Morphia Episode 4: The Training Wager
#4 of Adventures in Morphia
After his lack of action since the Guild War incident, Cheddar decides to help get Chiba into better shape, and decides to make a friendly wager with him in the process. Also introducing a NEW CHALLENGER
Episode 4: The Training Wager
Flareon, the fluffy fox of flame. Vaporeon, the fishy fox of water. Jolteon, the spiky fox of lightning. Umbreon, the shadowy fox of darkness. Espeon, the pink fox of psionics. Leafeon, the grassy fox of the forest. Glaceon, the beutiful fox of ice. Seven different types to choose from, and once I evolved, there would be no way to reverse the process. I'd be stuck with my decision for life.
"Aarrgh, why'd I have to be an Eevee!?" I shouted, flailing my legs. I had been given a private guest quarters for the duration of my trial membership and had been laying in bed allowing my thoughts to wander.
It turned out that the Shining Moltres guild had been tougher than expected. Although it was two days since the Guild War had ended, and their injuries were largely healed by now, the members of Pink Power who fought to defend me were still exhausted. It would take a while before their strength could fully recover. Since they were the top 10 strongest members of the guild, next to the mistress herself, the guild was somewhat vulnerable.
Without Alex working as my mentor and currently in the process of recovery, I hadn't been given a single job since coming to the guild, and by the sound of it, my trial membership would be over with before he returned to action.
A knock on the door stirred me from my thoughts as I climbed off the bed and opened it to see who was there. I was immediately greeted by Cheddar holding a pink leotard up to my face.
"Put this on." He said, "Can't have you getting all soft and squishy with nothing to do." He added. I noticed that he too was wearing the standard training uniform out in the guest hall, completely ignoring its revealing nature in public.
Later...
"Since master Alex is out of commission for a while, I'll be taking over your training." Cheddar said as we both stood on opposite sides of the mat. "I may be new to the guild, but I'm also one of Alex's apprentices, so you should get the same results with me as you might with him." He explained, stretching his body by twisting from side to side and leaning on one leg, then the other.
I nodded as I tried to stretch as well, and immediately felt the leotard shifting with my body, hugging along tightly and riding up my crack. I tried to reach back and adjust it, but was startled when Cheddar declared the match to begin.
Once more, his body started to flicker with his favorite Quick Attack move, but this time something was different. Just before his body vanished, I caught the faint sight of him shifting his posture to the left. Out of pure reflex, I tried to block left, and was met with Cheddar fading back into view, his fist just inches from striking my arm, which I was using a shield.
"Very good, you did it on the first try!" He said, and smiled when he saw the confusion on my face, showing off those large front teeth of his. "I slowed down my speed to about half its normal state. You were able to see my trajectory and react!" He explained.
"Th-that was pure reflex!" I said, "I didn't even know you were doing it!" I added. He frowned as he pulled his arm back to the side, resting his palm on his hip and leaning in towards me.
"You think your enemies are going to tell you what they're doing and when?" He asked, "You have to learn to find their weaknesses on your own and respond before they realize the mistake!" he chastised me as he moved back into a standing position once again. My eyes glanced to the sizable bulge in his crotch, which I now knew were his balls.
"Now I'm going to try this one more time. I want you to actually take action this time, don't just try to rationalize it." He said, walking across the mat to stand on the far side again. My body tensed up as I kept my gaze focused sharply on him.
Once again, his body started to flicker and I just barely saw him take a step forward before he vanished from sight. I kicked outward with my left leg, but it didn't connect a hit. Instead, I saw a blurry silhouette in the air for a brief second as it dodged to the right, and then a fist punched me in the side. This caused me to lose balance and topple over as I saw Cheddar standing where I had been, giving me a slow clap.
"I saw... you dodge!" I coughed, making him smile and nod. "Wasn't... fast enough..." I added, moving to a sitting position, "To react." I finished.
"Well we'll just have to fix that, won't we?" Cheddar asked rhetorically as he helped me to my feet. "Both Pokemon and Pokemorphs grow more powerful after every battle. Our bodies advance depending on our level of training. If we do this enough times in a row, you'll eventually be able to keep up with my speed. At least at this level." He explained.
