Consideration?

Claire thought about it.

Out of all her pokemon...Raichu, Golduck, Sylveon and Steenee can perform. 3 out of 4 are at home. And Steenee is a fighting nut like herself. Can't see her performing. Raichu maybe, Sylveon will go for it.

Sylveon it is but that'd mean switching whenever they'll do it.

She tried imagining scenarios while under Aura Cardio Training...

'LOOK OUT!' Riley yelled and SLAM!' She slammed into a tree. 'Claire! You OK?!'

'...owww...where'd that come from...?' Claire whipered as her nose hurts, even sporting a bad nosebleed so she healed herself by biting herself.

'Claire, you ended up making a turn while we ran...' said Riley as her pokemon fretted in concern.

'I'm alright, just seeing stars right now...' she said nasally and in a pained voice. 'I was...in deep thought, that's all.'

'That's one deep thought when you never normally have an accident...' Riley winced as she healed what's clearly a broken nose since they were running fast and hard and possibly a concussion. 'Let's stop over for a bit. Rustboro City is just two hours away now. We can afford a break to rest off that injury.'

So they settled under a tree for some shade...but said tree is occupied by a Spinarak that's annoyed at being woken up, but did not pick a fight seeing it's outnumbered, so all it did was grumble at them before going back up.

Riley knew it only retreated seeing it's outnumbered but if no pokemon out, no doubt it'd pick a fight with them.

After resting, she was still disoriented, so a check up is a must.

'Humm, judging by her description of how she's feeling, she's still disoriented.' the doctor tut-tutted. 'I recommend at least, three days off then come see me again. But if you feel pain, we'll go for an x-ray. Bed rest for three days young lady.'

'Yessir.' Claire took out her debit card and slid it into the card reader to pay for the doctor's fees and Riley helped her out.

Riley thus looked after her while watching out for her condition through Aura.

Meanwhile...

A pair of eyes opened.

Red-orange slitted eyes.

'I feel it...she's close!' inside a cave in Kirikiri Mountain, Kurama the Progenitor opened his eyes.

He took to living in Hoenn as living in a landlocked region like Kanto and Johto reminds him too much of the old world. He allowed Oak to catch him just so nobody can catch him so he can travel as he pleases, and lives alone.

Free he may be, but he still has a link to Naruko. Its faint but still there.

Well, she's simply on a Pokemon Journey, unaware he existed, so meh.

xxx

Three days later...after passing the doctor gaining his OK, they went to the gym together.

'Been a while since I faced a Rock-Type...my first gym was Pewter City Gym when dealing with Rock Types.' said Claire as she went in. 'Well, I'll deal with it again! I also want to try something out.'

'What is it though?'

'Pokeblock making. There's a public Kitchen-for-Rent, for 5000 dollars yet you get to make all Pokeblocks you can within one hour. Its a dry but chewy thingy...and definitely more room in our packing than poffins do. Problem is, we'd be relying on public kitchens like these for supply since Pokeblenders do need an outlet.'

'There's that...'

Roxanne, upon seeing her gulped. Apparently, she's no Norman but tried her best anyway...and to think Claire used Steenee for the job...but due to training and life in Alola wherein its always a fight, this turned out to be her last fight needed to become Tsareena.

'Oh wow! What a beauty!' Roxanne gasped as she, Claire and Riley gawked. Sure they've seen it in Pokedexes but seeing it up close...pictures don't do it justice. Smells good too!

'Woah...' Tsareena looked at herself, before behaving like a noblewoman. 'Well Tsareena, we'll have to work harder than before!' Claire grinned. 'You'll be the world's strongest Tsareena!' Tsareena did an elegant spin, releasing Aromatic Mist in a bid to show off.

'That was unexpected...' said Roxanne. 'I've never seen a pokemon like this before. Foreign one eh?'

'Yes.' said Claire. 'I planned my journey before it began after all.'

'Well, no wonder you're champion at a young age, you're very sensible.' Roxanne snorted. 'The youngest before you is now both an Elite Four and Champion in two Regions. Lance. Only those with common sense get ahead in this career.' she said, shaking her head.

'Heee...how old was he when he became Champion?'

'He was 14 years old.' said Roxanne. 'After conquering Johto, he conquered Kanto next and two years after, he became who he is now. Come to think of it, how come you didn't challenge the Champion League? You got the ability to.'

'Well, I'll finish the Leagues first but I had to skip out on Johto.' Claire sighed. 'The Plague.' Roxanne understood knowingly with a cringe.

'Its horrible...its all over TV.' said Roxanne. 'It began in Azalea Town and now Goldenrod is affected. Goldenrod and Azalea are now under Quarantine and people wonder if it can potentially spread further.' she fretted when Claire got a phone call.

'Yes?'

/Claire, you've been to Johto, right?/

'Yes, but I had to skip out. Am in Hoenn right now.' said Claire. 'What is it Professor Oak?'

