Chapter 3

A week passed and things we're going well in the Claes Household, Keith had settled into the family nicely, he and their father had began training Keith's Golett which according to them had been going easier than they thought it would, it seemed that Katarina defeating Golett had caused the Automaton Pokemon to calm down, Golett had even apologised to Katarina for attacking her and since tending to the fields had become her hobby Keith would help her by having Golett carry anything heavy for her.

''Ah it's another beautiful, perfect for working the fields'' Katarina said to herself dressed in her green work jumpsuit with a hoe in hand she walked to her field followed by her brother and her fiancé.

''Hey sister do you need any help?'' Keith asked.

''I'm happy to assist you as well'' stated Gerald, followed by his Eevee who very fond of Katarina, he enjoyed snuggling up to her and weaving in-between her feet.

''Thanks you two I appreciate it'' Katarina said brightly, but she started to dull when she saw the saplings that had grown ''they're wilting but why I gave them plenty of water and fertiliser'' Gerald's Eevee went up and nuzzled against her to try and cheer her up, something she was thankful for giving him a pat on the head.

''It's alright sister'' said Keith comfortingly before he and Gerald both said ''here let me help you'' at the same time, causing the two to look at one another ''oh there's no need for you to involve yourself with this Prince Gerald and speaking of things you don't need to do, I don't think you need to come here everyday surely you have Princely duties to attend'' his smile starting to strain.

''If it's something that my fiancee cares about then I do need to get involved Keith and it is true unfortunately I'll be busy for a couple of weeks, hence why I like spending this time with Katarina, but if we're going to get into things that are unnecessary then I'll say I find it unnecessary for you to cling to her all time Keith'' Gerald stated his smile was starting to strain too.

'Aww, they're such good friends' Katarina thought to herself with a smile as she watched the two before returning her gaze to her wilting plants, but then Katarina heard a noise that got her attention ''what was that?'' Katarina got up and started running towards that noise, with Gerald and Keith along with Gerald's Eevee chasing after her, Katarina quickly got into a bush to hide as she along with Gerald and Keith approached whatever made the sound and she saw what made the noise, it was a female Nidoran.

''Is that a wild Nidoran?'' Gerald asked ''how did it get on this estate?''

''It may have dug under the fence or there might be an opening somewhere, we'll have to inform mother and father about that'' Keith explained.

While the two boys talked Katarina looked at the Nidoran exited, this was a perfect opportunity to get a really powerful Pokemon and she loved using Nidoqueen in the games and this was her best opportunity to get a Nidoqueen ''alright this is my chance'' she said, catching the attention of the two boys.

''Do you want me to catch it for you sister?'' Keith asked.

''As her Fiancee I should catch it for her'' said Gerald.

''Oh no need you two, I'll catch it myself with a back strike'' said Katarina before sneaking through the bushes, as she did the two boys looked at each other.

''Ok can we just agree when this turns bad we'll jump in and catch it for her?'' Gerald asked.

''I've already got Golett's ball ready'' said Keith.

Katarina stealthily snuck through the bushes as the Nidoran smelt some flowers, she was trying her best to get behind the Nidoran though it was a bit difficult since the bushes didn't expend far enough for Katarina to sneak around and she couldn't leave the bushes for a better angle without being spotted, which was the same problem she constantly faced in Legends Arceus, so Katarina decided to risk it and jumped out of the bush throwing a Friend Ball as hard as she could, the Ball sailed through the air and struck the Nidoran in the back catching it by surprise as the Ball absorbed the Nidoran into it, the Ball gave a couple of shakes before sealing catching the Nidoran.

Katarina jumped into the air cheering as the boys came out of the bushes stunned that, that had actually worked as Eevee rushed out to join in Katarina's celebration, when she had finished Katarina let Nidoran out of the ball and knelt down in front of her ''I'm sorry about that Nidoran, I hope we can be friend'' she said, petting the small blue Pokemon which she seemed to enjoy.

''That was a rather impressive catch Katarina'' commented Gerald.

''It really was great sister, really'' Keith said.

