01 Departure

Chapter 1:

« Audren ! Wake up, sleepyhead, you’re going to be late at the pokécenter and there won’t be any pokégirl left to be your starter.”

Less than half conscious, Audren groaned and buried his face in his pillow, hoping the yelling voice would just go away and let him rest. It was not to be however, and a few seconds later, the sheets he was tangled in were torn from him so forcefully that he was sent sprawling on the messy ground of his bedroom.

“Ow! What did you do that for, Ava? That hurt!” protested the now completely awakened teenager, rubbing his sore forehead. He threw a reproachful look at the Ingénue who was already tidying the bed he just so violently and unwillingly left.

Of course, he wasn’t a particulary impressive sight, with his five feet, six inches and 128 pounds, wide green eyes, and curly, shoulder length, black hair. He had a heart shaped face,  often said to be too pretty to be masculine, a small round nose, a small mouth with thick red lips, soft coffee and cream skin, and the flexible, androgynous body of a young dancer.

“You should already be at the dojo waiting for Sierrah. Don’t forget that you have to go pick up your first pokégirl this morning.” The dark haired pokégirl answered without looking at him.

“I swear you must be a Domina in disguise or something. The sun won’t be up for hours. Can’t I just skip this training session? If I spend all my energy before dawn, how am I supposed to tame my new pokégirl, anyway?”

Ava, a cute, petite Ingénue with long black hair and brown eyes, which added to her aquiline face hinted at a Mediterranean ancestry, huffed.

“How is that supposed to concern me, pray tell? “

“If I didn’t know better Ava, I’d say you sound almost jealous, beautiful. “

“Don’t flatter yourself, boy toy. You’re not that good.” The ingénue answered with a smirk.

Audren grinned and brought a hand to his heart with a mock grimace of pain.

“Ow! My poor ego! However shall it survive this brutal assault?”

“You are such a dork, Audren.  I’m going to miss your pathetic attempts at humor, atrocious as they may be.”

“Some days, I’m seriously wondering if you’ve gone fiendish on me, or if you’re just a Dominatrix in disguise, beautiful.” The human said, voice dripping with fake suspicion.

“Enough! I take back what I said, I won’t miss your humor at all. Now, off with you or Sierrah will send Luna looking for you.”

Audren gasped, emerald  eyes widening in alarm and jumped to his feet.

“Not funny.  She’s still angry with me about… whatever it was that set her off this time. She’d set fire to the bed or something like that.” He said, passing a hand in his caramel colored hair.

“Eh. You’d think you’d have learned not to mess with a teenage Dark Lady with a crush on you.”

Audren dropped his eyes in embarrassment and mumbled something about ill-named ingénues.

Ava overheard him and just grinned at him, knowing she’d won this bout.  

“Look at you, all proud of picking on a half sleeping teenager. You should be ashamed of yourself, you Dominatrix wannabe.”

“You already made the Dominatrix joke, Audren.”

“Argh!” throwing his hands up, the young human rose from the ground and left the room, before he left what was left of his dignity.

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A few minutes later, he entered the mansion’s gym, which Sierrah, his aunt’s Heroine called her dojo, and politely saluted the pokéwoman when she greeted him. Sierrah had been his aunt’s alpha for more than twenty years, and they were virtually two halves of the same person now. So, even if he would really have preferred to still be sleeping in his comfy bed, he forced a smile and held back the colorful expletive he thought the pokéwoman deserved for forcing him to train this day of all bleeding days.  

Knowing him well enough to know what he was thinking, the asian looking Heroine smiled and beckoned him inside.  It was as he entered the still dark dojo that he realized something was wrong. Sierrah never smiled to anyone but her Harem sisters and his Aunt. She wasn’t dour, but extremely reserved. Before he could reflect on this small miracle, the light suddenly flared brightly to life, blinding him for a second. He extended his consciousness, searching for other thought patterns besides those of Sierrah. Before he could identify the people his Telepathy sensed, he was pounced upon by an unknown assailant, and had his face covered in kisses even as he fell.

“Surprise!” he heard two dozens voices screaming joyously.

“Surprise, indeed”, Audren mumbled in mock annoyance, as Norah, the Tigress who had pounced him snuggled up to him, purring happily.

“Hey, don’t hog him to yourself! I want to hug him too!” yelled someone.

“Yeah! Who know when we’ll get our boy toy back? Share him!”

With that said, most of the pokégirls present rushed him and joined in the hugging and snuggling, until only Audren’s twitching right hand was visible under the pile of giggling ‘girls.

