Chapter 3: When In R(Alola)ome...

Summary:

Here's Keifer's mini-vacation before the start of his challenge; and it ain't just random filler, either!


Chapter 3: When In R(Alola)ome!

(A huge thank you to my friend DMDrewDragon,

who helped BIG TIME with refining this chapter's biggest element)

The flight didn't take nearly as long as Keifer thought/expected it to… possibly helped by the fact that he slept through most of it, waking up only when they hit the runway when coming out of the sky.

Having his bag already on him, all the young adult had to do was make his way through the airport and outside, where his aunt said she'd be waiting for him.

There was something else he had to quickly take care of; whipping out his phone and Box Link, he'd made sure Arthur made it safely home to his mom; the Gallade had tagged along to make sure he got to Alola safe, and the greenhead had a pretty good idea of what his parents definition of 'alone time' constituted of.

Keifer had always held Katie close to his heart; she had given him his first Pokemon afterall. Not to mentioned, she downright spoiled him every Christmas, and she was able to come to Galar for most holidays.

Not to mention, she was in on his, Jullie's and Mari's little 'secret', and had actually beaten his mom to the 'punch' a while back.

Before he could think further ahead to what he was gonna do with his weeklong vacation in Alola, he almost instantly regretted stepping out of the air-conditioned airport.

Galar was pretty cold all year round – even the region's hottest summer only had temperatures in the low 80's.

But Alola…

"Holy Giratina it's hot out here." Keifer was hit with a blast of heat as he stood there in the morning sun. (Curtesy of Alola being a couple hours behind Galar.) He silently thanked Arceus that he'd had the foresight to wear shorts instead of je-

"I'm glad you think I've still got it!" He turned and his aunt came into view. Keifer grinned and quickly found his arms wrapped around the older woman after he had made it over to her. "How was the flight dear?"

"Honestly? I slept through the whole thing, so a solid nine outta ten." Keifer laughed at his own bad joke.

"Pfft. Well, welcome to Alola! I warned you it was hot here – and not just 'cuz of me." Katie joked, but in Keifer's eyes, she had every right to do so. His aunt was maybe 8 inches shorter than him, but her Carmel-colored skin, chocolate brown hair, and hourglass figure definitely more than lived up to the hype.

"Thanks Aunt Katie, and… yeah, I can FEEL that it's hot." He walked beside the woman as they moved away from the Mele Mele Island Airport. "How have things been since you came down last Christmas?"

"They've been good! Lab work has been steady, couple small breakthroughs here and there, the usual. But… what about you? Mr. Few days away from 18 and starting one of the best League Challenges the world has to offer! You excited? Gonna get yourself a girlfriend or boyfriend?"

"Aunt Katie!" Keifer's face went a little red at her teasing – and not just red from the sun, either.

"What? I'm just playing on all sides! Haven't you been friends with that gal named Kassi and Hop for a good few years now?" She teased him and he went even more red.

"We're just friends – more like siblings at this point than anything." Katie raised a smug eyebrow and it took Keifer less than a second to realize that that argument was just gone out the window. "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" Katie about nearly laughed her ass off. "We've been friends our whole lives and I'm sure we all share the same unspoken sentiment; no relationship advances on each other because if it didn't work, HOO boy that'd be weird as hell."

"Hmm… fair enough." Katie hummed in thought. "I'm not implying that your mother and I want grand kids in the next half-decade or anything!"

"AUNT KATIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"


The rest of the walk to Katie's home had been filled with more banter between Aunt and Nephew, only having made one stop to an Ice Cream place Katie wanted to finally show Keifer. The both of them had gotten different cones and it left Keifer feeling refreshed, the cool treat having been the ticket to cooling him down.

"And we're here finally!" Keifer had seen a few pictures of his aunt's house, but it was really nice looking in person, too; standard beach-front home affair, but still nice and cozy looking regardless. "Now, in theory we won't be sitting here every day all day – there's plenty to this island, and I'm sure you've thought about expanding your team a little bit before you head back home." She wagged a finger at him and he nodded.

"Guilty as charged. Alola has Pokemon that you can't really find back home in Galar… not without paying an arm and a leg at least. That, and I'd rather catch a partner than just paying someone to do it for me. You don't know what they do before handing it over to you." Keifer spoke from his heart and his aunt pulled him into a hug.

"You're almost an adult but look at you! Still as sweet as the little boy who I gave a Chikorita to 11 years ago." Keifer blushed a bit from the hug, especially aided by the fact that Katie had pushed her bust into him. "Lemme just get switched into something more comfortable really quick and then we can relax for a little while before we go out and do anything."

