Riley sent out Marissa first, the Armsmistress looking all too imposing as she loomed over everyone else in the area. I sent out Lizzy, as she seemed eager to battle.
The Armsmistress drew her sword, the sight of which made me more than a little nervous for Lizzy, especially with her having no long ranged attacks. I took a breath to calm myself, and tried to focus on strategy.
We waited for the Armsmistress to make the first move. After a few moments, she charged with her sword at the ready. "Dodge back when she gets close. Yell and follow up with tackle." I rattled off instructions, hoping they'd keep Lizzy away from the edge of the sword.
Lizzy seemed anxious to rush the Armsmistress and start fighting, but wasn't stupid enough to rush headlong at a larger, stronger, blade wielding pokegirl and held her ground. Once the Armsmistress was fright in front of her, Lizzy jumped back, avoiding the sword swipe and yelling loud, startling the 'girl enough for her to rush forward; knocking her back with tackle.
"Get back before she recovers!" I called, but Lizzy didn't want to play it on defensive, and rush forward again to tackle. This led to her getting hit in the gut with the handle of the Armsmistress's sword, knocking the wind out of her as she was punched back. Lizzy stumbled back, narrowly avoiding another sword strike.
"Let out Lust Dust!" I called. Lizzy gave me a look like I was out of my skull, but I had an idea. Whether or not Lizzy actually though it was a good idea or not, she let out a cloud of Lust Dust, enveloping the Armsmistress.
The short term effect was just pissing Marissa off, as now she was horny and fighting twice as hard to end the match so she could go to Riley for some relief. Lizzy dodged around the clearing voiding, and sometimes getting hit by, sword strikes. Then, after five minutes of combat with Lizzy intermediately letting out more Dust, it started working like I wanted.
Marissa's strikes were getting less graceful, more aggressive and less fluid. She was getting sloppy as he mind was more and more consumed with lust. Lizzy seemed to realize that this had been the plan, and let out another cloud of dust before rushing in with a series of tackles that knocked the Armsmistress's sword out of her hands and pinned her to a tree,
Lizzy almost lost it near the end, trying to grapple the Armsmistress. This could never have worked with the Armsmistress being bigger, heavier, stronger, and wearing armor. But another blast of Lust Dust, this one not meant to add to the building lust, but rather obscure Marissa's vision, gave Lizzy the edge, letting her pin the Armsmistress and tackle her unconscious.
Riley nodded, recalling Marissa. "Clever boy. Now what's your plan for this?" He asked, sending out Crissy.
I didn't like the look of the Charmelons going up against Lizzy, and took out her pokeball to recall her and switch for Bet. "No, I can do this." Lizzy said, staring down the Charmelons (I say staring 'down', but she had to look up at her to do it.).
Knowing I would likely regret it later, I recalled Lizzy anyway and sent out Bet. No way Lizzy was fighting a Charmelons yet.
"Keep to the air, attack with peck when you see an opening." I called to Bet, the Pidgy taking off into the air to avoid a ball of fire. Wing attack wouldn't be strong enough to do enough damage through Crissy's scales, and would take down her speed in the air each time she had to beat her wings against the other 'girl. Peck would be stronger against her, and wouldn't reduce Bet's speed as much.
Ads the battle played out, Bet avoiding fire attacks by darting around in the air and swopping down to peck at Crissy when there was an opening, my strategy seemed to be proven right. Unfortunately, I forgot to account for the Charmelons's poison attacks.
Bet got slashed with a poison claw after five minutes of battle. She was fine for the next four minutes, but at ten, Bet started slowing down. The Charmelons was still taking damage when Bet attacked, but Bet was taking damage every time she moved; which she had to do to avoid the other pokegirl's fire attacks.
Bet seemed to realize that she was going to be knocked out before she finished the battle, and went for a hail-Mary, flying up as high as she could before dive bombing Crissy, not even attempting to avoid the ball of fire that went at her and becoming a ball of fire herself as she crashed into the Charmelons. Bet was knocked out, but Crissy wasn't in great shape either.
"Chip away at the health and send out the cavalry? Not the best plan, but whatever." Riley commented as I sent Lizzy back out.
Riley's words were really started to put me on edge, possibly because of his Aura. I realized with a start that that may very well have been his strategy. It had never occurred to me that the tamer could contribute to the strategy physically as well.
Lizzy looked pissed at me for calling her back before, but had bigger things to worry about at the moment with the Charmelons already bearing down on her.
