Chapter 23; Hammerlocke Bound

"Stay safe, and come visit again soon!" Mum called this out as me and Samuel hopped into the Sky Taxi.

"We'll stay safe mum! I'll make sure to come visit again, promise!" I called this out as Samuel shouted too,

"Thanks for everything!"

At that point, we were climbing into the Sky. We'd be going to Motostoke, and from there, we'd exit south, head right and cross into the second, massive stretch of the Wild Area.

"Your mum was really nice, Keif." As we started flying towards Motostoke, Samuel said this. "And so was your buddy Wolf."

"Thanks. Mum's an awesome person, Wolf is too." Saying Wolf's name reminded me about what we spoke of the other day.

"Samuel, when we do get to Hammerlocke, you care if we split up for a few hours?"

"Sure, what for?" Before I could respond, there was trouble. The Sky Taxi began to violently shake and the Corviknight flying us let out a loud screech of pain.

"SHIT, BALLOCKS FUCKIN' HELL!" Those were the four loud words that only I could hear from the screeching as the vehicle shook once again.

"We're being ATTACKED!" Over the roar of the wind I could hear the Pilot shouting. Samuel heard him too and the color had practically drained from the both of us.

"Hattrem, can you tell us what it is!?" The little Hat Pokemon had been resting on my head up until just moments ago.

"I can't get a read on it!" Hattrem tried to use her psychic powers, but from the sounds of it she was struggling.

"YE BLOODY CUNT SHOULDN'T BE FLYIN' IN ME DOMAIN!" I practically threw my head out the window and saw a massive Honchkrow dive-bombing the Corviknight, and blasting the occasion Heat Wave from its' wings.

"Samuel, do you have any Flying Types?" He quickly shook his head. I reached for a certain ball on my belt at his revelation.

"Staravia, help the Corviknight!" Letting the usual jolly flying type out, he was in an instant serious-mode, sky-rocketing towards the Honchkrow. Right before I had left this morning, Lycanrock wanted to stay home with Sylveon, so it gave me a chance to bring Staravia back on to the team.

"I'm gonna try and land us!" Over the even more violent shaking of the Taxi and the roaring wind, the Pilot shouted again. I turned to Samuel.

"Has anything like this ever happened before!?" He shouted to me as it sounded like the roof of the Taxi was about to go flying off, a nasty screeching filling the air.

"Very rarely! Only when a certain type of Pokemon is migrating, but even then, almost everyone is aware of the patterns!" Samuel nodded as he took in what I told him, but we both let out a collective shout of fear as the roof above us was ripped clean off, the massive Honchkrow ignoring Staravia at this point.

"BUNCH OF BLOODY FOOKEN CUNTS! GET OUTTA ME SKY!" He screeched these words and I thought I was gonna go deaf. Before it could do anything, Staravia body slammed it, the carriage titling a violent, ninety degrees and I instantly felt my head go lighter.

"KEIFER!" Hattrem screamed bloody murder as she flew off my head from the tilt, and I took to action instantly.

"KEIF, WAIT!" I didn't even hesitate. Swallowing my fears, I leapt out to catch Hattrem.

If you had told me I was gonna go Sky Diving today, I would've laughed. But here I was, plummeting towards the Earth from hundreds, if not a few thousands of feet in the clouds of Galar.

"HATTREM!" I screamed out to her, finally seeing the Hat-like Pokemon growing closer as I forced myself down more. My head was screaming that this was it, but if I could just get to Hattrem…!

"Keifer!" I had caught her. Hattrem sounded so relieved as I pulled her closer into my chest. I flipped so I could see what was happening above as we got closer to the ground, the Earth's gravity more than happy to flatten us if we impacted. "Keifer, what have you done!? You're gonna…"

"Shh… It's okay. I have faith in Staravia." I wasn't sure if I had lost my mind, but the Flying type had managed to knock away the Corviknight with the help of Lily, and now he was dive-bombing towards me and Hattrem.

"Keifer, I don't wanna lose you!" Hattrem was bawling into my shirt as her psychic energy wrapped around the two of us, slightly slowing our fall against gravity's pull.

