FSE

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Chapter 1

Tests and Taboos

I sat on the edge of my bed, glaring at my alarm clock; which had so rudely ruined some good dreams only a few minutes ago, but with a sigh I admitted to myself that today wasn't the day to sleep in. I had been training at my town's officer academy for the past year and a half, and today was the big midterm exam for me and my partner. Speaking of him, he was still snoring loudly in his new bed at the end of my room. It had only arrived just last week, and before I had left him with our town's daycare overnight; though ever since he's started staying with me every night he seems to have gotten more restless and even a tad irritable.

I walked over to the massive red dog and started scratching behind his ears; when that didn't wake him I tried pulling on them which managed to get a stir out of him. Grinning evilly I leaned down and bit his ear; which woke him as intended, but made him jump up with such force as to throw me back against my bed. I giggled as my Arcanine gave me an annoyed look, but he still came up and licked my face to greet me as he had every morning.

"Come on Flare, let's get some breakfast before we head out" I said to him, "The midterm is going to take all day so we'll need the energy."

Flare gave a low woof of approval and we headed to the little kitchen area of my apartment. I cooked up a couple eggs for myself quickly and Flare had his customary massive bowl of dog food to fuel his massive body. As I ate I reflected on how we met.

When I first entered the academy, I was offered a Growlithe as he was the traditional partner pokemon of officers in my region; but on the day I was supposed to go pick out my pokemon from the academy stock, a crate arrived at my door from my uncle who lived out in Jhoto. My uncle was an accomplished pokemon breeder; though we never heard much from him back home. Needless to say, I was highly curious when I found out the crate was addressed to me, and immediately set to prying it open. The moment the lid gave way I was tackled by a Growlithe leaping out of the box; who immediately pinned me down and started licking all over my face. After I managed to calm the ecstatic puppy, I found a note and a pokeball inside the crate. The note was from my uncle, informing me that he heard I was going to need a Growlithe so he had pulled the best of his own breeding stock to get me one, that I should take special care in raising it, and that it had problems staying in its pokeball, or something along those lines. I can't go check exactly what it said now because Flare accidentally burnt the note to a crisp a long time ago. I do remember the weird training he had me give Flare though, I was supposed to have him fight only certain pokemon for a long time, after which it didn't matter what he battled afterwards. I didn't really know how that could be so important but I made sure to do as instructed anyway, and apparently it worked as Flare was always top of his class when he was a Growlithe.

I looked down at Flare to see he had finished his meal and was staring at me impatiently. I looked at my watch and realized I had lost nearly half an hour in thought.

"Crap!" I shouted, jumping out of my seat and running to the door with Flare hot on my heels. I all but sprinted down the stairs and outside the apartment complex, where Flare crouched down and barked for me to hop onto his back. It was a rare thing for him to let me ride him, and I wasted no time climbing onto him. I gripped his mane as he took off, flying down the sidewalk nearly as fast as the cars passing by, and in no time at all we made it to the academy.

I hopped off my partner and jogged inside, hoping I wasn't too late as I slipped into my regular lecture hall. The room was filled with other students like me as well as their respective Growlithe partners. Thankfully I had arrived just as the written exam was being handed out and I slipped into the back row of seats just in time to get my copy as Flare took his customary spot next to me on the floor. I smiled and gave him a rough scratch behind the ears and patted his side to thank him before setting to work on the massive packet before me.

An hour and a half went by before I finished, long enough for Flare to have fallen asleep on the floor next to me. I stepped over my partner and walked my exam to the front of the class before returning to my seat and patiently waiting for everyone else to finish. I reached down and pet the sleeping canine as one by one, the rest of the class turned their exams in and finally around noon we were dismissed for lunch and told to return with our partner pokemon at one o'clock sharp.

Flare and I made our way with the exiting crowd to the cafeteria, though our progress was slowed by his size. I Spotted one of my friends in the hall by the Spinarak clinging to her back and called out to her.

"Hey Sarah!" I hollered.

The transfer student turned around, spotting my massive pokemon and waved. "Mark, how do you think you did?" she asked, wading through the crowd towards me, the green spider crawled up onto her head to get a better vantage point.

"Well, I at least passed" I said "how about you?"

"I had one or two questions which gave me trouble, but I should have all but aced this one" she answered.

The conversation shifted to her hometown in Jhoto as we walked to the cafeteria and we chatted about how we preferred to train with our partners as we ate. Eventually we ran out of time and had to part ways for the second part of the exam; as it was the field test and she had a special chamber prepared due to her unique partner. We said our goodbyes and Flare and I headed to our own Special chamber for the test, as he was the only approved Arcanine candidate.

It was a short walk to our test chamber, and the officer waiting outside greeted us warmly. He explained that the test was basically an obstacle course that we would have to work together to overcome, and our grade would be determined by our time. He then joked that we would most likely never have to use these skills in the field and this was mostly a chance to show off. I chuckled and agreed before entering the door.

Inside, the room was dim and went to pitch black as the door was shut behind us. I felt Flare bump into my thigh as a voice sounded out via what I could only assume to be a loudspeaker.

"Alright Mark, this test is fairly straightforward, you're goal is to work with your Arcanine to get to the end of the course. There will be no hints and anything is allowed. You are to begin when the buzzer sounds, are you ready?"

I reached behind me and felt up Flares mane to scratch his ears, eliciting a quiet murr from him as I spoke loudly "ready as we'll ever be."

Within seconds there was a loud buzz, causing both me and flare to wince. The room was still pitch black and I sighed before ordering Flare to give me a very short flamethrower so we could see. He woofed and a lick of flame erupted from the darkness that was about a foot long. We could now see the room dimly lit ahead. It was more like a narrow hallway, with tall walls on either side. I identified the first challenge to be a long pool of water in front of us looking to be about fifty feet long.

"Think you could jump that?" I asked my partner. He shook his head, causing the flame to sway back and forth. "alright, give me another two feet of flame then so I can see when I get to the other side, okay?" I asked. Flare nodded as a larger flame erupted from his mouth. I wasted no time diving into the pool.

It took me about a minute to swim to the other side, where I hauled myself out of the water panting. I caught my breath and looked around spotting a massive wooden raft. "you've got to be kidding me" I mumbled to myself as I walked over to it and started dragging it towards the pool. The thing had to weigh at least two hundred pounds, and by the time I had finally worked it's bulk into the pool I was panting again. It was easier going moving the thing across the pool; however I took my time in order to regain my breath.

While crossing the last twenty or so feet back to my partner I was startled by the light shifting suddenly brighter and then suddenly knocked back by a massive splash from the raft. When I resurfaced I saw Flare crouched on the raft, doing a surprisingly good job balancing his bulk on it after leaping so far to it. I felt something bump my leg and looked down to see a Tentacruel in the pool with us, though before I could identify it as an obstacle it swam away. It must have been there to haul Flare out of the water if he fell in so he wouldn't be too hurt. An impatient woof from above snapped me out of my thoughts and I started pushing the now much heavier raft across the pool to the other side, though I only got it within maybe fifteen feet before Flare took another leap to close the distance. I abandoned the raft and quickly swam the rest of the way before hauling myself back out.

Now that the light was better on this side of the pool, I could see far enough to spot the next challenge, which seemed to be a series of insanely tall steps. Three separate ledges, each being about ten feet tall stood before us, and before I could even think about how to tackle it, flare was crouched down for me to hop on his back again. I asked him if he was sure and he only gave another impatient woof. I shrugged and climbed on, making sure to dig my fingers deep into his mane as he took off. I could barely make out what was happening in the dim light, only registering a sudden acceleration forward, followed by the disorientation of rising and falling as Flare ascended the steps.

Once atop the third step I rolled off my partner and stumbled a little, waiting for the dizziness to pass. I shook my head to clear it and looked ahead to see a wall of logs standing upright with enough space between each to make out a checkered line on the floor past them. My first thought was to have Flare just flamethrower them down, but a better thought occurred to me. Flare had a special move at his disposal, thanks to my uncle's way of breeding him.

I grinned and turned to the massive dog. "Flare, take them down with close combat" Flare growled and crouched low before flinging himself forward at an insane speed, colliding into the logs with the massive CRUNCH of breaking wood. I rushed forward, narrowly dodging a falling log as I caught up with Flare, who was shaking his head to clear the daze of impact. I shouted for him to follow as I vauted the splintered remains of the lower part of the logs and he quickly followed me over and across the finish line. A loud buzz sounded as we finished and the room lit up, causing me to wince.

"ten minutes, thirty four seconds Mark" the voice sounded again. "Not the best arcanine handling we've seen here, but still a B minus on our scale. You've got a really special partner there, try to work on your daydreaming problem though."

I grinned and hugged Flare tightly. "We passed!"

Flare murred and licked my cheek heavily until we were interrupted by the sound of a door opening to our left. An officer walked in and congratulated us before escorting us back to the entrance. We were free for the rest of the day, and on the way out I spotted Sarah and her Spinarak again, though I didn't get to chat with her as she was already on the bus back to her own apartment. Shrugging, I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon relaxing at home with my partner.

I walked home with Flare, who was strutting with pride the entire way. I stopped at the pokemart along the way to buy him a bone to reward him for his work, which he carried with a wagging tail the rest of the way home. Once inside, Flare happily curled up in the kitchen and started gnawing on his bone. I smiled at him as I headed into my bedroom and quietly closed the door behind me. It was time I give myself a little treat too.

Quietly I walked over to my computer and booted it up. While waiting for it to start up, I opened up my dresser and dug through my clothes to the bottom of the drawer, revealing the toy I kept hidden there. It was a simple dildo: blue, fairly thick, vaguely phallic detail to it but mostly smooth, and it had a suction cup at the base though I never had occasion to use that feature. I was able to take it easily due to having lots of practice with it. Leave a guy with an internet connection and a perverted side to him and he'll get curious, and what originally started with just a finger escalated to my first toy within a week. That one was pretty small, and eventually I got good enough with it that I decided to get the one I have now. It took a few weeks of practice before I could even fit it, but after that I never used the first toy again.

I grabbed my toy and returned to my computer pausing to make sure I could still hear Flare gnawing on his bone before opening up the browser and pulling my bottle of lube out from behind the monitor. I browsed through my bookmarks and picked my usual picture site, and proceeded to browse basically at random, clicking anything that caught my eye looking for something that sparks interest. Eventually something caught my eye, not sure if the thumbnail was what I thought it was, I clicked to make sure. I tensed up as the full image appeared on the screen, nervously checking over my shoulder to make sure the door was closed. It was a picture of a male Charizard and it's trainer, only the Charizard had it's thick member buried deep inside it's trainer's ass. Both were clearly enjoying the act: the Charizard was holding his trainer in his lap, and the trainer was rock hard and visibly leaking a copious amount a pre as he leaned back into his pokemon. I'd never seen anything like this and I was almost certain that this was illegal and that it would be taken down from the site almost immediately. Knowing that, something still possessed me to save the image. I kept telling myself that it was wrong and would just get me in trouble, but the throbbing bulge in my pants kept me going.

I wondered how it'd feel to have something as big and warm as a charizard dick inside me, and the thought sent shivers down my spine, culminating in a tingly feeling in my asshole. I wasted no time getting my pants off, and I realized just how turned on I was. I was hard enough to ache and there was already a stream of pre dribbling down my shaft. I hurriedly prepped my toy, not wasting any more time adding lube than I needed to before leaning back and pressing it against my anus. I took a deep breath and relaxed as I pushed it deep inside me, I could barely keep from moaning as it slid inside. It was a bit of a rough entry, but I was too turned on to care. I imagined it was the charizard's member inside me as I started to work the toy in and out of my ass. I panted as I toyed myself faster and faster, my member twitching and spurting more pre with nearly every thrust. My mouse and monitor lie forgotten as I lost myself in the act, toying my ass as fast as I could. I quickly got close to my peak, and in my mind I could feel the heat of Charizard's body as he prepared to fill me with his seed. I couldn't keep from moaning as I was about to cum, but loud and frantic scratching at my bedroom door scared me bad enough to fall out of my chair.

Dazed and panicked I quickly picked myself up off the floor, hearing a thump as my toy slid out of me and fell. I pulled my pants back on as fast as I could. I quickly closed the browser and kicked my toy across the floor to under my bed. I made a quick survey to see if I missed anything, and not seeing anything obvious I made my way to the door while trying to suppress my adrenalin. I opened the door and was immediately knocked over as Flare leaped through the doorway. He growled and glared around the room as he covered my whole body with his own, his body heat nearly overwhelming me. I squirmed and told him to get off of me, and he did so reluctantly. He stepped back and let me get back to my feet before he started sniffing everywhere in the room, searching the room for clues to what had happened.

"I'm fine Flare, nothing bad happened." I tried to reassure him, noticing him sniffing at the bottle of lube still sitting on my desk. I quickly snatched it up away from him "Really Flare, there's nothing wrong." I tried to reassure him, but he ignored me as his nose had found the spot on the floor where my toy had landed. I froze, knowing just how good his nose was and how well he knew my scent. He sniffed the floor in roughly the same path I had kicked the dildo and soon his muzzle was buried under my bed. I knelt down next to him and tugged on his mane trying to get him to give up and thought I had succeeded when he pulled his head back but was quickly proven wrong to see him holding my toy in his mouth.

Blushing deeply I ordered him to drop it; which he did promptly, giving me a confused look. I quickly snatched it up and threw it on my bed, away from Flare before turning and giving him an exasperated look. Seeing my frustration, he let out a low whine in apology. I felt bad, after all he was just worried about me and without context that kind of moaning is hard to register as a good thing.

"Look, I'm fine see?" I reassured him, petting his head and scratching behind his ears. "You're a good boy for trying to protect me but there's nothing to worry about this time. Sorry for getting mad at you for it" I held his head close to me to try to make him feel better, and from his wagging tail it seemed he did, though the way he was sniffing at my shirt was odd. I let go, but he kept his nose pinned to my chest, sniffing deeply. Confused I stood up and realized I had made a rather large pre stain on it in the middle of my fun. Blushing even more than before, I quickly yanked it off and threw it in the corner.

Flare stared at the shirt but didn't move, instead looking back up at me. I sighed "alright, you know what?" I asked him "lets do something special for dinner tonight. We both could use some time out of the house and that new restaurant that serves pokemon just opened up downtown. Sound like a good plan to you?"

Flare gave a happy bark of approval and we went out for the evening after a quick change of clothes. The food was great, and Flare really liked the special meal they prepared for him too. Fortune was on our side as it turned out Sarah had decided to go there with her spinarak that evening as well and we got to chat about our different field tests. It turned out hers had to do with testing her spinarak's accuracy with it's string shot attack and how well she could direct it through a maze on the ceiling. Her instructor had also made similar jokes about the uselessness of the skills but she took it seriously all the same. They even gave me a student discount on the meal, which was a good thing considering their prices were a tad higher than I could pay. We walked home that evening happy and full, but tired, and when we got home I realized it was the day of the week when I washed Flare.

To my surprise Flare put up little resistance when I told him it was time for a bath. I laid out towels across the floor as he was big enough that I could only fit one half of him into the tiny shower of my apartment at a time and the dripping water would flood the rest of the apartment without something to catch it. I stripped down to my boxers and started with his front half, first getting his fur wet and eliciting an annoyed growl from him. I tried to lather and rinse him as fast as I could, but even then it took a while due to the sheer size of him. Once finished I told him to turn around and he did so happily and I was surprised to see his tail wagging rather than tucked between his legs as it usually was on bath night. I set to work soaking his fur, then let my mind wander as I started lathering his fur with shampoo. My thoughts drifted back to the charizard and trainer picture, though I kept them reigned in enough to keep from getting aroused. After a while I was shaken from my fantasy by what I thought was growling at first, but I realized it was actually a low murr from Flare. I looked to realize I had long since lathered his entire back half, even one area I always left untouched. Cradled in my soapy hand were Flare's rather large testes, which felt pleasantly warm and soft in my fingers. I continued massaging them for a few seconds longer before I realized what I was doing and quickly withdrew my hand blushing deeply. Flare looked back at me, as if expecting something and I started to rinse the soap out of his fur, avoiding his gaze.

Before long I was done and I gave him the 'all clear' for drying off. Flare gave a woof of approval and crouched down, raising his own body temp and causing the water left in his fur to evaporate quickly. He was pretty good at it now, the first time we tried this method he set the towels on fire. But now he can not only dry himself but the towels as well without damage.

I smiled and gave Flare a good scratch behind the ears "come on, bed time" I said. He gave another woof of approval and followed me to the bedroom before curling up on his bed and looking back at me expectantly. I asked him what was up, but he just stared at me. I shrugged and quickly changed into a new pair of boxers, hearing Flare lick his chops as I pulled the wet pair off. I hopped onto my bed but winced as something poked hard at my back. I sat up and realized it was my toy, which I had left on the bed. I looked closer at it to see that Flare had scarred it beyond use with his teeth. I sighed and tossed it aside before pulling the blankets over myself. I noticed Flare was still staring at me, but he hadn't moved from his bed. I shrugged and laid back, closing my eyes.

Sleep came slowly. I kept waking up and rolling around trying to get comfortable, but eventually I managed to stay asleep long enough to dream. Something behind me was radiating a huge amount of heat, and at first I thought it must be the charizard from earlier, but as I turned around I realized it was my partner Flare. Before I could say anything he had pounced on me, knocking me down onto my back. Goosebumps broke out as I lay beneath the massive beast, unsure what he wanted of me. He suddenly shifted his body until his large sheath and testes were presented mere inches from my face.

Swallowing hard, I understood what he wanted and slowly reached up to massage his sack with one hand while gently squeazing his sheath with my other. He murred deeply as I groped and stroked him, and soon I saw the red tip of his member start poking free of his sheath. I blushed and stroked his sheath faster, switching position to use both hands as more and more of his throbbing red dick revealed itself. The tip drew near my face as he became fully aroused and I saw he was nearly a foot long and dribbling a copious amount of pre. I suddenly had to know what it tasted like. I leaned forward and tentatively licked the tip of his shaft, cleaning the pre from it. The taste was salty, but oddly savory despite that and before I knew it I had my mouth around him, suckling gently on his member. I moved a hand back to cradle his testes as I slowly bobbed up and down his fully engorged shaft and stroked what I couldn't fit in my mouth. It was then I realized that I was also rock hard and stopped massaging Flare's furry sack to reach down and stroke myself as I slid his member deeper into my mouth. Flare's contented murring shifted to a low growl as his hips suddenly thrust forward, driving his member to the back of my throat and forcing me to suppress the urge to gag. He kept thrusting into my mouth, though he was more careful not to choke me with the following strokes and all I could do was stroke myself as he used my mouth. I saw the base of his shaft swell wider and wider as he facefucked me and before long he erupted into my mouth, instantly filling it and spilling out and down my chin. I tried to swallow as much as I could but he kept cumming and cumming and I couldn't keep up, eventualy I had to back off in order to breath as he painted my face with the last few spurts of his semen.

I panted hard and looked up at him, still rock hard myself as he lay down mostly on top of me and started to lovingly lick my face clean. Though something seemed off, too real, which didn't make sense until the dream faded and I opened my eyes to see the real Flare lying on top of me, staring intently as his tail slowly wagged. I looked up at him, and suddenly realized my still hard member was sandwiched between his incredibly warm body and mine. I squirmed and Flare pinned his paws on my shoulders, holding me in place and growling quietly. Feeling intimidated, I immediately stopped and asked him what he was doing. Flare responded with a heavy lick to my cheek before taking the blanket in his mouth and pulling it off of me, revealing the tent I was pitching in my boxers. Embarrassed, I tried to cover it but Flare moved his front paws down over my thighs, holding me in place. Before I could tell him to stop his nose was buried in my crotch, sniffing intently at my boxers. I tried to push his head away but the massive canine was too strong for me to move and soon had nosed the slit in my boxers open, causing my throbbing erection to be fully revealed. I froze up, not sure if he was really doing what I thought he was. He gave my member a few sniffs as if to confirm something, then started slowly dragging his big hot tongue across it, happily wagging his tail. I gasped and bit my lip, stifling a moan as he pleasured me. His tongue felt amazing, but before I could really start to enjoy it he stopped and started tugging ineffectively at my boxers with his paws, emitting a low whine and looking at me pleadingly.

With a sigh, I submitted to my partner's will and reached down to pull my boxers off, I was too turned on now to stop anyway. Seeing I was finally complying, Flare moved off my thighs and let me fully disrobe. Tossing my boxers aside, I now sat completely naked and aroused before the massive canine. He wagged his tail faster as he nosed my side, easily tossing me onto my stomach with his strength. I picked myself up onto all fours before a low growl told me that was the way he wanted me. I shivered in anticipation, too caught up in the moment to even think of lube. It turned out to not be a concern as I soon felt something hot, wet, and soft press against my anus and start massaging it. I bit my lip as my partner quickly loosened me up with his surprisingly skillful tongue. I breathed heavily as he started pressing his tongue inside me, stretching my asshole wide with its size.

Suddenly Flare withdrew his tongue from me and just as I was about to look back, his front paws slammed down on either side of me and I was suddenly enveloped in his body heat. He murred quietly as he pressed his hips into mine and I shuddered as I felt his already hard member rub against my own, realizing he was far bigger than my toy. I didn't get to savor the feeling long as he quickly repositioned his hips until I felt the tip of his massive rod press against my back door. Trembling, I gritted my teeth and tried to relax as he slowly forced himself inside me, and despite being extremely loose from his amazing rim job and the copious amounts of saliva and what I could only guess to be pre spilling out from his dick he was still a very tight fit inside me. I felt his furry testes press against my own, realizing he had somehow fit his entire length inside me. We were both panting now, and he wasted no time starting to thrust in and out of me, starting slowly at first but gradually picking up pace as I got used to his size and more of his pre lubed me up further. Within minutes he was humping me quickly and panting heavily as I moaned and squirmed beneath him. I couldn't hold myself up for long as pleasure took over; I let my front half collapse, wrapping my arms weakly around Flare's strong front legs. From my new position I could see the thick stream of pre trailing from my throbbing member down to a sizable puddle on the bed as my partner filled me over and over. The sight of flare thrusting into me caused me to rise to me peak quickly and soon I was dribbling my pent up load all over my bed as the Arcanine mated with me. It turned out Flare wasn't far behind me as he lodged himself deep inside me and I could feel his knot swelling inside me. I winced as I was stretched even wider, though his knot pressed my spot hard enough for me to reach a second climax, squirting my load hard enough to paint my face and chest just as I felt his member surge as he climaxed as well, growling loudly. I felt my insides gurgle as his seed flooded my bowels and all I could do was pant weakly as his member was locked inside me. Flare collapsed to the side, pulling me with him and causing my bed to creak with his shifted weight. He started murring and gently licking the back of my neck as I lay nestled into his fur next to him, and despite the ache from his massive knot in my ass his body heat and soft fur comforted me enough that I fell asleep next to him like that.

I awoke the next morning to contented snores and a powerful ache in my lower region and suddenly what had happened last night came rushing back to me. What did this mean for our relationship as master and partner? What does this mean in relation for me becoming an officer of the law? These and countless other questions flooded my mind and I scrambled upright, noticing my bed felt utterly soaked and sticky, and the commotion caused Flare to roll away from me, culminating in a loud crash as he fell to the floor. I looked down as him as he stood up, dazed from the rude awakening, but with a long yawn and a quick shake of his head he seemed fine. He looked back up at me and we sat like that for a long time, just looking at each other and at least for me taking in the full scope of what happened last night. Eventually it was Flare who broke the stare down with a quiet woof as he leaned forward and gave me a quick lick on the cheek. Stunned, I couldn't keep from smiling.

