#milo x reader

They will spoil you a lot. Seriously, they will pamper you and make sure you enjoy the high life.

Even though Milo is quite arrogant and self-absorbed themselves, they have a soft spot for you. They even post you more selfies of themselves, just so you love them even more.

They are a big spoon and cling to you, like death to life itself.

When you're down they will not leave your side and even will turn off their phone. Just for you.

They admire you and strive to be an even better influencer for you.

“Atta girl” Milo smiled as he palmed your thighs. Your walls had a vice grip on him a second ago but he could feel you relax as you came down from your high. Your walls twitched here and there but it wasn’t anything compared to that little bit of yours earlier. It wasn’t until now that Milo gave you a chance to breathe.

As you caught your breath Milo remained inside, but was nice enough to stop grinding his hips into yours. He couldn’t think of a better way to unwind after such a draining week. What was better than having his kitty cum on his cock over and over again as he edged himself? As he pulled out a bit to look at the white ring of cum around his cock nothing came to mind.

“Say the magic words and this could all be over” you said nothing as he adjusted your bonnet, trying to stuff your hair back into place. You could only pant and look up at him with a tear stained face. Milo didn’t look as bad. Though he was now pink in many areas, and panting just as much as you, Milo looked fine.

You jolt as his hand trailed down your sensitive stomach before resting it on your mound with his thumb hovering over your clit. A soft noise, almost like a squeal, left your lips as you reached for his wrist but it didn’t stop him from swiping his thumb over the bundle of nerves.

“You didn’t say anything, not stop, don’t, or please, so you must be ready for another”

It was cold and dark, and yet, as terrifying as the silence was, it was comforting. Everything felt so vivid. Yet, here he was, feeling nothing at the same time. Drifting in and out of consciousness, all he could do was sleep, surrounded by nothingness. 

How… Peaceful.

Is this what happens after death? 

Milo closed his eyes, contemplating. The more time he spent here, the more memories came flooding back to him. He didn’t know how long he’s been forced to relive everything. At the pinnacle of his memories lay Eris.

Oh, how much he loved them. He would do everything for them. Just like his past selves did - nothing would be spared when it came to his Love. Would he see them soon? How much longer will he be forced to be here?

With each memory, his thoughts became more deranged. Crazed. Obsessed. He couldn’t wait to see them again. His mind drifted to the new nickname they will give him. Excitement was almost overflowing out of his body. Until a new memory appeared. 

His emotions shifted. Anger, betrayal. Heartbreak. He desperately wanted to clench and hit something, yet he couldn’t move a thing. His throat refused to make a noise.

Silent tears ran down his cheeks. The poor man could only weep as his mind was being broken down, over and over again. And yet, here he was. Forced to watch how he followed Eris each time. How he blindly trusted them. How they bended him to their will.

As time passed, his emotions seemed to calm down. Anger changed to sadness, and from sadness came the blood thirst for revenge. With how he was stuck, however, it also went away with time. He just wished to be left alone. 

If given the chance to fix his mistakes, he would. He would have never looked in their direction. He would have forced himself to be more social. He would have forced himself to be as average as one can be - all to avoid their gaze. 

All to avoid their interest. To avoid their love.

It all left a bittersweet taste in his mouth.

Despite the fact that they were the reason for his pain and suffering, he still couldn’t bring it in himself to wish anything bad onto them. Even if given the chance, he wouldn't be able to bring them any harm. Even after everything, a part of him still loved them.

The void continued to surround him for an unspecified amount of time. Until finally, his waiting has been rewarded in the best of ways - woken up in his old bedroom. Boxes were neatly placed along the wall and only essentials could be seen on top of his desk.

It was perfect. Absolutely perfect. More than he could ask for, actually. 

He clutched his heart as he took deep breaths in and out. Milo leaned his head against the wall to his right, the cold helping him to calm down. Soon, a smile crept onto his face. A dry chuckle followed soon after. He looked up at the ceiling.

As luck might have it, he went back in time before school started. Before his first year started. Before he met them.

It was too late to move to a different university. But it’s okay. He’ll do it after his first year. For now, he’ll have to think of something. Anything, to blend into the crowd.

For now, however, he needed more rest. Although he didn’t feel physically tired, his mental state was a completely different matter.

It didn’t take him long to make preparations. The easiest way would be to use what Eris taught him in all of his past lives. But it all felt wrong - after all, it brought back unwanted memories and emotions.

Whatever. It needs to be done. Milo pushed his emotions aside.

He would use what he had on hand. Both past memories and experience. 

Milo traced the notes he made in his dairy. The notes consisted of people he knew would be useful. He needed someone Eris disliked, but not outright hated. Just someone they preferred not to cross paths with.

As his eyes scanned the list of names, they soon landed on a name he knew quite well.

(Y/N).

Known around the campus, had a very clean slate - when it came to drama, at least. Mostly minded her business. Grades were slightly above average, but nothing too outstanding. A member of the swimming club. Popular for all the good deeds she did. Had no tolerance for bullying of her friends. Isn’t scared to get into a fight for her friends, either.

Back in the days when Milo was jumping from one social circle to the other, no one ever said anything bad about her. Even when he tried to dig up something, it was almost impossible to find anything. All that was found were her good deeds. No one knew her family history or anything too personal. It was suspicious. 

Getting into her circle of friends, however, was very easy. Breaking up said circle of friends was a different matter. It took some time and dedication. Some thinly veiled lies and set-ups, and he managed to do it. For Eris.

What a fool he was. How naive. How stupid.

He rubbed his temples before picking up a blue pen and circling around the most important fact about (Y\N).

Somehow, she always managed to avoid a bad end. No matter the scenario, in all his past lives, she was always a step ahead of him. Always able to escape his grip. Eris' plans didn't work on her either. As if she knew what Milo or Eris planned from the very beginning.

She would make for a good cover. A welcoming group of friends that is hard to break up. Somehow always predicted what Eris was up to. Hard to scam. Perfect.

He would use her as his perfect cover. By becoming her friend, he will use her loyalty as a shield.

Now for physical strength…

Milo looked over his body. Arms, chest, stomach, legs.

A shudder runs down his spine as he thinks of the pain he had endured. He won’t be a victim of bullying this time. That’s for certain.

He’ll work both on his social skills and on his physical abilities. There won’t be any pain in this life. Not this time.

Milo pushed himself away from his desk gently and threw his head back, rubbing his eyes and taking his time to collect his thoughts. Memories of past lives still played on repeat whenever he closed his eyes. All he could do was hope that it would become easier to manage over time.

For now, he’ll need to find a way to meet (Y/N). Preferably before university starts, since he can’t sign up for the swimming club yet. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to scout the local swimming pools, to see if he would be able to find her. Maybe going to a party and socializing would help him get some information.

You’d stumbled into work that day, your body shaking in excitement while your mind tried to compute that this was actually real. You managed to sneak into the morgue of the hospital and find the body of the victim.

“Sorry about this.”

The corpse hardly seemed to mind your presence but you still felt like you should apologize for the intrusion. You leaned down, eyes glancing at the puncture wounds on the victims neck. There were two small holes, just like you’d imagined there would be. You placed the body back to its original position and went back to work like nothing had happened. That night you poured over the news, searching for every smidge of information you would find on the culprit. If there was really a vampire on the loose you needed to find them. 

Days passed and you heard nothing about any new victims. The people who arrived at the hospital were all suffering from normal injuries. Well, as normal as you could expect at a hospital. You had started to think your vampire had gone into hiding or perhaps they’d gotten control of their hunger. Both of those options didn’t benefit you in any manner. It would be much easier to get a starved monster to turn you than it would be to convince one who had already developed some sort of control. You were about to give up when there was another attack. You cursed yourself for having the day shift on the day it happened. But despite not being there when it occurred the attack had given you a clue about the culprit. They had access to the lower levels of the hospital. Which didn’t narrow it down all that much but it helped. You also knew that Dr. Micheal had been on the ship where the first bodies had been found and despite people thinking he was responsible for this more recent attack, something told you he wasn’t guilty. 

You’b been analyzing possible culprits for hours now. Your brain was starting to hurt and your eyes were growing tired.

“Okay break time.”

You walked to the nearest bar deciding that maybe getting some alcohol in your system might help you relax and get your brain back up and running. You were sitting on a stool of the bar, sipping your beverage absentmindedly, when the commotion started. You heard the raised voices to your left causing you to turn your head in that direction. There was a group of men surrounding a young woman. You observed the men, not recognizing them until your eyes fell on a particular one. You recognized Milo due to his visits to Micheals lab from time to time. You remembered him walking past the nurses station. Your eyes trailed down to where you were used to seeing his cane but it wasn’t there. You glanced up again, your eyes finally focusing on the way Milo looked. He seemed much stronger than the last time you’d seen him. You continued to watch the conversation, eyes glued to Milo's features. And boy were you glad you’d decided to focus on his face because the moment his features shifted before your eyes you knew you were looking at your vampire. You nearly fell out of your chair as the realization hit you. Once you'd managed to climb off the stool and make your way through the crowd you’d already lost sight of him. You let out a defeated sigh returning to the bar and ordering another drink. 

You spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how you’d get Milo to come to you. Eventually you got sick of the bar and decided to call it a night. You almost made it to your apartment when a scream cut through the silent street. Your body perked up at the noise. Before you could even realize what you were doing your feet were already on the move. You raced in the direction of the sound, eyes moving to look up at the sky in search of any movement. You wouldn’t have noticed the bodies if it weren’t for the smell of blood. You stared at the three corpses slumped in front of the bar you had just been at. A sudden gust of wind made you look up just in time to see Milo jump from one roof to the other. This was it. This was your moment.

You raced back to your apartment fumbling with the keys in desperation as you tried to open the door. You went directly to the small fridge hidden in the closet. You grabbed two bags of blood before rushing back out into the street. For the last few days you’d started stealing blood bags from the hospital. You never took too much, not wanting to draw attention to yourself. You just grabbed enough to have in case your plan worked. You didn’t want to be caught unprepared if you somehow managed to get yourself turned. You’d never been more glad for your overthinking. 

Climbing up the fire escape proved to be more complicated than you had anticipated. For some reason the landlord of the building had never taken care of the stairs which meant they cracked and clanged with every move. Still you managed to get to the roof in one piece and without spilling any of the blood. You stood in the middle of the roof, your eyes searching for any movement before grabbing the switchblade you’d put into your pocket. You cut open one of the bags, dipping your hand in the substance and smearing it against your neck. You applied a generous amount of blood to your body before spreading the rest in a circle around you.  

Now all you had to do was wait. 

The smell of blood was overpowering but you knew that was a good thing. If you wanted to draw Milos attention he had to be able to smell it from far away. You glanced at your watch impatiently.

“What the hell is taking him so long.”

“Well that's a first.”

Your head snapped at the sound of his voice. Goosebumps covered your body as you stared at him. You watched Milo make his way to you slowly. His features weren’t the way they normally were. There was a slightly monstrous look to them.

“I’ve been waiting for you.”

“I can see that.”

 Milo looked you up and down letting out a small hum of approval.

“The question is why?”

Your breath caught in your throat as Milo came closer to you, his face inches from yours.  Gosh he was handsome. 

“This isn’t yours.”

You knew he was referring to the blood. 

“No it’s not.”

“You must be crazy then.”

“I consider myself more of an admirer actually.”

“Is that so?”

There was actual surprise in Milo's face. Was he not used to people wanting him?

“I’ve been searching for you.”

“Why?”

“Because…”

Why had you been searching for him? Had it only been about becoming immortal? Or was there more to it? Could it have been because the thought of spending eternity with someone excited you? You hadn’t been opposed to the idea once you realized who the vampire was. Milo was a very attractive man and something about him made butterflies appear in your stomach. 

“I’m waiting.”

“Sorry. I want to be like you.”

The hand that had wrapped itself around your arm withdrew for a moment. You almost screamed at the lack of contact. Milo looked at you in silence. You could tell there were a million thoughts running through his head.

“I don’t know how to do that.”

“It's okay. I do.”

“What are you? Some sort of fanatic?”

“I’d like to consider myself more of an enthusiast.”

Milo laughed at your words, his hand going back to where he’d placed before. 

“Well alrighty then. I’ll turn you. On one condition.”

“Anything.”

“Leave me alone.”

You gave him a puzzled look. 

“I can’t be stuck babysitting you. I’ve got my own shit to deal with.”

You felt like someone had just plunged a blade into your heart. Was he really that revolted by you? Milo watched your face change from sadness to anger then to acceptance. 

“Fine.”

“Great.”

Milo leaned down, his tongue lapping at the half dried blood that clung onto your skin. You closed your eyes, allowing him to do as he wished. Your hands found their way onto Milo's shoulders as he continued to lick at your skin. Once he seemed satisfied with his work his lips moved to the vein in your neck. You felt the tips of his fangs puncture your skin, a small groan leaving your lips. You could feel the blood leaving your body. Milo's grip on you became even harsher than it had been before. It was then that you realized you’d just given a starved lion a juicy steak.  Getting him off wasn’t going to be easy but you were up for the challenge. You let Milo drink your blood for a while before grasping his hair in your hands. Once you’d started to feel faint you tugged at Milos' hair with all your strength. Despite being much stronger than you, Milo unlatched from your neck when you tugged at his hair. You eyes met his crazed ones for a moment before leaning forward and capturing his lips in yours. You felt Milo's body stiffen. Before he managed to push you away you bit into his lip as strong as you could. You felt the metallic taste of blood fill your lips. You could only hope that it was enough. Milo pushed you off him, his hand going to the gash on his lips.

“What the hell man!”

“I’m sorry it was the only way for me to-”

“You're crazy.”

With that Milo raced to the edge of the roof and jumped.

“Milo wait!”

