Gabrielle grumbled as she fell out of the portal only to smash her shins on a chair someone had left in the middle of the small inn room. The first thing she noticed after taking a brief minute to rub her shins was a large pile of gear piled on the table pushed against the wall. She turned around as she heard a soft beeping noise. "Find anything interesting?"

Leo fiddled with the pokedex in his hands. "You could say that, but I don't think you'll like it. Hell I'm not sure I like it, and I know a lot of guys that would kill to be here."

She frowned, "Okay, I know Rose wouldn't dump us someplace completely horrible, so what's the good news bad news assessment?"

"According to Rose's notes, the bad news is we are in a post apocalyptic world that seems to be a twisted mix of pokemon and one of Lexie's henti porn movies." Leo held up a small hand held piece of electronics that looked like an oversized P.D.A. made out of a red plastic. "Apparently this device holds records of most types of pokegirls, Oh, sorry that was part of the good news. Anyways, back to the bad news, the monsters in this world are all female sex crazed creatures, some of which would rather eat you than look at you."

Gabrielle sighed, "Any other bad news?"

"Yeah, Rose signed us up as Tamers."

Gabrielle looked confused, "Like monster trainers?"

"Yeah except you have to have sex with the monsters to bind them to you and you are supposed to go out into the wilderness and catch ferals."

Gabrielle blinked repeatedly as she tried to process that, "Why in the hell would we do that?"

"Two reasons actually, first you can sell captured ferals, and second apparently on this world they use the monsters to fight the other monsters. If the pokegirls don't get enough sex they enter a feral state and lose a large amount of their reasoning ability."

Gabrielle sighed, "Please tell me that's the worst of the news?"

"There is also the slight problem of us being technically underage, so according to Rose's notes we are supposed to lie about our age."

"How old are we supposed to be?"

Leo sighed, "Legally in the Blue League you're supposed to be fifteen to be a tamer."

Gabrielle shook her head as she looked at her half brother, "What the hell was she thinking, there is no way you're going to be able to pass as three and a half years older. Hell even though I'm tall for my age I don't see how I'm supposed to pass for fifteen. I don't exactly have the bust to be fifteen."

"Yeah well I don't know." Leo snapped at his sister, "I've only been here a few minutes longer than you. I swear this is the last time I ask Rose to pick the vacation spot."

"Sorry, I know it's not your fault, I just wish she would have told us more about the world up front. We'll just have to use magic to look a little bit older I guess. Anyways what else does her notes say."

He looked the notes over for a few seconds, "Not too much, the rest of the notes talk about a few different things, T2's, Stat ups, and finally Tabs."

"She is making even less sense than normal, can you maybe summarize?"

Leo rolled his eyes, "Sure, she left us some sample's to get us started on our quest, though sadly no pokegirls." He jumped off the bed and walked over to the desk with all of the stuff piled on it. After searching around for a few seconds he pulled out a small box and opened it before showing the contents to Gabrielle.

She glanced down at the two small metallic stones that rested in cotton. "They don't look that impressive what do they do?"

"Apparently as near as I can tell from her notes they are some type of memory encoding device that teaches various powerful magical abilities or skills to the pokegirls."

"Let me guess they don't work on humans?"

"Sadly no, though they unlike the rest are reusable."

"And the rest?"

"Well apparently she gave us two doses of medicine designed to permanently increase the durability of a pokegirl. Don't ask me how it does that. Her notes just say to acquire the stuff any time we find it for sale. We also have two doses of something that is supposed to increase the frequency a pokegirl can use one of her special abilities."

"Do I even want to know what tabs do?"

"Not tabs, Tab it's a drug or dust or something that is supposed to permanently increase a pokegirl's physical or mental abilities depending on the version. Apparently it's from a magical meteorite or something. Other than to not have them overdose on the stuff, she doesn't say much about it."

Gabrielle ran her fingers through her hair, "Remind me to spank the shit out of her when we see her next."

"Sounds messy." He held up his hands in surrender as she glared at him.

"Now you're just being gross. So assuming we want to be pokegirl trainers how are we supposed to get our first one? I suppose they expect us to walk into the wilderness and capture one don't they?"

Leo grinned, "Nothing so horrible as that, well I guess we could do it that way but it might be a little suspicious if our first pokegirl was feral. I mean after all they might wonder how we caught it."

"You saying there are no magic users here?"

"No, I'm saying that even the magic users here don't run around the wilderness with no pokegirls to protect them."

"While I know you are enjoying knowing more than me about something cut to the chase, how do we get our first pokegirl?"

"They are called starters and we simply show up at a ranch or pokecenter and present the slips we got when we completed the test."

"But we didn't complete the test."

"No but Rose did, and the slips are on the desk."

"So any ideas where to go for our first pokegirl?"

"She didn't say, I figure we collect our stuff check out, maybe someone at the desk can tell us where to go."

Gabrielle shrugged, it seemed like as good of plan as any to her.

