Boot Camps & Booty Calls
By: bsmart (a.k.a. Tiek Mo Shet)
Disclaimer: Why the hell am I writing this? Nobody reads them and they have no legal weight. It's a complete waste of time and bandwidth and yet I'm still typing. If you're under the legal age where ever you are don't read this, but since you're going to anyways at least don't let your mommy catch you. This fic is very much NC-17. Copyright? Ha! Just don't be a dick. If you got this anywhere besides mediaminer.org, the official Pokegirls Yahoo group, or adultfanfiction.net then you likely haven't seen all of it as those are the only places where this story is officially distributed.
Note: This is an Orange League fic. To be honest I don't know a damn thing about pokemon and I want to keep it that way. If I make a dumb mistake feel free to point it out. I've done as much research as I can into this to keep it consistent with what seems to be the accepted canon of the pokegirl world. Also no one that I know of has done anything with the Orange League so I'm making it up as I go along.
"…" Normal Speech
`…' Thought
Chapter 1: Get the fuck out.
"Damn it to hell Lucian, I thought I told you to split that fire wood before you took off for the day."
"Oh come on Dad, I was going to get up early and do it in the morning "
"I told you to do it now, we need it for the furnaces in the morning, your mothers can't keep blowing constantly. Oh shut up."
Lucian did his best to wipe the smirk off his face. "I was going to be up early enough to take care of it."
"You're going to do it now."
At nearly two meters high and a few grams over a hundred and fifty kilos Lucian's barrel chested father didn't usually have to repeat his orders, especially to his son. With a dissatisfied grumble Lucian levered himself up out of the over stuffed recliner he had been sitting in watching TV and headed for the back door. The ball of navy blue hair and black fun that had been curled up in his lap whined at the disturbance but still got up, though she immediately reclaimed Lucian's seat and curled back up in it before he was even half way out of it. "Come on Koshka help me out."
"Oh no, sit your butt down Koshka," a flame haired Charmelon called from the other side of the living room before the cat type could respond to Lucian.
"What?" Lucian snapped.
"Watch your tone young man," the Charmelon chided him, "she did her chores."
"Gimme a break mom, she's my pokegirl."
"Really? That's funny, who's she registered too again sweetheart?"
A dog-type pokewoman with bright orange fur strolled into the room with a bowl of chips in her arms. "I'm not sure, honey?"
"I think she belongs to Daniel, but I might not have been paying attention," said the normal human woman sitting next to the Charmelon. The woman just smiled slightly as Lucian fumed.
Lucian was in the middle of coming up with a scathing retort that wouldn't get him grounded for a week but before he could utter it his father ordered, "Out, now." Lucian grumbled the whole way to the wood pile.
"This isn't worth fifty a week," he growled as his ax split another piece of firewood into a pair of smaller and more furnace friendly pieces.
"But you get more then that."
The ax barely missed Lucian's foot when he started at the sound of Koshka's throaty statement an inch from his ear. "Stop sneaking up on me!"
Koshka just continued to stare at her Master in confusion, she never tried to sneak up on him in fact is she had made as much noise in the wild as she made around the house she would have starved to death. Lucian liked to tease her a lot and she thought that's what he was doing but this joke had never been funny.
When Koshka just blinked her big purple eyes and kept staring at him Lucian just sighed. "Yeah I get paid more then that, but I don't see a dime of it. Dad just dumps it all in a bank account I can't get too."
"But you will eventually right?"
"Yeah, it's just not the same as getting all at once in my paycheck."
"But you will get it eventually?" Koshka asked trying to figure out what the problem was and failing miserably.
Lucian just shook his head, Koshka was fairly bright for a feral born but there were still quite a few things that were just beyond her grasp. "Yeah, I'll get it eventually, tomorrow actually, if the old man keeps his word."
"He will," she said cheerily, "he told me he would find me a good master and he did!"
Lucian just smiled, in Koshka's eyes his father could do no wrong. He reached over and ruffled the hair between her ears, "Thanks Koshka, the money will be a great birthday present but you're still the best."
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Lucian put on his best fake smile trying valiantly to mask his feelings from his family, and doing his best to deny them to himself. `I'm such an ass,' he thought as he looked over the array of presents before him. While his siblings had certainly out done themselves with their gifts his parents' gifts had so far been….underwhelming.
"What is it?" his little blonde sister Nellie asked. How she'd wound up with blonde hair when their parents all had brown or red hair defied explanation.
"Multi-tool," Lucian replied as he held up the tool for everyone to see.
"Do you like it?" his Charmelon mother Sally asked.
