FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

Several Days of travel had worn Jim to the bone as he got off the boat on route eight of Kalos. The beach was soft and he watched as the various Kalosian people played along the beach. Jim gazed as a large dark-skinned Kalosian man in a bright orange vest started to speak to a group of children. Perched on his head was a small Inkay. The squid-like pokemon gave a pleased hiss as it hopped off his head and landed in the sand.

“Now children, pay attention! This is my little assistant, Iris the Inkay. She is going to teach you proper Inkay safety.” The man said before the Inkay started flashing spots on it’s crown. Some of the children immediately turned away while others closed their eyes, the remaining children continued to stare as they swayed strangely before the pokemon stopped.

“Now you see what an inkay can do. You need to look away when you see flashing lights in the waters, Inkay are just as scared of you as you are of them but you can drown if you get hypnotized while swimming now come along. We are going to introduce you to the lifeguards and their pokemon assistants.” The guard goes on as Jim smiles at the scene, but he takes the lesson as a friendly reminder of why he doesn’t swim in Kalos.

Jim grunts as he started to walk north, passing a pair of scantily clad females. Each of them scanned him with their pokedex before pausing. The taller one was a dark-skinned Kalosian girl with flowing brown hair, her ample bosom seem ready to break out of the string bikini that did nothing to cover up her nearly flawless body. She approached him with a questioning expression on her face as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

“Can I help you?” Jim asked the girl who grinned widely at him.

“I want to have a battle with you, I’ve never fought a breeder specialist before. I don’t even know what that is…” She admitted before flex her hands, “Would you be game?”

Jim nodded, “It’s been awhile since my pokemon had a good workout.” His looked at her clothing and couldn’t see a single pokeball on her. “Do you have your pokemon nearby?”

“Oh… yeah… I am the pokemon.” She giggled before motioning to the girl next to her. “This is my trainer Genevieve, I’m Julian.” She raise her fist into a boxing position with a feral grin.

“Yeah… Forgive me but I’m just going to check to be sure.” Jim said before holding up his pokedex at the woman.

“DITTO : Its transformation ability is perfect. However, if it is made to laugh, it can't maintain its disguise.” The pokedex roared out at full volume as Julian leaned back and laughed while keeping her form in open mockery.

“Maybe a lesser ditto might have problems with it but I’m good at my disguise. Now can we fight? I want to see what kinda pokemon you have.” Julian bounced on the balls of her feet in excitement. Behind her the trainer tapped a few buttons on her very sleek looking kalos pokedex.

The soft ping of the pokedex allowed Jim to noticed that he was being challenged to a one on one battle with an increased amount of bidding for the fight. Jim smiled before gripping the pokeball on his belt and tossing it in the air. Light burst from it before his houndoom landed on the ground with a growl.

“What did you do to your houndoom?” Julian asked looking at the large ribbons tied to the horns of the houndoom. Her body was covered in glitter and she even had paint on her bone plates of bright pink with green hearts.

“Long story but she fell asleep near some really affectionate smeargles. It won’t hurt her battling skills.” Jim said before Dust turned to him with an annoyed grumble as she stepped on the ends of the ribbons before wrenching them off of her head.

Genevieve stepped back before holding up her pokedex, “A houndoom? I rarely get a chance to see those around here. Julian knock her out.”

“Wait aren’t you going to make her transform?!” Jim said as the ditto rushed the houndoom in human form.

Dust leaped back before firing off a massive fire blast at her opponent, the woman simply rolled to the side to avoid the sudden blast of fire. Several people dropped to the side to avoid getting charred, Jim thought of how to counter the human sized pokemon then grinned.

“Dust, avoid using fire attacks, she is too quick… keep her close and bite her.” Jim commanded.

Dust charged the humanoid pokemon before she leaped over pokemon gracefully, Dust’s world quickly flipped upside-down as she was grabbed by her horns and slammed into the concrete with enough force to leave small cracks. Dust whimpered till she was picked up again and slammed repeatedly against the ground, the vice-like grip on her horn prevented her from being able turn her head.