Leo's preparation for trying to talk in a lower than normal voice was shot to hell as his eyes fell on the very pretty very young pink haired girl standing behind the receptionist's desk. It almost looked like she was wearing one of those naughty adult Halloween nurses costumes you saw in some of the adult sections of costume shops. The slightly disturbing thing was that she couldn't have been more than twelve or so if that old. His voice squeaked, "Hi."

The girl smiled, "I'm Candice I hope you enjoyed your stay at the Babbling Brook Hotel."

Gabrielle shook her head at her brother's reaction to the girl. He was normally a lot better at dealing with girls than he was currently doing, it probably had something to do with her current style of dress. She smiled brightly at the cute girl, "I was hoping you could help us, we aren't exactly sure where we are."

Candice frowned, "How aren't you sure?"

Gabrielle chuckled, "Do you have any evil teleporting sisters?"

Gabrielle gave a long drawn out sigh when Candice shook her head. "Well we do, so yeah no real idea where we are. I don't suppose you could tell me the closet place to get a starter is?"

Candice smiled and leaned close, "Don't tell my mom I told you this but you might try Mr. Wenaldo's Fantastic Magical Girl ranch."

Gabrielle smiled brightly at the girl, "Not that I would you understand but is it a secret?"

"Well we aren't really supposed to promote the newer ranches, plus well I think she's supposed to send people looking for starters back to the Killarney gym. Look I don't know if they can help you but it's worth a try."

Leo tried to lower his voice with only a little bit of success, "How safe is the road to the ranch?"

She chuckled, "It's not really a road, it's more like an overgrown trail. I hear that Wenaldo's people keep the trail clear of ferals though I don't know if I would walk down that trail without at least one combat type with me. But if you're interested I can give you directions."

Gabrielle grinned, "That would be perfect."

Leo zoned out the directions as he looked over the rest of hotel, it looked vaguely like a cross between a pokecenter from one of the pokemon games and an old world hotel. It was a rather jarring combination but at least the help was more than pleasant. He frowned and waved goodbye to Candice as Gabby grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the building.

Gabrielle rolled her eyes, "Come on."

"What's your hurry?"

"I don't want to be out in the forest at night?"

"Yeah, cause I'm going to believe that the girl that hunts in the forbidden forest is afraid of wandering around at night anywhere?"

"At least there I know what might be in it. I have no idea just how powerful the monsters are here. So yeah I might be a little nervous about traveling until I figure that part out." Her grin broke into a large smile. "Besides if that Nursejoy was any indication some of these so called pokegirls are hot."

"You're just a letch, you know that right?"

Gabrielle grinned, "Yeah, maybe so but at least I get more sex than you."

Leo shook his head, "Well you know Sylvie is fairly cute, would you share?"

Gabrielle's face twisted up in a look of disgust, "That's revolting, besides you know as well as I do that she only likes girls."

"I hope you realize I was just joking."

"Yeah, but does it scare you knowing that you are going to have to have sex with a girl that could rip your limbs off?"

"Well as I always figured that any girl that could put up with me wouldn't exactly be normal the ripping my limbs off part scares me less than the part where I might make a mistake and do something wrong."

Gabrielle grinned, "You're a boy you stick the pointy thing in the hole, I mean even you can't mess that up."

Leo shook his head, "Can we change the subject, please?"

She chuckled, "Prude. Fine, we can flip topics, it's five mile's to the ranch, if we run we should be able to get there in less than an hour."

"What about the ferals?"

"I'll use my magic to make us invisible, that should keep them confused enough to let us sneak past."

Leo sighed as he held out his hand for his sister to grab, "I'm going to feel this in the morning aren't I?"

She smiled as she grabbed his hand and started at for him a breakneck pace, though for her it was no more work than an easy jog.

She figured she was almost half way there when she heard a mental scream calling for help. It was enough of a shock to cause her to slow to a stop as she glanced around for a possible direction. One of the downsides of coming from a family of magic users rather than telepaths was that there was only a few people in the family that had any type of telepathy. It was this rather annoying fact that left Gabrielle with only a vague sense of direction and distance rather than a more accurate picture of where or who was doing the broadcasting. "Hello?"

"You can hear me, great. I'll head your direction, please, please help I have Team Death hot on my tail and an injured friend."

"On my way." Gabrielle starting running as fast as she could after receiving the mental image of where the person in trouble was. She didn't even bother looking back at Leo, "Someone needs our help."

Leo sighed as she broke into a spirit that could beat most city speed limits. "Hate it when she does that." He grumbled as he started running again in the direction his sister took off in.

Aithnea or Tabby as her sister called her was more than a little scared as she raced through the woods trying to get back to the path. Normally such a task would be relatively easy save for two things, one she was dragging a bunnygirl with her and the other was that she had spent the whole morning and most of the afternoon doing some illegal pokegirl capturing which had tired her out. She found herself wishing that she that perfected the teleport skill and that she still had enough energy to teleport with Tiffany but as she was only twelve and was already extremely tired and beat up from playing with the ferals in the area she figured that even if she knew the technique now wouldn't be the best time to test just how much energy it took. She was just hoping that whatever or whoever she had gotten a hold of with her telepathy wasn't part of Team Death. She felt a shiver go down her back as the two hounds following her let lose with a powerful howl. She had just barely made it to the path when Tiffany tripped over an exposed root and went down hard. That was apparently all the vicious hound needed to tackle her and bite her.

