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"Quotations" represent speaking

(Brackets represent me, the writer, providing my own comments as I am known to do.)

"What the bloody hell." Was the last thing the young lad was able to say, turning to look at his right before it all went black. He woke up almost instantly, finding himself in a dark, pitch black and completely empty void.

The young lad started chuckling to himself, before changing to full on laughter as time went on. "Oh my god, what the hell. That was so fucking cliché!" He spoke out in between fits of laughter. Did he, an average joe, seriously have the most cliché anime death of all time happen to him, getting run over by the wonderful truck-kun~! (Heh)

The young man sat in the void, thinking about all of the isekai anime's he had watched and all the isekai stories he had watched. Any second now an angel or a goddess of some kind with over the top proportions should appear and grant him the opportunity to pass on to a new world of his choosing where he can finally be the protagonist of his own story!

"Definitely, this makes perfect sense. She or in some cases he should be here any second now." Seconds passed in the empty void, the endless silence beginning to get to him. "A-any second now." He thought again, hoping that it would trigger some sort of event

Seconds turned to minutes in the endless void. His mind already beginning to play tricks on him, his brain perceiving shapes in the clawing void and false sounds in the complete silence. The young boy was still hopeful however, "They must be busy." He muttered to himself, trying to keep his own hopes up.

Minutes turned to hours, the endless void now beginning to claw its way into his mind, his eyes wild and unfocused as the lack of anything at all starts to take its toll. Knowing what was starting to happen to him, he went over what he knew.

Ok, this is not good. Let's try to figure this out now, c'mon Anduin, don't be a failure. Alright, start with your life. My name is Anduin, I'm a 20 year old Canadian man named after a character from a game my parents used to play. I have a wild mane of hair and patchy stubble, wow do I really need to start taking care of myself. I was a simple college student before I got hit by that truck, fucking bastard should of watched where he was going.

"Never in my life did I expect for an afterlife like this. Of course an isekai one would have been lovely, but that's not how the world works." He took a look around quickly, a dejected sigh escaping his pursed lips. "Then again, this is not the world I know."

At this point, the young lad wasn't even sure how long he had been in the void. At some point in his thoughts, he had lost count. The lad was nearly insane at this point, the lack of literally anything nearly breaking him. Eventually however, he had an ingenious idea. "Wait a minute!" He shouted in glee, hoping his plan would work.

"If I go with my own view of the afterlife, this is what it would be. An empty, utterly devoid of anything void. Heaven or hell get brought into being by the person in the void, all they have to do is figure out where they think they belong!" As he shouted the last word, the landscape changed.

No longer was it full of cloying dark, screaming silence or a lack of anything at all. The young lad was now in a rather comfortable office lounge, seated at a chair with a laptop in front of him. A devious smile on his face.

"Well shit…Didn't think that would actually work, huh. The more you know. Anyways, if I've died as this seems to imply, I should figure out what setting I want to spend my afterlife in.

There were so many options, and so many settings he knew, yet he ultimately decided on the one where he'd spent both the most time, and had the most fantasies about. Opening the laptop, he booted it up before quickly typing in a specific website.

He spent the next few hours combing it for information, even doing a Pokémon smash or pass for fun to pass the time. It was not easy to find a team that he would both want to smash, as well as would allow him to be a better battler than anyone the world had ever seen.

Luckily for the young lad, he had spent so many hours on the site over his life that he knew the best way to run nearly any Pokémon that had been created. After some thought, and countless hours scrolling through the Smogon forums. He eventually came upon a team that would fit both of his needs.

A door appeared in the center of the lounge, one designed to look like the entrance to a Pokémon center. Anduin did a subtle prayer to whatever god would hear him, though he had a feeling the gods of the world he was about to join already knew of him. After all, a few of them might be on his list.

He stepped through the doorway, finding himself being pulled away from it at an impossibly fast speed, stars and galaxies flashing all around him as his mind got transported from his dying body back on earth, to an unknown place in the Pokémon universe.

"Get ready Pokémon world, the true champion is coming!" He shouted into the starry expanse, chuckling to himself at just how cheesy it was. His mind was in a rush, trying to plan the best course of actions to achieve his dreams.

With a pop, he found himself stumbling through the entryway of a building. There were people around, some healing their Pokémon at the counter, others simply chatting or playing with their Pokémon. In his head, Anduin was in shock. He still couldn't fully believe this whole experience was really happening to him.

"Are you alright sir?" The pink-haired nurse at the front counter asked, a concerned look on her face.

"Ah yes, I am doing quite alright, thank you for your concern ma'am." Anduin responded, barely managing to contain his excitement as he responded confidently to the nurse.

"Say, you wouldn't happen to be one of the Nurse Joy sisters, ma'am?" He asked, curious to see if that piece of anime knowledge was correct.

"Well yes I am actually, all of us nurses are. Did you not know that sir?" Anduin's eyes lightened up upon hearing that. "Ok ok, it seems I'm in some sort of cross between the anime and the games. Interesting, I wonder if I'll meet any of the protagonists."

A thought crossed his mind. "Say, Nurse Joy. Which town is this again? I'm a traveler and soon to be a Pokémon trainer, can I get a starter Pokémon here?" He asked hopefully, already knowing which of the starters to get to start off his team.

"Ah that makes sense, I was wondering why you looked so lost. Though I admit, it is a bit strange for a traveler to not know what town they are in. Hmm…Regardless, this is Scourbark town."

Anduin smiled again. "Holy shit, a new region all for me to explore, this just keeps getting better and better!" He thought for a moment before responding. "Scourbark town, ah that makes sense. Is this where the professor's lab is?"

"Indeed sir, this is where the Professor Safras' lab is. I do not believe he is in at the moment, but you can try to get a Pokémon in the morning. We have rooms for rent here." She cheerily explained. He gave her an appreciative nod, before halting abruptly mid nod. "Oh shit my money isn't going to be accepted here, shit let's hope it looks similar enough."

"How much are the rooms?" He questioned, opening his wallet in relief to find that his money had been changed over to Pokédollars, silently he thanked Arceus. "1000 Pokédollars for the room, sir. Ours are some of the highest quality in the region, so they have higher prices!"

Forking over the amount, he was down nearly a third of his total amount of money. Anduin realized he would have to find a way to make money quickly if he was going to stay in the town.

With a heavy sigh, he thanked the nurse for her time and hospitality before heading to his room. It wasn't much more than a bed, a chair and a bathroom. But it was more than enough for him.

Pulling out a stack of papers from his pocket, he double checked his notes before heading into bed and beginning to drift off.

"I sure hope they have all of the starter Pokémon, only a few of them are good and I'm not really a big fan of Swampert, Charizard or Venasaur." As he drifted off, his mind wandered to what he hoped his starter would be. He dreamt of green snakes that night.

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"Quotations" represent speaking.
(Brackets represent my comments.)

FLASHBACK

"Come on boy, pick up that weapon of yours." A middle aged man with a thick brown beard spoke, a younger version of Anduin on the ground in front of him.

Anduin grunted in pain, a large bruise spreading up his arm from where he missed a parry. He reached down quickly, putting his armored glove back on his left hand and picking up his rapier. Meanwhile his opponent readied himself and went back to his longsword guard.

From a young age, Anduin was always interested in combat of any kind. From the older stories of heroes and knights, to the actual tales of month long sieges and the bloody world wars. Anduin was enthralled by it all.

This eventually led to him, as a teenager contacting some trainers that could train him in all manners of combat from all throughout history.

By the age of 12, Anduin was quite experienced in a few different ways to fight. The main ones being Boxing and Wrestling. By 15, he knew how to use just about every melee weapon that humanity had invented decently well through HEMA as well as a few old military drill instructors, his main specialties consisting of the rapier and gauntlet, as well as the spear. But any weapon would work in a pinch.. And by 19, he was a master sharpshooter as well as blacksmith, a skill set that would make him a deadly combatant in war… If only he wasn't so paranoid of actually getting hurt.

Nevertheless, Anduin was a master of fighting in tournaments of all kinds, and boy did he love to gloat about it. Anyone who was anyone knew of his unique style for the rapier, an armored and clawed offhand gauntlet rather than a dagger or a buckler. It was unorthodox and ridiculous, yet anyone who fought him quickly learned otherwise.

FLASHBACK OVER

Yawning loudly, Anduin rolled over in bed. He laid there like that for a few minutes, wondering why his bed was more comfortable than he remembered. His eyes suddenly shot open as he remembered that he had been transported into the Pokémon world.

"Oh shit. Right, hmm." He was still a bit frazzled, suddenly transporting to a world you could only dream of was quite the experience for the imaginative young man.

Popping into the bathroom to take a quick shower, as well as relieve himself. Anduin headed back into the main bedroom, reaching over and pulling out a notepad from his jeans.

"Alright, first up. Getting a change of clothing and camping supplies. I can't afford to keep living like this. After that, go and get a Pokémon, make money…" Anduin paused as he thought about what else to write.

An idea came to him, he should probably check what was brought with him when he was transported over. Checking his pockets, all he found were his notepad, his wallet, and his custom-made gauntlet. Cursing his luck to not have been sent with any of his weapons or survival tools, he quickly added something to his list. "Find a blacksmith or someone who knows how to make weapons, or find the equipment to make my own."

He got dressed quickly, putting all of his things back in his pockets and putting on the armored gauntlet. It was a true piece of work, made out of fine polished steel, slightly gilded around the edges with a few ornate engravings here and there. The tool was designed to stop blades and other attacks, while the pointed tips at the end of each finger were very clearly designed to cut, the tips sharpened to a fine point. before heading out of the room and back into the main lobby of the Pokémon center.

"Good morning sir!" The nurse greeted him from the front desk. Anduin was half-way out of the door at the time, his face going red as he just remembered that he had to give back the key for the room.

Walking over, he handed over the key. "Thank you very much for the room, Miss Joy." Anduin warmly thanked her. Heading out of the Pokécenter, Anduin wasn't really sure what to expect.

Scourbark town was a small and antique little place, and a whole hell of a lot colder than he thought it would be. Buildings all around that all seemed to be some kind of shop, cobblers, leatherworkers, potters and the like. The buildings themselves were surrounded by the snow-covered forests of this new region, people making minding their own business and going about their day, the birds chirping in the trees and flying through the brisk morning sky.

"Interesting, I didn't think there would be normal animals here. I mean that makes sense from a logical standpoint, but it's still interesting." Anduin thought to himself, looking noticeably star-struck as he stared at the town in awe.

A few moments later did he break out of his stupor, noticing the weird looks he was getting. Flashing an awkward smile, he made his way over to where he remembered Professor Safras' lab to be.

The lab was more impressive than in the games. Comparatively to what he expected, the lab was a massive building, all sorts of radars and other tech stuff that he didn't know about poking out from the top. Steeling himself and trying to calm his nerves, he went to the door and opened it after testing to see if it was locked.

The inside of the lab was even more techy than the outside. There were so many pieces of tech that Anduin could only guess what they did, and if he had to, he imagined they were some kind of survey and study equipment.

Luckily for him, there was a secretary at the front desk of the lab. She hadn't seemed to notice Anduin enter, and was busy reading from a book.

Anduin cleared his throat as he walked over to the desk, about to say something before the secretary cut him off.

'What're you here for?" She spoke, cutting him off before he could even speak.

"Well, I'm here to get my fir-" He spoke before again being cut off rudely.

"First Pokémon right? You're in luck, the professor just finished with the last batch of rookie trainers a few minutes ago. His office is just over there, I'll let him know you're on your way in." She pointed down one of the hallways of the lab.

Not wanting to argue with the helpful lady, even if she was being quite rude. Anduin thanked her before heading his way over.

Knocking on the door, he waited for a moment before hearing an older man call out. "Enter"

Professor Safras looked similar to the other professors, he wore a simple open white lab coat, underneath being a thick woolen sweater and pair of slacks. He was an older man with long greying hair intermittently dyed with splotches of faded green and red. He had a very unique tea like scent that followed him.

"You don't like you're from around here lad." Safras stated matter of factly.

"Ah yes, that would be correct." Anduin stammered, not fully prepared to be talking with a Pokémon professor. "I'm a new trainer who's looking to become one of the best battlers ever. I was told you handed out Pokémon to new trainers."

"Aye that is true, I do hand them out. But lad, just one thing, we don't give Pokémon to just anyone who wants one. Do you have a trainer card?"

Anduin frowned, no he didn't have one. Why didn't he think of that sooner!? Most likely going to get one would take years of schooling, Anduin most certainly did not want to go through any more of that.

"No. No I do not have one, sorry for wasting your time. But I did have another question for you, albeit a rather odd one."

Safras sighed, muttering under his breath. "Another upstart young man wanting to take on the world without even knowing how to train a Pokémon. Alright then, what is this other question of yours?" He asked, annoyance leaking into his voice from having to deal with another lad trying to get a Pokémon without the proper license.

"Is there like a blacksmith or someone who owns a metal shop nearby? I have something I need to commission, and I don't know where to go." Anduin asked, doubtful that there was anything of the sort here.

It seems luck was against him today. "No there is nothing of that sort in this town boy. I admit I'm curious why you would even need a weapon if you plan on being a trainer soon. But you'd have to go to the bigger cities to find someone who knew how to make them."

Anduin for the second time that day, cursed his luck. "Regardless, thank you for the information, professor." Anduin gave a brief nod, turning and leaving the room before the professor could continue.

Heading out of the lab, Anduin ducked into a nearby alleyway, kicking a garbage can in frustration. "Of course it couldn't be, why would it be? If I can't get a Pokémon normally, I'll just have to go and capture one manually without a license." Without Pokéballs and experience as well, Anduin realizes.

Leaving the town, he ventured into the grass of route 1, Wishweed Meadow. Anduin roughly remembered the routes you had to follow to progress in most of the games, and the one straight out of the starter town should bring him to the first gym.

Anduin had only been walking for a few minutes when he heard a young boy call to him.

"Hey Mister! Don't you know when two trainers meet, they have to have a Pokémon battle! It's the law!" A young boy, no older than nine yelled over at him.

"What." Anduin muttered, annoyed that this young brat apparently wasn't able to see the fact that Anduin didn't even have a trainer belt, let alone any Pokéballs! "Kid, I'm not a trainer. I don't got any Pokémon to fight with."

"Hmmm...I don't believe you! No one is dumb enough to go into the tall grass without a Pokémon!" The kid shouted, throwing a Pokéball forwards.

The ball opened, a red beam shooting out and coalescing into a small bird. In his awestruck state, Anduin was still able to identify the Pokémon as a Starly.

"Starly use tackle!" The boy shouted, not even waiting for his opponent to throw out a Pokémon, not that Anduin even could for that matter.

The bird flew towards Anduin with aggressive, albeit confused intent. Anduin reacted quickly, his gauntleted hand moving to backhand the bird as it approached. The force behind the strike sent the poor bird into the dirt, a small cloud of dust forming around where it impacted.

"Chirpy no! You can't just do that, mister, humans aren't supposed to fight Pokémon!" The kid bawled, tears flowing from his eyes as he ran over to his downed bird.

"Maybe you shoulda listened to me when i said I didn't have a Pokémon! Maybe then I wouldn't have had to defend myself."

The other trainers on the route had begun to hear the commotion, one of the quicker ones actually managing to see the fight end.

"Hey! The boy's right man, you can't just go around and beat up Pokémon like that!" A slightly older girl, maybe mid teens yelled over at him, another youngster next to her. Both of them threw out their Pokémon, two Bidoof and Shinx. "We're going to take you to Officer Jenny, maybe she'll reward us for helping lock up a Pokémon abuser like you!"

"Oh god dammnit, more of you kids?" Anduin groaned out, face-palming with his un-gauntleted hand. The girl quickly yelled back. "SHUT UP, I AINT NO KID! Logan, get your Shinx to try and shock him. My girls will try to knock him out."

Anduin again had to defend himself for the second time that day, yet he wasn't worried. The first one to act was the Shinx, sending a small bolt of electricity at him which Anduin dodged. Breaking into a full sprint, he charged straight at the Shinx, seeing it as the biggest threat. One of the Bidoofs reacted in just the nick of time, running forwards to try and tackle Anduin along the way.

Anduin reacted quickly, deflecting the blow with his gauntlet before slashing downwards with it, slashing the Bidoof across the side and knocking it out. The second Bidoof acted much the same, now predicting the attack, Anduin simply sidestepped the attack before punching the Bidoof square in the face, his boxer training allowing him to punch much harder than a normal person, knocking the second Bidoof out as well.

The Shinx fired another bolt, this one catching Anduin by surprise and sending him to the ground as the electricity went through his system. "Gah fuck!" He cursed out in pain, causing one of the youngsters to cover his ears. The pain subsided a moment later, allowing Anduin to get to his feat and make his way over to the Shinx. Dodging another bolt, he slashed with his gauntlet, knocking it out as well.

"Any fucking more of ya kids? Goddamnit, I'm just trying to pass through!" Anduin yelled out in rage and annoyance, almost wanting them to throw out more Pokémon. The kids whimpered in fear, recalling their Pokémon before fleeing.

Unbeknownst to both Anduin and the kiddos, a nearby trainer had witnessed and recorded the whole event. The trainer wasted no time in posting the video online, the video blew up almost immediately as a Human fighting and beating multiple Pokémon in combat, as well as a trainer as aggressive and as ruthless as Anduin was unheard of!

The opinions were mixed. Some likened this man to the humans of old that used to fight against the Pokémon. Others wanted him in prison for even daring to lay his hand against a Pokémon! Regardless of the side, the legend of the Gauntleted Fighter was becoming rapidly well known amongst trainers.

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"Quotations represent speech."

{Curly brackets represent Poke Speech.}

(Brackets represent my comments)

After getting the kiddos to successfully piss off, Anduin took a few deep breaths to calm himself.

"Gah fuck, second day here and I'm already being seen as enemy number one. I just hope the bastards don't have an internet yet to post it on." Unfortunately, said bastards did have an internet yet to post it on.

Anduin continued walking through the tall grass of Route 1, idly guessing what Pokémon could be encountered here. Of the ones he happened to notice, none of them were the ones that would stay on his final team, they would be nothing more than a means to an end really.

After a half hour of searching for Pokémon, he came to realize that the battle against the trainers seemed to have scared them all off.

An idea struck him, in the games you were never able to go off the beaten path. But this is now real life for him, he can go wherever he damn well pleases!

Turning to the large snowy forest, Anduin ventured forth into the uncharted territory. He wasn't certain what he would find, but some sort of feeling in his gut directed him through the impossible to navigate brush.

Minutes passed as he walked through the woods, the sense of Deja Vu getting stronger as he passed through, the tree's being almost identical after a point. Anduin was beginning to feel as if he got lost.

CRACK

{SNIVY!}

Anduin paused for a moment. Was that a Snivy he heard? Moreover, it sounded like it was being attacked!

Turning in the direction of the cry, Anduin ran towards the sound, not sure what he was going to find.

In the clearing Anduin came across two creatures. The first being a large normal wolf about to pounce upon a bleeding and nearly dead Snivy.

He didn't waste any time, charging forwards with a guttural battle cry, puffing his chest out to make himself look bigger.

The wolf didn't expect a human to show up, and was too stunned from the sudden appearance to notice the gauntleted fist that shot towards the wolf's midsection

With a sickening crunch, his gauntlet made contact. Anduin could feel a few of the wolf's ribs break from the impact.

The wolf howled in pain, reacting quickly now to the new threat. With a pounce that caught Anduin off guard, the Wolf sunk its teeth into Anduin's left shoulder. Dangerously close to ripping his throat out.

"GRAAH!" He screamed out in pain, the wolf's teeth causing shockwaves of intense pain to radiate from his now ravaged shoulder. Reaching blindly on the ground, Anduin grabbed the first thing he could find, which just so happened to be a sharp stick, and jammed it into and through the wolf's chin, the momentum causing it to force it's way through and into the wolf's skull.

Blood, brain matter and viscera coated his hand as he pulled the wolf off of him. His own blood now spilling out in a tide. Unfortunately for him, it seemed the wolf tore through a few of his arteries. Even if he managed to get to safety without bleeding out, which was over an hour away and he would not make it, he would still lose his arm.

"G-goddamnit." He grunted out in pain, trying to put pressure on his wound to stop the blood flow. Looking around, he saw the Snivy staring at him in concern.

'H-hey don't worry about me little buddy, I'll be fine!" He tried to put on a fake smile to reassure the green snake, though it came off as more of a grimace.

His vision was starting to fade and get blurry from the blood loss, the sensation leaving his arms and legs as he fell to the ground, his life essence draining away at a rapid rate.

"Heh, well. Didn't expect to die again so quickly. Let's hope I can still pull some bullshit off like I did last time." He muttered quietly as he closed his eyes, slipping into unconsciousness. He didn't even manage to notice a floating lavender figure approaching him.

The Snivy was in shock. One moment she was running from her life from a nasty wolf, failing to dodge what was almost a fatal blow.

The next moment she was staring death in the face before a large human showed up out of nowhere, bravely charging forwards and saving her from the wolf.

She didn't know that humans could fight like that! The large man managing to land a lucky and effective blow against the wolf.

She cried out in shock again as the wolf managed to land a fatal blow against the human, watching as with the last of his strength he brought the beast down.

Even with his lifeblood pouring out of him at a rate that he wouldn't survive, rather than trying to retreat to safety, he had used his last few seconds to try and reassure and calm her down.

Seeing him collapse brought her out of his shock. She dashed over to him, her small hands desperately trying to stop the bleeding.

{Please anyone! Can anyone hear me! This man saved my life and he needs help, I can't heal him!} She desperately cried out, hoping that any kind person or Pokémon nearby would hear her and come to his rescue.

She knew the reputation human's had, being cruel, evil and wickedly intelligent. But she hoped that someone would believe her and come help.

As the seconds passed, she was beginning to give up hope when she heard a voice in her head.

"You can take your hands off of him, I will heal him. I witnessed what he did firsthand, even if I was too slow to save him from his fate the first time, I will not fail again."

She looked around in shock, her eyes landing on a lavender floating Pokémon with a swanlike body, it's head in the shape of a crescent with multiple floating elliptical circles around it's body.

She didn't know what type of Pokémon this was, only that it was much, much stronger than her.

The mysterious Pokémon moved over, floating down to place her head on his chest. A pinkish-purple light emanated from her head, flowing over the human's body.

His ravaged shoulder began to knit closed, the flesh of his shoulder growing and repairing in real time, the blood ceasing to pour out after a minute.

"For what reason, I do not know. But this man is blessed. I do not know who blessed him, or with what, but I will protect him." The mysterious Pokémon spoke softly, her telepathic voice ringing throughout the clearing.

The Snivy thought for a moment, moving closer to the still unconscious human. He protected her life at the expense of his own, even though he didn't know her. She may not have known this human for long, but she knows that she'll forever be in his debt.

"{I-I'm going to protect him too!}" She yelled out, looking away embarrassingly at her own outburst.

A melodic laugh echoed in the chamber, the floating Pokémon shaking in amusement.

"Heh, very well. I suppose we shall have to protect him together.

Anduin woke up with a start a few moments later, reflexively looking at where his wound was only to find blood-stained clothing and skin, but no wound at all.

Confusedly he looked around, his breath catching in his throat as his eyes widened. Not only was the Snivy from before currently clinging to his shirt with a determined albeit scared expression, there was a damn fucking shiny Cresselia right in front of him!

"Uhh, hi there. Did I miss something while I was out?"

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Anduin stared nervously at the two of them. Sure, Cresselia was a Pokémon he wanted to have on his final team, but he was not expecting to find one so early. Nor a shiny for that matter.

Cresselia stared at him for a few moments, the silence was deafening. Eventually the first one to act was the Snivy, clinging to Anduin's shirt a bit tighter than before with a rather fierce blush on her face.

"You are an interesting one Human. What is your name?" Anduin heard Cresselia say, he didn't have to be a genius to know who was using telepathy.

"H-holy shit." He muttered, not used to the sensation. "Uhh…Hi there, I'm Anduin. You're Cresselia, right?" Anduin asked, somewhat convinced that this scenario was just a dream in his blood-deprived state.

"I am Cresselia, yes, though that is not much of a name. Anduin, that is a fitting name for someone like you. I know not why you are blessed, Anduin, but someone has high expectations of you. I will help and protect you where I can, but I do not know the reason for why I feel this way." Cresselia psychically spoke, her tone getting increasingly confused as time went on.

"...Blessed huh, interesting. Though I don't know how blessed I am, I nearly died a second ago." Anduin joked, trying to make light of the situation.

Snivy whimpered as she remembered what happened, while Cresselia merely grimaced. Anduin didn't need to be a genius to know that he shouldn't have said that.

"Shit sorry, bad timing I know." Acting on pure instinct, he gingerly reached his hands forward, making contact with each of the Pokémon's heads. He gently rubbed each of their heads carefully, not wanting to hurt either of them. "What the fuck am I doing." He practically screamed in his head.

The two Pokémon stiffened at the contact, not expecting him to do that. The Snivy simply stood ramrod straight, her eyes going wide as her blush even further intensified with every head rub. Cresselia had a different reaction altogether, rather than shying away from it, within a few moments she was happily rubbing back against his hand.

Anduin simply smiled at the reactions, finding both of them to be adorable in their own ways. "I may have bad news for you girls, I don't have any Pokéballs. Nor am I legally a trainer, I can't catch either of you."

"Who said you had to have either a trainer card or Pokéballs? I am sure Miss Snivy here would be alright just staying with you for now, and I have ways to get to you in your times of need. Surely you can capture us later with those devices. Plus, if you have a Pokémon out with you, I don't see why people would ask if you had a card." Cresselia mentioned, her tone changing nearly every sentence.

{S-snivy sni.} Snivy said from his side, rather timidly. He couldn't understand her however, of which he looked over at the psychic type legendary for aid. "Right, you humans can't understand us. Miss Snivy here said she wouldn't mind going with you."

"Hmmm…" Anduin simply sat there staring at the two of them for a few moments. As the seconds ticked by, they each got increasingly confused. Eventually he simply stated. "The two of you need names, it doesn't feel right to just refer to you by species."

The two Pokémon seemed to agree by the way they brightened up at his words, the two of them shifting a bit nervously as Anduin thought of a way to name them.

Anduin thought for a while on what to name them, he didn't want to go with something common, as he didn't feel they deserved that. He went through the languages he knew a few words in, and decided on what language to use. Gaeilge, Irish Gaeilge. Next to no one outside of Ireland even knows how to pronounce or spell the names, but to him, they all sounded beautiful.

Lifting a hand, he brought it over to pet the Snivy, having decided his name for her. "Nathair. It is a bit on the nose, as it means serpent in a language back from where I am from, but it sounds nice and I think it fits you."

Newly named Nathair thought the name over, sure it was a bit on the nose, but she agreed with Anduin's opinion, the name did sound wonderful regardless. She rubbed back against his hand gingerly, showing her appreciation for the name.

Anduin smiled, happy that she liked the name. A few moments later he reached a hand over to pet Cresselia, who moved into his hand to give him better access to her head.

"Somni. It is based after the word for dream in a different language than Nathair's name." Cresselia thought it over for a minute. "Somni. I like it." Anduin's smile widened at that,

The trio simply stayed where they were for the next few minutes, Anduin petting them happily and the two of them happily letting him do so.

"Well we better get moving then. I have to make it to the next city if I want to start my journey as a Pokémon master. I will be honest with you girls, I will train you to some of the strongest Pokémon ever, but it will not be an easy task."

Somni and Nathair stared at him, mulling over his answer. Somni simply nodded in approval, giving her answer.

Nathair on the other hand looked a bit concerned. She wanted to say yes, to say that she would do anything he wanted. Truth be told, she also wanted to get stronger, she didn't want him to try and save her and nearly die again. After a moment, she simply responded. "{Snivy!}"

Anduin smiled at them. "Do the two of you know what moves you have? I don't have a Pokédex or anything like that to check." So far, all Anduin had figured out were their natures, Nathair was timid, a very cute personality but also one that would greatly enhance her speed, but would lower her physical attack a bit.

"I will mention Anduin, it would not be fair for me to join you in your first few battles. I hope you understand why I feel this way." Somni mentioned, hoping that he wouldn't be displeased with her answer.

Anduin simply shook his head. "Aye that makes sense, as much fun as it would be to cruise through the gyms like that, I cannot rely on you to do it for me."

"Thank you, Anduin. As for what moves I know,: I know Lunar Dance, Psycho Shift, Psycho Cut, Moonlight, Confusion, Double Team, Safe Guard, Mist, Aurora Beam, Future Sight, and Slash." While she was listing them off, Anduin pulled out his notepad, writing them down.

"Interesting, we can have more than 4 moves at a time." He thought giddily, already his mind racing with new possibilities. "Alright, that's quite a good list Somni!' He praised, rubbing her head again affectionately. "There are only two more moves that I would have to teach you, but those might be a bit hard to find. We'd need TMs."

Seeing his Pokémon's confused expression, he coughed awkwardly before explaining. "Well you see, TMs are these like disk things that us humans have invented to teach you guys some moves you couldn't learn through leveling or from your parents."

Somni and Nathair nodded excitedly, rather amazed by the idea of a TM. Anduin wasn't really the best one to explain this kind of thing, he was new to all of this as well. For the moment however, he didn't plan on telling his mon that he was from another world entirely, that wasn't something anyone needed to know.

"Nathair, what moves do you know?" He asked his Snivy, there was one move in particular he was hoping she had, as that was the only way to learn it, but he had alternatives.

"{Snivy Sni: Snivy, Sni, Snivy, Snivy vy, Sni.}" Anduin looked over at Somni. "She says she knows Tackle, Leer, Vine Whip, Iron Tail and Glare." Anduin mentally cheered at the mention of the last move, that was the one he was hoping she had.

"Those are a great selection Nathair, I already know how to train you up to have you be the strongest grass type around." He reached over to keep petting her, Nathair's blush returning as she was pet.

Anduin wrote down her list of moves as well, cross referencing them with his game knowledge. For Nathair, he would have to wait for the later gyms to have her be full powered, but Somni would be easier to train, once she was willing to fight.

Standing up a bit too quick for someone who had just lost a lot of blood, he had to hold onto Somni's body to remain standing. "Ok, ok, I think I'm good now." He muttered after a few moments.

"Well girls, I think it's best if we head out now, daylight is burning after all. Nathair, do you want to ride on my shoulder? It'll be quicker than walking." Nathair shyly nodded yes, letting herself be scooped up and placed on his shoulder, her small hands holding onto his head to keep herself steady.

"Anduin, with my renown as a legendary Pokémon, it might be wise for me to leave when you encounter other humans. I do not wish to bring you harm simply because you are near me."

Anduin nodded in agreement, as sad as he was to see Somni go, he knew it would be best.

"Aye, I get it. Will you at least travel with me until then? You could always hide nearby until I was done interacting with them."

"That wouldn't work in towns, but yes, I believe that will work."

"I'm happy to hear that." Anduin reached over, pulling Somni into a hug. Unbeknownst to him, this close proximity was enough for their minds to merge. Somni went slack for a moment before looking away with a very prominent blush.

"It is best that we start moving then, Master." Somni spoke, her tone tinged with an ever so faint amount of lust.

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Anduin and his newly formed team made their way through the forest, his mon having to help lead him out as he was quite lost.

Once they had gotten out and back onto the route, Anduin checked the sky, seeing that the sun would only be up for another hour or so at most if it worked anything like back home.

“Alright then, girls! We only have a bit of time left before we have to Camp. If we hurry, and no pokemon comes to fight us, we should be able to reach…” Anduin quickly pulls out and checks his notepad. “...Jubilife city. With luck I should be able to get the supplies I need.”

“{Snivy}”, [Sure thing, Master Anduin.] His mon happily replied.

The route was peaceful at this time of night. Since the other trainers were scared off, and no pokemon were around, all that was left to break the silence was the peaceful sound of crickets chirping.

The group continued to walk, or float in Somni’s case, down the route. Yet only half an hour in, someone just had to come and spoil the surprise.

Feeling more so than seeing the creature approaching, Anduin quickly went down on the ground, just barely dodging a spark as it flew over his head.

{Shinx!} A few feet away stood a small blue lynx, electricity sparking off its body and visibly moving from hair to hair.

“Oh, I thought I had scared all of you off. Wait a minute, this a great opportunity to do a first pokemon battle!” He excitedly exclaimed, this was one of his dreams as a kid, and
he couldn’t wait to start.

“Nathair, are you up for a fight? Normally your glare would be enough to stop you from getting hurt, but electric types are immune to it. We’ll have to be careful, as I don’t have a pokeball for the centers to use to heal you.”

{S-snivy.} Nathair timidly responded, taking a moment to build up her confidence. She stepped in front of Anduin and got into a battle stance. “Alright let's start this off with a Vine Whip, let's try to keep him at range. Dodge if he gets too close.”

Anduin faintly heard a voice from his memories as gave out commands and orders. “Guess the old man taught you something, eh sergeant?” He shook his head a moment later, getting the thought out of his head. The faint echo of laughter fading away as he refocused on the field.

Nathair concentrated, a pair of vines growing out of the ground around her. They shot rapidly towards the Shinx, who only managed to dodge one of them, taking some minor damage.

“Keep up the offensive, don’t give him a chance to recover.” Just like before, one of the vines managed to connect with the other being deflected. The Shinx backed up, getting out of range of the vines. “Get in a bit closer but be careful, he has the ranged advantage with his sparks.”

The Shinx’s mouth crackled with the sound of electricity, a barrage of thunder shocks sent Nathair’s way. The smell of Ozone was overpowering with the sheer amount of electricity being fired. She was able to dodge most of them, a few of them even being deflected with her vine whips. She turned around just in time to see one of them impact her directly, sending her back a few feet with a pained yelp. Luckily the paralyze didn’t proc.

