Hey guys, here is the latest chapter of Ethereal Fairy.

Sorry for the long wait, I had to deal with a lot of things like getting a new job recently, my old/current job draining me of being creative, and also playing Pokemon Scarlett and having a good time, unlike Sword and Shield. So yeah.

I'll try to get more done in 2023 as my new job will give me a better schedule. so I can plan things out more and be able to get more story work done

Meanwhile enjoy this newest chapter.


It was the following morning in Earthland, Hiro and Gine were traveling down the road to Hargeon Town.

When the boys were checking out of the inn, the innkeeper told the boys that Fairy Tail was located in a town called Magnolia which would be roughly a 3-day walk, but if they were in a hurry that they could take the train in Hargeon that could get them there in a day and a half.

"Explain to me why can't we just fly there?" Rockruff asked.

"Well we haven't been there before so we don't know where to land," Gine explained.

"If this was a game, it would seem like a bad mechanic of some kind." Hiro wittily commented.

"I don't know maybe it would prevent the player from skipping too far ahead unless there was a different mechanism to prevent the power of flight or any other ability to travel than on foot." Gine chimed

Soon both of them laughed at how silly that sounded. "I would be annoyed if I lived there, I had the power to fly on my Pokémon or surf the waves with them, then I should be able to use not some badge," Hiro commented.

"But we kinda do, if I remember you had to get the Relic Badge to get the HM for Defog, and you complained about it, and yet you were able to get the HM after sleeping with that Ace Trainer." Gine pointed out while Hiro blushed after the one-night stay with Catherine.

"Oh, right…I was kinda going on strong on her, too." Though Hiro couldn't lie, he had a plethora of experiences in the past dealing with women; some good, and some bad. But if they met his criteria regarding certain…areas, there was always some form of compromise to be made.

Gine careened his head back, sighing loudly. "Honestly, you put more brain into your manhood than anything else. And because of that, we're now a Nugget short on funds."

Hiro slumped his shoulders in slight guilt. "Sorry about that…" He ascertained a more serious expression. "I swear, the moment we find her and her guild, we'll make them pay."

"Well, at least we got a map now…and it's not like we're not broke either. We got just a little cash from that job that we can invest in." Gine frowned. "Although, we better find or buy something useful, like a book on magic or something."

Hiro gasped lightly. He remembered yesterday when he battled that wyvern that caused trouble yesterday. It wasn't intentional by any means, but he knew he felt the aura from his own body reacting at that instant.

'My aura was seriously strong enough that I could make an Aura Sphere.' Hiro looked down at his bandaged palm, trying to concentrate on his aura. Although, all he got was thin air with little feeling of aura. 'Whatever caused that, it's something to do with the magic here. It has to be. Otherwise, that never would have been possible. Like Gine said…I have to look into this.'

For the time being, however, they had more pressing matters. Finances were assured, as well as destination and the awareness of Magic Power. But the matter of getting to Fairy Tail itself was another story that had to take priority.

"How much farther until we get there, Gine?"

Gine looked at the medium-sized map in his hands, scrutinizing the old English font on the faded paper. "Well, let's see…according to this, we're near Hargeon, which is south of Magnolia."

"So we're not there yet, huh…"

"Afraid so. Listen Hiro, we should probably try and be more careful this time with our Pokémon. We were just lucky they weren't key out anywhere but the woods. Imagine how big of a profile we'd get if the public saw them."

"They'd probably start asking questions." Hiro sighed. "Alright, I get it. We'll be discrete, and only if it's absolutely necessary."

Rockruff barked loudly, wagging his tail. "Look!"

Hiro and Gine looked ahead and saw something from the trail they were on. It brought them to a vast port town that had a sparkling sea just south of it. They noticed multiple houses and buildings lined up along the streets and the numerous boats and ports that sat along the water's edge.

"Look! Look! It's a bigger city!" Rockruff cheerfully barked.

"Is that Hargeon?" Hiro questioned aloud.

Gine took a moment and inspected the map again. "Yeah, sure looks like it from here. That has to be it. She was right, this was the fastest route there by foot after all."

Hiro put his hands on his hips. "Well, guess we better see what we can get before we head straight for that guild, right?"

"You're right, but remember…"

"I know, I know…I won't get distracted this time. I'm serious this time."

Gine nodded firmly in understanding. With their priorities in mind, they both took to the dirt road ahead of them, taking them further towards the port town on the horizon. Rockruff followed behind, merrily wagging his tail and barking.

Soon, the trio had arrived at the port city, otherwise labeled as Hargeon. The port city had many buildings from civilian homes to different kinds of businesses, including a large marketplace that sells fresh fish and goods from across the ocean.

"So, where to first?" Hiro asked in hopes of getting to Fairy Tail soon.

"Well, we would need to find the train station that goes to Magnolia first," Gine answered, looking at the map in his hands once more. "Mmm…looks like there's a station that stretches along the west. We can use that as a start."

Before Hiro could comment, their stomachs started to growl loudly. Both young men and Rockruff looked down at their stomachs at the epiphany.

"I take it that we got to get some food first before hitting that station." Hiro chuckled heartily as he nor Gine had eaten since leaving the inn in the morning.

Gine meekly chuckled. "Okay, you got me. Let's go find someplace to eat at first and then the train."

As the trio had found a compromise to their lack of diet, Rockruff intervened. "Huh? What's that?"

His warning caused Hiro and Gine to turn their heads to what he was referring to. Had they been too slow to react, they would have been trampled by the sudden rush of young women heading their way. Thankfully, though, they both diverged and stepped away from the rush as they all seemed ecstatic about something.

"Oh my god, where is Salamander!?"

"I heard he was somewhere nearby."

"I bet he is super hot and strong!"

"Yeah, I heard he was from the famous Fairy Tail Guild"

Thanks to the horde of ladies, Gine was on side of the road, and Hiro with Rockruff was on the other side. Unfortunately, the horde was too massive for them to cross back.

"Hiro, we'll need to find another way to find each other!" Gine shouted over the crowd.

"Right, maybe we can find a place to meet up at!" Hiro retorted before he and Rockruff went off to find a good meeting spot. 'Huh…maybe I can see if any of these girls have some time to spare…' He looked back over his shoulder, seeing the numerous women. 'Eh, probably not. They look hellbent on something.'

Gine nodded before doing the same thing he used his visor to scan around as he wanted to see how the port was different from the ones back home in Sinnoh. "I have to admit, kind of reminds me of being at Canlave Port with how the building at constructed" Gine reminisced about the oldest port in the Sinnoh region.

As for Hiro and Rockruff, the two made their way to a market area filled with several shops and stands where people were selling items from across the land and the sea.

"I guess we can find something to snack on until we can find Gine," Hiro commented as they were several stands offering different kinds of fruits to patrons.

"Yeah, can we?" Rockruff barked as he took in the new scents around him.

Before Hiro could say anything, he had spotted a young man around his age holding what appeared to be a Fire Stone or all things.

"Excuse me, mind telling what is that you are holding and where you go it from?" asked Hiro curiously as he never thought the evolutionary stones could be found outside of his world.

"Well I brought from this talking Cat. He was selling these lacrima shards at a cheap price too," The man explained.

"So where is this stand with the talking cat?" Hiro asked wondering where he can go see these shards.

The man pointed down the alley past several stands, "It's a small stand just down the way past the next corner, the stand is very shabby looking, it's 'Caitchi's Wares'." the man commented before leaving Hiro and Rockruff.

"Thank you, sir," Hiro answered back before he and Rockruff followed the man's directions.

Hiro and Rockruff made their way to 'Caitchi's Wares' as the man said where it would be, when they approached the stand, it was very old and poorly built with crooked boards nailed together and an old blanket covered the stand. While another one was used for the sign with the name poorly painted on with it being faded in some bits.

