Gabrielle nervously glanced over her shoulder as she made her way across the street from the store of hell, otherwise known as the pink store of oh my goddess I can't see straight. She was half afraid the shopkeeper would follow her out for some reason. She shuddered as she made a promise to herself not to ever say something can't be worse. The poor cat girl pet of the owner had been the worst. She hadn't been sure if she should laugh or cry as she remembered the three stick-on-bows the girl had for clothing if you didn't count the dozens of frilly pink ribbons that made her tail look like a garishly colored dust mop.

Sarah chuckled, "I almost feel sorry for the cat girl, I can't imagine Tabby putting up with pink ribbons like that."

"Yeah not so much."

"So what other stores we going to?"

"Well I'm almost out of money so we should probably just head to the pokecenter and deal with the couple of new additions."

"I hope you aren't upset with me for saying I'm your alpha."

"Nah if you want the job, it's yours."

"Does that mean I get to help you break the new girls in?"

"If you want."

Gabrielle sighed as she finished one last cleaning spell on the restraints in the taming room. She really didn't trust the people to clean everything after every use. "I'm thinking we have a chat with the Neo Iczel first. Hopefully we can convince her to spend some time training the rest of the girls before we send her to Illyria, or figure out something else to do with her."

"Oh joy, that's just going to be lots of fun." Sarah noted sarcastically.

"Well don't you want to get better? She's the biggest baddest challenge I can toss at you girls. So take it or leave it."

Sarah grumbled, "Still, I can't help but feel like this is a bad idea."

"So noted." Gabrielle pulled a small salt shaker that she had swiped from one of the café tables from her pocket. She flicked the lid open and carefully used the salt to form a person sized circle on the ground. It was really only big enough for a person to stand.

"What are you doing?"

"A little bit of psychological warfare."

"Care to explain?"

"Well there really isn't a way to get the Neo-Iczel into the restraints before she bashes my head in. So I was thinking that maybe if I use the salt as a focus and toss a shield up it might last for like a hit or two and convince the girl that she's trapped in the salt circle."

"And if it doesn't?"

"Then we return her to her pokeball and run her through a level four." She shook her head, "I don't really want to have to do that." She carefully pressed the button to release the Neo-Iczel. She smiled as the red beam jumped out and deposited the girl into the middle of the salt ring. She quickly used the girl's moment of confusion to bring up the shield. She winced as the girl caused it to waver just by pushing on it. She really didn't want to see what would happen to her hasty spell work if the girl actually kept pushing or used a mystical technique on it. "Before you freak, you should watch the movie on the dex." She carefully held the dex up as the Neo-Iczel pushed on the shield.

Gloria's frown turned into a sneer as she finished watching the dex's movie. "You cheated, I would have crushed you. Your pet's force field isn't going to hold me forever."

"Yeah you probably would, as for the force field it's not designed to. I just wanted the chance to show you that you had been legally captured before you tried to crush my head. I'm not however all that interested in keeping you."

Gloria was more than slightly surprised, "What do you two plan to do with me?"

"Do you want to go back to your previous master?"

"I have served that family for as long as I can remember, so yes I would rather go back if I was able."

"Fair enough. I'll make you a deal, I want a litter of your children and two weeks of your time training my harem. Do this for me and I'll return you to your previous master."

"Why?"

"Because you have your life and you obviously love your tamer. Plus I don't have a harem strong enough to keep you happy. You would be continually yelling at my girls to get better and it would drive them insane. I figure any longer than two weeks and they would try to knife you in your sleep. There is also the fact that you're too old for me to sleep with. So will you sign a magical contract stating that your children for this first litter are mine?"

Gloria didn't really see a way out of the situation, on one hand she would have to be pregnant for nine months which wasn't something she wanted to consider, on the other hand her new owner could just level five her and breed her anyways and she wouldn't even remember her life. When faced with choices such as that, she sighed, "I'll sign."

Gabrielle smiled, "Great, I'll send a message to your owner. Then we can find a breeder that will rent out their breeding chamber."

Gloria was just glad that she wasn't going to have to take care of the little rats otherwise it would have been sheer hell as she personally hated children. "Just remember as soon as they're born."

Gabrielle nodded, "Works for me." She handed Gloria the contract.

