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Author's notes: Within this chapter there is some graphic language about how sex works, as would be described by a 14 year old. Although if you are above the age of 12, it should be nothing at all knew. Now there is no actual sex, or sexual activity in this chapter of any kind, and if in the future I do add some, I will warn you the reader before the chapter, and where it happens in the chapter for if you would want to skip it, but still read the chapter. Now one more thing, I am switching to first person point of view from here on out, so without further ado I present to you, chapter two!

Chapter two: A bite from the fruit of knowledge.

Leo's POV

Lily and I stood in our new home, completely thrilled and shocked. A two bedroom; one bath; a kitchen; a little fully equipped laundry room, and a living room; all an empty canvas for us to decorate and fill, all to ourselves, and I could not believe it, and I knew Lily couldn't either.

"This is all ours now Leo!" The young Emolga started, "It's ours and we can do what we want with it, we can buy paintings, fill the fridge with what we want, eat when we want, buy nice furniture, a TV, anything we want, it is all ours now Leo, all we got to do is start doing missions and there is nothing that we won't be able to get!" She turned toward me, tears of joy sparkling in her adorable brown eyes.

"We're free Leo! We're free of that stupid place now!" She threw her arms around my neck, and I, in return, nuzzled the crook of her neck. Despite myself, I began to cry, to actually cry; not like she was, with only tears lighting up my eyes, but full on sobbing. She reacted as anyone would when their best friend, there only friend for that matter, breaks down for no apparent reason.

"Quit your crying you big baby," She pulled away from our hug and held my face at an arm's length away. "You don't have to cry, you don't have to see those assholes from that stupid orphanage, and if you ever do see em' again, and if you do, you'll be strong enough to kick their asses into next year!" She promised me, pulling me back in and kissing the top of my head, in-between my ears.

"You think so Lily? I mean, could I ever be strong? I can't imagine it," I choked back a sob. "I just don't see myself being able to beat a bully like Rex, or someone even stronger!" Lily looked at me a little sadly.

"Leo, you will so much stronger than you are now! We will train before we start doing hard missions, so we will get stronger! And the harder the job, the stronger you, and I, will get! We will get so much stronger than any of those good for nothing bullies at that shithole, just you wait boy, and just you wait!" When she finished her grin stretched ear from ear, and it was impossible not to believe her, so then and there I dreamed up my first goal in life, not like becoming a part of a guild, I only wanted to get away from the place I lived and the Pokémon there, no, I had a real dream, and right there I decided I would become strong, so strong that no one would try to harm me, or Lily, particularly Lily, who had always been protecting me my entire life. I decided nothing would stop this from happening. Nothing would stop me from being able to protect Lily.

"Come on Leo, let's go check out the rest of our home!" She emplorlerd, clearly impatient and wanting to see the rest of our new home. First went into the bathroom. The room was a good size with three entrances, the two bedrooms and the hallway. The bathroom was equipped with a huge bathtub; with so much room it could have sat five of me conformably. Along one wall was the sink. Above the sink was the mirror and medicine cabinet, underneath was the little storage space. Of course you can't forget the toilet. With so many quadrupeds in the world we didn't see many sit down toilets, and this was no exception. It was practically a porcelain platform with a long hole, but not deep, in the middle to do your business into with a button on the ground to flush. The best part about it was we didn't have to share with 40 other Pokémon anymore. We walked into one of the bedrooms from its entrance to the bathroom. We found the smaller one.

The room had no furnishings except a small bed built into the wall. The bed itself was interesting; the wall that housed it had a slot hollowed out, about three feet tall, and was about four feet long. The effect of the bed being in a hole of sorts was that when you're inside it feels like you're in a small den with a fluffy nest, despite the fact it currently lacked blankets and pillows. The rest of the room was a lot less interesting, the shape of the room was that of an irregular pentagon, and in the wall opposite the den like bed was a huge window, looked out at the top of the forest.

The other bedroom, the master bedroom, was the same, except bigger. The bed was the same size, and made in the same fashion so that going inside of it would be like crawling into a small cave or den, though it also was naked. With a smile the size of the tree we now lived in Emolga said,

"Well, I guess this room is our new bedroom!"

