This is the FINAL chapter for the series, a short OMAKE (Or OAV depending on your stance) about some stuff that happens between the previous chapter and what hopefully will be the beginning of the next part (since I don't want to call it "Imagine Pokegirls Part 2" the name is still pending).
It contains a bit of everything but nothing too explicit (Still, careful).
If you're confused about something, read the author's note at the bottom or send me a message/email/review if that doesn't help. Or just review… or don't, I'm not your boss or anything, but it's highly appreciated!
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-+-+-+-+-+OMAKE TIME!+-+-+-+-+-
-+-Verde's date -+-+- Tuesday 15th -+-
Verde and Mario walked calmly down the mostly empty street. In this part of the city and at this hour there were far less people moving about. "Did you see how she broke my arm? I'm going to use that against Corona next time we fight." The hun barked a laugh.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it." His smile reflected hers as he hadn't seen her smile this much even at the tamer park. And despite her being taller, bulkier, stronger and overall more threatening than him in every sense, it was a good sight. "You're way stronger than I had thought you were; I'll ask Corona to push you harder during training."
"I think I'd enjoy that." Her eagerness had calmed down a bit, pulling him snugly against her.
Mario paused, looking distant for a second. "It was quite the show." His voice was calm but low. "I hadn't thought Mana was holding back so much when she…" He paused, the words died before they were spoken.
"Don't." She warned him. "You promised."
"I know…" The human sighed, his shoulders slumped.
She drew him into a kiss before he could continue that particular train of thought, the last thing she wanted was to break the mood. Hesitating for a second, she decided to bring up something else to talk about. "I know it's not something you like, but I want to go out feral hunting with you, at least teach the team the ropes. You know, since we never got the chance."
"And I'll have to go back to teaching you Spanish." His sight lowered and his face became shadowed. Sighing, he shook his head twice and looked back up to her. "It's been a rough week hasn't it?"
"Yes it has." Verde spoke wryly.
An awkward silence crept up on them, becoming tenser the further they walked.
A stray thought caused the hun's hands to tense as she glanced at him, and though he had been quick to notice, she hid it behind her most neutral expression.
Her steps came to a sudden halt and she glanced at him with a frown. "You're usually picky about what you tell about yourself… but I want to know." Black eyes with blood red irises bore into his, lips thinned. "What do you feel about me?"
Frowning slightly, he raised an eyebrow before shaking his head and sighing, giving her a lazy grin. "I love you."
Verde shook her head. "No, I meant really. What do you really feel about me?"
"I said: I. Love. You." He repeated, slightly less humorous but still grinning. "Should I spell it out?"
"No, I…" She threw her hands up in frustration. "This isn't a joke, okay? Why would you be in…" The word caught on her throat and the taint of her cheeks darkened just ever so slightly. "Why?"
"Why not?" His reply hadn't waited so much as a heartbeat, his demeanour entirely casual. "For someone with so much bravery and confidence, you're hesitating a lot."
"Am not!" Though not the most mature of responses, she refused to believe it wasn't the right one for the situation.
Mario's look of shocked disbelief was followed by a quick smug grin. "Prove it."
Verde blinked. "What? How!?"
"Right here, right now." He tapped the concrete with his foot. "Look me in the eye and tell me if you hate me or if you love me." His grin broadened. "Regardless, at least be honest about it. So c'mon, I dare ya."
"Fine!" She snarled.
"Go ahead." He taunted.
"I said fine!" she repeated more loudly, stomping twice as she glared down at him.
Down at his brown eyes and confident smile, at his sharp chin and rebellious hair, at his waiting gaze and strong pose.
She opened her mouth and clamped it shut, looking away before she could even think of talking out. Quickly glaring back at him, she attempted to claim she hated him for his gutsy attitude, but the words died out a second time and she growled in frustration as she turned the other way a second time.
"I'm waiting.~" He singsonged.
"Ugh! Fine!" She grunted, snapping back to look at him and freezing, only a moment afterwards closing her eyes shut and turning downwards in desperation. "I think I'm in love with you."
As soon as the words had left her lips she felt like clamping her mouth shut and blowing her own head off.