Keifer nodded, having completely spaced that his aunt was still in her lab attire this entire time. He sat down on the couch in the living room for a moment as his aunt walked away, his mind beginning to turn.

"I doubt we're going off of Mele Mele Island while I'm here, but that still leaves me with plenty of diverse partner choices…" While a big part of coming to Alola was the vacation-before-fighting-to-become-a-champion bit, he did have the goal of catching one or more Pokemon while there as well; that hadn't changed.

Before he could chew on the thought more, though…

"Keifer, could you come lend me a hand?" He heard his aunt's voice come from down the hallway, and Keifer quickly leapt up, lightly walk-jogging towards the sound of her voice.

"Aunt Katie, is everything okay?" He rounded the corner into the laundry room and, well…

It certainly was a sight to behold.

"I think I need a hand… I'm stuck!" He could tell his aunt was having a hard time holding it together. Her upper-half was inside the dryer machine…

But her bottom half was bent, facing upward, missing the sundress she'd been wearing earlier, leaving her toned ass on full display with a pair of very skimpy panties being the only shield for her more private parts.

"I'm… trying to get out of here but… I think I need a pull from a big, strong man like you!" She shook around, really putting her 'ass'ets on display for him.

That was the dirty little secret he had with his aunt, mom and Mari; they were no strangers to having sex with one another.

"I'll try my absolute best, Aunt Katie." Keifer tried his best to play into it as he put his hands on her hips and began to 'pull'.

With each 'pull' he did, his aunt pushed against him, grinding against his shorts and against the quickly hardening bulge trying to spring free from its denim prison.

"Just… a little harder!" Katie could feel Keifer's hardening, still-clothed member pressing into her panties and rubbing them against her quickly moistening lips. It was driving the Alolan woman mad.

With a final pull that involved holding Katie by her barely clothed breasts, Keifer pulled her 'free from the dryer', his aunt's panties slipping down leaving her in just her yellow top that was half-up, revealing her thin, tanned stomach.

"Thank you Keifer…" She cupped his chin. "I think my favorite nephew deserves a reward for pulling me free… don't you think?" She pulled him into a passionate, sexually-driven kiss that Keifer more than indulged in, the two quickly finding their hands down one another's pants.

Katie's skilled hand quickly found Keifer's hardening member and she massaged it, quickly forcing the fabric-entrapped appendage to full mast. The way she stroked his cock caused the greenhead to moan into her mouth as his hand found its' target, his fingers tracing across Katie's wet, puffy slit.

The two continued to make out and tease one another as they quickly moved from the laundry room and down the hall into Katie's bedroom.

"Mmm… if I didn't know any better, I'd say you're trying to make up for lost time." Katie teased him as she got on her bed. The image of his now fully nude aunt brought Keifer's errection to its' hardest point. "So I say screw the foreplay - come give it to me baby!"

Keifer didn't need to be told twice. Sliding his shorts and boxers off, his errection sprang free; a rock-solid 10 inches of cock standing at attention as he climbed into the bed with his aunt.

Both nephew and aunt shuddered and gasped as Keifer ran his length across Katie's needy cunt, slicking his dick with her juices before slowly hilting himself inside of her, Katie moaning loudly from the full feeling.

"Arceus Damn…! I missed this!" Katie moaned as Keifer started to slowly push and pull in and out of her love channel, her pussy clamping around his dick like a vice as he picked up his pace.

After several hard, hot thrusts Katie and Keifer altered their positions slightly; the Alolan woman was on top of her nephew now, riding him Miltank-girl style; the couples' favorite position.

Wanting to return the favor, Keifer reached up with both arms and took a handful of boob into each, massaging his aunt's bouncing breasts and occasionally pulling at and pinching her nipples.

Neither side could take much more of their lewd time together; Katie had already climaxed once, lubing Keifer's dick up further and allowing him to hit the deeper spots with each of her bounces, also squeezing down harder on him in the process.

The combination of his aunt moaning and the sensation was too much for him to handle, Keifer thrusting as deep inside his aunt as he could to match her final bounce before bursting inside of her, releasing rope after rope of his seed directly into her womb, Katie practically a puddle of moans as her final climax pushed against his member.

When they finished riding their climaxes out, Katie finally got off of Keifer, his dick slipping out of her with an audible 'pop', a stream of thick, white jizz slowly leaking out of her as she layed down next to him.

