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Katia's Pokethulhu Adventure

Chapter 2: Problems With Dark Magicks

by Von Krieger

Katia sat in a corner of the large arena, leaning back against Mewl's scaly tummy. The massive dragon-cat taking a brief nap before the next match of the Pokethulhu Team Tournament. Thankfully she had managed to find a partner who wasn't creepy, and who's Pokethulhu wasn't some sort of smell, slimy beastie that offended her sensibilities.

Quite frankly Brian's Pokethulhu wasn't very menacing, or strange looking. As a matter of fact it was almost obnoxiously cute with its bright orange scales, white belly, big blue eyes, and oversized feet claws.

Brian was running his Emberaptor through a series of drills that were supposed to help reflexes and claw-eye coordination. So far Mewl had done almost all the work in the battles, not that Katia minded. Mewl was by far the most powerful Pokethulhu that Katia had seen so far. Though she supposed that some trainers might be saving extra 'thulhu for later on.

"Ok Embie!" Brian called, Katia just rolled her eyes. He called his Emberaptor 'Embie,' though she totally ignored that fact that she had named her Mewlestrix 'Mewl.'

"Pyroburst!" the trainer called. On command the tiny dinosaur let loose with an impressive burst of flame. Impressive that is until Mewl opens an eye on one of hir secondary heads and exhales a much more massive cloud of flame from its nostrils. Embie just whimpers and hides behind Brian.

Katia elbows her 'thulhu gently. "Be nice, Mewl. Not everybody is as big and strong as you are ya know!" she said with a scowl. Mewl purr-chuckled and yawned, quite a sight to see with all seven heads doing it at once.

"The second round is about to begin! All trainers report to their assigned areas!" shouted one of the tournament overseers. Katia and Brian didn't have far to go, they were already there. Their opponents, like most teams in the tournament, were identical twins. With their oversized glasses, pigtails, and schoolgirl outfits, Katia was immediately wary. It was always the cute ones that brought out the most fearful Pokethulhu.

A referee, whispering dark secrets beneath his black and white stripped cowl tottered over to them, trying to be as spooky and mysterious as possible while three sheets to the wind. He slurred something that sounded like the standard readiness check. Rather than ask him to repeat himself everybody just nodded.

There was a sudden ruckus across the arena, not related to combat. Katia could see several tournament officials running over to take care of something. Katia and Mewl walked toward the drawn runic circle on the floor, the dragon-cat stretching hir many arms. Embie just hid behind Brian some more.

The referee nodded to the twin girls, well Katia assumed it was supposed to be a nod. Though she supposed he could just be swaying in the wind. The twins pulled out their Pokehedrons, or tried to anyway. As one they let out a startled shriek, finding their prized Pokethulhu missing.

It seemed to be happening all over the arena, trainers suddenly missing their Pokehedrons, and the Pokethulhu inside of them. A tournament official, recognizable by the relative cleanness of his robes and the fact that he was speaking in intelligible tones ran up to the ring where.

"The tournament is on hold until we figure out who's stolen all the Pokethulhu! This makes thirteen trainers that have been ripped off." he said with an apologetic look to the twins.

"Right now we need everybody to head to the concession area so we can inspect pockets, backpacks, and lockers. The doors are being locked as we speak, so there will be NO ESCAPE!" he hissed, then proceeded to laugh in a most sinister and melodramatic fashion.

Katia just looked at Brian and shrugged, Pokethulhu tournament officials were always demented in one way or another. Seeing as how the crowds of humans and other Pokethulhu where frightening his Emberaptor, Brian put Ember back in his Pokehedron.

"Drat, and I was really looking forward to getting Embie some real combat experience!" Brian said, rather disappointed. Katia couldn't help but smile, she could remember when she had first set out on her Pokethulhu trainer career, with a tiny dragon-cat sitting on her shoulder. Brian reminded her a lot of herself when she had started, shy, geeky, and a little awkward. She had become much more outgoing in the months that followed.