"It's great," he replied truthfully.
"I'm glad you like it, Nancy and I spent an entire day trying to find one with all the stuff that one has."
Lucian smiled at the pokewoman and his human mother beside her, "I love it, it's perfect."
"Excellent," his father declared, "Well I think that's everything so why don't we…."
"Daniel, aren't you forgetting something?" the Growltit beside Lucian's father asked.
"I don't think so Suzuka," he said back feigning ignorance.
The pokewoman rolled her eyes and disappeared through the door that led back to the house's bedrooms.
"Oh that's right," Lucian's father exclaimed, "there's one more present." Suzuka emerged from the hallway to the bedrooms with a long black nylon cord in one hand. "Happy sixteenth birthday Lucian," his father said happily.
As Lucian's father finished Suzuka finished walking back into the living room. The other end of the cord she was holding was clipped to the collar of a raven furred cat type pokegirl. "Lucian," his third mother chimed, "this is Koshka, she's yours now." A simple tan colored piece of cloth tried valiantly to contain the girl's more then generous cleavage and a matching skirt threatened to roll itself up and over wide and shapely thighs.
Lucian was stunned, at sixteen years old he was too young for a tamer's license; even a pet owner's license was at least two years away. Not to mention the girl was down right cute, a fact reinforced in the way she kept looking around the living room in absolute wonder.
Daniel knew enough about his son to know exactly what was on his mind. "For the moment she's registered to me but when you turn eighteen and you get your license we'll switch her over to you. In the mean time, well she's yours." When his son just continued to stare at his present Daniel got up and slapped him on the shoulder. "You'd better go talk to her or she's going to start to feel unwelcome." Lucian stumbled numbly toward Koshka unsure of how to approach her, he'd gone from horny and desperately wanting a pokegirl to having one that was ostensibly his standing half naked in the middle of his living room. When he passed by Suzuka handed him Koshka's leash with a smile immediately he began to walk slowly around the girl. He was completely unable and unwilling to fight tens of thousands of years of instinct and as he passed by her side his eyes went immediately to her perfect pear shaped breasts.
When Koshka saw Lucian admiring her chest out of the corner of her eye she instinctively thrust her chest out and bobbed on her heels ever so slightly. She instinctively knew that would get Lucian's attention and she was sure that she wanted to impress the young man who was holding her leash.
Lucian's stride faltered as Koshka's subtle posing did its job. Koshka's little bounce had set off a mesmerizing series of wiggles and shimmies in the softer portions of her anatomy that held Lucian's attention fast and brought the rapidly hardening points that were her nipples to his attention. He suddenly felt an intense desire to squeeze the cat-type's impressive mammaries but he did his best to ignore his pokegirl's high beams and continue his appraisal comforted by the sudden realization that before long he'd be able to indulge his impulses. Like most near-human cat types Koshka's silky black fur was confined to her ears and tail but a small patch was visible in the small of her back directly over her tail. Speaking of the girl's extraneous appendage a small triangle had been cut out of the skirt directly under the waist band that allowed her tail to peak through. As he watched her tail began to flick back and forth over her trim little bottom.
Koshka could feel Lucian's eyes roaming across her rear and began to sway her tail in happiness, for reasons that escaped her she desperately wanted this young man and the attention he was paying to her felt exquisite. She began to squirm as she felt his eyes caressing her butt and a chill shot down her back standing up every hair on her body.
While Lucian continued to circle his new girl his father started to explain things to him. "She's a feral born Kitten, she got caught about two weeks ago, don't worry though she's tame, the ranch saw to that. She's housebroken so she's not going to start shredding the house but outside of that she's pretty much a blank slate. I thought she'd be good practice for you, dealing with a feral…and such."
Lucian barely noticed the snickering of his three younger siblings as he told his father, "Thanks." Coming to a stop face to face with Koshka Lucian gave her his most reassuring smile as he looked into her purple slited eyes.
"And you thought all you were getting was the multi-tool," Nancy teased him, "You should have seen the look on your face."
"Greedy little bastard," Sally agreed.
"Hey, I like it a lot it's just that…"
One of the Lucian's two youngest siblings piped up, "It's not a pokegirl, kinda makes the hats we gave him look pretty sorry don't it Mark?"
"Yeah it does," the other answered.
"Come on Gabe, Mark, I like the hats a lot," Lucian said.
Lucian's father raised his hands and stepped in front of his son and his new pokegirl. "Alright, everybody give the birthday boy a break and get out of here, we're going out for dinner." Lucian started to move but his father quickly stopped him, "No, not you, you and Koshka get the house to yourselves for a while, two hours at least, maybe more."