"Step right up, folks! Check out these exotic finds, nothing you had ever seen before in Ishgar history!" cried a tall grey and white cat with dark grey stripes going along his back and tail until the white tip. He wore a brown hat with a red feather, a purple scarf, with a pair of brown gloves and boots.

"I got lacrima shards for a quarter of the cost of a full lacrima orb. I got fire, lightning, plant, water, and even moon and ice shards!" the cat exclaimed as he was drawing in several people including Hiro who were curious about the shards which were evolutionary stones from PokeEarth in actuality.

Hiro examined the stand as he recognized several of them from the Firestone with its fiery amber color to the light blue with a lighting bolt shape core of the Thunderstone. Though there were a few he had never seen before like an icy blue and white stone with what appeared to be a snowflake inside of it.

"One at a time, please folks. I only have a limited amount," The cat commented as people were asking for several at once while showing off the jewel they were willing to pay for it.

"So what we do now?" asked Rockruff

"Well have to wait until business slows down, for now, let's go back to that fruit stand I saw back and we can get a snack to eat while we wait." Hiro answered as he and Rockruff left the stand


Meanwhile with Gine, after some sightseeing, he made his way to a scenic park and figured it would be a good place to rest for now as he sat down underneath a tree nearby before taking a snooze for a bit.

Gine was going to under his visor went off as it detected a strange energy source, he stood up and saw the source, it a man around his age with a semi-spiky purple hair wear a coat on his shoulder as he was doing something to the lovely blonde woman with a nice figure with a small side ponytail wearing a white and blue sleeveless top with a blue skirt that reached over her knees.

'He's doing something to that girl, it's like he is putting her into some kind of trance' Gine thought as he was devising a plan to snap the girl out of it.

Gine reached into his jacket and pulled out two balls, a basic toy ball, and the other was a blue and red Pokeball known as the Greatball. Gine chucked the Pokeball over the couple before saying, "Fetch!"

The Great Ball opened up instantly as a blur of lighting zoomed out of Gine's hands and towards the Poké Ball as it spooked the man and broke his focus on the woman who was waking up from his spell.

"What was that?" The man angrily shouted as he and the woman turned to see a tailless yellow canine resembling a bit of a cat and fox with spiky fur and a white spiky fur collar around its neck playing with a toy Poké Ball.

"Sorry about that folks, I was playing fetch with Sparks and we got carried away," Gine apologized as Sparks walked over to his side.

"Well you better keep that thing on a leash," the man retorted angrily at Gine as Sparks glared at him with his fur starting to crackle.

The man huffed before turning his attention toward the woman, "I'm having a boat party tonight at the pier, please come and we can talk more about you joining Fairy Tail," the man spoke before leaving them.

The woman was excited to hear that was jumping for joy before she turned her attention to Gine.

"I suggest you be careful around him or anyone from Fairy Tail," Gine commented as he still remembered how Hiro was conned by Cana from Fairy Tail…through certain matters that he didn't want to know.

"I'm sure he is being nice, why does that matter to you?" The woman asked.

"Well my friend got conned out of some cash from someone from the guild but also if it wasn't for me and Sparks, you could have been entranced by him." Gine retorted.

The woman thought back on what just happened to her, before covering her face, and saying, "Dang it, how could I have been so easily duped by that Charm Magic of his."

"It's fine, still even if he was the guild. I can't shake something off about him…" Gine realized he never got the name of the lady he was with.

"Sorry, mind if I get your name; my name is Gine Koujo" Gine introduced himself to the young lady

"My name is Lucy, thanks for the help though still, it's my dream to join Fairy Tail. I know not everything is perfect but I'm sure that their guild master will straighten things out," said Lucy as she was very determined to join Fairy Tail despite a few bad apples.

"Nice to meet you, Lucy. If you are planning on joining a guild, then what kind of magic do you use?" Gine inquired as he was curious if it was different from the one Cana used when they first meet.

"Well I'm a Celestial Wizard, I use special keys that allow me to summon celestial spirits after I made a contract with them that is," Lucy explained as she noticed Sparks. She had never a creature like it before in her real life.

"So if you mind asking, so why are you here, and what is Sparks?" Lucy asked curiously.

Gine nearly forgot about Sparks being out of his Poké Ball, then remember the cover story that he and Hiro used on Cana. Though it didn't help as he was drawn to her cleavage, 'Damn it, Hiro you are rubbing off on me as I couldn't resist looking at her chest' Gine mentally cursed.

"Well I was traveling with my friend but we separated after arriving here," Gine commented.

"As for Sparks, he is known as a Jolteon, an lighting Magical beast. You see that my friend and I are Beast summon users. You see we are from a far away country that uses creatures with magical powers to do many things similar to magic," Gine explained hoping Lucy would buy it.

"So you are like me, but wait don't you guys make contracts with these creatures?" Lucy asked wondering how he is able to use a summon without a contract.

Gine tried to figure out something until Sparks spoke, "Well we Magical Creatures don't use contracts, instead we build relationships with our human partners based on trust and friendship as our homeland can be very harsh to live in."

"Oh I see, so it's a mutualism relationship with you two working together to survive," Lucy put together believing their homeland was very hard to live in.

"So that's why you two left to come to Ishgar?" Lucy asked.

Gine crossed his arms, "Yep, we wanted to see the world outside of our hometown," he answered.

Lucy then noticed the clock tower and saw the time, "I need to get going, Gine. Thanks for chatting with me. I'll see you around," said Lucy. Soon she ran off to the inn she was staying at to get ready for the party.

"She's a keeper," Sparks commented as he noticed how Gine was checking Lucy out while they were chatting.

"What I have no clue what do you mean," Gine said pretending he wasn't checking out Lucy.

"Sure… Still but I'll say give her a shot as you never liked any of the other girls you and Hiro meet as much as he did with that Lucy girl.," Sparks commented.

"Maybe, right now we need to find Hiro and Rockruff first," Gine stated as he might run into her again but he need to go find Hiro first.

Sparks nodded as Gine returned the electric Eevolution back into its Poke Ball before heading off to find Hiro and Rockruff.

Unaware of them, Lucy was starting to think about Gine as she made her way to the inn she was staying at. 'I have to admit, Gine is kind of cutie and cool looking with those glasses, and plus we use similar magic' Lucy thought to herself as she been checking out Gine as well.

'Still, I bet he has a girlfriend back home,' Lucy mentally told herself before saying "Why am I thinking about this guy, I have to focus on my chance of joining Fairy Tail."


A few hours later, Hiro and Rockruff were observing the Cat creature's stand as he sold his wares as Lacrima shards when in reality they were evolutionary stones from Hiro's home.

"So what's the plan?" RD asked as he popped out of Hiro's bag to see what was going on.

"Well we are going to confront him about the stones and ask where he found them, mainly," Hiro replied as the Caitchi did another sale for what appeared to be Razor Claw sold as a multi-purpose tool.

"Well Caitchi, another day another pocket to scam," said the talking cat to himself in joy as he earned some more jewels.

Hiro decided to make his move, but before he could even start to talk to the cat, a group of people in armor approach the stand.

"Welcome Rune Knights, how may I be of assistance?" Caitchi asked.

"Yes, we have been ordered by the mayor of the town to investigate your stand as we have received many complaints of false goods that you were selling." The Rune Knight explained flashing a paper with several complaints on it.

"I have no idea, what are you talking about?" Caitchi asked while he was lighting something behind his back before letting it drop.

"CLANK!"

"PSSSWWWWWHHHHH!"

The Rune Knights and Hiro the noise of the object hitting the ground and something about to go off, Hiro knew that sound as it was a bomb.