''Thanks you two'' said Katarina with a smile before turning to Nidoran ''I think a lot of people have Nidoran's, so to avoid any confusion that might come up I'm going to give you a nickname, lets see… oh how about Queenie?'' Nidoran started to run around excitedly which made Katarina laugh ''I guess you approve''

Later on when the family were sat having dinner when Duke Claes turned to Katarina and said ''Katarina you've been invited by the daughters of Marquis Hunt to a tea party, would you like to go?''

''A tea party?'' Katarina asked before thinking it over 'I suppose that makes sense noble girls often attend they're first tea parties at nine or ten years old and they make they're social debuts at age fifteen if I recall correctly' ''sure that sounds gre-''

Duchess Claes abruptly got up from her seat cutting Katarina off ''darling she mustn't go, just look at the beastly girl she hasn't learned any manners at all'' and she was right Katarina was currently stuffing a loaf of bread into her mouth and even her father couldn't defend her.

''You do have a point, but perhaps she could learn more through actual experience'' he said weakly before brightening up as a sudden idea came to him ''oh I know, why don't we have Keith chaperone her, we wouldn't need to worry if he were there''

Keiths face lit up as soon as Duke Claes said that ''oh, I'd be more than happy to accompany her'' Keith happily said.

'Wait, I'm the eldest why can't I go anywhere without Keith' Katrina thought to herself.A couple of days later the day of the tea party was upon them, but Katarina wanted to do something with Ralts first, so she quietly snuck out of the house and rushed to the big tree she liked to climb, which was where she brought Ralts out, Ralts looked at the tree in amazement she had never seen a tree this big.

''It's nice isn't it'' Katarina smiled and Ralts nodded in agreement, Katarina then turned around and knelt down ''climb on Ralts, I want to show you something even better'' Ralts climbed onto Katarina's back and Katarina started to climb the tree until she got to a branch they could both sit on, when they settled down Ralts steered out at the view in amazement ''it's wonderful isn't it, we didn't get a chance to appreciate it when we were being chased by that Mightyena did we, so I thought we'd enjoy it now'' Katarina and Ralts sat on that branch looking out at the beautiful scenery until Katarina heard her mother calling out for her, Katarina returned Ralts to her Luxury Ball and quickly got down from the tree.

After a few minutes where Anne and her Audino helped Katarina get ready she and Keith set off in the carriage, when they got to the Hunt Mansion they were greeted by the daughters of Marquis Hunt and their pokemon, guests we're aloud to have one Pokemon out so Katarina had Queenie and when they got out of the carriage Keith let Golett out of its Ball, at first glance their were three daughters, all three had blonde hair and fully evolved Pokemon with each daughter wearing a different coloured dress, Lilia wore a green dress and had a Cinccino perched on her shoulder, the second daughter was named Cassandra she wore a pinky dress and a Delcatty stood next to her and the third daughter Victoria was wearing a dark blue dress with a Wigglytuff next to her.

''We're pleased to welcome you'' said Lilia curtseying them along with her sisters and her Cinccino gave a little bow on her shoulder ''and thank you for joining our tea party today, we hope you enjoy it''

''I'm sure we will'' said Katarina returning the curtsey, Queenie mimicking her actions by giving a small bow ''and we thank you for inviting us''

''Everything's been set up in the parlour'' stated Cassandra.

''Please make yourself comfortable'' said Victoria.

''Thank you'' said Katarina with a smile, but then she noticed someone step out from behind the other three, it was another girl presumably a fourth sister, this one had several notable differences for one her hair was red and her eyes were brown as appose to the other three sisters who had grey eyes, along with that several of her facial features were different to her sisters, she was wearing a yellow dress and a small Glameow was at her side.

''Umm, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm the youngest my name is Mary Hunt'' she said with a soft mousey voice.

''It's nice to meet you, Lady Mary'' said Katarina giving Mary a curtsey, to which the girl just looked down and backed away while her sisters gave her sidewards glances, which confused Katarina but then Lilia spoke up inviting them inside which drew her attention back to the three older sisters.

When they went inside Katarina had to go through a literal hour of meeting and greeting everyone at the party, all the girls at the party were exited to meet Prince Gerald's fiancee and when she had finally finished she was exhausted she leaned against the refreshment table exhausted, Queenie nudged up against her concerned to which Katarina petted her.