I quickly located my boxers, but as I was pulling them on I realized my inner thighs were covered in Flare's dried spunk. I sighed and decided a morning shower wouldn't be a bad idea; though when I passed through the kitchen I realized it was well past noon. I couldn't believe I had slept for so long, but I was grateful it was the weekend. I saw Flare strutting out of the bedroom, and I noticed that for the first time since he had started sleeping in my apartment he seemed really relaxed. I pondered this as I headed into the shower and started washing the residue of last night's fun from my body. While scrubbing I discovered that I still was extremely loose, enough so that I could fit two fingers inside me without lube. I felt oddly proud of myself for that. Once I felt I was clean enough I quickly toweled off only to realize from the fresh white smear on the towel that Flare's cum was still leaking out of me. I made sure to stuff a wad of toilet paper back there as I got dressed to prevent it from causing a stain.

Flare was waiting for me outside the bathroom and started wagging his tail as soon as I opened the door. I cautiously reached out and scratched him behind the ears realizing he was still the same Arcanine from before if a bit more cheerful.

"Well, what do you think about what we did last night?" I asked him, as if expecting an answer. He just panted and wagged his tail faster. I sighed, not sure what to make of it all myself.

"Well, what do you think about getting some training in this afternoon?" I asked, hoping to regain some sense of normalcy. He replied with a happy bark and trotted to the door, eager to get started. I couldn't help but smile as I headed to the door; it looked like things would still be okay.

Chapter 2

Friends, New and Old

About a week has passed since I had given myself to my partner pokemon and all I can say is things have only gotten better for it. I figured out his restlessness was most likely due to him no longer having a chance to relieve his desires like when he spent nights at the daycare, but now he doesn't have to worry about it and it's done wonders for his training. He's more obedient, more patient, has more enthusiasm and energy and I swear our 'fun time' has made us even closer as a team. My paranoia at being caught turned out to be unfounded as well, no one's even noticed a difference between us except our PE teacher and training coach, who thought nothing of it and simply offered his compliments on our progress.

Not everything went so smoothly, I had to outright replace my mattress and sheets due to the cum stains and I've had to buy an easy to clean foam-rubber yoga mat that I can roll out to cover most of my bedroom floor to make things comfortable again; it was either that or rubber bed sheets. Also some nights Flare insists on sleeping in my bed with me, which is problematic at best and at worst leaves me sweating so much throughout the night that I have to wash the sheets in the morning twice just to get the smell out. I really can't complain though, as what little inconveniences are negligible and are actually enjoyable if you look at them from the right perspective.

I reflected on all this to pass the time during my Thursday lecture hall, I knew I should pay attention but I figured a mental vacation today wouldn't hurt and I could make the material up later anyway. My daydreaming was interrupted by the bell signaling class being over though, and Flare and I all but ran out, both of us eager to get outside. I spotted Sarah in the halls but she was hurrying to her last class of the day and we didn't get to talk more beyond saying 'hi'. My own schedule was empty for the rest of the day and I had made plans with Flare, then Sarah to meet up at the beach this afternoon. She obviously couldn't make it there for a while yet but Flare was eager to stretch his legs so we left early.

It wasn't far from the academy to the local beach, we were a coastal town after all, but the place seemed eerily deserted. I guess that it's due to it being a weekday and too early in the afternoon for most people to be off of work, and aside from one person napping in the shade of a palm tree we had the place entirely to ourselves. Flare ran ahead of me, happily sprinting up the beach as fast as he could. He didn't often get a chance to really test his speed so I let him enjoy his run, feeling confident he wouldn't stray too far on his own. I decided to take a long walk down the beach to admire the scenery, opting to head the same direction Flare had blitzed off in just to make it easier to find me when he eventually got tired. I watched the waves as I walked, almost entranced by the constant motion and after what felt like a long time staring and walking something finally broke my daze.

"h-help me..." a girl's voice spoke up quietly from somewhere.

I stopped in my tracks, looking around to see I was near the boardwalk. "Are you hurt? Where are you?" I asked loudly, looking around for the source of the voice.

"Please... I'm scared..." the voice spoke up again, seeming to come from nowhere.

Confused, I started towards the boardwalk as it was the only place someone could be hiding. "Are you okay? I'm here to help you." I reassured. As I entered the dim space beneath the massive dock I saw a figure curled up near where the dock met the road. I slowly made my way towards her, "Are you okay? What's your name?" I asked as gently as I could. The figure looked up and I noticed the two large red horns protruding from her head. As I got closer I noticed her green hair, she seemed to sense my confusion and curled back up into the fetal position.

"It's okay, I can help you" I said calmly, kneeling down in front of the pokemon.

She looked up at me, tears fresh on her face, "A-are you a good guy?" she asked.

I smiled and nodded. "It's my job to help people, or at least it will be" I explained.

Her eyes flashed blue for a second and my vision double for a second before she exclaimed happily "You are!" as she jumped up and hugged me tightly. I noticed her lips never moved when she talked as I cautiously returned her embrace.

"You're a Kirlia aren't you?" I asked, pulling from the breeding knowledge I had picked up from my uncle on his visits home.

"Kirlia?" she asked, looking up at me confused. I was about to explain when her eyes flashed blue again, leaving me a little dizzy and she smiled and nodded "yes, I am."

"Are you lost?" I asked her.

"s-sort of..." She murmured "I-I don't really have a place I belong, but I don't know where I am either. I came here hoping to find something familiar but only got more lost, and then this big red furry thing chased me and I ran here, and then you came along." She cringed a little mentioning the chase.

It took a moment but I realized what had happened "Listen, this is going to sound bad but the red thing that chased you was probably a friend of mine" I explained, "and I don't know why he would chase you but I know he would never try to hurt you. His name is Flare, and he is pretty scary but still a good guy like me"

The kirlia shook her head, refusing to believe. "N-no... he was mean... he chased me..."

I thought for a minute before coming up with an idea "hey, you know you can just check my mind like you did before, that way I can prove I'm not lying see?"

"Y-you'd really want me to?" she asked nervously.

I smiled and nodded "I'm here to help, remember?"

She nodded and her eyes flashed blue again, this time leaving me with a sense of vertigo for a moment. She looked up at me stunned "You aren't lying to me."

"of course not, why would I?" I asked

"I don't know..." the kirlia trailed off, looking down at the sand.

"listen," I said, "why don't you come with me, you can meet a few more good people like me and I can make Flare apologize for scaring you, then together we can work on finding you somewhere to call home. How does that sound?"

"You'd really want to keep kirlia around that long?" she asked nervously, but I could still see the hope in her eyes.

I smiled and reassured her that I wanted to help. She seemed to need no more convincing and happily agreed to the arrangement after that. We shared a pleasant walk down the beach back the way I had come, though I had to slow down to account for her shorter legs. She made sure to thank me repeatedly as we chatted and every time I reassured her that I was happy to help. She seemed hesitant to want to talk about where she was from but I managed to learn that she was from a region far to the north and had no idea how to get back. At some point she sheepishly asked if I would mind carrying her, as she could sense she was slowing me down by walking, and having no arguments against it I gave her a piggyback ride the rest of the way back.

The guy who had been napping was now gone so we really had the beach to ourselves, though not for long as mere moments after arriving I heard Sarah call out from the sidewalk. I hollered and waved back, feeling Kirlia cringe and try to hide herself behind me from Sarah as she jogged to catch up with us.

"Where's Flare?" Sarah asked as she neared. Her Spinarak patiently waited for her to come to a full stop before scuttling down from her shoulder to the sand.

"He's off stetching his legs" I said. Then turning to try to look behind me I said "this is my friend Sarah and her friend Spinarak, you don't need to hide from them."

Sarah looked confused at first, but quickly spotted the white hands clinging to my shoulders and smiled. She sat down on the sand and following her lead I did the same. Her Spinarak backed off from it's master to give the kirlia room, seeming to know it had a scary appearance.

Kirlia shook on my back but hesitantly climbed down and walked over to Sarah. She kept her distance though, until I saw her eyes flash blue again, causing Sarah to reach up and rub her temples a bit before the Kirlia gave a suprising display. "Pleased to meet you, Sarah, Spinarak" she said , giving each of them a small courtesy while holding her skirt. She then approached Sarah and took her hand, smiling up at her.

"Pleased to meet you too, Kirlia" Sarah said, smiling back at her. Her spinarak gave what I could only guess to be a happy noise, but it was hard to tell from it's insectoid appearance and noises. The only one who could read him for sure was Sarah, who relayed the message to kirlia that Spinarak was pleased to meet her too.

We spent the next hour chatting and telling Kirlia about ourselves, with Spinarak regularly joining and leaving the conversation to cool itself off in the shade. Even though kirlia was comfortable being near Sarah, she was still very shy towards her and her partner. Before long, Flare returned panting heavily and collapsed beside me, all but unaware of our guest until I pointed her out to him. It took her a little bit to come out from hiding behind me but once I explained everything to Flare and she got used to the massive canine she allowed him to give her a single lick of apology for scaring her. We kept talking after that for another hour, in which kirlia's preferred seat seemed to be my lap, but she still got up every now and then to tentatively pet Flare, who gave a happy murr of appreciation each time. Eventually the sun started to set and we deiced to head back to the academy to see if we could do something about finding kirlia a home, but right before we set out Kirlia spoke up.

"Mark?" she asked nervously, switching between looking up at me and down at the sand.

"Yes?" I asked

"I was actually wondering something, though if you wouldn't want it it'd be okay..." She trailed off.

I kneeled down next to her "What is it?"

"I was wondering if I could go home with you instead of going to the academy" she mumbled, staring intently at the ground now and fidgeting.

I looked up at Sarah who only smiled and shrugged. "Would you really want that?" I asked

"Yes, you're really nice!" she exclaimed.

I looked up to Flare to see what his opinion was, and he simply sat there wagging his tail. "Well then, you can call my home your own" I said smiling down at her

She beamed and started giggling out loud, revealing her real voice to be a little weird but still feminine. "Thank you Master!" she exclaimed, hugging me tightly.

"Master?" I asker her.

"Isn't that what Flare calls you?" she asked, looking nervous and confused.

"Well I guess he does but I can't read his thoughts like you can." I said, then a thought occurred to me. "Do you want to be my partner like Flare is?" I asked

Kirlia blushed deeply and fidgeted "Would you really want me like that?" she asked "I'll probably never be as good at it as Flare is..."

I smiled and patted her head "Nonsense, you have your own set of skills and I'd be happy to have you as my partner"

Kirlia smiled while blushing even deeper "Then I want to be Master's partner" she declared happily.

After that we walked home, this time instead of me giving kirlia the ride she was on Flare's back. Sarah and I said our goodbyes when our paths home split, and Kirlia, Flare, and I walked the rest of the way home. Once inside, kirlia marveled at everything in sight, remarking that she liked how warm it was inside my den, and once she found out the small couch I had was soft she sheepishly asked if she could sleep there at night. I told her she could sleep anywhere she wanted, though I would work on getting her a proper bed as soon as I could. She didn't really understand the concept of a bed at first, but when I showed her mine she immediately got it. She seemed to be amused that the things people sleep on are so springy. Flare watched her antics while quietly wagging his tail, and for the most part tried to stay out of her way as she explored the apartment.

Eventually Kirlia resigned herself to playing with Flare in the living room and I sat down at my computer. I pulled up my email and typed up a long letter to my uncle, thanking him for giving me Flare, apologizing for not staying in touch, asking how he was doing in Jhoto, mentioning I had a friend in the academy from Jhoto, and finally asking him about a good training regimen and diet for a kirlia. I closed it off wishing him the best and hit send before logging out and heading to the kitchen to make some dinner. Kirlia was curious about my food and seeing as I had no specialized food for her I guessed it was okay to split my own meal with her just this once. She seemed to like the food, though was confused why humans like to heat their food up. I finished up the night by fashioning a lanyard with my apartment key and a makeshift tag with my cell phone number and address on it, and explained to kirlia what each thing did. Thankfully, she seemed to understand everything I told her. Finally we all went to bed and Kirlia opted to sleep on the couch.

Flare pawed at me anxiously after I closed our bedroom door, his signal that he wanted to have some fun. "Not tonight buddy," I told him. He whined but gave up on it, though he did insist on sleeping on my bed tonight. I sighed and allowed it, opting not to sleep under the sheets as the large dog would keep me plenty warm throughout the night. We curled up together and before long he was snoring loudly. I took a lot longer to drift off, though just as I was I vaguely registered another source of heat snuggling closer to me.

The next morning I awoke to a surprisingly empty bed. The door was open and I could hear Flare in the livingroom along with Kirlia. I walked out to see Flare sprawled belly up on the floor with Kirlia giggling and scratching his belly as his hind leg twitched. I smiled and quickly prepared a light breakfast for me and kirlia before filling Flare's large food dish. Hearing the familiar sound of his dish being filled, Flare quickly trotted to the kitchen with kirlia following close behind. We all ate in relative silence.

Eventually Kirlia asked what our plans for the day were.

"well," I started. "Me and flare have a lecture in the morning followed by a special PE class for me and Flare, after that I need to stop by the academy office to make an application for a second partner pokemon. I'm sorry you can't come with me until they approve the paperwork, but that shouldn't take too long. Me and Flare will try to be home as soon as we can, and tomorrow we'll be here all day"

Kirlia looked crestfallen "What will I do while Master is gone?" she asked, sheepishly.

"you could meet the neighbors if you wanted" I suggested "or if you get bored you could use my computer to help pass the time. Other than that there's TV."

Kirlia looked confused and I tried my best to explain neighbors, computers, and TV. After a few minutes she seemed to understand and wished me and Flare a pleasant day. After some brief reassurance that we'd be back before long Flare and I set out for the academy.

The day passed agonizingly slow. Class dragged on forever and our PE class was an endurance test which had us running a basic obstacle course over and over again trying to beat our previous times. Finally I made the trek upstairs to the filing office and waited a good ten minutes for the secretary to find the special partner application sheet, and another fifteen minutes to fill the tedious paperwork out. Thankfully the notary was in the office that day and I had it filed for approval at roughly noon, afterwards me and Flare rushed home.

I opened the door of my apartment to the sound of gentle snoring, and noticed that kirlia was passed out on the couch. I smiled and quietly walked over to my room and sat down at my computer, noticing that the browser was open to an encyclopedia website. I shrugged and opened my email, hoping to have a reply from my uncle, and was pleased to see he had gotten back to me, informing me that he was doing well, was intrigued that I knew someone from Jhoto, and thankfully had all the advice I could ever hope for on raising and caring for Kirlia and Gardevoir. I sent a reply immediately thanking him for his help and hoped to keep in touch with him more in the future. Just as I closed the window I heard the bedroom door quietly close behind me.

I turned in my chair to see Flare sitting right behind me. He whined and pawed at my leg, pleading. I sighed and agreed to help but told him he needs to stay quiet. He nodded silently and I could already see the tip of his member emerging from his sheath. I instructed him to lay down on his side, and once in position I grabbed the bottle of lube off my desk and kneeled down next to him. With one hand I gently kneaded his balls while I lubed up my other hand and massaged the tip of his malehood as it grew. As more and more of his shaft revealed itself I stroked it faster and faster, my hand quickly sliding up and down his length as I massaged his testes. I couldn't help but smile as his tongue lolled out and he twitched his hips as I worked his meat. It didn't take long before I could feel his balls tighten up as he approached his peak and I started stroking him as fast as I could. In moments he started cumming across the floor. He didn't produce nearly as much as the first time we mated, I had made sure to keep him from getting too backed up since then. Still, the puddle he produced was very impressive regardless.

I smiled and gave him a pat on the side before standing up, only to realize from a sudden tightness in my pants that I could do with a little release as well. Seeing as Flare seemed to be incapacitated I decided I had to take care of it myself and unzipped my fly as I sat down on the edge of my bed. Pulling my hard member out I quickly set to work stroking it, trying to finish quickly. Just as I started to lose myself in the act I felt something warm and wet drag itself along my dick. I opened my eyes to see Flare diligently licking all over my shaft and I moaned quietly letting him do his work. The size of his tongue let him all but engulf my shaft in wet heat. I twitched my hips weakly as I got close to my peak and Flare backed off, licking only the base of my shaft as the tip rested on his muzzle and slowly forced me over the edge. I came hard, covering a good portion of Flare's face with my seed as I panted. Flare wagged his tail and eagerly licked his chops as I finished.

I relished in the afterglow until I noticed that the door was slightly ajar. I instantly sobered up as I knew Flare had shut the door. Quickly zipping my pants back up, I opened the door and looked out, but didn't see anyone. I looked down and saw a few drops of something white on the floor but before I could identify the liquid I heard the shower turn on in the bathroom.

Curious I walked over and knocked on the door.

"Yes Master?" Kirlia's voice spoke up.

"You okay in there?" I asked cautiously.

"yes, I just needed what you call a shower as I don't think I've ever had one" she responded, though I heard something which sounded somewhat like a moan from her weird real voice quietly from behind the door.

"Oh, okay" I replied, sensing something clearly was up but deciding to let Kirlia decide when she wanted to talk about it. In the meantime, I set to work cleaning up the mess Flare had made before cleaning my own mess off of Flare's face, though he had already gotten whatever he could reach with his tongue.

Afterward I sat down with Flare to watch some TV and wait for Kirlia to finish, and after a long while the shower turned off and she emerged looking almost radiant. She wasn't kidding when she said she'd never showered, the difference was almost night and day. I offered her a seat next to me and she happily accepted.

"say, Kirlia" I started.

"Yes Master?" she asked, looking up at me eagerly

"Would you like to have your own special name like Flare does?" I asked her.

She blushed and smiled "Yes, I would love that Master!"

"hmm..." I thought hard about what to name her. "How does Clara sound?"

Kirlia beamed and hugged me tightly "I love it, can I be Clara please?"

I smiled and hugged her back "yup, I look forward to our time together Clara" I said smiling.

"Me too Master" Clara said smiling back at me.

Like that, all three of us relaxed for the evening. Flare had little interest in the TV, but was content just being near Clara and I. Clara however was greatly interested in the picture box, she asked questions about anything and everything she saw and I did my best to answer them. The time seemed to fly and before we knew it, it was already time for bed. On a whim I asked Clara if she'd like to sleep in my bed tonight and she eagerly agreed. Flare gave Clara a goodnight lick before curling up on his own bed and I tucked Clara in so she was comfortable before pulling the covers over myself as well. Clara cuddled close to me and before long was sighing quietly as she slept. I didn't take much longer to fall asleep myself, being comforted by the little ball of warmth lying close to me.

Chapter 3

Secret

That weekend went by comfortably. Mostly we stayed in the house and relaxed as Clara got used to her new home. We went out a couple times; once to give Clara a tour of the town, another time to make a trip to the pokemart to pick up the special food my uncle recommended, and a third time on Sunday when Clara asked what kind of training she'd be doing as my partner.

That time we headed to the academy and managed to get our coach to agree to let us set up a few wooden practice dummies in the gym to test Clara's abilities out on. She was confused on the concept at first, and after a botched attempt to explain it she tried tackling the dummy to little effect. After a little more explaining she caught on and faced the dummies with determination in her eyes. She stared them down for a moment before swinging both her arms forward, hitting the dummies with a psychic pulse. She knocked about half of them over and the rest she moved a good foot or two back from their original position.

She started laughing smiling at her accomplishment. "Was that good?" She asked

"yes, that's actually pretty good for a first attempt" I said, "What do you think, Coach?"

Our couch scratched his chin and thought for a moment before responding. "Mark's right about that being a good starting point, but you've got a long way to go before you're officer material, little Kirlia" he said sternly. Clara looked crestfallen, and quickly reassuring her coach went on, "So do Mark and Flare though, stick with them and I'm sure you'll make a great team someday." Clara seemed to cheer up at this and turned to survey her work again. Coach turned and spoke to me "You know, you're in for a lot of work if you want to raise two partner pokemon for the force, there's a reason we have a standard pokemon to train."

I nodded silently and watched as Clara finished knocking the dummies over, using more focused pulses to knock back individual targets. Coach let us use the dummies for the rest of the afternoon before making us sweep the gym as payment for using it. It didn't take long, but both me and Clara were tired from working and Flare couldn't hold a broom. After that we headed home and watched TV the rest of the evening. I didn't usually like to watch it so much, but Clara seemed to enjoy it and was curious about everything she saw. Eventually we called it a night and Clara crawled into what had become her usual spot next to me in bed. Flare had wanted to sleep on my bed too, but I managed to convince him that there wasn't enough room, he was snoring within minutes of curling up on his own bed so he must not have been too upset. Clara seemed to be out just as quickly after her head hit the pillow. Guessing she must be pretty tired from her workout, I laid back and closed my eyes. Sleep came quickly, and with it a rather strange dream.

I was sitting on my bed and I felt a warm, slender figure embrace me from behind. I saw her feminine pale hand rub and massage my chest and stomach before slipping them into my boxers and gently kneading my malehood. I could feel her warm breath on my neck and moaned quietly as she quickly stroked my growing member. I leaned back into her as she worked, enjoying every little carress. She slipped one hand down to massage my testes as she stroked my shaft even faster with her other. The combined sensation brought me to the edge quickly, and she quickly shifted her hand from my shaft to my chest as she giggled quietly in my ear. I breathed heavily as the high passed and she resumed stroking me, only this time she moved with deliberate slowness. I moaned quietly as she teased me and brought me back to the edge again, only to back off and repeat the process. Eventually I was panting and moaning in her arms, unable to think clearly as she finally decided to let me finish. She stoked my throbbing manhood, now slick with pre, as fast as she could with both hands. I quickly rose to my peak and came hard, squirting thick globs of my seed all over myself and the bed as I thrust my hips weakly. The figure pulled me closer and started kissing my neck softly, tracing her fingers through the mess I made. Despite the haze of the afterglow, I still registered something warm and stiff poking into my lower back. From the way it was twitching I began to wonder if the figure behind me was really a she. Before I could ponder this further though, the dream faded and I awoke alone in my bed.

I looked around, briefly wondering where Clara had gone before the sound of the shower starting reached my ears. I sat in my bed for a while, debating with myself whether or not I wanted to go see what was up, and a shift in position which sent my elbow into a sticky puddle under the sheets made up my mind. I got out of bed and made my way to the bathroom quietly, noticing Flare was snoring quite heavily as I passed. Once in the living room I could see the light on under the bathroom door. I approached the door and knocked firmly. "Clara, I know its you in there. Can I come in?" I asked though the door.

Clara's panicked voice reached my mind almost immediately "P-please don't master, I don't want you to see"

"I just want to talk, Clara, Please?" I tried to sound reassuring.

There was a long pause before she responded "O-okay..."

I slowly turned the knob and opened the door, feeling the humidity and heat of the shower hit my face. Clara was perched on the toilet seat with a towel wrapped firmly around her waist. She had her arms locked over her groin as if trying to hide something. I kneeled down so I was at her level.

I looked at her for a long time as she gazed at the floor before speaking. "Is there something I should know?" I asked as gently as I could.

Clara fidgeted and wrong her little hands together as she blushed "K-kindof..." she mumbled

I cautiously reached out and hugged her "You can tell me, Clara."

She squirmed and blushed more, so I let go and leaned back to give her space. "P-promise not to tell anyone?" she asked nervously.

I nodded, "I promise."

She looked at me for a moment, studying my expression before swallowing hard and slowly removing the towel from her waist. What she revealed was the small tent she was pitching in her skirt, it took me a moment to realize what I was seeing. "you're a male?" I asked, astounded.

Clara sobbed a little and nodded, tear brimming in her eyes. "I like being a girl though..," she whimpered. "This is why I had to leave my home, they called me a freak for saying I was a girl and acting like one... Do you hate me for lying to you?"

I quickly embraced Clara and held her tight, feeling her little arms wrap around my neck in response as she sobbed into my shoulder. "I don't hate you Clara, I'm just surprised is all. If you feel like a girl and want to be considered one, that's perfectly fine with me. You had me convinced from the start, so not much can really change here." I said, trying my best to sound encouraging.

Clara and I sat there holding each other for a long time until she calmed down, eventually she spoke up sheepishly. "I-I saw you and flare... together..."

I blushed deeply and stuttered out an apology.

I noticed she was blushing too. "not just the other day, but when we met on the beach" she mumbled. "I searched your mind for what it meant to be a partner and saw you two making love on your first bed."

I blushed even more, but let her continue. "I didn't know what it was at the time, just that it was very private and intimate. Then when you went to school together I tried using your computer thing and I started reading all I could about it..."