"Wait, ours? Won't it be easier for each of us to have our own room? I mean, that's why theirs two!" I said, despite not having any problem once so ever with her idea.

"Nope, there are two because we need a guest room, and besides, it's always better to sleep together, right? Expeshely now when no one will get mad at as for falling asleep together, like that one time on the couch in the game room at the U-Y-H-C!" She said, referring to a time the two of us in trouble for falling asleep cuddled up on a couch. "And now there is no one to keep us separated in a boy's room and girls' room!" She gently pushed me onto the bed, I had to duck or I would have clipped my head on the top of the hole's roof. She crawled in and pounced on top of me, rolling the both of us to the far wall of our new den like bed. We played around for a little bit, each of us trying to get on top and pin the other, and of course Lily won. We laid like that for a bit, with me on my back and lily pinning my arms by my head, until I said,

"Okay, I don't mind sharing, but I do see a little problem."

"Well I see two," She said with a teasing smile, " One, there are no blankets or pillows, but that's fine until we can buy some, we'll just cuddle up tightly, Two, and more important, is the fact you wet the bed a lot, I don't want to be peed on all the time!" She giggled at my blushing face and kissed my nose. "But, as long as you pee before going to sleep you should be fine! But if you do wet the bed, I'm putting you in diapers at night!" She teased, poking me in the stomach.

"Fine, but if you're the one to wet the bed then you have to wear the diapers!" I retorted, sticking my tongue out at her. She released one of my arms and pinched my extended tongue and began to gently pull and shake my head with it.

"Fine, you got yourself a deal!" Then she did something I would never forget, she moved her arm away from my face and pinned down my arm again, then she lowered her face to mine and gave me my first real kiss. My heart felt like it would explode, and I loved it, despite my shock She broke the kiss a moment later.

"W…why did you do that?" I stuttered, shocked and happy at the same time, and I knew my face must have been bright red.

"Because, I love you, and I know you love me! And now I can't get in trouble for kissing you like this, like I have always wanted!" Her face was slightly red too

"I…I..I love you too, Lily!" Before I said thoese words I knew I loved Lily, but not how I loved her, but then, I did know, I knew that I loved her in the way that when I looked at her my paws tingled at got wet, where my heart begins to pound, where I would do anything she asked. She gave me the happiest of smiles, and kissed me once more, as I laid under her, with her lips on mine, I wished it would never end, I wished that I could be that happy and safe forever. I was truly in love, and so was she.

We stayed on the bed, eating each other's faces and rolling around, and having a lot of fun doing it too. That fun was cut short by the uninvited guest we had who had walked into the bedroom. It was Hitokage the Charmander. He stood in the entrance of our room, his mouth agape, and he just stared at us, me on the bottom with Lily's arms wrapped around my neck, and my arms around hers. My hind legs were wrapped around her waist, and hers mine. We must have been quite the sight, a 12 year old Eevee and a 14 year old Emolga wrapped up in each other's arms and munching each other's faces. He just kept on staring, and we stared back, as if we were in an old western shoot off. After a while he randomly blurted,

"Coitus interruptus!" His face turned a deep shade of pink and he covered his mouth in shock. Lily stared at him with an expression that practically said, "Like, what the fuck?" I just stared at him in confusion, what he said sounded like gibberish to me. Hitokage ran from the room in embarrassment, but looked more like fear. When he was gone Lily burst out laughing and rolled of off me, holding her sides, she laid there laughing as hard as she could.

"What's so funny? I don't get it?!" I expressed, pouncing on her, and barely missing hitting the roof of the cubby where the bed was situated. After this she only laughed harder than ever. It took her a moment to compose herself, but when she looked at my face, set in the best pout I could manage, she broke out once again. When the laughing finally succeeded she said,

"Coitus interruptus means to interrupt someone during sex! Hitokage thought we were doing it!" She said, beginning to hiccup.

"Wait," I started in a perfect display of ignorant innocence," we weren't having sex?" She stared up at me, and her mouth stretched into the biggest smile I had seen from her up to then, and she began laughing, despite the fact I was on top of her, pinning her down by her chest. After a moment she pushed me off of her and pinned me down, still giggling, she kissed my nose.

