Chapter 3

''Ah, another beautiful day, its perfect for working in the fields'' Katarina said to herself, walking to her garden patch dressed in her gardening clothes with her hoe in hand.

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

''I'd be more than happy to assist you as well'' stated Gerald following behind them.

''Thanks you two I appreciate it'' smiled Katarina.

It had been a few weeks since Keith had joined the family and he had integrated into the family quite well, with her fathers help he had been able to reign in his Golett, Golett had even apologised for Shadow Punching her in its own way and Keith had often used it to help her by having Golett carry heavy things for Katarina.

Keith still didn't know about Gible and Katarina considered that to be a miracle, but she did reveal Gible to Anne and soon after she had to reveal it to her mother and father.


-FLASHBACK-

It had been an hour since Katarina had blasted Keith bedroom door open with Gible and Katarina's mother had been scolding her the whole time with her Salamance glaring down at Katarina the whole time, its intimidate ability in full effect, but fortunately for Katarina her scolding was cut short by her father bursting into the room followed by Anne, he looked extremely pleased and quickly rushed over to pick up Katarina and spin her around.

''Luigi!'' the duchess exclaimed unable to comprehend why her husband was acting this way.

''Oh my sweet beautiful Katarina, my precious baby girl I am so proud of you, never have I been so proud in all my life!'' he cheered cuddling Katarina close as he spun oh his heel.

''F-father, please put me down your smoshing me and I'm starting to get dizzy!'' Katarina cried, to which Duke Claes quickly put her down and helped to steady her.

''Oh, I'm sorry precious I'm just so proud of your right now'' said Duke Claes happily.

''Your happy that Katarina somehow blew a door apart, which could have injured Keith!'' Duchess Claes exclaimed angrily.

''Hmm, oh yes that I agree with you Millidiana that is something Katarina shouldn't have done but honestly I'm just so happy at the moment'' said Duke Claes still beaming ''I never would have thought my dear darling Katarina would have discovered a new species of Pokemon''

This caught Duchess Claeses attention ''new species, Luigi what are you talking about?'' she asked.

''Anne just told me'' said Duke Claes grinning ear to ear ''she told me that to blow the door open Katarina called out a Pokemon she had never seen before''

''Its true Lady Claes'' said Anne stepping forwards ''as you know I'm a former noble and as such I have seen every Pokemon recorded but I have never seen any Pokemon like the one Lady Katarina called out''

Duches Claes then turned to Katarina ''show me'' she ordered Salamanca backing her up with a glare.

Katarina flinched, she couldn't see anyway out of this eventually she gave a sigh and pulled out Gibles luxury ball ''alright, come out Gible'' she ordered releasing Gible from her ball.

As Gible appeared from a burst of light all eyes were focused on her, Anne stared at the little land shark she was still amazed by its presence, Duke Claes looked quite curious when she saw it and so did her Salamance craning its head forwards to inspect the new Pokemon in front of it.

''So this is the new Pokemon you discovered Katarina?'' Duke Claes asked beaming he knelt down to get a better look at the little land shark ''hello there'' and as he said that Gible leapt up and bit him on the head.

Katarina quickly rushed up to her father looking panicked ''I-I'm sorry father!'' she said.

''Don't worry Katarina, Gible does this often doesn't he?'' Duke Claes asked.

''She and yes'' said Katrina.

''Don't worry Pokemon with big mouths do this to there owners to show affection, in fact my Flygon use to bite my head when it was still a Trapinch'' said Duke Claes.

Duches Claeses Salamanca however looked less than impressed and gave a harsh bark which caused Gible which caused Gible to freeze up and fall off Duke Claeses head, Salamanca glared at Gible while positioning herself into a perfect pose next to her trainer as if intent to show Gible how a proper dragon type should act.

Duchess Claes then stepped forwards Salamance never breaking from her trainers side ''I must say this is a surprise Katarina, I've never seen this dragon before'' she said looking Gible over.

''M-mother how did you know Gible was a dragon type?'' Katrina asked stunned.

''Katrina I'm a dragon master, I can tell a dragon type just by looking at it'' stated Duchess Claes ''where did you find this Pokemon?''

''I found her in the forest outside the house'' stated Katarina to which her mother nodded.

''This is wonderful isn't it, we must inform the royal family'' said Duke Claes beaming.