As the fuse was wearing down to the end, Hiro leaped from wall to wall rapidly as the Rune Knights caught on and Caitchi grinned.

"WWWWHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS!"

The bomb went off as it expelled a large cloud of smoke that covered the alleyway Caitchi's stand was in.

Caitchi grabbed his bags of money and his merchandise before fleeing up the wall as he spurted wings much to Hiro's surprise see a flying cat though it shouldn't be too surprising as he had seen similar impossible feats back home in Sinnoh but seeing a cat grow wings was something new.

"Ay yi yi, what are we going to do, Hiro?" RD panicky asked fearing the cat would get away.

Hiro turned to RD and said, "Simple we go after him."

Hiro quickly grabbed Rockruff and then leaped between the wall with ease thanks to his training and use his aura to grip the walls with RD following behind. As the smoke cleared up, the Rune Knights were confused about where the cat had fled to and what had just happened.

"Where did he go!?"

"Come on he couldn't get far away from here"

Soon the Rune Knights left as they headed off in a different direction from Caitchi and Hiro.

Speaking of the latter, Hiro was running on the rooftops of the different buildings as Caitchi was flying high above him.

'Damn, I need a way to get him so we can talk…' Hiro thought before an idea popped into his head.

Hiro suddenly stopped in his track as RD looked confused at his trainer, then he pulled out a white Pokeball with a red stripe and what appeared to be black clouds before chucking it towards the flying feline.

"Midnight, get that cat!" Hiro shouted.

The ball opened up and a cloud of black smoke spewed out of it as a dark navy crow with a short witch's hat on its head and a tail resembling a broomstick, flew out of the clouds. It was wearing a necklace with a purple scale around its neck.

"I'm on it, Master" the crow cawed as she made a beeline for Caitchi and flew above him as she noticed the glitter from the evolutionary stones.

Caitchi was completely unaware he was being followed until saw a large shadow of a bird or something flying above him.

"What is that?" Caitchi asked loudly before he can figure out an answer, Midnight dived down and disoriented the flying cat.

"Sssufferring Sssuuuccotash Did anyone get that plane? '' Catchi meowed as he wobbled in the air trying to regain control of himself.

When Caitchi regained control, he noticed one of the bags he was carrying was missing. "Looking for this?"

Caitchi saw Midnight holding a bag in her beak, "If you want it back, then try to catch me." She teased before flying off.

The cat growled before pursuing the crow. "When I catch you, I'm going to bake you into a pie!"

Then the cat felt something tap him on the head, "Huh?" Caitchi said as he looked up to see the crow above.

"You better look before you leap," Midnight replied before braking.

BAM!

Before Caitchi knew it, he had slammed right into a wall of a house. Midnight flew back to Hiro with the bag of Pokemon items in her talons.

"Thanks, Midnight. Let's go find Gine." Hiro stated as he placed the bag inside of his larger one.

"Actually, I would like to stay and mess around with this feline a bit more, if that is alright" Midnight the Murkrow requested.

"Really? I thought you enjoy messing with 'stupid travelers' if I remember correctly." Hiro retorted.

"Quite contradictory, I prefer those whom either amuse me or I find to be a worthy opponent," Midnight replied, "And that feline is more so the former where you fall under the latter"

Hiro smirked before retorting "Fine but try not to kill him."

"If he is like the Glameow from back home, he'll be fine." Midnight commented before flying off to look for the cat.

Hiro ran off, leaving the Darkness Pokemon alone to her own devices, as he wanted to look for Gine and see what he found out.

Not that far from Hiro and Midnight, Caitchi was recovering from his crash landing.

Later on in the day, Hiro was walking down the road with Rockruff as they were looking for Gine. Hiro was looking through the bags that Midnight took from the cat, the first bag had what Hiro realized were several PokeEarth-related items, most being evolutionary items from stones to held items, such as some Hard Stones, Float Stones, and even Everstones.

Other items were small gems that Hiro remembered hearing during his travels. From what he remembered, these gems were able to power up moves with the same typing as the gem itself. Also there are some colored stone shards that wouldn't be worth much to the people of this world; still, Hiro had an idea to make some quick cash with shards.

Meanwhile, Midnight was being pursued by Caitchi to get back his stolen goods.

"What's the matter pussycat, tired?" Midnight mocked the cat before swooping through and around some clotheslines

"When I get my hands on you, I'll make you wish you didn't nab my goods" Caitchi growled before colliding into the same clotheslines and getting all tied up in it.

Midnight landed near the tied-up cat, "Ah the poor kitty is all tied up, oh what to do?" Midnight teased.

Soon she used her talons to pluck the string that held everything together, Caitchi tied up and his mouth covered by some of the clothes that was hanging to dry started to panicking as the Darkness Pokemon started to toy with the line.

'BOOOIIIINNNNGGGGG!'

The line shook as Midnight plucked the line.

"Mmhhhmmmnphh!" Caitchi mumbled in an attempt to make Midnight stop as it was a very high drop to the ground below.

"What's that cat, you want to pluck harder?!" Midnight teased as the cat shook his head in disapproval but she plucked the string harder again

'BOOOIIIINNNNGGGGG!'

The line shook more rapidly as the line itself was going to break soon.

"Mmhhmmpphhm Mmpouhhmm!?" Caitchi cried trying to beg Midnight not to do that again.

'BOOOIIIINNNNGGGGG!'

The rope was plucked again and shook violently as the weight was shifting all around the place before

SNAP!

The line snapped and broke at one end, causing the line to swing down to the opposite side and slamming Caitchi into the wall. Then the other end snapped causing the entire clothesline to fall down into a pile.

"Well, as much fun as this was, kitty cat, I got to fly off to find my trainer." Midnight comment looking at the setting sun in the distance.

Before Caitchi could respond, Midnight flew away to find Hiro and Gine. Soon out of the rope pile, a ghostly version of Caitchi with the number 5 on his chest, stepped out and yanked the rope forcefully to unravel a knocked-out cat.

"Wake up sleepy, what was that?" The ghost cat spoke, slapping the real Caitchi awake.

"You are a cat, that was a dumb bird we should have nabbed that feather ball with ease." The ghost cat ranted.

Before Caitchi could say anything, the ghost cat shushed him before saying' "Remember dum-dum, we got only 4 lives left and you know there is a reason why we aren't a 'lucky' cat!"

Lives 9 and 8 were used up when Caitchi was a kitten before drowning in a river and then being eaten by a crocodilian-like monster brutally shortly after being revived.

Life 7 was ringed up when Caitchi from a jewel note on the road before being trampled over by a horse lead carriage.

Life 6 had been done after encountering a large strange monster (An Alpha Pokemon) when gathering the items that he was selling in the port recently.

"Let's get our heads on track, and get back at that dumb bird!" The ghost shouted before floating away as Caitchi nodded agreeing with that notion.

Elsewhere Hiro wasn't having much luck looking for Gine until he bumped into some very attractive ladies who dressed up for a night on the town.

"Pardon me, but where do you lovely ladies be off to on a fine evening like this?" Hiro asked, figuring he could get a clue on something about Gine or Fairy Tail.

The girls giggled as they were checking out Hiro and thought he was kind of handsome. "Well stud, if you must know, we're heading out to a private party out by the docks hosted by Salamander of Fairy Tail." said one of the girls with raven black hair reaching her mid-back.

"You could come with us. We wouldn't mind." the fetching redhead chimed.

"Nice, I got a friend. I hope you don't mind if I bring him?" Hiro asked.

The girls giggled before answering, "If he is handsome as you are then sure. Just met us at the docks, and we'll be waiting," said the short-haired brunette as she felt his pants for a tease.

