Romances of the Pokemon World

by The Imperator 2 you

The world of Pokemon is vast, and in this vast world, stories of individuals can be found and told, some are of great challenges and even greater problems. But some can be small and subtle, and others are romantic. In a world where Pokemon and Humans live together, unions can be found, but are they forbidden, or is there another word for it? Rated M, for Lemons

41. Meowscarada (F) Full Version

=author's Notes=

This is jsut a reupload of a previous chapter, with the full version of what was written, as the original was too long, but by popular demand people wanted to read all of it, so here you go~ i hope you enjoy.

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The ever-present Mistress of the world, known only as Fate, ever so fickle in her mood and beliefs, has a funny habit of changing the road that one walks. When we believe our path is chosen and that our destination is all but set, Fate herself comes along our path, and ever so mischievously drops a stone in front of us that causes us to trip, ever so much, that when we regain our stance, we see, just in front of us, another road that branches away... giving us a choice that we never thought to take before... that brings us happiness, the likes of which we didn't know we could have, but would never trade away for anything once we have it!

= The Mask of Friendship and Love =

= Human (Faron) / Meowscarada (Midna) =

[Narrator]

[Paldea shines like the brightest gem that could ever sparkle in the Pokemon World, a land rich in beauty and culture as far as the eye could see, so vast that one could walk from one end of the region to the other their entire life. And at the center of this land, lies the Great Crater of Paldea, surrounded on all sides by mountains higher than most Pokemon can soar, and as vast as any lake could possibly be! But the crowning jewel of the region, is none other than the famed Uva Academy that lies just below its southern border.]

[Taking in students from all age, from youngsters no older than seven, to older students well into their forties. The subjects and degrees offered are unparalleled in the world of Pokemon, as anything and everything can be learned and acquired here at this academy. There is nothing one cannot learn and achieve if they devote to their studies.]

[Our story begins here, as neighbors since childhood are a day away from leaving home and entering the walls of the academy. They are spending their last day enjoying the sunshine and fresh sea air at Porto Marinada, a lovely sea town, home to the famous market where many gather from far and wide to bid on items from around the world!]

(Multi PoV)

"You can't catch me!"

"Oh, you just wait, trip him up Midna!"

"Spriiiiig!"

As a boy and girl ran up the road from their homes to go play at the nearby lighthouse, a small green grass-cat Pokemon leapt from the shoulder of the girl and jumped to trip up the boy. She leapt successfully and managed to jump onto the boy before playfully covering his eyes, causing him to trip and fall over. While it was slightly painful to fall over, he was having too much fun laughing to notice.

"Hgh-get off hahaha!" He chuckled as his neighbor's Pokemon playfully scratched and clawed at him to make him laugh. "Y-y-you win, you wihaha-in!"

"Sprigititotototo!" Midna giggled as she continued to play with him.

"Tag your it now!" The girl shouted as she slapped his shoulder before taking off.

Her Pokemon saw her running and leapt to join her, getting away before the boy could get up in time.

"Hey no fair!" He yelled indignantly, running after them.

Both children were playing a game of tag that day, enjoying their final day of freedom before they would head off to school the next day to Uva Academy, both of them having been accepted into their general schooling program. The boy's name was Faron, and he was an enthusiastic nine-year-old kid with light brown hair, green eyes, an explorative personality and a playful disposition. As for the girl, she was his neighbor, named Viela, brown eyes, orange hair and a serious personality with an equally playful air about her to match her neighbor.

They were just playing their favorite game of Tag, but today was a special one because not only was it their last day before school, today was the day she introduced him to her new Pokemon partner, a Sprigatito she named Midna. So now he had 'two' friends, his neighbor and her Pokemon, and what better way to celebrate then with a game of Tag?

"I'll get you yet!" He screamed as he ran after her.

"You'll never catch me!" She called back.

Faron chased after Viela and Midna and wished he had a Pokemon partner as well, he wanted to meet his own partner, but alas he would have to wait until the next day to meet his potential partner. Till then it was going to be two on one, as Viela nodded to her Sprigatito and it jumped and ran into him again.

She leapt onto his chest, then his shoulder, and from there she began playing with his shirt to try and trip him up again.

"Not this time!" He laughed as he slowed down to grab the pokemon, before trying to carry it, only instead of grabbing it Midna jumped down and ran off after its trainer as well.

"Spriiiiiiig!" Midna cackled.

They reached the lighthouse at long last and Midna with her trainer Viela ran around the left side, while Faron smirked and chose to run around the right side. Laughing at his genius, he leapt around the lighthouse and tackled his friend into the ground as she came around the corner with her Pokemon. Both of them laughed as he yelled 'Tag' and she counter 'Tagged' him, before he 'Tagged' him back, and then he 'Tagged' her, him, her, again and again as they kept trying to get up to get away before falling again.

They kept at it for several minutes before 'finally' Faron managed to wiggle away enough to tag Viela and make a break for it, but sadly 'Midna' Viela's ally jumped on him and held him down, giggling with the two of them as they had their fun.

"Spri-I-I-I-I-I!" Midna laughed.

"You cheaters!" He yelled, but it was all fun for them.

"Keep trying Faron!" She yelled back as he chased after them again.

Oh, their game was pointless, it didn't really do anything, all they ended up doing all day was just wasting time. Passersby just either ignored them or smiled internally as they remembered how 'they' acted when they were kids, recalling old memories. From the moment they left their home's doors to when they finally collapsed from sheer exhaustion at sundown, they just spent their day doing what children did, having fun for the sake of having fun.

When they finally settled down to catch their breaths and enjoy the time they had left before they had to return home, Midna giggled as she jumped onto Faron's head and curled up on him, meowing and pretending he was now her bed for a catnap.

"Very funny Midna!" Faron muttered as she snickered on him

"Tito~!" Midna whispered nonchalantly.

"Yea, you were it last, so you don't get a say in it!" Viela declared.

"Man, this was such a fun day, you think we can have more fun days like this after today?" Faron asked.

"We're going to school tomorrow, I'm sure we probably will Faron!" Viela said happily.

"Sprig Sprigatito!"

"You said it Midna, besides, how else are you going to beat me in tag again if we don't play!"

"I guess, I just wish I had my own Pokemon partner... it woulda been fairer!" He said bitterly.

"Yea, then we could have had a Pokemon battle as well today!" Viela said. "I can't wait to go to school, I want to become a great champion like the Champion of Champions, go to the Pokemon League, see the whole region! I saw her on TV, she was so awesome and coooool!"

"Really, I wonder what I want to become." Faron muttered.

"Whatever it is, let's both achieve them together so we can play more like today!"

"Sprigaaaatito!" Midna cheered happily as she agreed, happy to meet Faron and enjoying her time with him, almost as much as she enjoyed being with Viela!

That was the most wonderful day she's ever had, a day she would never forget for how much fun she had, and how happy she was to be with the two of them. Even as she smiled and laughed as her trainer picked her up, she waved goodbye to her new friend Faron, and hoped they would be friends forever.

[Nine Years Later]

(Midna's PoV)

She sighed as she stared out of the window of her trainer's dorm, watching the rain pouring down and listening to the sound of thunder, idly swinging her tail from side to side as she wished that she were doing... 'anything' right about now. This was the third day in a row that she had been cooped up in the dorm room while her trainer spent her time studying, studying, and... of course... studying. In other words, another boring 'day' was all she had to look forward to today. Not that she could be upset with Viela, the girl was trying to become an official of the Pokemon League, they only let the best in, and for that she needed top marks!

Becoming a champion was one thing, but to become an Official League Member and work at the Pokemon League where they handled all the rules, regulations and Arceus knows what that governs 'all' trainers, she needed top marks.

Though with her good marks, she wondered why she never could get a better room then this one. At least one where she could watch the sun rise, this window blocked her view of it.

Glancing at her trainer, she sighed heavily, even bitterly, as she wished that her Trainer would let her do 'something' besides just stay indoors. Let her exercise, let her run around, let her do 'something' without her watching over her.

She also wished she could hang out with her friends, Faron and Zackery, even if she would have to deal with that slow flame-turtle pokemon Torkoal that he was looking after when his grandfather passed away. But alas... her trainer was a woman of eighteen years old turning nineteen, and she was not allowed to be in the male dorm of Uva Academy except for short visits due to her age. And as such, she would not take her to visit her friend because... she would not let her be alone with him for some 'dumb' reason that she wasn't saying.

'What's wrong with me hanging out with Faron for an evening?' She asked herself when she turned back to the outside. 'When Faron is busy with studying, she lets Zackery and Lucius hang out with us when he needs the room quiet for study, why not the same for her, today was his day off and he and those two fire types are going to watch a football event! He and 'two' fire types, watching football... In. The. Rain. We aren't battling today; we haven't battled for four days! Why can't I spend time with him?'

She shook her head as she wished she could at least 'watch' the ball kicking event on the outskirts of Mesozoa. She liked the rain, it felt nice on her green fur along with the fresh breeze. She 'loved' watching the sport, she often tried to play it with Faron and Zackery whenever she had the chance... of which she had 'four' that her Trainer joined with her for the physical activity.

But her trainer really didn't seem interested in playing 'football' with him or his Skeledirge Zackery. Even if she kept scoring, she only gained enthusiasm for winning when they won and they both had to leave.

Feeling thirsty as she heard the sound of thunder outside, she sighed, got up and walked on both legs to the fridge while she crossed her arms in silent disdain for her situation.

She was a Meowscarada, not the little Sprigatito she was when she, Faron and Viela first met that day, she stood around five foot one, really tall for a Meowscarada her age, but she was still a Meowscarada. Her tail swayed back and forth, the tip of which looking like a flower in middair, while her 'tail' was invisible to the naked eye, her paws were a little on the svelt side, and her pink flower petals around her neck waving slightly as well as she walked. The twin cape on her back flowed behind her but hung downward to reflect her mood, sour like her mood.

She opened the fridge and grabbed a simple water bottle, opened it up and then went back to the bed to sit and watch the rain pour outside, bitterly wishing that the sun would come out... just so something would happen.

Glancing at her trainer again, she sighed as she knew not to talk when she was like this, studying super hard, taking mock exams, doing all she could to get her job, and at the same time she was 'also' pursuing a law degree. Viela was only about six months away from Graduation, same as Faron, but where Viela was training and studying to join the Pokemon League as one of its higher members, maybe even one of the Elite Four, Faron had been studying Archeology. He was trying to become an Archeologist to study ancient ruins, so unlike Viela he had a bit more time on his hands. Faron was all set to graduate, he just needed to finish the year with good grades and then he could look up expedition teams to apply.

But not her Viela, oh no, her trainer needed to be top of the class, which she was, a top-of-the-line Champion trainer, which she is, have competed and won multiple Academy Ace Tournaments, which they did... and passed all of her exams, which she needed to do.

She was a well fit Meowscarada, she was not a pushover, she 'soloed' the entire League Challenge, all eight of Paldea's gyms, not once needing help to compete. Heck, a few gyms she had to help out Faron and Zackery when they were stuck, and Zackery had to work with her one time only because it was a double battle. Despite his strength, Zackery was just not the 'competitive' type, or the serious type, he was the 'i'll fight if I must but let's just roll' kind of Pokemon.

'Just like Faron...' She thought sadly.

She just wanted to spend time with him like how they used to... they always spent some time with him, always... on their days off they got together and played games, and she always had fun with them. But... now, it was like... her trainer 'actively' was not letting her spend time with him, but why?

'They're dating so... why not?' She thought sadly. 'Humans date when they get closer, and when they get closer, they spend time together more often... but... she never lets me hang out with them. Maybe if they wanted to be alone, I could understand but... what about the 'rest' of the times?'

She just wanted to spend time with him, what was wrong with that? They were friends, so why not?

She glanced back at Viela as she began stretching, yawned, and started looking over her test to check her answers. After a while her phone rang and she answered it, "Yea Faron, what's shaking?"

At Faron's name she perked up and smiled hopefully.

"Oh, you're coming to hang out for a few minutes, well I suppose it's okay, but you can't stay too long, tonight's my big study night you know." She said. "Yea I know, I heard it from here, how are your two Pokemon feeling?" … "Seriously, how do your Pokemon even 'stand' you when you let them sit in the rain to watch a game?" … "Well, if they don't mind then who am I to judge? Alrighty, see you in five, bye~!"

She hung up the phone and got up. "Alright, you know the drill Midna, into the ball."

"Not the ball, can't I stay out and hang out with you two?" She moaned sadly, but of course to humans her language was just "Meowsca, rada rada Meowsca?" even if she had an upgraded translator in her ear.

"You know the rules Midna, no more than 'four' individuals in a room at any time, pokemon are included with that rule. I need you in the ball until he's gone, Faron never uses Pokeballs and his Pokemon aren't exactly 'small', there's not enough room in here."

"That never stopped you before!" She muttered bitterly as she crossed her arms in annoyance. "Meowscarada Meowsca!"

"Just get in the ball Midna, don't argue with me just please do it!" She ordered in a commanding tone.

She grunted bitterly as she glared at the ball now, once seeing it as simply a tool to help them be together and go wherever out in the world, now seeing it as a prison. But she had no choice, her trainer was a Champion, and Viela was her trainer. Not only that, she was Viela's starter, she 'had' to obey her... what starter 'never' listens to their first trainer after being with them for nine years going? Plus... it was in the rules.

She sighed and relented, nodding as she accepted the command, and the ball pulled her inside with a flash of red light. But even as she went inside... she knew a few tricks to escape, so when the time came, she would break out and surprise Faron!

Her trainer can't get in trouble if her Pokemon surprises her, right?

(Faron's Pov)

"Oh, now that was fun wasn't it guys, we totally needed that break from all the schoolwork this week!" Faron yelled as he walked down the dormitory hallways towards his girlfriend's room.

"Toooorkoal!" Lucius yawned loudly as he rode atop Zackery's back, who was waddling fast behind him. "Good weather today!"

"Skele diiirge diirge skele!" Zackery cheered as he waddled as fast as his legs could go. "Yea the rain wasn't as bad as you said it would be!"

He too had a translator like most students, though he had to do many part-time jobs to earn it, it wasn't as good as what his girlfriend had but it did the job well enough.

"Yea, so glad even though it rained it was actually light with random thunder, I was afraid they'd have to cancel the game. Wish Viela and Midna could have joined us, they love watching football." He moaned as they turned down a corridor. "I swear she takes her studies way too seriously some days, I understand she has to be serious but... she could take 'some' time off, I was hoping we could spend time together."

"Tooooorkoal tooork!" Lucious said. "She'll be fine!"

"Skele, skele dirge dirgeskele!" Zackery agreed. "Yea, she'll be fine and then we can hang out again!"

He chuckled at their little upbeat chatter. "I don't think you know what I mean guys by 'spend time together'."

"Torkooal tooor..." Lucius sighed. "I know what you mean Faron..."

"Skele, skeledirge skele skele? Zackery asked, leaning his head back to look at the turtle on his back. "Eh, what you mean Lucius, what you mean you know what he means?"

"Torkoal toorkoal tooor..." Lucious chuckled with a smile. "You'll find out when your more mature Zackery."

"Skelediiiiirge, dirge, skeledirge skele!" Zackery countered indignantly. "I'm mature, I am so mature, I can sleep at night without the nightlight now!"

He smiled as he looked back at his two Pokemon. "Well at least 'one' of you gets it!"

His two Pokemon were a Skeledirge and a Torkoal. His Skeledirge was a red/white alligator-esq pokemon with a head akin to that of a skull wrapped in flames, and with a nose tipped with a flaming microphone. His body was wrapped in skeletal-bone like armor, and despite his carefree attitude he was a serious powerhouse, when he felt like being one.

As for the Torkoal, the Torkoal was a typical Torkoal, turtle-like body, cooled-lava like shell, stubby legs, steam coming out of his shell and nostrils from heat, and he looked old. But the Torkoal was 'not' actually his Pokemon, it actually belonged to his grandfather, but his grandfather died and passed away, leaving his Torkoal to his father, who passed him down to him when he was old enough as a 'family tradition.

He said something about how the Torkoal was in their family for three generations, with him being the fourth generation to take care of the Pokemon. How he was expected to keep this Torkoal healthy was beyond him, the little guy had to be like over a hundred years old! Still, he seemed healthy enough, but he was curious just how old Torkoals lived.

As he neared his girlfriend's dorm room, the one thing he wished he did now that those days were behind him, was taking the Victory Road challenge, taking on all '8' of the gym leaders, and obtaining the rank of Champion. But he barely got more than 'four' badges in before he just gave up as, despite his efforts, it was becoming obvious that he just wasn't cut out to become a Champion rank battler.

It wasn't for lack of trying though, he'd put his effort into studying and training with Zackery, but he just never got around to finding a new team member or trying to master battling, all necessary skills to become a Champion rank trainer. So, when he finally threw in the towel after having to be 'carried' by Midna, Viela's starter Pokemon, he decided to try and become something else.

During his travels, he found himself fascinated with ruins, remnants of the past, and wanted to learn more about them, learn all there was about the past locations of Paldea, and not just Paldea but the entire world! He was fascinated with archeology, the history of what was lost to time, and during his 'treasure hunt' to find his treasure, he and Zackery found themselves spending more time looking at old ruins and deserted places to understand them.

Thus, his newfound desire to become an Archeologist. Sure, his girlfriend wasn't too thrilled that he wanted to become, well something like that, when she was pursuing her dream of becoming someone like the Champion of Champions, entering the Pokemon League, becoming an Elite Four or even serving as one of the legislative body of the Pokemon League itself, governing all trainers across Paldea!

He had a feeling that, well despite how he cares about her, they were drifting apart too much for their relationship to last. In fact, he was probably expecting her to say they should 'split up' because it just isn't working out. At that he felt a little sad, but he was hopeful that, maybe they could still be friends and still talk at least over the phone and perhaps visit each other from time to time to hang out like old times.

He also sighed as he wished he and her Pokemon could play together like before when they were kids, he knew that eventually they would have to grow up, but still... he wanted to spend time with them even if its doing something 'silly' like watching a game in the rain. Where was the harm in just taking 'one' evening off? Today was his day off from classes, so why not do the same?

A few moments later he knocked on Viela's door and waited with his Pokemon to be let in. After a few moments the door opened and Viela welcomed them in and allowed them in.

"Hi Viela!"

"Hi Faron, uh... why are your Pokemon... 'steaming'?" She asked as they walked in. "Don't tell me you let your Pokemon stand in the rain... fire types 'hate' the rain!"

"Yea but they didn't mind the rain, it wasn't that bad tonight at the football game." He said as his Pokemon ran inside and started doing their usual antics of exploring and seeing what was new this time around.

"Skelediiiiiiiiiiirge Skele, skele dirge dirge skeleskel!" Zackery exclaimed as he made his way to the trash bin. "She had 'pizza' last night without us, how dare she eat pizza without inviting us!"

He smiled as he watched the two investigate her trash before he looked around and saw a distinct lack of a green furred magician cat pokemon.

"Hey where's Midna, is something wrong with her?"

"Oh, she's just inside her ball, you know how it is, rules and all that!" Viela said quickly.

"I mean, I guess but that's honestly not a big deal Viela, I'm sure the school would let slide the fact that we had 'three' pokemon running around in our small dorms with the two of us here. And I haven't seen her in such a long time, she must be sad to not be able to hang out with both of us."

"Perhaps but better safe than sorry Faron." She replied as she sat down with him on the bed. "So how are your studies going?"

"They're going okay, I need to start applying for some kind of internship or part-time gig with an Archeological dig session before I graduate." He said as he sat down and leaned against her. "Listen Viela, do you think sometime next week we can spend time 'together', just the two of us, I have next weekend off and I would 'love' to be able to go on a date with you."

Viela sighed quietly as she leaned heavily into his shoulder, "I'm sorry but I have my first exam in three weeks, and the weekends are the days I have to myself 'specifically' to prepare for them." She said sadly. "I know this is stressful on us Faron, you particularly, but I just need time to myself so I can pass these tests. All I can do is ask you to wait for me sweetie, I promise when this is all over, we can finally do some proper dating, alright?"

"I guess..." He muttered as Zackery waddled over, Lucious slowly walking over as well, having climbed down to let Zackery do his own thing.

"Skeledirge skele skele!" Zackery exclaimed happily. "Hey master master can we have dinner here?"

"Zackery, you know not to call me that, we're pals, friends, not that 'master/servant' stuff you Pokemon always say." He said as he scratched Zackery's bone-like head armor. "How many times do I have to tell you that, I destroyed your Pokeballs just so you 'don't' feel you have to call me that."

"Skele... dirge skele... dirge skeledirge skee?" Zackery said quietly, before forgetting what it was that he'd just been told. "Oh yea... you did do that... so dinner, here, yes master?"

"Torkoal toooork..." Lucius laughed as he 'slooowly' began climbing Zackery's tail so he could get back to sitting on the Skeledirge's back. "Slower than a mareep..."

"Skeledirge skele, dirge skeledirgeskele!" Zackery exclaimed indignantly. "I ain't slow, I'm faster than a mareep!"

He shook his head at the two of them. He and Viela talked for a bit longer, but it was obvious to him that she 'really' wanted to get back to her studying, and he wasn't going to get between her and what she wanted or in this case needed to do. He cared about her dreams and goals as much as he knew she probably cared about him and his dreams and goals. That and he knew the time period when all 'male' students needed to leave the 'female' dormitories was drawing close.

So, with a quick peck on the lips, he kissed his girlfriend and told Zackery and Lucius they were heading back to their dorm.

As he got up however, from the nearby desk counter he saw a Pokeball beginning to shake, and instantly it opened up to allow a green bipedal magician-cat Pokemon to leap at him and tackle him to the floor, giggling and laughing crazily as she playfully hugged him.

"Meowscaradaaaaaa!" Midna screamed happily as she snuggled him. "Farooon!"

"Ooofhahaha, Midna how's it going girl!" He chuckled as he scratched her head, happy to see her as much as she was happy to see him. "Long time no sees!"

"Meowsca radaaaaaa~!" She replied happily as she leaned into the head scratching. "Long time no see as well!"

He was happy to see her again, as she was honestly such a bright little bundle of joy, always playful and always wanting to spend time having fun like they did before. Even though he knew her as a super serious competitive Pokemon with the ability to 'solo' the gyms and even some Champion ranked trainers, she was still deep down this little kitten that he'd first met as a kid.

"Skelediiiiiiiiirge!" Zackery cheered happily as he walked over and tried to lick Midna after not seeing her for such an equally long time. "Midnaaaaaaa!"

"MeowscaradaradaradaRADAAAA!" Midna tried to say before, sadly, Zackery used his tongue to lick her face, his tongue that just so happened to be directly under his microphone-like flame and as such was extremely searing hot for a grass type. "NotthefacenotthefaceYEOOOOW!"

She screamed comically as she leapt up and ran to the nearby sink to pour cold water on her face before it burned her mask and fur.

Midna chuckled with a goofy expression as she looked up at them all, and he just laughed at how quickly that exchange happened with Zackery and Lucius, with Midna joining them as she laughed at the scene as well. The only one 'not' laughing however... was Viela, who looked very 'cold' at her starter.

Fortunately, the bell rang at that moment, signaling 'curfew' for all of the male students and female students to leave the other gender's dorms and return to their own.

"Alright guys, time to go, you know the rules!" Viela said as she clapped her hands. "I don't want you getting in trouble with security because you were lingering here for a minute too long. You know how strict they are about that rule with students over sixteen."

"Alright, see ya around Midna! Nice seeing you again." He said with a smile as he scratched her head before leaving.

"Meowscaaaa..." She sighed happily as she was pet. "See you next time..."

"Come on Zackery, we got dinner to make!" He called to the Skeledirge. "What do you think about pizza tonight, my treat!"

"Skelediiiiiirge! Skele Skele Skele Skele!" Zackery cheered and chanted as they walked out. "Pizzaaaaaa! Pizza pizza pizza pizza!"

