So, in the first two chapters, not much of a gap between them. There are events there that happened, that I will show in a later chapter, but for the moment we are hitting our first massive jump.

So, Felix grew up in Sinnoh, but he didn't begin his journey in his home region. He began in Kanto and his journey follows the line of regions as they are introduced.

Location – Orange Islands, A Little Over 1 Year After Beginning Journey.

Age About 12.

Kinnow Island – Beachfront.

Felix let out a pleased sigh as he stretched, resting on a towel. The sand was a little uncomfortable, but the warmth of the sun's rays was pleasant.

His pokémon were all out and about, he could hear the distant splashing of water games over the sweep of the ocean.

They were probably getting into mischief, but the island was uninhabited, by humans at least, and he was far too relaxed to care.

Dozing off, Felix's mind was cheerfully set on the thought that the vacation was worth it. They needed to relax after the league, this was nice.

Keira enjoyed swimming.

It was something her trainer did NOT enjoy, he floundered like a magikarp on land when in any body of water, but any excuse to swim was an excuse she would take.

It was a wonderful thing, freeing, swimming. Cutting through the water with strokes of her arms, propelling herself with kicks of her legs, Keira would claim she was an expert in swimming.

As a riolu, at least.

As a lucario she sunk like a rock and thrashed in the water, just as bad as her trainer she loved to playfully rib about swimming.

Slowly a lapras swam up to the struggling lucario. "Perhaps we should try somewhere… shallower?" the lapras, Emma, offered, concern filling her voice as she pulled Keira up for the umpteenth time.

The lucario gagged and pounded her chest, coughing up some salt water, before shaking her head. "Never," she croaked, coughing again. "You know what they say: Jump right into the deep end."

Her lapras friend frowned. "Who says that?" Emma asked, but Keira dove back down without responding. To the popping bubbles she sighed and asked. "And why do they say it?"

Once Keira was beginning to drown again, the lapras used her Psychic attack to grab her and pull her back up. By the tail this time.

"Dear, please," Emma tried again, setting the soggy lucario on her shell. "This is getting you nowhere. Let us just go back to the shallows." She began to pump her fins, propelling them back in sight of land and safer waters.

The sound of a splash brought only an exhale of frustration from the lapras. She didn't need to look back to know that Keira had jumped off and was trying to swim again.

Trying was an apt word.

Readying her Psychic, Emma prepared to pluck her wise and responsible leader from the depths. Again.

Felix mumbled something in his sleep, something suspiciously like, "Banzai!" With a victorious fist to the sky. Then he muttered something about sleeping for ten thousand years and rolled over again.

Adrien rested his head on a sandbar, watching the fragile human rest. There was no one else around, the closest being the Little Aggressive One and Shelled Pacifist. They couldn't stop him, even if they came rushing. None of them could fly, not them, not Skullheaded Perversion, Fire Fluff, or Razor Claw.

It would be too easy.

It was strange, that they'd leave the human unguarded. He was there, certainly, but the idea that they viewed him as a guard was unfathomable.

His tongue dabbed at his sharp teeth, perfect for ripping, tearing, for inflicting mortal wounds. His claws flexed, sharp and gripping, they too were perfect for the art of the hunt. Capturing, snaring, pulling prey from the safety of the ground and into his domain.

Like he had already done. To the Little Aggressive One and the fragile human.

Human.

Such a strange existence to Adrien's mind. Nothing like them had existed before, and yet despite lacking everything that made a pokémon a powerful being, they now ruled the world.

Tamed the world. And then made the mistake of bringing him back to the world.

It would be too easy, a snap of a jaw designed to end lives. A breath of Power, to inflict a wound a human couldn't withstand. No one could stop him. Did they even want to stop him? They had left their most dangerous adversary alone with the human they all cared for.

Care. What a strange word. What a strange meaning.

He could kill the human, finally, they were letting him.

So, why didn't he want to?

"And that is how I, Brian, wiped the floor with that crazy pikachu!"

"Ooh." His thrilled company responded.

"Oh, yes indeed." Brian thwapped a bone club into his hand to demonstrate how hard he pounded that pikachu. "He didn't stand a chance against my thick, hard, bone."

"But wasn't it scary?" The nidorina asked. "Facing a terror like… him?"

"Scary? Ha!" Brian laughed, jostling the skull he wore. "To my compatriots maybe, you should have seen the terror on that big puppy's face, but he's a gentle soul. Not like the mon I had to be to survive on my own."