She promptly looked over the contract, "What no intentionally harming your harem during training? Blah, you're coddling them." She shrugged after signing the contract, "Not really my concern though. Can you stick me back in my pokeball now?"

Gabrielle barely waited for her to finish her sentence before she scuffed the line of salt and pressed the button to return Gloria to her pokeball. "That is one annoying girl."

"You sure you actually want her children?"

"I remember what the pokedex said about them. Most of that crap is learned behavior, the arrogance they have genetically doesn't necessarily mean they are genetically assholes it just means they think they are better than everyone, which I'll admit often works out the same. I'm hopeful that Raisa or Illyria can beat some sense into them as they grow up. How about we move on to more pleasant things?"

"Like?"

Gabrielle grinned as she pulled a series of bottles out of her pokepack, "Why don't you start working on Helen. I'll join you two after I finish writing this letter to Gloria's person." She reached down to her belt, grabbed Helen's poke ball and thumbed the release.

Sarah smiled as Helen appeared, "Heya sexy," She held up one of the empty glass milk bottles, "Got milk?" She watched in amusement as Helen's whole face turned bright red.

"Hey, just because these things don't stop is no excuse for making me blush."

Sarah smiled, "I'm sorry but if you come over and sit with me I'll help you out."

Helen nodded, "It's just a bit frustrating is all. I've never had someone help me with this before."

"What did you do before?"

"Just sort of tried as best I could myself."

Sarah chuckled, "You know it works better without your shirt." She couldn't tell if Helen's face got redder or not as Helen slipped out of her shirt. She reached out to touch Helen's breasts but stopped a few inches away. "May I?"

Helen didn't trust herself to speak so she just nodded.

Sarah grinned as she ran her fingers along the top of her breasts, "They're soft but sort of strangely elastic." She smiled as Helen shivered in pleasure. She couldn't help but caress her breasts a touch as she waited for Helen to explain exactly how she was supposed to milk her.

Gabrielle was having a hard time tuning the girls out as she finished up her message to Gloria's owner. The scents alone were heavy in the room not to mention the sound of the girl's breathing. She turned the pokedex off and set it on the counter before turning to watch the two girls play. It looked to her like more of the milk had ended up on Sarah or the floor than in the bottles. Of course nether one of them seemed to mind much. She could feel her own nipples rubbing against her shirt as she made her way over to the pair. "Is there room for one more?"

Helen smiled dazedly down at Gabrielle, "Yes."

Gabrielle smiled as she leaned in and gently kissed Helen's right nipple. She bit down being careful to avoid cutting the nipple with her teeth. She smiled at Helen's slight hiss of pleasure. She closed her lips around the nipple and sucked until she tasted the sweet warm milk. It was a little different than the cow's milk she was used to, but not unpleasantly so. She would definitely have to enjoy her fill later but first she wanted something else. She smiled as she bent down to kneel in front of Helen. "Can I play?"

Helen felt like she was in a dream as she slid her skirt down.

Gabrielle was delighted by the way the skirt fell to the ground revealing slightly more than peach fuzz. She smiled as she reached into her pocket and removed some of the twin's special half strength Ton-Tongue toffee which unlike the normal stuff only made your tongue a few inches longer. She quickly unwrapped it and swallowed it. Her tongue was already almost freakishly long when she stretched it out but it quickly grew to grotesque proportions as the magic in the toffee worked its way into her tongue.

Sarah's eyes widened as she noticed Gabrielle's freakishly long tongue. "I'm so going to want some of that."

Gabrielle grinned before licking Helen's wet crotch. It didn't take her too long before she was enjoying using her tongue to slip inside of her.

Sarah couldn't help her hand slipping between her legs almost of it's own volition as she watched her new friends play a very sensual game if odd game. She was almost disappointed when after only a few seconds Helen shuddered for a long moment then relaxed.

Gabrielle grinned as she helped Helen onto the bed so she could relax. She chuckled at the sleepily whispered, "milktit," coming from Helen. She turned and grinned at Sarah before tossing her a mental message, 'I could help you with that if you want.'

"Please, anything."

'Anything?'

Sarah shimmied out of her skirt, "Anything, just take me."

Gabrielle smiled and lightly pushed her back into a table so she could kneel down and start working with her tongue. 'If you insist.'

