Author's Notes.

I know I promised that this story would contain a tournament, but this tale has grown, so I've decided to have the tournament be the start of book 2. Team Gothic will be formed in that story as well and Tamer Gothic will be moving to a different region. Also I have some ideas that involve Gothic meeting Raven's rather large magical family, and Gym Leader Misty will be in the story too.

Tamer Gothic

Dogspatch

"So let me get this straight" I said after Nikita had explained the finer points of what Sadie Pokins Day was all about "Everyone's pokegirls are released from their balls so that they can meet up with other pokegirls and talk with lots of tamers. When the event's over they can leave with one of the tamers they've met by arranging to be captured".

We'd arrived at the village of Dogspatch late last night, and had set up camp in a field outside of the settlement. There were a lot of other Tamers here as well, some in groups and some were alone. Which made it look as if a refugee camp had sprung up around the settlement.

"Yeah" my girlfriend replied as she we started to make our way into the village itself "that happens on Sadie Pokins day, which is tomorrow. On that day we let our pokes out and if they want to leave they find someone to take them, or you can arrange it if you don't think you can look after a 'girl. But unless your a really bad Tamer and don't Tame your harem often enough then your pokes they won't want to leave you".

The empathic bond between a pokegirl and her Tamer effected her more than her owner. It was possible for a poke to leave her Tamer despite the bond it just wasn't very likely. However sometimes a pokegirls ended up in a harem that she didn't fit into or she might not be able to bond with her Tamer very well. A Dildorina for example could never really bond with a male Tamer for example if she was a lesbian, and most were, so if a man caught one he could let her lose here to go find a suitable female Tamer rather than sell her like she was nothing more than property.

"So if Sunny, Isabella and Thundercat don't want to go live with May then they might ask me to let them get caught by another Tamer" I said, mostly thinking out loud.

The only reason why I was even considering letting my half my harem leave was because both May and Oak had sent me a message reminding me that I was suppose to be putting together a harem made up of magic using pokegirls, so that I could one day run a Magic Pokegirl Gym. When that day came any pokegirl who wasn't a magic users wouldn't have a place. I could just let them stay in May's care, but they might not want to go into long term storage and rarely ever see their Tamer.

With this in mind it seemed right to give them a chance to find someone who had use for their special talents. I would have liked to give my Pumara the same opportunity, but that might not work out as she was very picky about who got to Tame her. Plus she was completely heterosexual which meant that no female Tamer would want her and many men wouldn't either as she wouldn't do anything sexual with other pokegirls.

Still I'd at least let her try to met other Tamers, and if she didn't like anyone else then it wasn't a big deal as having at least one fighter type in my harem would be a wise move. If nothing else she could protect me from Ferals who were strong against magical attacks.

"Head to the Pokecenter first or look around?" I asked of my partner, once we had entered the village.

"Center first" she replied "because of all the trading we have to update our 'girl's status before we let them lose".

That made sense. If the pokecenter had a record of who owned which girl then they would help settle disputes between Tamers, should there be any.

The two of us headed towards the centre, and as we walked we took a quick look around. The festival had already started, as it was a week long event, but now that more people had turned up a lot of new stalls were opening, and some organised fun was being arranged.

Inside the pokecenter we found two Nurse Joys on hand behind the front desk being crowded by a group of tamers. Which meant that we'd be waiting in line for a while.

That was fine with me as I had a lot on my mind. Also I really didn't want to lose any of my 'girls so I was in no rush to get on with things. This meant that when the group dispersed rather quickly, I wasn't too happy about it.

"I assume you two are here for Sadie Pokens Day" said one of the overworked looking nurse pokegirls "I'll need your dexs to register you for the event and your pokegirls will need to be put through a Healing/Cleaning cycle before you can trade them".

It wasn't hard to miss the fact that extra equipment had been set up to met the demand. I could tell that the place wasn't normally so crowed either as lots of chairs had been put out in a rather haphazard fashion. There must be more Tamers here than normal.

Nikita and I both handed our dexs over. After a few minutes the Joy handed their dexs back and then asked for our pokeballs.

"The event starts at 8:30 in the morning. It's advise you to wake up early so you can make preparations and find a large area to release your pokegirls. I hope you enjoy your stay" the Nurse Joy said she took our pokeballs over to the machine that did the cleaning/healing

"So go over again what's going to be happening tomorrow" Nikita instructed me "just so I know you won't do something silly".

"Oh ye of little faith" I muttered before telling her what she wanted to hear

"In the morning tamers, barring gym leaders and those with league related jobs, will release their pokegirls from their pokeballs and they will be able to do as they wish with in reason. Tamers can talk with pokegirls and spend some of time getting to know them. Pokegirls who find tamers they like then arrange to be captured. Once night time falls any 'girl out of her ball is free game".

Which sounded like something that would result in total chaos, but from what my girlfriend had said it was only the pokes that didn't have a Tamer who would be running about in the dark.

The ones that had made arrangement would be out of the village waiting somewhere for their new Tamer to catch them once the sun went down, or they'd be inside one of the houses and someone would let that Tamer in. It was all a bit silly, but kinda fun sounding too.