''Oh, don't worry Queenie, I'm ok just a little exhausted from the meet and greet'' she said with a tired sigh, before she noticed where she was ''I guess everyones too busy making small talk to check out the food, it's just us Queenie, so lets have some'' Queenie nodded as Katarina picked her up, the table was stocked with treats for both people and Pokemon, their were cookies and Poffins, cupcakes and Pokeblock, Muffins and Pokepuffs, Katarina fed Queen a Poffin while she took a cookie for herself, they both enjoyed what they had eaten and Katarina felt the other girls were missing out, but it did give her an excellent idea, she placed Queenie on the table and placed a plate in front of her ''some for you and some for Ralts ok?''

Katarina then began to eat her own fill of sweets and drank a cup of tea set at the table.

''Well, well, so your Katarina Claes?'' A voice drawled behind her.

Katarina turned to see a girl with long well groomed black hair that was tied into a pony tail and narrow acidic green eyes, she was wearing a purple dress, standing next to her was a Pawniard.

'Who's she? I don't think I met her during the meet and greet' Katarina thought to herself swallowing the tea she had been drinking and addressed the girl ''I'm sorry I don't think we've met''

''No we haven't I decided to refrain from introducing myself until you were done with the riff raff'' the girl said ''I'm sure you've heard of me I am Lady Noelia Flores, of the Flores duchy''

'Flores, I can't help but feel that I've heard that name before, but where…' Katarina thought to herself eating another cookie, when she finished the sweet she gave a small curtsy ''it's nice to meet you Lady Flores''

Noelia just scoffed ''well I suppose it is good to be cordially introduced to each other'' she then saw Queenie ''is that your Pokemon''

''Yes she is'' said Katarina.

''Really of all the Pokemon you could get, you chose to get a Nidoran'' Noelia smirked ''I guess I'm already winning with my Pawniard''

''I don't know what you mean exactly, she wasn't given to me by my or anything like that, I caught Queenie by myself and I'm quite happy with her'' Katarina explained 'well that was rude and what did she mean by winning? Wait…' after thinking it over for a moment ''oh, were you a candidate for Prince Gerald's Fiancee?''

''Yes I was'' said Noelia ''but I never did get to meet the Prince, apparently he got engaged by some clumsy idiot who tripped on a loose floor in the garden and scarred her forehead when she hit the ground, sound familiar''

''I'm sorry, listen I know Prince Gerald only got engaged to me out of convince and to shield him until he finds someone to love, so if you want I can put good word for you'' said Katarina.

''You think I want your charity Lady Claes, your pathetic look at you here stuffing your face full of sweets while the rest of us act as true Ladies'' Noelia said with a nasty grin ''no matter, I don't need charity from someone as pathetic as you, I'll win Prince Gerald from you and once he see's me and how much better a fiancee I'd be he'll leave you I don't need your recommendation because I will replace you easily and prove once and for all the Flores family is superior to the Claes family'' with that Noelia walked away with her Pawniard and Katarina went back to eating.

'Man, so far it's only been me and Lady Flores and Lady Flores didn't even have anything, her lose heck its everyones lose, they're all missing out, if I had a bag with me I'd take all of this home!' Katarina thought to herself.

''Sister'' Keith came up from behind her scaring her ''what are you doing?''

''Oh nothing'' Katarina replied, returning her gaze to the deserts table.

Keith narrowed his eyes at this he knew exactly what was going on here ''you were thinking about taking all those sweets home weren't you'' he said with an accusatory tone.

''Wow that was incredible how did you know?'' Katarina asked with an amazed tone.

''I just know you too well sister, but you know you can't do that right?'' Keith stated ''you realise you cannot do that right, you'd put the dignity of the Claes family into question and you would be in big trouble if mother found out, besides she already banned you from eating sweets when she caught you eating a cookie off the ground after mumbling about a five second rule''

''Then there's no choice, if I can't take them home I'll just have to eat them all right now!'' Katarina exclaimed, before starting to stuff her face full of deserts.

''Whoa, sisters please stop I think you've had enough!'' Keith cried before Katarina and grasped her stomach making him concerned ''sister are you alright?''

''Of course why wouldn't I be? Excuse me a moment I need to go powder my nose!'' Katarina cried running off with Queenie following behind her carrying a plate in her mouth, Keith cried out after her but Katarina ignored it, as she left the room Katarina caught a glance of Noelia chatting with all but one of the Hunt sisters.