A while later Sarah was staring at the leash in Gabrielle's hand as if it was a poisonous snake. "Oh come on, you can't expect me to wear that?"

Gabrielle grinned, "Hey you said you would do anything I wanted, I've always wanted to have a naked girl on a leash and wander around town. I'm finally in a place where it's legal. Please? Pretty please with sugar on top?"

Sarah sighed, "I guess it will be sort of fun."

Gabrielle grinned as she pulled out a light chain leash and a fuzzy leather collar from her pack and handed it to Sarah, "That's the spirit."

Sarah carefully placed the collar around her own neck, clipped the leash to it and handed it to Gabrielle. "So where are we going 'Master?'"

Gabrielle smiled as she pokeballed the sleeping Helen before taking the leash from Sarah. "I don't know, take your shoes and a towel and I guess we can just walk around a bit. I'm hoping to get the mess with Gloria sorted before we head back to train.

Sarah smiled, "You know we really should deal with the Dark Elf when we get back."

"There is supposed to be a therapist within walking distance so we could go there."

Sarah nodded, "That would be nice."

Gabrielle couldn't help but smile at some of the jealous looks a few teenagers were giving her. She was having a very good time, they had dropped the dark elf off at the therapist's office paid an annoyingly large fee for them to take a look at the girl and hopefully do something about her problems. She found herself wondering how her sisters were doing with their new school. She figured she might have to write them soon.

"Coin for your thoughts?"

"I'm not sure they are worth a coin. I was just thinking that we should probably get back and see how much trouble Leo has gotten himself in."

Sarah grinned, "Sounds good."

Leo muttered as he shoved his text books to the edge of the table, "Stupid books."

Tabby frowned at Leo from her spot sprawled on the top of the couch, "I'm guessing you're not finding what you're looking for?"

"Not really no, there are a few spells I could possible use to do some alterations to Tiffany after she changes but nothing that would prevent some of the changes in the first place."

"Well what about Gabrielle?"

"If it's a transmutation spell she can probably pull it off. But I don't really want to have to ask her."

"You're jealous aren't you?"

Leo chuckled, "I'm not sure jealous is the right word, she's just so damn frustrating some times. She's my half sister, different mothers. Her mother happens to have a different type of magic than our father. My mother wasn't a witch, so she has more magical power than I do. You have an idea what it's like growing up with a sister that can turn invisible?"

Tabby grinned, "No but my sister does."

"I bet you got into a lot of trouble as a kid."

"I'm sure I would have if I had been caught. Almost got caught a few times raiding my sister's room for her diary. She's a naughty girl."

Leo smiled, "Oh?"

"If I tell you something about my sister will you tell me about something about your sister?"

Leo grinned, "Provided it's not something she would kill me for."

"Well she was the girl that made Tiffany scream bunnygirl."

Leo chuckled, "I'll have to ask Tiff how she was."

Tabby grinned, "So who was Gabrielle's first?"

"First date? First girlfriend? First what?"

She grinned, "All of the above."

Leo smiled, "I believe if I remember right her first date was when she was eight, she 'went' with her sister Lenora to a charity event some friends of the family were holding. She went as a vampire and Lenora went as a cat girl. They had a leash for Lenora and everything. If you're asking about her first girlfriend that's probably Sylvie."

"Cat girl? I'll have to meet her some time. What was Sylvie like?"

"She's an artist, they met the night we went to the charity ball."

"So what would she think of Gabrielle having a harem?"

"Probably you'd better not hog the covers."

Tabby chuckled, "So what about her first time?"

"I don't know, that's one of those grey areas."

Tabby propped herself up on her elbows, "Sorry I shouldn't have asked."

"Nah it's grey cause I don't have a clue. I know my middle sisters have slept together since we were little. As for actual messing around… hell if I know. I don't find them attractive and they don't me, which is how we like it. So have you and Sarah ever messed around?"

Tabby chuckled, "Nah, I've watched her and Tiffany though, just don't tell them. I was sort of invisible and spying at the time."

"So what did you think?"

"I think the cuddling at the end would have been fun, maybe even the kissing."

"So have you ever kissed Tiffany?"

Tabby grinned, "Yeah, she sometimes pets my tail too."