"Fuck, Keifee… you really tried to knock me up, huh?" Katie giggled as her nephew went red, the two sharing a more tender, loving kiss as they basked in the afterglow of their incestuous act.

Luckily for both of them, they wouldn't need to worry about what Katie said coming true. Mothersbane would squash any 3-Eyed incest children before they could even begin to take form. It was a plant that originated from Ancient Sinnoh – the then aptly named Hisui, and it was quickly brought around to other parts of the world.

Galar had the absolute biggest Market Share in it, with Paldea behind it as a close second given the nature of the former region and the definitely almost as open nature of the latter, but that didn't stop Katie from keeping her own small supply of it in Alola; better than pills that tasted awful or getting a thing crammed inside of her.


The rest of Keifer's first day in Alola had been nothing but relaxation; his aunt had made an amazing lunch for them to share and then she had shown him certain parts of Mele Mele Island, the day ending after a dinner at a restaurant Katie loved and the two picking up right where they left off like Lopunny in heat.

As for his second day…

"I'm so sorry – I had this whole thing planned for us today and-"

"Aunt Katie, it's fine." Keifer hugged her reassuringly. "I know how important your job is to you."

Katie had been called in to work that day, despite having taken the entire week off to spend it with Keifer. "Thanks for understanding baby." Katie shared a nice kiss with him. "I'll bring something home for dinner tonight – if you leave the house don't worry about locking the door."

As she left in a hurry, buttoning her lab coat up on her way out the door, Katie's words reminded Keifer of his biggest goal while he was in Alola.

"It's about time I go get my first catch!" Grinning, he grabbed a few empty balls from his bag, and after letting Buttercup out of hers, the two sat off with no particular destination in mind.


One thing was for sure…

Either Keifer was bad at decision making, or was really, really indecisive. A good chunk of the day was gone now and he was empty handed. His and Buttercup's first encounter had been a Sandygast out on the beach not too far from Katie's, but it had dodged every single ball Keifer had tried to throw its way.

Then there was a Bounsweet they had bumped into just off the path in the forest; he had tried to approach it, which it had allowed, but the second he brought up her joining his team, it lost interest and jumped away.

Both would've had their positives and negatives, the latter being Ghosts were sometimes tricky to raise and that Bounsweet would've meant he was doubling-up on grass types, while the former was the coverage that a ground type could provide and the relative easiness of raising a grass-type.

Keifer tried to not feel too down on his luck; a silver-lining was that Buttercup had gotten stronger from fighting a few wild Pokemon, which would give them a good upper-hand early on back home.

But he was down to one last Pokeball. And as they walked down a rocky part of the shoreline, he felt like today was ultimately just done and over with.

"Whaddya say we head back to the house Buttercup? Aunt Katie's bound to be back soon and all this scouring the island today has worked my stomach up."

The Pokemon looked like she was about to respond, but her head suddenly perked up; the Chikorita's head-leaf stood up a bit as she quickly took off towards what looked like a rocky hillside.

"Buttercup, wait up!" Keifer ran after her, skidding to a halt when Buttercup herself had come to a sudden stop.

"Chik! Chiko!" Keifer nodded and as they approached a massive, rocky overhang, he could hear it.

It almost sounded like singing.

Slowly, Keifer peeked around from a big rock he and Buttercup hid behind. He could now more clearly hear the sound as the tide pulled back.

There was an elevated slab of stone towards the end of the alcove, and atop it sat a water-type Pokemon Keifer quickly recognized to be a Popplio. A couple water bubbles floated around it and he and Buttercup listened as it sang out another few notes.

Her voice sounded wonderful, and before he could get too lost in the music, Keifer realized the opportunity he and Buttercup had.

"On the count of three… we're gonna catch it off-guard." Keifer whispered to the grass-type quietly, who gave him a silent nod in response. "If you can make it drowsy with a Sleep Powder, we've got a good shot!"

Buttercup nodded, and as the Popplio broke into another song-verse…

"Buttercup NOW!" Keifer slid out and Buttercup leapt from his shoulder. The wild water-type turned just in time to be blasted straight in the face with the Sleep Powder, firing off a heavily misguided Disarming Voice in retaliation.

The move had the intended affect; the Popplio almost instantly became drowsy, but it was still fighting back; Keifer didn't have a good opening to throw his last Pokeball.

"Befriending doesn't always work, and it still has fight in it, so we're not done yet!" Keifer's mind looked back on what his family had told him as he decided what to do next.

It was time to make his own style.

