to fill her pokedex with the help of the 'heroes' from other regions. No one still hasn't managed to win Moon so she still has the title of a champion. Hau, despite all his training, never managed to beat her but he had became the kahuna of Melemele island after his grandpa retired. Gladion hasn't been seen after all of the Ultra Beasts had been caught and Lillie still hasn't returned from Kanto.

Moon was holding a Mimikyu, that had came to her at Poke Pelago, in her arms as she was talking with Acerola at Pokemon League. The purple haired girl smiled widely at the new pokemon but it just shivered in fear which made the ghost-user tilt her head in confusion. She was usually good with ghost types after all. Moon's Decidueye was standing next to its owner watching the smaller pokemon in her arms. It didn't really seem to care what its owner was doing as long as she was safe and unhurt.

The door of the league's entrance hall flew open with a huge force and Hau ran in. This got Decidueye's attention but it seemed to lost its interest when it saw that there was no danger.

"Moon! Today is the day! Lillie is finally coming back!" Hau yelled as he jumped up and down making Moon wonder how he was not getting exhausted while doing so. But her eyes shone as she heard the name of her old friend.

"I almost forgot that because of this little one. We need to hurry to Melemele island!" Moon said as she nodded at Acerola for farwell who waved at her as she ran out of the hall.

Moon called out Flygon so she didn't need to call the charizard to help. Hau hopped on Flygon's back with Moon and they flew up high into the air.

"This always feels so refreshing!" Hau yelled as he lifted his left hand up but continued to hold onto Moon with his left hand. Decidueye flew right next to them because Flygon was flying slow enough for the owl pokemon to keep up. Mimikyu had snuggled closer to Moon and she was guarding the pokemon from the air with her arms.

Soon enough they safely landed on Melemele island's harbour where Kukui was already waiting.

"Oh, hey Evelyn and Hau! You are just in time!" the professor greeted the two as Moon returned Flygon back into its pokeball. Kukui walked closer and noticed the Mimikyu in Moon's arms.

"Who is this little fella? It looks a bit smaller than what its kind normally is", he said and immediately started his analyze with eyes that shone with curiosity but the pokemon reacted by turning away.

"Shy one, huh?" Kukui said while chuckling and Moon nodded with a sigh as she tried to calm down the ghost pokemon.

A ship that had been getting closer and closer finally arrived at the harbour and many people stepped out of it. Moon noticed a familiar person waving at them from the deck of the ship.

"Lillie!" Hau yelled out before Moon could even open her mouth. Not that she was even able to say anything. The last time she saw Lillie was few years back when she visited Kanto to go see Red to help her with the pokedex. Back then they didn't really even talk so they hadn't talked to each other for six years, beside letters of course. It felt weird to see the all grown up Lillie but Moon felt really happy to be able to see her best friend again.

Finally Lillie got down from the ship and she was immediately hugged by Hau. This took the blonde by a surprise but she happily hugged back.

"Hau, you've grown tall!" Lillie said looking pretty amazed by this discovery while Hau just laughed out a thanks. Then next one to be greeted was Kukui who went forward his arms open for hugs. Lillie almost caused him to fall when she jumped to hug him.

"Woah there, Lillie", he said and chuckled as he hugged the girl tightly. After that Lillie let go and turned over to Moon who had put down Mimikyu. It had immediately went to Decidueye who just had put its wings protectively around the smaller ghost pokemon. Moon stepped closer to her friend with a smile. But before she could really say anything Lillie threw her hands around her shoulders.

"Long time no see, Moon!" she said as tears formed into her eyes. Same happened to Moon and they both started laughing leaving the two males confused.

"You have to tell me everything!" the blond girl exclaimed to the three and they all nodded.

(xXx)

After a long chat in the living room of Moon's house and drinking some tea with cookies Lillie got up from her seat with a determined look.

"I should go meet my mother and Gladion", she said earning a sad look from Hau. Moon jumped up and ran to the door where Lillie was headed.

