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Chapter 5: How to Train Your Alola Vulpix

Cynthia's POV

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'I told you that I'm not going to battle,' Shiva said to me as she was latched to my right arm this time instead of my left ankle like the past couple weeks. 'I have no need to battle.'

I let out a frustrating sigh as Shiva was being stubborn after her mother, Diamond Flake, left her in my care and protection. I tried to reach out to Diamond Flake, but got no response from the shiny female Ice/Fairy-type Fox Pokémon the previous week. If anything, I wasn't going to give up on wanting to train Shiva to become one of my strongest Pokémon. Secretly, I was hoping that those morons from Team Skull would come back and try to attack us so I could demonstrate the joy of Pokémon battles to Shiva. Sadly, Team Skull hadn't surfaced after Ren and Ronginku sent three of their minions blasting off. Well, I had the Island Challenge on Melemele Island to take on after all.

If I was going to motive Shiva, then I had to make the toughest decision that I had to make and I knew that other Pokémon, the others that had more experience, weren't going to like my decision. I had no choice but to turn off my Exp. Share as I wasn't going to let Shiva sponge off my older and more experienced Pokémon like a Grass-type using Absorb. When I told my Pokémon this, a few of them were certainly upset with my decision.

'Oh come on!' exclaimed my shiny male Archeops as he was disappointed. 'Why do we have to suffer just because some little brat decides she doesn't wanna battle?!'

'Clearly someone needs to sit on you,' my shiny female Jirachi, Ester, said to Archeops as she didn't like hearing my shiny First Bird Pokémon complaining. 'I don't like this either, but young Shiva needs to learn to battle and become a valuable member of our team.'

'Neither do I like this move,' my shiny male Druddigon said to the other Pokémon there. 'But if this is the young Samiyan's decision in order to motivate our new Ice-type companion, I shall support her decision.'

'I never said that I wouldn't support our human's decision,' Archeops shot back to Druddigon. 'I was just wondering why WE have to suffer because Little Miss Prissy refuses to battle.'

'Then you're gonna have to buck up buddy boy,' Naomi, my shiny female Weavile said to Archeops as she took a sip of her morning coffee.

'Where are you?' Shiva asked as she came looking for me after finding me not with her on the bed.

'I'm outta here,' Ester said with my Druddigon following her.

Archeops also cleared out as none of the other Pokémon wanted to be around Shiva for the time being. As for me, I was trying to clear out too as I was trying to get it through Shiva's head that even I needed some space. As I exited the apartment, I heard Shiva crying out in terror as I remembered that I forgot to recall Naomi to her Dream Ball. It was apparent that Shiva had just met my shiny female Sharp Claw Pokémon.

'Oh no!' cried out Shiva as I heard from the other side of the door in the hallway of the apartment complex. 'Eek! You're gonna eat me too! Get away! Get away from me!'

It was then that I felt a chill on the door as Shiva then used Blizzard directed at Naomi. Naomi said nothing… at least that's what I thought at that time, but she let out a huff of irritation as Shiva had interrupted her morning routine, especially freezing her favorite coffee cup with the contents of coffee in it and frozen to her hand.

'You know this is my favorite coffee cup and you just froze it to my hand,' Naomi said as she remained calm. 'As for eating you, that's not gonna happen. I'm a vegetarian. If I did want to eat little brats like you, I certainly wouldn't want to eat little prissy brats like you.'

'Brat? Brat?!' Shiva asked Naomi as she was now angry at the shiny female Sharp Claw Pokémon. 'I am not brat!'

'Then prove it to me,' I heard Naomi challenge Shiva. 'Prove to me that you're not a prissy little brat. That you're not a… spoiled… prissy… little… brat.'

'Maybe I will!' shot back Shiva as she was angry with Naomi.

Once the conflict between Naomi and Shiva was over, I reentered the apartment and found the kitchen looked more like a winter… icy nightmare. Man, the landlord wasn't going to happy with us when he saw the kitchen, the way that it looked at first glance was like something from a disaster movie. In order to save the landlord a headache of having to deal with Shiva's outburst, my Pokémon and I were gonna have to clean up the mess.

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"Man Cynthia, you look tired," Lana said to me as I had my head on my desk and slept through Professor Kukui's class. "Were you pulling an all-nighter?"

'You could say… that,' my big brother Victini answered Lana as he too yawned from having to help clean up before plopping down on the desk, face first.

"Shiva nearly wrecked the kitchen in our apartment and we had get all ice and snow cleared out before the landlord could be called up," I explained to Lana and her Popplio, "and see Shiva's icy scared rampage."

