{Requested by Sanshrew Master}
Never forget that true beauty is not what one sees on the outside, for true beauty is discovered on the inside, and true love is something that can be found even deeper, and can be truer than anything else~
=Painting Perfection=
= Human (Andrew) / Pokemon (Coraline) =
*Narrator*
[In the Orange Islands, water is by far the most common theme seen in the daily life of both Pokemon and Trainer alike. Yet while Trainers may travel through the Orange Islands across the sea, some people who reside in these tropical islands prefer the more stationary life, rather than that of the adventurous Trainers.]
[One such person, is a painter named Andrew, who each day paints pictures of whatever it is that he happens to find, that he finds pleasing to the eye, or captures a scene that mere words cannot describe appropriately. Accompanying him in his endeavors is a Feebas, named Coraline, a fish that he found washed ashore one day many years ago as a child.]
[For nearly twenty years the two have been together, the best of friends, yet no matter what he did he could never figure out what her evolved form was, as her species was not native to the Orange Islands, and therefore nobody locally knew what she even was. The only person who gave him any indication, was a Salon Owner in a far off region, who simply told him to treasure the fish Pokemon he cared for, saying that 'True Beauty is found on the inside'…]
(Andrew's PoV)
"Alright… and we add a little blue for the waves here… mix in a little orange for the skyline…" Andrew said as he painted away in his work room, brushing and stroking the picture before him as he attempted to capture the scene he saw earlier at sunrise when he went for a short morning jog. "Add a little more… and… done!"
He finished adding the colors of the beach and wiped his forehead, taking a look over at the painting he had painstakingly finished painting for the past twelve hours. It was a beautiful landscape, with the ocean waves dancing in the foreground, the beach just barely visible at the bottom, and covering the background and taking up most of the canvas was the skyline. In the center and focusing the attention where the eye was drawn, was a single Pokemon that he happened to see just at the last moment, before it went underwater.
A Lumineon as it jumped out of the water.
"So, what do you think Coraline?" He asked his Pokemon companion as she sat in her tank behind him.
"Feebas…" She said with her best smile, but even as she gave him said smile, she still had the look of this dimwit.
Coraline was a fish Pokemon called 'Feebas', at least that's what he assumed based on what she kept repeating and the few people who did know anything about her here in the Orange Islands. But while many asked him if he was going to or ever would figure out how to evolve her, he wasn't a trainer, and he wasn't exactly interested in evolving a Pokemon just to 'evolve' it.
He was a painter, and he liked painting things over training, so for him, evolving his friend seemed like a waste of time and was overall a hassle.
Besides he thought, as he laughed at her expression, she was far more fun hanging out with as a Feebas. Sure she looked like a dimwit whenever she smiled, but he found her looking like that to be just that much cuter about her. It gave her far more personality than she let on.
"Thanks girl, I can't wait to show it off, maybe someone will actually 'buy' this one!" He said as he looked around their little shack.
Unlike how many lived in the Orange Islands, being a painter was one of those, live for yourself, work for yourself, and get paid what your worth, lifestyles. Meaning that, despite his painting skills, he could only afford to feed himself and his friend here in this little shack by the ocean, a shack he himself made from scratch, and has lived in for over twenty years.
Twenty years, he lived there, with his best friend and sole companion here in his staring artist's lifestyle.
He made enough money to live off of, but they didn't have enough to spend on luxury items, like nice furniture, good food, and most of all, electricity. He could afford a small generator that he could run here, but it was one of those portable generators, and he's had to replace it constantly because they don't last long running for twelve hours a day.
"Feebas?" Coraline asked from in her tank, looking at the table counter that served as their kitchen.
"Alright, hang on girl…" He said as he got up and stretched, knowing that he had spent all day painting.
He headed over to the counter and began preparing dinner for three, or at least, dinner for two while he grabbed the blue Pokeblock Flakes for her. He knew that blue ones were her favorite, something about their 'dry' flavor she found tasty.
While he worked on dinner, the fish in question, Coraline, watched him constantly from her tank, with him completely unaware that she was doing so.
(Coraline's PoV)
She watched her beloved friend making dinner, and noticed that he was making dinner for two, not counting herself.
This above all made her sad inside, extremely sad.
*She's coming back over again today…* She thought bitterly. *Why does he bother with that tramp, doesn't he see she's not worth it?*
Coraline had been watching her human friend growing ever more distant from her, not distant as in they weren't as friendly as they usually were, but distant as in he's been spending less and less personal time with her. All thanks to his newfound 'girlfriend', the lovely tramp, Vivian.
It wasn't even four years ago that Vivian was the talk of the island, everyone was gossiping about how she had cheated on this loyal boyfriend she had, dumped him the day he was going to propose to her for some 'surfer', and how a Dragalge who was a close friend of him had taken revenge on her by ruining her life. Vivian had lost her glamorous lifestyle, she wasn't the poster face of perfection for tourist attraction, she lost all of her fame in the beauty world, and she now was barely making it as a swimsuit model for showing off the latest swimwear.
Yet for the last two years he's been going steady with her, apparently giving him the story of how she was a changed woman, and apparently 'regretted' her decisions back then.
*If only I could talk to him… get him to see reason!* She thought sadly as he smiled cheerfully, making a salad with some freshly caught Remoraid meat he got earlier. *If only…*
She knew he wasn't a trainer, and as such never went on a journey, never explored the world, none of that. But most importantly, she knew that because he wasn't a trainer, he never learned one of the most important trainer lessons that she had witnessed many times while watching trainers on the beach when he took her out of her tank to swim in the ocean.
Always listen to what your Pokemon partners have to say.
