Huey's POV

It's funny, if I didn't know who she was on sight, I'd have thought she was pretty hot. She was seven feet tall, muscled and curved in all the right places with a massive chest and a body covered in red and orange fur, making it look like she was on fire whenever she moved. But, like everyone in the room, I did know who she was, and was nearly pissing myself because of it.

Macavity, the legendary cleric of chaos pokegirl. This legendary pokegirl is quite hard to place. None know for sure if she's malicious, but whether she is or not, she's caused so much damage, pain, and death over the years that it hardly matters. Her psychic powers give her seemingly limitless power, letting her alter the world however she desires, distorting reality to her will. She is known to often use these powers to trick or prank humans, though many of her pranks are quite painful and occasionally even deadly. Her personality varies, seeming a little different each time she appears. Even some of the other legendary's fear Macavity.

"Well, looks like we've got some last minutes guest!" Macavity called out, grinning widely as she flicked her wrist, me and Riley being flung from where were standing across the room to join the rest of the crowd.

"Now, we're all going to play a little game together, understood?" Macavity said, "I'm going to give you each a chance to defeat me in battle, and if anyone can make me feel anything, anything at all, within the next hour, I'll consider not blowing this whole town to hell in one strike."

Threats like that are usually nothing more than funny, except that she actually could destroy this entire building, hell, this whole town, in one attack. 'Guess this'll be what does it.' I thought. No one can actually beat Macavity, it would take a team of legendarys to give the bitch a fucking hangnail.

But what can I say, I can't help but at least try when someone gives me a challenge, even if it's an impossible one. So, without waiting for the chaos goddess to tell me what to do, I took a step forward from the crowd and shot a blast of black fire at her.

It did fuck all, hitting her directly and not doing much more than make her look even more imposing as her silhouette continued her hysterical laughter even while wreathed in dark flames. I poured on the fire, starting to sweat as I blasted from both hands at her, only for her to walk through it towards me as easily as she would have through air.

Macavity grabbed my hands in hers, and I cried out in pain as I felt the bones in my hands shift, cracking up under my skin, not from physical force, but from her using psychic to break my hands while she squeezed them.

"See, this is what happens when you break my rules." Macavity said, using the same voice a teacher might use to scold a disobedient student. Like fuck I was taking that without a fight. I opened my mouth and let out more black fire.

I don't usually spit the fire from my mouth, it makes my throat burn like hell, isn't very strong compared to the usual fire, and tents to freak people out when they saw it. I'd been chased out of two towns for using it, people thinking I was an infernal type masquerading as a human male, another reason I don't like people much.

Unsurprisingly, the fire still did nothing. Macavity let go of my hands and grabbed me around the throat lifting me into the air. I gagged, squirming as I tried to get out of her grasp, then sputtering when I felt the same psychic grip that broke my hands toying with my ribs.

I was spared her killing me one bone at a time when someone else send a ball of fire at Macavity. It was normal fire, coming from Riley's Charmelons. Macavity's eyes narrowed at this, and she dropped me to the ground and turned to the Charmelons.

Riley took a step forward, stepping between Macavity and his alpha as though he could so how protect her as opposed to the other way around. "Now, now, there's no need for all this violence." Riley said, his voice coming out smooth and easy, as though he weren't terrified like everyone could tell he was.

His aura would be useless against Macavity, and Riley knew it. I couldn't really fault him for trying, as less than a minute had passed since I futilely hurled fire at the legendary. Macavity cackled, making a rising motion with her fingers and flinging Riley into the air where he hit the ceiling before crashing back to the ground, unconscious.

His pokegirls were pissed, all attacking at once. The Tavermaid and Charmelons used their Whiskey bomb attack, the Armsmistress rushing her with her sword, the Playbunny pouncing on her with bounce, and the Cheshire firing confusion.