You went after him. Your body felt strange and your legs wobbled as you tried to run but you managed to get to the edge. You hopped up on the ledge.

“Don’t leave me!”

Your body felt as light as a feather and your vision was starting to get blurry. Before you knew it your body sagged forward. You were falling. You closed your eyes as death came to greet you. The irony of the situation didn’t go missed by you. The last thing you felt before your demise was the feeling of cold metal beneath you. And then you were gone.

Darkness surrounded you. Was this what happened after death? Just a pool of nothingness? Kind of disappointing. You glanced around, searching for something other than pitch black. You’d almost given up when you heard something. The sound was far away but you could still hear it. 

“Mister?”

You blinked your eyes as the harsh light of the street lamp came into view. You groaned, trying to get up.

“Hey mister you should probably stay still. The ambulance will be here any second.”

You glanced at the person talking to you. Your eyes widened as you realized you could hear their heartbeat. Your throat felt raw. It was like you hadn't had anything to drink in years. And your stomach. Good lord. Your stomach ached in a way you’d never felt before. You took a deep breath in as you managed to sit up.

“It’s a miracle you survived the fall.”

You could hear the person talking to you but you couldn’t focus on the words. Your nose had gotten a whiff of blood and your mouth had started to salivate. You turned to look at the person beside you.

“And don’t even worry about the car. I’m just glad you’re alright. 

You felt the muscles in your face shift as you watched the person's eyes widen. 

“What the he-”

Before they’d even managed to get the rest out you pounced. Your fangs grew as you opened your mouth. You sank your teeth into the person's neck, cutting off their scream as you finally got a taste of what your body so desperately craved.  You felt their body sag into the ground as you drank them dry. Once there wasn’t any more blood you unlatched yourself from their corpse. You looked up at the moon and grinned. Your body had never felt stronger. You felt invincible. No. You were invincible. A strangled laugh made its way out of your lips.

"Get some sleep," he spoke softly, forehead pressed against yours, a few happy tears falling down his face, and two soft hands holding your cheeks. Perfect smile on his features. "I wanna spend more time with ya too but it's late. Get some sleep."  Followed by another kiss to your forehead.

You did whine at the loss but your urge to sleep overtook any other emotion. So you stumbled your way inside after a few more moments. Silver and the others were both happy and anxious to see you after so long but sleep still won out over everything. You were already so exhausted you hardly even noticed you going through the routine of taking a shower, brushing your teeth, and getting into your favorite pair of fuzzy pjs before just collasping into your bed. Eyelids heavy and darkness consuming you as you fell into a fast deep sleep. The darkness of your dream was interrupted however in the most strangest ways. Because you woke up. Or at least...you thought you did-

"At last...Thou haveth been found. Divine childe from thine differ plain of being.''

Cold..It was so cold. Like winter had come early and seeped into your blankets, except you weren't covered by anything except for the clothes on your back. And you weren't laying on any soft cozy mattress like when you first went to best. It felt..cold and glasslike the ground under you. Like you just decided to fall asleep on a giant pane of glass in the middle of winter. It was the cold that beckoned f/c eyes to open above you, shivering and teeth clattering together from the cold feeling. And what was above the young woman made her gasp at the holy sight above. It-...It was almost as if the universe itself was in front of you, swirling shades of purple and black swam before you in the shape of the galaxy with some invisible force holding it above you. Silence fading in and out as twinkling stars shown around you with the beautiful sight of the fully moon lighting it all. The moon looked so close and so far at the same time. What the-...Where were you? Were you dreaming? This felt too real to be just a dream. Were you seeing some kind of old game footage like the first time you arrived in this world??..Had you died? Is this the afterlife? No..No that wasn't it. Before you could get too far into your questioning, you slowly, body shaking and teeth now clattering together from how cold it was, stood on legs more wobbly than a newborn deer. Your hands came up to rub your arms in a failed attempt to warm you up looking around. Black...EVERYWHERE WAS BLACK!! Like eternal night other than the endless night stars and full moon above you. Nothing anywhere. Spinning in a complete circle, you still found yourself completely alone. Right. Alone. This MUST have been some crazy dream right?

"H-Hello?!," You called out tentatively finding your voice trembling and throat dry from the cold croaking. Like a creepy tunnel your voice echoed into the dark abyss. ...No answer came back to you. "I-I-Is an-nyone there!?"

Dead silence.

Ok. Obviously this wasn't a dream. This was a freaking NIGHTMARE!! You felt dread creeping in on you and you would've started panicking if it wasn't for a voice. One you thought you heard before, One so feeble and far you almost thought you had imagined it. Then you heard it again.

"This way.''

The words- That voice came from behind you and you snapped behind you seeing no one.

"H-HELLO!? HEY! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!? C-C-C-C'mon! Ju-Just s-s-show yourselves al-al-laread-dy!"

"This way," the voice repeated only now you were facing the direction it came from.

This person-..thing...It couldn't be serious right? Your mind was playing tricks on you surely!...But..you had no other choice but to follow it huh? Sigh. You sighed, looked around you one more time, again saw nothing, and then turned forward to behind walking. To be honest it felt like walking on a treadmill. Never leaving the place you stood except you didn't feel the ground move under your feet or the stars go past you, maybe your feet were just too cold. Then, after a short while of walking you saw it. A small dull light coming from in front of you. You grew more excited and your pace quickened. That was it! The exit! At this point you were all but running, excited to leave this place wherever it is was you were. You'd probably wake up once you reach the end. Boy Milo would think this one would be a doozy to hear. Probably get a laugh outta it too. The closer you got the more blinding the light became. Up until you had to close your eyes against the harsh glare. Still you continued on and while the light gave you hope it also took away your sight until with many blinks and your hands rubbing your eyelids, they slower adjusted to the light and it wasn't as bright as you initially thought it was. And your eyes blinked down once your leg bumped into something almost making you trip over and blink at it. Until your eyes fully adjusted. And widened as you realized you were staring at....Uh..Well you were staring at..The light was coming from...

A floating rectangle???

Yes. Before you floating just a foot above the ground was a stop sign sized rectangle that was glowing a white with a slight blue-green tint to it. Your f/c eyes followed it up to another one just like it. And then another. And another. And another. All one foot apart and starting to head upwards like some kind of stairs...Wait..WERE these stairs?? You kept staring at it totally bewildered-

"Up, Young One. Ascend."

You flinched. There it was. That voice again. It sounded male in gender and echoed both inside and outside your skull like a drumroll. Wait. Did that thing say up? You blinked at the apparent stairs again. It wanted you to go up? Seriously!? A long flight of stairs?! Your mind couldn't have dreamt up an elevator at least?...You sighed but followed the strange voice's instructions and began to climb the glowing staircase upwards. Step after step you took moving upwards in a seemingly never ending stairway of glowing floating rectangles. After a while you got to a point where you couldn't tell where you began or where it ended, as if you weren't even going anywhere again like when you were walking, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Er. Stairs I mean. Because when you looked up, you saw something at last that made you give pause once again. Upwards above you was a GIANT circular platform surrounded by faint purple lights resembling the aurora borealis. Was that where you were supposed to go? Looking around there was nothing and no where else to go. You couldn't even see the bottom of the stairs anymore as they faded into the darkness below. Guess there was only one way out of this mess. Looking back upwards you continued your climb all the way up until finally at last you were standing on the strange floating platform. The platform was about as big as half your standard large parking lot and strange circle patterns were glowing in it's floor. You stopped when you were about half way in the middle of it and looked around. And still nothing although you didn't feel so cold anymore now.

"HELLO!?," you hollered out again your voice echoing around as you looked around for any sign of life. "Hey! I'm here already! Where are you!? Show yourself!"

"Be Not Afraid!"

That voice again. Echoing. It sounded like it came from everywhere and no where at once leaving you looking any which way to find it. Up at the stairs. Down at your feet. Around and around at all sides seeing absolutely no one. Then it happened. Something blocked the light from you making you freeze as a long shadow fell over you. ...You felt yourself gulp feeling a VERY massive presence behind you eyes boring into the back of your skull. And then you slowly turned around. And you saw it. Irises shrinking and jaw dropping. White blinded your vision as red and green eyes bore down at you from four stories high and feet across. The thing a monster above you-

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Your body moved on it's own. Peddling backwards and making you crash onto your backside flashbacks of the giant corviknight when you first showed up flashing before your eyes. Making the giant pokemon blink and wince.

"I sayeth be not afraid."

"HOLY ARCEUS!!," You cried out staring at this...this..thing wide eyed scooting backwards and pointing at the thing towering over you. "What the heck are you!?"

"Oh..Thou hast already answered thine question," it answered you tilting it's head at you. "It hast taken me many a moon to find thee."

You paused. Staring at the giant thing in front of you like a goldfish before lowering it's head. "....What?"

It looked eye level at you now as if trying not to frighten you again. "Thoust tis gazing upon thy god of this realm."

God?...Wait. This thing was a god?? Not any god you could think of like Thor or Hercules. Wait. Did the pokemon franchise even have a god? Well there were legendary pokemon which were like demigods and the strongest among them was-....Was-...Your eyes widened more as a glass breaking sound went off in your head again and the thing chuckled at your expression.

"HOLY ARCEUS!!!"

"Thee one and only."

"I-...W-What the-" ARCEUS!? YOU WERE BLOODY TALKING TO THE ARCEUS!? "W-Wha-...How-...WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

"I haveth summoned thee to correct the mistake of mine children."

"Wa-..Y-Y-Your children!?"

It nodded before lifting it's head back up and you stumble/wobbled back onto your foot. "I'm afraid the fault of thou's arrival to this plain of existance would be none other than my own children. Perhaps thou knowest thy children of time and space?"

You continued to stare at him before raising a brow. "Are-...A-Are you talking about Dialgia and Palkia?"

Arceus nodded. "Indeed."

"Wha-...H-How the heck?! What did they do to me!?"

"It seems that not too long ago now mine two children had gotten into a rather terrible spat. The worst one in nearly a millennia. Twas the fighting so passionate that they had opened up portals to your world. Resulting in many a person crossing over."

You still stared at him....before you scowled. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. WAIT A MINUTE!!" You pointed at him. "Are you telling me that the only reason I'm here is because I fell through a portal two legendary pokemon made!?"

Arceus looked a bit more embarrassed now. "When down to it..yes. Tis what happened. And thoust was not thee only one. I had toldest thine children to fix their mistake."

"....And did they?"

"Yes...Well. Mostly. I hast seen them mend the rifts and heal thine wounds towards one another but send the humans they did not. Instead they deemed it worthy to bend space and time to thine will and make thee a part of thine new world."

Make you a part of this world-...THE ID CARD!! Your eyes widened as you realized. THE OLD BAG SONIA DISCOVERED AT THE CRASH SIGHT!! That was them!? It must've been them! That was the only way to explain it! Things were starting to make so much sense now.

"So Dialgia and Palkia fought and during that fight managed to open portals between this plain of existence that they exist and somewhere where they only exist in video games and anime?....That....actually makes sense in a really, really weird way. But that still doesn't explain why you're here."

"With mine children not doing so I hast taken it up in mineself to right thine wrongs and return thine human children to their rightful home."

Your eyes widened. "You can do that?"

He nodded. "I apologize on behalf on my children for thou's troubles and thee's wait for mine arrival. For there was a many humans which fell and I hadst to prioritized the ones who would cause more trouble than though."

"You can...really send me back? Just how many were there!?"

"A plenty but do not be alarmed. Every human was sent back happily, some more forced than others. However thy childe is thy last to return home and thus thou shalt get to chose thy fate."

"You mean...I can chose whether I can leave or stay?"

"Correct. Thou hast shown bravery and compassion where others shant. I commend thee and thy good deeds. Therefore shalt get my reward here. Chose. Stay in this new world or return home from wince ye came."

You...could go back? You could go back home!? Back to your mother and old home and life. You could ...you could go and make a new life for yourself. You could leave and get your own life and job and chose your own college since you had the guts to never listen to her! And she still must be worried about you. And...that was your goal in the beginning r-right? To get back home. But...you did and have so much here. You had friends. A job. A home. Pets- Er. Pokemon. And you and Milo-...You'd have to start all over again if you went back, and Dialgia and Palkia made you an identity here. You now existed in both worlds. But you could only chose one.

"What...happens if I go back? T-T-To my old world."

"Nothing. It would be like if thou never left at all."

"Really?"

"Thou would be sent back to the exact time they disappeared. You'dst be wearing the clothes thou wore when you disappeared. Thou's age would be the same before you left. It would be if thou never ever even left for a second...But. Be warned. If thou shalt pick this path, you shall never be able to return here again. And everyone here shall forget you." Your brows shot up! "Every evidence of you even being here would fade away. Photos. Memories...Everything. Your friends would forget about you."

They ...Would forget you? All of them. The journey you made with your friends? The way you raised Silver? Milo and your feelings?

"W-What about my Mom?! In my own world I mean? W-What would happen to her?"

"Thine same scenario. In fact thoust hast been here for so long thy mother hast most likely forgotten as your existence hast most like already faded from there as well. But fear not Human Child. It shalt all be fixed once I send ye back."

You stared at him. She....had already forgotten about you? But all of it would be fixed once he sent you back..If you decided to take him up on his offer to send you back. But would that be the best thing? Yes you missed her but...There was so much more here. And your world didn't have Funny Leon or Smart Sonia or always hungry Silver or ambitious Postwick twins....Or..Milo. ..It was decided. You inhaled a shaky breath stealing your nerves before looking back up at Arceus who still stayed ever patiently.

"Hast thou decided?"

You nodded. "I have. I-...I-I'd like to stay if that's possible."

"Art thou sure? I will only make this offer once and if thee choses to stay.." He shook his head. "Thine choice is final. I shalt not make this offer again nor will I send thee back to your old home. Think carefully before thou gives me their final answer."