She had witnessed how one Trainer was about to be conned while Andrew was busy sketching in his book. Instead, his Pokemon, a Charmeleon, urged him to ignore the salesman. Despite the pestering and constant 'silver tongue' he gave him, the trainer refused to listen to another word after his Charmeleon spoke. Later on the same salesman managed to con another guy who didn't have a Pokemon, and ended up wasting five hundred Pokedollars on a fake 'Gold Pokeball'.
*If only he'd listen to me, I could get him to stop seeing her and…* She shook her head and sighed in defeat. *Why bother… I'm a fish… an ugly fish… living in a tank of water. What do I have to offer him that even 'little miss waste of breath' has in abundance?*
As she mentioned what she had to offer, a knock on their day this late in the day happened, and moments later that very same person walked in.
Sporting a light tan on her white skin, still with her golden blond hair and light blue eyes, was Vivian the 'cheater'. She was wearing one of her swimsuits underneath her light jacket and wearing sandals, but this only made her more 'hideous' to Coraline. She knew that the woman could have easily slipped into shorts and a proper shirt, but she deliberately wore a skimpy outfit just to catch her friend's eye. Along with her skimpy look she also carried a suitcase of things, most likely her regular clothes and other belongings.
Unfortunately she knew such a skimpy look that was only meant to attract the male's attention, would always win out over words of reason spoken by one who could not talk. So it came as no surprise that when she entered the first thing they did was share a kiss on each other's cheeks.
"Hi there Andrew, sorry I'm late… the photoshoot went longer than expected." She said. "So, what's for our late night dinner?"
"Oh, just a small salad." He said, pointing at the salad plates on the table. "One sec, I just need to feed Coraline!"
As he went to grab her Pokeblock flakes, she watched Vivian scowl ever so much at the pair of salads behind his back.
*If you don't like it then why do you bother coming here you Muk?* She thought angrily, not bothering to hide her disdain from Andrew as he slid her food into her tank.
"You alright Coraline?" Andrew asked her, noticing her look of disdain.
Instantly she shook herself to normal and looked up at him and smiled. "No, I'm just fine!" She said, but of course all he heard was, "Feebas Fee!"
"Alright, welp, enjoy dinner girl!" He said, dipping his hand into her tank water and rubbing her rough scales.
She had to admit, she truly enjoyed being scratched on her scales, especially her top fin. Once the contact ended and he went to eat his salad with Vivian, she began to eat her own dinner, but she made sure that she listened intently to their conversation.
"So when are you going to start painting more beautiful pictures?" Vivian asked him as she eyed his latest piece, the one with the jumping Lumineon. "You're a good artist, why do you only paint scenes and not people or Pokemon?"
"What's wrong with the things I paint?" He asked, almost heartily.
"Well… nothing, but nobody wants to buy pictures of something they can wake up to in the morning." She said, lazily eating her salad, but at a much slower pace compared to Andrew.
"People like what I paint Vivian, and if they like them then they buy them." He said with a faint smile. "Sure, I don't sell all of my paintings every time I paint them, but they're still liked and people 'do' buy them!"
"Yea, after you've lowered their price to a fourth of what you originally ask for…" She said with a sigh. "All I'm saying is that if you started painting prettier pictures, maybe you'd make more money! We live in the Orange Islands, paintings of scenery aren't exactly on people's favorite pictures to buy, not when they can just go out the door and to the scenes you paint."
"Well, I happen to like painting scenery as much as I do Pokemon and people Vivian." He said with a smile, finishing his salad as he did. "There's nothing wrong with the money I make, I can feed us and Coraline, pay for a few luxuries…"
"You live with almost no electricity, your bed is a matrass on bamboo flooring, your roof little more than straw…" Vivian said with an obviously 'fake' sigh of distress. "Honey, I know you think you've got a great life, but when are you going to get 'modern' with the rest of the world? You need to get with the picture and wake up." Then Coraline watched as Vivian gave him what she saw was an obvious and barely passible 'worried' expression. "I'm just worried about you Andrew, you live here all alone on the beach with almost nothing but paint and brushes."
"That's not true, I've got Coraline!" He said with a warm and hearty laugh that made Coraline smile warmly at him.
Unfortunately said smile vanished seconds later as Coraline saw Vivian roll her eyes in disgust. "Oh yes, how could I forget?" She muttered, barely loud enough for her to hear past Andrew's laughter.
*I dare you to say that louder!* She thought furiously, not liking this human at all.
While she obviously heard, her Andrew on the other hand seemed to have not, but that was one of his flaws that she actually liked about him. "In any case, how's your swimsuit modeling going?" He asked her with a smile.
"Oh, you know, it goes as it does." She said. "I'm trying to see if I can get a raise from my agent. But it's kind of difficult, you know… people still don't exactly like me…"
"I'm sure he'll give you a chance, I mean, you regret what you did didn't you?" He asked her.
"Yea, I wasn't thinking as clearly as I am now." She said. "I was only interested in getting ahead, getting the easy life, you know… I was an idiot for taking what I had for granted."
"Well there you go, just let him now you've changed, and I'm sure he'll give you a raise." He said.
"Yea, I hope so." She said, before at last finishing her meal and handing him the plate. "Hey Andrew, you mind if I stay over for the night. My agent and I are going to be meeting tomorrow and I told him I'd meet him here to discuss my possible raise. And while I don't mean to impede… but your place looks a lot better than mine… aesthetic wise."
"You still haven't moved or found a better apartment?" He asked her.
"I just got my modeling career back, cut me some slack 'darling'."
The longer Coraline watched and listened to that piece of poison slime talking, the more she felt the urge to jump out of her tank and smack her with her tail. If this woman cared as much for her Andrew as much as she pretended to care, she wouldn't mind, but she did not like her one little bit. There was absolutely nothing redeeming about her in the slightest, and if she could voice her opinion even slightly, she would make it very well known to her crush that he could do FAR better than this 'cheater'.