A few minutes later Katarina was knelt down in a hallway that lead back to the party and to the Hunt family garden smiling as she watched Ralts and Queenie happily eat the sweet poketreats Queenie had gathered for them, when they finished Katarina returned Ralts to her Luxury Ball which was handing on her neck, her father had given her a necklace for her last birthday it was silver chain with a magnetic charm, it was for when she found her partner Pokemon to keep it close to her at all times, Katarina and Queenie started to make their way back to the party but stopped as they saw something beautiful.

Katarina hadn't really taken time to look at the garden when she passed by but looking at it now it was like a painting that had come to life, Katarina walked into the garden followed closely by Queenie gazing around in awe at how beautiful the garden was, eventually she made her way to the centre where she found the youngest sister Mary hunt, she was sat around the fountain with her Glameow cuddling up on her lap as was hugging a Petilil, with a Bulbasaur sat at her side, she looked up as Katarina approached.

''Oh, Lady Katarina what are you doing out here?'' She asked surprised.

''Oh I just had to step out for a minute'' Katarina explained ''what are you doing out here Lady Mary?''

''I don't really like noisey crowded places, they make me feel dizzy, so being in their was a bit too much for me'' Mary explained looking down sadly with her Pokemon nuzzling up to try and comfort her.

Katarina was a bit confused by Mary's demeanor 'why is she so nervous is it because of my evil face!' She thought to herself, with that in mind she gave what she hoped to be a friendly smile and said ''are all of those your Pokemon, they look really strong and healthy, you must be a great trainer and this garden is so beautiful and everything is blooming so brilliantly your gardener must be very talented'' Katarina didn't notice Mary's change of expression as she kept talking ''oh I know Lady Mary can you introduce me to your gardener, if anyone could grow flowers this beautiful I'd love to talk to them''

Mary's expression returned to the gloomy expression she had before, she then returning her gaze to the ground ''I am'' she said softly ''I'm the one who tends to the garden, we have a gardener but I'm the one who does most of the work so he mostly just waters the plants''

''Wow really, that's amazing!'' Katarina cheered, causing Mary to look up in surprise ''do you mind if I ask you a few questions maybe you can help me with my problem'' Katarina then sat down and explained her situation to Mary while their Pokemon played.

''You have crops?'' Mary asked surprised ''so you do field farming?''

''Yeah it was an idea I came up with to help me learn how to raise a grass type, but their wilting and I don't know what to do or what I've done wrong'' explained Katarina a bit sad remembering her wilting crops.

''I'm sorry, but I've never looked after vegetables before only flowers so I don't have any advice to give you and I don't what the problem is based on what you told me after just hearing about it, I'd need to see it'' said Mary, before Katarina took Mary's hand into her's this caused Mary to blush.

''In that case would you please come to my house to take a look at it?'' Katarina asked.

''R-really, you'd want me to come to your house Lady Katarina?'' Mary asked shakily.

''Yes I do, so how about it, would you come over to my house?'' Katarina asked.

After a moment of hesitation Mary responded ''s-sure''


The next day, Monday, Katarina met Mary at the front door of the manor, already dressed in her gardening attire, Mary was also dressed differently, she was wearing a pink dress with a yellow jacket and a sunhat, a small bag hung at her side, she had three Luxury Balls attached to the pocket of her jacket, Katarina quickly and excitedly lead Mary to the garden specifically to her patch of the garden.

''Oh goodness, you really are growing crops in a farm field'' said Mary in surprise.

''Sure am'' said Katarina ''this is what I was telling you about, at first I thought it might just because its too hot, but our Gardener Tom is growing vegetables over there and they're doing just fine''

''Hmm, then maybe'' Mary mused to herself pulling a book out of her jackets ''I think that they're probably not getting the right amount of nutrients in this patch of the earth, lets move them to a different spot''

''Will do'' said Katarina and after the two decided on a patch of earth Katarina started to ho it until her hoe suddenly caught on something, Katarina pulled and pulled but she couldn't seem to get whatever it was out.

''What's wrong?'' Mary asked.