(Midna's PoV)

Midna smiled as she waved them off, before her smile faded as she could just 'feel' her Trainer getting mad at her as the door closed behind Faron and his Pokemon. She could tell that her trainer was mad at her for breaking out of her ball, but seriously what was there to be mad at? She was just saying hello to Faron and Zackery after so long not seeing them. It was like, 'months' since she saw him face to face, every time he came over or she went to his dorm room, she was told to stay here or stay in her ball.

Speaking of her ball, she watched as Viela walked over, picked up her ball, and held it in her hand with a glare. "What did I tell you to do, I said 'stay in your ball', why did you disobey me?" She growled.

"Mmme... meowsca... rada..." She said sheepishly. "I just... wanted... to say hi..."

"Look I get it, you wanted to talk to him, but rules are rules, if the league were to find out I bend the rules or break them, they may not consider me for the job I'm trying to apply to." She told her. "These next few months are 'critical' for me, I need to focus and I need to show that I am an exemplary trainer of good merit and quality, and for that I need them to see that I follow the rules strictly. Which means no coming out of your ball when Faron is over with his Pokemon!"

At that Midna frowned as she glanced away. 'If that's the case, why don't you let me see him for even a few minutes when he shows up 'without' his team?' She thought quietly.

What she said and what she 'did' didn't add up to her, but... after promising not to do that again, and after Viela started working on dinner, she could only 'accept' this choice from her trainer.

When night came and she went to bed, Midna chose to wait until she was truly asleep, before slipping out of her ball and going to sit at the window with one of the chairs they had and stare outside.

And she just sat there, staring sadly, leaning over slightly so she could glimpse, just off to the side, the small side of the male dormitory where she wasn't allowed to go to because of Viela.

She missed the old days, when the two of them were 'friends', when she could hang out, play with Faron and Zackery, and all of them had fun together. She could still remember their first day, that beautiful memory, and how she hoped they would always be friends forever.

But no matter how much she wanted to see him, talk to him, even just spend 'time' with him, her trainer was forbidding it. Why, why was she so against her even being in the same 'room' as Faron. Weren't they friends, wasn't he her trainer's boyfriend? Couldn't she just let him play with her for a few minutes, she missed tackling him to the ground like when she was a Sprigatito, and she missed playing football with him as a Floragato.

She glanced at her trainer, and frowned, before she finally sighed and walked back over to her ball, looked over at her sleeping trainer again... and began crying.

Before she tapped the ball and was absorbed back into it.

The next day was more of the same, she stayed in the dorm room, watched the sky outside, watched her trainer do mock exam after mock exam, growl and shake her head in frustration when she got a question wrong and then spent 'hours' studying notes and books, pages after pages of words and lessons... before sighing and looking away and wishing she could just go outside.

She began wishing she were battling, at least 'then' there would be something happening besides just sitting around doing nothing.

*knock knock knock*

Midna looked over as her trainer looked up and walked over to the door, opened it and was surprised to see Faron standing in the doorway without his Pokemon.

"Hey Viela, sorry to drop by, but I figured I'd come by and say hi and ask if you were busy?" He asked cheerfully. "The weather's nice and there's a big olive ball kicking event to earn prizes and other fun things outside of the east gate!"

She perked up at that and quickly ran over to wave hi to Faron before her trainer could stop her. "Meoscaaaaaa!" Midna cheered happily as she waved from behind her trainer. "Hi Faron!"

He smiled and waved hello to her, but her trainer looked, 'disgruntled' for a split second, before looking back at him and smiling, "Sorry Faron, but you just caught me in the middle of my mock exam, I really can't go anywhere today. I said this before I 'really' need to practice and study hard for these exams coming up for me."

"Oh... well... that's too bad..." He said looking disheartened, before cheering himself up and looking past Viela. "What about Midna, can she come, I'm bringing Zackery and Lucius and she could 'really' use the exercise and fun!"

Thinking about the big Olive Kick Ball festival got her excited, she 'loved' kicking that big olive shaped ball during the Victory Road Challenge in their youth. Heck when they were doing it with Faron they managed to get the ball to themselves and they had so much fun playing in the dirt! They were playing with that ball for 'hours' before the gym leader finally had to get it back from them. But she knew they had a lot of fun, so just so they could have fun again before leaving the next day, she allowed them to retake the gym challenge for giggles.

"I'm sorry but, I can't really let her out of my sight... you uh know how it is Faron, rules are rules!" Viela said trying to play it off nonchalantly.

Those words caused her to look downtrodden, as well as frustrated, why can't she leave, why did she have to stay here 'all day' with her trainer when 'nothing' was happening? She was just studying and writing on paper, surely, she could let her go to a little festival to have 'some' fun, right? She'd get all the peace and quiet she needed, and she could trust Faron to keep her safe and bring her back!

It was their 'graduation year' for Arceus' sake!

"Oh, come on Viela, I know you're studying and all that, but you and Midna haven't battled, even for exercise, in over 'five' days, and I bet she gets bored and lonely not being able to go outside. Plus, this is the last festival of the year, lighten up a little bit, at least for your starter~! Come on what do you say, I promise nobody will mind if you let her join me and my team. And if anyone asks, I'll just say I'm letting her get some exercise and sunshine while her trainer studies... which isn't a lie when you think about it."

She watched as her Trainer glanced at her before her eyes began shifting back and forth, before she breathed out and nodded. "Very well, please return her quickly though, I don't want to get in trouble."

"No problem!" Faron said as she handed him her Pokeball. "Come on Midna, I need to pick up Zackery and Lucius before we head on down, they've been waiting for this festival almost just as much as me!"

"Meowscaradaaaaa. Mewoscarada rada!" Midna cheered as she hugged her trainer, "Yaaaaaaay. Thank you so much Ma'am!"

Before she got too far however, Viela held her shoulder and whispered, "Just remember, you're only going there to have fun with the festival, nobody else and nothing else, alright?"

Midna glanced at her and nodded, not really understanding what she was going on about. But she nodded and quickly ran out to chase after Faron before he got too far. When they reached the male dormitory they went to his dorm, then smiled as he opened it and watched as Zackery walked out with the Torkoal Lucius on his back.

"How's it going Zackery, Lucius?" She asked, not needing to translate for Faron who quickly ran in to grab a few things before they left.

"We're going to a party; we're going to a party!" Zackery chanted excitedly!

"Never better." Lucius said calmly.

She chuckled at the two of them, they were such total opposites. Zackery, acting like an excited Fuecoco just hatched from the egg, and Lucius this slow, wise turtle that spoke only what was needed and so very calmly, you'd think he was half asleep.

"Alright guys let's go; the olive ball is calling for us to kick it!" Faron called as he locked the door behind him and lead the way.

"Let's go let's go let's go!" Zackery chanted happily as he waddled as fast as his stubby legs would let him.

"Slow down Zackery... you're shaking too much!" Lucius shouted indignantly, but it was a very 'quiet' shout.

She giggled again as she walked alongside Faron, happy to be going to have some 'fun' for once with her friends again. The only mar on this day... as they took the elevator outside, down several floors and then out of the building and began making their way to the exit of Mesagoza, was that her 'trainer' wasn't there.

This was the first time in 'months' it seemed where she could hang out with Faron, Zackery and even Lucius, and yet her trainer wasn't there to enjoy it.

She frowned sadly at that, wishing she were here, if only she were, this would have been the 'perfect' day.

"Is something wrong Midna?" Faron asked her, causing her to look up at him and see his worried expression.

She shook her head and smiled. "Meowsca, meowsca rada!" She told him. "No, I'm fine, I'm fine really!"

He seemed slightly unconvinced, but he nodded and accepted her answer.

Outside the day was beautiful and shining, sun rays raining down upon the academy and all of Mesagoza, and nearby students and citizens were making their way to the big festival that was taking place just outside of the city.

The big festival, an Olive Ball kicking contest was a tradition of another town, where people and pokemon kicked the olive themed ball into a net for a good harvest. However, here it was just being done for the sheer 'fun' of kicking this enormous ball into a giant net for prizes. As they got to the field, she eagerly watched as a pair of Cyclizar trainers rode on their Pokemon kicking and batting the ball with their heads and pokemon's tails trying to get it into the net. Everyone laughed and cheered as they slowly pushed and bounced it into the net, with a big timer telling everyone how long they took.

The faster they went, the better the prize they got.

"And for a time of five minutes and seven seconds, our four contestants each win... 'free coupon redemptions' for a 'free meal' at any restaurant in Mesagoza!" Someone shouted as both trainers slapped hands and Cyclizars roared happily while leaving the field.

"Oh man this is going to be fun!" Faron shouted as he quickly went to sign himself, Zackery and Midna up.

Lucius chose to sit it out, on the statement it was 'too fast paced' for his liking, but he liked watching the ball bounce around regardless!

She smiled happily, looking over at the prizes being offered on a giant poster, and stared in 'awe' at what was being presented. Among the prizes being given were common things and simple things, from free beauty care products, special produce and coupons to free restaurant dine ins. But at the top, with a requirement of 'one minute and 30 seconds or faster', was something she was 'amazed' at... a piece of Terastal Crystal.

"So pretty..." She whispered in amazement.

"Preeeetty, you think we can win that?" Zackery asked her.

"I think you can, you just need to keep the ball in the air and keep it moving to the basket!" Lucius said calmly while another pair tried to get the olive ball into the basket.

"How does 'that' help us get it into the basket faster?" Midna asked the turtle, surprising her as that was the most words he'd spoken in a single sitting that she knew of.

"The ball is not filled with 'pure air', and is very bouncy so it stays up easier, but also very heavy so it falls more quickly." He said as they watched the two humans and 'their' Pokemon partners now trying to get it into the basket. "When you kick ball up, it goes up and stays up... but if ball does not stay up, it comes down... and it comes down faster than when it was kicked up... so it becomes harder to kick up again when it lands on ground."

"You know a lot about this game Lucius!" Zackery asked innocently.

"I've watched it get played a few times over the years."

She watched as, indeed as he said, when the ball landed on the ground, they needed to kick it harder so it went back into the air, as that was the only way to get it into the large basket. The event did not allow the use of hands, only their heads or feet, or in a Pokemon's case, a tail if they had one.

After about six minutes, they managed to get it into the basket at last, and their reward were some free bottles of shampoo.

After a while, Faron returned and told them they were up next.

"Remember guys, this isn't a competition, just go out and have fun, who knows, maybe we'll win a free dinner at a restaurant!" He told them all with a smile. "I hope we get something like that, I bet 'that' would give Velia a reason to get away from her room for an evening."

"Meowsca rada!" She told him, tugging at his shoulder and pointing at the poster. "I want to win that crystal!"

He looked at what she wanted and was surprised to see the top prize was the tera crystal being offered. "Iuno, a minute and thirty or less, that's going to be hard to manage girl. I don't think we can do that..."

"Meowscarada, meooooows?" She pleaded. "Can we try at least, pleeeeease?"

He sighed as he smiled but nodded in acceptance. "Alright let's try, what's the worst that can happen?" He asked them all.

"Yeeeea!" Zackery and Midna shouted together.

And with that they waited their turn to go onto the field and try to get the olive shaped ball into the basket. When it was their time, he asked someone to keep an eye on his torkoal, and then he, Zackery and Midna climbed into the field over the fence and walked into position while the olive ball was repositioned. Once it was, the timer was set, and they waited for the whistle.

Midna got low and braced herself, feeling exhilarated at the prospect of competing, even if it's in an event that's all about simply having fun. Remembering back to what Lucius the Torkoal said, she decided to focus on keeping the ball in the air and letting Zackery and Faron get the ball into position for the basket shot.

*Whistle*

The crowd began cheering as they all raced forward and she opened it up by kicking the ball into the air, and it sure enough bounced 'high' into the air before sloowly making its way down. According to the rules she couldn't hit it again until the other two did, so as it made its way down, Zackery hobbled forward and stood on his hind legs for a moment to bop it with his nose and keep it in the air. Then it was Faron's turn as he ran under it and hit it forward with his head. Midna watched it begin to fall again and leapt forward, rolled, and kicked it up with her legs so that it soared higher again but more importantly, closer to the big basket net that was their goal.

She kept glancing at the timer, and continued working with Faron and Zackery to keep the ball moving closer and closer to the net, and even though every second felt 'agonizingly long', they were making progress toward the net.

Then Zackery made a big tail slap move, smacking the ball really forward to try and get it into the net, and Midna saw that, despite his enthusiasm, he flicked his tail in a way that sent the ball careening toward the fence and out of bounds. With only less than fifteen seconds before they would lose the chance at the grand prize, she took her shot and leapt forward, sliding on the dirt and kicking the ball back on course with her legs. Then as it neared the basket, Faron bounced it off his head, and then sent it souring 'into' the basket.

With one second to spare.

"And with a time of one minute and twenty-nine seconds, Faron and his Pokemon win the top prize of a Tera Crystal!" The announcer declared as the prize keeper walked onto the field with the prize.

Midna smiled with Zackery and Faron as they held the crystal together, before Faron offered it to her when they left so that the next person could take their turn.

"Here you go, you did the most effort when it came to that, so you deserve it." He said.

"Skelediiiirge skele skeledirge skele!" Zackery complained. "Awww but I wanted the shiny crystal!"

Midna smiled as she held the crystal, but instead offered it back to him. "Meowsca... rada, meowsca rada radameow!" She told him happily. "I don't need it... you keep it, as my thank you for taking me out tonight and letting me have fun."

"You sure, I don't mind but... you did the most work for it so you should have it..." He said as Zackery bent down so Lucius could climb onto his back again.

Midna smiled sadly as she pushed it again into him. "Meowsca... rada, meowscarada." She said sadly. "I'm sure... besides, Viela wouldn't let me keep it anyway."

That was the sad truth, every time Faron gave her a little gift no matter what it was, Viela found some excuse to return it to him. She didn't know why but... that was just how it was. Sometimes it was the excuse 'we don't have the space' or something else, but she always returned whatever little present he gave her from him. Though to be fair, most of the time it was just little food parcels for her and Viela to share, but it was still the same.

It hurt her a little on the inside, the fact that no matter how many gifts or trinkets Viela had from her boyfriend Faron, she Midna had none for herself to remember all the times they shared together. But she had long since accepted that reality, besides she still got to hang out with him from time to time... every few months it seemed, and today was special still as they continued to spend the rest of the event watching people play in the dirt kicking the olive ball.

They laughed, snacked, got to play with the ball again but this time got to be messier by playing more in the dirt with other people and Pokemon now, and overall enjoyed the day.

She told herself mentally as she giggled and laughed, that no matter what happened, she would 'always' treasure her memories with Faron, Zackery, and even Lucius alongside her trainer... her friends. As long as she had those memories, she was... content.

At least that's what she told herself on the outside, inside however... she was hurting.

And this internal hurting was not going unnoticed, as a passing by Gardevoir paused to look at her while their partner, a graduating student by the looks of it, was stopped as well when they called to them psychically. They communicated for a few moments before they approached the Meoscarada.

"Excuse me sir, are you and your Pokemon busy?" The woman asked.

"Oh, uh no, is there something you need?" He asked as he, Zackery and Midna turned to look at the new arrivals.

"I was wondering if I could have a few words with your Meowscarada, my pokemon had sensed something and I was wondering if I could talk to it in private?" She said politely.

He looked at Midna for a moment who shrugged back in response. "Uhm, I guess you can talk to her, but just to clarify she isn't 'my' Pokemon, she's my girlfriend's, and I'm only looking after her for the afternoon."

"That's alright, it will be quick, you see I just want to do a quick study for my course credit, I need to interview at least 'ten' Pokemon and ten humans for my psychology and therapeutics' classes, and your Pokemon would be number ten for me!" She said with a polite bow. "I've already done ten humans; I just need one more Pokemon now and I can submit my work!"

"Uhm, therapeutics and psychology?" He asked curiously.

(My lady is studying to become a therapist, helping both Pokemon and Humans with emotional trauma and help them come to terms and get over difficult mental problems that may be affecting their health.) The Gardevoir said politely with a bow, its psychic voice sounding 'male' based on the tone. (Rest assured, we are only asking if a Pokemon or Human feels 'happy' with our survey, nothing serious or invasive. We will not ask personal questions or request answers to questions if they are not given.)

"Well, it's your call Midna." He told her.

Midna shrugged and nodded, agreeing to talk to the two and walked away so they could talk in private away from him.

Once she was a god few feet away, enough that they were out of ear shot, the woman took out a paper notebook, a pen, and coughed to clear her throat. "Alright, just a heads up, if you don't want to answer a question, by all means don't answer it, and despite how I may phrase my questions you can choose to answer them however you wish. Also, my friend will translate what you say psychically to me. Now, first question, would you consider yourself a 'competitive' pokemon, meaning you love to compete and battle, or do you see yourself as more of a 'casual' pokemon, meaning you fight when you must but otherwise don't seek fights out."

"I'm competitive, I like to fight, but I've always preferred to just have fun with my friends." She answered.

The woman nodded as she jotted some things down.

(How content or discontented do you feel yourself feeling as you spend time with your trainer or other humans in general?) The Gardevoir asked her.

"I feel... alright... I guess." She replied.

The Gardevoir narrowed his eyes at that response, but nodded in acceptance.

"On a day that rains in such a way that cancels all plans you and your trainer originally had, what do you and they find yourselves doing or how do you choose to spend it?"

"I... find myself wishing... wishing I were with my friends... Faron and Zackery... my trainer never lets me be with them nowadays." She said, mentioning the last part under her breath in such a way that it couldn't be heard, but the Gardevoir 'did' hear it with his better hearing and more importantly his psychic powers.

(Pretend for a moment that your trainer has visible flaws with their personality or character traits, if you could would you change them, for better or worse?)

Midna was quiet as she thought about that, imagining all of the times where she was put in her ball when Zackery came over, told not to come out, told she couldn't play with him or spend time with him when Viela was cooped up in her dorm room... "Yes..." She said quietly, as much as she hated the idea of... changing her trainer, she just wished she would let her be with her friends like before.

The woman waited for a bit to see if she'd say more, but when more wasn't said, she nodded and jotted her response down. "One last question... do you feel neglected, abandoned, or do you feel that your trainer abuses you in any way shape or form, or do you feel your trainer is pleasant to be with, takes care of your every need, and ensures you have as much of their attention as they do anything else in their life?"

Midna looked up before shaking her head, refusing to answer, she didn't want to answer that.

The Gardevoir's eyes again, narrowed, but the woman nodded and jotted down the response, before smiling and politely bowing. "Thank you for your time miss... uh do you have a name or...?"

"Midna... I'm called Midna by my trainer." She responded.

(We thank you for your time miss Midna, please do not take what we asked to heart, everything we said will remain confidential and your name will 'not' be mentioned in this school report to my lady's professor, nor will your trainer's.)

She sighed as she nodded and walked back to her friends, smiling as Faron waved her over and they began watching the next group of humans and Pokemon trying to get the ball into the basket.

Unbeknownst to her and Faron however, the woman and her Gardevoir began silently conversing, walking toward the main building.

Late in the afternoon the event finally ended, meaning that everyone started heading back home or to their dorms, Faron, Midna, Zackery and Lucius among them. Naturally Midna laughed and smiled, talking with them the entire time as they began making their way to the ladies' dorms. But as she got closer and closer, the smile began to fade, because she knew that once she reached her trainer's room, she might not see Faron, Zackery or Lucius again for a long time. That thought alone made her depressed because, she wanted to spend time with them, she loved hanging out with them, enjoying the time she spent with them and... she just wished they could go back to when they were children again and they played together like before.

Sure, they were 'kids' but... they still hung out together and she was allowed to be with them.

"Alright here we are!" Faron said as he knocked on a door.

Midna looked up and saw they were at their trainer's door, and after a few moments it opened. "There you are, I was wondering when you'd turn up." Viela said cheerfully as she stepped aside to allow Midna in. "Did you guys have fun?"

(Faron's Pov)

"Oh, yea we had a 'ton' of fun!" Faron said as he held up the crystal they'd won. "Midna let me keep this Tera Crystal that we won, you shoulda been there it was so awesome!"

"Nothing else happened right? Just the festival and that's it?"

"Yea that's about it, we played around with all the other people, kicked the ball and had fun but other than that nothing else happened down there, why?"

"Nothing, just want to make sure she's alright!" Viela explained.

"Alright well, I guess I'll uh, see you around then, right?" He said, his smile fading slightly.

"Same, have a good night sweetie." She said, leaning over and kissing him on the cheeks before closing the door.

With a sigh he and his Pokemon made their way back to his dorm now. Ten minutes later they opened the door and he let both Zackery and Lucius in before entering himself. After locking the door, he walked over to the kitchen and started working on dinner for them all, with Zackery spending his time running around and playing with his toy ball, and Lucius slowly walking toward his favorite spot on the floor to watch TV.

"Hey guys, can I ask you something?"

"What's up master, we having dinner now?" Zackery asked. "Skeledirge skele?"

"Soon Zackery, also stop with the master thing?" He chuckled. "Can I ask you guys a question; do you think something's up with Midna and Viela?"

"Skele, skele, skeledirge, skeledirge skele dirge skele, skele skele dirge?" Zackery said. "Nope, nope, nothing wrong, didn't see nothing, can we have pizza tonight?"

"Tooorkoaaaal." Lucius said as he turned from his spot to talk to him. "She was sad I think."

"But why would she be sad?" He asked as he began whipping up some baked ham for dinner. "I mean, she has a wonderful trainer, Viela is able to pursue like 'three' degrees, she's almost going to be making a six-figure salary right out of school."

That was something he was happy about for her, but it also made him feel depressed that because he was trying to get into Archeology, it meant that he and Viela were just going to be in completely different worlds it seemed. She'd be in the Pokemon League, working on legislation and laws to regulate the lives of Trainers and battling trainers at the same time at the highest level the league had to offer in Paldea. While he would be digging in dirt, excavating ruins and studying the past.

He'd be lucky to even visit her on a day off, let alone be able to have a stable relationship with her.

"Guys, answer me honestly... do you think I should break up with Viela?"

"Skeledirge skele skele?" Zackery asked in confusion. "Why you say that master?"

"Toooor koal torkoal tooork?" Lucius asked. "Is it because you two aren't dating like you used to?"

"Yea... let's face it we're boyfriend and girlfriend in name only at this point, the last time we had a real 'date' was like 'four months ago'. Since then, we haven't gone on a single date, spent a day together, or did anything 'couples' do when they are going out with each other. Heck, I have to struggle just to get her to come over here to watch a movie. I'm sure she'd accept us still being friends... but honestly, it's getting harder to say she's my girlfriend when she never spends time with me."

He sighed as he finished making dinner and soon began serving it to his two Pokemon before eating himself. Zackery greedily chowed down while Lucious slowly ate, chewing his food slowly and he just ate bits and pieces every few moments while looking over his possible credits he could go for to finish graduating and possibly get an Archeology excursion for experience before graduating.

After that he cleaned dishes, worked on some more things before heading to bed.

The next day Faron woke up and was getting things ready for breakfast before checking his schedule, and finding out that classes that day had been cancelled for him, something about the Professor having an urgent appointment. Chuckling he gave breakfast to his two Pokemon before hopping back into bed and deciding to relax that day, seeing as his girlfriend was no doubt going to be busy with her classes that day.

"Skeledirge?" Zackery asked him as he climbed onto the bed with him. "No classes today master?"

"Nope, which means we get to sleep in for today, yay!" He exclaimed happily.

"Yaaaaay!" Both pokemon called out, Zackery jumping down and curling up on his favorite pillow to nap while Lucius pulled himself into his shell to do the same.

Faron himself took the chance to nap as well, closing his eyes and letting himself start to drift off to neverland, wanting to enjoy the free sleep this day gave him. At least that was his plan until half an hour later someone began knocking on his door, causing him to slowly force himself up and quickly brush his hair before answering the door. At the door a Pokemon League official stood there, a woman wearing a business suit and sunglasses.

"Pardon me for any interruption I may have caused, but you are Mr. Faron, correct?" She asked him politely.

"Uh... yea... am I in trouble or something?" He asked nervously.

"No sir, but I will need you to follow me please." She responded. "An issue has cropped up and your presence is requested in order to resolve it."