"Uh, sir?" Lucian asked.
"Go on, up to your room, I'll explain on the way." Lucian did as he was told with Koshka in tow and his father bringing up the rear. After going up a flight of stairs they arrived at Lucian's room and Daniel shooed her inside and pulled his son aside. For a few moments Daniel was at a loss as to what to say to his son, finally he just blurted out the first thing that came to his mind, "Your mothers picked her out so ahhh, she should be a winner. She's a tame Kitten so she should be fairly…receptive." The words came easier as he went and his son was paying close attention to what he said. "You probably already know all this but…"
"No it's alright."
"Don't worry about getting her off, it doesn't take much with a pokegirl, hell some girls get off just on having their tamer pay attention to them. You probably won't need them but if she starts to get rowdy there's a set of restraints under my bed."
"Yeah…" Lucian muttered.
"And there's a bunch of recovery and stamina juice in the fridge."
Lucian nodded, "Got it."
"Daniel! Hurry up and leave that boy alone," Suzuka called out from downstairs, "there are other things he'd rather be doing right now then talking to you!"
"Coming!" Daniel yelled downstairs and then turned to Lucian, "Just have fun, that's the point."
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Fun had been an understatement. His family had stayed out for more then three hours and he and Koshka had still been going strong when they had gotten back. Lucian couldn't help but smile at the memory. He'd had to borrow some of his mother's clothes the next day for Koshka since hers had been rendered unusable the night before. Soon one thought led to the next and he told Koshka, "Go up to our room and get ready to take a shower honey. I'll finish this and be up in a minute."
Lucian watched as his Kitten scampered towards the house in an excited rush. Owning Koshka had been an experience to say the least, almost every day he had to deal with some little part of her personality. From explaining to her why clothes were necessary, at least out side their room, to when an appropriate place to be tamed was, and why she couldn't just eat whatever looked good in the grocery store. Still, he wouldn't have missed a minute of it.
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"Lucian!!!"
A moment later Lucian came down the stairs in a rush, something had raised his mother's ire and it involved him so he wasn't going to make her wait any longer then was humanly possible. He tried desperately to think of what he might have done to piss her off but it then it didn't take much to piss off a Charmelon like Sally. As he crashed to the bottom of the stairs he saw her standing there with a very frightened Koshka by her side. The busty Kitten was trembling and casting furtive glances at a candle that was quickly melting in Sally's hand. "Yes Mom?" he asked with little hope.
"Do you have any idea what Koshka was doing?"
"Dusting?" he said.
"Not nearly!" his mother snapped. Sally stabbed at Lucian's chest with the half melted candle in her hand. "This little tart was getting herself off in the middle of the dining room with one of my candles!"
"Uhhh….." As he comprehended the situation Lucian had to fight down his urge to laugh. Even though doing so would piss off his mother to no end and confuse the hell out of Koshka the need to was almost overwhelming.
"Oh, you think this is funny?" Sally yelled at her son.
"Well….yeah," he snickered.
"Well I don't find it funny that she was doing it when I brought Nellie home from school!"
Lucian's face fell. "Oh."
"Exactly." Sally looked down at the nearly liquefied candle in her hand and quickly dropped it onto a nearby plate. Sally sighed and turned back to her son, "Look, I know I'm not one to talk about when and where somebody gets tamed but I don't want your little sister walking in on that, she's seven!" Sally pushed Koshka towards Lucian and the stairs and told her, "Get up to your room." When Koshka was out of sight she turned to Lucian and asked, "Are you taming her enough?"
"Errr…"
"This is important Lucian."
He just nodded and sighed, "Yeah almost every day," a small smile crossed his lips, "Sometimes twice a day."
"Probably just let her curiosity get the best of her. Lucian you have to discipline her alright? You've got to make her realize that there's a time and a place for that sort of thing." When she saw her son's expression fall at the suggestion of being harsh with his girl she closed the gap between them and put a hand on his shoulder, "It'll be fine, she'll learn that doing that sort of thing doesn't make you happy and that'll probably be enough to keep her from ever doing it again."
"I know, I just hate having to punish her."
"Just be sure to make it up to her when it's over, pet her, let her know you care about her, and give her a nice long taming."
"Got it," he said as he turned to head back up the stairs.
"And Lucian…"
"Yeah Mom?"
"Go to the store and get her something to play with tomorrow. I don't want her using my candles again."
