—-Katarina's Point of view—-

After nearly five hours worth of riding the carriage had finally stopped. Unfortunately the Dutchess Claes told me "Katarina, we aren't at the Breeding Centre. we're merely staying here to rest", hearing this immediately brought my mood down but it'll finally give me time to consider what to choose and so when I arrived into my room I immediately got dressed for bed and went over which Starter to choose.

—-Millidiana's Point of view—-

Thanks to the stop, I now have time to think about my situation. Recently, after the scar incident, Katarina has been off as she seems to have much less control than usual expecially when confronted with food, and she's gained an obsession with Pokémon and Romance Novels, oh and her sudden humility is concerning. But all of that isn't the most concerning part of her change as lately, Katarina has stopped referring to me as her Mother as she just calling me "Duchess Claes" and she doesn't seem to spend time with me anymore as and when we do encounter each other its through scolding. At this rate I fear that Katarina will loathe me.

Katarina's Doom Avoidence Council. Meeting #2

Chairman Katarina decided to start the meeting saying "We'll be choosing our starter so we'll need to have a plan if we're using it against Geordo, Keith and life in exile"

Fearless Katarina decided announce "Why don't we get a Litten after all we see Incineroar everywhere in competitive so they must be strong"

Lore Katarina immediately tells Fearless "But Geordo uses a Tyrantrum which is not only a Rock type but also a Dragon so fire types might not be best"

Hearing this Happy Katarina decides to say "What about a Primarina since their a Fairy Type they'll be immune to Dragon Types and so Keith's Dragon isn't a threat and neither is Tyrantrum"

Upon hearing Happy's reasoning everyone starts to agree except Smart Katarina decides to counter saying "It'll be very difficult to walk with a Primarina compared to any of the other starters and what if we don't have time to send her out if we just keep her in her Pokéball? also Keith's Melmetal will beat the Fairy type Primarina. Which is why I suggest a Empoleon"

Fearfull Katarina decides to bring up her worries stating "But what about runnning away? Even though Empoleon is better on land than Primarina he's still not as fast as other options"

Fearless Katarina immediately slams her hands down and shouts "CHARIZARD!", with Happy Katarina instantly asking "Why Charizard?"

Fearless Katarina explained herself stating "Charizard is super fast and so if we get attacked by surprise we could run away without worry but not only that we can also just fly on him and no ones Pokémon can fly, right Lore?"

Lore Katarina decide to clarify saying "We don't get killed by any Pokémon capable of flight. But Nicole has a Salamence with Alan possibly having a Charizard though that depends on the player's decision"

And hearing Lore Katarina's explanation, Smart Katarina said "HA! No Charizard it is", but Fearless Katarina didn't give up on her goal of a Charizard and decided to continue saying "But in those ending Katarina doesn't get killed and so my Charizard still holds and plus Charizard can Mega Evolve and so we could just use Mega Charizard to handle the Dragon Types and steel with his flames and Dragon moves"

Competitive Katarina chimes into the conversation saying "But Charizard has a four times weakness to rock which is half of Tyrantrum's type"

Lore Katarina tried to suggest his own Pokémon but Fearless Katarina spoke up instead to say "Everyone, Anne is talking shaking us"

—-Katarina's Point of view—-

After getting ripped out of my thoughts I wanted answers and so asked "Yes Anne?", and Anne had replied by telling me "Lady Katarina, it's morning and the carriage is ready, please get dressed"

So as it turns out I'd stayed up all night. Because of that I was also falling asleep in the carriage with the Dutchess Claes only getting more and more angry when I kept drifting to sleep, like and angry teacher, and this went on and on until we arrived at the daycare.

And so it was finally time to see what Starter I could choose, and I thought 'sure I didn't decide on a single choice but surely there was a Pokémon that could be brought to my attention' but when I had opened the doors all I could see was Dragon Types. There were Gibles chasing each other as Bagon were in lines, taking turns to jump off couches or nightstands and landing on pillows as Dreepys were zooming around and racing each other. It was all a very cute sight, however 'This completely ruins my plans' but nonetheless I didn't give up and so I went over to the Dutchess Claes and asked her "Can I go look around for anyone that interests me?" And to my surprise the Dutchess Claes had actually agreed and let me go as she'd handle the women at the counter.