"I'll come with you… Also, Gladion hasn't been seen since I caught all the Ultra Beasts", she said glancing at the door. Lillie looked to fall deep in thought after hearing this before she nodded.

"Then we'll go look for him, together!" the blonde said while clenching her fists. Moon nodded and Hau ran to their side.

"Then I'll come with you guys!" he informed enthusiastically. Kukui laughed from his seat at this sight.

"So you three are off to an adventure together once again after six years", the professor said as he walked over to the teenagers to pat their heads. All of them nodded with determination and with that Kukui was gone out of the door and disappeared into the mysterious night scenery.

Moon peeked out of the door but saw nothing.

"He seems to be good at disappearing", she muttered to herself as she lifted Mimikyu up from her feet. Lillie watched this exchange between the pokemon and her friend.

"It's always amazing how you can befriend any pokemon you meet", she said while walking towards the couch.

"It's already dark out so I'm not going to ask you two leave yet", she added as she sat down on the sofa but Moon only got her pokeball, which contained Flygon, out og her bag and grinned widely.

"We used to travel at night too. What? Do you think we have gotten weaker after you left?" Moon said while giggling as her mom gave her the bag that she had filled with food. Lillie smiled as she jumped up from her place and Hau laughed out at Moon's comment walking next to his friend.

"Of course not! Let's go!" she yelled throwing her hands in the air and soon Hau and Moon did the same.

Moon was the first one to go outside to call Flygon out of its pokeball. The dragon type was happy to be called out again so it nuzzled Moon's cheek which earned a giggle from her. Then she turned over to Decidueye.

"You'll be on the lead showing us the way, okay?" she said and the owl pokemon nodded. To it, Moon's order was absolute. It loved Moon.

Lillie came out of the house and called out her Pidgeot. Hau, who was right behind her, looked impressed by the bird pokemon.

"Wow, you really have trained it well!" he breathed out what earned a soft giggle from Lillie as she thanked him. He got a bit flustered but hid it with laughing. They kept up this kind of exchanges.

Moon watched her two friends for a bit further away. Suddenly her thoughts returned to Gladion, the one they were going to look for after they had done all preparations. The thought of seeing Gladion again felt weird and Touko's, who was the older female hero of Unova region, words returned to her mind. Touko had been looking for her acquaintance N from every region and she had finally found her back in Unova. This made Moon wish that Gladion was still in Alola or if he had gone somewhere, he would have returned by now.

Mimikyu, who was in her arms, seemed to notice the thoughts that sunk her so it made a small questioning voice. Decidueye noticed too and it immediately moved its wing to touch Moon's hand. This woke her up and she quickly returned a smile on her face to reassure her partners. Flygon seemed to be worried too but it returned to its normal state as did the others. They understood that it was something that she wanted to keep to herself for now. Lillie and Hau noticed this too but they said nothing. They didn't really know what was wrong and Moon looked like she didn't want to talk about it.

"Shall we get going?" Moon asked as she nodded to Hau so he would climb onto Flygon's back. She was already on its back with Mimikyu in her arms. This time the ghost pokemon seemed to be more excited than scared. It must've been from the trust it had developed on Flygon with Moon's help. Hau jumped on sitting behind Moon. Lillie had already gotten onto Pidgeot's back and she looked ready to soar up into the sky so they both rose up into the air. Decidueye rose up too and made its place in front of the two other flying pokemon.

"Show us the way", Moon told it and soon the all were on the move through the night sky.

The night air felt good as it was quite cool. Hau once again held his hand up in the air and Lillie looked at him worrying that he would fall. Decidueye let out a noise as it saw the island of Aether Foundation. It glided down and the two other pokemon followed after it being careful of their riders. The landed on the white ground in front of the building which was always very eye-catching. They got off and returned the pokemon back to their pokeballs.

"Can we even go in at night?" Hau said in a low voice in case someone could hear him. Lillie looked to doubt her decisions but she then stepped forward.

"This is my home so I'll just go in", she muttered couraging herself with these words as she stepped forward.