"so then...?" I asked

"It got me aroused..." she said the word funny, as if she wasn't sure how to pronounce it. "I ended up masturbating in your room. I felt so dirty afterward, I made sure to clean up so you wouldn't know. Then when I woke up later I hear what they called moaning from your room." She tensed up, clearly uncomfortable but the twitching tent she was still pitching gave deeper insight into her true feelings. "I told myself I shouldn't look, that it was rude and perverted, but I did anyway. I saw Flare licking you down there and I got aroused all over again, so much that I had to masturbate again as I peeped. I'm so sorry."

I was blushing as well now, that at least explained the white stuff on the floor. "It's okay Clara, everyone has urges like that, even pokemon." I reassured.

She fidgeted, clearly having something more to confess, and I prompted her to let it off her chest. "I..." She started and trailed off before mustering her courage. "I snuck into your dreams earlier..."

I blushed as the realization hit me and the dream I had suddenly made sense. "so that was really you in my dream?" I asked, amazed.

"yes and no" the admitted. "I had to make myself taller so I pretended I was Gardevoir for you. I'm really sorry but I also played with your body the same way I did in your dream..."

I wasn't sure what to say to that, and seeing she was near tears again all I could do was hold her and try to calm her down.

"I-I want to be your partner too, like flare is" she blurted out.

Stunned, it took me a moment to put together a response. "Are you certain you'd want that?" I asked, nervously. "Aren't you a little young?"

Visibly frustrated She retorted, "I'm not young, just small. I'd be prime breeding age if I were a real female"

"I'm sorry to have doubted you" I said. "I'm just not sure how that would work with our size difference..." Still, the idea intrigued me, and a stir in my nethers signaled it wouldn't take much convincing from her to get my body ready for it.

"I-I can use my mouth like Flare did for you" she blurted out, looking eagerly up at me.

I remained silent for a while, thinking. Well, it had worked with flare and I didn't see any reason not to indulge her request. "You know if we do you can't tell anyone else, right?" I asked, making sure she knew what she was getting into.

She nodded eagerly "yes, I knew that since the beach! Please master?"

I sighed, already feeling my malehood starting to grow "alright, I'm all yours Clara. How do you want me?"

She grinned and kissed me on the lips. "I want you to sit down with your legs spread so I can pleasure you" she said eagerly.

I softly kissed her back for a moment before obliging her, showing off the now large bulge in my boxers. She licked her lips and all but pounced on me, quickly opening the slit in my boxers to reveal my stiff member. I could feel her body shudder at the sight of it. She closed her eyes and leaned forward, gently kissing the tip, sending a tingle up my spine before she slowly took it into her mouth. I gasped as the warmth enveloped me and gently pet her hair as she ran her tongue around the tip. She teased me with her tongue like that for a while before greedily taking as much of my shaft in her mouth as she could in an attempt to deepthroat me, succeeding in getting just over half of it. I moaned, she either was a natural at this or had no gag reflex. She started quickly bobbing up and down my length and I could see she was quickly stroking her own pink tool, which was now poking free of her skirt. She started sucking harder as she stroked herself faster, moaning around the dick in her mouth as I moaned with her and before long she had me at the edge.

"Clara, you're gonna make me cum" I grunted out, and this time she didn't bother with teasing me, she pulled back and started quickly stoking my length as she jerked herself off, aiming me at her open mouth as she moaned loudly. I came just as hard as before, painting her face with the first couple spurts before she took the tip in her mouth to catch the rest. I could feel her body shaking and from the warm wetness that splashed into my thighs as I came in her mouth, she was cumming as well. She made sure to swallow every drop that landed in her mouth before letting out a contented sigh. And collapsing on top of me. I held her and stroked her hair as she recovered.

After a long while of cuddling, she looked up at me, streaks of my seed still on her face. "thank you master, I' sorry about the mess I made" she said, blushing a little.

I smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips. "That's perfectly fine Clara, I'm happy you enjoyed it too."

We cuddled a while longer before deciding to shower up and clean up the mess on the floor. We took turns scrubbing each other, though I had to sit down in the shower for Clara to be able to reach what she needed to clean. Afterwards we quickly mopped up the remains of the mess on the floor and headed back to bed. Flare was still sound asleep as we crept back in and slipped under the sheets. After a bit of adjusting to make sure we weren't laying in the mess from before we found a comfortable position to cuddle in and were both sleeping soundly in each other's arms within minutes.

Chapter 4

A Challenge Before Us

I woke up to the sound of Clara giggling out loud and the familiar shape of Flare's muzzle pressing insistently at my thigh. "Alright I'm up." I grumbled as I sat up, though when I opened my eyes I saw Flare was really sniffing intently at the come stain peeking through the blankets rather than trying to wake me up. I froze, not sure how Flare was going to take the news he was no doubt figuring out right now. I looked to Clara to try and gauge what she was thinking but she was just smiling as she watched Flare sniff the mess. Eventually Flare stopped sniffing and looked up at me, then Clara, then back at me before finally giving a low woof and giving Clara a heavy lick on her cheek.

Clara giggled and turned to me. "You didn't need to worry Master," she said, "Flare isn't like humans that usually get jealous of sharing mates. He told me he used to have a lot of mates when you left him in the daycare before."

I blinked, staring at Clara in amazement. "Flare told you all that?" I asked, barely believing it as I looked to the massive dog sitting and panting happily in front of me.

Clara nodded. "We talk a lot."

I stared at Clara, not sure what to think of it all but at least feeling relieved that Flare was accepting of Clara and I. The sound of my cell phone ringing snapped me back to reality and I quickly hopped out of bed and snatched it off my dresser. "Hello?" I asked after flipping open the little silver device.

"Ah, Mark." The voice of my counselor answered. "Glad to hear you're awake on time for once."

I blushed, despite only hearing her through the phone. Mrs. Feld was assigned to be my personal counselor after I got approved to evolve Flare into an Arcanine, and she knew just how to poke at my faults; though she was never overly cruel about it. It was her job to guide me in training unusual pokemon for the department. "Sorry Ma'am." I stammered out. "Are you calling about my application for a second partner?" I asked, trying to sound professional.

"Yes, actually." She said. "but first I wanted to ask just what possessed you to try to take on that much extra work."

"Well," I started, looking down at Clara who was watching me with intense curiosity. "Let's just say she kind of found me and I felt we'd make a good team together."

An aggravated sigh echoed from the other end of the phone. "Mark, I don't have time for this. Having a partner outside the standards is enough work and you're barely keeping afloat with just that, but a second partner? And another nonstandard one at that?" she asked, sounding exasperated. "I know another Growlithe would have been redundant but you could have picked something like a spinarak, at least then we could get in touch with another department that uses them as a standard!"

I cringed. "Does this mean you're rejecting the application?" I asked nervously

"No." She answered resolutely. "Mark, as much as I criticize you, you have to realize that if I didn't think you had high potential I wouldn't have approved evolving your Growlithe in the first place."

"So then?" I asked, not sure what she was getting at.

"Mark, I'm not going to approve you right away." She said. "You're nowhere near responsible enough now, and from what I gather you haven't had a chance to train your new pokemon. So here's my offer: you have two weeks to train yourself and your pokemon, after which you'll have two tests. The'll be two very difficult field tests to check your ability to work with this Kirlia, and to check how you handle using two partners at once. You're going to have to take the work seriously if you want to have a shot at pulling this off. Though you could always pull your application and avoid the hassle if you want."

I grinned despite myself "No, I'll take your challenge Ma'am."

There was a pause on the other end, and though I couldn't see her, I knew she was smiling. "I'll get to work designing your field tests then. You better not disappoint me Mark, I expect your effort to match your ambition this time."

"I won't let you down." I assured her.

"Good." She responded right before hanging up on me.

I stared at my phone for a while, marveling at how Mrs. Feld could get to such a high position in the force with manners like that.

"so that's how a phone works." Clara spoke up, looking at the phone with wonder.

I couldn't help but chuckle, she was just like a little kid with how much she had to learn about human life. "yeah, and the woman at the other end had some good news for us." I said.

"What is it?" Clara asked excitedly. Flare was looking at me expectantly as well.

I explained the situation to Clara, who was unsure at first but after seeing the confidence I had in her quickly turned around and was feeling up to the challenge. Afterwards I prepared everyone's breakfast, letting Clara get a first taste of her new food. Thankfully she really liked it, and after we finished Flare and I said our goodbyes to Clara, as she still couldn't attend classes with me yet. We agreed to pick her up after classes and start training as soon as we could. Clara bid us farewell with a smile, seeming to take being left behind better than before.

Classes went slowly, it didn't help that I was itching to get back and start training with Clara. Flare seemed especially energetic during our PE class, running twice his usual laps around the field and making me set up twice as many attack dummies as usual for him to practice his close combat attack on. Afterward Flare was so exhausted that I had to put him back in his pokeball in order to get him off the field, much to the amusement of our coach. "I don't know what got into him today," coach commented, "but I hope it sticks."

Afterward, I headed to the cafeteria to get some lunch and hopefully chat with Sarah. Thankfully, she had barely started eating when I walked in. I brought her up to speed on what had happened since the beach: Clara getting her name, applying to make her my partner, and the challenge from Mrs. Feld in order to make that happen.

Sarah almost jumped out of her seat when she heard about the two week training period. "You're gonna need my help Mark." She said adamantly.

I blinked and stared at her, then her partner Spinarak sitting next to her. "I'm sorry," I started, "I know you know a lot more about training than me but Clara and spinarak don't exactly make good sparring partners, besides my Uncle told me to only have her go against specific pokemon for a while to improve her strongest abilities."

Sarah slammed her hands down on the table, scaring her partner bad enough to send him scuttling in circles. Though the way she was grinning showed she wasn't really mad. "That's exactly why you need my help."

"What?" I asked, confused.

"Your uncle is right, there's a special kind of training called effort value training, and usually it's only used by top competitive trainers who are very experienced." She said. "My family is mostly Ace trainers, I'm the odd girl out for wanting to be an officer. Whatever pokemon you need to have Clara spar against, I can borrow from one of my siblings or preferably my parents; though I might not need to. I have more pokemon than just Spinarak here you know; He's just the one I use as my partner."

I stared at her, trying to process everything she had just hit me with.

Seeing I was dazed, Sarah continued, "Look, just pick Clara up after you're done with classes and meet me at the beach. I'll be a little late because I'll have to do some research and make a trip to the pokemon center."

Seeing no reason to refuse such a generous offer I quickly agreed. We chatted about our families the rest of lunch hour before going our separate ways; me to my last lecture, and her to her apartment across town. My last class went somewhat faster than the previous, though the last five minutes seemed to last forever. I all but ran out the door after the bell rang, and jogged the whole way back home.

I opened the door to my apartment to the smell of citrus, and after a moment of confusion, I saw Clara hard at work cleaning the small kitchen. As stared I realized that this was the last thing she was cleaning, as the rest of the apartment had already been tidied up.

Sensing me, Clara turned around and smiled at me. "Welcome home Master, are you ready to start training?" she asked cheerfully.

I smiled back and explained Sarah's plan to her. She seemed unsure at the prospect of fighting other pokemon, but admitted she knew it would come to that and didn't have any real arguments against it. Locking the apartment behind us, we set out to the beach. Flare let himself out of his pokeball just as we were going past the officer academy, letting out a long yawn as he stretched his legs. He must have had one heck of a power nap in there. Clara brought Flare up to speed silently with her psychic powers, imparting the knowledge instantly with a blue flash of her eyes. Flare barked happily and prompted Clara to ride on his back the rest of the walk.

We arrived at the beach ahead of time, and I decided to try out one of my old training methods to pass the time. I quickly climbed my way up one of the many palm trees lining the edge of the beach and pulled down a few green coconuts. Clara looked at me, curious as to what I was planning. Flare was wagging his tail eagerly, knowing exactly what I had planned.

I picked up one of the coconuts and held it high. "Me and Flare used to do this back when he was a Growlithe to practice his flame thrower attack." I said. To demonstrate my point I wound up to pitch the coconut, Flare being in sync with me was already sprinting for the far side of the beach and had put some distance between us by the time I flung the coconut at him as hard as I could. The coconut only made it halfway to flare before being incinerated by the intense flame he spewed from his mouth. All that remained when Flare let up on the flame was a trickle of ash gently falling to the sand.

Clara jumped up and down clapping at the impressive display, but froze up at the realization that I'd be pitching the heavy fruit at her next.

Seeing her worry I spoke up. "don't worry, I won't throw it nearly that hard and I won't pitch it directly at you." I took a few steps back, holding up the coconut. "To start out, I'm just going to toss the coconut to you, and you're gonna try to catch it with your telekinesis."

Clara nodded, understanding as she took a more ready pose, spreading her stance and putting her arms out in front of her. Seeing she was ready I lobbed the coconut high, aiming for it to fall a few feet in front of her. As it made its descent Clara twitched her arms, though instead of stopping the coconut she merely slowed its descent before it hit the sand. I reassured her and told her to try again as I lobbed another. We kept up this pattern until about the sixth or seventh attempt she managed to stop it in midair. I applauded her and Flare barked happily, running around excitedly.

We kept practicing until Sarah showed up, wearing a completely different outfit than her officer uniform. She was wearing a simple tanktop with a pokeball necklace, a single strap backpack, and cargo shorts; on her belt were six shiny pokeballs all lined up in easy reach. "Why did you opt for being an officer rather than a trainer? You certainly look the part." I asked her.

She chuckled "Because I wanted to help people. Besides, I'm still technically a fully licensed trainer so I can take on the league if I ever get bored with the officer thing" she joked.

Clara smiled and waved at Sarah from her spot on the beach, where she was currently attempting to psychically juggle some coconuts with little success. She let them fall from the air as she quickly ran up to us. Clara happily greeted Sarah and asked how she was and after the pleasantries we got down to business. I had to explain which of her abilities I was referring to when I would yell things like "Psychic", "Psybeam", "Dream Eater", or "Hypnosis", but once I explained the human names for them she caught on and we assumed our positions opposite each other on the beach. I have to admit, the determined look in Sarah's eyes as she carefully picked her first pokemon was quite intimidating and left me with no doubt that she knew what she was doing.

"Go, Esper!" She yelled, flinging a pokeball as it expanded. The bright flash as the ball hit the sand revealed a purple fox with a spilt tail appearing on the beach. Sarah deftly caught the pokeball on the rebound as the pokemon stretched and took a battle pose.

"That's an Espeon isn't it?" I asked, amazed she had such a rare pokemon.

Sarah looked surprised "Yeah, how did you know that?" she asked.

I chuckled "I spent so much time with my uncle growing up I could probably open up my own business breeding if I had the resources." I turned to Clara at my side, who looked nervous. "Don't worry, we're all friends here. No one's gonna really hurt you." I reassured her.

"O-okay..." She responded, trying to relax. "I'm ready"

"alright, go Clara!" I shouted, Clara dashed out to meet Esper on the sand.

"Ready?" Sarah asked as Esper fidgeted in place, eager to get started.

"Yup!" I shouted back, Clara took a ready stance.

"Esper, use Psychic!" Sara shouted, sending the purple fox dashing forward before halting a few feet from Clara and picking her up with telekinesis. Clara squealed and flailed in the air.

"Clara, try to hit her with a psybeam!" I shouted. Clara pivoted as best she could in the air and brought her hands to her forehead before unleashing a bolt of rainbow lightning from between them, hitting Esper in her flank, causing the fox to yelp and jump back, letting Clara plop back down to the sand. Clara landed on her butt, but quickly regained her feet, looking more confidant now that she knew she could land a decent hit on her opponent.

"good shot Clara!" Sarah called before ordering her next attack "Esper, use Hidden power!"

Esper let out a low growl as orbs of light appeared all around her, glowing a faint orange. Suddenly she let out a yip as the orbs all launched from place and flew towards Clara.

"Clara, use Psychic to deflect them!" I shouted.

Clara crouched down as the orbs drew close and let out a psychic pulse just before they hit. About half the balls flew off and faded, however she missed the rest with the puls and they crashed into her, knocking her back into the sand.

"Clara, you all right?" I shouted. To my surprise I heard Clara start laughing as she picked herself up and took a fighting stance again, looking determined as she wiped sand off her cheek.

Sarah grinned from across the beach "She's got the hang of it now" She shouted "guess I can stop holding back now"

Clara let out an enthused battle cry at the challenge, grinning as she stared down her sparring partner.

"Esper, time to get serious!" Sarah called, eliciting a yip from the fox. "Hit her with Signal beam!"

The fox leapt back before launching a rainbow beam of light from the gem on it's forehead, hitting Clara square in the chest before either of us could react. Clara flew a few feet back from the ipact hitting the sand hard and letting out a small moan as she lay dazed in the sand.

I ran to Clara's side as fast as I could. "Clara, you okay?" I asked, worried.

"Y-yes" Clara responded, gritting her teeth as she slowly picked herself up, brushing the sand from her skirt as she panted and took a shaky battle stance.

"You want to keep going? It's fine if you want to call it a day now." I asked her

She shook her head. "Master, we can do this."

"You sure?" I asked her.

She smiled up at me weakly. "Remember last night master?" she asked "We can use dreams to beat her" she said.

I blushed, remembering our intimacy the night before, but nodded as I understood her plan.

"You gonna keep going?" Sarah asked as Esper patiently licked it's paws.

"Yeah, don't go easy on us either" I called, returning to my original spot.

"Alright, Esper use Calm Mind!" Sarah called. The fox responded by crouching down and closing its eyes as it focused, a blue aura slowly surrounding it.

I grinned, seeing the opening we needed so early was some insane luck "Clara, you know what to do!" I shouted

Clara leapt forward, drawing close to the fox before flinging her arms forward and sending out a special psychic pulse. It landed a direct hit on Esper, causing the fox the fall over to her side, snoring heavily.

"What!?" Sarah shouted, caught off guard.

"Now finish the match with Dream Eater!" I shouted.

Clara and Esper both began glowing with a purple aura as Clara sapped the fox's energy slowly but surely.

"Esper!" Sarah called out, but the fox didn't respond, she only lay there growling in her sleep as her dreams slowly turned sour.

"Yeah!" I shouted, amazed we managed to pull it off.

Sarah growled to herself before pulling a pokeball from her belt and unleashing a red beam at her pokemon "Esper, return!" she called. As her pokemon disappeared. She stared down at her pokeball for a long time before looking up at Clara. "That was amazing, Clara. Really" She said, smiling.

Clara smiled back. "Thank you, Sarah, though you'll probably win next time though" She said, blushing.

"Don't count yourself out yet." Sarah said, Pulling another pokeball from her belt. She flung the new pokeball as she called out "Go, Marry!"

A flash revealed what appeared to be a pink sheep standing upright as Sarah again caught the pokeball on the rebound. Clara leapt back to our half of the makeshift arena to give the new challenger space.

"That's got to be a Flaafy..." I mumbled to myself "Clara, you good for another match?" I asked her, worried that she was still hurting from getting hit by that signal beam attack.

She chuckled "I got my energy back from Esper, Master. I'm more than Good!"

"Alright, let's go then!" I shouted, feeling psyched up for the battle.

"Marry, use thunderbolt!" Sarah shouted. The sheep responded by suddenly glowing as a long bolt of electricity surged from it to Clara, connecting almost instantly. Clara cried out as the powerful shock hit her, collapsing to one knee as it let up.

"Clara, use psybeam to put some distance between you two!" I called out frantically. Clara brought her hands to her head , but right as she was about to let the attack loose Sarah called out to Marry to dodge and get in close for a thunder wave. Marry deftly sidestepped the beam's path as Clara let it fly, and rushed up to her as it's fur began glowing with a massive electric charge. The sheep unleashed the sharge in a shockwave shape as it drew close, hitting causing Clara to cry out and collapse as all her muscles went limp.

"Yeah!" Sarah shouted out victoriously; though her celebration was cut short as a blue flash from Clara's eyes caused Marry to collapse limp as well. "What!?" Sarah yelled unbelievingly.

"Clara, are you okay?" I called out.

"I can't move" She replied calmly "but I made it so Marry can't either. I guess we both lose?" she asked, unsure what to make of the stalemate.

Sarah, held her forehead laughing to herself. "It's called a draw Clara, no one wins or loses this time." She said. "You're just full of surprises by the way, I have to commend that"

"Thank you" Clara said, blushing despite her paralysis. "What do we do now?" she asked.

I spoke as I walked to her, noticing the sun was getting low in the sky. "Well now we have to make a trip to the pokemon center to fix the paralysis, which means I'm gonna have to carry you there."

Sarah withdrew her pokemon after thanking it for its good work and jogged to meet me in the middle of the beach. After a short congratulatory speech, we headed to the bus stop to hitch a ride across town to the pokemon center. Clara expressed excitement for riding in a bus for the first time as she lay limp in my arms. I had to put Flare in his pokeball in order to get on the bus, and once on I sat Clara in my lap so she could see out the window. She could at least move her eyes to look around at the scenery that passed by. She grew oddly quiet the longer she sat in my lap and I noticed she was blushing again, I wondered what was up, but decided not to ask her what was wrong quite yet.

The bus ride was short, and so was the line at the pokemon center. Before long we were in to see the nurse, who was oddly cheerful for someone who spent their days patching up beat up pokemon. She gave Clara a short physical examination as she left Sarah's pokeballs in the odd machine to heal them. After her cursory examination she said she didn't have anything to fix paralysis unless she was in a pokeball, and I embarrassingly admitted that Clara didn't have one. The nurse looked at me stunned, then back at Clara.

"You mean you found her like this?" she asked confused.

"No, she's my pokemon. She just doesn't have a pokeball." I explained.

"And she listens to you?" the nurse asked unbelieveingly.

Clara spoke up psychically to try to quell her "Miss Nurse, Mark is my Master and partner. I don't need a little ball to tell me to listen to him."

The nurse went quiet for a while before speaking. "well, as this is a rare case I'm not sure how to go about fixing the paralysis, though since it did come from an electric based attack the effects should wear off by tomorrow morning, I'm sorry I can't do better than that."

We thanked the nurse for her time as Sarah clipped each of her pokeballs back onto her belt. Outside the pokemon center, we said our goodbyes and agreed to meet at the same place and same time tomorrow for more training. It was getting dark as we got on separate busses to head back to our respective apartments, and I let Clara sit on my lap again on the ride home. Again I noticed her blushing and being oddly quiet throughout the ride. Once we got to our stop I carried Clara the rest of the way home and once inside our apartment I asked her what was wrong.

"M-master...." She started, but trailed off.

I carried her to the bedroom and propped her up on the bed against a pillow so she was sitting comfortably. "It's okay, you can tell me." I said, smiling as I carefully set Flare's pokeball down on his bed.

"I really liked sitting in your lap..." She said quietly "being that close to you made me feel so warm"

I smiled and leaned down to hug her, causing her to blush. "Would you like to sit on my lap again?" I asked.

"Y-yes please" she said. After some minor tweaks we were both sitting comfortably on the bed: me propped up against the pillows, and her leaning against my chest. "Thank you master" she said shyly. We sat together quietly for a long time, and the warmth of her body was so comfortable that I started to drift off to sleep until Clara spoke up again, this time urgently. "I'm sorry master" she was blushing deeply, and it took me a moment to realize why. It turns out that her eyes weren't the only thing not paralyzed, as she was pitching a small tent in her skirt.

I chuckled and wrapped my arms around her to try and comfort her. "Its okay Clara, you don't need to be ashamed of it."

"B-but it's ugly and also rude for me to get horny from thinking about you!" she stammered out, blushing deeper.

"You got like this thinking about me?" I asked, staring at the bulge in her skirt.

"I-I'm sorry Master..." She whimpered.

"It's perfectly fine to think about me like that Clara" I said as I held her tight for a while, but sensing it wasn't enough to prove my point I let my hand slip down her belly to the bulge.

"P-please don't Master, It's ugly..." She whimpered, judging from the way it was twitching she probably had other thoughts. It then occurred to me that I had yet to get a clear view of her mismatched genetalia.