"Okay... but let me just tell my Pokemon that I'll be gone for a bit and I'll be back soon." He said.

She nodded and allowed him to tell Zackery and Lucius what he was doing, saying he'd be back soon, and with that he closed the door, locked it and then followed the woman as she made her way out of the male dormitory and then to the female dormitory. From there she walked him, without once breaking stride or stance, up to the same floor as Viela. That was when he started getting nervous as he was afraid something was going on and 'hoped' that he wasn't being led to his girlfriend's room. That was probably the worst-case scenario running through his mind, he could only imagine what might be going on... he was just thinking it was for the best that they break up only last night, imagine if after this she got mad at him for some reason and broke it off with him out of anger.

Alas, fate had decided 'not' to be nice to him, as after a few minutes they stopped right outside her room where another Pokemon League Official, male, along with a Hatterene were standing there waiting. With a quick nod to one another, the League Official with the Hatterene knocked three times on the door, and after a few moments the door opened to reveal a 'surprised' Viela with a half-eaten piece of toast in her mouth, and her uniform on but missing the light hoodie they were required to wear at this time of year.

"Cavn I hwelp you?" She said as she quickly ate the toast in surprise at her visitors.

"Miss Viela, please forgive us for the intrusion but we need to have a word with you." The official said as he nodded to her and beckoned her to let them in.

Unable to say 'no' to a League Official, she nodded nervously and backed away to allow him, the Hatterene, the lady official, and finally 'him' into the room.

"Uh... there's not a lot of room in here for everyone..." She tried to say but the officials waved her words dismissively.

"We are aware of the school rules, for this instance they are not in effect, now please release your Pokemon, all of them." The woman said. As she stood off to the side, hands clasped behind her.

Viela glanced accusingly at him before slowly pulling out her Pokeball and releasing her Meowscarada Midna. She appeared in a red light and at 'first' she looked happy and surprised to see Faron, but then she noticed all of the 'other' bodies in the room, and suddenly she started getting nervous, as well as defensive, as if preparing herself for a fight.

"Is this your only pokemon?" The woman asked her.

"Yes, Midna is my only Pokemon that I have registered ma'am, is something wrong, I don't understand why you're here in my dorm room at this hour." Viela asked indignantly.

Both league officials nodded to one another and the male stepped forward with his Hatterene, looking at the starter with a gentle smile. "Hello there, Midna, I deeply apologize for this whole situation, but we in the Pokemon League recently received a tip from a student here about a potential case of a neglected Pokemon."

"Neglected Pokemon, I am not neglecting my Pokemon, I take good care of her, she is healthy, well fed, and her latest medical record from last week confirmed she was in perfect health!" Viela yelled indignantly. "Also why did you bring Faron here, did you have something to do with this?"

"Ma'am with all due respect please allow us to decide that, we take these cases 'very' seriously, and we're here to determine if this report was made falsely or not. If we determine that this report was falsely made, we will apologies for the inconvenience and deal with the individual who made the report. As for the presence of Mr. Faron, we invited him here because he was the last person who spent any time with your Pokemon, he did not file the report, that individual has chosen to publicly remain anonymous." The man said coolly, before turning to Midna again. "Now then, Midna as you are called... would you be willing to answer a few of our questions? Rest assured, no harm will come to 'any' individual we talk to you about, or yourself. We are also wearing translators so you need not worry about us needing translations."

Midna looked nervously between Faron and Viela, before nodding in agreement.

"Thank you." He said as he pulled out a folded paper and held it up to read out. "Now, Midna, you have lived with miss Viela for over nine years now, correct?"

"Yes." Midna replied.

Faron watched as the Hatterene nodded, not once taking her eyes off of Midna, clearly acting as the voice telling them if she was telling the truth or not.

"Very good, now yesterday you were seen attending a kick ball festival with the other individual in this room, one who goes by the name of 'Faron'."

Again, Midna replied 'yes' and again the Hatterened nodded, not blinking or changing the focus of her vision.

"During the event you were feeling happy, and enjoying yourself, is this true?" He asked.

Once more, Midna replied 'yes', and once more the Hatterene nodded in agreement.

"Did these feelings remain as you were being returned to your trainer's dorm room?"

Faron watched as Midna seemed to struggle with her answer, before replying 'yes', she was still feeling happy as she returned home, but the Hatterene shook her head instantly as she tried to say so.

"Midna, you don't need to lie to us, we're here to help you, we only want what's best for 'you'. As a Pokemon, you also have rights to fair treatment and being properly taken care of, this also includes being treated well and given the same care and attention that any human would give their fellow humans. Now please answer the question honestly."

Midna glanced at Viela, trying to act brave, before she frowned and said, "No, I wasn't feeling happy as I came back to my trainer's room."

At that Faron was surprised, she seemed alright to him as she came back.

"I see, then were you feeling happy when you 'were' leaving your trainer's dorm room that day to attend the festival?"

"I... I was... I just... I was happy to be going outside again, and being with my friends again." Midna said shamefully. "It's been so long since I was able to play with them and hang out like we used to when we were younger... I was just... happy to be with them again..."

The Hatterene nodded, saying she was telling the truth.

"Why is that, were you 'happy' to be leaving your trainer, was it because she wasn't going with you?"

Midna looked up and shook her head. "No, I wanted my trainer to come with, but she was busy with her practice tests and studies, and I was lucky she let me go!" She said quickly, but clamped her mouth shut as she realized what she'd said.

Again, the Hatterene nodded, indicating she had told the truth.

"Lucky, why are you 'lucky' that she let you go that day?" He politely asked her.

Midna, her tail drooping and her cape-like fur drooping as well, frowned as she slowly lowered her hands and just clasped them before her. "Well... she's usually busy so... she never lets me out unless it's to exercise or battle, but... we haven't had much time to do those these last few years since she started working so hard with school."

The Hatterene was slow this time, but she nodded to agree with her.

"If that's the case, why didn't she entrust your exercising to a student who does have time, someone you both know and you can rely on that knows her well enough to take care of you when she is busy? Does she not know anyone like that?"

"Well, she 'does' but..." She started saying but, her voice drifted off.

"But?"

Midna was quiet as she glanced at Faron and then Viela, before she finally spilled the beans. "She... doesn't trust me with... Faron, her boyfriend." She told them.

"Has 'Faron' ever abused you or given you poor care in an-" The official began saying before Midna snapped.

"No, he's never once hurt me, I trust him with my life, we've known each other since I was a Sprigatito and Viela first received me as her starter, we've been friends ever since! He's the best friend a Human or Pokemon could have!"

Everyone was quiet while the Hatterene just stared, silently watching, her expression unchanged, cold and emotionless, but she nodded, indicating that was indeed the truth.

"I see, then perhaps you can tell me why she does not entrust your well-being into his care from time to time?"

"I... I... I..." She tried to say but, her words were lost as she shook her head, unable to answer. "I don't know why... she just tells me 'no' every time he comes over to visit and... tells me I have to stay in my ball because of the rules. He brings his Pokemon so... I guess that's alright but... she never lets me go with him or... visits him with me..." Her voice trailed off as she began looking depressed as she glanced sadly at him.

The Hatterene nodded in agreement.

"I see... tell me are you happier spending time with her Boyfriend then you are with her?"

She glanced between the two of them before she gulped and tried to avoid answering the question.

"I understand your predicament, you don't want to say anything for fear of hurting or offending your trainer, but this is 'your' health and 'your' well-being at stake here, now please... tell us, are you happier with Faron, or Viela?"

Again, Midna tried to respond, she looked up and glanced between the two of them, before she began crying, slowly at first, just a few little tears, then she hiccupped, and then the waterworks started as she covered her eyes to try and hide the shame she was displaying. "I... I... I don't want to answer because... it's just not her fault... but she just doesn't tell me 'anything'..." She moaned sadly, the Hatterene slowly floating over and using the tendril-like appendage hanging from the tip of her hat-like head to pat her shoulder, smiling sadly and nodding, both in agreement, and to say she was telling the truth. "She... she doesn't tell me 'anything'... she says she's studying hard and she does but... that never stopped her 'before' from going to spend time with Faron and Zackery an-an Lucius! I just don't understand why she won't let me play with him... he's 'my' friend too... I miss him and Zackery and... I miss when we were 'friends' an-and we would go on adventures and see sights a-a-and battle each other and tag team and... and I'm just so confuuuused!"

At that he began feeling deeply sad for Midna, she was just so lonely now that she was being allowed to let out her emotions. Viela tried to go and comfort her Pokemon, but the female official grabbed her shoulder and held her in place. He also tried to comfort her, but the male official shook his head, telling him to stay still.

After Midna calmed down the Hatterene patted her shoulder comfortingly, before backing up and turning back to the Meowscarada, nodding to the two officials to resume asking her questions.

"When was the last time, not counting yesterday, that you were allowed to spend time with your friends, with or without your Trainer being there?"

"Months ago... I... think... Viela when did... when was the last time we spent time with Faron and Zackery?" She asked tearfully.

"Uh... two or three months ago... when we asked them to battle us for... practice before a big tournament?" Viela muttered sheepishly.

"That tournament was 'four' months ago Viela." Faron said, extremely disappointed in his girlfriend. "Viela, have you been keeping Midna from specifically seeing 'me' all of this time?"

Viela looked away, but her silence said all that was needed.

"Wh... you didn't want me to see him, Viela?" Midna asked quietly, suppressing her sadness and slowly letting her now, extremely suppressed anger rising as she began to 'glare' at her master. "We were friends, we've been friends with them since the day you 'got me', you can 'trust' him with me, I thought you trusted him with me. Why didn't you want me to see your 'boyfriend' on the days you needed to stay in and study, or when he came over to visit you, or when he was going out to give his Pokemon exercise and do fun stuff or... ANYTHING!? WHY DID YOU KEEP ME LOCKED IN THIS CAGE YOU CALL YOUR ROOM ALL THIS TIME?!"

Viela tried to speak, but Faron saw that her words were failing her, she couldn't or 'wouldn't' say what it was that was the reason for her keeping her starter trapped and isolated from her friends.

"I... trusted you... with my 'life'..." She whispered in barely controlled rage, her claws clenched in anger, her face contorting and trying to decide if it wanted to 'glare angrily' at her, or 'cry tears of sadness' because of her. "I trusted you... I thought you 'cared' about me... I... why? Just 'why'? He's my friend too... you can 'trust' me with him... why?"

At that Viela's face finally cracked as she began crying shamefully. "I... thought... you would take my boyfriend from me." She whispered sadly. "We all know that Pokemon and Human relationships are starting to become 'acceptable' in some regions, Paldea was among the first to legalize the practice. And... I'd read several stories of how... people ditch their partners for a Pokemon because they're... more loyal or... more interesting. I was afraid Faron would... like you more than me if I let you two stayed together for... any amount of time."

At that Faron was speechless, she was afraid he'd... with her 'pokemon' behind her back?

"You... you assumed that I would..." Midna said, aghast at what she heard. "Viela... I was 'happy' that your childhood friend was your boyfriend... I was 'happy' that you two might get married... I thought if you two got together, we'd all stay friends 'forever'. Why would you think I'd... I just... wanted to be with my friends... I never dream of... how could you? I... you... we..."

After that she started stuttering, her expression breaking down as she struggled to talk...

The Hatterene shook her head disapprovingly before she turned to the officials and nodded to them, apparently talking to them psychically. Both of them nodded in agreement before the Hatterene floated to stand between Viela and Midna. After that one of them pulled out their Rotom Phone and dialed a number.

"Yes Ma'am, we can confirm, the filing was genuine, we have a clear case of Pokemon Neglect. Yes ma'am... I understand ma'am, we'll get right on it." The male official said before putting his phone away. "Senior Viela, as of this minute your trainer's license is temporarily suspended and you are now officially relieved of your Pokemon, Species Meowscarada, named Midna. A restraining order has been issued and has been filed, you are no longer permitted to be within thirty feet of this Pokemon due to your neglectful actions and mistreatment of your Pokemon Partner."

"W-what?!" She screamed.

"Our Hatterene superior in this field has chosen this course of action for us to follow for the sake of this Pokemon's mental health, you are also hereby suspended from school for six months until the end of the year, when you will be permitted to resume your classes. Your academic record will have this mark permanently attached, and you will have to complete an exam and earn a certificate, certifying you have the capacity and the ability to properly care for a Pokemon before resuming your courses."

"B-b-but this is my Graduation year!" She screeched.

(You should have thought of that 'before' damaging your Pokemon's mind the way you did.) A distasteful voice said in the room, coming from the Hatterene, which glared at her. (Consider yourself fortunate that the Academy and Pokemon League are not 'expelling' you or ruining your chances of completing your degrees or potentially obtaining the jobs you are attempting to pursue.) She then turned to look at Faron with a calm expression. (As you are proven to be trustworthy, both from this interview and the fact that you are tending to 'two' Pokemon at the same time, and we have heard no complaints and only complements from the faculty, we are now placing this Pokemon in your care. We will of course, respect your decision if you choose not to, and will place her up for adoption, if any immediate family of Miss Viela are not able to take care of her. As per the restraining order however, if you choose to take her in, you are not permitted to take Midna anywhere near Viela purposefully, or you will have your Trainer's license suspended.)

Faron looked between the Hatterene and Midna, whose eyes were teary red, bloodshot, and crying in fury as she tried to comprehend all of her emotions now swimming in her head.

"May I approach Midna?" He asked quietly.

The officials looked to the Hatterene, who nodded, and shifted ever so slightly so he had a clear line to the Meowscarada, but still stayed squarely between her and Viela. With permission he walked over to the Pokemon that he called a friend and looked at her, but she was staring at the floor, a mute statue still while her mind tried to settle. "Midna..."

She sniffled as she looked up at him.

"Do you want to come live with me and the others?" He whispered gently, offering his hand to her. "I can't promise I'll be the best trainer for you... but I will always do my best to take care of you."

Midna sniffled some more as she looked to the hand, but instead of taking it, she just shuffled forward, and leaned into him, crying sadly as she nodded feebly, agreeing to go with him.

"It's okay... it's okay..." He whispered into her ears, hugging her and patting her shoulders, trying to comfort her and cheer her up. "Let's go... I have to make lunch for everyone now."

She sniffled in response, nodding in understanding.

"Do you have anything that you need to bring with you?" He asked her.

She nodded again, before feebly pointing over at the desk, where her Pokeball sat, and then pointed at a little chest with her name on it sitting at the foot of Viela's bed. The Hatterene nodded in understanding before pointing with her tentacle-like arm at the chest for the officials to take, which the male did, while the female official picked up her ball and handed it to him.

Once the chest was picked up and handed to Faron, he offered Midna his hand, and she slowly gripped it, and began walking out beside him.

They paused only for a moment before he turned to Viela and looked at her with disappointment. "Viela... we're through." He told her bitterly.

"W-what?" She said in disbelief.

"You heard me, I don't want to be associated with someone who treats their Pokemon how you did. I can't believe you would do this to Midna, your 'starter', your best friend in this whole world." He told her. "We need to take 'care' of our friends Viela, and I mean that for every friend, not treat them how you did. If I did this to Zackery, you'd take him away from me in a heartbeat and demand I'd be thrown in jail for what I did to him if our situations were reversed."

He looked to Midna who was still looking down and gripped her hand tighter. "Let's go Midna..."

She nodded and slowly trudged out of the room with him beside her.

"W-wait, WAIT!" Viela shouted as they walked out the door and down the hall. "MIDNA I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY PLEASE FORGIVE ME I'M SORRY!"

He didn't look back as they kept walking, hearing the sound of the two officials keeping Viela held back and not letting her try and go after them. He glanced at Midna as she seemed dead on her feet, trying very hard not to turn around and look back at where she had lived for the last nine years with the human she had called friend. Deep inside he was hurting too, he just couldn't believe what Viela did or 'would' do to keep something from happening when it didn't exist. And that cold breakup he did... was not what he wanted to have happened, but happened it did.

All he could do was walk back to his dorm with the magician cat that 'used' to be his friend's friend beside him, trying to figure out how to help her now.

Several minutes later he arrived at the boy's dormitory and knocked to announce he was coming in. Unlocking the door he opened it and allowed her to shuffle in first.

"Skeleeee, Skelediiiiirge skele!" Zackery shouted cheerfully as he ran from his spot to say hi to Midna. "Look Lucius, Master and Midna are here!"

"No Zackery stay, stop!" He shouted in a commanding voice, quickly getting in front of Zackery and stopping the gator from tackling Midna to the ground.

In confusion he stopped and looked between Faron's expression, and Midna's disheveled form.

"I have a lot of explaining to do... but please, I need you to respect Midna for now and try to be quiet for now. She's... had a very rough day and... she needs all of my attention right now." He whispered to him.

Still confused he nodded and backed up, allowing Midna to step into the room and make her way to the bed to sit down. Faron placed her little chest of toys on the floor nearby, opened it in case she wanted one, and then sat next to her with Lucius slowly walking over to them.

"Hey Midna?" He whispered softly.

"Meowsca?" She whispered just as softly. "Yes master?"

"First don't address me as master, I tell Zackery this as well, he just keeps forgetting." He said with a chuckle, trying to get her to smile... if even a little. "Second... I know this is hard for you, harder for you then it is for me, I can't imagine what's going on in your mind right now. But... I promise you from the bottom of my heart, I'll take good care of you, and if you need 'anything' from me... you let me know alright? I'm your friend after all... right?"

Midna was quiet as she glanced up at him, and smiled... if a feeble smile that only 'looked' like one... but a smile nonetheless. "Yea... you are..."

He nodded back and scratched her head, electing the tiniest of purrs from her. "I've got to make lunch, you just sit there and... try to relax and rest alright?"

She nodded in understanding and watched him walk to the kitchen area to work on lunch.

The rest of the day was quiet, the only thing Faron did was clean dishes, do some minor arrangements, clean up the place a bit, and explain to Zackery and Lucius what was going on with Midna and why she was there. He set up a bathroom schedule for her because she was the only 'female' in the, until that point, all male room, and told both of his Pokemon to follow and respect her privacy if she ever asked for it. When dinner came, she sat down at the table and ate with him while his two Pokemon were content to eat on the floor because of their low profiles.

At night, he changed into his pajamas and offered to take the floor and let her sleep on his bed, but she shook her head, asking to sleep with him in bed, saying, "I'm used to... sleeping that way thanks to... you know... I'm just more comfortable that way."

Nodding in acceptance he asked her which side she wanted to sleep on, and she asked for the window side, and so she got what she wanted. Under the blankets he scratched her head to make her smile gratefully before turning over and starting to sleep, granting her privacy in the bed.

As for the Meowscarada... she looked over at him, smiled gratefully at him... before turning over and falling asleep, purring contently, feeling safe and... happy for the first time in a long time it seemed.

(Midna's Pov)

It took Midna several weeks to get used to living in a boy's dorm room, having to learn new rules and especially getting used to a bathroom schedule. Turns out both Zackery and Lucius use the bathroom as well, though how she didn't ask, but she guessed it had something to do with that weird... 'thing' in the room that looked like a platform with a hole in it. She also had to get used to knocking and making sure she didn't walk into the bathroom while Faron was inside of it.

But it was worth it, because... as sad as she was at having been betrayed by her trainer and closest friend... she found herself feeling happier than she has been in a long time, thanks to the fact that she now lived with Faron and his two Pokemon.

"Come on Lucius, you can block her!" Zachery cheered as Midna smiled while rolling her eyes.

They were playing a game of kick ball in Faron's room, with Lucius acting as the Goal Keeper. They had to clear away the table that Faron used to do homework on as well as where they ate food, but there was just enough space for the Torkoal sit at one end of the room with a little 'net' behind him and sit there so he could try and block the ball.

It was his favorite game to play, and honestly, she could not get why Lucius liked playing with him, the Torkoal, even as she lined up her shot, could only take about six steps every minute. This meant that when she lightly kicked it past him to smack gently into the wall, it was extremely easy to get it past the Torkoal to score points. But it seems that Lucius was always getting a chuckle or two, mostly from Zachery and his clear insistance that he was an excellent goal keeper.

"Don't worry Lucius, you'll get her next, my turn now my turn!" Zachery cheered happily as he waddled into position while the Torkoal slowly walked out of the goal area so Midna could act as Goal Keeper. "Ima get you, just watch Ima soooar this right past you!"

"Do your best Zachery~!" She chuckled as she bent low and got ready.

Zachery waddled forward and tail slapped the ball, sending it into her and allowing her to catch it with ease.

"You got lucky that time!" Zachery growled playfully as he helped Lucius get into position for Goal Keeper.

"Yea Zachery, I totally got lucky~." She snickered.

They never could score against her, Zachery was just not as 'skilled' when it came to battling or maneuverability as she was, having been trained to be a Champion Pokemon. But if there was one thing, she was happy for, thanks to being with her friends again, was that they took her mind off of her problems. She welcomed the games and distractions, as it kept her mind away from Viela...

Thinking of Viela made her stop for a moment, as she remembered that just a few days ago, she was with her trainer and... it would be this time when she would have been scheduled for another set of practice battles with her. They would have been out in the practice track having battles and... she would be telling her how wonderful she is. How proud she was of, how far they'd come together... that she couldn't be happier with any other Pokemon.

"You alright?" A slow and quiet voice asked her, causing her to snap out of her thoughts and remember where she was.

Lucius was looking at her with a worried expression as she'd zoned out again. She quickly smiled and nodded, pretending everything was fine. "Yea I'm fine Lucius... just... distracted is all."

"Yea well just cause your winning doesn't mean we can't turn it round, right Lucius, just watch him block this one!" Zachery taunted as he waited for her to kick the ball at the Torkoal.

Midna smiled a little sadly at that, Zachery, as strong as the Skeledirge was, was clueless to what was going on in her head. But she was happy for that, as she put the ball down and kicked it past Lucius for the tenth time that day. She was happy that Zachery didn't know what was going on in her mind, it helped distract her, and it helped remind her that she was among her friends again.

But there was 'one' thing that always did cheer her up, which arrived ten minutes later, unlocking the door and causing her to cheer up and forget the game.

"Master's back, dinner time, game over!" Zachery hollered excitedly as he turned and started waddling over to the door.

"Hi Faron~!" Midna cheered as she ran fastest, jumping into Faron's arms and hugging him.

"Hi Midna, he chuckled as he scratched her cheek and gave her a head pat, causing her to purr in satisfaction.

If there was one thing that cheered her up, it was Faron, and as he came back from his classes and started getting things back the way they were, she went to her toy chest and pulled out one of her little toys to pass the time, as he too had homework to do.

As she played with her little ball on a string, idly tossing it and watching it zoom back to her via the rubbery string, she watched as Faron pulled out what looked like a very small brief case and opened it up.

Curious, she looked over and saw that a portion of it was filled with sand, another section of it was isolated and filled with various digging and excavation tools, complete with different types of brushes, sponges and a tiny bottle of water.

"What is that?" She asked, putting her toy in her chest and walking over to investigate while Zachery resumed playing with Lucius.

"Oh, this, it's just an archeology practice kit." He said, making a little space so she could look at it. "My professors give me these from class to class, they're designed to help me learn proper archeology techniques and teach me how to excavate ruins and other old things burried in the ground."

"Wow..." She whispered, never seeing something like this before. "Hey, can I try helping with you?"

"Uhm... sure, why not!" He said cheerfully as she sat down next to him.

That was another thing she liked about spending her days with Faron, he allowed her to join in whatever he was doing. It didn't matter if he was just playing games, reading a book for leisure, or even making dinner for them all, if she asked to join he always let her join him.

"Okay so, first we need to brush away the sand, as you can see there's a little clay pot in there burried in the sand. So, we just gently brush away the sand." He explained.

"Like this?" She asked as she took her tail and used the flower end to wipe sand away.

"You're going to fast... gentle strokes... like this." He said as he gently took her paw, had her hold her tail and then used it to slowly, gently, coax and push sand away from the little pot in the kit.

She giggled a little as she was brushing a little too fast, but slowly, steadily, they got into the swing of it, and soon she was gently sweeping away sand with her tail with Faron helping and guiding her. As she just sat there, playing with her tail and using it to excavate this little clay pot with Faron, she just glanced at him, and smiled sweetly at him.

