The elderly couple at the summit of Mt. Pyre kept us for a while, rambling about Sammy. We smiled and nodded, being polite while they talked for a while. Eventually, I was able to ask them to tell us about the legend of the titans. They said that, apparently, there is a hidden underwater cave at the bottom of the ocean somewhere in the Hoenn region, and if you bring two specific Pokémon with you to the cave, they will act as the key and free the legendary titans from their imprisonment. The locations of the three Pokémon are supposed to be on route 120, in the massive desert along route 111, and along the sea on a small island on route 105. But, as they were very adamant about making this clear: those are just strange rock formations and no one has ever been able to enter them and there is no proof that the contain any strange Pokémon.
Leaving the shortsightedness of Sammy's great aunt and uncle behind, May, Gardevoir and I all start to head back to the entryway into the interior of Mt. Pyre.
"I think I know what we have to do." I tell them both telepathically as we walk. "We have to catch those other legendary Pokémon before he can." The uncertainty of my thoughts is hidden behind the resolve in my mental voice. May looks at me sternly before responding in my head.
"That's going to be a lot harder than you think, Seth. People don't just waltz into a cave and catch a legendary Pokémon like that." I understand what she's trying to say, but I have to roll my eyes slightly at the irony of her words.
"But, that's exactly what Sammy did. Why can't we do it as well? He may be strong, but I have strong Pokémon too. I think we can do it if we give it our all." I know Gardevoir can feel the pride I have in her and my other Pokémon and a small smile forms on her lips as I talk.
"You really think that we can do it, Seth?" Gardevoir asks, looking up at me with those big red eyes and pink cheeks. I smile at her and carefully stroke her face with a finger from my free hand for just a second, and then return my hand to hers as we keep walking.
"I know we can. If it comes down to it, I think you can beat anybody. " I tell her out loud. My words make her blush a little deeper. It's not a lie. I do think she is powerful, and could beat anyone, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give her the chance against Sammy or a legendary Pokémon. She can't get hurt again.
Suddenly Gardevoir stops walking and freezes up, her slender body stiffening, and her eyes growing wide. Her sudden stop makes me stumble a little, as we're still holding hands. I can see why she's stopped by seeing the images in her head. My eyes follow where hers are pointing and where her thoughts are leading me.
Just outside the entryway back into Mt. Pyre is that small, hooded figure. Its hovering slightly over the ground, it's back turned to us. It's very small, the size of a small child. May sees it this time as well, and the color drains from her face.
"W-w-what is that?" She stutters, fear muddling up her words. It must hear her, because it slowly starts to turn around, not turning it's head but just rotating slowly in the air. It turns very slowly, drawing out the motion intentionally, and then speeds toward us so it is right in front of us and reveals its face to us and makes a loud, screeching sound.
May screams and falls back on her butt on the ground, and I instinctively step back and put Gardevoir behind me. The thing looks at us with a single glowing eye behind it's skeletal face. There is some serious malice and contempt in that eye as it gazes at us. This Pokémon seems really powerful.
And then, it starts laughing. It floats on it's back in the air, holding its torso as it guffaws at us, making a wheezing sound as it can't control it's laughter. I raise an eyebrow, my heart beating wildly in my chest. I was prepared to fight if I had to, and now it's laughing? I exhale slowly, catching my breath and steadying my heart's wild rhythm. May finds her way back to her feet, her eyes never leaving the Pokémon in front of us. Gardevoir's grip on my shoulder loosens slightly as she stands behind me, and I feel her breath hit my ear as she breathes out.
The Pokémon finally controls itself and floats away and down closer to the ground and stares up at us, humor alight in it's one eye. It turns it's head to the side so it can see us out of one of the eye holes in it's skull face. I realize this is my chance to catch a ghost Pokémon and quickly grab Anorith's ball off my belt and toss it to the ground. The ball explodes in a white light and Anorith comes out of it on the ground. It looks up at me, and then at the skull face Pokémon in front of us. It's eyes turn determined.
"Anorith! Use scratch!" I call, pointing at the Pokémon. Anorith charges at it, it's claws primed. It slashes, but they phase right through the skull faced Pokémon like its made of smoke. Anorith stumbles and the Pokémon disappears in a quick puff of smoke. It reappears behind Anorith before it can recover.
"Anorith! Behind you!" I call. It turns around quickly and the skull face Pokémon is there, right in it's face. It makes that same screeching sound and puts up it's arms in a classic scaring gesture. Anorith rolls backward, scared, and scuttles a ways back from the Pokémon.