She watched Brian nibble his bottom lip, peering down at the ground. He was thinking of something. "Uhh.... Katia? Since it'll be a while, would you like to have lunch with me?" he said, turning a little bit red.

The girl trainer smiled, he had a crush on her! She smiled. "Sure! Just as long as they have something beside Pikathulhu Popsicles or Mobeot Meatballs." Katia said with a chuckle.

"Nah, that's just overpriced stuff in weird shapes." Brian said with a half smile of his own.

About an hour later, the tournament still hadn't resumed, Katia and Brian sat on the edge of the foot court. Katia had put Mewl in hir Pokehedron for a nap, as she had problems fitting in most human-sized places. Katia was humming softly and staring at the mildew patterns on the ceilings, while Katia flipped through her Pokenomicon, studying up on the creatures she'd encountered so far.

Suddenly Brian felt something tugging on his pocket. He turned to see a black cloaked figure behind him running off, Embie's dodecahedron held in one sleeve covered hand. "Hey! Stop!" Brian yelled, jumping to his feet and immediately taking off after the thief.

The cloaked figure darted around a number of corners, just about jumping down a flight of stairs. But Brian remained close behind, he was even gaining a bit. The thief slipped underneath a bit of loose chain link mesh that bordered off the condemned portions of the ancient arena. Paying no heed, the angry trainer followed on the thief's heels.

The thief darted down a long hallway, turning at a rubble strewn crossway, and into an old, musty smelling room. Brian slammed the door behind him, looking around. It was an old laboratory/library. The thief grinned at him from the other side of a table on the far side of the room.

"Hehehehehe." the thief laughed maniacally, throwing back her hood to reveal long white hair.

"I don't see what's so funny! Give Embie back!" Brian growled, cracking his knuckles. Though he wasn't much of an athlete, he did have a bit of a size advantage on the thief.

"'Course not! But I have my sacrifice!" the deranged girl giggled. Brian just shook his head and stepped forward. Right into a trap. A steel barred cage dropped from the ceiling, trapping him completely.

The thief just smiled. "There! Now I can complete my spell to grant me power over every Pokethulhu in existence! Teach them to strip me of my beloved minions for not obeying their rules! The new queen of this world has no need for rules of mere mortals!"

"You're a freakin' nut!" Brian says with a scowl.

"SILENCE!" the mad ex-trainer howls. "You will be silent as I cast the spell that will signal your doom, using the life forces of the twelve Pokethulhu that I have taken to power this spell!"

Brian looked down at the floor and saw complex designs and strange runes carved into the floor. Near the walls were twelve dodecahedrons, the stolen Pokethulhu from the tournament!

"Gra'shun mor'a'th th'sh'kar gor'ra 'ver'shey on'at!" the crazy girl chanted. "Ni'sha vor'shun gr'akth'r v'ra de'nat!"

The design on the floor began to glow a bright red, the air taking on the scent of a swamp. Stagnant water and rotting plant life.

"Yes! Grant me your power! V'rok th'nat! Th'nat bra'tok! Bra'tok du'kat!" the cultist continued to chant, the temperature in the room began to drop, quickly becoming very chilly. A glowing ball of light appeared in the center of the room, the insane trainer hopping her desk and approaching it.

"Yes! Ra'lan'tak! Tak'ra'kesh! Give me the power I deserve!" she continued to chant, the room growing colder and colder, and the light growing brighter and brighter.

"Shan'ra'kesh! Shan'ra'kesh! I demand to be filled with this power! I summon this power forth, summon it into me!" she demanded, her voice tainted with insanity. The cultist knelt in front of the ball.

"I demand this power come into me! Ja'an kai'shek! J'an ka'i'jun! Become a part of me! Grant me your... ULK!" The cultist gasped, the light slamming into her chest. The red glow from the runes brightened for a moment, then faded entirely. The smell of the swamp and the altered temperature fading.