"Oh." To the marowak's shock, the girl seemed disappointed in his bravery. "I always thought that true bravery was being afraid but doing something anyway."

"I." Brian paused, re-evulauting. "Well, yes of course. Good thing I was wearing this skull because my face was like EEE!"

The nidorina recoiled. "The skull is a good thing? I always thought... uh?"

"NO!" He shouted, before catching himself. "No, no, no. This isn't my mother's skull, that's a big misunderstanding that humans have spread."

"Whose skull is it then?"

"Well. I. Uh."

Brian was saved from having to answer when a rustle of bushes started them both. The marowak and nidorina stared warily at the shifting plants until… nothing happened.

"Is… someone there?" The nidorina asked.

"Just me." Was the reply.

"Oh good," she turned back to Brian, only to come face-to-face with something much scarier.

"Eep!" She squealed and scuttled back, not pausing for a moment as she ran off from DANGER DANGER DANGER.

The newcomer turned back to Brian, a feline smirk lighting her face. "Well, she startles easily."

Brian groaned, the marowak smacked his skull helmet a few times before pointing his club at the interloper. "Why did you have to go and do THAT?" he demanded, stomping towards the persian who had interfered. Brandishing the bone so many marowak were known for, he said. "Things were going great with her!"

"Exactly why I had to step in."

"So, I'm now allowed to be happy or succeed at anything?" he demanded.

"Yes."

The blunt response threw him for a moment before he growled and swiped forward, aiming to conk the persian on the head. Said persian ducked under the clumsy strike with ease and lashed out with a claw brimming with dark energy.

Brian grunted in pain as the claws scratched him, but it was barely even a warning shot. "You're a bitch, Shira," he snarled, backing off.

"Right characteristic, wrong species," the persian purred back, she raised her paw and began licking it like even touching him had stained her.

"Tch," Brian scoffed and stormed off, hoping to find the cute nidorina before she fell down a chasm or something.

The persian just laughed and stalked off, eagerly searching for her next prey.

Diego was cheerful.

He was usually cheerful, so this was not an uncommon sight.

The sight of a massive dog wreathed in flames, determined to catch its own tail was somewhat of a rarer sight to the pokémon of the island, and so he garnered quite a crowd of onlookers.

A great well of noise began to peak as Diego got closer and closer to his tail, reaching an apex roar, before crashing to pieces in a cacophony of moans, boos and cheers as he, yet again, failed to grab the fluffy target.

Panting slightly, and feeling more than a little dizzy, Diego decided to pause his eternal quest for some time off. This was the point of the vacation, Felix had said, to have some time off.

What to do? That was the question of the day.

"Why, hello there," a cool as crystal voice cut through his musings, a voice that always put him on edge.

Diego sniffed deeply before turning, facing the approaching persian. "What do you want, Shira?" Diego asked, he may have just ran off but Felix told them all the time to play nice.

"Entertainment." Came Shira's simple reply. That was a thing about the persian, she always spoke bluntly. In her mind, she didn't need to play tricks to get what she wanted, she would get it either way. Diego didn't really get the whole thing about being mean, but she could do what she wanted. She told him that herself.

"You want to play a game?" Diego barked, tail wagging despite him telling it to stop. The tail never listened.

"With you," Shira replied. "Too you. Either works for me."

Diego's head cocked. "What are you talking about?"

"A fun game, I assure you." She didn't say who it'd be fun for. "A game of chase. You chase me, I run. If you catch me, you win. If I reach the trainer first, I win. Sound good?"

Diego stared at her suspiciously. Shira had played plenty of games with him, with varying levels of promise to them. They never went his way and were often embarrassing. Try as he might, he couldn't think of an ulterior motive or trick to her words, so he agreed.

"I'm the fastest on the team, I can catch you easy!" he bragged.

"Then I get a five-second head start," Shira replied, Diego nodding along. That seemed fair. "Ready?"

Without waiting for him to reply, she zoomed off. "Hey!" Diego called after her, she was already disappearing into the overgrowth. "I wasn't ready."

He gave her the time she asked for, however, and then ran off after her.

Catching up to Shira was not as easy as he had thought. His nose was more than strong enough to keep him on track, even when she was tricky and covered her tracks, but there was so much plant life slowing him down.

For a pokémon as big as arcanine were, all this foliage was seriously hampering him.

Then the tricks started.

Pit falls. Pointy stones covered with leaves. Tree sap. A lot of tree sap.

