last chapter: the training montage
Avery's Pokemon
Umbreon
Name: Evangeline. More commonly, Eva.
Gender: Female
Nature: Rash
Summ: Avery's first Pokemon, once a rambunctious Eevee. Loyal and excitable, Avery and Eva can't seem to get their hands (and paws) off of each other. Once they were rivals, Eva was afraid and resistant of his love. They've come far.
Kirlia
Name: Lady
Gender: Female
Nature: Modest
Summ: Once an innocent Ralts running from an abusive human, Lady was isolated from Avery during a head injury. Lady has since seemed different. Now a Kirlia, she demands different things from her 'Master' and sees it as entirely unfair that Eva seems to get all of his romantic attention.
Buneary
Name: Chastity
Gender: Female
Nature: Adamant
Summ: What is this sensual bunny's deal, anyways? Purchased from a strange man at Vanessa's mansion as a gift from the wicked mistress herself, the Buneary seems a mixture of fierce pride and fiery sexual whim. In other words, she's kinda totally topping Avery from a meta level.
Furfrou
Name: Dusty
Gender: Male
Nature: Hardy
Summ: Seemingly the only successful battler of the bunch, Dusty has proved to be a steadfast companion despite starting the journey as a total sexpest, tryna bang Chastity like that! Can you blame him? Give a guy a bone!
Surskit
Name: Sprite
Gender: Female
Nature: Quirky
Summ: This innocent, yet somehow seductive balloon, is exactly what she seems. Very fond of Avery, with a playful spirit.
Maybe Fate really is a thing.
Like, was it a coincidence that remarkably few wild Pokemon had interacted with us as we passed through first the forest-coated territory stretching from Hearthome to the Coronet mountains, and then the rocky, tree-specked rises that led to caves which would bring us to the other side? The wild Pokemon, of which there were many, did not try to fight us, so what I saw of them was their adorable faces poking from brush, tree, and from around stone, their eyes huge and expressive. Whatever other trainer's experiences were, mine was not frequently obstructed by wild Pokemon: they continued to avoid me, all, save a few like the Bidoof that had observed Sprite and I in the stream the other day. I'm not going to complain, hurting fewer Pokemon is a bonus in my eyes, but I worried that sparring/my training wouldn't be enough to make my Pokemon stronger. And I wondered if something had happened that would make the nearby Pokemon extra frightened, more willing to stay in their nests.
Whatever the reason, the peaceful walk toward the caves where we would need to start climbing, gave me a lot of time to watch my companions. At the back of my mind, I contemplated exactly how I was going to return to my girlfriend in time. The days were steadily trickling by, so I was anxious about making it to the S.S. Amber in Canalave, I pretty much only had four days left, but this was becoming something that I knew I had to pursue.
I need to speak with her, to explain myself, and to make sure she knows I am coming to her, and that she's not really alone, but I also knew that every step I took towards my first gym badge was another away from Juliet because the possibility I might find something I couldn't turn away from. But, I would get to her. I wasn't going to let anyone die on me again, whether it was a Pokemon or a human, and I had to show my Pokemon that I was worthy of being their keeper, whether they were worried about that or not, before I tried to save anyone else.
If I didn't earn Lady's respect, what in the world was I going to do? It was almost like her behavior was getting worse with every day, and there was no doubt that this afternoon - the sight of her private moment and her refusal to train was a sign of something else, a stab at me, and a challenge. My Kirlia was still perched in my arms, her expression thoughtful as she stared forward. She was beautiful, her pale green head held high, and ruby crests shining in the sun, along with her bright, vivid eyes. Not human, but so feminine, and curvy in ways I had only noticed in Eva, really. Her warmth was undeniable.
Even worse respect-wise was Chastity. I couldn't hold back a snort as I glanced her way. She sat, almost like picture books depicting a queen on a regal Rapidash, though it was just goofy Dusty who would do anything to get along with his new Pokemon friends now that he was officially part of the crew. The glorious sun simmering overhead, the pleasant breeze brushing her fluffy fur, made her seem so picturesquely beautiful.
But power dynamics are intense things, not really something to dwell on. As we passed by lush greenery with every step, the world felt too beautiful to feel remorse, anger, or anxiety, or to care about those power dynamics. Too much awaited us. Forward, just keep going forward- Fate would bring me back to Juliet in time. I had to believe that.
There were many paths that we could have taken, the area was well-tread by humans and pokemon feet alike. There were various rope ladders, long wooden bridges extended between the different sloping fingers and cliffs of Coronet, and hypothetically scalable outcroppings of stone that a person with enough talent might successfully climb. I was not that person, so, I chose a path I could walk and easily climb to. We could see plenty of the dark entrances which studded the vast bulk of the Coronet mountains, most of which would not fit a man, tiny holes in the side of the cliffs. Many of these entrances were Pokemon-made, and would fit only the breed that had made it. I found myself drawn toward a rather large entrance, its protrusions of stone making it resemble a literal mouth. It was intimidating, but it filled me with a sense of wonder. This was not Hearthome anymore, this was the wilderness, and I couldn't fathom that nature had carved this strange entrance all on its own, with no interference from humans. As if the earth naturally made art out of itself. Looking in, I saw the dark ground rise upward in a slightly shallow ascent, the heavy darkness making most of it not visible, at least to the human eye.