She was shocked to feel something huge in his pants as the woman pulled back and walked away with her friends and started to whisper about Hiro's manhood in his pants.

While the girls talked about how big Hiro was, Hiro himself went to go find Gine and tell him the news.

As Hiro ran off, he bumped into another guy, with spiky pink hair wearing a white scarf, a black and yellow vest, and a pair of white pants with sandals.

"Hey, watch where you're going!?" shouted the man that Hiro bumped into.

"Sorry, I was looking for my friend." Hiro explained as he helped the guy up.

"Oh, you're looking for someone too? So am I. I'm looking for someone, his name is Igneel." The guy commented back.

"Igneel?"

"Yeah, he's awesome and he's a dragon."

Hiro took a moment to process what the guy said, "Hold on, you said a dragon?"

The guy nodded, "Yeah. Have you seen him?"

"Nope, uh…" Hiro realized he never got the guy's name. When he was about to ask, something else garnered his attention.

"NATSU!"

Both Hiro and the guy looked over to see a small blue cat with a white belly frozen in fear as Rockruff was sniffing the cat.

The Rock-type Puppy Pokemon stopped to look back at Hiro and the guy and wagged his tail gleefully but the guy gave the pup a dirty look in an attempt to scare him away but it had no effect on it.

"Hiro, I think it's the cat that we were after earlier!" exclaimed Rockruff.

Hiro shocked his head as that cat was a bit taller and wore a pair of boots and a hat, and also he had the cat had gray fur not blue, before saying "Sorry Rockruff, he is just an innocent bystander."

"Hold on, your dog can talk?" the guy asked

Hiro had to think of a reason quickly, and then sheepishly said, "Well where I'm from, creatures with magical abilities can talk."

"So where you from? You don't look like you're from Fiore," the pin-hair man said

'Shit! Gotta think fast!' Hiro took a moment before responding, "Hisui!" as he thought 'Thank you, history lessons with Grandpa about the original name of Sinnoh. I doubt no one will question that'

"Well I never heard of a talking dog before, or this Hisui place." commented the feline. "Come on Natsu, we need to find that Salamander guy anyway I heard he was having a party at the docks," said the cat before using magic to sprout wings to fly

"Right, see ya around Hiro!" said the guy called Natsu running off with his cat friend

Hiro wondered for a moment, 'Why is that guy so important? Maybe he cheated Natsu out of something? Maybe he had info on this Igneel he's looking…'

"Hiro, maybe Gine is there too!" Hoopa exclaimed, poking out of Hiro's bag.

"Yay, let's go!" Rockruff excitedly barked with a wag of his tail.

Hiro nodded, "Alright, we better hurry as there might be a good fight too!" commented Hiro as if he got more info about Fairy Tail maybe this Salamander guy would have them.


Hargeon Port, Fiore

After his encounter with Lucy, Gine was a bit suspicious of this Salamander guy and remembered hearing a bit about a party on the guy's private boat. He was waiting behind some crates as he had several gorgeous ladies go by and climb aboard the ship.

Earlier when he arrived at the docks, he had overheard that the same boat was heading to another country called Bosco around the same time as the party. Gine knew he had to stop whatever this guy was doing.

"I need a way to get on without getting noticed," Gine said to himself.

"Perhaps I can provide some assistance?" said a voice from above.

It was Hiro's Murkrow, Midnight, who was looking for Hiro but got hungry and decided to see what kind of fish she could get her talon into before seeing Gine.

"I see Hiro let you out of your ball today, Midnight" Gine commented

"Yes, it was to get a naughty thief, but I dealt with him in my usual way," The Darkness spoke as she fluttered her wings a bit.

"I need a distraction so I can get aboard…." Gine stopped mid-sentence as he spotted Lucy arriving wearing a lovely red dress that exposed her back and highlighted her thick curvy figure.

"It seems Master's tastes have affected you as well, Gine" Midnight commented, noticing the blonde's thick curves.

Gine was able to straighten his logic. "A-anyway, I need you to distract the guards so I sneak aboard before it takes off. Once I'm aboard, go find Hiro and bring him here," Gine explained, trying to move away from his thoughts about Lucy.

Midnight nodded, "I'll do what I can though I will demand a payment later as I already met my quota of dealing with fools." chimed the Dark/Flying type.

"I guess Hiro will need to get some gemstones then huh?" Gine said in a deadpan tone as Midnight nodded before taking off.

Midnight flew over the men letting in the girls on the ship, as her brain was formulating a plan on how to distract the guards from flying back to the shoreline to nab something. As the two guards were about to remove the gangplank and ship off.

"Well Mac, that should be enough girls for this week's quota," said one guard with glee.

"Yeah, Bruno, we'll definitely get a nice 'payload' if you know what I mean," The other one commented, nudging his elbow at that other guy with a wink.

As they started to laugh at what was coming for them until…

"SPLAT!"

A flopping fish landed on the head of one of the guards, "What the hell is this doing here?" asked the guard as he pulled the still-alive fish off his head and chucked it back into the ocean.

Before either could comment, they saw a white swarm of feathers coming at them with a black spec coming at them. The Black spec was Midnight, as she stole a fish from the massive flock and chucked it to where the men were and they were following her until they smelled the fish on one of the guards.

"RUN!" the guards shouted while running as the swarm of hangry seagulls chased after them. All the while Gine and Midnight made it onto the boat before the ship set to sail off into the open ocean.

"Thanks, Midnight, you better find Hiro," Gine said, thanking the Darkness Pokemon as she flew towards the city to find Hiro.

Meanwhile, Lucy found herself in a pickle as she had found herself in a kidnapping situation after learning the truth about the party she was invited to in the first place. Though in reality was part of a slave trading business and Salamander was just a false name used by rogue wizard Bora, "You wouldn't get away with this!" Lucy angrily retorted as she whipped out her gate keys.

But before she could use them, Bora used his magic to disarm and grab them himself, "So we have a Celestial Wizard with us. These keys can't do much for me as they only work for those who had signed their contracts with," Said Bora chucking them out of the window but they stopped midair as a light blue aura froze them in midair.

This surprised everyone in the room, and out of nowhere Gine and Alakazam teleported between Lucy and Bora, "Return the ship around right now, or it's going to get worse for you and your men." said Gine as his visor flashed red.

"I suggest you listen to my master before it happens. Your key, milady," The Psi Pokemon commented while handing Lucy back her keys.

Bora scuffed, and retorted, "Sorry I think not as we outnumber you two, it might be better for you two to give up and hand over that creature as I can see he could be some use for me and my men, and then maybe I'll let you and the pretty lady go."

Gine and Alakazam glared at him as he wondered never to betray his partner, "I don't think so, jerk!" Gine shouted angrily.

Just then the ceiling collapsed as Hiro and Natsu arrived, "Hey Gine, I hope we didn't come too late," Hiro said ready to fight.

"Natsu?" Lucy said as she had run into him earlier that day just before the boat moved a bit due to the new weight from Hiro and Natsu's crash landing.

Natsu fell to the ground looking like he was about to puke any second as he muttered "I told you this was a bad idea…"

Surprising everyone including Lucy, Gine, and Hiro seeing Natsu was seasick apparently, "Lucy?" cried Happy the cat from the ceiling as he and Midnight were still outside

"Your human is very pathetic looking right now," commented Midnight

"Nah, Natsu just gets motion sick a lot, he can't really use any kind of vehicle," Happy chimed in as the Darkness Pokemon rolled her eyes as that info would have been useful beforehand

"Wait, you can fly?!" Lucy exclaimed as Gine was surprised to see that as she had never seen a flying cat, unlike Hiro who did earlier when they split up.

Before anyone could say anything Happy took off with Lucy by grabbing her waist and she bumped into Hiro and Rockrufff, causing the Puppy Pokemon to fall off of Hiro's shoulders..