''No!'' Katarina cried shocking the adults ''I-I don't want anyone to know about Gible yet''

Katrina didn't know what to expect after that outburst, but whatever it was she didn't get it instead she got her father jovially saying ''ah as expected of my Katrina your already giving yourself the advantage''

''Advantage?'' Katarina asked confused ''what advantage?''

''An advantage for your graduation tournament Katarina'' stated Duchess Claes ''at the end of your time at the academy a tournament is held where the graduates battle''

Katarina's eyes widened, she supposed she should have expected something like this in this mixed up world of Fortune Lover and Pokemon, but honestly she was grateful for the excuse it gave her ''yes thats exactly the reason'' she said quickly.

''You don't have to worry Katarina we're more than happy to keep her a secret, many Noble children keep secret pokemon to use in the tournament and I'm sure Keith is more than happy to keep Gible a secret as well'' said Duke Claes.

''Actually Duke Claes, master Keith asked what Pokemon blew his door up'' stated Anne ''he seems to think Lady Katarina's only Pokemon is Shellos, I told him I would have to speak about it with you first''

''Thats alright Anne thank you, as for telling Keith we'll leave that to you Katarina '' said Duchess Claes ''Gible is your Pokemon and you should decide who knows the secret, keep it from Keith if you want to or don't''

Her father then looked at Katrina seriously ''but once you reveal Gible the king and Queen will want full documentation for this new Pokemon so we will need to borrow Gible at times to have someone study her, do you understand?''

''Yes father'' said Katrina.

''Good'' smiled Duke Claes.

-FLASHBACK END-


At first had been worried about the whole research thing, but it turned out to be alright, it was mostly just them looking Gible over, observing some behaviour and testing her diet, Katarina decided not to tell Keith about Gible and told told him she wanted to keep it secret, which he accepted something she was extremely thankful for.

But she had a new problem to focus on and that was her garden, all of the sapling that grew were starrting to wilt ''but why, I gave them plenty of water and fertiliser'' she said sadly, Gerald's Eevee went up and nuzzled up to her to try and cheer her up.

''Cheer up sister, it'll be alright'' said Keith, before he and Gerald said ''here let me help you'' the two then looked at one another with strained smiles ''no need to worry about my sister so much Prince Gerald and you don't need to come here everyday''

''Well since you say that I'm sure you don't need to cling to her so closely either Keith'' stated Gerald who also had a strained smile.

'Aww, they're such good friends' Katarina thought to herself with a smile as she watched the two before turning to her plants with a worried look.

But then Gerald snapped his fingers catching her attention ''here's something that should cheer you up Katarina, I recently caught a new Pokemon'' he said.

''Really can you show me?'' Katarina asked.

''Of course'' said Gerald pulling out a Pokeball and throwing it, a burst of light was released revealing a little blue and black cat like creature with a star on the end of its tail.

''Oh, a shine how cute'' said Katrina kneeling down to give the little pokemon a head pat which it started to nuzzle into, this made Eevee jealous causing him to try and push Shinx out of the way so Katarina started petting both of them, causing them both to happily nuzzle up to her, which made Katarina smile but then she saw Keith looking away shyly ''what's wrong Keith?''

''W-Well I recently caught a new Pokemon as well'' he stated.

''Really?'' Katrina asked getting up exited ''can you show me?''

After a moment Keith gave a nod and took out a Quick ball and threw it, the Quick Ball released a burst of yellow light that summoned a pinecone with eyes.

''A Pineco?'' Katarina asked before looking at Keith with a worried expression.

''What's wrong sister, don't you like Pineco?'' Keith asked looking sad.

''No its not that Keith, I'm not worried your going to get in trouble with mother, I doubt she'd like an exploding Pokemon in the house'' said Katarina.

''Actually I already showed Pineco to mother and she said its alright with Pineco as long as I keep her out of the house, because as you said she doesn't want Pineco to explode in the house'' said Keith.

''Oh, ok then'' said Katrina before kneeling down in front of Pineco ''hey Pineco I'm Keith's sister its nice to meet you'' Pineco responded by exploding.

''Katarina!''

''Sister!''

Eevee and Shinx rushed over to check if she was alright, she was she was just covered in soot ''I'm ok'' she coughed.

Keith quickly returned Pineco to her ball ''I'm sorry sister, Pineco does that when exited'' he said.

''Its ok'' smiled Katarina, they're plan has succeeded in cheering Katarina up, but not much.

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?'' Katrina 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.