"I'm guessing that feels good?"

Tabby grinned, "If you do it right, it's better than having your ears scratched, though more personal."

"Anything else she does for you?"

Tabby blushed, "So what do you think of Laura?"

"Lots of fun, if a bit crazy with the training. She's the first girl I ever…"

Tabby blinked, "oh."

"Yeah, so don't have much to compare it to but it was fun. So now that we've both embarrassed ourselves can we maybe get back to working on the magic?"

Tabby grinned, "Sure toss me one of the books and I'll help."

"How much magical theory do you have?"

"Lots actually, as I've said I'm a magical cat girl."

"Well in that case you can have Newts to Chickens to frogs and back again."

Leo tossed the book at the couch. "So maybe after you look through that you can tell me what's different and a bit about how evolutions work."

"Sure it will give me a break from my training with the crazy cheerleader." Tabby grinned as she scooped it up and started reading.

Leo closed his books with a groan. He wasn't exactly thrilled that he only had a few pages of handwritten notes to show for his many hours of studying. Still some notes were better than no notes, even if half of them were written by Tabby which was problematic because he didn't really understand what she was talking about half the time. It probably had something to do with her magic being innate rather than learned not to mention it was a different world with different rules. Maybe Gabrielle would have a better shot at understanding what she was talking about. He figured he would just have to swallow his pride and ask her for help unless he wanted to spend weeks or months painfully researching the problem. He rubbed his eyes and realized with a jolt that he was the only one left in the tent. He vaguely recalled Tabby saying that she was going to go to work learning some of the other girls' abilities again. He grumbled to himself as he walked outside.

He glanced around the yard where the girls were practicing. They'd been at it for hours today and still had a few hours to go before it was too dark to trust that they wouldn't get attacked. He felt a bit annoyed that there really wasn't any way that he could come close to competing against any of the girls physically, with the possible exception of Tiffany. He was just glad that the sunshine made it warm enough to be outside otherwise his mood would have gotten even worse. He shivered and amended his thoughts, well almost warm enough. "So let's see painful injuries sparing with Laura or some sword practice by myself to stay warm." He glanced at where she was furiously practicing her dance moves with the weasel girl. "Sword practice it is." His face twitched with a slight smile as he slipped his wand out of his sleeve and pointed it at a broken branch hanging from an old ash tree near the edge of the clearing. "Accio." He felt a touch of hesitation from the branch as the magic finished tearing it from the rest of the tree before it floated over to land in his other hand. He waved his wand over the branch, his smile increased as the branch slowly changed into a nicely carved wooden practice sword. "At least I can still do that." He slipped his wand back into his sleeve before starting on some of the sword katas he knew. 'Might as well get some practice in, especially if I'm going to be teaching the girls.'

Leo was relieved when a smiling Gabrielle and Sarah finally stepped inside the tent. "I'm guessing your mission was a success?"

"Yeah, more or less." Gabrielle grinned.

"Why do I get nervous when you say things like that?"

"Because you know me? Where's the girls?"

"Tiffany, Tabby and Laura are in Tabby's room jabbering about stuff. I sent them in there an hour or two ago because I couldn't concentrate, I was trying to get some work done on my research into Tiffany's concerns about her upcoming form change, the rest are in their pokeballs."

"How's the research coming?"

"I'm sure that if I could understand her ideas Tabby would have been a great help, but her ideas don't make a lot of sense to me. The notes from the books she looked over aren't much help either, but most likely because it's a lot different use than what the author's had in mind for the spells. It could also be that she just didn't understand the books enough to know what to look for but I find that unlikely. I hope you had better luck than I did?"

"Sort of, we found crap-tons of supplies, including a lot of T2's and stat drugs for the girls. We also picked up a few pokegirls as well."

"And the downside?"

"We picked up at least two troublesome pokegirls."

"What do you mean at least two?"

"Well I haven't had the chance to let the fox type out of her ball. So maybe three troublesome pokegirls."

"Is this going to become a habit?" He smiled.

"Probably, now for the slightly unethical part."

"What did you do this time and should I be expecting visitors to show up?"