He was so nice to her, letting her join him on whatever he was doing.

"Uh Midna..."

"What is it Faron?" She asked curiously, wondering if she did something wrong.

"You're tail."

She looked at her tail and lifted it to see that it was absolutely 'coated' in sand, the flower portion looking yellowish-orange compared to its usual green with how much sand was stuck to it, even the invisible portion was now being revealed because of all the sand now stuck to her fur. "I guess my tail is uh... not ideal for this right?"

Faron just started laughing as they looked at her tail and soon, she joined in with him, leaning heavily as they looked at her tail swaying with the sand stuck to it. It was so embarrassing to see her tail like that, but she just didn't care, it was funny and they both had a laugh.

"Do you want to wash your tail off real quick?"

"Let's finish this before I do that, might as well finish what we started right?" She chuckled as she resumed using her tail to brush sand away.

She decided she'd use her tail to continue brushing away sand with Faron helping and guiding her, teaching her how he completes these excavation tests so as to remove the excavated items without damaging them, leaving in the same condition they were found. Every time he brought one back to his dorm room, she would use her tail, despite the fact that it meant she would have to clean it off vigorously, she didn't mind. She was having fun with Faron, and if the small price to pay for that simple joy was her tail getting sandy and needing a good scrubbing, so be it.

"Alright, pot is excavated, thanks a lot Midna... you uh, better clean up real quick, I'll get started on dinner."

She nodded and got up, walked to the bathroom, closed it but forgot to close it shut, and turned on the sink so she could begin scrubbing her tail clean of sand.

Moments later she began hearing the door creak open, and turned to scream loudly, "Zachery I'm in here!" as she saw the nose of the Skeledirge starting to poke in,

"Oh... sorry!" He said as he pulled back, and she quickly pulled the door shut and locked it.

She was so embarrassed, even if they were Pokemon and... well they didn't wear clothes like humans did, she didn't like the idea of being in the bathroom alone with a male.

"Uh... can you hurry it up in there, I need to go..."

She looked to her left at the toilet, and yet again, looked at the weird platform thing that was leaning off to the side that had a hole in it. She wondered, again, not for the first time, how Zachery and Lucius used that to go to the bathroom... but, as she thought about it, she didn't want to think about it.

She was just glad that Faron respected her privacy and 'never' went into the bathroom when he saw her go in, and always knocked to make sure she wasn't in there, even if he knew where she was.

(Midna's PoV - Two days Later)

Faron was just showing Midna his homework, explaining how he had to research ancient Paldean so as to translate certain messages and letters, phrases and words that did not carry over into the modern language of Paldea when a knock on the door sounded.

He got up and opened it to see an official with the Hatterene outside of his door.

"Hello Mr. Faron, sorry to interrupt you, but as you know based on the email you received this is our scheduled checkup meeting with Ms. Midna to ensure she is in a safe and stable environment and is on the road to recovering. If you will please step outside and answer some of my questions while this Hatterene conducts her interview with Midna, we can begin." The man said in a neutral and official tone.

"Uh, okay." He said, stepping aside and allowing the Hatterene to shuffle her way in, while calling for Zachery and Lucius to join him outside so that Midna had privacy. "Zachery, Lucius, can you guys come out here, the Pokemon League needs to talk to Midna alone for a bit!"

Midna looked between the Hatterene as she shuffled over to her, and then to Zachery who waited until Lucius was on his back before waddling innocently outside. "We going somewhere master?"

"No, Midna just needs to talk alone is all..." Faron said as the Skeledirge waddled out, and the League Official closed the door shut, leaving her and the Hatterene alone.

Once she was alone, the Hatterene cleared her throat and used her tentacle like armature to beckon to the chair and asked her to sit down, which she did.

(Very well, let me begin by saying you are looking a little better than the last time I first laid eyes on you.) The Hatterene said politely.

"Yes, Faron takes very good care of me." Midna said warmly.

(I would hope so, and that you are not being coerced to say that.) She said with a frown. (You are not being coerced to say positive things about him are you, you are free to say what you wish, we only want what is best for you, and if Faron is not up to our standards we will immediately take action on your beha-)

"No, he's not done anything bad to me, he hasn't laid a paw on me or done anything harmful, he's the nicest friend I could ever have!" She snapped angrily, getting very defensive. "He isn't like Viela he isn't... he never... never locks me up in a cage or... tells me to stay quiet or... never lets me see my friends he... never does anything like that! He... he always t-tries to make me laugh... smile... gets me whatever I need or ask... t-t-takes care of me... and... I'm... I'm so... g-grateful that he's my friend and..."

She began shaking as she remembered all those days Viela made her just... sit, and not talk to her, not letting her spend time with Faron or Zachery or Lucius, not once letting her go visit him, or letting her out to say hi, not 'once' treating her the way she wanted and only letting her out when it suited 'her'. All of those memories of being locked up, forced into that ball, crying silently, just accepting her life... came flooding back again. All it took was this Hatterene even 'mentioning' that Faron might be hurting her, and suddenly...

But the Hatterene however, remained neutral, letting her vent, neither penalizing her or reprimanding her. She just let her vent until she was done, and when she was, she gently coaxed her back into her chair and resumed.

(Please don't take what I'm saying to heart, and also let me finish speaking please, I am only doing my duty to ensure you're in a healthy and stable environment.) She said with a slight smile. (It does bring an ease to my heart knowing that you feel that way about your new trainer, as you are unaware, the first few days when a Pokemon is taken away from their trainer whom they were bonded with for a long time, are the most critical to their recovery and are the most important steps to ensure they recover mentally and emotionally. Just based on your reaction, I can report that Faron is an ideal candidate and we were right to entrust him to you.)

Midna nodded as she looked away, but still... the memories, the emotions, the mixed feelings she had bottled up and brewing inside of her were swirling in her mind now.

"How could she do that to me... why... I never would have... never... she could trust me with 'anything'... I trusted her why... why? Just why?" She whispered sadly. "I... I just don't understand?"

(I cannot say why, but despite what she said, that is neither here nor there, the damage has been done, and now it's up to Faron to help you recover.) The Hatterene explained, patting her shoulder in understanding. (Tell me... what happens when Faron is not here and is taking his classes during school hours? What do you do during that time?)

Midna was quiet as she was still reeling from that outburst. Instead of answering she just asked another question. "Why... does it hurt so much... I don't understand why it hurts so much?" She asked.

The Hatterene sighed and muttered something about 'that question', before looking up and saying, (For a Starter Pokemon, no matter the region, being the very first Pokemon a trainer is given when they begin their path in life, are often the most emotionally attached to their Trainers. As such, when that bond between them gets broken or damaged, they are left emotionally and mentally damaged, as that kind of trust is next to impossible to recover from.)

Midna just thought about that, but all she could think was 'why', why did she do that to her then?

(I can fathom the pain your feeling Miss Midna, not only were you her starter, you were her 'only' Pokemon... that level of trust, importance, friendship placed between you two... is hard to replicate. But you must learn to let go of her and you must learn to move on.) The Hatterene whispered sadly, already sensing her thoughts and feelings. (Let's talk about Faron, you said you enjoy your time with him, what happens when he's not here and when he is here?)

Midna took a deep breath to settle herself, or try to, before smiling warmly as she thought about him now. "Yes... during the days he goes to classes, he leaves me with Zachery and Lucius. He asks them to keep me company, play games with me and... he just always spends time with me when he's able to. He started showing me archeology and he even lets me help him... mhmhm my tail gets dirty from all the sand I help brush away, and I have to clean it but we just laugh about it all the time and I have lots of fun with him!"

The Hatterene nodded. (Have you two gone out for exercise yet, as a Pokemon of your champion level and caliber, you need regular exercise, has he taken you outside yet for training or for fresh air?)

"Not yet, we were going to go tomorrow and later tonight, he wanted me to get used to living in his dorm since I've been living with... 'her'... and I've never lived with boys before."

Once more the Hatterene nodded, before thinking for a moment and then looking up to ask, (As a Female Pokemon in a 'male' dorm, and given your body type, does he ensure you have proper 'privacy' for your bathroom needs? And does he make sure to respect them himself? As you know it has been reported, though I am not implying it with Faron, but some male trainers are known to abuse their pokemon wit-)

"He 'never' peeps on me in the bathroom or looks at me like that, he always makes sure to knock and ensure I'm not in the bathroom before going in even when he knows where I am. He always asks me to lock the door and makes sure I-" Midna snapped again, angry that the Hatterene would even 'think' to imply Faron would abuse her.

But the Hatterene this time gave her a minor glare, telling her to stop talking.

(I told you, I was not implying that 'Faron' specifically would or does do it with you, I am just saying... some 'male humans' have been known, to abuse their Pokemon without them realizing it. Also please stop interrupting me, I'm just trying to do the job of the Pokemon League, remember... we are only concerned with your emotional and mental health. We just want what's best for 'you'.)

Midna slowly nodded and apologized for her outburst again, but she once again said that Faron respected her and cared for her as a friend, he would 'never' abuse her like that. The Hatterene nodded as she thought for a moment before asking, (Do you have anything to report about Faron that you find... distasteful, no matter how small, even if your only complaint is that he doesn't give you your favorite snack from time time?)

Midna smiled as she shook her head and replied, "No, I have zero complaints, I am happy with Faron... I've... never been as happy since... since..." She tried to say but, she chose to ignore it.

The Hatterene nodded again, not pressing for more and instead thanked her for her time, wishing her a happy day. With that she began making her way to the door and began to leave.

When she left Midna listened in and heard her say, (I apologize for the interruption to your day, but rest assured these meetings are necessary to ensure Midna's mentally and emotionally recovering. I am pleased to say that you have met our expectations, please continue to take care of her and treat her well.) She told him, before shuffling out, though she turned to him and said, (Also, I must compliment you for treating her so well after she was removed from her previous trainer. She kept on interrupting me to defend you, without letting me finish talking. I will note that as a 'responds positively to current trainer' in my report.)

(Faron's PoV one week later)

Faron had just walked into his dorm room after taking a very exhausting test, glad that it was the weekend and he could just go to 'sleep' tonight. At least he could 'after' he took Midna out for a night time walk and for some quick exercise. He was happy that Zachery was so willing to help her practice and work out her muscles like she used to, since he was not the best at training or knew how to properly give her exercise regimes. Instead, she just told him let her do some basic workouts and asked him to get Zachery to use various fire moves for her to dodge.

"it's a good thing she knows how to take care of herself, or else I'd be in trouble... I don't battle like Viela used to." He muttered as he locked the door behind him, right as Zachery came waddling up to him, surprising him as normally Midna was the first to tackle him against the door.

"Master Master, Midna's acting weird today!" Zachery said as he nuzzled him and then began pushing him into the dorm room.

"Weird?" He asked suddenly as he looked over and saw Lucius watching the Meowscarada staring at something on the bed while sitting with her chin resting on her knees.

Midna was sitting on his bed, chin on her knees, staring at her Pokeball, a look of confusion and bitterness on her face as she just stared at it, silently watching it just sit in front of her.

"Midna?" He asked tentatively as Zachery walked with him, worried as he never saw her look so... depressed, confused, and angry at the same time.

She looked over at him and smiled at him before looking back at the ball, her face once again looking angry, depressed, confused... and a host of other emotions that just couldn't seem to describe themselves. She didn't say anything, she just stared at the Pokeball.

"Are you alright Midna, is something wrong?" He asked her quietly, kneeling next to the bed and gently holding her shoulder.

She breathed in deeply and then exhaled just as much, before smiling sourly as she took one paw and gently rubbed his hand in gratitude, grateful for his attention and concern for her.

"Faron... I don't know how to feel right now." She muttered sadly. "I thought I was getting better... I keep saying I'm over her, that she's not important now, that... she's in the past and... but every time I see this ball, I think of her and I just think... she's still here and she's 'controlling' me."

He looked at the ball too and understood what she meant. It was the Pokeball's 'safety net' feature that kept a Pokemon from straying too far from its trainer via the Pokeball. When a Pokemon is caught in a ball, a silent instinct is placed on them to always sense when their Trainer is getting too far away using the Pokeball. It was only designed and only used for Trainers venturing outside and to ensure that Trainer and Pokemon didn't lose one another. If the Pokemon or Trainer started straying too far from one another, the instinct could kick in and the Pokemon would just automatically begin seeking out and moving toward their trainer without them realizing it.

For the most part, it was harmless, and the Pokemon never complained about it if they knew about it, and most never even noticed it to begin with.

However, since Faron never kept his Pokemon in their Pokeballs, they were essentially free to roam as they wished, and just stayed close to him because they wanted to. But he also trusted them to take care of themselves and not wander too far, a trust built over many years of closely living and taking care of one another.

For Midna however, her Pokeball was still there, still working as intended, and since he never took it, she just stayed within his dorm except for the times he left with her to go outside, when he took her ball.

"Do you..." He started saying, but she began talking and so he stayed quiet until she finished.

"I still remember the day we first met... I jumped into her arms... I was purring and smiling, it was a nice warm day." She said sadly. "She gave me the name Midna, and said we were going to go meet her friend later that day to play. We were going to celebrate our last day before we went to school at Uva Academy. We laughed, we played, I chased you around the lighthouse and you picked me up... I had so much fun and... all I wanted was for us to be friends forever from that day onward."

She looked over at him with a teary smile, a smile that was just as happy as it was angry.

"Do you know how many days we almost went hungry while traveling around for our Gym Badges? If you didn't help us out those times, we might have been in trouble... she just couldn't learn to plan properly those early days... if not for you and Zachery finding us those times and helping us out..." She chuckled sadly as she recounted the memories. "She was laughing that I had to carry 'you' in that one double battle gym, and you laughed at 'her' for needing to borrow Zachery so she could battle since all she had was me. We all laughed and talked about how crazy it was that situation happened."

She looked back to the ball now and cried slightly, and Faron gently held her, wrapping an arm around her, allowing her to weep and cry into his shoulder now.

"A part of me... wants to believe she's not bad, that we can make up, it believes that we can go back to those days and we can be friends again. But... then the rest of me remembers how she treated me for over 'two years', how she kept me from even seeing you three, even 'before' you and her started dating. And I don't want to feel this 'guilt' that maybe it's my fault she acted that way, that maybe if I knew sooner, I could have promised her... and then... you two would still be together and I'd still have her and..."

She leaned over and just cried into him, and again he was reminded of how much this was hurting her, how much she was still recovering and just how badly Viela had hurt Midna without her realizing it.

He looked at the little Pokeball, it was just a standard Pokeball, but it was so much more to Midna. It was where she lived when not inside of it, it was where she stayed when traveling and she didn't walk around, and it was her link to whoever it was that was designated as her Pokemon Trainer. But for her right now, it was a constant reminder that Viela was still there, and it was constantly keeping her tied to wherever 'it' was... just like how Viela kept her tied in her room.

"What do you... want to do?"

Midna looked up at him before looking to the ball. "That ball is the only thing left keeping me tied to Viela... and it's... it's..." She sighed as she flicked it, watching it roll back for a second before returning to its previous position. "Faron... I don't know what to do... please tell me what I should do. A part of me wants to smash it but... another part wants to keep it because... it reminds me of the days I had fun and was friends with Viela, when we were all friends and... but it's also been my prison these last few years and even 'now' it still keeps me tied..."

She looked to him now with a desperate look in her eyes, hoping, begging, wanting him to make a decision.

"You're my master, I don't care if you say not to call you that, you're my trainer now... so I'll... I'll... I trust your judgement... I'll trust your decision, whatever it is... but I'm... I don't know what to do so... please tell me. If you tell me to keep it, even for sentimental reasons I'll do it, but if you say we should smash it I'll accept it as well."

He looked between her desperate and lost eyes, looking for answers and trying to understand what to do in this situation, and the Pokeball that sat idly in the spot it was in on the bed.

He closed his eyes and thought carefully about his decision, this was probably 'the' most important decision he could make for Midna. If he told her to keep the ball, then she'd be stuck with that constant knowledge that Viela was her previous trainer, and constantly reminded of what she did and how she treated her. But it would also remind her of the good times, the times they all shared, and that deep down Viela had her best interests at heart even if she had gone about things the wrong way when it came to how she treated her and him, as well as that maybe they were 'still' friends.

On the other hand, if he told her to destroy it and he did destroy the ball, she would be free of her past, and she wouldn't need to ever think of her trainer ever again, she could move on, move forward in life, a free Pokemon, bound to no 'trainer' except those she chose to bind herself to. It would honestly be the best decision for her, considering how much Viela was hurting her despite all of the time that passed. Everytime she was reminded of Viela, she lost her cheerful and happy attitude, and that more than anything was why he was taking care of her to begin with, because he cared about 'her' as a Pokemon and as a friend.

"Midna... I'm only suggesting this because I am your friend and I care about you... and your wellbeing... but I say you should destroy the ball."

He looked to the ball with a sad frown.

"No matter how long you have it, that ball will keep poking you about how she treated you, and I know how much it means to you, but those memories you hold dear are still memories, with or without the ball. You can always remember them when you want... but that ball... will also remind you about how she treated you, and what she put you through."

She looked at him and then looked at the ball, looked at him again, and then took a deep breath, and nodded, taking the ball with her hand and offering it to him.

"Then destroy it... please destroy it for me Faron." She asked him with quiet fortitude.

"You really trust me with this decision Midna... this is... well... it's 'your' choice, I won't force you to-"

Midna shook her head and sternly offered it to him. "I trust your judgement, one hundred percent, I trusted Viela and she... but I know you wouldn't ever hurt me, I know... I just 'know' I can trust you with anything. If you say destroy it for my own good, then I want you to destroy it for me. Please..."

He nodded and accepted the ball, and walked around Lucius and Zachery who had stayed quiet, both of them mature enough to know when to not talk and just let them do their thing. So, after he rummaged around in his cabinets, he found a small hammer that he used to tenderize meat for Zachery and himself on celebration days.

Then he placed the ball on the table, and looked at her. She took a deep breath, and nodded, giving him the final confirmation to her choice.

So, with a heavy heart, he took aim, raised the hammer, and then swung it down with as much force as he could.

*WHAM-Smaaaaaaash*

The ball cracked and broke into pieces, small strikes of electricity erupting from the Pokeball's circuitry. The pieces flung everywhere, and Midna went wide eyed and held her head for a moment, shuddered for a moment before steadying herself, Faron quickly running over and giving her someone to hold onto until she was fine.

She gasped slightly as she looked at the pieces, before looking up at him, then she closed her eyes, took a deep breath... and sighed, before looking at him and nodding gratefully.

"That... felt weird..." She muttered. "But... I don't know why but... I feel... 'freer' than I've ever been before."

"Do you want to sit down or-"

She giggled and shook her head, hugging him happily and purring warmly in his embrace. "No, I'm fine, I really feel fine... in fact I feel 'BETTER' then fine... I feel... happy!" She said cheerfully. "I don't know why, but I feel 'happy' now that I'm free."

She then stepped away and twirled around, her little cape flowing with her movement and her tail-flower waving in the air behind her, smiling as she bowed to him. "Master Faron, I'm sorry... 'Faron'... from this day forth, I am officially, truly, your Pokemon. And from this day forth, you are my one and only 'trainer'... my... 'Faron'~!"

Time continued however, and as is the way of things, things always changed. Slowly at first, but as time went on... something inside of Midna shifted... ever so subtly, as she began looking at Faron in another light, a light she didn't think she would look at him in... until one day... she peaked on him changing in the dorm room while she was in the bathroom after he'd showered.

"Alright your turn Midna!" Faron said as he walked out with only his bathrobe on.

"Thank you!" She said as she got up from the bed while watching TV with Zackery and Lucius, watching a sporting event being hosted in Galar.

She walked past him into the bathroom and closed it behind her, enjoying the steam still circulating through the bathroom from when Faron used it and enjoying the feeling of the water vapor tickling her grassy fur and the rest of her body. After some minor adjustments to the bathtub water, she glanced around, a habit she'd picked up since moving in with Faron, looking for anyone or anything, before reaching up and taking off her mask that covered her face.

Much like a Delphox's stick, a Meowscarada's mask wasn't actually attached to their bodies permanently. It acted like a regular mask, but because she only ever had 'one' her entire life, she took extreme care of it. It was super embarrassing for her species to not have it on, and if they lose it for 'any' reason... the Pokemon would have an existential meltdown until a makeshift was made to replace it, but even then... it just would haunt them forever mentally.

Her mask off, she heard some rustling on the other side of the door, and growling to herself, she went over to creak the door open and yell at Zackery that she was in there.

"I swear Za-" She began muttering angrily, before her eyes snapped wide open at the sight before her, visible only through the tiniest crack in the door.

Faron, his back turned to her, 'naked'.

"Hooooh..." She whispered to herself as she beheld his body.

He wasn't a bodybuilder by any stretch of the word, but his daily activities with Zackery and Lucius and now 'her', had given him a pretty good physique, resulting in him having only a smidgen of body fat here and there. He had a fair bit of muscle, particularly around the arms and chest area and the legs, but as he turned to pull on some clothes, it was the meaty 'package' hanging that caught her attention.

It was about five inches long, flaccid, and showed signs that the male it was attached to was 'healthy'...

She couldn't help herself, her body started reacting, suddenly one of her paws inched its way down to between her legs, and began feeling her sex entrance as she watched him get into clothes. She was completely captivated, her mind had gone blank as she rubbed herself, now rubbing her chest as she couldn't resist performing this action.

She'd never done this before, having spent all her life battling, training, and playing occasionally with Faron and his two pokemon as their friend. But now, as if a switch in her body had been flicked, she found herself picturing that length, when it was at full mast, plunging deep inside of her and just...

She bit her lips and pulled herself together, quickly closing the door, locking it, and breathing heavily as she tried to think about what just happened.

'What am I THINKING?' she thought fiercely. 'I just told her that I'd NEVER think of trying anything with my friend while they were together. What is 'wrong' with me!?'

'Ah... but that was 'before'... they aren't a couple anymore... he's on the market again.' Another voice inside her head countered.

'But he's still my friend... I can't just... not... right after...'

She slowly pulled her hand up to her eyes, staring at the claw that was slightly damp, a mixture of her touching herself, and the steam... she sniffed it, and the scent of her own... scent... shifted her thoughts.

'But he can be more... now...'

"He can be more... now." She whispered with a smile as she slowly climbed into the bathtub and settled in to wash up.

'We don't have to battle anymore... we can choose our own life now... with him...'

She suddenly had a picture invade her thoughts... a picture of him, holding her... kissing her, wrapping his arms around her... and her tail flicking happily from side to side.

"We don't have to battle anymore... we can choose our own life now... with him." She sighed, unable to stop smiling at the image still in her thoughts.

That night she snuggled into her spot next to him on the bed, and had to force herself to 'not' try and make a move on him as, well he was still her friend first and foremost. Second, she was afraid that he'd think she was doing something out of some weird 'lust' or desire, especially since the memory of her separation from Viela was still so fresh in her mind. Thirdly, she needed to think, as much as that switch, once flicked couldn't be un-flicked, now told her she could be with Faron in another way that she hadn't previously imagined, she needed to think about 'his' future as well.

He'd done that for her, she needed to do the same.

With that she... couldn't resist a little tease by turning over, smiling at his sleeping face, and quietly wrapping her arms around his, and holding it close to him, nuzzling his shoulder and purring in satisfaction, before falling asleep, feeling extremely comfortable.

So, for the next two months she would show him a bit more 'friendliness' toward him, just because of her newfound interests with him, slowly becoming more attached and more interested in him and having a relationship with him. She even started helping him around the dorm more, getting dinner preparations done so he didn't have to spend as much time working on it for them, helping clean up and do things like setting the bed. As the days turned to nights, she would snuggle up closer to him than usual, ask for a pet or maybe ask him to let her lay her head on his lap while she took a catnap as he did his homework on the bed.

He didn't really notice 'much' difference and just assumed she was grateful to have him as a friend, which slightly annoyed her, but she was patient with him. Unlike Viela... she'd wait for him, because he'd saved her from that darkness, as mean as it sounded, being with Faron compared to being with Viela was like darkness and light to her.