'Ouch, that doesn't like fun,' Lana's Popplio said to me before I laid my head down on the desk and fell back to sleep and began drooling on the desk… much to my embarrassment.

Lana and her Popplio tried to wake me up before Commander Shelke came in to the classroom to teach, but I was out like a light and it was nearly impossible to wake me up. Commander Shelke entered the classroom to begin her lesson when she noticed me and my big brother, Victini, sound asleep with Shiva making her way to sit on my desk. My shiny female Ice-type Fox Pokémon climbed up on Shelby's lap and on her desk and then leapt on to my desk from there. Her landing would've been graceful had Big Brother Victini not taken most of the space on the desk. Once Shiva made it on to my desk, she pawed Victini off the desk and on to the floor while he was still asleep himself while she happily took his place and sat there… pawing at me to wake up. When pawing at me didn't work, she used her Freeze-Dry attack to get me awake and that didn't make me very happy since I have Manaphy DNA and I didn't like being attacked with a Freeze-Dry attack.

"GAH! NOT FREEZE-DRY!" I cried out in horror as I woke up immediately and dodged the Ice-type move.

'Well… you've gotta pay attention to me,' Shiva informed me much to my displeasure.

"I certainly hope that you're now awake and can pay attention to the lesson that I'm about to teach," Commander Shelke informed me as she had been waiting for me to wake up from my sleep. "Please put your Vulpix in her Pokéball and ensure that she doesn't come out until the class ends."

"I wish that I could," I replied to Commander Shelke. "Shiva will only let herself out and get in my lap or get back on the desk."

"Then make sure that she causes no trouble during the lesson," Commander Shelke said to me as she then looked to the class and waited to begin her lesson since my big brother wasn't on my desk and still fast asleep.

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"Man, I thought we'd never get out of class," moaned Ren as she glared at my big brother. "There were several big waves that were calling out my name."

"Come on Ren, blaming Cynthia's Victini isn't gonna make those waves come back," my boyfriend said to Ren as he and Benny were trying to keep everyone calm. "I mean Shiva really did a number on our kitchen when she was confronted by Naomi."

"Not to mention its costing us a pretty penny just to keep the landlord from blowing her stack," added Isabella.

'It isn't my fault that Shiva is real needy and clingy,' Victini said to everyone before his stomach began to growl. 'I'm hungry Cynthia. Let's go get mountains of stacked flapjack pancakes.'

'Wow, I never knew that you like pancakes,' Mallow's Bounsweet said to my brother.

"He's like Garfield eating lasagna," I said with a blank stare on my face. "Put a mountain of pancakes in front of my big brother and you won't be seeing him for hours… unless a pretty girl walks by."

'Can it be helped if I have good tastes in pretty girls?' my big brother, Victini, asked me as he reached his arms out to Mallow for her to hold him.

'It can't,' Rika answered my Psychic/Fire-type big brother with her stoic and calm face. 'But it does get to be annoying when you're in little Cynthia's presence.'

"You're so… CUTE!" Mallow squealed as she was charmed by my Victory Pokémon big brother into picking him up and showering him with attention and affection.

"Hey! Victini!" Lana called to my Victini big brother with her Popplio in one arm and a shopping bag in another as she ran up to join us. "Hey there Victini. I'm glad that I caught you."

'Hello there dear tender mermaid of the sea,' Victini said much to the enjoyment of Lana as she was blushing at my big brother's flattery… sorry, I meant 'praise' for her.

"I… I got something for you for the next time you come swimming with me Popplio again," Lana said as she opened the shopping bag for my big brother to see. "I thought maybe you'd like have your own swim trunks in your colors."

'Why thank you,' Victini said with a smile on his face as he used his Psychic attack to get the swim trunks from Lana and Popplio. 'I love them. Thanks to both of you.'

"Speaking of which," began Lana as she then looked to me, "are you going to be training your Vulpix?"

"I'm gonna try to train with Shiva," I answered Lana. "Why, are you wanting to take my big brother and swim with him again?"

"Would you be jealous if I said 'yes'?" Lana asked me as her answer.

"Knock yourself out with my big brother," I answered Lana much to her excitement. "I've got Primarina to look after and protect me if Victini isn't near me. And of course Shelby and Benjy."

'That's right,' my shiny female Soloist Pokémon said in agreement as she latched herself on to me happily, much to Shiva's annoyance. 'Cynthia is always in good hands with me whenever her big brother chooses to be around pretty human girls then be with his sister.'