Roughly 10 hours of training later, and I had barely made any noticeable advancement. By now I was able to see a transparent image of Cheddar only when he paused in his movements. Whether it was starting to use his Quick Attack, or when he was adjusting his direction to counter or dodge. As long as he was still in motion, he was invisible to me. The last attack he used on me before I was knocked to the mat, I could have sworn I saw a blurry silhouette moving through the air, but he was already upon me before I could register if it was just my eyes playing tricks or not.
"Well you can see me at least, but if you can't hit me, that doesn't mean much." Cheddar commented as I was laying flat on the mat. I was so tired from the work out, I barely had the strength to fix my leotard. By this point in the training, I had been stretching, flexing, and moving about so much that it had ridden as far up my rear end as it could. It hugged uncomfortably tight on my private parts, and I felt like I was wearing a thong between my butt. I had the suspicion that Cheddar was enjoying the view, especially after our last encounter in the showers.
"I've been thinking..." I said, rolling onto my back as Cheddar came to lay down beside me, he had been getting tired too, using his Quick Attack repeatedly for over 10 hours. I could tell he was winded.
"About which evolution I should go with." I said. Cheddar looked over towards me, and judging by the look on his face, I could tell he was curiously surprised.
"You want to evolve already?" He asked, "You've barely even learned how to keep up with me and you want to take the next step in training?" He said, now sounding like the idea was ridiculous. "You know what they say about pushing yourself, right?" he asked, "The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. If you don't take it slow, you'll just end up hurting yourself.
"Its some advice the Guild Mistress gave me." I replied, "She said I'm too limited as an Eevee, and when she evolved, she was 10 times stronger than before." I tried to explain, only to be interrupted by Cheddar making a disapproving grunt.
"If your current body has limits." he said, crossing his arms over behind his head, "Then you should reach those limits before you try to surpass them. That's the only sensible thing to do in this case." He advised. "If you evolve without reaching your true potential, it becomes wasted energy later." He moved to a sitting position and leaned over me.
"You see this?" he asked, pointing to his right ear and I could see he had a stone piercing near the base of it. "Its called an Ever Stone. As long as its in my possession, I will not evolve into Raticate." He explained. "I'm already well past the point of being able to evolve, but I made a promise to myself. I will only remove this piercing on the day I can defeat Alex in a match." Cheddar said with a grin, "I actually managed to knock him to the ground once." He added.
"Keep up with your speed? But that's impossible, I can barely see you at half speed right now!" I tried to protest, but was soon met with two of the rat's fingers pressed to my lips, and a stern look behind his glasses.
"What did I just say?" He asked, "Training will get easier, you have to give it time!" he repeated, before pulling his fingers away and tracing them down my chest. "You have 5 days left on your trial membership. Each day I'll increase my speed a little more and we'll train until you've adjusted to it. On the final day, we'll have a serious match, to see what you've learned." He proposed. "And if you can beat me in that battle, I'll personally help you evolve into whatever form you want." He said.
" And if I can't beat you?" I asked, curious as to what would be the stakes if I lost the fight. One week seemed like a hell of a short time to catch up to somebody who could turn invisible just by running.
"Then I get to decide what kind of guild uniform style you wear instead of that used hand-me-down." Cheddar answered, "and you have to wear that uniform until the day comes when you can defeat me." He added. I looked at him curiously, wondering why he would decide on a prize like designing my clothes.
"I've always been a fan of cute boys in girl clothes." He said with a grin, showing off those large front teeth, a gleam reflecting off his glasses. "I'm thinking of knee high stockings, elbow length gloves, and pink panties that hug you just like this leotard." He said, making me gasp. "Oh, and they have to have frills on them, too, give you the little sissy look!" he added with a smirk.
My strength had finally returned enough to where I could sit up once again, and my thoughts returned to the shower from the other day as Cheddar was now giggling at the fantasies running through his mind.
"Cheddar..." I said, "About the shower..." but the purple rat patted me on the shoulder as he rose to stand on his feet once more.
"I know." he said, "It was pretty obvious you've never done anything like that before." He reached a hand down and helped me to stand up too. "But you remember what master Alex said, right? Its part of the guild training, learning how to control our desires and use them against our weak willed opponents." He explained.