Eva stared inside suspiciously, her gold-ringed ears held back as her soft nose twitched. She glanced back at me. "Umbri, umb!" She made a gesture of batting violently with her paws, and I got the impression she was warning me of danger within.
Dusty abandoned his conversation with Sprite and came sniffing as well. Chastity hopped off and glanced nonchalantly into the entrance. He and the bunny mon both jumped backwards, Dusty's hackles were raised, and he growled. Chastity merely gave me a warning glance. His snarl bounced against the insides of the cavern, echoing back after a long pause. There was a scatter of movement inside, the flutter of many wings, and then all was silent again. There were many Pokemon inside. Something told me they wouldn't be like the peaceful forest Pokemon we'd encountered before. We were walking directly into their den, this wasn't like walking among the grass, this wasn't like bathing in the stream, obviously no threat. Somehow, that just made me want to pick this entrance more.
"I agree, it's dangerous. There are definitely wild Pokemon inside, maybe not friendly. I'm alright with facing them head-on if you are… I'm sure there might be some exits that have fewer Pokemon than others, but it's like training, we could do it. What do you guys think?"
Lady glanced around, scanning the mountains, and pointed up towards where a long wooden bridge dangled between two different portions of Coronet. 'There's a path up there, Master. Hardy passed through there. Since he probably cleared the way, that one is probably a much better choice.'
'And how do you know that?" I thought back at her.
'Master, the same way I know you can't keep your eyes off me.'
I glared at her, and turned back to my other mons, angry at myself for even allowing myself to communicate with her in such a fashion. In our thoughts, Lady had infinite confidence, something I could not push back against. "Something about just following behind Hardy, walking over any possible dangers that Hardy handled for us is giving me a dirty feeling! Don't you guys feel the same? This is our first adventure together! Do we really just want to follow someone else?"
"Kirlia! Kirl!" Lady floated down from my shoulder with a slight flick of her hands, landing delicately. Dusty paid rapt attention, along with pretty much the rest of the team as she made her case for why we should take the higher path in Pokemon tongue. At first, they merely listened, then Chastity began shaking her head.
"Bun-bun!" She glanced toward my choice of the cave, gesticulating wildly with her adorable, well-groomed ears. She made a show of practicing swings and jumps with her ears, kicking at the air, as if displaying all the practicing she'd been up to. It seemed she agreed with me, that avoiding a possible fight would be a waste.
Lady merely smirked, and whatever it was she said, it made Dusty stand up and put himself in front of Chastity, glowering at the Kirlia and viciously growling.
"Hey! What did you say to her?" I broke in, breaking the ring my mons had unintentionally formed. Lady glanced up at me, seemed unimpressed, and went back to her argument with Chastity. Then, Lady glanced at Eva.
"Kirlia kirlia, kirl, kirlia!" My second starter almost seemed passionate. I had no doubt she was talking about keeping me safe, and maybe she really did care about that. But I had a feeling that it was more about dominating me again, about proving her way was the right way. Reaching Oreburgh with speed was important, but I wanted to set my own path. Do things my way, not Hardy's- Lady was allowed to disagree, but to push back in this way, I wondered what in the world I could do about it as Dusty went from soft and agreeable to hackles raised and growling at Lady. Eva pushed her way past Lady and faced Dusty, giving him a warning hiss of her own, crimson eyes glaring. Sprite herself seemed offended, which made me think that whatever it was that Eva and Lady were arguing for wasn't any good.
"Lady. What are you guys talking about?"
'Chastity, Dusty, and Sprite have been with us the shortest. Yet that bunny brat has no respect for me nor Eva, or even for you, Master. She claims that I am a coward, and that Eva is too. As such, we reminded her where she came from.'
"Where she…came from?"
'Where they all do. That house. They should remember we were yours first, and that you saved them.'
As her explanation continued, I realized my jaw was locked, my fist was clenched, and I was shaking. "Do you think you're better than them? I didn't 'save' them, not really, they're our friends, part of our group."
Suddenly, Chastity interrupted our conversation, continuing their disagreement with a harsh retort. Something that made everyone freeze. Then, Dusty and Sprite started howling with laughter. Eva merely cocked her head in confusion, glancing at Lady. My Kirlia's cheeks turned bright red, and her eyes widened. I've never seen her look so pissed off before. Whether it was human, or Pokemon. It was clear- it was the humiliated type of anger. What had Chastity possibly said?