(Midna's PoV)

"It's the middle of the night Faron, are you sure you're okay doing this for me?" She asked as he walked down the steps to the school courtyard.

"I'm sure, I promised I'd help you exercise even if it means I have to spend a few nights without too much sleep." He told her.

"But you have 'classes' tomorrow, this is your third night you're doing this for me, you need your sleep, you have to get up early right for an exam?" She asked worriedly, not wanting him to potentially fail because of her. "I can go a few days without working out or stretching, I'm worried about you failing, I don't want you to fail because of me..."

"I'll be fine, a few cups of coffee and I'll be right as rain in the morning, I've pulled all-nighters before and gone to class with even less sleep." He told her.

She smiled warmly at that, feeling touched that Faron would be willing to go all night for her if it meant she would get the exercise she needed each day. This was as she said, the third night in a row where he stayed up just to help her and make sure she got her work out.

Thinking about him gave some little Beautiflies inside of her, she had begun developing a massive crush on Faron, thinking that he would be a great Boyfriend. He was handsome, sweet, kind and... well she just really loved him for all that he's ever done for her.

Once outside it was just him and her, with Zachery and Lucius being too tired to help her that night. So, it would be just the two of them until she was done with her exercise routine.

"Alright... ready?" Faron asked her as he got the various items ready for her, a hula-hoop, a mat to stretch on, and a small rubber ball for her to balance.

She nodded and took a spot on the race track, breathed in deep, before starting to run around it a few times at maximum speed. This was her opening routine each night they came out together without Zachery and Lucius, first she would run to get some cardio in and stretch her leg muscles. Since she spent so much time indoors without much chance to run, she reveled in the opportunity.

During her run she would fling her hands out at random intervals creating little flower bombs that would explode into colorful displays of light, purely for display and not to damage unlike her normal attack. This was just her way to ensure that she was able to multi-task and utilize her powers while running at top speed. She didn't know why but, ever since her feelings began to develop, she just started doing more fantastical displays for Faron. She wanted to impress him, to show off her skills and abilities for him, and show off just what she could do when she put herself into it.

As she began to grow tired, she leapt up, twirled around, letting her tail and cape flow and spiral around in the air before she landed, all the while casting off multiple Flower Trick bombs around her. When she landed, she flourished herself off and smirked with her arms spread wide as her bombs started going off into little miniature explosions of colorful lights. She smirked and bowed as Faron applauded her performance, knowing she was just showing off for him.

"Alright ready for the Hula-hoop?" He asked her, and she nodded.

He handed her the hoop and she decided to tease him some more tonight, as she began doing recently. She put the hoop around her waist and started her motion to make it spin. Soon she was having it spin perfectly with her body's motions. She spread her arms wide and began slowly dancing for him, not that she was trying to dance, but she did so to show off her body for him, trying to get him to look at her.

Turning around she began swaying her body this way and that, showing off her beautiful form and waving her behind in his direction while she slowly swayed her arms in front, stretched upward, then to the side again... all the while accentuating her hips and waist, legs and even her breasts as she began twirling again while the hoop continued to spin.

During her minor glimpse at Faron she grinned as she knew he was watching her, and only felt a greater urge to impress him by doing her sexiest dance under the guise of exercise. She could just 'feel' his eyes burning into her body, hypnotized and just... captivated by her performance. If she didn't do this for him on purpose, she would feel a little on the 'freaked out' side of the coin because he was basically raping her with his eyes. Yet her only thought was to make him want her more...

"Uh... Midna?"

"Meooow?" She asked teasingly, before she began to whip the hoop around faster, pretending to 'not' have been sexy dancing for him while exercising.

"Uhm... I think you need to stretch now?" He said quietly.

She glanced out of the corner of her eye and had to resist giggling out loud as she could see how much he was blushing. But she nodded and stopped with the hoop, placing it on the ground next to her. Then she walked onto the mat and started stretching. She would do basic poses to test her flexibility, such as simple Y poses with her arms and legs before changing her limb's directions to contort into different shapes.

Knowing her next poses, she decided to show off some 'more' of her, teasing him with what she was offering him secretly when he was ready. She turned around and stretched her arms out, took a deep breath, before bending down and springing up to do a backflip and land on all fours. But... she made sure that her butt was raised up, and leaning backward toward Faron while her legs were spread wide.

She just 'grinned' as she knew what was now facing him, and using her pose to glance back, she just couldn't restrain her smile as she saw him looking 'straight' at her sex on full display for him. If it weren't for the fact that they were alone, she would 'not' be doing that pose as she slooowly pulled herself up, using her arms to rub her legs, rub over her butt cheeks, her waist... her svelte chest and then stretch up toward the sky.

She began swaying side to side while she reached up with one leg and gripped it with an arm while her other stretched outward, giving him a beautiful display of her healthy body for him to admire and gaze upon.

"Uh... do you... uhm... uh... want the... ball now?" He asked her quietly, clearly embarrassed at seeing her sexy display and at a loss for words.

She pretended not to have noticed and just nodded, taking the ball from him and began balancing the ball on her hands. She moved the ball to her face and mask and began balancing it there, using the opportunity to pretend to lose track of where she was poining, to turn around and reverse-interlock her fingers together behind her back, so that the palms of her paws were hovering above her plump bottom. She even did it so that her little cape flowed around her butt cheeks, ensuring his eyes were focused 'there'.

She just smiled, feeling a little... funny feeling, inside of her. This little feeling inside of her that just made her feel... 'special'... desired... longed for... she just 'wanted' him to look at her, more and more, she wanted him to think of her and think she was beautiful, attractive... because she loved him. She thought he was attractive, she desired him now, and she thought he was handsome, so she was hoping he'd think the same about her.

After a while she decided it was enough, and stopped teasing him, pretending that nothing was wrong and thanking him for helping her tonight, saying it was a nice night to exercise. He just blushed and said quietly that it was nothing, but she saw the way he glanced at her again. So, when they walked back to the dorm, she just leaned on him with a content smile on her face, happy to be with him.

After she began to tease him, not going as far as she did that one time, she caught him one time 'slapping' himself for trying to peak on her in the bathroom while she was removing her mask, and her only response was to grin and ask, in a 'pretend embarrassed' tone if he saw anything, which he said no. But that just made her want to show more... sadly though, that had to wait as one day he received a request from a professor about his application for a mock archeological dig site session.

Faron was excited, but this meant he had to take Zackery, Lucius and Midna out for three days away from school as they traveled to the location where he was told to dig.

And it was there, during that... when both Midna's dream came true, and Faron's deepest wish was granted... with a chance encounter... with the future.

(Faron's and Midna's PoV)

"Alright here we are. South Province Area Three, now if the professor's notes are correct, the dig site should be just down in one of those little valleys." He said as he led the way from where the Taxi service had dropped them off.

"So, is this like a 'real' archeological dig?" Midna asked excitedly as she walked alongside him, smiling as she looked around this area, not having been here in a very long time, not since their first year at Uva Academy.

"No, it's more like a 'test', they have these dig sites well documented, and they just give people these to test their skills and show that they can carry out these tasks in the field." He explained while carrying their tent and pack on his back.

"So... this is just another boring test?" She asked disappointedly, thinking they were going to explore some cave never before seen by human eyes on this outing. "Should have known better..."

"Hey we have to start somewhere. Come on it'll be fun!" He told her with a smile.

She looked at him and smiled, nodding in agreement, "You're right, we have to start somewhere Faron... and I know it'll be fun, cause I'm spending this time with you!"

He blushed slightly before finding an excuse to look away and trying to focus on the task at hand.

"The sun is nice today, Master!" Zackery yelled out happily.

"Feels nice on my shell..." Lucius said warmly. "Hey, do you think I can walk, this dirt looks nice to walk on!"

Faron nodded as he stopped and told Zackery to let the Torkoal off and allow him to walk around on his own. "Hey Midna, do you think you can walk with Lucius for a while to make sure nothing happens to him, me and Zackery are going to go on ahead and start setting up camp!"

"W-wh-but... ugh... sure..." She moaned bitterly, knowing that 'someone' had to watch Lucius, and goodness knows that while Zackery is a fighter, he isn't the most educated gator in the swamp and he sure as heck can't stay focused on a job too long.

That wasn't to say the Skeledirge was dumb, he just got distracted way too easily, even a passing by Skwovet would get his attention in a heartbeat and make him forget what it was he was supposed to be doing.

"Thanks Midna, come on Zackery, let's get to our campsite and start setting things up!" He called out and ran on ahead.

"You got it master!" Zackery said eagerly, waddling faster to catch up.

Midna sighed as she slouched her shoulders and watched Lucius slowly walk on the reddish/brown ground around and beneath her. She just crossed her arms and waited while the turtle took about a minute with every step, content as a clampearl to just walk at his slow pace.

"You uh... want a lift?" She asked hopefully.

"Nnnnope!" Lucius said politely as he stepped next to her and kept walking.

"Just saying, we could catch up with Faron and Zackery faster if you let me carry you a ways." She said.

"MHmm... but I like walking." He replied just as politely.

She sighed and rolled her eyes as she hated it when the turtle acted this way. Lucius was slow... and she hated that she had to watch over him when Faron asked her to. It was a good thing he 'did' ask her, or she would have said no. It wasn't that she hated Lucius, far from it... she just hated that he was so slow.

"You coming?" Lucious asked as he got a few inches away from her.

Midna rolled her eyes again as she took six steps and stopped to wait for him to catch up again. Then, after this kept going on, with her waiting about ten or so minutes for him to walk, then taking several steps, and repeating the process.

"Tell me... are you going to confess to Faron anytime soon?" He asked her suddenly.

She looked at him before sighing, he was smart, of the things she could complain about with him, the Torkoal being a fool was not one of those things... he figured out what she was doing the last few weeks with Faron.

"I want to soon yea... you think it's... uh... too soon?" She asked the Torkoal.

"Nnnope!" Lucius replied.

She glanced at him before turning her look skyward. "Do you think... he'd like me as... not just a freind?"

"Maybe~." The Torkoal said without elaborating anymore.

There were a few moments of silence as she waited for him to catch up to her before she asked him. "You don't think I'm trying to rush a relationship with him... right?" She asked. "Because... it was only like... over two months ago when he and... were still a couple you know. Sure, he told me they were kind of 'drifting apart' but... this isn't too soon, right? And... it's not 'wrong' right for... me as his 'new' Pokemon partner to... want to get closer to him, right?"

"That depends on you." Lucius said warmly, slowly walking closer to her.

"And I like him... I've always liked him, sure it was because he was my friend but, that can always change right, we have good chemistry together. We like to talk to each other, hang out together, play the same games, watch the same things. I'm comfortable around him, he's comfortable around me... and he makes me happy and I make 'him' happy... I make him happy right?"

"If you didn't, he wouldn't have asked you to stay." He replied politely.

She sighed again as she walked ahead of him and waited again. "I'm just... afraid that... he may think I'm trying to... well... do what my old trainer was afraid of. Getting him to fall in love with me when... What I mean is, he's my friend first and I don't want to lose that."

The Torkoal nodded as he slowly made his way forward. "You know you're not the first Pokemon, or even person, to ask that question in front of me." He told her. "Faron's Grandfather's brother asked the same question when he was trying to figure out how to confess to a Quaqauval he had a crush on."

"Really, what happened?" She asked curiously.

"He asked her out and she said no." He responded instantly. "She was honored that he felt that way about her... but she told him that he was twenty years younger than her, and it would be inappropriate given their ages. That and he was only twelve..."

"Hmmhmhmmm." She giggled as she walked ahead of him again.

The Torkoal was always fun to talk to... he was so wise despite how slow he acted, being over a hundred years old gives him that experience she guessed. Though he told her 'never' mention his age, because despite being over a hundred, he was 'still' considered young by his species' standard.

With that they kept slowly making their way to the camp site that had been marked for them to stay at, Midna keeping her eyes out for danger while Lucius slowly walked on.

However, just as Midna rounded a corner of a mound of dirt and rock to check for potential dangers, she heard the harrowing cry of a Bombirdier. She looked up to see a Bombirdier, a 'big' one by the looks of it, dropping multiple large rocks from its pouch onto the ground where she'd left the Torkoal to check for dangers. In a panic she leapt back to fight off the bird and help her friend, but was amazed as she watched the Torkoal not only 'avoiding' the boulders being dropped on him, but spinning wildly in his shell and unleashing a tornado of fire from all points of it, wrapping the bird in a storm of flame. After only a few seconds the bird had squawked and burst through the fire to flee as fast as it could, feathers singed and feet burned.

After it left the Torkoal stopped spitting flames, spinning around, and slowly came to a rest where he came out of his shell and resumed walking, not missing a step.

She just watched him walk in amazement and awe, never once seeing 'that' move used by a Torkoal before.

"Faron forgets I used to be a 'champion's' pokemon too, I can take care of myself and don't need anyone to watch over me." Lucious said with a smirk. "I haven't had to fight like that in a while... was a good warmup exercise... I hope something else comes along, that didn't even make me slow down."

She watched him pass her by with eyes open still in surprise.

"Though I'm happy he asked you to join me again, it is nice to have company... these walks can get lonely some days..." He said happily.

Still, all she did was watch him walk.

"You coming?"

She shook her head in amusement before walking after him.

Meanwhile at the campsite, Faron was putting the finishing touches on their large tent. It was spacious enough for all four of them to sleep in, while the campsite itself was tucked inside a narrow crevice between three large walls of earth and stone. Nearby a river flowed and poured into the lake that fed into and surrounded Mesagoza and the large crater wall of the Great Crater of Paldea. The dig site that he was to investigate and conduct research over the next few days was nearby, a simple stone tablet with some writing on it that had been covered up multiple times by the occasional sandstorm in this mostly dry area.

"Alright there we go!" He said as he tied the final knot and tightened it to make sure it would stay fixed. "Camp is set up!"

"Yaaaaaay, now we can eat and play right?" Zackery asked.

"Maybe in a bit, I need to get our kitchen area set up and stash our supplies safely in the tent." He said as went to the firepit nearby, having been used countless times by students before him, and began making sure it was properly prepared for when he inevitably needed to get it prepared.

All the while he did this, he was glad that Midna wasn't there to distract him, not that he hated her but... she had been on his mind an awful lot these days, as well as in his head.

Thinking of Midna, he paused as he put their supplies in the tent and just started thinking about her again, especially how he 'felt' about her.

At first when he took the Meowscarada into his life, it was just so she could get away from her trainer, as much as he liked and cared for Viela, he just couldn't leave her in that place after the truth of her abuse and neglect came out. He cared for Midna as any friend could, and so he did what was needed to save her and help her. Then he spent days with her, almost never leaving her side, always rushing to get back when classes were over and trying to cheer her up. He remembered the nights he took her out for little walks with Zackery and Lucius, helping her recover, get used to being outdoors again, doing all in his power to cheer her up and get over her sadness and grief.

That had been 'before'... now however, he was ashamed to admit it, but he was actually starting to really enjoy being with her, even more then he was when he was dating Viela, as slim as that time period had been. True he'd dated other girls before Viela, but they didn't turn out the best, and at most a month was how long they'd last before inevitably the girl told him it just wasn't working out and they parted ways. Though at least 'those' girls thanked him for taking it well and they always ended on a positive note, saying they liked how nice he was and hoped he'd find a girl that would make him happy.

Viela however, when they started dating it was 'alright' at first, a date here and there, but when she seriously started getting into her studies and began pursuing her degrees... she just didn't have time for him. He figured that, because this was the 'childhood friend' route when it came to dating, they could get over it and things would work out in the end, which was why he kept on trying... as he believed she liked him just as much but her studies were just in the way. But after he found out what she'd done to Midna... any feelings he had for her died in an instant.

Midna though, Midna was someone else, she was... special to him. They had known each other just as long as he knew Viela, maybe not as long but, since the day they first met she was his friend. Then, as he began spending more and more time with her, something inside of him began seeing her differently. He didn't exactly know it himself, but somewhere between him taking her in as 'his' Pokemon, to now... she just started feeling different to him.

Maybe it was because every day she woke up to him with a smile on her face, or that when she heard him unlocking his door, she was the first to rush to the door to say hello to him. She was also interested in what he was doing, asking questions and finding what he did cool and even having 'fun' just doing little things with him.

During the night walks he had with her so she could get some exercise in, as well as just to enjoy the fresh air, she would smile and run around with him trailing behind her. Sometimes they'd visit sandwich shops that were open late at night and enjoy a meal together while watching the water below on the outskirts of Mesagoza. She would smile and ask him if he wanted the bigger half of their meal, but he would give it to her instead and she'd just smile happily, before saying 'thank you', and slowly eating it with him while leaning on his shoulder.

He also started noticing her in this, different light as he described it, when they were asleep in bed. He often slept with the window blinds open, enjoying the way the sun warmed him up in the morning, but on a few nights, he woke up to get a midnight drink from the fridge. When he did, he saw her sleeping so peacefully, so content, and often still positioned in a way that made it obvious she was holding his arm in her sleep that... she looked so beautiful to him. She just looked beautiful the way the moonlight shined on her sleeping form, with her little smile as she dreamed whatever it was that made her smile at night.

"Hey master, what's up master? Something wrong?"

He looked up to see Zackery had crawled into the tent to check up on him, apparently, he had been spacing out again, and Zackery had checked to see if he was alright. Not for the first time at least.

"Nothing Zackery just, thinking is all." He muttered as he sat down.

"Something wrong with you, I know, you can tell me! I promise I won't squeal!" Zackery said happily, sitting down and looking at him happily.

Faron chuckled as he scratched his bony head, electing a pleasant sigh from his starter. "Alright... Zackery, can I ask you what you would think about me and Midna possibly getting together?"

"You mean as bestest friends?" He asked innocently.

"No... I mean... more than that."

"So... like how you and Viela were?" He questioned curiously.

"Yea... like that..."

"I wouldn't mind, she likes you right, and you like her right?" Zackery told him with a happy nod. "If you like her, and she likes you, then you two can be like that, and then you both can be happy together! We'll still be friends right, you won't... get rid of me and Lucius... right?"

"You know I'd never get rid of you two!" He laughed as he rubbed his starter's belly, causing him to wiggle happily at being touched in his favorite petting spot. "So... you're alright with me uh... dating Midna, even though I'm a human and she's a Pokemon?"

Zackery smiled as he nodded happily. "You're my best friend Master, if you are happy with our other friend Midna, and she's happy with you and you two want to be together... then that makes me even more happy. What you two are doesn't change who you are, Master Faron is still Master Faron, and Midna is still Midna, you're both my friends no matter what you are."

He felt a little touch of warmth in him as he patted his starter's head affectionately. "You know Zackery, some days you sound a whole lot wiser than how you act."

"What does that mean!?" Zackery said indignantly as they slunked out of the tent. "OOOH SKWOVET! LEME CHASE IT LEME CHASE IT!"

He just shook his head in amusement as his starter ran off to chase after a random Skovet that just so happened to be carrying a couple berries it was eating by their campsite. After a few minutes in which he finished setting up his camp he saw Midna and Lucius approaching and waved her down to say hi. She waved back with a heartwarming smile and ran over help him with whatever he was doing while Lucius slowly made his way to the tent to wait for meal.

"Hey Faron, look at what I found buried in the dirt while I was walking with Lucius." Midna said.

He looked at what she was holding and saw it was a Luxury Ball, it was dirty and obviously had been sitting in the sun for days it seemed, but other than that it was still in good condition.

"Nice find... I guess we could sell it if you want to. We could use it to treat ourselves to some nice food."

"Actually, I was hoping you would keep it as a gift from me." Midna said with a light blush. "You know, as a memento of our first archeological outing... even if it's just a school test."

He looked at her with a smile as he understood her request, nodding in acceptance. "In that case I'll clean it up so it's sparkling like new." He told her, causing her to smile even more happily and hug him happily, before going into the tent to set up her bed.

Later in the day when dinner time came, he roasted a beef stew for them all over an open fire and they just sat there eating. Midna kept on glancing at Faron whenever he wasn't watching and he would do the same when she had her eyes closed. At the same time, they all tuned into the Rotoradio he had that was talking about the news and listening to an audio story that was on that night.

[And finally, this morning resulted in multiple league officials being called out to the South Province in search of a Pokemon, currently unidentified. Reports are coming in but are conflicted as trainers and Pokemon have saying they were attacked by a Gallade and a Gardevoir, but reports cannot be confirmed at this time. Most believe it is 'two' Pokemon attacking these different trainers and Pokemon, but once again we reiterate, we are unable to confirm at this time if it is one Pokemon or two. Travelers are being urged to avoid leaving the roads or travel alone until this Pokemon is identified and captured. We now return to, 'Flight of the Salamence' by Christio Rogera, read by Davidson Petera.]

"We'll be safe right Master?" Zackery asked worriedly after the audio book continued.

"Yea we're fine, I'm sure whatever it is, the four of us can handle it." He said reassuringly.

"Besides you have me, a 'Champion" ranked Pokemon." Midna said with a smirk. "Whatever it is, I can handle it Tut sweet!"

When it came time for bed, she climbed into the tent with him and they all settled into their own little places for the night. Off in a small corner the Tera Crystal that they'd won together sat, glowing beautifully and being used as a night light for Zackery who... despite saying he didn't need one anymore, asked him to bring a light for everyone else so 'they' didn't feel scared of the dark.

But Midna wiggled uncomfortably on her blankets, she just didn't like sleeping this way for some reason. So, after a quick poke to see if Faron was awake, she asked him if she could sleep in his sleeping bag as well. He nodded and, after some shuffling around, she squeezed in as well, purred happily in gratitude, and snuggled in for the night, feeling happy again.

The next day they all got up and ate a quick breakfast, before making their way from the campsite to the dig site where he had to begin digging out and revealing the ancient tablet that was his school test assignment. They were at it all morning and well into the afternoon simply because of how much dirt they had to move away to find and reveal the Tablet, before carefully brushing away what was left so as not to damage it.

"Alright gentle brush strokes, gentle strokes now, we don't want to damage it." He muttered as he carefully brushed it with light taps, being methodical so that he didn't damage the tablet.

"Got it."

Off to the side of where he and Midna were working, with Midna using a brush as well to lightly scrape away dirt and clean it up to reveal what was on the tablet, he had positioned a camera to record what they were doing so that they can show to his teacher that he was doing it properly and didn't just cheat the information. Zackery and Lucius were off to side sunbathing, since they weren't needed to help with this.

"There we go, I'm starting to see some of the writing on the tablet." He said as he put away his brush and pulled out a bottle of water, dampened a cloth and started to wipe away some more of the loose dirt, again extremely carefully with very light dabs, not washing or brushing it, but more patting it so the cloth gripped the dirt without wiping the old stone.

"Can you make out what it's saying?" She asked him.

"Hold on let's see..." He whispered as he started taking out his notebook to translate the language. "Alright... I think... yea... okay I think, yea I got it! According to this, the translation reads Capitol of the Empire of Paldea two hundred miles."

"It's a sign post?" She asked in surprise. "You're telling me this thing is a burried sign post?"

"Yes, and just going on this, we can assume this was actually an important road until something happened here." He said as he put his book away and started jotting down notes. "My guess is, as this place became more deserted and dried out, travelers began traveling less and less due to the lack of readily sufficient water spots in the area, the area became less tended to. Then over time earthquakes happened, or some other catastrophe occurred, the post and the road became lost to time."

"That makes good sense!" She told him.

"Alright we're done here!" He shouted as he went and turned off the camera. "Which means we have the rest of today to ourselves before we head back to the academy tomorrow!"

"Hooray, can we play some ball then!" Zackery asked happily as he got up from his sunbathing nap.

"Sure, we can play some ball when we get back, but only until dinner time."

"Yes, ball time!" Zackery shouted as he waddled off with Lucius on his back as fast as he could go.

"Slow down, camp's not going anywhere!" Lucius said indignantly.

Midna smiled at that, happy that Zackery was happy, but also smiling as she got to walk next to Faron by herself.