I backed my hand up to her chest again "Come on now Clara, it can't be that bad. Please let me see?"

"B-but..." she trailed off

"I promise I won't laugh or anything like that," I said, "I really want to see"

She was quiet for a long time before finally speaking "O-okay..."

I kissed her neck as I slowly slid my hand back down to her bulge, giving it a few gently squeazes before parting her skirt to fully reveal it. It was a pink, smooth shaft, tapered at the tip which was drizzling a steady stream of pre. It was slightly longer than my middle finger and an inch thick at the base. I could see Clara's cheeks were blooming bright red, but she didn't tell me to stop. Slowly, I took her member in my hand and started caressing it, my hand quickly getting slick with all the pre. I started stroking her slowly, causing even more pre to escape. I could hear her breath growing ragged despite the paralysis and moved my hand faster, gradually picking up speed until I was jerking her off at a decent pace. Her breath grew heavier and heavier, and from the weak thrusting of her hips I could tell the paralysis was starting to wear off as well. I reached down below her shaft with my free hand and found a relatively small sack there, and I began gently fondling her testes as I continued to stroke her. Before long the paralysis had worn off enough for me hear her moaning as her hip movements increased. She weakly moved her hand to her mouth and bit her knuckle, trying to stifle the embarrassing noise with little success. All off a sudden her moaning rose to a peak as she weakly shuddered and started squirting small globs of cum all over my hand and her chest. I slowed down and gently let go of her member as she sunk into the afterglow, staring at the streaks of spunk on my hand. I went to wipe it off on the sheets, but she weakly grabbed my wrist and bought my hand to her mouth where she started diligently licking it clean. I blushed at the display, but let her finish, which she did with a contented sigh.

"Thank you Master" She said weakly, then tentatively added "I can feel you're hard now too..."

I blushed realizing she was right. "It's fine, Clara, it'll go down before long" I said, trying to sound reassuring.

Clara shook her head "No, I want to help you"

"You sure you're feeling well enough?" I asked, trying not to let horniness get in the way of my better judgment.

Clara simply smiled and crawled off me and down between my legs, where she quickly managed to unbuckle my belt and pull my pants down partway. I blushed and scooted back a bit so she could fully remove my pants, and was surprised when she stole my boxers as well, seeing her smile at my fully naked lower half I figured I might as well lose my shirt and pulled it off as well. In the brief moment when I had my shirt above my head I felt some invisible force grab my arms and move them behind my back where my shirt suddenly pulled tight around them. I tugged at the makeshift restraints and found them too tight to break. For some reason being unable to stop Clara from doing whatever she wanted to me made me all the more horny, adding even more blood to my already throbbing erection. Clara smiled as she took my shaft in her hand, sending a shiver up my spine as she started slowly stroking it up and down. She rubbed the tip with her other hand, occasionally pausing to lean down and lick the pre from it. Before long she had me panting and twitching my hips with her slow teasing, and seeing my desperation, she grinned and slowly took the tip of my member in her mouth. She sucked on me gently continuing to tease me closer and closer until I saw her wipe her hand on her chest, collecting some of her leftover seed, and before I could figure out what she was up to I felt her rubbing it across my asshole. I moaned an twitched my hips more, but she refused to take any more of me in her mouth, instead using her slippery spunk as lube as she started slipping her thin fingers in and out of me.

"Master likes things back here doesn't he?" she asked, already knowing the answer. I nodded weakly and felt her smile around my cock. She let a bit more of me slide into her mouth as she fingered my ass faster, eventually finding my prostate, and once she did she never let up on it. She worked my spot with unnatural skill as she gently sucked on my member. I laid there panting and moaning, unable to do anything but enjoy it as she serviced me. She started fingering me faster and faster, working my spot as hard as she could until I couldn't take it anymore. Sensing I was close, she took as much of my shaft into her mouth as she could as I started cumming. She caught every last drop, not letting any spill as I unloaded into her mouth. I panted hard as my orgasm came to an end and Clara carefully rose off my member. She opened her mouth to let me see her mouth full of my cum before swallowing all of it in one big gulp. I breathed heavily, feeling exhausted as Clara climbed onto my chest and kissed me deeply on the lips before laying there and wrapping her arms around my neck. We laid there for a while until our body heat wasn't enough to keep the cold of night off of us, after which Clara released my arms and we crawled under the sheets together. Both of us quickly fell asleep there, content in each other's arms.

Chapter 5

Effort Rewarded

The rest of the week went by quickly. Flare kept pushing himself in PE class and by the end of the week he had improved his physical abilities drastically. Clara was also quickly improving, going up against four of Sarah's pokemon each day by the end of the week. I also bought a few juggling sets for Clara to practice her telekinesis, and she was keeping seven balls in the air and moving without dropping them before long. Clara didn't seem to mind having to wait for Flare and me at home during the day, though I was suspicious of how she passed the time when we weren't there. Every day when I got home I found that my search history had been cleared, which was odd but not exactly incriminating for Clara; then there were more subtle things like my clothes draw being more ruffled than I remembered some days and my lube seeming to have moved a bit in its hiding place behind my monitor some days. Despite my suspicions, I gave Clara the benefit of the doubt and didn't confront her about it. By the time Friday came I was feeling pretty confident in my partners' growth. Though after our sparring session with Sarah then, Sarah surprised Clara with an invitation to a sleepover she was planning on Saturday.

Clara was surprised at the offer "You really want me to come?"

"Yeah, it's a party for my friends and their pokemon" Sarah said cheerfully. Flare woofed happily and playfully butted his head against her shoulder. "Sorry Flare, girls only" she said, giving Flare a consolatory pat on the head.

Clara looked at me for confirmation about whether or not she would be truly allowed to go. "Well," I said, "You've been working so hard you deserve a break, why don't you go?"

Clara jumped up excitedly "I'd love to go to your party!" she exclaimed.

After working out the details, we decided the plan was to drop Clara off at Sarah's apartment Saturday morning so she could spend the day getting to know Sarah's friends and that night they would watch movies. We said our goodbyes and headed back home, Clara beaming with excitement the whole way. We got home and spent the evening watching TV, Clara still curious as ever about anything she saw on it. Before long we decided to call it a night and headed to bed; though Flare insisted on sleeping in my bed and wouldn't take no for an answer. Somehow we managed to all fit on it, but only barely. I took a moment to marvel how my bedframe hadn't collapsed at this point before getting comfortable and closing my eyes.

The next morning we got up early and after a light breakfast, we all headed out for Sarah's house. Clara was a little nervous at the prospect of spending the night away from me, but still excited to be invited to a party. She insisted on sitting in my lap on the bus ride, after which we walked the rest of the way to Sarah's apartment complex. Sarah answered the door quickly after we knocked and invited us in. We were the first to arrive, so we chatted briefly as Clara explored the place. I asked Sarah how many pokemon she was raising, as I had seen her using at least eight different pokemon throughout the week. She blushed and admitted she was probably training at least two dozen pokemon separately; or rather her family was taking care of most of them for her while she was at the academy. We didn't get to chat for long as the first group of her friends arrived for the party and Flare and I had to say our goodbyes. Clara gave me a long hug before letting me leave, promising to be good.

I decided to walk home rather than take the bus, taking a detour through the park with Flare to enjoy the scenery. Flare seemed to appreciate it less than me, but didn't seem to have a problem with walking home. I was surprised to see our coach relaxing on a park bench with a weirdly round white and blue bunny pokemon. We stopped and waved before striking up a conversation. Coach made it a point to compliment Flare on his progress throughout the week and introduced us to his pokemon; who he called Azumarill, or Azu for short. He explained that before he got his job as a training coach he used to be a talented trainer, but gave up on the league after his pokemon was seriously hurt when one of his matches went severely wrong. It was then that I noticed his Azumarill had a long patch of jagged, discolored fur down it's shoulder and arm and never seemed to do much with that hand. Coach explained that his friend Azu wasn't able to use his arm quite right ever since and decided he didn't want to risk hurting any more of his friends after that. Despite coach seeming to get a bit grim as he reflected on his youth, Azu seemed oddly cheerful. Coach admitted he didn't regret his trainer days as it gave him useful experience to help train officers and their pokemon in his current line of work. We chatted a bit longer after that about the weather and about Clara's progress outside of the academy, and after that we returned to our walk, promising coach to keep at it when we got back on Monday and coach wishing me good luck raising Clara as we parted.

We got back home around noon, and once inside I plopped down on the couch. The walk had left me pretty tired and without meaning to I ended up napping there until the evening. I was woken up by Flare, who was pawing at my leg insistently. Groggy, I told him to give me a minute to wake up first before I helped him, but an annoyed growl told me he had other plans. Before I knew what was happening Flare had picked me up by my belt with his teeth and was carrying me to the bedroom. He tossed me up onto the bed before sitting in front of it and whining impatiently as he looked over at the yoga mat rolled up in the corner of the room. It the occurred to me that I hadn't taken proper care of Flare's libido since discovering Clara's secret at the start of this week.

"I'm sorry for kinda forgetting to take care of you Flare." I said, embarrassed and feeling bad for my neglect. Flare gave me a heavy lick on the cheek to tell me it was okay before walking over and pawing at the yoga mat. I got up and quickly rolled the mat out on the floor as Flare paced around excitedly. "Alright, to make up for it I want to do something special for you. You can have me any way you want, as many times as you want."

Flare gave a happy woof at this before tugging gently on my shirt with his mouth. I smiled and began disrobing as Flare sat and watched me, wagging his tail happily. I tossed my shirt on the bed before unbuckling my belt. I could see the red tip of Flare's large member starting to poke free as I slowly removed my pants, leaving my boxers on to extend the little strip tease. Before I could fully reveal myself Flare pounced on me, knocking me down on the soft yoga mat before grabbing my boxers with his teeth and murring as he slowly pulled them off himself. I smiled and let him, getting into the swing of things as I felt my own member growing.

I now sat before my partner fully naked and aroused as he tossed my boxers onto the bed with the rest of my clothes. Flare wagged his tail as he leaned down to sniff my malehood before giving it a slow lick. I gave a sigh of pleasure, but didn't get to savor the sensation before Flare shifted position and I suddenly found myself staring at the tip of his still growing member. I needed no encouragement and quickly set to work licking all over his shaft, feeling it grow fully engorged under my tongue. A contented murr from above told me I was doing well, and attempted to take him in my mouth. Unfortunately he proved too big for that hole, and I could only manage to fit the first inch and a half. The resulting gush of pre made it worth the effort, and I quickly swallowed his juices before I went back to running my tongue over every inch of his red cock. I reached up to massage his large testes as I worked, feeling them churn with pleasure in my hands.

Just as I was getting carried away in my work, Flare backed away out of my reach and crouched down so his muzzle was pressed against my groin. Before I could react I felt his hot tongue pressing against my sphincter and knew what he wanted. I leaned back and spread my legs to give him better access to my hole, and he redoubled his licking. I moaned quietly as he quickly loosened me up, something that was much easier for me now after just the few times Flare had used it. Before long Flare was easily pushing his massive tongue inside me, getting me lubed up with his saliva as I dripped pre onto my stomach.

When he felt I was loose and slick enough he backed off. I started to roll over onto all fours for him, but a low dominant growl from him told me he wanted me as I was. Not sure how he was planning to take me like this, I spread my legs wider for him and waited for him. He looked at me like that for a while and I swear he was savoring the view, but before I could be sure he crouched down over me, almost sitting as he lowered his back half into position. I reached down and took his hot shaft in my hand to guide it into my ass, and once lined up Flare thrust inside me in one smooth stroke. I was still a tight fit for him, but I was used to his size now and couldn't help but moan as he stimulated my prostate with his sheer size. Flare held in place for a while, letting me adjust to him as I more pre spurted out onto my belly before he started thrusting in and out of me. I moaned and panted as he quickly picked up speed and soon he was humping me quickly, causing my member to twitch and bounce each time he pushed his into me. I clung to his mane as he mated me, and before long I could feel his knot swelling and bumping against my ass. I braced myself for him to force it inside me but was surprised when he just kept thrusting as it reached it's full size. My surprise didn't last long as he suddenly started fucking me harder and faster, wrecking any train of thought I had going as he approached his peak and hammered my prostate. Just as I was getting close to cumming he thrust hard into my, ramming his knot against my asshole but failing to get it inside me as he unleashed his pent up load inside me. I clung to his mane panting as spurt after spurt filled me, but without his knot to hold him in place I could feel it leaking out of me quickly. He stood up before he finished cumming, easily slipping out of my ass and I was granted the nice view of hit massive rod twitching in front of my face as he unloaded his last few spurts onto my face and chest.

"Good boy" I praised Flare, panting. Though the high from being so close to the edge wore off quickly and was replaced with the powerful ache of being pent up. I looked down at my still rock hard member, marveling at the puddle of pre I had made on my stomach. Flare stepped back and saw I hadn't cum myself yet, and just stared for a moment, seeming to think hard before nodding to himself and looking me in the eyes. "Flare, what is it?" I asked, seeing he had something in mind, but not sure what. Flare walked over to my computer and with surprising dexterity reached behind the monitor and snagged my bottle of lube by it's cap before walking back and dropping it in my lap. I looked down at it, confused. "You want me to give you another handjob?" I asked him, figuring that my ass was plenty slippery if he wanted that again. Before I could make another guess though, Flare had turned around and laid down in front of me, raising his tail and presenting me with his asshole.

"You sure you want this?" I asked Flare, extremely surprised he would feel like trying anything like this. A low woof as he shuffled back, bringing his rear closer to me was all the answer I needed. I was about to start lubing up my hand when I decided to make it more personal. I leaned forward and pressed my tongue against his tailhole, feeling him jump with surprise but murring happily once he realized what I was doing. I set to work massaging the outside of his sphincter with my tongue, though my inexperience showed as it took a long while to get him to loosen up. By the time I got him loose enough to start pushing my tongue inside him my jaw was aching. I backed off, hearing a disappointed whine from his front, but before he could turn around I had grabbed my lube and gotten my fingers slippery enough to continue the job. He seemed to like this less than the rimjob at first, but as soon as I could get my fingers inside him and found his prostate he was murring happily again. I set to work giving him the best prostate massage I could, making sure to keep my fingers lubed up and before long Flare was panting with pleasure and loose enough that I could fit three fingers in him easily if I tried. I smiled and started gently kneading his furry balls with my other hand as I worked, but before I could get carried away Flare suddenly stood up.

"What's wrong?" I asked, afraid I had accidentally hurt him. Flare looked back at me, still panting and it was then that I noticed the wide stance of his hind legs. He whined for me to go on, raising his tail as high as he could for me. I grinned, and seeing no reason not to do as he wanted, I quickly stood up and positioned myself at his rear. I rested my hands on his flanks as I slowly pressed the tip of my shaft against his tailhole, and met with little resistance as the loosened and slippery hole eagerly swallowed my dick; the heat inside him was all but overwhelming. Flare panted more and I quickly set to work thrusting into his ass, which elicited many whimpers and murrs from my partner. It didn't take me long to get up to speed mating him, his tailhole felt so good and he seemed so eager that soon I was giving him all I had. I panted and moaned with him as I reached down and found his still engorged member and started quickly stroking it. I could feel he was dripping pre like crazy and the rhythmic tightening of his tailhole caused by me jerking him off felt amazing. I tried to hold out for as long as I could, faring well against the pleasure until a sharp whine from my partner and a sudden torrent of warm wetness in my hand told me my partner was cumming. I moaned and gave into the pleasure, burying my rod deep inside his tailhole and cumming mere moments after him.

I collapsed against my partner, but was only held up for a few seconds as he soon collapsed as well. I slowly pulled out of him before snuggling up against him as we lay there panting in the now massive puddle of cum he had produced.

I didn't get much time to rest as soon his knot has receded while his member remained engorged and he prompted me to let him mount me again. Keeping good on my promise I got on all fours and let him have his way with me. He lasted much longer than before; though this time he did knot me, leaving me to jerk myself off to a second climax as his knot all but crushed my prostate with its size.

Again and again he took me, so much that by the time he was finally satisfied I could see the morning light coming in from my window and all that would happen when he reached climax was his massive shaft would spasm wildly as only a few drops of pre dribbled out. He finally collapsed on the mat next to me and passed out, having nearly emptied every last drop of his seed into my ass. I picked myself up, exhausted, feeling his cum run out of my now gaping asshole. I smiled at the satisfied canine, who was now snoring contently as his shaft finally deflated and slowly receded back into his sheath. I managed to waddle my way to the shower and clean off most of the night's mess, but still felt his sperm running out of me after I finished. Sighing, I grabbed a large wad of toilet paper and tried stem the flow as I went back to my room to get some clothes. I slowly got dressed, being careful to keep the toilet paper in place as I pulled my boxers on. Now clothed, I set to work cleaning up the huge mess Flare had made. After going through two rolls of paper towels and still making little to no progress I broke down and got the mop out of the closet. Flare slept on, oblivious of me working. I got everything I could, that is, everything that flare wasn't directly laying on, and decided to call it good for now.

Yawning, I picked my watch up off the bed stand and checked the time. With a jump I realized it was only ten minutes until I was supposed to pick Clara up from Sarah's party. I jogged out the door, hoping against the odds that the bus would be there when I needed it, and for once it was. I quickly boarded and in just a few minutes was standing outside Sarah's apartment complex. Somehow I had made it in time. Sarah answered the door groggily, apparently the sleep over had turned into an all-nighter at some point as everyone was still awake. Clara walked up to me and hugged my shins as she thanked Sarah for the fun time before asking if we could go home now. Sarah giggled sleepily, saying Clara could barely stay awake despite all that was going on. She said that Clara got along surprisingly well with her friends; though she was shy at first, and the novelty of a pokemon that could speak English was enough to make her the life of the party for a long while. I leaned down and picked Clara up, who sleepily wrapped her arms around my neck and rested her head on my shoulder as I thanked Sarah for inviting Clara. Sarah said it was nothing and would gladly do it again before bidding us goodbye.

At some point on the bus ride home Clara fell asleep, snoring quietly on my shoulder. I smiled and kissed her cheek, causing her to smile back in her sleep. "Oh Master, you're so wonderful..." she mumbled telepathically, letting some of what I guessed to be her dreams slip out. I also got a brief image of Clara and I on the beach at sunset with Flare running in the distance. I carefully carried Clara up the stairs to my apartment after getting off the bus, barely managing to keep awake myself, and once inside decided that the bed was too far and collapsed onto the couch, causing Clara to grunt, but after a moment to shift into a more comfortable position with me she was breathing easy again, and once I knew she was comfy again I closed my eyes and fell asleep immediately.

Chapter 6

Sarah's Test

I woke up sometime around noon to find Clara still snoring as she lay across my chest. I smiled and watched her sleep for a while until she woke up on her own. Seeing I was up as well she smiled and said good morning before climbing down from the couch and heading to the kitchen. I asked her what she was up to.

"I'm going to make Master's breakfast" she said cheerfully, though I doubted her cooking abilities as she moves a chair so she could reach the stove. I shrugged and decided it didn't really matter how the food turned out as it was the thought that counted.

As Clara cooked I went in to check on Flare, who was still passed out on the yoga mat. Sighing, I decided to put him in his pokeball so I could finish cleaning the mess and put the mat away. I doubt he even realized when I returned him to his ball, but I set it down on his bed so he would know where he was when he inevitably woke up and let himself out. It took a good fifteen minutes to clean the now dried cum off the mat, but once it was done I rolled it up and returned it to its corner before walking back out to see Clara had set the table and was already dishing up a plate for me. She smiled and asked me to take a seat, which I did happily. She set a plate before me filled with hashbrowns, toast, and a couple eggs. They looked all right and upon tasting I was surprised to find they were pretty good. It wasn't the best breakfast I had ever had, but I couldn't deny it was impressive for her first attempt. Clara had started eating a meal of her own special food in the meantime, and as we were both finishing Flare wandered out of the bedroom with a yawn.

Clara immediately started giggling, and it took me a moment to realize why. What I at first to be just bed-fur was actually Flare's coat all but mangled with dried spooge. I sighed as Flare looked at me and Clara confused. I led Flare to the bathroom and me and Clara both set to work cleaning him; me washing his back half while Clara levitated a washcloth to cover his front. We had him clean in half the time it would normally take for me to clean him on my own, and Flare was definitely happy to be out of the water sooner than normal.

I was surprised to hear my phone ringing when I walked out of the bathroom and ran to answer it before it went to voicemail. "Hello?" I said, after quickly flipping the phone open.

"Hey mark," Sarah's voice answered. "I was wondering if you wanted to get some extra training in this evening with Clara and Flare, I had a training period reserved in the gym for this afternoon, but Spinarak is still passed out from staying up all night."

"Oh sure!" I answered, "Just as long as Clara's up for the extra training." I said, looking down at Clara to see what she thought. She nodded eagerly. "Yeah, she's ready. What time should we meet you there?" I asked.

"Well I'm kind of already there," she admitted "so ASAP would be ideal."

"All right we'll be there in just a few." I said

"Great, I'll get something set up for Clara in the meantime. See you soon" she said, and then hung up.

All three of us set out, and Clara was really excited at the chance to see my school again. Once we arrived, it was a short walk from the front doors to the gym. Inside we found Sarah putting last few dummies in place of what looked to be a make shift obstacle course.

"you got here just in time" Sarah said as Clara rushed over to inspect the course. "I decided to focus less on her fighting abilities for this course because she'll already have plenty of practice by the end of the week."

"Good thinking" I commented. "So what all did you put into this?" I asked, curious about her plan.

She motioned to some orange cones set up at the end of the gym "That's the starting point. First is a climbing wall, then a team lift challenge, and finally the last bit will test her battle reflexes, though you won't know how until you get there."

I sized up the challenge before me before looking around for Clara. I was surprised to see she was already waiting at the starting line for me and waving for me to hurry up. "You gonna time us or make this an endurance run?" I asked

"A little of both." Sarah said smirking. "Just get to the starting line and wait for my signal before you begin." She said before walking to the back half of the course, and motioned for Flare to come with her. Flare followed and I walked over to meet Clara.

After explaining briefly what was going to happen, Clara and I took our ready positions on the line and waited. It seemed a long while before we heard Sarah shout asking if we were ready. "Yeah!" I hollered back and within moments I heared the starter pistol coach used as Sarah shouted "Go!"

We took off, though I made sure to adjust my speed so Clara could keep up. We reached climbing challenge, which consisted of a fifteen foot wall covered in rope nets, and I ascended quickly having used the many times before. At the top I looked down and waited for Clara to catch up. She was struggling about halfway up, having some trouble pulling herself up higher and higher.

"Come on Clara, you can do this easy" I said, reaching down for her. She gritted her teeth and surged up the ropes with surprising speed as she reached out to grab my hand. Once she got to me I hauled her up the rest of the way and we jogged down the sloped back end of the wall. At the bottom was what appeared to be two pillars with a slab of solid steel between them and a few places for gripping at the bottom. Having done this challenge before, I knew how it worked. The metal was on two rails inside the pillars, which held it upright in place, and the goal was to work together with your team mate to lift it and get by underneath it. The school had a few of these with varying weights to the middle piece, and it seemed Sarah had picked a heavy one for us.

"All right Clara, I want you to use your telekinesis to try to lift that chunk of metal straight up" I said to her, cracking my knuckles and stretching so I didn't hurt myself trying to lift it.

"A-are you sure master?" she asked, looking doubtful. "I don't think I can lift that thing."

"Don't worry, I'm gonna help you." I said smiling.

"Master and I will lift it together?" she asked

"Yep" I said, assuming my position as I took hold of the grips at the bottom of the slab.

She nodded, seeming to be more confident in accomplishing the task now. "Okay" she closed her eyes and brought her hands close to her head, and I started pulling on the handles. The thing felt like it wasn't going to budge, and I could barely move it an inch off the ground.

"Looks like someone should have been taking his vitamins!" Sarah taunted from the side lines. I gritted my teeth, trying to ignore her as I redoubled my efforts, gaining another inch off the ground. Suddenly I heard a weird kind of growl from Clara and the slab was suddenly a lot lighter. It was still immensely heavy and progress lifting it was slow, but eventually we had it a couple feet off the ground.

