Warning: this will contain adult situations but no actual lemons
Chapter 3: Petalburg woods
Trekking across the wild meadow outside of Littleroot the four of them idly chattered with another.
"Master, what kind of person is your father?" Emy asked curious and wanting to know more about her tamer.
"My dad? Well…," Terry thought about the question before answering. "He's a good and dependable person. When he became a gym leader the league invited him to the gym here in Petalburg. Along with leading the gym he is one of the most influential voices for Pokegirl rights, which causes him trouble with the more bigoted officials. Actually one of the reasons why we moved was this one official from the Jhoto league started to harass mom and me."
"He really is someone to look up to." May said in agreement.
"Really?" Soot asked suddenly interested to know about someone May looks up to.
"Yeah, I heard him in a debate once when I was little; he was so passionate yet logical about his cause that it convinced me to make it my dream too. He wants to make the world a place where we can live alongside Pokegirls in peace. The way he spoke made it seem possible, and not just a fantasy."
"It almost sounds like you're in love with him." Terry said teasing her with a smile on his face.
"No I'm not!" her face turning a bright shade of red, "He's more like a hero or something."
"I'm just joking." he said causing her to pout, "I do understand what you mean though, after listening to him for all my life it's no wonder that my dream is the same as his. I'm sure he's happy about us following in his footsteps." Their conversation lapsed into idle chatter after that and within the second hour of their journey Petalburg was within sight.
Petalburg is only slightly bigger than Littleroot; the only land mark worth noting would be the gym belonging to Terry's father. All in all, the town was a quiet restful place on the edge of the large woods sharing its name. The woods themselves were fairly tame, and the Pokegirls found there are relatively weak compared to other regions, but it can still be deadly to those who go in unprepared.
The two tamers and their Pokegirls head straight into the gym as they enter town. Stepping onto the polished hardwood floors the four took in the sight of the gym. Standing at one and half stories tall the gym was separated into three parts; the reception area, the training hall, and the leader's stage. The reception area was meticulously cleaned each day to be presentable to both tamers and league officials. The front desk manned by a single receptionist was situated next to the door leading into the training area, the floor featured Normans personalized emblem. The emblem represented a seated grizzlar holding a sapling symbolizing both the will to protect and new beginnings, the words Our young are our greatest treasures wrapped elegantly around the emblem. Where the reception area was built for presentation the training hall was built for function. The walls featured the rules of the gym; never seek to bring harm to another, better others through perfecting yourself, and Pokegirls are our companions not tools. The flooring in the training hall was covered in scuffs, scrapes, and the occasional gouge attesting to the hard training the hall has seen over the years. Training equipment filled one side of the hall while practice rings filled the other. The hall was almost never empty, today was apparently a slow day with only a few tamers and their Pokegirls at the equipment and none in the rings. Featured at the back of the hall overlooking everything was the leader's stage. It consisted of a simple raised floor with the League's emblem representing that the gym was a fully recognized League facility. Terry and May approached the front desk while their Pokegirls wandered around curiously.
"Welcome Terry, May, leader Norman is expecting you at the stage, go on in." the ingenue receptionist named Ellie immediately recognized them, and waved them in. Calling their Pokegirls to their sides they entered the training hall. The four headed up to the stage where a lone figure sat. Sitting in the middle of the Stage hunched over a book was a grizzlar named Ursa, Norman's alpha. At a soaring eight feet tall the Pokegirl made for an almost comical scene with her holding a paper back in her lap, blissfully unaware of the world around her. Her slightly ursine nose twitched as she caught the scent of the familiar tamers. Perking up the Pokewoman turned to them, a huge ear to ear smile stretching across her face.
"Terry!" She rushed over crushing him in a literal bear hug, as always in this situation he admired the softness of her golden brown fur, then quickly panicked as he felt bones pop and creak from her strength. He can't help but marvel at his father's endurance at not only surviving these frequent hugs, but also taming sessions with her. Once he had seen Ursa tear down a tree four feet taller than her. When she let him go he breathed a grateful sigh of relief as his face changing to a more normal shade of purple. The affectionate Pokewoman turned her attention May. "May!"
"No, no, no!" primal fear could be seen the poor girl's eye, as she was caught up in the same hug Terry felt moments ago. He felt the utmost sympathy for May as she squirmed and struggled feeling the breath get hugged out of her, she fell over limply when Ursa released her. Terry could hear the regulars laughing at the all too familiar scene behind them.