"Today people will be trading and enjoying the festival" Nikita then said "there's a fun fair too. You can prove how much you love me by winning me a huge stuffed toy".

That was still a tradition here then. It was nice to know that some things stayed the same.

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Dogspatch

"Sadie Pokens Day will start in a few minutes. It's advised that tamers get to open spaces and start releasing their pokegirls" A voice said over a speaker system of some sort.

I looked over at Nikita who just nodded her head in reply. Then the two of us took out our pokeballs and released all of our girls.

There was no need to tell any of them why we were here. They all knew that they were free to find other Tamers, and my 'girls who didn't know any magic spell knew that they would be going into storage if they stayed with me. But that wasn't as bad as it sounded. May would take good care of them, and once Raven had mastered her ability to teleport I could visit them as often as I wished.

As for my magic users I doubted that any of them would leave me. Kira couldn't because she was part of them same coven as me. Kara needed to stick around so I would go back to her Elfcourt in twenty years. As for my alpha I'd seen her during my quick trip the future so it seemed very unlikely to me that she'd chose someone else.

When it came to my Pumara, who I had decided to name Guenhwyvar as the name she'd had as a Kitten did not suit her now, she was very picky for a pokegirl so unless someone even more suitable for her was around then I doubted she'd leave me either.

My girlfriend suspected that Jack, her Tomboy, might leave as she wasn't very happy in the harem due to her Nikita's Infernal type. I didn't want to get involved in the affairs of my partner's harem, as that would be like saying she was a bad Tamer, but I could help but wish that she'd never gotten that damn Succubus.

"Let's split here and meet at the benches by the Pokecentre at midday so we can have lunch" I said to everyone "and I want everyone who wants to stay with me to be inside their pokeball before dark. So be at the tent at sundown".

Since all of my 'girls had assured me that they would never leaveme they didn't feel the need to say goodbye, they just walked off in random directions and started to look around. Having given them pocket money (or to be more precise my wife had) I knew that the lure of the stalls was calling to them, and I would not have to shop with them so that was all good with me.

Nikita also wanted to be alone as it had to be clear that we weren't a couple looking for pets. I knew she wasn't in any sort of bad mood with me as I had won her a massive cuddly toy last night. How she planned to carry it around was a mystery to me, but it wasn't important if she did as winning the prize had been what mattered.

Soon enough I was wandering around by myself and as I walked I saw people setting up stalls and stands. However what caught my attention was a group of stone tables with some chess boards in them. I hadn't seen anyone play chess or even checkers since I'd come to this world so I went in for a closer look.

I watched as couple of pokegirls sat down, took out some chess pieces and started playing. None of them were very good in my opinion, and that surprised me as pokegirls were actually very intelligent beings.

That was when I noticed that other games were getting more attention. Four girls were playing this worlds version of Monopoly. Rather than have streets and facilitates, each side of the board had squares with the names of cities written on them. The green squares were for this region. I could tell as I recognised the names of the cities, I'd even been to a few of them. Another difference was that rather than build houses and then upgrade them to hotels you had to build a pokecenter and then add a gym before finally getting a battle arena.

I also saw some other games being play but the crowds were large so I went back to the chess games and a saw what I guessed to be a dark haired pokegirl perhaps a Damsel, judging by the fact that she had E cup breasts and was wearing a sexy schoolgirl outfit, her type liked to please and were very good at it but I'd never heard of them being good at things like chess.

I sat down for a game and discovered that while she had some skill, she was not good enough. She wasn't a fool, and she didn't rush her moves but she was rather predictable to me. Not that it mattered as the match wasn't important. This day was about meeting people and getting to know them.

Which I did. I discovered that her name was Susie, and that her owner was a retiring Tamer who couldn't satisfy her high libido since at least not since he'd gotten married, and had given his other girls away. He was the chess lover, she'd learn to play in order to please him.

Also his wife wasn't too happy about having a pokegirl around who took attention away from her. Damsels always knew how to get a man more interested in her than any other woman. If her now retired Tamer had wanted a girl to play chess between Taming then naturally a Damsel would learn to play. Just because they had incredibly submissive demeanors that did not make them idiots. They were very good at getting what they wanted, as that was to get Tamed. A lot.

However what really got my interest was that Susie knew healing magic. She was no good in a fight, but I had a non-combat slot now and Kara wouldn't mind being moved out of it as long as she got to do the sex battles and got enough attention from me. Also having a healer the harem could be beneficial to everyone. Raven would no doubt approve as she was trying to learn new spells and having another maguc users around would help her.

"I resign" the pokegirl said near the end of our second match "you're so much smarter than me".

Now that was flattery although using Scholars Mate had been a good idea. She hadn't seen the threat of my rook until it was too late.

"Are you after a new 'girl" she asked me as she got up from the table.

Susie leaned forward and her display of cleavage made her intentions quite clear to me, and her top was transparent enough to show me that she was in fact wearing a push up bra. Which only drew more attention to her massive tits.

"Magic users, yes" I answered "I have a non-combat slot for a healer".

