It was another typical evening with Kyle returning Rachel to her pokeball once they got home and Kyle went to sleep early, it was another gym battle tomorrow. Kyle once again wanted to go first so quickly after breakfast he headed off. He let Rachel out of her pokeball before he left as Hayley caught up to him "Hey I'll come too, do you want to go first?" She asked Kyle. "No I went first last time. You can go first up... is Jarrad coming along?". "No he's really tired we stayed up late last night..." Hayley said. Kyle thought to himself 'but they sleep in different rooms... why would they... I don't even want to know' as they left for the gym. In the new city it was a poison-type gym leader, not exactly something Kyle had experience in but he was confident as always.
When they arrived, Hayley went in first as Kyle sat down on the benches outside with Rachel, it was still quite early so not many people were out. Every time he looked over at her she seemed to be looking at him with loving eyes which made Kyle turn away. After a few minutes of awkward silence he finally told her "We need to focus, this is a poison gym and we are going to have to figure out what to do might fight." [Did you really like it when I used close combat?] Rachel asked him. "Yeah you looked amazing while doing it" Kyle said, immediately regretting his word choice. He didn't look at her again for a few minutes just thinking about the battle.
As expected, Hayley came out within minutes. "Wow that one was much harder than the others, its really difficult to know what to use against poison types!" she said. Kyle just nodded and walked in with Rachel. Feeling like he had abandoned his other pokemon, Kyle fought against the first two gym leader pokemon in Muk and Seviper using his Blaziken and Abomasnow. The battles were way too close for his liking, 'this is what I get for over-levelling Rachel I need to raise these guys too". The third pokemon though, a Beedrill was a little stronger than the rest, he figured it would be fairly easy for his overpowered Lucario to deal with.
"OK Rachel, don't get comfortable, this one is a high level, but you're higher!" Rachel was happy that he had chosen to send her out and was on a mission to make him proud of her. The battle started with Kyle instructing her to use aura sphere since the Beedrill was always keeping its range. "Don't let it near you! It has strong punches just keep your distance!" Kyle could hear the other gym leader yelling to his Beedrill which was doing exactly that. "Hit it!" Kyle yelled to Rachel who was becoming incredibly frustrated at her inability to land a single hit on the Beedrill.
"... shit!" Kyle said to himself, this was really not working out well. As Rachel ran around she said out loud to kyle [I know!] as she turned to face the Beedrill and leapt into the air. "What I didn't say that!" Kyle said to her as the other gym leader looked confused. Rachel knew what she wanted to do, and used close combat. There was a problem though, the attack was not very effective at all on flying types. She landed the powerful hit on the Beedrill but it barely hurt it and as she landed she could feel her defense falling sharply, that move exhausted her as her muscles weakened. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING I DIDNT SAY DO THAT ITS NOT EFFECTIVE ON FLYING TYPES!" Kyle yelled at her. She looked back at him, shocked and upset [But you told me I looked amazing doing it?] "THAT DOESNT MATTER, Dragon Breath it!" Kyle yelled back at her as Rachel turned around to see the Beedrill dive bombing her before she used the move she was told to and being such a high level, the move KO'd the Beedrill, Kyle had won the 7th badge.
He ran up to her as she was so exhausted. "Close combat makes you really weak after using it you're so lucky that Beedrill didn't hit you, if you went down, my other pokemon wouldn't have survived one hit... You should never have used that, we could have lost... don't do that again ok?" he said to her sternly. [But I won! We beat them!] She said. "That's not the point! Why are you arguing this with me, we are here to win, not to try and impress me by using the wrong attacks! That was too close... Just return for now" kyle said as he returned her to the pokeball. Kyle went up to collect his gym badge and headed outside, passing Hayley and telling her he won and was just going to get something to eat, instead he went off to the park they trained at the previous night.
Once there he sat down and released Rachel and before she could say anything he apologised "Rachel I'm sorry for yelling at you, that was just too close. You need to remember why we are doing this, we are going to win the pokemon league. Please don't try to impress me, just win. You are amazing at doing that." he said. […] Rachel didn't have any words for that, she was upset but knew she had done wrong. "You're an amazing fighter and I'm proud of you. I feel absolutely awful for how I acted there. I know you want to impress me but please lets just focus on winning."