"Do you know how babies are made?" She asked me curisly.

"Umm," Not willing to admit I didn't, I made something up, " To have a baby you need to, umm," She stopped me there.

"Do you know anything about making babies? At all?" She asked. Then I remembered what the Chancy who gave me my physical said when she was checking my testis.

"Umm, my balls are important?" I put out, uncertain. Laughing again she asked me,

"Are you asking or telling?"

"Telling!" Was my confident reply, she began laughing again she rolled off of me. She jumped out of our crawl in bed, and said.

"Ya, there are important, without em' you won't ever be able to have babies, so keep em' safe! But still, it's funny that you don't know anything about sex and how it works at your age! I mean, you're only two years younger than me!" She laughed the words out, her face arranged in a happy grin. I stepped out of our bed, and putting my rump up in the air I prepared to pounce on her. I wiggled my bum and leapt. She let me get her. Once on the ground with me on top she said,

"You're adorable Leo, and you're just so cute! I love you so much!" She bent her head up and kissed me.

"What is sex like?" I asked the girl who I had pinned. Without skipping a beat Lily replied,

"I'm not telling you! I don't want to destroy your innocence. But I do want to do it with you someday and maybe even have some babies!" With a quick and strong motion Lily flipped us over and now had me pinned. She gently kissed me again.

"Oh come on, tell me how it works! I'm only two years younger than you!" I complained to Lily.

"Hmm, do you really want to know, it's kinda' gross." She explained to me, getting off of me and letting me up.

"Ya I do, tell me Lily!" I commanded eagerly. She shrugged and gave up.

"Okay then, sex is very easy to do, all there really is to it is the boy puts his penis in the girl's vagina, and then they hump until the boy cums." She explained to me, though most of her explanation was lost on me. I cocked my head and asked,

"Hump? And what does it mean to cum? Oh, and what's a vagina?" She stared at me for a moment, and then she started to paw her forehead.

"Did they never teach you anything in the boy's classes? " She sighed, " To Cum is when the boy reaches orgasm, the best feeling during sex, and ejaculates, or shoots his sperm out, and sperm is what gets a girl pregnant. The vagina is, a, umm, it's like a hole in between a girls legs if they walk on two legs, or under her tail hole on the bottom her rump is she walks on four. To hump is when a boy or girl rubs their private parts against something by using their hips to make them feel good, and it's the same thing when a boy puts his penis in the girl, they just have to move their hips and bodies in a way so the penis slides in, then almost all the way out, then in again. Then they just keep doing that until they cum, and yes girls can cum too." She explained to me, not seeming to get embarrassed at all at the topic. She atulay seemed comfortable sitting on the floor with her legs spread out, I diffidently didn't, I even was lying down to completely hide my boy hood.

"Wait, if girls can cum, then can boys get pregnant, or can girls get themselves pregnant? And I don't see a hole in-between your legs! And how does a boy get his wiener in the girl?" I questioned, turning her face bright pink. She crossed her legs.

"Don't try to find my vagina! That's weird!" She complained, her face returning to its original yellow and white, "My vagina is a small flexible hole in between my legs, but it's not just some open hole for the entire world to see! Its entrance is like a slit with little lips around it. And when a girl cums, weather by sex or she does it herself, she won't get herself pregnant, because girls don't have sperm! It just feels really good. And boys can't get pregnant." She explained patently to me. I still had more questions,

"So how does a person make themselves feel good, and you didn't answer how a boy gets his wiener in the girl." She sighed and began to speak once more.

"The boy's penis gets hard when it is played with or when his body thinks there is a chance he could have sex, or even when a girl is in heat, which means she is most likely able to get pregnant and her body smells different, also it happens a couple times a night when the boy is asleep, also it sometimes happens randomly, I'm sure it's happened to you at some time. All the boy has to do to get it in the girl is slid it in her. And someone is able to make themselves feel good and cum by masturbating, which for boys means rubbing the penis with a paw, or rubbing it onto something else like a pillow, and for a girl it means rubbing the outside of the vagina, the lips I told you about and around them, and even sticking the digits from her paw in her vagina, or even other things like a cucumber. A girl can also rub herself on a pillow or something like a boy can." Lily explained to me, and coming up at the end of my questions I asked,

"What does sex feel like, and what does it feel like to, umm, masturbate?" I wondered, she responded.