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"Okay Shiva, we've got you at a good level to start training you without needing the Exp. Share," I said to my shiny female Ice-type Fox Pokémon. "It's time for you to… 'Kick off the training wheels' so to speak and begin battling against other Pokémon."

Out on Route 1, outside Hau'oli City, I was training Shiva with Shelby and Benjy doing their own training with the Pokémon that they caught so far. Benjy managed to get himself a shiny Fletchling that a trainer didn't want because it had the wrong ability according to the trainer. Had I been the trainer's companion, I would've smacked him upside his head because Gale Wings is a very good ability for a Flying-type Pokémon like Fletchling to have. But Benjy didn't complain about it and happily received the shiny Fletchling with Gale Wings after trading him a shiny Pikipek with the Skill Link ability. I wanted to smack Benjy for trading his shiny Pikipek with Skill Link as it too was a good ability much like Fletchling's Gale Wings Dream World ability. But luckily for him, he caught another shiny Pikipek with the Skill Link ability and he was even more grateful that I had the TM for Bullet Seed to teach his Pikipek the Grass-type move Bullet Seed and even got his Normal/Flying-type Woodpecker Pokémon to evolve into a Trumbeak, to which he asked me for the Rock Blast TM after learning that one of its moves that it could was indeed Rock Blast. Heh, Benjy sure Aunt Relena's classes on utilizing Pokémon and their abilities very seriously as he was certainly making good use of his shiny Normal/Flying-type's Skill Link ability very effectively. As for me, I too caught a shiny Pokémon with the Skill Link ability. But this Pokémon was a Pikipek like what Benjy caught on Route 1. Catching this shiny Shellder was a task that fell on Shiva's petite shoulders. It wasn't a very strong Shellder like the other ones that were out there, but despite its very LOW level… at Level 1… I reasoned that Shiva could take it as she was at a tender but manageable Level 4.

'Aww… but I can use my Freeze-Dry on this Water-type!' Shiva protested to me as I instructed her to use her Ice Beam attack instead of her Freeze-Dry like she did to wake me from my sleep in class earlier in the day.

"We're trying to catch the Shellder," I replied to Shiva, "not incapacitate it to where it can't be caught. Now use your Ice Beam."

'Oh… all right,' huffed Shiva before she complied and used the Ice-type special attack and surprisingly freezing it in place. 'I… I did it Cynthia! Look! Look! The Shellder is frozen!'

Giving my shiny female Alola Vulpix a nod of approval, I then threw a Heal Ball at it as I wanted to train it alongside Shiva and also evolve it into a Cloyster immediately as I had a Water Stone in my backpack. With a satisfying three shakes and confirmation click, I was now possession of my first captured Water-type Pokémon from the Alola region. Don't get me wrong, I already own a Cloyster, but it has the Overcoat Dream World ability instead of Skill Link.

"Okay, let's see what kind of attacks it has," I said as I looked into my Pokédex to see what my recently evolved shiny male Bivalve Pokémon had for attacks. "Okay, so he has Icicle Spear, Rock Blast, Twineedle, Shell Smash, Hydro Pump and it looks like you also know Smart Strike. You must've been own by a trainer before. Because I don't see Smart Strike as an Egg Move for you.

"Just need to level you up so you'll learn Spike Cannon to go with your Skill Link ability," I finished as I felt Shiva latching on to my left leg and being clingy like usual.

'Come on let's go already!' Shiva exclaimed happily. 'You said that you wanted to train me!'

"Yes, and I intend to train you," I said to Shiva as I tried to pry her off my leg as it was starting to feel cold. "But I won't be training just you. I wanna catch other Pokémon and having them be a part of our team too."

'But you only need me,' Shiva protested as she was hoping that I would only use her.

"I need different kinds of Pokémon and not just use you for the Island Challenge only," I explained to Shiva. "So I plan to catch other Pokémon too."

'Ahh… okay,' replied Shiva as she let go of my leg and it finally started warming back up. 'But just make sure that Weavile is nowhere near me.'

"No promises Shiva," I informed my shiny female Ice-type Fox Pokémon. "At any rate, training is done for today and we need to get home to the apartment. I wanna hit the sack before dinner. And then after dinner, I gotta train for the next leg of the Tapu Fini swimming circuit."

'But don't you wanna have me evolve?' Shiva asked me as she knew that I had an Ice stone that her mother gave me.

"You're not ready nor do I think you're deserving of evolving into your evolved form," I answered Shiva. "You have to prove to me that you're deserving of evolving into your evolved form."