Kyle was absolutely conflicted, he knew that without her he would never have gotten this far, but her feelings for him were starting to affect how she battled. Ignoring his commands to do what he thought looked amazing almost cost him the match. How he acted towards a pokemon he cared so much about though hurt him more, especially one that had basically dedicated her life to helping him. He could easily ditch his Sceptile but simply yelling at Rachel made him want to curl up on the ground, the guilt felt like a mach punch to his stomach. A giant urge compelled him to hug her or hold her paw while they would walk home but he knew this would worsen the problem. 'Just win the pokemon league first, then I can worry about how I feel about her' he thought to himself.
Rachel however, only heard what she wanted to hear and could see how upset he was for yelling at her. 'I'm proud of you' echoed in her mind as they walked back to their hotel. She knew Kyle really liked her but was unaware of the conflict in his mind of just how afraid he was of losing, she had no concept of his desire to win and how if she wasn't careful, could ruin everything if she messed that up. She didn't know what to think it was all too confusing but she was happy. While walking she slowed down and looked up at him and held out her paw. Kyle stopped still and looked at her, she could see him shaking in hesitation as she said [I really want to win the pokemon league with you] which was exactly what Kyle wanted to hear, and he held out his hand as they walked off holding each other.
Kyle told himself 'I'm only doing this to keep her happy and if she's happy, then she's winning' but he couldn't deny how much he enjoyed it. So much so that he wasn't even paying attention that they were almost at their hotel, in complete public view, holding each others hand. Kyle didn't realise until he was at the hotel door when he promptly let go to open the door, ashamed and hoping no one saw that.
It was another long and boring road to the 8th gym, this one was 5 weeks. Every day was wake up, walk, train, eat, find an inn and repeat. Kyle took this longer period to train up his other pokemon since he needed them to be stronger. Abomasnow was proving to be incredibly useful and Blaziken could handle just about half of all pokemon that existed. Rachel was still the strongest but her significant weakess to ground and fire needed to be covered. She began to feel slight jealously towards the favouritism that Kyle showed the other two pokemon. Where she expected she would take part in every battle with Kyle, sometimes he didn't even use her at all. It was like she was becoming more distant from him. Such long periods of not fighting gave Rachel far too much time to dwell on what happened at the ravine.
Despite all of this every time Rachel made an excuse to spend more time in private with Kyle that wasn't battling, he happily joined in on her lies to get away from the other two. Just a chance to sit and watch the occasional sunset together made up for days of him training the other pokemon. She loved how whenever they left, Kyle would look around to see if anyone was watching and always make the first move to hold her paw while they walked together. Upon arriving at the next town the trainers agreed to arrive at the same hotel at around 7pm after training on various routes on the outskirts of the city.
Kyle walked into this room only to find a note on his bed saying that Hayley and Jarrad were going out for dinner together and would be back in 2 hours, the note said they left just 10 minutes ago. "..." he said nothing as he threw the note in the bin, annoyed that he forgot they were going to a pancake restaurant for dinner that night. Kyle lay back on the bed and turned on the TV as he closed the curtains before looking at Rachel [I don't want to go in the pokeball yet!] she said quickly. "I... wasn't going to? You can watch some of this with me, its going to be boring here alone anyway" he said. Rachel did that and lay next to him with only one thought on her mind though, she was completely silent for about 10 minutes before noticing kyle was staring at the roof as he turned the TV off, there was nothing on. She got up and moved to the opposite end of the bed ans sat there facing him, with her knees together and up against her chest.
Rachel stared at him with so many thoughts racing through her head. All that replayed through her mind was how the other Lucario told her sex feels like. After what happened at the reserve though she felt like she might never experience it. She was highly conflicted but her urges were not going away. So many times she never had any truly private, time alone with kyle and like the other Lucario told her, privacy is so important when trying it. Kyle saw her face looking like she was staring into space, clearly there was a lot on her mind. Once again though he found his eyes wandering down below to look at her body. He couldn't see much though as her legs were blocking most of the view.