"Alright Clara, you go under first!" I grunted, bracing myself for the dip in lift she was putting out, but I was surprised to see her slowly walk under it without wavering or opening her eyes. From the way she was gritting her teeth and the sweat rolling off her brow though I could tell she was struggling at least as much as I was. Once she was clear I shifted my grip and ducked under and past the slab, letting it down gently as Clara released her psychic hold on it. We sat there panting for a while until we caught out breaths and moved forward.

"Alright good job," Sarah called from the sidelines. "now this last segment has some rules." I saw that there was a narrow lane made between two lines of tape in front of us leading to two more cones marking the finish line. The length was only about thirty feet. "First, you step out of the lane you go back the start. Second," She held up a foam rubber ball about the size of her head, "Either of you gets hit with one of these, you both go back a step, and if you deflect one you go forward one. Third and final rule is she can only use Psybeam to deflect the balls."

"You've got to be kidding me" I said. "you're seriously making us run the gauntlet?"

Sarah flung the ball at my head fast enough that I couldn't dodge, and after a solid but relatively painless THWAP, she yelled "That's a step back for both of you!"

Clara obligingly stepped back and I sighed, doing the same.

"We can do this Master" Clara said, smiling up at me reassuringly. I could help but smile back at her confidence.

"All right, lets do it then" I said.

Sarah lobbed a ball high, aiming to come right down on top of Clara, but a brief flash of rainbow light from Clara easily sent the ball flying back and we both took our step forward. Sarah continued to lob similarly easy to deflect balls from a kart full of them, Clara missing only once by accident. I began to suspect she was up to something by the time we easily made it half way across the lane.

Suddenly I heard a rush of air just before a ball collided firmly into the side of me head, causing me to stumble and step out of the lane.

I looked to my left and saw Flare standing in front of a line of the balls Sarah was throwing and he gave woof when I spotted him.

"That's back to the start!" Sarah yelled, grinning.

I sighed and trudged to the start of the lane again, Clara walking close behind me. "It's okay Master, it was too easy before anyway." She reassured me.

Sarah lobbed another high ball and Clara deflected it easily just before a ball kicked by flare collided with her. She stumbled, but stayed in the lane.

"Sarah's ball is just a distraction" I warned her. "Keep an eye on Flare as he throws them in hard and fast while you're staring at the easy one." Clara nodded and took a battle stance, waiting for the next ball.

Sarah obliged, but Clara ignored her for the most part and watched Flare out of the corner of her eye. As predicted, Flare launched another ball at us with a powerful kick, and with two quick shots of her psybeam Clara deflected both balls with ease. We took our two steps forward and the pattern continued for a few more tossed. Sarah then switched it up so flare would only throw after her ball was deflected or hit us, and the switch caused Clara to get hit once as she waited for Flare, but after that she caught on and kept equal watch on both of them. We made faster progress than before advancing two steps instead of one every round, but it was far more difficult now, with us getting sent back a couple steps more than a few times when Clara missed a shot and the balls pummeled us. Soon we were close to the finish line though, and Clara was psyched up and her reflexes were equally wired. Just as we were about to deflect the last two balls though, they pivoted in the air and swung around, crashing into us, driving us both stumbling out of the lane.

A happy yip from behind the ball kart clued me into what had happened, and as I suspected a purple fox leaped up and revealed itself to be Esper, Sarah's Espeon.

"You didn't think it would be that easy?" Sarah asked. "You know my standards for training."

"Right, right, it was getting a bit boring anyway" I taunted back, not letting her get to me. Clara and I walked back to the start and began the third trek to the end. This time, both Sarah and Flare would throw their balls simultaneously and Esper would alter their courses to try to confuse us, or sometimes even send the speeding straight at us. It was a long time before we were even able to make our first step past the start as Esper was clearly very good with her telekinesis and made the paths of the balls hard to predict. And the few times we did make progress we were sent back before long by a cheap shot or a fake out by Esper.

"Ready to give up?" Sarah taunted after a while. "we're running out of balls to throw at you."

"Zip it" I shouted, panting.

"Master we can do this" Clara said, sensing my frustration. "I have an idea."

"What is it?" I asked, looking down at her.

She simply smiled and her eyes lit up blue. Understanding her plan I was surprised we hadn't thought of it sooner.

"Alright, Let's give it a go" I said, feeling a bit more confident in our abilities.

The next wave came, and Clara waited until Esper had a hold on the balls before making her move. I saw Esper's head dip a little as Clara reached into her mind and using what she found easily predicted the balls paths and deflected them. We took our two steps forward and repeated the process. Wave after wave we deflected every throw and quickly advanced towards the finish line. I could tell Sarah knew what we were up to before long, but from the way she was grinning I think this was what she planned for us to do. Eventually the last wave was thrown, only this time Sarah flung two balls and so did Flare, and Esper responded by sending all four rocketing straight for us. I winced, expecting to be knocked back, but Clara only giggled as she fired four Psybeams rapid-fire and sent every ball off course.

We advanced the last few steps, and cheered, victorious. Flare ran up to us barking happily as Sarah applauded us and Esper licked her paw, seeming uninterested. Sarah congratulated us and said she knew we would figure it out eventually. She said one of the key advantages to a psychic pokemon is they can read minds, and that was a very valuable skill for a partner to have. She also complimented Clara on her accuracy, as even knowing the paths the balls were going to fly they were still difficult to hit. Clara smiled and thanked her.

We all pitched in to help clean up the gym and move all its equipment back to its proper spot. Collecting the balls which were literally everywhere was what took the longest, though having two psychic pokemon who could carry about ten of them at once made it a lot faster than it would have been. It took Flare, Esper, and me to move the lifting obstacle back to its storage space, and Sarah mentioned that that slab weighed about three hundred pounds as we hauled it past her.

Afterwards we decided to all go out to dinner together at the new restaurant for pokemon Flare and I had gone to earlier that week. The owners recognized Flare for his massive size and welcomed us back warmly. The food was as good as before and we enjoyed chatting together over our meals. When the time came to split the bill I insisted on paying for everyone's meal myself, as Sarah had already been generous enough by giving us her training slot in the gym. Sarah argued to pay for her own food for a while, but I eventually won out through sheer stubbornness and she conceded. Happy and full, we said our goodbyes at the bus stop and promised to see each other at school tomorrow. Sarah got on the bus, finally calling Esper back to her pokeball as Flare, Clara, and I started the walk home.

Once inside, we decided to call it a night early and headed to bed. Flare curled up happily on his own bed as Clara and I got comfortable together in ours. Just as I was about to lay back, Clara kissed me deep on the lips and nuzzled against my chest "goodnight, Master" She said. I blushed and smiled at her as I lay down, wrapping my arms around her as I fell asleep.

My dreams were odd that night, or rather they didn't seem like my own dreams. One minute I was on a beach with Clara, who was now a beautiful Gardevoir, and then we were kissing each other in bed and she was a Kirlia again. Then we were in the gym having a battle against Sarah and her Espeon before finally returning to the bedroom where the dream seemed to stabilize.

I was lying naked with Clara on top of me and we were kissing each other passionately. After a while Clara pulled away, looking embarrassed. "What's wrong love?" I asked her, gently wrapping my arms around her.

"Do you still like me as a girl even though I have a penis?" She asked bluntly, sounding sad.

I smiled and hugged her tightly "Clara, it's not that important to me what you have down there, if you feel you're a girl then you're a girl to me"

She seemed to get even sadder despite this. "Then why do I like having a penis so much..." She mumbled.

I kissed her on the lips, causing her to jump with surprise but slowly returned the kiss before long. "That doesn't matter, you can be a girl and still enjoy having a male part. At the very least it gives you a unique experience as a woman."

"R-really?" She asked, sounding hopeful. I smiled and answered her with another deep kiss. We stayed like that holding eachother for a long time until I felt her male parts starting to swell against my stomach.

She pulled back from the kiss, panting and blushing as her pink shaft poked free from her skirt. "I want you to take me Mark, I want you inside me."

I nodded and gently shifted position so that she was laying on the bed and I was over her, feeling my own member stiffen up in anticipation. I brought the tip of my shaft to her asshole as she quivered beneath me and slowly pushed myself inside her, feeling her tight hole stretch wide around me.

Clara moaned my name loudly as she squirted pre onto her chest. Somehow I was able to fit my entire member inside her, and it felt amazingly tight. I waited a little to let her adjust to me before she told me to go on. I obliged and slowly began working my shaft in and out of her, feeling her body quiver with pleasure below me. Feeling her sphincter begin to relax a bit around my cock, I began thrusting into her faster, eliciting more moans from her.

"give me all you got!" Clara demanded, moaning as she writhed beneath me and I obliged, thrusting harder and faster into her small frame, starting to pant and moan myself. After just a short while she started squirting cum all over her chest and face as I brought her to orgasm, and I started slowing down to give her a break. "No, don't stop." She commanded. "I want you to mate me until you cum inside me" I didn't need any more encouragement than that and resumed humping her wildly.

I was surprised to feel something poking at my asshole each time I pulled back as Clara smirked up at me. "I found Master's toy" She tittered with amusement as she held it in place behind me with what I could only assume was telekinesis. Before I could respond though, she slowly moved the toy forward, easily penetrating me; going deeper inside me every time I pulled out of her. She held it there in place as I continued thrusting into her so that I would have to ride the dildo as I fucked her. All I could do was moan at the added pleasure and before long I was at the edge, Clara sensed this and suddenly shoved the toy deep into my ass as I thrust into her one last time, pumping wave after wave of my seed into her ass as she reached a second climax, cumming all over herself yet again.

I collapsed next to her, spent. She smiled at me as I slowly pulled out of her and I leaned in to kiss her. As we lay there making out the dream slowly faded away and my regular dreams came back to me for the rest of the night.

Chapter 7

Last Practice

The rest of the week went smoothly; Flare made incredible progress in PE in regards to stamina and Clara was only getting better and better in our daily training sessions with Sarah. Thursday came and with it, a long weekend. The last two days of the week were a holiday for students, except I still had to go to the academy on Friday for Clara's field test.

Sarah showed up at my door Thursday morning and told me to come with her and to bring Flare and Clara. I tried to get a reason out of her but she wouldn't let one slip and wouldn't let me get out of going along with her either. I sighed and called my pokemon over and Clara cheerfully greeted Sarah. Sarah led us out the door and I noticed that she had a full team of 6 pokemon clipped to her belt. I knew she meant for some kind of training for us, and I was pretty sure she wasn't going to go easy on us because it was our last day of training.

A short walk later and I was surprised to see Sarah had led us to the academy. "You didn't reserve the gym again, did you?" I asked her

"and if I did?" She asked grinning

"You don't have to do so much to help us out you know, you're already doing so much by helping me train Clara" I said, feeling a little uncomfortable from the excess generosity.

"Don't worry about it." She said "I'm just helping my friends out the best I can" She smiled "Plus it certainly doesn't hurt that this helps scratch my itch for a good battle" She added smirking

I shrugged and thanked her before following her inside. There, we found another obstacle course already set up, only this one was more straight forward at first glance.

"Alright, here's the rules." Sarah started. "You can see three team lift challenges, but what's going to happen is you'll have to beat two of my pokemon in a double battle at each gate before advancing."

"Double battle?" Clara asked

"It's when each trainer used two pokemon in the battle instead of one" I explained "So you'll be fighting alongside Flare against two of Sarah's pokemon."

"Oh, I get it!" Clara asked, looking excited. "So I'll finally get to see Flare battle?"

"That's right." Sarah answered. "There's a catch to the first two battles though. they'll both consist of pokemon that are very used to working together as a team, but I won't be guiding them. You'll have to react quickly as you won't get a warning for each attack. The third and final gate will be guarded by me and my two best pokemon. If you manage to beat us and still lift the gate afterward, you'll win the prize."

"There's a prize?" I asked

"Lunch and dinner for you, Clara, and Flare will be on me if you win." She explained. "If you lose, you're stuck with the bill."

"Alright, sounds fair" I said. I looked down to Clara and over to Flare "You both feeling up to the challenge?"

An excited bark from Flare and a confident nod from Clara gave me the answers I needed.

"Seems all three of you are ready" Sarah said as she unclipped two pokeballs from her belt and flung them in front of the first gate. "Go, Marry and Frost!" She called as the familiar Mareep and a blue fox revealed themselves. A few seconds of racking my memory revealed the fox to be a Glaceon. The fox stared us down and the sheep seemed rather excited and cheerful.

"So you have an Espeon and a Glaceon?" I asked, wondering what kind of luck she had to have raised two rare pokemon like that.

Sarah just smiled as she pointed for us to head towards the starting line. We took our spots as Sarah walked behind the first gate, where I heard her call out two more pokemon out of sight, and a minute later two more, presumably behind the second gate. "Ready whenever you are, Mark!" Sarah shouted from far away. Hearing their master, both pokemon in front of us leapt into a battle formation, with Marry being closer and to our left with Frost holding back to our right.

"Ready Clara?" I asked, looking down at her.

"Let's do it, Master" She said, looking confidant as she met Frost's battle gaze.

"Alright, go Flare and Clara!" I shouted as my pokemon leapt into position. Flare took the lead, Leaving Clara in the back lines as she took a battle stance.

"Flare, use Extremespeed to knock Marry back!" I called and the massive red canine leapt forward in a blur, colliding with the pink sheep before it could react and sending it crashing against the heavy gate behind it.

Frost let out a sharp hiss as it's team mate was stunned and countered with a flash of blue lighting from it's mouth towards Flare. The dog let out a yelp of pain, but couldn't move as it tried to leap back. Frost had frozen Flare's paws to the floor with an ice beam.

"Clara, Flare, both of you try to hit Frost with a flamethrower and a Psybeam!" I shouted. Flare did his best to angle his head to unleash a blast of flame at the fox, which it easily dodged despite it being less nimble than it's purple cousin Sarah had fought before. Clara pulled through though, timing her shot just right to hit Frost with her rainbow bolt of light as it evaded Flare's attack. The Fox yelped and stumbled around, dazed from the blast.

Just then Marry pulled itself up and launched a thunderbolt at flare, hitting him easily as he was still frozen to the floor. Flare howled in pain.

"Clara, hit Frost with Hypnosis while it's stunned and take care of Marry with psychic!" I shouted.

Clara unleashed her special psychic pulse at the blue fox, knocking it out cold easily as it stumbled around before rushing forward and picking up the sheep telekinetically. She spun Marry quickly in the air as it tried to fire a thunderbolt at her, but by then it was too dizzy and disoriented to land a single hit on either of my partners. The sheep soon passed out from the spin treatment and Clara gently set it down next to the fox, who was now snoring loudly as it slept.

Flare barked happily and took the liberty of starting to thaw its paws out with its flamethrower while I walked up to the gate.

"We did it Master!" Clara said cheerfully, smiling up at me.

"Yup, but we have to clear two more still." I said, waiting for Flare to finish melting the ice around his paws before getting a grip on the handles at the base of the gate. Flare bit down as best he could on the other side of the gate as Clara took hold of the slab telekinetically. This one was lighter than the one Clara and I lifted the other day, and with all three of us we easily lifted and passed through the gate before letting it down with a thud and turning to meet out next challenge.

Before us stood a large black hound with two white horns curving out from the back of it's head and a spade shape on the end of its tail. I wondered why there was only one for a moment before a purple face materialized out of nothing in front of us. It appeared to be a ball of black and purple gas levitating in front of us.

"Houndoom and Ghastly..." I mumbled to myself as Clara and Flare took the same positions as before.

This time our opponents took the lead as The Houndoom unleashed a wave of what looked like pure black at Flare and the Ghastly faded away again.

"Flare, dodge over it!" I shouted, and Flare leapt high into the air just in time to let the attack pass beneath him.

"Now hit him with your flamethrower!" I ordered and Flare obligingly unleashed a jet of flame as he descended. The black dog made no attempt to dodge and took the attack in full as Flare came back down. "Yeah!" I shouted, but my victory was cut short as a loud howl filled the arena and the flames let up, revealing the Houndoom to be not only unscathed but Glowing red as if superheated. Before I could react it surprised me by letting out it's own flamethrower back at Flare, dwarfing Flares attack with it's size and white hot intensity.

Before I could order Flare to dodge Ghastly reappeared right behind Clara. "Clara, Psybeam directly behind you!" I shouted as the black hound's attack connected with flare, who yelped.

Clara brought her hands to her head and fired off her attack without even turning around. The beam flew from the back of her head and connected with the advancing ball of gas, which hissed angrily as it disappeared again.

The houndoom had let off on the jet of flame but was still glowing. Flare was crouching down, trying to stay standing and was clearly dazed from the blast.

"Clara, hit Houndoom with psybeam, get it away from Flare!" I shouted and Clara unleashed her beam again, but to my surprise the attack bounced off the black dog who barely took note of it as it slowly advanced towards Flare.

"It didn't work!" Clara shouted back at me.

"try Psychic then!" I shouted feeling a bit panicked.

Clara nodded and rushed forward, trying to grab ahold of the dog with her mind. She gasped after a moment and slowly backed away "I can't move him!" She yelled, panic seeping into her mind's voice. The hound glared at her before unleashing another wave of darkness in her direction, hitting her before I could react due to the close range. She screamed as she was knocked back.

"Clara are you okay!" I shouted

"That... hurt..." Clara said, dazed. I saw Flare begin to get back up as the hound began advancing on Clara.

"Clara, try to hit it with Hypnosis and Flare use close combat!" I shouted. Clara managed to unleash her special pulse, which somehow managed to stun the hound, and by some miracle ghastly reappeared right behind Houndoom, snoring loudly as the pulse had connected with it while invisible. Flare got to his feet and rushed the hound while it was stunned, colliding with it hard enough to send it flying across the gym, howling in pain.

The Ghastly showed signs of waking up at the loud crash that resulted. "Clara, hit it with Dream eater before it can move!" I shouted and a purple aura enveloped both Clara and the ball of gas. The Ghastly struggled, but didn't open its eyes as Clara sapped it's energy and before long descended to the floor as it surrendered to unconsciousness.

Clara quickly picked herself up, having recovered with the energy she sapped from the other pokemon and Flare walked over to sniff her, making sure she was okay. Clara smiled and patted the big dog on the head. "Thank you, I'm fine now." She told him as I walked forward. We each assumed our positions and took hold of the next gate. This one was probably the same one that Clare and I had lifted in the last course, but even though both she and Flare were tired from two battles all three of us lifted it without much trouble and passed beneath before letting it down with an thud that nearly knocked us off our feet.

"Glad you made it" Sarah said, standing directly in front of the last gate. "Meet Krieg, and Geld" she motioned to her right and left. The one she pointed out to be Krieg was a tall blue and black avian with short legs and flipper like wings, and Geld was what looked kind of like a black bear with a tan underside and a mane made of fire.

"Geld's a Typhlosion, but what I Krieg?" I asked, my breeding knowledge failing me for once.

"He's an Empoleon, one of the starter pokemon from the Sinnoh region." She said. Krieg shuffled a bit, seeming uncomfortable.

"Well that explains why I don't know him, but how did you get a pokemon from Sinnoh?" I asked.

"My father gave him to me to train after he attempted the Sinnoh league a long time ago," She explained. "And Geld's been my partner ever since I got my trainer's license back in Jhoto." Geld gave an affirmative grunt as it looked towards its master. "You're gonna have a tough fight, and to be perfectly honest I don't expect you to win." Sarah said, smirking.

"So this was a ploy to get a free meal out of me?" I asked, scowling at the challenge she put me to.

"Partly, the first two battles were good practice, were they not?" She asked.

"I guess," I admitted. "Well, no point in drawing this out. You ready guys?" I asked my pokemon.

Flare gave a low growl as it took a battle stance and Clara did the same, "We're not going down easy" Clara warned her opponents.

Krieg and Geld took their positions on the field as well; with geld taking a forward stance and Krieg staying back.

"Let's go!" I shouted, commencing the battle.

"Geld, use hyper beam!" Sarah shouted, and Geld responding by howling as a ball of light built up in its open mouth.

"Flare get ready to dodge, Clara follow Flare's lead!" I countered, and Clara, leapt behind Flare, her eyes glowing blue to read how he would move. Geld unleashed the beam, sending a massive ray of yellow light straight for Flare, who nimbly sidestepped the blast, Clara easily dodging with him. Geld doubled over panting as the attack missed.

"Clara, hit him with hypnosis while he's stunned!" I ordered and Clara leapt to the side to get a clear shot at him.

"Oh no you don't! Krieg, hit her with ice beam!" Krieg obliged by launching a familiar blue bolt of lightning in Clara's direction. The beam caught Clara by surprise and hit her square in the chest before she could launch her attack, encasing her torso and one arm in a block of ice.

I gritted my teeth. "Flare, hit Krieg with close combat while it's distracted!" I shouted. Flare rushed forward and tackled the bird with all his might. Krieg let out a pained squawk as he was launched backwards into the gate behind its master. It grunted as it started to pick itself up.

"Hit it again Flare!" I ordered and Flare made another bum rush for the bird.

"Krieg, Ice beam!" Sarah shouted and the bird unleashed the blue bolt just as Flare collided with it. The impact caused a huge flash, and when it passed it revealed Flare to be encased in a solid chunk of ice as well as Krieg unconscious and also partially frozen to its opponent.

Sarah rushed to her partner's side and quickly checked him over before examining Flare. "They're both okay, but they're out of the round now." She said, sounding relieved.

"Clara, you okay?" I asked, seeing her still lying on the ground half encased in ice.

"Yes, just cold and stuck" She replied sounding flustered. But before Sarah could call the match Clara started levitating, using her telekinesis to pick herself up and regain her feet.

"I appreciate the tenacity, but this match is pretty much over" Sarah said, not joking in the slightest. "It's my best and most trusted partner against a half frozen initiate."

I heard a quiet growl come from Clara and it surprised me. "I'm not giving up!" Clara snapped.

"You don't have to do this, Clara" I said. "it's okay to give up, it's just a practice match after all."

"Please, let me try" Clara pleaded.

I thought for a while. "Well, most of your attacks don't require you're arms to use...." I admitted.

"You're seriously gonna try this aren't you." Sarah said. She sounded frustrated, but was still smiling despite that.

After a few more moments' thought, I decided. "Alright, we'll finish the match."

Clara grinned and did her best to resume a battle pose, though one arm was still encased under ice in an awkward position. I couldn't be sure from his animalistic appearance but I could swear Geld was smiling as well as it took its own battle pose, the flames on its mane erupting higher.

"Alright then," Sarah said "Geld open up with Flamethrower!"

"Clara, use Psychic to divert the fire!" I shouted a split second after.

Geld unleashed his attack straight for Clara and she did one better than what I had hoped to be mere deflection. She took a page from Esper's book and redirected the stream of fire to her side, then around her back, then straight for Geld.

"Geld get back!" Sarah shouted a moment too late. Geld took his own attack, but leapt out of the way before the full thing hit him. He crouched low panting as I saw Clara had used the heat of the blast to partially thaw herself. She had her hand free now, but still was slowed down by a large chunck of ice around her chest.

"Clara, use Psybeam now that you're hand's free!" I ordered. She brought her now free hand to her forehead and unleashed the bolt straight at Geld, who was already staggered from the last attack and took the beam in full. The hit knocked the Typhlosion on its back, and it rolled around confused for a moment before shaking it's head and regaining it's feet.

"Clever," Sarah complimented "let's see how you handle this. Geld use smokescreen!" Geld let out a roar as it's mane burned brighter, pouring out smoke and filling the arena. I heard Clara coughing inside the cloud, but couldn't see anything.

"Clara, you alright?" I asked, worried.

"Yes, just hard to breathe Master..." She replied. "I can't see anything though"

"Reach around you with Psychic, try to find him!" I ordered.

"Geld, hit her with Inferno and end this!" Sarah shouted from behind the dark cloud. A loud roar signaled the attack, and soon a red hot flash emanated from deep within the cloud.