"Buttercup, use Razor Leaf, but hold back a bit!" He didn't want to brutally hurt the Wild Pokemon; especially not when he planned on asking it to be his partner after catching it.

The Chikorita gave a small nod and, with a slight shake of its' head leaf, her Razor Leaf flew at the Popplio; not quite as big or max speed as it could be, but the move still hit and dealt damage.

"Pop. Pop. POP!" The Popplio let a torrent of water rip free from its' mouth as it attempted to break free from its' drowsiness, the torrent of water crashing straight into Buttercup who sprang back with a determined shout.

"If I'm not quick… it might run away…" Keifer felt that a Popplio could fit his team really well, especially given some of the amazing attacks a Primarina could learn.

He needed to finish this.

"Buttercup, charge in and use Headbutt! Send her up!" Keifer hollered to the small Pokemon, the two sharing a similar fire in their hearts.

"Chik… Chik… CHIIIII!" As Buttercup charged, her whole body had started glowing; each water-type move the Popplio tried firing at her now just bouncing off as the light of evolution filled the Alcove!

And as Buttercup closed the distance, the newly evolved Bayleef swung her head down, yanking it back up like an upper-cut as her head crashed into the Popplio's body, knocking the air out of it and sending it hurtling upwards…!

"Alright, here. We. GO!" Keifer, with a reel back and spin, let the Pokeball fly. He never had a great pitching arm, but there was power to his throw regardless. Before the Popplio could land from its' freefall, the ball struck it and sucked it straight in with a flash of light!

The ball hit the wet stone slab just below with a thud and started to shake.

Keifer crossed his fingers; this was his last Pokeball; there's no way he could go grab more and the Popplio still be here just waiting for them to come back and try again.

It continued to shake…!

Ding!

Little stars flew out of the ball and Keifer failed to resist the urge to whoop and holler.

"ALRIGHT!" Buttercup ran up to him excitedly and basically head-butted him too, knocking his butt into the sand and excitedly nuzzling him. "Buttercup, we just did our first catch together!"

"Bay!" She replied excitedly, finally letting Keifer stand back up. The greenhead walked over to the now occupied Pokeball and scooped it into his hands.

"My first catch… WOO!"


After having made a quick trip to the Pokemon Center, Keifer had made it back to the comfort of his aunt's home with about an hour to spare.

Which gave him a golden opportunity to meet his new team member.

With Buttercup at his side for protection, he stood in the backyard of his aunt's home, holding the Popplio's Pokeball.

"Buttercup, don't overwhelm her, k?" The Bayleef nodded to Keifer. After she had hit her first evolution earlier in that day, her height was now up to around Keifer's stomach; a drastic increase from being maybe a third of the way up from his ankle if her leaf stood all the way up. "Hopefully, you won't have to use any moves on her."

"Leef!" She gave him a reassuring nod, the vote of confidence and confirmation being all he needed at that point.

"Alright Popplio, c'mon out!" In a flash of light, the seal-like Pokemon appeared, facing Keifer and Buttercup. It looked between the two at first before looking up at Keifer with her large eyes.

"Pop?"

"Hi there." Keifer knelt down as to not have to 'look down' upon the Pokemon, doing his best to make them more at-level with eachother. "It's nice to properly meet you. I'm Keifer."

"Pop!" The Pokemon spoke and Keifer genuinely wished he could understand what it was saying. All he could gather from her facial expressions was that she at least wasn't mad or uncomfortable.

"Bay! Bay Bay!" Buttercup suddenly started speaking to the Popplio, the two seemingly striking up a dialogue for a few moments before Buttercup turned back to Keifer. "Baylee!"

"Thanks Buttercup?" The Pokemon nodded, the two turning their attention back to the Popplio. "I caught you in hopes that you'd like to be a part of my team. I have a dream – to become the champion of my home region! And a part of that is catching partners." The Pokemon nodded, seemingly following along with what Keifer was saying; he was also aided by Buttercup interjecting here and there with her PokeSpeak.

"Pop!" The Pokemon finally nodded in affirmation, giving Keifer the floor to speak again.

"So… would you like to join me and Buttercup? I won't force you to stay with us if you don't want to." It'd definitely sting the greenhead a bit if the Pokemon turned tail and ran away, but he viewed them just as he did people; no one liked doing things they were forced into.

Once more, Buttercup spoke to her excitedly; Keifer could only guess what the two were saying, but he silently prayed to Arceus that it was good.

