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Gabrielle sighed as she looked around the new city she found herself in, "London, ah well I guess it could have been worse."

Sarah smiled, "Do you have a problem with London?"

"Nah, it's just not my London. So it's sort of the same and sort of different. I still think we got swindled."

"Well, I didn't say Tess was a good friend."

Gabrielle muttered something that could have been, "Greedy witch," though it could just have easily been "Greedy bitch."

"So what's first on the list?"

"I'm planning on heading to Windsor Stadium to visit a contact of Wenaldo's to dump off all of the pokegirls. Even without selling the domina, the fearleader and one of the weasel girls we are still going to make a lot."

"So you think we can get out of there without being challenged?"

"Not a chance in hell but I have been reading up on the challenge laws so I have some ideas on how to deal with it, if I don't just refuse outright."

"As long as you don't lose me I'll be happy."

"I've got no plans for doing that." Gabrielle smiled as she caught sight of the Windsor Stadium.

Gabrielle was faintly amused that she had managed to avoid a fight challenge until after she had dumped all of the pokegirls she had planned on selling only to get three challengers at once the minute she stepped away from the trader's booth. Apparently it was a hot spot to challenge people. She let the guys that challenged her argue for a few seconds before glaring at the stupidest looking one. Though really both of the guys seemed cut from the same cloth as Goyle, large, dumb and rather violent. "Hey, you challenged me, I believe the typical course here is for you to set the stakes and for me to respond with the battlefield conditions. As I don't really plan on losing I'm willing to entertain a fight with each depending. Just a second and let me turn the recorder on." She flipped a switch on her pokedex to switch it to record mode. "Alright so what do you want out of the challenge?"

The ugliest one puffed himself up, "I want your clowmystic in salvage."

"If I win?"

"I'll let you see my girls and pick one."

Gabrielle turned to the next guy, "What about you?"

"I'll happily take your clowmystic as salvage."

"And I win I get to see your girls and pick one?"

The guy nodded, "Yeah."

Gabrielle sighed and turned to the girl, "What about you?"

She gave Gabrielle an ice hard look, "I'm not all that content with just your clowmystic if you're still standing after these two idiots get done with you I want the clowmystic and one other random pokegirl from your collection."

Gabrielle frowned, "So I get to see one of yours and than pick one random?"

She shrugged, "It's not going to matter as you'll never beat Gloria. So sure, that's fair enough."

Gabrielle nodded absently as if it made little difference to her, "I had planned to spend the day shopping with daddy's money but fighting my first official pokebattle sounds like an amusing endeavor. Let's see, as you've challenged me, I believe it's my job to set the battle conditions. One pokegirl, no substitutions, no guns allowed grand melee with a five second window at the beginning before you can release your first pokegirl. Also I would love it if whoever fought second and third didn't get to see the other matches. Daddy said I shouldn't ever let people see all my tricks up front."

The girl frowned, "What do you need the start time for?"

Gabrielle smiled, "Daddy always said I should study my opponent's battle stance before a fight."

The girl nodded, "Fine, but no way am I going second if this is your first duel, I get to fight first or the deal is off."

Gabrielle grinned, "Works for me, let's go grab an official and get this started. That is if going second works for you boys?"

The two goons grumbled, "Fine."

She tossed a thought at Sarah, 'Going to have to pokeball you now love.'

Sarah's tossed back thought before being hit with the pokebeam was 'Better have a plan master.'

Raina frowned as Gabrielle didn't protest her desire to start twenty feet apart. She wasn't sure what to think of the girl but figured she would just hurry up and get the fight over with. 'I guess my guess that she was going to try to hit me wasn't true. I'll just have to be fast on the draw and make sure Gloria trounces this girl.'

The announcer/judge today was a large guy that had a deep booming voice, "This is an official duel please remember to have your recording devices turned on."

Gabrielle nodded, hers was still on from before as she had wanted to make sure everyone played fairly. She thought that was a bit hypocritical as she really wasn't going to play fair, legal but not fair.