“Are you alright Nathair!?” Anduin hurriedly asked, moving quickly over to her. She got up before he could reach her, giving him a nod with a mild wince before turning back to her opponent.

Nathair’s vines shot forward again, battering the poor lynx over and over. However the Shinx was able to get another thunder shock off in the middle of the beating, right before it fell unconscious. Nathair was too preoccupied with pressing her advantage to notice the attack, only to notice it too late a few inches from her head.

CRAC-whump.

A small rock impacted the ground in front of her, the electric attack having been absorbed by the small pebble. She turned around to look at Anduin who was brushing dirt off his hand. “I had a feeling that that would work, nothing ever said trainers couldn’t interfere.”

He moved over to her with a smile, picking her up off the ground and hugging her tightly, making sure not to crush her. “You won your first fight, good job Nathair!” The snake blushed in the embrace, her green skin getting progressively darker as her blush got stronger and stronger with every passing second of the hug.

The last bits of light in the route faded, leaving the group in almost pure darkness. It seems that the fight took a bit longer than it felt. “Ah shit, well girls, it seems we’ll have to camp out here for the night.”

Making the camp itself only took a few minutes, without a sleeping bag or a tent, let alone really anything of the sort. All Anduin was able to do was make a fire to keep them all warm for the night, and just in time as well. Nathair had started to shiver rather violently in the cool Sinnoh night time wind, a cold blooded snake was not really well suited to an environment like this.

“Hmm, girls. It seems we’ll have to cuddle for the night, to put it bluntly. I’m not sure how cold the nights get, but this wind is already freezing. We’ll have to conserve body heat.” He picked up Nathair, laying down near and facing away from the fire, holding her against his chest.

“Somni, if you feel comfortable with it, could you join me here?” He patted the ground in front of him. “It might be best if we pretty much sandwich miss scales here.” He gave Nathair a quick boop on the snout, his body heat warming her up ever so slightly. “I don’t know if you have to sleep as a legendary, but I would like it if you would stay with us.”
Somni couldn’t help but notice the tinge of concern and fear in his voice when he asked her to stay with them, though she wouldn’t comment on it.

[Even if I am not in a ball just yet, I did say I was going to protect you. I am your pokemon after all, master Anduin, if you would like me to stay, I will.] She silently lowered herself next to Anduin, positioning herself to try and help warm up Nathair.

Anduin vehemently shook his head at the last part. “No, you’ve got it wrong. You are your own people, unless it is for your own good, I won’t force any of you to do stuff you don’t want. Just having a pokemon has been one of my dreams since I was a kid, let alone having a legendary as well. I don’t want to lose one of you by forcing you to do something.”

[You won’t have to worry, I don’t plan on leaving you. Plus, it's not hard to tell you care way too much to hurt us, for any reason.] She paused as she was interrupted by Anduin yawning, being quite tired after losing as much blood as he had. [I can see you are tired, Master Anduin. You should sleep, I’ll be with you when you wake up.]

“Just, just one more thing.” Anduin was quickly falling asleep, the day's woes catching up to him all at once. “What's with the whole Master thing? I haven’t caught you yet, and you don’t have to call me that.”

[What? You don’t like it?] It was hard to miss the amusement in her voice, a smirk on her swan like face as she snuggled in against him. Her feathered and furred body was incredibly soft and silky, as he was finding. Even though it was a bit awkward to do considering she didn’t have any limbs, Anduin made sure to wrap his arms around her as well, keeping both of his pokemon in a tight hug. Rather than commenting, Anduin laughed quickly, letting out a sigh a moment later before finally letting sleep take him.

Some hours passed, Somni having been awake the whole time, simply letting herself be embraced. She was stirred from her thoughts by Anduin shaking lightly. [A nightmare? That’s not supposed to happen when I’m here.] She was very confused, she was the pokemon of good dreams after all. She watched him for a few moments, trying to figure out if there was any way she could help him.

Over time his nightmare seemed to have gotten worse, the shaking intensifying slightly. It also seemed that he talked in his sleep, as a few words slipped out. “I ain’t…no sergeant. Your path, not mine.” Whoever he was talking to in his nightmare, his words seemed to have the desired effect as he fell back into a peaceful slumber.

Somni frowned, sad that her powers were unable to help her Master, the one she knew in her heart she was supposed to protect. Unable to do much else, she snuggled closer to him, hoping her warmth would help him rest.

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"Quotations represent speaking"

[Closed brackets represent Telepathy]

(Round brackets represent my comments.)

{Curly brackets represent Pokespeech}

The night kept getting colder as the night went on, going well below freezing. Anduin was not dressed for this weather, all the young man wore was a simple long sleeved shirt, a pair of comfortable jeans and a pair of sneakers.

Anduin shivered viciously in his sleep, yet he remained in a deep sleep despite the biting cold and the snowfall that now came blowing in.Nathair. Luckily for the group, Somni’s idea was working. Anduin’s shivers began to die down.

She was not sure if it would work for any of the colder nights, this was a warm night by comparison. He would have to get new clothes designed for the weather soon, or else he would not make it further than the town.

A few hours passed before Anduin awoke, he wasn’t a particularly heavy sleeper. He was surprised to find Somni, covered in a layer of snow, currently resting on top of him while using her levitation to make sure she didn’t crush him.

{Good morning Master Anduin!} Somni spoke telepathically, rubbing her head against his affectionately.

“Good morning to you too, Somni. Affectionate as always, I see.” He chuckled as he rubbed her furred back equally as affectionately, finding that he had to scrape the snow off of her before he was able to. “Brr, it's freezing out. Did it get colder while I slept?” His shivering started again, his teeth clacking against each other audibly.

[It did indeed get colder. Master Anduin, it might be best if we try and get you some warmer clothes at the next town. Which if I recall correctly, is a few days of travel away.

Only a few moments later did he notice the even more shaky and shivering form of Nathair on his midsection.

“Oh shit.” He muttered, Anduin knew it was not good for cold-blooded creatures to be in a cold environment like this. Anduin grabbed her gently, picking her up and placing her in his shirt, against his chest. He shivered again as her cold body was a bit uncomfortable against his bare chest, but it would warm her up the fastest.

He held her tight against him, wrapping his arms around the bulge she made in his shirt.

[She should be fine Master Anduin, just give her a bit of time to warm up. I did my best to keep the two of you warm through the night, but I can only do so much.]

“That’s alright Somni, I don’t think either of us would have made it last night without you.”

The last few embers in the now snow-covered campfire fizzled out, the early morning sun not providing enough warmth to keep the group comfortable.

“It seems we must keep moving then, hopefully we’ll find a shop along the way. I am not too sure how long I’ll be able to manage.” With a chuckle, Anduin and his team left the forest, continuing through the now snow covered Wishweed Meadow.

Not much happened for the rest of the day. Nathair eventually woke up, finding herself against Anduin’s bare chest causing her to freeze up. Though she would vehemently deny it if ever asked, his scent was rather appealing to her.

That night was much the same as the last, the temperature rapidly dropped forcing the team to find a clearing to set up a campfire. Just like before, Somni was forced to act as a blanket for the team, not that she minded of course.

Waking up with a plan the next day, Anduin cleared a small spot in the snow for Nathair to sit without freezing right away. “Alright ladies, we are going to have to be ready for the upcoming Pokemon battles. There is always a chance that I am going to mess up or prepare the wrong strategy. In that case, we need to be as strong as possible so we have as much room for error as possible.”

Somni and Nathair nodded in agreement, understanding his reasoning. “Somni, I am aware you do not want to battle yet, but it still might be best for you to train for when the time comes.”

Somni frowned, sighing a few moments later before simply responding. [Fine, what do you want me to work on Master Anduin?]

“{Snivy vy?}” Nathair also responded. Somni translating a moment later. [She wants to know what she should work on as well.]

Anduin thought for a few moments, knowing what he wanted them to train on but not knowing how. Eventually, some ideas struck him.

“Hmm, I do not know if this will work, but we should try it regardless. I am going to ask the two of you to spar. Nathair, I want you to work on trying to learn a special attack move, perhaps Magical Leaf might be a good start? My guess is it will require you to focus your energy, I’m not really sure on what makes your moves work.”

[That is a simplified way of putting it, but energy is a mostly correct way of putting it.]

“Thanks Somni. Like I was saying, try to focus your energy on a leaf and see if you can use it as an attack.’ Anduin reaches down to give Nathair an encouraging pet before looking over to Somni.

“Somni, I want you to work on trying to help Nathair, she doesn’t know any special moves and you might be able to help her in that field. If she happens to learn it, have her use it on you at a lower power if that’s a thing you can do? It should help your special defense. Meanwhile if she learns it, I want you to use lower power physical moves on her, if we do it light enough it should help her be able to take more hits.”

Anduin had no idea if any of this would work, trying to figure out EV training was already hard enough in the games, now he had to figure out if one, it worked at all, two, his half-baked idea would suffice.

After getting a nod from his two Pokemon partners, Anduin went a bit off to the side to train his own skills. He was already an expert duelist and fighter, but there was no reason to slack off on training in this new world.

Hours went by as the team trained on, Anduin was happy to see that his training was working, albeit rather slowly. Wiping his forehead of the sweat he had built up, he realized he was down to the last of the meager rations he always had on him. Normally he would have close to a week’s worth on him, even if they weren’t very tasty, but he had been sharing them with Nathair.

Hearing his stomach growl in hunger, he turned around to go over to where he had placed the items he brought with him, it was hard to train with food and heavy items in your pocket after all.

What he saw was not what he was expecting at all. It was a Pokemon, by its appearance it seemed to be some kind of new regional form of a Buneary. Moreover, it was currently munching on the last of his food!

Grimacing, Anduin got low into a hiding position. He silently crept out from where he was hiding and made his way over to the Buneary. Sadly walking through a snow covered forest doesn’t really work when you can’t tell if there is a stick underneath your foot. Just as he was within grabbing range, he stepped onto a stick, snapping it with a loud crack.

The buneary whirled around in shock, freezing like a deer caught in headlights when they saw Anduin only a foot away. Anduin was the first to react, just barely grabbing onto the bunny as it began to rocket away in fear. He firmly held onto the Buneary despite its struggles, not firm enough to hurt of course.

‘Alright calm the fuck down, I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to know why you are stealing my food. SOMNI, NATHAIR, CAN YOU COME OVER HERE!” He yelled out, his pokemon arriving a few moments later in concern, not having heard him yell before.

[Is everything alright Master Anduin?] Somni was the first to reach him, being just a bit quicker than Nathair due to her levitating.

The Buneary immediately calmed down when she saw the legendary Pokemon, almost all Pokemon knew of the legendaries and what they were capable of. Cresselia was widely known to be one of the kindest of them.

“Yeah I’m fine, I just found this little rascal eating the last of my rations.” Somni frowned at that, Nathair arriving a moment later to hear the same explanation, a frown on her face as well.

[I sincerely hope she has a good reason for this, that’s not a kind thing to do missy.] Somni scolded, an almost parental disapproving look on her face as she stared at the small Buneary, who almost seemed to shrink from guilt in Anduin’s hands.

“It’s a girl?” Anduin thought to himself, he wasn’t very well versed in pokemon sexual dimorphism. That was a bit too far even for him. Somni gave him a strange look, Anduin just then remembering that she was a Psychic type who could hear his thoughts.

Anduin gave an awkward cough as he waited for the Buneary to respond to Somni.

“{Bun bun, buneary buneary neary.}” Somni listened, her expression changing to one of concern as the Buneary spoke.

[Master Anduin, it seems that she was only stealing your food because a strong Pokemon has moved into the local area and is driving everyone away from all the food sources. We might have to go deal with him if you and Nathair are wanting to get food to eat as well. It seems it was a Darumaka by the description, most likely having come from the nearby Pokemon Graveyard, they like to hang around there.]

Anduin thought over this information, already working on a plan to defeat the mon. “Well we’re at a disadvantage there, Nathair is weak to fire. We might have to work together to deal with him.”

[Master, what? Are you seriously saying you are going to go off and fight a Pokemon with your Pokemon? Are you trying to get killed again?] Somni was both concerned and annoyed with his apparent lack of self preservation.

“No, Somni. If you look through my memory quickly, and please only do the surface stuff, you can see for yourself that I have done this before.” Somni did as requested a moment later, her eye’s briefly flashing pink as a light headache formed in Anduin’s head.

A moment later both the headache as well as the pink glow disappeared, leaving Somni agape and without words for a moment. Her expression changed into a smile. [As I said the other day, you are truly blessed to be able to do that. No other human has managed to do that in a fair fight as easily as you have in more than a few centuries.]

Anduin smiled in response, placing the bunny down a moment later. “Alright, we’ll help you out, Miss Buneary. Let me just grab something real quick, and lead the way. We’ll deal with your fire type problem.”

Anduin reached towards one of the nearby trees, his clawed gauntlet cutting off a thicker branch. The Buneary gave a sound of agreement before pointing to the right. The group began to follow her directions, Anduin sharpening his branch into a decent if rushed and improvised wooden spear along the way.

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Anduin and his team followed the Buneary for around an hour, coming across a both ancient and modern, in some spots, graveyard.

Rows upon rows of graves littered the land, some with fancier and more well-kept headstones, as well as some utterly ancient looking ones with barely legible text still carved into them.

Searching the graveyard from afar, Anduin wasn’t able to spot the Darumaka. “Well ladies, it seems we’ll have to try and find the monfirst before we can root him out”

Anduin explained, gripping his spear tighter as he ventured into the graveyard, his team and the Buneary following after him.

The rows of graves continued as the group traveled, being very careful to not trample on any of them due to the snow obscuring them or risk damaging any offerings that may have been left for those departed.

A somber silence came over the group as they searched around, checking around as many of the gravestones as they could. Just when they were about to give up, Anduin heard a tell tale sound, that of fire rapidly approaching.

“Everyone DUCK!” He shouted out, dropping to the ground as he reached out to pull his slightly slower to react Pokemon down as well. A multitude of embers shot over them, warming the air to a rather pleasant temperature from the ambient heat.

Anduin stood up a moment later, his team following suit. Standing and hopping around angrily only 25 feet from them was Darumaka. The red egg-shaped Pokemon was clearly mad at them for entering the Graveyard.

Taking stock of the terrain, a battle plan already forming in Anduin’s mind. “Somni, I take it you don’t want to fight in this battle?” Somni simply nodded in response.

“Alright then, Nathair, you’re up for this one then. Be careful here, one hit from one of those embers would send you reeling.”

Nathair moved forwards, shivering in the cold snow of the graveyard. Getting into her battle stance, she looked over at Anduin as he called out his first order.

“Have you figured out Magical Leaf yet? I forgot to ask earlier?” Anduin asked quickly, keeping his eyes on the Darumaka as it was getting more and more aggressive as Anduin talked.

“{Snivy, sni.}” Nathair responded nervously, Somni translating a moment later. [No she has not, she felt that she was getting close when we got back on the road.]

“No worries then, from what I remember Darumaka shouldn’t have any physical fire moves yet anyways. It might be best to get up close with your tackles here, moving around to support might also be best.” Anduin was muttering the last parts, his plan in the final stages.

“Alright! Nathair, watch his mouth when he attacks, you can dodge his embers easier. Get in close, pressure him with your tackles.” Anduin ordered, crouching down into the thick snow as he made his way around the field.

Nathair was the first to act, dashing towards the Darumaka who reacted only a few moments later. The air distorting from the heat as ember after ember shot out towards Nathair who ducked and weaved between them, using her vine whip to cancel out a few of the embers that got a bit too close.

She pounced once she was within range, slamming into the Darumaka painfully. Unfortunately for Nathair, Anduin had misjudged the strength of the foe. A burst of fire emanated shot out from the Darumaka’s body, scorching everything in a short distance around him in intense heat.

“{SNIVY!}” Nathair yelped in pain as she was launched back from the force of the attack, flying through the air for a few minutes before impacting the ground painfully.

“SOMNI! Are you able to heal her quickly?” Anduin shouted over, unfortunately having to give up his position to do so.

[On it, Master Anduin!] Somni called back, psychic energy coalescing around Nathair and sinking into her. Standing up a moment later, it seemed she was back to peak health.

“I don’t think I have said this yet, but your healing is incredibly useful.” Anduin chuckled, getting into a Field Guard with his spear, his right hand holding the very back of the spear while his gauntleted hand held just a bit under halfway up the weapon.

“Alright Nathair, I’ll keep him busy while you get close to him. Don’t give him any time to counterattack!” Anduin ordered, charging forwards to stab towards the Darumaka who jumped back before the blow could land.

Anduin kept up the offensive, sending measured thrust after thrust towards the Darumaka, forcing the Pokemon to have to keep dodging or risk taking a hit.

Nathair dashed forwards again, using the piles of snow throughout the arena for cover. Anduin sent a thrust forwards, intentionally over extending his blow to trick the Darumaka into attacking.
His plan worked, as the Darumaka took the bait, dashing towards him, a black sheen formed on the Pokemon’s teeth as it went to bite him. Nathair jumped forwards, slamming into the Darumaka with a combination of tackles and vine whips, damaging him over and over again.

“Finish him off with Magical Leaf, Nathair, you can do this!” Anduin yelled out, Nathair nodded, gathering her energy as she tried to send out her new move.

A single leaf shot forwards, slamming straight between the Darumaka’s eyes, sending him flying back as he was knocked out.

Anduin smiled, dropping his spear and running over to Nathair. He reached down mid stride, picking her up and hugging her tightly in celebration. “You did it, Nathair. Not only did you manage to learn Magical Leaf, you also managed to defeat a pokemon that was much stronger than I had originally thought.”

Nathair tiredly smiled, her blush coming back in full as she realized her master was hugging her. “{S-snivy vy.}” She squeaked out, moving to hug her master back after a bit.

The pair hugged for a minute or two, Anduin eventually putting her back down on the ground after petting her a bit as a reward. “Well then. There is just one thing left to do here.” Anduin walked over to his spear, grabbing onto it as he walked over to the heavily weakened Darumaka.

Lightly tapping the Darumaka with the side of his foot, he spoke annoyedly, “Hey Bastard, wake up. I don’t think you want a spear through the eye, so it's in your best interest to get up.” The Darumaka shook awake a moment later, looking up to see Anduin standing over him, and a spear a few inches away from his eyes.

“Haha, you can understand me then? This will make it a bit easier. Alright listen fucker, I don’t take too kindly to people who are trying to over compensate for their dicks by taking it out on others. It aint funny, and it ain’t making you look cool. The food here isn’t yours, it belongs to everyone who is hungry. Sure fighting might happen, that's nature. But regardless, you no longer own this land. Fucking scram then, or else I will do good on my threat.”

The Darumaka got progressively more and more scared as Anduin spoke, the final threat being enough to send him running for the hills. Anduin sighed as he turned back and walked over to his Pokemon.

[Were you actually going to stab him, Master Anduin?] Somni asked a bit hesitantly, it wasn’t hard for Anduin to tell that she was a bit scared of him now.

“No, not really. Not unless I had to. This wasn’t a case where I had to.” He responded honestly, not hiding his opinions on the subject from his team.

Another silence fell on the group, his two Pokemon not expecting his rather cold, blunt and honest answer.

The silence was broken by a certain white Buneary speaking up. “{Bun bun near ry buneary?}”

[She asked if you are the new alpha of the area. I think that's what the Pokemon of this area call the one who controls the food.] Somni translated for him.

“No, no I am not an alpha. I am just a trainer. You should go back to your family, the food should be available to everyone now.”

The Buneary shook her head, moving forwards and wrapping her small fluffy arms around his calf. “{Bun-ear-y.}” She stated determinedly.

[It seems she wants to stay with you, Master Anduin.} Somni mentioned finding the small bunny to be immensely cute.

He mulled it over, getting down onto one knee to be closer to her height.

“As much as I would love to take you with us. Our journey will be dangerous. We will be fighting trainers and other mons, the battles will not be easy.”

Rather than responding vocally, the Buneary just held onto his leg tighter.

“Heh, alright than lass, you can come with us. Would you like me to give you a name?”

“{Bun!}” Buneary happily responded.

“Hmm.” Anduin thought for a few moments, thinking over his naming scheme and trying to remember what words he knew. An idea came to him, he smiled as he looked over to her.

“How does Aerach sound? It's a bit on the nose for your personality, but it means jolly. And I will say, from only having known you for a bit, you do seem quite jolly.” He chuckled as he reached over and petted her head.

The buneary thought it over for a minute, eventually looking at him with a smile and nodding her head.

“Aerach is that then. Welcome to the team girl, we’re happy to have you!” The rest of the team cheered in agreement, happy to have their third member.

Picking up Aerach and Nathair, he placed them on his shoulders as he stood back up. “Well then, come on girls! Daylight's burning and the sooner we can get to a town, the warmer we’ll be.”

Anduin left the somber graveyard behind, hoping to not return to it any time soon. The group traveled for the remainder of the day, Anduin playing with both Aerach and Nathair whenever the group took a moment to rest. As good as it was to train all the time, his team’s happiness was just as important as the effectiveness.

As night time approached, the group found the next route to pass through, a massive forest of frost-covered evergreen trees that reached to the stars. A faded old sign stood next to the entrance to the forest, Anduin moving over to read what it said.

“Route 3: Cloakreed forest. Watch out for bugs.”

“Well girls, it might be best if we camp here for the night. We still have about an hour to go before nightfall, feel free to hang around and train. I have to talk to Somni about something, just don’t stray too far alright?” He called over to Aerach and Nathair.

The two pokemon let out their own sounds of acknowledgement, moving a bit away to train together.

Somni raised an eyebrow, curious as to what Anduin was wanting to discuss. Rather than answering her silent question, he simply motioned for her to follow him with a smile.

Anduin led Somni a bit of distance away from the group's camp, once he was sure they were far enough away, he turned back to her. “Apologies for the secrecy lass, but I do not want to ruin their opinions of me just yet. You’ve started calling me, Master Anduin, and you are a psychic type. It's not hard to see that you saw some of my fantasies while reading my mind.”

[It wasn’t intentional if that makes you feel better, Master Anduin. When you happened to hug me the other day, the closeness allowed our minds to merge for a moment. It just so happened that the few parts I was able to see before it ended were your kinks, and the fact that you plan on fucking your whole team at some point.]

Anduin simply nodded in response, even if he didn’t understand how psychic powers worked, the explanation made logical sense to him.

“And how do you feel about all that?” Anduin asked, slightly concerned as to what the answer would be.

(The first lemon starts here, I will mention whatever kinks will be shown here. If you scroll down further you will find another horizontal line, that is where the lemon ends.

With that being said, kink warning: M/F, Vaginal Sex, slight Master/Pet play, romantic sex, proposed polyamory, mentioned but not shown Oral and Anal sex.)

[I’m on board. It's not what I expected when I offered to be your Pokemon, but I would be lying if I said I was against the idea. Same goes with the ‘harem’ idea, that’s quite normal with Pokemon actually. As for some of your kinkier ideas, I mean. Some of them I am down to try, but not all of them.]

Anduin had a feeling he knew what she was referring to. Back in highschool and the few years after it, Anduin had gotten hooked on quite a few kinks from his experiences with other partners or drunk parties.

“Aye, that’s fair Somni. I think I know which ones you are referring to, I’m not the type to make someone I care for do something they don’t want to.”

[I know that, Master Anduin. That is one of the reasons I am quite alright with this, I know you won’t force me or the rest of your team to do something.]

Somni floated closer to him, a sultry smile on her crescent-shaped head. Anduin was about to ask what she was about to do, but she answered before he could ask the question by using her psychic powers to remove his clothing, placing it in a neat pile against a tree.

“Well, I hope you like what you see.” Anduin joked, his tone a bit nervous as he watched her stare at his nude form.

Anduin was a rather fit man, his constant training giving him a very well built and athletic figure, but nothing beefy like a bodybuilder. He had all the usual characteristics of this type of body, a notable but not extreme six pack, chiseled abs and pectorals, and an overall very nice looking body.

[Master Anduin…I should have jumped on you sooner.] Somni spoke, her tone was very lustful as she approached Anduin, swaying slightly as she did so.

“If you’ve read my mind and seen my kinks, I think you have an idea of how this is going to go then, eh Somni?”

[Indeed I do, Master.] She dropped the Anduin part for now, already knowing that he’d find this hotter. It seemed to have the desired effect, Anduin’s slightly above average member jumped to full mast at hearing her say that.

“Heh, come over here then Somni, let’s show eachother a good time.”

There wasn’t much of a need for foreplay, both of them had been waiting for this moment for a bit now. Once Somni got closer to Anduin, she turned around , lifting the tail-like appendage on the back of her round body, her wet and puffy slit on full display.

Anduin wasn’t one to keep a girl waiting unless she asked for it ahead of time, he quickly moved in behind her, grabbing onto her furry body before shoving himself inside of her.

The pair groaned as one, the sexual tension between them finally having been acted upon.

The couple moved in sync, Anduin thrusting into her while Somni pushed her body back against him, allowing him to hilt himself within her faster and harder as time went on.

Their passionate love-making went long into the night, the sounds of their pleasure echoed through the forest, making it rather clear to anyone who happened to be anywhere nearby exactly what they were doing.

After quite a while, and after what must have been his third or fourth orgasm that night, Anduin was exhausted and barely able to keep himself up right. He withdrew his arms from Somni’s hips, moving over slightly to rest against a nearby tree. Somni following suit a moment later, the results of their very, very exhausting union dripping out of and off of almost every part of her body.

(LEMON OVER)

“Somni, are you able to clean us up? I think it might be a bit awkward if we go find the others while looking like this.

Somni nodded, too tired to say much else. Her eyes flashed pink for a moment, all of the signs of their fun disappearing in a flash, leaving the two of them naked in the cold air and snow.

Once he had caught his breath, Anduin moved to get dressed, not noticing a pair of Pokemon stealthyly moving away from his clothing, nor did he happen to notice the multitude of wet spots on his jeans, assuming they were just from the snow melting.

Somni and Anduin found Aerach and Nathair around the Campfire. “{Buneary, bun bun neary?}” Somni paused mid movement, a large blush spreading across her face. Nathair looked over at the buneary in shock, a similarly large blush spreading across her snout.

“Somni? Is something the matter?” Anduin asked, concerned as to what Aerach said.

[Well, Master. It seems the two of them happened to watch us have sex, to put it bluntly. Moreover, they want you as well once they are physically big enough.]

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Anduin blanked, not expecting to hear that.

“I’m sorry, did I hear you correctly?”

[You did indeed, Master Anduin.]

Anduin was confused by this, he had after all just met them a few days ago, to only a day ago in Aerach’s case.

“I mean, I’m flattered, but isn’t that a bit weird. We did just meet not that long ago, that seems a little quick.”

[For humans perhaps. But its much more common for Pokemon to fall for someone who helps you out. I mean think of it from their perspective. In Nathair’s case, you did actually sacrifice yourself to protect her from a wild animal, that means a lot to her. As for Aerach’s case, you helped her from the brink of starvation unintentionally, but you also didn’t hate her for stealing food from you. You even helped deal with that Darumaka, helping out her family in the process.]

Anduin thought it over, it made some sense to him even if he found it a bit rushed still. Somni made more sense why she fell for him, not only did she think he was some kind of blessed individual that she should serve, but that mind meld probably showed her his true colors.

“Hmm, well. Nathair, Aerach, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested in doing those kinds of things with you. I do agree that we should wait for the two of you to evolve a bit more, I don’t want to risk hurting you.”

Nathair and Aerach nodded in agreement, even if they were a little sad that they couldn’t get to be with their master just yet, they didn’t want to get hurt either.

The group finished making the camp in just a few minutes, Anduin lighting the fire for them all to crowd around.

“Oh yeah, I meant to ask earlier Aerach, what moves do you know?”

Aerach thought it over for a minute before responding. “{Buneary, bunear ry, bun, neary, bunear, bun bun, near ry.}”

[She says she knows Frustration, Defense Curl, Pound, Foresight, Endure, Fake Out and Ice punch.]

Anduin was happy to hear the last two, the only other two moves he needed her to learn for his strategies would come when she was evolved.

“That's a wonderful list of moves, fake out and ice punch are going to be your bread and butter in battles, good girl Aerach.” Anduin reached over and started petting Aerach, rubbing her head affectionately.

Aerach smiled at the petting and the praise, pushing her head back against his hand.

The group had to keep cuddling for warmth, the temperature of the forest only a few degrees warmer than the first night. Based on the way the sun had been setting, Anduin guessed they were heading south.

Luckily for Nathair, she now had a very warm and furred buneary to cuddle with, making the night a lot warmer for her even if she didn’t sleep as well from embarrassment.

The next morning came soon enough, the warmer rays of sunshine warming the forest and illuminating the mist of the slightly melting snow. It was a truly beautiful sight, a forest like this that was almost entirely untamed and untouched.

The team got up not too long after the sun rose, heading back to the rough path through the forest that Anduin felt was the right way to go.

A few hours into the walk, the trees started to become more orderly and precise, every tree the same distance from each other.

“I suppose we’re getting closer to the town then, they would most likely need the firewood with how cold it is, and planting the trees in an optimal way would be the best way to keep the forest alive.” Anduin noticed something off about the air, taking a few deep breaths he recognized the telltale scent of industrial runoff.

“Come on girls, the sooner we get there the sooner we can get into a warm bed.” Nathair and Aerach cheered at that, though Somni seemed a bit sad.

Anduin noticed, slowing his walk to walk beside Somni. “Hey, Somni. Are you doing alright? You seem down.”

[Of course I am down, Master Anduin. As we discussed, it wouldn’t be best for me to follow you into the city. Not only am I a legendary, I am a shiny one at that. I would only bring you trouble if I was out in the open.]

Anduin nodded sadly, reaching a hand over to pet Somni encouragingly “...You are right sadly. I do not want to risk losing you or getting any of us injured over that. You are a psychic type, you might be able to sneak in at night once we get to a hotel or something of the sort.”

[As long as you think it's best, and if I am sneaky enough, I should be able to do it.]

“That’s the spirit.”

A comfortable silence came over the group as they walked, the town coming into view a moment later.

It was a fairly large town, home to most likely around 5,000 people by the size of it. All of the buildings were well made, and made entirely of wood. Though Anduin did notice some remnants of concrete around the bases of some of the homes.

There were a few people walking around, it was safe to say that most people were wanting to stay inside with the cold.

A sign by the entrance read: “Welcome to Scourbark Town.”

“Scourbark? Odd name. Anyways, Somni, despite me not wanting you to leave, it might be best for you to head off now, they haven’t seemed to notice us yet.”

Somni nodded, rubbing her head against Anduin’s shoulder before disappearing in flash.

“Oh right. Psychic type, I forget some of them can do that.” He mumbled, amused by how she left.”

The group wandered into the town, looking around for a building that looked like an inn first and foremost.

After a couple of minutes, they found a larger wooden building, a sign hanging near the door with the picture of a bed on it. Anduin entered, his team on his shoulders.

The inside was much warmer than the outside, a large roaring fireplace in the corner of the room heating and lighting the insides. A large wooden counter sat near the stairs, an old man, asleep by the looks of it, sat behind the desk.

Anduin walked over, clearing his throat with an apologetic smile.

The old man startled awake, adjusting his thick glasses before looking up at Anduin.

“You do not like you’re from around here, sonny. Are you a trainer?”

“Indeed I am, old timer.” Anduin half-lied, he was technically training Pokemon after all. “This is an inn by the look of it, yes? Could I pay for a room? Only for a night or two.”

The old man looked down, thumbing through a small book that Anduin couldn’t read from this distance.

“Do you care about the room size?” Anduin shook his head no. “You are in luck, one of our customers just left an hour ago, the room should be fully cleaned by now. It’ll be 500 pokedollars a night.”

Anduin reached for his wallet, pulling out the requisite amount of money for two nights and handing it over. Anduin sighed mentally, he was down to only 1000 pokedollars.

The old man pulled out a key, handing it over to him. “Up the stairs, fifth room on the right.”

Anduin nodded, thanking the old man before heading up stairs with his team. Finding the right door, he unlocked it before heading inside. The room was nothing amazing, but it had a bed and it had a bathroom with running water. More than enough for a trainer to get by with.

Anduin moved over to the bed, placing his girls down on it. “How do you two feel about the bed?”

Nathair sat there for a moment before quickly moving to get under the covers. “Warm huh?” Anduin commented with a laugh, a faint high-pitched laugh coming from the covered snivy.

Aerach simply curled up into a ball on top of the covers, not really needing it for warmth but definitely enjoying the softness of the comfortable bed.

“We’ll stay here for a bit, but I think it's best that we explore this town. Maybe they even have the first gym here.” Aerach and Nathair, to a lesser extent, perked up at that. Nathair poking her head out of the covers as the two of them looked at him excitedly.

“I take it you two want to explore then?”

“{Buneary!} {S-snivy!}” Anduin felt his heart melt a little at how cute they looked. He made a mental note to ask Somni about teaching him to understand them. Psychic pokemon could do anything as far as he knew.

Anduin smiled, picking the two of them up, placing Nathair in his shirt so she would stay warm. He left the room, moving over to the old man who was working on a ledger of some kind.

“Hey there, sorry to bother you again. Is there anywhere I can buy warmer clothes here?”

The old man nodded, stroking his wrinkled chin. “Aye, it's just two doors down. Can’t miss it, has a big ol’ sign on the front with a shirt on it.”

“Thank you, sir. If you wouldnt mind answering two more questions. Is there a gym in this town? And is there like a blacksmith, or someone who works with metal?”

“Aye, there is a gym here. It's ran by Agnes, she’s a renowned actor in the industry despite the fact that she is only 19, though she acts quite a bit younger than her age. As for blacksmiths, I am afraid not sonny. We have made great efforts to become a green town over the last few decades, and whatever metalsmiths we had have left.”

Anduin frowned at the second part, but the old man continued a moment later. “But, if you are looking for weaponry or armor…” He motioned to the gauntlet that Anduin was wearing. “...We do have an antique collector in town. You might be able to find something from him, he has quite the connections as he works with the esteemed Professor Safras.”