Why had she said it? Like that no less! The words seemed to echo between them and every repetition she cursed herself further. 'I THINK I'm in love with you?' It sounded weak, pathetic...
No, there wasn't doubt about it... it WAS weak and pathetic.
Couldn't she just have held her tongue and refused his challenge?
Oh Gods of all things frosty, she saw him choke on empty air and the feeling of being stupid went from bad to way, way, worse. Great, now she had gone and blown it. Sure they got along and he seemed to like being with her and he was fun to be around of most of the time, but… love?
How could she have thought he could feel the same thing towards her? She was a pokegirl, at best a substitute human for him, what sort of life could she hope to give him? Living in the wilds hunting ferals?
She'd curse herself into oblivion just for the sense of timing, as if he didn't have enough on his plate already! The evening had been going so well… what was wrong with her? Could her screw up get any worse?
She was his alpha dang it, she should've done what was best for the harem, not what she had felt was best for herself!
She wanted to find a widow and fight her rather than let herself die of shame like this.
It wasn't how it should have happened. It shouldn't have happened at all!
Mario, her tamer, her partner, and the man that had brought about this nightmare of emotions opened his mouth but was quick to close it. She must have had really screwed up to have turned him mute. Why couldn't her ice type genes of self-control have won over the fighting ones of impulsiveness for once? Was it really too much to ask?
"Look, I really didn't…" There she was, opening her mouth and trying to fix her fuck-ups once more. When would she learn talking just wasn't for her? Tracking, fighting, fucking, and killing, that was what she was good at. Out of the two, he was the talker.
"Don't." his voice was soft and his eyes kept looking into the distance, what was he thinking about? Had she crossed something she shouldn't have? What she'd give to have the power to read his thoughts…
Damn him for taunting her like that, he should've known better!
She fidgeted, a full two meters of hunting and killing machine, with a face stony and still, and she fidgeted at the thought of what his response could be. She adverted her eyes from his own yet again, looked downwards. She was supposed to be a hun, a warrior, a pokegirl of action and determination, not hesitant about words and fidgeting!
The least she could do would be to stand firm and take his response like the woman she was. But just thinking of looking into his brown gaze and hearing him say he had been joking felt like someone was punching her through her chest.
"I'm sorry." His words finally came out and the sting of them was deep. Her hand unconsciously clutched at her chest as she thought whether this was how Sakuya had felt when he had punished her. If so it felt horrible, no wonder she had evolved. "I shouldn't have forced you, it was mean. I thought you'd just turn me down again."
Silence. For a full minute, there was silence as Verde stared at him blankly.
"What?" She managed to speak out, blinking in incredulity.
His face turned apologetic, slightly sad even. "Verde I…" His words carried on a slow explanatory tone to them, gentle, careful, measured, worried. "I do love you, I just didn't think you actually felt something for me. Not after… you know, they day before yesterday…"
The gears in her head began turning, now finally allowing the chilly sense of control from her cold side finally come into play. Wait, he had been serious? Then when she had…
UGH
She had actually made the sound out loud as her palm went up to meet her face in a combination of shame and regret. "I said thank you." The words were now filled with bitter remorse in her tongue.
Mario nodded at that. "You sort of did… it stung."
UGH
Verde glanced at his wry smile between the fingers of her hand, and tried to contemplate just how stupid that had been. "Can I get a do over?"
Her tamer's amusement became apparent as he crossed his arms and leaned slightly away from her. "I don't know, do you THINK you deserve a do over?"
Verde grumbled. "Mario…"
Rolling his eyes, he straightened his shirt out and put up a very tiny grin. "Just this once."
She sighed in relief.
Staring back into his eyes, she could barely hold it a second without cracking a grin and having to look away before she actually lost it and chuckled. "Stop it." She muttered with a pout and a mock glare.
"Stop what?" he mocked hurt feelings.
"Your face looks funny."
"I don't know what you're talking about, it's the same face I've always had." His words oozed smugness.
"Oh shut up already you wiseass." Holding him close, she put her forehead against his, chuckling deeply.
Letting go of a breath she hadn't known she had been holding, Verde closed her eyes as she drew in air, opening them again as she looked at him steadily.