*Once a cheater, always a cheater!* She thought bitterly as the conversation moved to more pointless topics. *I'd never cheat on him… if I were as good looking as any female human, I'd give Andrew anything he could ever want in a girlfriend. Beauty, devotion, trust… love… everything. Okay… maybe not so much the 'beauty'… but anything else I'd give him!*
She didn't hide her affection, not even in the slightest manner, being a fish species meant she could easily hide her outward feelings more easily than other species of Pokemon. She deeply cared for Andrew, and only wanted what was best for him. She's lived under his care for twenty years, and even though she was his 'pet', she was willing to be so much more.
If only she had the chance.
*But I'm not going to get that chance.* She said with a sigh, swimming around in her tank, whiling away the night while Andrew and Vivian talked. *A fish and a human… if ever there was a romance destined to fail before it began, that is one.*
She's been swimming around the island for many years whenever Andrew went to paint the ocean scene, and she even talked to a Dragalge, the very same Dragalge that was friends with the human Vivian cheated on who was named 'Kelp', about why she did what she did to her. It turned out, she had done it out of love, how once she learned of Vivian's betrayal and how she'd hurt his heart, she vowed vengeance.
But not only did she vow to get revenge on Vivian for what she had done to her Paul, which she did in spades, but she also gave him what Vivian had destroyed and denied him. A true lover, and the best wife in the sea that he could possibly have asked for, one who cared greatly for him and would never betray him in any way, just as he never betrayed her.
She thought about that Dragalge, and her young that she had had at the time, a trio of Skrelp that were barely two weeks out of the egg. If she remembered correctly, it was her ninth batch with Paul, and she was as happy as any Dragalge could possibly be. She went on and on about how she was planning to have far more eggs with him, wanting to give birth to no less than a hundred eggs.
She had seen the joy in her eyes, the way she moved, the smile on her face, and especially how happy she was with her young. It was the image of a Dragalge in love, and couldn't be any happier with her lot in life.
After finding out that Pokemon and Human could become more than friends, something she hadn't considered very much outside of her small crush. She gave it far more thought, and with each passing month that crush for her Andrew had grown, and grown. But now… after nearly two years without being able to express her feelings, all she had to gain for her feelings, was watching her crush slowly slip ever so far away from her.
Each day Andrew grew further and further away from her, and closer toward that 'witch' Vivian.
"Alright… I'm tired… and I've got a full day of selling paintings tomorrow, time for bed!" Andrew said suddenly.
Coraline turned to watch as Andrew put the dishes away, and prepared for bed, while Vivian simply collapsed onto said bed. After a few minutes, he turned off their lamps and climbed into bed alongside her, leaving Coraline to drift around in the water in the dark.
*I hope I'm wrong about Vivian…* She thought bitterly, praying to Arceus that she was indeed mistaken about Vivian.
She didn't trust that woman, she never trusted her, and even now she didn't trust her as far as she could jump out of her tank. She didn't care if her feelings for Andrew were never reciprocated, all she wanted, even though it pained her greatly, was for her beloved human to have a happy life.
She wanted only the best for him, she wanted him to have the best wife he could ever have.
Even if deep down, she longed to 'be' that wife.
(Andrew's PoV, Next Morning)
Andrew woke up bright and early, making coffee to get himself going, and so he could use the public washroom in town before he began trying to sell his paintings out in public. It was a difficult thing to sell your paintings and art in public, or at least for him it was, mostly because he was known as the guy who was giving 'Vivian the Cheater' a second chance.
People kept telling him to ditch her and leave her, saying he deserved better than that woman who cheated on her boyfriend for money.
But he felt that she deserved a second chance, if for any other reason than so that she could prove she was a changed woman. Which is why, even though people said otherwise, he had gotten involved with Vivian.
"Alright!" He whispered as he took his latest artwork, added it to the small pile of paintings he had, and stacked them together so that he could carry them all. "Wish me luck Coraline, I'll be back late today! Keep an eye on the place for me!"
He chuckled as Coraline nodded heartily, giving him a warm smile as she did.
*She's such a cutie.* He thought heartily as he prepared to leave, before glancing at Vivian who was still asleep. *Ah… the life of a model, just stand around posing for cameras, make lots of money… spend the rest of your time sleeping in.*
He wasn't complaining about his choice in life, being an artist was just one of many things he had wanted to be. But in art he found himself feeling happiest, he did what he wanted, he painted what he wanted, and occasionally he made decent money to live off of. Plus it wasn't like he was alone, he did after all have Coraline his pet Feebas.
*Now if Vivian can get that pay rise, then maybe she can move in and help around out here!* He thought with a chuckle, knowing that she had pretty much drained what little savings he had to treat her. *I know my mother taught me to treat a woman right, but Vivian just… I don't know… well in any case, I don't mind. She clearly is sorry about what she did, and I just want what's best for her…*
He put it out of his mind and left his lonely shack on the beach, and began the long trek to town, where the public washrooms and bathhouses were.
(Coraline's PoV)
Coraline swam around in her tank, more so she was doing 'something' while she watched Vivian the whole time.
She didn't trust that woman, and especially now that her Andrew was out and Vivian was alone in their home, she didn't trust her even more.
*But what do I do if she tries something?* Coraline thought to herself during her umpteenth pass in her tank, watching the sleeping model. *What 'can' I do, jump out of my tank and 'flop around'?*
She wished, not for the first time, that she was a different Pokemon, if for no other reason than so she had 'some' worth. But no, her species, as far as she could tell, was gifted with the great blessings of Arceus, 'stupidity', 'weakness', and 'uselessness'. That also didn't include her ugliness, looking like her scales were made of parched paper and had a dimwitted expression twenty four seven.
If she were anything, 'anything' else at all, she would be happy. Even being a Skitty would be a blessing at this point, at least then she could cuddle up with Andrew on his bed.