/We were wondering if your Heal Bite will work. People are dying before they can get the cure. They die faster, maybe you can give it a shot?/

'Er just remember I'm not an inexhaustible supply of Healing OK? If I overdo it I'll die too and I don't know my limits. I can only save so many once a day. Cruel as it sounds, but prioritize the children and family breadwinners.' Roxanne and Riley froze at that. Claire canNOT save everyone indeed, she's just one person with limits. So the ones she chose to be saved, are children who're too young to die and the reason for the 'Reproduction Laws' as it is, and Breadwinners so families aren't financially compromised after the calamity. It makes sense so sadly...those not prioritized will die. 'Some will be OK, some not.' she said anxiously.

'And Heal Bite only works on physical damage. It will not do anything to illnesses. At least their time is extended enough. Its gonna be chaos on who's in line first, families will wage war to ensure their sick relative goes first so you might wanna do damage control...and 50 a day, and send me Blissey and Miltank in Rustboro Pokemon Center, I'll switch out Rockruff for Blissey since I only have five pokemon on me at the moment. Just don't tell the patients yet. Get me what you'd call a volunteer in-the-know to see if it'll work first before you spread the word. False hope is worse and devastating, causing utter despair than no hope at all but prepared to die.'

/I understand. I'll inform the authorities./ came the grim reply. /We talked to your family about the matter. Please come to Goldenrod City. Buy us time. The cure is made after weeks of sleepless nights studying and on mass production now./ Claire then grimly put down the phone.

'Riley, wait for me here. I'm told to go back to Goldenrod City and make use of my Heal Bite ability. I can only save so many in a day. Things got so bad they started turning to Aura now.' she swore. 'They're practically gambling on this, but its a part of our job. We can only do what we can do.'

'Having cool powers has a cost huh?' Roxanne said fretfully.

'Yup. We deal with stuff like this...once Riley graduates from my training, we'll go separate ways, be vigilante heroes working in secret or train new apprentices. The more hands, the better after all.'

xxx

Goldenrod City, nighttime...

A Police Helicopter carried her to Johto and dropped her off. She jumped down with a parachute, and she ensured she lands in the City Entrance.

'Good you came...Professor Oak told us the specifics.' said a man in a Biohazard Suit. 'We got three volunteers of different ages in a tent we made out here.'

'Alright. Hope I can buy time.' said Claire. She was led to a tent and she could only choke at the sight of the volunteers before her. They were all deathly pale, with dark red rashes on the body and greenish-tinged black blisters on them. 'Just what the hell happened here? All I know is it's a plague.'

'Its like Lupus but worse and its contagious when normal Lupus isn't contagious yet the skin manifests a freaky version of Bullous Pemphigoid. We have no name for this either so we just settled for Black Plague because of the blisters.' said a worker.

'Maybe some idiot scientist is working illegally near Azalea Town and it blew up in his face and his virus went airborne.' Claire griped. 'Happens enough in movies.'

The workers paused.

'...how'd you guess?' another worker commented in amazement, making Claire nearly trip. 'We thought of that too and found a hut not far from Azalea. On the surface its a typical living space but under it is a lab that has air vents leading to outside in strategic places such as fake trees and fake bushes. We found the idiot dead and greenish black all over, full of blisters we can't even see his face. He's apparently developing a bioweapon using viruses...and he succeeded.' he scowled behind his clear mask. 'The government waged war on his organization when we found incriminating files, but the damage is already done.'

'Yeouch.'

Soon, she was guided to an ill child and an ill teenager accompanied by a parent and an old woman.

'Alright, you're already told what's going to happen.' said Claire grimly. 'I can only heal the injuries caused by the illness, alright?'

'As long as my toddler won't die today.' mother 1 sobbed. 'Come on honey, bite.' she encouraged her toddler who could barely open his eyes because of the blisters weighing down his eyelids. Mother two helped up her teenage son and a worker helped the old woman into biting her. Upon being bitten and being sucked on, her chakra flowed into them and sure enough, they felt better.

'The pain is gone and I felt better...but it'll be back tomorrow for sure.' the old woman sighed. 'Oh well...'

'How long till the cure gets here?' Claire asked the workers.

'Erm, three days and that's by batch and after that, there's a six days gap before the next one due to the round trips...our 7 planes can only carry 500000 at a time while we use a lot to disinfect the whole city in and out and we got 30 million sick citizens here. Its gonna be a long journey. For every 3.5 million people cured, a lot will die on the long wait in the meantime.'

And he wasn't kidding.

When Heal Bite worked...Claire was put to work in secret, unknown to other patients, and sent her pokemon to the kitchens to produce soft boiled eggs and milk for her to eat. Claire also put Tsareena to work with Aromatherapy via Hospital Air Vent Systems to ease pain and relieve stress, but alas, unable to cure illness and a bucket of fruit to keep her going if exhausted. Not only that, once done with a hospital, they travel to the next hospital.

Claire had to sleep early after eating a lot to regain energy as she takes on 50-60 people a day. And its always through a group of four...a child, a teenager, and two family breadwinners who both share her arms.