"All I know is that sex feels good, and helps bring the two people together more, as for masturbation I don't know what it would feel like for a boy, but for a girl, or just me anyway, it starts with my private parts feeling tingly and when I start rubbing it begins to get more and more intense until my whole body is shivering and I feel like I am going to exploded, and then I do explode, but in a good way." Lily told me, blushing slightly form telling me something so personal and interment. I felt lucky to have her, someone to love, and someone to love me; who won't keep secrets from me, and someone I felt I can confide anything with. I sat next to her and placed my head in the crook of her neck, she smiled and hugged me. "Satisfied?" She asked.

"Ya, I get it, kindda'. But if sex brings two people closer together, shouldn't we do it?" I asked innocently but eagerly. She giggled and kissed my forehead.

"Ya, but later on, okay? We don't want to start having sex until we know we can take care of any accidently babies, because we don't want to send anyone to a place like where we lived. So until then you're stuck masturbating." She said the last part teasingly.

"Wait, hold on, you said boys' wieners get hard at night and sometimes randomly, have you seen mine?" I asked, rubbing my thighs together shyly. Lily kissed me again, and replied,

"Ya, I've seen it many times, you even rubbed it against me the other night in Hopes main base while you slept." She kissed me again, "But I don't care, as long as you don't try to make me do something I don't want, what your body feels, no matter what it is, is fine! Also, last night, it was kinda cute when you started to rub yourself against me in your sleep." She kissed me again, but this time she wrapped herself around me and brought us to the ground, she on top as usual. She broke the kiss.

"Oh, and Leo, if you ever have sex with any other person other than me, ever, I will kill both of you, because you belong to me now, and I you!" While what Lily said was a threat I felt comforted by her words, and I knew there and then that there is no other girl for me in the world. She kissed me again. As we kissed and cuddled I realized something,

"Lily, what did Hitokage want, and is he still here?" She looked at me for a moment, and then she said,

"Hmm, I don't know what he wanted; let's go see if he's still here." We left our empty bedroom and made our way to our living room, we found no other Pokémon, and that included the interloper Hitokage.

"I wonder what he wanted. Because it couldn't have been he just wanted to watch us kissing all over the place," I started, "Maybe he forgot to tell us something?" Lily spotted something on the built in bar above the kitchen sink which separated the living room from the kitchen.

"It's a letter from Hitokage!" Lily said, holding up an envelope with our names on the front, written in a very girly, loopy, lettering.

"Are you positive that's from Hitokage? I mean, look at the hand writing, it looks like a 60 year old girl's! So, what's in it?" I said to Lily, in response to her finding the envelope. Lily turned it around in perpetration of opening it, and there, in a messy scrawl, was written, "Sorry for walking in on the two of you, I'll definitely knock next time." –Hitokage.

"That's what you should have done in the first place." Lily muttered under her breath. "Then again, maybe we should have locked the front door, right Leo?" She turned her head to me, an amused smile tugging at her lips.

"Just find out what the letter says!" I said, in an exaggerated exasperated tone.

"Fine, fine, whatever the little horn-dog, or horn-fox, wants." She gently teased, making my face burn slightly. She opened the letter and began to read,

"Dear lily and Leo,

It has come to my attention that the two of you have lived in an orphanage your entire life, and thus owns nothing and have no money. While that will be remedied when the two of you start doing missions for our guild, and receive your payment for said assignments, that won't happen for a little while until you have been cleared fit for assignment, which means you meet the minimum requirements in strength, education, and your overall reliability. We'll start your assessments latter on tomorrow. But in the meantime I have released that the two of you don't have a pillow or a loaf of bread between the two of you, so I have enclosed several hundred poke' within. It should be enough to buy some food and some bedding as well as other essentials. I have sent Hitokage to take the two of you to the nearest superstore.

