Author Note.
I just did the maths and found that even if I do fifty chapters for this story it won't equal 200,000 words. I guess my chapters have been shorter. So I'll have to add some filler. Maybe Team Gothic can go on hoilday after all. They still have a few weeks to battle city starts.
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You are right I forgot about the Dominatrix she should still be storage. Well Nikita does need a new alpha.
Joe Lawyer
Misty, Amy and Nikita will be his three girlfriends who agree to only be involved with each other unless its sex with a pokegirl as that is their job. Gothic also can't sleep with any other human women, in exchange his girlfriends will accept his as the group's leader.
I decided not to include Ace in the group as while Misty has sisters who can run the gym for her while she's gone. Ace does not have a replacement standing by so she can't just leave whenever she wants, but that doesn't mean she can't visit sometime as she has pokegirls who can teleport as well.
Tamer Gothic – Book 2 – Shadow Lord
Part 42
My House – Pallet Town.
In my head I counted the steps that separated me from my goal. They wouldn't be that big of a problem normally, as while the staircase was somewhat narrow and twisting I was agile enough to handle it, but with half a mattress in my hands, things became less simple. Plus coming up them backwards made the whole thing more risky.
"You got it?" the voice of Tom asked.
Thomas, who was the person who would actually going to get some use out of this new bed, was bringing up the other half.
"Yeah, I got it" I said.
Well I mostly had it.
"Hurry up" another voice said.
The person behind me was my wife, she was supervising, or in other words she was here to point out the things I was doing wrong.
"I know you need a new bed, but did you really have to have a king-size?" she asked me "You're bedroom's not that big".
As a matter in fact this wasn't really my house anymore as when I spent time in Pallet Town I lived in May's home, but I'd opened up this place for members of the Hunter's Guild to stay in. Also since my spouse refused to let my best friend in her house then, due to his Blood Curse, it was a good idea to make this place more liveable now that I had the money to do that.
In the past only a teenage boy (me) had been living here and back then the lack of space, and the lack of comforts hadn't really been a big deal. But things that changed.
"Raven did some space expanding charms" I explained as Tom and I finally got the mattress to its intended location.
She didn't comment on that, which was good as we argued about the island I'd just brough for a good half and hour.
"Besides I deserve to enjoy my success, don't you think?" I asked the wife as she and I made the new bed.
My alpha had done a good job of expanding the dimensions of each room in my house. It was somewhat freaky as her magic had done nothing to alter the outside of the building so it was a bit like stepping into the Doctor's TARDIS, only not nearly as dramatic.
"And this way anyone who stays here will have room to Tame a poke if they want to" I added.
Hopefully people had been changing the sheets after doing that sort of thing and would keep doing so in the future.
"I don't want to think about that sort of thing" the red head commented.
Since she didn't want to talk I took a moment to look at the numerous stuff I'd left strewn about when I'd left.
Mostly it was just books as there had been a time when I'd tried to find out everything I could about this world. Which had been a good idea as not only was I in another universe I was also three hundred years in the future so I'd a lot of history to learn.
Then there was a bang downstairs and I heard something smash so I raced down to check on my new entertainment centre, which was mostly a big ass television with some even bigger speakers.. Thankfully it was fine, the only thing had been destroyed was an old lamp.
"Is that the new 36-inch plasma screen?" Jayden asked as he picked up pieces of broken lamp.
Seeing the thing must have caused him to lose control of his nervous system and made him very clumsy for a few seconds. Not that I blamed him as it was the latest thing in home entertainment technology, or at least it was here as plasma screen TVs had hardly been new on my world.
Here they'd only just been invented, or possible reinvented it was hard to tell given that Subeke had brought technology from other worlds into this one and most of it had been lost during the Revenge War.
Three centuries later and mankind was finally getting back a lot of what it had lost due to the war and that included plasma screen TVs.
Still it had been extremely expensive as the Crimson League didn't have the wide spread manufacturing base that the Western World enjoyed where I was from, and they had to recycle plastic which drove up the cost.
"You're spoiling your fellow Hunters" Tom said as rejoined us downstairs.
He was right to say that as it wouldn't be me who got enjoy all of these luxuries. At least not a lot of the time.
"Well why not?" I replied "I've got the means to do so"
Besides if other Hunters got in half trouble I did as a mere associate member of the guild, then they deserved to have a place like this to crash in after a hard day of fighting the forces of sexy darkness they had in this world.
"Still seems a little wasteful" my wife commented.
To be fair she wasn't wrong. I had just brought an island and now I was redecorating my house, and spending so much that I might as well have re-wallpapered the whole place with bank notes.
"When I started my journey I... we weren't all that well off" I said as Nikita joined us "There were days I worried that I end up broke".
Now things were so different that there were times when I still couldn't fathom how wealthy I was. I'd spent half my winnings on an island, and that should have made me more stingy, but then my accounts had been flooded with more cash because the League had paid me for the cargo ship, and for a share of the loot that had been on the oil tanker. There had been quite a lot of loot, and even when shared out among all the Tamers it had added up to a big reward.