Anduin rolled his eyes at the last statement, he wasn’t a big fan of the professor. Putting on a smile, he nodded his head in thanks. “Thank you very much, old timer. You take care of yourself, I’ll be back in a few hours.”

“What’s your name sonny?” The old man asked as Anduin was halfway out the door.

“Anduin, sir.” The old man nodded, writing it down on his ledger.

Leaving the inn and the old man, Anduin first headed to the clothes shop. The kind older woman who owned the shop fretted over the boy as he shopped, scolding him for not bringing the right clothing for his journey.

Anduin wasn’t really sure how to act, his lack of a mother making him find the whole ordeal sweet, if a bit uncomfortable.

“I apologize for cutting you off, ma’am. But could I trouble you to make a custom order? I have a specific kind of coat I would like you to make, if it is not too much of an issue.”

“Oh? What’s your idea young man?” The old lady was curious, it had been a while since someone wanted a custom order.

Anduin pulled his notepad out of his pocket, flipping to a specific page, ripping it out and handing it over to her.

“If it is too difficult or too hard to make, then please do not trouble yourself with it.”

The page detailed an ancient padded coat, step by step instructions of how to make it with tips of what materials to use, where to sow and the like.

“Heh, my work is almost done already. Usually I would have to interpret what the customer was wanting, but you have everything written down already. You really want this coat by the look of it, I’ll offer a pretty big discount for making my work easier and by allowing me to work on a design like this. I don’t need to be a genius to tell how old this design is.”

Anduin’s eyes widened in shock, a smile coming to his face as he nodded. “That is very generous of you. How much would it be then?”

The old lady thought it over for a minute. “Hmm, for materials and the difficulty of the job, It would normally run you about 1200 pokedollars at least, but I’ll only charge you 600 with the discount included.”

Anduin’s smile widened slightly, reaching for his wallet happily as he pulled out the right amount. “You are too kind, young lady.” He teased, the old lady blushing and waving her hand.

“Oh you are too kind. I should have this ready in the next few days, lucky for you I have the materials on hand.”

Anduin nodded, waving goodbye as he left the clothes shop. Asking around a bit, he was able to find the Antique shop.

Entering the shop, he was amazed at what he saw. Items both ancient and simply old lined the walls, tables and the floor in some of the bigger items cases. From furniture, to pottery, to jewelry, to even weapons and armor.”

There was one desk in the room, a scarred and rough looking middle aged man standing behind it with his arms crossed. His dress was formal and clearly military in design, badges hanging off of his chest. He stared at Anduin with a hard glance.

Anduin reflexively looked at the man’s arms, seeing if he could recognize his rank. The man had a banner and a coat of arms embroidered where the usual ranks of a soldier would be. Anduin instantly recognized it, taking an educated guess of what it refers to, Anduin saluted the man.

“Chief Warrant Officer, I apologize for interrupting your day.” Anduin stated, his tone switching to that of a soldier. His pokemon simply looked up at him in confusion.

“At ease.” The man replied automatically, staring at Anduin with a hint of mutual respect as well as confusion now. “You do not look like a soldier, son. How did you know what my rank was, let alone how to address me properly?”

“...Sir, that is not a thing I share easily.” Anduin lowered his salute, a grimace on his face. “My father was a Major in the army. Due to the circumstances at the time, he had me while on deployment. For whatever reason, his battalion kept me around and decided to raise me and train me to be a soldier. I never went to school sir until high-school, they thought I had to have gone through primary because of my background in the military.”

The older soldier listened to Anduin share his story. Once Anduin finished, he reached below the desk and pulled out a bottle of some kind of alcohol. Pouring into two glasses, the Chief Warrant Officer pushed one of the glasses over to him. “That is not something a kid should have gone through. Did they ever give you a rank son?”

“No sir, but they mentioned that if I had stayed in the military I would have been given the rank of Lieutenant through my sheer skill and experience. My father was a tactical genius, and I have inherited both his ways of commanding and his talent for it.” Anduin stated, taking a sip of the offered drink. Quality Brandy, he noted.

“Do you know how to fight lad?” The older soldier asked, motioning to the gauntlet on Anduin’s hand.

“I do indeed sir, I made this piece myself. I was never too interested in the more logistical side of the military, which is why I didn’t join. My father trained me to shoot, and some of his friends and connections trained me to fight with weapons.”

“Weapons, huh?” The older man finished his drink, extending a hand a moment later. “I am Chief Warrant Officer Mark Federov, or simply Mark to my friends. I have been looking for someone who know how to fight with weapons for a while now, come, walk with me.”

Anduin finished his drink, putting down the glass and following the man. His pokemon had been silent this entire time, not really sure what to say as they learned more about their trainer.

Mark lead Anduin through the antique shop, bringing him to a side door that he opened, motioning for Anduin to head inside. Anduin nodded, doing so a moment later.

It was nearly pitch black in the room, Mark flipping a light switch to turn on the lights so that the two of them could see. On the table was a set of weapons, all of them in good quality but looking rather old and worn. There were daggers, spears, swords, blunt weapons, polearms and even an ornate albeit heavily damaged rapier.

“I have a proposal for you, Anduin. Take a look at this if you could.” Mark said, reaching over to grab a nearby book, the cover reading ‘Pokemon league rules and regulations.’ Reaching the page he was looking for, he handed it over to Anduin.

Anduin read quickly through the page, his eyes widening as a smile came to his face. “Oh thats such an oversight. I can’t believe they still allow trainers to fight in the arena against the other opponent’s mon.” Anduin laughed slightly, starting to see what the man was getting at.

Mark simply chuckled in response. “Indeed it is, but as long as it stays you might as well take advantage of it. As for my proposal, I’ll sponsor your journey, cover the funding of your rooms and your equipment as long as you don’t go too overboard. In return, I want you to make good use of the weaponry we have here, and make sure to use a different one in each gym battle. With luck this should draw more people in to the old art of fighting, you and I are some of the few left who truly value it.”

Anduin nodded enthusiastically, stunned by the generous proposal but immensely interested in it as well.

“That sounds perfect to me, I’d be happy to take your offer, Sir.” He reached his hand out to shake Mark’s hand.

Mark shook his hand in response, confirming the deal. “You can just call me Mark, you never actually joined the military of your own volition, you don’t have to be so formal. Plus, we’re practically business partners now.”

“Do I get free pick of which one to take into the first gym?” Anduin asked, eyeing the rapier.

“As much as you want to use that one, I recommend you take it to get fixed up first. The seventh gym in this region is in Royablade town. I have a contact there who can fix up that weapon for you, I think you’ll find it's one of the best ever made when it comes to the weight, balance and material.”

Anduin nodded, grabbing the rapier and putting it in a nearby sheathe. He attached it to his belt, finding that it felt completely natural for it to be there.

“I can’t possibly take all of these weapons with me at once, how will I get a new one each time?”

Mark just chuckled and shook his head. “You let me worry about, I have my ways of getting them to you. The gym here is a psychic type one, I would recommend taking the Halberd for this one, its size should be just long enough to provide you the reach you need to deal with Agnes’ team.”

Anduin nodded, reaching over and grabbing the halberd, finding it to be quite well made and maintained despite its age. He gave it a few test swings, trying out a few of the proper stances as well.

Mark watched with a smile, seeing Anduin knowing his stuff. “Well then, Anduin. The gym leader should have some more available spots for a fight. Get out there and show me what you can do. I’ll be watching in the crowd.”

Anduin gave a nod, reaching over to sling a dagger on his belt as well before waving goodbye with a smile, leaving the antique shop a moment later. His newly acquired halberd slung over his shoulder.

“{Buneary?}” Aerach asked, having been following Anduin on foot for a while now. Anduin didn’t need to be a genius to figure out what she was asking about. “I am sorry you both had to listen to my backstory, I know it is not what either of you might have expected.”

Both Aerach and Nathair shook their heads, actually happy to learn more about their trainer. Aerach pointed to a nearby theatre, the sheer size of it as well as the sign out front made it clear that it was the gym. “{Buneary bun?}”

“Heh, I think we are ready to at least give it a shot. Your moves and types will make this a fair fight, lets go get this badge girls!” Anduin exclaimed determinedly, his pokemon responding in kind.

[I will be watching from the crowd, Master Anduin, even if you do not see me.] He heard Somni tell him telepathically. He paused mid-step, he forgot that she could do that.

With a determined expression, Anduin headed into the gym, ready to win his first badge.

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The entrance of the theater looked about as Anduin expected. It was a large waiting room, clearly designed to hold multiple families worth of people while they waited to be seated for a gym battle or whatever performance was on that night.

There was a receptionist at the front desk, a rather bored looking young man dressed in a colorful suit. Anduin walked over.

“Excuse me sir. Is this where I sign up for a gym battle?” Anduin asked.

“Mm? Oh yes, this is where you would sign up. Which gym would this be for you as well as your name?”

“This would be my first gym badge. The name is Anduin.”

The man punched in a few things onto a computer. “Hmm, your battle will be in 1 hour. Do not be late to it or you will have to wait a while to try again, Agnes holds grudges.”

Anduin nodded, disappointed that he couldn’t get in the battle right away. “Alright, thank you.” Anduin waved goodbye as he left the theater, trying to think of something to do to pass the time.

Aerach spoke up while the team was walking around. “{Buneary?}”

“What’s that, Aerach?”

Aerach thought for a moment, trying to think of how best to mime it. Eventually she decided on trying to mimic the act of throwing a ball.

“Throwing a ball? Oh right, we should get the three of you Pokeballs!”

[As much as I know you want to get me one, I would appreciate not being captured for now. I am still your pokemon, but I have gone thousands of years without being captured.]

Anduin just nodded sadly even though she couldn’t see him. He understood her reasonings, though he couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed.

Looking around, Anduin spotted a building with the tell tale sign of a pokemart. Heading inside, he was surprised to find it looked pretty much identical to every convenience store he has ever been in, the only difference being the products.

Looking around, he found the rows of pokeballs against one of the walls. Heading over to it, he picked out six pokeballs, one for every slot on his team. He wasn’t expecting to feel a tap on his shoulder, or find Mark standing beside him.

“Oh hey Mark, I didn’t see ya there sorry.” Anduin apologized, rubbing the back of his head.

“It's quite alright lad, I just noticed you left before I could give you these.” Mark reached into the pocket of his military jacket, pulling out what seemed like a stack of business cards as well as a blue and gold credit card.

“If you are ever talking to someone that you think might know me, or I’ve told you that they know me, give them one of these cards and it will signify that I know you. As for the credit card, I assume you know how to use these?”

Anduin chuckled, taking the stack of cards and putting them in his wallet. “Indeed I do, sir. As long as I don’t go buying the whole mart I should be fine spending what I need to, right?”

Mark chuckled in response, nodding. “Of course, unless you need to buy the whole mart for whatever reason.”

Anduin gave the man an appreciative pat on the back, giving Mark a thanks with a nod of his head. Mark merely waved goodbye, leaving the mart.

Anduin moved around the mart, grabbing all sorts of status removing items and restorative items as well. Better to be over than under prepared after all.

Among the typical items were a few other items that were more of note, a foldable tent, cooking supplies, 7 grooming kits, a large inflatable mattress, a set of blankets and a bunch of other seemingly random items.

The most notable thing was a large backpack to carry everything.

Heading over to the cash, the cashier rang up the items, placing them in Anduin’s new bag for him to carry. Paying with the card, Anduin and his team found they only had a few minutes left before the battle. Picking his team up again, Anduin hastily made his way over to the theater.

Along the way, Anduin pulled out two of the pokeballs. “I hope the timing is alright with the two of you, and it might be a bit last minute to ask this now, but will the two of you be my pokemon?”

Even though he couldn’t understand the two of them, the tone in their voices made it clear that they were essentially saying Duh to him. He chuckled, tapping the balls against their heads, his two pokemon being sucked into the balls with a flash of red light. He continued on his way, making it into the theater.

“Just in time, your battle starts now. Please head through the door on my right and continue to the end of the hallway. There is another door there, after that is the arena.” The receptionist explained, pointing to the door next to him.

Anduin nodded in thanks, heading through the right door and following the hallway until he found the arena door.

Putting on a confident look, Anduin walked through the door and into the Arena. The arena itself must have been what the theater was referring to, it was a massive stage with an even more massive crowd to the right. Across from him stood the Gym Leader Agnes, a young woman dressed like an old school jester, albeit a bit more revealing in design.

“What is your name, O brave challenger of the Scourbark Gym!” Agnes shouted dramatically, doing a pose as she did so.

Anduin just stared at her blankly, not enjoying her overly flashy persona. “My name is Anduin. I am here to take your badge.”

Anduin placed down his bag, resting his halberd against it.

“Confident are we, hmm? No matter, confidence will only get you so far against the Agnes! Let’s keep this to the usual league rules, 3 or less on 3, no items but swapping is allowed.”

Anduin nodded, finding those rules to be even easier than he was expecting. “Very well, I accept.”

“As the leader, I shall throw out the first pokemon.” With a dramatic flick of her wrist, a pokeball flew to the center of the stage, a Chingling popping out a moment later.

Taking stock of the arena, Anduin’s plan began to form. Throwing out Aerach’s pokeball, his Buneary popped out ready to fight.

“I know we haven’t done any formal battling apart from training, but I need you to listen to me here.” Aerach nodded in agreement.

“Ringaling, go for-”

“FAKE OUT NOW!” Anduin ordered, cutting off Agnes. Aerach ran forwards so quick she was nearly a blur, slamming into the chingling with a fake out attack.

“Clever, but that move only works once. Ringaling, set up the room for me?”

Anduin was confused by her order, his eyes widening as he realized what she was implying. “Shit, she’s using combo orders. Aerach go for Ice punch quickly, see if you can stop what they are doing.” Aerach’s tiny fist glowed blue with ice, slamming into the small bell pokemon, sending it flying away. Just as the strike impacted, the whole theater changed.

As if they entered a portal into a dimension of nothing but pink, the walls and floor were suddenly covered in a pink mist that drifted throughout the room.

Anduin scowled, recognizing it. “Trick room huh? My, aren’t you a fun first gym.” Anduin taunted, hoping he could anger her and make her make mistakes.

Sadly for him it did not work. “Good attempt, Ringaling, how about we have some naptime?”

“For once, I don't know what she’s planning on doing Aerach, go for a defensive curl.” Aerach nodded, curling up into a defensive ball as the chingling yawned, Aerach noticing it and beginning to yawn as well.

“Sleep too? I’d be surprised if even more than a few trainers make it past you, it's kinda rude to crush hopes so quickly no?”

“Yet it is a skill set they will need to learn to overcome if they ever hope to succeed.” She responded, still over enunciating her words.

“Ringaling damage their spirit.” “Aerach go for another ice punch.” The orders went out at the same time, The chingling using growl, lowering Aerach’s attack right before she slammed her icy paw against the bell pokemon. The impact was not as powerful as the last one.

Sadly the impact and the yawn tuckered Aerach out, the small buneary closing her eyes as she falls asleep.

“Keep it up Ringaling.” “Aerach, come on, wake up and deal with him.” Anduin tried to order, his confidence in his plan starting to weaken. The chingling growled again, further lowering Aerach’s damage. Anduin grunted in annoyance, reaching for his belt as he recalled Aerach, sending out Nathair instead.

The chingling didn’t react in time, growling at the Snivy. But rather than feeling weakened, Nathair felt inspired. Anduin smirked as his assumption was proved correct. “Contrary, the hidden ability of the Snivy line. Your stat penalty moves instead increase Nathair’s stats.” The pink mist faded as the battle progressed.

“Nathair, glare at him.” Anduin ordered, Nathair nodding before staring at the chingling with the nastiest look she could. It seemed to work as the chingling was paralyzed with fear.

Yet it was still able to act. “Nap time.” Agnes ordered, her chingling yawning and making Nathair feel drowsy. Knowing he would have to wait it out, Anduin ordered. “Iron tail, try to resist as long as you can.”

Nathair ran forwards, getting slower as she went. Luckily she was able to land a hit against the chingling, almost knocking it out. “Set the room Ringaling.” The stage filled with the same pink mist as before, the speeds being reversed once more. Nathair was no longer able to keep her eyes open, closing them she fell over asleep.

Anduin had to keep her in against his best wishes. “Come on, wake up.” He ordered nervously as his pokemon didn’t react. “Ringaling, change things up.” Agnes ordered, yet the paralyze seemed to work, stopping the pokemon from acting.

“I said, change things up!” Agnes ordered, flourishing her hands as she struck an aggressive pose. This time her chingling responded, a wave of psychic energy shooting towards and impacting Nathair, who cried out in pain but remained asleep. Anduin recognized the move as Confusion.

“Come on Nathair, wake up and Iron tail him.” Another confusion shot out, impacting Nathair. Luckily this one seemed to wake her up, yet she seemed dazed as she stood up, swaying in place. Anduin knew she couldn’t take another one of those. When Nathair tried to rush forwards, she tripped, hurting herself in the process.

Seeing Nathair stand up seemed to have triggered the fear again, the chingling locking up. “Iron tail again, be careful where you step.” Anduin ordered, sighing in relief as she charged forwards, impacting and knocking out the mon. The pink mist fading again.

“1 point to the challenger!” A referee in the crowd yelled, loud enough to be heard over said crowd.

“Brave, albeit risky. Let us see how you fair against Prop.” She recalled her chingling, flicking her wrist to throw out her next pokemon. A helmeted, almost mechanical like bug appeared. Anduin frowning as he recognized it as a Dottler, a mon from his least favorite gen.

“Glare at him Nathair.” “Finish her.” The orders went out. Nathair looked over the bug, glaring at him in defiance. The fear seemed to land, though it didn’t stop another wave from impacting her, despite her best attempts to dodge. Nathair fell over, unconscious and unable to continue.

“1 point for the challenger, 1 point to Agnes!” The referee called out again

Anduin recalled her with a grimace. “Rest well girl, I’ll make sure we win this. Come on back out, Aerach!” He threw his Buneary back out, still asleep as she appeared on the battlefield

The two mon were unable to act, Aerach snoozing peacefully while the Dottler was still reeling from the glare.

“Come on, please wake up.” Aerach’s eyes opened in response to her trainer's request. “Oh thank Arceus, get him with an ice punch!” He ordered, Aerach bouncing to her feet as she moved closer, landing an ice punch. “Dodge it!” Agnes ordered, yet her dottler didn’t react. Taking the impact squarely.

“Again!” He ordered, Aerach slamming her other paw into the Dottler. “Reflect them dear!” Agnes called out, a thin wall forming around the Dottler. “Reflect, shit. We only have physical moves. It won’t do much, but keep up the offensive!”

Aerach slammed ice punch after ice punch into the barrier, damaging the Dottler only slightly. “Set the stage!” The room filled again with the pink mist, the speeds reversed.

“Get her!” Agnes ordered, her pokemon locking up in fear again. “Keep up the offensive, concentrate your attacks onto a single point, get through that barrier.” Aerach nodded, continuing her ice punches.

“I said, GET HER!” Agnes yelling at her pokemon in the same over dramatic tone as always got her Dottler to act. Another wave of psychic energy shooting out, impacting against Aerach who whined and held her head in pain. Aerach punched forwards in anger, going back to landing her ice punches.

Another wave shot out, damaging Aerach further who responded in kind with more ice punches. Her last one finally shattered the defensive barrier.

“Reflect them.” Agnes ordered, the fear still gripping her pokemon preventing him from acting. Anduin smirked, seeing victory in sight. “This is an order, I want you to strike with every punch you can!” Aerach nodded, her fists blurring as she laid strike after strike into the undefended bug. The trick room is fading.

With one last hard punch, the Dottler finally fainted, flying away with ice crystals growing on his body.

“2 points to the challenger, 1 point for Agnes!” The referee called out.

“Good show so far, Anduin. But you still have one foe to face.” Recalling her Dottler, spotlights shown on Agnes as she danced around, putting on a fantastical show before finishing with a flourished throw.

A Mime Jr. popped out onto the field, the crowd cheering as her signature pokemon was brought out.

“Aerach, punch him quickly. We are close to winning.” Aerach happily charged forwards, slamming her icy paw into the Mime Jr. who was too slow to react. The impact dealing heavy damage to him. “Get her, Aen.” A wave like before shot out, though this one was clearly more powerful as it slammed into Aerach, knocking her out.

“2 points for the challenger, and two points to Agnes! Next point wins!”

Anduin looked down, his plan changing to accommodate this loss. Recalling Aerach, he stared at Agnes, who looked back at him gleefully. “Oh? Does the challenger not have any more pokemon? Well I suppose that means I win.”

Just as the referee was about to end the match, Anduin stepped forwards. Grabbing his halberd he walked into the arena itself, getting into a fighting stance.

“What are you doing?” Agnes questioned having never seen a trainer do this before.

Anduin smirked. “Check the rulebook, there is nothing saying I can’t fight in the arena as well. You are right, I do not have a third pokemon, so I will take their place!”

Agnes blanked, she quickly reached into her pocket, pulling out a smartphone and scrolling through something. “Shit, he’s right.” She muttered, breaking her usual persona. Coughing once to clear the awkwardness, she went right back into her dramatic self.

“If you want to get hurt so badly, then be my guest! Let’s do the usual, Aen. Set the stage for me!” The pink mist filled the stage again. Anduin smiled, this would be the trick he needs to win.

“Now then, go deal wit-” She spoke, cut off as Anduin charged forwards with a battlecry. He stabbed forwards, the sharp end of his halberd punching into the mon’s shoulder, blood beginning to drip out.

The whole crowd was in shock as they watched this. One person called out after a moment. “That fucker just actually stabbed that pokemon!”

Another person called out. “Holy shit, is this the Gauntleted Fighter?” At the mention of that title, the whole crowd roared. Some booed and yelled for Anduin to be arrested, some were in support of Anduin’s ability to fight, finding it to be cool as fuck.

Anduin ignored the crowd, pulling the point back out before cracking the back-end of the halberd’s shaft against the pokemon, sending him reeling and dazed.

He charged forwards again as a wave of psychic energy shot out, slamming into him. He groaned in pain as a migraine came over him for a matter of seconds. Shaking his head, he continued his charge.

He shot his left hand forwards, slamming his gauntleted fist against the mime’s face, knocking him to the ground. Placing his foot against the small pokemon’s chest, he angled his halberd to be able to end the mon’s life. Though he did not do so.

“I have beaten your mon, any move he would do would be his death. Yield.” He ordered, glaring at Agnes. She seemed troubled, seeing her pokemon bleeding as badly as it was rattling her to the core.

“Ok fine fine, just please stop hurting him.” Anduin nodded, slinging his halberd over his back and removing his foot.

Agnes jumped down from her slightly elevated platform, running over to withdraw her pokemon.

“Match over! The victory goes to Anduin, the GAUNTLETED FIGHTER!” The referee roared, assuming the crowd’s nickname to be Anduin’s title.

Anduin just sighed, seeing as the title would stick. Agnes walked over to him, a hesitant smile on her face as she pulled out a case, flipping it over to reveal a badge styled after a comedy mask.

“Challenger, you and your team’s skill and braviary have allowed you to overcome my tricks and ultimately win the battle. I am proud to present to you, the mask badge.” Anduin reached over, grabbing the badge from the case with a smile.

“It was an honor, Gym leader Agnes. I may dislike your fighting style, but I can respect how effective it is. That battle could have swung both ways with the sleeps and the paralysis.”

Agnes nodded, reaching into her pocket to hand him a disk as well. “And before I forget, any trainer who defeats me gains this. The TM for Trick room. Use it well and you will win plenty more battles.”

Anduin nodded again, taking the TM and pocketing it. Turning around, he grabbed his equipment, leaving the arena and the theater itself to go find the nearest Pokecenter. After a few minutes he found it, heading inside and asking the nurse to heal his Pokemon.

He sat idle in the waiting room, going over the battle in his mind as he waited for his team to get better.

He was broken from his thoughts as he felt two different sets of hands wrapping around his legs, one set for each leg. Looking down, he saw Aerach and Nathair looking up at him nervously.

With a smile, he reached down to pick the two of them up. “Well girls, we did. We managed to win our first gym battle!” He proclaimed, showing them the badge and the TM. The two of them cheered with him, happy to have won and also just happy to see their trainer as happy as he was. Placing them back on his shoulders.

Anduin didn’t realize how long he had been in there, the sun having fully lowered, leaving the town with a wonderful view of the stars. The team made their way back to the inn, the old man smiling at Anduin as he entered.

“Well done boy, you won your first gym battle! Ah it's always good to see a young trainer doing well on their journey.”

“Thank you, Sir. If you don’t mind, my team and I will be heading off. The battle was tiresome on all of us.”

“Of course, of course.” The old man waved Anduin off, understanding the reasoning. “Breakfast will be ready in the morning, it's free for those who just won.” The old man laughed, Anduin laughing along with him.

“Thank you so much, Old-timer. I’ll see you in the morning then.” Anduin stated, waving goodnight as he headed into his room, finding Somni already inside and looking at him proudly.

[Good job, Master Anduin! That battle was tough, not that I doubt your skill, but it was looking very spotty there.]

“Heh, yeah I noticed. I had a feeling I was going to have to step in once they kept using yawn and reflect. It was a war of attrition that we couldn’t win.” He closed the door, placing his stuff down before yawning. “You girls get comfortable, I am going to take a quick shower before getting in the bed.”

His team nodded as he slipped off into the bathroom, getting showered and fully clean in only a matter of minutes. Heading back into the bedroom wearing only a towel and his usual sleeping attire, his underwear, he found the rest of his team asleep.

With a smile, he got into the bed. Moving carefully to not wake any of them as he slipped under the covers. He began to drift off to sleep, briefly feeling that each of them moved to rest on a part of his body, using him as a pillow. Smiling at the fact, sleep came quickly.

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The next morning came quickly, Anduin being the first one to awaken. Not opening his eyes just yet, Anduin was content to lay there cuddling his whole team. Strangely though, he found it a bit hard to breathe.

It wasn’t bad enough to be a cause for alarm, but it was noticeable. After a few minutes of this, Anduin finally had enough, opening his eyes and looking down to see what was on his chest.

Unable to stop himself, he let out a quick noise of surprise. No longer was Nathair the small Snivy sleeping on his chest, now there was a slightly larger Servine curled asleep on his chest.

The quick noise of surprise was enough to wake up Aerach as well as stir Somni from her thoughts. They looked over to see what was wrong, Somni simply smiling while Aerach gasped excitedly.

The gasp meanwhile was enough to wake up Nathair. She opened her eyes, blinking away the sleepiness, blushing when she noticed the rest of the team staring at her.

“{Servine?}” She questioned, not noticing the difference in her voice.

“Look at your body, Nathair.” Anduin simply stated with a chuckle.

Nathair quirked an eyebrow, moving off of him and looking down at her body. Her eyes widened. “{S-Ser Servine!}” She shouted in surprise, noticing that she had now evolved.

Anduin reached forwards, bringing her into a hug as he pet her. “I had a feeling you were going to evolve after that battle, starters tend to evolve after a big battle like that.” He mused, petting her affectionately.

Nathair blushed as she was hugged and pet, she went stiff for a moment before ultimately giving in to Anduin’s affections, happily letting herself be pet.

“Question for you Nathair, a lot of pokemon learn new moves when they level. I don’t think you’d be perfect with them right away, but did you happen to learn any?”

Nathair thought it over. After a brief bit, she nodded yes. “{Ser, Vine, Ser Servine}” Somni translated a moment later. [It seems she has learned how to use three new moves. Wrap, Growth and Leaf Tornado specifically.]

“Good girl, those moves will really help in the upcoming battles!’ Anduin continued to pet her, showering her in more praise.

No one in the team was expecting a knock on the door, yet their chatting was interrupted by someone knocking.

“...Who is it?” Anduin cautiously asked, reaching for a dagger on his belt, just in case the person was hostile.

“Now I know we started off on the wrong foot, but you’ve far exceeded what I had expected.” Anduin recognized the voice as belonging to Professor Safras, albeit muffled by the door.

“What, are you here to take my pokemon away or something?”

“What? No, Arceus no. I’d rather keep my head thank you. Even then, you’ve proven to be one of the most capable, albeit unintentional trainers I’ve seen in recent years.

Anduin looked towards Somni, mouthing the word Hide. Somni nodded, levitating into the bathroom and closing the door.

“Then why are you here?” Anduin asked, still cautious of the Professor.

“A few reasons. You still don’t have a trainers card or a Pokedex, nor do you have a badge case. You also technically did not get a starter Pokemon even if you managed to catch some pokemon in the wild.”

Anduin thought it over for a moment, weighing the pros and cons of bringing the professor into the room. “Fine, you can come in.” Anduin moved over to the door, unlocking it before sitting back down on the bed.

The professor entered a moment later, a nervous smile on his face and a rather large briefcase in his hand. “Good morning to you, Anduin. I am not sure if you saw me, but I was actually in the crowd at your gym battle. I’ll admit I was quite surprised to see you, I had half a mind to stop the fight as you aren’t legally a trainer, but my assistants convinced me otherwise.”

“Good morning to you as well, Professor. No I did not see you in the crowd, I had to focus on the battlefield with an opponent like Agnes.”

“Fair enough, fair enough. So, I guess you could say I have some gifts here to help you out. I am being a bit more generous than I normally would, but Mark mentioned he was sponsoring you, so I felt it was fair to go a bit overboard.”

Professor Safras moved over to the bed, placing the briefcase down on it and opening it up. It was full of stuff, most of which Anduin didn’t recognize.

Though he did recognize a singular green friendball, a white Pokedex, a trainers card in his name, a badge case and a strange looking earpiece.

Safras first pulled out the badge case and trainers card, handing them over to Anduin. He pocketed the case, placing the card in his wallet.

Safras grabbed the Pokedex next, handing it over to him carefully. Anduin pocketed it as well, making a mental note to try learn how to use it while he traveled

Safras handed him the earpiece next. “What’s this?” Anduin asked, putting it on. “Well, that’s a piece of secret tech that us Professors use. It allows you to understand Pokemon, to put it bluntly. It's very complex, so be careful with it.” Anduin smiled widely, putting it on excitedly.

Motioning to the friendball. “What of the pokeball?” Safras chuckled as he explained. “Well you already have Pokemon caught. I can’t give you a normal starter like other trainers. Though I did happen to have one higher level starter, she’s been wanting a trainer for years now, but every other trainer keeps passing her up. It's gotten bad enough to the point where she actually managed to evolve just by sparring against the other pokemon at the lab.”

Anduin was now very curious, he could understand why she would be that frustrated. “May I ask what type of pokemon she is?”

“A Combusken.”

Anduin smiled again, Blaziken was one of his favorite pokemon of all time. Having one on his team was one of his goals, even if their OU requirement was for them to mega evolve, something already taken up by his Lopunny.

“I’ll happily be her trainer then, I’ve always wanted a Blaziken and a fire type would be very helpful in the cold.”

“I’m glad to hear that, my boy. But perhaps you should meet her first. I’ll warn ya, she can be rather friendly and rather adamant about what she wants. The friendball only intensified that side of her.” The Professor reached over and grabbed the friendball, tossing it as he released the Combusken from it.

The Combusken blinked as it was released, she looked around quickly, spotting the professor. She jumped towards him, clinging to his chest with an affectionate hug. Safras laughed in response, giving her a quick hug back. “Yes I am happy to see you too, girl. But we have someone here you might be happier to see.”

The Combusken cocked its head in confusion, letting go of Safras and turning around to see Anduin and the others sitting there, Anduin was giving her a friendly smile.

“Hel-” He got halfway through saying hello before he was sent back on the bed, an overly friendly Combusken currently nuzzling his chest. Anduin chuckled as he rubbed her back, she calmed down a moment or two later but stayed hugging him.

“So, this young man here kindly offered to be your trainer. I know how you’ve been wanting one for years now. Make sure you listen to him, alright?” She cooed excitedly, hugging Anduin even tighter, he felt a few of his ribs threatening to crack.

“{AAH! Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have no idea how long I have been waiting for a trainer to take me out into the world!}” She cooed out, going back to nuzzling Anduin’s chest. Her voice was very excited and very friendly, though she did sound a bit like a teenager.

Anduin was shocked to understand her, he wasn’t sure if the translator would work this quickly, but he was happily proved otherwise.

“Hey there, I’m happy to show you as much as I can, but I am a trainer first and foremost. We will be battling often, and I will train you to be one of the best battlers in your species. Do you still want to come with me?”

The Combusken nodded, hugging him still. Anduin smiled at that, reaching over to pet her.

“Oh that reminds me, you’ll need a name. Hmm…” Anduin thought it over, going over his normal names, he had an idea form in his head.

“How do you feel about Dána?” The Combusken thought it over, smiling happily at him as she squeezed him through the hug that was still going on.

“Oh right, hey Safras?” Anduin called over, still patting Dána’s back in an attempt to calm her down and get her to release him before his ribs cracked. Luckily for him it worked, Dána letting go only to move to his side and latch onto his arm.

“Yes, Anduin?”

“Does the translator work for all Pokemon?”

Safras nodded. “For all of the known ones, yes, if it's an unknown pokemon, then it may take a moment or two to analyze the speech.”

Anduin nodded, reaching a hand out for the man to shake in good faith. “Thank you kindly for the gifts professor, as well as for the new team mate. It means a lot despite our rocky start.”

Safras waved him off, collecting his briefcase from the bed. He moved over to the door, opening it and stepping outside. “Ah it’s nothing, you’ve proven yourself as I said. Plus, this way you won’t get charged by the cops and I won’t get sued for not stopping the gym battle.” Anduin chuckled as he realized the other reason behind the professor’s actions.

“Of course, that makes perfect sense. Have a good day, Safras.” Anduin waved goodbye as the professor left, leaving him alone in the room with one very affectionate fire chicken, and two more cautious Pokemon.