So in the late mourning the next day Katrina and Keith found themselves stood in front of the Hunt Mansion along with Katarina's Shellos, which had been nicknamed Pinky to differentiate her from Keith's Shellos Bluey, Katrina needed a Pokemon by her side since one aspect of tea parties was to show off some Pokemon you had and since she wanted to keep Gible a secret Pinky became the default choice, Keith didn't need to have a Pokemon with him since he was just chaperoning, stood in front of them were Marquis Hunts daughters each had a pokemon with them, the first sister Lilia had a Cinccino, the second sister Cassandra had a Delcatty and the third sister Victoria had a Wigglytuff.

''I welcome you'' sad Lilia her Cinccino perched on her shoulder ''we hope you enjoy it''

''I'm sure we will'' said Katrina with a small bow Pinky mimicking her actions ''and thank you for inviting us''

''Everything's set up in the parlour'' said Cassandra her Delcatty at her side.

''Please make yourself comfortable'' said the third Wigglytuff at her self.

''Thank you'' said Katrina with a smile, but then she noticed someone step out from behind the other three.

It was another girl presumably another sister, this one was notably different from the other three because of her long red hair, she was wearing a yellow dress and a small Glameow was at her side ''um, its a pleasure to meet you, I'm the youngest, my name is Mary Hunt'' she said in a soft mousy voice.

''Nice to meet you Lady Mary'' said Katarina with a customary bow, to which the girl just looked down and backed away while her sisters gave her a side glance, confusing Katarina but then Lilia spoke up inviting them inside which drew her attention back.

When they went inside Katarina had to go through an hour of meeting and greeting everyone, when she was finally done she leaned against the refreshment table, Pinky let out a concerned call which Katarina responded to by petting her on the head.

''I'm alright Pinky, I'm just exhausted by meeting and greeting everyone'' she said with a tired sigh, before realising where they were and that no one else was there ''I guess everyones too busy making small talk to check out the food, want some?''

Pinky nodded so Katarina picked her up and put her on the table, there were refreshments for both people and pokemon, cookies and poffins, cupcakes and pokeblock, Macarons and Pokepuffs and all sorts of other tasty treats, Katarina had a muffin and Pinky had a pokepuff which they both enjoyed, Katarina found it to be a waste and wished she could take all the sweets home with her, but then a sudden idea came to Katarina, she picked up a plate and put it in front of Pinky.

''Some for you and some for Gible ok?'' Katarina asked which Pinky nodded to, as Katarina kept scarfing down sweets Pinky started making up a plate for itself and Gible, Katrina was eventually interrupted from her eating by Keith.

''Sister, what were you doing?'' he asked.

''Oh nothing'' said Katrina quickly with a hesitant tone.

Keith narrowed his eyes ''let me guess, you were trying to think of a way to take all of those desserts home weren't you?'' he said in an accusatory manner.

''Whoa that's incredible how did you know!'' Katarina cried.

''How I knew isn't relevant, if you do that you'll put the dignity of the Claes family in question and you'll be in big trouble with mother if she finds out remember, she forbade you from sweets after you dropped a cookie on the floor and ate it after muttering about some kind of three second rule''

''Well then, I guess I have no choice, I'll just have to eat it all now'' said Katarina before stuffing her face full of desserts, despite Keith's protect, she stopped when she felt her stomach start to churn.

''Are you alright?'' Keith asked concerned.

''Yeah, sure why wouldn't I be? Excuse me I need to powder my nose!'' Katarina cried running off, her Shellos quickly jumping down from the table and following behind her with a plate of pokemon treats in her mouth.

A few minutes later Katarina was knelt down in front of Gible and Pinky and was watching them as they happily ate the Poketreats Pinky gathered for them, when they finished Katarina returned Gible to her Luxury Ball before reaching it to her necklace, for her last birthday her father gave her a new dress and a necklace with a magnetic pendant to attach a Pokeball to, her father actually gave her mother the same kind of necklace for her birthday which was where she kept her Salamences Luxury ball.

Katarina was about to go back to the party when she saw something that caught her attention, a garden full of beautiful flowers, the beauty was so entrancing it pulled her in and she soon found herself walking through the garden looking around in amazement, Pinky following behind her equally entranced by the beauty of the garden, eventually they got to the centre and they saw the youngest sister Mary Hunt sat by the fountain, her Glameow was cuddled up next to her along with a Petilil and a Roselia, she took notice as Katarina approached them ''oh Lady Katrina what are you doing out here?'' she asked.