“Ladies, ladies, there’s enough of me for everyo-, ow! Okay, perhaps not for everyone. Not so hard, Norah I can’t breathe! Ow! My ribs! Hey! What are you doing! Leave my pants alone! Come on, I love you too, but I don’t have the time for an orgy today!”

He noticed a yellow powder in Norah’s fur.

“Lust Powder? Silvia! I know it’s you! I’ll get you for this! No Christmas present for you, traitor!”

Two hours later, it was clear that the young man’s protests hadn’t deterred the girls, as he laid naked, sweating and gasping entangled with equally naked bodies, a wide grin plastered on his face.  In truth, the event had perfectly mimicked the dream he’d made the previous night. He guessed one of the girl must had picked it up and decided to organize this as a good-bye present. If he wasn’t so pumped full of pleasure hormones, he might shed a tear from the emotion.

“ I swear, I’m going to miss you, all of you. Even Luna and Alizée.” He said, talking about the young Dark Lady and Hyperdoll his Aunt had adopted. They were still technically pokékits and didn’t need to be tamed yet, but they already had the temper and power their breed were infamous for. Of course, they hadn’t participated in the orgy. Alizée the Hyperdoll was barely 13, and Luna the Dark Lady 14. They were like two very nasty little cousins to him, although Luna had made him promise he would be her tamer when she came of age. Frankly he wished she’d forget that promise; the girl was scary.

Looking by the window, he could see the first rays of the sun peeking. It was time he got ready to go receive his first pokégirl, and begin the next stage of his life. Goodness! How was he supposed to do that? Even with the spell that enhanced his endurance, he was exhausted! He sent a telepathic call to Myriam, his Aunt’s megami-sama. Surely her magic could help, he thought. And he was supposed to have sex with his own pokégirl in just a few hours. Pokégirls would be the death of him.

“There could be more truth in this thought that any of us would like, if you don’t thake all of this seriously Audren, “green haired Myriam said, as she teleported a few feet away from the mass of entangled bodies. She snapped her fingers, and just like that, Audren felt rested and full of energy again.

“Thank you ! I’d like to be able to learn how to cast such powerful spells as easily as that someday”, he said with a voice were admiration and envy struggled for dominance, “you’re awesome, Myriam!”

“Flattery will get you nowhere, young man. Now go get showered and dressed. Your Aunt is waiting for you in the courtyard.”

Audren grinned.

“Technically, it’s a patio, you know? Okay, I’m off! Thanks again!”

He gave her a quick peck on the cheek, picked up his discarded clothes and ran off to the bathroom, still naked.

“Audren! Don’t run around in the house naked! Really, how old are you!” yelled Myriam, indignant.

Only a mocking laughter answered her.

The megami-sama frowned, then slowly shook her head with a faint smile.

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As Myriam had told him, his Aunt waited in the courtyard, sitting on one of the stone benches, reading a book that looked as old as Audren was.

“Good morning, Tatie Caroline. How are you?” the now showered and dressed young man asked, sitting next to his aunt and hugging gently.

Caroline, a pretty 5’5” tall woman with  ears-length blonde hair, blue eyes, a thin straight nose and petite build,  was like Audren a graduate from Vale Academy, but instead of merely selling her talent as a mage, she had opened a shelter for free pokégirls, to help them make a life for themselves, as many newly freed pokégirls and pokéwomen were near destitute, and in need of help and support. Now, at forty-one years old, Pokégirls flocked to her shelter from the entire League, so good was her reputation.  Audren had come to live with her after his graduation from Vale because his own parents were travelling, his father being actually in the Jade Islands, working with other researchers on some project he hadn’t told Audren about.  For a year, he’d worked , both as a mage and at the shelter to pay for his expenses, as well as his travel equipment  and the fee to become a tamer. He’d even managed to buy a small array of rare and uncommon elemental stones.

“Hello sweetie. Nice of you of thinking about coming to see me at last. You weren’t planning of leaving without seeing me, were you?” Caroline answered in a falsely stern voice, ruffling her nephew’s hair.

“Of course not! I’d never do that to my favorite aunt. Especially since I know she can throw fireballs at me!” Aubren defended himself, with a grin, and a kiss on his aunt’s cheek.

“Damn right I can, and I would too, if you’d even thought about not coming to see me!” chuckled the woman, “That’s not why I told Myriam to summon you. We have guest who have come to see you, before you leave.”

“Guest? Who?” asked Audren curiously.

If he’d be dealing with any other human, he might have tried to pick their mind for information, but his aunt’s mental defenses were somewhat… potent. In fact, they were rather in the ‘overkill’ category, to tell the truth. Sometimes he wondered what secret she protected so.

