I don’t have a drawing with today’s story but I hope you guys will still enjoy reading it! Just for context here are the kids that appear in it:
Felix Kapua-Himmel (Lillie and Mallow’s son)
Lyn Ketchum (Ash and Misty’s daughter)
Ryder Oak (Gary’s and Dawn’s son)
Lucious Harrison (Brock and Olivia’s son)
Summary: Felix is feeling homesick one night and his traveling buddies cheer him up. Read under the cut!
Felix had an itch to travel for as long as he could remember. How could he not want to travel? All the adults around him had met during journeys and would reminisce about those days when they got to travel to fun and exciting new places. It wasn’t uncommon for kids to dream of going on their own adventures with Pokemon. While in most regions kids will challenge eight gyms and challenge the league when they turn ten, however in Alola they had trials instead that you couldn’t start until you turned eleven.
While Felix wanted to complete the Alola trials he still had that itch to travel and he wanted to do it as soon as possible. He brought up the topic of traveling out the region practically every day as his tenth birthday approached probably to the slight annoyance of his parents. While Lillie was a bit concerned to send her son off alone to another region it was Mallow who reached out to Misty Ketchum and planted the idea in her head that maybe her oldest child, Lyn, could travel with Felix. Lyn agreed to travel with Felix, but it wasn’t just Lyn he would travel with. Soon Ryder Oak and Lucious Harrison joined the group, it was going to be a great adventure!
Or so that’s what Felix was feeling for the first week of his travels. One night when the group was camping under a beautiful starry sky Felix felt overwhelming homesickness as he looked up. All he could think about was how the stars looked better at Aether Paradise. Sometimes if he stayed at Aether Paradise with Lillie long enough they could look at the stars as they left and as they took a boat back to Melemele island the stars would shine onto the water, his eyes would light up as he gazed at the sea of stars. Then when they got home he would tell Mallow all about the stars under an almost equally beautiful sky. The stars that night were nice as well but maybe they felt different without his family by his side.
“Can’t sleep?”
Felix turned his attention to the voice beside him. He assumed everyone had gone to sleep but now Lyn was giving him a sympathetic look.
“I think… I think I’m homesick…” The words finally left Felix’s mouth. “Is that bad?”
“Of course not? Why would you think that?” Lyn asked.
“It’s just… I practically begged my parents to let me travel with you guys and now I miss them. I miss Alola. Should I have just waited to do my island trials? Or should I have gone to the Pokemon School?”
“There is nothing wrong with wanting to travel but still missing home. You might not realize how important home is when you are at home but it really hits you when you're gone. But it’s not like you’ll never return to Alola again!” Lyn said, raising her voice a bit too loud. Felix could hear Ryder waking up next to him.
“Sometimes when I close my eyes to go to sleep I can still hear the water outside my window. It makes me a bit sad that I’m away from my family but it also fills me with an overwhelming sense of calm as well.”
“That’s nice,” Felix said with a small smile.
“I miss Alola too...” Lucious, who had apparently also been awake, chimed in. “Especially the food my father used to make us, it was delicious…”
“Glutton,” Ryder jabbed as he sat up and grabbed his bag.
“Ryder are you homesick too?” Felix asked.
“Not really,” Ryder responded bluntly, Lyn had a pout on her face but Ryder elaborated his stance.
“I don’t wanna worry about what I’m missing at home, I wanna have a good time on my journey so I can tell my family all about it when it’s over.”
Ryder pulled a small notebook out of his bag and held it up to his face.
“That’s why I’m writing poem’s as we travel, I’ll read them all to my mom,” Ryder confided in the group, his blush could even be seen behind the journal in the dark.
“Aww! That's so sweet!” Lyn gushed.
“Shut up.”
Lucious just started chuckling at the pair's antics, Felix started laughing along with him. He instantly felt better just talking with his friends.
“Starting tomorrow let’s start taking more photos so we can show them all to your mother’s, sound good?” Lyn asked Felix.
He settled back into his sleeping bag with a grin on his face.