The announcer waved his hand for silence from the crowd that had gathered, "These two lovely ladies are playing for salvage. This match is a bit different from what we normally see here. The contestants will have five seconds at the start of the match to size each other up before they release their pokegirls for a grand melee. That's right folks you're in for a special treat!" He waited for the crowd to calm down a bit before gesturing to the contestants, "You may begin on five."

Even though she had home field advantage Raina couldn't help a shiver that crept down her spine at the way the girl had shifted from spoiled rich kid to battle hardened tamer as she had stepped into the ring. Even through she was expecting something strange she wasn't expecting her opponent to toss black fire at her the second the judge hit five. She had just barely dodged that when she felt like she got hit by a cattle pod in the chest as bolt of red flew out of nowhere. She frantically reached for her pokeball, screw the rules, she didn't want to die. She had almost made it when another blast sent her into unconsciousness.

Gabrielle smiled when the shocked announcer finally waved his hand, "Raina is unable to battle, the match goes to the challenged."

Gabrielle grinned, "If you don't mind I'll get my prize after I beat the other two guys. Besides I think she's out for a while."

Roy Mcgovern wasn't feeling very excited by the shocked silence of the crowd not to mention one of the young official's whispered "May the gods have mercy on your soul," as he was lead out into the field of combat.

Now if Roy was feeling less than excited, Nat was downright terrified as he was lead out onto the field less than a minute later. The fact that his old buddy Roy looked dead as a few people dragged him from the field didn't help his nerves at all. It had sounded like a great deal at the time, tag team the bitch with Roy and walk away with a rare pokegirl. He figured his only chance was to run full out at the girl and strike her because whatever she was using to battle had crushed Roy's pokegirls like it was nothing. He tried not to show his nerves as he sneered at the girl as he waited for the fight to start.

Gabrielle smiled as the announcer said five and the guy charged at her, her smile brightened as she slid forward to meet his charge with a snap kick to the guy's nuts that drove him to his knees with a look of shock plastered to his ugly face. The look of shock only lasted on the guys face a second before her spinning hook kick robbed him of consciousness. 'Even pulled my punches, stupid idiot.' "Guess I win."

The announcer nodded, "Nat is unable to battle."

Gabrielle grinned as she released Sarah.

Sarah looked around frantically for someone to fight.

Gabrielle chuckled, "No worries, the plan worked. Though I do need you to help me pick out which pokegirls to keep."

"They better be cute."

Gabrielle shivered as she looked over the list of pokegirls the girl possessed. "Holy shit, that's what she was going to fight with? A fucking Neo-Iczel." She quickly pulled up the entry and looked at the picture Raina had of her Neo-Iczel. Normally she would interview each one before choosing but as she was already going to pick the Neo-Iczel with the next one being a random pick she didn't want to have to interview the girls only to find out that she didn't randomly get the one she wanted. She was slightly disgusted with herself for picking the Neo-Iczel based more on looks and power level than personality. She looked in her mid to late twenties with a face that would have been cute if she would have just smiled. But hey she liked the girl's dark hair and sweet green eyes. "I'll take the Neo-Iczel and then I'll let luck choose the next one." She pointed to one of the random laid out pokeballs. "That one."

The official handed it over, "How do you want to do the next pick?"

"I guess just open them and let me talk to them, unless there is a problem with that?"

He shook his head, "I guess not."

Helen had been the last of the pokegirls to tell her story, she hadn't known how she had gotten there as the last few things she did remember were getting a kiss from her mother, a red flash, and then the strange feeling of drifting that being in a pokeball gave you. She was fairly sure that the girl wouldn't even look at her twice compared to some of the other pokegirls that were lined up. It was therefore a surprise when the girl smiled and with a very pleasant voice asked two questions that doomed her hopes for getting selected.

Gabrielle smiled, "Do you have any sex battle skills or regular combat skills?"