"Normal-type moves don't work against ghosts, Seth." May explains, her voice a little shaky still. She's standing with Gardevoir behind me now. I shake my head at my mistake.
"Alright Anorith, try using metal claw!" I command, recovering quickly.
Anorith's claws glow with a metallic sheen and it charges again. This time the claws meet with the Pokémon's body, and knock it backward. It slowly starts to float again and hovers slowly in one spot. It looks at Anorith with it's face turned to the side, its one glowing eye shining behind the skull eye holes. Its gaze intensifies, and Anorith shrinks back. Its using leer!
"Anorith try a water gun!" I call, trying another form of attack. Water sprays from Anorith's mouth and connects solidly with the Pokémon. It recoils, falling to the ground. I quickly grab a Great Ball from my pack that I remember buying all the way back in Petalburg. It feels like so long ago... I shrug off the thought and chuck the ball towards the Pokémon. It somehow doesn't phase through it, and bounces off. It opens up and with a flash of a familiar red light, sucks the ghost in and shuts tightly. It falls to the ground and rolls a few times before sealing shut.
"Yes! A ghost Pokémon!" I exclaim, throwing my fist in the air. I did it, I caught the Pokémon! Gardevoir is by my side once again as I bend over to pick up the ball. She smiles warily at me, happy that I caught the Pokémon, but still not too sure how she feels about it being a ghost type.
May meets up with us with her Pokédex in hand. It tells us that the Pokémon is called Duskull. It is a ghost type that apparently does not like the sunlight and can pass through solid walls and become invisible. It also says that there are stories told about Duskull that say they spirit off young children who don't listen to their parents. It's strange that the Duskull followed us up here to the top of the mountain, though I suppose the fog does block most of the sunlight.
With the new Pokémon in my possession, May, Gardevoir and I all start to head back down the mountain, passing through the seemingly endless floors of tombstones and disturbed people and Pokémon. We have to wait to board the ferry once we're back outside and once it arrives we get on and head back to the port by the safari zone. Lilycove city is our next destination and is not that far from the safari zone entrance.
It takes a few hours to arrive in Lilycove city. There were multiple trainers along the way looking for a battle. May and I got challenged to some double battles and had to cooperate with our Pokémon and with each other, which Gardevoir gave us the upper hand in doing. May and I suggested battle strategies to each other mentally as we commanded our Pokémon together. It worked really well, and I even got to get some training in for Anorith and my newly acquired Duskull. Soon, I'll have that Armaldo I've always wanted.
When we do finally arrive in the city, the first thing May wants to do it visit the huge department store that's located here. I give in and we head up past the Pokécenter to get into the store. I'm thinking about purchasing some TM's for my Pokémon to help strengthen them for the battles to come. If we are going to take down a legendary Pokémon, we'll have to be even stronger than we are now. The TM department is having a sale today and I am also able to purchase the HM for Fly, which I can teach to Swellow to be able to have her fly me back to any place that we've been before. May somehow controls her overwhelming need to purchase clothing and just gets some extra supplies and browses the TM's while I shop.
Shopping takes the rest of the day, and once we're done we retire to the Pokécenter. I suddenly start thinking about Ryan and how he wasn't in Fortree. Back then, I thought maybe I'd see him here in Lilycove. It would make sense that after a while of waiting he would move on to the next major city. With all of our detours, we've probably gotten much too far behind to meet up with him now.
The Pokécenter is abnormally packed with trainers. Lilycove is a popular destination for sure, but this is still way too many people. There is a line to get to nurse Joy and we have to wait for twenty minutes to get a chance to reserve a room.
"I'm sorry, but there are only a few rooms left, and they all only have a single bed." Nurse Joy tells us, after we asked for the usual two bed room. I glance at May and Gardevoir; They don't seem as put off by this as they might have a while ago.
"OK, I guess we have no choice but to take one." May replies, her voice sounding not too upset but not too excited either. Although, I don't know why she would be excited at all.
We get our room key and head upstairs after healing our Pokémon. The room they give us is a small, basic room with a TV and a single, queen sized bed. We are really going to be close tonight. I release my Pokémon from their balls and feed them. I also teach Swellow the HM for Fly and Manectric I teach the TM for Flamethrower that I also got from the TM department. My other Pokémon meet my new Duskull and they seem to hit it off with him after he shows them that he's one of the group now, despite being a spooky apparition. They teach Duskull the ropes and happily share the meal with him. Gardevoir, May and I all sit at the small table in the room, with Gardevoir on my lap and May across from us.
It's time to discuss our plan.
