Gabrielle glanced over the rest of the beings relaxing in the living room of the tent. Alright now that the fun part of the day is over we should get down to business, the rules. None of us have been a part of a harem before, so this will be new to all of us. The rules are simple, anyone want to guess what rule number one is?
Laura raised her hand, Obey your tamer?
Nope, not even in the top three. Anyone else?
Leo smiled in amusement when none of the girls raised their hands, I m going to go out on a limb and go with the old Scooby gang standby, don t die?
Ding, ding we have a winner. Most important rule is don t die. I don t have that many friends and I hate losing them, plus it s a bitch bringing people back from the dead, so don t do it. Can we all agree that that is a good rule? She smiled as everyone nodded their heads. Good, rule number two, respect yourselves and your sisters. You are all interesting people with something to offer this partnership. You might have a genetic need for sex but you still have the right to say no thanks to any of us. I m going to be clear no means no. Both I and Leo will respect that, and I expect the rest of you to as well. Is that understood? She watched each person nod, Good, because I m not going to be happy if that rule gets broken. Rule three public verses private. Anyone want to guess what that means?
Tabby raised her tail up in the air like a hand. She was enjoying watching the group from her spot on the back of the couch but if they weren t going to answer than she was, I m guessing it means that we don t talk about private things in public.
Gabrielle smiled, Exactly. For example, Sarah knows a lot more about running a breeder s farm than I do, maybe more than I ever will. While I wouldn t mind learning at some point, she is the expert. In public she can do little more than offer reminders or such things, in private I expect her to help out with selling any ferals we catch, not to mention figuring out who we can get the best price from for whichever type we are going to be selling. Basically I m saying that in private I m going to respect people s knowledge and experience but in public you are going to have to respect my choices because that is how the leagues work.
Laura frowned, Does that mean that Leo has to respect your choices too?
Leo rolled his eyes, Nah but I m going to, because she is normally right. I ll be honest, I don t really care about the leagues. I don t even care how many ferals we bag, other than they are a damn good source of credits. Mostly I m doing this as a chance to practice and increase my fighting ability, my magic powers and because my sister asked me to.
Tiffany looked over at Gabrielle, So if you two don t want to bag ferals why did you become a tamer?
Gabrielle smirked, That brings up rule number four, don t ask questions you don t want answered.
Tiffany glanced at Leo, She isn t going to answer my question is she?
Leo grinned, Probably not right now, she might later though. Any other questions?
Any other big rules?
Not really.
Laura turned and nodded to Tabby who was still sprawled on the back of the couch with her top hat perched precariously on her head, What about her?
Gabrielle frowned, What do you mean what about her?
I know she is too young to be pokeballed and to fight in league duels but I ve heard she is decent in a fight.
Gabrielle turned to look at Tabby, Do you want to be part of the fighting force? Or do you want to just travel with us?
Tabby glanced at Sarah, I can hold my own, I m not going to be a burden.
Gabrielle waited for Sarah s nod, Than as far as I m concerned she trains with us and fights ferals with us.
Laura frowned, But that s illegal.
Gabrielle shrugged, Your point being? Frankly I don t really care much what a bunch of political idiots think is moral, ethical or legal as long as they don t know I m doing it. That being said if you re in you re in, if you re not you re not, we fight as a group where and when we can, and when we can t we stack the deck as best we can. If you want to walk away now you can, no hard feelings. She spent a few seconds looking each of the girls in the eye, but if you want to stay I can guarantee that by the time we get through training you, even a legendary will blink after you hit them.
Leo chuckled, I highly suggest using that tiny small amount of time they are blinking to teleport away and hide. He smiled when all of the girls laughed at his joke.
Gabrielle sighed, Look, I can t force you to join. I can t tell you it s going to be easy, it s not. But I can tell you that I m offering you my support. I ll run you through however many healing cycles you need in order to train as hard as you can. I ll feed you energy drink after energy drink until you re pissing like a horse every thirty minutes if that s what it takes to keep up with training. I ll risk my life countless times catching ferals with you to increase your power if you work with me. I have a plan and I have a dream. I am not going to waste my time if you don t want to be the best, so are you in? Or are you out. She pointed to Sarah, What say you?