Tiffany screamed as the hound took a chunk out of her back.

Tabby summoned up as much mana as she could from the surrounding area, condensed it into a bolt of power and tossed it at the hound, only to watch in horror as it merely caused the bitch to grunt. Her cat ears twitched in frustration, "Fucking dark type dogs." She figured she would have to go about this another way, "Hey you dumb fucking Welsh bitch!"

The hound looked up from her spot chewing on the bunnygirl her muzzle dripping blood, "You think you can save her, I'm going to have so much fun with her. There is nothing you can do about it. By the time help arrives you'll be dead or in a pokeball."

Tabby watched as a magical bolt flew from down the trail to slam into the hound. The hound let out a rather startled yelp as the force of the blast tossed her into a tree. Tabby quickly turned to look at where the bolt come from. She wasn't sure what to make of the girl standing in the road middle of the road like some ancient gun slinger without the guns. Her long red hair was the color of blood, even at this distance her eyes seemed to sparkle with energy, her feet were spread apart in a fighting stance, her trench coat rustling gently in the wind. It wasn't the crackling energy that flowed between the girl's hands as she prepared her next spell that drew her eyes so much as the girl's face, she was stunning, one of the cutest girls Tabby had ever seen. She wasn't sure what the girl should be wearing but the jeans and tee-shirt seemed rather mundane for such a goddess.

Gabrielle watched in satisfaction as the hound fled with her tail between her legs. She wouldn't have minded chasing after the creature but it looked like the strange looking girl with bunny ears was hurt. Her mind skipped back, wait bunny ears? I guess she must be one of the pokegirls. The bunny girl was wearing the tattered remains of a once white shirt as well as jeans and boots. "Hello?" She started walking closer, "If you want I can try to help your friend." She noticed as she got closer that the cat girl was wearing a long white pirate shirt and a top hat.

Her fuzzy black cat ears twitched as she looked up at the stranger coming closer, "I don't suppose you have any healing magic?"

Gabrielle nodded, after all it was required learning for a trouble maker such as her. "I can do a little but it's not my strong suit. I'll need to pull out my wand though so don't feel alarmed."

Tabby nodded, "Go for it, hopefully if we can get her healed we can get out of here before the Team Death tamer shows up."

Gabrielle carefully reached her hand up her sleeve and pulled her wand from it's sheath.

Tiffany whimpered as Gabrielle carefully pulled the shirt back from the ghastly wound made by the hound, she wasn't expecting the feeling of crawling bugs under her skin as the flesh knitted itself back together over the worst of the wound. She relaxed slightly when the feeling left taking with it a great deal of the pain.

"Not sure that worked as well as Aunt Ginny's healing charms, but it should stop the bleeding long enough to get some better help."

Tiffany carefully got up only to wince as pain shot through her ankle, "I think it's broken."

Tabby sighed, "Well don't stand on it. We'll figure something out. We are going to get in so much trouble, at least the boss man can stick you in a healing cycle."

"You can't?" Gabrielle knew the second she saw the weird looks of confusion on the other girls' faces that she had said something stupid.

Tabby shook her head, "No, I'm only twelve and a pokekit. I don't have a pokeball."

Gabrielle nodded, "Oh."

Tiffany sat back down on the ground being careful of her ankle, "So not that I'm not grateful but what brings you out this way?"

"Well my brother and I passed our trainer's test but they didn't have any pokegirls at the center back on the road so they sent us to the Wenaldo ranch to see about getting a starter pokegirl."

Tabby's ears twitched, "Wait, you're a tamer?"

"Well we passed the test, so sort of? Though without a pokegirl it's hard to be a pokegirl trainer. Don't I look like one?"

"It's just that most tamers are guys and well you used magic against that hound, speaking of which we should get going."

Gabrielle shrugged, "Once my pokey brother shows up we can. Actually that should be him coming up the trail now."

Leo grumbled as he spotted Gabrielle sitting in the middle of the road talking to two lovely young ladies. "You have to hog all of the cute ones don't you."

Tiffany blinked, "Did he just call me cute?"

Tabby chuckled, "I think he did."

Leo blinked as Gabrielle turned her smile on him, it was never a good thing when she had that grin. It usually meant that he had to talk himself out of trouble somehow. "What?"

She pointed to Tiffany's swollen ankle, "You should be a gentleman and offer to carry the young lady with the broken ankle back to the ranch." She tossed a mental whisper to him before he could screw her plans up, 'Just use a weight reduction charm on her. And don't put pressure on her shoulder.'

Tiffany blinked, "You would do that for me? I've never had a knight in shining armor before."

Leo blushed, "Why of course, I would love to be your knight in shining armor." He did a low bow to disguise his whispered levitation charm as well as the flourish of the sleeve his wand was hidden in before reaching down and carefully picking the bunny girl up in his arms.