At camp Zackery and Lucius played ball with Midna and Faron, with Midna and Lucius acting as goal keepers while Zackery and Faron tried to kick the ball past each other and the goal keepers. Naturally Midna and Faron had an advantage, but that did not ever seem to deter Zackery as he kept on encouraging Lucius that he'll block the next one, every time the Torkoal failed to stop the ball. Even though they lost six to one, Zackery had so much fun he did not care that he always was on the losing team.

When night came, they began packing up the campsite so they could leave in the morning and soon all went into the tent to sleep, where again, Midna crept into Faron's sleeping bag and fell asleep, smiling as she cuddled into his side, but this time Faron was the one who slowly wrapped his hand around hers and gripped it in his sleep. When she felt this happening, all Midna could think to do, as she barely woke up when it happened, was feel... 'loved'... before she purred and went back to sleep.

In the morning they got up, ate a very light and quick breakfast consisting of just nutrient bars while he and Midna worked on packing up the tent for the trip home. Once they were done and the campsite was fully cleared and the firepit doused completely so no fire would start accidentally, they all got back on the road to head to the taxi service pickup spot.

"That was a lot more fun than I was expecting it to turn out!" Midna declared.

"Archeology can be fun as well as rewarding, just imagine that but going into the desert, or deep dark tunnels, discovering tombs or other long forgotten ruins!" He said excitedly.

"Yea, it's way more fun than just battling everyday now that I think about it!"

"Hey, has anyone seen anything lately?" Zackery asked curiously as they walked down a slope through a short pass. "I haven't seen any Skwovets or anything... not a soul in sight!"

"That aint right, this road is common for Cyclizar trainers to run through..." Lucius said.

"I'm sure there's a reason why..." He said, before he suddenly had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. "But just to be safe... let's uh... pick up the pace?"

His three Pokemon nodded and they all started walking a bit faster.

As they began moving faster Faron spotted someone up further down the road, or at least 'something', At this distance it looked like a Gardevoir or a Gallade that was just wandering around. Glad to see something friendly along the path he slowed down again.

"Okay it's only a Gallade or a Gardevoir, guys." He told them.

"Well, that's nice, maybe we can say hi and ask what they're doing out here?" Midna said with a smile.

"No... something not right here..." Zackery muttered as they drew closer.

As they walked closer to the Pokemon Faron saw what Zackery was muttering, as he saw that the Pokemon had this... metallic sheen on it, almost like it was... made of 'metal'. And now that he got closer, he saw that while it had the spike of a Gallade, it also had the head of a Gardevoir, with two green/pink like buns portruding from behind its head. It also had scythe-like blades sticking out and attached to its arms, and while it's white gown-like dress resembled that of a Gardevoir's, it did 'not' look like what a Gardevoir's looked like.

"Uh... Hello?" He asked quietly.

It stood silent, still... then, as if awoken by him... it's green and pink parts seemed to light up as it shook for a moment before turning around to look at him.

Its eyes were digital, it's movements ever so robotic, and as he got a closer look, he saw that it's joints were just as equally robotic. It stared at him, before it slammed its fists together, and a clamping sound was heard, and they watched in surprise as it separated its arms and revealed that the scythe-like forearm blades had connected and become this twin-bladed weapon that it gripped with one hand, spun expertly before assuming an aggressive stance.

[Unknown Targets Acquired, Species: Human, Species: Meowscarada, Species: Skeledirge, Species: Torkoal... zero types superior to self.] It declared in this robotic voice, before spinning the blade and aiming it at them. [Initiating Combat Algorithms, commencing battle!]

Instantly Faron jumped back as it leapt forward to attack him, not even hesitating to go for a killing blow as it plunged its blade deep into the dirt where he was.

"MEOW!" Midna screamed in anger as she leapt into the air and started a counter attack, not hesitating and calling upon her skills as a champion Pokemon to fight this threat.

Upon hearing her declaration of battle, the 'Pokemon' turned and let go of its blade, jumping away as a flower bomb created by Midna dropped on top of where it had been and exploded. With speed and timing, she waved her hands and created more pollen-like flowers that exploded in the air one after another, trying to hit this target, but each time one appeared it leapt around, retreating and edging away, staying just out of reach.

[Danger, Species: Meowscarada, ability detected, Protien, current type, Grass, offensive measures identified, initiating counter offensive measures!] It declared in its gender-neutral mechanical voice, before it's gauntlet-like hands glowed a sickly green and extended a similar colored energy from them.

It then surged toward Midna as she began punching and slashing with her claws, unleashing dark energy and shoving into her opponent with brick breaks to try and pummel it down, snarling and attacking it to protect Faron. But she barely managed to get four swings before she was forced onto the defensive as it quickly blocked each strike, before launching an equally powerful series of rapid attacks. The first one stung her, and she recognized it as Fury Cutter, confirmed when the second strike landed and it did 'double' the damage the preivous strike did. Now she was retreating, trying to dodge but it pushing into her defenses, lunging and slashing without remorse as it attempted to cut her to pieces.

[Fury Cutter momentum achieved...]

She'd never seen a Pokemon fight like this, it had the speed and fighting style of a Gallade, and yet the mental acuity and understanding of a Gardevoir. She'd faced those pokemon before, but this was 'way' different, it was just not stopping!

But she couldn't do anything about it as she couldn't dodge forever, and when she tried to desperately block, it swung with both arms and slashed into her, causing her devastating damage. She screamed in agony and pain, her body aching as she fell backward in a crumpled heap.

"MIDNA!" Faron yelled as he tried to go help her.

The Pokemon-thing, turned around and started lunging toward him, but it was blocked as a fiery blast erupted from Zackery's mouth, now free to attack and join the battle as he'd helped Lucius off his back. He launched his Torch Song, singing a devastatingly powerful song that blasted a searing flame that would cause a pot of frozen water to melt and boil instantly!

In response their opponent ducked, dodged, and leapt high into the air to land heavily with a loud 'thud', turning its attention to Zackery now who waddled forward, yelling 'his' declaration of battle to it.

"Get away from my friends!" He roared furiously.

[Danger, Species: Skeledirge, Ability identified, Unawares, duo typing, Fire and Ghost, special attack stat has been raised by three stages-] It stated as it quickly ducked and dodged another Torch Song blast from Zackery's mouth. [Four stages, offensive measures and maneuvers analyzed, weakness discovered, initiating counter offensive maneuvers! Activating Shadow Sneak.]

The green auras surrounding its gauntlets vanished and instead they began glowing this now sickly purple/blue color akin to Ghost types. It then spread its arms wide and punched the ground heavily, sinking them into the dirt and causing multiple shadows to extend from its body toward Zackery. Zackery looked around in shock as these shadows flung into him, before appearing out of the ground and attacking him directly. He screamed in pain as the Pokemon-thing attacked again, using those shadows and he collapsed, breathing heavily as he was now unable to fight.

"Zackery!" Faron screamed as he ran to his starter, trying to shake him awake.

His starter opened his eye to look at him wearily. "Run... master... it's too strong..." He whispered feebly.

With Zackery defeated the 'thing' stood up and began slowly marching toward him again, expression unreadable as it prepared to attack him again. But within an instant it turned and leapt away as a flow of fire rained down where it had been standing.

"Tooooooorkoaaaaaal!" Lucius yelled as he released flame after flame, rivers of molten fire from his shell, his nostrils steaming and a cloud of 'smoke' rising from the shell on his back as he continued the fight, using the attention he'd gained to protect Faron and his friends.

"I'll teach YOU to threaten my family!" He snarled as smoke streamed from his nostrils.

[Danger, Species: Torkoal, Ability identified, Drought, type, Fire, offensive maneuver identified, examining combat data... complete. Initiating counter offensive maneuvers.] It stated before rushing and making its way toward its blade stuck in the ground.

Lucius did not relent, he kept blasting it with jets of fire from his mouth and pouring rivers of flame from its back into an eruption, targeting where it was going and trying everything to hit it. But still he could not hit it as it dodged each shot, aiming for the blade.

In seconds it slid to a stop, gripped its blade and stood straight up, before being engulfed in 'fire'. Lucius did not relent though, he took a deep breath and pepared to releas an Overheat attack, planning to unleash his strongest attack at the same time as his Eruption, trying to 'melt' this enemy for its cruelty and malice toward family.

[Activating Wide Guard]

Faron watched as his Torkoal paused in shock as they saw the 'Pokemon-thing' seemingly materialize from the flames, as it was holding its blade up with its right arm and rapidly spinning it, creating a shield of air protecting it from the Eruption pouring down atop it. Then in an instant it just 'vanished', before reappearing before him, it's left arm glowing a dark orange.

"T-tor?" Lucius stammered, speechless that it could survive and move 'that' fast in the face of such firepower while 'still' looking unscathed.

[Activating Drain Punch...] It stated coldly, before just as ruthlessly 'punching' Lucius in the shell and sending him flying toward Faron. [Critical Luck Damage achieved... activating required hooray sound effect. Hooray!]

"Lucius... Lucius speak to me!" He said as he looked at his beaten friend of his family.

"Toooor..." Lucius moaned, but he was barely breathing.

He heard metal footsteps as he looked up and watched as the thing began marching toward him, coldly, ruthlessly, twin-blade in hand and slowly raising it to start spinning it.

[Human defeated... no more threats remaining, beginning elimination maneuvers. Prepare to expire.]

He was terrified, terrified for his life and his friends' lives, all of their lives. Desperately he tried to look for something, anything, trying to think of a way to save them. He picked up some rocks and started chucking them at the monster, but it didn't even 'flinch' as the rocks smacked into its head. He then tried to grab a fallen stick and tried whacking it, but all that did was cause the thing to flick it's still spinning blade and slice the stick into pieces.

"P-please... just leave us alone!" He begged desperately backing away, but it did not listen to his pleas, instead it stopped spinning the blade, and took a stance to charge.

"No... NO!" A voice roared, causing Faron and this thing to turn and stare as Midna was climbing her feet.

In response it turned and stuck its blade out in preparation to do battle.

"Leave... him ALOOOOONE!" She screamed as loudly as she could, her body becoming enveloped in a weird white light, as terra crystals began to sprout from the ground around her, reacting to her Tera Energy.

[Error, error, Terastralization in progress, unable to explain this sudden phenomenon, zero counter measures available. Unable to calculate outcome based on current data.] It stated in a cold, calculating voice.

From Faron's backpack he noticed a beautiful glow coming from it, and he quickly flicked it open to reveal the Tera Crystal that he'd gotten back at the festival that one day with Midna glowing brightly, displaying multiple colors of the rainbow in conjunction with Midna's sudden Terarestralization.

After a few seconds Midna's Tera Crystal that she was wrapped in began changing colors, going from what 'was' a murky brown, and changing to a bright pink. After a few seconds it 'exploded' and she was revealed to be encapsulated with Tera energy, glowing like a beautiful crystal herself, and atop her head was a crystal in the shape of a pink heart with beautiful white wings.

"MEOOOOOOOW!" She screamed blindly as she snarled and gripped her paw with Terastal energy, a pink energy gathering as she ran forward to unleash it.

[Fairy Tera Type achieved, unable to block, extreme vulnerability to target detected, attemp-]

Before it could say another word, Midna was on top of it, and lunged forward, her fist plunging into the body of the thing that was attacking her human, attacking the one creature, the one thing, the ONLY thing she loved in this world and would give her life a thousand times over for to protect from harm. She unleashed all of her Tera energy into that Tera Blast move, using the signature move gifted to her by the previous Champion of Champions and unleashing everything she had to destroy this Pokemon if possible.

It was hit heavily, but as it did, it managed to utter a single word, [...Im... poss... ible...] before it was slammed into the ground in a crumpled heap even more crumpled than the others were.

As the Pokemon-thing did not get up, and as she felt her power beginning to fade, she slumped her shoulders as the crystal disappeared and faded into nothingness, the glow that was emitting from her body fading as well. She quickly walked over to him and helped him up, "Are you alright?" She asked worriedly.

"I... I am now, all of us are, thanks to you." He said as he looked at Zackery sadly.

She smiled with an exhausted look on her face as she hugged him, sniffling as she was terrified for him, terrified of losing him, terrified of-

[Energy... low... 2 of 100 percent remaining... attempting... to flee!]

They looked up and watched as the Pokemon started struggling to get up, struggling to get away, attempting to drag itself with one hand away.

"It's still moving?" He asked in horror.

"If we don't do something..." She whispered in horror, until she had an idea. "Catch it, try catching it!"

"With what I don't carry any..." He started saying, until he remembered the Luxury ball she'd given him, and pulled it out of his pack. "Will it even work?"

"We have to try, just do it! We can't let it get away and I will not kill anything if I don't have to! I'm a trained Pokemon of the Champion Rank, I will not break the vow to never kill unless its self-defense and no other options are available!"

He nodded, looked at the ball, gripped it tightly, and then locked eyes on the... whatever it was. "Luxury Ball GO!"

He tossed it and watched it soar through the air toward the intended target. The Pokemon, if it was a Pokemon, turned its head to stare at the flying ball and could only look as it smacked it on the head, fly backward before opening up, casting a beam of red light, pulling it in, and then clamping shut. After that it fell to the ground and began to shake, meaning that whatever it was he'd just try to catch was now actively trying to break out and break free. First it shook once, then twice, then a third time... before finally...

*Ping*

With that sound he was now trainer of, whatever it was he'd just caught. He sighed and walked over, picked it up... and then with Midna's help, carried Zackery and Lucius to the flying taxi service, and then from there to the Pokemon League to get his team healed and have whatever it was he'd found checked over and looked at. Zackery and Lucius were sleeping in the front seats to rest until they could get proper medical attention, while he and Midna sat in the rear seats. While they sat in the taxi, he and Midna sat close together, Midna holding his hand and not letting go of him, just keeping him close to her.

He looked at her as she still occasionally shuddered in fear, before she looked up at him with a scared, but hopeful expression. "Midna..."

"Yes?"

He didn't say what he wanted to say, because he was scared to say it. But he knew he had to say something, his mind was telling him to say it, his heart also wanted to say it because he had never come that close to dying before, never. "Midna... I was scared... really terrified of losing you and everyone back there."

"I was scared as well, not just Zackery and Lucius, but you especially... I didn't want to lose you Faron." She whispered just as quietly.

"I just... wanted to say something... because... I don't know if..."

"I want to say something as well, because... I want to... I can't tell you how scared of losing you I was... because you see..."

"I'm trying to say... these last few months I've... grown to like you very much and... well... I don't know how else to say it but..."

"Without you there to support me, I might never have recovered from what happened to me... you gave me a reason to be happy again and I like you as well, but the truth is..."

"I just want to say I love you." They both said at the same time.

It was totally weird, for some reason this confession just didn't feel appropriate for the situation. But regardless, both of them just had to get it off of their chests, and once it was, both of them just remained silent. Then... after a few moments, they just leaned into one another and pressed their lips against the other's.

Midna didn't know how else to feel at that moment, but once her lips had pressed on Faron's, she found herself... at peace. As if the whole 'death scenario' they had been in mere minutes ago had never happened, she just felt herself at peace and... calm, as if a massive weight was lifted off her shoulder. Her lips just felt like they'd found paradise for some reason, like being connected to him through this simple point of their bodies gave her... joy. Faron felt just as much about it as well, feeling Midna's lips on his own was different then he could describe. He's kissed a couple girls in the past, the most prominent among them was Viela, but Midna was different. Midna's lips... just... fit perfectly for some reason. He couldn't describe it any other way, she just... 'clicked' with him. Her lips didn't pressure him, they didn't try to pull away, they just... sat there, being with his... simply letting the simple act of 'kissing' spread a warmth through him that he'd never felt before.

After a few seconds they seperated from each other, a blush on both of their faces, Midna's hidden by her fur, but she still showed it with her eyes, which seemed to tear up from the happiness rising in her, and the smile that slowly grew on her face.

Then she pushed back into his lips again, just... wanting 'more' of him, more of his affection, more of his touch, more of his love... more of her 'Faron'.

They just kept kissing for the rest of the trip, just trying to enjoy this new feeling they were feeling for one another, until they reached the Pokemon League, and then after a brief moment in which they nodded to one another, they got out and helped carry Zackery and Lucius inside to get them taken care of.

After half an hour they were all given treatment, Faron had avoided harm thanks to his Pokemon getting in harm's way, and while Midna had been hurt badly by the Furry Cutter, it was nothing she wasn't used to since her days in the Victory Road Challenges. A hyper potion and she was right as rain. Zackery and Lucius were also given treatment, but they were being asked to stay at the league to be safe. When questioned what befell them, he explained to them of the Pokemon, and then showed them the ball.

That was when things got serious, and weird at the same time. Phone calls were made, messages sent out, people scrambling and running around everywhere, while the current Champion of Champions, Nemona, called her friend and associate who went by the Trainer name of Violet.

When they arrived, they discussed in detail what it was he'd caught.

He'd caught something called, a 'Paradox Pokemon', it was a Pokemon that came from the distant future, and was the most extremely violent of the group that had been identified. It attacks everyone and anything on sight that it considers a potential target, though they aren't sure 'what' it would constitute as a viable target. After they explained what it was, and where it came from, and more importantly how it got out of the area he now knew of as 'Area Zero', he was told that he should 'talk to it' when he had the chance.

Faron had asked why he would want to talk to something that had tried to kill him, Midna, Zackery and Julius just a while ago, Violet explained that even if it 'is' violent in the wild, based on his research with his own 'Iron Valiant' as it was called, the species is actually unshakably loyal when it bonds with a Human or Pokemon. In this case, capturing it has created a bond between him and it, and now it would not even think to harm him even if he ordered it to.

So outside where he and Midna were alone and nobody else was around, he pulled out the Luxury Ball and nodded with her, before releasing the Iron Valiant.

In a flash of red light, Iron Valiant appeared, looking around for a brief moment before turning around and bowing to him, it's magenta colored, as well as digital, eyes acknowledging their presence.

[Greetings Master, of what service do you wish of me?]

"I just... want to be sure of one thing, you aren't going to attack us again, are you?" He asked while Midna readied herself for battle, prepared to fight and 'kill' if she had to in order to protect Faron.

[Negative Master, no harm will come upon you from me.]

"Why did you attack us in the first place?" Midna asked as she relaxed, slowly.

[No bond established, zero connection to inner 'humanity mechanism', was unable to formulate 'empathy' to unknown targets. Self-Preservation logic was all 'self' had to run on in unknown area with no bond established. Facilitated protection of self by attacking those perceived who would attack self. Self apologizes for any harm caused or injuries sustained.] It told them.

After a few moments he nodded in understanding, the Pokemon was just scared and alone, and the only way it could protect itself was by attacking those it feared might hurt 'it' if it didn't. As dangerous and violent as it was... truth was, it just needed 'someone' to watch over it that it could trust.

"Do you happen to know what was going on during our fight... my Tera Type... 'changed'... my Tera type was 'rock', but during that fight, it became Fairy, do you know anything about it?"

[Possible explanation, analysis, combat data extrapolating... according to some data, depending on a situation and the emotional stress on a Pokemon while in close proximity to a source of pure Tera Energy, a Pokemon may change its molecular tera type, according to the wishes of its desires.]

Midna thought about that... and she guessed it made more sense when she thought about it, her love was in danger, she'd do anything for her love, even die... so if her heart was desperate enough, then perhaps it was her 'heart' that changed her type, and resulting in her becoming a Fairy Tera type instead of her usual Rock Tera type. It was certainly a lot more stressful then eating that tera soup which changed her from grass to rock...

"Alright... well... I have to take Midna back to my dorm room, feel like living with us?" He asked it politely.

[Self will follow you, affirmative. Lead self and order self as you desire.]

"Firstly... what is your name?"

[Self has no name, self never had name... you may call self whatever you wish.]

He looked at Midna who nodded with a smirk, before whispering her idea. "How about we call you... 'Self', you okay with the name Self?

It gave a robotic 'jerk' with its head and its eyes began blinking and changing colors, before settling on Magenta again and smiling with its eyes. [Self-identity is confirmed, self is now identified as 'Self'. Self is pleased to meet you!] Self said in a monotone 'happy' tone.

Midna and Faron chuckled at that while he pulled 'Self' back into the ball, before taking a taxi again back to Uva Academy.

That night, after they'd eaten and introduced Self to the room where they were staying, they found out that Self is actually more versatile than he lets on. Yes, he is a Pokemon and he is primarily geared for combat, but he also seems to be similar to a futuristic android that Faron sees portrayed in science fiction. He was able to use his gauntlet arms and hands as knives and could cut food, and he was able to clean dishes and perform chores around the house without even being asked. He said that after he connected to a network, he found some new data that taught him what he could do if battle was not being initiated, so he asked to carry out these tasks in service to Faron who was his master.

Despite being told that he doesn't like the term, Self explained that, he cannot change his appearance of Faron, to Self, Faron was his master and nothing else.

When night came though, he put Self back into his ball, and then started getting washed up for bed, and that was when a long-awaited talk finally occurred... as well as something more.

"Midna... are you really happy being with me?" He asked her as they stood next to the bed, neither wanting to sleep just yet.

Midna smiled as she nodded. "Yes... I can't be any happier than I am being with you. You don't mind being with 'me'?" She asked. "I know you dated Viela, and before her a few girls... and I'm not your first... and they were all humans but... I really do love you Faron. I really really really love you... and I just want you to be happy and... I want to know I make you happy!"

He slowly lifted his hand and held her cheek with it, smiling warmly at her even as she purred at his touch.

"You do make me happy Midna... but are you happy with me despite me being a human is all I want to know."

"Of course... that never mattered to me... you were my friend... in my heart you'll always be my friend... but..." She purred lovingly as she leaned into him. "I want to give you a special place in my heart now... reserved only for someone I love... only for you now..."

With that she purred as she hugged him close, and held her lips just out of reach, enticing him to claim them for himself. "Will you be mine?" He asked her quietly, heeding her wish and closing in on her lips.

"Always..."

With that they kissed again, Midna's tail waving happily behind her, a little flower seemingly floating on its own still, portraying how happy she was that she now had Faron all to herself. No girls to tempt him from her, no Viela to keep her away from him... nothing, just the dorm room for them to stay in and a bed... to lie on.

She purred and moaned as she pressed herself against him, rubbing herself all over him as she slowly began to remove his clothes, starting first with his shorts, pulling both them and the boxers he wore underneath, not wanting to keep her prize hidden any longer from her. As she bent down to help take them off faster, he swiftly drew his shirt off and then pulled her back into a kiss while gently gripping her body, feeling her soft fur with his hands even as she hugged and felt his skin with her paws.

She continued to purr seductively and moan affectionately as she reached down and slowly ran her fingers, her claws being retracted, across his buttons while he reciprocated the feeling by feeling her own butt with his hands. They both played with each other's mouths, their tongues touching and dancing in their mouths, while their eyes remained locked on one another until she clamped her hands together and locked them so she could pull herself as close to him as physically possible.

She paused in her kissing before slowly slinking down and licking at his dick, nine inches and getting harder with each second, then after taking in his musky scent, letting it fill her thoughts and drive her nose crazy, she opened her mouth and gulped it all in, so glad that she could take it all in and happy her gag reflex had been broken thanks to years of training for Pokemon Battles.

"Ooooh shit yea... oh that feels good, your mouth feels good." He whispered to her while scratching her head.

She opened her mouth at those words and 'meowed' seductively, before gulping his dick again, and just going to town on it. She was new to this, but she knew 'porn', Viela had 'accidentally' left some stuff on her computer and she'd taken a peek from time to time. So, she was at least experienced enough to know how it worked. She gulped and swallowed, bobbing her head up and down along his shaft and licking it from tip to base using her mouth. She could feel every vein and even started feeling the tiniest bit of 'pre' in her mouth.

She continued to bob her head, taking it to the back of her throat and picking up her pace to get it wet and ready for her pussy, which she pawed at and got it ready for his lengthy package. She didn't know how much would fit, but she hoped she could take it all in.

After a while of giving him oral and hearing his moans of pleasure, she slowly sucked on it and pulled it out of her mouth like a frozen popsicle, and then let it out with a loud 'pop', grinning as she got up hugged him close to her again, and kissed him again while he massaged her butt cheeks again.