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Lucian had had a hell of time figuring out how to punish Koshka that afternoon. Being a former feral she was used to having nothing so taking away privileges or things had no effect on her and refusing to tame her would have been as much a punishment for him as it would be for her. In the end he'd fallen back on the way his parents had disciplined him until he started middle school, he gave her a spanking.
Ultimately it didn't work. As it turned out Koshka almost immediately started acting up, doing things she'd known better then to do for months, even going so far as to make use of her new toy right in front of Sally. By the third such display and subsequent spanking Lucian had caught on to what was going on. After a long conversation in which Lucian was sure most went completely over Koshka's head he'd done his best to explain to her that she could still get punished, she'd just need to do something less likely to send one of his mothers into a rage.
Lucian smiled wistfully as he split another piece of wood. Koshka had caught on quickly to that game, eventually doing little things that only ranked as annoying but subtly cluing her master in as to what she wanted. Even though they both knew exactly what was going on in their little game Lucian was going to miss having his family around to use as an excuse to play it. He'd still be happy to give her firm little bottom a solid swat now and again but he would miss watching her prance around in front of him intentionally ticking off somebody simply to get him to take a firm and willing hand to her ass.
`Still, it'll be good to get out on my own. I know Koshka will be happy to get back out in the wild for a bit and let loose.' Koshka had learned how to behave in public but she'd never liked it, whenever they were in their room or had the house to themselves her clothes came off and her manners went out the door. Watching a naked Koshka rip apart and devour an entire fresh fish was one of his fonder, if not stranger memories of her.
With the last piece of firewood split Lucian put the ax back inside and headed back to the house. As he passed by the upstairs bathroom he heard the shower going and he quickly ducked into his room and started shedding his clothes. When he ducked back out he saw the tamer's handbook lying open on his desk. `Next to last night in the house, to hell with it.' If he timed things just right he'd be able to hop into the shower just as Koshka got bored enough waiting around for him to start taking care of things for herself.
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"Lucian, get up, you're going to be late for the tamer's test."
"Just five more minutes Moommaaahhh!!" Lucian yelled as Suzuka tipped up the edge of the bed sending Koshka and him sprawling onto the floor in a heap. As he extricated himself from a tangle of sheets and smooth Kitten flesh he caught the tip of his mother's tail disappearing out his door.
"And put some clothes on before you come down, nobody else needs to see your bare ass this early in the morning."
Ten minutes later Lucian came down stairs dressed with Koshka in tow. In the kitchen he was surprised to find everyone else already awake and waiting for them and the table covered in every type of breakfast food that he loved and there was even a large raw fish sitting on Koshka's plate. "What the…"
"Happy birthday Lucian!!" his little sister yelled before anyone else could say anything causing the rest of them to laugh at her.
"I thought we were waiting until tonight after the test to have the party?" he asked.
His normal human mother came up and guided them towards their chairs. "We are, we just thought that it would be nice to have one last dinner with the whole family, the bus will leave early tomorrow so there won't be any time."
"Mom, boot only lasts nine weeks and I'll be back just as soon as it's over, besides I haven't even passed the test yet," Lucian said as he sat down.
"A formality," his father said with a dismissive wave, "You've been studying for this for two years and there's nothing wrong with you. You'll pass no problem, now eat up, you don't need an empty stomach when you take that test, believe me."
"Yes, eat," Sally chirped as she shoved a bowl full of scrambled eggs toward her son. While Lucian started to pile eggs onto his plate Koshka did her best to act civilized as she ate her breakfast.
"We never did teach her to like cooked food did we," Suzuka asked as she watched Koshka slice off a ragged chunk of flesh and inhale it, scales, bones and all.
"Ferals are rather hopeless," Daniel teased to the annoyed looks of his two pokewomen.
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"Come on Lucian, you be late!" Koshka scolded as the pair walked through town.
Lucian's family had stayed home, there wasn't any point in them coming since the test would take up most of the day and he wouldn't be able to see them anyway. He'd tried to convince Koshka to stay but as always she refused to be separated from him by more then fifty meters. "Koshka calm down already, we've got fifteen minutes and it's two blocks away, see," he said as he pointed down the street to the ubiquitous brick building with a red and white ball on its sign.
"Master no screw this up, you have to pass test or you not be Koshka's master for real."
"Koshka, it'll be fine alright, I'll past the test and you'll belong to me tonight for real, I promise," he assured her. Two years of coaching hadn't really improved her speech much; Lucian just figured that Koshka might be a little slow in that area but she still managed to get the point across. Still, she did have her moments that made him question whether or not it was an act just because she knew he thought she sounded cute.
"Good," she said as she grabbed Lucian's arm and pressed herself up against his side, she purred loudly and nuzzled up to him. "Tonight Koshka make her real master feel good."
