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Chapter 10

As dawn broke over a new day Vince need not crawl to get out of bed, for the girls were already about doing things in the tent.

Vince got dressed, and found a bowl of fruit with a note, 'we had breakfast already, sorry we didn't wake you, Andrea.'

Vince nodded and started munching berries as he walked outside. Noticing he was alone he zipped the tent up and packed it on his back, he then started walking.

As he left Ambergem town he meandered along the path, it would eventually take him back up to where he wanted to go so he simply followed it.

It soon came to midday, and Vince found a field of gracidea flowers, and so Vince set the tent up beneath a tree and took a nap in the flowerfield.

It was perhaps a half hour before Vince was awakened by a white colored snout in his face.

"Hello?" Vince said cautiously a squeak sounded from it and the snout disappeared. Alowly Vince sat up and looked around, seeing Gracidea floers waving gently in the wind. Vince shrugged and went back to laying down.

"Please be more careful when you step on me next time, it's nice and warm out and the flowers are lovely, i would rather enjoy a nap here for a couple hours." Vince said, sure that whoever it was had heard him.

As Vince napped in the flowers, the girls went to the top floor of the tent and trained, shadow claws flew, psybeams clashed flamethrowers, psychic launched friends, thunder clashed, dark pulses roared from pokemon. It was chaos in motion.

When the dust settled all three girls lay in a triangle of sorts, their heads toward each other as they panted, covered in bruises and scorch marks, small cuts and spiked static filled hair.

And after such a rough bit of training they took a nap. The sun shining through the pyramid above.

Outside in the flowers, Vince napped, he had eaten most of the berries in the bowl on his walk. But a few still remained, and these few were what drew the unknown nap disturber near.

As she stepped over Vince, her steps light, she crept towards the bowl of berries, only for Vince's eyes to snap open, and he grabbed her!

She squeaked and struggled as Vince laughed, "calm down. If you want some berries just ask."

She panted as Vince held her. Then she looked at him, "fine. Can i have some berries?"

Vince chuckled and set her down beside the berry bowl, "sure, may i transplant a few gracidea flowers?" Vince asked sincerely.

As she munched berries she thought about it, he could have just killed her or trapped her, instead he offered her food and simply asked for flowers in return. What a strange human, she could see in his eyes he knew exactly what she was.

"Well Shaymin?" Vince said with a smile.

"I prefer to be called Shay thank you very much. And fine, you may take a few." She said, her nose in the air.

Shay was a rather large shaymin, where as a regular human could hold perhaps 3 shaymin, she was large enough that a human could only carry her. She wasn't fat, she wasn't old, she was simply a larger shaymin. Somewhat overly developed if the truth be told.

Vince nodded and laid back, carefully eyeing the flowers, as if choosing which would be easiest, which would be best, and which would be most likely to survive transplantation.

After a half hour of this, and Shay watching Vince do this, Vince got up and went inside, Shay hid in the flowers and watched as he came back out with a trowel, potting soil, and three flower pots.

She settled down and watched as Vince's now apparent jack of all trades abilities were showing up. He carefully dug a cone around the flowers of his choice, a tall one, a red one that was out of color with the rest, and seemed to not sit well in the valley microclimate, and a blue one like the red.

As Vince grabbed all three newly tranplanted flowers, he started to head inside, "wait!" He heard from the flowers he had left behind, the holes filled with potting soil.

"Yes Shay?" Vince said, turning halfway.

"Why did you choose those three? Surely the blue and red will die. And without another the tall one won't make more." She said, a frown on her face.

Vince tsked at her, "for a flower pokémon you don't seem to understand your flowers well enough." Vince said, eliciting a gasp of resentment from Shay, "how dare you insult me!"

"Fine, if you don't think i can grow them i will show you, by the end of the day all three will be fine and healthy." Vince said with a smirk of confidence.

Shay huffed and walked after Vince. Inside the tent she refused to be awed by how spacious it was. Vince simply lead the way to the top floor, he knew there was a green house, it was right next to the berry trees after all.

Once inside Vince set up a small room, turned the temperature up to a heat that wouldn't allow normal vegetation to survive in and stepped inside.

Shay watched from the other side of the glass, it was a bit uncomfortable for her in there, as Vince took the red flower and started to put it in a bigger pot, then he surrounded it in ashes from the stove far below.

Once that was done Vince moved to another glass room with the blue flower, and turned it down to what was normal Vale-ultim climate. Around this one he packed potting soil.

Shay watched as he suffered the cold and the heat for these two little flowers. Vince walked back into the main area and put the third down by a trellis. Packing more potting soil around it's base until he was satisfied.

Vince set up the watering system and walked out of the green house, Shay following, "i'll take a look at them tomorrow. They need more than one day to say if they will live or die." Shay said haughtily.

Vince sighed, "alright, i'll go make you a place. I should probably make a few guest rooms too or something."

"Ohhh no you don't. I'm gonna be sleeping in your room. That way i can make sure you don't go do anything funny to the flowers." Shay said, her cheeks reddening a bit.

Vince knew she was lying, but he wasn't sure why. Something deep inaide said she was... Pink? He wasn't sure how to explain it but she wasn't doing it for the flowers, almost because of them. If that made sense.