Everything was going right in her life though, she figured this would go right too. She mustered up the courage, prepared for embarrassment and asked [Kyle I have a strange question... but, do you know what its like when... humans mate? I learned the other day what its like for Lucarios and I-] she stopped once she saw Kyle looking at her and blushing very hard. She continued [… and I was interested in what it felt like]. She was now blushing hard as Kyle finally responded, by shaking his head and almost laughing "I cant help you there, I get it, its an urge you have but you'll have to get another Lucario to help you there I'm sorry" he said. Rachel didn't show it but she was almost crying inside. She thought even in the worst case scenario he would say no, but not laugh at her.
Rachel felt tension in the air, that laugh wasn't genuine. The way he stared at her, holding her paw as they walked, always talking about their future as fighters in the pokemon league while never saying anything about his other pokemon. No, he was hiding how he really felt. She had to try if she was going to get embarrassed like that it would be while finding out the truth. She didn't cry and sat up straight on the bed to face him with one last idea. She felt incredibly awkward but while staring at his eyes she slowly spread her legs apart. Almost immediately upon starting doing this, Kyles eyes moved towards her crotch and didn't move. She kept going and then pressed her arms against her chest, pressing her breasts together before she decided herself to look at his reaction. It was exactly the same as the guy Lucarios' as she saw a bulge forming in Kyles pants.
"... What are you doing?" Kyle said as Rachel got up and crawled towards him [I know you think I'm really attractive and you'd never admit it, I wanted to be sure if we are going to be together]. She was so incredibly anxious while saying those words but it was what she truly wanted and she was intent on only saying the truth and finding out the truth. Kyle responded "Together? What are you talking about" but Rachel didn't look at his or respond, she only watched his body movement, which was nothing. He must have truly wanted this. Her mind was racing now with what the other girl Lucario told her about how pleasurable it can be and how after doing it, they become mates for life. She was now hovering over kyles pants as she attempted to undo the zipper on his pants.
"Please don't do that" Kyle said, freaking out. [You aren't stopping me] Rachel said as she fumbled around some more, quickly giving up on opening a zipper with her paws. She grabbed both sides of his pants and slowly pulled them down. "Holy shit" kyle whispered to himself as she eventually pulled them down far enough that his erection bounced up out of his pants, still growing. [See its exactly like it is with guy Lucarios! I knew you wanted to be with me!] she said happily, now looking a his eyes again as she kneeled over him across his legs giving kyle a complete close up view of her body with both of her paws pressing down on his abdomen. She leaned back slightly making Kyles erection ride up her ass and lightly push into the root of her tail which made her shudder slightly and Kyle could see her tail start to wag behind her.
[I really like you Kyle and I know you like me now, if we do this we can be together and have a Riolu] She said as kyle snapped out of his daze "What?! Be together? A RIOLU?! No you're... wow why did I let this happen" Kyle said as she quickly pulled his pants up. "I'm sorry but we cant do this. I want t-... no, you're a pokemon. I cant believe I let this happen. You need to find a guy Lucario and I obviously need a girlfriend." Kyle stood up now, fully dressed again. "We need to focus on the final gym, don't forget why I captured you, this is to win the indigo league we cant let... that get in the way." kyle said as he pulled out her pokeball "we are so close, don't mess this up" he said as he aimed it at her and she returned, crying.
Inside the pokeball Rachel was broken, she messed everything up. It all seemed to go so well, he was being more affectionate, he kept staring at her, they were perfect together. She beat herself up mentally as she became enraged with what the other Lucarios had told her. Everything was going so right until she listened to them. Why did she even think that would work with a human, she wished she never met the other Lucarios and dreaded what would happen upon her release.
Meanwhile, Kyle was trying to put all that behind him. He had to beat the 8th gym tomorrow and Rachel was his best pokemon but now things were extremely awkward between the two. He felt awful, it was his fault. As he sat there in reflection he realised why she would have thought he was interested in that but he couldn't help it. He should have been more professional about being a trainer but more than that, he felt like there was something gravely wrong with him. Why did he have such a reaction to a girl pokemon spreading her legs like that. While other guys around him were busy getting real girlfriends for the last few weeks he spent his nights thinking of Rachel before sleeping. This had to stop and the only way was to remove the temptation. Rachel had to go, but he needed her to win. Kyle went to their hotel quietly and went to bed without saying a word to anyone. His perversion, his obsession with staring at Rachels body might just have cost him the pokemon league championship and he was furious with himself.