Tamer Gothic

Part 21

The Shadow Islands

(Tamer Thomas's POV)

My aching head was buried against two wonderfully soft pillows, my body had several warm, soft, and furry pairs of arms wrapped around it, and I could have remained dead to the world like this if it weren't for the fact that someone kept stroking my face with their tail.

"Master you need to wake up" someone whispered into my ear with a sexy voice, but I respond with a noncommittal grunt and attempted to burrow deeper into my pillows only to be rewarded with moan from the same voice. "Oh! We can make time for that later Master, someone is about to rob our camp."

That was enough to get me to actually stir and open my eyes. The first sight my eyes caught was the curve of a large set of breasts hidden under a blood red, skin tight, silk dress. I moved my eyes up to look into the face of my Arachnae, Karen, in all of her red eye, split mouth, fanged glory, the 'tail' that had been stroking my face was her hair covered arm. Looking down I saw that the 'warm, soft, furry arms holding me' were actually the 6 furry legs of her tauric battle form, and my legs had done the splits as they reached her furry abdomen.

So I was being held in a close embrace with Karen in her battle form, . . . moments later the rest of my brain finished waking up, and made the connections that I had a fear of spiders and that I was currently being held in the embrace of a spider larger than me. Karen shoved my head into her breasts to muffle the sound of me screaming in terror for several moments.

When I finally ceased screaming she let go of my head, I withdrew my head from her breasts and looked up at her.

"Better now Master?" she asked while smirking at me.

Not trusting my own voice right now I just nodded. She began releasing me from her hold, before flipping herself off of her back.

Now more than fully awake after my adrenaline rush of terror, I took in my surroundings, we were in one of the trees around and above the camp site Gothic, Amy and I had chosen. Karen had created sheets of webbing between branches to catch me in case I slipped, and my back pack was webbed to the trunk of the tree in case I needed it.

"What is the situation?" I whispered as Karen moved to my left side and my eyes searched the area around our campsite for the potential thieves.

"One Tamer and two Pokegirls, just beyond the edge of the camp site." stated a low voice that came from my right side.

The shadows besides me shifted and suddenly Kira, Gothic's Dark Elf, was leaning on the branch beside me. I would have jumped at her sudden appearance except that Karen had already over used my terror reaction.

"A Kunoichi is disabling the traps and snares you set up around the campsite, and a Veno-Miss is blowing Sleep Powder into the camp".

Which meant that Gothic and Amy wouldn't be any help, not unless their tent offered protection from the dust.

"We should take them out now" Kira said.

Technically I couldn't order another Tamer's Pokegirl around, but I had read up on the Dark Elf breed after Gothic had taken me to their city. The words used to describe them that I had found most useful were 'ruthless, conniving, and vicious' I knew how to work with such admirable traits.

"If we attack them now, we would first have to approach them, giving away our position. Then we would have to subdue them without raising alarm, or else they can claim that we suddenly attacked them while they were just out for a light night stroll" I explained while trying to keep my voice low "No we need them where no argument can be made in their defense, we need to be able to punish them, and use them as a example to everyone what happens when they mess with us."

Kira looked me over while evaluating the worth of my words and after several moments the Dark Elf seemed to come around to my way of thinking or at the very least she was willing to listen to what I had to say.

"What do you have in mind Hunter?"

I knew that Kira had been the one to capture James of Team Rocket only a few hours ago when he had wandered into our camp to deliver a message. So I also knew that the Dark Elf would be a great help in defending the camp from this new intruder, and his pokegirls.

"We need them to be inside of our camp before we ambush them." I said while gesturing at the would be thieves and pulling out some things from by back pack.

"Karen, you take the Veno-Miss, knock her out, poison her enough to keep her down, and web her up. Kira, take these vials of Karen's venom. I need you take down the Kunoichi quickly and quietly, bring her to Karen when you get her down, to be webbed up too. I will take care of the Tamer" I said while handing over the vials of venom.