Without saying anything, her eyes began to glow and she raised a hand - an orb appeared above it, glowing vividly just as her eyes did. Her expression was deadly cold, the same deadly mask she wore when she spoke of disposing of Vanessa, and I had no doubt that Chastity had said something that had hit the throbbing core of Lady's massive, ever-blossoming ego.
" Hey! " I yelled, '"put that away! This is your friend first, I don't care what you're arguing about!"
Lady stopped, and for just a moment, the vivid energy beam which hummed ominously at the point of her hand now ceased growing. I stood in front of her with my hands raised, a literal obstacle.
"We need to get along with each other, otherwise our group is never going to work!"
"Kirlia kirl! Kirl!" 'Master, she lied about me to everyone. I won't stop until she takes it back!'
"Buneary, bun!" Buneary cried back in righteous indignation, as if to say "I'm not a liar." I glanced their way, eyebrows raised. So, Chastity had accused Lady of something? My Furfrou had a guilty expression as I glanced at him.
"You know what she's accusing Lady of?"
He nodded. Before I could begin a further investigation, there was a shocking scream.
" Kirl! Kirlia, kirl," Lady began shaking her head. 'No, no MASTER!- Both of you, YOU'RE LIARS! I-I'll make you pay for even mentioning it! I'll make you both forget!"
A sharp pain burst in my head. I felt an invisible force push against me, and I was swept to my feet. I tried to catch myself, but only ended up hitting my head on the nearby stone wall with surprising force. Lady had not cast me aside gently. She'd had no worry for my well-being at all, she just wanted to shut Chastity and Dusty up. Whether their accusation was true, I didn't forget that it was Lady who had provoked all of them. We had not yet even made it inside, and already this was harrowing. I moaned in pain, my headache from the previous injury seeming to ache in reminder.
Which reminded me even more of Lady. She couldn't, absolutely couldn't use her powers while in such a rage. She'd seriously hurt someone.
"Umbree!" Eva raced up to me, her expression worried, and her red eyes wide.
"Bun-bun!" Chastity was not afraid of Lady. While Dusty had backed away, hackles raised from the show of psychic power, Lady's accusation had clearly pushed Chastity to a point that she would not back down either. Two prideful young women were having a powerful disagreement, and I knew that if I interfered, Lady or Chastity would hurt me.
The air where Chastity's ears swung was soon empty, and with a sharp, angry gasp- Lady suddenly teleported behind Chastity, the psybeam in her tiny hands much bigger now, and she cast it downward. It was a shocking display of power from such a small frame, and it rippled, as if threatening to rip open the air itself, as it rushed forward with a vivid burst of light.
" STOP IT! STOP! " I yelled, as the glowing beam blasted towards my buneary.
She darted out of the way just in time, bouncing up into the air, and lunging downwards at Lady again. Lady seemed startled at her speed and reaction time, and with a strained expression, she appeared in a different place again, growing a fresh beam from her hand. She grinned as she realized if she kept this up, Chastity wouldn't be able to get her paws on her.
I had to stop them. I had to stop them. My mind raced. What could I do?!
I was about to hit full panic mode when I realized I had other mons who could help, like my water-type who was looking painfully afraid of all the fighting. I opened my Poketch, and checked her moves, eyes lighting up when I realized there was possibly a way out of this! Clearly they were too heated to calm down on their own.
"Sprite! Come here!"
The surskit glanced over, and sensing the urgency, she scampered over on her long, slender legs, her yellow head darting back and forth. She leapt up onto me, and I pointed towards the blur of psychic energy, vicious kicks and ear thwacks, and yelled "Sprite, hydro pump!"'
The pair of fighting mons barely registered my words, but it was too late. In seconds, Sprite's entire body was vibrating, and with a sudden burst a huge pump of water streamed from the tip of her head. Lady and Chastity both yelled in dismay and horror as the surskit sprayed them down like she was hosing down troublesome kids. They tried to escape the wet wave, but she aimed her weak hydro pumps with deadly precision.
"Don't stop soaking them until they're done!"
There was no way they could continue their fight with each other after that. Eva and Dusty stared in disbelief, then burst into laughter. It was a comical sight, a Kirlia and a Buneary bouncing and teleporting to avoid a hydro pump, only to be splashed down once again wherever they appeared. Lady and Chastity, absolutely soaked, ceased their fighting - giving each other dirty looks.
"Thank you very much, Sprite, very helpful," I grinned, and picked the Surskit up. She rubbed herself up against me, and turned her bright little eyes towards her angry companions. "Now that you two have calmed down, we need to have a conversation. We don't have to talk about what Chastity accused you of, Lady," I met her eyes steadily, "but remember that when you challenge someone, they are going to fight back. You don't get to be a bully and then be upset when they snap back, do you understand?"