''My hoe's caught on something'' said Katarina giving it another pull but whatever it was stayed still ''it's probably a large rock or something I'll probably have to get Keith and his Golett or Tom and his Tangrowth to get it out for me'' she gave it another tug and this time she felt it move slightly ''oh wait, I think I've got it, Mary give me a hand would you''

Mary then wrapped her arms around Katarina's waist and the two girls pulled and pulled until they pulled it out of the ground it was some kind of dirty ball that floated up into the air before it started to shake the dirt off revealing it was a Pumpkaboo, the girls both let out startled cry, causing the Pokemon to turn towards them.

Acting quick Katarina threw an Ultra Ball at the floating pumpkin, it hit and absorbed the Pumpkaboo into it, the ball shook midair before landing on the ground and shaking once before sealing capturing the pokemon inside.

''Alright, I caught Pumpkaboo!'' Katarina cheered, doing a pose with the ball.

''That was really impressive lady Katarina'' said Mary ''And it's a good sign Pumpkaboo like to plant themselves in fertile patches of earth, so this should be a really good spot''

''That's great, but first things first'' Katarina said she held out Pumpkaboo's Ultra Ball ''do you want to take Pumpkaboo? I mean we both encountered Pumpkaboo at the same time I was just quicker on the draw which was why I caught it but I don't want to take a catch away from anyone, so if you want to you can take Pumpkaboo''

Mary was stunned by the offer and blushed slightly, she gave a smile and said ''thank you Lady Katarina, but you caught Pumpkaboo, so you can take it, now then lets get to work''

For the rest of the week Mary came over and the two girls worked on Katarina's vegetable patch, but of course it wasn't all work after a lot of work they would take a break, they would relax as they're pokemon, who did help them with the patch, played and while they played Katarina and Mary would chat and enjoy tea and sweets, Mary was showing Katarina a book full of information about flowers.

''This is my favourite rose, it's a very unusual colour don't you think I love it and I would love to grow some one day'' said Mary.

''I'm sure you can do it Mary, your amazing!'' Katarina cheered.

''Thank you, that's so nice of you to say'' said Mary with a smile.

''I mean it would be easy for your with your Green thumbs'' said Katarina with a smile.

''Green thumbs?'' Mary asked a little shaky.

''Yeah when someone is really good with plants you say they have a green thumb, but your really good with plants and grass type Pokemon so you have two green thumbs, heck you may not just have a green thumb but you might also have green fingers!''

''D-does the mean you think I'm special?'' Mary asked tearing up a little.

''Of course I do, your amazing Mary'' said Katarina.

''Thank you, thank you so much'' said Mary, with a big smile on her face tears trailing down her face.

''What's wrong Mary?'' Katarina asked worried.

''Oh, nothing these are happy tears'' smiled Mary 'that's the first time someone's told me that in a long time''

''Well I'll tell you it as much as you need me to tell you'' said Katarina.

''Thank you Lady Katarina'' said Mary with a teary smile.

Of course Mary couldn't come over everyday, she had weekend lessons she had to attend but that was ok with Katarina as she would use weekends to do some training with her Pokemon, she was training with Ralts and Pumpkaboo, she wanted Pumpkaboo to teach Ralts how to use Shadow Ball, eventually Pumpkaboo was able to teach Ralts how to use Shadow Ball Katarina was about to praise Ralts when Ralts started to glow and change shape, when the glow died down Katarina beamed even more.

''You evolved into Kirlia!'' Katarina cheered, the new Kirlia cheered too and gave Katarina a bow and Katarina turned to Pumpkaboo ''and it's all thanks to your help Pumpkaboo great job!'' Pumpkaboo looked embarrassed but accepted the praise ''ok how about a break, I think Kirlia's evolution is more than enough reason to take a break- oh wait I just came up with the perfect idea for a break!''


Once again Anne Shelly was standing outside a room with her Audino, only this time it wasn't her charges room it was one of the sitting rooms, specifically the one with the piano, she could hear her Lady playing the piano inside the room, it was a lovely tune that she was playing, she was undoubtably having a private tea party between herself and her Pokemon.