Shira waited with a smirk on her face, watching the forest as she waited for the big fluffy pup to arrive.

She was honestly feeling embarrassed for him by the time the arcanine stumbled through the brush. Twigs and leaves swamped his fur and the arcanine trailed along like he was intoxicated.

"Caught," Diego panted as he dragged himself to Shira. "You." He reached the persian and tried to poke her before slumping, knocking Shira back slightly.

"Not really…" she said, but the only response was a snore.

Shaking her head, Shira decided to wander over to where Adrien laid. Apparently, the crazy fossil decided to sunbathe along with their trainer, not daring to go near the water, however.

Walking through sand was uncomfortable, and Shira found the grains beginning to personally offend her. She could only withstand two more meters before stopping, sitting down, and licking at her paws.

"Ugh," she groaned, spitting out sand. Setting a paw back on the sand didn't help, with her damp paw, she was only getting more sand stuck.

Shivering in disgust, Shira turned tail and ran back into the forest. Poking at the unstable aerodactyl could wait, she had to perfect herself.

Adrien the aerodactyl laid peacefully in the sun. He couldn't really remember doing anything like this during his first run at life, it was difficult to even call what he remembered as memories, they were so vague and confusing that he scarcely saw them as anything more than enraging.

He got angry easily, Adrien knew that about himself. It was difficult not to be frustrated when everything was different, nothing made sense, and the fear he felt.

Snorting, the aerodactyl shifted closer to the dozing human. "Fear," he thought, tasting the bitter admission. "I know fear."

The fragile human had been afraid of him, and Adrien knew that the Little Aggressive One had been fearful as well.

Not anymore, though, and that mistake could have cost them.

Adrien bared his fangs, breath coming out hotly, excited. His heart began to pound as he crept closer, in a moment he could get what he wanted, taste what he had hunted, eat the one who had saved him. No one was there to stop him.

And yet...

Adrien blinked.

"Chest hurts?" He thought, confused at why the idea repelled him so. "Fragile human… saved me?" He hadn't thought of that before. He closed his mouth with a click. Being so close to Felix, the sound woke him from his doze.

"Mmph… hey, Adrien?" He yawned and rubbed his eyes, completely at his mercy, and yet unafraid. "What's up?"

"…" Adrien said nothing, his breath was still hard, and Felix noticed.

"You feeling alright?"

"Feels… odd," Adrien answered. "Pit in belly. Feels heavy. Why?" His speech, while Felix could understand him thanks to Sabrina's help, was still stilted often.

"Did you eat something bad?" Felix yawned again, but he was coming around.

"NO!"

The sudden roar started the human and Felix jumped. "Woah, okay, okay." He waved the suddenly incensed aerodactyl down. "Sorry, you only eat the best of things. Nothing bad."

"No," Adrien growled. "Not the best, never the best. Why?"

Felix frowned. "Oh, uh… sorry, I can't always afford the fancy stuff. But you prefer to hunt anyway… right?"

"Yes."

Felix gave a soft chuckle. "You're not making much sense Adrien. You sure you didn't eat something weird?"

"You are weird."

"I… thanks?" Felix blinked. "Well I'm here, so you didn't eat me." He chuckled, but Adrien simply seemed confused.

"Why?"

"Why?" Felix frowned, pushing himself up into a seated potion. "Why… haven't you eaten me?" This was reaching an uncomfortable topic he'd prefer not to think about.

"Yes."

"Well there's no way I can't think of it now," Felix thought grimly. It wasn't his go-to memory for good times, meeting Adrien, nearly being eaten by the enraged aerodactyl. Several times.

Looking at Adrien now, however, the pokémon just seemed confused. Genuinely puzzled at why he hadn't eaten the human. "That's a… tricky question."

Adrien snorted and swivelled his head around, scoping the area out. "Little Aggressive One and Shelled Pacifist are too far away. Armoured Perversion, Fire Fluff and Razor Claw are nowhere in smell. I could. Right now. I could, when you slept. I didn't. Why?"

Felix stared at him for a moment, despite the words he didn't actually feel afraid. Even though he had no idea Adrien thought about eating him. It was not a pleasant thought.

Despite that, the aerodactyl simply seemed confused. He didn't want to. That was nice.

"I'm not a bad trainer, am I?" He asked, a question he often thought of asking his pokémon but never gathered the nerve to do so.

"No."

Feeling a little better, Felix asked. "I treat you well, nowadays, right?"

"Yes."