“Dust use flame blast n-” Jim stopped as he noticed that Julian stopped slamming his pokemon and simply held her by the horns with a small grin, sweat drenched the ditto-human’s body but his focus was on his houndoom who hunt limply in her hands and didn’t make a sound.

“I concede.” Jim said before tapping the proper buttons on his pokedex, he watched as his money was received by his opponent as Genevieve nodded. He quickly used his pokeball to recall dust. The loss felt a little salty in his mind but it was a fair, but strange battle.

“Don’t feel too bad. Julian isn’t a pushover and she is more used to fighting like this than she is as a houndoom.” Genevieve grinned as Julian turned to Jim.

The woman shimmered for a second before Jim was face to face with his body double. Julian smiled before taking a moment test the range of movement on the new form, “Hmmmm. Not a bad body…” Julian said before offering an arm to Genevieve.

With a sigh, Jim turned north to the path leading to Cyllage city. He looked over his pokedex as it guided him to the pokecenter near where he was supposed to perform his next job. The town was very idyllic with children cycling around with their pokemon. Jim smiled at at a young girl riding an pyroar around her yard. Ahead of him loomed the pokecenter.

Jim quickly stepped into the pokecenter to heal Dust. Moments after he exited he walked to the residential area of Cyllage.The building that he approached was the same as any other but something gave him a feeling of unease. Jim stepped on the porch with a nervous swallow but the moment he reached his arm up to knock the door flung open.

A man dressed in shorts and with a oily sheen to his pectorals grinned at the Trainer. “She got problems. I’ll let her explain while I’m out. Have fun and don’t mess up the sheets.” The man said before turning down the street in a mad dash toward the beach.

Jim watched the man run away as if he was going to a party or the house was on fire. Jim sighed long and tired as he looked at the open door, the sun was starting to set behind as he walked into the house, the moment he entire the door slammed shut behind before locking.

“You know, uh… ghosty things aren’t really my thing so if you can stop the creepiness. I would be really grateful.” Jim said before putting his hands on his pokeballs, he quickly tossed out Walt’s pokeball. The light coalesced into a gardevoir with two floral necklaces around his neck, he didn’t even bother looking at Jim as his gaze immediately focused on the other psychic presence in the room.

‘It’s a psychic pokemon nearby, I was hoping that your next job would have been at the massage parlor in Cyllage. What a bummer, oh well the cruise was fun.’ Walt said while keeping his gaze focused, he felt a small subtle push of psychic energy heading for his trainer. He lazily swatted the invisible energy out of the way with his mind, whoever was hiding in the other room seemed interested in his trainer.

“Walt?” Jim called out as he watched the back of the pokemon’s chest horn glow softly which was an indicator he was using psychic power. “Is something happening?”

‘Oh nothing much. Just a bunch of psychic attacks aimed at you. If I had to guess someone on the other side is trying to read your mind.’ Walt said before walking deeper in the house. Jim slowly followed his pokemon until he was staring at an enormous volcarona flat on the bed with fire retardant blanket over it. Her compound eyes looked at Jim fearfully as she backed further away from the bed.

“I’m not going to hurt you. I heard that you had a problem and your trainer wanted me to see if I can help you.” Jim said while leaning against the doorway. The volcarona hissed at him in response before turning to walt to translate.

‘She wants to look in your mind.’ Walt said curiously, ‘She said that she can’t trust someone that she can’t read.’

Jim gulped slightly, the idea of letting anyone poking around his mind was scary. “Walt you can keep me safe if she looks around, right?” Jim said while rubbing his fingers in the palms of his hands.

Walt shrugged a little, ‘I can keep her from killing you. I can see what she is looking for, but with her psychic prowess the most she could probably do is give you a bad headache or toss a book at you. She is a non-psychic probably using a technical machine for her abilities.’

“Alright… Walt, let’s do this.” Jim groaned before sitting down on the carpet. He didn’t want to fall down and hurt himself when the psychics were done with their strange scouring of his mind.