Kira applied some of venom to her dagger. While I took out my gas mask and put it on.

Several minutes passed as we waited for the thieves to get closer to the camp site. As I watched them I was reminded that I had been expecting this since we had been told we would be camping out on the islands.

This was the reason I had suggested we make camp further away from the stalls, and vendors. It was also the reason why I had set up traps and snares around the camp in the first place. Me acting so drunk earlier tonight, the beer is what had no doubt accelerated the plans of the thieves.

One of great things that can be said about Blood Gifts is that most people even after reading about them, don't fully understand them the way that someone who has to live with their Blood Gifts does.

Such as the fact that I had both Recovery and Endurance Blood Gifts. The most obvious benefits everyone knew about was that a Tamer with them could have sex with his entire harem before starting to feel tired. The next benefit that came to mind is that I could work out and train for much longer and harder than the average person. I rather liked that I only needed 4 hours of sleep to roughly every 36 hours awake.

Here and now, however I was enjoying the benefit of my Endurance in that I had only been half as drunk as I had acted before Pamela lead me to my tent and my Recovery Blood Gifts was burning through the alcohol at twice the normal rate. Combined with Cecelia breast feeding me her healing milk, filling what room had been left in my stomach. I was already going through a mild hangover and it was only a hour or two after midnight if the moon's position was anything to go by.

Cecelia, Pamela, Catherine, and Amber had provided a nice loud distraction for me to slip out of my tent and for Karen to abduct me into the trees for the second night in a row, after this was over I would actually be able to sleep in my sleeping bag on the ground in my tent.

The welcome guests had finally made it past all the outer traps and were now moving closer to the camp. Then they paused for a minute or two as the Veno-Miss gave the camp one final dusting of Sleep Powder. The Veno-Miss hung back as the Tamer thief strolled forward, with the Kunoichi circling around the camp.

With a nod of my head I signaled the girls.

Kira stepped back into the shadows and I lost sight of her. Karen leaped from the tree we were on to a tree behind the Veno-Miss making no more sound than the wind shifting the branches of a forest.

I watched as Karen dropped down on the Veno-Miss, her lower jaw split open, and fangs pierced into the Veno-Miss while Karen held her mouth shut, before carrying her off into the brush. Similarly I spied the Kunoichi for a moment just before she was suddenly stabbed and dragged into the shadows by Kira.

With the Pokegirls taken care of, I swung down from the tree and landed crouched on all four. I stalked toward the Tamer, while pulling out my extendable baton, then with a flick of my wrist and quiet *Swish* the baton was fully extend. I sped up as the Tamer was getting to close to Gothic's tent, which I knew was currently occupied by the Gym Leader Misty and she was alone. I delivered a swift blow to back of the leg that cause the thief to crash face first into the ground.

As the Tamer attempted to push them self up, he or she paused as they took notice of my black steel toe boot tapping against the ground in front of them. The Tamer's head slowly traveled up my body seeing me drumming my baton against my left hand in tune with my boot tapping, before their eyes widen from seeing my gas mask wearing visage. It was the last sight they would be see before my baton struck them across the temple, knocking them unconscious.

That was when Gothic and Amy came racing out of Amy's tent, and they were in a state of undress. Apparently they'd not been affected by the Sleep Powder, possible because Gothic's harem had put spells on the tent to protect it.

"Gary what are you doing here?" my fellow Hunter asked.

Sadly for Gary he was in no state to answer. Kira however did have something to say to me.

"After Master wins this tournament, we should all go to back to my home. My Mother would have such fun pairing you up with a suitable Matron"

Stunned by the offer, I found myself unable to come up with proper response. Not that I had much of a chance as Karen decided to grab me and hoist me up into a tree for a bit of very late night Taming.

(Line Break)

The Shadow Islands

Being a decent human being I'd offered to escort Misty back to her camp, were she'd have her pokegirls to protect her. This was doubly important as not had she been kidnapped but someone had broken into our camp. So it was not safe for a young lady to be walking around alone.