"I've been here four only 4 months, and I won't lie, it was rather uncomfortable at first. But once you get used to it, its not that bad at all." Cheddar explained before placing a finger on my chest and swirling it gently. "Besides, the guild is very understanding about apprentices like me, and plenty of members will help you get that special release if you're mind is too distracted." He added. "They know learning to control your urges on that level takes time, but those who are able to master it don't need help anymore. They're in complete control!" He finished.
"So when we... in the shower..." I stammered. I did remember something Alex mentioned about how the advanced members of the guild were able to manipulate their arousal through willpower alone. Using their sexual urges as if they were a weapon, rather than a bodily function.
"I hadn't gotten off in 3 weeks." Cheddar said, "Its my personal record so far, but when you pinned me down, I got distracted and my mental defense was dropped." His arms hung limply to his sides, "I couldn't help myself when we were naked and alone in the shower. Especially not when I heard you sneaking peeks." He said in an apologetic tone.
"Well. Its not like it wasn't fun." I replied, looking down at the floor. "Wait, did you say 3 weeks?" I asked, cocking a brow, "How in the heck-?" I trailed as Cheddar began to twiddle his thumbs, also looking down at the floor.
"It took a lot of training." he said, "It was hard not to touch myself, with all the cute boys around here. But over time I got better." he said, "But like I said, 3 weeks is my personal record so far. Alex said he once went for 5 years when he was an apprentice. But that was before he started accepting... special contracts." The little rat said, blushing as he turned from side to side.
"Have you ever...?" I asked, looking him over, Cheddar clasped his hands behind his back, doing a little fidgety dance at my unfinished question, "I mean if its too personal, you don't have to answer!" I quickly offered.
"No, its alright." Cheddar said, and I swear I almost saw him blushing under his whiskers, "I've done only 2... special contracts while I've been here." he answered, "Alex said he didn't want me to do them too often until I have better control, so the rest of my contracts were standard guild activity."
"Well." I said, "If you ever have trouble again, " I said, "I wouldn't mind helping you out. Like I said, the first time was fun, if a bit surprising." I offered. This time we both looked each other in the eye, considering the idea. It looked like the two of us were about to say more when the training room door opened, startling us both.
"You've been in here for 10 hours, Cheddar, let someone else have a turn!" exclaimed an agitated voice. We both turned to see another Pink Power member dressed in a training outfit.
The fellow morph was actually a female, but looked to be around the same age as me and Cheddar. She was an Ekans morph. She had an upper torso and arms similar to those of a human's, but from the waist downward, she had a large snake tail in place of legs. The leotard looked to have been modified for her body type in the fact that it had no actual leggings on it. Instead, the leotard stretched down to a little ways past her hips, and then ended, allowing to slither around on her tail.
"Oh, it's you, Medusa!" Cheddar quickly replied, waving to her. When he saw me looking between the two of them, he began to introduce us. "This is Medusa, she's another apprentice like me." He said, "She's been here for almost a year, so she's got a little bit more experience than me." He said.
"Excuse me?" The snake girl said, crossing her arms over her chest, "You haven't even beat me once." She boasted. What happened next went by so fast, I didn't even register what happened until nearly 3 seconds after I heard a loud thud come from behind me. One instant Medusa was standing in the doorway, and in the next, she had Cheddar pinned up against the wall on the completely other side of the room, holding him off the ground with one hand by his neck.
"I thought you wanted to be the fastest in the guild? What have you been doing for all these months?" She asked, "It clearly wasn't training, because I don't think I even saw you blink before I pinned you!" She continued before letting him go as he started to cough, letting him drop to the floor. She then turned to face me, resting a hand on her hip and ignoring Cheddar.
"Now for a proper introduction." She said, "My name is Medusa, and I've been here almost a year as an apprentice." She repeated Cheddar's intro, "Cheddar here has gotten it into his head that we're rivals, although he has yet to land a single hit on me." She continued, the tip of her tail began to wiggle in the air, producing a rattling sound.