Walt and the Volcarona both focused their abilities toward Jim as his head started to itch with the soft tingles that came with being affected by psychic abilities. Jim’s consciousness fell into a half aware state. He could see the quaint bedroom with the two pokemon but at the same time his mind was in another world.

“This is his mind?” A glowing red skinned, beautiful human woman with a black mark on her face turned to the landscape which resembled a juxtaposition of several regions smashed together. Standing next to her was the gardevoir who glanced at her curiously.

“Someone really wants to be human, your mental projection is really… unique.” Walt said before opening his long fingered hands as several files zoomed from the windows of the strange city before them, each one was blank but held several memories of the last few jobs that Jim had performed.

“Here you go… Vola of team void. Everything that is safe for you to know.” Walt said before handing them over to her.

“Thank you, I’ll look throu-” Vola paused staring at Walt with fear as her projection flickered from a quick lack of concentration.The black mark on her face changed from just a simple spot to the black swirl insignia of Team Void.

“When did you find out?” Vola said simply, she was caught but his reaction put her slightly off balance.

“When your trainer is terrified of psychic types, you learn how to use your skills as discreetly as possible. I’ve been looking through your mind since we stepped in, I know as much about your mission as you do.” Walt chuckled slightly.

“S-so where do we go from here?” Vola asked while still reading the files, she tried to hold back her fear at being cornered. The gentle smile on the Gardevoir started to annoy her slightly.

“You requested a job to lure my lover here. You want this to go painlessly? Let him help you, don’t hurt him, and if you want, tell him the truth. Now that you have an idea of what kinda person he is, I think it’s time you left his mind. Don’t forget to pay him.” Walt said as the mental projection of Vola vanished.

Jim relaxed state ended as both of pokemon left his mind. His head felt like he had just gotten a static shock inside of his skull. He hated the feeling of anything touching his mind, it was a fear that he couldn’t shake since he was a young child. He looked to Walt curiously but the Gardevoir simply gave a friendly smile and a nod that everything was going to be alright. Jim stood up feeling unsettling tingles in his mind fade as he turned to face the Volcarona, she turned her head so that most of her segmented eyes on one side viewed him curiously.

‘I wish to go someplace that would keep me away from prying eyes. I don’t want to get molested by you here.’ Vola pushed the thoughts to the trainer, ‘I am curious about you even beyond the little information your sex slave has given me.’

Jim grit his teeth before speaking tensely. “Walt is not a sex slave, I am not going to molest you. Can we at least try to understand one another, I mean I get that your trainer seems like a bum but I’m not one of those kinda people who is going to treat you like some kinda animal.” Jim said.

‘Yeah. We will try, is there some where you would like to go? Maybe to a park or the beach, some place public where my chastity would be secured?’ Vola said while looking to Walt. She didn’t like the look the psychic type was giving her but she was sure in an outright fight she would be able to defeat him, Walt tilted his head as the horn in his chest glowed a soft red while strong blood-lust rolled off of him in waves.

“Walt, don’t pick on her. I don’t know what you did in my head but I can’t have you scaring pokemon that I’m trying to help,” Jim said as he turned to leave the house, the pair followed behind him. “So I’m new to this area where do you go to have fun around here?”

‘This is a place for bikers and those who have outward muscles to flex their vanity.’ Vola said with casual dismissal in her thoughts.

“That wasn’t my question, where do you have fun?” Jim repeated as Vola turned her head to look away.

‘Route seven, I have a friend that I talk to there. You might not feel comfortable with them but they won’t hurt you,’ Vola said before fluttering higher so the small embers dropping from her wings didn’t burn the ground or fencing. ‘let’s go, then we will talk… a serious talk about my problems.’

Jim nodded before flipping open his pokedex to the map. They traveled in relatively short time as Jim chatted with Walt about their trip. Each time the trainer tried to get Vola into their conversation the fiery pokemon would just look away from him. The zubats of Connecting Cave kept far away from Vola in fear of her brightness and suffocating heat. As they made it out of the cave system, the Volcarona turned to a patch of grass in the distance that ended at the water's edge.