"So we already know that Redhead, or Sammy, has already caught the Registeel that was in the cave by Fortree city." I remember out loud, recalling the name for the Pokémon that Gardevoir was able to pull out of Sammy's head.
"Yes, so that would be the one on route 120. That old couple said that there were similar rock formations located in the desert on route 111, and along the sea on route 105." May reminds us.
"We're really going to go after one of those Pokémon?" Gardevoir asks us, shifting her weight in my lap uneasily. She's so warm and soft, it's really nice to sit with her like this. I bring my hand to her back and run my fingers down her spine, gently caressing the back of her chest plate that is her heart. She shivers a little but smiles at me, her face turning a slight pink.
"That's the plan, Gardevoir. We can't let him get them all. I want to get to both of them before he does, but if we have to settle for one then that's better than nothing." She looks down after I finish speaking, in thought. Her hand comes up to rest at her chin, and her blush fades, making her look pensive. With this much contact, I can see in her head that she's running through various strategies. Most of them don't seem to work out that well...
"Well, Seth, which one do you think we should go for first?" May asks, interrupting my view into Gardevoir's mind. "We're already right by the water, the cave on route 105 is pretty far away, but we just surf from here, it could even be quicker than flying. Maybe that should be where we start." She suggests.
"Actually, I was just thinking that maybe we could use that to our advantage and head back to the desert. It would be easy since Swellow can fly me now. Sammy is probably going to start looking for the one on the sea, since we know he's around here. We could beat him to the punch and ensure that we get one if we go back to the desert now." I explain what I've been pondering all day since hearing the legendary titans' locations.
"That's not a bad idea." May agrees simply, then she adds: "I've heard that the sandstorms are really bad over there. We can use these goggles that I bought on sale in Fortree." She gets up to get her bag, and after digging through the overstuffed pack fishes out three pairs of goggles. They look pretty high quality and will probably do really well at keeping the sand out of our eyes.
"Nice! Those will be perfect." I say, giving her a dorky thumbs up like she tends to do to me. She laughs a little. She doesn't return to the table, since our plan is more or less figured out. Instead, she walks over to the bed and sits on the end of it, looking for the remote. I stand up, taking Gardevoir in my arms, princess style. She makes a sound like bells that I haven't heard from her since yesterday, but somehow it feels like its been longer than that. She smiles at me and giggles.
"Excuse me, sir." She exclaims mentally. "What do you think you're doing? You put me down right this instant." Her words are playful, and the way she cuddles into my neck and kisses my cheek do nothing to show that she meant what she said. I laugh at her and bring her to the bed. I set her down and she pulls me on top of her. I flush, as May is right there next to us.
"Hey you two, no hanky-panky tonight, we have to share this thing." May says, her face pink and her voice somewhat playful but also serious. There's that dark undertone I remember hearing in her voice at the safari zone. I'm sure we're making her feel a little awkward. I flush a little deeper in color and look up at her from my position on Gardevoir's chest. I try to stand but Gardevoir holds me to her.
"Uh, sorry." I say, sheepishly. May rolls her eyes. Gardevoir wraps her legs around my waist and her arms around my shoulders.
"Now you can't escape!" She calls, playfully. Her eyes are alight with revelry and her mouth is fixed into a smile. She's feeling extra playful tonight. It doesn't really feel sexual anymore, we're just messing around. She's light enough that I manage to stand up with her still clinging on to me. She giggles louder, sounding like bells. Somehow, she grips onto me and shifts onto my back, I help her by not letting her fall and all of a sudden I'm giving her a piggyback ride.
"How did we end up like this?" I ask, laughing. Her eyes close in amusement as she mushes me forward. I take a short walk around the room, bouncing her around and making her laugh before we both fall back on the bed, with me breathing heavily. I'm exhausted after that. She giggles some more, and then untangles herself from me to give me a kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you for the ride, Horsea." Her voice is still playful in my head. She caresses my face as she slides off the bed, heading for the bathroom. I smirk at her pun, its meaning not lost on me.
After we all get ready for bed, we all stand a little awkwardly around the bed, not wanting to get in before the other. May is in her soft-looking, tiny pajamas, Gardevoir is wearing her usual dress and panties and I am wearing only boxers, as the shirt I wore during the day is dirty and a little smelly, and the rest of my clothes are buried in my pack and in need of a wash. We're planning on stopping at the laundromat before heading off tomorrow.