Tears trickling from the girl's eyes. "No... not like this... no!" she whispered, beginning to shiver. Brian's jaw dropped in horror as the thief's flesh seemed to writhe beneath her robe. A pained moan escaped her lips, her fingers clawing at the rob, trying to pull it off.

The girl's eyes widened in horror as her hands began to change, the ring and little fingers fusing, all her digits developing massive, wickedly sharp claws. She doubled over, pain wracking through her. Bright red spines ripped through the back of her robe, along her spine.

"Help me... pleassssh." she hissed pleadingly to Brian, a large forked tongue, covered in slime snaking out of her mouth. She looked at him with begging, pure black eyes that were beginning to bulge from her head.

She cried out in pain, once again trying to rip the robe from her body. Weakened by the spines on her back, and the help of her new claws the garment tore from her body, revealing her mostly-naked body underneath.

The cultist stared down in horror at her writhing flesh, which was beginning to turn a molted gray and black and had begun to secrete a disgusting slime. She tipped forward onto all fours, a massive shark-like tail erupting from her backside. With a sickening series of pops and wet ripping sounds, her face pressed forward into a feral muzzle, filled with sharp teeth.

Six long, fleshy, suckered tentacles ripped from her back. Her pained moans began to take on a tone that made Brian blush from head to toe. The thief was beginning to enjoy her change. Her shoes were ripped apart by transforming feet, becoming wide, webbed, clawed feet.

"Yesss... strength... power..." she hissed, dripping slime onto the floor from her tongue, flicking out to taste the air. She rocked back onto her knees, her webbed handpaws caressing her breasts.

"Ssso beautiful... powerful..." the transforming creature whispered, her twin orbs swelling under her touch. "Yessssss...." she hisses, her large tongue slipping out to trace over her much larger tits.

"Oh yessss... I feel sssso alive.... ssssso full of life... of power... of... AAAAH!" she howled, throwing her head back in pleasure.

The caged trainer was torn between disgust, fascination, and lust at a naked girl in front of him. Something seemed to be wriggling in her panties, the last stitch of clothing she was wearing, and it was growing bigger, tenting the fabric and pushing forward.

The monster slid a paw into her panties, stroking whatever it was down there. "Yes! Yes! Oh yes!" she howled. She bucked her hips and arched her back, yowling in pleasure. A thick, white slime began to drip from the front of her panties. More and more of the goo oozed from her as the thing continued to swell.

The thief tore off hir panties, letting hir big black cock out of its confinement. "Yessss... ssssuch power." shi hissed, dripping more slime as shi spoke, both from hir tongue and hir goo covered body.

Brian realized shi looked just like a common type of Pokethulhu combined with a human. A relatively weak thing that if you put up with long enough became a powerful mix of squid, Slug, and shark. Though in the smaller form all it did basically was stink and ooze slime.

"A Slugfish." Brian muttered under his breath. The words caught the attention of the abomination.

"If you like." the former cultist said, rising to hir feet and picking up Embie's dodecahedron from the table behind her. She brought it to her lips, and inhaled deeply. Brian cried out as the soft yellow glow inside began to dim, indicating the draining of his Emberaptor's life force!

"NO! YOU LEAVE EMBIE ALONE!" he growled, through himself at the bars, trying to reach through them to seize his beloved Pokethulhu from this hybrid cannibal.

The beast just chuckled. "Soon you and your beloved pet will be closer than you could ever imagine." the creature said before gasping.

"Oh yes, such a strong life essence, hungry for physical form once again." shi purred before dropping to a crouch.

Setting Embie's 'hedron down shi began to stroke hirself, both male and female sexes. With a pleasured moan a baseball sized sphere of slime slipped into hir hand, glowing softly with blue light. It was like a Pokehedron, with an untamed Pokethulhu inside.

"Let Embie go!" Brian growled. "Give her to me!"

The Slugfish smiled knowingly, and threw the egg right at Brian's face. "As you wish." shi giggled. The trainer managed to get his hands up, catching the egg in the air. The egg squished at his touch, the slime flowing over his body, the blue glow spreading rapidly.