Even I could read all the signs she was giving off. The way she twirled her black hair, the way her eyes never broke contact, and the cleavage thing was a big bouncy clue.

"I was just going to get someone to tie to me to a tree" the poke said "but if we want to capture me I could run through the woods. Your 'girls could hunt me down and then you can have your wicked way with me. I'd so like to be ravaged by a big, strong man like you".

Well I did have a Pumara, and while she might get carried away on a hunt Damsels were ridiculously hard to hurt. In fact she might be handy to keep around just so Raven had someone to practice spells on.

"That sounds like fun" I replied.

Without warning Susie lifted up her skirt just a little and pulled her knickers down. She did it so fast that I wasn't sure what she'd done until she tossed them over to me.

"So your girls can get my scent" she explained.

I nodded to display my understanding and Susie walked away. I assumed that she off to tell her retiring Tamer that someone had decided to take her off his hands. A chess playing damsel was an oddity and I looked forward to seeing what else she could do.

Once she had vanished into the crowd I got up and looked around some more. Playing another game didn't interest me, and since I didn't see any other magic types around I saw no reason to try my Psychic Charm Blood Gift on any of the other ladies. At least not yet anyway.

Then I got lost for about half and hour, which made me decide to head back to the pokecenter.

I wasn't the first to arrive, my alpha had been waiting for me. When she saw me she reached into one of the bags she carried and took out a few boxes of food, and also a box of what looked to be playing cards.

"It's a game I saw being played called Duel Monsters" Raven explained "there are even pokegirls who use them as spell cards".

I had no idea what she was on about, so I just started eating.

"Choose the starter deck you want and we'll start going through the booster packs" Raven then said.

I vaguely recalled that being a duellist had been very cool for a few many years, but these days no cared much for card games any more. Plus the rules made little sense and there were too many different cards to keep track off. Which put me off so much then when Nikita arrived I stopped even trying to indulge Raven and paid attention to my girlfriend.

"Any luck?" I asked.

As she sat down next to me she took her head.

"There was a psi-dyke, but she backed off when I mentioned I had a boyfriend".

Psi-dykes could be real men haters. Some weren't so bad and could even be friends with guys, but sadly there were some who couldn't even bring themselves to be civil towards a male.

"And the Growlies can all smell cat on me".

Dogspatch, as the name suggested, had a high population of canine like pokegirls and they wouldn't be interested in either of us as we both had then scent of a cat girl on us. Nikita had a Tigress and I had a Pumara.

Over the course of the next hour were then joined by everyone else, and judging by the bags they carried they'd all been shopping for clothes rather than for new Tamers, and also they all looked happy so that me feel good as well.

"Master, we spent all our pocket money" Kara informed me much like how a girl planning on getting more money out her Dad would.

"Sorry, dear" I replied "Mummy has all the money".

My elf looked at Nikita who smirked and said.

"He means May".

My wife might wear dresses, but she wore the trousers when it came to dishing out the money. Thankfully she was very generous.

"It's all about money now" Raven said "I remember hearing about how this festival was all about hooking up with a Tamer, but all I can see is stalls and people making themselves look like idiots".

I'd figured that just by reading the entry in my 'dex. However I had done alright for myself.

"I met a nice chess playing Damsel".

That got the expected reaction. Getting a Damsel to agree to joining a Tamer was easy, but what was surprising to them was that this pokegirl was into something that nothing to do with sex. Most pokes and humans thought Damsels to be a dumb as Bimbos. However they were wrong. True they were somewhat alike both types had high sex drives, open to experimentation and were eager to please, but Damsels were not mentally defiant. They were smart enough to figure out what their owners liked and worked at becoming better lovers. Bimbos didn't.

"She'll be the woods" I told my harem while displaying the underwear I'd been give "so I have to track her down once it gets dark".

While any 'girl out of her ball was far game once the sun was down it was unlikely that anyone would try to claim one of my pokes if I was right there with them and running through a forest. I'd only need one 'girl with me anyway.

Once I'd caught them Damsel I'd then have to register her and make room for her as well. She was a magic type so I planned to her with me and send Sunny and Thundercat into storage. Maybe Isabella too, at least until I got to the cruise ship.

"Wait where is Isabella anyway?" I suddenly asked, having only just noticed that she wasn't actually with us.

We all looked around for a moment before Kira said.

"She was with us when we hit the stores. Maybe she met someone".

I wasn't that close to the Piratit and she had gone through a lot of changes recently so it wouldn't surprise me if she'd found someone else. It hurt a bit to think of losing her, but it might be for the best.

"This is why you should brand us" Raven then said "she might have just wandered off, anyone could take her if they can get her collar off".

I had been putting that off for a while now.

"Okay we can do it tomorrow" I decided "I bet you already have the iron".

Indeed she did. No personalized symbol yet, but she had one that would burn the words 'Property of Gothic' into their skin and it would so very quickly. Magic was really useful sometimes.

"I wanna get branded on my butt" Kara declared.

That made me roll my eyes.

"Later" I said as I finished my food "you've still the whole afternoon free to enjoy yourselves".

With that we all headed out again to find some sort of fun.