Sighing in boredom, she swam around some more, watching Vivian for the next hour while she slept, wondering when she would leave their home. Then at around eleven am, the blond haired female began to stir from her sleep.
"Nnnngh…" Vivian moaned quietly as she got up, her hair frayed everywhere and looking like a mess with her 'bed hair' as Andrew called it. "Oh… he's gone is he?" She asked with a loud yawn. "Good, now I can get ready for my agent."
Coraline watched with a glare as Vivian got up and began removing her swimsuit, instead pulling out a shirt and pair of shorts from her briefcase. Then she pulled out several bottles of what looked like shampoo, before closing it. She also noticed as she moved around, that Vivian forgot to put on any undergarments, something her Andrew always did when he changed.
Then Coraline watched as Vivian went over to their kitchen sink and turned the water on full blast, and began rinsing her hair under it, rubbing the shampoo and lotions on her face and hands, and slowly rubbing the rest of her naked body.
"She's using our water?" Coraline said angrily, glaring at her with all the fury she could muster. "Does she know how much water costs for us out here? Clean water from the city is expensive for us! She better pay for all of that water she's wasting to clean herself!"
She was furiously glaring at the witch now, wishing she could just leap out and smack her senseless, but she restrained herself because it would do no good. Instead she continued to glare angrily, while Vivian wasted their water cleaning her 'model' body.
For several minutes Vivian cleaned herself, only bothering to look up to wash her hair and face. Occasionally she glanced over at Coraline, ignored her for the most part, but at some point she noticed the furious stare she was giving her.
"What do you want?" She asked nonchalantly.
"I want you to leave and not come back!" Coraline yelled, but of course being a human, all Vivian could hear was, "Feebas bas bas Fee Feebas!"
"Yea whatever, your owner could learn to not be such a sap for the quiet life." She said back, returning to watching her hair. "It's hard keeping my body looking good, but then again you wouldn't know a thing about looking good."
Coraline could only thing cruel thoughts as she stared back at Vivian, wanting to give this woman a piece of her mind. But being a fish with very little strength, she could do nothing more than glare angrily and think ever increasingly dark thoughts at the woman.
After half an hour of watching Vivian clean herself, Coraline was forced to endure watching her spend another half an hour just brushing her hair, and wasting water with each passing second.
Then as she finally turned off the water and put on her clothes, again still not wearing any undergarments, Vivian brushed her hair so that it flowed behind her head in waves of gold. "There… all done…" She said, smiling at herself in the mirror, just as someone else knocked on the door. "Not a moment too soon either."
Coraline watched as Vivian opened the door and in walked a human male, apparently her 'agent', some guy in a business suit. "Hello Miss Vivian, sorry if I'm here a little early." He said, but the way he sounded was wrong to Coraline.
"Oh believe me… you're 'right on time'." Vivian said with a smile. "So… now that you're here, how about we start 'negotiating' that pay rise."
Coraline expected Vivian to sit at the table with her agent to begin talking, but she did not expect her to walk over to the man, embrace him in a hug and start kissing him on the lips while he massaged her back and legs.
*What… the…* Coraline said, unable to comprehend what was going on. *But… she said she's Andrew's girlfriend! What's she doing kissing that guy?*
As she watched the pair making out, slowly backing up toward the bed, all the while Vivian undoing her clothes and letting them fall away from her every few steps until she was as completely naked as her partner was now, Coraline could simply not think of any logical reason for Vivian to be doing this. It was obvious to 'her' what they were doing, they were about to mate! What confused and angered her was why they were mating in 'Andrew's House', without him knowing!
"I have to say, you sure have a nice place here." Her agent said as she wrapped her legs around his waist, while also tearing something rubber from a plastic container with one hand.
"Oh, it's not mine… it's my current 'boyfriend's'…" Vivian said with a grin as she eyed the rubber thing. "He let me use it to 'negotiate' with you."
"Well then… let's start…" He answered before he pushed into her, electing a soft moan from her. "Oh… damn… you feel so good!"
"You… got that… right!" Vivian said huskily as he pushed in and out of her. "So… how does… this feel… for that raise?"
"Oh baby, I think… ooooh~… it's worth a thirty percent… increase!" He moaned.
"Only thirty… how about we go higher… like… Fifty~!" Vivian yelled as she pulled him tight to her, wrapping her legs and arms around him while he continued to thrust in and out.
"Oh… fuuuck yea… fifty sounds good… oh yea… reeeal good~!" He said. "Man… you are so fucking tight… your boyfriend must bang you often!"
"Yea right… he's one of those… wait until we're married types!" She yelled loudly. "He wouldn't ah~… know a good fuck… when he ah~… saw it!"
Coraline watched in horror and fury as Andrew's bed was defiled, not because his 'girlfriend' was mating another male beside him, but because another male was inside of his home mating a female without 'his' knowledge. Not only that, but they were making fun of him because he wanted to wait until he was married to mate!
*That… that… that… that piece of MUK!* She thought, enraged at what she was seeing.
She was forced to watch for the better part of ten minutes while Vivian mated the human, all the while pleasuring him to increase how much she 'earned' from her photoshoots, unable to do anything but stare. It was revolting to her, being forced to watch that female abuse her owner's trust and feelings for her own benefit. But as they began to go faster, and eventually ended their mating ritual, she saw that the rubber 'thing' he had was wrapped around his member, and inside it was something white that he quickly tossed aside.
"Oh man… you are hot as hell, inside 'and' out." He said as he pulled on his clothes one by one.
"Yea… I know." She said with a chuckle. "So when's my next photoshoot?"
"Oh expect it soon, so when you getting hitched with your boyfriend?"
"I aint getting hitched to this loser, once I get my next paycheck, I'll just tell him it aint working between us, and go our separate ways." She said while putting her clothes on as well now. "He's a nice guy, but as the saying goes, nice guys finish last!"