‘We will be heading there.’ She floated before descending into grass, a muffled roar caught the pairs attention as they followed her. Jim could barely manage to navigate the slippery rocks and long grass as he found himself staring at Vola as she rested on a large smooth rock. She turned to him with a flick of her proboscis in his direction.

“So where is this friend of YOURS!?” Jim shouted as two arms shot up to the side of him before lifting him slightly and moving him off of the soft rock he was standing on. The rock Vola was standing on shifted as a large mud covered snorlax rose to it’s feet. The pokemon grunted before scratching it’s belly and looking at the three creatures gathered before it. The pokemon shrugged before reaching into the depression in the ground beneath it and pulling out large moldy bits of food and eating it.

‘You were standing on her face. Jim, this is Ella. I wanted someone that I know by me as I talked to you.’ Vola said before clinging to Ella’s back and resting her head between the snorlax’s ears. Ella blushed and placed her hands against her face as crumbs dribbled down it, she meekly waved at Jim and Walt before going back to eating from her hidden stash of food. Jim watched as she stopped chewing roughly into her food but gently age the soggy mess as refined as possible, the almost seven foot pokemon even managed to keep one claw off of her meal in a dignified grace.

“Nice to meet you Ella, I’m Jim and this is my friend Walt,” Jim couldn’t help but feel ill watching the pokemon eat. He reached into his backpack to removed a bag of toasted poffins. Jim passed sweetest one of the batch to Walt, the before giving the bag to Ella. The snorlax paused and looked into the bag, she reached a large arm over to grip the human in a strong embrace. She offered on to Vola but the bug type just shook her head, Ella flopped forward before grunting something at Jim which caused Walt to snicker.

“What? Did I do something wrong?” Jim asked while turned to Walt.

‘Not at all… Unlike most human girls, the snorlax just mentioned that she likes the mating display, but you’re a little small and she wouldn’t want to break you. I didn’t think I would see the day you got turned down by a pokemon.’ Walt snickered again before giving Jim a playful slap on the back.

“Anyway, ignoring that. What’s wrong Vola…?” Jim sighed before sitting down in the tall grass, the water was lapping softly and the slightly damp grass felt good against the heat of the unblinking volcarona.

‘I’m going to be direct. I have a friend, a human friend,’ Vola watched as the human gazed at her with curious eyes, not a hint of distrust in them. ‘We are close, she is slowly becoming a bad person. She was always a little rough but when we were young the worst thing she would do is shoplift or beat someone up.’

“Reminds me of Samantha, I’m guessing you are worried about her becoming worse?” Jim offered.

‘She sent me here… to…’ Vola sighed a soft droning noise, ‘I’m not good at this spy crap!’ Jim gripped his head in pain as the volcarona frustration manifested as physical pain for him, he held out a pleading hand as Walt stood up.

‘Sorry… Didn’t mean to do that. I’m your enemy; I’m a member of team void and I’ve been sent here to spy on you and screw you.’ Vola’s proboscis flicked out angry as she expected him to flinch, but Jim just grit his teeth in thought before releasing a long sigh.

“What do you want to know?” Jim asked. He was so sick of these Team Void psychopaths that he just wanted to be done with them.

‘What?’ Vola said as her connection started to fizzle from the shock.

“You laid your cards out. You are a part of the group that has tried to kill me, has attacked me three times at this point, but you could have probably killed me in your room or had your trainer stab me. Obviously if you know where I am, someone is following me that I don’t know about and Walt can’t sense. So what do you want?” Jim said with a smile that hid the distaste he had for the organization.

‘Who do you work for?’

“No one. I’m a trainer.”

‘Why did you stop us in Saffron?’

“You were kidnapping a girl that I now know was Mew.”

‘How do you know N?’