Gardevoir breaks the tension and climbs on the bed, taking my hand and pulling me with her. We pull up the covers and slip underneath, with me somehow ending up in the middle. May slips in after we're settled. I find the remote and change the channel to the food channel. It's not that late, and I know I'll have trouble sleeping tonight.
May falls asleep after only a few episodes of a certain diner show that always seems to be on, and Gardevoir is having trouble keeping her eyes open, so I turn the TV off and pull her close. She snuggles into my right side, letting her eyelids relax and almost instantly falling into a deep sleep. I force my eyes shut and try to will myself to sleep, but for some reason I can't shake the fact that we're all in this bed together. I just can't fall asleep. I open my eyes after a while and stare at the ceiling. Its too dark to make anything out, so I just stare at the darkness. Gardevoir's warm leg wraps around my right one. I smile at her contact. She's so warm and soft. Being so close to her is the best part of sleeping together because I don't get to be this close during the day. After a few seconds, her other leg wraps around my left leg. This leg is much warmer, how is that possible... wait. How could she have one leg around each of mine and still be cuddled into my side, and when did she grow this foot?
I turn to my left and through the darkness I can barely make out May's face turned toward me and almost touching me. I can feel her hot breath on my neck, and it is definitely her bare leg that is resting on me. She's somehow warmer than Gardevoir when I already thought Gardevoir was super snuggle-y and warm, and her leg is a little heavier. My breathing stops. Oh god. What am I going to do about this? I'm pretty sure they're both asleep. Despite my best efforts to keep it down, my manhood starts to respond to the situation and the warm, smooth legs wrapped around me. Gardevoir's toe-less, rounded at the end foot finds mine and begins rubbing my toes gently. May's hand slowly starts to creep toward me in the dark and finds it's way onto my chest. Oh man, I should've seen this coming. Her and Gardevoir were all over each other the last time we all shared a bed. She's a clinger. It doesn't take long before she's moved closer to me and is cuddling into my left side, just like Gardevoir is cuddling my right side. On the right side, my arm is around Gardevoir, and under the pillow. On the left side, my arm is to my side. I can feel May's moderately sized breasts pressed into my bicep, and her mouth finds my shoulder and breathes hot and wet on it, moistening my skin. My boner is nearly exploding out of my pants at this point. I try to control my breathing. It's OK. Gardevoir is right here. She put me in the middle. There's not much I can do about this situation so I just control my breathing and try to think about anything else.
Until May starts to bend her leg at the knee, bringing her leg up on my body and resting directly on my groin. My manhood struggles against my boxers, tenting the covers on the bed. Her knee pushes against it and strains it to the side in my boxers in a sort of pleasurable, yet very tight and cramped sort of sensation. She makes a small noise in her sleep, her wet lips moving against the skin of my shoulder. I don't think I could be any more stuck than I am right now. Do I wake her up? Tell her to move? I can't readjust my boner because both my arms are stuck. Maybe I could just turn to the side, facing away from her, so then she's not all over me. Then I can redirect my boner to a place she can't reach it. I decide the latter is my best course of action. Slowly, I start to turn to face Gardevoir. After all the times we've slept together, and the way I usually turn in my sleep, Gardevoir unconsciously turns around to her other side as I start to, so we can spoon and be more comfortable. Unfortunately, May's leg is latched onto me, and it follows me even onto my side. Her leg is now wrapped around my hips, her foot dangling on the other side of me, and probably touching Gardevoir in this position. Gardevoir moves her butt back, pressing against my straining boner, and then May closes the distance between her and my back, rubbing her face sleepily into the space between my shoulder blades. I'm stuck again! I sigh, somewhat defeated. I let my face bury into Gardevoir's hair and rest my hand on her waist, and all it does is bolster the lust I'm feeling. She smells so good. May makes another sleeping sound into my back and my boner twitches in response to the hotness of her breath.
Just when I think I can't take it anymore, Gardevoir starts moving her arm. I freeze, thinking that she's woken up and is going to see what's happening and be upset. Her hand goes behind her back and snakes down my body to my boxers. It slips in past the waistband and her silk-covered, three-fingered hand grips my shaft. I gasp a little into her scalp.
"I want the hanky-panky." She sends me a message, and her voice in my head is whispering, despite not making any real noise. It's the most seductive and simultaneously un-seductive thing she's ever said. Her hand starts to pull down my boxers, just enough for my manhood to spring out. She hoists her dress and then goes for her own underwear, slipping them down so I can feel the soft skin of her butt against the underside of my boner. She teases me just a little, letting it slip between her cheeks and rubbing up and down, stroking me with her butt.