Gabrielle rolled her eyes, "Nothing so horrible as that. Besides I said unethical not illegal. Some people sort of challenged me to a couple of duels and I twisted the rules a touch and said I'd fight them if it was a grand melee with a five second window at the start where we couldn't use pokegirls."

"So in other words you neglected to tell them you could use magic and knocked them out before they could grab their pokeballs?"

"Basically yeah, but hey it's fair, for all I knew they could have had magic."

"Yeah cause you wouldn't have noticed it…"

"Actually I'm not sure I would have if they were trying to hide it. There was a really creepy woman at a very creepy store today. If I didn't know better, I would swear she had magic. I couldn't feel anything but there was so much magic in the shop it was seriously interfering with my senses. She wasn't a fan of pokegirl rights…"

"Like how not a fan?"

"Like enough to make Death Eaters twitch and go running for an auror to confess to. I bought a pokegirl off her just to keep her from being eaten. I left her at the therapist. I'm hoping that after a few days she'll be sane enough to deal with."

"Do I even want to know what type?"

Gabrielle walked over and flopped down on the couch, "Dark elf, might even be cute once she's put back together completely."

"What do you mean put back together?"

"She got parts eaten off her and bits cut away, so yeah healed and such. Hell if I know how long it's going to take before she's semi functional."

Leo's face turned a bit green, "That's horrible."

"Yeah, obviously there are some dark sides to this world. Anyways the other pokegirl I acquired is a neo-iczel that we are going to use to train the girls for two weeks before sending her back to her master." She grinned viciously.

Leo frowned as he pulled out his dex and took a few seconds to flip to the entry. "Basically a magic fighting type of pokegirl that is super strong, can fly and toss bolts of energy as well as use an energy blade, why are you so happy about letting such a powerful pokegirl slip though your fingers?"

"Mostly because she was a right bitch, but I got her to agree to give me her first litter of children as payment for her freedom. I even got an agreement with her old owner so that she would take care of her during pregnancy if it meant that she got her back as well as a pick of the litter. Best part is the agreement with the Neo was done with a magical contract."

"I'm guessing you forgot to use a magical contract with the owner?"

"Sort of hard to send those over the net."

"You're horrible."

She stuck her tongue out at Leo for a second, "Yeah I know, I figured Illyria and Raisa Kent could raise them. They're the only people that are stronger than the children will be as adults."

"You really are building an army aren't you?" Leo looked at his sister with concern as the conversation turned serious.

Gabrielle's eyes flashed with purple fire for a second, "Why not? Who's going to stop me? You?"

Sarah blinked nervously before sitting down out of the way of the glares.

He quickly shook his head, "No, but there are rules for a reason Gabby."

She waved her arms, gesturing wildly as her voice rose, "The same rules that allow the purebloods to stay in power and harass the muggleborns. The same perfect rules that only allow the muggleborn to tell their immediate family and force them to lie to the rest of their family for the rest of their life. Yeah 'cause those work so damn well. That lovely rule where slayers aren't supposed to kill humans. Because humans can't be truly evil… yeah we've seen how well that works. I'm done playing, I'm not going to play by the rules the stupid purebloods set. They lie, cheat, steal and do worse then use money to buy their way out of a one way trip to Azkaban. Give me one reason I shouldn't build an army?"

"Because it's dangerous? Hell I don't know. There are always going to be dark wizards, what makes this group so horrible."

"You know the answer to that." She slammed her fist onto the end table hard enough to cause it to shudder, "They killed grandma and grandpa and Uncle Sirius. They aren't going to stop trying to kill our dad unless they all die or we leave. And if we leave they will kill hundreds or thousands of people trying to find dad. So they are going to have to die." She glared at him, "Which would you rather have an army of well trained pokegirl magic users that believe in finishing a battle at your back or a bunch of worthless wizards that can't even fucking decide if torturing muggles is worth a life sentence let alone death."

"I'm not going to answer that."

"Why not?"

Leo glared at his sister, "Because you know the answer okay? What do you want me to say? That I don't know they are evil or untouchable under the law? Hell I'm not going to say that and you know it. We live in a family of heroes Gabby, champions. I just don't want you to cross the line."

"Which line?"

"The one in the sand that says you're evil. Because honestly I don't want the tension at family gatherings."

"It's not like I'm dreaming of controlling the world here Leo. It's way too much paperwork."