"I'm already sure. And I'd like to stay."

"Tis that thine final answer?" You nodded and he hummed. "....So be it. As thou walkest onward upon thine own path, upon thee and upon this creation where thou now dwellest, I bestow my blessing. Take heed upon thine new life and tell not a soul of our meeting. Fair thee well, Human Childe Y/n of thy different world."

With that your vision began to fuzz and blur. The darkness shifted and spun around you like you were drunk and dizzy. Faster and faster everything spend up as the double vision of Arceus faded...And you woke up. Shot straight up from your cozy bed in your own little house in the dark. It....It must've still been night time! Milo walked you home only a few hours ago. After a moment you slowly laid yourself back down and stared at the ceiling for what must've been ten minutes or so processing what had just happened....Before you again smiled.

"...I'm home."

"W-W-Will you b-b-b-be my date t-t-t-to the tornam-m-ment?"

"No! Are you kidding me? After what happened? You said you just wanted to be friends so why would you even ask me that!?"

That's totally what he was bracing himself for when he walked up to the door and couldn't stop the words from leaving his mouth and he had froze standing there like he was a movie and someone pressed pause on it. You had also froze at the shocked face you gave Before your face went neutral and you slowly asked him.

"Milo," you voice dropped to a low and serious level, "A-Are you...a-asking me on a d-date?" Your face went red and so did his.

A..date? As in like an actually romantic date?! NO! Absolutely not- Or was it? NO! What was he thinking!? Having you on his arm, smiling, and making him feel better about being there himself. Keeping his attention on you while you him. Maybe getting closer- He shook his head hard enough to shake his hat. He opened his mouth to say 'No' and 'As just a friend' kinda deal but instead his mouth said something else. 

"Yes."

And then his hands shot up to his mouth making a light slap noise as they collided with his lips. Red immediately flooding his face and feeling as if his soul left his body when you blinked..and then chuckled at him. Making his heart skip a beat and humiliation flood over him. You were laughing at him. You must've thought he was ridiculous-

Y nodded shy smile and eyes looking around. "Sure! It might be fun...I've never been on a d-date before."...When you didn't get an answer back you looked up to see Milo pale and staring at you. "Um...Milo?" you held up a hand. "Are you ok? You look pale."

His answer? He didn't give you one. He silently stared at you or nothing?? You couldn't tell. His arms had long since hung back to his sides and it was almost like he was a mannequin in a store window. Kinda creepy but this was more concerning than creepy the more he stood there pale faced and looking ready to drop- !?

"MILO?!" You shouted as the farmer tilted sideways to the right and with a loud thud sound collided with the porch front . You immediately dropped to your knees next to the dazed man sprawled on the ground blankly staring at the blue sky. Your hands immediately went under his head and chest pulling his shocked form up towards your concerned face. "Are you ok!? Speak to me!"

He continued staring up at the sky in a daze. "...You're...g-gonna be my...date?"

"I..Y-Yeah." You blinked. "But are you ok? GAH!?"

You were sat up really quickly by a blur and Milo was all of a sudden sat up clutching your arms looking serious and lost at the same time. "Did you mean it!?" He looked at you wide eyed. "You'll go with me? A-And ya don't mind? Y-You.." His hands slowly let go of your arms staring like he didn't believe you. "You said you w-wouldn't mind going with me?..Really?" You slowly nodded. "....Why?"

 You smiled pink rising to your cheeks. "Um..Because you asked me nicely? A-And it does genuinely sound like a fun time if you'd be there with me." You spoke truthfully looking down and clasping your hands. "You're a really nice guy and I consider you a f-friend so ...W-Why not go together? I m-mean for all you did for me it's t-the least I can do right?"

MILO stared at you longer as the realization wound it's arm back and with all it's force smacked him across the face with reality. He...Had. A. DATE. With. YOU!! That part replayed over and over in his mind. He had a date. He had a date. He had a date. He had a REAL and LEGIT date with YOU and in one month he'd be taking you out on your first ever official date with him to this high class party being hosted. Green eyes widened as any remaining blood drained from his face. He had a date with you in one month and he hadn't even gotten ready for the trip. Nothing packed. He didn't tell Felix yet. And no plans for this outcome....

Oh no

OH NO OH NO OH NO!!!

"Um. Milo?" You waved a hand in front of his glassy eyed expression. "You still with me, Farmer?"

"OH SWEET WOOLOO KNITTED SWEATERS!!" He answered you making you pause and blink as the farmer stumbled over himself to stand on two feet, once in a standing position, hands grabbing onto his hat and gripping them with enough force to crack a diamond if he tried hard enough. "I gotta start packing!"

You blinked as the next moment he turned and shit back down the dirt pathway back up to his home redder than a strawberry and clutching his hat....You giggled again.

One month flew past in the blink of an eye when you were busy..or in his case really, really stressed out. Felix was both happy and slightly concerned seeing his brother so eager to now go to Wyndon and take on this tournament with him but his slight concern to him going over every single detail with him was a little overboard. He sat on his floor countless times helping him go over everything as he ran between packing and making arrangements with his more reliable farm hands to take care of Turrffield in their absence. And one such event happened to be now as he was shifting through his suitcase once again as calculating as a ninja but he could see his hands slightly shaking in nerves. 

"T-Tell me what's going on again there," he said while pulling out a perfectly folded shirt for the fifth time out of his packed traveling suitcase.

Felix would've rolled his eyes if he wasn't so patient and understanding of his big bro's nerves, so he instead decided to repeat himself from his spot lounged against the wall scrolling through his phone. "We were both invited to Wyndon's first ever Battle Of The Leaders Tournament to show the world Galar's strongest pokemon trainers. It's in honor of Prince Lear from the Pasio Region."

"Right, right." He continued fumbling to fold the shirt back and place it back down. "..Who's that again?"

"The special guest that we need to impress. He's coming all the way from Pasio to pick and chose who gets a chance to compete in the ultimate Pokemon Masters League with other Gym leaders, trainers, and people from all over the world. It's a big deal that the Chairwoman thinks will help Galar's reputation back on track. ....This could be a good chance to show off Turrffield's power too."

.he nodded. He hated to admi itt. Loathed it even. But Felix had a point. He'd do anything to help Turrffield and this seemed like a good idea to get more attention towards the town. "R-Right." He pulled out a small traveling blanket. "So what's the main events we're doing there anyways?"

"The Battle Tower event's first," Felix explained holding up something made of paper towards him. "Leon sent you all the details in the letter if you just wanna read it?" Daisy baaed in agreement at his feet.

"Felix please."

"*Sigh* Basically the battle tower is gonna be for all the new pupils the gym leaders have taken on. We're going to battle our way up Rose tower until there's only one last person standing, and that person's going to have the chance to battle Leon himself. I think it's to show off Galar's future leaders."

"Ah..And you plan on beating them to the top?"

"Of Course. I ain't losing a chance to battle the Champion again. This time I'll make sure he gets to taste how I do battles."

A small smile and chuckle escaped him despite his nerves. "That's the spirit. And uh what's the second one?"

"Dunno. It only says that one's staying a surprise until we get there but there's gonna be a couple guests battlers joining us for whatever it is."

That's what interested him most in their one week leave. A week passed by within a blink of an eye and soon it was time to go. He and Felix had everything they needed packed in their bags, and arranged for some local farmers to care for the farm while they were away. The flying taxi Leon had called in advance to tell them that would be their transport was there, and when he got there, you were already there backpack thrown over your shoulder and Silver and Mary at your heels. He would not let you go by yourself it seemed as the little drizzlie literally clung to your leg like a toddler not caring if he embarrassed you. You were staring at the flying taxi with an uncomfortable look but when the sounds of cheering from the crowd picked up you turned your head and smiled upon seeing the two siblings walking towards you.

"Milo! Felix!," you greeted with a wave and smile.

Ba-bump. Oh..Arceus. He could feel his own cheeks light up a bright pink at her beautiful smile. If Felix hadn't pulled him by the wrist towards the taxi then he might've tripped over in front of the crowd gathered behind him. Stopping in front of you.

"I thought you guys weren't going to make it. I was waiting here for a bit and then this.." You gave the taxi another unenthusiastic look. "..ride showed up."

Felix gave a quick kick to his brother's leg making him jump. "Huh!? Oh. Uh- *ahem* Y-Yeah. D-Didn't Leon tell you in the letter that'd we'd be going by taxi?"

You nodded not noticing his slip up much to his relief. "Yeah..I'm not too fond of flying. Why is it always flying?"

"Well if we wanna get there on time we gotta take the fastest transport to get there." He gave a look back up to the giant corviknight and it's driver perched high and mighty above the sturdy metal taxi cabin. "And this is it. We'll be there in no time."

You  groaned but nodded. "Yeah. I guess so. But I don't understand why we couldn't just take the train?"

"Well Leon was kind enough to arrange this for us and it's already paid for. It'd be rude to turn it down. But don't worry. Flying is quick so it'll be over before you know it."

He could almost chuckle when you groaned and let your arms flop to the sides. But since you wanted to go, and you felt obligated being formally invited by the Champion and Chairwoman, you would have to travel with Milo and Felix Inside the flying taxi. Needless to say you had sadly gotten used to this kind of travel even if you didn't like it. The trip over there was a blur to Milo. He remembered the cheers the crowd had given you all as you stepped into the taxi, him letting you go first. Ladies first as they say, and waving to the crowd before he himself sat on the seat, next to you, and watched as you gripped the seat just before he gave the taxi driver the go ahead to take off and the lunge into the air made you grip tighter onto the seat despite you had buckled yourself in. The mighty strength of the corviknight easily taking off into the air and thus the traveling began. With you sitting next to him and Felix in the seat in front of you both. Things weren't as bad on the trip to Wyndon as he thought it'd be. It was silence for a bit and Felix had to give him a few nudges and start talking herself to get him to talk to you. And it was...easy. You smiled at him like there was nothing awkward between you two and you both chattered about anything and everything like old friends and it gave you a good chance to chat with Felix more and get to know him. And you found it easy to talk to him about as much as Milo. It was nice to get to know him. Milo however watched with a soft expression seeing you and his little brother get along as one day turned to two and two turned into three and so on. It was..nice seeing someone he liked getting along so well with his little brother. The easy going atmosphere helped to calm him but he still turned a shade of red whenever you leaned against him in your sleep at night. On your way to Wyndon you all sometimes stopped at small towns to recharge for the night or restock on supplies before continuing onward. Until the day arrived. It was early in the morning that you were woken up by someone shaking your shoulder and with a snort you woke up with a groggy look blinking towards Milo who just smiled and pointed out the window.<

"Look. We're here."

Blurry eyed you turned to the window. The sun was just starting to come over the sky so it was still fairly dark, and down below you could see the world lit up in lights and that's when you all saw it. You all looked out at the sight of a GIANT brick wall going as far as the eye could see. The horizon blocked off my what must've been hundreds of skyscrapers and Rose Tower. From your place, you could see all the shiny buildings lit up in the early morning light making it look almost heavenly. It was beautiful. Your smile widened and eyes lit up immediately reflecting all the pretty lights like stars in a mirror. It made Milo mesmerized just looking at that beautiful scene in your beautiful eyes-

"So where are we landing? Not just somewhere in the middle of the city I hope."

"What- OH!" He cleared his throat as his green eyes averted from your starry nightfall ones sadly. Pink rising on his face. "*ahem* L-Leon said everyone's meeting' at the Rose o' Rondelands and to wait for them there. Says he wants to go over everything with us before the Battle Tower two days from now, and whatever else he has planned. We can check in our luggage and take a small break from flying."

"That sounds like a good idea," you agreed.

After another rough landing ensued when you all descended through the air and ended up landing right in front of the giant famous hot in Wyndon and you all piled out leaving the taxi behind. Felt good to stretch your legs. And you looked up and up at the tall building that shadow loomed over you. Ah. This brings back memories. Good thing the invite said all the rooms would be paid for in advance. Couldn't imagine how much one of these much costs. But what really caught your attention was the giant crowd gathered in front of the hotel, you didn't see them until you stepped out of the flying taxi and onto the ground..And then the large amount of cheers filled the air. One look behind you told you where it was coming from. People. What must've been hundreds upon hundreds of people backed up against each other at the front of the Rose of Rondelands, blocked by barriers and police officers much like last year when the Champion Cup took place at the stadium. You were steered away by Milo towards the hotel's entrance and all three of you entered. The shimmering gold interiors shining brightly again like you had remembered and there was an even bigger surprise waiting for you inside because when you walked the three of you were met with yet again another sight. It. Was. EVERYONE!! All the gym leaders you had ever seen were right there!! Lounging and sitting in fancy armchairs and couches. A whole long table was set up with delicious looking food that your f/c eyes laser focused on and made your stomach growl just seeing it everyone was eating from. A few like Melony and Gordie looked up to glance your way as the door was opened and the three of you walked in to which Milo received some waves and greetings.

"Milo!" "Hey, Milo!" "Where have you guys been?" 

"So the country folk has arrived," Raihan greeted standing and leaning against a wall, punch cup in his hand from the giant table of food and that familiar smile on his face. Knowingly looking between him and you. "And here I thought you wouldn't make it."

"You guys know I wouldn't miss this!" Milo looked around. "where's Leon?''

"Dunno," Bea answered Milo from her spot on the couch next to Allister looking boredly at a magazine in her hands. "I've been waiting here since we arrived three days ago."

"Hey now. Lee prolly just wanted to wait until everyone arrived. Now that the whole gang's here, I'm sure he'll be here any second...Unless of course he got lost. Or ended up on top of the Wyndon Stadium again."