Tiffany smiled brightly, "And what is my knight in shinning armor called?"

Leo smiled, "My name is Leo Angel Potter and my sister is Gabrielle Tara Rosenberg. It's a pleasure to meet you both."

Tabby smiled, "I'm Aithnea or Tabby or Abby depending on who you ask. My friend over there is Tiffany."

Gabrielle blinked as she noticed Tabby's tail flipping back and forth, "Hey you have a cute tail."

Tabby blushed slightly, "Thanks."

"So what can you tell us about the Wenaldo ranch?"

"It's mostly a magic type ranch, he deals in all sorts of magic pokegirls. Things like witches and their evolutions. There are also the odd other types around from time to time. He doesn't normally do starter pokegirls but as you should know all breeders have a few low powered girls around that should be suitable for starters. I'm sure once I tell him you saved our lives he would be more than happy to help you out with something."

Gabrielle grinned, "Alright lead on, before Leo's arms fall off."

Mr. Wenaldo was growing a little concerned about his various capture teams. Most of the actual tamers he had on hand were back but Tabby and Tiffany were still missing. He would be less worried if Sarah was with them like she usually was but she had come down with a fever last night and was sleeping it off. Even without Sarah he normally wouldn't be that concerned as they had proven themselves more than able to deal with the few low powered ferals around the forest but he had just gotten a report over the com that a new team had been encountered closer to his ranch than he would like. He knew it was probably just a couple of leftovers from Team Viper but it still it was enough of a worry that he was pacing on the front porch of the ranch. He forced himself to remain calm as his heart almost stopped for a second as he saw two people he didn't know walking with Tabby, one of which was carrying Tiffany in his arms. He relaxed slightly when he noticed that Tabby seemed uninjured at least and Tiffany was moving too much to be dead. "So how was your walk?"

Tabby smiled over at Mr. Wenaldo, he was a rather slim as well as short man in his late twenties. He had a large smile outlined with a goatee, something Tabby had always thought made him look ruggedly handsome, at least as ruggedly handsome as an uncle could look without it being creepy. "It went well for the first part, but when we were heading home it turned right nasty as we had to run from a bunch of Team Death idiots with Hounds. We would have been eaten for sure if it wasn't for these nice folk."

Tiffany finally winced, "Tabby can you get my ball and put me in it please? My ankle is killing me."

Tabby waited for Mr. Wenaldo's nod before running into the large manor house.

Leo carefully set Tiffany down on the edge of the porch. He gave her a big smile, "You're a real trouper you know that right?"

Tiffany half smiled and half winced, "Thanks."

Mr. Wenaldo rubbed his goatee in consideration, "It's not often we get youngsters out here. How can I help you?"

Gabrielle smiled, "Well long story very short we turned fifteen and stopped at the first place we passed to test at the pokecenter for our trainer's license, which just so happened to be the hotel close to you, they of course didn't have any starters but they mentioned that you might have some. I have a note from the center someplace. I was hoping that we could get two starter pokegirls, that is if you have any sir."

Mr. Wenaldo frowned slightly, being that he could see through the magical illusion that clung to the two youngsters he was fairly sure that there was no way in hell the two people in front of him were thirteen let alone fifteen but they did present an opportunity to solve a number of his problems. He absently took Tiffany's pokeball from Tabby before returning Tiffany to it. He smiled at Tabby, "Why don't you run her through the healing machine, give her a nice cleaning too. You can store your excess supplies from earlier as well." He waited until she left before turning back to look at the two youngsters. "Tell me how you managed to foil a Team Death attack without a pokegirl and I might help you out."

Tabby hurried into the room where the healing machine was kept. She slipped in and shut the door making sure it was locked behind her. She quickly inserted Tiffany's ball into the machine and pressed the start button. She walked around behind the counter and pulled out her sister's box. She grinned at the large bright letters drawn in different colored crayon that spelled out Sarah's name. She carefully emptied her collection of ferals from the day's hunt into the box. What was it her sister said, ah yes illegal but not unethical. She carefully slid the box back under the shelf with the rest of the collection boxes. She walked over and emptied her empty pokeballs into a large box behind the counter before walking back over to the door and unlocking it. She smiled briefly when the machine dinged telling her that the healing process was done. She grabbed Tiffany's pokeball and headed upstairs to check on her sister.

Mr. Wenaldo was faintly surprised that everything looked in order when he brought up the youngsters records on their pokedexes. He smiled, "Well it appears that everything is in order. While I like you and would like to reward you for saving Tabby's life, most of my current girls are already spoken for. You understand that as a specialty breeder, I only have the best girls. As such I'm afraid we have a very long waiting period, plus I would be remiss to send one of my girls with a tamer she didn't like."

"So in other words you can't help us?"

Mr. Wenaldo smiled as he shook his head, "I did not say that my dear boy, I happen to have quite a good deal for you, if you're willing to do a bit of hard work I'm sure we could arrange something. You look like the sort that would take care of their girls, am I right?"