“{M-my liege, are you able to understand us now.}” Anduin heard a shy feminine voice from the bed, with a slight french accent. Looking over, he saw Nathair looking at him. He made a mental note to ask her later why she was calling him her liege, though he couldn’t help but notice that she also sounded like a teenager to him.

“Indeed I can. You sound so cute Nathair!” Not able to stop himself once he heard her voice, Anduin reaches over and starts petting Nathair.

She moved her head into it unconsciously, relishing in the pets. Only to then realize what was happening, going stiff and just letting Anduin do as he likes.

“{Yay! Our Alpha can understand us now!}” Anduin heard a younger more excitable voice come from Aerach. He made a mental note that it seems pokemon voices change based on how evolved they are.

“Alpha? Heh, still calling me that are you, lass?” Anduin chuckled, moving his other arm over to pet her. Dána frowned as she was no longer able to hug his arms. Hopping off the bed, she attached herself to his right leg.

“Hey Dána, do you mind if I ask a question?”

“{I don’t mind at all! What do you wanna know Anduin?}” Dána cheerily replied, still hugging onto his leg.

“Great to hear, what moves do you know? Professor Safras mentioned that you had been training against the other pokemon at the lab.

“{Hmmm…Last I checked, I know: Low Kick, Double Kick, Scratch, Growl, Ember, Sand Attack, Peck and I was working on learning Flame charge, but I haven't mastered it yet.}”

Anduin nodded, pulling out his notebook and checking what he had written down for Blaziken. “Hmm, that's a pretty good list. By the moves you know, I’d say you are the highest level on my team, minus Somni.”

“{Anduin, who’s Somni?” Dána questioned, her tone excited at the possibility of making another friend.

Anduin facepalmed as he laughed, having completely forgotten that he asked Somni to hide in the bathroom.

“Oh right. HEY SOMNI! YOU CAN COME OUT OF THE BATHROOM NOW! SAFRAS HAS LEFT.”

The door to the bathroom opened, Somni floating out of it a moment later to see Anduin now with another Pokemon.

[Well you had quite the morning, haven’t you, Master Anduin?]

“I did indeed. But you can talk normally now, Safras gave me this.” Anduin pointed to the earpiece he was wearing.

“I can understand Pokemon now! You don’t have to translate for me anymore.” He was clearly excited about that fact.

Somni nodded with a smile, happy that he could speak to his team and understand them. It would make battles as well as just talking in general easier.

With the morning's events over, and with his custom order needing a bit more time. Anduin and his team stayed in the town, exploring it as well as just chatting amongst themselves.

The next day came quickly, Anduin waking up to find himself increasingly used as a pillow. Somni had been using his left arm, Nathair was resting on his chest, Aerach was using his lap and belly while Dána had been using his right arm as her own personal hugging toy.

Anduin smiled, only about a week ago was he dealing with college, now he was a pokemon trainer with a team that loved him. It was an odd thing to think about, but Anduin wouldn’t have it any other way.

His team woke up not too long after. Anduin giving each of them a good morning pet. Collecting his gear, and with his Pokemon following suit, Anduin left the inn room for what would be the last time. His journey would not wait for him to be idle, the sooner he started moving, the better.

But he would first have to grab his coat.

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"You're in luck, young man. I just finished your order minutes ago." The old clothes lady laughed, Anduin chuckling with her to not be rude.

"What great timing then! Thank you so much for working on that, I forgot to bring my last one with me on my journey."

"Say, if you wouldn't mind answering, why do you need a coat like that?"

Anduin smiled in response. "Battling, to put it bluntly. You saw my gym battle, right?"

The old clothes lady laughed again. "Indeed I did, young man. I haven't seen someone fight pokemon alone like that in my long life. Even with the wars, Pokemon would be fighting alongside humans."

"Interesting. Well, this coat, or gambeson as I call it, is an anarchic design. But it's surprisingly very, very effective at protecting against physical attacks. It will also keep me warmer than just my long sleeve!"

"Interesting. I take it that you are going to keep using your unorthodox way of doing Pokemon gym battles?" Anduin nodded.

"You will make plenty of enemies along the way if you keep fighting like that. Say, have you heard the story of how the current Champion became Champion?"

Anduin shook his head.

"It has been many years since she last came through this town. She had a very similar knack for fighting against pokemon by herself. It was said that the rest of her team was truthfully only there to be cheerleaders with how skilled she was.

Anduin quirked an eyebrow at that, the skill in fighting that would take is astronomical.

Why, that's actually how I recognized that gambeson of yours. Back when I was only just out of prime, she commissioned it from me. I have never seen anything like it before."

Anduin stared off, lost in thought. His mind was working overtime, how did she know how to fight, how was she so good at fighting, and most of all, who was she?

"Ma'am, what is her name?"

"She wouldn't tell me at the time. But I later found out, once she became Champion, her name is Gwendoline O'Malley."

Anduins eyes nearly flew out of his head at that. "The fuck is she… Apologies Ma'am, I didn't mean to curse."

Both the old lady and his Pokemon stared at him in confusion, wondering why something as simple as a name would set him off so much.

"{M-my liege, is something the matter? Does the name Gwendoline mean s-something to you?}” Nathair asked, moving over to place her hand against the leg Dána was not currently hugging.

“...I’ll tell you later. Well Ma’am, thank you very much for both the gambeson as well as the information, it has been most helpful. I wish you the best of luck with your business.”

The old lady waved him off. “As much as I don’t appreciate the cursing a moment ago, you are a fine young man apart from that. Go on then, I know a trainer isn’t done when they beat the first gym. You have a few routes to go before you make it to the next city. Do you have a map of the region? The next routes can be a bit confusing.”

Anduin face-palmed in embarrassment, shaking his head. “No, I do not have a map. I forgot to buy one at pokemart.”

The old lady rolled her eyes, reaching below the counter and handing him over a rolled up map. “You can take mine, I’ve traveled enough in my time, I don’t think my old bones are up for the roads anymore. This might help you find your way.”

Anduin smiled and took the map, opening it to take a look at the routes. Thinking it over, the marked main road seemed to be the best path to follow for now. “It says the next town over would be Crystalstake town, at the foot of the mountain.”

“That is correct. Oh Crystalstake town was always a beautiful sight, I don’t want to ruin the splendor. It is indeed located at the bottom of Mount Twistwail.”

Anduin nodded. “Is there a gym there?”

The old lady shook her head. “No there is not I am afraid, your next gym is further down the path, Coppersail city to be exact. Last I heard Áine was in charge of the gym there, she’s a fire type specialist.”

Anduin frowned at that, his team was not really good at fighting fire types. “Hmm, I am going to have to train more for that then. Thank you for the information again Ma’am, but I must hit the road. Daylight is burning and the sooner I get to the next gym, the better. “

The old lady smiled, waving him off. Anduin nodded, leaving the store with his Pokemon in tow. He could feel them staring at him, wanting to know more about his reaction to the champion.

Anduin kept walking, heading out of the town and into the next route, in the distance he was able to spot a massive pond, his map labeling this route as Gemspark Pond.

Once he was far enough away from the town, Somni rejoined the party, floating down from the clouds to join them.

“{Master Anduin}” Anduin heard a sensual and sweet voice come from Somni, which was about what he expected.

“{You realize you are going to have to tell us sooner or later. Let's not keep any secrets here. Something is bothering you, and you don’t seem like you are even from this region.}”

“That is because I am not from this region.” He stated matter of factly.

His team looked somewhat surprised at that. “{Oh? Like from Rados or a different region?}”

Anduin sighed, not wanting to have this conversation. Knowing what he was about to say was going to have some reactions, his body instinctively grabbed hold of the handle of his dagger.

“I am not from this world, to put it bluntly. I got here through sheer force of will after dying long before I should have in my world.”

The group stopped following the route, his entire team staring at him in shock, Dána even let go of his leg.

“...” Anduin didn’t say anything, merely looking ahead.

The silence was broken up by both Nathair and Aerach beginning to sob. Assuming he had ruined their perceptions of him, Anduin lowered his gaze, before starting to walk forwards.

He stopped mid-step as he heard what they were saying.

“(N-no. Who would dare hurt my liege.}” Nathair mumbled out as she started trying to wipe her face clear of the tears. Aerach on the other hand was openly bawling. “{Noooo, why would someone do that? My Alpha isn’t allowed to die!}” She yelled, moving over quickly to hold tightly onto his leg.

Somni looked hurt and concerned, it wasn’t hard for Anduin to guess why. Dána looked concerned as well, but less so considering she had only met him that morning.

“As to why I know Gwendoline…” Anduin sighed, not really comfortable with sharing this part. “...I’d rather not say actually. I will tell you at a later point, but not right now. What I can say is that she was from my world, someone I knew quite...well.” He trailed off, a thousand yard stare as memories came flooding back.

His team decided it was best not to open that can of worms for now. Nathair and Aerach stopped their crying shortly thereafter. Anduin reached down to give two of them some pets, resting his head against Somni’s belly as his arms and legs were occupied.

“I apologize for keeping that a secret from all of you, but I didn’t think that was something that should be mentioned.”

“{That makes sense, sir. Keeping something like that a secret for a long time could cause things to go very badly when it finally gets revealed.}” Dána stated, squeezing his leg in a tight hug as usual.

Anduin nodded, that was the main reason he decided to share what he did. It wasn't hard for his team to notice that he seemed sad and hurt by learning of Gwendoline. His team wanted to question him further, but they ultimately thought it was better to leave it for now.

The group continued down the path for some time. The pond was beautiful, crystal clear blue water that barely finished at the edge of the horizon. Anduin was taken aback by how gorgeous the sight was.

Noticing something, Somni disappeared a moment later. Anduin blinked, about to ask his group why she left. He noticed why though, a trainer by the looks of it was approaching Anduin. The trainer was a man a decent bit younger than Anduin, dressed in warm but obviously trainer themed clothing with 3 pokeballs attached to his pokebelt.

"Well now, I didn't expect to find another trainer here." The other trainer said, grabbing onto one of his pokeballs. "You know how the trainer traditions work. We are supposed to battle."

Anduin nodded. “I am aware of the traditions, I do not seem to have a way out of this. I accept your challenge then.”

Anduin motioned for the trainer to throw out his first pokemon. The trainer smirked, throwing a pokeball and out a Magnemite.

Plans forming in his mind, Anduin missed when Aerach stepped forwards before he could choose. He noticed her quickly however.

“Aerach, this is not a matchup that you are going to win in. It would be better to let Dána take this one.”

“{I got this master, you’ve trained us well.}” Anduin shook his head, letting her stay out even though it was a bad idea.

“Margret go for-”

“FAKE OUT NOW!” Anduin ordered, Aerach charging forwards a moment later to land her first hit. It was enough to make the Magnemite recoil and flinch, but the attack itself did not do much damage.

“You’ve all leveled up a bit from the training and from the gym battle. Let's put it to good use. Aerach, get in there quickly!” Aerach moved forwards, her body a blur as she used quick attack.

“Margret don’t let them do this, hit her with an Electro Ball when she gets close.” Aerach slammed into the Magnemite, the blow not doing much to the steel type mon. Margret sent off an energy ball a moment later, slamming painfully into Aerach who flew back from the blow.

“Aerach, can you still fight?” Anduin asked, concerned for her safety. Aerach nodded, looking at the Magnemite determinedly. “{I can do this Alpha, I just need to try a bit harder.}”

“Alright, try your punches. That might do a bit more.” Anduin ordered a bit hesitant, he was worried why Aerach was pushing herself this hard for seemingly no reason.

Aerarch sprinted forwards again, slamming an ice covered fist into the Magnemite. It took a bit more damage, but not by much. Luckily for Anduin, the extreme cold of the punch locked up the movements of the Magnemite, the ice that grew on it affecting its magnetic flight.

“Hmm, this isn’t good. Margret come on back, Bunnie can handle it.” The teen withdrew his pokemon, sending out his own Cinéalan Buneary. Anduin chuckled at the name.

“Keep up the punches Aerach.” Anduin ordered, Aerach charging to meet the other Buneary with an ice punch. The hit landed, the other bunny flying back from the force. Getting up, the other trainer’s Buneary ran forwards. “Double-kick, bring em down.”

Anduin’s eyes widened. “Aerach dod-”

WHACK…WHACK

Two fierce kicks impacted Aerach’s side, sending her flying back into Anduin’s chest. Anduin stumbled, nearly getting knocked over.

“{I’m sorry, m-my alpha.}” Aerach mumbled out, slipping into unconsciousness. Anduin frowned, motioning for Dána to come forwards.

“Dána, this is your first battle with us. As long as you follow my orders, and I make sure I give the right ones, we will win nearly every time. If I say jump, I need you to jump.”

“Yeah no not keeping her in there, come on out, Lucky!” The teen withdrew his bunnie, sending out a Luxio in its place.

Dána stumbled, the naturally intimidating pokemon frightening her. “No time to be scared Dána, everything will be fine. Double-Kick!” Anduin commanded, Dána moving forwards to land two solid kicks against the blue cat. Anduin smiled as he noticed Dána moving quicker afterwards, his guess on her ability having been proven correct.

“Let’s be a bit mean. Dána, blind him with sand attack.” Dána nodded, kicking at the dirt and snow of the tundra, sending it into the blue cat’s eyes. It growled in pain and anger, not able to see as well as it frantically tried to clear the debris.

“Bite em!” The luxio moved forwards, managing to blindly bite down on Dána’s shoulder. Dána wincing in pain, but the attack did not do much damage.

“Keep up the kicks, don’t stop unless I say so.” Dána nodded, landing two more solid kicks into the Luxio at point blank. “Fry em!” The Luxio shot out a spark of electricity, damaging Dána.

Dána kicked twice once more, knocking out the Luxio painfully. The teen grimaced, sending out his buneary. After every set of moves, Dána had been moving quicker and quicker. Her movements being a blur to all parties now.

“Quick attack, hit her first!” The teen shouted, the buneary slamming into Dána’s stomach who responded in kind, slamming two powerful kicks into the rabbit, knocking her out.

The teen’s grimace intensified, throwing out his Magnemite. “Ember, melt em.” Anduin ordered, small bursts of fire shooting out of Dána’s mouth only to cause the Magnemite to begin to glow red hot, the steel type mon falling unconscious from the damage.

“Heh, good battle there man. I thought I had you when I took out your buneary. That Combusken of yours is a deadly opponent.” The trainer complimented, putting out a hand in good sportsmanship.

Anduin took it, shaking it firmly. “I admit that was nerve wracking. Your mon fought well.”

The trainer nodded, releasing Anduin’s hand and stepping away after picking up his unconscious pokemon. “I might see you around, have a good journey man.”

Anduin waved him off. Releasing Aerach, he held onto her still unconscious form as he and his team walked off.

A bit of time later, Somni appeared from behind a nearby bush. She floated over quickly, using Moonlight to heal up Aerach.

Aerach woke up not too long later, finding that the camp had been made while she recovered.

Anduin came over to check on her shortly thereafter. Noticing she was awake, he sat next to her. "Are you feeling alright Aerach? You worried me there earlier."

"{...I wanted to prove myself, my worth, to you, my Alpha.

Anduin stayed silent, letting her continue.

"{Nathair is a better battler and has been there from the start, Dána is incredibly affectionate and always brightens your mood. She even had to save our skin when I fucked up and fell unconscious. Somni is a damn psychic type and a legendary for Arceus' side!}"

Anduin sighed, reaching over and gently picking up Aerach, placing her on his lap.

"You are not useless. You don't have to be as affectionate, as loyal or as powerful as the rest of the team. You are who you are, Aerach, and I care about you." He leaned down, giving her a quick kiss on the forehead.

A moment or two passed before Aerach was able to process what happened. Her eyes growing wide as she realized.

“You don’t gotta try to be something you aren’t for my sake lass. Just be yourself, everyone has a role to fit on a team. Even if you don’t see yours, you are just as valuable as everyone else here on the team. Remember that for me, will you?”

Aerach nodded, her vision blurry from tears that threatened to pour down her face. Anduin simply gave her a warm smile. “Good girl. If you ever need anything, you can just talk to me.”

At that, the tears started to flow in earnest. Aerach moved forwards, bringing Anduin into a tight hug and crying into his shirt. Anduin held her back, petting her head comfortingly while she cried.

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Aerach cried into his shirt for the better part of 10 minutes, a sizeable wet spot forming on it.

Anduin didn't mind, rubbing her back soothingly the whole while.

Her crying stopped eventually, though she still held onto Anduin tightly.

"...Feeling better?"

"{...Yeah. A bit better, thank you my Alpha.}"

Anduin nodded, a rush of heat passing over the two as Dána relit the fire, her embers proving very helpful in getting camp set up.

Anduin gave Aerach a few more quick pets, giving her an apologetic smile he stood up, there were a few things still to do.

Placing down his backpack, he went about unfolding the tent he had bought, as well as unpacking the mattress, the blankets and the pillows. It took him a bit to set up the tent, he hadn’t gone camping in years.

The mattress would prove to be a problem for him, he was able to inflate it certainly, but it would take him close to an hour and every breath left him a bit lightheaded.

Dána piped up noticing him struggling. “{Sir, I can blow that up for you.}” Anduin raised an eyebrow skeptically.

“Really now? Dána, you are less than half my height. I don’t know a lot about pokemon physiology, but that would make no sense.”

Dána merely frowned, taking the mattress from his hands. It took her a minute to figure out how to hold it in her beak and still blow air into it.

Anduin chuckled in amusement, leaning back and closing his eyes as he was quite confident he was correct.

Idly going over the route in his head, he was preparing strategies for the next gym leader when he felt Dána hug his leg. “Mm, what’s up Dána?”

“{Sir, I finished the mattress. It's blown up.}”

Anduin’s eyes snapped open, looking down to see that there was in fact a completely blown up and visibly warm in the cold air mattress.

“...How?” He mumbled out, staring at in shock. “Oh, oh right. You’re a fire type, I forgot that.” He face palmed, reaching his other hand down to scritch the top of Dána’s head.

As the night came to a close, Anduin and the other’s put the mattress and the blankets in the tent.

“{Girls, we always sleep in the same spots with Master Anduin, it wouldn’t be fair to those who might want a different spot every once in a while. Perhaps we should draw straws? It's a term Master Anduin taught me.”

Anduin hearing this opening his backpack, plucking 4 pieces of longer grass he had collected. Bunching it in his hand so that all the ends were at the same length, he held his hand forwards for the girls to grab from.

Nathair went first, drawing the second longest straw. She smiled, her usual blush coming to her face. “{I got the second longest one, t-that means I get to sleep with one of his arms, right?}” Somni nodded.

Dána went next, drawing the second shortest straw. She shrugged, it meant she got to sleep on his chest tonight. Somni followed, drawing the longest straw, gaining his right arm for her to use as a pillow.

Aerach was left with the shortest straw, which meant that she got Anduin’s lap and legs for the night. She frowned at this, wanting to sleep in his arms.

As the team got assembled onto the bed and started drifting off to sleep, Aerach was having trouble doing so. Having forgotten the fact that Anduin slept in his underwear, sleeping against his clothed crotch was a bit too extreme for the buneary.

(Smut incoming, this is the last chapter where I will give warning ahead of time for smut. Every other chapter from here on out wil just throw it in, it is up to all of you to skip over it. I ain’t gonna hold ya hands.

With that being said, kink list: Fellatio, size diference, M/F/F/F, Consensual Somnophilia, ball sucking.

Also yeah, you get the first of the team’s specific kinks. Aerach likes smells)

Aerach had been doing her best to ignore the musky bulge that had been given to her as a pillow. Yet after only an hour, it was driving her mad with need.

She had been in love with her Alpha for a fair bit of time now, ever since he had kindly dealt with the Darumaka for her and her family.

Curiosity and need got the better of her, moving her head up and her paws forward, she clumsily managed to pull down the front of his underwear.

She was not aware of how large it would be in comparison to her, nor the fact that human cocks didn’t stay in the body when they were not aroused. These facts were made abundantly clear when his cock flopped out onto her face, unable to move out of the way in time.

Instinctively she went to push it away, but she found his scent to be downright delectable. Rather than pushing away, she pushed forwards instead, moving her nose down his length to where it met his sack. His musk was the strongest there, and she greedily pushed her nose firmly against him.

Her deep greedy breaths, as well as the more prevalent musk in the small tent woke up the rest of the girls. Gently, Somni pulled back the blanket, revealing what was going onto the rest of the group.

Aerach didn’t even notice, too preoccupied with what she was doing. Dána nudged her on the side hesitantly, Aerach squeaking in fear and practically jumping back with how quickly she moved away.

“{Umm, why is Sir’s cock in the open?}” Dána asked nervously.

“{Because a certain frisky bunny wasn’t able to wait until she evolved, I suppose having to sleep on his barely clothed crotch didn’t exactly help. But it's quite alright Aerach, you don’t have to be so scared. I mean, I have a good hunch all of us here want to fuck him, to put it bluntly. I already have, but it's really not hard to tell the rest of you are fond of him.}” Somni mentioned.

She continued. “{Oh here’s an idea he would like, he might be asleep at the moment but, knowing his own kinks he’d be perfectly fine with this. Why don’t the three of you work together to suck him off?” Somni cheerily proposed.

The group of three had varying reactions, from excited to terrified to confused.

“{W-would that make him happy, Somni?}” Nathair asked, her voice barely audible. Somni nodded with a smile.

“{Indeed it would. Do any of you know what to do?}”

The three of them shook their heads no.

"{Mm, well, this will be more difficult with the three of you. He only has one dick.}" Somni thought it over for a minute, figuring out the best course of action.

“{Oh that should work. Alright, Nathair, you get the honors of being the one to suck him off. And don’t look so disappointed you two, you get quite the fun task as well.}”

Nathair blushed wildly, unable to process what she had just been told at first. “{M-m-me. W-why?}”

“{You have a snout dear, I can say this from experience, that will drive him wild. That and from what I noticed of the other two, I think they might like this task even more.”}

Nathair moved between Anduin’s legs, her small serpentine body right in front of his flaccid cock. “{Go on, I know you know how to do this Nathair.}” Nathair blushed but nodded.

Hesitantly, she moved her snout forwards, dragging her tongue across the tip of his cock, which jumped in response. Nathair was in shock, she was not expecting him to taste or smell that good.

Somni chuckled at her reaction, urging her to keep going with a motion of her head. Nathair nodded, her blush intensifying again as she continued to lap at the head of Anduin’s cock.

“{As for you two, since his cock is occupied, you could always suck on his balls. Males, especially male humans, seem to like that.}”

Aerach nodded happily, while Dána blushed, nodding as well a moment later. They moved closer, Aerach pressing her mouth against Anduin’s balls, his musk filling her nose as she began to suckle on them. Dána moved to the other side of his crotch, carefully pressing her beak against him before running her very warm tongue across them.

Anduin very quickly became erect with the combination of senses, a groan escaping him in his sleep. His cock was only a bit above average for humans, but for the three small Pokemon, it was the most perfect thing they had ever seen.

“{It has an odd shape when it's like that.}” Dána muttered, going back to her task a moment later.

Nathair, Somni and Aerach nodded in agreement. “{It does indeed. Oh and Nathair, a slight recommendation for you. Licking the tip does feel good for him, but you could try putting it in your mouth, that would make him feel even better. Just be careful not to go too deep, you could hurt yourself.}” Somni recommended, quickly checking over to see if Anduin was still asleep, which he was.

Nathair nodded timidly, moving up slightly she pushed her head down, placing the tip of his cock into her mouth Just as she was about to move further down, she heard Somni pipe up. “{Careful with the teeth dear, they do not feel well. Your fangs are especially sharp, you can retract them right?}”

Nathair nodded again, taking the hint she retracted her fangs. She continued to take in more of her liege’s cock, now completely unable to hurt him with her teeth as she did so.

The rest of the team watching in awe as the small snake pokemon managed to fit almost his entire cock into her throat.

"{Holy shit, Nathair. How are you doing that!?}"

Nathair had been in a bit of a trance brought on by the tastes and smells she was experiencing, Anduin’s cock spurting out pre into her mouth and throat which she greedily swallowed. The question broke her out of the trance, moving up bashfully she mumbled out. "{We dontsh got gag reflexshes.}" She quickly moved back down and up again, giving her sleeping trainer quite the blow job.

Anduin groaned again in his sleep, his sounds only encouraging his team to work overtime to pleasure him. Aerach and Dána sucking and licking his balls harder while Nathair sucked him off wilder.

Somni began to notice the signs of his orgasm approaching, yet she was just a tad bit too late.

With a louder groan, Anduin came. His first spurt shooting deep into Nathair's throat and causing her to moan from the taste and feeling of the warmth in her gut.

Somni reacted quickly, using her psychic powers to move Nathair off as his next few spurts shot out, his cum covering his team's faces.

Dána and Aerach had similar reactions to tasting his seed, the two of them clearly loving it as they locked off what they could.

Once his team had cleaned themselves off, Somni quickly cleaned Anduin off with her powers, placing the blanket over the group again as they drifted off to sleep.

(Smut over, hooh boy that was spicy.)

The sun showed across the pond the group was camping by, reflecting into the almost crystal clear water beautifully. Anduin woke up first again, not at all aware of the events that happened last night, though he was curious why his crotch felt a little damp, and like it was pressed against the softest blanket ever.

Opening his eyes and looking down, his eyes shot open. For one, his morning wood was currently pressed between his and Aerach’s body, which was awkward enough. Second of all, Aerach was now a Lopunny!

Stopping himself from making a noise of surprise, he very, very carefully moved his hips to pull his morning wood out from under her, hopefully without waking her up.

Luckily for him, he was successful after a few minutes. Sighing in relief, he carefully stood up.

[Awake already, Master?] He heard Somni say in his mind.

“Yeah, for some reason last night was a better rest than I’ve had in a while.”

Somni chuckled, knowing the reason as to why. “I take it you’ve noticed Aerach.” Anduin nodded with a smile. “I knew the evolution comes with affection, but I didn’t think my comments to her would do that much.”

Somni smirked again, finding it really funny that he thought it was that alone. [Who knows, maybe she was a lot more fond of you than you realized.]

Anduin raised an eyebrow at her smirk. “I take it thats why my crotch was a bit damp?” Somni snorted, nodding her head. [The rest of them happened to get a little frisky, they’re doing alright though, no need to worry.]

Anduin let out his own chuckle, nodding in response. “Aye fair enough.”

Their conversation happened to wake the rest of the group, Dána and Nathair quickly noticing the Lopunny.

“{AERACH, YOU EVOLVED!}” Dána cheerily screeched running over to tackle the lopunny in a hug. Nathair followed a moment later, hugging Aerach as well.

“{I…I did. I DID!}” She similarly yelled in joy, hugging her friends back before running over and hugging Anduin tightly.

“Oof.” He let out a grunt as he was hugged tightly. “Haha, I’m happy to see that you’ve evolved Aerach. I know you’ve been wanting to for a bit now.” He rubbed her head affectionately

He noticed her rubbing was getting a bit lower, so he reached a hand down to stop her. "Can we do that later, Aerach. I just woke up."

Aerach whined in displeasure. "{Hmmpfh…fine Alpha.}" She backed off from him, crossing her arms with a pout.

The team made short work of putting away their camp, putting it all back in Anduin’s backpack before heading back on the road. They were almost at the other side of the pond by now, and with only a few hours of walking, they had reached the next route.

The snowy grasslands of the pond changed drastically to a frozen and very cold marshland, the rolling hills of the tundra changed into the icy swamp that was Timbermask Marsh.

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Anduin shivered. The Marsh was only a bit colder than the surrounding region, but the humidity combined with the cold in a very uncomfortable way.

Dána moved over to him. “{Sir, you are shivering a lot. I know it’s not my place to suggest, but it might be best if you carry me. I am very warm thanks to my fire typing.}”

Anduin nodded. “Yeah, that’s a good point Dána.” He reached down shakily, picking up the firebird and holding her against his chest, her high body heat warming him up. Dána giggled in happiness as she was held against her trainer's chest. She wrapped her arms around him affectionately.

Nathair and Aerach pouted, it wasn’t hard to tell that they wished they could warm him up as well.

Somni shook her head.”{Arceus, if your team is already this jealous of each other I can only imagine how it will be when we get a full one. That being said, nothing is stopping you from taking a team larger than 6 pokemon, Master Anduin. It will be a nightmare to manage that many lovers, but I believe you can do it if you really want to.}”

Anduin paused, thinking over her idea. A smile came to his face as he thought about just how many pokemon he would want to add to it and which kinds.

Somni laughed as she read his thoughts. “{Hold your horses there Master Anduin, about half of those are legends. I am most likely a one of fluke, I highly doubt you’d find another legendary who would want to join your team.}”

Somni paused as she felt his sadness at her last statement. “{Master, you know that’s not how I meant it. I just mean, Legendary pokemon are very hard to control let alone even get to change their mind. We very rarely take an interest in mortals, humans especially. You are an exceptional human, much kinder and also much more unorthodox than the rest, but I will be honest, it is very unlikely to happen.}”

Anduin looked down, nodding in acceptance. The group continued walking down the path in a tense silence for a few minutes.

Hearing a faint noise, Anduin looked up certainly, putting his hand over his eyes to block the glare of the sun. There was a faint shape approaching them, the flapping of wings faintly audible even from this distance. In case it was an enemy, he had Somni quickly hide in the woods.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes passed before Anduin was able to make out the figure.

It was a Pokemon, a Dragonite to be more exact with a trainer on its back. Anduin’s eyes widened as he realized who it was.

The Pokemon landed a few seconds later, the figure hopping off and approaching Anduin.

“Hello again lad, fancy finding you here, huh?” The older and more worn voice of Mark sounded out. The large scarred veteran standing with a case on his back in front of Anduin.

“Oh shit, hey Mark! How’s it going man?”

“Ah good good, I happened to notice you forgot to take a different weapon with you when you left. I was out in the area and happened to notice you and your team out of the corner of my eye, so might as well kill two birds with one stone.”

Anduin nodded in understanding. “Aye fair enough. Whatcha want me to use for this gym?’

Mark smiled, opening the case. “Well that’s the thing lad, I thought about it and I felt that the good ol’ fashioned and fun flail and shield might be your best bet.” Sure enough, in the large case was a fine steel three-headed spiked flail, and a well crafted metal tower-shield.

“Ah this would work perfectly actually, the shield should almost prevent me from taking damage if I fight. Thank you so much again Mark, oh and here’s your halberd back.” Anduin reached over behind himself and unslung the halberd from his back, handing it over to Mark.

“Pleasure doing business with you, Anduin. Surprisingly I’ve already had a few people come in to ask to be trained to fight like you.”

Anduin laughed good-naturedly. “Oh that must have been quite the sight.”

Mark chuckled as well, taking the halberd and slinging it against the Dragonite’s hip. Waving goodbye, Mark hopped back on the mon's back. “Farewell for now, my friend. I will see you soon enough. Oh and be careful in this region, it looks like some kind of stronger mon moved in as it has been tearing across the marsh.”

Anduin frowned, nodding as he waved goodbye. “Hmm, thank you kindly for the new toys as well as the warning. I’ll try to deal with the mon if I can, otherwise I’ll make sure to avoid them.

Mark nodded in agreement, the Dragonite taking off and flying away rapidly. “Well, that was certainly something.” He stated as he went about attaching the sword to his hip and the shield against his backpack.

“{T-that Mark man is a bit scary.}” Nathair shivered in the cold, Anduin reaching down to pick her up and hold her against him and Dána who happily pulled Nathair into the hug, warming her up as well.

“He is a bit intense in appearance, but he means well. He’s done nothing but help us.”

The group continued following the path, noticing that the trees were getting more and more damaged and destroyed as they went. Evidence of Pokemon battles littered the deforested part of the Swamp. Anduin motioned for them all to move slower and more carefully, keeping his head on a swivel as he watched for danger.

The sound of thundering footfalls could be heard rapidly approaching, Anduin looking around wildly as he struggled to find what could be making the sound.

“{Master! On your left, dodge quickly!}” He heard Somni yell out, not wasting any time as he side-stepped to the left, barely missing a maroon wheel as it barreled past him. Placing down his Nathair and Dána, he pulled out his weapons quickly, assessing the threat.

It was a shiny Scolipede by the look of it, towering over him and his team if it were to stand up straight. “Shit. Ok then, the plan is to improvise, but listen to me when you can.” He stated, only then noticing that the Scolipede turned around and began to rhythmically shake its body, Anduin noticing that its claws, teeth and most notably its horns began to sharpen more and more.

“Fuck ok, it's doing Swords dance. Alright, Nathair stay at range if you can, use your leaf tornado and leech seed to drain health. Dána, I need you to stay at range as well, your fire type moves are best right now but we can’t risk taking a hit. Aerach, flank him with me, but do not get hit under any circumstances. Somni, are you willing to help here?”

Somni looked conflicted. “{I-I’m not sure. I’ll step in if it looks like it is going south, but I don’t want to fight other pokemon. I’m not sure if I am ready for that.}” On one side, she wanted to protect Anduin, yet on the other she wasn’t sure if she was ok with that yet,

Anduin merely looked at her, respecting her choice ultimately but really, really fucking wishing it was the opposite right now.

“Alright then. Move out!” Nathair and Dána fired off their attacks, leech seeds and storms of leaves mixing with intense bursts of fire and barrages of embers. The Scolipede roared in anger, the words unintelligible to Anduin for now.

Getting off another swords dance, it charged forwards, Anduin noticing that the Scolipede’s speed had increased. “Oh shit it has speed boost, fucking dodge!” He yelped out, ducking to the side as it narrowly missed him again. Turning around to do another pass, Aerach came in from the side, slamming against it with a return so powerful the impact cracked the icey marsh in the immediate vicinity.