Then Gine took out another Pokeball but this one was white with a red line as he pressed the center button.

"Magneton, Protect Lucy," said Gine as out came a trio of dull tan orbs connected to each other and 3 pairs of black iron magnets.

"Magne… Zort…" cried the Magnet Pokemon as it flew after Happy, Rockruff, and Lucy.

"You too Midnight," said Hiro as his Murkrow nodded and flew after them as well.

Bora took notice before shouting, "GET THEM OR THEY BE ABLE TO REPORT US TO THE MAGIC COUNCIL!"

Then Bora looked at Happy and the others and cried loudly "Prominence Wave!"

In front of his hand, a magic circle appeared, and out came a stream of several light violet lines that were after Happy and others.

"Magneton!" cried the Magnet Pokemon as it fired off a tri-colored beam at Bora's attack.

"Icy Wind!" Midnight squawked as she fluttered her wings creating a chilling wind at the attack as well.

Magneton and Midnight's attacks were able to let Happy, and Lucy escape, all the while Gine and Hiro were dealing with Bora's men but they were a bit outmatched as Natsu and his motion sickness made him out already.

Hiro ducked as a guy tackled him, causing him to roll over his back into another guy. He pivoted and evaded another guy that tackled him from the side. The otherworldly human gnashed his teeth as he was barely keeping up with the numbers scurrying around.

'This isn't good. I'm not used to fighting other people of this many.' He leaned to the side, avoiding a punch meant for his face. He grabbed the arm and pivoted, swinging the guy into one charging from behind him. 'I gotta act fast. First thing's first, we gotta get this ship back to shore.'

"H-Hiro!"

Hiro turned towards the sound of a brash bark. He glanced over and saw Rockruff scampering away on his three legs as one guy was heading right for him from behind. However, Rockruff didn't realize that another guy intervened in his getaway path.

"Come here, you little mutt!"

"Huh?!"

Hiro's dark eyes dilated. 'There's no choice now!' He pulled out a Poke Ball of his own and tossed it in Rockruff's direction. "Go!"

The Poke Ball spun in midair, popping open to expel Range. The Flame Pokemon lobbed himself through the air, hollering as he rolled and planted a knee against one guy's face, immediately flooring him.

Rockruff ended up running into Infernape's arms in place of the would-be attacker's. The guy chasing Rockruff got too close for comfort and didn't slow down before the Infernape jumped and did a spin kick across the guy's face, knocking him out.

"Nice job, Range!" Hiro grinned giving the Flame Ape Pokemon a thumbs up before decking another guy.

Bora's brow twitched. "What the hell is this supposed to be? More?"

Range loosened his arms and looked down at Rockruff. "You okay?"

Rockruff nodded and hummed. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks!"

Range kneeled and sat the Puppy Pokemon down. He rushed back to Hiro's side as Range leaped overhead and closed the distance, standing in front of his Trainer. "Alright…who wants a piece next?"

Bora scoffed. "I was hoping I wouldn't have to get my hands dirty, especially on my ship. But…" His hands twitched, which activated magic seals that were a dark red. "But I guess since you know now, I can't just let you leave!"

Hiro gasped. "He can use magic, too?"

"Hiro, keep an eye out! This guy uses Fire Magic!" Gine warned.

"Got it! Range!"

The Flame Pokemon smirked, nodding. "Don't worry, I can handle it!"

"Alakazam!" Gine shouted.

"Right, I understand." The Psi Pokemon noted.

Bora snickered before lifting his arm. The magic seal in his right palm intensified to a large volume. "Taste my Red Shower!" The seal unleashed a bombardment of purple flames that targeted everyone ahead of him.

As the flames closed in, Gine and Hiro anticipated what to do.

"Alakazam, Psychic!"

"Range, Mach Punch!"

Alakazam went first, his eyes glowing bright purple. He held out his spoons as a psychokinetic wave echoed outwards towards the oncoming barrage and halted them. Each wisp was frozen in place, as if time had stopped all around.

Range pulled back his fists as they glowed bright blue. He let out a wild cry as he unleashed high-speed jabs that looked like multiple punches that struck every frozen wisp. The punches quickly diffused the flames until none remained.

Bora gasped, looking stunned. "I-impossible!"

"Heh, there's still plenty where that came from." Range scoffed. Alakazam lifted his spoons to show his assurance.

"So, Gine, got any other bright ideas?" Hiro asked while on guard.

Gine kept looking around, noting the many other captives still aboard. "We can't go too wild. We just gotta subdue him without harming the passengers."

"Right."


As Happy and Midnight flew closer to the port, Lucy felt helpless as she watched the battle go on and shrink from her view, before saying "Stop! We can't let them do this by themselves, get me close to the water,"

Happy lowered Lucy to the surface of the ocean as she pulled out a golden key with a symbol on the handle. Lucy tapped the surface with the key.

"Open Gate of the Water Bearer, Aquarius!"

Soon, a small whirlpool appeared in front of them as a mermaid with long ocean blue hair carrying a silver jug in her hands that were nestled between her large bust.

'Fascinating item,' The Darkness Pokemon thought, marveling at what Lucy just did.

"Whoa, A Fish!" Happy chime with a bit of drool coming out of his mouth imagining how delicious the mermaid would be.

'I bet a Gyarados would make him think twice about eating anything from the sea,' Midnight mentally commented thinking how the cat would deal with the evolution of Magikarp.

"Shut it, cat!" Lucy retorted, slapping the cat back. Lucy then turned to the mermaid and shouted, "Okay Aquarius, blow that ship back to port!" She pointed at Bora's ship.

Aquarius scoffed at Lucy's demands.

"Hey what's the deal, I summon you from the Spirit World to help me not to give me lips!" Lucy retorted.

The Water Spirit glared at Lucy and the two flyers. "Next time you almost drop my key or think about it, you're going to be sleeping with the fishes!"

"Sorry Ma'am!" both Lucy and Happy cried

"Be lucky that guy's creature stopped them in time," Aquarius commented

Aquarius whipped out her jug as she summoned a massive water spout towards the ship along with a few unexpected guests.

"Don't take me with them too!" Lucy screamed while trying to stay above the water along with Happy and Midnight.


Meanwhile, on the ship, Bora was unleashing whips of flames at the many foes afoot. What he didn't expect, though, was how agile they were. Alakazam used his Teleport to maneuver around, whereas Range performed a series of acrobatic maneuvers. Gine and Hiro managed by fashionable dodging.

"Hmph! C'mon, where's that bravado before? Don't tell me all you can do is just run around!"

Rockruff hopped around until a flaming whip was closing in directly on him.

"Rockruff, look out!" Hiro called out.

Rockruff quipped a bark, before he started snarling. He suddenly jumped and missed the flaming whip that slammed into the ground. In midair, he raised his tail high as the protrusions on his neck glowed bright white. He spiraled in midair and made the lights dislocate from his collar, turning to small sharp rocks. He used his tail as a bat and swung them into Bora, hitting him square in the chest and reeling away.

Rockruff landed in his heels with a gruff look. "How's that!?"

"Rockruff…" Hiro was shocked, but quickly got over it as he turned back towards Bora. "Alright, last chance! Give up and turn this ship around, or else!"

Bora got to a knee, gritting his teeth. "How's about 'or else'..." He suddenly smirked and snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, the group of women that Hiro met before were surrounded by a spiral of crimson flames. They all screamed in fear and huddled closer to avoid the confining prison. This caused everyone's eyes to widen at the sudden turnaround.

"Unless you want these lovely ladies to arrive in Bosco with burn marks, I suggest you rethink what you do." Bora taunted.