"NO!" Clara's psychic voice boomed from within the cloud, and the red glow was soon overtaken by a white one, far brighter.

"What the-" Sarah started.

"Clara!" I shouted. Just then a chunk of broken ice slid out of the cloud towards me, followed by other pieces soon after. The white light blazed brighter before fading entirely.

"I'm not losing that easily, I'm going to win for Master." A mature, but familiar psychic voice spoke up from in the cloud, then a glimmer of silver light appeared before a rush of air blew the smoke out in all directions, clearing the arena.

The first thing I saw was Geld now panting on my side of the arena, but the tall white figure in the middle took a moment to identify. She had a clearly feminine figure, and the long dress she wore complimented that. Her long green hair came just to her shoulders, and from her chest stuck out a red crystal, providing a color compliment to her green arms.

"Clara?" I asked, not believing my eyes.

"Let's finish this." The newly evolved Gardevoir said, smiling at me. There was a silver aura around her which I guessed to be a Safeguard ability. Just then a yip at my heels informed me that some of Sarah's other pokemon had woken up and were watching our match. I looked back and saw everyone but Ghastly watching from my side of the arena, and he materialized in a few moments completing the cast.

Sudden near hysterical laughter broke out from the other side of the field. Sarah as doubled over, and it took her a moment to regain her composure. "Man you guys are just full of surprises!" She said. "Don't think this means you've won though, Geld use rollout!" She ordered.

Clara took a more refined battle pose with her now taller figure as The Typhlosion launched itself forward as a ball, rolling quickly at Clara.

"Toss him with Psychic!" I shouted and Clara's eyes glowed blue. She waited for him to come within ten feet of her before smoothly changing his course straight up.

"Hit her with Flamethrower!" Sarah shouted, undaunted by the change in course. Geld uncurled, quickly getting his bearings in the air before unleashing a torrent of flame down at his opponent. Clara took the blast in full, and I felt her pain telepathically. I winced, feeling her hurt, but as the attack finished, I was amazed to see she wasn't charred or marked by the flame at all thanks to her Safeguard.

"Make him kiss the floor with another Psychic!" I shouted, seeing the opening as Geld began to fall. Clara's eyes glowed blue as she took ahold of her opponent telepathically and whipped him into the ground, hard. The Typhlosion let out a yelp of pain as it landed, but quickly picked itself back up.

"Geld you okay?" Sarah called out. A low bark from him was all she needed in response to issue her next order. "Hit her with your Roll out Inferno combo!"

"What!?" I shouted, amazed they could combine moves. Geld let out a roar as it flung itself forward and became engulfed in white hot flame.

"Master what do I do?" Clara asked, sounding panicked.

"Hit him as hard as you can with a Psychic to knock him back!" I stammered out. With just barely enough time to react, Clara's eyes glowed as she unleashed her own attack just as Geld collided with her. A blazing flash ensued and the resulting heat was enough to make me stagger.

"Clara!" I shouted as the flames cleared. Geld was barely standing, doing everything in it's power not to pass out on the spot. Clara was in front of him down on one knee doing the same, her silver aura now gone and soot covering parts of her body and dress.

The two pokemon stared each other down as the battle became a match of who would pass out first, and a few moments later both pokemon collapsed simultaneously. I rushed forward to Clara and gently picked her head up, checking her for serious injuries. She smiled up at me "I'm all right Master" She said quietly.

I silently hugged her and she weakly hugged back, her arms now long enough to easily embrace me. "I'm so proud of you Clara" I said, holding her, and she nuzzled my chest in response, still smiling.

I looked over to see Sarah tending to her own partner, a worried look on her face, but after a few moments she gave a sigh of relief and looked towards me. "He's okay, but he's going to have one massive headache when he wakes up." She half joked.

"I guess it's a draw?" I half joked back.

"Unless you can lift the last gate all by yourself, no such luck" she replied, smirking. I heard Clara start giggling in my lap and I couldn't help but smile.

"Oh well Master, at least we didn't give up" Clara said to me.

"Yeah, and you evolved too" I said, smiling down at her.

She blinked and stared at me "I did?" she asked, unbelievingly.

"You didn't notice?" I asked, staring back with equal disbelief.

Clara remover her arms from around my neck and looked down at her hands, seeing their new color and her eyes widened. She squirmed out of my lap and struggled to her knees, where she began physically examining her new body, testing every new curve out with her hands. After a few moments she beamed at me "I did!" She exclaimed as she did her best to leap at me and hug me. I caught her easily and we embraced. After a few moments she spoke up "I thought I felt bigger but I was pretty sure I was just dazed from the impact. When did it happen?"

Sarah spoke up to answer. "It happened when you were in the smokescreen, right before Geld would have taken you down with his inferno attack."

"Really?" Clara asked, looking to me for confirmation.

I nodded "Yep."

"All I remember happening then was getting really mad and not wanting to fail Master" She said, looking back at her new hands. After a moment she looked up at her former opponent. "Geld are you all right?" She asked him directly. Geld gave what sounded like a bark and crawled to meet her on all fours before giving her a big lick on the cheek as a peace offering.

I looked over at my still frozen Arcanine and saw that Krieg had woken up and did not look at all happy being half stuck in the ice block containing Flare. He squawked at me disapprovingly when he saw me looking and looked stubbornly to the side.

"I suppose we should help them out" I said, and Sara agreed. We left Clara and Geld together to recover as we set to work breaking the ice around our other pokemon with the pocket knives that we carried as part of our uniforms, though neither of us were wearing them we still had our knives as you never know when you'd need them. Her Houndoom tried to help, but was too tired to produce an effective flamethrower. Every time I tried to chip at the ice around Krieg he would squawk and weakly peck at me to get me to stop. Sarah laughed and told me to let her get him out, which he seemed more tolerant of, though just barely. Clara and Geld watched from the sidelines, leaning against each other to keep both of them supported upright. It took about ten minutes to get Flare's head free of the ice, but once I did all it took was a hard poke in the nose to rouse him from his sleep-like state. He woofed happily in seeing me, then looked confused as he tried to move and after a moment realized the situation. He quickly raised his body temperature in response and water started dripping off the ice block as he melted it. Even with a fire type's body heat, it was another five minutes before he could muscle his way out of the ice. Krieg was still a quarter encased in ice by then and had gotten flustered enough that he even pecked at Sarah when she tried to free him. Sighing, she just returned him to his pokeball. She did the same for all her other pokemon except Glaceon, who was the only one not exhausted from the course as he had just been knocked out with hypnosis. Sarah and I then did our best to move the lift gates back where they belonged, and only accomplished our task after an hour and a half of hard work and grunts.

We decided that it was too late in the day for lunch by now, even though our appetites were catching up with us, so we headed out to the pokemon center to patch our partners up. Flare offered to carry Clara, but she insisted that I do it, which I gladly did. After one attempt trying to carry her like I used to before, her now human-like body weight proved too difficult to lift for long. After a few moments of adjusting, she draped her arms around my neck and rested her head against mine as I held her up by her legs, piggy-back style. She was much easier to carry this way.

At the bus stop I called Flare to his pokeball for the usual reason before boarding. Inside, Clara asked if she could still sit on my lap when we rode. Sarah giggled and covered her mouth and I let her, just hoping the ride wouldn't be too bumpy as her now plumper thighs felt very comforting on certain parts of my body.

Thankfully we got there without incident, and I piggy backed Clara the rest of the way inside as Flare let himself out of his pokeball. Sarah told me she would take my pokemon inside for me and that I should call my counselor and let her know about Clara evolving, and begrudgingly I admitted she was right and gently let Clara down before Sarah helped her inside.

Nervously I dialed Mrs. Feld's personal cell number. After two rings, she picked up. "Well if it isn't Mark" She said, sounding amused. "I take it you're calling to resign from the challenge I put up?" She asked, sounding confidant.

"No, actually" I said "It's just that Clara evolved today and I needed to know if that was going to be a problem in getting her approved as my partner.

There was silence on the other end before She spoke up "You're serious aren't you" Mrs. Feld said, seeming genuinely surprised."

"Yes Ma'am" I said. "Her skill set hasn't changed at all from it, she's just stronger and a bit taller for it." I explained. "It's not like Flare where he went from lighting bonfires to knocking down trees."

"Mark, I'm gonna need some time for this one." She said, sounding a tad flustered. "I need to do some research to verify what you said and then see if the course needs to be adjusted based on that."

"I'm sorry ma'am, I didn't mean to make you do more work, this caught me off guard too."

"Don't apologize, Mark" She said sternly "I'm actually impressed you managed to evolve her this quickly, I thought you would at least take a year to get that much experience with your usual training methods.

"Well, I have been getting help from Sarah" I admitted, blushing slightly.

There was a pause before I heard chuckling from the other end. "The transfer student from Jhoto right?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Well, that explains a lot, but still impressive progress on your part." She said. "Don't worry about this Mark, It shouldn't be a problem. I'll take care of the changes to the test and paperwork for you this time, just be sure not to disappoint me tomorrow." And before I could thank her she hung up. I stared down at my phone, feeling relieved.

I headed inside just as flare strutted out of the nurse's office, seeming full of energy again, and I gave him a congratulatory scratch behind the ears to thank him for his hard work today. We moved to the waiting area where Clara waved us over just as she was called. Flare sat down next to Sarah, who smiled and petted him as her Glaceon napped in her lap and I followed Clara into the nurse's office.

Inside, Clara easily sat down on the examination table and giggled. "I don't need someone to pick me up to get up here anymore" She mused. I saw it was the same nurse as before, though she looked confused.

"Alright, I recognize you" she said, pointing at me. "but did you really get a second psychic pokemon?"

I couldn't keep from giggling.

"No silly, I just evolved today" Clara explained, beaming.

The nurse blinked and slapped her forehead, realizing her oversight. "Right, I didn't recognize you right away. You're the one that doesn't need a pokeball right?"

Clara smiled and nodded and the nurse proceded to do all she could to help Clara, though it still wasn't much considering she couldn't use the standard equipment. She at least bandaged what were Clara's more serious burns and told me to make sure she got some good sleep tonight.

"Pokemon heal faster than humans, she should be just fine by tomorrow morning as long as she doesn't exert herself any more today." The nurse explained.

We thanked her for her service and I helped Clara into the waiting room just as the nurse called Sarah in. Clara sat down next to Flare and he gave her a sloppy lick on the cheek as a belated congratulation for evolving. Clara giggled and scratched behind his ears as we waited, causing him to let out a happy murr. I smiled and watched them.

After just a few minutes Sarah emerged with her Glaceon, who Stretched and yawned before walking up to me. I reached down to pet him as Sarah caught up and he murred quietly, accepting me. Sarah smiled. "He usually doesn't take to new people so well, guess he was impressed by you and Clara" She said.

We headed out, deciding to take a walk through the park to kill the remaining time until dinner. There, we ran into coach again, and I introduced Sarah and Frost to his Azumarill. Azu happily greeted it's new friends and him and Flare played while Frost watched and we chatted with coach. Coach made it a point to compliment Clara often on her accomplishment, reflecting on how much work it took when Azu was still a Marril. Eventually the sun sank low in the sky and we said our goodbyes, Coach wishing Clara and I good luck on our test tomorrow as we left.

It wasn't that far of a walk to the restaurant, and once there I was dismayed to see Sarah unleash her whole team as we were escorted to the largest table they had. I tried to enjoy the meal as best I could, but when the bill came my fears were confirmed. Despite my student discount this would still take a heavy toll on my wallet.

"Last time I accept a bet from you" I goaded, looking at Sarah as I pulled out my wallet.

"Just don't lose it next time" She said, smirking.

I sighed and paid the tab, the owners thanking me generously as I did. We finished off our drinks and headed out, saying goodbye to Sarah and company as we went our separate ways home. On the walk back, Clara asked if I could carry her again. I thought for a while before smiling and assuming the position, letting her cling to my back as I held her up. She nuzzled my neck and thanked me as she gently wrapped her arms around my neck. I smiled and enjoyed the affection, forgetting about the massive loss my wallet had endured.

Before long we reached my apartment complex and I had to put Clara down. We headed inside, and on the way up Clara marveled at how easily she could read the door numbers now. Once we reached my door, Clara insisted on opening it herself now that she could do it easily. I smiled and let her and after a few moments of fiddling with the key to figure out how it worked she led us inside.

Clara closed the door behind us and Flare to my surprise headed immediately to the bedroom, though he didn't seem tired at all. Adding to my confusion he pawed the door shut behind him. Before I could ask him what was up Clara grabbed my shoulders and turned me to face her as she kissed me deeply. I blushed and after a moment kissed back and embraced her, feeling up and down her back.

After a long while Clara stepped back, blushing. "Would you mind if we took a shower together?" she asked. "I'm still all dirty from the battle and don't want to get it on your couch."

I smiled, realizing she was planning this for a long time today and probably let Flare know ahead of time. "Sure, let's get you cleaned up Clara." I said, taking her hand as I led her to the bathroom. Inside, I turned the shower on and slowly disrobed in front of my partner as I waited for the water to heat up. She smiled and watched me intently as more of my body became exposed. I blushed as I finally removed my boxers, letting her see my most private part. She licked her lips, clearly liking what she saw.

I took a step towards her, but she sidestepped my advance, winking at me as she stepped into the stream of water. "Not yet" she tittered "I have to have my body all clean before Master can use it" She teased.

I smiled, accepting her game as I stepped into the shower. Clara smiled back at me and handed me a sponge before presenting her back to me. I stepped close to her and began gently washing her neck and shoulders. She sighed, leaning back into me as I worked. Smiling, I slipped my hands around to her chest, gently washing and massaging her small, but now apparent breasts, eliciting a surprised gasp from her which quickly turned into a soft moan. I moved my hands lower, washing all the soot I came across off her as my hands trailed lower. Eventually I was massaging her round ass as she smiled and grinded back against me. Realizing I was now painfully erect I decided to hurry up and wash the rest of her so we could get to the fun faster. I quickly cleaned her legs and feet before wrapping my arms around her and pressing my hard member to the small of her back to let her know I wanted it.

"There's still one spot you missed" She teased, and before I could ask where she bent over in front of me and spread her dress, giving me a glorious view of her ass and pucker. I reached down and gently massaged around her entrance, feeling her tense and loosen at my touch. I continued rubbing her asshole with my fingers and before long she was grinding back against me. I very slowly pressed y finger into her opening, but just as I felt her start to spread around and accept my digit she pulled away and turned the shower off. I grunted in frustration but before I could get any further in that mindset she kissed me deeply, proving she still wanted me.

"I'm not ready for that yet..." She admitted "But I've been practicing so soon I will be."

"Practicing?" I asked

"I'll show you" She said winking, as she handed me a towel. I sighed and dried her off first, taking advantage of the moment to cop another feel of her breasts and ass before letting her dry me off as well, and taking a cue from me she made sure to give my throbbing member a firm squeeze as she passed over it. She then led me back to the living room and sat me down on the couch, leaving my clothes in the bathroom. Before I could ask her what she was planning her eyes flashed blue and a familiar dildo appeared out of seemingly nowhere levitating in front of me. It wasn't the large one Flare had scarred so many weeks ago, but rather the first one I had which had been lying unused at the bottom of my drawer, or at least so I had though. Another flash and next to it was my bottle of lube.

"I'm sorry for using Master's toys without his permission..." Clara said, suddenly blushing.

I blinked and looked at the dildo. "You've been using these?" I asked. Clara nodded looking down. The dildo hadn't been that big for me but for a Kirlia it must have been quite a stretch, though a part of me wondered how much better it would fit in her now, and that part also knew I'd be finding out before long. "Alright, I forgive you but on one condition." I said, smirking. Clara looked up hopefully. "I want to see you use it on yourself as you help me out" I said motioning towards my still hard member, twitching in neglect.

Clara nodded eagerly, and from the way she was smiling it seems she had this planned all along. She knelt down in front of me as she lubed up the toy and levitated it towards her tight pucker, and with a quiet moan and a slight wince slid it easily insider her ass. I dribbled pre at the sight and she quickly took my member in her mouth, running her tongue all over it as she started slowly sliding the toy in and out of her ass, occasionally wincing as she clearly still wasn't used to being penetrated back there yet. I moaned at the stimulation as I enjoyed the view, gently pressing on the back of Clara's head, guiding her lower on my cock. She obliged eagerly, now easily fitting the entirety of my shaft in her new mouth. She began working the dildo in and out of her ass in time with her head's movements, and gradually sped up both, forcing more moans out of me. Suddenly she stood up, slipping the toy out of her ass and bending over in front of me.

"Please Master, fill me" She begged, blushing deeply as she presented herself to me. I couldn't resist, though I had just enough control to go gently and to pull her down onto the couch first. I laid her down before me, seeing her now much larger penis standing erect in front of me as I brought the tip of my own to her ass. She nodded for me to continue and I slowly forced myself inside her. She was crushingly tight, and it took a while to get even the tip in, but once I did I slipped the rest into her much more easily. She moaned and bit her lip as I penetrated her, leaking a copious amount of pre onto her stomach.

"Does it hurt?" I asked concerned

"Y-yes, but it feels good too" She said "Please keep going." I nodded and proceded to slide myself back out of her slowly, before pushing back in. She moaned and squirmed a little, leaking even more pre. I set to work thrusting gently in and out of her, and more than a few times I was tempted to reach down and give her stiff member some attention, but from the amount of pre she was leaking just from going this slow I was confident I wouldn't need to. After a long while I felt her finally start to loosen up around me and she squirmed less and moaned more. I started to work my cock into her faster, causing her to moan loudly and spur me on. I quickly picked up pace as her ass got used to my member, but before I could get fully up to speed I felt my peak approaching early from the extended foreplay. I gritted my teeth and tried to hold out but a sharp moan from below shook my focus. I looked down to see Clara blushing and panting as she started cumming all over herself. Thick jets of her seed splashed across her face and chest as she arched her back in orgasm. I couldn't hold out any longer and immediately began cumming inside her ass as I thrust in and out.

I collapsed panting next to her, feeling my dick slide out of her ass with a little pop. Clara smiled weakly up and me and leaned in for a kiss. I closed the distance and embraced her as we kissed each other.

"I love you Master" She said sleepily.

I Blushed and smiled down at her, "I love you too Clara."

We held each other for a long time before the cold night air got to us and we reluctantly got up and cleaned ourselves off before heading to bed together. Once under the covers we embraced other again and both drifted off to sleep before long, dreaming of each other.

Chapter 8

Partners

Finally the day was here. It started with Clara waking me.

"Master, wake up you we need to get ready." She insisted as she shook my shoulder.

Realizing what day it was I immediately snapped awake, startling Clara as I sat up. I apologized as she caught her breath and felt a warm wet nose bump up against my thigh, telling me Flare was now up as well. I reached over and patted the big dog on the head as Clara climbed out of our bed.

"I'll start making us breakfast, you get dressed." She said, smiling at me as she left the bedroom. I couldn't help but stare at her ass as she walked; there was something almost hypnotic about the way she swayed her hips. I snapped myself out of it and crawled out of bed myself as Flare sat and watched me as I quickly pulled open my dresser and began donning my uniform. Once dressed, I exited to the living room with Flare close at my heels. Clara smiled at us from the kitchen and I could smell bacon frying in the pan she was tending. My mouth began to water almost immediately, but I waited patiently for her to finish cooking. In the meantime I poured Flare an extra-large bowl of his own food, making sure he'd have plenty of energy for whatever they decided to throw at us today. Clara finished cooking and before long we sat down to eat together. The food was tasty but not quite as good as the last time she cooked; guess she was still getting used to her new body. Clara ate her own food happily and we remained mostly quiet throughout the meal.

Just as I finished eating my cell phone rang. I quickly answered, expecting to hear Mrs Feld, but I was surprised to hear Sarah's voice instead.

"You better not disappoint us today Mark." She started, "You don't want to know what kind of strings I had to pull to get permission to be present for your exam today."

"You did what?" I asked, surprised.

"You thought I would invest the time in training you and Clara and not want to see how it turned out?" She asked.

"Well, no." I said, "To be honest I'm just surprised you could actually convince Mrs. Feld to let you be there."

"Yeah, me too." She admitted, "Though she was easy on me because she knew I was helping you train, you still don't want to know how many volunteer hours I had to agree to for this."

"Thanks Sarah, really. I'm glad that you'll see." I said.

"Yeah, just don't let all that training go to waste." She said, "Good luck mark, I gotta get heading if spinarak and I are gonna make it there in time."

"Okay, we won't let you down" I said, and she hung up.

"Sarah's going to watch us?" Clara asked from across the table.

I blinked, surprised. "Yeah, you could hear the phone from over there?" I asked, puzzled.

She smiled and shook her head. "No, I was hearing her as you were. I couldn't do stuff like that before but now I can reach further into your mind for stuff like what you're seeing or hearing."

I stared at her, not sure if I believed. "You can really do that?" I asked.

She grinned and winked at me, "I know you were staring at my butt earlier." She teased.

I blushed, "Alright, I believe you." I said, feeling a bit embarrassed about being caught.

Clara giggled.

"You feeling ready for the exam?" I asked her, quickly changing topics.

"More than ready." She said confidently.

"How about you, Flare?" I asked, turning to the large dog who had just finished eating. He gave a woof and wagged his tail, which I took to mean yes.

"We're really going to do this." Clara said, almost to herself. She seemed almost giddy at the notion.

"You bet," I said, "You'll finally be able to be my partner like Flare is."

"And I'll be able to come with you to school!" She added, getting even giddier.

"Yup." I said, smiling at her; though I wondered how she'd fare with the boredom of classes.

Clara's giddiness seemed to fade. "May I ask you something personal Master?" She asked, seeming a bit worried.

"Anything." I assured her.

She paused and swallowed hard. "I-If I don't pass the test, will you still want to keep me around here?" she asked.

I blinked, surprised that she'd ask that. Clara must have took my pause to mean doubt for she looked down in shame. I quickly reached out and took her hands in mine. "Clara, you aren't going to fail this test," I said, "you've put in so much work and even evolved for it. Besides, you've already been my partner for a long time now, this test is just to see what the academy thinks."

Clara looked up at me, her mood visibly brightening. "Really?"

I nodded and leaned down, gently kneading her hands as I held them. "Your home is here no matter what the academy says."

Clara blushed and grinned "Thank you so much Master, I won't let you down!"

I smiled back at her and my phone rang again. I quickly flipped it open. "Hello?"

Mrs. Feld answered, "Mark, glad you're up. Are you feeling confidant in your pokemon?"

I grinned. "Of course."

"Good, because your tests won't be easy." She said, "You have an hour to get here and prepare; the review committee, your friend Sarah, and Myself will all be waiting for you in the gymnasium." She hung up before I could even respond. I stared at my phone and shrugged, no longer phased by the abrupt endings she gave our conversations. I looked over to Clara to fill her in, but a nod from her reminded me she already knew.

"All right then," I said, standing up, "Let's get going." We got ready to leave, and I double checked to make sure I had everything I needed; then headed out the door with both of my partners close behind.

The walk to the academy was silent as we mentally prepared ourselves for the challenge ahead. I noticed halfway there that Clara was no longer the timid little girl I had met on the beach two weeks ago. She had grown up, in more ways than one, and I could help but smile as I saw the confident look she now wore as we walked. Clara must have sensed me looking because she turned and smiled at me, though she remained silent.

The walk was short but it had felt longer than normal because of the tension we felt as we made it. When we finally arrived, I gave each of my partners a nod before heading inside and to the gymnasium, which was dark except for the entrance. There Mrs. Feld, Sarah, and a group of about five people were waiting for me. Of the group which I guessed to be the review committee, I only recognized one face: our coach from PE. The rest were all dressed in either high ranking officer uniforms or suits.

"You actually arrived early" Mrs. Feld remarked, smiling to herself, but before she could add any more one of the review committee stepped forward.

"Welcome Mark." He said amiably. "You certainly are ambitious for someone your age; I just hope you're as good as Mrs. Feld here makes you out to be. Considering you're here ahead of time, how about we get to the exam immediately instead of waiting around?"