"Who are these two?" Ursa turned to the overwhelmed Pokegirls.
"Their names are Emy and Soot." Terry gestured to each as he introduced them.
"Aww, they're so cute," she induced a small panic attack in Terry and May before they realized she was not going to hug their Pokegirls just pet them. "Oh, you have some dirt here dear." Ursa licked her thumb intending to clean off Soot's cheek.
"That's just her birthmark." May quickly intervened saving Soot.
"Well this looks lively." said a voice behind them. Turning around they found that Norman had walked up without them noticing.
"Norman. Welcome back." Ursa walked over to Terry's father and caught him up the same hug as she used on the other two, this one lasting noticeably longer than the rest. After the hug Norman looked like nothing had happened. His appearance did not lead one to believe he could survive those hugs; he had a wiry build with an average height. Whether it was from his speech or his body language Norman gave off a confidant charismatic aura.
"Good morning dad," Terry greeted as May happily waved to Norman. "We came to let you know that we start traveling today."
"That's good; I have my own parting gift for you guys, and something to tell you. Just remember to be careful. Nothing makes a parent happier than seeing his child safe and sound. A word of warning though not all of the towns will be as accepting of Pokegirls as we are. There will be people who are openly cruel and look down on Pokegirls especially people like Team Rocket, but just as there are people like that, there are genuinely good people who sympathize with our point of view. If you two are serious about helping out our movement then don't tell people about it, show people that compassion only makes both the tamer and the Pokegirl stronger." He added with a note of pride in his voice, "But knowing you two I'm sure you'll do fine."
"Thanks dad. We'll be cautious."
"Good. Now tell me who these two are," The six of the talked for little bit longer with Norman seeming almost reluctant to say goodbye. When he finally did he told Terry and May that his gift was waiting for them at the Pokemart.
Upon arriving at the Pokemart the clerk told them that the foodstuffs need time to prepare and that they should take a look around in the meantime.
Separating from the others Terry heads over to the tamers only section of store. I should buy some supplements, as a just in case. Leaving Emy with Soot to browse the racks as they please he headed over there spotting May in the section already.
"Hey May what…" the question died on his lips when he saw what she was holding. It was a 12" long dildo reserved for larger breeds of Pokegirls. They both stared at it for the span of three seconds before May hastily threw it back onto the shelf red faced. "You know that thing is more for Pokegirls like an onyx right?"
"I-I know! I was, uh, just looking…"
"You should use something a little more normal sized." He said trying to cover his own embarrassment with advice.
"Uh, this one right?" She picked out a 9" long one.
"No, 5" is more or less average," he indicated the more appropriate ones by pointing not actually wanting to touch them.
"Really that small?" Terry gave her troubled look at the comment. "OH! I'm sorry I didn't mean to…"
"No it's fine I shouldn't be insulted by that, I'm actually six… Wait! That's not important. Anyways why am I telling you this? You're a girl you should know what's too big." He could feel his face getting hotter by the second.
"Well mom's was as big the second one. Uh I mean what are you doing over here?" May desperately tried to change the conversation.
"I wanted to get some supplements for myself." What was that about her mother?
"Like pills for ED?"
"No!" Terry practically shouted, "Their just nutritional supplements to help my stamina for when I find another Pokegirl."
"Sorry I didn't mean to imply that." The conversation descended into awkward silence after that. The only thing saving them from it was the clerk letting them know their order was ready.
"So in here you have two days' worth of food and water for four people, emergency dried pokechow for a torch chick and a chikotit, and two copies of a wild edible guide book all prepaid. Anything else?" The two tamers looked over at their Pokegirls who were still shopping. Placing their own items on the counter they headed over to get Emy and Soot.
"Hey May can I get this bracelet?" Soot presented a small bracelet with a flame motif on it.
"Sure, it looks good on you." She said smiling at Soot's happy face and bought it along with her other items.
"What are you looking at?" Terry asked surprising Emy.
"Ah, nothing! Are we ready to go?" She quickly left for the front of the store. Terry smiled to himself as he realized what she was looking at.
Heading out the four entered the Petalburg woods with relative ease. Their first day was fairly uneventful; they only caught glimpses of Pokegirls before they disappeared. Rather than risk walking in the forest at night they set up camp half an hour before sunset, finishing when the sky began to change into a shade of beautiful deep purple. After eating a simple dried meal May and Soot retired to their tent leaving the first watch to Terry and Emy. Soon it was apparent that May's and Soot's interests were not in resting. Terry pulled out his pokedex to pass the time and started to play with the functions on it as Emy gazed up at the night sky counting the stars as they appeared. A flare of light came from May's tent accompanying a shout of surprise caught their attention. They're having fun, I think. He thought feeling a slight sense of worry for May's wellbeing.
