Kjolmar, a blond young boy with blue eyes, was walking through Sandgem Town while a Noibat was playfully flying circles around him. At the local laboratory, he walked up to someone who looked like he was an assistant. "Excuse me, I'm here for Professor..." Kjolmar peered at the name he wrote at the back of his hand. "...for Professor Rowan. Could you tell him Kjolmar from Kalos is here?"

While he waited for Rowan to arrive, he looked around him as if he was searching for someone else too. "He isn't here yet." he told his Noibat, who responded with a soft agreeing growl. 

"Ah, Kjolmar! Welcome!" the voice of Rowan suddenly sounded from the distance. "I am so glad you have decided to take on the Sinnoh League. You will find quite some similarities with the Kalos region." 

Kjolmar smirked and showed a badge case with 16 badges. "Yeah, that's what they said in Unova. I hope Sinnoh will prove to be at least equally challenging." 

Rowan nodded firmly. "I am sure it will. Have you brought many of your pokemon with you?"

It was Kjolmar's third region and he had captured quite some pokemon along the way. However, he decided to leave most of them at home with his sister. It was the first time he would travel without her and he wanted her to have lots of company. "I only brought two of my pokemon. The rest of them are staying with Alice in Lumiose."

While he tried to hide it, Rowan raised an eyebrow. "I see... Say, could you hatch an egg for me during your journey? And when it hatches, teach it how to battle? You'd do me a great favor and I'll let you keep the pokemon as long as you are staying in this region."

As Kjolmar put the egg in his backpack, Noibat sniffed it in curiosity.