"Morning Lucian!" a shopkeeper called as they walked by.
"Morning Mr. Dillan."
"Off to take your tamer's test?"
"You got it," Lucian answered back.
"You take care of him once he's got his license ok Koshka," the grocer told her.
"Koshka take good care of master once he's her master," she replied as another round of purring and rubbing began.
With a wave back Lucian continued on his way with a smile. Technically he wasn't Koshka's owner and legally he couldn't be, until today he had been too young and unlicensed. The first few times that he'd gone out in public with Koshka glued to his side he'd panicked, terrified that somebody would see them and take her away. Eventually his father had pulled him aside in the middle of the general store and explained things to him.
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"Lucian, just calm down already, nobody cares that you have Koshka ok?"
"But, I don't have a license, I'm sixteen!"
"Lucian, believe me, nobody cares. She's a Kitten, about as close to harmless as you're going to get and you're taking good care of her. Nobody cares," he emphasized.
Lucian stammered, "But…"
"Lucian, listen to me. There's the law that's on the books and the law that's enforced. So long as she doesn't go feral and destroy anything nobody much cares who's taking care of her, ok?"
"Alright, I just…it's weird walking around with her on my arm all the time when it's technically illegal."
"Don't worry about it, hell take her with you everywhere, show her off and make some of your friends jealous, she'd love it. Hell, I've heard you two going at it sometimes and gotten a little jealous."
Lucian recoiled in disgust from his father, "Oh for the love of…"
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"Lucian, Lucian Graner."
"Alright Mr. Graner," the Nurse Joy replied happily, "Just take a seat and a doctor will be with you shortly. You're the last one on the list for the test as well."
"Really?" he asked surprised.
"Oh yes, most everyone has already been here for quiet a while."
"I told you to hurry," Koshka hissed as her tail snapped back and forth.
Lucian glanced back at her in an attempt to shush her, "Just out of curiosity, how many other people are taking the test today."
"Sixteen, that's above average but about normal for this quarter, first test after school is out. Your Kitten can't accompany you in to take the test," the Joy said as commandingly as a five foot waif of a girl with pink hair could.
"Koshka know. Koshka just come make sure master no fuck this up."
Lucian groaned and pulled Koshka with him towards the center's waiting area. "Thanks sweetie."
After spending twenty minutes watching the other prospective tamers get called back by a doctor and then return to the waiting area Lucian finally heard his name called. The doctor was a thoroughly nondescript middle aged fellow who informed Lucian that he'd been called in to help out with the tests. The doctor moved with a practiced speed and got right down to business. The physical was a simple affair, only meant to ensure that Lucian would be able to function as a tamer and wouldn't drop dead after a month in the wilds.
"Alright let's make sure everything's correct on this form shall we?" the doctor asked.
"Fine."
"Light brown hair, blue eyes, a meter eighty, and seventy five kilos?"
"Last time I checked."
"You've never been tested for blood gifts?"
"Nope."
"Then we'll need to draw some blood. Any preexisting medical conditions I should know about?"
"I hope not," Lucian said mockingly.
"Alright then, everything seems to check out, now we just need some blood and you can head back to the waiting room." After drawing a sample of blood the doctor sent him back to the waiting room with a piece of gauze to hold over the needle puncture.
"How did it go?" Koshka asked him as he sat down.
Lucian shook his head. "Just a physical, nothing special."
"Koshka knew you pass, you have no problem taming Koshka," she purred as she snuggled back up to her tamer.
Lucian smiled and relaxed, having Koshka glued to his side purring away always made it easier to wait for things, turned out he didn't have long to wait though.
"Mr. Arnhurst, Mr. Colin, and Mr. Salef please come with me," the little Nurse Joy said, "Everyone else please go through that door over there." Three very unhappy young men got up and slowly followed the Joy while everyone else made their way through the door she had indicated.
"Tough luck," Lucian said under his breath as they walked away. "Koshka, you've gotta stay here ok?"
"I know, Koshka not stupid," she grumbled with her ears laid back against her head.
"Hey, I know that but you said it yourself, you don't want me to fuck this up. Just stay here and if I get a break I'll come out and see you."
"You better," she said.
Lucian rubbed the spot between her ears and headed for the door, "You know I will."
The nurse pokegirl led them down a hallway to a meeting room that had been set up for them. Four long tables ran across the room with chairs on one side all facing towards the far wall with several pencils in front of each of them. "If everyone will take a seat we'll begin the next portion of the test."