After sometime Emy looked over at him from the starry sky "Master, I was wondering. Why did you become a tamer?"
"Well… I did it because I love Pokegirls and want to know more about them."
"Then why not become a researcher?"
"I don't really have the patience for something like that, besides I also wanted to travel. If I became a tamer then I also have the option of becoming a harem master. If I can do that, then using the fame and influence associated with being a master I can support our dream of eliminating prejudice against Pokegirls."
"Then why choose me? I'm not very pretty nor am I strong enough for something like that."
"I chose you because I thought you are beautiful, your eyes are enchanting." He looked her in the eye with his face colored red from not just the firelight. "And about how strong you are. Your only weak right now but that has a chance to change as we journey we'll both grow. I believe that through challenging ourselves against others in fair, friendly competitions we can become stronger and grow closer."
"Sounds like you are more in tune with fire types." Soot commented, having caught the tail end of their conversation after emerging from the tent.
"Well that maybe what I believe, but it's only half of it. According to my psych-evaluation I scored a little higher in empathy and compassion than I did in competiveness. It was suggested that I go into the medical field. By the way are you two alright? That was a pretty big fire spurt."
Her cheeks turned a little redder. "Well, May surprised me with that big thing."
"Really? If you thought that was big you should be grateful that I stopped her from buying the other one."
"What other one? How big was it?" Terry held out his hands to show how big it was, and Soot blanched in fear of her tamer.
"I thought you two were resting, did you come out to get something?" He said to change the subject.
"Y-yeah, I wanted to get May's canteen." She said shaking the canteen in her hand. "Goodnight, you two." Soot walked back into the tent ending her part in the conversation.
"Did May ask Soot to call her by her name?" Terry wondered out loud.
"I think she only calls May Mistress in private. I could hear her say it when she was in the tent." Emy explained.
"Really… Oh, I just remembered something." Terry started to rummage through his pack, pulling out a small wrapped up package he handed it over to Emy. Opening the package she found the leaf pendant from the Pokemart she was interested in a few hours ago.
"This is…"
"A gift. Go ahead and tell me the next time you want something, I'll gladly buy it for you." Terry smiled as she nodded.
"Thank you master." She said putting it on.
"By the way how come you call me 'Master' I'm fine with you calling me by my name."
"Well… that's because… I'm bad with names." She mumbled turning a light shade of red, "And I feel more comfortable calling you master since you're my tamer …do you want me to call you Terry."
"It's okay, just call me whatever you feel most comfortable with." They lapsed into a comfortable silence listening to the sounds of the forest and the fire. Emy started to nod off while clinging to his arm.
"You go ahead and lay down in the tent, I'll wake May and Soot for their turn." She nodded while sleepily rubbed her eyes. "Hey May wake up it's your turn." After sometime he was about call out again when a bleary eyed May poked her head out.
"Already?"
"M-May, your hair!" The ends of half her hair were burned off.
"Oh yeah, I accidentally scared Soot and she let out a spurt of fire. It's fine though I'll do something about it in the morning."
Terry left it at that and said goodnight to the two. Entering his own tent he joined a fast asleep Emy. When she sensed him she immediately turned over and clung to him.
The morning started in a hectic fashion with Terry barely containing his laughter as Emy fussed over May's hair, along with the ordeal of trying to cook three separate meals to fit everyone's separate needs. Soon the smell of cooking food filled their little clearing. Just as they were breaking camp May noticed something out of the corner of her eye.
A cutiepie had wandered into their camp attracted by the smell of food. The small Pokegirl was only three feet tall, with bright blond hair framing her cherubic face in curls, her antenna sprouting from her the top of her head. Her clothes were tattered clearly showing that she has been feral for quite some time. May turned to her and held out a carrot stick from her pack trying to appear as inviting and friendly as possible.
"Come here, do you want something to eat?" She called out to the Pokegirl, trying to coax her closer. The cutiepie took a step forward looking from one person to the next, Soot shifted in her spot to get a better look at her catching the feral Pokegirl's attention. For a second she froze with her eyes locked on Soot before she bolted in the other direction.
"Ah! Wait come back!" May immediately took off after her.