“I don’t know the guy personally,” Jim scratched under his chin, “My sister is a member of Team Plasma. I got an invite but I like not worrying about police. Any more questions?”

‘Do you have any plans to come after my trainer for Team Void’s actions?’

“I’m not one of those trainers that thinks it’s a good idea to fight entire criminal organizations by myself. I just want to make money and travel.”

‘Really?’

“Really. Can you get them to leave me alone? You’re a spy so I assume you’ve got some pull.”

‘I’m human resources as my normal job. I am third in command of Team Void and one of its founders.’

Jim froze at the confession. The only sounds were the soft lapping of waves and the gentle snoring of Ella as she dozed off with a half-eaten poffin in her mouth. ‘This is punishment duty for me because I failed another mission. My friend and the leader of Team Void thought it would be funny to have me learn what I could about you.’ Vola finished while turning her gaze down to the snoring pokemon beneath her.

Jim sighed before leaning back and looking at the sky as the sun had faded into the horizon, the stars twinkled overhead as he collected his thoughts. “Vola, you seem like a good person, or at the very least someone who isn’t a jerk for no reason. I’m going to ask you to tell your people to leave me alone as their leader but I’m curious. Are you happy with being a criminal?”

‘Are you happy with being a prostitute?’ Vola countered, ‘Don’t act all high and mighty when you make money with sex.’ She droned defensively as her wings blazed slightly brighter.

Jim chuckled, “I wasn’t at first, I mean, I didn’t think this was real. Every job had me touching pokemon in an intimate way but… I wasn’t attracted to pokemon and even now it’s still strange to think about. My job isn’t about sex, but it’s the strongest taboo between trainer and pokemon so many of the problem surface from that. When I did my first job, I wanted to hide from embarrassment. Almost all of New Bark Town, watching me plug away at a skiddo, but they were cheering because I was one of them; not a pokemon lover but one who wouldn’t let something such as physical difference get in the way of helping pokemon.”

Vola flick her proboscis far enough that it was only inches from Jim’s face, she twitched her limbs in thought on the back of the snorlax as the female yawned before scoping hand full of grass into her mouth and eating it. Vola flapped her wings until she was hovering over the snorlax. She moved closer to Jim until she pressed her forehead to his. She droned on as she glared at him with her segmented eyes, she didn’t know what to make of him.

Jim sniffed before grinning, “You are wearing perfume.” The scent was familiar to him as many female trainers usually wore the salazzle distilled perfume to knock male trainers off of their focus. Even diluted it was a powerful scent.

‘So,’ Vola said while crawling over his face and onto his back, she gripped his backpack tightly with her legs ‘carry me back home.’

Jim snickered but stood up, “No one spends that much to not attract someone, so who is the lucky bug type?”

Vola hissed angrily as Walt laughed, ‘You don’t get females at all.’

“Oh? Then, professor Walt explain to the class.” Jim said patting the gardevoir on his mop of green hair.

Walt pretended to push up a pair of glasses on his face, ‘Vola, has been trying to see if a human could even be attracted to her at all. She is like a grade schooler hoping that someone will like her, she isn’t confident in her personality winning through and she is so self conscious that she cleans herself vigorously. She is the only bug type I’ve seen that doesn’t have a speck of pollen or grass on them. She keeps referencing your job because she secretly hoped that she could get away with having sex with you without having to admit that she would sink so low as to need to beg for it. Vola has been around humans so long that she has more in common with them than most pokemon. Professor Walt has spoken!’

Vola turned to Walt before she shot a long strand of sticky string into the gardevoir’s face, Walt tried to peel the string off of his face but only manage to spread the substance further around. Walt chuckled as he managed to remove most of the sticky string before floating ahead of the pair.

Jim grinned as they traveled through the cave, “Is that why you had me meet Ella, because you wanted to see if I was attracted to her?”

‘Don’t mock me. I’m not some love crazed pokemon…’ Vola said defensively.

“Aren’t we supposed to be honest? I’m not going to leap on you like some sort of monster if you open up. It’s what I’m here for, kinda my job Vola.” Jim said before reaching up to gently scratch under Vola’s chin.