Brian felt warm, then hot, then he felt like every part of his being was burning, on fire. But strangely it didn't hurt. It felt... right as the heat deeper and deeper into his body. He smelled smoke and opening his eyes. His clothes were on fire!

The trainer stared in fascination at the fires burning over him, but they didn't hurt at all. His vision blurred suddenly, the trainer reaching up to remove his glasses and found that he could see clearly without them.

Brian gasped as he saw his hands, his nails extending into claws, the skin turning a bright orange in color. He felt something strange inside, a playfulness settling over him, feelings of loyalty and obedience.

The Slugfish reached out with a tentacle, stroking Brian's cheek. "How do you feel, my little Emberaptor?" shi cooed.

Brian leaned into the caress of the slimy appendage, not wanting to, but being unable to help it. He felt a sense of love toward the creature, as it held the anchoring point of his spirit, the golden twelve sided gem. The creature would train him, take care of him, feed him. "I feel nice, Master." he said in a strange, more high pitched voice.

His eyes widened at the sound of his words. "Master, what's happening to me?" he asked, his body feeling increasingly strange, the ashes of his clothing slowly drifting to the floor. He felt his thin frame filling out, his body taking on a different shape.

"Sweet little Embie, you're becoming much more than you ever would have been as either of your halves. I've bound your spirit to that of your human captor. The two of you will now be one. A fusion of Pokethulhu instinct and power, and human knowledge." the monster coos, placing hir talons on the cage, the bars vanishing under hir touch.

Brian was horrified, he'd been combined with Embie! But he felt strangely happy, his transforming body felt incredible. He looked back to see a familiar tail growing from the base of his spine, experimentally twitching the tip. IT responded just as he had been born with it, which he... kind of had been, hadn't he?

Soft pops from his feet drew his attention there. He smiled as large sickle claws ripped through the charred remains of his socks and sneakers. Brian reached down, freeing his paws from the useless remnants.

The changing human felt something hot, hard, and wet against his belly. Looking down he saw his fully erect cock transforming before his eyes. It began to grow and swell, becoming larger. He watched in awe as the familiar egg shaped head warped into a pointed spade-like shape. Murring happily he wrapped a paw around his slick maleness as it began to change to a pinkish orange in color.

His balls began to tingle, pulling into his body as it became more reptilian, the white base swelling and altering to create a sheath for his altered maleness. Brian ran his paws up his white scaled belly, moving up to his face, which still felt human.

The Thulhumorph sighed happily as he felt his jaws pushing forward, his flat human teeth becoming fearsome fangs. His master slid hir paws around him, pulling him up against hir slimy body. The slick, smooth skin felt heavenly against his scales.

Master's muzzle parted, hir big forked tongue sliding out, licking his face, covering his skin in deliciously smooth slime. His cock rubbed against hirs sending an electric thrill through both of their bodies.

"You want me, don't you pet? You want to pleasure your master?" the Slugfish purred.

"Yes Master, oh yes! Embie wishes to please!" Brian whispered, not noticing how he referred to himself. The Emberaptor lower himself to his knees, opening his muzzle wide, taking Master's cock into his muzzle, sucking the sweet slime from Master's dick.

The monster purred happily, placing hir paws on hir pet's head, stroking his mane. "Good girl, Embie." shi said with a chuckle.

Brian beamed at the complement, closing his eyes and letting his instinct to obey take over, bobbing his head as he pleasured his master. The Slugfish's slime continued to ooze over him, feeling wonderfully cool against his naturally hot body.

He felt Master guide him slowly down as shi lay back, hir tail slipping between his legs, giving the horny Thulhumorph something slick to thrust his aching cock against. He loved this, loved pleasuring his Master like this. The Slugfish's pants, moans, and gasps were all the reward he needed.

His muzzle was suddenly filled with thick, slimy precum, which he eagerly drank down. "Oh good girl..." Master cooed. "Harder! Suck harder pet!"