"KEIF, I'MMA COMIN' BROTHER!" Staravia was close, and he practically roared his words.

"Hattrem, you won't lose me. I promise…!" My calm was starting to break. Just a little longer and we were going to splatter in a small corner of the Wild Area…

"KEIFER, I AIN'T GIVIN' UP…!" With a cry louder than any other, Staravia was moving even faster, beyond any other fast flying type I had seen as his whole body began to glow.

"Keifer, we're not gonna make it!" Hattrem tried even harder to use her psychic powers, but she was tiring fast.

"Staraptor, please…!" As soon as I said these words in my mind, I landed on something that wasn't the hard Earth, but rather, a nice, soft and feathery backside.

"How's that for an all-out awesome save!" Despite being fully-evolved and much stronger and serious looking, Staraptor was just as jolly as ever. "You two gave us quite the scare, and last time I checked Keif, humans don't fly bro!"

I couldn't help but laugh, then tear up as Staraptor began to descend to a small lakeside near the bridge to the other side of the Wild Area. Hattrem did her best to wrap her little arms around me as we cried to each other.

"Ah, I get it now, bein' brave and noble as always!" I gave Staraptor a friendly punch as I hopped off, holding Hattrem close. Moments later, the caw of the Corviknight we'd been flying with originally sounded near and moments after, it landed, the now rag-tag Sky taxi looking like it was on the verge of falling apart.

"Keifer! Dude, are you OK!?" Samuel practically hopped out of the Sky taxi, running alongside Lily towards me, Staraptor and Hattrem.

"I am, thanks to Staraptor here saving me and Hattrem." I smiled and wrapped an arm around the massive flying type, who was more than happy to pull me and Hattrem into a near bone-crushing hug with his wings.

Before any of us could speak any further, the Pilot quickly ran up to us, breathless.

"I'm so, so sorry about that! Please, I didn't know about that flying type – I've flown this same route for 30 years! Refunds, permeant flying passes, whatever you want please don't make a big freak out!"

"Dude" I said as this guy belted it all off at once, "It's okay. Wild Pokemon just sometimes get really pissed. I'm used to it. We're just glad to be okay. We don't need any refunds or anything like that. Just tell your boss it was a training accident."

This seemed to calm the Pilot who was finally breathing. He nodded and silently returned to the driver's seat. Quickly pulling a Super Potion out of my bag, I tossed it to him. "Here, spray your Corviknight with it before taking off!"

"You're crazy, you know that?" I could only smile to Samul as the Corviknight very carefully took off towards Motostoke, making sure it didn't drop the broken Sky Taxi in the process.

"He's crazy with unyielding love!" Hattrem spoke through her mind to everyone as she snuggled onto my head once more, sending a calming Healing Pulse across us before directing it to the others as well.

We started walking again, and we were stopped by a Ranger at the bridge. After showing him that we had the three badges needed to pass, the second trek across the Wild Area began.

"Arright, I'm done for the day!" Samuel groaned tiredly and I nodded in agreement as we finally stopped. On and off, some of the bolder Wild Pokemon would attack us. Samuel had alternated between Jade, Lily and his Bisharp who went by Riley.

I had alternated between all the members of me team, Primarina, Typhlosion, Gallade, Gardevoir, Hattrem and Staraptor getting some much-needed experience off of the several wild Zigzagoon, Linoone and even a Snorlax we had to beat.

Right now, we were on the edge of the Stony Wilderness, the sun vey slowly beginning to go down. As I pulled my tent out of my bag, I watched ahead in the distance a little Sandile chasing after a Diglett, hopefully out of fun and not for bad intentions.

"So, you never answered my question earlier Keif." I turned to Samuel who was getting a fire going, his tent already being sat up. "I'm just curious about it, is all."

I sighed. "I won't beat around the bush. I'm gonna go see Theodore, the man who brought me into this world." I didn't want to say dad, and Samuel gave me a slow nod of understanding.

"Would you like me to fix us all something for dinner?" Primarina spoke to me as she emerged from a lake nearby that ran alongside the Stony Wilderness.