Leo thought the man's smile reminded him a little too much of the Weasley twins. "Of course, who wouldn't."

"Sadly too many people these days. If you would be willing to take Tiffany off my hands I would be delighted to introduce you to our resident Amazonlee, I'll even cut you a deal on her. I know most tamers your age wouldn't want a Bunnygirl but she isn't as ditzy as most of them so she isn't too bad a catch."

Leo scowled, he was more than a little pissed about the guy insinuating that something was wrong with the nice young lady that he had spent the walk chatting with, but he was trying to not piss the guy off. "I didn't see anything wrong with her, she was a nice young lady."

He nodded, "Yes she is, normally I wouldn't dream of trading her away but she's been depressed lately, and I think you're just what the doctor ordered."

Gabrielle frowned, "So what's wrong with the amazonlee? You don't sound like the type that would sell a girl for cheap unless there is something wrong with her."

"Normally I wouldn't but she recently went through threshold and is having a difficult time adjusting. Her family was traveling on the Kerry road when they got attacked by ferals, the trauma caused her to threshold. Her family dumped her at the pokecenter and the nursejoy sent her here. She has some abandonment issues to work through still."

Leo shrugged, "Well can I at least meet her before I decide?"

Mr. Wenaldo smiled, "I wouldn't have it any other way."

Gabrielle absently followed along as Mr. Wenaldo lead them around the back of the manor house and into what was obviously a training yard of some type. She fought the urge to snicker as she looked around at the dozens of brightly dressed girls practicing all different types of attack spells against each other as well as on targets. They came to a stop not too far from where a red haired girl was furiously slamming her fists into a large log that was suspended from ropes connected at the top of two large poles. The log looked to have seen better days. Most of the bark had been smashed and even the wood was showing signs of severe damage from where the girl had repeatedly smashed it. The girl took a few steps back from her 'punching bag' as the group stepped up. "I suppose you've come with another tamer to try to get rid of me?"

Mr. Wenaldo sighed, "I admit the last guy was an idiot but you can't go breaking humans' jaws." He held up his hand when she started to protest, "Yes I know he deserved it for not being a gentlemen but still it's going to be trouble once he gets to someplace where he can report you. Besides I'm a mage, I don't know the first thing about martial arts."

The girl shook her head, "And I suppose this boy does?"

Leo grinned, "Actually I do, I might even be able to teach you a thing or two."

She looked at Mr. Wenaldo and snickered, "I'll make you a deal, I'll go quietly if the boy is brave enough to fight me and good enough to win."

Leo shrugged, "Sure, why not. I haven't had a good fight in a while. Besides you can't be as hard as my sister. Not that I expect to win but I'm brave enough to try."

Mr. Wenaldo looked nervously at Leo, "Are you sure?"

He shrugged, "Not really, but if I don't try she isn't ever going to respect me."

Mr. Wenaldo shouted, "Clear the practice field, we have a challenger for Laura."

The various witch pokekits and pokegirls moved off the field, most of them were giggling as they found spots to watch the human get his ass kicked.

Gabrielle shook her head, "You know you're crazy right? She's got enhanced strength and speed like a slayer right?"

He nodded, "Yeah, just make sure you have some healing magic ready."

Leo wasn't sure what was wrong, ever since he had entered this world he was having trouble keeping his eyes where they belonged, which was as far as he was concerned was on the girl's face. It was sort of hard though when the girl in question was pretty and bouncing up and down on her feet like a sugar junkie, it did interesting things to her breasts.

Gabrielle winced as Leo barely managed to block the girl's opening kick. She knew there was no real way for Leo to win but she was glad he was at least trying his best.

Sarah glanced up as someone knocked on her door, "Go away, I'm working on something."

Tabby frowned, "I'm not leaving."

Sarah sighed, she wasn't really in the mood to talk to anyone let alone her sister. She still felt like shit from being sick last night. It hadn't helped that she now knew why she had been sick, though she still wasn't sure what to do about it. "Just go away." She sighed as the previously locked door swung open revealing her sister holding a pair of wires. "You know it was locked for a reason."

Tabby shrugged as she stepped into the room, "Get a better lock. You look a little bit better."

Sarah raised an eyebrow, "Seriously?"

"No, not really but hey…" She grinned at the annoyed look that passed over her sister's face. At least if she could get annoyed over her bad jokes she must be feeling better even if it looked like she had been seriously crying. She frowned it wasn't like her sister to get that upset about things. As she glanced around the room her gaze stopped on a large dent in the closet door where it looked like something had hit it. Her stomach tried to drop through the floor as she noticed her sister's pokedex laying discarded on the floor not too far from the closet. Well okay to be technical it wasn't her sisters as she wasn't old enough to have one but it had been 'hers' for as long as they had lived at her uncle's ranch. She normally took really good care of it so it being discarded on the floor wasn't a good sign. She tried to brighten her voice, "You should get out of bed and come outside, you can meet the girl that saved me from Team Death."

Sarah sighed, "I guess I feel well enough to come outside for a bit. You're going to have to tell me what you were doing anywhere near Team Death."