If I do my best, will you love me? Will you never trade me? Will you treat my ideas like they matter? At Gabrielle s nod, Than I ll do my best.
That s all I can ask for. She glanced over at Tabby, What about you?
You re the first person I ve met that didn t think I was up to no good. Hell you didn t even seem to notice that I have the shady person blood curse. Nor did you make fun of the fact that I don t have a shadow. You didn t even call me a demon like some of the witches did. So if you love me and pet me and hug me I m yours, I ll do my best to become the most powerful cat in the world.
Welcome aboard.
Laura shrugged, I go with Leo, enough said.
Tiffany looked around the group with a smile, If I promise to train as hard as I can do I get a life time supply of carrots?
Leo chuckled, I ll do what I can.
Tiffany grinned, In that case I m in.
Laura looked over at Sarah, How come the bunnygirl was smart enough to ask for wages when we weren t?
Sarah chuckled, You ll get used to it. Now that we re all in what are your great plans?
Gabrielle grinned, I guess we can share. She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a small box before opening it. She showed the box around to the crowd.
Only Laura looked confused as to the what the contents of the box were. What are those?
These are training machines, according to the notes that came with them, they each teach a different technique.
I ve heard rumors of them but never thought to actually see any of them.
Leo grinned at the rest of the girls, Seen them before?
Sarah nodded, Yeah, father had a few of them for his projects.
Tabby sighed, Sadly the ones he had only taught things I couldn t learn. So what do those two teach?
Gabrielle rolled her eyes, Flower kick, not something I would normally have bought but useful none the less for adding a plant elemental attack to your list of skills.
Tabby grinned, And the other?
Gabrielle grinned, I m glad you asked, it s probably one of the most useful techniques out there. It s more impressive than a fireball way more useful even than a lightening bolt. She grinned at the various disgusted looks the girls were tossing her way. Alright it s called Leaf Blade mark two. Yeah, the mark two part is rather stupid. It creates leaves and pollen that swirl around a blade and prevent the blade from doing lethal damage. Probably not the creator s intent but it s perfect for us. Can anyone guess why it s perfect?
Tiffany sighed, It s so we can beat each other nearly to death in training for combat experience without worrying about killing each other isn t it?
Leo grinned reached over and rubbed one of Tiffany s ears for a few seconds. Exactly.
Laura grinned, This is going to be fun.
Sarah frowned, So what are the rest of us going to be doing when they are practicing the sword?
Gabrielle s grin got wider, What makes you think you re getting out of sword practice?
But I m a magic type.
Ah maybe a practical demonstration is in order. She got up out of her chair and walked toward the kitchen, Do you mind if I steal one of your carrots Tiff? She waited for Tiffany s nod before snagging one of the carrots. I m supposed to be squishy right? She waited for a few nods before tossing the carrot into the air, drawing her sword and cutting the carrot in half. The two halves of the carrot clattered to the ground in the suddenly silent tent, I might be squishy but that carrot is still very dead. That s why humans use tools. Way back when humanity was young they used clubs to bash animals or girls and drag them back to their caves. They got better tools as they grew.
Leo shook his head, Long story short, you re still human, you can still use tools if you want. Just because you can toss magical cards around is no reason not to work on weapon work when the rest of us do. Just think of it as an alternative for when you have used up your card magic for the day or if your enemy has powerful magical shields. Having more options despite what some people think is never a bad thing. Not to be mean but last I checked you have one card and it s not an offensive one. Granted it s one that is going to be a great help but it s not terribly useful if you want to actually damage a feral.
Sarah nodded, Okay. Gabrielle sheathed her sword before picking up the carrots and walking over to the sink to wash them off. Any other stupid but it s always been done this way arguments we should get out of the way now while we re at it?
Leo laughed as he looked around at the quiet girls, I ll take that for a no. Anyways in our bag of tricks we have several other rare things that should help. We have two doses of meds that permanently increase the number of times a pokegirl can use one of her special abilities. While we will certainly try to get more as soon as we can, the stuff is rare and we probably aren t going to get more until we hit a major city.