Lucian grabbed a seat and as everyone settled down the Joy began to hand out thick packets of paper to everyone and several men walked in, each accompanied by a young girl, and took seats at the front and back of the room. When the Joy handed Lucian he started to thumb through it, nearly a hundred pages of tiny type greeted him. Lucian's tortured groan mirrored that of everyone else's in the room.
"The test will be in two parts with a thirty minute break for lunch," the Joy instructed. "Answer everything to the best of your ability don't leave anything blank. You have four hours for the first half. You may begin."
After a half hour working on the test Lucian began to relax and get into a groove. The questions in this section consisted in part of simple history, economics and pokegirl law, the majority of the questions though were about pokegirls. Things like "You are attempting to capture a feral Growlie, which of the following pokegirls would be the best choice to use for this…." or "What is the taming preference of a Mini-Top?" His confidence soared, this was what he'd been studying for the last two years, what his father had prepared him for. Three hours later Lucian polished off the last question and started back through the test to check his answers, he was going to make sure he did everything possible to pass this. When the Joy finally called time he'd made it half way back through the test.
"How go?" Koshka asked hopefully when Lucian came back.
"Fine I think. It was everything I've been studying for."
"Good!"
"Ehh…," Lucian complained, "maybe not."
"Why?"
"Well there's another two hours of test left and if they've been covering everything I studied for in this part then what's going to be in the next part."
Koshka considered this for a moment and then her ears drooped. "Oh."
"Bingo."
"Excuse me," the Nurse Joy called out in her sing song voice, "If everyone will come with me we'll be serving lunch in the gym!"
While everyone else headed for the gym Lucian asked her, "What about my Kitten?"
"We have something for her too," the Joy assured him.
"Ewwww," Koshka groaned as she saw what the Joy had gotten for her. "I hate pokegirl chow."
"Sorry," Lucian said, "If you want some of my sandwich you can have it."
"No, Lucian need eat so he do good on test. Don't like cooked meat anyways."
"Suit yourself."
Koshka grimaced and ate a spoonful of the crunchy brown morsels.
Lucian couldn't help but smile as Koshka ate her lunch, even when she was pissed she was cute. Actually the only time he could remember her not being cute was when he'd been angry about something she'd done, then she'd looked positively terrified, of him, which is what just sucked the cute right out of it.
Exactly thirty minutes after she had led them into the gym the Joy returned and said, "If everyone's finished we can begin the second half of the test!"
"Alright fuzzy, I'll be back in a while, don't get into any trouble while I'm gone."
"Koshka be fine, go!"
Lucian smiled and gave Koshka's tail a little stroke as he left. When his finger tips let go he glanced back to see her tail twitch happily behind her and she picked up the bowl of pokegirl chow and upended it into her mouth drawing a chuckle from her owner. Koshka only behaved herself when she was around Lucian or his family, at heart she was still very much a feral.
Lucian took the same seat he'd had before and started to glance through the test, this section was much shorter then the last, twenty pages at most. "This section's a little different," the Joy explained. "There are no right or wrong answers, simply answer to the best of your ability and truthfully. The truthfully part is important. You may begin; you have two hours to complete this section." The men who had been observing before and their pokegirls were back and this time seemed much more intent on the proceedings.
The first few questions set the tone for the rest of the test. "Which would you prefer to use in a fight, an Icemaiden or a Firemaiden," followed by, "Which would you rather tame, an Icemaiden or a Firemaiden," and finally, "Which would you rather keep as a pet, an…." Lucian checked Firemaiden on all of them and moved on to the rest of the test. It was immediately obvious that this section of the test was trying to gauge his personality and that made him very uneasy. He would have been much more comfortable answering questions that there was a right answer too. After spending ten minutes agonizing of whether saying he'd rather tame a Dominatrix or a Dark Lady and which answer gave him the best chance of getting a license he gave up and just started penning down the first answer that came to mind.
"Pencils down!" the Joy commanded when Lucian was three questions from the end. She started to collect the tests and told them, "Please return to the waiting room. Don't leave just yet."
"Finished?" Koshka asked him when he flopped down onto the bench beside him.
Lucian shrugged, "Apparently not."
"I thought you took the test and then you done?"
"So did I but the Nurse Joy told us to wait out here."
"Koshka hope it go fast, Koshka hungry."
"I know, we'll get out of here as soon as we can."
The ebon furred Kitten leaned in until her thin pink lips brushed up against Lucian's ear, "Koshka horny too, Koshka looking forward to fucking her tamer tonight." Before Lucian could process Koshka's throaty purr her tiny little tongue darted out and wormed its way into his ear. Distracted by his Kitten's advances Lucian failed to notice the pokecenter's resident pokegirl standing in front of him.