My best wishes two the two of you,

Delphi the Gardevoir. Lily finished reading the letter. She pulled out another slip of paper that had been inserted in the envelope. It was directions to the supermarket that Hitokage had written for us.

"Where did Hitokage get the pen and paper from? He had to wright the instructions here when he thought we were having sex. I didn't see him carrying any bag when he picked us up earlier." I wondered out loud.

"Who knows, don't think too hard about it, also, you thought we were having sex to, so don't be mean." She stuck her tongue out at me in a way I found adorable. I stuck mine out back at her.

"Well, let's go, we have nothing better to do anyway. And besides, we have a little money now, and because we only have to furnish one bed, we might have a little money left over!" Lily gushed happily, and I was happy too, the entire day and a third since we left had been full of happy surprises. Getting to spend our first night free out of the U-Y-H-C, even if I did have an awkward physical before going to bed, then Lily and I went on our first train, and rode it for hours. We even got our own place to live that we don't have to share with anyone else, also, I got my first kiss, and then many, many other ones. I decided that the day had been very, very good, and now we had a little money to top it off.

We left the giant tree guild and entered the pre-sunset light. We stood at the end of the road that led to the guild, and lily said,

"Let's try to get back before dark; we have at least an hour and a half before then. Come on, let's get going Leo!" We made good time with Hitokage's directions, we made it to the store within 10 minutes, and like all of the other building in Moon forest the building was a part of a tree itself. We entered the tree building and found ourselves in a store for the first time in our lives, and we were overcome by all of the things we saw for sell, and all of the Pokémon who were also shopping.

"Umm, where do we find blankets and stuff?" I asked, staring wide-eyed, and looking at all the goods around us.

"I… I don't know, let's see if we can find what we are looking for. We do want to get back before dark." Lily suggested. We left the entrance of the store, each of us equipped with a plastic basket, mine hanging from my mouth by its handles, and Lily's gripped in one of her paws. It took us forever to locate the bedroom section, and when we did we just stood there, silently freaking out about all of the stuff we had to choose from.

"Umm, what should we get?" Lilly asked, "I like this set of sheets, and their pink and cheap." She held up the pack of sheets she had found.

"How about no, the color is too girly, and besides, it's so cheap, it'll be falling apart within an hour of us using them!" I supplied, and Lily agreed that the price might mean lower quality, but she pouted on my option of the color. In the end we decided on two purple comforters, a set of purple sheets, and a pack of, you guessed it, purple pillow cases, and two pillows for the cases.

"Why do we need two comforters?" I complained, "We're using almost half of the money with everything!" We were now walking to the food area with our new, but as of yet unpaid, linins for our bed.

"Well Leo, why do you think we need two? Any idea?" She asked me. I remained silent." Do you remember our deal earlier, before we started swapping spit? About the diapers? Well, I have the sinking feeling that we will need to change our sheets and stuff at least once before I come out here to buy diapers!" She teased gently, nudging me in my side.

"I won't wet the bed!" I complained, putting some veggies in my basket. "I haven't wet the bed in a long time!"

"Four days, it's only been four days since you last peed the bed. And I'm not including when that asshole Rex made you wet yourself yesterday morning. Oh, I also found how much the diapers cost, and have set aside the money, I can't wait, you'll look adorable!" She gave me a quick peck on mu muzzle before I could complain at all, "Now come on, when we were passing the clothes I saw something I wanted to get!"

It turns out what she wanted was a purple scarf for herself, and an ice blue one for me.

"It'll look good on you, and besides, it reminds me of you for some reason." Smiling, I rubbed my head against hers. She grabbed my face and turned my head around to kiss me.

"Hey, you two, take it somewhere else, and besides the two of you are too young to be doing stuff like that!" We turned to the disproving Pokémon, an elderly Noctowl. She scrawled at us and walked away. We turned to each other, Lily clutching the scarf she had picked out, and I holding the one she picked for me, we burst out laughing.

"What an old lady! Come on Leo, we have a little money left still. Let's go get some,….. CANDY!" Her face broke out in a wicked grin, as did mine; candy was one of the many luxuries banned in the U-Y-H-C. Before we left the clothing area we also grabbed a small bag of detergent.