‘My human friend and my pangoro friend always have interested suitors. I guess it’s something about mammals that they enjoy each other's company. Unfortunately most bug types aren’t really good for conversation. Beedrill are the worst with their need to be doing something…’ Vola caught herself talking more than she expected to the trainer.

Jim smiled before reaching in his pocket for his pokedex, he quickly swiped through a few menus in before flipping the pokedex around to scan a picture.

‘What are you doing, I didn’t give you-’ She paused as Jim held up the pokedex to her segmented eyes, she recoiled so she could focus. She gazed upon the various pictures of trainers with volcarona like herself, several of them were rangers holding up various pokemon and people they saved in different snowy climates.

Jim grinned as Vola processed the information, “Vola, you are a natural born Hero. Volcaronas are rare as can be but people normally see them as heroes.” A thought struck Jim but he pushed it down.

‘You were about to say something?’ Vola said as they exited the caverns into the Cyllage City. She flapped off of Jim with a few embers scattering in her wake as she frowned. Vola looked at the trainer before he smirked before turning to Walt, he used his pokeball to recall the yawning pokemon.

‘You do realize I could kill you now or force you to dance like puppet now,’ Vola said while flaring out the heat from her wings. She watched impassively as the human simply wiped his brow before smiling back at her. ‘Not that I’m going to but if you keep being so brazen, someone will kill you.’

Jim nodded, “It’s a bit of a risk but I’m hoping that I can trust in the best of people and pokemon. Since I met a friend of yours would you mind talking to a friend of mine? I realize that I’m a little um… Unsuited to criminal organization stuff, but I think my friend could help you.”

Jim tossed down a poke ball, the bright red light formed into a Gabite with rough skin and a bandana around her neck that read ‘free hugs’. Renee turned to Jim before sitting down near the pair with a soft thump. Her intelligent eye flicked to Jim before she started to speak to Vola, her gaze curious as Vola made a low droning noise in reply. Renee’s eye narrowed as she leapt to her feet with a roar of pure anger before she raised claw and opened her mouth in a threat display, Jim had never seen her so angry since she became a part of his group.

“Renee!” Jim said sternly, “She isn’t Team Aqua! I wouldn’t let them hurt you, so I’m asking you just to talk to her.”

Renee glanced down at Jim, her eyes staring unblinking at him. She closed her mouth and turned away before tapping her claws twice on the ground. Jim tilted his head at her gesture before she turned to Vola, she didn’t like the bug but she didn’t want to annoy her trainer so she growled at the Volcarona. Renee sighed before sitting down and speaking to the bug-type pokemon. She would occasionally make glances to her trainer. Jim would only respond with a thumbs up. She couldn’t help but return his confidence with a toothy smile.

‘I see…’ Vola said with a long sigh from her hidden proboscis. The moth-like pokemon turned to Jim as if to appraise him.

“Something on my face?” Jim joked while recalling Renee into her pokeball.

“No but you are a strange one, Jim.” Vola said as they walked out of the tunnels into the city.

The pair traveled in silence before reaching the porch where Vola resided. She turned her gaze to the bushes before the man from earlier stepped out of them. He grinned before offering him a wry smile.

“Since you aren’t dead and little boss isn’t hurt, I assume that everything went fine.” He asked with a grin. He smelled of the coast as he leaned in to get a better look at Jim.

“Yeah everything went fine. I think the job is over. You’re pokemon shouldn’t be giving you any more trouble.” Jim returned the smile.

“Thanks! Here is your pay and here is a little extra I threw in with my own dime,” The man smiled before leaning closer to Jim, “You’re a freak, man but I think I got you a great hookup. Just keep your mouth shut about it.”

“Sure?” Jim said questioningly as he stared at five slips of paper he was handed, each one was a ticket to a free massage in Cyllage City. Each ticket had the name of his pokemon on it and one with his own name on it.