"Stop!" A woman's voice yelled and everyone froze in place. Moon turned to the building and her eyes filled with fear. She saw flames and something bright before she had to close her eyes. She was thrown back by a force and so were the others. But before Moon could notice anything, Mimikyu had used protect so she and Decidueye were protected from the explosion. She muttered a quiet thank you to the small ghost type.

After the explosion seemed to stop there was a fire. Hau threw out Primarina and told it to use hydro pump at the building so it did. Lillie did the same with her Blastoise. Moon didn't have a water type that could help so she could just watch as her friends tried to stop the fire. No, that wasn't something she would do. She ran to the water and called out Sharpedo and told it to get every water pokemon close by to help with the fire.

While Sharpedo disappeared into the dark water, Moon put down Mimikyu next to Decidueye and told them to wait for her. And so she ran at the burning building and went inside of it.

The others' didn't notice since they were too busy to put out the fire. Mimikyu wanted to go after its owner but Decidueye stopped it because it knew from experience that once Moon decided to go without her partner, it meant she really wanted to keep them from hurting themselves. Sharpedo soon returned with many other water types and guided them, with Decidueye's help, to put out the water from all angles. Sharpedo couldn't really do anything since the only water type move it knew was scald.

Moon tied the silk scarf, that she had had in her back, on her mouth so she wouldn't breath the smoke. It was hard for to see but she needed to find the source of the fire. Soon she found a machine that seemed to have exploded and was now in flames with the wires full of many hundreds of volts of electricity running in them. It was like she had expected. Water wouldn't help but something else might.

"Sandslash!" she called out her pokemon out of its pokeball.

"Do blizzard", she said through the coughing and the pokemon nodded with its worried eyes on its trainer. Soon the coldness from the blizzard froze even the fire around them. Sandslash looked over to Moon wanting her to leave but she had decided not to leave without her pokemon. Once the whole machine was frozen solid Moon nodded at the exit and they ran out of it.

The water types around had already managed to get most of the fire down when the got out. Moon got drenched when one of the water pokemon's water gun accidentally hit her. But this helped to get the smoke's smell off of her so she didn't mind. Lillie ran up to her looking worried. Her Blastoise stayed in place trying to put the rest of the fire out. Moon reassured Lillie that she was okay as she returned Sandslash to its pokeball after thanking it. Soon the fire was out and the water pokemon returned back into the deep water. Moon returned Sharpedo to its pokeball too, after of course thanking it. Hau and Lillie returned their pokemon back to their pokeballs too.

"Thank you", the same woman's voice said and behind the three was standing Wicke. The woman smiled happily gently at the visitors who looked glad to see her. Lillie was the first to approach her.

"Where's mother?" she asked and nodded as a greeting. Wicke shook her head softly.

"She has gone off to a business trip so she can widen the foundation to other regions too", she said looking quite apologetic but Lillie quickly shook her furiously.

"I guess she has gotten busy after returning normal", she muttered to herself but then smiled.

"What about Gladion?" Hau said now stepping into the conversation with his usual relaxed posture and wide smile. Something glinted in Wicke's eyes as she heard Gladion's name.

"He was here few days ago and left this letter with me. He told me to give it to Moon if she came by. Of course he thought you wouldn't do that", Wicke said while giggling as she offered a green colored letter to Moon who took it with shaking hands. Gladion, the person she hadn't heard anything from for many years, had now now written her a letter and she was holding that letter in her two hands. Moon felt his breath catch into her throat as she opened the letter.

The letter said: 'Even though we aren't friends, I hope you'll come see me at the Ruins of Conflict after Lillie's ship has arrived. I'll be waiting for up to 12 hours.' And the rest of the text had been overwritten for whatever reason.

Without even informing her friends, Moon grabbed Mimikyu and called out Flygon jumping on its back. Soon she was up in the air and Decidueye knew to follow after her. This left her friends in shock that for a moment they couldn't even register what happened. As they finally recovered from the shock they were about to go after her but Wicke stopped them.

"She'll come back soon enough, and she'll bring Gladion with her", the woman said and these words managed to keep the two in place.