Helen shook her head, "I'm sorry I'm a virgin, and I don't have any combat skills." She was faintly surprised when the girl just nodded before turning to the girl next to her.

"So what do you think Sarah?"

Helen wasn't sure if she should blush or smile as the girl looked her over carefully.

Sarah smiled at the tall very near human looking girl, "Can you please turn around?" She smiled when the milktit turned around slowly to show off a nice slender body with the obvious exception being the large C maybe D cup breasts. She was slightly disappointed that the girl didn't have a tail, though the adorable little cow horns on her head made up for it. She wasn't sure why Gabrielle was considering her but she was cute and unlike the rest of the bunch seemed way too nice to leave in a jerks hands.

"She's very cute and seems nice, which is more than I can say for the rest of the choices."

Gabrielle nodded, "Works for me. You can put the rest of that guy's pokegirls away." She carefully placed Helen's pokeball in her pocket as the official handed it to her. She looked over the next guy's sneering selection with disgust, some of them were uncommon and according to her dex rather powerful at least as far as she could tell but none of them were what she wanted in a harem girl. "I'll open the bidding to the crowd. You want it and offer enough credits, I'll pick it then transfer it to you." She turned to the official, "That work?"

The official nodded, "Yeah."

Sarah smiled as she herded the cow girl over to stand next to them. "Welcome to the club. I'm Sarah your new alpha. If you don't like it you can take it up with her." She nodded at Gabrielle.

Gabrielle had to force herself to not chuckle as Sarah named herself alpha, though they hadn't officially talked about it the choice worked well enough as far as she was concerned.

Gabrielle grinned as they walked down the street, "A hundred and ten thousand for the minotaura, I can see how she might be useful and rare but goddess she was so ugly just the thought of sleeping with her… Still not too bad all things considered."

"So where we off to first?" Sarah smiled as she looked over the cow girl again. "We need some better clothes, or just a collar of warmth for all of the girls."

"Now that has potential, I probably wouldn't be the first girl with a completely naked harem but still it might be worth it." She snickered as Sarah blushed as she realized that she had been included in the naked part. "I was actually thinking that we should do what we came for and shop for the rare items I wanted." She lowered her voice and glanced around just to make sure no one was close enough to hear, "I wouldn't mind looking around for some spell books either. I just wish there was a Leaky Cauldron around here, it would make things easier."

Sarah rolled her eyes at yet another strange saying her mistress used. She would have to make a list one of these days.

Helen was ready to collapse from exhaustion by the time Sarah placed her in a pokeball. They had ran around to dozens of shops already and had dozens more to go before night and then a few more after that depending on how things went. Gabrielle wasn't even sure about keeping Sarah out for this next shop based on the warning the last shop owner had given her but not to have a pokegirl out would be even worse. She tried for calm as she walked into an unnamed very dark and dirty looking shop tucked at the far end of a dark and slimy alley.

Sarah sighed, she knew Gabrielle was following a map they had prepared once they got to London but she wasn't sure what the various colors on it meant. While she knew there was one, there didn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to which shops they went in. Sometimes Gabrielle would buy stuff and sometimes she would shake her head at the price before leaving. Which is how they found themselves at this particular shop. Despite Gabrielle's warning she was more than a little scared as she looked around at the semi human looking skulls around the place. She almost let out as gasp as she noticed that none of the pokegirls standing around the shop were moving. She had to force herself to not lose the contents of her stomach as she realized that they were stuffed pokegirls. There were also several displayed spread eagled on the various walls. It was like a taxidermy shop of old only for pokegirls. It was horrifying, everything from very near humans to animorphs that hardly looked human. She wanted nothing so much as to run and hide or at least hide behind Gabrielle but she had been told to not show fear.

Gabrielle's stomach tried to twist into knots as she realized that all of the pokegirls were stuffed. She couldn't imagine doing that to a demon let alone a human. She hadn't really wanted to come in after looking at the outside of the building but the owner of the last shop had hinted that certain things could be acquired here that weren't sold other places. And if the stuff in the display cases was any indication it was true. She wasn't quite sure what type of pokegirl the owner had in her bloodline but whatever it was she looked like a hag.