"For when you wet the bed Leo." She said teasing me; she dropped the bag of detergent in her basket. We also grabbed some shampoo, soaps and a bag of bathing salts in the bath section.

"I've never had a chance to use these before." She said, referring to the bath salts, "They should be nice, and Leo, if you're good I might let you use them too!" She hugged the bag to her chest, before she popped it in my basket.

Counting everything up, we only had 15 poke' left over, so on the way to checkout we grabbed a huge box of mixed flavored, sea salt toffee, something we have never had before. When we left the store with paper bags filled with our new stuff hanging from my jaws and Lily's arms, we found the sun had long since set; it was completely dark outside now.

"How long were we in there?" I asked Lily in disbelief. It did not feel like twenty minutes had gone by, let alone at least an hour and a half.

"Who knows? Well, let's go home. I love that word now, home." Lily said, starting towards the Guild.

"Hey, Lily," I started.

"Ya?"

"Who's our Guild Master?" I asked simply, as we walked alone in the forest city.

"You know what, I don't know!"

When we returned to our flat we found that we were starting to get tired. So we tossed the food in the fridge, the veggies on the counter and the bathroom stuff in the bathroom, the rest of everything we stuck in our room, including the candy, and the detergent.

"Okay, I'm going to make our bed, go toss the detergent on top of the washer." Lily commanded me.

"As you wish, master." I joked, giving exaggeratedly low bow. She smiled, amused, and said,

"If you keep that up you'll stay a virgin forever Leo!" She gently pushed my rump, shoving me away, and I started to make my way to the little laundry room. Right before I exited the room I turned my head and asked,

"What's a virgin?" She turned around and explained,

"A person who's never had sex."

"Well, you've never had sex Lily, so if I stay a virgin forever, so do you." I stuck out my tongue and padded out of the room with the small bag of detergent balanced on my back. When I returned Lily was snuggled down in our now made up den-bed. She poked her head out from the crevice,

"Leo, go to the bathroom before you come to bed." She commanded, and without a complaint, I did.

We bedded down for the night, without touching our toffee, and fell asleep snuggled up for the second night in a row, and it made me very, very happy. Sleeping in her arms made me feel totally safe and loved; two feelings that were rare for Pokémon of the U-Y-H-C. I hoped she felt as safe and loved as I did. We woke naturally the next morning, no alarms, and no one yelling at us to get up, nothing. I woke when Lily started to stir, and soon we were detangling ourselves from our blanket and sheets, and hopped out of bed yawning.

"Cool, another dry night Leo." Lily complimented "Come on, let's go make some breakfast." She finished.

"Alright Lily, let's go!" After eating a small breakfast Lily and I went and sat down in the empty living room.

"So, Leo, what should we do today? Get married maybe?" Her words caught me off guard; I stared at the Emolga sitting in front of me on the carpet, and muttered my most intelligent response ever.

" Ehh…Wh…Hu?" I stared at her blankly, despite my red blushing face. Lily just started laughing.

"You look cute when you're embarrassed." Lily said cutely, "And I was just kidding about the marriage,…. for now." She leaned over and kissed me, and began to scratch me in-between my ears; at the same time. I broke the kiss, my face still warm.

"I think we should go to the Gardevoir's office again, she did say to come over today when we left her office." I reminded Lily.

"Hmm, okay Leo, wait here for a moment though." She jumped up off her butt and ran into our room. She returned a moment later with our scarfs, my icy blue one and her purple one.

"Stand up; I'm going to wrap you up Leo." I did as I was asked, and she gently wrapped the scarf around my neck, when she was satisfied with mine she did hers herself. We went into the bathroom to admire our new possessions in the mirror. Lily's scarf wrapped around her neck, and the left end went over her shoulder and draped across her back, and reached just below the base of her tail; where it wouldn't mess with her walking. The right side hanged down to her chest. My scarf didn't adorn me nearly as well, it wrapped around my neck and the right side was tucked into the top of itself, while the left hanged down to just below my chest. I felt we made a nice looking team.