Gabrielle walked back into the living room and handed one of the carrot halves to Tiffany. We also have some Tab that is supposed to increase Endurance and Magical ability as well as make the ability slightly easier to increase with training. We would like your input as to how best to use these precious resources.
Sarah blinked in surprise, You re going to let us decide?
Leo shrugged, We are certainly going to take your suggestions under consideration. Now I think while you work on that, we will fix lunch for you.
Tabby watched her two humans head to the kitchen, it was likely that they could still hear anything above a whisper but it was a nice gesture anyways. If I might, I have a few thoughts about what to do with the various upgrade items they are offering.
Laura shrugged, Go for it.
Well I know unless Tiffany has been holding out on me that she doesn t have any fantastic techniques that she plans on using forever, right?
Tiffany nodded, Can t say I do.
Tabby looked at Laura, I ve never seen you pull any special powers out either, so I m suggesting we let the girl that can heal us with a card have one of them.
Tiffany nodded enthusiastically, I like that idea, what about the other?
Sarah frowned, How much do you think we are going to be battling ferals verses normal league fights?
Laura looked at Sarah, What s that have to do with things?
Well the only other one here that has some rather impressive abilities is Tabby. She s got illusion magic.
Laura frowned, How do you have that?
Tabby grinned, I m a magical cat girl.
In other words if we think we are going to be fighting more ferals, I suggest giving the power-up to my sister if not then I don t know maybe save it?
Tiffany twitched her ears to cause them to flop, I suggest increasing Tabby s illusion. Never know just how useful that might be. Hopefully once we get some better techniques we will be able to get more of that stuff.
Laura nodded, Sounds fine and the Tab?
Tabby looked at Sarah, I would suggest Laura as she isn t afraid of combat.
Tiffany sighed, It s not my fault I don t like violence, it s much like you two and bugs.
Sarah and Tabby both shivered.
Well we can keep a list of who got what. Being that Sarah is the caster type we should probably go with her getting the magic tab to start with. If it really does increase the rate at which we increase our magical abilities then we should at some point, if we can swing it, have everyone get at least one dose. I just wish I was a little more useful.
Laura patted Tiffany on the head, Don t worry you had some great suggestions.
Thanks.
Gabrielle smiled at the bunch as she brought slices of conjured pizza around, I brought pizza for everyone, well other than salad girl.
Tiffany grinned as Leo brought her a large bowl of salad, Perfect.
Leo smiled as he watched her use her hands to munch of her salad, So did you decide on who gets what?
Sarah nodded, I m assuming you heard?
Yeah, pretty small space. But I like the reasoning.
Sarah nodded, Thanks.
If you don t mind Gaby I ll use the T2s on my girls first and you can take yours out feral hunting. Then we can switch in a few hours. Then in the morning after a nice long night s sleep we can start work on weapons training. He grinned as he looked at Laura s expression, Don t worry after you finish with the T2 s we are going to need to train with your new techniques. He chuckled as her face lit up in a grin.
Gabrielle nodded, Sounds fine to me.
Tabby was too busy trying to scrape the top of her mouth off with her tongue to pay much attention as they walked away from camp, You didn t say it tasted that bad.
Gabrielle grinned, You didn t ask.
Sarah rubbed her tongue over her teeth in distaste, Remind me not to take both the durability and ability enhancer ones at the same time again. I think it makes the taste worse.
It probably does. Do you have any thoughts on where to go for ferals?
Typically we just wander around until we see something.
Tabby frowned, How come you didn t give any of the durability stuff to Laura or Tiffany?
I only had enough for two doses and as Tiffany isn t much of a combat girl and Laura is a fighting type I figured I would take care of my girls first.
Tabby momentarily forgot about the after taste of the meds as she did a happy dance because her human liked her better. She likes us better.
Gabrielle chuckled as she reached out and patted Tabby on the head, Yeah but don t tell anyone. We should probably be quiet though as we are hunting.
Sarah came to a stop beneath an ash tree. I should probably make my staff if I m going to be hunting ferals.
Gabrielle handed her the knife at her belt. Have at it.
A short while later Gabrielle was left wondering if the knowledge of making a staff was somehow a genetic memory for Clowmystics or if it was pulled from the cosmic awareness but regardless it wasn t very long at all before Sarah was happily twirling her new staff around while they searched for ferals.