'Shit! He's using them as hostages!' Hiro gnashed his teeth again. He saw the few women inside looking afraid, as if their lives were flashing before their eyes. He knew that feeling all too well. It caused his bandaged fists to clutch.

Gine grunted, realizing the situation.

Bora snickered. However, the momentum was quick to diminish when the ship started to rumble.

"Huh? What's that sound?" a guard asked. Multiple men serving under Bora were just as clueless.

"Is it me, or is there an earthquake?"

"We're in the middle of the ocean, of course there's no earthquake!"

Gine blinked as he was pondering something. He slowly glanced out the window, his eyes widening at something big and blue heading their way…and it was very big.

"Magneton, quick! Supersonic!"

Magneton twirled its magnets and quickly adapted to the command. It generated a high-pitched, large-scale soundwave that echoed throughout the area. The distorted shrieking reverberated into the many men still on their feet, cursing them to cry out in pain.

Amongst them, Bora was taken back as his ears rung from the Supersonic's soundwaves. Almost immediately, his nerves were going numb as his head was fuzzy. He gnashed his teeth as he was losing his sense of balance, the confusion quickly taking effect.

"Hiro, quickly! Return our Pokemon now! Something's coming!" Gine retorted as his visor were detecting something powerful coming their way.

Hiro nodded as they pulled out their balls and cried "Return!"

Soon Range and Magneton were sent back into their Pokeballs, while Rockruff rushed to Hiro's side. Gine turned towards his Alakazam with a plan.

"Alakazam, now! Teleport!"

"Understood! Everyone, hang on!" Alakazam crossed his spoons with a loud clang. In an instant, the boys, himself, as well as all the captive women aboard the ship vanished out of sight.

That left the confused men and Bora aboard the ship, just as the wave crashed and threw everything about.

In an instant, the ones teleported found themselves on soft, cool sand along Hargeon's beaches.

Hiro looked around to see multiple women that were still tied up, but otherwise in one piece. "Is everyone alright?!"

Much of the women responded with confirmation. Others were still too confused, if not disoriented, by the whole ordeal. To his relief, the group of women especially from before were in one piece as they were comforting and holding each other tight, grateful to not be hurt.

Gine turned towards Alakazam. "Good work, Alakazam." He praised, earning a nod from his partner.

"Looks like that's all of them," Hiro noted. "At least the captive are out, but what was it that was…" He noticed something incoming from the sea, causing his shoulders to droop. "...oh."

A large tidal wave - a tsunami - was howling as it brought the ship along back to the shorelines. Everyone's eyes widened as the majority of the girls were able to use wits and flee for their lives. Meanwhile, Hiro and Gine didn't get too far as they were swept up in the waves and debris.

Once the wave collided with the beach and crashed Bora's ship along the sands, Lucy and Gine meet up again though not in the way they would want.

"Gine!" Lucy cried sitting on Gine's face and getting a face full of her plump, huge ass.

"Oh my Lucy, I didn't know you had a boyfriend, or are you selling out to any pretty boy you like just any other single gal?" Aquarius laughed seeing her partner in a unique position with a random guy.

"Hey, I'm not a cheap whore!" Lucy growled back.

"Whatever, I'm taking a vacation to be with my boyfriend. Maybe you can get one yourself so you wouldn't have to deprive yourself like that," Aquarius chimed, fading back into the Spirit world.

Lucy was angrily fuming until she felt something tapping her ass, and remembered she was still on Gine.

"Aahh Sorry Gine! I forgot you were there!" Lucy quickly apologized as she stood up and helped the Pokemon trainer up by grabbing his robotic arm.

'Wait, why does he have an arm made out of metal?.. Did something happen to him before he came here?' Lucy thought pondering as it might be a sensitive topic to bring up

Gine groaned as he was able to breathe once again. 'I don't know Hiro can handle butts like that…' Though being a boob kind of guy, he dismissed it before turning towards her. "I-it's nothing. Don't worry about it."

Hiro lifted a piece of wood off himself and looked around. Everything around the beach was nothing but a wreck, that included the ship itself. It was trashed to the point that it wasn't even an actual ship anymore. Every member of Bora's crew was unconscious, if not injured severely by the wave.

'Where the hell did that tsunami come from…?' His eyes widened when he realized something he had forgotten. "Natsu!"

Hiro rushed over to look for Natsu but instead, "YOU TWO!" Bora shouted angrily as he was back on his feet. Both Hiro and Natsu turned and saw Bora glaring directly at them. Neither were unfazed by his demeanor.

Finally on dry land and off transportation, Natsu shot the so-called 'Salamander' a harsh glare.

"You say that you're from Fairy Tail right?" Natsu sounded unamused, and to Hiro's mild surprise, very serious. "Let me see your mark up close, huh?"

Bora blinked, his sneer showing. "Tch, yeah? So what? Doesn't matter to you."

Natsu threw off his coat to reveal the same mark that Cana had on her waist but it was dark red on his right shoulder. Seeing his guild mark, surprised, Hiro came to a realization.

'Don't tell me…'

Natsu bared his shoulder at Bora. "You have this mark, then show me it…right now!"

Lucy gasped. "Huh? What is he…?" She paused, realizing something important that Hiro thought of. "Wait…that mark…" Her pupils shrank. "Is he…?"

"Yup, sure is." Happy chimed. "Natsu is a real Fairy Tail wizard."

"You're kidding…!"

'So he's part of the same guild that Cana is from' Gine thought thinking maybe not all of them arent that bad.

One of Bora's men was barely conscious, but when his vision was fixated enough, his eyes widened when he recognized the red-accented mark that was on his shoulder. "Wait…that mark…Bora, he's the real deal!"

Bora shot a look at him. "Don't call me that!"

Happy folded his arms. "Bora, huh? I've heard about him. Apparently he was part of the Titan Nose Guild until a short while ago, but was excommunicated due to scandals."

Natsu stepped forward. "You claim to use Fairy Tail's name for your sick gains…nobody makes a mockery of my guild!"

Hiro watched Natsu in action, it reminded him of himself a bit as he would get upset at people that would use the name of Aura for their own gains.

Bora's sneer returned, his teeth shown as he looked more amused than anything. "Yeah? So what are you gonna do about it?" Once again, a magic seal appeared in front of him. "Prominence Typhoon!"

A pink-red flame expelled from the magic seal, turning into a large, spiraling funnel that barreled through the debris after Hiro and Natsu.

Though Hiro was more cautious, he knew he couldn't take it head-on. Just as he brought out another capsule, Natsu brought up an arm to stop him. Hiro shot him a stunned look as the pink-haired man glared at the oncoming flame that gradually engulfed them.

BOOM!

An eruption of flames exploded where they once were.

"HIRO!/NATSU!" Lucy and Gine shouted at the same time seeing the spell their friends.

Bora smirked seeing that his magic had eliminated them or so he thought. "Man these flames taste bad!" shouted Natsu.

Natsu and Hiro had survived Bora's attack as Natsu was literally eating the flame from Bora's spell like if he was a Pokemon with the Flash Fire or one using Swallow. The two were completely unscathed, with all the fire done by Bora's attack completely drawn into the Natsu's gut with a loud slurp.

"WHAAAAAAA~!?" Bora exasperated.

Hiro blinked. 'He ingested the flames…? That's some crazy magic.'

The flames were all swallowed, leaving Natsu to wipe his mouth with a smirk. "Heh, now I got a fire in my belly. Hey, Hiro."

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for earlier. You and whatever those things were…I owe ya. So how's about I repay ya…" He stepped forward with clutched fists. "By pummeling this guy for everything he's worth!"

Hiro nodded. "Yeah, mind if we back you up?"

"This is Fairy Tail business, but…" he sneered. "I really wanna see more of what you can do. Just don't get in my way, alright?"