I looked to Clara, who showed no signs of disagreement. "Alright, sounds good to me." I said.

"Good!" the man said, smiling. "I like your confidence."

Coach stepped forward from the group. "Alright, this part isn't going to be like your midterms with Flare." He said. "It's less formal, but far more challenging. Follow me." He said, walking towards a pair of orange cones which were just barely within the lit area of the gym. "You're only allowed to go forward, obviously you can't just walk around everything we put in front of you. Each challenge will be lit up as you reach it, so no looking ahead either. You and your Gardevoir are to complete the course as quickly as possible, and if your time is good enough you'll advance to the final test involving both your pokemon. Do I need to repeat anything?"

I shook my head, "No, we're ready Coach." I turned to the huge canine standing next to me. "Flare, you wait with Sarah okay?"

Flare woofed and quickly trotted over to her. She smiled and pet the Arcanine as he sat down next to her.

"Okay then." Coach said. "We're going to move so we can see the whole course as you run it, and I'll be waiting at the end for you. When we're in position and ready for you, I'll fire my starting pistol and your time will start."

I nodded, and watched as Mrs. Feld pulled out a small flashlight and led everyone away into the darkness. Clara and I stood together at the edge of the darkness, waiting in silence for our test to begin. Time seemed to drag on and I felt my nerves slowly start to work me. Anxiety slowly built as I stared into the blackness in front of me. I turned to look at Clara, who was staring straight ahead.

"We're finally doing it." I remarked, trying to ease the tension.

"Yes." She said, still staring ahead.

"You nervous?" I asked.

She blushed and looked down, smiling a little. "Yeah." She admitted.

I smiled "Me too." I said.

She looked over at me, still smiling. "But we're going to do this." She said.

I nodded, still smiling myself. We both went quiet again and resumed looking into the darkness, waiting for the signal. Then, with the loud pop of the pistol, the floor ahead of us flooded with light and we started our test.

We rushed forward in tandem, Clara now easily keeping up with my running pace with her long legs. Ahead, I recognized the climbing wall Sarah had put used for her first test of our abilities, but the ropes for climbing the fifteen foot cliff were now missing.

"You've got to be kidding me." I mumbled to myself as we reached the wall, but before I could even begin to think of how to scale it I felt myself being lifted up by some invisible force. I squirmed and looked down to see Clara's eyes glowing as she lifted me telekinetically, seemingly without effort. I relaxed and let her carry me as she hauled me to the top of the wall before gently dropping me down on top of it. I quickly knelt down and reached out for her to grab my hand, but there was still about four feet between my fingertips and the highest she could reach.

Thinking quickly, I sat up straight and quickly undid my belt, pulling it off before kneeling back down and dangling it down for her to grab after wrapping it around my hand once for grip. Clara smiled at my ingenuity and jumped as high as she could, and just barely was able to grab the end of the leather strap. I grunted and started to reel the belt in. She held onto the end tight as I brought her closer to my hands, and once close enough she yanked herself higher and grabbed onto my wrists. I hauled her the rest of the way up and slipped my belt back on as she stood up. Just then more lights came on ahead of us, leading us forward.

We jogged down the slanted back of the wall as before and saw what appeared to be a huge wall in front of us made out of plywood. There was an opening in the middle of it, and as we got closer I saw a cluster of more walls inside of it.

"It's a maze." I said as we reached the entrance.

"So we just need to find the exit?" Clara asked, inspecting the entrance.

"Yeah, though I have an idea of how we can do it quickly." I said. Clara looked at me expectantly, waiting for me to explain. "We'll split up; each of us goes a different way. If I find the exit first, I'll yell. If you find it, let me know."

"How does the other find the exit after that?" she asked looing confused.

I just smiled at her as I pictured the dildo we had used in our fun the night before in my mind.

It took Clara a moment to figure it out, but once she did she grinned and nodded before rushing into the maze ahead of me. I smiled and followed her; though I went a different way than her at the first intersection. Thankfully they hadn't built the maze with a ceiling so it was well lit inside. I followed my own winding corridor for a few dozen feet before being presented with a forward path or turning to my left. I ran to the left without thinking, and after a few turns along that path I ran headlong into a dead end after turning one last corner and collided into the wall with a thud. I stumbled, a bit winded from the impact. I shook my head clear and rushed back to where the path split, making sure to go the way I hadn't gone before. I wondered how Clara was faring as I followed the snaking path, but was soon met with another split, either right or left. I went left again, and was a little relieved when I was met with another intersection instead of a dead end; this one either right or forward. I went forward, but after a only a few turns I was met with another dead end. Sighing, I jogged back and went the other way but found the same result.

"Tricky..." I mumbled to myself and jugged back to the intersection prior to the last one, heading straight as I passed it. Soon enough I found another branching path with three options. I sighed and began with the left path, but after a few turns I found myself back at what looked like the same intersection. I blinked, confused and tried what I thought to be a different path, and wound up at another familiar split with only two options. Scowling, I backtracked to the four way intersection and tried the only remaining option, but once again found myself at the same intersection.

"How the..." I started, but trailed off as I heard Clara's voice speak up in my mind.

"Master, are you ready?" She asked.

"You found the exit?" I asked

"Yes, they were using a psychic pokemon to try to disorient me but once I got that figured out it was pretty easy." She explained.

I blinked, suddenly understanding how I got so lost. "Good work, get me out of here!" I shouted, smiling to myself. Suddenly my vision went blindingly white. I shut my eyes, wincing at the brightness, and after a moment I felt Clara's hand on my shoulder.

"You can look now Master" She said.

I opened my eyes and saw I was now standing outside the maze complex, but before I could get any further orientation the lights ahead of us went on and we jogged forward to our next challenge.

This one was fairly straight forward, it was one of the team lifting gates, but was slightly modified. Across the front, blocking the path were three boards which were commonly broken as a test of strength in PE.

"Alright Clara, you know how this one works but you have to snap the boards in front of it before we can pass under." I explained Clara nodded and brought her hands up to her forehead. After a moment I felt a thump like someone had turned the bass on their stereo to max as Clara let out a psychic pulse. I could see a ripple through the air as it traveled into the boards, and felt a rush of air as it collided with them, causing them to creak loudly. I scowled, seeing they were using far tougher boards this time than they would with even Flare, but before I could tell Clara I felt two more powerful thumps as she tried again, this time producing a loud crack as one of the boards went flying in two pieces.

"Good job Clara, just two more!" I shouted. Clara nodded and fired off three pulses in rapid succession, causing me to feel lightheaded as they passed. The last two boards snapped easily under the rapid assault and I quickly ducked down and grabbed ahold of the slab of metal. It seemed impossible to lift as I first pried on it, but soon became almost as light as a feather as Clara pitched in, grunting as she hefted the massive piece of steel. I wedged myself under it, putting all my strength into holding hit up as high as I could for Clara to pass through, but just as I got under It I noticed two more boards blocking the other side in and x shape.

I grunted, noticing Clara's eyes were shut as she focused on lifting. "Clara, there's two more boards on the other side, I'm gonna hold it up, you hit them as hard as you can, okay?"

Clara grimaced, but nodded. I felt the weight gradually return to the slab as I strained to hold it above me. The weight drove me down on one knee just as a massive pulse rushed past me, all but shattering the boards. Before I could give any more orders Clara dived forward and crawled under the gate as I held it up, not out of strength but more a refusal to get crushed by it. Once on the other side she knelt down and quickly brought her hands to her forehead again and I felt the slab suddenly get lighter before and invisible force yanked me off my knees and into Clara's arms. Mere moments after I was clear the gate crashed shut with a massive thump. I laid in Clara's arms for a moment panting before she helped me back to my feet, and to my surprise I heard clapping from behind us. I blinked and looked around, seeing coach standing there with a stopwatch in hand. I turned and saw the two cones marking the finish line cleverly hidden behind the gate so we couldn't see them from the other side.

"Four minutes, twelve seconds Mark," Coach said, sounding impressed. "though you handled the gate pretty stupidly by holding it up yourself. Seriously that thing weighs two hundred pounds at least!" he all but shouted

Clara stood up smiling and helped me do the same, only to have us both be knocked down as Flare crashed into us, barking happily. He pinned us down and began to give us a thorough congratulatory licking as the rest of the group walked towards us.

"Way to go Mark," Mrs. Feld said, sounding impressed as well, "That pretty easily qualifies you for the final test."

"I expected no less," Sarah remarked, her Spinarak waving it's front legs frantically from her shoulder. "Though I had no idea Clara could teleport, you guys still keep surprising me."

I finally pried Flare off of us and regained my feet before helping Clara up. "What's up with Spinarak?" I asked Sarah, watching the bug continue to spaz out.

Sarah blushed and giggled nervously "He's kinda been freaking out ever since that last Psychic Clara used, even Flare was acting up for a bit."

I blinked, not sure what she meant.

"Don't worry, he's fine," she assured me, "He just got scared by all the power she put into that attack."

"Oh," I said, only partially understanding. I turned to Mrs. Feld. "When do I start our final exam?" I asked.

She grinned. "So straightforward, what's the rush?" She said.

"Just eager I guess." I admitted.

"Fair enough," Mrs. Feld replied. "though you may be a bit disappointed by the test."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Mrs. Feld started to speak, but Coach spoke up interrupting her. "What she means is that she and the committee couldn't think up a decent test for two partner pokemon with very different abilities." He explained.

Mrs. Feld shot Coach a dirty look before sighing. "He's right, the course you just ran was originally supposed to be for a Kirlia and an Arcanine when we came up with it, that's why it was dark." She explained, "We had to modify it at the last minute and suddenly our trump card for you was only your first test, and you basically breezed through it with only one pokemon helping you."

"So then?" I asked, feeling rather confused as to what they had in store.

"So then you've basically already passed, all we need to do is assess your ability to direct both pokemon at once and you're set." Mrs. Feld said.

I noticed Sarah started suddenly grinning and quickly covered her mouth.

"So how do you do that?" I asked.

Mrs. Feld looked at a loss for words, and it was Coach who filled in again. "It's rather informal for this academy, but the best way we could come up with to test you at such short notice was a double battle."

Suddenly it clicked and I understood why Sarah had reacted the way she did.

"The only catch is there's only two of us on the committee who have more than two pokemon." Coach continued. "Me, and Feld here; and you know why I can't fill that role." He said.

I looked over at Mrs. Feld, who was glaring at Coach. "So I have to battle my counselor?" I asked, barely believing it.

Mrs. Feld gave a long sigh. "Yes." She finally admitted.

I blinked and stared at her, stunned at the opportunity. "Does that bother you?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "You'll see why I'm flustered when we get to the battle." She said.

I thought to ask her more, but let it go.

"Alright, unless you need a break to catch you're breath we're headed to the beach" Coach said.

"Clara, you good to go?" I asked, turning to face her.

She smiled and nodded. "Let's go." She said.

With that, Coach pulled out a small remote and hit a button, causing the whole gym to light up before leading the crowd out the front doors. Sarah stuck close by me, but didn't say much along the way. Most of the way, the man who had stepped forward at the start of the challenge chatted with me. I learned he was the chairman of the academy, and that he was quite impressed another student of his would be requesting two partner pokemon. I asked him who the other student was, but he wouldn't say, instead he asked me about my personal life, about Flare and Clara, and how we had chosen to train the last two weeks. Once I explained our methods and told him it was Sarah who directed us he made sure to compliment her on her methods and to her surprise offered some pointers that really seemed to make her think. I asked him if he used to be a pokemon trainer, but he was quick to deny it, saying he was always studying but never got the chance to raise his own pokemon. Before long, coach stopped the group. We were at the boardwalk.

"Alright you two," Coach said, pointing to me, them Mrs. Feld, "You proceed down onto the sand and we'll observe from here. Both of you need to tell me when you're ready, and the match will start on my say so." He turned to face me "Mark, you don't need to win this battle, in fact you won't. Your only goal is to last as long as you can and demonstrate you're coordination with your pokemon."

I nodded, understanding. I turned to Clara "Are you okay with that?" I asked her.

She nodded. "I'll be okay." She said.

I studied her face a moment, not sure what to make of her statement, but from the confidence she still wore, I decided to go ahead. I Led Flare and Clara down the steps to the beach below, and Mrs. Feld followed after them. We took our positions on the sand, standing a good fifty feet apart on the sand parallel to the boardwalk.

"This is why I was assigned to be your counselor." Mrs. Feld said, pulling two pokeballs out of her pockets. She flung them at the beach simultaneously "Go, Charger and Nora!" She shouted as two flashes of light revealed her pokemon.

I stared wide eyed, as it suddenly clicked for me. Mrs. Feld deftly caught both pokeballs as they flew back at her. "Get it now?" She asked.

Before me stood two pokemon very similar to my own. Charger, who I presumed to be the Growlithe she was given by the academy, but was now evolved into a truly massive Arcanine; standing even taller than Flare. Nora, who I quickly identified as an Alakazam, stood directly in front of Clara.

"Mark, I seriously don't know what the odds on this are," Mrs. Feld said, "but at least you get why they made me the person to guide you."

I looked over the boardwalk to see the chairman smiling calmly at me and Coach grinning.

"It's been a long while since I saw you two," Coach hollered out, "How's she been treating you?"

Charger gave a loud bark and wagged his tail at Coach, eliciting an annoyed scowl from Mrs. Feld. Nora looked calmly up at Coach and an unfamiliar voice spoke up in my head like Clara's speech. "She's been taking very good care of us, sir, thank you for asking." It said.

It took me a moment to realize it was Nora who was speaking. I noticed Clara looked at least as surprised at our opponents as I was.

ust then, Nora turned her gaze to me. "I apologize for invading your mind earlier in the maze, I usually ask permission first but I was under orders from my partner not to make my presence known."

"Oh, uh... sure, it's no problem" I stammered out, and Nora seemed to smile. I shook my head and looked to my partners. "You both feeling ready for this?" I asked them, suddenly feeling eager to get this battle started.

Flare gave an eager bark and he crouched low, ready to fight. Clara nodded as she took her own battle pose.

"Yeah, we're ready whenever too." Mrs. Feld said casually. Her pokemon put some distance between each other and oddly it was Nora who took the advance position on the field rather than the physically stronger Charger.

I could see Coach grinning wider as raised the starter pistol. He waited a long time before pulling the trigger and shouting "Begin!"

Feld took the first move, "Charger, Fire blast!" She ordered, and the canine seemed to know who to target without being told.

"Clara, bring it around back at Nora!" I shouted. Charger unleashed a massive ball of fire from his maw directly at Clara. Clara first leapt to the side of the oncoming ball, then grabbed a hold of it, grunting audibly as she changed its trajectory and brought it in a wide arc back around towards Nora. The massive cluster of flame suddenly disappeared when it was a few inches in front of the yellow fox though.

"What?" I yelled, not sure what had happened. There was suddenly a loud whoosh and a yelp as I saw the ball reappear directly in front of Flare and crash into him.

"She teleported it!" Clara called out.

I gritted my teeth. "I didn't expect that..."

I heard Mrs. Feld laughing from across the field. "She really did just evolve yesterday didn't she." She teased. "My partners have been working together far longer than that, you'll need to use more than those simple tricks if you want to even scratch them."

"Flare, get back there and hit Charger with Extremespeed!" I ordered, not letting her taunts get to me.

"Charger, Flare Blitz." Feld said casually.

Flare leapt forward in a blur as Charger began glowing orange. Flare collided with the rival Arcanine squarely, but only elicited a growl from his opponent before it suddenly leapt forward in a wave of fire, obscuring both of them for a moment before Flare was sent flying out of the blaze and crashed back into the sand on my side with a heavy thud.

"Flare, you okay?" I called out. Flare slowly picked himself up, seeming shaken but not out yet.

"Good try there Pooch" Feld taunted, "But you need a lot more practice before you can hit like Charger here"

Flare growled at her, seeming to increase his resolve.

Suddenly an idea hit me. "Flare, hit Charger with a flamethrower!" I ordered.

"Really?" Feld asked, seeming annoyed. "Charger, just counter with Fire Blast"

Right as Flare unleashed his jet of Flame I called out to Clara mentally, picturing a jet of flame curving to the right. I saw her nod, and as planned as soon as the fire reached the halfway point it arched straight into Nora, knocking the pokemon back, but before any more damage could be done the countering ball of fire flung by Charger engulfed Flare's attack. I sent another image of Nora teleporting the first Fire blast. Clara wavered, but attempted to teleport the attack anyway. In a flash, half the ball disappeared as the remainder crashed into Flare, sending him rolling.

"Nora, Protect!" Feld suddenly yelled out a split second before the attack reappeared, heading for Nora. It crashed into the beach obscuring my view of the pokemon for a few seconds, and when it cleared Nora stood there unscathed, with the sand around her superheated to glass now.

"No way." I marveled.

"Again, good try." Feld said, "Though I give you credit for the flamethrower bit."

"Thanks, I guess." I said.

"Charger, hit Flare with a Wild Charge attack!" Feld suddenly called out.

"Flare, counter with Close Combat!" I stammered out, taken off guard.

The larger canine began crackling with electricity, which I hadn't even thought possible, before charging straight at Flare as Flare made his own powerful charge at him. The dogs collided powerfully and held their positions, each digging in as they tried to overpower and toss the other.

"Clara, hit him with hypnosis!" I called out, taking advantage of the pause. Clara leapt forward and fired off her special psychic wave far faster than she had before and Charger stumbled before being tossed by Flare.

"Well played," Feld commented, staring almost curiously at her Arcanine as it snored on the sand. "Nora, Shadow ball!" she ordered, again catching me off guard.

Nora conjured what appeared to be a ball of darkness between her hands before flinging it forward at Clara. The ball slammed into her, knocking her back on the sand and I felt her pain, wincing and clutching at my temple as she fell.

"Flare, Extremespeed!" I shouted half out of panic. Flare rushed forward, slamming into Nora and knocking her back before she could fire off another attack. "Now Crunch!" I shouted, not giving Feld any time to react. Flare leapt upon the Alakazam and bit down on her midsection, and I saw Mrs. Feld wince and fall to one knee.

"You felt the attack too?" I asked her.

She grunted and regained her feet. "It's what happens when you're really close to a psychic pokemon, they give you their all and unfortunately that means their pain too." She shook her head vigorously. "Nora, toss him back with Psychic!"

Suddenly Flare was floating high into the air away from the Alakazam, flailing his limbs in a futile attempt to get down before being sent crashing into the sand back on my side of the field with a heavy thump.

"Flare!" I called out, but he just laid there panting heavily. "Flare, can you get up?" I asked, and all he responded with was a weak whimper. I scowled and pulled out his pokeball, calling him back with the red beam of light. "You did well, partner, now have a good rest." I said quietly as he disappeared into the light.

"You willing to keep going?" Feld asked from her spot as Nora clawed her way back to her feet.

I thought for a moment. "Yes, we're not giving up that easily." I said adamantly, getting a smile out of my counselor.

"Good." She said, "Nora, use Dream Eater." She said, still smiling.

"What!?" I asked, stunned. A dark purple aura surrounded Charger and Nora as she sapped energy from him, healing her wounds from Flare's attacks.

"My partners share everything, health is no exception" She explained. "Still want to keep going?"

I grit my teeth before issuing my next order. "Clara, Safeguard then Psybeam!" I shouted. Clara suddenly started glowing with a silver aura before unleashing a bolt of rainbow light straight for Nora. The attack hit her in the chest, but she seemed unaffected by it.

"Nora, show her a real Psybeam!" Feld yelled, and Nora obliged, with a massive blast of rainbow light, sending both me and Clara reeling when it hit. I managed to regain my feet after a moment, but Clara remained down, though her safeguard remained.

"Clara are you okay?" I aksed, but before she could answer Feld issued the next attack.

"Nora, end this with Shadow Ball!" She shouted, and her Alakazam once agains conjured a ball of darkness and flung it, hitting Clara hard. Pain exploded throughout my head and I doubled over before everything began to fade. I vaguely registered panicked shouts about a pokeball and felt weak tugs at my pockets before totally fading.

I awoke with a start in an unfamiliar place, and after a moment realized I was in the pokemon center lobby, laid out across the bench. Sarah was sitting next to me, and looked worried.

"What happened?" I asked, causing her to jump.

"Y-you idiot..." She growled before looking away.

"What?" I asked.

"Here!" She shouted, shoving a pokeball in my face before standing up and walking away.

I blinked and took it as I sat up. A quick inspection and pressing the button to pop it open proved it to be empty. Before I could think of what she wanted me to do with it, I felt a sharp pain across my face. I blinked, tearing up at the stinging sensation before realizing Mrs. Feld was standing in front of me and was winding up to hit me again. This time I ducked the swing.

"Why didn't you tell me she was a wild pokemon!" She shouted.

"S-she's not, she's my partner!" I stammered out.

Feld balled her hand up in a fist. "She doesn't have a pokeball you idiot! Because of you she's..." she trailed off.

"She's what?" I asked, worried now. "Tell me she's okay!"

Feld glared at me. "Just look where you are and you tell me."

Suddenly the battle came crashing back to me and I leapt out of my seat, only to have Feld grab me by the collar of my uniform.

"I know it impressive to tame a wild pokemon and all that but it's really stupid." She growled. "There's a reason we use pokeballs, it makes them easier to patch up after rough matches, and when they don't have a pokeball..."

"W-when they don't have a ball?" I asked, feeling panic start to overtake me.

She roughly let go of my collar and looked away. "Go look for yourself." She said, pointing down the hall.

I needed no further prompting and immediately took off sprinting down the hall, praying that Clara was okay. I was suddenly grabbed by an arm sticking out of an open door and dragged into the room. After a moment orienting myself I saw it was Coach who had grabbed me. He wore a look of mixed worry and admiration. Before I could say anything, he put his finger up to his lips in a 'shh' motion. I nodded and turned around.

Laying on the examination table was Clara. She had a thin blanket over her and had an oxygen mask crudely strapped to her face, but she was barely breathing.

"It's really special when someone forms a trainer bond with a pokemon without catching it." Coach whispered from behind me. "Most people don't want to corrupt that bond with a device that makes the pokemon obey them, think it may sully the pure kind of bond they share by taking away teamwork and making themselves the master."

I slowly nodded, seeing what he was saying.

"and who knows, maybe they're right. Maybe it's not so pure afterwards. But let me tell you, when a time comes like this and you have to choose between losing a partner or changing your relationship with them, neither of them will choose the first option. I can tell you that, and so can Azu."

I turned to face him "Azu didn't have a pokeball either?"

He smiled weakly. "Not until that last battle he didn't, and because I was so stubborn to keep that bond pure, I was too late and he never healed right..." he trailed off. He was silent for a long time before he spoke again. "Listen Mark, she'll still be the same Clara you knew before, having a pokeball for her won't change that. She'll still be your friend and your partner."

"Is she gonna be all right?" I asked, worried.

Coach frowned. "This time, yeah." He said. "She's hurt bad, you felt that. But she'll heal. I can't say the same about the next time though, or the time after that."

I stayed quiet, not sure what to do.

"And what if some miscreant decides he wants your Clara for himself and captures her himself?" He asked.

I winced. "A-all right..." I said. "I see your point."

"You know what you need to do then." Coach said softly.

Slowly I walked up to my partner. I gently took her hand in mine and stood at her side for a long time, watching her breath. I swallowed hard and forced myself to press the button on the pokeball Sarah gave me, causing it to expand before pressing it against my pokemon. There was a flash as she faded away into the ball, the blanket folding down on the now empty space beneath it. I felt the ball wiggle weakly in my hand a few times before a quiet chime signaled a successful capture. I sighed, partly in relief, partly in frustration.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. "There, things will be okay now." Coach assured me.

I nodded silently and he led me out of the room to the nurses' station, where the nurse on duty took my partner and carried her back to their healing machine. I listened to the chimes as the machine did its work and after a few minutes the nurse returned, handing me back my pokeball.

Coach smiled at me and motioned for me to go on, and nervously, I called her out. "Clara, come out." I said as I hit the button, popping the device open and unleashing a flash of light. After a moment the light subsided and the ball clicked closed. Before me now stood Clara, looking confused, but otherwise healthy.