Gabrielle was busy watching the various clearings for signs of ferals when a low grunting sound caused her to look over toward one dimly lit area in the forest. She frowned as she spotted a leather wearing slutty looking girl that was wearing an outfit that not even aunt Faith would be caught dead in. For some reason she was kneeling down facing the old guy next to her. She wanted to hurl her lunch when she realized that girl was in the middle of performing oral sex on the guy. Gross!
Apparently the girl either wasn t that good or they had almost been done anyways because her exclamation of gross had caused the guy to look up. Ah more unlucky travelers, surrender in the name of Team Death and I ll let you live.
Gabrielle quickly drew her wand when she noticed his hand reaching for another pokeball at his belt, pointed it at the guy and screamed Stupefy! She watched in amusement as the girl quickly jumped out of the way of the red bolt of energy leaving her tamer to fall over unconscious. You re up Sarah. She grabbed her pokedex and pointed it at the fashion challenged pokegirl. She quickly read through the relevant information, Domina, the Aggressive Pokegirl, Element type plant and poison.
Sarah nodded, I ve got this. She was a little nervous as this was her first fight where she was a pokegirl rather than leading them. Still she figured she would work something out. She started running at the other girl trying to close the distance so she could hit her with her staff.
The domina girl almost snarled as she turned and glared at the girl with a staff. She summoned up her dominate power and unleashed it. She wasn t sure why the other girl wasn t even slowing down. It was like she hadn t even felt it. No matter, rose whip attack. She summoned her rose whip and slashed it at the girl charging her.
Gabrielle grinned, Dodge and bonk the bitch.
Tabby chuckled as she cheered her sister, Go Sarah go.
Sarah sidestepped the rose whip and brought her staff up in a sweeping motion to slam into the other girl s ribs.
Tabby shouted, Hit her again.
The girl wobbled on her feet slightly, Call me Queen bitch.
Sarah with a surge of energy slammed her staff into the girl s temple even as she screamed, No!
Gabrielle walked over to the now unconscious girl. Hey your first battle didn t go that badly. She flicked her wand and used it to levitate the guy s boxers back into place, then used magic to strip him of the rest of his clothes. Let s see, if I were a skanky bitch s pokeball where would I be?
Tabby pointed to the ground where a vanity ball was sitting in the dirt, It s probably that one.
Gabrielle sighed, Probably, how stupid can these guys be?
Sarah shrugged as she walked over, picked up the ball and returned the Domina to it. I m not sure. He was probably just taking a break from trolling the road for victims or maybe he was catching ferals. Even team members need the extra income now and then. We should probably turn him over to the authorities.
Gabrielle nodded, I m just hoping the nasty old bastard has some good loot. She was busy searching through the guy s bag when his com blipped, she frowned as she picked it up and a voice come over the speakers, Marvin where the fuck are you?
She put a finger to her lips for Sarah and Tabby to be quiet, I m sorry he doesn t want to talk to you any more chicken butt. But you can probably find him later in a deep dark cell some place.
I m going to cut you bitch, by the time I m done with you you ll be bleeding from the inside out.
Gabrielle flipped the off switch, Not a very nice group are they?
Tabby shook her head, Not really no.
Do those communicators have anything that would allow the guy to find it?
Sarah looked thoughtfully at the communicator, It s possible but without turning it back on, I wouldn t know for sure. You re thinking of laying an ambush aren t you?
Gabrielle grinned, Might as well make a clean sweep.
Joe Grump was more than a little pissed by the time his Hound had managed to track Marvin down. The fact that the guy was laying face up in nothing but his boxer shorts in the middle of a clearing was not making him any happier. The fact that his hound Bitch was sniffing around the guy s crotch made him even less happy. He frowned as he pulled a pokeball, Bitch Two I choose you. He sneered as a goth in pompoms appeared. Make yourself useful and guard Bitch s back.
She fucking stinks, give her a bath.
Don t make me get out the cattle prod slut.
The crazy pompom girl sneered as she looked around the area. She had quickly finished her search of the immediate area before deciding to range further. She honestly wasn t expecting to be attacked so it was a bit of a surprise when as soon as she got out of sight of the camp a large rocky arm grabbed her around the ankle. She had a brief second to scream as she felt herself being swung through the air before she felt her head slam into a tree and everything went black.