Lady shivered violently, teeth chattering as she clutched herself, eyes red and teary. She had not enjoyed the soak at all. Chastity was even worse. Her once perfectly-groomed fur was now puffed up and messy, and she glowered at Sprite and I. I couldn't help but grin smugly back. "And you! Two wrongs don't make a right! Just because she provokes you doesn't mean you have to fight her."
"Buneary bun!" Chastity protested, pointing her paw in Lady's direction.
"Kirlia, kirlia, kirl!" Lady interrupted, glaring at her again. The two started arguing again.
"WE'RE PICKING MY PATH, AND WE'RE GOING NOW!" I yelled. "Any aggression you have towards each other you can show toward wild Pokemon in- what is going on now!?-" My orders were interrupted by a massive rumble, it felt as if the earth itself was coming alive around us. My teeth started clattering together, I couldn't get my bearings, and I realized this was an earthquake. After that, we all had no choice but to calm down. I wondered what the quakes meant, and I scolded Lady and Chastity as we waited for the shakes to cease. After only a minute or so they did.
Lady and Chastity didn't agree they were in the wrong, and their prideful natures made me aware they weren't listening to me. I was worried that another earthquake would hit, but when about twenty minutes had passed, I figured it was safe enough to venture inside the caves. Perhaps it had been from a large wild Pokemon?
"If you guys are done fighting, I think we're ready."
Lady and Chastity took the lead entering, but stood pointedly away from one another, as Eva and Dusty both stood at my sides. The reason for the start of the fight was quickly forgotten, and Lady said nothing about the entrance she had chosen again. It had never been about that, and we both knew it.
Sprite, still perched on my shoulder, seemed awfully pleased with herself. "Thanks for that," I whispered to her, rubbing the adorable balloon Pokemons warm body with my fingers. "You did so well. I know you don't like to battle, but-" The surskit placed a tiny foot on my mouth, as if to shoosh me, and leaned herself close. She sat there, silent for a moment, and I wrapped my hand around her. She didn't need a thanks, she just wanted to be helpful. There is no doubt she hated seeing her new friends fight. I didn't owe her anything.
The light of the entrance quickly fled as the dark cave walls stretched out before us. I turned on my Poketchs flashlight function. If anything else went wrong, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Whatever the earthquake was, it had shaken the pokemon inside. They avoided us, fluttering out of our path, and we didn't meet resistance after all. The inside of the cave smelled dank, and was surprisingly wet. Despite the light from my Poketch, it was still rather hard to see anything.
Eva and Dusty murmured to each other, glancing up towards where Lady and Chastity walked far ahead. Likely, the two were talking about what had just happened between the group. In the distance, Lady and Chastity were getting hard to keep track of.
"Hey, you two! You're getting too far ahead of us," I called out, pointing my light toward them. Chastity yelled back at me in an annoyed tone, as if saying she didn't care.
Then, the shakes began anew, except this time, the earthquake was much, much worse. I was thrown off my feet almost instantly, landing on my backpack with a crash. My bag saved me from most of the damage, and my poketch tumbled out of my hand, the light dying away as it fell on its flashlight's face. I just managed to reach out and grab it as a slim shard of stone dropped from the roof of the cave, splintering next to the spot where the Poketch had just been. I sighed with relief.
I managed to get to my feet, but the cavern was in chaos. Rocks were falling all around us like rain, and other Pokemon appeared in the rush. Geodudes and other rock or ground-types emerged from the corners and holes in the cavern-system they called home. Some floating, some scampering past us, in seconds the realization hit me that all of the wild Pokemon seemed to be heading in the same direction. I had no time to look for anyone, I was too busy avoiding getting hit by tons of stones but even in the danger and the dark, I was able to catch sight of Dusty and Eva, but Chastity, Sprite, and Lady.
"Follow the wild Pokemon! If you can hear me, follow the other mons!" I cried out. Eva cried out to me, and I saw a flash of her golden rings in the dark. I managed to get over to her and Dusty. We moved as a small group, Dusty and Eva leaping up and smashing the rocks as they dropped towards us. The worst of the damage avoided us, but the path forward was segmented by a wall of tumbling rocks. Which meant a point of reference for my Pokemon missing in the darkness. I shined my weak Poketch light around, hoping to catch sight of an ear puff or a crimson crest. Hopefully not crushed beneath anything.
Dusty was to my right, Eva on my left, as we followed the wild rock-types to a huge, open hollow- the roofs and walls of which seemed remarkably formidable. The earth's trembling continued, but no stones seemed to fall here. It was surprisingly warm. After a few long, terrifying minutes, the earthquake and the damage it had caused died down once again. I thought I'd been sitting next to Dusty, but when I reached out to touch the furry normal-type who had just been next to me, I was startled when a fat rock with four arms stared back. A graveler sat beside me, and it didn't like that I touched it. I cried out as a rocky fist slammed forward, hitting me right in the nose. The rock-type grunted and waddled away in the darkness.