"That'd be amazing, babe." I kissed the seal Pokemon on the lips, the two of us making out for a moment before I pulled out the cooking ingredients I had. Soon enough, the wonderful smell of Rina's cooking filled the air.

"So, according to Rotom, we should be able to make it to Hammerlocke around lunch time tomorrow." Samuel had his phone float over to me, and it smiled cheekily to me after eying me up and down as I viewed the map.

"Right on. We can probs get a Hotel Room before we split for a while. Did they say where they're holding the Boxing Tournament?"

"Yeah – it's at a nice place towards the right side of Hammerlocke. Wanna meet there to signup sometime after, y'know…"

"Yeah, yeah. That's cool with me." I sighed as the sun sunk even further, the moon soon rising into the sky. "Make peace without forgiving" The words repeated in my mind as we sat around the fire, Primarina working her skills on the meal she was preparing for everyone.

That's when an idea came to my mind. Reaching for Gallade's Pokeball, he appeared in a flash of light.

"Dad, wanna help me train for the Hammerlocke Boxing Tournament?"

He nodded. "I don't mind." Standing up, the two of us walked over to a small clearing we had in the fire light, but not before I pulled something out of my bag.

"They're old school, but they were the best" I said this to myself as I strapped on my green boxing gloves, the two still fitting just perfectly.

"No holding back?" I nodded to Gallade. Of course, we weren't going to brutally beat each other, but that was a possibility in the contest. We both moved forward and I threw the first punch. Gallade effortlessly ducked and tried to get my chest, but I blocked with my left fist.

He had left his stomach wide open, though and I landed a good jab.

"Not bad, you still have it in you son." Gallade smiled as we continued to train, exchanging blows with eachother, but nothing that would stick as to not wear eachother out completely.

"Dinner!" When Primarina called out to us, we ceased out practice.

"Think I've got a chance, dad?" As we sat back down around the fire, I asked Gallade this.

"A big chance, so long as you remember everything you learned." I nodded in reply as Primarina began to pass around bowls of the food she had made. It was a vegetable and noodle dish, the amazing mix of flavors from the broth and the perfectness of the noodles filling me to the brim in no time-flat.

"Rina, that was amazing!" I hugged the siren as I put down my bowl, Primarina beaming from the compliment.

"Agreed." Samuel let loose a burp as he finished.

"I'm glad you all enjoyed it!" Primarina was enthralled by the feedback we gave her, and as everyone finished eating, I elected to clean the mess, getting everything tidied up and tucked away in my bag in a timely fashion.

"I'm going to rest in the lake tonight, dear – it does wonders for my hair." Rina curled up to me as she said this before we shared a deep kiss.

"Sleep well, dear." I broke the kiss after a few moments and watched as Primarina gracefully dived into the lake. Samuel and Lily had already went to their tent, sounds of love coming from it.

That left Hattrem, who was resting on my head.

"I'm glad it's just the two of us tonight." She spoke up as I got into my tent, the flames of the camp fire illuminating us.

As I undressed down to my boxers, Hattrem hopped off of my head and was waiting for me by my bed roll.

"Someone's excited to go to sleep." I smiled to Hattrem as I said this, the Hat Pokemon smiling as I laid down.

"Not sleep, but love. I could've lost you today Keifer." Thinking back to earlier today, I couldn't help but chuckle.

"I can cross Skydiving off my bucket list at least." Hattrem lost the seriousness in her tone and chuckled a bit as I unzipped a flap on top of my tent to let some more light and cool air in. "I wasn't gonna let you fall Hatty."

"Thank you." Hattrem's voice sounded like it was on the sound of breaking. "Thank you Keifer."

"Hatty, it's okay, you don't need to cry. I love you to death sweety." I wrapped my arms around her and gently brought her towards me.

"And I love you more." As she said this, we kissed, our lips joining slowly before our tongues began to swirl around one another, slowly and peacefully as the crackle of the fire alongside the moans coming from Samuel's tent filled the air.

"I want you inside me Keifer, badly." Hattrem's voice was dripping with love and lust. I let my left-hand reach towards my bag to get some Ditto Extract out while I let my right-hand snake around to Hattrem's underside.