When the cure came, indeed, the patients state are prioritized more than others. These priorities are drained off of their blister fluids and carefully scraped off loose skin and cleaned up before biting Naruko and get injected by the cure while exposed to Aromatherapy.

It was a long journey of privileged survival while others died in droves. Because the dead bodies still carried the virus, they had to be safely disposed of. Families won't even get to mourn them in a funeral as the bodies are Biohazard Class 5. The most dangerous. They can't even burn the corpses.

So the bodies are sealed in concrete and shipped to space, filling up an AI-driven rocket and send it for destruction towards the sun. That was the plan by the Johto Government.

Clean up by Disinfection, was a long journey. And because it's airborne, authorities are on high alert in Johto for more victims who could be elsewhere...armed with the cure and equipment.

Less than half of the infected survived, but the Plague was over. It was a Pyrrhic Victory and they all knew it.

Very few from Azalea Town survived while Goldenrod's victims only had 1/10th survivors. Goldenrod City can't even be called a City anymore with so many dead, and the government came up with a new medicine to boost one's Immune System and a healthy diet was enforced since as those who ate healthy fare never got infected while those who enjoyed delicious, but processed foods too much were the ones compromised. Even people from other regions are given a thorough Health Check as a precaution lest they become carriers and devastate the next Region. Nobody's allowed to leave Johto until they get the clear, and nobody's allowed in until Health Checks are over. Other regions are also to check anyone who came from Johto.

She got two badges for her trouble, enabling her to participate in the Johto Cup and move on to the next city.

She doesn't feel happy about it though. In fact, she's upset with good reasons.

For now, she rushed without Riley due to running out of time, and instructed him to do Expansion Training with Lucario until people are allowed in Johto again.

Ecruteak City...

She arrived in a rather neat place with her tired team as she returned them to Pokeballs for rest.

She hadn't the chance to enjoy regions due to training obsessions so she swore that she'll enjoy two regions before rushing things again and maybe next time when she's older, travel slowly and enjoy herself. Johto's a beautiful place too...

She sighed.

Clad in her usual outfit which was a cropped purple spaghetti top over a sports bra with a matching purple slitted skirt, she made her way for a Hot Springs Break. She could use some.

Spotted by someone who tried to sneak up to her.

Detected them but didn't feel bad intention. All this person wanted, was just to mess her up as arms wrapped around her. One hand went to feel her up and another hand, slid under her skirt. 'Ara, naughty boy wants time with me?' it was the Gym Leader Morty.

'Oh, you bet~' the teenager purred. 'You and I will have a wild ride.' and he took her away to his room in the gym...he soon learned he dealt with a monster that only wakes when a condition was triggered. But it was the best sex of his life he deliberately does it again and again until he can't get up anymore.

'Someone lasted this long whenever they kissed me...that's a miracle, Mr. Gym Leader.' Claire purred, snuggling into him while using her power to push everything out for safety. 'Usually they can't last past a single round and yet you lasted eight. Not even my student can go past three.'

'Heh, perks of being a Ghost trainer. You gotta be spiritually resilient.' Morty chuckled weakly. 'Hot damn, I know people have turn-ons but yours is something as simple as kissing and you're a Berserker Sex Succubus next thing I know...that's so hot!' he exclaimed with a goofy smile on his face.

'I still can't control myself when kissed...I'm working hard on that.' Claire giggled. 'I guess I'll take a break before challenging you for my badge Morty.'

'Meh, I'll give it to you for free.' Morty smirked. 'In exchange for staying with me for a week. I'm gonna enjoy my sex goddess as long as that and I'll close down my gym on that week.'

'...wow, you like my berserker self that much?'

'I like my ladies wild and hot, if you know what I mean.'

"Or maybe you're into S&M with you being the M..." 'At least before that, let's stock up your kitchen, alright? We DO need to eat and sleep after fun time...'

Morty ate well on their week together at least. She's a very good cook, and enjoyed Pokepuffs for dessert. The very flavorful creams and fillings she made went very well with her fluffy, creamy buns and the fillings just right in amount.

That, and Morty woke up to a very clean house the next day. Complete with breakfast.

'What?! How?! Who cooked when we woke up together?!' Morty gawked as on the table were breakfast for two.

'You forget I have extra limbs~' Claire smirked. 'I can huddle you all day while still making something.' she said, producing her chains but tipped with glowing hands.

'Talk about multi-tasking...can all Aura Guardians do that?!' Morty looked in awe of her.

'Nope, unique just to me.' Claire shook her head. 'Each Aura Guardian is unique, having their own signature skill, just like Pokemon do. I have my Heal Bite and Aura Chains(and Chakra and her parents' ninjutsu)...and my student's signature skill is Barriers and Shields.'

Morty knew he's so going to enjoy this.

Too bad for Eusine...if he's not going around chasing Suicune, he'd also have the opportunity to spend a week with this goddess as he had. Great and wild in bed, and a damn good cook he's jealous of the lucky bastard who'd win this girl when she's finished her Journey.

Gym Leaders like him DO tend to be forgotten.