Nose bleeding and miserable, I tried to form a new plan. "Dusty!" I cried, pointing the flashlight around. Dozens of faces stared back. Eva cried out too, but the normal-type dog was gone... and so was Sprite! As I called out, my voice echoed back uselessly. Where the fuck were my Pokemon?!
"Lady, I think we're getting farther away- not closer."
"You think I don't know Master's energy?" I retorted sharply, scowling in the direction of my aggravating companion. The buneary rolled her soft brown eyes, glowering back. After the cave-in, Chastity and I had quickly realized the cave had been segmented into parts by all the rock. In other words, she and I were separate from Master. Master's voice in the distance was so vague as to be a shadow, and it echoed endlessly, lost in the chaos of the crashing stone and the silence which followed. I'd yelled out to him until my throat was hoarse, with both my mind and my voice, but wherever he was in the cave he couldn't hear either of us. That being said, I could still sense him, which meant we'd find him eventually. Whether it was on the other side, near the human town, or in the caves it didn't matter to me.
For the most part, the other Pokemon left us alone, but when I created a flash of light which hung wondrously in the sky, casting a bright glow in the once-pitch tunnel system, the light revealed a big, blue-brown rock with a massive-noselike implement on its broad, open ace. It towered over the two of us.
Earlier in the day, we'd fought against each other. I didn't let that bother me, instead I let it fill me with confidence. She was fast and ferocious, and my psychic powers are strong- in other words, we reluctantly made a great team. Chastity and I made quick work of the rock, and I cast its hulking metal body aside. It had been blocking a hole in the ground, protecting a nest which led downwards in a unique, intricate system. Oddly enough, when I put my head near it, I sensed Master now more than ever. That worried me. We had started the trip into the caves going up, and now, he was below us.
"I'll go first," Chastity said boldly. When I tried to glance in her mind to get a sense of why she was acting this way, I met the same surprising resistance mentally that I'd found earlier when we'd battled. Now that we were in the lower levels, a few other wild Pokemon felt brave enough to attack too, but they had the same fate. Either, Chastity walloped them, or I made them regret ever picking a fight. No other rabid, scared Pokemon dare attack us.
We made our way through the dark, unfamiliar passages on our own, and no one tried to stop us. In the edge of my mind, I could sense Master's presence.
Alone, in the darkness, I started getting a strange feeling in my stomach. In my head, like I was going to be ill. My head ached, and my voice spilled out against my will. My heart ached, as a horrible loneliness rippled around in my stomach. My voice was weak, so sad and weak, "I hope he is ok. Master. He-he always gets himself into trouble like this! Why couldn't we just take my path?"
"Because your path would stop the rocks from caving in? C'mon Lady, give the human more credit. He's trying."
"Trying what? Trying to torment me? Trying to get himself killed?"
Chastity rolled her eyes. "Are we really going to pretend you haven't been acting insufferable? I- Don't give me that look Lady, whatever. I'll drop it. But Avery is a human, he's not so helpless. Humans are big, strong, and durable. It's the others we should be worried about, like Sprite-" Chastity sighed, glancing at me with an unreadable look in her eyes.
Something about her tone, her expression, rubbed me the wrong way. Her voice always did, but the uppity " I-know-more-than-you " tone this time made it even worse, like she was my mother. She clearly thought that she was better than me, that my concern for Master's safety was childish or unnecessary. But I'd seen it for myself: Team Salvation attempting to kill or take him or do something to him, twin agents in white and their twisted Pokemon. I'd been the one who had to kill them, I shredded their fragile bodies with glass, forced the life to leave their bodies.
This may seem like an earthquake with the consequence of the mountain's insides collapsing, but why should we assume that? Who knows what was really at play here? Maybe they were already approaching Master now, appearing from the shadows, and Eva would hardly be a help against them. I alone could protect him, and the longer I had to spend without him, the more confused and angry and worried I became. Why couldn't Chastity understand that?
Our earlier fight played out in my mind. I was still angry at her, but not as angry. In truth… I had felt compelled to hurt her so bad she could never speak again. Master could not understand her words, but everyone else now knew my secret shame. At some point, Chastity had caught me on Master's face. She knew I kept him asleep as I took my pleasure, she knew that I was desperate for his touch so bad I'd do anything to get it. Surely she knew now that if she ever tried to communicate my secret to him she'd pay for it. Worse, I was unaware of when or how she found out. Which made her all the more terrifying, especially considering- I was sure I couldn't possibly beat Chastity one-on-one in tight quarters like this.
I watched her out of the corner of my eye. She hopped beside me, on the lookout for any more angry wild Pokemon. I'd been wondering about her strange, nonchalant attitude toward everything we'd experienced as a team thus far. She'd joined us at Darkrai's Mansion, events which made my insides shiver even thinking about them, but she hadn't been all that terrified, even while it was happening, and she didn't seem in a rush to get back to Master now that we were all separated. Not for the first time, I wondered where she'd come from. She didn't like to talk about it, and what I'd gleaned from Master's mind was simple: She was a gift, from Vanessa, bought from a strange breeder. He liked her a lot. He liked the way she felt, and how hungry she was for him, and I was forced to bear witness to it. But what else?