“Us,” said a familiar voice behind him.

Audren literally jumped from his sit, and threw himself at the voice, not even taking the time to look.

“Maman!” he exclaimed joyously, hugging his mother, “and Grand-mère!” he added as he recognized the pokéwoman floating to his mother’s right, a dignified, older looking Telegona, with shoulder length grey hair, in a very business-like suit.

His mother hugged him back, and Audren could feel tears coming to his eyes. It had been two years since he’d last seen his mother, as she didn’t spend much time in this dimension. She stood 5’10” tall, with dark brown skin, an oval face with large silver eyes, a small nose and pulpous lips, long silver tresses, long pointed ears, metallic looking silver wings aborning her back, which Audren knew she could transform into arms, tentacles, or weapons at will. She wore an evanescent white dress that let her back bare so as to let her wings free. As an Esper, Anita, his mother, spent most of her time with her kind in an alternate reality, far from the hostility of this one.

She laid a soft kiss on his brow, and took a step back to look at him better.

“How you’ve grown! You’re almost as tall as me, now. You’ll be a man soon, at this rhythm, cub.” Anita said, looking proudly at him.

“Maman! Don’t you think I’m too old to be called a cub? I’m almost seventeen!” he protested.

“And still Caroline tell me that you were running aaround naked around the house a few minutes ago. It doesn’t sound very mature to me, cub.”

“Okay, I get it. No more streaking. I’ll be all serious and respectable. Sheesh! You’re all such prudes.” He said, trying his best not to pout.

He felt his Tatiana grand-mother, who was also Caroline’s and his father’s mother,  approaching him, and he turned toward her to embrace the Telegona

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“Hello, Mamie. I haven’t seen you in months. How have you been?” he asked as he hugged her.

‘I’ve been well, as have you it seem, my dear. Work has been somewhat less tiring these last months, at the Parisian shelter. It seems that more and more pokégirls leave the League to go be set free in Blue. If this continues, free pokégirls might never be numerous enough to become a true political power in the Noir league. We’re working the details for a loan that would allow a pokegirl to get free and reimburse her debt once manumitted, but there is more opposition against the project that anticipated.’ Tatiana transmitted telepathically, much faster than it would have taken to say it.

‘Well, I hope things will turn out all right for you and your colleagues. I know you can convince more girls to stay instead of emigrating. Who wouldn’t want to stay to be taken care of by you and Tatie Caroline?’ he thought at the grey haired Telegona, communicating mind to mind.

‘Flatterer. I hope you won’t lose that charm of yours with your pokégirls, my boy’ Tatiana answered fondly.

‘Charm? Ava says that I have the charm of a punch to the gut.’

‘You know she doesn’t think it.’

‘Yes, I know. She’s a nice girl, despite her temper.’

His Grandmother smiled and kissed his two cheeks.

‘Be prudent, my boy. I’ve lost two of my sons to this damned profession of yours, I don’t want you to be my first grandchild lost to it.’

‘I’ll be careful, Grandma. At the least sign of true danger, I’ll take my girls and flee like hell is after me.’

‘Good. I prefer a smart boy alive than a young dead hero.’

“As do I,” intervened his mother, “ so be sure to do as you said. You don’t want me to come to spank you before your harem for taking useless risks, do you?”

“MAMAN!” yelled Audren, his cheeks reddening, “You wouldn’t do that!”

“You know I would. I didn’t manage to convince you to come live with me, but it doesn’t mean I can’t act as a mother.”

“Being a mother doesn’t mean humiliating me in front of my friends! Goodness! Don’t even joke about that!”

The Esper beamed at him.

“Then you just have to make sure I don’t need to, right?”

“Now I know where I got my sense of humor from.” He answered glaring at his mother.

She merely laughed, and hugged him once more.

“Just be cautious, okay cub? The summoning magic is already failing it seems, so I have to go back home. I’m proud of you, my son and I know you’ll make me even prouder in a close future.”

“Thank you maman. I’ll do my best.” He said, releasing his mother’s fading form from his embrace.

“I know, sweetie. Take care.” Anita smiled, before disappearing.

Audren turned to his Grandmother and Aunt.

“Mamie, Tatie, thank you. For everything. It’s time for me to go now, I think.”

The two women embraced him a last time.

“Good bye, nephew.  I hope you’ll visit often.”

“Indeed. Don’t wait too long before visiting your favorite grandmother, alright?”

“Don’t worry! I’ll visit the both of you often. Good bye!”