"Ahem," she interrupted. "Mr. Graner would you, Mr. Salzar, and Mr. Readman please stay. Everyone else is free to go, please be back here tomorrow morning at ten."
Given that the last couple of guys who'd been called away by the Nurse hadn't shown up to take the test everyone was quite happy to leave Lucian and the others to their fate. "What's this about?" Lucian asked.
"Nothing to worry about, please go to exam room two."
Lucian turned back to Koshka and started to tell her, "I'll be back in a…."
"Oh no," the Joy butted in, "she should go with you."
"Alright," Lucian drawled. The exam room that he was directed to didn't appear to be any different from a normal doctor's office exam room aside from a set of restraints attached to the bed. With no where else to sit Lucian hopped up on the bed and Koshka followed suit immediately, plastering herself to his side. While they waited for whatever was going to happen next Lucian idly began to play with one of the leg restraints on his end of the bed.
"Mmm, Koshka likes that idea, maybe Koshka be a bad girl when we get home, make Lucian get cuffs tonight and punish Koshka, mmmmmm," Koshka's suggestion disintegrated into a happy titter and she happily squeezed Lucian's arm harder.
The door opened and one the men who had been observing the tests earlier came in with his pokegirl. "It can't be easy to keep her inline when she actually asks you to punish her."
Lucian considered forming a denial but it died before it reached his lips, he doubted that anyone in town didn't know about Koshka, besides, something in the warm smile of the man's pokegirl made him feel that he didn't need to lie to her. "She behaves herself, she never gives me any cause to punish her, she just likes being punished is all."
Immediately Koshka's ears perked up and began to swivel around in agitation. Lucian had stopped avoiding contact with her in public a long time ago but he had never just admitted things like that to strangers.
"That's understandable; Neela here occasionally likes me to use a set of restraints on her." While Neela turned away and blushed the man took a step forward and offered his hand to Lucian. "I'm Dr. Johansen."
Lucian accepted the tall man's hand and gave him a quick once over. He was tall and thin, dressed in a simple pair of jeans and a knit shirt with a thin beard. He didn't strike Lucian as a normal doctor. "Lucian Graner. You're a shrink aren't you?"
"Yes, I'm a psychologist."
"So what…did I answer something wrong on that test?"
"Do you think you did?" the doctor asked with a small smile.
"Honestly, I have no idea."
"That's the right answer," the shrink said.
"Wonderful."
"Actually you shouldn't be that worried. All those people who were sent home are only going to show up tomorrow to collect their pet owner's licenses." A quick glance at Neela seemed to remind him of something. "Well except for one guy, actually we should probably have him arrested right now and save everyone a lot of trouble."
"So what now?"
"Well, let's start with the obvious, why are you here, why do you want to be a tamer?"
Again after just a glance in Neela's direction Lucian found himself spilling his guts. "My father mostly I suppose. I've grown up my whole life hearing about what a great time in his life his taming days were. How they had paid for setting up his shop and finding his wives."
"That's your father's influence, but why do you personally want to be a tamer?"
Before he could reign it back in Lucian found himself blurting out, "The money. If I bust my ass for a few years I can make enough cash to add on a carpenters shop to my father's forge, I can afford to hire some people to do the mundane day to day crap and my father and I can focus on what interests us."
Dr. Johansen nodded, "So you want to work in your father's forge when your taming career is over?"
"Yeah, it's his forge, he wants to keep it in the family and I really enjoyed working there." When he finished his answer Neela and her tamer turned to each other and conferred for a moment. It instantly dawned on Lucian why he couldn't keep his mouth shut. "You're a psychic type aren't you," he asked Neela.
"Yes I am," she replied.
"Well would you please stop screwing with my head, I'll tell the truth."
"I'm sorry but that's not possible," the doctor told him, "it's part of the test."
Lucian's retort died in his mouth as Koshka leaned into him gripping tighter and staring daggers at Neela. "Alright, fine, let's keep going."
"Well then, why not go to college? According to your school records you probably could have made it if you had worked a little harder and it would be a steadier income stream."
"Oh hell no," Lucian chuckled, "not for me."
"Why not?"
"Well I suppose I could have gone to college but what's the point? I'd spend three years getting a degree so that I could get a job where I'd spend all day signing papers or doing budgets, sounds like hell to me. I like to work with my hands, I like to have something tangible to point to at the end of the day so I can say, `There, that's what I accomplished today.'"
The doctor nodded and considered his next question. "How long have you had your Kitten?"