The hound wasn t having much luck sorting through the various scents that covered the clearing. She was just about to tell her master that she recognized one of the scents when she spotted a large rock type pokegirl running toward her from the edge of the clearing. She was a bit shocked to see the cat girl from the other day, standing by the edge of the clearing and cheering the creature on. But she didn t have much time to worry about that as the thing came barreling toward her. She wasn t sure what the hell type of pokegirl the creature coming at her was but it was large and mean looking. She dodged out of the way as it s massive fist missed her head by a few centimeters. She tried to bite it but it was unbelievably fast as it dodged out of the way. She growled as it flipped her off and danced out of her range time and time again. The stupid cat girl was even shaking her behind at her when not cheering for the monster. She ignored the shouts of her tamer as she focused on the rock girl before her.
Tabby watched with amusement as the hound went berserk playing with her illusion. She just hoped that she could keep the girl focused on her toy long enough for Sarah or Gabrielle to take out the girl s Tamer. She smiled as she watched the tamer fall down as Sarah bashed him in the back of the head with her staff. She blinked as she lost the illusion and the hound turned to glare directly at her, Opps, bad puppy. She was very relieved when a second later a red capture beam shot out and snared the hound as she started her leap. Thanks.
Sarah smiled, I m just glad the guy wasn t that smart. A smart villain watches their environment. She tossed the pokeball back onto the ground.
Gabrielle grinned, So noted. Let s tie this group up while we riffle through their stuff. She turned and looked at Sarah, Any idea how to figure out how many pokegirls they have or if the extra pokeballs they have are stolen?
You really are new at this aren t you? Just run your dex over the pokeballs, that will tell you what s in them.
Gabrielle pulled her dex from her belt and started going through the pokeballs, Sure just give me a minute. Tabby see if you can sort through the rest of this guys stuff for anything useful.
Tabby ran back to the bushes pulled Marvin s gear from it s hiding spot then ran over to Gabrielle and the pile of new stuff. She carefully started going through all of the bags hanging off the pokepack. So what are we going to do with dumb and stupid?
I don t know. We could always use them for feral bait.
Sarah snickered, We could but we could just as easily turn them over to the officer Jenny that works at the pokecenter. There might even be some type of reward.
Gabrielle nodded, Works for me.
Tabby blinked as she carefully tossed the guys dirty laundry out of the bag. You re buying me gloves next time we stop at a store. She carefully went back to sorting.
Sarah frowned, So what was the score?
Gabrielle grinned, Well two hounds, an Ermine which is weasel pokegirl, so not keeping her, the pompom bitch otherwise known as a fearleader. There was also a flittit on the guys belt. So all in all not to bad he also has three Furrites so the pre evolved form of Mongoosed.
Sarah shrugged, In other words nothing that would really help us.
Gabrielle shook her head, Not in the slightest. I figure I ll head back to the pokecenter run the hounds through a level five then sell them to the ranch. I don t really want anything to do with them.
Sarah grinned, They aren t very common, not really rare but not very common either. So we should get a nice price for them. Probably not as much as if we sold each one on the open market but doing that would take too long. Besides typically you only do that when you have something special to sell or are looking for something special.
Tabby nodded, Besides just about anyone we sell them two has got to be better than those two idiots. On the upside between the two of them they had about fifteen thousand credits in credit chips.
Gabrielle grinned, That s not too bad really, there is probably more hidden but really I don t care. Just give me a second to get in touch with Leo. She pulled her radio from her belt and flipped the on switch, You there? She was almost going to give up until after a few seconds, Yeah, sorry had trouble getting to the radio. A certain nameless bunny rabbit was too busy cuddling. What s up?
We ran into a bit of a snag, upside is we got the guys that sent that hound the other day, downside is we have to drag them to the pokecenter so we can drop them off. So don t expect us until a bit after dark.
Alright, we will find ways to amuse ourselves.
Gabrielle clicked the radio off. Alright let s make some type of litter so we can drag the idiots to the center. It s going to be a long tiring day.