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

''I don't like crowded noisey places, its just aa bit too much for me'' said Mary in a soft voice and a downcast expression, which caused the Pokemon around her to nuzzle up and hug her trying to comfort her.

Seeing this Katrina was a bit confused 'why is she so nervous is it because of my villainous face!' she thought to herself, she decided then to break the silence by saying ''are those your Pokemon, they all look so 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, oh could you introduce me, I've been trying to grow my own plants and it hasn't been working, but if they're someone here who can grow such pretty flowers maybe they can help me''

Mary looked up for a brief moment and seemed to look happier before returning her gaze to the ground ''thats me'' she said softly ''I'm the one who tends to the flowers, I'm the gardener''

''Really?'' Katarina questioned shocked before jumping forwards and grabbing Mary's hands and started to excitedly question her only to be pushed away by Mary's Pokemon who got in front of Mary's protection.

''Oh, clam down, please calm down'' Mary quickly said which caused her Pokemon to settle ''I'm sorry about them Lady Katarina their just very protective''

''Oh, no I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that, can we talk please, I've been raising some plants and I'd like to ask you some questions if thats ok'' said Katrina.

After that the two sat down and talked while their Pokemon played ''wait you have crops?'' Mary asked ''so you do field farming?''

''Yes, its a way to get myself ready incase I get a grass type, anyways I've been raising some vegetables but they've been wilting and I don't know what I've been doing wrong or what to do about it'' explained Katarina.

''I'm sorry but I don't think I can help you, I've never raised vegetables before so I can't give you any advice after just hearing it'' said Mary looking downcast, but soon looked up when Katarina took her hands.

''If thats the case would you please come to my house and take a look?'' she asked happily.

''W-wait you'd really want me there?'' Mary questioned.

''Of course why wouldn't I?'' Katarina asked confused ''when are you free?''

After a moment of hesitation Mary said ''I-I'm free anytime this week''

''Oh, so am I, so how about tomorrow?'' Katarina asked.

Mary paused for a moment before saying ''s-sure''


The next day Katarina met at the door, she was already dressed in her farming clothes and Mary was dressed in a pink dress and yellow jacket that had three Luxury balls attached to the pocket, Katrina quickly and excitedly lead Mary to the garden.

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

''Sure am'' said Katrina leading Mary to her vegetable patch ''this is what I was telling you about, at first I thought it might just be too hot, but our Gardener Tom is growing vegetables over there and they're doing just fine''

''Hmm, then maybe'' Mary mused to herself before pulling out a book ''I think they're probably not getting the right amount of nutrient in this patch of earth, lets replant them over there'' Mary then pointed to a different spot.

''Alright, I'll handle that, could you go get a couple of trowels? I should be done when you get back'' said Katarina.

''Are you sure?'' Mary asked, Katarina nodded ''aright then if your sure'' and with that Mary ran off to get the tools they needed, as she did Katarina pulled out Gibles Luxury Ball.

When Mary returned with the trowels she saw Katrina hoeing a patch of ground ''wow that was fast'' she commented.

''Yeah, once I'm done with this all we gotta do is-'' Katarina stopped as her hoe caught onto something, she let out a sigh ''get Keith, looks like I found a rock and we might need his Golett to pull it out'' she then started to pull ''or not, feels like its coming free''

''Oh, here let me help you'' said Mary grabbing her from behind and helping her pull.

The two gave a great pull and they pulled and the stone came out of the ground, it was a very odd stone as it was perfectly round and it floated up into the air before two light shone from it which made the two girls realise it wasn't a stone, it shook all the dirt off itself revealing it was a large Pumpkaboo, Katarina quickly threw a pokeball, which surprisingly worked.

''Wow, good job you caught it'' said Mary.

''I know I'm surprised that worked'' said Katrina.

''And that Pumpkaboo's appearance is a good sign it means this is a good patch of earth perfect for planting'' said Mary.

''Alright then lets get on to it'' said Katarina.

For the next few days the girl worked on the garden, at times they took breaks and let they're Pokemon out to play while the two sat down talking, Mary had a book about flowers and was showing Katarina pictures of them ''this is my favourite rose, its a very unusual colour don't you think, I just love it, I'd love to grow some''

''I'm sure you can Mary, your amazing'' said Katarina.

''Thats so nice of you thank you'' said Mary.

''I mean it, you've got green thumbs for'' said Katarina.

''Green thumbs?'' Mary asked.