'No fair!' Shiva exclaimed as she didn't like my answer to her and latched back on to my left leg. 'Meanie! Take it back! Take back what you said!'

"Sorry little girl," I countered before recalling Shiva to her Dream Ball my friends and I could swim back towards. "Okay then… time get home."

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"Man, Shiva is really sporting a bad attitude," Shelby said as she noticed Shiva still latched on my left leg and latched on tightly.

"Her attitude isn't really helping to change my decision to evolve her into her Alola Ninetales evolved form," I said to my best friend, firmly set in my decision. "I really need her off my leg so I can got train with Primarina for the swimming circuit."

'Are you gonna let me evolve?' Shiva asked me, still being a pouty child.

"No Shiva," I answered my pouty little shiny female Vulpix.

'Then I'm not letting go,' replied a bratty little Shiva as her grip got tighter and my leg started to get frozen.

"You have to let go," I informed Shiva as I pried her off my leg and held her with one hand. "I wanna train with Primarina for the swimming competition."

'And I wanna evolve and be like my mommy,' shot back Shiva.

"Prove to me that you deserve the right to evolve," I countered back as I set her on my right shoulder, where my big brother, Victini usually sits. "Come on then. Our sister is getting eager and you know how she gets when we don't get to beach fast enough for her."

'Sisters!' Shiva exclaimed happily as we left for the beach to meet my big brother and Lana.

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'You know I really hate having to wait on beach for you two,' Shiva said to me as she was now a shiny Alola Ninetales after going through my bag with help from my big brother, Victini.

"BIG BROTHER!" I shouted at Victini as I wasn't happy with him for helping Shiva evolve when I specifically told Shiva that I wanted her to earn the right to evolve into her evolved form.

Guess I should've known that Victini would go over my head… like usual. Primarina and I had finished training out in the ocean, trying to increase our level of endurance as it was certain that we were going to be tested on endurance in the swimming circuit. The next part of our training would take place soon and it was going to be at a gym and not the ocean again. No, it's not the kind of gym you're thinking of. I'm talking about the kind of gym that people use to train themselves and Primarina and I were gonna have to increase our strength and stamina through other exercises. But before that could happen, I snatched my big brother by his left ear and we walked back home to our apartment where he and I were going to have quite a chat about going over my head even after I had made a decision in regards to how I train my Pokémon. Big brother Victini knew that I was very upset with him, but Shiva made sure that she was exactly at my side as she insisted that she was needed by my side.

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"So your big brother let Shiva evolve?" Benjy asked me as he, Shelby and Isabella were quite surprised to see that Shiva evolved into her evolved form. "She does look quite beautiful as an Alola Ninetales though."

'And I now know Dazzling Gleam too,' Shiva added enthusiastically and happily.

"You really need to stop going over Cynthia's head when it comes to her other Pokémon," Shelby said to Big brother as she didn't like that my Victory Pokémon big brother went ahead and let Shiva evolve. "Cynthia wanted Shiva to earn the right to be exposed to that Ice Stone and you just figured it was alright to let Shiva evolve without going to your own sister."

'And the longer Cynthia withheld the Ice Stone from Shiva, the more likely that her shiny Vulpix would've become more stubborn and possibly disobedient,' countered Victini. 'Besides, I figured that you would've wanted to thank me for solving the problem of how to train your Alola Vulpix.'

"That's not the point, Big Brother!" I shot back angrily before walking out with Shiva nipping at my heels.

I certainly was going to have to adjust to the new situation thanks in part to my big brother going over my head with Shiva. I was still angry with Victini for going over my head and letting Shiva evolve, but I would adjust. Once I was training Shiva, I came to find out that Big Brother was right all along as Shiva was most certainly obedient and was getting stronger with each victory. Despite the fact that she was getting stronger, Shiva was also getting even more clingier to me as she still hopped in the shower with me… making me endure cold showers even though the water wasn't hot enough for her to use her Snow Warning ability and make it a bone chilling shower. Plus she even got underneath the covers of mine and Shelby's bed and snuggled right next to me even though Primarina was next me herself. Both Primarina and Shiva had their tails sticking out from underneath the covers of the bed as they were asleep. And this would happen every night.

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3rd person POV

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"How could you let someone younger than you come in take control of your organization so swiftly?!" an angry Lusamine asked the now ousted leader of Team Skull in her fury before slapping him three times across his face. "Because you underestimated some young punk from Sinnoh, my plans are in serious jeopardy."

"Why don't we let those kids you're keeping at a distance take him out?" Guzma asked Lusamine as he rubbed his sore and reddened left cheek. "You could use them to do your bidding without them knowing that you're… stringing them along. I think you'd make an excellent puppet master. Those kids you're so worried about… they won't know what you're planning for them, until it's too late."