Being a gift from that woman alone was enough evidence to be suspicious.
"Who were you, before Master?" I asked suddenly. Still leading, I turned a corner and we went down a dark corridor that sloped downward into deeper, broader depths. Every wall seemed the same, but Chastity leapt up and plunged a hole in the wall as a marker of our travel, so we'd recognize it if we found ourselves here again. She had done this multiple times, and had come up with the idea on her own. Begrudgingly, I had to admit she was pretty smart for thinking ahead like that.
After a long silence, Chastity shook her head, ears flopping this way and that, the buneary finally said: "I don't want to talk about it."
I paused, turning to her. I stepped in front of her, blocking her way forward. We were just about the same was not like Dusty, who submitted quite easily, or Eva, who loved me so much that she took everything I said or did personally, often surrendering just so we'd get along. Instead, Chastity's ears twitched, and she stared back at me, her dark orbs unwavering.
"Master shouldn't have stopped me earlier. You still don't understand your place. I do want to talk about it. So you will."
The buneary blinked back slowly, then smirked. "If you want to know me so badly, you could always ask nicely."
I ignored her. "You were that nasty human, Vanessa's, right?"
"Briefly."
"Tell me about before that."
Chastity smiled and said one word. "No." The normal-type bunny suddenly started laughing. What was so funny? My mind flared with aggravation.
"Stop laughing! It's not funny. If you insist on this mystery behind where you come from, well, I'll do something about it! Master doesn't even spare a thought for you...So you'll tell me where you're from and know your place before I-!"
"Before I - what, Lady?"
"Before I make you."
She burst into laughter again: I was angry, so terribly angry. I hated being laughed at more than anything. How dare she mock me?
"Hmph. I should know my place? Let's talk about that, actually. I've seen things that would make your mind crumple, Lady. You're an elitist brat, a naive and wild Pokemon with no real logic or foundation for reason. Avery doesn't care about me, doesn't think about me? Even if that's true, I don't care about any of that. All I care about is his cock, that adorable, innocent face of his, and the wonderful way he smells."
How dare she talk about Master like he was a piece of meat!?
"Oh don't look so horrified. I just use him the same way you do, but at least with me he knows it's happening. I suppose that's because if he had a choice, you and him would never fuck. He's said that himself, hasn't he?" Chastity's sweet smile was barbed. "You're his little, tiny baby."
My insides twisted up, my throat tightened, eyes burning. Something crawled from inside me, rage, and something colder. "I'm not a baby. And he does want me!"
Master's face earlier today had proven that. The trap I'd set up had been wonderfully effective. He'd watched me toy with my body, and I'd felt his cravings to replace the toy with himself, and that had been enough to make me feel so wonderfully owned by him. He hadn't gathered up the courage to open the door and put his hands on me, but eventually, if I pushed hard enough over and over, he would have no choice but to go all the way with me. Then, Eva would wipe that nasty, smug look off her face, and Chastity would too.
"He does want you? Oh, is that why you have to resort to climbing his sleeping face and using him to get yourself off?" My entire body went cold at her words. "Night after night, you pathetic little whore. Oh, what you'd do to get fucked by Avery. You crave it like water, don't you? I've felt it. His human dick pounding my insides away. He can never handle just one orgasm though, he has to take me again and again once he gets his hands on me. Never once left me unsatisfied and unfilled - he mates me good and proper, almost like a Pokemon would. Holds me, makes sure I feel safe and warm after. Just think, that's something you'll never experience."
She painted a vivid picture. I wanted to pull her tongue out, to hit her until she'd shut up, but I couldn't. My eyes burned. Still she didn't relent.
"Does it bother you? That I've felt it? Felt his big, hard cock push into me. Over and over, quick and hard. He has a really nice one. It smells, tastes, feels...incredible. But you wouldn't know that. Does it hurt you that you have to resort to masturbating with him while Eva and I don't even have to try?"
"Shut- SHUT UP!" I snapped. "He loves me more than any of you combined, I've saved him, and him me. We have something special!
"How do you think he'd feel about what you do to him while he's asleep? Do you think he'd care? Maybe he'd realize what a little perverted freak you are and toss you aside. Put you back into the wild where you belong."
"I belong by Master's side." I whispered in a dangerous tone. "He'll be my mate. It's destiny, I saw it!" Chastity could say whatever she liked, but I'd seen the Future. I'd felt him, felt his hands on my body, and his sweet voice whispering my new name as he pushed himself into me. The phantom pleasure, the wonderful feeling of his body against mine and his gentle voice saying my name- I wouldn't let anyone take that away from me, Master was my truth!
"Keep saying that, maybe one day you'll actually believe it."