"Well, I'll see you around, I'll let you know when your next shoot is!" He said with a smile while walking out.
She watched as Vivian got up and stretched, before glancing over at her in her tank. "Sorry little fish, but I'm a hot babe and I deserve to live the rich and easy life!" She said with a grin. "Andrew's nice and all, but he's a starving artist, and I don't want to live the life of a starving artist's wife. Not when I can get paid a thousand an hour in one day just by posing for a camera! Good looks get you ahead in life, and good paintings only get you further behind… but then again you know all about 'good looks' don't you?"
At that, Coraline had had enough, and she could not restrain herself from leaping out of the tank to attack Vivian.
At the same time as she jumped out and landed on the bamboo floor, her body began to glow.
(Andrew's PoV, many hours later)
Andrew sighed in frustration as he walked back home when it was starting to get dark. He had just spent all day running around advertising his artwork to tourists and locals, trying to sell them to anyone who would be willing to pay. He had sold maybe, two pieces at most, both very small paintings of local scenery.
In total, barely an average week's pay.
"Well, it could have been worse, at least it didn't rain today." He said as he left town and made his way down the path to the beach. "Though I wonder what that text I got earlier was about."
About four or five hours ago he had received a text message on his PokeTech, the only thing technical he owned, from Vivian. She had said she'd be back later for her suitcase after she 'cooled off'.
"I hope she didn't botch her negotiation." He said as his shack came into view, sitting alone on the beach.
As he approached his home the first thing he noticed was a large indented line in the sand, as if something had been slid across it. Next to it were footprints, spaced very far apart, as if someone were running away from his home. Then he saw that whatever had been sliding along in the sand, had turned and headed back to his home.
He became suspicious at seeing that, thinking perhaps a species of Pokemon had decided to go raiding his fridge for food. It often happened, occasionally a Wingull would fly in and eat leftovers from his table when he wasn't looking. But he had never seen any Pokemon around the Orange Islands capable of making whatever made 'that' kind of imprint in the sand.
Whatever it was, it looked large, very large, and seemed very heavy to create a dent in the sand about four inches deep.
Cautiously he approached his home, worried first about Coraline and Vivian being injured, before he remembered that Vivian had texted him hours ago.
Opening the door slowly he peered inside and found that nothing had been damaged, but he first saw that Coraline was missing from her tank.
"Coraline!" He yelled as he ran over to the tank, forgetting to look around for whatever had made those imprints outside.
Then as he saw that the tank was devoid of his Feebas friend, he heard something slither behind him and turned to see, what could only be described, as the epitome of 'beauty' given physical and clearly aquatic form.
Behind him was a serpentine Pokemon, twenty feet long at least, with a multicolored tail, peach colored body, ruby red eyes, and pink colored fins and antennae. It was staring at him with a gentle expression that almost broke the serious look it appeared to normally have.
As he stared into its eyes, and it stared back at him, he saw that it was sitting on his bed, with its elongated body wrapped around one of his paintings.
"Who are you… and where's Coraline?" He asked the Pokemon, guessing or at least hoping it wasn't hostile.
"Milotic…" It said, and he could faintly hear a distinctly feminine tone, before it slithered over to him, coiled around him slightly, and lifted the painting up to him for him to hold.
He looked at it and saw that 'she' was holding the picture he had drawn of Coraline, swimming in the ocean many years ago. He had given her a happy smile in the picture, and despite her scales looking ragged, he had given her an almost sparkling charm that made her very cute.
He didn't bother trying to sell 'this' picture, because it was one of his favorite ones.
"This is Coraline… but where is she?" He asked, before the Pokemon, Milotic he guessed based on what it said, looked at him eye to eye.
He stared into the eyes, and saw a very gentle and happy look he had seen in Coraline's eyes, every time he scratched her on her top fin.
"Is that… you Coraline?"
The Milotic nodded, with a warm smile as she did, declaring she was indeed Coraline.
"You evolved… but how?" He asked, before she looked angry and nodded toward the wall his bed was near.
He looked and saw that Vivian's briefcase was still there, locked, but strewn around was her swimsuit and over shirt, as well as sandals.
"Vivian made you evolve, but how, did she give you some kind of stone or food?" He asked, but again Coraline glared and shook her head.
"Milotic!" She said, before pointing again at the wall, but this time at something far more specific.
He looked closer, having to kneel-walk across the mattress to get to the small corner, where he saw what she glaring angrily at.
A condom, a clearly 'used' condom, though it was obviously a bad one because there was the tiniest of holes in its side.
"No… no way…" He uttered in disbelief. "She wouldn't… she said… she told me she was just going to…"
Instantly, he felt his heart breaking, not because he had been betrayed by someone he had cared about, but because he felt like the biggest fool in the entire collection of the Orange Islands.
Everyone had warned him about Vivian, they had told him she was a cheater, told him to leave her and ignore her. But he had ignored them, told them that she deserved a second chance. Yet now he saw that everything everyone had said about her was true, she was nothing but a cheater.
"I'm… such a fool." He said collapsing onto his bed, holding his head in both hands. "I can't believe it… I'm such a fool… I thought she was being serious about changing. But she pulled the same thing on me… she used me… and I let her use me…" He crossed his arms and looked up at Coraline, even as she stared sadly into his eyes, not once leaving his side. "You must have been telling me the same thing, right? That she was just using me?"
Coraline only responded with a nod, but it was obvious that she had hesitated before answering.
"Even you saw through her…" He sighed, his heart feeling like it was five times heavier now as he looked down again, burying his head in his arms. "I'm such an idiot… a pathetic idiot… I can paint pictures of what I see but can't see anything beyond the surface."
It was then as he declared himself an idiot, now knowing that he was the only one who had been fooled by her, that he broke down.