Which she was, she had poured out a cup for herself, Kirlia and Pumpkaboo and she had also found a small bowl to pour some tea into to make it easier for Queenie to drink out of, currently Queenie and Pumpkaboo were watching enamoured while their trainer played the piano Kirlia beautifully danced to the music, it was wonderful time for all of them.


Eventually Katarina's crops started to sprout again, but that didn't stop the two from visiting each other, Katarina later learned from Keith about the passing of Mary's mother, how her sisters bullied her and Mary's engagement to Gerald's twin brother Alan, the first two made Katarina determined to make Mary as happy as she could, the third made her stop and realise that that was the third route the Heroine of Fortune Lover could take it was alright though, Mary wouldn't be banished or killed, something Katarina was a little salty about, but Katarina did steal a line which could be a problem, but upon reflection it was nothing to worry about Alan was a Prince in an Otome game after all one line wasn't going to harm him, a week after Mary's engagement the two met up.

''Mary, I heard your settlement to Prince Alan has been settled, congratulations'' Katarina said.

''Oh thank you, we're both engaged to Prince's now, I'm happy to share that position with you'' Mary smiled.

''Right, right, so how did the meeting go, I've never met Prince Alan before what's he like?'' Katarina asked.

''Oh, he was very beautiful, he showed me his Pokemon and I showed him mine, oh and he complimented my garden like you did it made me so happy'' Mary answered.

''Oh what pokemon did Prince Alan have?'' Katarina asked.

''His Eevee of course and he also had a Grooky too'' said Mary.

''Wow, well go on what happened next?'' Katarina asked.

''That was about much it'' said Mary.

''Really, not even a mention of your green thumb?'' Katarina asked.

''Gosh Lady Katarina you really heard of that minute detail?'' Mary asked.

''So it did come up then?'' Asked Katarina.

''Yes I told him about what you said to me'' explained Mary.

''Wait you said it and you told him I told you that?'' Katarina asked.

''Yes he brought it up and I told him you said the same thing, I was just so happy I couldn't help but tell him you know'' said Mary caressing her blushing cheeks.

'No way he could say it then, not after I said it to her, I'm sorry Alan' Katarina thought to herself.

The next day Katarina was in her garden when Anne followed by her Audino rushed up to her ''my lady the Prince- the Prince has come to see you'' Anne panted out.

''Ok, but why are you so flustered, I mean Prince Gerald often comes out to see me so whats the problem?'' Katarina asked confused.

''Because its not Prince Gerald my lady its the fourth Prince Alan who has come to see you''


'So yeah that's the chapter, that was a little harder than expected because of a lot of changes I decided to make and a lot I wanted to do hopefully you still liked it, I chose to give Katarina a Nidoran, there are still two more slots open and I'm deciding which other two Pokemon she will get, not three because she will get the reference to Pochi, which I'm pretty sure you can guess what that is.

I hope you didn't mind the choices I made for Mary and Alan's teams, Mary's team I kept somewhat the same only changing one of them and that's because I think these Pokemon go well with Mary, as for Alan I hope I made good choices for his team, he's going to be a water type trainer and Grooky is going to be a reference to his music talents.

I do want this fic to be different from the original so you can read both and not be reading the exact same thing so I'm also trying to work out which Pokemon they should keep and which they shouldn't, also a little note, I'm still planning for all of them to get a Pokemon from the Paldea region since Katarina only knows about the starters and legendaries of that region and at least one of them will get an egg.

So yeah Noelia is in this story if you don't know who she is she's the antagonist of spin off manga, she also in the original story, don't how many of you follow both so I'm just telling you, yes I know she's not a Duke's daughter I think she's a Marquis daughter like Mary but she's been upgraded here, the reason why I made her a Dukes daughter is because in the story Noelia couldn't really do anything to Katarina because of the difference in their rank, now she can which makes her a much more prevalent threat, I was thinking of making her a poison type trainer but maybe I'll make her mixed like Katarina's I don't know and I gave her a Pawniard which will evolve into Bisharp because I think that's one of the hardest Pokemon for Gardevour to face of against because of its typing tell me if I'm wrong.

Oh couple more things, I'm indecisive so tell me if you think Gerald should be an electric or fire type trainer and I want to give someone a Nidoking since Katarina's going to have Nidoqueen I just don't know who's going to get it yet, if you've got a suggestion for who please tell me.