Before answering the ousted leader of Team Skull, Lusamine slapped him again as the thought of using her daughter and her friends, especially the foreigners from the Atlantica Islands, was inconceivable to her. Lusamine had hope that her daughter, Lillie, who had stolen the Aether Foundation's only chance of finding a way to their ultimate objective, would finally come around and see that her mother was right all along, return Cosmog to the Aether Foundation and take her rightful place alongside her mother to realize her mother's dream. Lusamine then snorted at the thought of her firstborn child, who had run away from the Aether Foundation and stole another Pokémon that had been created by them.

"Gladion, you ungrateful little beast," Lusamine snarled as Guzma had seen himself out of the door while the Aether Foundation president wasn't in a good mood. "I conceived you, I carried you and give birth to you and you betrayed my love and trust. You are no child of mine. If you ever show your face here, I will have you killed. If you will not join me, then perhaps your sister will see reason and help to find your father and help to complete his work."

Lusamine was unaware that she was being listened to by the Ghosts in the Shell unit of Team Trident and they were gathering intelligence on the so-called benevolent protection group. Once Lusamine was done rambling about her son that wrote off as dead and a traitor, the computer screen was on suddenly turned back off to prevent Lusamine from seeing that she was being spied on. For Lusamine, Team Skull and their new leader was going to be the least of her worries, along with her son. After pacing back and forth for about ten minutes, Guzma's suggestion did take some root in her mind. After considering Guzma's suggestion, she shook the thought from her mind and considered readjusting it much to her liking without having to worry about there being a bitter aftertaste in the future.

"I think I will call upon those foreigners," Lusamine said to herself as her Fairy-type Fairy Pokémon let herself out of her Ultra Ball. "Surely they can handle Team Skull or at least weaken them for Guzma to take back control."

'Mistress, is there something that I may be able to help you with?' the female Fairy Pokémon asked Lusamine ever so faithfully.

"Not right now Clefable," answered Lusamine as her other Pokémon let themselves out to tend to their mistress.

'Please Mistress, allow us to be of some help to you,' Lusamine's male Ghost-type Magical Pokémon insisted to Lusamine. 'How can we aid you in this moment right now, Mistress?'

"Unless you can summon those foreign children, nothing right now," Lusamine answered her male Mismagius as she affectionately and lovingly stroked his right cheek much to his enjoyment. "We will go and meet those children, I just haven't decided on when we will meet them."

'I remember overhearing you mention that the firstborn heir to the throne of the Atlantica Islands' queen is here in Alola,' Lusamine's Liligant said to her mistress eagerly. 'Is this true my lady?'

'Mistress, a little Pikipek told me that one of those foreign children will be competing in the Tapu Fini Swimming Circuit and another one shall be competing in the Sparksurfer surfing competition,' Lusamine's female Water-type Tender Pokémon reported to her mistress. 'You might have a way to meet with them personally.'

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Cynthia's POV

A few weeks passed by and we didn't run into Team Skull as it was very unusual for us not to encounter those bozos. We hadn't even encountered Dark Blizzard as it seemed like he hadn't made his presence known to us ever since I saved Shiva from him. Of course we made our scheduled reports to Aunt Rhea in case any new developments would need to be reported to Aunt Rhea. Even Aunt Rhea found it odd that Team Skull hadn't made any attempts on the Pokémon School or that Dark Blizzard hadn't come after me or Shiva. But she did order us to return home for a mandatory vacation break to see our families and just… relax at home. I was hoping to see Hayato and Vanna before they set off on another journey with Marco and Francesca Seabright, Vanna's older siblings. Unfortunately, it was not to be as the Sky Prince had already left with Vanna and her older siblings to journey off to another region. But as we came home from Alola, we had a few guests who wanted to come with us back home to the Atlantica Islands. Mallow, Lana and Lillie came with us to see our home region. Since I wasn't given the okay to return home by Mom or Daddy, I settled for going to Sol Palace as I didn't want our Alola guests to get Beartic hugged to death by Benjy and Shelby's mother, Margret Summers. At least I knew that Aunt Relena would more than happily welcome our three new friends from Alola.

"Halt," the palace guard standing at the palace gates said to me and my companions, "Only the royal family and those associated with the Kaiou royal house may enter here."

"I am Cynthia Ketchum," I informed the guard. "I believe you know my aunt, Her Royal Highness Queen Relena Michiru Kaiou. I came to see and stay with my aunt and I brought guests with me from Alola as well. My boyfriend and Shelby are here too."