The attacks were as effective as mine had been, but looking over, I saw the onlookers. There were plenty of pokegirls in the crowd, some from the travelers, some from the scientists who worked here at Silph Co. There were some rare 'girls in the crowd, strong ones to. An Archmage, a Groaning, a High Elf, a Rynodame...I got an idea.

I hurried over to Riley and woke him quickly, using some healing berries he had in his back. "You had a good idea, but you were pointing your aura in the wrong way." I told him, pointing to the crowd. His head was still a little fuzzy, but he nodded to show he understood what I was saying.

"I'll buy you some time." I said, turning back to Macavity, who had already gotten bored by Riley's pokegirls and knocked them all out with a single psi-wave, which must have been extremely low powered for her.

I rose my hands, trying to ignore the odd angles my fingers were pointed at as I summoned more black fire, sending it at her just as she looked up and started laughing again. 'I wonder what fire tastes like..' It was an odd thought, but she must have just gotten a mouthful of the stuff, and as one of the only people who wouldn't get even remotely damaged by it, I could only imagine that she could taste the fire.

Stupid thoughts like that keep me from focusing on the stupid thoughts that would have gotten me killed. In any event, it still didn't do any damage, but it did keep her distracted long enough for Riley to work his aura charms on the crowd, convincing them to attack as well, and all at once, a hail of attacks rained down on the chaos cleric.

I tried to squirm away from the area being attacked, leaning against the wall and trying to focus on anything other than the pain in my hands, chest, throat, everything really. I didn't think for a second that we could actually beat her, if everyone in the crowd was a legendary maybe, but she never said we had to beat her.

After a few solid minutes of attacking, the crowd ceased fire to see if they'd even put a scratch on her. The ground beneath Macavity was charred black, and there was smoke rising from her fur. Other than that, not a single indication that she'd been hurt, though it occurred to me only now that I was too hurt to do anything about it that we could very well be attacking an illusion.

Either way, Macavity burst out in raucous laughter, clutching her sides as she was overcome by her amusement, "you see, this is why I try not to let your species go extinct, you're too much fun to play with." She wiped her eyes, which had started to water from how hard she was laughing, "And so damn gullible to. You actually thought I'd level this place for no reason? I mean I could, but why would I? I'm a goddess of chaos, not of death."

God I hate legendarys.

"In any event, I most certainly did feel something: pain in my sides from how funny you all are. I guess that counts." Macavity said, turning to take her leave, and catching sight of me. She looked at me for a second, then raised a finger, instantly pulling me over, "I think I'll borrow this one for a little personal pleasure. Don't worry, I'll try not to break him. Hang on," Macavity touched my head, and the strangest feeling I've ever had went through me, like my body was splitting in two while remaining perfectly solid.

"As it happens," She said to me, "You're just my type. Your brother not so much, so I figured we'd leave him here." She said, pointing behind me...where Thomas was standing. He looked more or less identical to me, hence the whole twins thing, but he was there, in his own body, and I was here in mine. My brain kinda stopped working after that, which is probably good considering what Macavity was probably getting ready to do to me.


Riley's POV

Well, things definitely make more sense now. Well, what the channeller told me makes sense at least, nothing else does. Why was Macavity fucking up Silph Co? Or was that just an entirely random event that the woman in Lavender just happened to predict? And was Huey really getting to tame a legendary before me?

Then again, it's Macavity, so maybe it would be more accurate to say the she's taming him. I shudder at that thought, and turn to.. "Thomas?" I asked.

He nodded, though his expression was completely blank. "We… she…" Oh boy, he's shell shocked. "You gonna be okay man?" I asked him. He turned to me, blinking several times, as though thinking I would vanish if he did, "I..I need to find Tee.."

I figured I should probably go with him, the way he's stumbling he might get himself hurt. We left Silph Co, thankfully getting out before the authorities got there to question about Macavity, and found Tee with Mark and Sasha checking out the fighting type gym. Thomas rushed over to her, likely to explain what had just happened.