Well Raihan was half right. Someone else did arrive. A few somebodies actually but they weren't Leon. Because Leon wouldn't have nearly tackled you to the floor or shouted your name. A flurry of 'Y/N!' flew through the air and before you could even turn around three small things tackled you one after another and you tilted backwards. Your backpack falling to the ground and your arms coming out on instinct to help keep your balance as Silver chirped in surprise. You blinked and looked down at yourself at the clinging creatures attached to you.

"What the-"

"Y/N!" A familiar voice and face beamed up at you and you stared at her smiling face until it suddenly clicked. 

"Gloria!?" Your voice happily shouted as your mouth forced itself up in a smile before noticing the other two right next to her. "Victor! Hop!" It was them. The original trio. And they were all here again. You hadn't seen them in forever! "Where have you guys been!?"

"Do you mean outside or in general?," Victor asked raising a brow. "If ye mean jus' now, Hop wanted ta show us his wooloo's new evolution. If ya mean anywhere else...Eh. It's a long story we need ta share with ya later." He sighed before rubbing his face. "Let's just say a LOT has happened with our training."

You chuckled and slowly got the three to release you from their hug. "I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of time to tell me what happened since we're still waiting for Leon-"

"In the meantime," Piers interrupted your happy reunion, "You should go get your room keys 'n put your luggage away so we can get some grub. M' sure you're starvin'."

That was actually a good point. As much as you were happy at seeing the guys again, you were looking forward to a shower and some food from the long trip over here. In just an hour you all were able to get your separate room keys and escorted to said rooms by one of the helpful wait staff where you were able to drop off your bags and take a quick shower before heading back down to the lobby along with Silver tailing after you. Back down in the lobby you were able to grab some food (after giving Silver some so you wouldn't have to worry about making a mess trying to get to the food ) and sit down with the guys who were practically begging you too. Once you sat down on the couch, you were bombarded with tales of what they were up to. Hard to follow along ultimately what came down to it was that Gloria had one heck of a hard time being trained by whoever this Mustard character was before returning. Which including plenty of push ups, made to battle in front of a crowd of other students, chasing slowpokes, mushroom and diglett hunting, finishing her pokedex journal, her new rivals, being gifted more pokemon- 

"An' then Hop dropped by to surprise me n' we went out ta find this honey for Urshifu," Gloria continued babbling along happily and a record scratch went off in your mind. 

"Wha- Wait, wait, wait. Stop." They looked at you and between holding your plate of food, pointed at her. "Hop was there?" Gloria nodded. "...How? I thought he was training with Sonia to become a Professor?"

Gloria turned to Hop who coughed and reached a hand up to rub his neck pink tinting his cheeks. "S-Sonia and I split up places to survey. And she opted for the cold and snow and all. The Isle of Armor was t-t-the only other option." You weren't totally believing that based off his bashful reaction but you'd let him have it. "I-It was great to see Glory again tho. I had lots of fun until we both caught a ride back here with Lee when he delivered some invites to some people on the island."

Gloria giggled and poked Hop playfully. "Ya shoulda seen this cute lil petilil grab a hold 'o 'em. Hehe. It was so cute! The wee babe wouldn't let go of him until we found it's mother." Hop quickly flushed a deeper red at her words.

"What were you doing on the Isle of Armor anyways?"

"Huh? OH! *ahem* I-I was taking some samples of different pokemon nector f-for Sonia," he explained with a stutter, "A-And some max mushrooms and m-max honey so w-we can study it's connections to dynamaxing."

"Oh." That certainly sounded like something Sonia would have him do. "You said you came back with Leon right? Where's he?"

He shook his head. "Dunno. He dropped us both off here a while ago and said to wait for Sonia and Kabu to arrive. Y'know since we're kinda studying under them and all that."

Ah. You supposed Leon was still preparing everything else that needed to be prepared before these special events happened. Made sense you supposed. In the mean time you were having fun eating the absolutely delicious food and listen to the three's adventures in the Crown Tundra and on the Isle of Armor. Victor was proud to show you his pictures of the ancient pokemon and Reggie-pokemon shrines and the giant tree he had discovered while there mentioning them to Leon who mentioned it to the Chairwoman and lo and behold...Victor had unintentionally saved the Town of Crown Tundra from dwindling away by giving the Chairwoman chances to set up tourist attractions for the locals to sell galarian twig crowns and sweaters. That's Victor for you. His determination for preserving nature one way or another came through again. Nessa was sure proud of her pupil's accomplishments. ...In fact..Both twins seemed to be fairing..MUCH better than before. Gloria didn't seem to be bothered all that much anymore by the thought of battling in front of a large crowd, and Victor seemed confident enough in his battling skills to give it a try himself. 

....But that also brought other questions.

You know Gloria trained under a Mr. Mustard who trained her up before she continued being trained under Kabu, so who helped Victor? Well you asked and he told you who it was. Nessa of course since she was training with him constantly since they got back, but there was someone else. A man who sent Victor on a couple fun adventures and helped him build confidence in himself through having fun like he never had before. Going on Dynamax Adventures in a place called the Max Lair-

"Hey! I know that place!," Hop piped up as soon as Victor mentioned it, "It's like a maze of underground tunnels under the tundra that's just chalk FULL of natural dynamax particles! Sonia was checking it out for the Chairwoman along with some other things. Sometimes you can find rare pokemon in there. They think it'll be a huge hit for the Special Guests we got over here...Whoever he is?"

Yeah. You were wondering that too. You knew there would be some special guests but you didn't know who. The time passed some more until FINALLY the man of the hour arrived. You were all sitting there as Champion Leon himself walked in through the door with an older woman beside him. A flurry of 'Leon!' left a couple peoples' mouths and your face lit up in a smile as he arrived.

"Leon! Where have you been?!"

"Sorry everyone," he apologized giving a guilty look and holding up his hand. "I uh...Kinda got lost on my way here. Luckily I ran into the Chairwoman on the way here. Speaking of which." He gestured to the woman next to him who you all know gazed at. She looked around Kabu's age with grey hair and wearing a blue business suit. She was smaller than Leon too, about Nessa's height. "Allow me to introduce Ms. Dahlia. The Chairwoman of Galar and the creator of the games that'll be taking place."

"Welcome Everyone," she greeted with a smile and nod. "I want to thank you all for coming and on such short notice. I'm well aware you all must be wondering what I had Leon call you all here for." She said gesturing to everyone. "Some information you were already given in your invitations such as the first event, but the more important bits I wanted to save until I was able to speak to you all face to face." She began gesturing with her hands. "As many of you are aware the Battle Tower will be taking place the day after tomorrow at Rose tower. The lucky gym leader in training that wins will have the honor of battling against the Champion himself at the top of the tower. That trainer and their three runner ups will also be allowed to perform along with others in the final grand tournament."

"Um..Yes. About that. Forgive me if sound a little rude here, but what exactly IS this whole second half is?," Bede asked raising a brow, "I believe we have the right to know considering we'll be a very important part of it I'm assuming."

The Chairwoman nodded. "Yes. You'd be right about that. That is the thing I wanted to discuss most. All of you are here to battle it out in the first ever Galarian Star Tournament for none other than Price Lear of the Pasio Region in hopes he'll chose some of Galar's finest trainers to compete in Pasio's own Master League and get a chance to take home the title of world's strongest pokemon trainer." By the surprised looks and raised brows she got, that certainly was a surprised. She held up her hands. "I know it must be a shock to receive such news so late, but I assure you I didn't plan this. Prince Lear will be arriving tomorrow morning if nothing goes wrong, and the day after will be the Battle Tower. And then at the end of the week, the Galarian Star Tournament shall take place with everyone here as well as a few honored guests that will fighting alongside you and afterwards They shall be arriving later this week closer to the second event. I expect all of you to be on your best behavior during Prince Lear's stay with us. For now you all are dismissed back to your rooms until then. Be sure to arrive at Rose Tower first thing in the morning. We'll have much to discuss then."

And that was it. More words were exchanged by the Chairwoman and Leon but most were words of encouragement before they departed again and you all were dismissed. With nothing further to do you all went back to your rooms for the night bidding everyone good bye. The first thing you did was faceplant face first into the soft bed when you got back inside. It was nice to lay on a bed for once instead of a sleeping bag. Now only if the image of Milo smiling didn't plague your heart for the night. 

-Small Time Skip-

The time had come.

Two days had gone past in a blink of an eye and by the second day you had woken up early because of the commotion going on outside your room forcing you to get up and get dressed before walking out the door only to nearly bump into Ms. Opal as she was passing your room towards the elevator along with everyone else. So you apologized before scooting to the side and following the crowd of gym leaders to the elevator, down to the lobby, out the front of the hotel, and out towards your rides there-..And you groaned. Flying taxies. Why was it ALWAYS flying taxies? There was at least somewhere between eight to ten of them. Enough to take everyone to Rose Tower. And you could BARELY hear over the noise. LOTS more people than there were yesterday. All cheering and holding up signs with different gym logos or peoples' faces on them all showing their support for their favorite gym leaders. You had to grab Silver and Mary carrying him in your arms in order to keep them from keeping trampled and ended up climbing into the last taxi before it could take off...Blinking when four people were already sat down inside. It looked a little cramped-

 "Y/n! Here. Ye can seat by me. There should be 'nough room if I scoot over some."

And that's how you ended up sitting between the taxi wall and Victor with Silver on your lap. Next to Victor's other side was Nessa and across from all three of you was Kabu and Gloria. Both twins with both their mentors with opposite elements but both fit the twins personalities. Gloria's fiery spirit and Victor flowing patience. Looked right they were already ready to do battle as well. Gloria wore an all red shirt with Kabu's logo on the front with the rest of her attire matching and the same with Victor wearing Nessa's gym logo and wearing a matching outfit of blue and white. And it was then that it hit you. Gloria and Victor were both gym leaders in training now. That by itself wasn't a bad thing but now..they were going to be battling against one another in the Battle Tower. Victor and Gloria had never battled against one another before not when you were with them and they must've realized at one point but neither of them seemed to give it much mind as the two siblings just sat there smiling and chatting away excited like nothing was wrong as you sat there frozen with Silver on your lap. The whole ride there wasn't anything special except when you all arrived and got out of the taxi there were more blockaids and police to control the cheering crowds and a reporter woman who was speaking to a camera pointed directly at all the gym leaders and Rose Tower itself. You stood there for a moment looking around before spotting the twins start to walk towards the Rose Tower and you went to start following them- Someone tapped your shoulder and with a jolt you snapped around to Kabu who shook his head. 

"Not there," he clarified to you raising his voice to let you hear you over the large crowd cheering and instead pointing towards other gym leaders and everyone else who was walking towards a different entrance into the building. "That is only for the children who'll be participating in this event. You and I must go that way."

"Oh..Ok! Thanks!"

The older man nodded before turning around and jogging off towards the other entrance and you followed still carrying a bored looking Silver. How was he able to keep up a pace like that so easily? Once inside you were greeted to the same lobby like room you first saw when storming Rose Tower to find Leon last year. Only this time chairs had been set up alongside a giant TV on the wall, obviously for everyone to watch the spectial and as you looked around you noticed something. There was an extremely fancy wooden chair away from the plastic ones almost as if it was a throne for someone important. That was odd. Was that for Leon? You had seen him and the Chairwoman greet everyone at the hotel before coming here so maybe. Silver had spotted something amiss and his pink hand collided with your cheek. Blinking you threw a scowl at the pokemon in your arms before he chirped and pointed over at something..Or should I say someone. A FEW someones in fact because you blinked at them. There was Leon and the Chairwoman...and three other NEW people that you had never seen before. But the two of them were smiling and introducing these three to everyone as they walked in and sat down. There were two bodyguard like people. A man and woman. The woman was about Nessa's height with dark purpel hair that was in a spiral pigtail haircut and purple-magenta eyes. She wore a giant pair of square sunglasses on her head, grey coat with very long sleeves, and red and black attire underneath. The man was much taller than both the woman and other shorter man in front of them with dark grey eyes. He wore a grey-white suit with a black undershirt and red tie, gold rings on his fingers, and a pair of black sunglasses sat upon his own head. But it was the third person in front of them that seemed the most important. He wore a suit similar to the first man but more fancy looking. Grey-white all the way from his shoes to the silk gloves he wore with a black undershirt and red tie. His grey-white coat had a black fur collar and red sunglasses were over his eyes so you couldn't tell what color they were but he did have grey-white hair matching his suit. He stood by Leon with his presumed bodyguards at his sides as the Champion smiled and introduced him to everyone. This stranger's expression neutral. Kabu bowed in front of him as you slowly walked in.

"It is an honor to be able to have you in Galar, Your Highness," the older man greeted with a deep bow.

"Very charmed," the man replied back in also a neutral tone. Neither happy or bored but it was enough to also not come off as rude either.

"I think that's everyone. The only ones you haven't met are the gym leaders successor's who'll you'll be able to watch from here." The man hummed at Leon's words. You slowly walked forward and Leon turned his friendly gaze to you, lit up, and waved his hand in a 'come here' motion. "Hey! Y/n! Right on time." The man next to Leon turned to you, did a double take, and raised his brows staring at the pokemon cradled in your arms like a child as you walked over. "Just the person I wanna see." Once you stopped right in front of him his hand gestured to the man beside him again. "I'm glad you can make it. Y/n, it's my pleasure to introduce you to his highness, Prince Lear. He's come all the way from the Pasio Region for the events." His smile became even wider. "He's also asked to meet you personally."

"He...did?" You stared at the new man in front of you blinking. So he was a prince huh? You remembered the Chairwoman mentioning a Prince Lear coming two days ago, and this man could certainly pass off for a prince easily even if he didn't wear a crown. But he asked to see YOU? Why? You didn't have any fancy titles like a Champion or Gym Leader or Chairwoman?