I had worried that only me being paid for the cargo ship would have upset the others who had worked to take the vessel, but so far no one had sent me a message of complaint, perhaps because they'd gotten pirate pokegirls for theirs harems. Besides there had been plenty of bounties to pay so everyone had benefited.
"And now your rich" May remarked
That had to be worrying her as I had in fact married for her wealth, but she had no reason to be concerned as I depended on her to organise my finances and to take of the pokes that I put into storage.
"I got your TV all set up!" Amy then told me.
Illyria had a far better understanding of technology that I did, and so she had taken charge of the parts of this project that involved connecting wires. Not that I'd really needed her to wire some up speakers for me as I had done this sort of thing before during my old life, but if nothing else it made her feel useful.
"Good, because I'd have no idea how to set any of that stuff up" I lied.
She accepted this as clearly my skills were focused more on leadership, planning and working with people, these days. She had no idea that my world already had this tech.
"Let me get the sound system turned on too, and we'll be all set," Amy then added.
She pushed some buttons and turned a knob.
"You've gotta be careful not to blow out the speakers, honey" she warned as she passed me the remote.
Now we were ready
"Shall we?" I asked everyone as I aimed the remote of control at the TV screen, and hit the power button.
The TV turned on, but the only thing that greeted us a bright blue screen.
Then a message appeared on the screen
[Welcome. Your Home Entertain System Is Now Booting Up]
"I should have known" I muttered.
Things were never as simple as I expected them to be.
"You guys got a lot done today" Gary said as he entered the house. "Everything working alright?"
I found it amusing that he had gotten here after all the work had been done.
"Yeah, we got everything up and running" I replied.
At least he was talking to me again.
"You really put a lot of work into that old basement, Gothic" Nikita commented "It looks really nerdy".
That made me stop and think for a moment.
"I have a basement?" I asked her.
This I had not known and before my human girlfriend could answer my question the channels stopped tunning and a music channel starting playing. Which was really distracting.
The bass was set too high as the system's volume was also louder than it should have been which made the entire house shake. Thankfully it didn't last as I just muted the whole thing using the remote control.
"So about this basement I have" I said to Nikita.
Again she didn't get a chance to reply.
"Come on you two!" Gary called out as people piled out of my house "My Mom made lunch, and she invited everyone".
I was now wondering when I had my friends and lovers all become chums of Gary, because as far as I knew he'd never had friends and he notches on his bedpost rather then romantic relationships like I at least attempted to.
"You sure there'll be enough?" I asked.
I was actually more worried about Thomas not being included, or otherwise being turned away when the Oaks got a look at him. But I then recalled that Gary's mother was a pokewoman and his father wasn't around much so there shouldn't be a problem.
"You know my Mom," Gary replied "she could feed an army".
He was right about that as the Oaks were a big family, and they had three generations living here in Pallet Town, and a lot more scattered around. Their family reunions were wild times and they involved a lot of cooking. I'd attend such an event so I knew this first hand.
"Hurry up" May then shouted "You don't want it to get cold"
Truthfully I didn't much care as I wanted to go check out the nerdy place Niki had mentioned.
"Alright, I'm coming!" I assured her.
I'd have to check out the basement later.
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My House – Pallet Town.
After dinner Tom and I headed down in the basement to check out the lab that Nikita had stumbled across while moving things around. I'd lived here for months and I'd never found the trapdoor. Although to be fair I'd never thought to clean behind the washing machine.
"Found the lights" Thomas told me as he threw some switches.
He didn't just turn on the bulbs above us he also activated a lot of machines. Things blinked and there was some noise as machines warmed up.
What any of this stuff did I hadn't a clue, but I figured that if nothing else someone would buy this stuff from me.
"According to Gary an assistant professor who worked with his grandfather used to live here" I said to Thomas as we looked around the fully equipped and fully powered lab"She later got arrested for what Professor Oak called 'performing questionable experiments on living subjects' whatever that means".
I had a few ideas on what it did mean but thankfully there were no rotting dead pokegirls around, or parts of dead pokes in here now, but this was a fully equipped lab so it she must have used it for something.
"What kind of experiments?" Tom asked me.
Professor Oak had tried to explain it to me, but all I'd understood was that Margaret Walsh had been trying to combine Pokegirls with robots, to make cyborgs or something like that. I suspected that it could ended like that whole Adam thing in BTVS season four, but the assistant professor had died in the loony bin so at least I didn't have to worry about that.
"Illegal ones" was what I told my buddy.
As I more closely inspected the basement I began to get a better picture of what had gone on down here, and the fact that none of the files on the computers were password protected made it easy to find out some stuff.
"I guess we could gut the place and put a pool table" Tom suggested.
Turning this room into a game area was an idea. It wasn't a great one, but it wasn't the worse thing I could with this space either.