So Vince worked on things in the tent, building a a couple beds and carrying them to the second floor, he had decided this would be the lodgind for everyone who decided not to sleep in his bed apparently.

Which basically meant anyone but his pokémon. And so for the rest of the day Vince was followed by Shay, Andrea doing some tidying in the kitchen with her chansey, Ron making sure everything in the center wing was in the right spot.

Vince made a couple wardrobes, dressers, two jewelery boxes and made two almost complete vanities, but he needed to find or buy mirrors.

Soon night came, and Vince checked onbthe flowers, Shay watched in awe as the tallest one had begun to spread along the trellis, the blue one in the cold looked bigger than a normal gracidea, and the same with the red in the hot room.

Vince freshened the soil, or ash in the red flower's case. And Shay simply walked out of the greenhouse, sad and dejected.

Vince finished his chore and walked after her. "There is still one flower i have yet to tend Shay." Vince said.

Shay simply laid down, she had judged him as a fool, and instead she had been shown the truth of her own flowers. But what was Vince talking about? What could he possibly mean, he had cared for the flowers he had taken.

Vince gently stroked her bushy fur, and it dawned on her, SHE was a flower. "You... You mean me?" She said timidly.

Vince nodded, "if you think your not that great think again. You knew they wouldn't do well without another, or in this place. But it shows you haven't left this place all that much. So now you need to spread your own roots and learn all you can. Then you can spread this knowledge to the other shaymin."

"Thanks. I... I would be happy to learn from you." Shay said as she nuzzled Vince's pants leg.

Vince took her in his lap and stroked her fur. The moon rose slowly over the dome, everyone went to bed but for Shay and Vince. "In a week i'll cross breed all three of them, we'll get one that grows tall and loves any climate."

Shay nodded as she yawned. And with that, Vince picked her up, and carried her to his room, he laid her as the foot of the bed, got undressed, and climbed into bed, carefully slipping in between his three already sleeping girls.

A new day dawned with a thunderstorm, so naturally Cassy was out with her eighteen mareep, Vince went out and packed the tent up, Maryn refusing to get her fur wet, and Mysty saying she would be teaching Blue with Layla.

As Vince walked with Layla towards the edge of the pore, Maryn was inside the tent, setting up a new room. She had watched a lot of what Vince had done with the stone, and tried to copy him with as big a slab of stone as she could, using shadow claw.

She carved out a large smooth curve from the stone, it was a huge piece of stone. And she had to carve the outside as best she could, she carved images into it, using it as an excuse to lighten the weight.

On the sides of this giant tub, able to seat two people, three if you crowded them in a bit, she had carved a few hearts, and a decorative set of waves, she stayed in the shop for hours, carving an ocean into the side.

By the time she was done, Cassy had returned to the top of the tent with eighteen walking balls of wool, and Vince had come in for a break.

Maryn pulled Vince into the shop, and Vince smiled. "It's lovely Maryn. You havea natural talent." He said, kissing her ash she blushed at his praise.

Vince picked the large tub up and Maryn led the way to the room she wanted it to be in. Vince hooked it up to the water heater, and set the drain to go outside.

Vince wasn't sure where the water came from. But it seemed like it somehow got it from the weather when it was set up.

Vince went back out and packed the tent up. Soon he was walking up the path along the cliff, and was soon back into Vale-ultim that was known by everyone, cold and snowbound, with ice types everywhere. Sneasel bounded from shadow to shadow.

Mamoswine hunkered down by snowdrifts. Froslass drifted about as Glalie found frozen berries.

Vince set the tent up, he was a days walk from the farthest down route 405 they had been, which was the large hot springs, it went so deep into the rock, but felt so good. Vince made a mental note, making sure that they set up camp there again.

Vince walked into the tent and yawned, not too late though, Vince stepped into the dining room, and found Ron had prepared some Tauros ribs and salad for Shay.

'Guess the eighth chair will be used' thought Vince as he took his seat. Maryn skipped up to him and kissed his cheek, happy for his help moving the tub earlier.

Andrea passed around plates, and Ron put a rib or three on each of them.

Shay simply had a salad, forgoing any meat because she wasn't as much of a meat eater as everyone else. She nibbled a rib but mostly stuck to her salad.

After dinner Vince stepped out with Maryn, and they packed the tent up, everyone else was in bed, but Vince couldn't wait. So he set off at a brisk pace, hoping to get to the hot springs sooner than tomorrow.

Maryn was wrapped about his neck, hanging off his back like a knapsack, and rubbing her cheek against his.

Vince smiled and kisses her cheek, walking faster through the snow and eventually getting to a sprint as he went along the trail.

It was a couple hours later when Maryn had Vince stop, instead of going inside she kissed Vince's cheek and jumped into his arms, her eyes fluttered lazily as she drifted to sleep, snow falling lightly around them as the cold let loose, a dusting of snow coating everything in another blanket of frost.

Vince held her tight, but walked fast, somehow she never woke up during the entire time he carried her, and as the moon drifted slowly across the sky, night turned to a pink morning, the snow shining in the early rays of sunlight.

And that was when Vince happened once more upon the Hot spring. Deep warm water surged from the bottom and frothed at the top, and Vince laid Maryn against a snow drift and quickly set up the tent.

He gently picked Maryn back up and brought her inside, taking her coat off he took her to bed, stripped to his boxers, and climbed in with all his girls.