The Scolipede reeled from the blow, moving quickly to try and stab its horns into Aerach. Anduin reacted quickly, swinging his flail and catching the horns, the three spiked balls proving moderately effective against the carapace of the bug. Which as Anduin looked at much closer, hardly looked like a bug apart from the shell. It kinda just looked like a smooth vaguely horse-shaped creature wearing a lot of bug-shell armor.

His attack proved successful in garnering its attention, charging at him again, he did the same before side-stepping the blow. What he was not expecting was for it to do a U-turn nearly on the dime, charging at him again. Having no time to dodge, Andun braced his shield and forearm in preparation for the blow.

Multiple sounds rang out as the Scolipede impacted Anduin’s shield. The twang of metal being impacted and bent out of shape, a roar of pain and anger from the Scolipede as it hit the metal object, and the even louder snap of bone and scream of pain from Anduin as his arm shattered under the blow. His pokemon cried out hearing him scream in pain, fearing the worst.

Luckily for him, the Adrenaline now pumping through his body dwelled the pain of his arm as he flew back a good 15 feet (4.57 m) from the strike. The Scolipede chased after him angrily, looking to finish off the weakened human. His shield having dropped from his hands, Anduin noticed the Scolipede moments away from ending him.

His training kicked in despite his exhaustion, getting up at the last minute, he grabbed hold of one of the side plates of the Scolipede’s exoskeleton, using his momentum to swing himself up and onto it. He climbed his way across the Scolipede’s back quickly as it tried to buck him off, his blood pouring out of his shattered arm and broken body. He swung his flail, impacting the Scolipede’s legs.

The blow caused the creature to stumble and fall, Anduin with it. Recovering from the fall, it opened its eyes to see Anduin standing over top of it, a dagger in his hand right above where the Scolipede’s neck was.

Anduin meanwhile had noticed something odd in the few seconds the Scolipede was recovering, there was an odd piece of technology, computer chip-like in shape and made out of a twisted sharp wood stuck in its neck.

Reaching his non-broken arm forwards with the dagger, the Scolipede having accepted its fate. He carefully hooked the tip of the dagger under the chip, removing it gently so as to not hurt the bug too much.

Removing it, the demeanor of the Pokemon immediately changed. What was nothing but hatred and anger changed suddenly to remorse, sadness, and most of all guilt.

“{Oh Arceus, why me…}” He heard the bug begin to weep, Anduin was about to question her why when his adrenaline wore off. A loud, horrid scream of pain erupted from his chest as he clutched his arm, both the bones in his forearm and bicep having shattered and broken from the earlier blow.

His team came running over, Somni psychically moving him away from the downed Scolipede as the rest of his team stood watch. The pain was too much for Anduin, who passed out from it.

Somni went right to work, getting Aerach to help set his arm with some nearby twigs and some cloth from his backpack while Somni used moonlight after moonlight, desperately trying to stop him from losing his arm.

Hours passed before Anduin awoke, finding himself in the large tent his team had apparently set up. He could hear the roaring campfire outside and faintly the voices of his team talking with a voice he barely recognized. In too much pain to get up, he laid there and tried to go back to sleep.

Meanwhile, outside of the tent, Anduin’s team found themselves in what was supposed to be an aggressive conversation, only for them to quickly realize what actually happened.

“{...S-so you didn’t mean to hurt my liege?}” Nathair asked, doing her best to look intimidating.

The Scolipede shook her head no. “{No , I did not, small one, I am truly sorry for that. I was not in control of myself.}” Her voice was warm, friendly and clearly older sounding, the guilt and remorse was unmistakable as it was out of place in a voice like hers.

Aerach picked up the small wooden chip, inspecting it carefully. “{All because of this, huh? Shit, that’s rough. I can’t imagine what kind of sick people would go around implanting this on Pokemon.}”

“{I’m not sure what they’re called, but they all wore similar clothing, or in this case lack thereof. All they wore were intricate cloth pants and boots, their chests were bare with intricate runic tattoos. I heard them mentioning that they plan on returning this region to how it was supposed to be, I am afraid I do not know much more. My time with them was thankfully brief and I was more focused on trying to escape.}”

The group looked over as they heard the tent open, a still in pain Anduin walked out, holding onto his now repaired but sore arm.

“{Master Anduin! You need to stay in bed, your arm may be healed but you need your rest.}” Somni floated over to him, trying to pull him back into the tent with her powers.

“I will go back in a minute, Somni, I need to do something first.” He went over to his backpack, pulling out a potion before walking over to the Scolipede.

“Show me your leg.” He asked politely. The Scolipedee looked confused, offering him the leg he hit earlier with his flail.

His assumptions were correct, there was a deep crack in the armor, a thin river of blood dried against it. Getting the potion in position, he started to spray it on the wound. The Scolipede winced from the sensation.

“I know, I know. It doesn’t feel great right now, just grin and bear it.” He stated, keeping her leg as steady as he could with his injured arm.

A minute passed as he emptied the contents of the potion, putting away the empty bottle before looking back up, he smiled as he noticed the crack having disappeared, the minor damage he was able to inflict having healed.

“{...Why would you do that? I broke your arm and nearly killed you, you defeated me as well, why did you spare me earlier? Why are you showing me kindness?!}” He heard the Scolipede question, not moving away from him as she began to tremble.

He reached his good hand up, petting her head. “It wasn’t your fault lass, if what I was able to hear from inside the tent was correct, it was those people that forced you to do this. Being remorseful and guilty is good, it means you know you did wrong. But take those feelings and use them for something more productive. Sure you hurt me, but now you can protect me from others and help me. If you want of course.”

He pulled out a pokeball, offering it to the stunned Scolipede. She trembled as she thought it over, gingerly bringing her head down and activating the pokeball. Turning into a beam of red light, the Scolipede got sucked into the ball. It shook once, twice, thrice before lying still.

Anduin reached over, picking up the ball and releasing the Scolipede. “You’ll need a name if you are going to stay with us, is that alright?” She nodded.

Anduin thought it over, reaching hand up to her head. She moved her head down so he could pet her. “Ceanúil, it means loving and tenderness.” She blushed at the explanation, though the name did sound appealing to her. She nodded her approval.

He smiled tiredly. “Welcome to the team then Ceanúil. Do you mind if I ask what moves you know, I noticed three of them earlier.”

“{Of course, as you noticed I know Swords dance, U-Turn and Rollout. But apart from that, I know Baton Pass, Iron Defense, Defense Curl, Mega Horn, Poison Sting, Screech, Pursuit, Protect, Poison Tail, Bugbite, Venoshock, and Aqua Tail.}” Anduin smiled at the list, she only needed a few moves and some more training to be a perfect battler.

“That is quite the list Ceanúil, I don’t have much more that I need to teach you, you can pretty much have free reign of what moves you learn. Now if you don’t mind, I’m just going…to…get up.”

His words began to slur as his tiredness caught up to him. His body slumped forwards, coming to rest against Ceanúil’s surprisingly soft and smooth underside. Making sure he wouldn’t fall over, she motioned for the rest of him to take him into the tent.

The rest of the girl’s nodded, picking up their unconscious trainer and gently taking him over to the bed. “{I know you were excited to finally be able to feel him inside you, Aerach, but it would be best to let him recover. He could have permanent pain in his arm if he doesn’t rest for a bit.}”

Aerach nodded, a determined look on her face. “{Then we better make sure we heal him as much as we can!}”

Ceanúil raised an eyebrow. “{Feel him?}”

Somni nodded. “{Master Anduin is a pokephile, and I’ll have you know, he has a thing for Scolipedes surprisingly.}” She mentioned something telepathically a moment later. [Hope you like anal.]

Ceanúil blushed heavily at that information. “{O-oh, hmm. Let’s discuss that at a later point, for now he has to rest. Is it alright if I stay in the tent with all of you? I have a feeling it might snow tonight.}”

Dána looked around, the tent was large and would fit all of them, but not comfortably. “Hmm…Oh that might work! I’ll rest against his legs, Aerach you can take one of his sides and Somni you can take one of the others. Nathair you are the smallest so you can have his chest, and Ceanúil, your belly looks pretty soft, he could use you as a pillow.” She cheerily suggested.

The team thought it over, realizing this would be the best arrangement for now. The group assembled around him, each of them hugging onto their master in their own way.

Anduin rested better than he had so far that night, the pain of his arm fading away by the morning.

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(HAHAHA You all get a Lemon literally first fucking thing, get fucked nerds.

Kinks shown, please remember that both Aerach and me the writer are both kinky as fuck people: Fellatio, Vaginal Sex, Creampie, Master/Pet, Praise, Watersports, Drinking Cum, Drinking Urine, Scent Kink, Ball play.)

Anduin woke up early as usual, the morning sun that barely streamed through the tent being enough.

He was incredibly comfortable where he was, surrounded on all sides by loving partners and using his most recent team member as a pillow as he found out. She was surprisingly comfortable.

Something was off though, and he noticed this within a few seconds of waking. For one, his dick felt very wet and pleasure was radiating from it. Secondly, the telltale sound of a blowjob quietly rang out in the tent, intentionally quiet to not wake the rest of the team

Ever so gently rolling Nathair off of him, and placing her next to Dána for warmth, he gently pulled down the blanket to reveal Aerach currently deep throating his cock with a dazed look.

“Aerach? You couldn’t wait til I was up?” He quietly questioned, making sure he was whispering.

Aerach looked up at him, only stopping what she was doing to respond. “{I have been waiting for this since yesterday morning.}” She whispered back.

“Aye fair enough, please continue then, it feels incredible.” He reached a hand down to pet her while letting her do as she wanted.

Aerach seemed to melt under the praise, sucking him off faster and harder than before. Anduin groaned at the sensations, his hips bucking up into her mouth reflexively.

One of her paws came up, lightly grasping onto his balls and rolling them in her paw, which only served to cause more pleasure for Anduin.

“Good girl.” He muttered unintentionally, reverting back to his usual method of praising. Aerach paused, she wasn’t expecting hearing that to feel as good as it did. Anduin looked down, noticing her expression, he smiled widely when he figured out why she stopped.

“Interesting. Come on then, keep sucking me off.” He gently ordered, Aerach nodded quickly going right back to her task, changing from swirling her tongue around his tip while stroking him off, to deep throating him all the way to the base. As they both found out, Lopunnies don’t have a very strong gag reflex.

“Good girl, keep that up. I won’t last too much longer.” He warned, still petting her head affectionately. Aerach doubled her efforts, blowing him harder and faster than before, equally massaging his sack faster than before. The combined assault was too much for Anduin, and after only another half-minute, he came.

Aerach immediately pushed herself to the base, drinking his cum greedily from the source as it poured into her throat. Anduin had been expecting her to spit it out, so seeing her drinking it the way she was was hot enough for him to remain hard afterwards.

As his orgasm subsided, Aerach was still gently sucking his cock, wanting to please him as much as possible. “Ah damn, I don’t want to end this here but the usual morning needs have arised.”

Aerach raised a furred eyebrow questioningly. “Don’t make me spell it out for ya, I got to go take a piss.”

Aerach thought for a moment, a devious smile coming to her face. Motioning for him to continue, she locked her lips tighter around his cock, pushing down halfway.

“You want me t-” Aerach cut him off by nodding wildly. Anduni quietly laughed, a flustered but excited smile on his face. “You are one kinky bunny, you know that right? But hey, I’m not gonna complain.”

Aerach chuckled in response, swirling her tongue around his tip as she waited for him to start. “Alright then, here you are girl. You don’t have to swallow it if you find you don’t like the taste, pretty much everyone doesn’t.”

With a sigh of relief, Anduin began to release his bladder. Aerach was surprised at first, the rush of salty, warm and ammonia rich liquid flooding her mouth and throat quicker than she expected. She swallowed it greedily, not so much for the taste but more for the fact that she was able to provide this kind of submissive service for her Alpha.

Just over half a minute passed before his stream began to taper, Aerach dutifully sucking out the last few remaining drops.

She pulled off of him a moment later, licking his tip thoroughly to clean off any remaining cum and piss. “{Did I do good Alpha?}”

“You did wonderful, dear.” He reached his hand forwards to pet her with renewed vigor.

Aerach quietly squeed in happiness, moving up his body gently before grabbing ahold of his cock and lining herself up. “{I’ve been waiting for so long to do this…}” She whispered before pushing his cock inside of her, a quiet moan escaping her as she sank down further and further.

Anduin reached around, grasping onto her surprisingly large, soft furred ass possessively. Aerach softly moaned again at the sensation, Anduin noting that down mentally.

He thrust up into her in time with her bounces, a soft slapping sound ringing out whenever he bottomed out.

Aerach was at a loss for words, the pleasure and the sensations too much for her to process, not that she would want anything less than that for her first time with her Alpha.

Anduin was having a wonderful time as well, he wasn't the kind of man to compare women, but on a purely physiological level, Aerach was tighter due to her size and a bit less soft than Somni, her muscles most likely having something to do with both.

Aerach was the first to orgasm, her body tensing as her eyes fluttered, a slightly louder moan escaping her as it happened. Anduin slowed down during it, not wanting to overwhelm her.

“Is it alright if I continue?” He asked hesitantly.

Aerach reached forwards, locking her arms around his back. “{I would be mad if you didn’t Alpha.}”

Their quiet and somewhat gentle lovemaking lasted for a bit longer, Anduin quietly plunging his cock into Aerach as she tried her best to contain her moans and excitement.

Anduin felt his own orgasm approaching, holding her tighter against him as he thrust quicker than before, seeking his own release. Aerach was not far off from her second one, his increased thrusting bringing her closer as well.

With a low groan of pleasure, he held her taut against him as he released deep inside her. Aerach moaned at the feeling, finding it felt just as good as she was hoping.

The two of them panted as they tried to catch their breaths, Aerach having slightly tuckered herself out. Idly mumbling as she rested against him. “{Mm, my alpha…}”

Anduin just chuckled at how cute she was, petting her as she rested against him. Yet the moment for the two lovebirds was interrupted by a polite cough.

“{You couldn’t have waited until you left the tent, this whole thing is going to smell like mating for the next while.}” The two of them heard Somni pipe up in a sassy tone, staring at the two of them with a cheeky grin.

“...Are the others awake?”

“{Eh , I don't think Dána is awake yet, nor Nathair. Though the two of them will realize rather quickly by the smell, and taste in Nathair’s case. As for Ceanúil, well…}”

Anduin gulped, looking over his shoulder nervously to find Ceanúil staring right back at him, a deep blush on her face as she fidgeted nervously.

“...Why didn’t you tell me?”

“{I-it would have been awkward, I didn’t want to ruin your moment. From what I could tell, she seemed to have really been wanting this.}”

“...Somni. Can you clean up the mess…” Anduin muttered.

“{Hmm, sure thing.}” She cheekily responded. Her eyes glowing pink as the physical remnants of their coupling disappeared. Somewhat awkwardly, Anduin pulled himself out of Aerach, a bit of his cum leaking out of her as he did so.

“Shit, well. I apologize Ceanúil, that must have been quite awkward. I was hoping to mention that fact at a later point.”

“{Oh no, it's quite alright. You’re young and in love after all, that kind of stuff happens. Plus it's not like the rest of us were really complaining, it was quite the show.}”

“Hmm, I suppose.” He mused, not really sure how to react.

Getting dressed quickly, he left the tent awkwardly, idly putting out the coals and the embers of the fire.

(Lemon over! You can bring your eyes back now if you didn’t want to see this, for those of you who did, I hope you enjoyed it.)

The rest of his team woke up not too long after, recognizing the smells in the air but deciding to not comment on it due to Somni’s suggestions.

His team joined him outside as he finished packing everything into his backpack, the tent and inflatable mattress getting packed shortly after.

Remembering something, he pulled out the TM and looked over at Somni. “I think I know how this works now Somni, would you mind trying to learn the move on this TM.”

“{Sure thing, Master Anduin. But how am I supposed to learn it exactly?}”

Anduin pulled out his Pokedex, finding a CD slot before inserting the TM into it, a video popping on the screen. He handed the dex over to Somni. “The video will probably explain, my guess is it's a guide of some sort, take mental notes? I’m not really sure.”

Somni took the Pokedex psychically, floating over to the side of the group so she could learn from it carefully.

His team got back on the road, the cold and foggy marsh clung to them, freezing Anduin and his team to the core. He shivered as they walked, his team taking turns being used as body heat warmers just like Dána was the other day.

A few hours passed, mostly in silence as the team traveled. Somni piped up. “{Oh, Master Anduin. I have finished the TM.}”

“That’s good to hear. Would you mind handing back the TM? Trick room is a hard to use move, but it will help you become an even better battler once you are ready.”

He chuckled before face palming, remembering he forgot to ask something. “Oh right, right. I forgot to ask this last night, Ceanúil, do you want to battle?”

“{I believe I would, small one.}” Anduin internally died at the pet name, making a mental note to get her to change it later.

“Glad to hear that.” He reached up and over, patting her head,

Not much else happened for the remainder of the day, the group making their way out of Timbermask Marsh and into the next route, Mooncraw Tundra. Only a few minutes in did snow begin to fall, slowly at first but it rapidly changed into a blizzard.

Anduin and his team were forced to hunkerdown for a few days within the tent. Luckily for the team Anduin had enough spare rations to feed them all, but once they were out they would have to garage for berries.

Days passed as the blizzard raged on. One morning when Anduin awoke, he very quickly noticed the lack of wind. Opening the front of the tent, and pushing away the feet of snow that had built up, he found that the blizzard had ended.

Waking up the rest of his team, they headed out into the now snow-covered landscape. Using Anduin’s map and the Pokedex compass, they made their way towards the next city. The blizzard having more or less covered up the path.

As the evening sun crested closer and closer to the edge of the horizon, Anduin and his team spotted Crystalstake town.

The beauty they were warned of would not do it justice, his whole team was shocked. It was a large town with buildings seemingly made of pure ice. The light shown through them, reflecting and making arrays of colors and patterns across the town.

Breaking out of their stupor, the team ventured forth. Making their way into the town just as the night fell upon them. Somni vanished just before they entered the town.

Looking around, Anduin noticed the familiar sign of an inn. Him and his team headed inside, looking around at the strange ice building. They were surprised to find that the inside was actually made of wood, looking like a normal inn

He moved over to the counter, coughing politely. The young woman who was reading looked up at him.

“C-can I help you sir.” She seemed stunned to talk to him, something that confused Anduin.

“Ah yes, this seems to be an inn. Could I rent out one of the bigger rooms for a night?”

“Of course, sir. That’ll be a thousand pokedollars for it.” Anduin nodded, swiping with his card and taking the keycard from her.

The team carefully made their way up the stairs, pausing mid way through to help Ceanúil get through one of the tighter spots in the stairs.

The party made their way into the room, Anduin crashing on the bed the moment he got in.

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Anduin lay there on the comfortable bed, the days of rough travel having done work on his lower back.

‘{Sir, are you doing alright? We’ve just got to the town, wouldn’t it be better to explore than to sit around here?}” Dána asked, wondering why he was just laying there.

Anduin nodded, still face down on the bed. “Yeah just give me another few seconds, getting to a real bed after so long out in the wilds feels amazing.”

Somni popped in a moment later, giving a nod to everyone, raising an eyebrow as she saw her trainer just laying there.

His team awkwardly stood there as Anduin layed on the bed. Eventually Aerach got the hint, joining him on the bed and laying next to him. Nathair and Dána followed suit, hopping onto the bed and laying against him. Somni floated over, joining them as well.

Ceanúil went to join them as well, the bed creaking slightly under the addition of her weight. Anduin smiled, happy to see that his original guess was proven wrong.

“Well would you look at that, it seems we can all fit on the bed. That’s wonderful!” Anduin chuckled, giving each of his girls an affectionate hug.

A few minutes passed, his team enjoying the luxury of the bed. Anduin eventually stood up, clearing his throat quickly before addressing his team. “Right then, girls. Now that we are here, what would you all like to do?”

His team thought it over. Somni was the first to speak up. “{That will be a hard thing to answer, Master Anduin. None of us know the town any better than you do. But if I can put my say in the matter, I think it might be best for us to take a day or two of downtime here for all of us to spend together.}”

Anduin nodded, noting it down in his head. “That’s a good idea actually, I admit I’ve been a bit too invested in getting to the next gym, I haven’t been spending a lot of quality time with you girls.”

“{T-that was going to be my vote as well, my liege.}” Nathair mentioned quietly.

Dána spoke up. “{While I think we should spend time together, we still need to train. We’ll get rusty afterall.}” Aerach and Ceanúil nodded in agreement with her.

“I would normally do things democratically, but I don’t see why we couldn’t do both. I can still spend time with all of you while still making sure we train. But for now at least, it is later in the day, I don’t really want to go exploring. We could all watch tv together?”

A moment of silence passed. “{Umm, my liege, w-what’s a tv?}” Nathair asked.

Anduin simply chuckled in response. “Oh boy, we are going to have fun tonight then.” Anduin rejoined his team on the bed, all of them repositioning so that they could see the TV.

The night passed by quickly, Anduin showing a variety of movies, tv-shows and just whatever he could find to the girls who were quite amazed with this piece of tech.

Noticing it was getting late, Anduin turned off the TV much to the girl’s displeasurement. “Just give me a second to wash up and I’ll come rejoin you in a second.”

Anduin had just gotten out of the shower and put a towel around his waist when the door opened. “Oh, Aerach. I didn’t expect you. What’s up lass?”

“{We were wondering if we could also wash up, our fur is starting to get a bit matted and filthy with all of the traveling. The issue is, none of us know how to use the…thing.}” She pointed at the shower.

“Oh the shower. I can show all of you how to use it real quick, I have some pokemon shampoo, conditioner, scale and chitin cleaning supplies in my bag somewhere.” He headed over to his backpack, grabbing a few different scents. If you all want to come in here, or at least as many as we can fit, I’ll show you real quick.”

Over the next twenty-ish minutes, Anduin managed to explain how a shower works and how to use it, as well as how to use the cleaning supplies.

Anduin left the girls to shower, heading back to the bed where Ceanúil was waiting. “Not going to head in?” He asked as he lay against her, still finding it surprising how soft her underbelly was.

“{I don’t think I could fit, to put it bluntly. That doorway isn’t even wide enough.}” She commented with a frown.

He reached up to pet her, causing her frown to disappear.

“Eh, don't feel too bad about it. Not every place is built with large pokemon in mind. Plus you don’t seem particularly dirty.” He lightly rubbed his hand over her exoskeleton, finding no dirt or anything was left on his hand.

“{That may be true, but I still like to clean myself as much as I can.}” She explained, a strange clicking sound coming from her when Anduin rubbed her chitin.

“Heh fair enough.”

His team rejoined him soon enough, each of them freshly cleaned after the close to a month traveling. Just like always, his team kept him close, making sure each of them had a specific part of him to use as a pillow.

Anduin woke up, earlier than everyone as usual. He carefully extracted himself from them all, heading to the bathroom to relieve himself and getting dressed. His team woke up shortly after, the noise he was unintentionally making causing them to get up.

“Alright girls, let’s see what this town has to offer!” His team let out their own sounds of agreement. “Somni you’ll have to disappear again sadly, as for the rest of you, just in case I am going to have you in your pokeballs.” His team nodded begrudgingly, Anduin giving each of them an apologetic smile.

Heading to the downstairs of the inn, he happened to notice the same girl as yesterday, staring at him with an emotion he couldn’t decipher.

He hadn’t really taken in her appearance at the time. She was a girl around his age, clearly goth by her dress and make up. Green hair, heavy dark black makeup and fishnets with a tank top, coat and shorts. Yep, goth.

If it wasn’t for his current team, Anduin might have taken a fancy to her. “O-oh, good morning, sir.” She welcomed him politely.

“Thank you, the beds here are quite nice I have to say.” The girl chuckled at his comment.

“I don’t mean to pry, sir. B-but would you happen to be the Gauntleted Fighter by any chance?”

Anduin looked at her curiously, raising his left hand that had the gauntlet still on it.

“OH MY GOD IT IS YOU!” She yelled excitedly, stunning Anduin as she got up out of her chair.

He idly noticed she was actually an inch or two taller than him. “Man, you should see the internet fame you’ve gotten. You are like, one of the biggest celebrities at the moment. I’ve rewatched both your first fight and that gym battle you did close to like a thousand times now.”

Anduin was never an extremely popular guy during highschool and the few years of college he attended, he wasn’t sure how to react in a situation like this.

“Uh, thank you. I wasn’t aware I was so well known. Its odd to meet a fan in person like this. Do you want an autograph or something of the sort? Sorry, I’m still a bit new to this.”

She nodded. “While I do want one, I actually wanted to let you know of something. And ask you for a favor, if that is a-alright.”

Anduin nodded, waiting for her to continue.

“Crystalstake town is one of the few places in the region where you can find z-rings and mega-stone rings. As well as both mega stones and z-crystals, though they are not cheap. Due to the laws regarding trainers, a trainer cannot have both at one time until they have five badges. But legend has it that there is a cave on Twistwail Mountain, the one right next to us, that contains a special ancient ring that can work both for mega stones and z-crystals.”

Anduin listened carefully, his eyes widening when she mentioned the ring. “Well that’s just a legend though, there is no guarantee that it is still there.”

“It is.” She stated simply. “I found the cave a bit of time back when I was younger, but the pokemon scared me off. Now that I’ve become a trainer finally, I was going to go back up there and grab the ring. But you’ve changed things up a bit.’” She paused to catch her breath once she finished explaining.

“It would be my honor to give a gift like that to my idol.” Anduin blushed slightly at the mention of Idol, he was just a trainer, nothing more! “But I can’t just do that on account of the fact that I found it, I may be new to training, but I was hoping we could battle for it and whoever won would get it!”

Anduin thought it over, chuckling slightly as to her idea. “If you are that dead set on this idea, then I humbly accept. Is there an arena of sorts here in the town?”

She nodded, a blush coming to her face as her eyes widened. “O-oh no, I forgot to introduce myself.” It wasn’t hard for Anduin to tell that she was berating herself in her own head.

“Hey now, it's alright. I’m Anduin, or the Gauntleted Fighter as people have come to call me. What about yourself?”

“E-emy. Emy Lynch.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Emy, could you show me to the arena if there is one?”

“O-oh, sure! It's only a block or two away. It's hard to miss. P-please, follow me.” Emy called into the kitchen, getting someone to cover for her while she took Anduin to the arena.

“Normal league rules I presume?” Anduin asked as he entered the ice arena, the coliseum-esque building glistening in the sunlight.

“Yes, that would be preferable.” Emy took a spot across from Anduin, opening her jacket wider to reveal a set of built-in pokeball holders.

A nearby referee ran over to his stand, initiating the battle.

“Standard 3 on 3 league rules, opponents can surrender if they would prefer. Recalling pokemon is allowed. Challenger Emy Lynch versus Anduin, the gauntleted fighter! BEGIN!”

The two trainers threw out their pokemon, Anduin sending out Aerach while Emy sent out a Mightyena that was surprisingly wearing a pair of shades. Aerach stumbled a little as the Mightyena growled intimidatingly at her.

“Shades, that’s a new look for a pokemon.” Anduin commented, waiting for Emy to make the first move.

She seemed flustered at the comment. “Ah, t-thank you. JJ found that pair while on a walk and fell in love with them. A-anyways, JJ use-”

“FAKE OUT!” He commanded, Aerach dashing forwards to slam into the Mightyena, causing the hound to flinch.

“Keep at it, it's a dark type. Give him the old jump.” Aerach nodded, jumping into the air only to land on the Mightyena with a vicious kick, sending him reeling.

“Play rough JJ!” The Mightyena responded with a woof, her tail wagging as she got up and happily dashed over to Aerach, tackling her playfully. Despite the bit of damage, Aerach couldn’t help but drop her guard at how cute the dog was being.

“Aerach! Jump her again, finish it!” Emy withdrew JJ a moment before the blow could land, throwing out a Sylveon instead who barely felt the kick as it landed.

“Sorry Aerach, this is not a fight for you.” He similarly withdrew his mon, sending out Nathair instead. “Valentine use swift!” Hundreds of stars shot out, perfectly landing hits against Nathair despite her attempts to dodge which damaged her heavily.

“Lock 'em up!” Anduin ordered, Nathair nodding as she glared intimidatingly at her opponent, the Sylveon locking up in fear. “Valentine give us a wish!” Emy ordered, a powerful glow forming above the Sylveon as the move was used.

“Wish huh? Interesting.” Emy nodded, withdrawing her Sylveon and throwing out her Mightyena again. Realizing what her plan was, Anduin shook his head.

The intimidate failed to land, instead increasing Nathairs attacks. Anduin chuckled as Emy stared confused at the exchange. “Leech em.” He ordered, Nathair sending out an array of seeds which began to leech at the dog’s stamina, healing Nathair in the process. The wish came true, almost fully healing JJ.

“Lock ‘em up again.” Nathair nodded again, locking up the dog with her intimidating glare. It was effective, JJ not being able to act as the seeds kept stealing her stamina.

“Tie 'em up.” Anduin ordered, Nathair charging forwards to wrap as much of her small body as she could around JJ’s neck, choking her. “Oh no, use fire fang!” Emy shouted, JJ’s mouth burning with flames as she bit down hard on the spread out Nathair who screamed in pain, but remained conscious. The choking and the seeds kept draining stamina from the dog.

“Shit, Leaf Tornado, try to get out of there!” Anduin desperately commanded, Nathair unwrapping herself and firing a point-blank tornado, yet it was not enough to stop the next fire fang, taking her out painfully.

“Point One to Emy! Nathair is out!”

Anduin recalled her. Pulling out Aerach’s pokeball, he sent her back out. “Oh no not this again.” Emy quickly withdrew JJ, replacing her with Valentine again.

“FAKE OUT.” Anduin ordered, Aerach charging forwards to slam her surprised opponent. “Time for your grand return.” Aerach glowed white as she slammed into the Sylveon with a powerful Return, her love for her trainer making it incredibly potent. “Swift!” Stars shot out, impacting the dodging Lopunny.

“AGAIN!” Both trainers shouted at the same time. Aerach was the first to act, landing a powerful return. The fear from earlier still paralyzing the Sylveon, who was unable to act.

“Again!” Anduin shouted. Emy, fearing for Valentine's safety, withdrew her. Sending out her final pokemon instead. A Weavile appeared, taking the Return painfully, almost knocking out the ice type in one hit.

“Ag-” “Ice shard!” A small shard of ice shot out, hitting Aerach in the head and knocking her out.

“Point two to Emy! Aerach is out! Anduin is down to his last pokemon!”

Anduin clapped. “I am genuinely impressed, when you said you were a new trainer I was expecting this to be a lot easier.”

Emy blushed under his praise, a warm smile on her face. “A-ah, thank you Anduin…” She quietly mumbled.

Anduin took a look at his two remaining options, ultimately deciding to send out Dána. The Combusken appeared in a flash, noticing the arena. “{Oh! Is it a battle sir? What’s the score?”

“Ehh, 2-0, not in my favor.” Dána frowned with a shocked look in her eyes. “Hey her mon are quite strong, I don’t know what to say. But, you are our last hope here Dána. We can get through this, all of her mon are very low.”

Dána nodded, getting into a fighting stance. “Alright, let's start this off with your kicks.” Dána nodded, moving forwards. “Oh no, that's not good. Ice shard please Moxy.” An ice shard shot out, impacting but not really injuring Dána who got into melee a moment later, sending two devastating kicks into the four times weak Weavile. Who promptly fell unconscious. Dána’s speed increased as time went on.

“One point to Anduin! Score is two to one in Emy’s favour.”

“Come on out, Valentine. Let's win this!” Emy shouted. “Swift!” Before Valentine was able to act, Anduin had ordered. “Flame charge!” The flaming Dána moved quicker than the swifts, impacting Valentine before the move could go off, knocking her out from the damage. Just like before, Dána’s speed increased both to her ability but also from the attack.

“Anduin now has two points. The score is tied at two to two. Next mon out wins!”

“Crap, JJ, please win this.” The wounded and shades wearing Mightyena appeared, her appearance intimidating Dána slightly. “Sucker punch, get her first!” Emy ordered, the Mightyena barreling forwards to slam a paw into Dána, the hit landing and doing a decent bit of damage.

“Dána, end this with your kicks.” Dána nodded, grabbing the Mightyena before landing two powerful kicks. The dog flying through the air unconscious from the blows.

”GAME SET MATCH! Anduin wins with a score of three points to Emy’s two points! Anduin is the victor!” The small crowd that had assembled cheered.

Anduin jumped off of his stand, running over to Dána to give her a big hug! “You did it Dána! We won!”

Dána cooed happily as she was picked up, hugging Anduin back tightly.

Emy walked over after withdrawing her last Pokemon, giving Anduin a grateful nod with an excited smile on her face. “You were just as good of a battler as the videos showed. I’m honored to have seen that. Oh I’m going to have to make sure one of my friends captured this, I need this on video. I should show it to my parents…” She kept spouting more and more things she was going to do. Anduin just chuckled as he reached over to pat her on the head once or twice.

“You were a good opponent Emy, if you keep training we might just fight each other in the league. Once we’ve healed our mon, could you show me to the cave?”

Emy was in a stunned shock, not just from being praised by her idol, but also pat on the head by him. “...I’ll never wash my hat again.” She quietly mumbled out. “A-ah right, yes. Let's get them healed up so we can go. The Pokecenter isn’t too far from here.”

The two of them, and Dána who was still being held by Anduin, headed over to the pokecenter. Anduin recalled Dána so she could be healed despite her whining.

About a half an hour passed before the two trainer’s teams were healed, Anduin taking the three pokeballs and snapping them into his trainer belt, while Emy snapped them into the holders within her cropped jacket.

The two trainers left the Pokecenter and the town a few minutes later, reaching the path that led up the mountain.

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“Holy shit…” Anduin let out an expletive as he stared up at the mountain, the thing was bloody massive!