"Koshka be with Lucian for two years today," the Kitten offered.
"Exactly, I've had Koshka for two years; she was a present for my sixteenth birthday."
"Do you like her?"
Lucian looked over at Koshka and ran a hand through her bright blue hair, "How couldn't I?"
"Ah, are you taking her with you?"
"Of course."
"As your alpha?"
"Probably."
"How does she feel about this?"
Koshka quickly fielded that question, "I'm happy about it, I get to go back into the wild with Lucian."
When Lucian made no attempt to add to Koshka's answer the shrink nodded. "Well I think that's all we need to know, can you think of anything Neela?"
Neela locked eyes with Lucian for a moment and stared at him before answering, "No, that will do."
"Alright Mr. Graner, you're free to go."
"That's it?" Lucian asked dubiously.
"Yes, that's it."
"Well?"
"Oh, yes, you're going to get your license, I hope you enjoy boot camp. Be here tomorrow morning at eight."
Koshka cut loose a thrilled squeal and grabbed hold of Lucian. Both the doctor and Neela both watched as Lucian finally pried her off of him enough to leave the exam room and head home.
"I think he'll do fine," Neela said.
"Well, his grades on the tests certainly suggest that, he's still a bit rough around the edges."
"He'll be fine."
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Lucian flopped down into his bed utterly spent. All the worrying and concentration during the test coupled with the marathon birthday party his family had thrown him had completely wiped him out and he had to be up early in the morning to catch his ride. He let out a wistful sigh as he realized that this was going to be the last night in his bed for a long time. "Nine weeks," he said to the air, "nine weeks of boot and I'll have a real license instead of this provisional one."
A metallic tinkling drew his attention to the door. "No matter," Koshka purred softly, "Good enough for you to own Koshka now. Good enough for Lucian to collar Koshka." Koshka brought one hand up to brush against the black leather strip around her neck, inadvertently brushing against the silver bell attached to it setting off another metallic song. It had taken Lucian more then a year to save up enough money to buy the collar for her and it looked better on her then he thought it could have. Her actions also caused Lucian to notice the additions to her costume since he'd last seen her five minutes ago. She'd put on the set of wrist cuffs that could be attached to the anchors on his head board and he was certain she had on the matching ankle cuffs. She had also attached the long silver chain to her collar that had been a present, mostly to her, from his mother's. She had also removed every other stitch of clothing from her body. "It's time for Lucian to make Koshka his," she purred as she crawled onto the bed.
Lucian grinned lasciviously as his pokegirl rubbed her face against his feet, `I'll sleep in the car.'
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"Yes, I've got everything!" Lucian snapped at his mother.
Sally snapped back, "Well if you forget something it's not like you can just stop by and pick it up. Now tell me, do you have everything?"
"For the hundredth time yes, clothes, some snacks for the trip, bunch of toiletries, Koshka's ball, the med kit, a couple cans of recovery juice, all my study books, all my I.D., the multi-tool you guys gave me, the bank card for the trust fund, I've got it all."
"We're just worried about you," Nancy told him.
Suzuka nodded and added, "And you're unlucky enough to be the first to leave the nest, by the time Gabe leaves nobody will probably even notice."
"I feel a little bad about not waking them up for this," Lucian admitted.
"You already told your brothers and sister good-bye last night and it's easier for everybody if they're not here right now," Nancy assured him.
"Are you sure you don't want us to come with you to the center?" his father asked.
"No, I'd rather say good-bye here at the house," Lucian assured him.
"Alright, that's up to you," his father said. "Now go out there and make us proud."
"I'll do my best dad."
"I know you will."
"Be careful," Suzuka demanded, "Don't go getting yourself killed; we've got a lot of money invested in you."
"Love you too Mom."
"You watch out for him and don't let him do anything too stupid," Nancy ordered Koshka.
"That's not easy," Koshka said off handedly.
"Both of you get out. You've got half an hour to get to the center," Daniel commanded.
With a few last hugs and a wave Lucian and Koshka disappeared out the front door.
"I hope they'll be ok," Sally said nervously.
"Lucian's a smart boy," her husband assured her, "and Koshka's quick on the uptake, they'll both be and do fine."
Suzuka sighed, "Doesn't make it any easier to watch your baby leave your house."
Lucian's Girls
Koshka - Kitten
Author's Notes
Acknowledgements:
Lighthawk - My designated pre-reader, who subjected himself to this way too often.
Warpwizard - Who's given me a lot of advice on the mechanics of my writing.
Notes:
1) And we're off again.
2) No typo, three mothers.
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