Gabrielle wasn't sure if she should be offended on her brother's behalf or amused at how the fight was progressing. If Laura hadn't been playing with him the fight would have been over before it really began but it looked like she was enjoying having someone that knew what they were doing to spar with. Her attention was pulled from the fight as she noticed Tabby, Tiffany and a slightly taller girl with them that looked a bit like Tabby minus the cat ears and swishing tail. Even looking sort of sick with an old grey blanket wrapped around her shoulders she still looked pretty. She thought the girl's long red hair looked very nice in a braid. "Hey."

Tiffany smiled as she walked over to stand next to Gabrielle, "He's doing pretty well for a human."

Gabrielle shrugged nonchalantly before raising her voice to make sure the crowd could hear her, "Yeah, though she is just playing with him, I suspect the crowd is going to start calling for her to finish it rather soon."

Sarah winced as she heard the crowd take the girl's suggestion and start shouting things like 'Mana Bolt and finish it.'

Leo was sweating heavily, he was wishing he could figure out a way to lose gracefully, he had just about decided to just fall down from exhaustion when his opponent raised her hands in front of her and started charging some type of magical attack. He frantically dove to the ground and rolled. He barely managed to dodge the bolt of pure magic as it came shooting at him. "Hey that's not fair, I thought this was a physical fight."

Laura grinned, "You said fight you didn't say what type."

Gabrielle winced, "She shouldn't have said that."

Leo blinked, "Well in that case." He quickly tossed himself into a roll to buy himself some much needed time as he pulled his wand from his sleeve. He almost landed flat on his face as he felt his already abused shoulder dislocate. He grunted as he forced himself to ignore the pain as he pushed the last of his energy into his spell. He pulled him self off the ground and into a crouch before pointing his wand at the girl and screaming "Stupefy." He was relieved as a large red bolt jumped from the tip of his wand and hit the girl, he was especially glad when the girl fell over unconscious a second before he fell to his knees. He hadn't exactly been sure the spell would work but hoped that it would do something if he put enough power into it. He barely heard Mr. Wenaldo say the match was over before darkness claimed him.

Gabrielle chuckled as her brother fell asleep. "Well he won, she would have been better sticking with martial arts. His honor wouldn't have allowed him to use his magic."

Mr. Wenaldo chuckled, "I'm surprised he did so well to start with."

Gabrielle shrugged, "He is used to fighting people way stronger and faster than he is. Even still he would have gotten crushed if she hadn't been playing with him."

Mr. Wenaldo nodded before pulling out a pokeball and activating it.

Gabrielle watched as a flash of red light absorbed the girl.

"Normally I would have let him do that but as he is unconscious, I'll trust you to give him the pokeball when he wakes up." He carefully handed Gabrielle the pokeball.

"Thanks, so what am I supposed to do about a starter?"

Mr. Wenaldo handed Gabrielle the pokeball. "I have some thoughts on that."

Sarah sighed, she knew that she was going to have to get a tamer eventually now that she was a pokegirl but that didn't mean she was happy about it. Unlike a number of girls that suddenly went through threshold she had known that at some point she would. According to her blood work, which she had never actually seen, her father had kept it in a safe, she had too many blood gifts not to turn into a pokegirl. He had smiled when he told her that she would always be his princess even after she changed. She remembered as a little girl asking him what the chances of her not changing were, she still remembered how he had grinned and said about five percent. She had sort of given up on being normal after that. She hadn't had the nerve at the time to ask her father if there was more to her bloodgifts than regenerating small cuts. She had been too afraid to find out that she was a lab rat. She didn't like to think about her father like that. "I don't suppose you want a barely trained pokegirl that doesn't even know any attacks?"

Gabrielle blinked, "You're a pokegirl?"

Sarah sighed, "Yeah, we found out today. Apparently my fever… yeah, I'm not sure I'll be much use but I'm willing to try."

Gabrielle looked around at the shocked faces, "I'm going to assume by the shocked faces on every one but your sister and Mr. Wenaldo no one else knew, so why out yourself?"

Sarah looked up at her uncle before looking back at Gabrielle, "My sister told me that you helped her, you're cute and according to her nice. Pokegirls don't have a lot of options on who we end up with. Even my uncle can only do so much to make sure the girls here are well placed, I'm trying to hedge my bets. Besides I want to see the world and you look like a girl with the skills to do it." She turned to look at her uncle, "You don't mind if I go with her do you?"

Mr. Wenaldo rolled his eyes, "If that's what you want, I'll sort out the paperwork. Just remember to come visit now and then. Oh Tiffany do you have any problems being the young man's pokegirl?"

Tiffany blinked then screeched, "I get to keep him? Weeee! I'll go pack." She ran back into the house as fast as she could.

Mr. Wenaldo sighed, "I hope you'll forgive her, she is a little odd."

Gabrielle frowned, "How so?"