"What's gotten into him?" Mark asked. "I'd say it's more what got out of him to be honest." I couldn't resist. "What?" Mark didn't really understand. I think he started to when Huey re-appeared a few minutes later, staggering from whatever had been done to him by Macavity. I must not have been all bad, because he was grinning like mad.

Mark and Sasha were just staring at this, confused. "Hey, where ya going?" I asked Huey as he started to walk off. He turned back to us, "Something I've been waiting to do for three years now," Huey said, "I'm gonna go get my tamer's license."

"So… you two are just.. Apart now?" I asked. It sounded fairly simple really, but I was still having a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I had barely understood how Thomas and Huey were joined together.

"Yep." Huey said with a smile, "Macavity gave us a soul bisection of some kind and bam, here we are." "Why would she do that?" Sasha asked. "Damned if I know. Then again, we're assuming she even had a reason. Macavity has done a lot crazier for a lot less." Huey said.

"Well, that much is true." I agreed. "So… what are you two gonna do now?" "I'm unsure. For so long, our entire lives revolved around the fact that we were joined together. We never really had a goal passed trying to find a way to separate," Thomas said, "Now that we're actually there after all these years, I'm not sure what we-" "I'm gonna see how many pokegirls I can get." Huey interrupted.

"You're gonna be a tamer?" I asked. It wasn't surprising really, especially with how much he seemed to enjoy being around pokegirls whenever he was in control. "Yeah. Getting the license was piss easy." Huey said, showing us his tamer's license to prove his point, "I don't think I'll be much for gyms though, I'll probably stick to the mission boards and stuff like that."

"So what's your starter gonna be?" Riley asked, "You could have gotten one from the lab you got your license at." "I know," Riley said, "But I wanna catch my own first pokegirl." "With what supplies?" Sasha questioned.

Huey clicked his tongue at this, "Good point." He said, as he didn't have any pokeballs, or a belt to hold them on. All he had was the license and the pokedex that came with it. "Welp, time to hit the mission boards. I can probably slay a Blade Bunny den or something to get enough money to get all my tamer gear."

"Or," I said, "You could ask your friends to lend you some money to get the stuff you need." Huey blinked at this, as though the thought just genuinely hadn't occurred to him. "Right..that...I can actually do that?"

"Sure, why wouldn't you?" Sasha asked. "Well..usually when I ask for something, people call me a dick and run me off." Huey said. "Maybe that's because you're usually not asking for it, you're usually being a dick about it." Sasha pointed out, "But you've saved our lives more than once, so it's the least we can do to help."

"Well technically the least you could do is nothing." Huey corrected, Sasha facepalming. "It's actually kind of scary how not good with people you are." She said, Huey shaking his head, "No, the scary part is that, between the two of us, I'm the sociable twin."

We had to snicker at this, Thomas just rolling his eyes. "Oh I'm just screwing with you," Huey said to his brother, "But you do kinda have resting bitch face. Seriously, I couldn't say if you're happy, sad, or indifferent. And if you're not thrilled, I really don't get you. We've finally got our own bodies."

"I know, and I'm overjoyed for this fact, but there's no need to start acting like a fool." Thomas said. "Actually I'd say there's literally never been a better time to start acting like a fool." Huey argued, chuckling, "Forgive my brother, I think he's getting some separation anxiety now that he's only got one voice in his head and has realized how paralyzingly boring it is."

Thomas, surprisingly, actually chuckled at this, "I just realized, now whenever you say something irritating, I can do this." Thomas' leg shot from his cross-legged position, knocking Huey's legs out from under him and making him fall on his face. He rolled over, laughing at this action, which I was glad for, as for a moment I hadn't been able to tell if the two of them were actually argued or just messing with each other.

"So, first order of business today, get Huey geared up for pokegirl taming, then find him his starter." Riley said, "We'll save money on pokeballs to, I've already got all he'll need. All he'll need is a belt, a pack, a pokedex, and maybe some camping supplies so you can finally sleep in a tent for once. Maybe we should get Thomas one two."