"Gardevoir, please." I can tell how strangled my voice is, even mentally. I'm lost in the pleasure. I've been in this strange state of guilt, aching pleasure and anxiety for too long. May's leg moves on my hips, and then Gardevoir makes a small gasping, moaning sound. She moves up, and then pushes back onto me, so then my manhood just slips right inside her, my grip on her waist tightens, and I pull her tightly to me, so it goes as deep as possible. She's so wet that it just goes in without any sort of hassle. In a second, her walls are clamping on me and I uncontrollably let out a moan that wouldn't normally be considered loud, but in the silent dark room, it's like pots and pans dropping. Gardevoir moans quietly in response, and almost immediately starts moving, gently. May's mouth starts moving against my back again, but there's no sound accompanying the movement this time, maybe in her dream she's talking to someone. Her breath feels hot on my back. Her hand touches my back and slowly, sleepily starts moving up it to my shoulder until she's gripping it slightly.
Gardevoir's movements continue, and increase in tempo and force. I can feel the bed moving ever so slightly, but thankfully it doesn't squeak. I hold her hips as she moves with one hand, while my other arm is beneath her head and under the pillow. I try desperately not to move my hips in time with hers, as I don't want to jostle May around and wake her up.
"Oh god, Seth." Her voice in my head is excruciatingly lustful. I can see all sorts of images in her head. Thankfully, none of them seem to be about May being in the same bed. The hand she used to push our underwear out of the way moves onto my side, and then snakes down my arm to the hand that's gripping her waist. She takes my hand and brings it over to my waist, and places it on May's thigh. I gasp. She then moves her hand off mine and down past her leg to my butt. She knows. She's known this whole time that May is on me. Was she as turned on by this whole ordeal as I was? May's thigh is warm and smooth, her skin soft and supple. I can't help but explore with my fingers, rubbing gently and squeezing her flesh. May makes a sound as I squeeze her and the hot exhale of breath on my back reminds me just how close she is. Gardevoir's hand caresses my butt as best she can, and she uses the leverage to push me deeper into her. My hand on May's thigh gains a mind of it's own, and slips up her thigh until it reaches her butt. Oh wow, her butt is so nice and firm, but has that nice squeezable quality to it. Her tiny pajama shorts are so soft, and they make feeling her even more pleasurable. I give her butt a light squeeze, somehow remembering in the midst of all of this that I shouldn't wake her up. Gardevoir's grip on my ass is a different feeling then I'm used to, and kind of tickles. When Gardevoir squeezes my ass, I squeeze May's. May's breathing seems to change a little as I continue, and her hot exhalations of breath on my back become more frequent. It only makes me feel more like finishing, and it's all I can do to hold it in to enjoy as much as I can of this situation. After a while of caressing and squeezing, and slow, deep sex, Gardevoir's hand finds mine again, and squeezes May's ample behind with me, then picks it up again and brings it around her front, pushing it towards her sex. I understand instantly what she wants. Sloppily, I find her clitoris and gently start pinching and rubbing as she continues to grind her butt against me. It's a hard thing to focus on, but I do my best for her. Her gentle sighs and my express view of her thoughts prove that it must be working.
"Come on, I'm close. I want it together." Gardevoir tells me, images flooding my brain of just how much she wants this release. Her feelings of pleasure and lust transfer to me and there's no way I can hold it any longer. May's grip on my shoulder tightens and then I explode, moaning once quietly and then closing my mouth and burying my face in Gardevoir's hair. Gardevoir moans with me, her bell moan quiet and restrained as she too comes hard. I can feel her walls contracting, milking me for everything I've got. I fill her so full to the point that I can feel the cum leaking out around the shaft of my manhood. May makes a slight whimper sound, and then a long, sleepy sigh, sending a huge burst of hot air on my back. I start to breathe hard, trying my best to keep it quiet. Gardevoir's hands slowly come to rest in front of her, in a sleeping position. She sighs, satisfied, her breathing as heavy as mine, and slowing just as fast.
"Oh, I needed that." She coos into my head. My manhood is still in her, plugging her full vagina, and keeping everything I spent into her inside. She makes no move to take me out of her, and pushes her butt harder against me, pushing my semi-hard erection deeper inside her. She snuggles her pillow and pulls the covers tighter around her and I can tell she's falling back asleep. May is completely flush against my back, and her leg is fully wrapped around me still. She's cuddling me harder than I'm cuddling Gardevoir. She has a serious case of the grabbies.
Eventually I slip out of Gardevoir and fall asleep, truly exhausted.
AN: Thank you for reading! Please review!