"Not even… man enough to… not cry… over this!" He sobbed. "I'm so pathetic… it's no wonder I live alone… and make so little money! Who would want to be with me?"
(Andrew and Coraline's PoV)
Coraline could see the sadness in her owner's eyes, and coupled with her far greater intelligence from evolving, as well as her now evident desires from her 'heat' spiraling after evolving, she could only see one course of action to ease her Andrew's sorrows. She first moved around him while he cried and talked badly about himself, so that her entire body was coiled around him at least three times, then she used her tailfins to lift his chin up to look at her.
With that she looked into his eyes, and prayed to Arceus that she was making the right moves, before she pushed her mouth against his.
Andrew felt stunned as Coraline began kissing him, at first he was confused, trying to figure out why she was doing it, and then slowly it began to dawn on him that she was trying to help him. When she pulled away to look at him, he saw a faint blush on her cheeks, but also a sparkle in her eyes that he had never seen before, as well as a loving smile where her mouth was.
"Coraline?" He asked quietly.
"Yes?" She answered, but he only heard, "Milo?"
"Are you… saying what I think your saying?" He asked her.
She nodded with a smile, before pressing her lips again against his own, wanting to drive the message further, but this time letting him decide when they separated. She wanted to mate him right now, but she also knew that such an action was not what a proper 'wife' or 'girlfriend' would take in this position. She may have been a pet, but she was prepared to be much more than that now that she was smarter as well as more 'pretty'.
In response to her kissing him, he accepted her feelings as genuine in an instant, he knew that Coraline would never lie to him. Not after the twenty years she's lived with him as his pet. She was loyal and honest to him, and was clearly offering her feelings without asking for anything more than his own feelings in return.
With that in mind he reached behind her head, pulled her toward him, and kissed her deeply while they leaned onto their bed.
Coraline was in the Halls of Origin as she kissed her love at long last, and in response to accepting her love, and she gaining his now, her instincts began to act on their own. She began coiling around him, wrapping her entire body around his from chest to foot, enveloping him in a scaly and cooled embrace of passion, while his hands massaged portions of her body. All the while she snaked her tongue inside his mouth, invited his ever so subtly into her mouth, and soon they began to dance.
After a few moments though, she felt her slit press against his groin, where she knew from experience his member was, and felt it begin to harden as she rubbed her sex against it constantly.
They separated and she smile warmly again, still rubbing her sex ever so slightly to get the message across to him.
"You really want to do that Coraline?" He asked her.
"Yes I do…" She whispered quietly, "Milotic…"
"You do know… I promised I wouldn't have sex until I was married… right?" He asked her.
She nodded and frowned only slightly, pausing in her movement as she waited for his verdict on her wish. She knew that was true, but she sorely wanted to be one with him, to have him take her, mark her, to ward of any males now that she may encounter in the sea with his scent. She wanted to be his and his alone.
"Pokemon and Humans can't be married… legally at least… but if you're willing to… we can have our own ceremony here… just you and me." He said. "So… do you want to get married?"
She smiled and nodded instantly, still not uncoiling herself from him but moving her tail to cover her face a little.
"Alright Coraline… do you take me, Andrew Augustine to be your lawfully wedded husband?" He asked her.
"I do… and do you take me as your eternal mate for life?" She asked him, "Milo… Milotic tic Milotic Milo?"
"I do… so now without further ado, we may kiss each other… as husband and wife!" He said with a chuckle.
She instantly lowered her tail to expose her face again, and pressed her mouth against his, while uncoiling just enough so that he could begin to remove his clothes. Fortunately his clothes only consisted of a pair shorts, easily removed, and his shirt, also easily removed. Then he was down to only his underwear, which Coraline helped remove so she could behold at long last, the prize she had sought for years and longed to claim as her.
Her Andrew's six inch hard member, poking up at her as she gazed at it.
She glanced up at him, before she moved her head over to it, sniffed it tenderly, before enveloping it in her mouth. As she did she felt his soft skin press against her body while she recoiled herself, making sure she got as much of his scent on her body as she could.
As a Milotic, one of her species' mating rituals involved her marking her mate and vice versa. This was to ensure potential rivals stayed away from them, but she only concerned herself with the act of pleasing her beloved now.
*It's soft… hard… and very salty… it tastes so good~!* She thought happily as she positioned her sex over Andrew's face.
"Oh… Coraline… where did you learn to do this~?" Andrew moaned as he got the blowjob of a lifetime, in fact the first blowjob of his lifetime.
While he felt Coraline's wet mouth around his dick, and her even wetter tongue licking it from tip to base, he watched as Coraline's tail moved over to his face, and further up her body her sex sat in front of him. It had become puffed and pink, compared to the peach color of the rest of her body.
Wanting to pleasure her as much as she was pleasuring him, he lowered her tail to his face and began licking at the puffed entrance to her sex.
"Milooooo~!" Coraline moaned as she felt his tongue licking her entrance, before she regained control and resumed her treatment of his member.
She could feel his tongue, his warm and moist tongue lapping at her sex's juices, which were leaking with each passing moment. As she massaged and licked his dick, she felt something sticky beginning to leak ever so slightly from the tip. She licked it up, and found the salty and sweet taste very pleasing, and began sucking even harder to entice even more from her lover, all the while feeling him doing the same thing to her sex, as he now stuck his tongue deeper into her wet folds.
Andrew licked at Coraline's sex until it began to leak fluids from it, which he tasted with his mouth. As he tasted it, he found her to be very sweet, with a hint of the numerous Coba and Yache berries that he bought to make her Pokeblock food. Liking the flavor he stuck his tongue deeper into her sex's folds, trying to get more from her.