I was mostly just amlessy looking around for Pokémon, there were some very cute Deino but they reminded too much of the dogs that chased me in the past.

Eventually I stumbled upon a giant cluster of the Dragon Pokémon and they looked to be in an oval shape as if a show was happening and so I went over to see the commotion and that was when I saw it. There was a Jangmo-o and across it was a Goomy who looked badly injured and the Jangmo-o seemed to have charged up for a Tackle but before it could do that I jumped over the crowd of Dragon Pokémon and picked up Goomy and when the Jangmo-o had started to growl at me I gave it my best Villianess Glare which somehow managed to work and the Jangmo-o had ran away along with the crowd of Dragons. I guess the sudden burst of scared Dragons caused a commotion as the women at the counter had arrived along with the Dutchess Claes and once the woman saw the Goomy she had grabbed it from my arms and rushed into a different room but I was concerned and so followed her with the Dutchess following me.

Eventually after a while of waiting the woman had came out and immediately I had asked the woman "Is the Goomy alright? Will it get bullied again?"

The woman had only sighed before giving the answer to both my questions "Goomy's alright as she was able to be healed by my Audino though she's a little spooked and as for the other question…" The woman then paused as if she shouldn't tell me, though I understand where she's coming from since I am technically a child.

The Dutchess Claes then decided to stand up and dramatically clear her throat inorder to get attention from both me and the woman and said "I think me and daughter want answers not mysteries" while giving her signature glare.

This seems to have worked effectively as the woman had immediately responded "W-well, Lady Claes, the Goomy has a tendency to accidentally attract other Pokémon and other Pokémon might become jealous"

Hearing this had made me sad since after all, Goomy was just making friends its not like she was a villianess like me.

The Dutchess however looked more angry than anything and so immediately confronted the women by questioning "And what steps have been taken to prevent and reduce these incidents"

The woman, who was now several shades whiter, responded stating "W-we've taken p-precautions such as attempt to quarantine however the jealous Pokémon constantly break out anyways and it makes the entire colony lonely without Goomy so we've decided to have Goomy monitored as much as possible"

The Dutchess doesn't look any happier about the response, and if looks could kill the Dutchess was war criminal. Not wanting for a scolding to this poor employee trying her best, I grabbed a part of the Dutchess's dress and gave her my best 'please don't' look possible.

Miraculously this had worked and the Dutchess had settled for a terrifying glare and I decided to step in and ask the woman "Can we see Goomy in the room" and in response the woman had frantically nodded and lead the way for the two of us.

The room had grey walls with a small table close to the centre of the room and next to the table was a cabinet most likely filled with medicine or herbs, In the corners were some plants but in a particular corner it had the Goomy with the plant that was supposed to be there pushed to side to make room for her.

Unfortunately the Goomy was also shaking with its antennae covering its eyes, the sight was sad but it reminded me of something 'wait don't scared animals shake' and then I had an idea. I walked over towards the Goomy but made an effort to be far enough that the Goomy could still reasonably run away and then I started to hum a song, the song is the littleroot town melody but in a more lullaby version, eventually the Goomy had stopped shaking and though she bothered to look at me it was still progress so I decided to slowly back away and get up once I was at further distance. I went over towards a Cabinet and grabbed some Pokémon food and covered it in my fist, I returned to my previous spot and slowly moved my arm towards to Goomy. My hope is that it'll smell the food, get interested and finally look at me. It worked as the Goomy had smelt the food and showed intrest hence I slowly opened my palm and allowed the Goomy to eat. When it finished it was finally time to pet the Goomy and so I slowly opened my palm and shuffled over as carefully as possible and… SUCCESS! thank you dog petting websites, the bites in past were worth it, even if they didn't work on dogs.

The Goomy wasn't warm, however it wasn't freezing cold, rather she was just barely cooling me to the point that if you weren't paying attention you wouldn't notice and she was super slimy so it was like petting a worm but nonetheless it was still a very pleasant experience even if I had to wash my hands later.

After awhile my mind started to wonder, 'Goomy's slime kinda like butter. Wait what if, while running away from Geordo or a Pokémon, I fall into a hole then I can use Goomy's slime to slip out of the hole easy peasy!' And so with that idea on my mind, I immediately went to work on getting my butter dog.