"Got it." He turned towards Bora, giving a leer of his own. He wasn't going to let him get away with what he attempted to do, especially given that it was slavery of all things.

'This might be worth it. I can see how these wizards use magic up close more.'

"Watch and learn, guys, cuz this is how a Fairy Tail wizard fights!" Natsu took in a deep breath and careened his head back. As flames filled his lungs, his cheeks puffed before lurching forward.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!"

A torrent of condensed fire erupted and enveloped everything in Natsu's path, similar to a Flamethrower. The flames exploded upon contact with the ship's remnants, reducing the bark to ash. They met the end of their path and enveloped everything in a raging flame that quickly diminished.

Lucy and Gine's eyes were wide with bewilderment as they watched the attack escalate across the beach. Everything enveloped in a ground shaking blaze that left them speechless.

However, as destructive as the attack was, a pink flame swirled from its base several meters into the air. Bora stood atop of it with a less than pleased look on his face. His attire was partially tattered, and he looked unfocused.

Hiro's eyes widened upon the sight. 'That Supersonic must have dazed him earlier. He can't last much longer. Just need to put on a little more pressure!'

He reached into his coat and pulled out another capsule. This time, this one was a pure white with red trimmings. To many Trainers, they knew it as a Premier Ball. Hiro threw it skywards.

"Shadow, you're up!"

The capsule lobbed into the sky and popped open. It manifested energy that shot down in front of Hiro and turned into a quadruped Pokemon with midnight blue fur, borderline black. He had multiple rings around his body that were bright blue. He had dull orange eyes and black sclera that glimmered under the moonlight. When he made his appearance though, a dazzling flash emanated from his body.

However, on his face was a set of shades that were almost pitch-black.

It was a shiny Umbreon.

"Okay, I'm ready to go!" The shiny Umbreon exclaimed.

Lucy blinked several times in shock. "Wait, what's that one?"

With Lucy's inquiry on the unknown creature, Gine made sure to be careful. "That's another one of Hiro's partners. That one's Shadow. Don't worry, he's a pro in the night."

Midnight scoffed. "Sure, when I'm not flying by."

Bora scoffed angrily before he made another magic seal. "Red Shower!" He unleashed another barrage of flames that brazenly sailed right for them.

Hiro swiped his arm as he made a command. "Shadow, use Psychic!"

Shadow grunted. "Right, on it!" His eyes underneath his Black Glasses shined bright purple as he emitted a psychokinetic wave pulse through the air. Once more, the kinetic waves gradually slowed down the raining assault to where they almost froze completely.

"Again!?" Bora snapped.

Natsu raced across the open field with flames enveloping his fists. He sprung off the ground with great jumping heights that surprised even Hiro. He shot up and threw a blow across Bora's face, sending him careening off his pedestal deep within the city limits. A building shuddered several blocks inwards.

"What strength…" Hiro muttered. He was glad that he didn't get caught in a fistfight with him earlier.

"So then…Natsu can eat fire, and then attack with it?" Lucy processed the information she had as she watched the battle. "Is this some kind of spell?"

"He has dragon lungs that allow him to breathe fire. Dragon scales to dissolve the fire. And dragon claws for attacking with fire." Happy explained. "You see, Natsu uses a special kind of magic that's extremely rare and very powerful. His brand of Fire Magic gives him the qualities of a Fire Dragon."

"A Fire Dragon, you say?" Gine observed patiently as he watched the dust settle.

Once again, another Red Carpet shot skywards, putting Bora at a higher position than before. He aimed for Natsu and Hiro once more as he used both arms for a magic seal that was charging up pressure to a condensed point.

"I'm done with you all!"

"Hiro!" Shadow exclaimed.

Hiro nodded. "Yeah, got it!"

Bora turned the magic seal onto them, a pained frustration as he unleashed his spell.

"Hell Prominence!"

A condensed beam of pure flames similar to an energy blast roared across the atmosphere, making a trail across the city into Hiro and Gine. As it passed by buildings, eruptions exploded a couple stories high that paved after the intended targets.

Hiro raised his arm up and directed at the oncoming beam. "Dark Pulse!"

Shadow sprung off the ground as his Black Glasses glinted. He reeled his head back as his maw opened wide, generated jumbled black rings with a purple aura surrounding it. The shiny Umbreon careened forward and unleashed the pulse in a beam-like wave of rings that intensified in volume.

The two attacks collided in midair, causing a tremor in the airspace before they ultimately collapsed upon one another. A shockwave exploded over a large scale, causing Bora to cover himself and move his pedestal back so he didn't fall off.

"Gaaaaah~!" Lucy squealed as she was barely keeping her dress down front the front. Though, from the side, Gine was still able to marvel at whatever thick skin was available.

The shockwaves diminished, leaving smoke in the air that Bora tore a hole through using more condensed violet fire. He threw the fireball at Shadow, but Natsu got in between and stuck out his hands. He grabbed the fireball and suspended it with physical might.

He brought it overhead and opened his mouth, inhaling the hefty flames that quickly went down his gullet. With a gulp, he wiped his mouth with a sick sneer. "Heh, still gross, but that meal's got me all charged up."

Bora's left eye twitched. He started to veer away, but Hiro acted promptly.

"Shadow, quick! Use Confuse Ray!"

"Right!" Shadow straightened himself on all four paws as his tail stood up. The blue rings around his body gradually illuminated him before they briefly flashed. Several purple orbs of ghostly light flew in an orbit around each other towards Bora until they were within range.

Bora gasped, but was helpless when the eerie lights surrounded him and flourished. When they dissipated, the defected wizard had a disoriented fixation in his eyes. He looked dizzy to where his Red Carpet was wobbling, unable to suspend him properly.

"He's all yours, Natsu!" Hiro yelled.

"Thanks!" Natsu kneeled to gathered leg strength, and shot off the ground in a powerful leap. Flames spiraled to a condensed point in his right fist that he pulled back. "Face the wrath of a dragon!"

Bora was too confused to act accordingly. The flame carpet he was on before slowly dispersed, putting him in freefall for Natsu to get a clean shot in.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

The fist pulled forward, meeting Bora's face with explosive, fiery force that sent the wizard careening across the street. He flung through multiple monuments and displays across the city before his final destination led him towards the city bell.

With a loud ding, Bora smashed into the bell with a burst of dust. The building shuddered as a trail of dust and debris led from Natsu's blow towards the fallen foe's destination.

Natsu stood upright, the fire around his fist dispersing. The serious glare he had never left his face. Meanwhile, the others looked flabbergasted at the power that he showed them; Lucy was no exception.

"You're kidding…that's the power of a Fairy Tail wizard?!"

Murkrow tilted her head. "Hm…maybe I should watch out for this one."

Hiro was taken back, but he would put off his inquiries for another time. There was far too much going on for him to divulge into the small details. He instead pulled out his Premier Ball and pointed it at Shadow.

"Nice work, Shadow. Return." Hiro thanked his partner, before a red laser shot out and recalled his Umbreon.

Lucy moved closer to the two. "Are you both okay?"

"Am I? Ha! You should be asking that Bara guy after I smoked him like a fish in fire!" Natsu beamed.

"Silly, you don't smoke a fish with fire, you use smoke." Happy corrected.

"Whatever, you get what I mean."

"As for usual, you do more damage than necessary once again," Gine commented, looking back at the mess Natsu and Hiro made from their fight leaving Lucy slack-jawed seeing the mess in front of them.

Their fight literally wrecked most of the city that was close to the ocean shore. "Well, we did go overboard a bit this time," Hiro chuckled, looking over the damage from their fight.

"I'll say!" Lucy cried seeing the damaged port side.

Things started to get worse as a massive group of armored people came to the scene.