While we'd been arguing, we'd gotten closer and closer to each other. Chastity's nose was practically touching mine by now. I could feel and smell her hot sweet breath. Heated still, we were both heavily breathing by now. We could pretend that our cruel banter toward each other meant nothing, that it was meaningless and didn't affect us, but a miasma of emotions was reflected back at me in the dark pools of her eyes. It was clear to me that words wouldn't suffice.
"I'll force you to tell me everything I want to know about you. I can just reach inside your mind and pull it out of you. Master doesn't want me to, but I'm willing to do what's necessary."
Chastity's dark eyes didn't leave mine for a second: "You really want to know about what I did before Avery, Lady?"
"Yes." I muttered.
"Okay. Then, I'll show you."
I gasped as two paws suddenly pressed to my shoulders, and the Buneary tackled me to the ground. I landed on my back, and reached out to my reserve of psychic energy, but faltered as Chastity's big brown eyes, twinkling with a strange and savage delight, stared down at me. Her round face was aggravatingly pretty right now, the vivid, pulsing light from my flash radiating from the sphere I'd summoned nearby. Her huge, fluffy ears, the ones I would never underestimate again after our fight earlier, twitched – I knew that while they appeared gentle and relaxed now, the bunny Pokemon was also listening, waiting for the slightest twitch of my body. In other words, she was ready to pounce. Then, Chastity did the unthinkable.
"Don't struggle, Lady. You asked for this."
She suddenly tugged my soft, slender thighs apart and revealed my altar to Master, my most precious area. She did it with a strangely sure, well-practiced motion. The hunger in her eyes was making my heart flutter with something strange, something forbidden. The hatred and anger fizzled away, and I was suddenly hyper-aware of her soft, wet mouth, slightly parted in a smirk.
With heart-stopping clarity, all the heat seemed to take on a new edge. Chastity stared at me with a hunger in her eyes that had always been there, that I only just now recognized.
"I was taught to beat up Pokemon too helpless to stop me. And I was taught to do this. I've never wanted to use these skills, until now. Maybe you really are special, Lady."
Her mocking words were too much. I moaned as Chastity started placing gentle, almost loving, kisses up my thighs. Why was her mouth so warm, so gentle, so soft? The slight tease of her tongue against my skin made me shudder. Anger rose up in me. How dare she touch me without my permission!? I wanted to reach out, to force her away from me, but instead I whimpered pathetically as her tiny mouth kept kissing my thighs, her wet little tongue occasionally sneaking out.
"S-Stop, you're disgusting," I hissed out softly, "stop touching me… it's not for you…"
"Make me stop, and I will," Chastity whispered back, teasing her face across my body and exhaling softly. Her hot breath was stimulating my thighs, making them tingle. A rush of moisture was building somewhere higher, and I couldn't help but push toward the contact even as I hated it that it wasn't Master who was touching me. The horror of that, someone like this, a mere Pokemon and more than that this nuisance was making me tingle in a way preserved for Him! My thoughts were in conflict with my body. More than anything, I wanted her mouth on the source of my heat.
Those lonely nights with Masters face, it was a cold matter, imagination and simple movements. Like he was a machine, and it made me a little sick… This was a wet, throbbing, heated affair- I couldn't think straight. I should scream at her, reach inside her mind and break her the way I had Vanessa, or worse. I should end her daring to distract me from what we'd set out to do, for talking to me the way she had. She was disgusting, she was beneath me, she was nothing, the worthless toy of my master, she was-
"You're so beautiful," Chastity suddenly whispered. I never expected her to say that. Her next action shocked me more than any words ever could. The buneary leaned forward, and pressed her mouth against mine. I had always wanted to take part in this. To kiss Master until my head went dizzy, just like Eva did. But I wasn't allowed. Now, Chastity's paws rested on either side of my head, and she kissed me hungrily.
If stopping her was the priority, now was the time to do it. But when I reached inward, I couldn't find that anger anymore. It had transformed into something else. Instead of pushing her away, I pushed my tongue against hers. The wet noises alone were enough to excite me, and when Chastity shoved an eager paw between my thighs, stimulating my soft, wet spot, I shivered violently, a bit of fear making me back away.
"Don't be scared! You asked me to show you what I did- let me make you feel good. You don't have to be awful to everyone just because you want to feel good." She emphasized her words by toying with the hot, tingling button above my entrance, her adorable, furry face an inch from mine. "I'll show you everything."'
I closed my eyes. "Okay."