Brian was eager to comply, his head darting forward and back at a rapid rate, his forked tongue working over the smooth black organ at a frantic pace. His paws cupped Master's bottom, pulling hir deeper into his mouth. Fighting his gag reflex, he took as much of the organ into him as possible.

Master threw hir head back, howling as shi filled hir pet's muzzle with hir seed. The Emberaptor gagged with the sudden influx of liquid, Master's cock slipping from his mouth, a second jet covering his chest and muzzle with his master's juices.

Reacting quickly, Brian took the shaft in both paws, stroking his master as shi climaxed, delighting in the feel of so much sticky, slimy, semen covering him. The Slugfish reached up, patting his cum soaked hair. "Good girl, Embie." shi purred. Brian just smiled.

"Go clean yourself up and have a nap while I create more followers, my sweet little Emberaptor." the Slugfish murred, picking up Embie's Pokehedron from the floor. "Embie! Return!" shi called.

Brian felt his body fading, his spirit drawn into the amber colored gem. He closed his eyes, allowing himself to be returned to his home. He opened his eyes to find himself inside a volcanic swamp. The air way deliciously warm.

His home was about 20 feet across, and resembled his room at home in layout. His bed was in a corner, flanked by windows that looked out onto a burning lava field. Though the bed was a bit different. It was a soft bed of aquatic moss floating over a hot spring. Deep enough to sink in comfortably, but not deep enough to get him wet.

There was a closet with a stone door in the corner, as well as a toy chest and dresser made in the same style. A slow flow of magma dripped down the opposite wall, making a pool for lounging in. A pillar with hot bubbling water served as a sink, and a smaller round one with a hole in the middle leading down to a magma filled pit to serve as a toilet.

On the other side of the room was a bookcase with a few metal covered books on it, a desk and a mirror behind it. The Emberaptor smiled and looked over himself in it. Master's seed hadn't come with him, his scales glimmered beautifully in the mirror, his cock still standing proudly, and in need of attention.

He found his reflection fascinating, his scaled form so incredibly sexy. He looked a bit older and more evolved than Embie had, the scaled smoothness of Embie's head had been altered with ear fins, horns, and his own hair, still in the same style he'd gelled it into this morning. The sight of such a gorgeous male made him want to drop to all fours and present himself four mounting. That thought caused him to blink a few times, as it wasn't right.

Suddenly everything clicked into place. What had happened, obeying the Slugfish's orders, being called 'Embie,' and referred to as a female. His eyes ran over the posters on the wall, not the ones that were in his room in the physical world, but ones of strong, muscular Pokethulhus with big bulging cocks.

He ran to the closet, throwing open the door. He shivered despite the great heat of his new home. It was all clothing meant for a female. He was stunned. He was a male! But Embie had... been a female? He hadn't known. Embie was his first 'thulhu, and he'd only been training her for a week. He'd just assumed that she'd been... well... a boy.

Brian ran a paw down between his legs, not finding a slit. He was a boy, with the desires and instincts of his female Emberaptor. But it didn't... feel wrong. The confused Thulhumorph reached into the closet with a paw, idly looking through the collection of clothes within. He didn't feel comfortable going around in his bare scales outside of his Pokehedron, so he better put something on.

He bit his lip, everything was so... feminine. They all looked like outfits for schoolgirls and cheerleaders. He sighed, he didn't really want to dress up like a female, but he didn't have any choice. He flipped though the outfits again, until one caught his eye.

It was colored like an oil slick on the sidewalk, a rainbow of wet, metallic colors with black trim all around. It felt silk and smooth to the touch. Wincing, Brian pulled the top off the hanger, slipping into the sports bra. The fabric hugged his body tightly, feeling wonderfully smooth and cool against his chest and back.

The skirt was a bit more rigid, but fel soft and smooth, like fine leather. It took a little maneuvering to get it on with his tail being there, but eventually Brian managed. The skirt's material felt so good on his throbbing maleness, which made a rather obvious tent in the front of it.