He wasn’t the best at guessing sizes, but this was certainly the largest mountain he had ever seen, and he had traveled all over the world before he got sent here.

“Heh, yeah, that is the general response to seeing it. Luckily for us, we don’t have to go too far up the mountain to find this cave, it’s only a short walk actually. We should be there in only half an hour if we keep moving.

The two kept walking in relative silence for quite a while, only broken up every once in a while by some small talk.

“It's actually impressive how viral your story has gotten, my friends are gonna be so jealous when they learn that I got to battle y-” She cut off mid sentence as Anduin grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back.

She blushed, not minding the contact though she was about to ask what he was doing when she noticed the look on his face. He looked serious all of a sudden. She put two and two together a moment later, realizing that he had a good reason for doing this and stayed quietly.

A few moments passed before he spoke. “...Are drunk, half-naked and tattooed hobos common on this mountain?” He whispered, looking over at her.

She was in her own head at the time, the close contact causing the fangirl to stall mentally. Blinking in surprise, she caught herself from letting out a noise of surprise at the question.

“Tattooed? Oh no…” She grimaced. “...That would be members of Team Primeval. They’re an extremist group of people who worship some sorta nature god pokemon? I don’t know which one, but they believe that this region belongs to nature itself and all of us humans are a thorn that needs to be removed. From the stories I heard, they are even trying to turn pokemon into animals.”

Anduin grimaced as well, defensively patting Ceanúil’s pokeball. “I’ve heard of them, I saved one of my mon from one of their chips.”

A look of rage came to Emy’s face. It wasn’t hard for Anduin to tell that she was furious that they almost harmed him in one way or another.

“Hey, hey, calm down for a sec.” Emy did so. “How close are we to the cave?”

Emy thought for a moment. “It should be due west of us, only another minute or so away.”

Anduin looked around the rock wall, cursing their luck. “Well it seems we found the cave. Bad news is we weren’t the first. Two of the grunts are standing guard, so someone is probably inside.”

“How are we going to get inside then? The members of that team are not afraid to kill people or pokemon that interfere.”

Anduin thought for a moment, placing down his backpack as he grabbed the somewhat repaired shield and flail. “Just watch, lass.”

Anduin took off, sneaking quietly around the mountain. He stopped once he got a certain distance away from the cave grabbing a nearby rock, he tossed it just around the bend of one of the rock walls.

The two guards, one a man and one a woman, stood outside the entrance to the cave. They wore quilted cloth pants, both with a spear in their hand and a single pokeball on their belt. Both of them were bare from the waist up, the man’s broad and muscled chest and the woman’s breasts were covered in tattoos.

The two of them looked over at the sound, grabbing their spears in annoyance as they headed over. They turned the corner just to see a tower shield slam into the man’s face, knocking him out. The woman went to shout out a sound of alarm before getting struck on the back of the head by a gauntleted fist.

“Sorry, lass. It's nothing too personal yet.”

Emy watched this in awe, seeing the ease that he knocked the two grunts out.

“We’ll send an officer to come get ‘em once we get back. For now, we will have to deal with whoever is in the cave.”

Emy nodded in agreement, stepping over the two grunts before the two of them entered the cave, Anduin drawing his flail.

The entrance to the cave was vastly different from the surrounding mountain, pillars and ancient architecture lined the inside of the cave.

They noticed all sorts of stands, almost like a museum showing off artifacts, yet all of said artifacts were destroyed by rubble. Yet one altar in particular was not destroyed, a glowing ring resting on it. Anduin was about to move to grab it when he spotted another person in the room about to do the same as him.

Standing in the room was an intimidating large man, a wild mane of snow white hair and an even larger beard to match. His tattooed and muscled bulk was covered with furs and quilted cloth.

The man looked over as Anduin entered the room. “Great, the grunts at the front couldn’t do their job. You are here to stop me by the looks of it.”

“That would be correct, I know what that ring can do and your team will not have as long as I have the ability to do something about it.” Anduin loudly proclaimed, getting in a fighting stance.

The giant of a man looked down at Anduin, studying his stance. “What is your name, trainer?”

“It’s Anduin, and what’s yours big man?”

“I am Cethern, admin of Team Primeval. You seem like an honorable young man, how about we battle for the ring? Winner takes it and gets to decide what to do with the loser’s life.”

“Do I have a say in the matter?” Anduin asked, reaching for his pokeballs.”

“No. Not really.” Cethern stated, grabbing a ball from a pack on his side, tossing it forwards, summoning a Sandslash.

Anduin smirked, seeing the ground type mon. “Alright then.” He grabbed Nathair’s pokeball, sending her out. The larger man frowned seeing his choice. “Not going to make it easy for me, are you lad?”

Emy was about to send out her own pokemon, she heard sounds from behind her. Turning around, she saw a group of grunts running towards them. Cursing, she threw out her mon to deal with them. “Anduin! You focus on him, I’ll deal with the grunts.”

Cethern reached over to a nearby wall, grabbing a massive claymore that was resting against it. “You seem like you can fight as well lad, care to duel while our mon do the same?”

Anduin nodded, moving over to the large man before charging forwards, swinging his flail forwards which Cethern dodged, swinging his own weapon which got deflected by Anduin’s shield.

“Nathair, lock em up. Go through the set up!” Anduin ordered, swinging again with his flail, the old man deflected it. Nathair glared intimidatingly at the Sandslash, the mon locked up in fear, unable to act.

“Keep setting up!” Nathair shot a bunch of seeds at the sandslash, digging into its barbed hide and beginning to leech its energy. “Roll 'em.” Cethern ordered, the Sandslash curled into a ball, rolling forwards quickly and slamming into Nathair. The impact hurt, but it didn’t do a lot of damage. The seeds began to sap the mon’s stamina.

“Finish setting up.” Anduin commanded as he dodged a strike from Cethern’s claymore. Nathair nodded, trying to wrap around the sandslash who dodged at the last minute, unable to keep rolling in order to do so. The seeds sapped more stamina.

“Again.” Nathair managed to succeed this time, wrapping around the Sandslash, squeezing it all the while her seeds sapped its strength. The Sandslash was unable to act with all of these moves affecting them at once. Both the crushing wrap and the draining seeds wore down the Sandslash even further.

“Finish it with a storm!” Anduin ordered, striking forwards with his flail. Both his flail and Nathair’s leaf tornado connected. The move knocked out the Sandslash, while the flail slammed into Cethern’s ribcage with the cracking and snapping of bone. Cethern grunted out in pain, clutching his chest as he backed up.

Grabbing a ball from his waist, he withdrew the Sandslash, sending out a Quagsire. Anduin smirked again, the type advantage even further in his favor. “Almost the same as before, lock ‘em up Nathair.” Nathair nodded, glaring at the quagsire and paralyzing it with fear.

“Hurting them means us surviving! Be merciless.” Anduin ordered, his faux military training kicking as he started to give out orders reminiscent of a commander on the field. Nathair nodded, his confidence driving her to land a full-powered Leaf storm at the Quagsire, the four times weakness knocking it out in one blow.

Anduin struck again at the same time, his flail crashing into the man’s leg which buckled under the blow, the bone cracking.

Cethern grunted in pain, swiping wildly with his claymore, the strike going wide before it could hit Anduin. Cethern recalled the Quagsire, sending out a Dugtrio to take its place.

“Make…’em weaker.” Cethern grunted out, his injuries beginning to catch up to him. The dugtrio screeched loudly, forcing Anduin to cover his ears as he dodged another blow. Nathair seemed hardly affected, the move actually increasing her defense due to her ability.

“Leech em.” Nathair nodded, sending out more seeds so she could continue to heal from any injuries she might get.

“End her!” Cethern yelled out. The Dugtrio charged forwards unexpectedly, in a quick flourish of motion, some sort of dark slash went across Nathairs body, blood pouring from her body as the strike crit her. She flew backwards with a scream of pain. Anduin dashed over, catching her before she hit the ground.

“Holy shit, are you alright Nathair?” Nathair nodded, jumping off of his body painfully, she shot a leaf tornado, impacting the ground type mon just as hard even without the crit. The leaves even injured one of the mon’s many eyes, lowering his accuracy. The seeds sapped stamina from the Dugtrio, slowly healing Nathair’s wounds.

“AGAIN!” Both trainers called out as they clashed weapons. The Dugtrio acted first, slashing Nathair again, albeit not as effectively as before. Nathair responded in kind, knocking out the Dugtrio with a well-placed Leaf Storm. Anduin struck Cethern’s side, injuring his already broken ribs further.

Backing up, Cethern withdrew his Dugtrio, sending out his main pokemon, a large and intimidating Golem. “Heh, I know we have known each other for a while now, old friend, but it seems today is the day we die. You know what to do.” The golem stared blankly at his trainer, nodding sadly a moment later as it began to slowly move towards Nathair.

Cethern struck wildly, hoping to land a blow on Anduin, who reacted quickly. He swung with his flail, the multiple heads and their accompanying chains wrapping around the blade of the sword. Anduin ripped his arm back, pulling the weapon out of Cethern’s grasp.

Dropping his shield and flail, he grabbed the claymore, thrusting it forwards to sink the weapon into Cethern’s stomach who grunted in pain and acceptance of death. “I am sorry it had to be this way, Cethern. Only one of us was going to leave this alive, this we both knew. For what it was worth, you are an honorable fighter.” Anduin spoke remorse, not enjoying having to kill someone, let alone another fighter.

Nathair shot a leaf storm, nearly knocking out the golem. Cethern chuckled, coughing a moment later. “Do not call me honorable, I work for a criminal insurgent group. Oh and, you might want to get behind something.”

“I’m sorry, wha…” Anduin looked over at the Golem, just in time to see it curl into a ball and start to glow white. “OH SHI-” Anduin screamed.

Emy heard the scream, followed by a massive explosion. The cave began to shake, the detonation causing it to collapse. “Anduin!” She dashed in the direction she heard him scream, barely making it to him as the entrance collapsed.

She gasped, tears running down her face. Anduin lay there in a pool of his own blood, burns, shards of rock and metal caused wounds all over his body. A greatsword was sent through his left arm from the force of the explosion, having dropped it earlier to try and jump to safety. It severed the arm from below the elbow, blood pouring from the gaping wound.

Nathair was heavily injured as well, rock and metal shards impaled through parts of her body as well. The rest of Anduin’s team were there, crying over his body as Emy fell to her knees in shock.

“...A-anduin?” She called out hesitantly, there was no reaction from his bleeding body. His team desperately shook his head, trying to get him to react. They heard a rumble from behind them, Emy turned around, her eyes widening in fear. Standing only a few feet from the group was a massive Garchomp, staring at Anduin’s broken body with an unreadable expression.

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“W-what?” Emy squeaked out, backing up from the large Garchomp.

The dragon type merely passed her a quick glance, before locking its eyes back onto Anduin’s almost dead body. It approached the injured trainer, Anduin’s team immediately getting into a fighting stance, not willing to let the Pokemon kill Anduin in his weakened state.

“{Ya don’t have to worry, I’m not dishonorable enough to kill a man while he’s down. Regardless of how disappointed I am that the only creature worthy enough to fight me fell to a weak attack like that.}” The Garchomp spoke, a rough, aggressive and notably feminine voice that felt surprisingly fitting for her.

“{Now is not really the time to get mad at him, he wasn’t expecting that trainer to order his mon to explode! Moreover, he’s bleeding out right now, we don’t have time to talk. Augh, where is Somni when you need her.}” Aerach replied, her fighting stance fading as her worry for her trainer took over.

“{That’s precisely the reason I showed myself. I am not going to hurt him, there are some herbs further in the cave that should keep him asleep at least. At the very least, I can dig you a way out of here.}” The Garchomp explained, approaching closer to see how bad the wounds were.

His team originally jumped to defend him, but their attacks faded when they noticed how gently and caringly she was checking him over.

A bright flash shone through the cave, Somni appearing a moment later. Emy looked over in shock, too stunned to say anything from seeing a legendary, and a shiny one at that!

“{Shit. I leave for a few hours and Master Anduin is already dying.}” She yelled out, floating quickly over to his dying body. She immediately started to cast Moonlight repeatedly, the healing magic already starting to heal his cuts while she used her psychic powers to remove the shrapnel from his body. It hurt like a bitch, by the way Anduin squirmed and grunted in pain.

“{I’ll heal him as much as I can, but I won’t be able to do anything about the more severe internal injuries or his arm. We’ll have to take him to a Hospital.}” Somni looked over at the Garchomp, who was similarly looking at her in awe. “{You there, I know you have just met us but we need your help. You can dig right? Can you work on making a path out of here?}”

The Garchomp blanked. “{Uhh. Yes, Lady Cresselia!}” She saluted similar to a soldier, turning towards the caved in entrance and beginning to dig through the rubble enthusiastically.

Time passed as Anduin was healed by Somni, at the very least he was no longer bleeding out. As the team found out, he had lost his left eye as well, a piece of rock shrapnel just barely missing passing through his brain.

Emy was sitting in the corner, hunched over in shock and fear. Her idol, the one she looked up to got hurt because of her. She led him here, she didn’t check if there were any other opponents, she didn’t warn him that the Golem might explode. It wasn’t hard for the others to tell she was blaming herself for what happened.

An hour passed as the team fervently watched over Anduin, hoping their trainer and their friend in Emy’s case would awaken. Eventually Anduin stirred painfully, grunting in pain as he tried to open his eyes. Somni reacted quickly, stopping him from opening them.

“{I’m sorry Anduin, you may not want to open your left eye at the moment.}” Somni nervously spoke.

“...Why do I feel like I had a pack of C4 for breakfast?” Anduin asked painfully, his whole body aching and screaming in pain.

“{If C4 is what I think it is, you might as well have. You had a Golem explode less than 15 feet from you. Luckily you managed to grab the ring, as well as shield Nathair from most of the explosion. You…almost died, I am afraid. You no longer have your left arm, or your left eye. We could not save those.}”

Anduin just lay there, taking in this information. Eventually he began to chuckle, he stood up using his right arm to prop himself up.

His team moved to his side, trying to keep him laying down so he didn’t hurt himself further.

His right eye opened, bloodshot from the pain. His team paused, there was a hint of madness starting to form in him. The pain from this experience seems to have done something to his psyche.

“Oh wonderful, just what I wanted from being sent here. To lose parts of myself.” He chuckled out, coughing painfully as he walked over to the door that the Garchomp had made.

“You…are new.” He commented, giving her a nod.

“{I am, yes. I noticed you the moment you got on the mountain, you are certainly the strongest human I have ever come across. I want to challenge you, Trainer Anduin, to a fight. Albeit, now does not seem to be the best moment.}”

Anduin turned to her, getting into an uneasy fighting stance, only keeping himself standing through sheer bravado and adrenaline.

“Nah, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Come over here you big lizard, I can fight you without an arm.”

He moved to punch her, only to fall over. Ceanúil reacted quickly, moving in just in time as he fell, causing him to land on her back instead. The Garchomp merely stared at him with an amused expression.

“{You will be fun, Anduin. I will stay with you for now, regrettably I should have stopped the Primeval members as well. This is my home, and as the strongest creature on the mountain, it is my duty to protect this mountain.}”

Her only response was Anduin scratching down something on his notepad, having placed it on Ceanúil’s back. He ripped off a page, balling it up and tossing it over to Emy, who caught it and looked at it curiously. It was some kind of blueprint.

“Give that to Warrant Officer Mark, he should be able to make heads or tails of it.” Anduin trailed off as he collapsed again, the blood loss and trauma catching up to him.

A fair bit of time later, Anduin woke up, finding one of his eyes and most of his body to be covered by bandages. He was in a hospital, that much was certain by the sounds of the building and the feel of the bed.

He could feel a weight on his lap, like someone was resting their head on him. He painfully cracked his eyes open, his body feeling as if he had decided to let an Aggron use him as a punching bag.

Looking down, he saw Ceanúil resting her head on his lap, looking up at him as he stirred awake.

Her eyes lit up when they met his gaze, an excited and happy squeak escaping her as she called out.

“{He’s awoken finally! Oh Darling, you’ve been asleep for so long!}”

Ceanúil shouted as she nuzzled his lap, he gingerly moved his right hand down to pet her.

His team filed in hurriedly, each of them moving over to him quickly once they realized he was awake. His team each held onto a piece of him, not wanting him to leave again. He noted Somni was missing, but he could feel her excitement in his head.

“Hey girls.” He noticed the Garchomp from before entering as well, looking at him nervously but relieved that he was alright.

“It seems I might have missed a few things. How long was I out?”

“{Well, Alpha. You were…out for about a week and a half. Your internal injuries were severe, and the trauma to your skull and your arm took quite a while to heal. You are gonna be bedridden for a bit longer at least.}” Aerach nervously explained.

Anduin sighed, laying his head back down on the pillow. “Shit. Well, at least I have good company.”

He felt a claw poking at his arm, causing him to turn his head and look over. It was the Garchomp from before.

“{Over the last week and a half, I have seen the love these pokemon have for you, and the strength you have helped them gain. Despite how strong they all are, they have nothing but respect for you. As it was partially my fault that you got injured, my honor demands that I offer my service to you until either of us deem otherwise, or until you beat me in a duel. If you can manage to do that, you have free reign of what to do with me.}"

Anduin thought over what she said. He put his right hand forwards, the Garchomp extending the claw on her wing for him to shake.

"{I suppose you'll have to give me a name while you are in my care.}"

"Dil. That will be your name, from what I know of you so far, and a few educated guesses. I think that fits you best."

Dil nodded her approval. "{I like the sound of it, Anduin.}"

“As for your challenge, Aye. You’ll get it once I am out of here.”

The next few days passed by mostly uneventful, Anduin recovering more from his injuries and getting an eyepatch he specifically requested to be as showy as possible and make him look like a pirate. Dil was the one who took the most care of him during the time, bringing him water, keeping him company and the like.

The door opened to his hospital room one afternoon, Anduin looked over to see Mark standing there, giving him a friendly wave. Anduin nodded his head in greeting.

"Not even in a war, and yet you still lose an eye." Anduin raised his injured arm. "...Oh. So that's why you needed the hand built. I'll say, it took a lot of hard work to manage to get your gauntlet incorporated into the prosthetic. Which speaking of, here you are."

Mark reached into his bag, handing Anduin a metallic, armored and very advanced looking prosthetic arm. Mark came over to help him put it on.

"Did you add the extra stuff I added?"

"Son, I don't know why you want to risk blowing your arm up like that, but yes, it's included. You just need to press a button on the palm to use it. It's not as good as an actual hand, but it is as close as we could get in such short notice. You might have to manually position the fingers for fighting, but normal tasks can be solved by connecting with your brain.”

Anduin experimentally tried it out, flexing and unflexing the prosthetic hand by thinking about it. “Shit, the technology here is more advanced than I remember.”

“Ehh not so much in this region, we had to import the base hand from overseas. Thank Arceus for flying pokemon.”

Anduin reached over to his backpack, grabbing the now broken flail and tower shield and handing them back over to Mark. “Factory new condition here.” He quipped.

Mark chuckled. “After what I heard happened to you, I would have been concerned if they survived. Hell, I’m surprised you even survived. If whatever Pokemon healed you hadn’t been there, you would have died within minutes.”

Anduin nodded, thanking Somni in his mind so that she could hear him. He didn’t get a response, but he felt some happy energy.

“Could I request a few items for my journey?”

“Whatcha need lad?” Mark replied, pulling out a device to mark them down.

“Training equipment. Apart from that, a Bec de Corbin, a spear, a shield, two daggers, two gambesons designed for pokemon, one about my size and one for someone the size of a child. Two horn blades and a tail blade. If you could do commissions, could you find a way to make some armor for a Serperior, a Scolipede and a Garchomp?”

Mark listened to the items with increasing interest. “Oh ho, so you plan on abusing that rule as well?”

Anduin laughed. “It’s not my fault they didn’t ban pokemon from using weapons and armor. Sure some mon have it naturally, but like seriously, I can’t believe they didn’t think about this.”

Mark laughed with him, writing down all of the items and sending them off to his suppliers. “Sure thing, some of the items will get here within a few hours. Consider it a get well soon gift.”

Mark left shortly after. A few hours later some soldiers dropped by to drop off some of the supplies Anduin asked for.

As the days passed, Anduin received the rest of his supplies. Not only that, but he was finally well enough to leave the hospital.

He was sad to have not seen Emy again, but his team informed him that she left out of guilt. That and she paid for the arm to be made, which was not cheap.

Anduin realized that he was in the next town, Coppersail City. This was where the gym was, but he and his team were not ready just yet. Not after the last fight.

His team collected the supplies, following Anduin as he led them out of the town, a bit of the ways into the tundra before stopping. He made camp silently, grabbing the training equipment and placing it down on the ground.

“Aerach. You are the only fully evolved Pokemon here with hands, I need you for this.” Anduin stated, rummaging through the training gear.

Aerach stepped forward confusingly, only to be handed a cloth jacket similar to the one Anduin wore. “Put it on.”

She stared at him confusedly, Anduin only nodded and motioned for her to do as asked. Raising an eyebrow, she put it on.

He handed her a blunted training halberd, which she took confusedly. “For some asinine reason the league allows pokemon to use weapons. We are going to abuse that loophole. That and as you’ve all seen.” He motioned to his missing hand, scarred body and missing eye. “I cannot protect myself adequately anymore. I need all of you to be as trained as possible.”

Anduin got into a fighting stance with his own training halberd. “Do the same as me, Aerach.”

She nodded, clumsily getting into a similar stance. “I want you to hit me.”

“{Alpha, what? You want me to hit you?}”

“I want you to try.”

Aerach rolled her eyes, approaching Anduin carefully before doing a gentle swing so she wouldn’t hurt him if she hit him. Anduin moved quickly, locking the head of his halberd around hers. He pulled back, bringing her off balance before unhooking his halberd, thrusting forwards and only stopping the point a few inches from her throat.

“As I said, I want you to try.” Aerach growled in frustration at her Alpha’s smug tone.

Anduin moved first this time, thrusting his halberd forward. Aerach moved to do the same thing he did to her, trying to lock their halberds together. But Anduin moved his away at the last moment, instead bringing it down to lock behind her leg and trip her.

“You’ve seen the advantages from knowing how to fight with weapons and from just fighting with them in general. This is why I am going to train you to fight like I do. I don’t think any of us want me to lose more parts.” He joked.

His team looked determined, realizing what his plan was and seeing the value in it. “For those of you not fully evolved, your training will have to wait. We don’t want muscle memory causing an issue in your new form.”

The training his team did for the rest of that day was something interesting. Aerach got the most time with Anduin, being the only fully evolved pokemon who could hold weapons. She had found her preferred fighting style, using a heavy polearm, more specifically the Bec de Corbin Anduin had asked for.

As night fell, Anduin called his team to him. “One last thing before we go to bed. Dil, we have a challenge to do.”

Dil looked surprised he’d want to do it this quickly. “{Are you sure, Anduin? I am a lot stronger than the rest of your team, it will not be an easy fight for you. Plus, you are still wounded and adjusting.}”

Anduin brushed off her concerns, grabbing a dueling rapier and a buckler from his equipment. The quality wasn’t great, and there was no edge. Which was good in this case, he didn’t want to actually risk hurting a member of his team.

“As long as you don’t go for any ranged moves, I can handle myself.” He responded.

Dil just shook her head, not wanting to fight the man in these conditions. But if he was wanting to lose, she was willing to help.

“{Fine. Get ready Anduin.}”

Dil moved first, rushing forwards to tackle him with her whole body weight. Anduin was too slow to dodge out of the way as the two of them fell over. Her teeth glowed black with energy while simultaneously lighting on fire, a combo of moves surging towards him. Anduin shoved his left hand forwards, causing Dil to bite down painfully on the metal buckler.

Anduin kicked off of her, backing up with his rapier to keep her at distance. His thrusts were quick and measured, she wouldn’t be able to approach him without risk of getting struck. Yet she had to, charging forwards with a swipe.

Anduin stabbed her hide a few times with the blunted tip of the rapier, damaging her a bit. Her strike was wild, full of power.

“Perfect.” Anduin mumbled. He dropped his buckler, striking out with his left hand to catch her claw mid swing.

He clenched his palm, pressing a button. The fingers of his armored hand closed like a vice, only a hair off from breaking her arm. Dil grunted in pain, trying to wiggle her arm out.

Anduin moved forwards, carefully deflecting her other arm with his rapier. He pushed her down with a kick, landing on top of her. Before she was able to react, Anduin had pulled a dagger and had pressed it into her throat.

“Submit.” He stated. She only snarled in response, taking the peaceful moment to kick him off of her, causing him to fly backwards and land on the ground.

Anduin dropped his rapier, picking up one of the training halberds from earlier as she approached. He swung at her as she approached, striking her across the face and sending her reeling. He swung again, keeping the momentum of the halberd going in a figure 8 pattern.

She got hit a few more times, eventually deflecting one of his strikes. She swung forwards, her claws glowing blue as she prepared to end the fight.

Anduin backed up, side stepping her strike before locking his halberd around her neck. He pulled her in, bringing them face to face. The point at the bottom of the axeblade poked painfully into her spine. Anduin again reached for his dagger, pressing it to her throat. “I said, SUBMIT!” He yelled, the usual commanding voice he reserved for battling being used here to make her listen.

It was dead silent, you could hear a pin drop from the town over with how quiet it was. Dil struggled a bit more, trying to find a way to break out of his grasp. “This is why you do not get overconfident or cocky. You Pokemon think you are better than us, stronger than us. You are not. I have proven this to you, twice now. As per your own rules, you are mine to do with as I want.” He growled at her, pressing the dagger against her throat a bit firmer.

Anduin’s guess on her personality held true, her demeanor shifted immediately once she knew she was beaten. She stopped struggling, an unreadable expression on her face as Anduin stood up off of her and put away his weapons.

She reached over, hooking her wings around Anduin as she nuzzled up against him. In a vastly more playful and loving tone than before, she spoke.

“{Finally! I have someone stronger than me who I can serve, someone who truly deserves my service. I’ve been at the top for so long because of my line, it's gotten so boring having to protect the others on the mountain. You could have done anything with me once you won, yet you chose to spare me. I’ll serve you with all my heart, your highness, your pleasure over mine always.}”

‘Oh. Alright then. I was just expecting her to become more submissive, I wasn’t expecting someone this devoted.’ He thought as he was trapped in a bone crushing hug against the rough skin of the dragon type mon.

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Anduin’s team made their way back to the town, cautiously trying to convince Dil to let Anduin, who was still trapped in a hug, go.

He would’ve been amused, but the strength of the hug, as well as the rough skin Dil had made the whole experience fairly uncomfortable.

“Dil, as much as I appreciate the hug, I am going to have to be in the hospital again if you keep squeezing me so tightly.” He grunted out.

Dil whined, letting him go after a few more squeezes. Anduin dropped to the ground, picking himself up with a stretch that popped his joints.

“{But your highness, you are still recovering. It’s not good for you to be walking around so much while recovering, let alone training your mon for hours and fighting me.}”

Anduin shook his head, he was tired sure. But it wasn’t like he had to be carried. “Dil, I appreciate the gesture, I can walk just fine. I’ll let you know if I think otherwise.”

He suddenly remembered what he forgot to ask her. “Oh right, Dil, what moves do you know?”

“{Your highness, I know: Iron Tail, Double-Edge, Draco Meteor, Crunch, Dual Chop, Fire Fang, Tackle, Sand Attack, Dragon Rage, Sandstorm, Sand Tomb, Take Down, Slash, Dragon Claw, Dig.}”

Anduin nodded with a smile. “Good to hear, I have a few ideas of what moves to help you learn next, but apart from that, you are pretty much perfect move wise.”

Dil beamed under his praise, a bright blush on her face. “{Your highness, you are too kind.}”

The group entered the town, Somni disappearing again before they entered fully. Coppersail town was a quaint but pretty place. Anduin first noticed the ambient heat of the area, almost letting out an audible sigh at the difference to the outside.

While this part of the region tended to be around -10oC to -15oC (14oF to 5oF), it was notably hot in some parts of the town. Looking around the town as the group explored, it didn’t take them long to find out why. Apart from the large frozen river that went through the town, there were dozens of hot springs and geysers around the town.

One such geyser, seemingly the largest one, shot out its water and steam, Anduin and his team getting hit by the spray. Noticing the building around the larger geyser and some of the larger hot springs, this would seem to be the gym.

“A fire type gym, if I recall what they said. Well, I certainly know where I want to hit tomorrow, but it might be best if we rent a room. Girls, do you mind if I recall some of you, I don’t want to take up the whole room in the entry hall of the next inn.” Ceanúil nodded her agreement, nudging Dil who nodded after being prompted to do so.

Anduin pulled out their pokeballs, recalling them as he searched around to find an inn. It only took the remaining team about fifteen minutes before they found one. The Lucky Spring, read the sign. Anduin shrugged, heading inside.

“My, it’s been a while since we’ve had a traveler enter our inn.” He heard a younger woman say, looking over he spotted a woman only a few years older than him, dressed in a nice but meant to be very revealing dress.

“I am going to guess that there are ample rooms for rent?” Anduin asked.

“Aye, that there are, sir. What size would you like to rent?”

“Ehh biggest you have available, the rest of my team takes up a bit of space.”

The woman nodded. “That’ll run ya…fifteen-hundo.” Anduin grimaced at the price, even if he wasn’t the one ultimately footing the bill.

“Christ, alright.” He muttered, pulling the black credit card from his wallet and paying for the room. The woman tossed him a key card, which he caught.

“Last room at the end of the hall.” She stated, pointing to one of the doorways. “If you need anything and I’m not here, just ask for Laura dear~” Anduin turned around before he could blush, the woman’s physique, flirting and very revealing clothing making it hard for him to focus.

He felt Aerach pushing angrily on his pants, looking down it was clear she was unhappy with the attention Anduin was getting. The rest of his team didn’t seem to be too happy about it either.

The group walked in silence for a minute, eventually reaching their new room for the next day or two, swiping the keycard before heading inside. The room was large, quite nicely decorated and had a massive bed, something Anduin was very grateful for with his current team.

A flash of light came from the living room as Somni appeared, giving Anduin a loving smile as she did so which he returned.

“{My liege, Dána and I spotted a few places around the town we would like to look at. Do you mind if we go on our own and check them out?}” Nathair asked.

Anduin shook his head. “As long as you two stick together. Aerach, if you are not doing anything could you go with them? I just don’t want to risk anyone getting hurt.”

Aerach shook her head no. “{Apologies Alpha, but I happened to notice a more secluded open area not too far from here, I was going to go practice some of your lessons.}”

Anduin smiled in response, giving her a nod. “Hmm, well I am glad to hear you like the lessons, but don’t tire yourself out too badly.”

“{Why? Have something fun planned for the night?}” Aerach stated suggestively, giving him a wink.

Anduin sighed. “Contrary to what you might think, I am not usually thinking with my dick. Somni, could you keep an eye on them from afar with your psychic powers?”

Somni nodded, floating closer to him so she could nuzzle her head against his chest. “{I can indeed, Master Anduin. But I will not be able to hear or see anything in the room while I am doing so. If you need me, just give me a poke.}” She floated over to one of the chairs in the room, laying down on it as her eyes glowed pink.

Dána and Nathair left shortly after, Aerach doing the same once she collected her training gear. Leaving Anduin in the room alone.

He went about removing his backpack and equipment, rubbing his shoulders as the stuff in his pack was not light.

He made his way over to the couch, turning on the tv and pulling out the pokeball of one of his two remaining pokemon. He wasn’t sure which ball he had grabbed as he wasn’t paying too much attention at the time.

He released the pokemon, the large red and blue Ceanúil appearing next to him. “{Darling!}” She happily exclaimed as she moved over to him, carefully climbing onto the couch as she laid down, her front half actually covering him due to her length.

“Oof, hello to you as well Ceanúil! Affectionate as always I see.” He was again surprised by just how comfortable he was with her laying on top of him, her weight was distributed closer to the center of her body, which when combined with her very soft underbelly made her feel akin to a very soft weighted blanket.

Ceanúil’s reaction was to just nuzzle his chest, letting her head rest on it once she was done. Anduin brought a hand up to pet her, causing her to let some happy clicking.

(And this is where the lewd starts, I hope you all are ready for some not really bug action now that I think about it, that would just be weird to write. No, I do not think Scolipedes should have the anatomy of a bug despite what they are based on. They kinda just look like horses with armor, let's be honest here.

Kink list for this lewd: Light Master/Pet, Fellatio, Anal fingering, Anal sex, spanking, ass to mouth, )

The two of them lay there for some time, Anduin eventually noticing that Ceanúil's nuzzling was starting to creep lower and lower.

He didn't comment on it, turning his attention back to the tv. What he wasn't able to ignore was Ceanúil shoving her snout down the front of his pants.

"Really? You as well, Ceanúil? I had thought it was just the others who wanted me this way." He exclaimed in confusion and shock.

"{Darling, I am pretty sure your entire team wants to mate with you.}" She stated as she began to nuzzle his clothed bulge.

He reached his hands down, carefully removing his pants and underwear so that they didn't get caught on her horns. He then reached up to take off his shirt as well, he had to pause halfway through doing it as he felt a large, warm and wet tongue begin to lap at his still flaccid cock. Which quickly began to stiffen.

“Ceanúil, you could have let me at least finish getting undressed.”

“{I’m sorry Darling, but I’ve been having fantasies of this since I saw you mating with Aerach. I am a fair bit bigger than her, but I hope you’ll accept me just the same.}”

Anduin looked over at her with a warm smile. “Ceanúil, I would have stopped you if I wasn’t interested.”

Ceanúil let out some happy clicks, she moved her head down, taking in Anduin’s entire cock without much issue.

He groaned at the feeling. “As much fun as it is to be pampered, for tonight I don’t think I want to be the only one getting some pleasure. You’re pretty long, think you could rearrange yourself so I can help you out a bit too?”