"I love you."
His smile became a tender one. "I love you too." He returned, kissing her softly.
Finally.
It felt as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
"I'm going to fuck you till you drop." She muttered under her breath.
"Looking forward to it." He dared her.
-+- OMAKE: Hecate's Gift -+-+- Friday 18th -+-
Sheika looked at Hecate as she held the black tubular piece of metal. It was nearly six feet in length, and almost entirely white in coloration with the exception of the top couple inches where the splice was currently looking intently at. Behind Hecate, Mario's hand rested on her shoulder and the glass skull hanging from his neck shone dimly, his eyes closed in the same level of extreme concentration as his pokegirl.
With a sizzling sound, the grayish coloration continued to creep upwards, moving at an extremely slow pace as the faint scent of smoke hung in the air.
As soon as it finally reached the edge, both tamer and pokegirl gasped as if they were breathing for the first time in hours. Mario was quick to fall down on his ass and pant as the light of the skull vanished entirely.
"Hope we weren't interrupting anything important." Sheika spoke with a slight hint of annoyance at having been made to wait for them.
Mario raised his eyes to meet Sheika and Miranda, drying the sweat from his brow. "Oh, hey, didn't see you there."
"Not surprising." Miranda glanced at Hecate, seeing her skin was now a more normal tan coloration, her ears now covered in a light silvery fur and her body almost a full foot shorter. "I take it you've been busy?"
Hecate, though tired, nodded eagerly. "We had to hunt for it in the tamer rings, but we gathered the needed samples for me to change enough to help Mario make this." She pointed at the piece of metal which was barely thicker than her thumb.
The archmage approached the workbench and glanced down at the staff, careful not to touch it. It took her a moment to realize it had a magical signature, but it was so faint she had to focus on it to properly feel it out, and it was diminishing by the second as well. "What is it?" She wondered, aware it was unfinished but unsure what the parts they had already added would do.
Mario gestured at Hecate as he stood up. "Double-check it and add the new layer before it gets cold."
Nodding, the pokegirl held the staff so close it almost touched her nose, twisting and turning it inch by inch as she intently observed its surface. After several seconds, she groaned out loud. "There was a mistake. We'll have to start over." She sighed in resignation. "Sorry…"
Taking the tube onto her hands, she bit down on one end and began to gnaw at it, slowly eating it up as if it were a giant lollipop.
With a sigh, Mario just gave her a thumbs up. "No harm done, we've just got to finish perfecting the process."
He turned to Miranda. "We're making a staff for me to use so I'm not completely defenceless in a fight." He shrugged. "Kim helped us design the layering technique and basic logical enchantment commands while René helped us create a properly programmed layout in exchange of-."
He shook his head but the smile didn't die out. "We're trying to carve a sort of computer with enchantments as its main logical components. It'd make precision and repetitive casting a synch, but we can't afford a mistake in the layered carvings."
Miranda's brows knitted together in a frown. "I didn't see any carvings."
If Mario's smug grin could grow further his head would've exploded. "Hecate added some minimouse to her gene-pool. The microscopic vision takes 'let's see how I can make the enchantment fit into this' to a new level."
The archmage recoiled from his words, blinking rapidly as the words sank in. "But that…" Her head tilted sideways. "It wouldn't be able to handle anything with more mana than maybe a large fireball… if you tried something like that it'd backfire for sure."
The human shrugged but kept the grin. "Well, even with the boost from having bonded Hecate, trying for a large fireball would pretty much knock me out cold, so I won't have to worry about that." There was something in his eyes that glimmered. "We decided that I was better off maxing precision and efficiency rather than trying to boost my drop of power into a drop and a tenth."
He stretched slowly. "It being made of murisium we'd strengthened through enchantments will be very useful if I have to get physical."
Miranda's eyes broadened into puppy eyes as she scooted close to him. "Can I be the one to put the final enchantment?"
"No!" Hecate's word cracked like a whip, though as soon as it left her lips she appeared to shrink slightly. "We're using our bond so that the enchantments are imbued with both his and my energies, making it fully compatible with him. Otherwise the efficiency would…"
The hunter was quick to raise her hands in a placating gesture. "I get it, I get it, I won't cast anything on it." She shot a sly smirk at Hecate. "You just want it to be your gift for him."
