Zoroark, the illusion fox Pokémon. Bonds between these Pokémon are very strong. It protects the safety of its pack by tricking its opponents. Each has the ability to fool a large group of people simultaneously. They protect their lair with illusory scenery. Stories say those who tried to catch Zoroark were trapped in an illusion and punished.

Ability: Illusion

Known Moves: Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Faint Attack, Snarl, Fury Swipes.

Note: The coloration of this Pokémon suggests it may be shiny.

Leita grinned widely at her new zoroark.

"How does it feel?" Ven asked, genuinely curious. He could never evolve, so he had to live the experience through someone else. Loki flexed his claws, and their surroundings slowly morphed to match the middle of a forest. He gave a toothy grin.

"Awesome."

As Ven continued to fire off question after question at the newly evolved dark type, Leita was already plotting. How would she go about this? She refused to make the first move, but there was no way in hell that she would stop him if he tried anything. Maybe she could start by being less inconspicuous about her relations with Ven and Shiro…

And of course, this made her think back to two nights prior, when she'd finally had her one on one time with her lucario…

_.Flashback._

Leita and her Pokémon had stopped for the night at the Cherrygrove city pokécenter. She had went straight for the shower, claiming to feel dirty after her long day.

It was when she had her clothes off and was in the shower already that she heard the door open slightly. Then it shut, and she heard the click of the lock. She wasn't worried, she knew her Pokémon would never let a creep into the bathroom with her. So she was hardly surprised when the glass door slid open and a certain lucario stepped in. Leita smiled.

"Well aren't you just a little closet pervert," she teased, unashamed at her nakedness as she stepped forward to stand directly in front of him. Shiro laughed slightly, wrapping his arms around her waist and pressing her wet chest flush against his. His chest spike rested just above her breasts, so it was a relatively comfortable position.

"What can I say? It's impossible to just sit out there while you're in here, naked and wet…" He then proceeded to push his human mate against the tiled wall. The showering water sprayed against his back. "Jump."

Leita did so, her feet leaving the ground only to be caught by Shiros paws and wrapped around his waist. She tilted her head back, allowing him access to her exposed throat. She had found her Pokémon loved to mark her, and she had no qualms against it as her lucario nipped and licked her neck, leaving red marks everywhere he bit. She moaned out loud, arching her back off the wall and rubbing her hardened nipples against his wet fur.

While Leita was distracted by his mouth, she didn't notice Shiro angling his hips back until she felt his tip at her entrance. Without warning he thrust forward, the water mixing with her juices and lubing the way quite a bit. Leita squealed, grinding down onto Shiro's hard length as he thrusted roughly…

._Flashback End_.

"Leita!"

"Huh?"

She snapped out of her daydreaming with a start, only to find both dark types staring at her oddly.

"What?"

"I said, do you know where Shiro went?"

Leita looked around; their surroundings had returned to the Union Cave. Sure enough, Shiro was nowhere to be found. "Oh, yeah. He's running a few errands for me. Don't worry, he'll be back with us by Azalea Town."

Then, before anything more could be said, a red blur shot forward out of nowhere, slamming into Leita's chest. She fell on her ass in surprise as the warm Pokémon nuzzled deep into her cleavage. Before she could react, the creature on top of her was suddenly turned into a familiar red light as a pokéball appeared in its place. It shook three times then clicked.

"Oh, finally! I've been chasing that one for days…" a hand then reached down to snatch the pokéball off her lap, and she looked up into a pair of sea green eyes.

"Sorry about that," the guy said, pulling Leita up from the ground. "He's such a troublemaker, had me chasing him for three days."

"Right," Leita said, looking down at an annoyed Ven briefly before looking back up. "I'm Leita. And you are…?"

"Bryan," Bryan supplied, polishing his new pokéball.

"Well, Bryan… it was nice meeting you, and your… nice Pokémon, but I-"

"Hey, how about a battle?" Bryan interrupted, already reaching for a pokéball. Leita sighed.

"Sure. Two on two, since my third is out."

"Cool. Lycanroc!"

A brown and white wolf like Pokémon burst out of the ball, looking annoyed and looking like he was contemplating a nap. Leita looked to Loki. "You wanna go?"

"I somehow doubt this guy is even serious, but sure."

Leita and Loki stood still, waiting for their opponent to make a move first. It was a mutually liked battle strategy between her and her Pokémon. Ven jumped up onto a rock and lay down to watch. Bryan looked excited.

"Alright, Lycanroc! Use-"

The wolf Pokémon promptly lay on his belly and yawned. He then proceeded to blatantly look Leita up and down, nodding appreciatively at the end. Bryan face palmed. "Dammit… it's fine, I can beat her with only one Pokémon… Lycanroc, return!"

Leita simply frowned, and Loki yawned. Was this guy serious?

"Go, Vivillon!"

And then he sent out… a butterfly.

"Bug Buzz!"

"When she's close, Flamethrower," Leita instructed, stepping back to avoid being hit by a stray attack. Suddenly, the butterfly split into several different copies of herself. They all came forward at once, all charging the same attack. Loki paused unsurely, flames licking the corners of his mouth as he stared at all the copies, each of then preparing to blast him with their attack.

Leita frowned as Loki was struck from all directions with the super effective bug attack- only one of then were real, but the sight still didn't sit right with her. He stumbled back, retaliating with a point blank Flamethrower, which was blocked by a Protect shield.

"Damn. Butterfly's got claws, it seems," Ven commented from his rock. Loki shot him a dirty look, barely dodging an Infestation attack.

"Loki, Illusion!" Called Leita.

And suddenly, the world around them melted away to nothingness. Loki and Vivillon were surrounded by black. Vivillon suddenly dropped to the ground, unable to move, see, hear, or think. Loki smiled at his handiwork, dropping the illusion around them.