She looked around for a moment before spotting me. "Master, are you okay?" She asked, sounding worried, "You feel really sad."

I reached out and hugged her tightly, breathing a deep sigh of relief as she tentatively hugged me back. "I'm so sorry!" I stammered out

"D-did I fail the test?" She said, sounding concerned

"The test doesn't matter Clara." I said, holding her. "I still have you, that's all that matters."

She slowly rubbed my back as I calmed down, reassuring myself that she was still here and okay. We stood there together for a long time before someone loudly cleared their throat behind me. I quickly let go of Clara and turned to see who it was.

"Glad to see you've come to your senses." Sarah said, looking simultaneously annoyed and relieved. "Still I'm amazed you were able to get close enough to her to feel her pain like that without a pokeball. Guess it's a good thing you two are partners."

I blushed at the compliment "Thanks, but I don't know if the academy will be allowing that after this whole incident." I said sullenly.

"I don't know about that." Coach spoke up, still standing near us. "pokeball issues aside, you still have quite a bond with that Gardevoir and showed you know how to use both your partners together fairly well. And you have at least one person on the review committee who's going to make sure they don't overlook that." He said grinning.

"Really?" I asked, not believing his generosity.

"Don't worry about it." He said, "Just keep your phone nearby these next few days while we review your performance, Mrs. Feld will call you with the results when we make the call."

"Thank you, Coach." I said.

"Don't mention it." He said smiling, and then started walking away.

I noticed Flare in the lobby at the same moment he saw me and Clara. He immediately galloped over, almost knocked Sarah over as he rushed past her. He didn't knock us over, but still knocked us off balance as he began showering Clara with whines and licks, causing her to giggle.

"I'm fine, Flare. Don't worry." She assured him, eventually getting him to calm down

"Glad to see things are back to normal for you three." Sarah commented. "I need to get heading too though, I'll see you Monday Mark." She said, turning to leave.

"See ya." I said.

"Master?" Clara spoke up, "Can we go home now?" She asked

"Oh, of course." I said, then after a moment of thought "Would you like me to carry you again?"

She blushed and smiled "Yes please!"

I smiled back and assumed the position as she jumped on my back, nuzzling my neck as she got comfortable. Once she was situated comfortably, we headed out and walked home together. I let Clara down as we got to my apartment complex like before, and all three of us headed up. Once inside with the door shut behind us I felt the atmosphere change almost immediately. Without warning Flare picked me up by my belt as Clara giggled.

"What's going on?" I asked, dangling from Flares mouth as he carried me to the bedroom with Clara following close behind.

"Flare and I are gonna do something special for you." She said smiling, and started to unbutton my shirt as Flare held me up.

I blushed and sighed, deciding to sit back and enjoy it rather than fight what they had planned. Sensing I was compliant, Flare set me down on the edge of the bed after Clara had removed my shirt. Before I could get comfy though, she had spread my legs and was kneeling in front of me, eyeing my crotch. I blushed and felt my manhood begin to swell. Clara smiled and licked her lips as my pants bulged further out, and slowly she reached out and began to undo my belt. She smiled as I watched her pull belt off, drawing it out so she could savor the view of the growing tent I was pitching. Before long her patience wore out as she unzipped my pants and opened the slit in my boxers, revealing my now rock hard shaft. She smiled and let out a short yummy sound before kissing the tip and starting to carefully lick up and down my shaft. I moaned, leaking pre from the sensation, which she quickly cleaned up with her tongue. She didn't let me enjoy it for long though, as she soon backed off and unbuttoned my pants before yanking them down with my boxers. I stood up, making her job easier as she fully disrobed me. Once she had me naked, she stood up and kissed me deeply, and I could feel her own swollen member pressing against mine as I kissed her back.

Suddenly she spun around with me and fell back onto the edge of the bed, spreading her legs for me as she pulled up her dress, exposing her tight pucker and stiff cock to me. "Take me, Mark." She begged. Too horny to resist, I brought my member to her hole, and still slick with her saliva I did my best to enter her gently. She was still loose from the night before and entry was far easier, causing us both to moan as I sunk myself deep into her asshole. I held myself inside her for a while, letting her get used to my size. She smiled and took advantage of the time, suddenly teleporting my bottle of lube in front of me. Before I could ask what she was planning she had her fingers lubed up and pressing against my asshole. It didn't take her long to loosen me up as I had a lot of practice under my belt from taking flare so often. She smirked and fingered me quickly as I stayed buried deep insider her.

"Do you like this?" she said, teasing my prostate. I moaned, and nodded as I leaked more and more pre inside her. "Good, because this part wasn't for you." She teased.

I suddenly felt fur and warmth press against my back as Flare mounted me from behind. I blushed and panted as I felt his hot rod slide across my asshole. Clara giggled and reached behind me, helping guide Flare's massive shaft to my hole, and once situated he wasted no time sliding deep inside me. I moaned from the added stimulation and pressure on my prostate.

We stayed like that for a while until Flare's patience ran thin and he began his work thrusting in and out of my ass. I panted and did my best to match his motions as I began doing the same to Clara. Every time I pulled out of Clara Flare would thrust deep into me, and vice versa. We worked out a good rhythm to this and quickly built up pace as the penetration became slicker from pre. Clara and I moaned together as Flare panted and humped away at my ass. Soon I felt Flare's knot swelling inside me though and he made one last thrust into my ass before being stuck inside me as he began cumming. I panted and moaned as the massive knot crushed my prostate, though I could no longer keep thrusting into Clara's deliciously tight ass as I was stuck on the massive canine shaft.

Clara suddenly giggled and motioned something to Flare, and before I knew what was happening, Flare had flopped down on his back, pulling me with him and out of Clara. I looked up at Clara from my new vantage point as she smiled down at me. She crawled over me, straddling my hips as she took my cock in her hand and guided it back into her ass. I moaned as she took me into her, and moaned even more when she started bringing her hips up and down, riding my shaft as fast as she could. Her own pink member bounced against my belly as she went, and my hands involuntarily went to her hips, pushing her down harder onto me as she moved. it didn't take long for her to cum, her moans rose to a scream as she started spurting her seed all over my chest and face as she continued to ride me. the rhythmic clenching of her asshole as she orgasmed were all it took to push me over the edge and I unloaded all I had into her, much of it dripping out of her ass and onto my waist as she slowly came to a stop and collapsed onto my chest, panting.

I wrapped my arms around her, and stuck where I was, we cuddled on top of Flare. We passed out together there; though I awoke sometime later that night to find that Flare's knot had deflated and Clara had somehow moved me to the bed and climbed in next to me, holding me from behind. She must have been half awake because my clothes were still sitting mere inches in front of my face. I noticed Clara's pokeball clipped to my belt in front of me and carefully took it. I laid there staring at the device for a long time, wondering what it really meant in the long run for Clara and I. reflecting on seeing her in the pokemon center barely alive, I admitted to myself it was for the best. Clutching her pokeball tight I made a silent vow to myself to always do what I could to protect her. As if sensing this, Clara shifted and snuggled closer to me. I smiled, taking comfort in her warmth and slowly drifted back to sleep.

We slept in Saturday, and showered first thing when we woke up. Clara and I washed Flare first, and then showered together once he was clean. Clara took the opportunity to cop a good feel of my member while I was naked which quickly turned into her jerking me off as it grew at her touch. I grunted as I came against her thigh, causing her to giggle and kiss me deeply as she started washing away the new mess. I checked my phone when we got out to see if Mrs. Feld had called but the phone said there were no missed calls. I sighed and got dressed before realizing my bed sheets were splattered with cum from last night, whether it was form Flare's seed leaking out of me, my seed leaking out of Clara, or hers rubbing off of me. I quickly stripped the bed and carried the sheets down to the Laundromat on the first floor to wash them. Clara came with me, curious to see how washing machines worked and watched the little round window as it did its thing, transfixed by the swirling water. Once the sheets were washed and dried we carried them upstairs and Clara helped me set the bed again, smiling once everything was clean and in order. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and watching TV before heading to bed together.

Sunday passed in roughly the same fashion, though we woke up earlier and started watching TV earlier as well. At least until my phone rang wround four in the afternoon. I froze for a moment, then answered the phone.

"Hello?" I said, trying to hide my nervousness.

"Mark." Mrs. Feld said.

"Yes?" I said, my anxiety increasing.

There was a long pause at the other end. "You and your Gardevoir passed." She said, almost begrudgingly.

"Really?" I asked, amazed.

"You have your damned coach to thank for pushing us this far, we better not see another stunt like the pokeball thing, do you understand?" She said sternly.

"Yes ma'am." I said.

"Good. I'll see you tomorrow then." She said and hung up.

I didn't even get a chance to close my phone before Clara tackled me, hugging me tightly. "We did it!" She exclaimed.

I grinned and hugged her back. "I know!"

She started giggling uncontrollably. "I'm officially your partner now!"

I kissed her deeply, causing her to blush and kiss me back. "You've always been my partner, Clara." I said after pulling back.

She smiled and kissed me again, slowly pulling me down onto the couch with her. We made out for a long time before getting carried away and making love right there. From that moment on I knew Clara and I would be partners as long as we were together, and that I wasn't going to let anything separate us. But for the time being, I laid with my lover and snuggled in our afterglow and enjoying her warmth.

Chapter 9

Epilogue

The next couple weeks were a rough transition for me; though Clara and Flare seemed to handle all the changes better than me. All three of us reported to Mrs. Feld's office at seven in the morning the Monday after we passed our test. There, it was explained to us that I would be taking at least three additionally courses on top of my current load of classes. The first two being a set of PE classes, from this day on I would have a class where I worked with Flare, a new class where I worked with Clara, and a class where all three of us would work together. Thankfully, the third class added to my schedule was relatively easy compared to triple PE classes daily. Every day for an hour, Mrs. Feld would personally tutor me on techniques and strategies for using two partner pokemon. She made it clear that she was not doing this because she wanted to help, but because she was the only one that could. We made sure to thank her plenty before we left her office heading for my first class.

I explained to Clara that it may be interesting for a while but she'll probably get bored after the first fifteen minutes as we walked in, and she nodded, seeming to understand. I took my usual seat in the back and Flare took his next to me; Clara took the seat next to mine, taking a moment to examine how the little chair was built into the desk and made to swing out and turn. Satisfied with her understanding of its mechanics, she finally sat down just as our instructor walked in. I noticed in the brief span from then until the class began Clara seemed to be marveling at all the Growlithe lying about the room next to their appropriate partners; though her attention shifted immediately to the instructor once he began the day's lecture. Clara listened intently to everything he had to say, and to my surprise she never lost interest the whole hour we were there. Long after I had resorted to doodling in my notebook while praying for the bell to ring, she was still paying rapt attention to the instructor. Eventually the bell freed us and we headed to the first of many PE classes that day.

My usual class with Flare was first and we both spent our time doing endurance training and dedicated the last half to practicing his Close Combat attack on some dummies. Coach remarked that pretty soon he'd need to order some tougher dummies before Flare starts breaking them. Clara waited patiently in the bleachers and watched us while we worked out. Every time I looked up to her she would smile and wave and I'd return the gesture.

After my hour with Flare was over, it was Clara's turn. Flare replaced her in the bleachers and Coach decided to go easy on us, since I was still winded from the hour of running with Flare. Clara did most of the physical work. Coach ran her through all the starting procedures, even hauling several sets of weights out of storage to find out her max lifting strength. He took diligent notes on his clipboard as he had Clara work to find her max for one set of muscles, then he would make her jog a lap around the gym and time her. He repeated this process until he nodded, seeming satisfied with the data collected.

"Well, Clara's going to be a unique case for us." Coach remarked as Clara finished her last lap of the class, falling to her knees and panting. "I figure since she's built pretty much like a human that you and her would have pretty much the same training routine, but I don't know if it's because she's a psychic type or because I'm wrong in comparing her to humans as far as muscle structure, but I'm surprised she could lift the bar for half of these weights." His brow furrowed as he scratched his chin, thinking. "Her endurance is worse though, she only ran seven laps total and she's completely winded already."

"Am I not good enough?" Clara asked from her spot on the ground.

Coach grinned and patted her on the shoulder. "Don't worry about that Clara," He explained, "It's my job to help you get better at all of those things." He smirked and added "And you will, even if you end up hating me by the end of it."

She gave a sigh of relief and I helped her up off the floor right as the bell rang.

"You go and get some food in your bellies," Coach said, "I want to see all three of you back here after lunch."

I nodded and called Flare over before showing Clara to the cafeteria. There we met up with Sarah, who asked what Clara thought of her first day at the academy. Clara smiled weakly and said it was tough, but she'll keep trying her best. We chatted briefly while we ate, and soon Sarah had to leave for her last class. We finished our meal quickly after that and trudged back to the gymnasium.

Coach welcomed us back with a grin. "You know, there's never been gym classes after the lunch hour before." He said as we entered. I saw he had set up what appeared to be parts of the obstacle course Clara and I had run a few days earlier, only repurposed for something else. "I usually spend this part of the day sitting around my office waiting to go home. But now that you three will be spending an hour like this each day, I get to have a little fun in this period." He was still grinning, and I noticed an all too familiar glint in his eye. I groaned, realizing we had the bad luck of starting up his sadistic side; which only meant that he was going out of his way to challenge us.

Coach quickly gave us the run-down of what today's challenge was: we had to hit a target with Flare's Flamethrower. The catch: we'd only have a direct shot at it the first time. Each time we successfully hit the target, he would add an obstacle that Clara would have to bend the flame around.

I sighed, partly with relief that I wouldn't be straining myself any more today, partly with frustration as I knew how tricky coach would end up making these shots.

Coach set the target up for the first round, and Flare easily railed the bullseye with a powerful jet of flame. Coach set up part of the makeshift maze from earlier, essentially making it so Clara had to bend the flame ninety degrees to the right, then another ninety to the left in a short space. Clara pulled through, though the fame got close enough to brown the wood in the middle of the turn. Coach's grin only grew wider as he made the section of narrow paths full of sharp turns longer, eventually getting so complex that I had to boost Clara up on my shoulders so she could see the layout. It wasn't long before Coach had her bending the flame completely around us before flinging it at the target; and each time we had a brief glimmer of hope from successfully beating a challenge, it was smashed with an almost child-like giggle from Coach as he added yet more twists and turns. I sighed with relief as he finally ran out of maze pieces to extend the course with after forty five grueling minutes of it. My relief quickly faded ad coach then rearranged the entire layout of the path we had spent so long memorizing. With a sigh, we set to work trying to beat this last challenge, or at least we hoped it was the last. Unfortunately we spent so much time on failed attempts which had coach running in cackling with a fire extinguisher to prevent the whole thing from catching fire.

We quickly made our escape before Coach could goad us into spending passing time trying to beat it. I breathed a sigh of relief in the hall and Clara gave an exasperated sigh. "Is he always like this?" she asked.

I grinned nervously. "No, just when he gets really invested in something." I said, "He doesn't make it fun, but you have to admit you made good progress on controlling Flare's Flamethrower because he pushed you so hard."

She sighed again. "Yeah, you're right about that, I guess it's not so bad after all."

We only had one last class that day, which was our tutoring session with Mrs. Feld. We headed up to her office and I was surprised to see Nora, Mrs. Feld's Alakazam was standing outside waiting for us.

"Good to see you Mark, Clara, and Flare." She said politely before inviting us in.

Mrs. Feld was at her desk, writing in a notebook. Before we could say anything though, she spoke up. "You can go home Mark, I'm not ready yet. Come back tomorrow."

I blinked, stunned at what she said as Nora quietly led us back out the door. With a sigh and shrug, we headed out. The walk home seemed longer because we were all tired, and once we got home all we could do was collapse on the couch and stare at the television as our muscles recovered. Eventually I hauled myself off the couch to make everyone dinner before we all went to bed.

The next day went about the same as the first: Clara was still enthralled by anything the teacher had to say during lecture hall, Flare and I still ran mainly endurance training during our PE hour, we chatted with Sarah over lunch as usual, and Coach had Clara running a telekinetic gauntlet with Flare's Flamethrower again.. There were a few differences though; Coach started Clara on a light endurance training program with me alongside her to get her used to working out, and Coach started us out with the full maze for our final PE class. When we went to see Mrs. Feld again, Nora was there to greet us as before and showed us inside. Again, Mrs. Feld was writing in that same notebook and brushed us off.

We headed home and so the pattern was set: Go to lecture, go to Flare then Clara's PE class, have lunch with Sarah, Have coach throw some new sadistic training at us, then have Mrs. Feld tell us she wasn't ready before finally heading home and collapsing on the couch, exhausted. This process continued for weeks, and slowly but surely I began to notice progress. My own stamina was greatly improving from all the additional work, Clara was getting better at it as well and soon was doing longer endurance runs during her class. I could tell coach was running out of fun and cruel ways to test us, and eventually he gave up and had us just run laps around the gym the whole hour while he thought up some now obstacles. It wasn't until two weeks of this that we were fit enough that we didn't immediately collapse on the couch the moment we got home, and it showed. We'd been too exhausted for any fun time at home and we were all feeling its effects. I felt backed up enough it hurt, and Clara was worse off than me judging by the pain she shared telepathically. Thankfully, by now it was the weekend, and I could tell already that we wouldn't be going far from the bedroom until Monday.

It started early Saturday morning, when Clara and Flare shared a look right as I finished eating, and I knew what was going to happen before they even made their move. Flare gently picked me up by the scruff of my shirt, I patted him on the head.

"You don't have to carry me, I'm more than willing already." I said, half chuckling as Flare set me down, I could already feel my member swelling in anticipation. I took Clara's hand and led her to the bedroom with Flare close on our heels. I shut the door behind us and thought for a moment on how best to go about what we were about to do before Clara took charge and pulled the yoga mat from the wall. Flare paced about eagerly as she rolled it out on the floor before standing up and kissing me as she pulled my night shirt off as Flare stepped behind me and quickly tugged my boxers down. In a single second of teamwork they had me fully nude.

I looked to Clara to take charge again, and she smiled; sending me a mental image of Flare mounting me while I was on all fours. I smiled back and quickly assumed the position on the mat. Flare paced back and forth impatiently as Clara took the lube from my desk and began coating her fingers in it. I could see Flare's massive rod was already engorged and free of its sheath, even the knot was already starting to swell. I felt Clara slip two fingers gently inside me before moving them around, coating my insides with lube as she loosened me up for Flare. Clara seemed to relish the moment, watching Flare's knot swell intently before finally stepping aside and presenting him with my ass ready for the taking.

Flare all but pounced on me and barely could keep himself restrained enough for a gentle entry. Guided by Clara's hand, the tip of his massive rod slid deep into my ass, eliciting a moan from me and a relieved murr from flare. I didn't get long to adjust to him, as he quicky set to work slamming his cock into me. I gritted my teeth, trying to loosen myself up more as he frantically humped me. Before long he was panting heavily and I could feel his full knot mashing against my ass. I suddenly felt something warm and wet run across my shaft, and I looked down to see Clara Lying beneath me. She dutifully licked my member clean of any pre it dripped out as her own painfully erect member poked free of her dress. I wanted to help her relieve it, but couldn't reach from my current position. It wasn't long before the dual stimulation of Flare's massive rod mashing my prostate and Clara's now very skilled tongue cleaning my shaft pushed me to the edge. I moaned loudly as I erupted, coating Clara's ready face with a couple thick spurts of my pent up seed before she took the tip in her mouth and eagerly swallowed the rest of my massive load. Flare came moments later, desperately trying and failing to cram his knot into my ass as he unloaded into my bowels. I felt my stomach gurgle just from the sheer amount of fluid being pumped into me. I groaned and slumped forward, slipping off of Flare's member as he unloaded the last few spurts of his thick seed across my back.

I laid there on the floor panting for a while as flare collapsed as well. After a few moments I noticed Clara had long since moved out from under me and was frantically stroking her own member. I felt myself stiffening for another round as I stared at her, and crawled up behind her. She worked her shaft while moaning, oblivious of my advance until I had wrapped my arms around her. She jumped, but quickly resumed moaning as I wrapped my hand around her member. "Let me take care of that." I said lovingly as I started gently stroking her and nuzzled her neck. She leaned back into me and let me do my work, and soon I was hard again. I pulled her onto my lap and gently pressed the tip of my member against her asshole, eliciting a small gasp from her before she surprised me by sitting down on my member hard, seeming to take my saliva and cum-slick shaft with ease. "H-how'd you do that Clara?" I asked, still curious despite my arousal.

She panted and grinned weakly, "I figured it out before, I just have better control down there than you" She said before slowly rising up on my rod and slamming down, causing both of us to moan. I decided not to ask any more questions and focus on the job at hand. Grabbing her hips, I began to thrust up into her inviting asshole as she moved down on me in tandem. We quickly built up pace until we were both moaning and panting as we frantically mashed out hips together, trying desperately to make the other cum. Eventually, Clara fell forward onto her hands and knees and I moved with her, taking over the work as I began plowing her ass from behind. All she could do was moan and try to hold herself up as her rock hard member drooled a veritable puddle of pre to the mat below. We didn't get to savor this new position for long: Clara soon came, hard. She unloaded jet after jet of semen, most of it landing on the floor but a few spurts were powerful enough to splatter her face with her copious load, adding to my seed from before. The rhythmic clenching of her ass as she shot her load was all I need to go over the edge as well and I began unloading into her ass, filling her enough for it to leak out and down her thighs as I kept thrusting into her. We collapsed together, passing out on the yoga mat with my member still in her ass.

We woke up later that afternoon and spent the rest of the day cleaning up the massive mess we had made before cleaning ourselves. We cleaned Flare first before Clara and I showered together. Sunday went by in a similar fashion, though Flare opted out of the fun seeming to be satisfied from the day before. Clara and I made love at least three times before passing out on the bed together, completely drained.

Monday came, and with it we were back to classes. Though something broke the pattern this time. Mrs. Feld finally was ready for us, and we spent the last hour of the day from then on listening as she explained to us everything she had learned about using psychic and fire pokemon in tandem. Occasionally we would all head to the gym for a practice bout where she would demonstrate whatever technique she was trying to explain that day. The notebook turned out to be a make-shift textbook full of literally anything she could think of, though it was a pain to find anything specific in it. Life settled into a smooth and predictable rhythm from then on: Classes on weekdays followed by relaxing in the evening and the occasional quickie with Clara or Flare to break up the week, then weekends we would either hang out with Sarah or by ourselves during the days, and in the evenings we would make love. Life was relatively simple and we were all happy during the last year and a half I had at the academy.

That time didn't last forever, but we enjoyed it for all it was worth until finally we graduated. The academy held a big ceremony for all of us, and my whole family showed up for it, even my uncle made the trip from Jhoto to see my progress. I got to introduce Clara to everyone and they got to meet my friend Sarah as well. Sarah and my uncle hit it off and spent most of the reception chatting together about the differences between Jhoto and Kanto while I spent my time catching up with my parents on everything that had happened back home. At some point I ran into Sarah's huge family, who congratulated me and thanked me for being Sarah's friend while she was so far from home. The reception ended and all our relatives had to leave. We said our goodbyes before all the graduates headed to the after party, which was being held in the gymnasium. A veritable sea of Growlithe proceeded us as everyone's partner pokemon lead the way. The party went all night and I mainly stuck to the corner as Flare marched around leading a small pack of Growlithe that decided he was in charge. Clara spent the evening trying to learn how to dance with Sarah, who was just patient enough to keep trying and before the night was through she was actually getting pretty good at it. Before the party was over, they managed to convince me to leave the corner and come dance with them, and though I was embarrassed and awkward to be out in front of so many people, having Clara nearby was all I needed to keep going. Soon the sun rose, and we all headed our separate ways. We said our goodbyes to Sarah before trudging home and collapsing in bed together, even Flare hauled himself up with us. Exhausted from staying up all night, we soon fell asleep. We weren't sure where we were going to go after this, but we knew we were going to be together no matter what. Those were my thoughts as I drifted to sleep on my last day in the academy.