May 3rd, 2017

I sat on in my seat, the boat ride almost over. My mind drifted much like the waves as we drew closer to the bay of Alola. So many islands to explore, so many people to meet, and new Pokémon to befriend. I smiled as I looked down at the red shelled Pokémon in my lap, his large eyes closed, he'd been sleeping the entire ride. I felt horrible, I let us get driven away from our home, but this would be better, much better. New island, new opportunities.

I ran my fingers along the antenna of the slombering Pokémon, it's little black legs twitched as I did so. I wasn't doing this trip alone, I had Vinx. Vinx is my only Pokémon, we'd been through the Plasma attack together. I took the drastic choice of leaving, for the both of us. I turned, waves crashed against the boat, loud waves at that. We must be getting close. Peering my head over the railing I spotted the beautiful islands. My stomach buzzed with longing, how amazing they just blended together.

I looked down and sighed, oh how peaceful the bug Pokémon slept. I lightly dragged my fingers over the green soft skin near his barbs. His large yellow eyes stared into my hazel ones. "Hey sleepy head, we're almost there. Would you look at all that green and blue?" He reared up and poked his tiny head over the railing and stared, antenna at full attention. While he did this I pulled out my old pokè dex and stared at it, it wasn't really of any use to me anymore, nor was it use to me back then.

"Hey, is this seat taken?" I turned my head, rather surprised by the company of someone else. "No, it's free. Go ahead and sit if you like." I then quickly turned my attention back to Vinx, his eyes closed as he took in the sea air through his antenna. "Cool, how nice, no one else wanted to share there seats. Where you from?" Nosey much. I rested my hand on the red shell of my Pokémon then turned to the stranger who had seated themselves next to me. "Unova, this is Vinx."

The stranger stared at the Pokémon before pulling his bag out revealing some strange dirt brown Pokémon all curled up in a ball. "What's that Pokémon? I've never seen it before." He gave a smile before setting his bag on the floor. "I could say the same for, Vinx you said? Mines a Sandshrew. His name is Clay." A Sandshrew? How interesting. "Venipede. He's a Venipede. Poison and bug." The other nodded along, I wondered where he was from then.

"We will be docking in Melemele island, please gather all your luggage and head for the board walk. We hope you enjoy your time in Alola."

How nice. Vinx was ready to go, he nudged my leg and made me move along. I gave an awkward wave to the stranger then quickly grabbed by bags, swiftly making way to the board walk like instructed. It's funny. You leave one region and here you are, thrown right into a new one.

How funny.