The Emberaptor blushed a bit at the sight, but he was feeling much better now that he had clothes on, even if they were a bit... off from what he was used to. But they did feel good on his body.

Brian walked to the dresser, opening his underwear drawer and silently dreading what was within. He was half relieved when the drawer was found to be only half full with panties. There were a number of bracelets, barrettes, and other decoration Brian didn't know what to do with.

Rather than just pick and chose, he just let his paws wander over everything, letting Embie's instincts and desires guide him. He grabbed a pair of black silken panties, pulling them on carefully so as not to cut them with his sickle claws. His cock continued to stand at attention, if anything feeling more in need of being toyed with then ever.

Brian ignored his hard on, it would go away in a bit. It felt kind of perverse to have his sex dripping, throbbing, and aching with desire at a time like this. He pulled a pair of fingerless gloves over his paws, picking up a few of the bracelets and finding that they were the wrong shape for his wrists.

It didn't take him long to slide the black leather bracelets onto his tail, the studs glimmering yellow and orange in the volcanic setting. His paw absentmindedly stroked a few black ribbons in the drawer while he slipped the bracelets on his tail. The Thulhumorph peered at them for a second.

"What the hell." he said with a sigh, picking them up and tying one on each horn in a perfect bow, and a third around the tip of his tail. It was then that he noticed a little tray on top of the dresser, containing earrings. He looked at them for a moment, his paw darting to the side of his head. Though he lacked external ears, the transformation has given him several things Embie had not, like his horns, and the earfins.

He felt along the edges of the fin. Down near the bottom he felt a tiny bump in the bottom strut. Pulling the earring apart, he put it in its proper place. He did the same for the other side, having selected a matching pair of dragons.

With a sigh he turned and closed his eyes, walking to the mirror. He dreaded to see how he looked like this, but he also felt strangely curious, and a little bit turned on at the fact of wearing girl's clothes.

Brain opened his eyes and gasped. He started into his own reflect with his muzzle wide open. He looked so incredibly hot like this. Boy, girl, male, female, it didn't really matter anymore. He was mostly a Pokethulhu now, not accountable to anyone but his trainer.

A wonderful feeling startled him out of his self admiration. His paw had somehow managed to find its way to the front of his skirt, slowly stroking his still erect cock. The Emberaptor grinned, slipping his paw underneath his skirt and into his panties, giving his maleness the attention it craved.

He gaped into the mirror, looking at the form of the sexy she-male scalie that stared back at him. That was who he was now, who they were. Brian and Embie. She decided that she would be Embie from now on, since Brian was a completely male name, and she wasn't completely male.

While stroking her shaft felt so good, Embie didn't feel quite fulfilled for some reason, the ache she had originally thought was just her dick seemed to have a little more to it. She reluctantly turned away from her reflection and headed to her toybox. They had to be something in there she would use.

As Embie opened the lid, she smiled, rather than human toys, it was filled with exactly what she desired. Looking over the toys contained within, she decided on a translucent blue one, shaped just like her own reptilian member. She placed it in her mouth, coating it in her saliva as she returned to the desk.

"Hello sexy." she purred, climbing up onto the desk. Hooking a talon in her panties, she tugged them down a bit to give herself access to her tailhole, but not all the way down. The tight silk against her cock felt wonderful. She knelt in front of the mirror, curling her tail around the dildo, positioning herself just right.

"Mmmm... you look so gorgeous." Embie cooed to her reflection, her muzzle rubbing up against the mirror, her tongue lazily licking her own image. She scooted forward just a little bit more, the head of her cock coming into contact with the mirror as she thrusted. She placed a paw against the smooth surface, bracing herself as she pretending to fuck her reflection.

Embie brought the dildo up to her tailhole, leaning back to get it inside herself. The Thulhumorph cried out as the blue rubber toy slide into her effortlessly, her hot hole strangely slick. "Mmmm... definitely not all male, defiantly not all female either." shi purred, positioning hir tail just right.