"Um..Well not exactly by name," Leon explained with a nervous smile, "He's heard about the heroes who averted Galar's crisis twice in a row and was interested to meet the people involved." 

Ah. Well that made more sense.

Prince Lear stared in your direction and even though you couldn't see his eyes, you could tell he was looking you over...before a smile finally graced his face. "I've...read the books. Your Professor Sonia took great detail in documenting your region's history."

You nodded. "Yeah. I haven't been able to read her books yet, but I have no doubt Sonia's books are as good as her science. But I didn't expect anyone not from Galar to read them."

The man chuckled amused smiling a bit wider now and both his bodyguards gave a look at each other behind him. "On the contrary. If I'm going to be choosing people from a region to compete in MY Master League's I must do my own research on top of meeting them in person to form my own opinions. Don't I? Your region's current troubles just happened to peek my interest."

You hummed thinking a moment before agreeing. "Well I guess so. I'd want to know about someone too before I invited them to anything."

"Hehe. My thinking exactly. ...Hm. You are Ms. Y/n L/n correct?" You nodded and that seemed to peek his interest more. "So you are the one I've read about. Hmhmhm. Saving the Champion and the rest of the region. Twice...That's not an easy feat." He complimented looking at his gloved hand.

"Well. Actually I didn't save Galar."

He paused. Before looking back up at you. "Oh?''

"I only witnessed it and watched from the sidelines." You shook your head. "I'm no hero. The real heroes are Hop and Victor and Gloria. And of course the pokemon who helped us. I just lent a hand where I could."

"Hmm...You know. Modesty is always beautiful on a woman." You blinked as with a swift motion of his hand, he grabbed your hand in his and lifted it to his mouth. "I look forward to seeing these events." And then you froze as he raised your hand to his mouth and like in some cheesy fairytale fantasy he kissed your knuckles gently.

A cold chill ran down your spine as you could feel everyone looking at you. Along with a tense gaze you could feel glare daggers into the back of your head from..someone but you weren't too sure. You were stuck in a bit of a shell shock as he lowered your hand..but you eventually did react. Chuckling nervously and giving a forced smile before gently pulling your hand back away and grabbing Silver as an excuse. 

"Well!..I'm glad you think so! It's always nice to get a compliment," you forced out to not be rude. Arceus forbid if you were rude right now but it'd be best if you kept your anger down for now. "I'm sure you'll really enjoy watching them."

Leon sensing your OBVIOUS distress gladly took the attention from you. "Hey. The battles about to begin. Y/n why don't you go take your seat next to Milo? He seems to have saved you a spot. Prince Lear, shall we?"

"Hm? Oh. Yes let's. I look forward to seeing how well your region's gym leader's train their successors."

Leon pointed his hand and steered Prince Lear towards the fancy seat off to the left which you took as your chance to scatter like a mouse being chased by a cat back towards the crowd of other who either had confused looks from what just happened or ignored it in favor of turning their attentions towards the TV. True to Leon's word, there was in fact an open seat between Milo and Hop and you found out where the glaring at the back of your head came from. Yep. Milo was staring at Least with a strained smile. You paused staring at him for a few minutes but Hop's waving for you to come here encouraged you to walk up to them and take your seat between the two. Hop spoke first seeing your sour face as soon as you turned away from the prince.

"You ok there, Mate?," he asked raising a brow, "Haven't seen that sore of a face since we last stopped those weirdo hair duo from wreckin' Galar as a whole."

"..Yyyeeaahh." You examined your hand for a moment wincing feeling that guy kiss it before rubbing the back of your hand against your jacket. "Just don't let me forget to wash my hands the first chance I can get."

You jumped feeling a hand grab your shoulder. Looking up you caught Milo giving you a rather serious look before he asked in a low voice, "Are you alright?" He asked softly genuinely concerned before sighing as you nodded. "Oh good. It's rude to just kiss someone like that without asking "

"Hey now. He is a prince. I'm sure they do it all the time," you said wanting to steer away from the topic and gestured towards the TV as it turned on. "But I think right now we oughtta pay attention to the telly. Wouldn't wanna miss Felix's big show."

That seemed to do the trick because Milo's attention was quickly turned to the TV too as the mention of his brother was announced. And Hop gave a fist pump.

"Alright! Now we get to see Glory and Vic in action! They're gonna mop the floors with the competition!"

You admitted you were excited to see Victor's style of fighting and seeing if it differed from Gloria's or not. Gloria had already proven she could be great in battles and use her head but would that hold up? She wasn't able to defeat Raihan on one and one battles. There wasn't any sandstorms to hide behind with him and as Gloria said it. He was too strong. That's when it had really hit you. While this world was like the game this WASN'T a game and was real life, so there was the real possibility of Gloria losing to someone like Raihan and she did. If she couldn't make it past the top gym leader on a fair field then there wasn't any way she could've bested Leon. And while it did surprise you and you were a little sad for Gloria, you were also relieved. That might've been the only reason you were still here now living your own life and with your friends.

"GOOD MORNING GALAR!" You were snapped back up hearing a reporters voice and face show up on screen. The woman with the microphone smiled as the image of Rose Tower appeared behind her. "This is Marcos Cosmos Newscast with Gillian coming to all you folks at home live in front of Rose Tower where the crowds have been waiting for hours to see who'll be victorious in Galar's first ever Battle Tower competition. A true testimony to how well Gym Leaders train the future generation of Galarian gym leaders. Each contestant will go three rounds and the best one will move onto the next round and next floor eventually reaching the top where the Unbeatable Champion Leon awaits." 

What? Leon wasn't- You blinked. Looking around you couldn't spot Leon anywhere in the room. Where was he? You yelped when a hand grabbed your shoulder and you looked up only to come face to face with Nessa. You sighed in relief suddenly seeing her standing above you.

"Arceus Nessa!," you hissed at her in a whisper Silver looking up at the both of you. "What'd you have to go and scare me for?"

"No time to explain!," she whispered back pointing at Silver with a VERY worried expression, "He can battle right? You have his pokeball on you?"

You were a little taken a back at the random question but answered taking Silver's pokeball out of your pocket to show her. "Yeah. He's been in battles before. Why?"

"Victor's short one pokemon and he needs six to rotate out. You don't happen to mind if we borrow him right?" You opened your mouth but before you could speak the pokeball and Silver were snatched into her arms without warning Silver giving a loud chirp of alarm. "Thanks Y/n! I owe you one! I promise I'll make it up to you later!''

"H-Hey wait! Nessa! I didn't-" The fashionista didn't stop as she soon disappeared with a squawking pokemon under her arms out the entrance leaving you sitting there staring.....

What just happened!?

"Will this be the day the Champion finally loses a match or will his record remain unbeatable? Only time will decide. Let's go right now live as the first battle takes place on Floor One on Camera One."

Time's up. The reporter disappeared from the screen and all fell silent as the camera showed a LARGE empty metal room except for one person inside. A man wearing a black and white referee outfit as he stood there. And then two doors from either side opened and two contestants walked in. 

"WELCOME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO THE FIRST ROUND BATTLE OF ROUND ONE OF GALAR'S FIRST EVER BATTLE TOWER EVENT!!," an announcer spoke from no where. Must've been a speaker. "THE FIRST BATTLE IS UNDERWAY WITH OUR FIRST TWO BATTLERS!!" You heard Raihan from somewhere to your right give a small cheer as Sebastian appeared on the scene. "THE FIRST MATCH WILL BE BETWEEN THE FIRE OF HAMMERLOCKE STADIUM SEBASTIAN AND THE FANTASTICAL BEDE OF THE BELLONLEA STADIUM!!" Hop gave a grumble as Bede also proudly made his way onto the battlegrounds. "WILL SPREAD THEIR WINGS TO REACH THE NEXT ROUND OR WILL BELLONLEA TURN THAT CHANCE INTO A JUST FAIRYTALE!? WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE!! BATTLERS!! TAKE YOUR PLACES ON THE COURSE!!" Both teens did. "POKEMON READY! GET SET!! LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!!"</p>

And just like that the first battle was underway. Sebastian must've improved from the last time you saw him because he easily one the first round against Bede to which both Raihan and Hop cheered at. Raihan using his rotomi phone to take plenty of pictures of his boy winning like a proud father. But unfortunately Sebastian didn't win as Bede completely sweeped through him during the second and final round. Marking him as the clear winner. 

"FINAL ROUND OVER!! BEDE HAS BESTED TWO OUT OF THREE!! THEREFORE BELLONLEA PROUDLY MOVES ON TO THE SECOND ROUND AND FLOOR!!"

Raihan groaned which turned into a sigh as he closed his eyes. "Ah well. Can't win them all I suppose."

"That's very sportsman like of you," Opal commented back at him making the Dragon Type Gym Leader chuckle and smile.

"Well I certainly hope so. I wouldn't want to come off as a Negative Nancy."

"SECOND MATCH IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!! PLEASE TAKE YOUR PLACES!!" And instantly Piers's attention reached a million percent as none other than Marnie and Gloria entered next through the doors.

"ALRIGHT GLORIA!," Hop shouted next to you becoming more excited. "This is gonna be great!"

You nodded. You were excited to see how this would play out. "SECOND FIRST ROUND MATCH IS BETWEEN THE BURNING COAL OF MOTOSTOKE GLORIA AND THE SPUNKY MARNIE OF SPIKEMUTH!!" Both girls taking their places on the field. "PLEASE TAKE YOUR PLACES ON THE COURSE! POKEMON AT THE READY! GET SET! BATTLE BEGIN!!"

It was a glorious battle. It always was with both Marnie and Gloria. First round Gloria won. Second round Marnie. Third round now. Piers tensed next to you. Pale hand gripping his pants leg. ....Gloria won. Cheers filled the air. A sigh left Piers's nose. Eyes closing. Head looking down. Poor Piers but Marnie did her best. That's what mattered most.

"GLORIA WINS THE SECOND MATCH AND WILL PROCEED TO THE SECOND ROUND AND FLOOR!! THIRD ROUND BATTLERS PLEASE GO ONTO THE FIELD!!" Two more teens walked onto the course and all three of Milo, Gordie, and Melony cheered as both Felix and Elsa made their way onto the fields. "HE HAS THE BEST GREEN THUMB INTRODUCING FELIX OF TURRFIELD AND HIS OPPONENT THE COLD HEARTED BRAWLER ELSA OF CIRCHESTOR AS THEY READY TO FIGHT FOR MATCH THREE!! BUT WILL TURRFIELD GROW TO THE NEXT ROUND BEFORE WINTER FREEZES IT'S ROOTS!? LET'S FIND OUT! BATTLERS TO YOUR PLACES!! GET SET! BATTLE BEGIN!!" All three cheered in front of you. Milo for his little brother and Melony and Gordie for their little sister/daughter. It was a tough battle but in the end Elsa won. "CIRCHESTOR ADVANCES TO THE SECOND FLOOR AND ROUND!! WE WILL BE TAKING A FIVE MINUTE BREAK FOR THE MAINTENANCE CREW TO FIX THE FIRST FLOOR AND READY THE SECOND! PLEASE STAND BY AS WE HAVE A WORD WITH OUR SPONSORS AND FIGURE OUT THE NEXT MATCH PAIRS!"

Poor Milo. he must've been looking forward to seeing his little brother advance forward but Felix did put up a good front against Elsa's Ice type pokemon. Which means that meant Elsa, Gloria, and Bede would be advancing to Round Two and since Victor didn't have anyone to battle with he got an automatic win to advance to Round Two as well. With three of the trainers out of the running that leaves four left. Nessa returned in the time you were speaking to Hop and Piers to pass the time until the second round was announced by the announcer on the TV and a new floor and referee was shown. 

"ALRIGHT FOLKS!! NEW ROUND AND NEW FLOOR ARE NOW HERE!! THE MATCHES HAVE BEEN DECIDED! LET'S GET THE FIRST MATCH OF ROUND TWO STARTED!" Here we go. You wondered which twin would be first or if either would go first. Or maybe neither? Both entrances opened and two made their way out. "THE FIRST MATCH BETWEEN BELLONLEA AND MOTOSTOKE IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE!! BATTLERS PLEASE TAKE YOUR PLACES!!" Gloria and Bede took their places. "GET SET!! LET THE BATTLE COMMENCE!!" 

Bede and Gloria huh? Not a bad start to a first match..But also with an unexpected twist. Gloria won first round. Bede second...and then Bede the third? It was just one slip up by Gloria. One mistake that allowed Bede's hatterene enough access to grab Gloria's raboot and proceed to literally rear itself and literally toss the poor rabbit pokemon right out of the in boundaries and crashing into one of the tower's walls just before it could late a critical and probably final blow to the hatterene's weak point. Making Bede the winner by a small inch. 

"BEDE'S HATTERENE HAS KNOCKED RABOOT OUT OF BOUNDS!! THEREFORE BEDE ADVANCES TO THE NEXT ROUND AND FLOOR! PLEASE STAND BY AS WE WAIT FOR THE NEXT MATCH TO BEGIN!"

"WHAT!?," Hop shouted hands rushing to grab his head which was followed by many looks thrown at him and shushes from the others.

"Hop. Don't be so loud," you whispered at him. Luckily Prince Lear didn't seem to notice Hop's outburst. "We have a guest here."

"I know but-.." he stared back at the screen where Gloria and Bede now excited the floor. "HOW could've she lost against him of all people?! Glory beat him every other time they battled and she trained under the very best! It doesn't make any sense."

"Well not everyone can win against every battle they fight," you explained, "You win some. You lose some. Even Gloria. I mean she lost to Raihan in the finals didn't she?"

"Not everyone loses. Leon doesn't."

"Didn't he lose to Eternatus?" Your brow rose. "I thought that was the entire reason of you two saving him."