Lizzy avoided the fire ball, tackling Crissy back and letting out more Lust Dust as she did. The Dust, combined with Crissy already being staggered from her fight with Bet put the Charmelons in a practically useless state as Lizzy tackled her; knocking her out.
"Your one for two, let's see if you can keep up with the gears switched over." Riley said, sending out Lush.
I didn't understand what Riley meant, and neither did Lizzy; as she charged the Tavernmaid, only to get blasted by Intoxicate. Lizzy coughed and hic-ed as she was buzzed from inhaling the airborne liquor. Lush grinned, and began removing her dress.
Switch gears…this was a sex battle. It made sense, but was a big problem. Lizzy wasn't trained for sex battles, and even if she was, she was currently buzzed out. I tried to call to her, warn her, but I'm not sure how much she heard.
Lizzy giggled drunkenly as she watched Lush undress, and grinned seductively at the sight of the Tavernmaid's large chest.
"Thirsty~?" Lush asked with a smile, drawing Lizzy in and pulling her head down to her chest. In Lizzy's drunken state she didn't think twice about it and immediately started drinking more alcohol from Lush's breasts. I tried to call out to her to get her head together, but she was gone.
With her officially hammered, it took almost no effort for Lush to make her cum, losing Lizzy the match and knocking her out just to add insult to injury.
I couldn't exactly send Nina out, regardless of the kind of battle she'd be useless for it, and losing a match would only lower her self-esteem more. The battle was over, and I'd lost.
"Damn." I muttered as I recalled Lizzy. "Your 'girls need training," Riley said, throwing me some supplies to heal and un-stupor Lizzy and Bet, "Now I'm off to reward mine." He said with a grin, retreating into his tent on the other end of the clearing to tame his 'girls.
I sent out Bet and Lizzy, healing them with potions to bring their health back up. Lizzy's head was cleared after only a few minutes (thankfully, as the though of Lizzy with a hangover scares me to the core) and looked angry over losing.
I recalled Bet into her ball to rest, and tried to calm Lizzy down. She calmed after awhile, but didn't look any happier. "Maybe there's something I can do to help you relax?" I asked, wondering if she'd be up for a taming, as she hadn't actually had one since Pallet Town.
"No," Lizzy replied, "I'm sore from the fight. Just let me rest in my pokeball." She said. I nodded, and recalled her into her ball for the night.
As I laid to sleep in my tent, I sighed sadly, knowing that, after the potions, Lizzy wouldn't actually be sore anymore. At least she knows how to let someone down easy.
The next morning I took Riley's advice, getting up early and heading away from the camp to get some training done. I figured it would do Lizzy some good to train in a forest, surrounded by plant-life. Bet was able to work on aerial coordination from dodging the trees while she flew.
Nina didn't really look up to training, and sat with me on the sidelines while the others were at it.
"Your going about this all wrong you know."
I looked up in surprise at hearing the male voice from above, and saw a guy sitting in the tree we were sitting under. He was taller than me, but a bit shorter than Riley, with dark skin that stood out a bit against the plain gray clothes he wore. He had a hood pulled up over his head, but I could still see that his hair was a dirty white; which struck me as odd considering he looked to be about the same age as me, perhaps even younger.
He jumped down from the branch he'd been sitting on, landing on his feet in front of me and Nina, the Titmouse whimpering and crawling into my lap for safety, not that I could exactly do much if this guy did turn out to be a problem.
"What do you mean?" I asked nervously. "Training your pokegirls. Your doing it wrong." He said. "What makes you say that?" I asked defensively.
He held up his hands peacefully, "Let me explain. My name is Thomas, and I've been traveling for awhile now. Traveling tends to let you pick a few things up. The way your 'girls are training is fine, but will only be that: fine. And will yield results that will be fine instead of great. Trust me, if your pinned down by a Panthress or a battling a gym, just fine isn't gonna cut it.
"Your just not taking advantage of the surroundings is all." Thomas said. I thought about this, looking around at the forest, I thought I was taking good advantage of the area, Lizzy training her plant type abilities and Bet training her maneuverability. I told this to Thomas, and he shook his head.
"The Boobisaur needs defensive training, and the Pidgy should be working on speed. And why isn't she training to?" Thomas asked, indicating Nina.
"Well she's a Titmouse." I said, "And that's all she'll be if she doesn't get to training." Thomas said back.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of this, but thinking on it, he was right. Lizzy's defense really low, and Bet's speed was something to be desired. Training those stats here in the plant and bug element of the forest would give them both a huge boost. And if Nina started training, it would probably get her confidence up more, and maybe she could even start battling.