Ceanúil nodded, moving her body around while still swallowing Anduin to his base. Once she had gotten to a position she felt he would like, she started to bob up and down his cock while presenting herself to him.

Anduin found himself gazing at her presented ass. He was surprised but relieved to find her anatomy was fairly normal, which was what he was hoping for. He was a bit concerned due to her size, he wasn’t exactly small but he was unsure if he’d actually be able to satisfy her.

He brought his non metallic hand over, rubbing and groping Ceanúil’s rather plump cheeks, causing a moan and a pleased set of clicks.

“{I take it you like what you see darling?}” She pulled off of his cock to ask, going back to swallowing it once she was done speaking.

“I’m having a hard time stopping myself from diving in.” He answered with a chuckle.

“{Darling, do as you like. You are my master after all.]” She explained seductively, pulling off his cock entirely with a pop. Seeing that he was fully erect and fairly lubricated, pushed her ass further against him, wanting him to fuck her.

“Just give me a second lass, I’m trying to figure out something.”

“{Somni already told me you like anal, I wouldn’t have presented myself like this if I didn’t want it as well.}”

“Well then. Wasn’t expecting her to share that, but all the better for me. I am going to try and loosen you up a bit first, I don’t want to risk hurting you.”

He brought his right hand over to her mouth. “Get my fingers wet for me.” She nodded, taking his whole fist into her mouth and coating it in her saliva.

Anduin raised an eyebrow. “{In case you were wanting to do more than just that, Darling. Somni was quite vivid with telling us your kinks.”} She explained, teasingly near the end.

He chuckled, bringing his hand back over to her ass, pressing his index finger against her slightly donut shaped tailhole. “Heh, guess y’all must really like me if you still want to fuck me after hearing about what I am into.”

He pushed his finger inside of her gently, causing her to click in pleasure. Her reaction was both less painful and more happy than he expected. “Did…did just that feel good?”

Ceanúil nodded. “{Yes it did, Darling. Both because you are the one doing it and enjoying doing it, but it seems my ass was more sensitive than I thought it was.}”

Anduin smiled widely once he learned that. He continued to gently finger her, adding a second and then a third finger as she writhed in pleasure, more intensely with every added finger.

This went on for some time, Ceanúil’s pussy glistening with arousal as the minutes passed. Eventually Anduin withdrew his fingers, unable to wait any longer as he sat upright, grabbing her ass and pulling it down onto his cock.

He groaned in pleasure once he was inside of her, but any noises he made were drowned out by the loud clicking moan that Ceanúil let out.

He felt something wet drip down onto his balls. “Did you just cum from me putting it inside?”

“{Darling, What you were already doing had me right at the edge. You pushing inside of me was enough for me to cum.}”

Anduin pulled her down the rest of the way, causing the two of them to groan in pleasure once he was fully hilted inside of her. He started to pull her back up until only his tip was inside before pulling her back down.

Ceanúil moaned at the rough and fast treatment, getting railed in the ass this hard for her first time causing just enough pain to her large body for it to feel amazing. Noticing this Anduin brought his non-metallic hand up, bringing it down in a powerful smack that caused her smooth ass to ripple.

“Truly a buttslut at heart, most girls don’t enjoy this at all, let alone as much as you are.” He teased.

“{Your buttslut Master, only for you.}” She moaned out, giving up on referring to him by her usual pet name.

The rough anal fuck continued for a few minutes, Anduin being forced to stop at one point due to Ceanúil orgasming for a second time. Her anal walls squeezed him too tightly for him to move at all.

As time went on, Anduin’s orgasm quickly began to approach “Fuck, I think I’m going to cum in a second or two Ceanúil.”

“{Don’t you dare pull out, my Darling Master. I want to feel it~}” She moaned out, pushing her hips back against him as he did his final few thrusts.

Anduin came, groaning out loudly in pleasure as his seed shot deep into Ceanúil’s ass, who moaned, orgasming again from the sensation.

He rested against her as the two of them caught their breaths. He slipped out of her ass as his cock softened.

Ceanúil turned around almost immediately, bringing her head down as she took him into her mouth, cleaning him up.

Anduin groaned out in pleasure, not expecting this. “T-that was just in your ass, Ceanúil.”

“{I don’t mind, Darling. Somni said you liked it, and I don’t mind doing it for you.}” She simply stated, licking him clean.

He laid back down on the couch after putting his underwear back on, Ceanúil moving back to her spot so she could keep acting like an impromptu blanket for him.

(LEWD OVER, YOU CAN GO BACK TO READING NOW YOU LEMON HATERS!

Haha just joking, love y’all lemon haters too.)

Facepalming, he reached over with a sigh. “Shit, I can’t believe I forgot to release Dil.” He muttered, grabbing Dil’s pokeball and releasing her.

She looked around the room, sniffing the air as she looked over at Anduin. “Yeah.” He answered her question before she could ask it. She pouted with a sad look in her eyes.

“{Your highness, you could have just asked me. I am your humble servant after all, I’d do anything if it would please you just a little.}” She devotedly explained as she sat down on the floor next to him, the couch not big enough for the three of them. She leaned forward to rest her head on top of his.

“I know that, Dil. We did kinda just fully meet, even if you were watching over me while I was out.” He took note of how devoted she was to him, guessing that she was always a complete hardcore sub at heart and had been forced to repress it for years. “That and your rough skin would be an issue. I’ll find a way to get around that, I just don’t think anyone here wants to risk hurting me down there.”

“{Hmm…}” She let out a sound of contemplation, zoning out as she tried to think of ways to circumvent that issue.

“Plus, I am satisfied for now. If I have any needs, I’ll let you know.”

The trio stayed there in silence, Anduin falling asleep just before the rest of his team got back. He woke up ever so slightly as he felt Aerach and Dil pick him up and place him on the bed, the rest of the team curling around him and using him as a shared pillow.

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Anduin awoke early, finding the rest of his team sleeping around and on him. He laid there comfortably, his body covered by his team’s soft fur, feathers, skin and slightly rougher skin in Dil’s case.

Minutes passed before he got up with a yawn, gently removing himself from under his team. Making his way into the washroom, he began to go through his usual morning routine, which as he quickly learned required him to take off his prosthetic.. He wasn’t expecting for the door to the washroom to open while he was showering, looking over through the curtain to see that Dil had entered.

“{Your highness, you are still recovering. You don’t need to wash your own hair, you are missing an arm for Arceus’ sake..}” She fretted, making her way over to the shower, opening the curtain and reaching her clawed wings up to scrub his hair for him.

Initially he moved his head back from her, not wanting to lose his hair or his scalp. Though he was surprised to find that she was able to do it surprisingly well, and without hurting him either.

“Dil, I’m 20 years old. I don’t need you washing my hair for me.”

“{You are missing an arm. That stump is not going to be of much use with washing your hair, your highness.}” She brushed off his complaints, finishing washing him. “{Plus, your highness. I am but a servant for you, as I’ve said before, nothing is too far when it comes to serving you,}”

“What, like doing what Aerach does or wants to do for me?” He joked with a chuckle.

“{If that is what you want, I will do so happily with a smile and thank you afterwards. All you have to do is name what you want me to do.}” She stated, her tone leaving no room for doubt.

Anduin just shook his head. “I see. We can discuss that can of worms later. Oh right! I forgot to mention this to both you and Ceanúil, I don’t plan on having you fight in the gym battles til later on. It wouldn’t be fair.”

Dil nodded with a frown.. “{As you request, your highness, I will not ask to participate in the battles until you tell me to. Though speaking of Aerach, do you need relief in that kind of way, your Highness.}” She stated as she dropped to her knees, staring up at him as her mouth opened suggestively.

Anduin blushed, coughing into his hand as he cut her off before things got spicier. “As I said, we can discuss that later, Dil. I am most certainly not saying no, you were just a few minutes too late for that anyways.”

Dil frowned at that as well, a sad whine coming from her as she was unable to serve Anduin once again.

“Come on now Dil, you’ll have opportunities later. Let's go and wake the girls, we have a long and hard day ahead of us, that second badge will be mine.”

Dil nodded again as she stood up, watching Anduin as he got dressed and rearmed, making his way back into the main room. His team members were awake now, as he found out.

“Girls, last city we were in, you all wanted to do things with me. Sadly we were unable to do them, as we got wrapped up in that ring debacle.” He held up his hand, showing the ring that was now seated on his right ring finger.

“Hopefully this time around, we can finally spend the downtime you are all wanting.” His team cheered.

“But we should beat the gym first, that is ultimately the reason we are here and I would prefer to lounge around in downtime once he had completed our goal.” His proposal got mixed reactions, though it was positive overall.

“With that being said, Somni will not fight in the gym battle, as we all know. But I have elected to not add Dil or Ceanúil to this battle. They have not been training with us as long, and are less experienced in the way I fight. I would prefer to be with the two of you a bit more before I throw you into an important fight.”

The two of them nodded, seeing his reasoning even if they were sad to disappoint him.

“As you all know, this gym is a fire type gym. We do not have any type advantages here, and we do have one type weakness. Nathair, you are a very important member of this team, but I am afraid in this battle I will have to bench you.”

“{N-no, my liege! You do not have t-to bench me. I can still fight even at a disadvantage, you of all people taught me that. You are a human, yet you fight and win against other humans and even other pokemon.}” Nathair hurriedly explaining, her usual timid tone mostly replaced by one of confidence.

“{That and I can feel something welling up inside me, I think this gym might be the final thing to push me over the edge and help me evolve. I am certain Dána has the same feeling.}”

Dána nodded, moving to stand next to Nathair. “{That’s right sir, we’re going to get out there and kick that gym leader’ but!}” Dána energetically explained,hopping in place.
Andin nodded, moving over and sitting on the edge of the bed as he prepared a plan.

Some time later, Anduin stood back up, gathering his stuff and heading to the door. The rest of his team minus Somni who teleported away after giving Andin a quick rub with her head, followed suit, exiting the inn and heading over to the gym.

Reaching the hot springs, Anduin pushed aside the door as he entered. He heard the clicking of heels approaching, a smooth and sultry voice piping up. Looking over he saw a tall woman, dressed in the gaudiest clothing he’d ever seen. Arceus, she hurt to look at from all the sequins glittering on her body.

“It seems that someone is here to battle me, Ohohoho. I wish you luck, challenger,, my schedule’s free today, so just enter through the door over there when you are ready. To be beaten”

“You must be the Áine then, you are…different than I had imagined.” Anduin commented, unsure of how to react to the ladies' interesting personality.

“Oh my, most people have that opinion of me, but I don’t mind at all. I’m a fashion designer baby, I set the fashion trends of this region. “ Anduin an eyebrow at that, realizing pretty quickly just how overly confident and prideful this lady seems to be.

“Well then, I’ll be joining you on the field in a matter of minutes.” Anduin idly commented as he looked around for a door to the arena. His unspoken question was answered as the gym leader pointed out a specific doorway not too far away.

Anduin tilted his head in thanks, heading through the door before waiting for his battle to start. A loud buzzer sounded, breaking Anduin out of his thoughts.

“Trainer, make your way through the next doorway to reach the arena.” The intercom spoke, a secretary urging him to continue.

“Yeah, I’m on it.”

The arena itself was about what Anduin expected. It was swelteringly hot, the arena located in the largest and hottest of the hotsprings, with a few visible platforms floating in the pool. Across from him stood Áine, who had changed into a fashionable swimsuit. Though he hesitantly called it that, considering it was quite literally a few strings wrapped around her body. There was nothing left to the imagination, the clothing skimpy and tight enough to entice the audience to brave the heat.

A referee spoke up as Anduin got to his spot. “Standard league rules! This will be a three on three match! No items that are not already held. First trainer to knock out all of his or her opponents Pokemon wins!”

“I look forward to seeing the Gauntleted Fighter in action, last I had heard you were bed ridded and on life support.” She quipped, pulling a pokeball from her swimsuit top, tossing it forwards and throwing out a Braixen

“I was indeed, but I have recovered.” He motions to his hand and eye. “Mostly intact as well.” He grabbed his own pokeball, throwing out Nathair.

“{Really? I’m up first master?}”

“You are the only one of us with ranged attacks, you will have to defeat or at least damage them as much as possible.” He explained quickly.

“And…BEGIN!” The Referee yelled as both challenger and leader called out their orders.

“Lock em up!” and “Scare em.” respectively. Nathair acted first, glaring daggers at the Braixen who started to lock up in fear, but not before howling loudly. But rather than having the desired effect, Nathair seemed to bulk up, her muscles growing as she got more confident.

“Contrary, your stat moves do the opposite.” Anduin smugly explained. “Leech em.”

Nathair acted first again, shooting out a barrage of seeds that took route in the fire fox’s fur, sapping their health. “Shit, we can’t let them keep setting up. Charge em!”The Braixen nodded, breaking out into a full sprint as they charged towards Nathair, bursting into fire mid stride.

They impacted Nathair quickly, slamming into her painfully as the flames made it do even more damage. The Braixen seemed quicker after the strike, the flame charge speeding her up. Luckily the seeds healed her wound slightly, enough to keep her standing.

“Wrap em up.” “Charge again!” The orders rang out, Nathair still moving quicker as she started to wrap around the Braixen, who burst into flames in response. The seeds were barely keeping Nathair conscious while she was being burnt. “Shit, last strike then Nathair, hit em with a tackle.”

Nathair slammed into the Braixen, doing a bit of damage. The fire finally finished her off as she fell back, embers and smoldering covered her body. Anduin recalled her.

“Point 1 to leader Áine, Anduin only has two pokemon left.” The referee called out from his stand.

“Alright, you got this.” He threw out Aerach, who quickly got into a fighting stance. They had discussed beforehand, they were not going to pull out the weapons just yet.

Aerach dashed forwards, already knowing the command. “FAKE OUT!” Anduin yelled only a second before Aerach impacted the Braixen, stunning them with the blow. The Braixen stumbled, barely still conscious. The seeds still sapped the fox’s health.

“Ok, play it safe now Vix, go for psy-” “Quick attack, press the advantage! Show no hesitation!” Aerach nodded, turning into a blur as she dashed forwards, slamming into the Braixen before they could react and knocking them out.

“Point 2 goes to Anduin, the Gauntleted Fighter. Áine only has two Pokemon remaining!”

Áine tsked in frustration, recalling her Braixen and throwing out a Darumaka. “Don’t look so cocky. Darling, deal with the bunny.”

“Aerach, show them our friendship.” Anduin ordered, Aerach nodding as she recognized the command. She launched forwards with a return, her immense love for her Alpha making the attack sound and look like a sonic boom, blasting the Darumaka backwards. The Darumaka stumbled to its feet, charging forwards with a flame charge and impacting Aerach, damaging her heavily.

“Again!” Both trainers called, yet Aerach acted first, showing her love once more and knocking out the Darumaka in the process.

“Point 3 goes to Anduin, the Gauntleted Fighter. Leader Áine only has one Pokemon left.”

“Shit, I’m not going to lose this easily. Go, Lucretia!” Áine threw out her last pokeball, a fancier one in design. A Salazzle appeared, winking and throwing suggestive poses at Anduin, the crowd and even Aerach who scrunched her nose in disgust.

“Keep showing em.” Anduin ordered, Aerach charging forwards to unleash another devastating Return. Just before it landed, the Salazzle acted. “Get rid of em.” A poisonous fog filled the arena, poisoning Aerach. Only for a high powered Venoshock shot out of the Salazzle’s mouth, luck being on Áine’s side as it seems the strike was a crit as well.

Aerach fell over, unconscious from one hit. “Oh shit.” Anduin muttered, grimacing.

“Point 4 goes to Áine. Anduin has one pokemon left.” The referee called out.

“Shit, Dána, you got this.” Dána appeared, getting into her usual fighting stance.

“Set up Dána, she can barely hurt you.” He called out, Dána starting to stack curse after curse on herself. Her speed boost negating the penalties.

“Oh shit, don’t let him get away with that. Get over there Lucretia.” Sadly Lucretia was not trained for speed, and by the time she reached Dána, the curses had stacked way too high.

“It won’t be super effective but, DUAL CHOP!” Anduin called out, Dána squawking aggressively as she brought her hands down. Luck is a fickle mistress, as both chops were a crit, sending Lucretia into the floor with a shockwave.

Lucretia did not stand up. “AND THE WINNER OF THIS FIGHT IS ANDUIN, THE GAUNTLETED FIGHTER! 3 POINTS TO 2!”

“Tsk, lucky strike.” Áine walked over, tossing a badge over to him. Anduin caught it, bowing to the crowd before leaving the Gym and heading over to the Pokemon center. Dána jumped into his arms, giving him an affectionate hug that he returned.

“You did wonderful, Dána.” She cooed happily as they hugged. He handed over his two unconscious pokemon to the nurse. A few hours passed before he got the balls back.

He was exhausted as he was still recovering. Heading back to their room, he let out his mon. Anduin started to walk over to the bed, and promptly passed out before even reaching it. He vaguely noticed two flashes of light and a large red mon catching him before his consciousness faded.

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Anduin woke up suddenly. He felt a lot more squished than usual as well, the slight uncomfortable feeling being the cause for his awakening. Opening his eyes a crack to take in the almost pitch black room, and taking a quick look, his eyes widened as he saw that both Nathair and Dána had evolved.

The team’s sleeping arrangement was quite something. His head rested against Ceanúil’s curled up body, his left arm was being used as a pillow by Somni, and his right arm was being used similarly by Dána, who was now a Blaziken. His left leg was being cuddled by Aerach, and the now much larger Nathair was coiled around his other leg. Dil was the odd one out due to the limited space on the bed, but she was gingerly laying her head on his crotch and the lower part of his stomach.

Anduin carefully extracted himself from the bed, gingerly making his way over to the bathroom to take a quick piss and to splash his face with water. Leaving the bathroom once he was done, he noticed the girls did not wake up

Since his old Insomnia was acting up, and deciding to let them sleep, he made his way over to the couch, closing his eyes as he tried to force himself to be tired.

Time passed before he was brought out of this by a very warm, very soft and slightly larger than him Mon working her way onto the couch beside him.

“{Honey, move over a bit.” Dána whispered sleepily. He noticed Dána’s voice had gotten more mature, almost motherly as she tried to scooch him over.

“Dána, you should be asleep. It's like 4 in the morning..” He muttered.

“{I could say the same to you. You need to sleep more than we do, we can rest while in our Pokeballs. You have to keep functioning. Now if you’re not going to come sleep on the bed, I’m not going to let you just lay there.”

He felt her shifting slightly before finding himself being held up in the air. His eyes opened, noticing that Dána had picked him up, held him in the air as she took his spot, before laying him down on top of her with his head nestled against her feathered chest.

“Y’know. I was not expecting that, but I am not going to complain.” Dána cooed happily, holding him tight against her in a strong hug.

“{I can finally hug you fully, honey. You have no idea how much I wanted to evolve.}” She giddily explained, hugging him tighter against her very muscled body as Anduin was quick to notice. If it wasn’t for her feathers cushioning his body, her body would probably feel closer to metal rather than flesh..

“Careful with your new strength, Dána, I don’t want to go to the hospital again.” He grunted out, feeling dangerously close to dislocating something. Dána squeaked, letting go of him as he took a deep breath.

“{Oh crap, I’m so sorry honey.}” Her eyes began to wetten with unshed tears, her face scrunching up in guilt. Anduin merely smiled in response, wrapping his arms around her instead.

“There we go, you can still hug me this way but you won’t be able to risk hurting me with your love. I’m not mad at ya Dána, I just had to warn ya, that is all.”

Dána gently wrapped her arms around him in response, pulling him back into the feathers on her heated chest.

Anduin looked over to the window, seeing that the sun wasn’t even close to rising yet. “Honestly I might just go to sleep like this, all of you are just too damn comfortable as pillows or blankets.” He quietly chuckled, resting his head on her and closing his eyes.

“{You know, Honey. There is another reason I wanted to evolve so badly.}” Dána whispered as she leaned in closely, nuzzling her head against his.

(HAHA Johnathon, you are banging my red fire chicken. Also smut time boyos, any downtime means smut in this story.

Kink list: Threesome M/F/F, Master/Pet, Romantic Sex, Vaginal penetration, double blowjob, ball worship, Anal sex kinda?, cloacal penetration, Cunnilingus? Idk really (Unsure really what a Serperior should have in terms of this story, but this makes the most sense to me).

“Oh? And what’s that Dána.” Anduin asked, his tone quieting to match her own.

“{I finally get to have you, and all for myself this time.}”

“To yourself? What?” He asked confusedly

“{Don’t worry about it, Honey.}” She quickly stated, reaching one of her hands down to palm his clothed bulge.

“Ah, I should have known. I’ll warn you lass, we’ll have to be quiet if you are wanting to do this here. We don’t want to wake the others.”

“{Who said you hadn’t woken some up, my liege.}” Anduin heard Nathair from over his shoulder, idly noting down that her accent had become intensely french and incredibly alluring.

Dána blanked, seeing the large snake coiled next to the couch. “{Uhh, hey Nathair. How’s it going?}”

“{You are not going to have him for yourself, I have waited even longer than you have to show him my love. We’ll have to share him for the night.}”

Dána thought it over, rubbing her chin thoughtfully. “{Hmm, I guess that can work. It’ll be just like old times, heh.}” She cheerfully mentioned.

“Again, what?”

“{Nothing Honey/My Liege.}” He heard quickly from his mon. He shook his head.

“Anyways, I’d be glad to have you both.”

Dána pushed him up slightly, maneuvering her way out from under him and onto the floor, Nathair joining next to her.

Anduin sat up right, having a good guess of what they were wanting. He reached don, removing his underwear, his already half hard cock revealed to both of the girls.

Nathair acted first, moving in quickly to start licking his cock, tasting and smelling it due to her snake tongue. She quietly moaned at the taste, having envisioned this moment for a while now. She pushe in further, taking him deeper into her mouth and down her throat.

Dána pouted, not having lips was an issue for blowjobs, but she wouldn’t be stopped by that. She moved below Nathair, pressing her warm beak to Anduin’s balls, she let her tongue out to start lapping at him.

Anduin groaned from the duality of the situations, on one hand Nathair’s blowjob felt incredible, her snakelike throat milking him. On the other hand, Dána’s heated and rather warm tongue felt just as incredible as she dragged it over his sensitive spots.

“Shit, the two of you feel heavenly like this.” Anduin quietly groaned out in pleasure, his hands coming down to rub each of their heads encouragingly. The two of them let out happy noises at the affectionate and encouraging rubbing.

The double blowjob went for a few more minutes before Anduin felt his peak approaching. “I’m gonna cum in a moment girls, just warning you.” Anduin quickly mentioned. Both Nathair and Dána sped up after hearing that, coaxing him to orgasm. Anduin groaned in pleasure as he hit his peak.

Nathair pulled off of his cock just as the first few ropes shot out, Anduin’s cum splashing across his Pokemon’s faces. The two of them began to lick off what they could, Dána finishing first as she leaned over to start lapping it off of Nathair’s face who responded in kind with a blush.

Anduin watched this incredibly hot scene as he recovered from his orgasm, his cock staying erect from the show.

“{Since you went first with sucking him off, can I be the first to fuck him? Please?}” Dána pleaded. Nathair shook her head with a sigh.

“{A-alright, try not to take too long please?. It just means I get the pleasure of taking his final load of the night.}” A bit of her timidness crept back into her voice.

“{Yay!}” Dána quietly cheered, her fist pumping the air. She moved back onto the couch quickly, sitting next to Anduin. She seemed to be waiting for something to happen.

Anduin looked confused, his eyes widening briefly as he realized what she wanted. He leaned in her direction, forcing her to lay back and pinning her under his body. He had no doubt that she could break out quite easily, not that she would try by the look of it.

No words were needed. Anduin moved his head to her’s, waiting a moment as he tried to figure out how to do what he wanted to do. Seemingly having figured it out, he locked her beak in a loving kiss.

Dána didn’t move at first, not sure what to do. Anduin pulled back. “It’s a kiss, lass. Do you not know what that is?”

“{Um, no. I do not, Honey.}”

“Hmm, it's basically a human way of showing love and affection for someone, though the type of kiss I just did to ya is only reserved for those you love.”

Dána thought for a moment, thinking over how it felt. Her arms shot up, wrapping around his chest and bringing him back into a passionate kiss which Anduin happily returned.

Anduin felt her legs wrap around his back, he reached down to grab a hold of himself, angling himself just right before thrusting inside of her. The duo moaned in unison as he did so.

Anduin was surpised to find out just how hot she was inside. He wasn’t one to compare people like this, but even he couldn’t help but note down how good it was. It was comparable to a hotspring.

He grabbed a hold of her hip and ass, loving the way his hand sunk into her feathers, muscle and fat. He thrust into her over and over, Dána having to stifle her moans with her hands.

“{Hmm, my liege? It's not fair for her to get all the pleasure, would you m-mind helping me out a bit.}” Nathair asked, moving along the couch over to the pair, presenting her wet cloaca to Anduin, who mentall crossed off the idea of a snake vagina.

“Sure thing, Nathair.” He simply stated, leaning up slightly to do his best interpretation of what cunnilingus would be for a cloaca. Lucky for him, it seemed he was doing well, as it didn’t take long for Nathair to have to stifle her moans with the tip of her tail as well.

As time went on, Anduin began to feel his second orgasm approaching, and from the way his mon were acting, it seems they were just about to. Dána in particular looked like she was only barely holding herself back, wanting to cum with him.

He wasn’t one to keep a girl waiting, with a final thrusts, Anduin came. Spilling out his load deep into her warm and clenching insides. He felt more liquid gush over his face, a barely muffled moan escaping Nathair which he gathered was her reaching her peak.

He pulled back from her, stopping to catch his breath as he felt Dána’s legs not letting him go. “Dána, I need you to removed your legs.”

She whined. “{But I don’t wanna, it feels too good.}” Anduin sighed with a chuckle, nuding her legs until she finall relented, pulling them away so he could get up.

He was only away from Dána for a few seconds before he felt a snakelike tongue cleaning his member off. It took a bit for him to become hard again, but it seemed his body wasn’t done just yet.

She lightly pushed him down to the couch with her tail, bringing her body up so she could press him against her Cloaca.

“{My liege, I have wanted this ever since you saved me, even if it was just a short while ago. You have no idea how happy I am to finally be able to do this.}”

She lowered herself down, the two of them groaning and moaning from the sensation. Anduin was completely unprepared for the sensations he was feeling, it was truly unlike anything else he had ever felt and didn’t have the words for it apart from heavenly.

Nathair thrust her snake body down and up, plunging him deep insider of her with every bounce. Anduin went to thrust up back against her, but she stopped him.

“{No, my liege. This is an act of service, you do not have to do anything, I want to do everything I possibly can for you, I believe every member of your team shares that opinion despite how briefly we have known you. There is just something about you, I am not sure how to place it.}”

He didn’t know what to say, so he simply smiled and nodded, letting her pleasure him.

Her bouncing continued, Anduin quickly noticing that every other thrust she felt wildly different inside. He put two and two together quickly, realizing that she must be alternating between her ass and her pussy from.

“I didn’t expect you to be one interested in anal, Nathair.” He commented, groaning out in pleasure.

“{I am not, my liege. As far as I know, only two people here in the team love it, two of us like it, and Aerach and myself are willing to do it whenever you may want, but we do not care for it. But if it makes you happy, than I shall do so with a smile on my face.}” She explained.

Anduin leaned up, bringing her into a passionate kiss that she quickly reciprocated, it was a bit clumsy at first, with her fangs and all, but they figured it out eventually.

Nathair was the first to cum, writhing on his cock as she twitched. Anduin wasn’t close yet, not that he minded, that did happen every once in a while. What he didn’t expect was for her to continue bouncing during her orgasm, her moans growing louder as she worked her oversensitive holes over him.

The shear devotion of her act brought him quickly to orgasm, and only after a few minutes inside of her, he came. Her bouncing halting as she collapsed against him.

“{Warm…}” She moaned out, his hot semen feeling wonderful in her cold blooded body.

They took a brief moment to catch their breaths, the trio cleaning themselves and the couch before heading back over to the bed. Anduin leaned over to give each of them a kiss, crawling back into bed without remembering to put his undergarments back on.

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(CONTINUING THE TRAIN FROM YESTERDAY, ALL ABOARD THE SUGGESTIVE SMUT TRAIN)

Anduin woke up that morning, he wasn’t sure what the reason was at first, though he realized pretty quickly. A rough feeling covered his junk, the feeling moved every so often, not enough to hurt but certainly enough to feel unpleasant.

Opening his eyes a crack, he looked down to see what the cause was. Dil had gone back to her usual sleeping position, using his lap as a pillow. But as he forgot to put his undergarments back on, that meant using his uncovered genitals and presently morning wood as said pillow.

Rather than just that, it seemed her body had realized what it was using during the night, as she was currently nuzzling against him.

Normally he’d be perfectly fine with this, finding it rather hot. But Dil’s rough skin did not make it feel pleasant by any sense of the word.

Grimacing quietly, he reached down to gently shake her awake. It took a few moments but she eventually did.

She opened her eyes sleepily, mouth opening as she went to says something. “{Your highness, what do you need fro-}” She cut off as she took a breath, her eyes opened wider as she realized where she was.

She looked up at Anduin as she silently asked what to do. Anduin thought for a moment, motioning to his cock.

Dil smiled enthusiastically, opening her maw before moving in and taking Anduin all the way inside of her throat.

Anduin groaned as she took him in, his hands reflexively coming to rest on her head, to which she made a happy sound in response. Anduin could only describe it as a combination of a purr and rocks grinding together.

Dil starting bobbing her head up and don, being very mindful of her teeth as she did so, her tongue lapping at his sensitive tip. Cocking her head as she tried to convey what she was wanting Anduin to do.

Anduin smirked, understanding her clearly, his hands moved to the two protrusions on either side of her head, finding them to be surprisingly soft. He pulled her down his cock, using her as nothing more than a masturbatory aid. And by the sounds she made, she was absolutely loving it.

He roughly face-fucked her for a few minutes before his peak finally arrived. Pulling her down one last time, he came with a grunt. Dil swallowed his load happily.

She went to pull off of him once his orgasm subsided, but he stopped her. “No. You said you were willing to do as Aerach did the other day.’ Dil nodded .

Anduin sighed in relief, beginning to empty his bladder into Dil’s awaiting mouth and throat. Surprisingly, unlike Aerach who simply wanted to do it as a service, Dil seemed to genuinely enjoy being used as a toilet, even going so far as to suckle slightly on him as he emptied his bladder.

A little odd, sure, but Anduin wasn’t the type to judge someone for their kinks. Especially not when they are his own as well.

She spent close to half a minute guzzling down everything he was willing to provide, doing her best to be quiet so as not to wake the others. Once he finished, she gave him a few last licks to clean him off before popping off of him.

“{Was that good, your highness? I hope I was able to provide sufficient service.}” She whispered, nuzzling gently against his thigh.

“You did, thank you Dil. I admit, I don’t think I have more than that shot in me at the moment, but I assure you we can do more soon.” He reached over to pet her carefully, avoiding the rougher parts of her head.

“{Of course, your highness. I am yours to use when you want.}”

(LEMON OVER! YOU can go back to reading now if you don’t like em. Though I will warn you, this is part of the story where more casual sexual things are gonna happen. So do be careful, not everything will be sectioned off.

He just chuckled, laying back against the bed.

[Having fun, Master?] He heard Somni say in his mind.

“You could certainly say that, Somni.” He responded in his head.

She nuzzled against him as he started to drift off again. Anduin hugged her a bit tighter in response.

“Hey, Somni?” He asked her mentally.

[Yes Master? What’s up?]

“Did I ever tell you I had thought of another more fitting name for you once I started naming the rest of the team.”

Somni didn’t respond for a moment. [...No. You had not told me that, Master Anduin.]

“Sort of a last name I guess, you are my first Pokemon, technically. My first friend, and first lay here as well.” He chuckled at the mention of the last one.

“Somni was a name I came up with on the fly, there wasn’t much thought put into it, which is why I am shocked you like it. So after doing some thinking, I came up with a better one, Réidh. It means gentle, soft and ready. At least in this context.”

She was silent as she waited for him to continue.

“You were gentle enough to care for me even while I was dying and you are ready to heal me at a moment's notice. Plus, your fur looked quite soft and I was happy to find that it was.”

[I was unaware you had thought of another name, Master. Do you want me to take that one instead?]

“No, no, not at all. I’m not expecting you to take it. It's a last name, or an addition to your name if you want it. An extra name if you will, for being as special as you are and as an apology for what I did.”

[I’m not sure what you did deserves you apologizing Master, but your apology is accepted.]

“Aye, I’m glad to hear that.” He opened his non-injured eye, carefully getting off the bed as he made his way to the bathroom to start his day. He showered mostly in peace, except for Dána who came in to help him.

He was still unused to his new arm, and his lack of an eye had been causing him to run into more walls than he would like to admit.

“Dána, you are a surprise.” He casually stated as he struggled to wash his hair with only one hand.

“{Anduin, honey. You need to let us do stuff for you sometimes. You’re already this injured, putting your life on the line to protect us is only going to end with you getting more and more hurt.}” She moved into the shower, soaping up her hands before running them carefully through his hair to clean it.

Anduin frowned as he thought over what she said. “I…I’m not sure what to say to that, Dána. You’ve, uhh, you’ve given me something to think about, I can say that at least.” His usual confident tone began to falter, cracks forming their way through his carefully maintained appearance.

Dána noticed as he almost seemed to change, from his usual confident and charming self, as he almost seemed to shrink into a less stable looking and sadder young man.

She sighed, rinsing his hair out and turning off the shower before pulling him into a wet hug.