Hop went silent for a moment before crossing his arms and mumbling. "I guess so."

You smiled. "See? It's not so bad. Besides you have to remember Bede's going to have to fight either Elsa or Victor in the next round anyways, so it's not like he's home free yet.''

That seemed to lift Hop's spirit's a bit because he nodded with a hum. "That's true. We'll have to wait and see."

Well you all didn't have to wait long because the entrances opened again and two others made their way onto the course. "THE SECOND MATCH OF ROUND TWO WILL NOW COMMENCE BETWEEN CIRCHESTER AND HULBURY!! PLEASE GET TO YOUR PLACES!! POKEMON AT THE READY!! BATTLE BEGIN!!" Round one. Elsa wins. Round two. Victor wins. Last round...Victor wins. And no sign of Silver being used which you were a bit concerned about. "ELSA'S GLACEON IS UNABLE TO BATTLE! THEREFORE HULBURY ADVANCES TO THE THIRD ROUND AND FLOOR! BUT ONLY ONE TRAINER WILL MAKE IT TO THE TOP FLOOR TO CHALLENGE THE CHAMPION HIMSELF! WHO WILL IT BE!? FIND OUT AFTER THE COMMERCIAL BREAK SO STAY TUNED!!"

"Yeah Victor!," Hop cheered throwing a hand out and a determined face smacked onto him now. "I knew he could do it! He's gonna wipe the floor with Bede's mop head."

"Hop!," you scowled at him, "I thought we agreed to stop calling him names. And you shouldn't count your poke eggs before they hatch. We don't know who's going to win yet."

"Yeah. But if Vic doesn't ground Bede into dust then Leon sure as Arceus will."

Well...He did have a point there. As a commercial for some kind of pokemon food product came on the TV you wondered what exactly Victor was thinking. Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye faster than expected because the TV showed a new room with both Victor and Bede making their way onto the scene and stopping. Here we go.

"THIS IS IT FOLKS! ROUND THREE IS ON THE WAY!! THE WINNER SHALL GO ON TO CHALLENGE NONE OTHER THAN GALAR'S OWN UNBEATABLE CHAMPION! BUT WHO WILL TRIUMPH AND WHO WILL LOSE!? LET THE THIRD ROUND MATCH GET UNDERWAY!! TAKE YOUR PLACES!! POKEMON READY! GO!"

And then both sent out their pokemon of choice. Bede a rapidash and Victor a vaporeon. And it didn't take long for one of them to react as Victor pointed right at Bede and shouted a command. "Vaporeon! Quick attack now! And ready your shadow ball!" In an instant the vaporeon did as it's master said. With a small battle cry of it's own, darted forward at lightning speeds. The making of a black ball forming at it's mermaid like tail.

A huff came out of Bede as he shook his head. "Don't you know dark type moves aren't that effective on fairty types? Rapidash! Show them your power with psycho cut!" The horse pokemon let out high pitched whinny. It's whole body glowing a white light as it powered itself up for the move and thrusted it's head forward. Pointing it's horn at the approaching vaporeon. Slashes of that light cutting through the air towards it-

"USE SHADOW BALL ON THE GROUND NOW!!" With a back flip the vaporeon went head over heels, slamming the shadow ball into the ground and allowing the built up momentum to send it cascading through the air and right over the Rapidash's still lowered head. "AQUA TAIL!" A glowing blue light and wave swung forth. The powerful tail absolutely SLAMMING into the poor rapidash's head. A niegh of pain coming from the horse pokemon slammed head first into the floor...and that's where it stayed.

"RAPIDASH IS UNABLE TO BATTLE! VICTOR WINS FIRST MATCH OF ROUND THREE!" Bede's expression changed to one of amusement to shock to frustration as he returned his fallen rapidash. "SECOND ROUND IS UNDERWAY!! PLEASE READY YOUR NEXT POKEMON!!" The Vaporeon stayed as Bede brought a second pokemon out. "GET SET! BATTLE BEGIN!"

"HYDRO PUMP!" Victor was quick to strike first ordering the vaporeon to shoot the geyser of water from it's mouth and it did. Which the gardevoir gracefully dodged with a large jump allowing it to get closer to Victor's pokemon. "SHADOWBALL!!"

"Gardevoir use teleport!" Just as the vaporeon shot out the shadowball the gardevoir disappeared. Only to appear in a blink of an eye behind the water type a little bit aways from it. "Psyshock!" Gardevoir obeyed. Splaying it's arms out circles of bright pink-white light before the same light circles appeared around the vaporeon and darts of lights shot down out it. Causing it to shriek as the light darts made contact with it's body. "Finish it off with shadowball!" It held it hands in front of it's chest as a black ball of energy formed, before as quickly as a scorbunny could run, the gardevior reared it's arms back like a baseball pitcher and threw it. The shadowball cascaded right through the air and exploded on contact. Smoke flew into the air as the explosion started to die down and everyone waited with baited breath as it slowly faded away. And their the vaporeon laid fainted against the ground.

"VAPOREON IS UNABLE TO CONTINUE BATTLE!! BEDE WINS THE SECOND MATCH OF ROUND TWO! PLEASE READY YOUR POKEMON FOR THE FINAL MATCH!!" Both pokemon were retracted and next to you Hop for Victor to win under his breath as both readied their final pokemon for the last match of Round Three. Both brought out their final pokeballs. "GET SET! GO!"

Both finally sent out their final pokemon and your eyes widened when you you saw none other than Silver being sent out by Victor along with Bede's Hatterene. The drizzlie giving a shake of his head and looking around confused- Before giving a squeak of fear at seeing the much larger hatterene staring right at him.

"Hatterene use calm mind!" The hatterene gave off a cry as light surrounded it and in a moment disappeared. That couldn't be good. Bede gave Victor a proud smile as the other twin pointed at him.

"Silver! Water pulse quick!" Quickly regaining his composure, Silver produced a water balloon looking thing from no where and sent the water pulse cascading towards the Hatterene who...didn't move? Bede didn't even make an attempt to order his pokemon as the attack collided with it- And then bounced off right back towards Silver The drizzlie gave a high pitched sound before diving right onto his stomach to avoid the attack that had been magically rebounded at him.

"That's Magic bounce!," Hop said in disbelief next to you. "It sends an enemy's attack right back at them! How'd he teach his hatterene to do that?!"

"Hatterne bedazzle your audience with dark pulse!"

"Silver! Dodge it and get close to that hatterene!"

You could only watch in terror and worry as Silver basically looked like he was tripping on banana peels running around the battle field with a terrified expression ducking and diving away from the calm hatterene's attacks barely dodging Bede's commanded attacks. Anytime Silver was able to get an attack in it was rebounded out back at him and just giving him another thing to dodge from but he did slowly start getting closer towards the hatterene. Your hands clenched feeling the dread and worry in your guts seeing your poor pokemon put through that. Until one well placed dark pulse by Bede sealed the poor pokemon's fate. With a shriek Silver went cascading through the air along with a terrible ripping sound which was the result of his little hoodie tearing right down the front and ruining it as he landed with a hard thud sound right in front of the hatterene. You nearly let out a shriek yourself. Silver wasn't even given time to recover when something grabbed him in an iron grip and lifted his struggling form into the air. 

"Give him a few slams onto the ground!," Bede ordered. And what Bede wanted he got. Over and over and over Silver was slammed into the hard metal ground with enough force to leave behind some dents before it finally brought a dazed and limp Silver up to it's face. The tatters of his jacket falling onto the ground. "Not surprising since you don't have much Pink! Stand by with psychic to finish them off!"

Time seemed to slow down for a moment as Silver's eyes blinked open. Watching as the tatters of the once nice jacket slowly fall to the ground like forgotten leaves in autumn. The poor blue fabric scraps hitting the ground and leaving no more trace of it- No more trace of YOU with him had him staring wide eyed at the ground from the hatterene's grip. He hurt. He was scared. And he was alone right now. Like how he first felt back when he was just a sobble. He certainly fell like crying in that moment but then something happened. Something snapped in him and the hatterene was certainly surprised when the once scared drizzile in it's gripped reared it's head up and yelled at it's face.

"SILVER USE POUND!" 

The hatterene was forced to drop the limp drizzile as a hard sucker punch was delivered directly to it's face via Silver's tongue and with another thud Silver landed on the ground-..And then his once limp body shimmered as if the starlight itself emanated from his own body and he glowed. Brighter and brighter and brighter he became until his body changed and morphed. The hatterene watching in shock and horror as the lit up body grew even taller than itself until the starlight disappeared and a very, very, VERY tall Inteleon stood in it's place above it. Gold eyes staring dangerously down at itself and the hatterene let out some frightened noise instantly leaning back away from this dangerously smiling pokemon.

"Our turn now! Silver let's give these two a piece o' their own medicine!" The hatterene shrieked as a whip like tail snatched it up from the bottom of it's body. 

"HATTERENE!!" Bede could only watch in horror as his beloved hatterene was given the same treatment it gave Silver as the now Inteleon slammed it over and over and OVER into the metal floor with such ANGER and furosity that it made the purple eyed boy stare on in horror. 

"GIVE IT A TOSS!!" A crack of a whip sound went off as Silver with one twist of his body let lose the hatterene and sent it flying into the air with a high pitched shriek of it's own. It's eyes wide in fear as it went around in circles head over heels- "SNIPE SHOT!!" Like a sniper aiming his weapon, Silver held up his hands in a similar way and a stream of a deadly water attack shot out. Not missing it's target and landing with expert skill colliding with the hatterene who gave one last cry of pain before it landed on the ground with a hard thud. ...And didn't get back up.

"HATTERENE IS UNABLE TO CONTINUE BATTLE!! VICTOR WINS THE THIRD ROUND AND SHALL PROCEED ONWARDS TO CHALLENGE THE CHAMPION!!"

"YES!!" You were spooked out your jaw dropped stupor and blinked when Hop jumped up throwing both hands into the air. "HE DID IT!! VICTOR'S GOING TO CHALLENGE LEON!!"

Silver...evolved! You let out a breath you didn't know you were keeping in your mouth as you sighed and continued staring at the Tv. Bede had already returned his hatterene and seemed upset as Victor cheered himself. But it was the actions of Silver that had your eyes staring at the screen. White hands of the knelt shiny inteleon gingerly picked up some of the few remaining tatters of the jacket before standing up. The gold eyes inspecting the remains of the fabric before closing his eyes. A sigh escaping his nose before he turned up a smile towards the cameras for whatever reason. Thank ARCEUS he was alright.

"STAY TUNED FOLKS AS WE TAKE A SMALL BREAK BEFORE THE FINALLY WHERE THE LUCKY TRAINER WILL GO ON TO BATTLE THE CHAMPION HIMSELF! WILL THERE BE A NEW VICTORY AGAINST LEON OR WILL HIS UNBEATABLE REPUTATION STAND STRONG?! ALL OF THAT RIGHT AFTER THE BREAK!!"

Hop wasn't the only one celebrating. Nessa looked rather pleased at the results and even received a congrats from Opal which was nice. Bede did his best. The wait was awful. Just sitting there watching commercial after commercial after commercial. Until the stage was finally set and it was announced that the last round was underway. The top floor of Rose Tower was shown on screen with the one and only Leon standing there. Silently waiting for his special opponent to arrive. And he didn't have to wait long. The door opened and Victor arrived. Walking in through the entrance way. His breath was heaving and sweat ran down his forehead. His hands felt sweating and the grip on the pokeball in his hand tightened. Each step echoed through the entire place until he stopped.

Leon smiled. "Victor! I've been waiting for you. Always knew you'd be able to win your way here." Nothing but a smile and praise was given to Victor and it helped to relax him. "Nervous?"

"Is it obvious?," Victor asked back rubbing his hand on his face.

"Hey. It's alright to be nervous. I was too when I first faced off against the Champion."

"Y-Yeah. But.." Victor looked down. "I guess I wasn't ever expectin' ta actually ever fight against ye is all. It feels so...w-weird. I-If that makes sense. I always thought it'd be Glory who'd be standin' 'ere to face ye."

"She is a strong fighter and she came really far in the gym challenge," leon agreed with a nod, "But so are you. Anyone who was able to make it this far deserves where you stand now. I'm proud of you."

"Y-You are?"

"I'm not the only one either. Nessa. Gloria. Hop. Your mom. ..We all are." And for a moment his eyes closed with a sigh. "My dream has always been to make the people of the Galar Region stronger. And this battle tower is making that dream come true! Think you and I can get stronger too?" His eyes opened back up. "A fierce battle is the only way to do it! Now how about you take on Champion Leon with everything that you've got?"

After a moment Victor took a breath and finding new courage nodded. "I-I'm not gonna hold back!"

"Hehe. I wouldn't have it any other way. Now come on! Let's show everyone an absolute Champion time!"

And thus the battle began. Everyone watching with cheers or silent stares or worried looks with baited breath. You were one of those ones with baited breath especially when you saw Silver get released back out against Leon ...and get knocked to the floor only seconds later with a heavy thud in defeat. 

"INTELEON IS UNABLE TO BATTLE!! THE WINNER OF THE BATTLE TOWER IS THE UNBEATABLE CHAMPION LEON!"

So that was it huh? It was all over. Leon won. Not that no one didn't expect that possibility after all. This was Leon. You didn't look away from the screen as Silver was returned to his pokeball and Leon walked across the room to most likely congratulate Victor and steer him back towards the exit.

"All right, Lee!" Hop cheered next to you. "They were so cool!"

You nodded to not be rude but you were more worried about Silver right now so you stood up to go see him. Seemed you werent the only one who had the idea because Prince Lear also stood up. 

"Your display pleased me today," he spoke back in that neutral voice, "If this is what I can expect later is week as well then I have much to look forward too." He turned his head towards the Chairwoman. "I think I would like to speak with the Champion now. Is that possible?"