At Thomas's instruction, I changed up how the 'girls were training, having Lizzy switch to defense, Bet on speed, and even getting Nina to do some basic training to build up her physical strength.
"Thanks man," I said, grateful for the help when I say how quickly the 'girls were starting to improve after only an hour.
"Don't mention it. I've just picked up a few things in my time. Well, a lot of things." Thomas said with a chuckle. "Your pokegirls must be on a whole other level." I said, but Thomas shook his head.
"Don't have any of my own." Thomas said. "Really?" I questioned. Thomas nodded, "Long story. Just been me for a while now."
I thought about this while the 'girls trained. Clearly Thomas knew how to train pokegirls, despite not having any himself. I could really use someone like that, and I figured that if he'd been by himself, he could probably use some company.
"Want to travel with me and my 'girls?" I asked.
Thomas seemed surprised I'd asked, but smiled, "Well, I suppose I could stay for awhile to see how your pokegirls do with their training, but I can't promise to be staying for too long."
I nodded as we started heading back to the clearing, the 'girls all tired from the training. "Who's this?" Riley asked. "Thomas." Thomas said, shaking Riley's hand.
"I met him out in the forest, he's really good with pokegirls. Doesn't have any though." I explained. "Poor bastard." Riley said, making Thomas chuckle, "I do fine on my own." He said, sitting down and taking a berry out of the pocket on his hoodie.
That's when I realized that Thomas didn't look to have a back. No supplies, weapons, healing supplies or even a map. It struck me as off, but Thomas just shrugged it off when I asked him about it. "Not smart to keep too much supplies on you."
I was about to point out that he didn't really have any supplies on him, but he spoke first. "So tell me Mark, what exactly is your plan for your journey?"
"Well...battle eight gyms, go to the Pokegirls League, hopefully win and get a chance to battle the Elite Four." I said, having thought it was obvious.
Thomas laughed at this, and to my surprise, Riley laughed to. "Buddy, that isn't a plan." Riley said. "It's a goal at best, and a pipe dream at worst." Thomas added.
"What gyms are you going to challenge? There's at least one for every element, not to mention the sex battle gyms. What pokegirls do you plan to catch? What sights do you want to see? What do you do if you don't get eight gym badges in time and miss the deadline for the League? You gotta have a plan, not just an endpoint."
I didn't know how to respond to this. Thomas seemed content to just let me think about it as he gave a list of training exercises for the 'girls to go through.
As the day went on, me watching Thomas help train my three pokegirls, no answers came to me, and several more questions arose. Soon night fell again, and Thomas said it would be wise to wait to travel until morning.
Taking his advise, me and Riley went to our respective tents for the night. I shared my new concerns (just drops in the slowly filling bucket) with Lizzy. "What do you think?"
Lizzy shrugged, "You're the tamer, you're supposed to figure it out." She said before returning to her ball for the night. I sighed, irritated and stressed out, and sent out Bet.
Bet grinned, "Does Master need to sate his blood curse~?" I blushed, nodding.
Bet just giggled, laying back on the ground and raising her feet up. I wasted no time, taking her ankles in my hands and bringing her heels to my face. Thank god I'd found Bet. With how Lizzy acts and Nina being too shy, if not for Bet, I'd likely have succumbed to my blood curse by now.
To my pleasure, Bet started moaning softly as I began to kiss and lick along the length of her feet; as she was enjoying the worship as much as I enjoyed giving it.
This practically sent me into a frenzy, licking, kissing, and even occasionally biting the Pidgy's feet until they were covered heel to tow in saliva. The sight was beautiful to me, and it seemed to be turning Bet on to.
Bet grinned wickedly at me as I undressed, rolling onto her back and squeezing my shaft between her feet; stroking me off hard with her feet. It moved smoothly between them with how slick they were; and the feeling of it was just too good.
I groaned, cumming onto Bet's feet after only a few minutes. The relief, however, didn't make me tired. If anything, it revved me up. I'm usually not an aggressive person in any sense of the word, but I suppose this is the exception.
I grabbed Bet's feet, thrusting between the small arc they made. I moaned at how soft they felt, not planning to stop until I'd completely covered Bet's feet. Bet didn't seem to mind, and even enjoyed, this. She even managed to cum as I slowly covered her feet in more and more seed.
I did finally start feeling a bit of fatigue after I'd finished with the bird 'girls feet, but still had enough energy to make sure she was repaid; I wasn't about to let one of my pokegirls go unsatisfied.
I'm not sure when we finally bit stop, only that Bet and I were both panting hard, laying in the tent, and my mind had a lot less stress built up.