"No need, I was fine sleeping outside to stay on watch before, I still am now." Thomas said. "And it seems you're still just as happy with the stick lodged up your ass." Huey added, "Let's get going."

We headed to the center, getting Huey his gear. Eventually, and with some prodding from Tee, Thomas caved and accepted the camping gear, if only to at least use when it rained or snowed or something.

"Alright, time to get me a pokegirl." Huey said once he was all set up, heading towards the area just outside of town. Considering this was Saffron, it wasn't a terrible idea to just go looking, as he could have easily just stumbled upon a powerful psychic or fighting type.

Despite these good odds, he still wound up finding a Bunnygirl, one of the few breeds that could literally be found pretty much anywhere in the world, regardless of the area's element or what other kinds of pokegirls lived there.

Bunny girl, the ditzy pokegirl. Though this pokegirl is quite common and easily distracted, they are still valued for their affectionate nature, agile bodies, and fourteen possible evolutions.

Huey didn't seem upset at all to have found a Bunnygirl, pumping his fist into the air as though he had just won the lottery. He rushed over to the long eared pokegirl, stopping when she spotted him and moving slowly so he wouldn't scare her off.

Just lobbing a pokeball was never really a good idea, even against weaker pokegirls, and only has a real chance of working against a Titmouse or one of their evolutions. But Huey clearly didn't want to hurt the 'girl in any way, so he opted to talk to her.

Talking turned almost instantly to flirting, which turned to seducing and was followed quickly by him taming her right then and there. The rest of us decided to give them some privacy and walked a little ways away, save for Sasha's Tigermouse and Stella, both wanting to watch the show.

"So, been thinking about what you'll do now that you're free?" I asked Thomas. I didn't like saying the word 'free' to describe his split from Huey, it made it sound like being near his brother was some kind of terrible fate, but there wasn't really any good terminology for this situation.

Thomas shrugged, "I honestly don't know. To be honest..I never thought I'd actually find a way to separate from Huey. I thought we'd die sharing a body after trying and failing to get help from a legendary. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't glad to have thought that, it was just the fate that I'd accepted."

"Never accept fate." Riley interjected, "If you do, life will go out of it's fucking way to overcorrect against whatever it was you thought was fated to happen, for better or worse. Case and point." He said, gesturing to Thomas, "There has to be something you enjoyed doing. You know a lot about training pokegirls, maybe you could become a tamer to."

"I doubt I'd be any good as an actual tamer." Thomas said, "Training pokegirls is easy. But taming them, caring for them, keeping track of them… I'm pretty sure anyone could do a better job of that than me. Plus it goes against my nomadic way of life."

I tried not to cringe when he said this, as Tee had been standing right next to him, and he didn't seem to notice the annoyed, borderline angered expression she got from him saying it. She turned and marched off afterwards, going over to Sasha, though I doubt they'd be talking much, she just needed to cool down.

"Well if it goes against it, then change your way of life." I said, "You are allowed to do that you know. No one said you had to live like a monk, you just were because you had to at the time. But you don't have to anymore." "And I'm pretty sure Tee wouldn't mind it much if you became a tamer." Riley added.

Thomas sighed, but didn't say anything, perhaps not having any actually good argument for it. "Just be thinking about it, okay?" I said, "And if you do decide on being a tamer, maybe I can finally return the favor for all the training you gave me and my 'girls by helping you learn to handle yours."

Thomas chuckled at this, "Maybe so… but right now you and Sasha have gyms to battle." We nodded, waiting for Huey to return with his new Bunnygirl, which we were surprised to hear he'd not only made his first pokegirl, but his alpha.

"No such thing as a bad choice for Alpha." Huey insisted, "All it takes is a little effort to show them how to get the job done, and I know Carla can do a great job of it." He said. We were all a little unsure of this choice, but then again, I had won a sex battle with a Titmouse, so who knows, maybe anything really was possible.