Yet because he was a virgin, having waited to almost his thirties before he got married, he didn't last much longer before the pleasure Coraline was giving his member. And as she began to move faster and faster up and down, licking him for all her tongue was worth, he felt pressure grow in his groin. Seconds after he moaned about how something was 'coming', his dick pulsed and began spraying the inside of her mouth with his hot and sticky cum.
She felt it spraying in her mouth, and knowing who it was from, swallowed every single drop she could, not letting any of it spill. All the while she continued to massage his dick, licking it lovingly with her tongue while it continued to spray strings of his sperm.
"Oh my… that felt so… amazing Coraline…" He whispered as she finally stopped, once he had expelled everything, but he was still very hard.
She let his dick go and coiled around him once again, but this time bringing her sex to line up perfectly with his dick, before poking and prodding it with her entrance. "Are you ready to claim me?" She asked him warmly, knowing that this was the moment she had been waiting for.
The moment she took her lover's virginity.
"Are you really sure about this?" He asked her, knowing that this was a huge step for them both. "There's no going back after this…"
She nodded with understanding, and gave her response by slowly easing him into her sex, moaning softly as she felt her walls tighten around him.
Andrew moaned loudly as he felt his member enter her sex, and could only gasp at how warm and wet it was inside of her. It was obvious from her sheer size that she could take more into her, but even so her walls tightened around him as if she were trying to keep him from escaping. It felt like a tight vice, but it was so soft and so warm that it was just too good. Soon enough he hilted, and he began to thrust up and into her, holding her tightly to him to keep her steady.
*Oh~… it feels amazing!* She thought happily, smothering her lover with a kiss as she coiled tightly, but not so tightly that she hurt him. *Yes… this is it… I'm his now!*
She knew he was 'small' by her species' standards, but for a human he was perfect for her, and her pussy easily compensated for his size by tightening around him, shaping itself to perfectly fit him and enhance both of their pleasure.
"Coraline… you're so tight!" Andrew moaned as their mouths separated. "You're so large… but you're just so tight!"
"Yes… I am… I'm tight only for you!" She replied warmly, smiling at him as he continued to thrust, letting him have his way with her body, allowing him to touch every inch of her just as only she would let him. "I'm yours… only yours… I'll only let you touch me, I'll only let you mate me… I'll never let another male even look at me!"
Feeling his member beginning to pulse again, she leaned forward and kissed him again, and he kissed her back as his pace picked up. Her walls began to contract in response to feeling him get suddenly larger, and as they contracted they gripped him all the tighter, almost making her passage completely air tight.
Each time he thrusted up the little air inside escaped, before it was replaced as he pulled out, and the cycle repeated each time.
*Oh… I can feel it… he's about to cum again!* She thought blissfully, letting his mouth go again so she could stare lovingly at him, while he continued to thrust. *Yes… he's about to cum again, and this time inside of me!*
"Coraline… I'm about to… again…" He moaned as he began using his arms to pull her body harder with each thrust, so that they both moaned each time his dick hilted in her. "Is alright… can I come…?"
She gave him a soft nod, the only sign they both needed to know that she was giving him her consent. She had seen what transpired between that 'filth' she saw earlier, she knew now the purpose of that 'plastic tube'. It was to keep Vivian's mate from giving his seed to her. But she wasn't like Vivian, she was going to give Andrew whatever he wanted, if he wanted to spread his seed into her body, she would let him, whether it was through her mouth or through her womb!
With a nod in understanding she leaned forward one final time, and kissed him full on, holding his tongue with her own to keep them together however she could.
Then he gave one final and powerful thrust, and pushed as far into her as he could reach, and released strings of warm and sticky cum into her.
She moaned with him as she felt her walls pulsing as well, spraying him with her own juices and mixing their juices inside of her together, before her walls pulsing moved them ever so steadily into her womb.
They held their position like that for at least a full three minutes, before they relaxed and looked into each other's eyes, looking at each other with looks of love and devotion.
"Thank you Coraline…" He whispered to his beloved 'pet' turned wife. "Thank you… for being there for me…"
"I will always be here for you…" She said, before kissing him on the lips again, refusing to uncoil herself, enjoying the feeling of being 'one' with him.
It was only ten pm when they finished making love to one another, but even an hour later they still had yet to separate, Coraline having her body coiled around Andrew. He had long since gone flaccid, but she didn't care, she loved him being inside of her, and was more than content to stay this way all night. Since neither of them were exactly tired and wanted to go to bed, they simply stay that way on the mattress, kissing each other and massaging each other however they wanted to.
Coraline would occasionally shift her body around so Andrew could lie at a different angle, or so he could feel a portion of her twenty foot long body that he had yet to touch. She meanwhile, continued to move ever so slightly, not to show discomfort, but to make sure his scent would permanently mark her as his. She wanted their scents to mix, to become 'one', so that nobody would doubt that she was truly his and he was hers.
But one thing that they never stopped doing, unless they needed to breath, was kiss one each other on the lips.
She would slip her tongue into his mouth, explore it for a moment before rubbing his own tongue for a while. Then he would do the same, push into her mouth, explore its crevices, before massaging her own tongue as she did him. All the while, looking at each other with eyes full of love and trust.
-Knock, Knock, Knock-
They both stopped and looked over at the doorway, before Andrew made to get up, but Coraline stopped him in his track. She gave him a shake of her head, a nod of trust, and uncoiled so she could go over to the door herself.
With her mouth she opened it up, and revealed a slightly disheveled Vivian, looking quite fearful at her.
*With good reason… after the way I kicked her out, she ought to be afraid!*
Coraline saw Vivian not as a human now, instead she was a rival female, and she would not let a rival female remain in her male's domain. Hence why she threw her out, chased her off his land, and scalded her with hot water from her body.