The soft sound of a ping reached his ears as the money was transferred to his pokedex, Jim nodded before turning around. He wanted to be as far away from the Void members as his leg would take him but just as he got to sidewalk he felt a hand on his shoulder. Jim turned to face the man who returned his look of confusion with a smile before leaning close to him.

“So did you, uh… make love to the little boss.” The guy chuckled softly. “I mean I’m not going to give you shit, man, but I’m curious on was it even fun?”

Jim’s gaze lingered on Vola who was floating at the door way before returning the grin, “Best I ever had. I mean, you haven’t? I thought she learned that from her time at Team Void.”

Jim struggled trying not to smile as the man looked from him to Vola then back again. “No shit?”

“I’m an expert at these things. Thanks for the tickets. I think I’ll go spend them now.” Jim said as his legs were aching from all of the walking he did around Cyllage and the surrounding areas.

The sun sank beneath the western sea of the city, the lamp posts illuminating as if chasing the fading light. Jim strolled between them, then turned into the massage parlor located right next to the pokemon center. Bright light spilled from the lobby, the dark brown tiles tying in with the gym leaders colors. At the desk was a tanned woman with her hair in a long braid that vanished under the desk.

“Hello, welcome to the world famous Cyllage City Massage Parlor!” The woman greeted Jim with a bubbly smile as she clapped her hands in excitement.

“Hi. I got a few tickets from a friend.” Jim said placing the tickets on the counter. The woman looked at the tickets with a small gasp.

“I don’t know who your friend is but, these are V.I.P tickets. Did you save his life? Each of these tickets are fifteen thousand a piece.” She said before taking the tickets.

Jim released his entire team from their pokeballs, the four pokemon stretched as they gazed around. The woman stepped around from the desk before handing each pokemon a numbered card, for Dust she simply held the card for her.

“Each of your cards has a room number on it, go to the room and your masseuse will take care of the rest.” She said leading the group behind the desk to the rooms in the back of a parlor, she opened the door to Dust’s masseuse. A dark muscular human male smiled at her before giving the padded table an inviting pat. Dust didn’t need an more assurance as she leap from the hallway to the table.

As his team was placed into their rooms, Jim strolled to furthest door in the back. Unlike the others the door was painted black with gold lettering that spelled ‘Honored Guest.’ Jim opened the door and stepped into the room, soft music flowed from hidden speakers. Small candles flickered in the low light as if to beckon him inside.

Two Mienshao stood to either side of the table, they both gave a polite bow before stepping aside. The pair gestured to a sign in a back of the room which had instructions for Jim to remove his clothing and lay on the table. Jim smiled as he closed the door behind him. His clothes and backpack were quickly discarded in a wicker basket in the corner of the room.

Jim tossed off his clothes before slowly getting on the table, The Mienshao placed a small basin near them. They each dipped their forepaws into the substance. Jim’s closed his eyes as he felt the soft pads of their paws flowing over him. The oils smelled faintly of soil, the Mienshao continued their task in perfect silence.

Jim could feel the weariness of his day pass through him. ‘Jim…’ Jim heard the call of Walt in his head. He almost ignored the call inside of his mind but slowly he simply thought the word:

‘What?’

‘These, uh… people are groping me.’

Jim focused as hard as he could, ‘That called a massage. I used to give you them when your feet hurt from walking as a-’

‘Jim, I know what a massage is you goofball. Fine I’ll just show you.’

Jim felt his head tingle as Walt pushed his thoughts toward him, the image of a dark skinned human with a mop of curly black. One of the human’s hands rubbed against Walt’s inner thighs with a smile while the other hand rubbed at the slit. The imagine faded from Jim’s mind as he gave a sigh.

‘Do you want me to stop him?’ Jim thought hoping Walt could hear him.

‘Well… Um… Nope. You could learn something from this guy.’ Walt’s laughter echoed in Jim’s mind before he felt the connection slipping away.