The pokegirl's cheeks brightened into a vibrant crimson and she tried to speak but barely managed to let out anything over a mumbling stutter, returning to chew on the staff instead.
Mario appeared slightly startled as well, but was the first to recover, rolling his eyes and looking between the two pokegirls. "So what do I owe the visit to?"
Sheika was the one to speak up. "Today the huns are making a small celebration before most of the 'grown-ups' head north to support the elves. Officially, today's the day you had agreed to come take a visit."
"Oh, right, sorry, Verde didn't say anything and I kinda had forgotten, what with…" Mario's voice trailed out and his smile faltered. His eyes darted at Miranda and it turned into serious determination. "The bond is still strong, it's only a matter of time before we find her."
Miranda and Sheika shared a look. "Mario, if the bond is still there, then that could mean…" Miranda paused, grasping at his shoulders in a reassuring gesture. "You should consider the option she was put in stasis."
"I know… And if she is in stasis, it'd mean I'll never be able to find her." He stated flatly, looking as if he had tasted something foul. "Because she could very well be in a pokepack hidden at some secret bunker miles underground and we'd never be able to know."
He turned his head to glance at Miranda, a cold and predatory smile came to his lips. "That's why we're also hunting for the panthress."
There was a drawn out pause before Sheika simply shook her head. "I suggest you don't say that when you're up north with the others… otherwise Verde might have to kill her sisters so they don't try joining your harem."
The three of them shared a laugh as Mario began to pick up his things, Miranda and Hecate sharing a look of worry, neither saying what they thought but both understanding what the other felt.
"Let's go then." He stood back up with his pokepack at the ready. "Time to have a small break and let the tribe meet the new and improved Verde."
"She's already there." The archmage stretched her arms to grab at Mario and Hecate. "She's making sure to spread the bad rumours as fast as possible, and she's got about a three hour lead on you. Sheika wasn't kidding when she said Verde was going to make sure her tribe sisters didn't try to sneak into your pants."
"Corona's been recording it of course." Miranda added. "She said it was something 'for posterity'."
Mario's gaze turned distant as he smiled evilly. "That's because she knows I'll never let Verde live this one down."
-+- OMAKE: Sakuya's Mercy -+-+- Sunday 20th -+-
She grunted from the effort, feeling her jaw aching and her body sore from the latest taming, the girl underneath her whining before she slumped, fully unconscious from the marathon the dark kitsune had put her through.
Sakuya shuddered once more, a small orgasm from knowing she was keeping herself as away from going feral as possible at the same time that she was keeping herself in top conditions. The frown from the false pleasure was followed by a grin at knowing that the better she kept herself the better her chances of finding a way out eventually.
She whispered Mario's name and imagined the whole experience had been one for him to see, a memory she'd reveal to him in detail once she was with him again.
The bond remained as silent as the first time she had opened her eyes with the accursed collar, but its strength had not faltered and its presence had not left her. Mario was alive and she refused to give up.
One of the service doors to the room opened and a small mousy girl stepped through, greyish blue eyes darting about until they met Sakuya's.
"It's your turn now number 42." She spoke timidly, waiting for the fox to approach her of her own volition.
Sakuya felt the warning tingle of the collar and didn't put up resistance in following the girl. As much as she loathed the idea with every fibre of her being, fighting against the collar only caused pain and wore her out. She had learnt long before meeting Mario how to let herself be ordered around, and thanks to her time with him she now knew when it was best for her to use her strength to fight back.
The titmouse lead the way through the twisting maze of concrete corridors, eventually reaching a set of metal doors.
The pokegirl grasped the fox's hand timidly, giving it an encouraging squeeze. "Good luck Sakuya." She whispered in a tone so low only the dark kitsune would've been able to hear, immediately afterwards scurrying away back into the dimly lit labyrinth.
Without a sound, the door slowly slid open, revealing a large area at the other side, a circle covered in sand about two hundred meters across. The ring was surrounded by twenty meter tall wall and it was all topped by the shape of a slightly flattened half sphere metal cage.