"You get to battle and hunt and enjoy yourself." An ancient predator, Adrien would be allowed to hunt other pokémon with a few rules in place. Felix could only hope he followed them. "Right?"

"Yes."

"Do you hate me?"

"No."

Even Adrien seemed surprised at that answer. "Why?" The aerodactyl asked, and Felix didn't know what to say.

"I, uh… I don't know. I treat you well, you enjoy yourself, I'm not terrible to be around. Is that why?"

"No." Felix wilted. "Yes." Before perking back up again. "I do not know."

Felix withheld the sigh, it'd not help here, and swallowed the nerves and stood up. Adrien watched him curiously, a sadness flickering in his eyes. Those same eyes widened in shock as Felix stepped closer, closing the short gap between them.

"I trust you," Felix said, kneeling down to lay a soft hand on Adrien's rocky head. "You saved my life."

Adrien took in a shuddering breath before leaning into his touch. The aerodactyl couldn't feel much, but he felt good in ways he didn't recognise that the human would lay such a gentle touch on a beast like him.

"You gave me life," Adrien said, finding words he didn't recognise. "I not remember much of Time Before, but it was not life. Surviving it was, then dying it was. No time to live, only survive. Battle to survive. Hunt to survive. Then death, dark, cold, fear." Adrien shivered, and Felix moved his hand to where the aerodactyl had trembled, feeling him calm. "Then light. Live. Change. Too much change. Fear. Angry. Fear. Then you. Warm. Safe. Freedom. Life. So much life. Fear again, but you. Less fear, more life."

Felix swallowed. He felt pleased after hearing that, overwhelming so. Grinning widely, he gave Adrien's big head a hug. He tried to find words to reply with, but nothing came, so he hugged tighter.

Adrien let him and waited patiently for the emotional human to pull back. Felix wiped his face, but he was beaming with happiness. "That makes me so happy to hear!"

Then he hugged him again.

Adrien snorted, rolling his eyes. "You smell tasty again," he grumbled but Felix just laughed the dire threat off.

They fell into a comfortable silence, listening only to the sounds of breathing. Distant splashing could be heard, and the vague tone of disapproval reached them.

"Emma's still trying to talk reason, even after knowing Keira for this long." Felix chuckled, shaking his head.

"You know my name?" Adrien asked suddenly, causing Felix to swivel his head with alarming speed. "My secret name? You want to know?"

"Excuse me?" Felix spluttered, not certain he was hearing Adrien correctly.

"Other name. Adrien is my name, but not only name."

Felix swallowed. A relatively recent memory concerning the same topic, coming from Shira, flashed through his mind. "You mean the name pokémon only tell to those they trust more than anyone else?"

"Yes."

Felix laughed. He couldn't help it. "That was a thing even in your time?"

"Yes."

Calming himself, the laughter may have been a touch hysterical, Felix swallowed and leaned in close. "If you are okay with telling me."

"Name is… difficult to say with words," Adrien struggled, trying to translate from what it meant to words Felix would understand. "Outstretched Wings over Craggy Valley."

"That's your name…?" Felix breathed out, almost tearing up again.

"Yes. You cannot tell to anyone."

"Of course!" Felix yelped, he remembered Shira's dire threats if he dared to tell anyone her secret name. "I won't tell anyone. I wish I had one, but humans don't… at least I don't think they do."

Adrien smiled, as best as an aerodactyl could. "One day you might get one."

Felix smiled and nodded. "Maybe in an adventure…" Kanto had been an eye-opening adventure like nothing he could have ever prepared for. But there were more regions out there. More adventures.

"Our vacation is nearly over," Felix said later that night, after all his pokémon had returned from their island adventures. "I think we're about ready to go to Johto."

Determined nods were all returned, and Felix nodded back. Leaning against Keira, pressed into Diego's fur, with Shira purring next to them, Brian held back from Keira with a Bone Rush, Adrien curled up on Diego's other side and Emma resting close by in the water, Felix drifted off to sleep knowing he was happy.

Felix likes his pokémon, and they generally like him too.

Some old stories here, old for me at least. Wrote this ages and ages ago before touching it up for this. His Kanto Team, we'll see how he caught them, some at least. Maybe in flashbacks or stories, Adrien's capture at least will be shown in full at some point since it was quite the experience.

Chapters will jump a lot with what pokémon are in them and such. I'll do my best to keep it clear since they all have names, I'll probably release specific moments and chapters in coordination with the other fic when they are introduced over there. Tie the two stories together a little more and such!

Thanks for reading!