Ms. Dahlia nodded. "Of course. I'm sure everyone else is itching to go and take a break as well." She then nodded towards everyone. "Everyone is dismissed until this Saturday. Please excuse us." You watched as the Chairwoman left with the prince and his bodyguards right behind him.

You did look behind you as Milo stood up though along with the others. "Heading to see Felix?" He nodded with a hum. "Think I'll head that way too. I want to see Silver again."

You both filed out with everyone and went around towards the front of the tower ignoring the cheering crowds..Except for Raihan who hammed it up winking and waving and flashing that smirk of his. The show off. Ironically it seemed the others had the same idea as you guys because you ran right into Victor and Gloria as they came around the corner. Victor looked exhausted from the day's events and Gloria was excitedly congratulating him which Hop soon joined in and Victor could only tiredly smile at the rapid fire of talking the two spouted at him. Which was added to by Nessa who gave him a pat on the back and you received Silver's pokeball from him. Sighing in relief as he was safely back in your hands again. Now what? Well everyone who battled in pokemon was going to head over to the nearest pokemon center before either returning to the hotel or somewhere else. You also decided to tag along to the pokemon center in order to have Silver looked over and ended up sharing a taxi over there with Kabu, Gloria, and Hop. The trip there being nothing special other than both Hop and Gloria chatting excitedly about the day's events.

"Hey! Lee's taking me to Wyndon's research center tomorrow! Y-You can come along too if you want?"

To your surprise Gloria actually shook her head no. "Can't. I promised Bede I'd hang out with him after we were done."

Hop froze. And you counted down to his reaction. Three. Two- "WHAT!?"

She smiled excitedly. "YEAH! We're goin' ta this theater and watchin' the Tale of Two Queens! It's the story o' how the ancient kinds supposedly fell in love! And get this! He says we can ride his rapidash there too! I'm so excited ta see the beauty up close that isn't in battle."

...Hop plastered on a grin. "Hey. That's...grrreeeaat, Glory. Real, real happy for ya! But..Maybe we can go around Wyndon tomorrow? Just like old times!"

Her face could not get anymore happier. "I'd love too! We can visit that cafe Lee took us too last year!"

Well. Guess the game was on between those two again. Once you all had arrived and filed out it was also nothing special. There were also a few other people there including Victor and Bede who Hop sent a dirty look but Bede only smiled oh so innocently back at him. From there it was easy. In. Let Nurse Joy look over your pokemon. She healed them all up and recommended to let them rest for a day or two with plenty of food and water. Out. And you smiled at the pokeball in your hand. You'd let him out as soon as you were back outside. But that was where the problems began. As you were getting Silver looked over Bede had walked outside with Gloria chatting away, probably to go hang out like they had planned after the battle. You were planning on walking around for a little bit until you could find someplace to eat with Silver, but something nearly startled you into dropping the pokeball. A shriek. A high pitched (and for some reason familiar sounding) shriek passed through the air just outside the center, and even though it was muffled, everyone inside turned their heads towards the door hearing it. Despite being startled at first you headed towards the exit real quick and threw open the door. What you saw on the other side was something you weren't expecting. At all.

IT WAS OLEANA!!

Or at least the remnants of her. She stood towering over Bede and Gloria who both stood there staring up wide eyed and horrified at her as she shrieked at Bede.

"YOU DARE TURN YOUR BACK ON CHAIRMAN ROSE AFTER EVERYTHING HE'S DONE FOR YOU!! YOU COULD'VE BEEN SITTING COMFY ON THAT CHAMPION STATUS IN A BETTER SOCIETY IF YOU HADN'T LET YOUR EMOTIONS TAKE OFF!!," she shouted between incoherent babbling and rambles pointing her finger at Bede accusingly. 

Oleana!? But-..Why?! HOW!? What was she doing here!? Wasn't she in hiding after that whole incident with Eternatus last year!? In your stupor you stared at the woman still rambling before shaking your head. That didn't matter right now. If she was here then that only meant trouble. And trouble there was. In the middle of her rant her finger actually poked Bede and he reacted instantly. By flinching and making himself (and Gloria) take a step back purple eyes shrinking more in fear. And you saw red. No one saw it coming let alone Oleana. As something suddenly grabbed her extended arm and with a yank over she went. Colliding with a wall away from the two scared teens and other hand placed itself firmly against her other shoulder. Dazed she quickly shook her head and GLARED at you but any bite she might've thrown at you was shoved aside from your response. You were ANGRY. You were TIRED. And you were going to finally give her a piece of your mind!

"SHUT UP!!" Your bellow echoed across the street and into the air demanding silence especially from the woman you kept away from Bede. "Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP! For Arceus sakes just shut up already! Do you ever just be quiet instead of yelling!?" You were getting very hard Pearl vibes from last year which only added to your anger. Oleana was VERY much a karen as well."You absolutely dumb excuse of a walk in closet!! I'm getting real tired of people like you trying to make my life and others lives a living heck to deal with!! And you happened to catch me in a bad mood." Your face pushed itself closer to her and she stared unsure as if this never happened to her before. Which probably hadn't. "Maybe if you didn't wear those stupid shoes you'd be able to pull your head out of the clouds and realize that you're not big, bad, or in charge anymore. AND YOU'RE REALLY TICKING ME OFF!" She made a squeaky gasp noise as you increased your grip on her. She was NOT going to get away. "Maybe your big head makes you think you're fat enough to throw your weight around and can get away with stuff, but you couldn't even get away with swatting a bug now!" Your scowl hardened. "YOU STAY AWAY FROM BEDE!! YOU HEAR ME!? ...LOOK AT ME!!" Her once eyes glancing around for an exit looked back at you from your second bellow. "YOU STAY AWAY FROM HIM!! YOU DON'T LOOK AT HIM! YOU DON'T TALK TO HIM! AND YOU DON'T TOUCH HIM! YOU HEAR ME!? HE'S BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH BECAUSE OF YOU!! AND SO HELP ME IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN I'LL SEARCH GALAR UNTIL I FIND YOU AND THEN I'LL DRAG YOU KICKING AND SCREAMING TO THE NEAREST PRISON MYSELF AND MAKE SURE OF IT!!"

Silence. Cold. Dead. Silence. No one spoke. No one made a move. And you didn't loosen your grip or move your gaze away from Oleana silent wide eyed stare. That is. Until something touched your shoulder. You instantly snapped over your shoulder and you blinked at the confusing sight of a pink and mint green umbrella on your shoulder. 

"Well I certainly couldn't have put that in better words myself," an eerily voice said and when you looked behind you your eyes widened. Standing there with her umbrella to your shoulder. Behind her Bede was peeking out wide eyed at you and beside him was Gloria looking calmer and less afraid also glaring at Oleana. "Come now. Let's put her down. I believe she's learnt her lesson." You didn't move at first still surprise but then the tip of the umbrella poked your shoulder a couple times. "We're not getting any younger, Young Lady. Put her down." She spoke in an almost grandmotherly voice. That tone your grandma would use as a warning before you got into trouble.

You looked back to Oleana as she stared back at you. Scowled hard...And let go. Oleana slid down the wall until she sat on the ground. Until you jolted again before whirling around and meeting the eyes of..Milo? With Felix behind him. Oh..Guess they were also part of the group that came here to get their pokemon checked also.

"I was wondering what was taking you children so long but this seems to answer that question." Opal gazed at Olena before humming and turning her gaze to Bede who blinked at her. "Go on now. Take your friend and go wait in the taxi, Dear. I do so love a good performance and I'm not planning on missing this one." Bede didn't even get a chance to answer before she then turned her gaze to Milo. "Why don't you go grab dear Kabu to watch over her before the authorties arrive? Hm? And take your ladyfriend here to go calm her mind." She tilted her head to you as you still scowled at Oleana from Milo's grip. "It would do her good to calm down."

Milo nodded and instantly began to coax you away from Oleana and used his stronger strength begin to pull away from her and the crowd watching. However unknownst to all of you there were some other people watching. A special someone especially with red sunglasses.

"I am so sorry you had to see that, Your Highness. I promise it's not like that all the time. The woman. Oleana. Has been a troublemaker for quite sometime."

"Hm..No need. On the contrary." A smile spread across someone's face as they watched Milo scoot you away. "I find modest and strong women, very alluring."

"Y-Y-Y/N?!"

Felix had to quickly dive in order to make sure Milo didn't drop the giant gift basket they had brought over, practically shoving it back into his brothers hands jostling Milo back from shock and having him stumble to catch himself. You giggled as he straightened back up red faced and embarrassed.

"I-I-I mean of COURSE it's you!" He smiled a bit too widely flustered under your smile. "I mean W-Who else w-w-would it be?! You're the only Y/n after all! *Ahem*...W-What are you doing here?"

"I live here now." You gestured to the house behind you. "I just bought it a week ago and settled all the paperwork."

"Wow! Really?" Felix lit up. "that's great! What made you want to move into Turrffield?"

"I wanted to settle down somewhere quiet and peaceful and Turrffield was the perfect place for it all. It reminds me of Postwick kinda, but there wasn't any space there. And Turrffield offers a bit more open space which I like." You glanced back to Milo whom was still blushing. "But what's this?"

"We brought you over a gift basket." Felix elbowed Milo in the ribs making him jolt. 

"UH YEAH THIS IS FOR YOU!!," he blurted out quickly holding out the large basket to you.

"It's got some home grown food and preservatives made by yours truly! It's a tradition of sorts to give any new comers some of Turrffield's very own pride and joy!," Felix proudly explained as you took the basket from Milo, "It was Milo's idea. He's friendly and considerate like that."

Your eyes scanned across the basket you had to use both arms to carry and smiled. "Wow. This would definitely help save on groceries. Thank you!" You then stepped back a bit. "Would you like to come in? I don't have much but you're welcome to stay for lunch. It'd be the least I could do for all the kindness you showed me."

Before Milo could say anything he yelped as his brother pushed him forward into the home. "We would LOVE to!" 

He had no choice but to stumble inside the house with Felix  pushing behind him.  The house looked...Well it was as generic and plain as a home could be he supposed. Barely any furniture was about, he guessed Old Man Jenkins took most of the original furniture when he moved out, and the house looked pretty simplified. He stood there gulping as the door closed behind them and a moment later you walked back into view with a smile. 

"Would you guys like some lunch? I'm not much of a cook but I could offer you some food I have in the kitchen."

"U-Um..S-S-Sure." He gulped. "Y-Your h-house looks n-nice."

"Thanks. I haven't had much time to decorate yet." You motioned your head. "C'mon. The kitchen's this way."

They followed you into the kitchen, which also looked plain and simple looking, and watched as you walked over to the counter before placing the basket on the counter. Silver was laying down on the floor probably asleep and barely looked up when you all walked in. 

"Sorry if I don't have a lot to offer. Would instant noodle curry be alright?"

"That'll be just fine," Felix confirmed. "So... Turrffield huh? Y'know this is a farming community. Does that mean you're going to be farming and using all those berry trees back there?"

"Actually I was planning on renting the property out." You made for a cabinet where you would find the instant curry cups. "It's too big for me to maintain it all and I know someone else who rents their land to farmers."

"So... You're letting someone use your land to grow their own food to sell and having them pay you for using it? .. That's not a too bad idea. Renting it to anyone yet?"

"No. I was thinking of putting a post up in the rotomi system but I haven't gotten around to it yet." You turned we with three cups in your arms. "I figured it would be a good way to make extra money and ensure the property wouldn't be wasted for use."

...Felix slowly looked at his brother. "You know... Milo's been wanting some more room to plant more vegetables like lettuce and tomatoes but we couldn't figure out how to do that without making it cramped or tearing down one of our barns." He elbowed his brother again. "This sounds like a great deal! Don't you think Milo?"

"Huh?!" Milo blinked. "Oh! U-Um...*ahem* That does sound like a good deal." He cleared his throat straightening himself out with a deep inhale. "How much were you planning on renting it for?"

"Oh. About five hundred a month and a small portion of the money they make from selling the produce they grow. I'll even let them pick all the berries from the trees they want to." You set out placing the cups on your counter and heading for the kettle you previously left on the stovetop.

Felix grabbed Milo's hand, a face of happiness coming over him. "Milo! Restaurants and trainers pay dozens of money for those berries! Jenkins never let anyone touch them. This could be a great opportunity!"

"I don't know Felix. Seems like a bit of extra work for us."

"It doesn't have to be just us! Think about it! You could employ some of your gym workers to help pick berries from the trees and work the fields! They could use the extra money for their families and we can use the extra funds to help restore the geoglyh like you wanted! Or for any charity you wanted. Berries sell for lots of money." With each word Milo looked more and more interested with each word Felix said. "Plus it'll give you more time to be with your cru-" 

"Thank you, Felix! I will think about that!" His face got red again just as you turned around.

"Would you like a cup of instant noodle curry?"

"Y-YES! Please!"

In the end Milo did end up getting that offer. It sounded too good to pass up! Extra pay for his town. Funds for restoring the geoglyh and few stone carvings here. Space for the produce he's been wanting to grow for a while.....And maybe getting closer to the woman he liked- UH. HE MEANT GREETING A NEW NEIGHBOR AND HELPING HER SETTLE INTO TURRFFIELD!! YEAH!! THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT!! Ahem. It took one month to prepare everything. He spoke with you again to draw up the legal contract and to make sure you were ok with the idea of his hired workers coming onto the fields to work them of course you agreed. Two days later you woke up and discovered around twenty men and women with LOTS of gear ranging from hoes and shovels to a giant tractor heading to the giant gate in your fence leading to the few acres behind your house. One of those people being Milo who waved and walk over to greet you. 