"Mhmmhmmm don't stop... that feels really nice Faron... MEOYuup!" She squealed as he gave her butt a firm squeeze, resulting in her jumping ever so slightly in surprise

When she did, she felt something poke her 'flower', her sex, and grinned as she knew what it was.

"Mhmmm someone is eager to plow my virgin soil." She snickered.

"Sorry... but your just so beautiful that I couldn't resist." He whispered as she unlocked her hands and gripped his 'rod', massaging it and feeling the whole length, helping it get even harder and ready to take the plunge. "Ooooh that feels good Midna... your paws feel good."

"Just wait until the main event..." She whispered as she kissed him again. "Mmmpf touch... mmmmhhmmmy chest... feel them..."

He did as she asked while she turned around and allowed him to feel her breasts. Beneath the fur were her small petite breasts, these little almost flat mounds that were covered by fur and unable to see the light of the world around them, but thanks to her instructions he discovered them and began squeezing and feeling them, causing her to moan in pleasure with each touch.

"Ooooh... oh yea... this feels wonderful Faron..." She whispered warmly. "Is this... your first time... you're a natural!"

"Sorry but... I'm afraid to say..." He began saying, but she looked at him with a smile.

"Shhhh... don't be ashamed... I understand..." She whispered lovingly. "You were my first kiss... but I'm not 'you're' first... I don't judge you or think less of you... but I want to just say..." She said as she turned around, keeping his hands on her breasts and smiling. "I want to be your 'last'... first... kiss."

"You will be..."

She kissed him again as she hugged him again and he hugged her back, before she tugged him backward, and he slowly pushed her into the bed, lying on top of her while he attacked her mouth with his and began roughly massaging her breasts, small as they were. She gasped in pleasure and meowed lustily as he continued to push and tug her breasts, even after he let go of her lips and began suckling on the tits of her breasts through the fur.

"Meooow... meow... myaas... yes Faron... ooooh yes just... meow!" She whispered as he played with her body, unable to take the pleasure he was giving her and wishing it would go on.

After a while he slowly stopped playing with her breasts and chest, and slowly began kissing his way down her belly, to her waist, until finally she instinctively spread her legs to allow him to glimpse her sacred flower. Or at least 'a' flower, as her tail had decided to toy with him, by concealing her flower with the flower of her tail. She giggled as it waved in front of him, wanting to play a game with him.

Smiling he gently gripped it with two fingers, and pulled it down to reveal her 'true' flower, the entrance to her pussy.

It was still very closed, dripping slightly, but it was a clear indication that she was a virgin, and had almost never been touched there. Yet it pulsed slightly, opening and closing ever so much, indicating her arousal and how much she wanted him to claim her already.

Licking his lips he took a small whiff of her sex, and smelled the scent of mints on his nose. He guessed it was probably a Grass type Pokemon thing to smell of 'plants' in moments of arousal and sex. But that just made him lick her entrance, causing her to meow in surprise.

"Meooooow!" She gasped as she closed her legs, locking him in place, forcing her hands to hold his head and pull him closer to her sex. "Meooow... meooooow!"

She was feeling insane pleasure from this, each time he licked her entrance, and even when he pushed his tongue into the narrow gap of her sex, she just couldn't form coherent words for the translator to translate, so all she could do was moan incoherently.

"Mewooowsca... meoowsca... meowyes... yes... right there, yes, ooooh yes meow!"

He pushed his tongue in deeper and continued to lick her sex, with her dry humping him, and feeling the minty taste of her juices coating his tongue and lips. It was like her body was trying to get him to eat her out completely, enticing him to eat more, stay longer, to not let her go and keep going.

"Mewo... oh myowes... w-wai... not... not like that... meows... please don't... I want to come... from you!" She moaned feebly, trying to get him to stop but her body was doing otherwise. "I want... I want my first... to be with your release... mmplease..."

Hearing her pleas he gave her one final lick, before gently pulling her legs apart and releasing the lock she had on him. Then he kissed her again and pushed her into the bed, slowly pulling himself forward so that they lay properly on it, with his dick now standing proudly for her approval, and the tip pushing ever so slightly at her sex's entrance.

She looked at it, heart racing, eyes locked and smiling happily, knowing that her wish was about to happen. But she also saw him reach over to the nightstand to pull it open and saw him reaching for a rubber.

"No... please don't..." She whispered, griping his hand.

"But... Midna... safety first... I don't..."

She shook her head, pleadingly. "Please... I want this to be special... and I want to be special with you." She whispered. "You dated other girls... and those relations, they were all failures... I want... I want us to stay together... and I want this to be the first step to prove we'll be together, that we won't be another 'failure'. I know the risks... but... please..."

She gently coaxed his hand back, still holding the rubber with it, and looked at him pleadingly.

"I can't stop you... if you want to then okay... but... I want this to be a symbol of us... I'll accept you, all of you, flaws and all... because I want you to have all of 'me', with nothing between us. So... please?"

She waited with baited breath, knowing this was a risk, she knew about 'safety first' thanks to hearing it from Viela during a computer meeting with a sex ed teacher for a class she was too sick to attend. But she desperately, desperately didn't want to be like those other girls, especially Viela... she wanted to be different, special.

She wanted to be 'his' girl.

After a few moments, he slowly held her hand with one hand, the one holding the condom, gently coaxed a finger up, and slowly tempted her claw out. Then he took the condom, and poked the claw with it, poking a very large hole in it. Then he pulled it off, and poked another hole, then a third, and finally a fourth, before tossing it away.

"One for each of the girls I dated before you." He whispered to her sweetly. "You are special... so I don't need one for you."

She smiled happily as she readjusted herself, gripped his dick, and proudly guided it into the folds of her entrance, flinching slightly as his raw dick began to slide right in. Her sex was tight, the second proof of her virginity, she was extremely tight around his dick, and her face contorted in pain as he pushed further and deeper in. Until he came upon a small barrier, the final symbol and last line of defense for her virginity.

She looked at him as he leaned forward, held her hands with both of his own, kissed her until she was ready, and then... shoved in the rest of the way.

"Mmmmmmeowwmmmm!" She screamed into his mouth, her voice muffled by his as she instinctively kicked and gripped his hands tightly.

It hurt worse than anything she had imagined. She had been stung, bitten, blasted, smashed, and thrown multiple times by every kind of attack and Pokemon under the sun that Arceus watched over them from. But still... this pain... it was 'unnatural', it was weird... it hurt worse than all of those other times combined. It was obvious this was a one-time deal, so she just rode out the pain until it passed.

She cried into his face, kissed him hard, licked his tongue, gripped his hands and let her legs flail, grip him, and flail again until slowly...steadily... second by second, the pain passed.

When it eventually stopped, she let go and smiled, nodding lovingly at Faron. "I'm alright now..." She whispered happily. "Thank you... for being my first."

He nodded and began kissing her again, before he started pulling out, his dick coated with lines of red from her lost virginity, and then pushed back in, causing her to moan in slight pain.

"Mha... ah... ha...hah... ooh... yes... oooh... hah... myes... mya..." She whispered as he slowly pushed in and out of her passage. "It... it feels... mmmeowood... mmeow it feels good!"

"It feels just as good inside of you." He said. "I've never done it raw... so it feels so different... oh fuck your tight... fuck... yes..."

She smiled as she heard that, if she felt 'different' then that meant she felt 'better', she felt 'right' to him.

While he continued to thrust in and out of her pussy, which slowly became accustomed to the newfound girth inside of it, she began to feel him slowly fit more and more of his dick into her with every passing moment. At first, he could only get half of it in due to the pain she was feeling and how tight she was. But with each thrust, another centimeter got in, after a few minutes he was now mostly all inside of her. And as she gripped him with her legs to help him in thrusting inside of her, she could feel as his hips slapped into hers that he was now hilting inside of her body.

Feeling all of him hilt inside of her caused her to beam in pride and joy, she was his, he was hers, she had 'all' of him inside of her now. She could just 'feel' everytime his dick pushed in as it pushed the entrance of her womb, as if demanding to be allowed inside.

"Oooh, yoh... you... you're there... oh you're there... I can feel...MEOW!" She screamed as he pumped her harder than before. "Meow... meow... mmmyes... myes! Myoooh yea... right there, oh that... myeas that... that felt wonderful... oooh myea Faron don't stop!"

He began pumping harder, pulling her hips up to get better leverage as he wanted to push deeper inside of her, trying to get access to her womb. He was never allowed or able to with the other girls, so with Midna he wanted to desperately get inside of her before he came.

"Oh... fuck yea... this is wonderful... oh Midna... I love you... I love you so much!" He said as he pushed harder and harder.

"And I you... I love you... I love you Faron... ooooooh yea... mmmfuck... mmeow!" She panted as the bed started squeaking and shaking harder from their activities.

After a second he paused to kiss her deeply, and they roughly tried to play with each other's tongues and shove their mouths closer, before he pulled her into a close hug, tightly pulled her against him, and then began ramming her harder than before.

Oh, if Midna could look at her own eyes, she figured she'd be seeing heart shaped irises. She just couldn't get enough of this, her body was trying to get him inside of him, she twisted slightly, contorted her position, spread her legs as wide as possible, anything to get him inside of her womb. She realized now what he was trying to do, and she wanted him to achieve it.

Then he slowly took his dick out, leaving only the tip in, and then shoved it harder than he ever did before, and finally, after battering at the entrance like a ramming Tauros, his dick 'pierced' her womb.

"Myoeeeeeeeea"! She squealed as he began thrusting harder and harder, her tongue hanging out. "You did it... your in... meyes, I knew you could ooooooh yea!"

"Fuck... oh fuck... oh yes... it feels so good inside of you..." He told her as he continued to shove inside, not letting off and refusing to pull out now that he was inside, only thrusting using the force of his hips and pushing her harder into the bed.

"Yes... oh yea... fuck... more... harder... harder... I want more... more... meow!"

His dick was inside her womb and it kept kissing the wall inside of it, marking its territory and claiming her inside as its own home. Each time it touched a spot it sent shivers and waves of pleasure, causing her to gasp and moan. Soon all she could do was breath and squeal, her tongue lolling out as he started thrusting harder, more rapidly.

"Meow... you got... you got faster... your dick... it just got harder... what's... what's happening Faron?" She squealed in happiness as she felt something happening inside of her.

"I'm... fuck... I'm about to cum!"

"Mnot yet... just a bit longer... ooooh I feel something... my body... it feels like it's about to explode... I can't take it... ooooho fuck... meow!

He thrust harder and harder, feeling it coming.

"Shit... fuck... here... here it... comes..."

Suddenly the Meowscarada felt an instinct, she just didn't know it, but she sensed it, something was about to happen, and her body reacted, the flower spun around Faron and her legs wrapped around his waist, both tail and legs locking him in place and not letting him pull out.

"F...f...fuck... I'm..."

"Meow... yes... yes... ah... ah hahah ah ahahahahahahah MEOOOOOOOOW!" She moaned as her body suddenly clenched down, and she 'exploded'.

"Cummmiiiiing!" He moaned as he released inside of her.

His dick released streams of cum into her waiting womb, soaking it in his juicy essence and spraying strings of his seed into her, while her pussy released her own juices and sprayed his dick with her essence, coating it in her love.

They just held their poses, with him pushing in every other moment, trying to pump more seed, more cum, more of himself into her, while she twitched with each little thrust, her tongue hanging out and her eyes rolling backward to stare into the ceiling from the sheer explosion of pleasure.

After a moment he collapsed onto her, and she slowly settled down from her high and then they shared a loving kiss.

She just lathered his lips with her own, her tongue licking and poking the inside of his mouth as he rolled them over so she was on top and he could hug her close.

She looked into his eyes, smiled, and pulled away with a happy expression written all over her face.

"Sorry... I just didn't want you pulling out..." Explaining why she did what she did.

"Who said I wanted to pull out?" He whispered to her.

She was shocked, surprised, she thought that was 'why' he was warning her. She assumed that her instincts were telling her that he was about to pull out, and she wanted him to stay inside of her, she wanted him to release his seed and mark her as his.

"You didn't want to?"

"Why should I be afraid of pulling out of the girl I love?"

At that she smiled happily, before doing something she didn't think she'd ever do. She reached up... and pulled off her mask, revealing her true face to him.

"I... didn't know that could..." He whispered as she leaned into him.

"Mmmthere's a lot you don't know about me lover boy... like I bet you didn't know... my tail... releases an aphrodisiac when we Meowscaradas have sex." She whispered lustily as her tail wiggled and tickled his nose, making him smell the smell. "Makes the fun last longer than usual, but you get a little 'rougher' because of it."

"I was wondering why I was... so rough with you and why it lasted so long." He muttered.

She nodded as she kissed him deeply, massaging his chest even as he gently stroked and gripped her butt with one hand, and the back of her head the other.

"You're very beautiful without the mask on you know."

"We only take it off for... special 'private' moments, or if we need to clean ourselves..." She whispered. "Only 'you' get to see this face of mine... only you... because it's you."

After a few minutes he tried to lift her up, but she shook her head.

"No... I want to stay connected like this for as long as possible." She whispered happily. "I love being connected to you... I love you Faron... don't pull out please?"

"But we can't do this all night, we need to sleep, I have a class tomorrow still... I can't miss it."

"I know... but I just want us to stay like this for as long as we can." She moaned happily, snuggling into him and nuzzling his face.

"If I get hard again, I'm blaming you... because I won't be able to calm down unless we do it again."

She grinned as she nodded in acceptance, "Then I'll take responsibility."

With that she kissed him again, resuming their caressing touches of one another, but five minutes later, she began to wiggle excitedly, causing his dick to begin to fill the passage that, moments ago, and once been virgin territory to him. She grinned widely as she wiggled her pussy and started to ride up and down on his shaft, slowly at first.

"Well... a promise is a promise..." She whispered.

She began bouncing up and down, smiling as she panted and sighed happily as his dick shoved in and out of her pussy. Her entrance was no longer 'virgin ground', it was slippery and wet as his dick pumped in and out of it. She could feel the veins along his length and could feel the tip poking through her womb more easily now that it had gained access.

"Oh... yea... meowscaaaa..." She sighed as she leaned down and hugged him, kissing Faron while he thrust into her now, bouncing her hips up and down. "Mmmhmeowmm..."

They kept going at that pace, up and down with their flesh slapping each other every second, sometimes she stopped and simply grinded along his girth, rubbing her sex back and forth, feeling it push in and out ever so slightly, trying to be careful so as to not let his gooey seed escape her body.

After a few minutes he pulled her into his grip and managed to turn her around without pulling out, and then pushed her on all four, before thrusting in and out again, pounding her butt with more force.

"Oh... yea... fuck... fuck you Midna... oh fuck..."

"Ohh mmoewyes... meooows!" She moaned as he pumped harder and harder. "Meow... me. Ow. Me. ... mewop... meow!"

She knew her tail was givining him the stamina to keep going, but she didn't expect them to have this much energy after just having one round of sex. But she was not going to complain as he shoved harder and harder into her, slapping her ass with his thighs as his dick pushed and shoved its way into her womb again, sloshing the seed that was already inside of it around and beginning to bulge as it got ready to deliver load number two into her.

"Oooh Midna... you like that?" He asked slowly pulling out before ramming her again.

"Meowyes!" She moaned happily

"You like it?" Doing it again.

"Meowyes!" Smiling as he was rougher with her.

"Well, here it comes..." He said as he began steadily slapping into her pussy with his dick.

"Oooh yes... my pussy is happy... that feels good... oh meow!" She cooed as he began gripping her breasts. "Oh meowmmmm!"

He was kissing her again while shoving his dick harder and harder into her passage, his pace slowly picking up as his release began to approach once more that night.

"Oh yes... your dick feels good... oh my womb wants more... oh it's hungry for meowooore!"

Faron however was busy kissing her mouth again, slowing down to pull her into a kiss, before resuming pounding, using one hand to hold her face to his while his other held her shoulder and pulled her into each of his thrusts, driving her sex crazy and making her squeal into his mouth each time he hilted inside of her.

"Mmmhbha... hah... hah... I'm cuming... I'm cuming again Midna!"

"Oh meow... meow. More... harder... harder!" She squealed as he began to hilt faster and faster with each thrust. "Yes... more... inside. Inside me... yes... meoow, meooow, meowowhoaahahahahahahahaha HAAAAAA!"

For the second time that day both of them released with each other, her pussy clenched down on his deck and sprayed her juices, while inside her womb, more of his seed sprayed into and soaked her already coated walls, his dick apparently trying to find any untouched spot to mark her body as belonging to him, while she twitched with each tiny thrust, he made into her body.

They panted heavily, each of them feeling exhausted as they collapsed onto the bed before she rolled over a little, and hugged him close, kissing him deeply, showering him in her love.

They were like that for a few minutes, just breathing deeply, trying to catch their breaths... while their bodies recovered from yet another round of sex.

She smiled and nuzzled him, purring happily and licking his neck, his lips, his cheek, anywhere she hadn't touched yet.

When she licked his lips, he pushed into her mouth and held it hostage while his tongue began asserting 'it's' authority over hers, and they had a little wrestling match in their mouths to decide who was 'top tongue kisser'. At the same time, he gently began rubbing and stroking her petite breasts with one hand while the other held her hand, both gripping the other in a tight embrace. Midna's free hand however, was gently rubbing his head of hair, scratching and combing it subtly, instinctually trying to groom him in such a tender moment.

Thaaaaat was when her tail swished by... and they both sniffed it again, and Faron's dick began to get hard 'again'.

She pulled away with a grin, smiling apologetically. "Ooops... looks like I have to take responsibility... 'again'..." She whispered tiredly.

"Yep... and for that damn tail of yours Midna..." He whispered back as he slowly held her and then picked her up, gently carrying her over to the wall and placing her against it so she could grip him via her legs and hold his shoulders. "You are not resting now... until I've filled you up... to the point... Where. Your. Belly. 'Bulges'."

"Meooooooow!" She squealed happily as he began ramming her again.

The next morning, after a nap and a lot of coffee, he walked out of his dorm clothed and smelling of what seemed like fifty different types of shampoo, locking the door and rushing to get to class...

While inside of the dorm room, a sleeping Meowscarada, her mask sitting on the desk beside the bed, smiled contently, while her belly had a slight bulge in it and she was absolutely 'coated' in the scent of sex along with the rest of the room.

After a few hours she woke up, put her mask back on where it stayed, attached to her face via her latent psychic powers thanks to her dark typing, and slowly shuffled toward the bathroom, tapping the button on 'Self's' pokeball. The Iron Valiant appeared and looked around the room.

[Where is Master Faron?] He asked her.

"School... can you tell me... does your futuristic body have a way to... help get rid of the 'smell' in this room?" She asked it

[Yes, I am knowledgeable about how to remove most particles of air to remove any odorous smell and have the ability to do so. Is there something wrong with the current air presence, it is still breathable to my-]

"Great... can you do that and help clean up the room... I uh... need to take care of myself."

[As you wish, as 'you' defeated Self, Self will do as you wish.]

With that she walked into the bathroom, locked it, and filled the bathtub with enough soap that bubbles were seeping into the dorm through the door, while Self opened the window and began using his arms to channel air 'from' the dorm and 'outside' into the air, helping to rapidly remove the smell.

But while she cleaned her body... something had 'settled' inside of her.

Two weeks passed after that night happened, and during that time Midna happily found herself going out on the occasional date with Faron every chance he had with her and school permitted it. He had to clear his schedule some days with her, but when they started dating, they just found themselves doing simple things that they'd already been doing, yet now they were doing it as a couple.

Faron took her one Saturday night after he finished his homework, instead of going out for her usual exercise they turned it into a late-night dinner date for just the two of them.

"It's a beautiful night isn't it Faron?" She asked him sweetly as she held him by the arm.

"Yea... but it's not as beautiful as you are to me Midna." He whispered to her.

"Ooooh... don't say sweet things like that to me in public..." She giggled with a smirk. "I won't be able to resist kissing you if you do!"

"Why would you resist that?" He asked back with a grin.

"Mmmmeow because if I start kissing you, we won't be kissing very soon~!" She snickered innocently.

Glancing around the street he led her down a quick alley and then raised her chin, making her smile as she leaned up, closed her eyes, and kissed him deeply on the mouth, purring as she wrapped her arms around his neck as he held her close to him, arms wrapped around her while her tail wiggled happily in the back. After their brief kiss they pulled away from each other, and Faron whispered, "I love you Midna, I know I keep saying it but... I really do love you."

Midna's eyes twinkled in joy, no matter how many times she heard him say those words, she just beamed in delight. "I love you Faron... with all of my heart~!"

They separated again after sharing one more kiss, and walked back out of the alley, hand in hand as they made their way to a late-night sandwich restaurant. There they ordered a simple ham and lettuce sandwich with olive oil and jam and walked out to eat on the outskirts of the city.

At the low wall which circled the city of Mesagoza and allowed them look at the water down below, they leaned against one another while Faron pulled out their sandwiches and broke it in half. He grunted dissapointedly as he saw that the sandwich was cut improperly, and instead of being half and half, one half was larger than the other.

"Here you go Midna!" He said, giving her the bigger half.

"Oh... don't you want the bigger half? I don't need to eat this much..."

"No, I want you to have it... I insist."

She nodded in acceptance, and then started eating with him, both of them leaning on each other, staring out at the water and simply enjoying each other's company on their little date. It only ended after they returned home and went to bed, but Midna kissed the ever-living daylights out of him before they finally slept.

The next time the Pokemon League sent an official, this time the Hatterene, he came out and told her what it was she and Midna had done and what they were doing.

At first, he was afraid that the Hatterene would get furious, accuse him of abusing her, or something, and then calling in the officials and separating him from Midna and his Pokemon, perhaps throwing him in jail.

Instead, she nodded and smiled gently at him.

(I'm pleased to see you two have become a couple, this isn't a purely one-sided relationship, right?) She asked Midna, who shook her head and smiled, saying she was in love and happily going out with Faron of her own free will. (Then I see no reason to come between you two. We are happy to know that you have rapidly recovered mentally and that you have found yourself a loving partner Miss Midna. However, please note that, as you are still in school, any 'bedroom antics' are expressly forbidden due to school rules. If we catch you or find evidence... you know what will happen. So please don't do anything that may draw our 'attention', understand?)

She winked at him, before winking again.

Midna knew that looked, and she nodded in acceptance.

The Hatterene was fully aware that they had sex, on at least 'three' separate occasions in this room, and they'd removed the evidence. And she was just telling them the golden rule.

She can't report a broken rule or an offense, if no crime or rule has been broken that she can find evidence of or prove was broken.

After that the meetings with the officials became fewer and fewer, until it was declared that she was no longer mentally or emotionally vulnerable. Faron found ways to get the dorm to himself and Midna, by asking a few friends or a neighbor to take care of Zackery and Lucius for a night, allowing him and Midna to continue their 'bedroom antics', each night she would tease and play with him in bed, using her tail's aphrodisiac to get him to leave her in the morning, with a bulging belly and a smile on their faces.

Of course, each morning after Self had to clean the room out so nobody noticed anything.

Some days they made an excuse to go out, particularly on days where he had no classes or plans, and they would go outside for a date, which always resulted in Midna teasing and getting him to plow her like a Tauros. Once she had her first taste of sex with him, she could not go more than four days without needing him pumping her pussy with his dick or doing some sexual activity. Most it was just standard play, but occasionally she allowed him to do anal, and then one time she tried breast play, but was sad that she could do nothing more than rub her chest against his groin, due to her 'flat' size.

(Midna's and Faron's PoV)

"Meoow, meoow... oh meow!" She purred as he pumped her pussy, the light sandwiches they'd brought for their 'picnic date' long forgotten as Midna found a better meal for both of them to share.

"Midna... oh Midna... oh you feel so good... no matter how many times you're so hot... oh fuck yes..."

"Meoowes... yes... meow!" She panted as her legs spread wider and he began kissing her. "Mhmhmmm Meowmmm mewmmm mewmaaaaah hah... ha... oooh yes... harder... harder... oh pump me... oh don't stop, pump my pussy with your dick... oh yes meow Faron!"