"Pop!" "Popli!" The water-type suddenly gestured for Keifer to come closer, and he did with no hesitation. "Pop!" The Popplio reached her right flipper out, and…

She booped his nose.

"Pop pop!" She started clapping happily, Keifer grinning as he realized that she had chosen him!"

"Welcome to the team, Popplio!" He lifted her up and she clapped excitedly. "I can't call you that forever though, so I definitely need a good name for you…"

"Her final evo is majestic – no denying that, especially given that Pokemon Idol episode I saw mum watching on the Telly that one time…"

From what he remembered, the final round had been a duo of a Jynx and her Trainer singing against a trainer and her Primarina. The music they sung had been something else entirely.

And while the name was, perhaps, not the most original thing…

"How does Rina sound?"

"Pop!"


Katie had been happy and proud of her nephew when she had gotten home and not only heard, but saw the second Pokemon that had become a part of his team. As a Pokemon Researcher/Professor herself who, from time to time had to give out Alola's Starters, she knew it could be a serious pain in the neck to find and let alone, capture one if they couldn't have them breed to just hatch them from an egg.

As she had promised, she had brought dinner home for them that night and Keifer listened to Katie in earnest as she told him the story of how her day had gone; the breakthrough made at her lab had been relating to certain forms of evolution, her entire team getting none other than Lusamine's praise and approval on the breakthrough they had made.

The rest of the evening and the next day had gone by well enough; Katie had shown Keifer more of Mele Mele Island and given that virtually no one there knew that Katie was Keifer's aunt, the two occasionally teased one another and pushed dirtier and dirtier couple-banter while Keifer got to enjoy everything the island had to offer.

The vacation would've been perfectly issue-free had it not been for something that had happened on Thursday, however..


They were coming back from dinner. Katie had just spent most the day showing Keifer the massive Mele Mele Island Shopping Mall and then capped it off with Mantine surfing around the whole island.

And to top that off, Arthur had rejoined Keifer that morning, the father/son duo getting to spend some time in Alola together with Katie.

"Arceus damn Aunt Katie… you're making a part of me wish I grew up here in Alola!" Keifer was still a little dizzy from the massive loop-de-loop his Mantine had done to show off at the end of the ride. "Galar is great… but everything here is… wow!"

"What happened to the boy I met at the Airport on Monday? I think he said… 'It's too hot out here, I'm melting…'!" She teased him and they both shared a good laugh, the trio of two humans and one Pokemon walking past an outdoor café as they got closer to Katie's home.

"Hey, a guy can get used to it." Keifer finally spoke after laughing. And before the two could share a kiss…

"Hey Kate, where'd you pick this joke up at? The Ula Ula Slums?" The aunt and nephew duo turned to face the person who made the derogatory comment. Keifer had no clue who he was; he was maybe 2 or 3 inches shorter than him. He had greasy orange hair, a permanent scowl so bad it'd make a Bruxish blush and a semi-muscled build from the looks of things.

"Jake, just leave us alone." Immediately both Keifer and Arthur could tell that Katie didn't like the guy who was making advances towards them; she rarely used a firm tone.

"Why would I leave the finest piece of ass I ever tapped behind?" He went to make a grab, but Keifer slapped his hand away before he got the chance, him and Arthur getting between Jake and Katie.

"Try and touch my aunt one more time. I dare you." Keifer and Arthur

"Oh, the brave little nephew gonna try and stop me? That Gallade makes you anything BUT a man! HA!"

"I'm more of a man than you'll ever be." As Keifer said this, his aunt had to stifle a laugh, thinking to herself, "Ain't that the truth."

As for Jake, well needless to say, he wasn't happy about being told that.

"Excuse me?" He pulled down his stupid-looking shades. "You wanna fight kid? I'll whoop your ass." That got Katie's blood to start boiling, but if she could avoid fighting…

"Keifer, Arthur, let's just head home." Katie didn't want it to escalate, but Keifer's mind was set.

This 'man' had done something or multiple somethings that clearly upset his aunt – his family. And just now, he had tried to make an uninvited sexual advance on her.

They weren't gonna let that slide in his book.

"I'll battle you. I win, you stay away from my aunt forever." Keifer grit his teeth and dug in his heels. Arthur was right there beside him, and…

There was something there. It was as if, for a moment, the line between them being separate was blurring...

"Oh ho, what's this, a wager like that ass-backwards Galar region?" THAT struck an even deeper nerve. "Well if that's on the table, when I kick your little ass in front of your aunt, you're gonna go cry in your room while I get to clap that ass."

And that was enough in Katie's book.