She slithered across the mat, her upper body swaying in a dancing and sultry motion as she stopped inches away from me. I passed a glance to see if Cheddar was alright, but the snake girl placed her hands on both sides of my face and forced me to look her in the eye.
"Mmm, I can smell that rat on you. How about I help you wash it off." She said. I couldn't bring myself to look away from her bright yellow eyes, even as I felt something coiling around my feet.
"Medusa!" shouted a voice angrily, it seemed to startle the snake girl, which also seemed to restore my consciousness as I saw her tail around my ankles and quickly kicked myself loose. "That's enough showing off!" The voice added, and I noticed it was coming from Cheddar who had picked himself up from the floor.
"Hmph, fine." The snake girl said, folding her arms once again and slithering backwards from me, "My sparring partner should be arriving soon, so I just came to kick you two out anyways." she commented as Cheddar took me by the arm and began to lead me towards the shower room. I couldn't help passing a glance back to Medusa who grinned at me, baring her fangs and her forked tongue before we finally left the room.
I could barely land a hit on Cheddar, and Cheddar had never even landed a hit on Medusa. If that was how strong a mere apprentice could get after only a year of training, I began to wonder what kind of freaks the veteran members had to be. I also wondered just how rapidly my own training would progress after a few months time.
"Medusa's really into the whole predator vs prey fetish." Cheddar said as we were stripping down to shower, "She gets off on dominating morphs like me... morphs that her kind would normally eat if we were feral." He explained, stepping into the shower as the water began to steam up, I did the same, taking a shower faucet directly next to him this time, instead of further away.
"But don't get the wrong idea, we're all friends in the guild, even Medusa. She helps out when she's needed. Its just her dominatrix fetish kind of obligates her to be a stuck up bitch." He continued to explain, smiling at the last part.
"I'm sorry I didn't help." I apologized, "I couldn't take my eyes off her!" I tried to explain, reaching for the body wash. Cheddar held up a hand signalling that I needn't say anymore.
"That's part of her style." He said, " You're familiar with the move called Glare and Attract, right?" He asked me, but I shook my head and he shrugged. "Glare is an eye based technique that can paralyze your victim through locking gazes with them. Attract is a seduction move that can charm members of the opposite sex, making them fall in love with the user and less likely to attack them." He explained, "Medusa has both of these moves, and she likes to combine them to make it seem like she commands a greater presence than she actually does. Her victims are usually unable to move because they've been paralyzed, but if they can move, they're so infatuated with her, they often don't want to attack." He finished.
"Sounds like a good strategy." I said, "If she's come up with it after only a year, I wonder what she'll be like when she moves up in ranks!" Cheddar grunted in response, indicating her wasn't too pleased about the possibilities. In fact, he was now focusing more on the shower than the conversation. I noticed he had once again removed his glasses, and smirked.
I lathered up my hands with the body wash and stealthily wrapped my arms around the purple rat, drawing him back to focus as he yelped in surprise to find my hands rubbing into his chest and belly with cold, soapy gel. He tried to turn around, but I only hugged him tighter, preventing him from getting any room as I lathered him up and down.
"Ch-Chiba!" He protested. I finally gave him enough room to turn and face me as He pressed his lips to mine. It was somewhat awkward, considering his large, front teeth, but he managed to adjust by twisting his head a little.
"Mmph. Cheddar." I said when we parted. Unlike before, we now had plenty of hot water left. I was still swimming in lust as Cheddar flipped us around, pressing me to the wall and nibbling on my neck, caressing my thighs. I was too exhausted from training to stand up, and began to gently slide down the wall as he followed me.
We bumped into the shower nozzle on the way down, turning up the heat as the room filled with steam just as Cheddar started taking me on the floor...
To be continued...
Previews of next Episode:
So I've got only 5 days left to be able to match and defeat Cheddar's speed, which took him 4 months to develop, or I'm stuck wearing whatever he wants. But fortunately, there seems to be a glimmer of hope when I'm contracted for a mission. The reward is a Golden Seed, an extremely rare item that can increase a pokemorph's abilities by 5 whole levels! The catch, however, is that since I'm not officially with the guild yet, I have to take along a supervisor. Who's in charge of overseeing my contract? Find out next time!