"It's the army!?" Lucy cried in shock as they were coming towards them.

Before Lucy could do anything, she was dragged off by Natsu and Happy leaving Hiro and Gine behind as the dust settled.

"Uh… Gine?" Hiro looked at his friend for an idea.

Gine sighed knowing that they would be detained if caught. "Alakazam, Teleport!"

The Psi Pokemon teleported them out of the way before the army could detain them.

In a flash, the duo was directly teleported right back to Natsu and Lucy and crashed into them.

"We need to stop doing this!" Lucy retorted as she found herself sitting on top of Gine again.

"Alakazam needs to work on his teleporting better…" Gine muttered underneath Lucy's weight. With how large and soft her rump was, it was more of a muffled complaint than anything.

'Mmmm…guess she's not too bad,' Hiro observed Lucy in her dress, most notably how thick and well proportioned she was. Though she arguably had more leverage with her breasts than the ass that he's used to.

Lucy scrambled to her feet. Hiro helped Gine back to his as the two looked back at the ravaged city.

"Well…so much for that ordeal. Guess it ain't a good idea to stick around here." Gine stated.

"Nope! I sure wouldn't!" Rockruff barked.

"Heh, well then, let's hurry up! You guys follow me!" Natsu shouted, turning to run down a street.

Hiro raised a brow. "Uh…where too?"

"Where else? The place we all wanna go: Fairy Tail!"

The group's eyes widened upon the realization. They knew where this was heading, and this opportunity couldn't have [presented itself any better. Lucy looked ecstatic, whereas Hiro and Gine exchanged nods with their earlier plan. If this was a sure way to better understand this world and what they were bound to face off against in the future, they had to take it!

Natsu beamed his toothy smile as he started running. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go!"

"Aye!" Happy flew after him.

"Wait up!" Lucy shouted. "C'mon, guys! You coming with us?"

Gine glanced at Hiro. "You ready?"

Hiro nodded. "Yeah." He turned back forward. 'Finally, we're on the right track. Time to get some answers!'

The group started off towards their newest destination, leaving their first big mark in Earthland behind.

Up above in the night sky watching from the distance, Mew was watching Hiro and Gine as they were off to Fairy Tail.


Sandgem Town, Sinnoh

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE IS MISSING!?"

A young woman shouted so loud that it scared the nearby flocks of Starly into flying away, and several other Pokemon to hide in fear from the source.

This young woman was Dawn Mistumi Berlitz, the granddaughter of Professor Rowan, with long dark pale blue hair that reached her shapely behind. With a pair of piercing blue eyes to compliment her lovely narrow face and her curvaceous body wearing a white lab coat over a white and pink shirt and black pants with a stripe of pink on the sides.

Dawn was furiously upset hearing the news that her friends Gine and Hiro, more so the latter, as they have been childhood friends than sweethearts as the years went on until she broke up with Hiro.

"Dawn, Please keep your emotions in check! As I said before Hiro and Gine went to investigate something happening at Mount Coronet Highlands area near the summit when they disappeared," Dawn's grandfather, Professor Rowan explained.

Dawn took a deep breath, scratching her forehead. "I know, but this isn't like Hiro or Gine. Did Hiro's father say anything or even do anything about it?"

Rowan shook his head, "Unfortunately not as he is busy with ever-growing cases of Pokemon disappearing, I even told the man, he needs to focus on his family more when Sadao told the news."

Dawn was still upset when she learned the news and immediately took the first flight from Galar to Sinnoh to learn more about the situation.

Rowan saw the distress on his granddaughter's face and placed his hand on her shoulder, "Sadao is trying to call in some old friends who live in the region and try to investigate the area along with your friend Jenni, I know Hiro and Gine are your closest friend but I can assure you that as long those two boys stick together they will be fine."

Dawn sniffled a bit and smiled. "Thanks, Grandpa."

"Now, how's about you go turn in for the night, and get some rest. I do want to know about your studies in the Galar region and this Dynamax phenomenon that Magnolia is talking about." Rowan commented and noticed Dawn was tired from her rushed flight from Galar to Sinnoh.

Dawn nodded before heading back home to her family home that was nearby the laboratory. Several minutes later, Dawn changed into her sleeping attire consisting of a simple green shirt with a Pokeball logo that stretched out due to her chest, and a pair of black shorts that showed off her voluptuous booty.

She was staring out of her bedroom window as one person was on her mind right, Hiro, 'Oh Hiro, where did you go? I hope you and Gine are okay.'

'BBBBRRRRIIINNNNGGG! BBBBBRRRRRRIIIINNNNNGGG!'

Dawn's Rotomphone was ringing on a nightstand next to her bed, Dawn was hesitant to pick it up but decided to see who was calling at this hour of the night.

She groaned when she saw the name… 'Amelia'

Amelia was Dawn's rival from the contest scene when she went traveling with Hiro and then by herself and also she was very boastful and ignorant about her skill and looks. Dawn didn't mind her that much though what she took issue with was how much she tried to get Hiro away from Dawn, as Amelia was not only a rich daughter and heiress but also was part of another region of Aura users from Kalos.

Dawn accepted the call, before reluctantly saying "Hi Amelia."

It was a video call as Dawn looked on and saw her rival with her dark raven hair and dark blue eyes staring back at Dawn.

"Oh Dawn, dearly, how is my former rival doing? I had heard you came back to Sinnoh" Amelia said.

"Yeah, what about it?" Dawn asked annoyed figuring Amelia would learn about the disappearance of Hiro and Gine from her clan connections.

"I bet he wouldn't have gone missing if you didn't break his heart, but I would have kept him close and dear to me," Amelia teased Dawn.

"I told you, we agreed to break up because we were still young and didn't want to do anything stupid!" Dawn angrily retorted.

Amelia smirked, "Sure you say that but I can tell you regret it and think he'll replace you with another woman."

Dawn groaned a bit and muttered "Maybe…"

"So you do regret it, and I bet you were planning on telling him that when you came home," Amelia commented.

"Hold on why are you helping me instead of trying to make me feel worse?" Dawn asked noticing that Amelia wasn't doing her usual bit of trying to playfully snag Hiro from her.

"Simple, well I admit Hiro is a total hunk and he is seriously packing it if you get want I mean," Amelia winked as Dawn blushed to remember how big Hiro was down there.

"I can't have my rival and friend feeling bummed out and plus my boyfriend suggested I call to see how you doing" Amelia admitted.

"Wait you got a boyfriend!" Dawn said surprisingly.

"Yeah, he is almost like Hiro but he could be bigger, and plus he is next up to be a Mentor of the Unova region," Amelia commented

"Okay, now you're showing off," Dawn dryly commented seeing Amelia was her normal self still even after finding a guy to call her own.

"Promise me when you find Hiro, you tell him how you feel or maybe I come back and hook up with him for a night," Amelia commented.

"Don't you dare, I will find Hiro and tell him I want to be with him still!" Dawn said excitedly springing up from her bed.

Amelia chuckled, "Fine, besides I have my own man to ride when I'm in the mood. Talk to you later, I got a date with my stud anyway."

The call ended, Dawn placed her phone down as she walked to her bedroom window and looked up at the starry night sky.

'Hiro, wherever you are, I hope you're looking at the same starry sky…'

END OF CHAPTER


So what did you think of that, I do apologize for the delay between chapters as my current job has been leaving me a bit less motivated to do much these days besides drawing.

Luckily I'll have a new job starting soon so I'll be able to do more work on the story on my off time.

Enjoy the chapter, and let me know what you like, plus I hope you notice some clever easter eggs I had sprinkled in the story. I want to thank Insane Dominator for helping out as he has been a wonderful friend and editor for my story.

See you all next time