"Woah… what the hell did your zoroark do to my Vivillon?!" Bryan yelled, rushing over to check on his Pokémon.

"What did you do, anyway?" Ven asked as he, Leita, and Loki snuck away from the panicking trainer.

"Just temporarily stole her senses. Don't worry, it's only for a few minutes," replied the zoroark in his signature easygoing tone.

Leita facepalmed.

"Well, let's just get out of this cave before he sues me."

The espeon sighed heavily as he looked up at the list of flights for the airport.

He had been up for days, trying to find the best way to go about hunting down the not-human human. He, of course, had to pinpoint his own location first, before he started trying to find someone else. He had learned he was in a place called Sinnoh. He wasn't exactly sure how he had gotten there, but if he had to guess he would say it was from the boat he had snuck onto when he first escaped the lab.

'Now, from what I can gather, my quarry is somewhere in… actually, I have no idea where she is…' he realized silently to himself. What could he do? He was far too determined to just give up on his search. That vision came to him for a reason, so he was inclined to believe he was supposed to find her.

"Augh, Sky, don't you want some ice cream or something? I know I do," a female voice whined. Now, normally he wouldn't care about a random Pokémon's words, but it was an oddly colored shaymin that spoke, from her place on a tall blonde girl's shoulder. He found himself listening with rapt attention, stealthily following the girl from a distance as he eavesdropped.

The human ignored the shaymin, but an abra he hadn't notices spoke instead. "You know we're here for a reason, Sera. Besides, if you really wanted ice cream then you wouldn't have ran off and started trouble with that girl's absol in Johto."

"But that was your fault anyway, Mao!" The shaymin protested. "If you hadn't told Zëllra that-"

"Shut. Up," the human spoke coldly. The two bickering Pokémon fell silent, and the espeon stopped walking.

"Johto?"

He hadn't realised he had spoken the word aloud. He didn't care, though. The two Pokémon had said something about a girls absol in Johto. He saw an absol and a girl in his vision.

Coincidence? He thought not.

He was always taught to follow his instincts, to always go with that first gut feeling. Plus, he needed to check everywhere. Why not start with Johto?

Looked like he would be hitting Johto soon.

Shiro was waiting outside of the Pokémon center when Leita arrived in Azalea, Loki at her side and Ven sleeping in his pokéball. He was also holding a plastic case full of colorful apricorns.

"Thanks a million, lover," Leita said with a cheeky wink and an innocent pat between the ears (they did have an audience, after all) as she took the case from him. "Now we can get better balls."

Loki snickered (the whole 'lover' remark flew right over his head) at his teammates annoyed look, drawing the attention to himself.

"You evolved." It wasn't a question but Loki responded anyway with a grin. He didn't quite get the response he was expecting when all the lucario did was exchange a knowing look with his trainer. "Congratulations. Maybe now you can finally start to stand a chance during training."

"Well, let's head over to the pokéball makers place," Leita said happily. As she and Shiro turned to start walking, she looked back at Loki and winked. "You coming?"

Now, call Loki crazy but he was sure there was a double meaning behind that seemingly simple question.

"So, you got a trainer?"

The espeon was startled when another espeon, this one a bright, radioactive green, spoke to him out of the blue. The espeon fluffed his fur indignantly. "Of course I do, why would you ask such a thing?" The espeon internally winced at how thick he was laying it. The other espeon simply shrugged, glancing through the doorway they were standing in to the room full of trainers.

"Oh, no reason in particular… except the fact you came on this boat alone, not to mention I'm not getting any thoughts of a trainer from you."

The espeon glared and automatically thought of the not-human human.

"Who would that be? Your trainer?" The other espeon lowered his voice to a whisper and leaned in. "Your mate?"

The espeon growled, straightening his posture as he opened his mouth. "Look…"

"You may call me Haru."

"Right, Haru. Okay, look, Haru. I don't think it's any of your business what I'm doing here. So why don't you run along, back to your precious trainer-"

"You are not a real espeon," Haru interrupted, tilting his head to the side as he circled the agitated espeon in front of him. Haru flicked his tail. "You are… something else."

"What gave you the first clue?" The espeon snapped, getting impatient.

"No need to lose your temper, child. I can help you find your destined mate, if you'd prefer that over blind searching."

Now that caught the espeon's interest. He had boarded the boat in hopes of getting to Johto, and instead he found… this fucking weirdo. Who could read his mind. And was offering to help him find his destined mate, whatever that was. Though, something inside him said that it was the not-human human girl he had been on his way to search for.

He didn't really care that she was human (or rather, not human), as fate was fate, and fighting against it over something as silly as species was stupid. He didn't get why poképhilia was looked down upon amongst humans- most Pokémon species were intelligent creatures, mostly on par with humans and some even smarter than humans. An average growlithe was never going to be building rockets from scratch, sure, but could hold a full conversation and understand most human concepts such as time, space, and, most importantly, consent. So it didn't matter to him that his mate was to be a human female.

"I accept your offer," the espeon said after a round of thinking.

Haru smiled. "Good. I've been wanting to try out my new ability."

Leita huffed as she broke the last pokéball.

"There," she said to her Pokémon, who were sitting in a half circle around her legs. "You are now officially wild Pokémon."

"Cool, can I have the moon ball?" Ven asked excitedly from the chair he had jumped into. Shiro threw the requested ball at him and he was sucked in and captured without a fight.

Leita then captured Loki in a fast ball. She turned to Shiro.

"I've got just the ball for you," she said, holding up a love ball. "But of course, you have to work for it."

"I would never expect to not have to work," the lucario teased, stepping closer to wrap his trainer in a seemingly innocent hug. He slowly started nibbling on her ear.

Before they could get much farther, however, there was a banging on the door.