He felt some of the tension drain out of himself as he chuckled, "I just don't want you to get hurt."

She nodded, "I know but either way I'm going to get hurt, that's what happens in war. The only thing we can do is train our people as best we can and cheat as much as we can."

"You know I'm with you right?"

She smiled, "Until the bitter end. Now pass over your notes and I'll get started fixing this mess." She turned her smile to Sarah, "I'm sorry I lost it. Would you take Helen and introduce her to the rest of the girls?" She pulled Helen's pokeball off her belt and handed it to Sarah.

"Sure." Sarah took the ball and quickly headed into the other room.

Leo waited until Sarah was in the other room, "So any ideas about how exactly you're going to grant Tiffany's wish for a more human shape for her evolution?"

"Yeah, basically I'm going to study an e-metal I picked up in that creepy lady's shop as well as the mana crystal and fire stone I picked up. I'm hoping that gives me something useful. If not then I'll see if I can learn anything when you evolve your Kitsune. Hopefully that will give me some useful information." Gabrielle reached to her belt and grabbed the kitsune. "You might want to say hello." She tossed the pokeball to Leo.

Leo caught the ball easily, "I should probably get to know the kitsune before I go check on the girls."

She chuckled, "Such a martyr."

He grinned as he walked into his room. He flicked the release switch on the pokeball and watched as the standard red beam dumped a white fox girl animorph on his bed. She was cute, her white held just a touch of red in places. The fox like snout and two foot long bushy white tail were rather adorable. "Do you have a name?"

"Foxy, at least that's what my last owner called me before she lost me. You aren't the one that won me though."

"No, my sister won you from the person that most likely took you from your previous owner. Is that going to be a problem?"

Foxy shrugged, "Not really we never did manage to bond though she was really nice to me."

"So what's your story?"

"Not much to tell, I grew up in London, went to school until about a year ago when I underwent threshold. After that my parents sold me to a friend of mine from school. It was a bit odd being owned by one of your best friends. It was alright for a while but she lost interest in me after she realized that we weren't bonding like she had hoped. Plus I didn't get along with her growltit. Something about the bitch not having a viable sense of humor. Hell come to think about it my friend didn't have much of a sense of humor either. So do I get to prank people?"

Leo smiled, "Sure but just fair warning if you prank them they will prank you back. Please try not to damage anyone's property as those types of pranks aren't funny. Also how old are you?"

Foxy smiled, "Almost sixteen, not to be blunt but you're really cute and I've been stuck in my ball for a while so do you think we could cut to the sex before I lose my marbles and jump you?"

Leo smiled, "At least your honest."

She nodded, "Always, sort of a code of ethics."

Leo grinned before removing his shirt.

Tabby was lounging on the pillow that she had tossed on her desk. There wasn't much spare room to spread out now that there were five people packed into her room. She didn't really mind resting on the desk as it gave her a bird's eye view of the girls sitting on the bed. She licked her lips to clean them of the fresh milk. She tilted the bottle of milk in salute toward Helen, she was very glad that Helen was staying with them. "Delicious, now if I only had some fresh fish I would be in kitty heaven."

Sarah chuckled as Helen blushed, "You know you're going to have to get used to all of us wanting to drink you dry."

"I know but she doesn't have to look like she enjoys it so much."

Tiffany snickered, "Of course she does, she's a cat. It's in her nature same as it's in Laura's nature to not stay still." She gestured to where Laura was sprawled on the bed with her feet hanging over the edge. She was tapping her toes absently on the floor. "It's reflexive really."

Laura sighed, "I'm bored, I can't train in the dark because Leo is afraid of feral packs."

Sarah nodded, "Well I've no desire to get eaten by ferals. And after that first time of getting attacked by bugs… I'm not going back out at night unless I have to."

Tiffany grinned, "Well there is something sort of training like we could do."

Laura frowned, 'What's that?"

Tiffany smiled, "Well I can hear Leo in the other room as I'm sure Tabby can, don't know about her but it's making me very horny. I'm thinking we should practice some sex battling. Tabby can ref."

Sarah smirked as she pulled Tiffany into her arms, "Well it is training…"

Tabby raised her half gallon bottle of milk and took another sip as the group on the bed descended into an orgy. If anyone would have been paying attention they would have heard her contented purring.