"Uhm… if it's… alright… could you please get Andrew…?" She asked tentatively. "I need to talk to him… about some things…"
Coraline looked at Vivian, before looking at Andrew, and from him to the briefcase. With his hand lazily helping her, she wormed her tailfins through the briefcase's handle, pulled it over to her, and without Vivian even having a chance to see, ducked down and threw the briefcase at her like a catapult.
It hit her face with a thud, knocking her backward and landing on the sand.
Vivian sat up and looked at her, but Coraline gave one piercing glare, and slammed the door shut with her tail. Hearing the lock click, she slithered back over to Andrew, coiled around him, and smiled lovingly again.
"Andrew!" Vivian yelled through the door, knocking heavily on it. "Andrew, wake up, I need to talk to you!" She sounded like she was panicking. "I'm sorry, okay I'm sorry about what I did, please forgive me and let me back in! I'm begging you Andrew please, just talk to me! I can explain!"
Andrew was a very nice person, and he was not one to ever turn down any request, especially when it came from a sincere voice, and Vivian's voice clearly sounded sincere.
But unfortunately, his mouth was unable to respond to the pounding of the door and Vivian's clearly regretful voice that was truly honest.
In fact, Coraline had wrapped her body again around him, and was not letting him move an inch more than she wanted him to, preferring to slide his flaccid member back into her pussy, and press her lips lovingly against his, and her tongue back into his mouth. In fact, neither of them were paying attention to Vivian's cries and sobs, as they spent the next two hours simply sharing their pure, unshaking, devoting love toward each other, ignoring her as she pleaded with him to open the door and talk to her.
*So I'm selfish… she doesn't deserve to see him ever again!* Coraline thought happily, smothering her lover with all the devotion she could express. *I've got Andrew all to myself now… and I'm never letting him go ever again!*
With that they continued making out long into the night, only falling asleep when Vivian finally left them alone.
=Two Years Later=
"Alright… add a dash of brown… some blue…" Andrew said as he put the finishing touches on his painting.
It had been two years since Vivian left him, and once news had gotten around that she had slept with her agent for a pay rise, once again she was kicked out of the modelling business. Unfortunately her little 'act' had an unexpected side effect.
The condom that her agent had used was faulty, and as such did not stop her from getting pregnant. Because she lost her modeling career again, and wasn't going to get it back this time, she lacked the money to afford an abortion, and Orange Island laws forbade her from putting the baby up for adoption.
Coincidentally, her 'agent' seemed to have disappeared into another region, which one nobody knew, but he seemed to have vanished without anyone knowing, well before Vivian discovered her pregnancy.
So now Vivian, with no more boyfriends to rely on and with no modeling career in her future ever again, was forced to work minimum wage yet again. Though he saw her every few days when he went for lunch in town while selling his artwork, working at a local diner as a single mom, as a waitress, he felt no compulsion to help her. Being a single mom was hard, and caring for a kid on a 'waitress's' salary was even harder. He would have felt sorry, if he didn't have other concerns on his own plate to worry about, which easily distracted him from her.
As for him and Coraline…
"And… done!" He said, and Coraline snaked over to look at his latest masterpiece.
"It's beautiful…" She said to him with a warm smile, "Milotic…"
He leaned back and looked at the picture himself, admiring the detail he put into it.
The picture was a beautiful sea serpent Pokemon, Coraline the Milotic, swimming in the ocean at sunset as a meteor shower took place. Swimming around her, were a pair of Feebas, both with brown dirty colored scales like their mother. He had been working on it for a week, and only just finished it now.
He looked over at the tank that used to be Coraline's, and smiled as the two Feebas drifted lazily around, no longer awake as it was almost midnight.
After he and Coraline had sex, it was revealed that they did so when she was in heat, and because of this she became pregnant as well. But unlike with Vivian, he and Coraline treasured their children, and named them Coralina after her, and Andrew after himself.
Coraline noticed the sleeping Feebas, and decided it was time to let them sleep in peace, and used her mouth to pull the curtain over their tank to block out the light, but left the nightlight on for them, as well as their little radio to keep them quiet.
Then she and Andrew got up, went over to their mattress and she coiled around him, giving him a little kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks dear…" He whispered to her as she smiled with a sly grin. "You know I sold my biggest painting earlier today… that one portrait of you that I did last year! Feel like 'celebrating'?"
She grinned even wider as she looked at him. "What kind of 'celebration' do you mean?" She asked lazily. "Milotic tic milooooo?"
After two years he had learned enough about her to 'guess' what she was saying, so it came as no surprise as what he asked next. "Let me put it another way… are you feeling 'wet' tonight?"
She smiled seductively before lifting her tail up, and revealing her sex, which was slowly becoming puffed and pink with her arousal. "I'm a water type Andrew… I'm always 'wet' for you!"
With that he reached into his pocket and pulled out a condom, and as soon as she eyed it, she grabbed it in her mouth, and flung it across the room.
It was her rule, the only rule she had when mating him; either they do it naturally, or not at all.
"But you don't want to get pregnant again Coraline, I can't take care of any more children we have!" He said softly.
She shook her head with a warm smile, and kissed him again before staring intently.
"I'm not in heat, so we don't have to worry love…" She said lovingly. "Now… it's time you took a 'dive' into my 'lake'…"
"Swimming in the nude… I like it…" He chuckled, before she coiled around him tightly, helping him remove his clothes so they could become 'one' yet again.
=Author's Notes=
Sorry it takes so long to right these, but I got other stories to right as well, and summer JUST started for me… I'll try my best to update, but I've also now got a youtube channel I'm working on.
Keep on reviewing and leaving suggestions :D I am listening and like quite a few of what I've seen so far!
Hope you enjoyed 'this' story though, I know some people don't like one or two of the stories I've written, but I hope they are all worth the wait and effort I put into writing them.
It aint easy coming up with romantic stories, and making them flow from the ideas I've been given.