However we'd passed through the market place had been set up near the fortress and Misty hadn't gotten distracted by all the stalls, and then she'd drawn Amy in as well.

This had led to me becoming insanely bored as while I could put up with some shopping this was dull. Misty wasn't even buying anything, she browsed, she talked to the people running the stalls and to nearly every person she met. Amy at least brought something, even if it was just a yummy slice of cake to eat

If I hadn't knocked Misty up I would have walked away by now, but she had been kidnapped and abused by a pokegirl, one that I now legally owned, so I was worried about Misty. I didn't think anything bad had happened to the baby now starting to grow inside her, but even thinking about such a thing happening made me feel very protective.

Also I was too scared of Illyria not to follow her around like a loyal puppy. She wouldn't hurt me but if I pissed her off she might take it out on someone else.

So to amuse myself I took stock of what I had on my person. Not what was in my pouch as that would make a mess, but what else I had.

My elemental pistol that was loaded with Celestial charged bullets. My Pokeballs. My Pokedex. Spirit dagger, and then there was my badges.

I only had two badges inside my jacket. The Boulder Badge which had gotten from Brock in Pewit City, and the Shield Badge I'd gotten from the Mayor of Lavish Port for helping the defend the town from those pirates. I did have Misty's Badge, but I'd given that to May.

Truthfully I somewhat regretted doing that, if only a little, as my other badges looked rather lonely, but that could solved by visiting more gyms. There were plenty even just in the Kanto Region, which wasn't very densely populated, and there were many more all over the world.

I'd meant to hit more gyms, but things like getting married, having adventures and exploring this world, had gotten in the way and I'd had a deadline to met.

Win or lose once I was done with this tournament I was going to visit more gyms and get more badges. It was too late to enter any regional championships this year as they were only weeks away and I'd never be able to travel to another region and get eight badges in time.

If I became the Shadow Lord the I could enter the nationals next year as this contest counted as a regional championship even if it wasn't a traditional one. But still it would be better to get the Gym Badges anyway as gaining them would be good training and the Gym Leaders would give me a good measure of the local talent.

But since I had a year to do that I was going to visit at least a few of the gyms in the Kanto Region. If the others were like Misty and Brock then there was a good chance I'd win some more badges but the other Gym Leader would be more interested in testing my skills rather than just beating a Tamer in battle.

However before I did any of that I had to visit Saffron City for my promised date with Ace and to reunite with Nikita. My real girlfriend had sent me a very long message all about her thoughts and feelings that I had been able to easily summarise into the following.

She was very happy to have her mother back

She loved me a lot

She still wanted to be my girlfriend

She was willing to tolerate Amy Pond's existence.

She very much wanted to travel with me for a few years

She really, really, really wanted to have my baby

She was not willing to let me have any more than three girlfriends

She rightfully believed that I loved her the most in the world

A few Tamers had groupies/girlfriend who followed them around, but Nikita had said that if I wanted more than three then she wasn't going to one of them. I could see her point as I did have a harem to manage, add to that too many girlfriends and I wouldn't be to give her any attention. Even with recovery drinks I couldn't satisfy that many females even if human girls didn't actually need sex to stay sane. Sure they can play with each other but if they were okay with that all the time they wouldn't need or want a boyfriend.

Thomas planned to take Pamela's abuser to the pokegirl's father, and then met up with me later. This had been made possible when I'd handed over Jessie and James as the Traveller had told one of his minions to tell me that Thomas could have custody of the abuser. This wasn't at all legal as Hunters were meant to hand over human criminals to the police so I was going to pretend that I had no idea that it was happening, and just not get involved in any way. Which was also a good idea as it wasn't my business, this was something Thomas had to do for Pamela.

At some point later we planned to met up and head for Kira's home city so that her mother could pair Thomas with a suitable Matron Mother, assuming of course Tom agreed with that.