Faron pushed deeper and deeper into her pussy, her womb kissing his dick each time they met, her soft velvety walls massaging every inch of his dick each time he thrust in and out of her with greater speed and force.

After a few moments he paused as she cooed in delight, kissing him deeply and wrapping her legs tightly around him, the blanket they were supposed to be eating on getting crumpled and messy as they used it to make love to one another. Ever since she had sex with him, her body just 'craved' his touch every few days, she couldn't explain it but it was like she 'needed' to have him mate with her.

At first, she thought it was her heat, but no her heat wasn't scheduled for this time of year. Either way she didn't mind, she loved Faron and if her body wanted more of him, who was she to reject the idea, especially as she enjoyed making love to him and feeling his dick pound her pussy. She was no longer a Virgin, all of her body had been claimed by Faron, her pussy, her butt hole, her mouth... her breasts even as small as they were, no part of her had been unclaimed by his dick, and that was how she wanted it.

Speaking of his dick, she felt it start to harden more, it grew a bit thicker, longer... and she felt him starting to breathe more heavily as he rammed her harder than normal.

"Meow, are... you... you... coming?" She asked in surprise.

"Yes... I'm... about... to cum!" He whispered. "I'm going to cum... inside of you!"

"Yes... yes... meow... meow... inside... meowha hahaha ah ahahah hahahahaaMEOOOOOW!"

He gripped her tightly to him, spilling his gooey seed into her body, making her purr and moan in delight as he filled her with his essence again.

After a few minutes they relaxed, kissed, and she helped him clean up.

Not wanting to bring something that smelled like sex, they decided to toss the picnic blanket into the trash on the way inside Mesagoza. She walked arm in arm with him, smiling as she occasionally leaked a drop or two of his seed from her sex, glad that it was going to start raining that day.

The sandwiches they were supposed to have eaten were left to be eaten by random bird Pokemon.

But no matter how much he came inside of her, or how 'dirty' she felt... she always smiled and kissed him, feeling loved and happy... because it was 'him' making her dirty, and because of that she felt more 'loved' than dirty.

Then... one day... after a midnight date where they spent a long time just walking and cuddling with each other... while Zackery, Lucius and even Self followed behind as he wanted them to see the big moment.

"That was a wonderful date Faron..." She told him as they left the plaza where there was a little dance festival going on. "Even if you brought those three, I still enjoyed myself~!"

"I'm glad you did... I was worried you might not have liked it." He muttered quietly as he glanced at Self, Zachery and Lucius behind him.

This was all planned out, he had done so much research to make sure tonight was perfect, and so far, everything was going perfectly. The festival had been held without a hitch, it was a cloudless night, it was the night of a full moon, the stars were shining, and he had his friends and loved one with him.

"So where are we going now?" She asked as they kept on walking, with Self and Zachery trailing behind.

[Uknown, Master Faron has not yet informed us of any further plans.] Self declared while holding a box in his arms.

"You talk funny Mister Self!" Zachery said as he waddled on.

[Self is just proclaiming the situation and responding to the query, Self's speech is not impaired.]

"Well, I still don't trust you that much even 'after' Master caught you... you hurt my friends too much..."

[Your distrust is understandable; Self will continue to attempt to prove Self is not hostile anymore to you or the others.]

"I would hope so..." Lucius yawned.

She just rolled her eyes at them, before turning to Faron who was still just idly walking with her next to him. "So where 'are' we going next, is there something else you wanted to do?"

He nodded as he kept on walking, before he slowly found his destination. Here he was, on the East side of Mesagoza, at a little junction between the plaza and the East gate, where the fountain was aligned with the moon and the stars were twinkling around, trees and flower bushes perfectly positioned for the perfect moment.

"Actually, there is something I wanted to do..." He muttered warmly as he turned to Self. "Self, can I have the box now?"

The Iron Valiant nodded, stepped forward and handed off the box for him to take.

"Thank you... now can you three just step back for a moment?" He asked them.

Again, all of them did, Zachery backing up while Self took a few steps backward, bowing lightly as it did, allowing him and Midna to be alone while people around looked at what was going on with curious eyes. Midna was confused as she looked between him, the box and his Pokemon.

"Midna, we've known each other for so many years now... and even though we've only been dating for a couple months now... I still love you with all of my heart and... I want to know if you feel the same way." He said, having prepared this speech and practiced it dozens of times so he wouldn't miss a single word.

"Love you... Faron of course I love you, I love you with all of my heart!" She said in confusion, but smiling as she held her hands together. "Faron... you helped put my heart together when Viela shattered it, you gave me a reason to smile again when I didn't know who to trust. When I was lost and scared, you showed me the way forward and... and I love you so so much that I can't describe it any other way! I can't dream of loving anyone else besides you, you 'never' have to question that about me!"

He nodded as he took a deep steadying breath, the moment was about to hit. "I know... you gave me your heart, you said so yourself... 'we' put it together and... I just want to give it back to you to have again. And I just wanted to ask... is if you'll be with me for the rest of our lives?" He asked as he took a step back and opened the box at last.

"Midna, will you marry me?" He asked her, kneeling before her on a starry night, holding a necklace out for her, a necklace whose centerpiece was a heart shaped Tera Crystal, with little gilded wings.

She gasped in shock... surprise... awe... before she smiled and screamed, "YES YES YES A THOUSAND MILLION BILLION TIMES YES I WILL MARRY YOU FARON!" at the top of her voice, causing everyone within earshot to applaud and congratulate the two of them, even Self applauded, though he mostly mimicked it, not understanding the action, while he and she hugged and spun around, before she kissed him with so much force it looked like she was trying to break his neck just by kissing him.

"She said yes, I told you she'd say yes, you said she wouldn't but I 'knew' she'd say yes~!" Zachery declared.

[Self declares that this is untrue, you never asked self this question.]

"He always acts this way; you get used to it..." Lucius said with a cheery smile.

That night, he was glad it wasn't a school night, because she did not let him rest until morning came, saying it was her way of thanking him for making her life the happiest she's ever been.

The next morning when he went out to go get more food, Midna was just planning on what to make for him, beaming at the necklace around her neck the entire time, when she idly rubbed her belly just thinking about dinner that day. As she did, she looked down in confusion, noticing it was... a little 'bigger' than usual. Normally she was thin, flat... but her belly was... getting 'bigger' she thinks.

It wasn't noticeable, but her belly was a tad bit... 'rounder'.

"Huh... am I getting fat?" She asked quietly while rubbing her belly, before she went to go check her weight on the scale. "Oh, I hope I'm not getting fat... just what I need, I finally get proposed and suddenly I become unattractive to Faron..."

Some more time passed, and it was just a few days before his graduation, and he was just out getting fitted for his cap and gown with Zackery and Lucius to watch him, while she stayed in the dorm working on making a big fancy dinner for him with Self to help her. Then, at around half past one, a knock sounded at the door, and she asked Self to open it for her, telling her to ask who it was before they were let in, unless it was Faron and he just forgot his key.

Self nodded and left to open the door for her, while she chopped up some broccoli. [Identity unknown, please give name to Self for identity.]

"Please, I just... can I please come in; I want to talk to Midna."

Midna froze as she heard those words, she recognized the tone... it was 'her', Viela.

[Your identity has not been confirmed, please give Self your identity.]

"It's... I'm Viela... please, can I come in now, I just want to talk to Midna?"

[Identity confirmed, Viela, requesting access to the interior of this room, is permission granted?]

She was quiet, hesitant, not wanting to say anything and hoping he'd take her silence as no... but she knew Self, he never accepted silence as an answer. "No... she's not allowed in here."

Self nodded and turned back to the door. [Access to premise is denied, please leave.]

"Wait please, I'm begging you... at least ask... ask if Midna will... come to the door, I just... I just want to talk to her that's all, a few minutes and I promise I'll leave!"

Once more Self nodded and looked to her. [Viela requesting your presence, your response?]

Midna sighed as she shook her head, before saying loudly, "What do you want?"

"Midna... please, I just want to... to apologize and... ask if... if you could... talk to the Pokemon league or maybe Faron and..."

"The restraining order says 'thirty feet' of me, you are violating it... what do you want?" She yelled.

"Midna... I... I just... I just want to say I'm sorry is all." Viela said, sounding depressed and defeated. "I... I was wrong... what I did to you was... is unforgiveable... I understand that now. I was afraid... I thought you'd... I know I shouldn't have but... I was afraid and that... I understand if you can never forgive me, and I won't blame you if you never do and even if... we never speak ever again I will accept that. But... can we... is there any... even the 'slightest' hope that... we can still be 'friends'?"

Midna was quiet as she listened, a part of her furious, mad, angry that she had come back and ruined her life 'again' just by talking, reminding her of all the months, the last two to three years when she had been trapped worse than a bird in a cage. Treated like some conniving witch that was plotting to steal her princess's knight in shining armor.

But the other part of her, the one that still cared about her, still grasping at those happy memories, those happy thoughts, the feelings of joy when she played tag at the lighthouse that day before their first day of school together with Faron. That part of her... still wanted to go to her, to smile... and say yes... they could still be friends.

She sighed and put the food down, before walking over to the door, and standing behind Self, to look at her former trainer.

Viela was a mess, an absolute mess, she looked like... well... just an ordinary woman to her, with bags under her eyes.

She smiled a little at her appearance though, but her eyes were drawn to the sparkling necklace around her.

"Where'd you get that?"

Midna smiled as she lifted it up, and stared at it. "It was the crystal I gave to Faron... when we won that event, the day before you were suspended." She said warmly. "Faron had it altered, had it crafted... he had to take several part-time one-day jobs to afford it... but he did it because this was my engagement gift."

"E-Engagement gift?" She whispered fearfully.

Midna nodded as she smiled at her. "I'm getting married to him, to Faron." She said. "We started dating two months ago, and he proposed not long ago. I'm marrying him, and I've never been happier. I love him and he loves me, each night I go to sleep with him holding me in his arms, and each day I wake up to give him my warmest smile."

Viela looked even more broken, a part of her looked upset, and then a spark of anger rose in her eyes. "So, I was right... you did take him from me."

"I didn't take him from you... he didn't take me from you either. I just fell into his arms that day and... he gave me a reason to smile again." She told her proudly. "You broke my heart, Viela; you took it from me... threw it to the floor and shattered it... and left me to pick up those pieces and glue them together after I walked out that door with him. Faron... he just helped me put them together, one tiny piece at a time... and as we put my heart together... his heart became... my home, and so I gave him my heart freely to do as he wished with it, and he just gave it back to me. Now... I wear it proudly around my neck. It's a symbol of my love for him, beautiful and shining, and I'll never let anyone shatter it ever again. Not with it holding the love he has for me inside of it."

She sighed happily as she turned around, and walked out of sight.

"See you around Viela... no matter what... you will... always be my friend." She sniffed sadly.

She waited for a few moments, and then she watched as Self silently closed the door, turned to her and said, [Viela has left...] When he noticed her face was crying. [Are you upset, do you require my assistance, did she hurt you, shall I pursue her?]

"No... it's just... that was my former trainer... and friend, and I just am... getting over some things still." She told him, returning to her cooking.

[Your emotional levels appear, unstable... is there something wrong?]

She just smiled and looked at him, before shaking her head. "No... it's just... friends... 'never' say goodbye... I just hope she understands that." She then began chuckling as she remembered the big thing that caused this whole mess. "You know Self, it's ironic what she did..."

[Queary, what do you imply?]

"She was trying to lock me up until after graduation because she didn't want me stealing Faron away from her, she did that so she could keep the boy she liked from falling out of love with her and instead falling in love with 'me'." She giggled sadly. "Instead, by doing that... she pushed me deeper into his arms. And by breaking my heart the way she did, I ended up falling in love with Faron, and he ended up falling in love with me! So, in a sense... I have to thank her for breaking my heart. Thanks to her, Faron and I put it together again, and now... well... you know."

[Self does not understand, please elaborate.]

"Let's just focus on dinner." She chuckled.

If the robotic Pokemon from the future doesn't understand, she a biological 'present' Pokemon isn't going to explain it. 'After all...' She thought as she gently stroked her belly, which was still getting bigger each day, and went unnoticed by Viela because Self was in the way. 'How could he know... considering he doesn't know about the 'present' Faron gave me...'

Hours later when Faron was back, she managed to get him alone by telling him she had a very important 'thing' to talk to him about. Outside in the hallway while Zachery and Lucius were playing another game of kick ball, he turned to his wife who was looking happy and excited in front of him.

"What is it, Midna?" He asked her.

She took a deep breath and took both of his hands, with hers, and told him, "Faron... I have something important to share with you."

"Okay... what is it?" He asked nervously.

She took another deep breath, before taking his hands... and placing them on her belly and making him rub it. She made him feel the lump... the rather 'hard' lump that was her stomach... that she'd noticed growing ever increasingly larger since that day after he proposed.

"Faron... I'm having a baby." She whispered.

At that she watched his eyes grow wide in surprise, before he felt her belly once again, more slowly. Soon the realization hit him. "I'm... going to be a..."

She nodded with a sweet smile. "Yes... I'm pregnant... I'm going to have a baby... and it's yours." She repeated.

There was a brief moment of silence, before he gasped in surprise and joy while holding her close to him, she giggled as he hugged her, letting him kiss the ever-living daylights out of her with how happy he was. He looked to her with tears in his eyes, "I'm... speechless I... I don't know what to say I'm..."

She giggled as she whispered, "Thank you for everything my husband... my... 'Faron'..."

[Narrator]

[After Graduating, Midna, Faron, Zackery, Lucius and Self all left Uva Academy. After graduating, Faron was offered two different jobs, a part time job in which he served as a surveyor at Area Zero, using the Paradox Pokemon that he'd caught to assist him and protect him while he studied 'other' Paradox Pokemon to understand them. Since so few Trainers could go there, they needed all the help, and since he was one of the few who knew about them, he was instantly offered a job.]

[As for his other job, an Archeological survey team had signed him up for a three-year contract, asking him to join their teams every few months to go digging and excavating ruins across Paldea. Between these two jobs, he had enough income to afford a beautiful home for his new wife and his Pokemon.]

[Speaking of his wife, before they could officially marry, both had to pass a certification exam. Each had to take several tests to prove they were a genuine couple, with Midna having to prove she was intelligent, emotionally understanding of her choice in life, and accepting of the rights and privileges she'd gain by marrying him, as well as the loss of certain rights she had as a 'trained pokemon'. They passed their tests with flying colors, and that same afternoon, a certificate was signed, and both were proclaimed husband and wife, with the Pokemon League Staff congratulating the two of them as they kissed to signify it, and giving her a simple wedding gift of a potted tree to plant in their yard, a simple of their budding love.]

[Some more time passed, and it's now the anniversary of the night they first met, with Midna eagerly awaiting the arrival of her husband from his temp job at Area Zero... for one final story.]

(Midna's PoV)

"Hmhmhm... hmmmhmhm..." Midna hummed as she finished making dinner and was just setting the table, being careful with each step while her necklace hung from her neck.

Much time had passed since that wonderful day when she married Faron, and not a day went by when she hasn't been happy settling into her new life. While she knew she would miss the days of battling, competing, and showing she was a strong, talented Pokemon of the Champion Rank. She also knew that... her new life, would more than make up for it, and nothing would make her happier.

She heard the doorbell ring and smiled as she heard the door unlocking.

"Midna we're home!" Faron shouted.

"Honey, welcome back!" She called out, checking the stew and making sure it was ready. "How was work?"

"We saw a lot of Pokemon!" Zackery shouted as he rushed in, waddling as fast as possible to play a quick game of ball with Lucius. "What's for dinner, is it good, it smells yummy!"

"Slow down, slow down... dinner isn't going anywhere!" Lucius complained from Zackery's back.

Self walked in after and bowed to her, before going to help prepare the table, switching from 'combat mode' to 'maid/butler' mode. Despite the fact that they referred to Self as a he, Self clarified that he was actually 'genderless', and as such should not be identified as male, as his body was made up of parts both male and female, and was still a robot. However, they just called him a 'he' for the sake of simplifying it, and he sorta 'sounded' like a guy.

Then, Faron walked in, and she watched him sigh heavily as he sat at the table and shook his head tiredly.

"So much 'walking'..." He complained. "The teleporter systems are broken down there, and who knows when they'll be fixed. So, I have to walk 'all over the place' down there... my feet are dying."

She chuckled as she walked over and gave him a long, loving kiss on his lips.

"It isn't that bad... honey." She said warmly. "At least you aren't doing that, while eating for 'two'."

That was indeed true, as she turned and went back to the kitchen area to help Self prepare dinner for them all, she had to use both hands to carry her now engorged belly, which was showing the final stages of pregnancy for her.

Turns out, at some point, she didn't know when, but around the first night she had sex with Faron, to after the first month they began dating officially, she had become pregnant while at the academy. She was going to be a mother very soon, and she couldn't be happier.

When a nurse came over who specialized in Human-Pokemon pregnancy, it was discovered that she was going to give birth in the human fashion, with no egg. This was because when it came to Human-Pokemon compatability, while a Pokemon can get a human pregnant and vice versa, a Pokemon's biology throws a wrench into the equation with the 'egg'. It was about only one in ten that ended with a 'natural' birth as it was described for humans, otherwise the Pokemon gave birth to an egg as normal.

This meant that, unlike a normal pregnancy for Meowscarada, Midna had to carry her baby around in her belly until it was ready to come out, instead of just waiting until the egg was formed and then letting the egg handle the baby.

But she didn't mind as she sat down and ate her dinner with Faron and the rest of his Pokemon. Because as she ate with him... and she leaned on him, and they shared a peck or two between them... she could feel it kicking in her belly, meaning one thing.

Her baby knew that its daddy was near, and that she, its mother, was happy being near him.

She whispered something to him as dinner ended, and then... slyly went up to the bedroom to get things ready, while he made sure Zackery and Lucius would stay downstairs and that Zackery had something to keep him busy all night until he fell asleep.

Later that night...

"Oh fuck... oh fuck yea... oh yea Midna... oh you feel amazing!" He panted as he pumped her pussy.

"Oh, I missed this... oh fuck... yeeeeees..." She moaned as she bounced up and down on the bed, her mask off and her tongue hanging out of her mouth. "Ooooh fuck... yea baby... oh yea... pump me hard... ooooh meow!"

The bed creaked and groaned with their activity as he gripped her arms, pulling her harder each time he pushed her up, and she aided in the action by bouncing up and down as fast and hard as they can.

"Meow... myes... yes... oh yea..."

Faron slowed down as he raised himself up and pulled her in for a kiss, Midna sighing happily as she made out with him, licking his lips before bouncing again.

"Mwha ahaha hah ah ha... oh... you're so... oh god... you feel tight... how is that..."

"Agh... hagh... ah... meowaha... oooh meowsca... oh arceus... meowscarada... faron it feels amazing... oh harder baby, pump me... make me cum!"

"Ah... ah... fuck... oh shit... I'm... I'm about to cum!"

"Yes... yes... inside... do it..." She panted, gripping her husband's hands and holding him as she rode his dick.

"Ghy... gya...GHAAAAAAaaaa!"

"Ghaaaaaomeowaaaaa!" She moaned as he released his seed into her pussy.

She rode the high as long as she could, before she slowly felt him hug her and turned to kiss him, licking him lovingly and feeling his essence oozing out of her sex.

"Mmhmmm mmmeowsorry baby... you need to wait... a bit longer before... you can put another inside me!" She whispered happily.

"I know... but since I gave you my milk... do you mind if I try yours?"

She giggled and turned enough to let him bend down and start suckling her breasts for her milk. She sighed as she felt him drinking it, her breasts were only... 'half' a size bigger, still essentially flat, but she felt a ton of pleasure from being 'milked' by her beloved husband.

Speaking of her husband, he pulled away from her breasts and kissed her again, and she tasted her own milk on his tongue.

*kick*

"Ah..." She moaned, before holding her belly, smiling as she looked at him. "It moved... Faron... the baby moved!"

"Really, leme feel!" He said as he quickly placed his hands on her belly, with her guiding him and showing him.

After a few moments she waited with him and then...

*kick*

"Wow... it really is moving!"He whispered to her, causing her to smile lovingly at him.

She nuzzled him happily, happy that her husband was happy to feel his child was healthy and growing inside of her.

Then she heard footsteps approaching and quickly grabbed her mask, put it on, before covering herself and her husband up with the blanket.

Self walked in, bowed, and declared, [The television is off, Mr. Zackery and Lucius are now asleep, all other chores are completed.]

"Thank you, Self..." She said with a stern nod, and the Iron Valiant bowed and walked out, seemingly unaware of what happened, or ignoring it entirely. "Some days, I swear."

She then turned to him and sighed into his shoulder, licking his neck affectionately.

"Midna, about your plan?" He asked. "Are you really sure you want to do that?"

Midna nodded; she was sure. She had been planning for this for a few months now. They'd learned from some old professors that Viela had returned to Uva Academy and was trying to pass a six-month program so she could qualify for a new Pokemon license. She had to do this because until she had a new license and a new pokemon partner, she could not complete her degrees.

The downside is she had to take more classes because of this, but at least the upside was that this six-month program was 'free', but she had to basically pass it with a 95% or else due to her record.

Midna, despite what happened with Viela, still considered the girl her friend, if nothing else. Despite what she did, she had her reasons, misguided as they were, and she did not harbor anymore hatred for her, not now that she had Faron to share in this beautiful life she now had with him. So... after much talk, discussion, and arguing on both sides... they agreed.

After Viela passed her program, which Midna knew she would... when their baby was ready, they would give it to Academy Director Arven and 'he' would gift the Sprigatito to Viela, with a note that they had spent long and hard writing so it would be well received.

She was a little worried, but she trusted Viela as a friend enough to be willing to accept another Sprigatito as her starter... but this time, not making the mistakes she'd made with Midna.

The note was a message from her.

"The Seed of Friendship, does not fall too far from the tree it came from... we'll always be friends... together... forever. No matter what~."

"I trust her Faron... I know... she won't hurt it."

"If you say you trust her... then I trust her as well." He told her warmly. "She is our friend after all."

She nodded sighed as she turned around and kissed her beloved husband, her tail wagging happily as he held her close, feeling her belly with his body and feeling a sense of pride and joy knowing 'whose' baby it was that was inside of her.

Then his dick got harder again.

She smirked as she felt it harden and try to press deeper into her. "Uh oh... guess I need to... 'take responsibility' again."

"You and that damn tail of yours..." He muttered as she turned around and presented herself to him. "You... just... never... stop do you?"

"Oh... oh... yea... never... oh yea..." She moaned as he pumped her pussy some more.

He thrust harder and harder into her until he was pounding at her pussy like a Tauros.

"Care-care... careful baby... the baby... you might wake it up... you might... ooooh arceus yea~!" When he pushed her sweet spot. "Ooooh no... you... it might come out early!"

Don't worry... you'll be fine... you still have two more weeks before your expected..." He whispered heartily as he gripped her breasts and thrust harder into her, using one hand to gently pull her mask off. "Now... let's try... and get you ready... for baby number two... you beautiful... Meowscarada!"

"Meooooooow!" She screamed excitedly at the thought of having baby number 'two' with Faron.

After all, if he was already deciding he was going to put number two in her, what's to say he won't stop at two, why not three or four or...

"I was wondering, how do you feel about having 'ten'?" He whispered as he slowly pulled out before ramming her sex even harder than before.

'Ten?' She thought before his dick 'finally' broke into her womb, at last. "MeowscarADAAAAAAAA!"

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=Writer's Words=

This is the 'full' version of, this went from being 34k words, to 43k words, but this is the full version, additional lemon moments, but mostly building on romantic moments and little moments where the two spend more time together in snipits that I trimmed down to saying things like "they went to a store and ate some food"

This is just a reupload of my original lemon story by popular demand. As such if you don't review on this one I completely understand, nothing overall changes, there are just some deleted scenes I removed because it was originally getting too long.

I still hope you enjoyed it, i promised my next one will 'not' be meowscarada lol~