The lights shining down on the fighting pit were blinding as always, and what onlookers there may be were all hidden in the shadows above the wall, making it harder still to see them. But Sakuya could hear their breathing when she focused into the task, and once more wondered what sort of place this had to be for there to never be over a hundred spectators.
Ignoring what little audience there was, her eyes darted to the other side of the arena, where her 'dance partner' walked into the ring with an edge of timid fear. She was a human looking girl with black hair and pale skin, barely covered in rags and with the same fear from someone who had never fought here before and wasn't sure what was going on.
There was no blare nor a narrator shouting the fight to begin, no signal whatsoever that the match had begun, and the dark kitsune knew all too well the moment you stepped through the doors you were going to go into the ring until there was only one left standing.
Sakuya felt a stirring of pity at the girl.
She'd make it quick.
Inhaling deeply, she prepared a fireball on her right hand and began feeding it energy.
The girl's eyes widened in shock. "No, wait, I don't want to-!"
Sakuya teleported behind her, and released the attack at point blank range at her head.
Rather than an explosion and a shout of pain, the dark kitsune felt something stab at her leg and it was her who let out a yelp of surprise. Sakuya teleported away purely out of instinct and appeared just high enough to grasp at the cage and hold herself out of harm's way as she looked down at what should've been the charred remains of the pokegirl.
Much to her surprise, there were now two identical looking girls where there had been once one. Both were glaring up at her and holding a short tanto knife, one of them dripping blood.
Turning to her aching thigh, Sakuya grimaced and placed her hand on it. Pain flared from her collar from what she was about to do but her clenched teeth let her focus enough to quickly cauterize the wound shut and prevent it from bleeding any more.
"Let your guard down, girl." The twins spoke with sneers, the one with the bloodied knife bringing it up and slowly licking it with a tongue far too long for a human. "You coming down to play?"
Sakuya considered her options and kept quiet, glancing between the two and just raising an eyebrow.
With a sigh she closed her eyes and focused for a second, her tails lighting up as she summoned her psychic energies. Snapping her eyes open, her mind searched out for their minds and she unleashed a powerful blast of power.
Both of them clutched at their heads and shouted, the one nearest to the fox suddenly exploding in a cloud of smoke as the other one fell to her knees.
Sakuya teleported back down to the arena at a safe distance from the girl, and let loose a second blast.
Feeling the drain of using two consecutive psychic attacks, the dark kitsune switched back to fire and summoned two embers, before throwing them at the downed girl without much hesitation and hearing her scream in pain as they blew up around her.
Teleporting just behind her, Sakuya glanced at the heavy burns on the girl's skin and the pleading look on her eyes. She felt another stab of pity at how easy it was to overwhelm this weak pokegirl who was here just as much against her will as she was.
Her reward for her moment of weakness was the knife going into her already wounded thigh. "I'm not going to die here!" The girl screeched, shouting as a third ember attack blasted her away from Sakuya.
On a knee and grimacing at the pain, the dark kitsune pulled out the knife with a determined growl and winced at the pain, thanking her luck that the wound had gone only through muscle and not through an artery.
She cauterized the wound a second time, this time almost crying out. The collar responded with even more pain, but at this point her blood was pumping with adrenaline and she was in no mood to have it stop her.
Grasping the knife tightly, she used it to summon her psi-blade and limped towards the nearly immobile and groaning pokegirl.
Judging by the extent of the damage she had taken from the fire, it was a miracle she was still conscious. But the agonized pokegirl looked at Sakuya once more with pleading eyes and mouthed cries for mercy nearly silently.
Stopping as she stood over her victim, Sakuya clenched her teeth and raised her arm high, and used every bit of speed she could muster to detach the girl's head from her shoulders with the blade.
The head rolled so its face was staring straight up to her with empty eyes, marred by the sputters of blood coming from the neck.
After a pause, there was a blaring sound and the door she had come through slid open.
The dark kitsune glared at the dark crowd around her as she teleported to the entrance of the arena and began to limp away. Her newest weapon was clutched tightly in her right hand and her mind going over whom of the girls she shared a room with would be able to heal her.