"Wait one," the palace guard instructed me before he called to confirm my identity after he saw my Pokédex, as I produced it to verify my identity. "Alright Duchess Cynthia, Her Majesty is expecting you and your guests. You may enter."

"Huh? What's going on?" Mallow asked me in confusion.

"Yeah, what did the guard mean when he called you 'Duchess Cynthia'?" Lana also asked she was confused too.

"Here in our home region, we have a place called the Trident Battle Palace and you can battle there," I explained to our Alola guests. "At the Trident Battle Palace you can earn the right to become nobility."

"You start out as a knight or lady knight," added Benjamin as he joined the explanation, "and then work your way up to become a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess. Cynthia's parents, or at least her mother has become a Grand Duchess."

"There are two ranks that are above the rank of Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, but those are reserved for those who were actually born into the royal house of the Kaiou royal family," finished Shelby as we walked into the palace grounds for our mandatory three week long vacation, as ordered by Aunt Rhea. "I hope you girls are ready to get the royal treatment, because you'll certainly feel comfortable here."

"Oh goodie!" Mallow exclaimed with glee as her Bounsweet agreed with her.

"Just make sure you don't let yourself get caught by Aunt Jessica," I warned our Alola guests as I knew my fashionista aunt was most likely looking for younger models and I didn't want them getting scared into being one of her models. "She's looking for any young models she can get her hands on."

"How bad can she be?" Lillie asked me.

Shelby and I both had a shiver run down our spine as didn't even want to answer Lillie's question. As Shelby went to her quarters to call her parents, I felt a deeper chill as Shiva brushed her icy fur against my leg as she was ensuring that I knew that she wasn't leaving my side. All I could do sigh and then tell her to stop using her Snow Warning ability whenever I got in the shower as I planned on getting in the shower. Unfortunately, Primarina felt that she had glomp me as to tell me not to forget about her. Training Shiva and Primarina, I felt, was certainly going to be a big challenge for me. But training Shiva… it meant that I was going to have to go to the one place in the Atlantica Islands I didn't like the most. Going to Sapphire Island… blustery… bitterly cold Sapphire Island. As I thought about going to Sapphire Island, I had almost forgotten about the area that Aunt Relena's half-siblings use for their ice sculpting challenges for trainers in their attempt to try and obtain the Royal Trident Badge just to gain entry into the Royal Cup.

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"Well… that worked a lot better than having to travel to Sapphire Island," I said to Shiva after we had trained long and hard at Aunt Samantha's Winter Dome. "At least you were able to use your Snow Warning ability while we trained."

'Yeah, I know,' agreed Shiva as she was very happy that Aunt Samantha let us train in the Blizzard Dome. 'But you need to get used to the cold like me.'

"No thanks Shiva," I firmly said to my Ice/Fairy-type Fox Pokémon. "I prefer the tropical environment that I was born into."

"I see that I'm not the only person training at the Blizzard Dome," a familiar voice said to me as she came towards me accompanied by her shiny female Braixen sister. "Lily and I just trained there a few hours ago and I see you've got a new shiny Pokémon with you."

"Hey there Ruby," I said to one of my best friends as I approached her and Lily. "I see Lily still wears clothes and outfits."

'Of course I still do,' the shiny female Braixen said to me happily with a smile on her face. 'Lady Jessica makes my outfits that I can wear even in battle.'

'Well… I'm trying to get Cynthia to adapt to the cold,' Shiva informed Lily as she got uncomfortable and latched on to my waist as to tell Ruby's Braixen that she didn't want her to approach me.

'Um… good luck with that,' Lily said nervously with a sweatdrop on her forehead.

"Shiva!" I exclaimed as I felt my shiny female Ice/Fairy-type Fox Pokémon latching on to my waist.

'Uh… does someone have attachment issues?' Lily asked me as she saw Shiva latched to my waist.

"You could say that," I answered Ruby's shiny female Braixen companion with a sweatdrop on my forehead. "She never leaves my side, not even for a minute."

'HEY… Cynthia!' my shiny female Primarina called out as she leapt out of the water and then happily glomped me as she too showed that she was clingy to me as well. 'HELLO MY DEAR SISTER!'

"You've got two Pokémon with serious attachment issues," Ruby said to me as she and her Braixen, Lily, both shook their heads in perfect synch with each other just like Ruby's mother and her shiny Delphox as both of them were also in perfect synch with each other.