"Hold on a fucking second!" Keifer and Arthur turned so they were facing her as well, and as soon as they herd Katie's firm stance, seeing she was more than ready and capable to protect herself…

That shared feeling seemingly fizzled out.

"I am NOT a trophy or some kind of prize to be offered up to the strongest 'man'." She spat. You can fuck off Jake, because if you wanna get laid so bad, go to that stuck-up bimbo that YOU cheated on me with!"

"Arceus Damn." Keifer had never seen his aunt get so heated up, but after hearing what Jake had done' he couldn't blame her.

And if her words didn't prove her point, then with a simple press of a button and a flash of light, a fierce-looking Decidueye appeared next to Katie. She was a professor afterall, so of course she had access to plenty of powerful Pokemon.

The man just stood there, flabbergasted by the older woman's response as the three walked away, Katie returning her Decidueye to its' ball.

Katie had two loving, caring men on either side of her, she didn't need anyone like Jake in her life.

And as for that shared feeling between Keifer and Arthur…

It wouldn't be forgotten.


On the morning of the fifth day, Arthur had returned home to be with Jullie, and Katie and Keifer spent most the day at the former's lab. The greenhead got to meet all of Katie's coworkers, quickly finding that, just like how aunt teased nephew, Katie got plenty of teasing from her coworkers and vise-versa.

And after that…

"One more time! Rina, Aqua Jet! Buttercup, block her damage with Light Screen!" The sun had begun to set on Keifer's final day in the Alola Region, and after he and his aunt had gotten back from one last day out together, he had started training his Bayleef and Popplio together.

That was something Katie had mentally noted to herself later that night. She had seen how deep her nephew's bond ran with his family and Bayleef and, not to mention, how quickly he had connected with his Popplio.

In her eyes, a closed-minded Dark-type could've been put in front of him and somehow, Keifer would've found a way to reach out to it and befriend it.

She knew she could ask him for his help.

"I'll ask him Kira."


He was about to leave for the airport, Keifer's time in Alola coming to a close. His aunt had to work that morning, so she wouldn't be seeing him off to the airp-

"Keifer?"

He nearly shouted when his aunt seemingly materialized nearby.

"Aunt Katie! Ya nearly gave me a heart attack!" Keifer hugged her after speaking. "Is… everything okay?" he had noticed the tone which she had said his name in.

"I… yes everything is fine, but I have a big favor to ask you." An eyebrow raised on Keifer's end.

"Well, shoot. You flew me out here so I could take a vacation before leaving, so fire away." Keifer didn't know what to expect.

And well, he had been FAR from expecting what his aunt asked him.

"Do you remember the Kirlia I had, when you were much, much younger?" He nodded, unsure of where things were going. "Well… it's not my place to go into detail, but… something bad happened to her a few years ago. She's… closed herself off in a way to everyone but me. And while you were here, we got to talking…"

Keifer nodded, listening carefully.

"Kira wants to get stronger. She wants to grow and, while she has a… very rough exterior… I know that deep down, she wants to get better. I thought… if anyone had a chance of helping her get better and helping her achieve what she wants, it'd be you. You're about to travel Galar and I can't go on a journey of my own with work."

Based on what she was saying, Keifer had a decent feeling on what had happened to Kira, which twisted his heart. When he had gotten to see her in the past, she had been nothing but sweet to him.

"So… you want me to bring her with me on my journey?"

"Exactly. We both spoke and agreed to it… I want you to take Kira as one of your own partners." Katie held the ball out. "That's what I wanted to ask. Keifer, will you take Kira?"

He had to stop only for a brief moment. Kira had closed herself off for a reason…

But he knew both people and Pokemon deserved help for the bad things they go through, and if Kira getting to go on a journey and partake in battles with him would help her…

"I'll do it." Keifer didn't need any further time to think, his aunt nearly squealing and hugging him.

"Thank you Keifee!" She kissed him, her mood quickly changing. Kira meant everything to Katie, and if there was any chance for her closest friend to get better, she'd take it. "Now… I wish we had more time… but I gotta go to the Lab and you gotta get home – you leave your home tomorrow to start your journey!"

"True dat." Gently clipping Kira's ball to his belt, he shared one last hug with his aunt.

"I'll see you soon, okay?" As they stepped out, Katie spoke those last words to him.

"Ditto, Aunt Katie. Ditto." Going their separate ways, Katie headed for work…

While Keifer headed in the direction of the airport to get home and begin his journey.

He would make it to the top, no matter what it took!

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