A shudder of artificial pleasure passed through her when she thought of her victory, and the idea of taming the girl in exchange for her help only made it stronger, enough so she nearly crumpled to the floor from the small orgasm.
She'd have to keep herself in top shape in both mind and body to fight.
To fight her way out of there.
-+- OMAKE: Sparring with Jade -+-+- Tuesday 22nd -+-
She hated it.
It was her purpose to keep her Master from harm, but she also had to obey Master's orders above all else, and Master was asking her to harm him.
The concept of his order went against her imperatives to protect him.
He should've known his order lacked sense, and she would've preferred if he had just stated it was his command and so she'd have to follow. It would've made sense. But he didn't, he chose to ask her to tell him why she hesitated.
And it went against another of her imperatives: Never contradict your Master's opinion.
"What if someone was disguised as me?" His words brought her back to reality and her tail twitched at the thought.
She hesitated, answering a Master's questions was as important as obeying an order. "I am bonded to Master, no one else."
The frustration in his expression was almost painful to Jade, it was paramount to obey to the fullest of her ability. If he was displeased then it meant her ability was clearly not enough.
He calmed his expression. "What if you had to hurt me to save me?"
"Such a thing would never happen." She hadn't hesitated to reply firmly, the concept of it not finding a single place where it could grab hold and make her doubt.
"If I were bitten by a zombabe on my hand, if you don't cut it off quickly enough I'd die." He pointed out calmly. "What would you do then?"
"I…" Jade's jaw tightened as she turned sideways in frustration, her tail twitched harder than before and all four of her lower arms crossed in resignation. "I don't know." Her words came out in frustration more than actual contemplation of the scenario.
'I don't know.' It was like a curse to her, it always came down to that frustrating little phrase. She hated it more than she hated how her Master kept ordering her to contradict her imperatives.
And she had noted that out of all his girls she was the one who said it the most. The Alpha had not said it once since she had gotten there, and the small muscular one had only said it twice out of jest. Even the girl that had joined after Jade said it less than Jade.
It was frustrating.
Her scales flared with annoyed reddish light and Jade realized her mistake too late. She knew her Master could read her easily, but to let him know she was displeased was shameful. She should never bother her Master with her worries or silly emotions. She was a pokegirl, tools weren't meant to have emotions.
And just like the other times, he had reacted before she had begun forming an excuse in her mind. "Hey there, don't worry about it." His hand touched her lower left elbow gently and Jade tensed, again unsure what he expected of her.
"You'll get it, soon, I promise." He kissed the scales he had touched on her arm and Jade felt a slight shudder as whatever feeling of annoyance was just no longer there.
Her glare became a pout.
She remembered another of her imperatives and with all six of her arms she drew him close, her forked tongue tasting the sweat on his cheek and she saw him shudder. Her doubt whether if it was disgust or something else was eased as this time around he hadn't even attempted to struggle out of her grasp but rather leaned into it.
Jade eased out a breath she hadn't noticed she had been holding.
How odd it was that her body did things without her consent.
"Today is my turn." She said firmly, waiting for him to confirm this so they could tame.
Her Master might be always full of contradictions, but Jade never had doubts when he tamed her. It was the one thing where he didn't make her doubt herself.
"True." He stated calmly, and Jade was already pausing in preparation at the condition he was clearly going to impose on her. "And if you train with me like we originally planned, I'll give your tail a massage as well."
Jade's gaze narrowed and this time her whole body twitched in an annoyed flash of red. Her irritation had been enough she hadn't even bothered from hiding it. "I will not hurt Master." She said flatly, an ultimatum.
Mario shrugged his shoulders and kept looking at her with complete smugness. "Whatever you'd do to me, it wouldn't be hurting, it'd be a… 'temporary bruise'." He explained calmly. "It's temporary because Corona will take it away when we're done and I wouldn't be hurt."
Jade frowned at the words, quickly crossing all her arms and leaning away from him. "I will not hurt Master." Her voice had only a momentary falter in it before she turned to look away.
"It would be all of it... the massage." Mario's voice carried over with a tempting edge to it, his hand slowly caressing the crest of her fin at the tip of her tail, and she twitched again.