''Yeah, when someones really good with plants you say they have a green thumb its an amazing skill but you've got two one for plants, one for grass type Pokemon, I mean just look at your Petilil and your Roselia and its not just grass types, your Glameow is pretty amazing too''

''You mean that you think I'm special?'' Mary asked.

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

''Thank you, thank you so much'' said Mary smiling, with a small blush and a smile.

''Do you train with your sisters? I train with Keith sometimes'' said Katarina.

''They'd never, the only Pokemon they own is the ones you saw and they evolved them as soon as they could'' stated Mary ''they tell me all the time that I'm a dumb child for training Pokemon''

''Well they're wrong and they're stupid and they're Pokemon are probably really weak'' said Katrina, which made Mary smile.

''Thank you, they're Pokemon had potential but its now been squandered'' said Mary ''they could still be strong, but nowhere near as strong as they could have been, I actually have a couple of stones to evolve them, but I'm waiting for when they're ready to evolve''

''That's probably the best move to make'' said Katarina, it was what she did when she played Pokemon ''so Mary, I'd like to keep spending time with you, even when my vegetables are done, is that ok with you?''

''Of course'' Mary smiled.

Eventually the vegetables started blooming again, but around this time Keith told Katarina about Mary's engagement to Prince Alan, Gerald's twin brother, which made Katarina realise that was a doom flag, but thinking it over it didn't seem like anything bad would happen to her and if Maria ended up on the Alan route Katarina would help heal Mary's broken heart however she could, but it was concerning since she had stolen Alan's green thumb line, but it should be ok.


A week later Mary's engagement to Alan had been settled and had invited Mary to hers to celebrate, the two were sat opposite each other with Mary's Glameow on her lap and Katarina's Pumpkaboo floating at her side ''Mary, I heard your engagement to Prince Alan has been settled, congratulations'' Katarina said.

''Thank you very much, we're both engaged to Prince's now, I'm so happy to be in that position with you'' said Mary.

''Me too, so did you meet Prince Alan?'' Katarina asked.

''Yes I have'' replied Mary.

''So what's he like?'' Katarina asked ''how did the meeting go''

''Oh, I'd say it went well, we showed each other our Pokemon and he praised my Pokemon and my garden like you can you believe it, it really made me happy'' said Mary.

''What kind of Pokemon did he have?'' Katrina asked, unable to contain her curiosity.

''Like all the royal family he had an Eevee, he also had a Buizel and a Kricketune'' said Mary.

''Oh, so what else happened?'' Katarina asked.

''That was it'' said Mary.

''Really he didn't compliment your green thumb?'' Katarina asked.

''Goodness Lady Katarina did you really hear about that?'' Mary asked in surprise.

''So he did?'' Katarina asked.

''Well yes, we were talking in the garden and he complimented my green thumb and I told him what you said'' said Mary ''I was just so happy I told him you know''

'No way he could say it then, I'm sorry for stealing your line Alan' Katarina thought to herself.

The next day Katrina was in her garden when Anne came rushing up to her ''my lady the Prince is here to visit you'' she panted out.

''ok?'' Katarina said confused ''but why are you so flustered Prince Gerald can just come out here to see me like usual''

''No its not him, its the fourth Prince Alan who has come to see you''


So that's the new chapter I hope that was worth the wait, that is the longest chapter I've written so far, Pumpkaboo was the last planned pokemon I had for katarina's team, I'm going to be using the recommendations you gave me now for two more the last Pokemon I'm going to give her is going to be a reference to Pochi, oh I've also put bellow this a list of Pokemon I want to use in this pic, these are all Pokemon I really, really like this lists the names of the fully evolved ones to represent the whole line and this list isn't all the Pokemon I want to put in this fic.

There's one more thing I want to tell you and that's that I originally planned to for Katarina and Maria not only be themselves but also act as references to two characters in the games, I've now decided all the girls are going to do this, mostly because I have no idea who the guys could reference, don't worry I'm not going to rewrite they're personalities its mostly just they're very similar and they're going to use similar Pokemon, you've already guessed Katarina's, Sophia is sort of going to be a mash up of two characters though, just telling you because... I don't know why.

The list: Venusaur, Kingler, Tauros, Nidoking and Nidoqueen, Ditto, Snorlax, Scisor, Ampharos, Steelix, Tyranitar, Mawile, Absol, Torterra, Empoleon, Floatzel, Lopunny, Hippowdon, Samurott, Mienshao, Slurpuff, Grapploct, Cramorant, Alcremie.