As for Gary he was not going to prison instead he'd been thrown in a small boat was being taken to the nearest town or city by some of the Traveller's pokes. Kira had killed one of his pokegirls, and that had upset me as Gary had been trying to steal from us not hurt anyone, but Dark Elves were well known for going to extremes to serve their Tamers.

Misty still wasn't done so next I slowly counted the star chips that were kept in place on the gauntlet using magnets. They weren't very strong magnets, which was good because otherwise my arm would keep getting stuck on metal things, but it was more than enough to keep the star chips in place. No one could just swipe from a gauntlet.

"One from the scavenger hunt. One from the beer shirt contest. One from the Golden Trio. And one for turning in Jessie and James".

An act that stopped the tournament from being disrupted was reward with a star chip. Kidnapping Misty, who was running events, had disrupted things and I'd put them right again. Thomas also gotten a chip for stopping a certain pokegirl theft, which meant he was only chip one behind me. Poor Amy had four chips, but she'd find a way to catch up I was sure.

"Plus the two I already have makes six" I finished saying to myself.

Considering that the this event hadn't been going on very long I was doing very well. Four more and I could go up the fort.

That was my 'dex beeped and I got a message from Mr House who wanted to me to visit him in order to discuss his plans for something he was calling 'Battle City'. Then a message from Bobby Singer arrived and he was asking me if I knew anything about 'Battle City'.

"Foreshadowing" I muttered.

I had no idea what this 'Battle City' was but I got the feeling that I would have a role to play. However I messaged back that I'd heard nothing about it whatsoever as I didn't want to get on the bad side of Mr House.

Then I got the first of many messages from May, which made me realise that there must be a lot of signal traffic on this islands.

This messaged mentioned that my framed certificate had arrived. It was an award from the League for stopping the Dark Queen, and it came with a large cash bounty. She went on to mention that she was very proud of me and that she wanted me to come home for a visit so she could take me out to celebrate even if I didn't become the Shadow Lord of Tamers.

Then she messaged me to inform me that a Milktit called Titty had wrote to me to say that she was indeed pregnant and that she would name the kid after me if she had a human boy, which wasn't going to happen as the cock ring ensured that she would have a kit, but still it was sweet. May was okay with this as she knew Tamers did try to impregnate pokewomen who lived on ranches, and she also reminded me not to bring any kits home or I would be getting any more sexy pics. The pics were in an attached file and were more artful then graphic yet still sexy.

The next message was not so nice. Apparently Melody, the girl I'd knocked up as part of a ritual while touring the Orange Islands, had sent me a sexy photo of her in a bikini along with a letter telling me that she was pregnant and so far she was loving it (aside form the morning sickness) Also there was an invite for a visit so I she and I could re-enact Mel's first time. May was not so happy about this.

Then she got very angry about Gary, he must have called home early this morning and May already had part of the story. I had to go call her and explain that I hadn't done anything. She'd blame Thomas since he had the Blood Curse, but May hated him anyway so it wouldn't make much of a difference.

After that I'd need to explain about Melody and the festival, then I could point out to May that my bastard child (to use the word correctly) meant that May wouldn't have to worry about me wanting children with her. That would hopefully calm things down.

Also I needed to call Nikita. I was going to be on the phone for a few hours I just knew it as I also needed to call Professor Oak and tell him what happened with Gary. Hopefully he understand that I'd been asleep during the event. I'd shagged Amy as well last night after saving Misty as I'd gotten worked up from getting to play hero.

On the other hand it might not be a good idea to phrase it that way. Hopefully Gary wouldn't lose his licence. Because if he did it would somehow be my fault.

There was no sense in delaying so I told Misty and Amy where I would be and then headed over to the phones. Illyria could protect Misty even better than I could so there was no need to worry about them.

Now I just had to deal with some of the other people in my life.

What fun (not)