As they neared the house, the air only got colder. It looked like a snowstorm was starting to pick up, and that was bad news if so. "U-Ugh, I'll be surprised if I'm not dead by the time I reach that house." Paige picked up her pace as they walked through the snow.
"I'd say we're about five minutes away, we'll be fine. Just looks like the snow is becoming more aggressive." Ryan hugged himself for a moment as the wind blew past with more force. He looked behind him to make sure Lucc and both Aura and Silva were following behind, and fortunately they were.
By the time they reached the front door of the house, it was hard to see even a few feet in front of them since a snowstorm definitely had picked up. Ryan went ahead and weakly knocked on the door while Paige and the others lagged behind. It took awhile but the door slowly creaked open just a bit.
"Who...who is it?" The sound of an older man came from the other side of the door, though his face wasn't yet visible. "Y-Ye one of those freaky guys?" He added, seemingly nervous about something.
"No sir, we're just looking for somewhere warm to stay...just me and my friend, a few pokémon..." Ryan shook and hoped that whoever this person was would believe him. He may have had a run in with timə at some point from what he said. Silence ensued before the door would open some more, revealing the almost pale colored man with gray hair and a short beard along with it. He also held some kind of shotgun in his hands, which Ryan assumed was for any trouble that came his way. After the man studied Ryan, Paige and the three pokémon standing behind him, he grinned.
"Alright...come on." He lowered his weapon and opened the door fully while he stood beside it. He watched them all enter and closed the door behind them.
"Thank you so much, much warmer in here." Paige and the rest stood by the door.
"You can thank Flare for that." The man looked over at his Growlithe that sat by the warm fireplace. "Anyway, how'd you guys get here?" He questioned as he eyed both Paige and Ryan along with their odd outfits.
"Well-" Ryan began but was cut off by the man anyway.
"You know what? I don't wanna be rude. Let's get everyone settled down and warmed up first. You can call me Davin." He grinned and motioned over to his couch that was in front of the fireplace in the living room.
"Thank you again." Ryan said and sat down on the middle of the couch next to Paige while Lucc, Silva and Aura sat on the soft carpet in front of the brown couch.
"So...who are you guys?" Flare approached the three pokémon, mostly Lucc.
"My name is Lucc. The Vaporeon is named Aura, and the other is Silva. My friends." Lucc laid down by Aura. "You?" He then asked the Growlithe.
"I'm Flare, hope you enjoy your stay here." He wagged his tail a bit and gave off a light smirk.
"Here, must be thirsty." Davin brought two water bottles in from the kitchen and handed them to Ryan and Paige, even set a few bowls of water down for the pokémon and sat down in a chair to the left of the fireplace. "So, how did all of you end up here?" Davin asked.
"We came through some kind of door. It seemed like an illusion at first but...it was real. Like a gateway to another world." Ryan tried his best to explain since he was bit confused himself.
"Ah. I see some weird fellows use some portal like that often. Never bothered to follow after em though, so no clue what they're doing here. You with them or something?" Davin didn't know much about timə other than what he had just described.
"No...what year is this?" Paige changed the subject out of her own curiosity while taking a few much needed swigs of her water.
"It's 3070." He replied and stood up from his chair. "Well, I'm gonna head off to bed soon. Welcome to stay the night if you want, there are two rooms back there down the hallway and extra clothes in the drawers." Davin smiled and began to walk back over to the kitchen.
"We appreciate it, we'll be gone first thing in the morning, so don't worry!" After that was said, they walked back and saw the two wooden doors a distance away from each other, which had to be the rooms.
"One on the right is mine, but I like company anyway!" Flare nudged the door open and presented his "room," which consisted of a small mounted bed and a large poké bed that was on the floor next to the bed.
"It'll work perfectly, thanks Flare!" Aura grinned and quietly yawned while all three walked into his room. Meanwhile, the room that Paige and Ryan had entered had a bigger bed, it would need to be shared unless one of them would sleep on the floor.
"You can take the bed if you want Paige." Ryan offered, he wouldn't let her sleep on any floor if a choice was available.
"Nonsense, I don't mind sharing a bed with you Ryan. It's pretty big anyway." She grinned and playfully nudged him with her shoulder before walking over to the dresser at the left side of the room. "I need to change, hate these clothes." Paige pulled the top drawer open and shifted through various attire.
"I'll go wash a bit in that case." Ryan would give her privacy, he went into the bathroom, which was through the door right across from his.
In Flare's room, Flare took the bed. The Growlithe laid near the top of the bed while Silva laid by the bottom. Usually she would be by Lucc, but Aura was currently spending time with him and Silva understood this. They both laid in the large blue colored poké bed at a slight distance from each other, this went on for about five minutes until Lucc couldn't handle it anymore. Now was his chance, especially with Flare and Silva now seeming to be asleep.
"Aura?" He asked while looking over at her from the left side of the bed by the wall.
"Hm?" She turned her head to face him, those beautiful eyes of hers nearly stunned him to the point of turning back, but Lucc would let nothing stop him.
"S-So, with all of this...this stuff happening lately. With us never getting enough time to spend together - I never officially got to tell you how I felt about you." He had managed to make it this far, though that wasn't really the hard part.
"Mhm…" Aura casually listened with a small grin on her face and a sparkle in her eyes. She was obviously waiting for Lucc to get on with what he was trying to say.
"W-Well, I think you're the prettiest female I've ever seen...you can carry yourself well and I happen to like everything about you so far. Whenever I got the chance to be around you, it made my day. Whether it was narrowly avoiding death...or just sitting in your bunker. What I'm trying to say is…" His voice trailed off, and before he could bring it back-
"I love you too...Lucc." Aura completed his sentence and gave off a more pronounced grin while scooting closer to him. Lucc laid right next to her now, even curling his body around her smaller one so that they'd be somewhat spooning. Aura slowly threw her head back so that she was looking up at Lucc with a passionate glare in her eyes. Fortunately, he got the hint but now had to act upon it. His entire body felt hot as he moved his head down just enough to be inches away from Aura's mouth. She leaned up and completed the kiss, her lips connecting with his maw as they shared their first kiss, which would only bring them closer to each other.
While Ryan was washing his face and finishing up, Paige had found a few comfortable things to wear for the night. A pair of light blue shorts that cut off at the very end of her upper thighs, a white t-shirt that was only slightly oversized and matching socks because it was a bit cold in the room to her. She went and sat on the bed once she was done. Ryan came through a few moments later and was caught by surprise at the sight of her new clothes. The shorts did look good on Paige, but he wouldn't look down there and make it obvious. "I guess I'll change into something more comfortable too." He eventually spoke and walked over to the dresser as he looked through the few available drawers.