"Well, Primarina is one of my two bodyguards as well as my swimming partner for the Tapu Fini swimming circuit in Alola," I explained to Ruby and Lily. "Shiva is a Pokémon I got to protect from a cruel and heartless Weavile named Dark Blizzard."

'A cruel and heartless Weavile?' asked Lily in a quizzical manner. 'Man, you've been making some enemies quite lately.'

"It's not like I'm looking to make enemies, Lily," I said to Ruby's shiny female Kalos Fox Pokémon. "They just… just come to me. I can't help it."

Before Ruby could make any more comments, Lillie, my friend from Alola walked in our direction as she looked a little apprehensive about the clothes she was wearing and had a cute snow white baby Alola Vulpix happily walking alongside her with a big smile on her cute face. Aside from Lillie looking apprehensive, I could tell from her body language that Aunt Jessica had been in one of her creative sparks and roped Lillie into "playing dress up" and… letting her "doll her up." If there was one problem I had with my fashionista aunt, it was that anyone who wasn't a palace servant was fair game for her whenever the creative spark hit her. Plus I was certain that Aunt Jessica's creative spark hadn't gone away just yet. If I knew my aunt and Argon well, part two of their creative spark was going to involve swimsuits and they probably found Lana and her Popplio.

Four hours later, we could hear a startled cry coming from Aunt Jessica's shiny Tyranitar as he was kicked out of the workshop. Apparently Argon must've done something disruptive to Aunt Jessica's creative rhythm and that was something everyone in Sol Palace knows not to do.

'Come on Jessica!' Argon shouted as he pounded on the door. 'I only suggested one little new thing for the young lady! ONE… STUPID… LITTLE NEW… THING!'

"Oh great," Shelby said as she could hear the shouting and came to see what was going on and then looked to me. "I see your aunt is in one of her creative sparks."

"Somebody help me!" we could hear poor Lana screaming from the doorway before being pulled back in to Aunt Jessica's workshop.

"The longer you try to run," began Aunt Jessica, "the more difficult it'll be for you to get out here."

"NOOO!" cried Lana as she couldn't hold her grip and was yanked back into the workshop.

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A couple days later, Lana finally came out of Aunt Jessica's workshop panting and even crawling out of there after she and her Popplio were finally released. Poor Lana looked like she had gone through Sgt. Goldstein's basic training back at Fort Ruby Sword and then some. If anything, Lana and her Popplio were really terrified from the experience that they went through.

'I don't ever wanna go through that again,' Lana's Popplio said as she was still shaking from watching Lana getting terrified and humiliated by my aunt.

"I apologize for what my aunt did," I said to Lana as I bowed to her. "There are just times when she gets a creative spark and we really don't know when that spark will hit her."

"It's alright," Lana replied with a nervous smile and sweatdrop on her forehead. "I did get some very cute swimsuits out it and even a few wetsuits too."

"Knowing her aunt, they're most likely skintight and conform to your figure too," added Shelby.

"Oh yeah," Lana said as she nodded her head. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot. She gave me a shiny Eevee and a Water Stone too. Now I've got a shiny Vaporeon! I'm so happy that I got a brand new Water-type Pokémon and she'll be able to play with Popplio too."

"Well, our home region does have quite an assortment of Water-type Pokémon," Shelby said to Lana. "And believe it or not, we actually have Kyogre Pokémon that live here too."

"R-Really?!" asked a very bright-eyed Lana as she heard my best friend mention that we had Kyogre that lived in the Atlantica Islands.

"Hey guys," spoke up Lillie as she was wearing one of the outfits that Aunt Jessica designed and made for her, "where'd Isabella go off too?"

"Uh…," Benjy, Shelby and I began answering nervously as we really weren't sure if our Alola guests would believe us.

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"What?! Seriously?!" our Alola guests asked us in complete shock as we explained to them where Isabella had gone.

"You're telling us that we can just married at our age, like right now?" asked a bewildered 17-year-old Mallow. "For real?"

"How old do you have to be in order to get married?" asked Lillie as she had her female white Alola Vulpix in her arms.

"By law here in the Atlantica Islands, you can get married at the proper age of child bearing," I explained to our Alola guests. "And that's the age of 14."

"That's uh… interesting," Lillie said as she sounded a bit nervous.

"Even though you can get married at the age of 14, you have to have consent from your parents until you turn 17," a new person said as she joined the conversation as she had been walking nearby with a Suicune at her side. "And it doesn't matter if you're a citizen of the kingdom or not, you still must have your parents give their consent and sign a form too."