Her slit was dripping with love juice before my hand even began to tease her, eliciting loud, joyous moans from Hattrem.

"Oh fuck… it feels amazing Keifee…!" Hattrem had moaned this out when I let my middle finger slide into her soaking gash. I began sliding it in and out at a steady pace before I slid in another finger, Hatty moaning louder as I did, her singsong cries of pleasure spurring me on as I finally wrapped my hand around the vial of Ditto Extract.

Hattrem's eyes were lulled back as my fingers dashed in and out and around in her pussy, her whole body shaking as I brought her to a climax.

"Here, Hatty." Uncapping the Ditto Extract, I lined the injector-like device up with her snatch. In a quick motion, it was all said and done, and Hattrem moaned from the feeling and sensation of the Ditto extract making her more flexible and able to, hopefully take all of me.

"Keifer, I'm ready." Hattrem's eyes were ablaze with lust as I lined my rock-hard cock up with her pussy lips.

"Holy fuck…" I couldn't stop the shuddering moan that escaped my lips as I began to slide into Hattrem, her stomach distending and her love channel stretching and clamping down on me, the Hat Pokemon climaxing instantly.

Thanks to the Ditto Extract, I managed to sheath myself all the way inside of Hattrem, the Pokemon letting out a loud scream of pleasure as I began to pump in and out of her, making sure to take some care in case the extract was to wear off.

Hattrem was tight, and it felt amazing. I began to pound in and out of her small body faster and faster, her love juice acting as the perfect lube to let me fuck her faster.

"Keif… I fucking love thiiiiiiiis!" Hattrem was screaming from pleasure at this point, her cries spurring me to pound faster and faster into her love channel, each thrust hitting her g-spot.

We began to share a deep and passionate kiss as I slowed my pounding a bit, letting myself stay deep inside her for longer periods of time after each thrust.

I felt myself grow close to climax as we broke our kiss. "Hattrem, I'm gonna cum babe…!"

"Me too Keifee…!" Hattrem's face was adorable as I was feverishly pounding out of her now. "Let's cum… together!"

That's what did it. With two shared moans, me and Hattrem came together, my cock pouring my seed into her womb and filling her pussy as she shot out her love juice across my cock.

After a few moments, I pulled my now flaccid cock out of Hattrem and let out a deep sigh of content as I cuddled her close to me.

"Love you Keifee."

"Love you too, Hatty."

The sun was shining high above us by the time we had finally cleared our camp and had thrown some breakfast together.

"So, from the looks of it, the safer route and faster route is to go around the Stony Wild and up past the Giant's Mirror, unless you wanna scale some stone walls." Samuel told me this after looking at his map again.

"Giant's Mirror sounds better honestly." I didn't want to climb anything today – I had slept very well, but I needed my strength for talking with my father… my mental strength anyway.

"Then let's get moving." We sat out after Samuel said this, a few wild Pokemon eyeing us but keeping their distance as we began to trek towards the Giant's Mirror.

During that time, a few of the bolder Wild Pokemon decided to jump us, my guess being they just didn't sleep well, or woke up on the wrong side of the bed who knows. Several Gloom, Tranquil and the occasional Machop would want to battle, and mine and Samuel's partners got great experience.

In that time we had also fought a few other trainers who were around the area, netting the two of us some extra cash.

It was a little passed noon when we finally got across Hammerlocke Hills, the high-walls of said-town looming above us.

"Stairs… you gotta love them." Leading up to the massive entrance of Hammerlocke was a long set of stairs, and it felt like they were taunting me.

"At least they aren't Kabu's" I nodded in agreement to Samuel's words as we crossed the final leg of our trek.

Almost immediately, Hammerlocke seemed way more ablaze with activity than Motostoke or Wedgehurst, but there was still plenty of breathing room.

"Hey, if you want, I can go get us checked into the Hotel while you go talk to your dad." Samuel put a reassuring hand on my shoulder, and I nodded.

"There's no way I'm avoiding this." Steeling my nerves, I sat off on a path I hadn't walked since I was much younger, but this time, I had Gallade by my side.

It was time I faced Theodore one last time.