"No wait! May don't… she's gone." Terry tried to stop her from chasing after the feral, "We need to go after her before we lose her." Terry quickly picked up his own pack while rushing the girls after May. Her trail was relatively easy to follow and shortly May's shapely backside came into view from where it was sticking out of the bushes.
"Hey May, wha-" He was interrupted by her turning around and desperately shushing him. She was frantically pointing to something beyond the bushes. Taking a look Terry stiffened in fear. Less than six yards away was a large papery structure surrounding a larger tree. He caught sight of one of the Pokegirls populating it, she possessed a soft face framed in strait lavender hair that led the eyes to the rest of her generously curvy body. Chitinous armor protected her body; her gossamer wings produced a buzzing noise as they kept her afloat. Under her wings she possessed a dangerous stinger. Other Pokegirls who could have been her twins lazily floated out of the structure. They had stumbled onto a buzzbreast hive just beginning to wake up.
"Master you're too-" Emy and Soot caught up with Terry huffing and it was his turn to shush them, before pointing to the hive. The two of them quickly got the message after seeing the hive. All four of them moved backwards as quietly as possible. *snap* All eyes turned to the broken twig under Terry's foot, including the eyes of a couple of the buzzbreasts. The unfortunate four took off at full speed in the opposite direction with more than a few buzzbreasts following them.
"Emy use vinewhip or something!"
"R-Right!" She turned around and snapped a vine sprouting from the buds on her wrist at the attacking buzzbreasts. Although attack was inaccurate and missed its intended target, it still had the intended effect of slowing the feral Pokegirls down. She turned and ran with Terry never more than a few steps ahead of her even when she turned to strike out. Hitting a small clearing they stopped reaching the end of their stamina, they turned and saw that only two buzzbreasts were still following them, the others driven off by lucky strikes from Emy.
Squaring off against the two of them they waited for the other to make the first move. Seizing the first strike Terry shouted "Now!" Emy sent forth two vinewhips hoping to cover her lack of accuracy with quantity, both strikes missed by a small degree; the buzzbreast charged forward. Emy panicked and struck out with another vinewhip, this time it hit the feral right in between the eyes leaving a red mark on her forehead stunning her a moment. The buzzbreast got the message and fled.
"Ah! Sorry master she got away."
"It's alright we only catch the ones who stay and fight anyways." Terry was just thankful that one threat was gone.
May and Soot were looking for an opening against their buzzbreast as Terry and Emy dealt with theirs. A disturbance in the bushes caught both parties attention, and a pidgy rushed out and tackled the buzzbreast out of the air.
"Soot quick break them up with ember!" Soot immediately released a controlled burst of ember in between the two feral Pokegirls. The pidgy chirped in surprise as the ember grazed her, and the buzzbreast realizing her disadvantage quickly fled from her two opponents. Looking fairly pissed at losing her prey the pidgy turned her attention to May and Soot. Taking to the air again she started to circle around Soot looking for an opening. Soot quickly dodged away from the pidgy's sudden strike sending an ember after the flying Pokegirl. Soot sent out another ember at the pidgy, but she blew the fire away with a gust.
"Shouldn't we help them?" Emy asked her eyes full of concern for the two.
"Don't worry, we're ok." May answered while Soot just nodded. The pidgy swooped down again and Soot launched an ember into her face before she crashed into her, Soot narrowly avoided the pidgy's claws as she flailed to the ground more startled than injured. Using the opening May threw a pokeball at the dazed pidgy, everyone held their breath as the pokeball rocked once… twice… and a third time before lying still and flashing red.
"Yes!" May jumped for joy at her first success.
"Good job. Now we just need to get to a pokecenter so you can heal her."
"Yeah let's get go!" May started to walk away at a brisk pace before stopping again, "Uh which way was it?"
There was a pause as they took the time to look at their unfamiliar surroundings.
"A-are we lost?" Emy asked slightly panicking.
"No we still have the map function on the pokedex." Terry explained. "I even marked where our camp was while I was messing with it last night."
Thanks to Terry's accidental preplanning they were able to make it back to the camp May was ecstatic and praising Soot the whole way back causing the Pokegirl to swell in pride. They managed to recover all of the camping equipment they left behind before setting off to Rustboro city.
End of chapter 3
I'll aim to make the chapters around this length from now on. Some of the third gens are hard to track down, so if you have any you would like to see message me. Also I could use a beta reader if someone wants to lend a hand.