I did a waving motion and once the Dutchess came over I decided to make my case "May I please adopt the Goomy"

I had used the greatest puppy eyes possible however she only responded saying "Katarina, Goomys are by far the weakest dragon in this land. It would bring shame upon the class if you were to adopt her".

'Leave it to the mama villainess to give such a cruel response' but I wasn't deterred and pushed further saying "But if I leave her here she'll get attacked again. I wanna protect her!"

Maybe it was the determination in my eyes or maybe it was just irritation, but miraculously mother just sighed and said "This is your responsibility, if you don't like her you cannot just get rid of her. Understand?"

I frantically nodded and turned to Goomy and lowered my hands on the ground to allow her to walk to me. Thankfully she understood and walked over, allowing me to pick her up.

As we walked, I decided to ask a question that's been plaguing me and so I went for it "Why were you so angry with the worker during her explanation?" After all the woman hadn't insulted the Claes family or the Dutchess herself so why would she be so angry that I had to stop her?

I guess the Dutchess was angry or really annoyed because she pulled out her fan to hid her redding face and said "The incompetence of that women and this daycare's staff when handling the Goomy had irritating me since after all she was only making excuses for herself."

I just responded saying "Oh okay" but apparently she wasn't finished as the Dutchess went on to say "And it made you sad and I cannot let something that displeases a Claes to continue"

'That is surprisingly nice' and so I decided to say "Thanks Mother!". 'Mama and Mom will stay for my previous parents but she doesn't need to know that'

Eventually we reached the entrance and Mother went to the counter to sign the adoption paper and I decided to wait it out on the couch, deep in thought about a very important situation.

'What should I name you… Oh I know I'll just ask her'

"Pochi?" Unfortunately Goomy only turned her head-body in confusion "Yah too dog-like. What about Slimeball?" Then Goomy rapidly shook her head-body… thing, to show her protest "Okay! too on the nose. ONION" but Goomy had just turned her head-body in confusion again

Nonetheless I continued "Yah Onion! Red Onions on the Bottom, White at the top and Green Onions at the sides. And your fellow dragons loved you, according to the lady, and who doesn't love onions" after hearing my explanation Goomy had looked down for moment before immediately rising and gave a cheerful "Goom!" To express her acceptance.

After the papers were finished I was given Onion's Pokéball though I wanted to keep her with me in the carriage so I didnt use it and just put it in a pocket.

On the carriage back, Onion had fallen asleep and just before I decided to join her. Mother had decided to speak "Listen, Katarina I may be hard on you about your wishes or hobbies but I want you to know that I'm only worried about how High Society will react. They can be the most heartless and vicious entities you'll ever know and I want to make sure they don't aim that at you"

The conversation was probably meant to end like that but I looked at Onion and decided to ask "What if I become stronger than everyone else with my Pokémon?"

Mother had only sighed and told me with pleading eyes "Just don't bite off more than you can chew, Okay?"

"Ok" I guess the look on my face gave away my disappointment as Mother had decided to continue saying "I suppose nobles with strong Pokémon do get better benefits than the usual noble, just try to be the strongest Katarina, then scale up slowly and maybe you'll get close"

'I guess she has a point, If I do place smaller goals then maybe I can avoid my doom and get some freedom while I'm at it' and so I just nodded in approval at Mother's idea and drifted off to sleep.

—-Millidiana's Point of view—-

The Carriage had been put to a halt and so it was time to return to the Claes Estate. I decided that I'd take the burden that my servants would and carried Katarina in my arms 'For an 8 year old Katarina sure is heavy maybe I should reduce her sweets'

Upon looking upwards my train of thought had been directed towards my husband, Luigi, and the specimen clutching his leg 'that better not be what I think it is'

Naturally I was curious about the sudden visitor without any other adults nearby and so confronted my husband and said to him "To whom may this be?"

To which Luigi had responded with "This is Keith Claes, our new son and the heir since Katarina is to be married"

And then the courtesan had dared to ask "May I wake Katarina?"

And I of course told the harlot "Unfortunately Katarina requires rest. Do it tomorrow" and gave him my best glare possible to shut the hetaeraphile up and stormed off.