"Well compared to most bunnygirls she's a genius, heck compared to most people she is fairly smart, which is odd as hell in a bunnygirl. I'm fairly sure she has some magical ability. If the scanner didn't keep saying she was a bunnygirl I would think she was something else, mostly because she has human feet and no fur on her body. Only really odd thing to watch out for is she has no sense of direction. If you give her a detailed set of directions with left right lefts she's fine. She can even find her way around towns she has been in just fine, but if you tell her to go to the west side of town, she will nod and wander off but have no idea where she is supposed to go. Just don't use compass directions and you should be fine."

Sarah chuckled, "I should go and pack, that is if my stuff is still my stuff."

Mr. Wenaldo chuckled, "And have Grandma come and roast my ass because I was being an idiot? I think not. Go get your stuff."

Sarah grinned as reached over and gave her uncle a kiss on the cheek. "You're the best."

Gabrielle watched her run off, "So what type of pokegirl is she?"

Mr. Wenaldo pointed to the pokedex at Gabrielle's belt, "You could have just scanned her."

"That would be sort of rude wouldn't it?"

Mr. Wenaldo chuckled as he walked back toward the manor house to forge some paperwork, "You'll do lass, you'll do."

Tabby nodded, "I sneaked a peek at the pokedex when we were walking down the stairs. She's a Clowmystic, you do know that a lot of people are going to want to take her from you right?"

"What? Why? I know she is extremely cute… but that means people are going to want to take her from me? What exactly is a Clowmystic?"

"Can I see your pokedex?"

Gabrielle shrugged and handed her pokedex over, "Sure, knock yourself out."

Tabby hit a few keys before bringing up the entry for Clowmystics and showing it to Gabrielle, "So basically they are card using magic girls. They are very rare and valuable, so a lot of people are going to want to challenge you for salvage rights for them. So I suggest having her practice with her new magic on ferals as much as possible before we hit any major towns so that she can get more powerful. I'll probably have to tag along just to keep her out of trouble. That is if you don't mind?"

Gabrielle shrugged, "The more the merrier."

Leo groaned as he woke up, "I feel like someone ran me through a juicer, though not half as bad as I expected."

Gabrielle chuckled, "Hey you're the idiot that decided to play punching bag for a pokegirl. I mean I tried to warn you."

He sighed as he pulled himself to his feet and looked around the dimly lit room he found himself in. The only light came from a crack in the shutters on the window. "Not very hard, next time it's your turn."

Gabrielle shrugged, "I guess."

"How long was I out for?"

"You slept all night, don't worry I healed the major wounds before we moved you."

"So I'm guessing we are going to start out pretty soon?"

"Yeah fairly soon. We were just waiting on you actually."

"Is it okay to be scared?"

"Sure but just don't tell anyone you are." She flashed him a smile.

"So did you get a starter yet?"

"Yeah, nice girl named Sarah."

"So is she good in bed?"

"Wouldn't know, we didn't get that far. She's Tabby's sister and a new Clowmystic, you might have seen her before you got knocked out."

"Was that the one with the blanket around her shoulders?"

"Yeah apparently she thresholded last night, so she didn't have any of her special materials yet. I figured trying to make them was a better use of our time our first night together than taming."

"You really are weird aren't you?"

"Yeah but you already knew that."

"So how did it go?"

"We had a nice chat while I tried to figure out how to form and enchant some amethyst into cards that could be shuffled and wouldn't break short of an act of the gods. After that feat of skill, I gave her one of the cards blanks. She went into a trance like state and drew this neat kneeling naked girl holding with a vine covered staff on it. Apparently it's a heal card. She tested it out on you a few times before she got tired. Which probably explains why you aren't completely black and blue all over."

"Should I be worried that you let her test an untested unknown magical item on me while I slept?"

"Probably, for all we knew it could have been a poison card." She chuckled at his look of annoyance. "Don't worry we were fairly sure it was a heal card."

Leo sighed, "Alright so she got her first card. Only you would want to make cards out of semiprecious gemstones that had to be melted and formed with magic. You have enough stock cards to last for a while?"

"Unless I'm wildly underestimating how long before she can make more I think we have enough for a while. I can always gather more material at a shop, speaking of which Rose sent us some credits."

Leo blinked, "Do I want to know where she got the credits?"

"Not really but I'll tell you anyways. Her e-note said she used some cursed water to turn the captured Death Eaters into pokegirls, ran them through a level five taming cycle and then sold them all."

Leo twitched, "Remind me not to piss her off."

"Yeah seriously."

"Did she say what she did with Draco?"

"She cut him lose, probably safer for him here than trying to hide in the otherworld after selling out Voldemort."

"I'm just glad she's family…"

"You and me both."

He shook his head, "So how much was our share?"

"We each got one hundred thousand credits, add that to the ten thousand she put in our accounts earlier and well you do the math. It seems like a lot until you look at the price for things. Basically we are going to have to start capturing ferals and selling them if we want to be able to afford a steady supply of stat ups and durability drugs for the girls. That's assuming we stick which just our three pokegirls."

Leo sighed, "In other words our vacation is turning into a lot of work."