“{Honey, listen to me. It wasn’t a critique, I just don;t want you to keep hurting yourself. I’m perceptive enough to know all the injuries you’ve sustained have started to wear you down a bit, and I am perceptive enough to know you are going to get worse. We are all here for you, just know that.}”

Still too stunned to really say anything, he weakly hugged her back, his legs bucking slightly as she had to hold him up.

They stayed like that for a few minutes before she gently pulled Anduin back up, making sure he could stand before letting go of him and turning around.

“{You can come back when you’re ready, honey.}” She called over before leaving the bathroom.

Anduin stared at the wall for a few minutes, eventually shaking out of his stupor as he went to dry himself off, only to realize that he was already dry from Dána’s hug, her hot body drying him completely.

He put his clothes back on, fixed his hair and put on his gauntlet. Despite the fact that he had only been in this world for about a month, he had already been severely injured. From nearly every bone in his left arm, to having his body filled with shrapnel, to losing both his lower left arm and his left eye.

The rest of his body was starting to show similar signs of damage. He was riddled with scars, his scruff had grown longer and was close to becoming a full beard, he even noted that parts of his hair were starting to turn gray.

He sighed, putting on the final pieces of his outfit before heading back out to see his team, who were idly discussing between themselves.

“It seems this will be the second time I have to share this, we will find out if I have to do it more. Somni, Nathair, Aerach, and Dána. You all know this already, but Ceanúil and Dil do not.”

The two mentioned mon looked over at him. “{Your highness, what do you need to share?}” “{Darling, what is it?}”

“...I am not from this world, to put it bluntly. I am here somewhat of my own accord, and somewhat not. Pokemon, all of you, were something I desperately wanted to experience for myself. But this region, Cinéal, I believe it is called, is something I was not prepared for.”

The two of them stared at him in stunned disbelief, his claims were absurd.

“I have learned to fight the way I have from my friends, and I have learned to command the way I have from my friends. I hope you will not see me in a different way, but this should be stated.”

Silence rang out, not one word being stated as Anduin sighed before continuing.

“As Dána has mentioned, you are all concerned for my safety because of my actions. Normally I would tell you not to worry, but that would be a lie. I am a rash person, and I do not want anyone I care for to get hurt, you are all the most important people in my life. I cannot guarantee that I will not sacrifice myself to keep you all safe.”

Aerach moved over, grabbing him and dragging him over to the group who all latched onto him in their own way, keeping him pinned on the bed.

“{My alpha, we are not letting you do that. We don’t care what you say. You absolute dumbass, how much do you think we all care for you? How do you think we would feel if you died for us?}” She yelled out as she held him there tightly.

He wasn’t able to respond, not really sure what to say.

“{My liege, how little do you think of us. We have been training with you since the moment each of us met you. For a human, your skill and resilience is legendary, but you are still a human. We can survive that golem explosion many times over before dying, we can take full powered flamethrowers or boulders being thrown at us. You can’t.}”

“Yeah…I know. It's something I’ve only started to realize now, but I am going to be more careful going forwards. Let's make sure nothing happens to me, or any of you. No one here can get hurt any longer, it's not allowed.” He joked, trying to clear the tension.

It seemed to land as the mood lightened quickly. His team let him get up after a few minutes, following him as he opened the door before heading out for the next leg of his adventure.

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“{So, where are we off to my liege?}” Nathair asked

“I don’t know. But I have some ideas.” He explained confidently, his team looking at him funny before following after him.

“{...Like what?}

“I haven’t really treated you girls to any good food yet, we’ve mostly been eating off the land or eating the rations I was able to buy. We’re in a city, we certainly have the opportunity to go to a restaurant.”

“{My Alpha, what is a restaurant?}” Aerach asked

“Hmm, it's a place where humans can go and pay for someone else to make them food. There are many styles, but in most restaurants you go and take a seat and a waiter or waitress comes to take your order.”

“{Interesting. That is quite similar to a way we would treat the alpha’s in the wild.}”

“Oh?”

“{We would bring and offer the alpha food whenever he would want. His word was law.}”

“I can see the resemblance between them.” He idly commented as he scanned around. He didn’t see any restaurants, though one building in particular did catch his eye.

It was a smaller building, fairly plain in demeanor, yet the sign read ‘Stone Shop, come and evolve your pokemon today!’

He didn’t have any use for an evolution stone, though he was curious if they sold any other kinds of stones.

“Mind if we take a look in there girls?”

They all voiced their approval. The team headed inside a moment later, following after Anduin.

The inside of the shop was much as he expected, it was a quaint evolution stone shop.

He walked over to the shopkeep, a venerable man most likely in his 80s or 90s. “Hello sir. Do you sell any other kinds of stones here?”

“Ya mean like mega stones or Z stones?” He asked, his louder voice revealing that he was hard of hearing.

“Yes, actually. Either of those would be exactly what I am asking about.”

“You a trainer? You look more like a cosplayer.” The old man bluntly stated

Anduin sighed. “Both are fitting to be quite honest, but yes, I am a trainer. My team is currently waiting outside, as not all of them could fit in here at a time. There are a few mega stones and a z-crystal I would like to buy if you have them.”

“Hmm, I don’t have a lot in the way of stones, and certainly no crystals. Call your mon in that can Mega Evolve.”

Anduin nodded, moving to the side as he called out. “Aerach, Dil, Dána! Could you all come in here!”

The three mentioned Pokemon shuffled in a moment later, Dil having to be quite careful to not knock anything over.

“Cineálan Lopunny, and a shiny one at that! A Blaziken and a Garchomp as well, hnn? You have an interesting team, lad.”

“I do indeed. But I wouldn’t train them for the world, they’ve been with me through thick and thin.” He motioned to his eyepatch and prosthetic hand.

“Arceus. You’ve not had a good time, have you boy? It pains me to see a boy as young as you even more injured than me in my century of living. I have two stones here, I am willing to part with one with a discount as well.”

The man went into the back of the store, coming back with a small gift box and a fairly sizable gift bag a moment later. He put them on the counter and opened them.

“The jewelry comes free of charge. The pieces were already commissioned and it would be a waste to have them collect dust or get thrown out.”

The first box had beautiful silver gorget sized or smaller pokemon. Anduin recognized the stone inlaid near the neck pretty quickly, it was a lopunnite. The bag held a dueling cloak, in a brilliant shade of red with what seemed to be a blazikenite holding the clasp together.

“I admit, I’m not sure you can afford either of them, even with the discount. There are very few mega stones and z-crystals here, these will cost you a small fortune.”

Anduin thought it over, both Aerach and Dána looking at him intensely, as if trying to figure out who would get the item. He opened his Pokedex, heading over to the message button he had recently found. He sent off the message, a reply coming in not even a minute later.

“I’ll take both.”

“Huh?” Both the old man and his two mon were flabbergasted.

“I will take both of them.” He stated again as he pulled out his wallet, fetching the credit card Mark gave him for the purchase.

The old man confusedly pulled over the machine, Anduin swiping his card and paying for the two items with a mechanical ding.

“Thank you kindly sir, if you ever come into possession of a Garchompite or a Waterium crystal, please do contact me here.” He pulled out a pen and a piece of paper, writing his pokedex number down and handing it over to the man.

“I hope you have a great day sir, thank you very much for the stones.” Anduin smiled as he walked out, his team following after him quickly.

“Heh, I hope you girl’s don’t mind roughing it until we get to the next town, that took the last of the money on the card. It will take some time to get it back.”

Aerach moved over quickly, jumping onto his chest. Anduin reacted, locking his hands under her butt so she could be comfortable. He gave her a confused look to which she returned an angry one.

“{Alpha, why did you do that?! That card Mark gave you doesn’t have infinite money on it, Mark himself told us what to be careful about.} She yelled.

“What? No price is too small for my team’s happiness. I couldn’t stand the thought of one of you not getting a stone because I was being careful, so I asked Mark what the consequences would be and if I was allowed to do it. He explained them and gave me the go ahead.”

He gave her a quick hug to calm her down. She fought back for a moment before resigning herself to her fate. He placed her down shortly after.

“All of you mean the world to me, I don’t lie when I say that. I don’t mind roughing it for a bit, which we’d honestly have to do anyways while on the road. Plus, I checked the map earlier. We’re about to go from an icefield straight into a desert that could take us months to cross. Only one town along the route, and thats in a few hundred kilometers from here. More firepower, pun somewhat intended, will help us in the coming gyms for sure.”

He took out the gorget, getting on his knees as he fastened it around Aerach’s neck.

“Heh, almost like a knight. Guess that training might make it official.”

He warmly commented as she brought her paws up to her neck, feeling the stone and the heavy weight of the cold metal.

He then took out the dueling cloak, motioning for Dána to lift up her left arm, she did so. He moved over to her, slinging the cloak over her shoulder and moving the clasp around to be on her right side.

“That’s a style I never took to personally, always found it too flashy. But I can teach you how to use it to the best of my ability, but feel free to make it your own. From what I felt of that material, that thing is most definitely fireproof.”

Dána gave her arm a few gentle movements, seeing how the cloak moved and could be used as a distraction. “The material is also cut resistant, so you can use it to bind weapons or like claws, horns or teeth. It's not invincible, but it’ll last.”

He held up his good hand, showing the keyring. “Should we try it out? Perhaps let’s move off a bit to the side before hand.”

His team nodded, the group excitedly moving off to the side and out of the way. Even going so far as to walk a bit of ways into the icefield itself.

“Alright, girls, I haven’t done this before so let’s hope it works.” Both Aerach and Dána nodded, holding their stones tightly as Anduin pressed his hand against his ring.

Birds chirped as the wind blew through, chilling his team. Nothing had happened.

“Hmm. Alright let’s try this.” He took off the ring, holding it in front of him and pressing on a different spot. Still nothing happened.

“I have an idea.” He put the ring back on as he started to get a bit flustered, closing his eyes, he thought over what the games and the anime said about mega evolution.

It required the trainer and the pokemon to be in sync, physically, emotionally and mentally. He thought over what Aerach and Dána were wanting. Aerach most likely wanted nothing more than to please him, while Dána wanted nothing more than his happiness.

He smiled at that, pressing the ring again as a bright flash illuminated the area. He opened his eyes as he noticed a considerable headache starting to form. His eyes widened as he saw them, his two Pokemon now mega evolved and staring at him slightly differently.

“Ah right. Forgot about that.” He muttered as he saw Aerach dash over, planting herself against his feet as she started to profess his greatness, or at least that’s all he could make out. Dána on the other hand moved over, picking him up and wrapping him in a hug as she tried every thing she knew to make him happy.

He explained for the rest of the team as they stared at them in confusion.

“Mega evolution, apart from hurting a fair bit, amplifies personality traits nearly tenfold. Or at least as far as I know. Seems to be correct.”

He smiled amusedly as he reached a hand down to pet Aerach, who began to worship his hand in kisses.

"Yeah, that's about what I expected from this." He commented wryly, being pinned by two overly affectionate mega Pokemon. His voice began to slur a bit near the end.

"{Dána, you might have to let him go. We need to keep moving.}" Nathair tried to reason, noticing what was happening.

"{I can carry him while we walk. He shouldn't have to tire himself out like that. Plus, my feathers are heated. He doesn't have to deal with the cold this way.}"

"{Dána there is blood dripping from his nose.}" Nathair explained more urgently.

"{Huh.}" Dána pulled him back, confirming he had bloodshot eyes and was indeed bleeding from his nose.

"Mega evolution is more taxing than I thought." He slurred his words heavily, the physical and mental demand being a bit too much for him to handle his first time. Especially with two mon, which exponentially worsened the effect.

The last thing he saw before slipping into unconsciousness was a flash of light from the two megas reverting to their old forms, and his team rushing to catch him before he went out.

……………..

…………….

…………….

He awoke gently some time later, finding himself resting on Aerach's thighs, who was at the time stroking his hair.

He stayed still, actually rather enjoying the affectionate contact.

"{Alpha, I saw your eyes open. You can't pretend to be asleep.}" She stated amusedly.

"I can and I will. You are comfy, give me five more minutes." He jokingly explained much to her giggling amusement.

"Anyways, how long was I out?"

She brought her paws up to her chin as she thought. "{About half an hour I'd say Alpha.}”

“Yeesh, that drained me more than I thought it did. That long huh?”

He rested against her for a few minutes, before eventually moving off and standing up, offering her his hand so she could do the same, which she took.

“Thank you for being my pillow. And for watching over me.”

Aerach nodded, looking over to see the rest of the team approach with a smile.

“{Awake again, your highness. Shall we continue our journey?}” Dil asked

“Yes, you are right. This next journey will be difficult, we will be heading into a desert and without a water type to make water, we will have to pack carefully.

They made a quick detour to a shop, buying as many gallons of water as they could carry between themselves.

Heading out the gate to the Brittleheart Icefields, the jagged spires and spikes of ice dotted the landscape. Anduin and his team were ready for the next leg of their journey.

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Anduin shivered in the cold breeze, pulling his arms closer to his body as the chilling wind blew quickly across the icefields. The group had only been traveling for a few hours, just long enough for the town to almost fade from view.

Likewise, both Nathair and especially Dil were doing just as bad in the cold, maybe even worse. The two of them were cold-blooded, and Dil’s dragon typing made it even worse for her.

Luckily for the two of them, Dána was willing to act as a personal heater, moving between the two mon to warm them up whenever they got a little too cold.

This meant that Anduin was on his own for warmth. The fingers on his right hand had already numbed and were beginning to burn from the cold, the shear freezing temperature of this part of the region causing frostbite quickly. He idly noted his skin had already been redder and whiter, but was now beginning to faintly turn blue. That was not a good sign.

Not wanting to lose any more body parts, he called over. “Aerach, can you help me here? I’m afraid if Dána my hand would heat up too quickly.”

The white Lopunny was enjoying the weather, her thick winter fur making it feel rather nice for her. Hearing her name, she came over, noticing his hand.

“{Alpha, you were close to losing your fingers. Try to act a bit quicker please, I don’t want you to keep getting hurt.”}

She grabbed a hold of his hand, pressing it into her thick fur as she moved closer to him, her body heat helping to slowly and safely warm his hand back up.

“Yeah, I know. Thank you Ms. Thick Fur.” He teasingly replied.

She rolled her eyes with an amused smile. “{Not my fault I was born this way.}”

The team continued to travel, stopping briefly to snack on some of the remaining rations and some hearty berries Aerach found nearby.

As the day went on, eventually Anduin and his team were forced to make camp sooner than they would have liked. The cold and the moisture made the evening’s snow and fog change to a wicked hailstorm. Ice shards ranging from as small as a snowflake to as large as a marble began to fall.

Somni made quick work of the tent, unfolding it and setting it up with her psychic powers. The team got inside as soon as it was put up, happy to get out of the hail.

“That puts a dent into the day’s plans.”

“{It does suck indeed, Master.}”

“Well I guess we will have to spend time here, at least until the hail lessens.”

“{What are we going to do then, honey?}”

“I actually have a few things I’ve been working on that might work here.”

Reaching over to start unloading his backpack, he reached into one of the outer pockets and pulled out a large bundle of cloth. He placed it down gingerly, reaching into the main section of the pack to grab what appeared to be boardgames and a camping mug for each member of his team, plus himself.

“{What is all this, your highness?}”

He grabbed the boxes, placing them in front of the girls. “These are a few boardgames I happened to find while we were shopping. I had a feeling something like this might happen.”

The games were essentially Risk, some form of Dungeons and Dragons, Chess, and a game almost like a pokemon version of Warhammer.

“As for these.” He pulled out the bundles of cloth, carefully unwrapping them to reveal quite a few small stoppered bottles, a set of fancier glass and metal cups wrapped in bubble wrap, and a mini-bartending kit.

“Let’s just say Mark hooked me up with a rather nice treat while I was in the hospital. This is alcohol, booze if you will.”

“{Is it that stuff that humans drink which makes them act weirdly?}” Nathair asked, her tongue flicking out as she smelled what was in the bottles.

“Why yes it is indeed! You are correct, Nathair. I checked with Mark before this, and apparently you are all able to drink these specific drinks.”

His team seemed quite intrigued at the idea. “Now I’ll warn ya young ‘ins, alcohol is a very acquired taste and feeling.” He put on an exaggerated old man voice that made his team laugh.

“It won’t be for all of you. I only have a few kinds here, but I’ll be getting some more once Mark is able to acquire it. Fuck that man is helpful.” He muttered the last part.

“{Well, what kinds do you have, darling?}” Ceanúil asked, prodding at the closed bottles with her horns.

“Let’s see here.” He grabs each bottle, opening them individually and taking a quick whiff. “Some kind of beer, red and white wine, vodka, bourbon whiskey, rum, tequila, and what seems to be a kind of gin. He really outdid himself with the selection.”

Aerach leaned over as he was opening the bottles, taking whiff before recoiling with a disgusted look on her face. “{Alpha, those smell like poison. Why would you ask for those?}”

“I mean, you’re not wrong actually, Aerach. They are technically poison, and you can get alcohol poisoning from drinking too much.”

“{Then why, my liege?}” Nathair piped up.

“A few reasons. Some people like the taste, and it’s fairly safe to drink as long as you don’t have too much. That and if you drink enough of it, it dulls your senses and makes you act all funny, being drunk we call it. A lot of humans like the feeling.” He did his best to explain.

“{I don’t see why you would want to willingly poison yourself, your highness.}” Dil shared her feelings, which were joined with nods from the rest of his team.

“Girls, I’m not going to die from drinking this stuff. Neither are all of you. A few drinks once in a while can’t hurt you. Here, I have a better idea. As I already double checked with Mark, this stuff is safe for you all to drink. I’m not forcing you to, nor am I saying you will like the taste, but it is an experience you should try once.”

“{Alpha knows best. I’m certainly willing to try!}”

“That is one interested so far. Thank you Aerach.” Anduin gave her some pets as thanks.

“{I’ll try it. I am immune to most poisons as a poison type.}” Ceanúil stated.

“{I appreciate the offer, Honey. But I don’t really want to try it.}” “{Same goes for me, my liege. Grass types do not fare well with poison.}” Both Dána and Nathair declined, Anduin nodded in understanding.

“Somni? Dil?” Somni shook her head no, while Dil thought about it before eagerly nodding. “Ground type, right.” Anduin face palmed which made Dil and the rest of the team giggle.

“Regardless, it's only late afternoon. It's a bit early for drinking. How about we do that tonight? We can play some games in the meantime. We don’t have much better to do.”

The rest of the evening went by quickly, the group trying out each of the board games and having fun with each of them, even if some of them liked some of the games better than others.

As they were getting ready for sleep, listening to the still-going hail as it battered against the tent, Anduin pokedex chirped a notification.

Grabbing it and scrolling over to his message app, he was surprised to find Emy messaged him.

‘Yoo Anduin, how's the journey treating you? Please tell me that the arm is working well?’ He smiled at the question as he responded.

‘Hello to you as well Emy. Ehh journey’s alright, got caught in the hail storm. Yes, the arm fits well and has worked so far. It is still hard to get used to at times.’

‘Great to hear! The arm working well part being good, not the getting used to it part, I mean. There was actually a reason I messaged you, the Professor came by and told me to pass along a message to you.’

‘I know what you mean, Emy. No need to worry. What message?’

‘Well, the area you are heading to is where the region starts to get even more wild. We don’t even know all of the pokemon species there. Professor Safras did an expedition in the area there the other day, he even discovered a whole new pseudo-legendary line! It's the second one in the region!”

Anduin was flabbergasted at the information. So far, the region had just shown normal pokemon, with the exception of Aerach being a regional form. She didn’t seem any different than a normal Lopunny move wise.

“Hey Aerach.’

“{Yes, my Alpha?}”

“Can I scan you with my Pokedex real quick? I want to check something out.”

“{Sure thing, Alpha.}”

He pointed his Pokedex over at her, a red light shining on her body for a moment. A ding was heard from the machine as the light went away.

He took a look at what it revealed. “Ok, let's see here. Cineálan-Lopunny. Height, 4 '02 (127 cm). Weight, 93.4 lbs…”

Aerach lightly swatted him on the shoulder. “{Alpha! It’s rude to look at a lady’s weight.}”

He let out a short laugh. “Yeah yeah, I got that spiel enough from my old friends. Typing, Normal and Ice? Interesting. Your mega form seems to share the Ice typing, making you a Fighting and Ice type Pokemon. Guess that explains the Ice punch move. Ability, Limber. Nature, Jolly. Yeah that makes sense.”

Aerach flashed him a lewd smile that he winked at in response.

He switched back over to the message app, sending a quick reply to Emy. ‘I’m surprised I hadn’t noticed any of the new species yet. I didn’t even fully realize that Aerach, my Lopunny, was a regional form til now.’

‘Really? I thought it was obvious. Well the Buneary line is certainly the most popular of the regional forms, but there are like 20 other Pokemon that have a different form here.’

‘Which ones? If you know?’

‘I only know of a few others off the top of my head. I know the Rattata, Pidgey, Shinx and Rockruff lines have regional forms.’

‘Huh. Interesting. Oh yeah, right, one more question. What’s the new pseudo legend he found?’

‘Oh it’s called the Olirivent. It's a river serpent that looks, acts and fights like a dragon. Got some pretty nasty steam attacks that one.’

‘Good to know. Thank you, Emy. Talk soon.’

‘Yeah, ttyl man. Don’t forget about the fan site.’

“Oh god dammit she actually made that!” He groaned in annoyance, a bemused expression on his face betraying his true feelings about it.

As the night came to a close. Anduin grabbed the bartending kit from where it lay in the tent. “Girls, it's time. I don’t really know what kinds of drinks you like, so I am going to have to guess what you will enjoy. Don’t feel bad if I guess wrong, I have to learn somehow. I am thinking, Aerach, you seem like a mixed drink kind of girl. Ceanúil, you seem like the type to want to drink the heavier stuff. And Dil, you seem like you’d enjoy some of the fancier stuff.”

He grabbed the bottle of red wine, pouring it into a wine glass and placing it next to Dil. “I know you need help to drink it, just give me a moment and I can.” He then noticed the cup was floating, face palming again when he saw it.

“Right, you can make objects float. Thank you, Somni.” He went about grabbing three more glasses. “Aerach, can you try using your ice punch move at lower power, say enough to make a few ice cubes?”

“{Sure thing Alpha.}” Her hand glowed a light blue as she concentrated, opening her hand a moment later to reveal a few large ice cubes.

“Wonderful!” Grabbing a few, he added it to the three glasses, the remaining cubes and adding them to his shaker. He opened the bottle of bourbon, pouring it into one of the ice filled glasses and passing it over to Ceanúil. Before he could even ask, the cup was floating as well.

The two Pokemon took a sip of their drinks with rather happy expressions on their faces. “{Your highness, this drink is quite dry, even if it does taste actually really good. I like it.}”

Ceanúil had a similar comment. “{It has quite the odd flavor, I don’t really know how to describe it, It is really good however. I like it.}”

Anduin smiled as he added all manner of additional ingredients to the shaker, simple syrup, some sort of citrus juice that was in one of the smaller bottles and a few of the heavier liquors before shaking it all together. He grabbed a few of the berries the team had foraged for earlier in the day, adding it to the glass and muddling it before pouring the cocktail over top and sliding it over to Aerach.

She took it, taking a sip as she gleefully grinned. “{Alpha, you said this was gonna taste bad. This is so sweet!}”

“Just be careful, all of you. It's not a good idea to down those. Try to savor them.” Anduin grabbed the bottle of beer for himself. It wasn’t his favorite drink by far, but he wanted to leave the better drinks for his team.

The group with drinks finished them off after the group talked for a bit. Eventually they all got onto the inflatable mattress, squishing Anduin between them all as there wasn’t really any other way to share him.

They all slept well that night.

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(Hey everyone! Falloric here and back from hell. Yeah, as I am sure you all noticed, I took a break from writing. I wasn't really sure where I wanted to go with the story.

Luckily, I have returned after sorting stuff out. This story isn't dead.

Oh my god is writing an actual story, locations, pokemon, stats, etc. for an actual Cineal fangame fucking hard.

Anyways, it's been decided that Anduin’s final pokemon will be a custom one. I think you guys will all like her :)

Link is permanent, and will be added to every intro card thing: https://discord.gg/QuvTYCB7vF

Updated Pronunciation guide:
Cresselia - Somni Réidh (Som-knee Ray) - Pet Name for Anduin: Master
Servine - Nathair (Nah-hish) - Pet Name for Anduin: Liege
Lopunny - Aerach (Air-ah) - Pet Name for Anduin: Alpha
Combusken - Dána (Dah-nah) - Pet Name for Anduin: Honey
Scolipede - Ceanúil (Cah-nool) - Pet Name for Anduin: Darling
Garchomp - Dil (Jell) - Pet Name for Anduin: Highness

List of moves known for each of his battlers:

Nathair: Tackle, Leer, Vine Whip, Wrap, Glare, Iron Tail, Magical Leaf, Growth, Leaf Tornado, Leech Seed, Mega Drain, Knock Off, Slam, Leaf Blade,

Aerach: Defense Curl, Splash, Pound, Foresight, Return, Healing Wish, Bounce, Rototiller, Mirror Coat, Magic Coat, Fake Out, Ice Punch, Endure, Baby-Doll Eyes, Quick Attack, Jump Kick, Baton Pass, Thunder Punch, Agility, Dizzy Punch

Dána: Scratch, Growl, Ember, Sand Attack, Double Kick, Fire Spin, Low Kick, Curse, Peck, Flame Charge, Quick Attack, Dual Chop, Blaze Kick, Flare Blitz, Fire Punch, High-Jump Kick, Bulk Up,

Ceanúil: Baton Pass, Iron Defense, Megahorn, Defense Curl, Rollout, Poison Sting, Screech, Pursuit, Protect, Poison Tail, Bug Bite, Venoshock, Aqua Tail, Toxic Spikes, Spikes, Agility,

Dil: Iron Tail, Double-Edge, Draco Meteor, Crunch, Dual Chop, Fire Fang, Tackle, Sand Attack, Dragon Rage, Sandstorm, Sand Tomb, Take Down, Slash, Dragon Claw, Dig

Thank you again Zlewdo.

With all that done…

Let’s get on with the show!)

Scratch, scratch, scratch…

Anduin woke up unexpectedly as he heard some sort of scratching. The noise stopped suddenly, Anduin listened for a few more moments before resting his head back down against Ceanúil’s soft underside.

A few minutes passed before he heard the scratching again. He took some time to listen to it. It was repetitive and reminiscent of knocking, albeit with claws and on the door of a tent.

It didn’t seem to be hostile from the force of the scratching, nor did it seem to come from a large pokemon.

[What’s up Master Anduin?] The familiar telepathic voice of Somni rang in his head.

“Hear that scratching? I think we have some company, but they don’t seem to be hostile.” He whispered back in response.

[Hmm.] Somni’s eyes flashed pink as she used a move. [Well whoever it is, they’re clearly a psychic type. I was only able to read the surface level thoughts, but they don’t seem to be hostile.]

“Alright, let’s find out. Get ready to wake up the others in case it goes south.” Anduin stretched as he got up, quickly throwing on a pair of pants, his gambeson, his eyepatch, prosthetic arm, and his boots. By the time he was dressed, his team had more or less woken up but were still sluggish.

He unzipped the front of the tent, stepping out to greet whatever it was, but his eyes widened. He wasn’t sure what he was looking at, it was a pokemon he had never seen before in any of the games.

It was a Pokemon, definitely. It reminded him of a fairy, and of a wizard. The Pokemon was hunched over, resting on an elaborate cane covered in mushrooms, a thick grey beard covered its face and ran across the ground, it even had a pair of butterfly wings on its back. It looked like a gardevoir faintly, at least for its face and how stick thin it was as it shook from the wind alone.

[You have not seen one of my kind before, am I correct Sir Anduin?] A voice similar to the most venerable of old men was heard in his head.

“I would not recommend going through my head like that. My team is rather protective, and they would not take kindly to that. Now then, what do you need?”

[I am but a messenger, nothing more. Her Majesty has taken an interest in your activities, and requests your presence at her home as soon as possible. I am not sure why she needs you, but her Majesty is a mon that you should not brush off.]

“Sorry, sorry. What? Who is this Majesty you speak of?”

The old pokemon’s bearded face shifted into an expression of surprise. [Why, her Majesty is one of the strongest pokemon in the land. She is a master of sorcery, tactics and is universally loved, respected and feared in equal measure. She is the queen of us Fairies.]

Anduin listened to the explanation intently, already wracking his brain about what he could have possibly done to warrant this attention.

[The why is not so important, I am sure she will tell you herself when you meet her. Regardless, she has summoned you, so you shall answer.]

“And if I do not?”

[You will have incurred the wrath of the fairy queen and all under her banner. Which, for your knowledge, is about a fifth of all of the Pokemon in this region.]

Anduin swallowed hard at that, sweat forming at his brow. “I see. A fifth is an odd amount, is there a reason she doesn’t have more?”

The old fairy mon looked at him as if he had just grown a third leg. [A reason? Of course there’s a bloody reason. The Fairy Queen is not the only powerful Pokemon in the region, even if she is the strongest, wisest, most influ-]

“I get it, I get it. She’s the best, I understand that mich. What are the others you are referring to?”

[The other legends of the region? They don’t control as much land as her, but they are not to be underestimated. I question whether or not some of them are still alive, let alone as powerful as they say they were.]

Anduin nodded as he listened.

[There are four other main legends of the region, but some have moved in and taken residence, it happens from time to time. Morowveen is the first, the bringer of war. She is the cause of a lot of the strife in this region, but she is not evil. It is in her nature to spark war, and to grant favor to sides, it is not something she can control.]

Anduin nodded, pulling out his notepad and writing down what be was hearing in his head.

[The second one of note is Currior, the loyal hound. He was a mighty brute, good chap too. He was nigh unbeatable in battle, and if it wasn’t for him turning down Morowveen’s offer, he most likely would have won his final battle. So the story went, two of the other legends teamed up with Morowveen to stop Currior. T’wasn’t a long fight at all, one lucky move managed to pierce Currior and kill him. Yet even while dead, he was able to cut off the hand of the legend that killed him. He might be dead, but all of the hounds and similar mon swear fealty to him. Any land they control, he owns by extent.]

Anduin kept writing it down. “Anything else?”

[Yes, yes. The other three are shorter, you can write less. Meavannu was the legend that aided Currior’s killer, she’s a potent queen and owns part of the south. Triberlug was the one who slayed Currior, and got his hand cut off by an extent. He owns the frigid north, where you started your journey. Lastly there is the horrifying Treecheated. That beast is unnatural. It lives only to kill, eat and destroy. Sadly the desert you are about to enter is under their control, but they have not been spotted for decades.]

Anduin finished writing in his notebook. “Any chance I’ll see any of these Pokemon? They sound quite interesting”

The old fairy laughed, his whole body shaking as he did so. [Hahaha, most likely not. And that is good, over half of them would kill without thinking twice, some would try to take you or just ignore you. Of the options, only her Majesty is sensible.]

Anduin nodded. “All right, well. Thank you kindly. That knowledge has helped clear up some stuff. Where is her Majesty wanting to meet me?”

The old fairy stroked his beard. [Our home is on the Glitterpetal Hill, it is just past the town right after the desert, if I understand your routes correctly. Oh and, remember Sir Anduin. The Fairy Queen is always watching.]

And with a final cryptic remark, the old man disappeared. “Teleporting away, typical.” Anduin muttered, the horror of that final sentence beginning to creep into his mind.

His team filed out into the icefield shortly after the old fairy left.

“{So Alpha, what’s the situation?}” Aerach asked, noting the look on his face.

“Well, girls. It seems we have a, shall we say, uninvited guest watching over us until I go to meet her.

His team looked at him in similar horror. Time passed as the group ot over the implications of the Fairy Queen. Somni folded up the camp site and put it in his backpack, Aerach put out the fire with Ceanúil, Dana helped out Nathair while she regrew the trees they had used for firewood, Di, rather than helping, continued to hang around Anduin, being essentially a lapshark despite being taller and heavier than Anduin as well as in spite of her rough skin.

Anduin didn’t mind the attention, petting her with his gloved hand while she cooed happily.

“{Uh, Alpha? We are out of our fruit rations again. Or to be more accurate, we won’t have any more after breakfast.}”

“Shit. I knew I should have bought more of that.”

“{It’s not the end of the world, Alpha. I can take the rest of the team out on a foraging trip.}” Aerach suggested, the rest of his team minus Dil gave a nod in response.

“Oh, well. Feel free to go and forage then. Stay safe, and make sure to stay close by to each other.”

Pulling out a blanket from his backpack, he sat down on the cold and hard ground of the icefields.

“{Oh but before I go, Honey, this might help you not be as cold..}” Dána grabbed some of the firewood, placing it in the makeshift firepit and lighting it. The chill seeping from Anduin’s body thanks to the warmth of the flame.

“Thank you, Dána.” He gave her a quick pet before putting his hand back under the blanket.

“Just be careful out there girls!” He called over as most of his team began to head off into the icefields to search for food.

Dil sat down next to him, enjoying the warmth even more than he was thanks to her being cold-blooded. “{So, your highness. What are you wanting to do?}”

“I admit…I’m not sure.” He brought his metallic hand up and rubbed his chin, idly noting that it seemed his beard was starting to grow in.

“{Well, I have something in mind that we could do, your highness.}” Dil’s tone took on a seductive note near the end, but Anduin stopped her with a tired look.

“I have a feeling I know what you're wanting Dil, but I am too cold for that at the minute. Next time it is just us we can."

Dil pouted at that, sighing and gently laying down beside him. She rolled over partially in order to hug him.

Anduin reached over to his bag with a smile as he remembered something. Rummaging around and pulling out a plastic container full of some kind of ointment.

“Surprisingly they actually make ointments to allow trainers to touch their rougher skin pokemon. I can pet you finally."

He opened the ointment, pouring some on his hands while she let out an adorably happy noise.

The ointment worked like a charm, Anduin petting Dil as he warmed up and waited for the rest of his team to come back.