"You're adorable Leo! Now, come on, let's go and grace that Gardevoir with our presence!" So we did. We later found ourselves outside the Gardevoir's office. We entered after knocking.

"Oh, Leo, Lily, I was waiting for the two of you, come in and have a seat, we have a little to discuss." We entered the room and sat on two cushioned seats in front of the desk.

"Now let's start at the beginning shall we? First I have two things to give each of you, and a third as a gift. The first I shall give you is your bell of hope, Leo, Lily, you each will get one." The Gardevoir pulled out two metallic bells; that could be fastened onto just about anything. She handed them to us and we took them. I looked at my new bell and pawed at it for a moment. The Gardevoir continued,

"Now, the bells are made of zinc, a cheap metal that is everywhere. The zinc bell represents your experience level and the missions you can take. You can work missions that are simple, like babysitting, cleaning, running errands, and things like that. When you move up to bronze you will be able to do harder jobs. Low risk security, helping with the release and moving of low risk criminals, delivering parcels or messages of medium or low importance , and teaching or tutoring are some of the jobs that could be assigned at bronze. With Silver you can do jobs that are a lot more dangerous. You may end up exploring high risk dungeons, hunting high risk criminals, providing security for officials, and things of that nature. With gold you will be doing even more high risk jobs, like spying and espionage. And during times of war you will also be ranked by your bell, but more on that later. There are several levels above gold, but we will talk of those when you need to learn of them. You must have your bell clipped somewhere visible at all times when you are not at home. Your scarfs would be a good place for them." The Gardevoir explained patently.

The bells had little clips on them to clip them to fabrics; Lily and I clipped them in easy to spot places on our scarfs, hers in the middle of the end hanging down to her chest, and I followed suit with mine. The Gardevoir handed us each a bag, the one I was handed was designed differently so I could wear it comfortably. My bag when worn would sling around my chest from the front of one of my front legs, to under the joint of the other, a slight variation of the one Lily had that slung over her shoulders.

"Now, the bags are standard amongst all guilds, the ones I have given the two of you have our guilds symbol on it," I looked at Lily's bag, as she did, and found that it had a full moon casting light over the ocean, the symbol of Hope, "So does your bells, so wear them with pride, and don't do anything that will embarrass the guild while wearing them!" She stood up, and I noticed that on a silver chain around her neck she hung a gold bell. Lily began to speak,

"Thanks for all this and the information, but I do have two questions; what's your name, and who's our guild master?" Lily asked, realizing she never told us her name, and the fact we didn't know who our leader was.

"Oh! This is embarrassing! My name is Delphi, and you will meet the guild leader soon, now onto my gift. Follow me please." We followed Delphi out of the room, and about two doors down she ushered us into a room.

"This is the guilds gift to you." With a wide sweeping jester she presented to us an almost empty room, the only thing inside was an old grandfather clock.

"It's amazing Delphi! Thank you so much!" The smile on Lily's face was intoxicating. My face lit up too.

"Thank you so much Delphi." I said quietly, feeling my chest tighten from the sudden display of kindness.

"You're welcome, well now the Master wants to meet the two of you, and he does have a few things to discuss with the two of you, as well as an amazing opportunity. But before we leave to go to him, I do have something else to talk to you two about, something a little more,….intimate." Lily and I watched her, confused. "Now, first the Guild doesn't have any facilities for child care like a daycare, so, um, if the two of you decide to, mate, please use some form of birth control or some other form of safe sex. " Lily's face turned beet red, as mine undoubtedly did.

"W…wait a moment!" I said shyly, Delphi interrupted me,

"Nothing is wrong with matting Leo, Lily, just be careful when you do, now let's go to see the Master. After a silent and awkward walk we found ourselves in front of the Master's door.

"Now, before I leave you, I must tell you a little about the master, he's, a little odd, but he is one of the nicest, and strongest, Pokémon I have ever met. So please proceed and met your Master!"

End of Chapter

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed! Stay tuned for more, how did Leo's and Lily's relationship develop? What and who is the Master? What is he like? What will happen next? What is the Master's offer to Leo and Lily? Read the next chapters to find out!

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