Jim closed his eyes as the two Mienshao worked their magic, once his back was coated the pair started to give gentle chops along his spine in perfect unison. Hours passed as the relax massage continued with only the soft chords of music to serenade him. He didn’t remember when he fell asleep but the rest felt like everything he needed.

“Honored Guest, your session is over.” A light feminine voice spoke as Jim cracked open an eye to see her.

A woman was standing over him with a small smile. “Your pokemon are resting in the lobby and your gift awaits you.”

“I get a gift? You people pull out all the stops. I might have to come here again.” Jim said slowly rolling off the table to dress himself. His body felt light as a feather.

“Not usually, but this was something set aside for your ticket. I’m just following the rules of whoever paid for your ticket.” She responded before heading back out ot the lobby.

Jim stepped out to the lobby fully dressed while his pokemon simply gazed at him with large smiles on their faces. Jim raised an eyebrow as he noticed that Renee’s and Gnaw’s scales, Dust’s Horn, and Walt’s chest-horn gleamed from their own treatment.

“Well, I think this trip was worth it.” Jim smirked as his pokemon nodded eagerly.

The woman from the desk handed him a black box, Jim took the box as the woman turned away to stand behind the desk again. Jim took that as the cue to leave, quickly recalling his pokemon he stepped out the of parlor. The warm beams of the sun peaking over the mountains felt like warm fingers dancing along his skin.

“Hmmm. Maybe Lumiose City might be a nice place to visit, I still haven’t beat the gym leader out there.” Jim said while unwrapping the box in his hand.

In the container was a black poke ball with gold rings. Jim reached in tpick up the ball. The soft static shock of the ball taking his biometrics. Jim eyes widened as he plucked out the ball; it was a luxury ball with a sticker of the parlor. A name on other side of the ball simply read, ‘Lapis.’ Jim tossed the ball to the ground and heard his pokedex give a soft ping.

A four foot tall pokemon with a long whiskers draping both sides of its muzzle. A mienshao gazed up at Jim with a coy smile on it’s muzzle before handing him an object in it’s hand. She handed him the seal envelope before giving Jim a hug around his waist. Jim opened the letter as he began to read:

_Jim, _

_ By having this letter in your hand that means that we have come to some sort of amicable agreement. If Vola allowed you to take the luxury ball then that means we aren’t on negative terms, the pokemon you see before you is Lapis. Lapis is a competent fighter and one that will probably make a great companion considering your ‘interests’._

_ _

Jim struggled to keep himself from rolling his eyes after reading that statement. He continued to read the letter curiously.

_Team Void and its businesses will no longer make any attempts on your life provided that you don’t come after us. The event’s in Saffron cost us dearly but that is not how we operate but my writing this to you explains nothing. Lapis has worked for us for four years, she is not an operative but rather a well trained Mienshao with the same interests as you. I hope that you’ll look at us as a business and not the like the hooligans that died attempting an operation I would have never approved of. _

_ _

With sincere apologies,

Team Void Founder C.

P.S. I’m not silly enough to put my name on this but you might want to destroy this letter.

_ _

Jim looked down at the Mienshao who immediately blushed and averted her gaze. Jim crossed his arms before giving the Mienshao a smirk.

“Ok. Lapis, I guess you’re a part of the team… so impress me.” Jim paused as he saw her blush. “Nothing perverted, just show me what you can do.”

Lapis gave a overly dramatic sigh before she flicked her hands out rapidly, Jim could barely register something whizzing by his head. He felt three small object hit him in the back with the force of a hard pat, he rubbed his back with a smirk.

“Impressive,” Jim said picking up the luxury ball off the ground. “Once we get to the next town I’ll introduce you to the group, but for now I think I’ll see what you can do against the pokemon we meet along the way. Sound good?”

Lapis nodded before reaching up and grasping his hand in her paw. When Jim gazed down at her she simply blushed. Lapis let out a pleased noise that reminded Jim of a Meowth’s purr, but far deeper and more guttural from the melodic sounds of feline pokemon. The pair traveled toward the tunnels leading toward Route 7 as Jim simply chatted with his newest member.