Jade's eyes closed and her lips tensed. "No." She pouted further, eyes quickly darting towards the spot he was touching.
"I'd even use some lotion between the spines…" He muttered. "And it's not like you'd really hurt, you've been training with Corona in how to hold back, no?"
"…yes…" She conceded.
"And you do your best when you train, no?"
"…yes…"
"And Corona did say you've improved a lot in how to control your powers, no?"
"…she did…" Her voice dropped a bit lower, already guessing where he was going with this, but unable to stop it.
"Then you should be perfectly capable of using your powers in a spar with me and not hurt me."
Jade could hear her teeth creak as her jaw tightened. She glared at Mario and hated him for giving this kind of order to her, much less using such devious method of seduction to coerce her into agreeing.
She specially hated how much she was looking forwards to the corruption of his touch.
"All my tail." She stated in hesitation.
"Of course, all of it." He nodded.
"Even the fins."
A second nod, with a grin. "Yup."
She paused. "And… and my shoulders too."
Mario chuckled at that. "And your shoulders, and your neck, and your back. I'll give you a full massage after we finish."
There was a long pause as she looked his way, a tightening of her lips and a frown of concentration. Then, all too quickly, at a gesture of her hands, water was summoned from all around her and rushed at Mario as a single large ten foot tall wave. The human barely got the opportunity to brace himself, but not before Jade had used her lightning speed to get ahead of the wave and snatch him off of his feet.
Carrying him out of the attack's area of effect before it even impacted.
"Sparring is over." She declared, slithering out of the yard and towards the small apartment building they were currently living in.
He struggled in her grasp as she held him with her lower to arms and used the middle two to keep him from getting enough of a hold to free himself. "You haven't b-."
His words were cut short as sparks of blue lightning leaped between her raised upper two hands and she looked down at him with her intense emerald gaze.
"I beat you." She repeated with a coldness that was comparable to the Verde's. She could not let him try to convince her otherwise. "Sparring is over. Now we tame."
Mario gulped.
+-+-+-+-+-STORY END-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-CURRENT HAREM-+-+-+-+-+
-SAKUYA (Dark Kitsune)(Missing): Speed x6, Agility x6, Hearing x6, Smell x6, Isolation Aura
-VERDE (Hun)(Alpha): Speed x4, Strength x4, Durability x4, Endurance x4, Reduced Feral, Cold Resistance, Hunting Aptitude
-CORONA (Pinielf): Strength x2, Endurance x2, Agility x4, Vision x3, Smell x3, Flesh Bending, Fighting Aptitude, Longevity
-JADE (Marylith. Aka: Eelara, Laplass): Durability x5, Speed x10 (Swimming), Agility x5, Summon-Water, Hydrokinesis, Multi-limbed(6 Arms), Affinity-Ice, Toxic-Blood, Enhanced Flexibility
-HECATE (G-Splice): Speed x7, Strength x3, Endurance x7, Agility x6, Smell x4, Enhanced (Memory & Intelligence), Empathy, Partial Body Sculping (Self), Intuitive Aptitude (Body Sculpting, Computers), Familiar Bond.
Extra Enhancements:
-Cerberass: Enhanced (Smell +2) (Nose).
-Minimouse: Microscopic Vision, Enhanced (Vision +1) (Eyes).
-Cyberelf: Manifest (Sub-dermal Cybernetic Armor), Enhanced (Durability +1, Agility -1) (Skin).
-Metalmouse: Specialized Digestive System, Enhanced (Durability +2). (Special Digestive system, Hardened Teeth, Metal production).
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(Author's Replies)
Unwanted Empathy: That's just mean.
Also, I'm not too sure if I showed it right, but Sakuya's not really important enough for the "Evil Lady" to merit much (at this point at least). Sure she's evil, but she values more what she can get out of you than what sort of torture she can inflict on you (It's a more practical form of "Evil")
a1993: That's Sakuya for you, her personality might not be a defined as the other harem sisters, but she sure as hell won't go down without a fight!