"Blah, don't be a spoilsport. "So if we pool our resources how many empty pokeballs do we have?"

Leo closes his eyes and thinks back to when he was loading the gear, "I think like twenty five or so."

"At least I had a chance to start reading Taming for Dummies last night after Sarah crashed. It has a good point about having sex with the girls to form initial bonds before working on group stuff. Besides wild kinky sex never hurt anyone."

"That's not what Xander says."

"His girl is a demon or ex-demon depending on the year, that doesn't count."

Leo sighed, "So how far away do you want to get from the ranch before we set up camp?"

"At least two miles."

"Works for me."

Tabby grinned, "Are we there yet?"

Gabrielle sighed, "For the second to last time no."

"What happens on the last time?"

"I duct tape your mouth shut and dip you in chocolate sauce and eat you. Hence the last time."

Tabby frowned, "Are you always this cranky?"

Leo shook his head and handed Gabrielle an apple, "She isn't really cranky, she's just hungry."

"I'm also annoyed that we haven't seen any ferals."

Tiffany nodded, "Well we're a large group, plus this area is rather hunted out."

Gabrielle smiled brightly as she took off into the woods away from the path. "Finally, Camp."

Laura spoke quietly as she walked back toward the group from her forward scout position. "Need any help setting up the tent?"

Gabrielle grinned as she pulled the tent from her backpack, "Sure just help me spread the corners out."

With Laura's help it only took a few minutes to flatten out the corners and stake the edges down. "What's next?"

Gabrielle snapped her fingers together, "Magic."

Laura was rather surprised when the tent inflated as Gabrielle snapped her fingers together. "How?"

"It's magic, plus it's bigger on the inside than the outside. Best part of it is that if I set up the wards right we should be safe from ferals while we sleep."

Sarah looked suspiciously at Gabrielle, "I wasn't aware anyone sold tents like this around here."

She smiled, "Not sure they do. So there are three bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a bathroom."

Leo shrugged, "Doesn't matter to me, Tabby can use the smallest bedroom I'll take which ever one you don't want Gabby."

Gabrielle nodded before leading the way into the tent.

Tabby clapped excitedly as the word "Kitten" appeared over one of the bedroom doors. "Exploring time." She giggled as she darted off to explore her bedroom.

Laura chuckled, "You know I still think you cheated in the fight Leo."

He shrugged and smiled, "You did as well. How about I make it up to you?"

"And how exactly would you make it up to me?

Leo leaned over and whispered something in Tiffany's ear.

She nodded, "I'll start lunch but you two have to promise to have a good time."

Leo grinned, "I was thinking a nice long massage followed be other fun things."

Laura grinned, "I think I would like that."

Gabrielle pointed at one of the two empty rooms, "Leo" appeared over the door in sparkly letters. She chuckled at the two, "Get a room you two."

Sarah watched them hurry off with amusement before turning to look at Tiffany, "You okay with her going first?"

She grinned, "He promised me a large bag of carrots to make it up to me."

Sarah chuckled, "Oh boy."

Gabrielle frowned, "Something wrong with her having carrots?"

"No she just likes to use them for pleasure sticks then eat them."

Tiffany shrugged not in the least embarrassed, "They taste better that way. By the way is there a dress code in here? These pants are bunching my tail."

Gabrielle shrugged, "I'm not going to complain if you take them off."

Sarah shook her head, "Don't look at me, you know I don't care."

Tiffany happily removed her pants and tossed them on the couch. She twirled around to show off her bushy rabbit tail and silk underwear. "Much better, do we have lunch materials?"

Gabrielle started pulling a few supplies out of her bag, "I can conjure the rest if we are missing something vitally important or transmute something if I need too."

Tiffany frowned, "Which is easier?"

"Depends on where I have to conjure something from." Gabrielle noticed how excitedly Tiffany was twirling around some of the kitchen knives. She backed up a few steps, "I'll just leave you to your cooking while Sarah and I check out our bedroom."

Tiffany grinned, "Have lots of kinky monkey sex."

Gabrielle groaned, "I never thought I would meet someone as bad as Anya."

Sarah smiled as she followed Gabrielle into her room, "Well she did have a good suggestion."

"So how do you want to do this?"

"How about on the bed the first time? After that we can get more creative?"

Gabrielle grinned as she started undressing Sarah, "You really are cute."

"I'm going to look the same for a long time, you realize that right?"

"It just makes it that much more naughty."

Sarah smiled as she slipped out of her dress before returning the favor with Gabrielle's clothes. She grinned for a few seconds as she inspected a naked Gabrielle before pouncing her.

"Meep!"

Tabby smiled as she relaxed on the couch and worked on eating the sandwich and carrot sticks Tiffany had given her. She smiled as she heard the faint shouts of Clowmystic competing with Amazonlee in the background. "It just wouldn't be as much fun if the walls had soundproofing."

Tiffany giggled, "You're a bad little girl, you know that right?"

"You think Gabby would spank me?"

"Maybe later after they learn how bad you are."

She smiled as she popped another carrot stick into her mouth, "Here's hoping."