The dirty looking old women glanced up from her dinner, "Ah what brings you to Agatha's rare shop?"

Gabrielle privately didn't like how the old lady was staring at her or Sarah, somewhat like they were pieces of meat. This was made especially creepy by the fact that there were dozens of dead pokegirls stuffed and standing around the stop in some sick mockery of life. She had to force herself to keep her voice calm, "I'm looking to buy some T2s and evolution stones. Maybe see what else you got for sale."

The women grinned, "Have a look around dearie."

Gabrielle felt a shiver of revulsion slither down her spine but she simply nodded promising herself she would keep an eye on the old hag. She was just happy she had cast a see the unseen spell before walking in here. It would help with traps, magical or otherwise, as well as telling her if a product was good or spoiled. She didn't trust the old women as far as Leo could throw her without magic.

Agatha was faintly surprised when she noticed the young girl was picking through the store's selection with an eye for quality. At least the girl was buying a number of items. So it wasn't a complete waste. She was faintly surprised when the girl picked up a grim looking skull on display and laughed. Still she wasn't her normal customer. Normally her customers were bitter ex-tamers that had had enough from one of their pokegirls and wanted the bitch stuffed. Still new blood couldn't hurt especially if they were going to buy some rare items.

Gabrielle worked quickly as she gathered up quite a few T2s as well as the three mana crystals the shop had. The things were rare and typically involved with advancing magic types so she figured she would grab them. She was particularly delighted to find five doses of the pokegirl durability drug that weren't spoiled. She even found one good one that increased a girl's technique number out of a handful of spoiled packages. She carefully placed those in her basket before heading over toward the section that contained elemental pistols and the ammo. She selected a few copies of different ammo types that she didn't already have. She figured the more examples the better for reverse engineering. She frowned, she had been trying to avoid looking at the door that went into a backroom but it was outlined in green fire from her spell, which made her think that something important was back there that she needed to see. She busied herself looking through the odds and ends while she worked up her courage. Her face almost broke out into a smile despite everything as she looked at the collar of warmth displayed, at least until she saw the price tag. 'I guess I'll be making my own.'

Gabrielle as she walked up to the counter had her desire to vomit renewed tenfold as she caught a smell that was sadly recognizable. She had been on a demon hunt a few years ago the first time she had smelled that stench. Uncle Xander, a couple slayers and her had been chasing these vampires down in the sewers when quite by accident they had run into a group of demons that thought cooked human flesh was a great meal. Needless to say they had slaughtered those demons faster than the clean up took. She hadn't meant to say it but as she looked at Agatha's dinner it just slipped out, "Human meat."

Agatha smiled, "Pokegirl actually. You ready to ring up or do my dining habits disgust you?"

Gabrielle was honestly quite revolted but as that wasn't going to help and could quite possibly get her killed she let her magic raise a touch to calm her fear and emotions as she shrugged, "Yeah I think I have what I want, though I am curious about the door."

"It's my workroom where I have my current project."

"I'm guessing that's where the meat comes from, as well as the wall ornaments?"

"Yeah, she's still alive if you want to see."

Sarah couldn't believe it when her mistress gave her a mental command to stay, she so didn't want her mistress going in there but knew she could take care of herself, at least she hoped she could.

Gabrielle let Agatha open the door and walk through into a well lit concrete room with a drain and showerheads above. Chained to the wall by a number of chains was a bloody wreck of a young girl. The smell of old blood and bile almost drove her to her knees. Fresh blood she could handle and in fact found it quite tasty but there was nothing appealing about the blood that covered the girl. The girl's skin what little she could see of it that wasn't covered in blood or angry welts or bandages keeping her insides from falling out, was a pale bluish color. She could see from the bits of scalp left to the girl that her hair had once been a bright purple. The girl's hands were mutilated wrecks with only stumps of fingers left on each hand. The girl had on white panties that were more a mockery of decency than anything else as the girls chest looked like it had been gnawed off. Taken with the rest of everything that had probably happened to the girl, the fact that her tongue was missing was probably one of the less horrible things that had happened to her.