"Have you ever heard of a guy called Washu Hakubi?" I asked my friend.
The name was mentioned loads of times in lots of files. Worryingly so in fact.
"Yeah she's the greatest scientific genius in the universe, if you believe the hype" I was told.
Part of the that didn't add up.
"Walsh refers to Washu as a he" I remarked.
Tom was able to explain.
"She use to be a he" Tom explained "but somehow he went from being an old man to some sort of super smart pokegirl as part of a project, so he is really a she now".
That wasn't as odd as it sounded as according to rumour there was a placed called the Spell Dump somewhere within the league that could turn a man into a pokegirl if he went there, and it was also rumoured to be a type of pokeball that could do the same thing.
I'd never seen any evidence of either, but given everything I had seen so far I felt it best to assume that both of those things existed.
"I wonder who Tames her?" Tom then said.
Even for this world having sex with a young female who had once been an old man was a little bit strange.
"According to Walsh's notes this Washu guy... girl was trying to figure out how pokegirls work because they are impossible" I told my buddy.
He was understandably confused by this statement even if I sort of got it.
"How can they be impossible?" he asked me "I mean they exist!".
I was thinking along similar lines.
"They shouldn't exist" I said to the Hunter "they don't obey the rules of biology, and often the laws of physics".
I'd put that down to them being magical, which was part of the answer as to how they could exist as without magic they wouldn't be able to function and this world had magic. However the existence of magic wasn't enough to explain pokegirls. There had to be something that made them work, something in their DNA that allowed pokegirls to defy the laws of nature.
"Yeah but they do exist" argued Thomas "There's one with a tray of drink right there. She exists!".
Kara had just come down the stepladder while balancing some mugs of coco on a tray, and she looked rather confused when the Hunter told me that she existed.
"Did I miss something?" the elf asked as she set down the tray "Because I came down here to deliver these drinks and now people are shouting at me about me existing. It's a little worrying".
Her saying that made me smile a little.
"There's lot of information on these computers" I told my beta "Some of Walsh's notes are on the origins of pokegirls and say that you can't exist because you defy the rules of nature".
To my surprise Kara didn't argue the matter by pointing out what that rules had to be wrong.
"You know my Mom mentioned once that all pokegirls are magical and that the magic that made us comes from another dimension" said my elf "All pokes have that magic in common".
I pondered on that for a few moments.
"So you could have some DNA that comes from a magical creature, and that's what makes you work" I figured as I drank my coca.
I knew that all pokes had a lot of human DNA, which was why we could breed with them, at least according to the books, however it my world that would make no sense as humans had a lot of DNA in common with the different ape species and we couldn't hybrids with them. Therefore magic had to play a big part in pokegirl physiology.
It wouldn't surprise me if Illyria had a few Old One genes and Kara was an elf so maybe Subeke had gotten some genetic material from some other elves in another dimensions, but all pokegirls had to have some DNA in common and it to be something that didn't exist in Pureblood human beings.
There were lots of possible sources as Subeke had travelled the multi-verse, far too many in fact for me to even make a list.
"Just ask my Mom" Kara suggested "Or better yet Kira's mother, she fought in the Revenge War and you're suppose to her husband or something so I bet she'd tell you anything".
Well I had been meaning to head back down into the Underdark for a quick visit as I owed the Matron of my Coven a big thank you for lending me a Drow Strike Force back when I'd needed to take down a Rocket base.
"And I know Kira wanted to hook your friend up with one of the Matrons" Kara added "Not that you should cause you can't leave a Coven until you get the Matron pregnant".
That was not really a concern as while I couldn't recall ever telling Tom about the cock ring I still carried it on my person. Of course it didn't really matter if I had as I was pretty sure he'd understand me not mentioning that I had such a powerful relic as if news about it got around then people would try to steal from me, or perhaps even kill me for it.
"Not a problem" I said to Kara "I have a certain shiny thing that should help speed things up".
It didn't take her long to figure out what I had meant by that.
"Oh yeah that'll work" she replied while smiling.
Since my buddy wasn't going to live for centuries like Kara and I. He couldn't afford to spend years for a matron to conceive.
"What will work" Tom asked.
Before I could explain about the Cock-ring my beta spoke again.
"Oh Mistress May says come home and shower" she told me "She making dinner and wants you there to play happy familes".
Two family dinners in one day. I was becoming domesticated this was bad I had to leave this town sooner rather than later.
"Let's go to Menzobarranzan" I said to Tom.
He was on board with that idea, but Kara was not so happy about it.
"I'm not going to stay in a hole in the ground" she protested.
That was easily solved.
"You can go visit your folks" I told her as we headed out.
She had some aunts and cousins at the elf court so it seemed like a good idea to me.
"I don't even think they'd even notice I was gone" she remarked.
When you had a life span that reached triple digits being away for a few months didn't really seem like a big deal. Her mother would most likely feel as if Kara had only been visiting a friend for the weekend.