When Chastity dipped her fluffy-eared head between my legs, my whole world melted and transformed. The dark, shadowed parts of the cavern suddenly enticed me to stay here. To not struggle. To give in completely. Chastity wrapped her mouth around the spot I planned to refuse to anyone but him. It was not like it was with Master as my puppet. That couldn't possibly compare. Chastity started to lap my wetness up: Urgent, hungry strokes of her tongue across my clit. It seemed she knew all my weak spots. It was like electricity, just for me, and sometimes she moaned my name. Hearing her whisper "Lady" between wet, hungry licking, it was mind-numbing. There was no doubt in my mind, just how much she wanted me to feel good, and she was relentless. At times Chastity pressed her tongue around the base of my clit, swirling around the swollen nub and sucking on me hard until I'd squirm and pant and beg her to stop and right when I felt like my mind was about to be blown into the stars, then she'd stop, and start teasing the overly-sensitive tip instead, her hot breath rushing against my flustered skin. I started to squirm, and wet noises filled the air as Chastity raised her paw and started rubbing the wet mess beneath my clit.
"So soaked. Poor, neglected little Lady. Avery is silly for not jumping on this...but it makes me happy that I'll be your first," The buneary smirked, brown face lit up by my flash orb, her dark eyes twinkling like twin stars.
"Don't talk," I snapped. "You'll ruin it."
Chastity laughed again. "You're so cute, thinking you're in control. You're feeling good because I'm letting you. I think I really, really like you, Lady."
"...Like me?" Somehow, that made me even more dizzy. I didn't care if she liked me! I didn't! "I-I said don't talk! Just, please just-
"Please just- what?" That smirk, that knowing, innocent tone.
She was frustrating me beyond anything I'd ever known. Why couldn't she just shut up and lick me? Then I could sit back and picture master's tongue. Instead, she had to talk, talk, talk, tell me she liked me, comment on my body, let out those adorable noises like licking me up was her favorite activity ever.
"Please just touch, stop talking!" I pushed my hips upward, and spread my thighs as wide as they could go, displaying my pretty, lime green insides for her to see. It was humiliating, being on display like this, all wet and raw. But, if it would get her to touch, instead of talk...
Instead of continuing with her mouth, I was shocked into silence when Chastity adjusted her position entirely, pinning me beneath her. She adjusted her lower fluff, and I screamed out in shock when she pushed her hot, sweltering core against mine. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever felt, our hot, wet spots were connected. I could feel her heart on mine. It was an excited, wild motion, and her legs locked around one of mine. I covered my mouth, horrified by the pleasured sound I'd let out, and Chastity smiled, eyes glazed with pleasure.
"I have so much more to show you, Lady. Put your leg up, bend it...yeah, like that...see, now look at us."
Dizzy, I glanced down at where we were connected. Clit to clit, I could feel our arousal, our hunger combining and swelling and threatening to drown me. We were leaking all over each other, her fur and my skin. In truth. I couldn't stop myself from smiling, sick with pleasure, or stop myself from gently rubbing forward, for the first taste of friction. Chastity's ears bounced, twitched, so did I, as our bodies came alive. I had only intended to tease myself with it, to get a little taste of what's to come, but I couldn't hold my body back from moving again. Chastity clearly felt the same way, because she smiled, giggled, and wrapped her arms around me.
Chastity kissed me again. This time, I didn't bite at her, or try to push her away. Instead, I kissed her back, hard. Her tongue quickly found mine, and I let mine play with hers. Oh, it felt so good, the slight salt of her tongue, the smell of her breath, the feeling of her sopping wet pussy on mine. The wetness only seemed to grow by the second,
Chastity didn't complain when I suddenly grabbed her shoulders and pushed her onto her back, the same way she had me earlier. And, before I could try to push against her first and make her feel good, she started moving. I was like a toy doll as she began to hump me, at first slow. It was like an electric storm being set off, tingles all over as our clits brushed.
"I-Oh what is this!?" I moaned pathetically. "Chastity, harder…"
"This is what it's like getting fucked by Master," Chastity teased. She bucked her hips even harder, as if stimulating fucking me like Master would, and the slapping wet noises only excited me more even as I felt a rush of embarrassment so intense my face burned. "Except you're missing this part…"
She pushed her paw downward, and when she moved to push it inside me, I shook my head violently. "NO! No! That spot is Master's!"
I was worried she was going to push it in anyways. A part of me wanted that.
Instead, she sighed wistfully. Then we humped each other until we both forgot how to breathe, legs and tongues intertwined, until we couldn't anymore.
I had more questions for Chastity. Her actions had explained what she'd been taught, and little else. I knew she felt lust for me, I didn't know for how long, or even why considering how I treated her. I cared too little about it, my mind consumed by the orgasms that had racked through my frame, to ask again. And, maybe part of it was that I didn't want to see that sad look in her eyes when she talked about that place. Either way, what mattered now was simple: reconnecting with Master.
When Chastity brushed her paw against my hand, when she leaned herself against me, soft and fluffy and warm in the cold cave, I didn't complain. Huddled together, basking in the pleasure we'd just shared, we started our cave excursion once again.
"Maybe you're not as useless as the rest of them." I whispered to her, wondering what else she could teach me, and how we'd do it without getting caught by Master.
Chastity merely laughed. And, much to my annoyance, I liked the sound of it.
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