Agatha smiled, "You like my artwork? She's very tasty to."

Gabrielle couldn't keep the disgust off her face completely so she turned it into a sneer, "What was she?"

"Well if I hadn't ripped off her ears it might be easier to tell. She's a dark elf, she used to be my step daughter you see. My husband was more than a bit disgusted that his daughter went through threshold and turned into an elf. Well the sweet man that he is, knew that I liked her so he gave her to me. She didn't like my games, so I jammed a dark stone up her ass and laughed as she changed into something more useful. Sadly even after the transformation she couldn't keep a civil tongue so I cut it out. I like cutting bits off her and eating them, it reminds her who's boss. Every now and then I run her through the healing machine then I get to start all over. I'm sure at some point I'll get bored and sell her or stuff her."

Gabrielle nodded, "Well I wouldn't mind a dark elf but the normal look disgusts me. How much to buy her and use her as breeding material?"

Agatha frowned, "Well she is getting boring, though her father will be sad to see her go. He so enjoys taking her up the ass, but I'm sure that's only because we were saving her virginity as a special treat." She glanced down at Gabrielle's large basket of rare items, "For such a valued customer I'd be willing to part with her for say one hundred thousand."

"My brother will be so pleased, add her to the list. I believe I'm ready to pay and leave now."

Gabrielle stepped into the sunlight and promptly emptied her stomach, she felt like taking a scalding hot shower until she felt clean but knew that she wasn't going to feel clean for a long time. She brushed the back of her mouth with her hand. She glanced over to where Sarah was standing, she was just glad that Sarah hadn't seen the backroom. "Sarah, next time I suggest going into the dark creepy alleyways say something. It seriously creeps me out that the cops most likely wouldn't do anything as pokegirls are just property. I just wi… it would be nice if I could have just killed her but there were too many wards up on her place. Hopefully we can come back and clean this place out later but first I need to get some place I can get the stench out of my nose."

She felt mildly better after walking around in the sunlight for a while even if it was bright enough that she needed her shades. She wasn't sure what to do about the dark elf, it had just been a reflex, save the girl and get the hell out of the store. She sighed, her whole harem was composed of misfits and rejects. Now that she had some time to think about things, she wasn't sure how to deal with the dark elf or even the neo-iczel. "That could have went better, but at least we got some more supplies. I want to finish up my searching for stuff before word gets around that someone is buying up all of the stat increasing drugs as well as the other stuff. Do you want me to pokeball you? Or do you want to keep marching around with me?"

Sarah shrugged, "I'm not tired, just creeped out. And I don't know how we are going to deal with a Neo-Iczel that's way more powerful than I am. Not to mention a most likely neurotic dark elf. Hell the Fox girl is likely to be cake compared to either one of those. Can I ask you a question?"

Gabrielle shrugged, "I'm tired, cranky and scared so be careful I might tell the truth."

"Why did you take the milktit verses the others?"

Gabrielle sighed, "Three reasons really, she was nice and didn't belong in a prick's harem, two we really could use the milk, and three she has some magical ability."

"The dark elf?"

Gabrielle sighed, "If I say she does are you going to think less of me?"

"Only if you tell me you wouldn't have saved her if she didn't."

"I would have saved her either way."

Sarah smiled brightly as she pulled Gabrielle into a hug, "We're lucky to have you."

Gabrielle pulled out the map of London after Sarah released her from her hug. She had used the map as a focus point for the divination spell to find the various different the stat ups. Now it was just a simple matter of tracking down dozens of dots on a map that wasn't an exact match any more. "Yeah so damn easy, I hate London."

Sarah chuckled as they headed off to find the next store. "It can't be worse than the last store."