The Emberaptor rocked back and forth, the dildo driving into hir as she rocked back, his maleness pressing up against the mirror as shi thrust forward. It felt so good, so right... exploring hir body like this. The Slugfish hadn't known what it was talking about. Pokethulhu strength and human knowledge. Peh.

Embie felt better the shi had been being Brian and being Embie. The human desire for pleasure, love, and contentment, coupled with the freedom of the Pokethulhu. The combined being didn't need to worry about the rules and expectations of the human world. Shi was as much a 'thulhu as shi was a human. Shi could enjoy hirself, hir body to the very fullest.

The Thulhumorph felt a strong mental tug. The Slugfish asking for her presence. Embie growled a telepathic message for hir 'Master' to go fuck itself. Embie was, and shi was quite enjoying it. Embie's trainer was right here inside hir, Brian's imprint still on the Pokehedron. Embie didn't have to come out if shi didn't want to, and right now all shi wanted to go was pleasure hirself closer and closer to hir oncoming...

"GRRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHH!" Embie roared, a small gout of flame erupting from hir mouth as a jet of scalding hot lizardseed erupted from hir rod, making a mess in hir panties and pushing through, dribbling slowly down the mirror. Hir cloaca clutched the sex toy tightly, the juices of hir femsex leaking down onto hir tail.

Shi murred happily, rubbing against the mirror with most of hir body. "You were wonderful." shi purrs to the mirror.

"I know" shi said, answering hirself after a few seconds. Shi slid hir panties off, using them to mop up the last stray drops of cum from hir shaft, before using them to clean off hir tail. She threw both the panties and hir dildo into the spring-sink, allowing them to be cleansed by the hot bubbling water.

Feeling a bit better about hirself, shi pulled a pair of bright pink panties from the dresser, giggling at the tiny purple bows before slipping them on. Embie yawned and stretched, delighting in hir combined body. The Thulhumorph dropped onto hir mossy bed, staring at the flicking flames that formed the 'roof' of her home. She felt so good, so perfect. Embie couldn't possibly imagine returning to the way shi was before. Hir male side gawky, clumsy, uncomfortable and shy. Hir female side small, naive, and unknowing of the way things worked.

The call to emerge into the real world came again, more demanding. The Slugfish trying to use hir power to siphon Embie's spirit out into the material plane. The Thulhumorph just giggled and raised a middle finger to the ceiling. The human part of hir spirit kept Embie anchored right here until shi desired to come out, which she certainly wasn't going to do for the damned Slugfish. Served hir right for being just a sucky Pokethulhu anyway.

Back in the real world 'Master' was being chased around the interior of the arena, completely failing in hir recruitment drive. Mewl was rather familiar with the scent of Slugfish, and the dragon-cat was acting out on hir feline side, intent on getting some fish.

Meanwhile Katia was explaining things to the tournament officials, pieced together from the creature's ego filled rant. "So it looks like she stole the Pokethulhu to summon the power to control Pokethulhu spirits and combine them with humans, repeating the process that gave her the power in hopes of being able to control the resulting hybrids." she finishes.

She giggled as she saw the screaming Thulhumorph dart past again, Mewl on hir tail. Katia pulled an empty Pokehedron from her belt and lobbed it with practiced aim, striking the Slugfish-creature in the head. The internal magic of the twelve sided gem sucked her right in, the transparent gem taking on a the cloudy blue coloration signaling an untamed 'thulhu.

"There you go!" she said proudly to the tournament officials, marching over to pick up the Pokehedron containing the thief, as well as picking up the 'hedron she recognized as Embie's. Fearing for the worst, Katia looked at the status runes on the 'top' of the gem. She sighed with relief, the runes for 'Happiness' and 'Contentment' where shining brightly. The activity panel shimmered with blue and black swirls, indicating sleep. Whatever had become of Brian and Embie, they were enjoying themselves, and quite content to have a leisurely nap. With her partner and his Pokethulhu by her side, technically she could still participate in the tournament with just Mewl. And that? That was just fine with her.