Tabby was too busy crying to care what she looked like the next afternoon nor who saw her curled up on her freshly cleaned sheets naked as the day she was born. She wanted nothing so much as to curl up and vomit out her insides, hell she would have tried again if she thought it would help. Sadly the first time all it had accomplished was making a nasty mess out of her clothes and soaking the bed. It wasn't an experience that she wanted to repeat. At least Gabrielle had used magic to clean up the mess. She just wished that Gabrielle could use magic to help with her headache from hell, as it wasn't going away and wasn't allowing her to get back to sleep. She had downed five aspirin for the pain but it had barely made a dent. She'd even tried to get back to sleep after waking up the first time but the minute she had closed her eyes the world had started spinning all crazy like which was almost worse than the pain as it just made everything seem worse. The day had started out fine, at least until they had started using the T2s. Everything had been going fine until she had gotten sloppy and failed to check the label on the last T2 laid out for her. The other girls had used it without a problem so she had thought nothing of putting it in the visor and settling in. The headache had started off as a sharp pain and had gotten worse as she continued with the T2. She'd braved it out not wanting to complain, she wished now that she hadn't. She had started to shiver and shake so much that the girls had hustled her to bed. She'd even managed to snag a touch of sleep before her dreams had gotten all twisted and evil and she'd woken screaming in pain from her headache. Which had lead to the vomiting which had lead to the smell which lead to dry heaving which lead to a different type of pain. All in all this was one of the worst days of her life, all because of a damn T2. Apparently the warning labels about using them if you had a weakness to that element weren't to be ignored. How the hell was she supposed to know that a poison defense tech was actually poison based? She didn't even have the energy to do more than weakly look up at Gabrielle as she felt her cool hand run down her back.

Gabrielle used her other hand to press the cold washrag against Tabby's fevered forehead, "I called the doctor, he said to call again in the morning if your symptoms continue. I'm sorry, I didn't know you would have this reaction. I should have gotten Sarah to check everything over."

Tabby sniffled, "It's okay, I didn't know either. Can, can you hold me?"

Gabrielle carefully pulled Tabby into a hug. "I'm sorry, wish I could put you to sleep but the doctor said we had to let the technique settle otherwise there could be long term damage."

"Anyone else having difficulties?"

"No but after what happened to you we double checked each of the T2's to make sure there weren't any more crossed elements."

Tabby winced, "Maybe if I just lay here in pain?"

Gabrielle's smile wasn't in it as she lied, "It will be better soon."

Tabby didn't even have the heart to call her on the lie.

Several hours later Leo tabbed Gabrielle on the shoulder and whispered, "How is she?"

Gabrielle tossed back a mental reply with telepathy, 'She finally drifted off to sleep a few minutes ago. I'm hoping she sleeps through the night.'

'What went wrong?'

'Sarah was actually the one to figure it out, mistoffeles, which is what Tabby is, are weak against poison. The anti-poison technique that the T2 teaches is actually a poison tech, so it caused a nasty reaction. I'm suspecting that anytime they use a T2 to learn something they're normally weak against it's going to cause them problems.'

Leo sighed, 'That's not good at all.'

"Just means we have to be more careful.'

'Sucks not knowing all of the rules doesn't it?'

'Very much, how's the girl's training going?'

'I made them all wooden practice swords and they're currently beating each other silly with their leaf blade tech. I'm thinking, if you don't mind, of continuing Helen's past training with guns.'

'What?'

'She was a farmhand, she says she got pretty good scaring off varmints.'

'I guess we could always let her use the elemental pistols and get another one for Lexie to rip apart.'

'That's the spirit.'

'So you never did tell me how your sex with the kitsune went?'

Leo blushed, 'Fine, though I think I might need more practice with my hands… cause there is no way I'm… okay new topic.'

Gabrielle chuckled, 'My brother the finger fucker. Don't worry your secret is safe with me.'

"You're impossible." He tried to block his sister from his head as much as possible. "On that disgusting note I'm off to continue the practice."

Gabrielle smiled, "How did the others respond to their tab?"

Leo smiled, "Everything went well actually. I'll tell you about it later."

Gabrielle nodded, "I think I might just curl up and hold her."