For me and the Summers siblings, we knew right off the bat who it was that joined our conversation and bowed to her immediately. She was the queen of the Atlantica Islands, one half of the Atlantica Islands' Pokémon League champions… and my aunt. She had long braided brown hair in a Ponyta tail and wore a Suicune blue gown with a purple amethyst gem choker necklace held by a white ribbon, white ribbons that had sprouted out from her shoulder blades and of course her trademark royal purple Birkenstock sandals on her feet that she always wore. As for our Alola guests, they were a bit confused as to who was speaking to us, but followed our lead and bowed as well to show courtesy.

"Lana, Mallow and Lillie," I said after my aunt returned the bow with one of her own, "I present to you Relena Michiru Kaiou, sovereign queen of the Atlantica Islands and my aunt."

"Oh my," Lillie said as she was startled to be in the presence of royalty and then bowed again. "Your Majesty, it's an honor to meet you."

"Please, there's no need for you address me with royal titles," Aunt Relena said to Lillie plainly. "To be honest, I really hate them."

Aunt Relena then took notice of Shiva and began to approach my shiny female Ice/Fairy-type Fox Pokémon. Shiva being Shiva, pressed her cold body on my right leg as she was afraid that Aunt Relena might hurt her. As Shiva pressed her body on leg, my affected leg began to feel cold from Shiva lowering her body temperature. If she was trying to get me used to the cold, it wasn't going to work.

"Shiva, you can trust Aunt Relena," I said to Shiva as I willed myself to not think about cold feeling in my right leg. "She's not gonna hurt you and really likes quadruped Pokémon a lot."

'My daughter is quite gentle with all Pokémon,' Aunt Relena's Suicune father, Aurora, informed Shiva calmly.

'Well… if you trust her and say she's alright,' replied Shiva as she pulled away from me and nervously padded towards Aunt Relena.

As Shiva nervously padded towards Aunt Relena, I fell face forward as my right felt completely frozen and I couldn't move it at all. My falling forward startled everyone, even Shiva too. Aunt Relena called for the palace physician to come and tend to me.

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"Oh man, thank Arceus that Mom and Daddy had this hot tub put in," I said as I was relaxing in the hot tub back at my house as our Alola guests were getting settled into rooms for the rest of their stay here in the Atlantica Islands. "I really need to thank Aunt Relena for talking to Mom and Daddy about letting me come back home."

'HEY Cynthia!' Shiva shouted at the top her lungs as she ran towards the hot tub to come and join me. 'I'M COMING TO JOIN YOU!'

"Oh no you don't!" I exclaimed as I called out Lavender to block her and keep her from trying to jump in the hot tub, making it a cold tub.

'Seriously Shiva, you don't need to jump in with Cynthia,' Lavender said sternly to Shiva as she readied her Steel-type Hidden Power attack in case Shiva wouldn't listen to her. 'I'm telling you now Shiva, back off before I have to use my Steel-type Hidden Power on you. And don't think that I won't do it either.'

'But Cynthia needs me!' protested Shiva as she was stopped in her tracks by Lavender.

"I appreciate that you want to join me in the hot tub," I began as I was trying to be as gentle as I could be with Shiva, "but I really don't want you to turn the hot tub into a cold tub. You nearly froze my leg off in the first place anyway."

'Hey, when are we returning home to Alola?' Shiva asked me as I was still relaxing in in the hot tub and letting my left leg heal up.

"In a couple weeks," I answered Shiva. "Once I've healed up and our guests are ready to go back home, then we'll depart back to Alola. Besides, I promised Lana that we would take her to go catch a Kyogre and help fulfill a dream of hers ."

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'So you are planning using those foreign children to eliminate Team Skull, Mistress?' Lusamine's Clefable asked the blonde haired leader of the Aether Foundation with a worried look on her face. 'I'm not sure if this is a good idea. It may come back and bite us in the kiester later.'

"I do share your concern about my plan," Lusamine said to her female Fairy-type Fairy Pokémon, "but we shall take care and show them our love for them. I'm certain at least one of those children will come to trust us. And when they do, we shall show them our love for them by showering them with that love we have for them."

'It sounds fine and dandy Mistress,' began the male Magical Pokémon, 'but do you know which human you're planning to shower your love on first?'

Lusamine then looked at the photo of Cynthia Ketchum and her Pokémon with a gentle smile as she answered her Pokémon, "I know exactly who I plan to show my love to first. I'm confident that she'll come to trust me very quickly"

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Author's note: And cut! That's another chapter in the books for today. Please read and review it and let me know what you think of it. Any new ideas would be greatly appreciated too.