Wrandral: I answered through PM as you asked, though I'll add over here that the collar requires the victim's thoughts to work, so if you think the intention behind the order was X even if you could interpret it some other way...
Vendettadabeast: Oh you poor poor boy, if you think Jack will just go running around sprinkling the water... well, then you really don't know much of his analogue. Whatever it is he's planning to do (not telling) it's going to be... epic.
Getting Sakuya is going to be tough indeed, though I haven't yet settled on whether it should be THAT hard that it doesn't happen until nearing the end of the next "Arc" or that maybe something else should be... still weighing the possibilities. I still love it that not even *I* can tell how it's going to go down.
Saar Kasun: I... think there must've been a misunderstanding somewhere. I'm not going to "Start a new story", I'm going to continue this one (further explanation in the writer's comments) just not in "Imagine Pokegirls".
That said, I really like that it looks like I've rattled your cage a bit (I know it's mean, but still...), I didn't think I could draw such reaction. But have no fear, the story WILL go on!
cko2: Don't worry about it, I always try to answer the reviews through here (luckily there's not that many people giving reviews between chapters or I'd have trouble answering it all).
A Whimsical Seishin: Yes, it's part of "The Plan", to have it all clash one way or another in a beautiful series of explosions (or just one BIG one) and unwrap it into a thundering conclusion... whether I'm up to my own expectations remains to be seen, but that's what I've got in mind either way.
Thanks for the review and take care too!
FosterFarms: (Times 3) Thanks a bunch for the comments/reviews, I was actually expecting a "Serial reviewing" as you bing-read the series... but alas, not all wishes could be fulfilled.
Don't worry though, the Huns wouldn't eat him... not that I know of.
Weisser Ritter: (Times 2) AHA! you finally reveal your true face! No worries on the lack of activity, it seems everyone's got one thing or another right now going on that's keeping everyone busy (me included).
Thanks a bunch for the assistance!
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(The FINAL Writers comments for Imagine Pokegirls)
First a "Plotwise" comment: The various characters are undergoing upgrades, some of them more subtle, some of them more definite.
I remember someone had complained about pokegirls looking down on humans back on chapter 11 (I'm looking at you dragoon109), well, Mario got as fed up of his helplessness as the rest of us and he's begun the abuse of several aspects of the pokegirl world (evil laugh goes here).
And though I'm certain he won't be getting any "Ichigo" superpowers, I swear on me'mum that you'll find out just how much damage a very imaginative person can do when they learn how to aim with extreme precision what little resources they have available.
With that said, Jade's begun to show her personality, Hecate's ability to adapt and take at least part of the abilities of other pokegirls becomes clearly an important asset to the team, Verde finally accepts her feelings (been waiting for that one for MONTHS) and Sakuya's mean streak starts to get some much needed nourishment (in case of doubt, the girl she offed was a Honeypot).
Consider it a glimpse as to what you could be seeing on the next arc.
With that out of the way... it looks like I *may* have said something in a way that could've lead to misinterpretation, so to clear that out I'll try to reword it:
Though this is the end of "Imagine Pokegirls", it is NOT the end of Mario's story. There will come a new "Arc" with the continuation of this, with the characters more or less as they are but with the plot just pushed forwards (for all intents and purposes, it'll be like I get back into narrating what's going on with a couple "weeks" worth of story-time having taken place).
Why am I doing this? Well, it's a bit complicated.
On one hand, as you all know, I've been advancing the plot at barely a snail's crawl. There's been a lot more character development than action going on and it needs to get kick-started into a higher gear. On the other hand, IRL is being a chaos since a lot of important events coincided within the same month or two, I'm not claiming they're bad, just that they're very time consuming and mind-wrecking.
So, to avoid putting an indefinite hiatus on this as well as taking advantage of that "between arcs" time you can skip, I decided to wrap "Imagine Pokegirls" up and declare this "part" complete.
When will the next part come out? I'm not too sure, I'm estimating within a couple months time, February 2016 as a "late" estimate. I'll have everything settled into place and will be under-way.
Regardless of this, the moment I start it I'll add a "Chapter 37" of sorts to signal you all (so look forward to that!)
Thanks for the continued support and I hope to be seeing you all in the next series!