"Hey! Y/n, good morning!," He called with a wave as he walked over to you, "Sorry about all the noise! I figured we should come over to fix the area before we're able to use it."

You smiled. "No. Not at all! The place is a bit overgrown. I was just surprised to see everyone."

He chuckled nervously a hand on his neck and you couldn't help but find his bashfulness cute. "W-Well Old Man Jenkins was a bit too old to take care of six acres all by himself, but he was stubborn and never let anyone tried to help. Liked to keep to himself and didn't like anyone on his property I guess. So it'll take a bit of repairing before we can use it. I hope you don't mind."

"I don't mind at all. It could use some sprucing up." You glanced over everyone and they seemed to go to work immediately. "How long do you think it'll take to fix it all?"

"Oh not too long. We should be able to start planting by the end of this month! But we can start harvesting those berry trees now if you want."

"Go right ahead. I wouldn't want them to go bad anyways. So go ahead and pick as many as you want. All I ask is that you save some for me since that's what I'm using as food mostly."

"Not a problem!," He assured you holding up a hand with a smile. "I'll be sure to tell everyone that. Oh! Before I forget!" You blinked as he reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a few dollar bills before holding them out for you. "Here. The first months rent for the land. I can't thank you enough for this. The extra income to Turrffield is great!"

You slowly took the money from him before smiling. "Thanks! I'm glad I can help the community out like this! Anyway I can help?"

"Well I don't think you know much about farm equipment no offense. But if you make sure everyone stays hydrated it'd be very helpful. Hard work can really work up a sweat." 

"I can do that no problem. Oh. And Milo." He hummed but froze when you reached up and patted his cheek with a giggle. "I really do think you're a kind and compassionate person."

You then turned and left leaving him there...before his face poofed up a deep red again. "...Oh sweet wooloo knitted sweaters."

The next month wasn't too eventful. Everyone came early in the morning and did work until around four in the afternoon before leaving to break for the end of the day, while you busied yourself bringing out drinks and drinks for everyone there. Of course Milo supervised and helped with everything. Grass mowed, trees trimmed, berries collected, fields plowed, weeds pulled, fallen trees hauled away- By the end of the first month all the hard work had been done and they came back for the rest of the berries and to start planting. You saw someone attached a hand plow to a mudsdale and start plowing the fields as others added fertilizer to the ground or planted seeds. It was starting to get better. Already it looked great now that the entire area was being maintained and used. By the time they were done, everyone was set and now only a few people would come by at various parts of the day to water the plants or make sure things were all going smoothly or to gather more berries.  They grew back surprisingly fast. You still saw Milo although and the next time you both met would be a bit of a surprise. You had just gone out to get the mail and turned around when you heard a shout.

"Y/N LOOK OUT!!"

You looked up, saw a giant white ball rolling towards you,  yelled, and dove just in time to avoid a wooloo rolling past and a second later a pink haired blue dove past. Milo let out a loud 'OOF!' and thud as his chest fell against the ground and his hands grabbed strongly onto the wooloo that baaed loudly as strong hands pulled it back. 

"Gotcha! Lucy, you are in big trouble young lady!" With a grunt he pulled the annoyed looking wooloo into his lap as he struggled to sit on his knees and gave a firm look. "You know better than to run off like that! You could've hurt Y/n  if you ran into her!" The wooloo only baaed again waving her legs around. Milo frowned before looking up at your form. "...Oh...Uh." He quickly stood up with a worried look. "I'm so sorry. Are you alright?"

You nodded before raising a brow at him. His white shirt was stained brown from the dirt where he landed on the ground. Poor Milo. "You ok there?"

He sighed. "Yeah. Sorry about this. It's sheering day but Lucy doesn't like it too much. She always manages to run away before I can grab her. I never know how she makes it over the fence." 

"It's alright. I didn't get bowled over this time so it's good." That made Milo chuckle a bit. 

"Oh..Before I forget again, I got something for you." Maneuvering the pokemon under one arm, he reached into his pocket again before pulling out a...wad of cash?! And holding it out to you. "Here. The rent for this month and a portion of those berries we shipped out of here."

You stared wide eyed at it before slowly taking it from him. "Whoa...I just..How much is this?"

"Two thousand five hundred dollars."

Your eyes almost popped out like some cartoon character as you snapped to him I'm shock. "Two thousand five hundred dollars?! Holy Arceus! How many berries did you sell?!"

"Actually those berries sell for a lot of money," he explained, "Some have healing properties so they can be sold to hospitals, doctors, and pokemon centers to make healing ointment and antidotes for lots of things. Others taste really good and are sold to big restaurant chains. There's also plenty of regular people and trainers who want to buy them for their own reasons. That's why I was really happy when you agreed to let us take some."

Your face slowly returned to normal before nodding and leaning over. "I guess that makes more sense now, but hey. That's good to hear." You leaned back up something in your hand. "I bet you could do a lot of good with that money." He blinked as you reached up to plop the hat back on his head which had fallen off in his dive. "There. You look handsome in that."

He paused.... before his face exploded red again and he sputtered. "I- You.....WELL THANKS FOR THAT!" He quickly turned to walk away as you giggled. "I-ILL SEE YOU LATER!!" You giggled again and turned to walk back into your house- "Y/n?" You stopped and turned back to Milo. He seemed to sweat a bit hesitating...before asking. "Would you...l-l-like to come over tomorrow evening for dinner with m-m-me?A-AND FELIX TOO OF COURSE!! HE B-B-BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU TOO!!" 

You blinked...before smiling. "I'd love to have dinner with you guys! Is it alright if I bring my drizzlie?"

"Of course! I-Its perfectly fine! F-F-Five o'clock sound fine?"

"Sounds great! See you then."

"B-Bye!!" He was quick to turn and leave your giggling form behind. Cute.

The next day came and you would've gladly waited until evening for Milo's invitation but there iswas one thing that ruined that plan. Early in the morning you heard a man's yell and hurried outside just in time to see one of the workers yelling angrily at a pokemon. And that pokemon was a wooloo. The pokemon angrily stared at the man trying to shoo it away with a foot while chewing on something that looked like one of the small cabbages planted nearby.

"GET OUT OF HERE!! GO ON!! SHOO!," the man shouted nudging a foot at it.

"*BBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAA!!!*" The small Pokemon baaed back once swallowing the food inside it's mouth. 

You and Silver exchanged looks before you shrugged and stepped off your back porch towards the two. "Hey! What's going on?"

"THIS WILD WOOLOO'S STEALING OUR CABBAGES!!," The man pointed without even looking up at you from glaring at the wooloo. Which again baaed angrily at him.

You blinked. "A wild wooloo?" You rose a brow at the small Pokemon. "Are you sure? Doesn't it belong to someone around here?''

"NO!! THIS ONE'S A WILD ONE!! I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!! AND THIS LITTLE THEIF IS STEALING OUR HARD WORK!!"

It baaed again and you hummed looking at it. "A wild one huh?...I guess it's hungry. Are you hungry little guy? Do you want food?" Instantly the wooloo snapped at you and baaed louder again. "Well come with me and I'll get you all set up. I have some food inside." Along with a few extra pokeballs. "C'mon. Let's go get you some food." Silver chirped in question. "*sigh* Yes. You too."

The worker finally stopped yelling as the Wooloo followed you and you disappeared with both pokemon into the house. It wouldn't be wild for too long.

-HOURS LATER- 

"I hope she doesn't mind mushrooms."

The stove was hot and the sweet smells wafted through the air thanks to the pasta noodles boiling next to the pot of sauce bubbling and filled with mushrooms and sweet spices that sent warmth and delicious smells into the air. Surely it would attract the attention of Felix soon and his little brother would be begging for food despite the fact that he wasn't done with it yet. Or before a certain lady showed up-

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!

He looked up as knocks came from the door...before giving a sigh. Guess that hope was dashed. "COME IN! THE DOOR'S OPEN!!" He called from the stove. He couldn't leave and risk burning the sauce.

A second later he heard the door open and a woman's voice call out through the home. "Hello?"

"In the kitchen!," He called back not looking up. A moment later he heard the door closing and the sounds of footsteps and...hooves? "You're a little early!I wasn't expecting you for another hour yet!"

"Well I hope I'm not intruding."

"Not at all!" He turned with a smile. "I enjoy the...company." he blinked. You were standing there with your drizzlie...but there was also another thing there that baaed at him. "...Is that a wooloo with you?"

"Hm? Oh yeah." You glanced at the baaing wooloo with a smile. "That's Mary Lou. I just got her today."

"You got a wooloo? When?"

"Just this morning. A wild wooloo found it's way into your cabbage. Figured I could use a little cutie pie like her. Isn't that right sweetie?" Mary baaed In response. "I hope you don't mind the extra company."

Milo smiled before laughing. "No. Not at all. Its a pleasant surprise! I really like wooloo anyways!" He nodded to the table. "Go ahead and take a seat while you wait. I'll be done in a moment."

"Thanks!" You took the seat he offered you with a smile and sat down before smelling the air. "Wow. That smells great. What is it?"

"Sweet mushroom medley curry. Hope you don't mind it."

"Sounds delicious." You took a moment to look around and settled on the far right wall that was covered in pictures you didn't notice the first time you were here, settling on one that was of Felix holding a younger looking Daisy. Maybe after she just hatched? "How's Felix by the way?"

"Oh he's doing great. Right now he's upstairs studying math."

"I see. How's Daisy? I hope she didn't try to escape again."

"You kidding me? They're practically glued together now."

"He seems to love her a lot."

"Well she's his first ever pokemon. I have him the Wooloo egg but he's the one who took care of it before it hatched into Daisy." He chuckled. "He literally raised her by hand and I'm proud of him for it. He's raised a good wooloo, and according to Nurse Joy she's back to a healthy weight."

"That's great to hear! I'm glad she's going better." 

Your eyes called the other pictures. Most were of Felix doing various things or Felix with Milo but there was a few of Milo's many wooloo, his grass type Pokemon, one or two more of Daisy, one of just Milo here and there but you paused when your eyes saw one picture frame larger than all the rest. It was rectangled and it looked like a much younger version of Milo and Felix, MUCH younger. They stood in front of the same house you currently sat in. Behind the two brothers was a man and woman who looked to be around the same age as Gloria's mother. Both had pink hair and green eyes similar colored to the brothers and next to the man right behind Milo was another middle aged man who had darker pink hair and darker green eyes compared to everyone else in the picture. You just...stared at it for a long moment before Milo turned to see why you had gone silent before following your eyes and he also paused.

"....Milo. Who are those people in the picture there?" You gestured to said picture.

Milo didn't say anything at first just looking at the picture before looking away back towards the stove. "Oh... That's..me and Felix of course. We were just kids then."

"And the other people?"

He again hesitated. "That's...our mum and dad. They're uh.. N-No longer with us."

The shock of what he said caused you to stare at him wide eyed and jaw dropped.  "...W-Wha-...I just...I didn't know! I'm so sorry!" 

He waved a hand at you. "No. It's alright. You didn't know like you said, and it's fine. I'm used to it now. The other man by our dad is out uncle. He used to be the gym leader here before he retired from the position. He uh...took us in when ma and pa passed away. He's uh..." His movements slowed. "H-Hes not with us either actually."

"Oh, Milo." You frowned sympathetically. "I'm so sorry. Must be hard."

"It was. Still is actually but life goes by and I have other things in my life to help with. Turrffield. The gym. My pokemon. And especially Felix. He's the best thing I could ask for...What about you?" He turned his head to look at you over his shoulder. "What's your family like?"

" This time it was your turn to pause and look at him before sighing. "Actually... I'm not on speaking terms with either of my parents." You scowled. " My parents divorced when I was eleven years old and my dad hasn't tried to talk to me since. Then my mom controlled and used me for free labor until I left. Haven't seen or spoken to her in almost two years and I'd rather keep it that way."

"Yikes. She must be terrible if you don't want to see her again and you're a pretty patient person."

''Ugh. She is." You sighed. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring the mood down."

"No, no. It's alright. I guess we all have our own hardships to over come." He finally took the pot of noodles off the stove and headed towards the sink which you now realized had a strainer in it. "Food's almost done. Just got to drain the noodles and we'll be all good to go."

"I see...So did your uncle give you the gym?", You asked as he poured the noodles into the strainer letting the hot water run down the sink. 

He nodded. "Yeah. He actually trained me to be his replacement. Felix always wanted the position really though which is why I'm currently training him. When he gets old enough Im planning on signing it over to him and just retiring to run the family farm better. For now I just want him to get a good education and be a kid."

"It's really kind of you to put Felix and Turrffield before yourself, but don't you ever want to do something for yourself?"

"I'm happy to put everyone before me since everyone could use the help and Felix deserves to have a good childhood." He did pause however holding the strainer up from the sink. "Although...there h-h-has been one thing I've wanting to do myself."

"Oh really? What?"

His face instantly went a pink. "W-W-Well...*ahem* There's this...girl I am kinda maybe f-f-fond of." He cleared his throat and and turned back to the stove carrying the strainer full of noodles. Your eyes widened...before you just smiled in amusement. "She's r-r-really nice a-a-and one of the first people who genuinely complimented me. She e-even went as far as to replace s-something she accidentally made me drop."His face burnt more and more as he went on practically feeling his face on fire. "She's also....v-very p-p-pretty. B-B-But I don't think she would like me back."

"Why not?"

He sighed. "I don't really have a lot to offer. I'm not really the richest, and Im really busy with running the farm and gym duties and raising Felix. So I couldn't offer y- HER a lot of my time."

You hummed knowingly. "I dunno, Milo. Have you tried asking her? Maybe she thinks your schedule is fine for her and she doesn't care about money."

"No. I'm really no one special." His eyes looked down. "I'm not a strong trainer like Leon or fun like Piers...Or handsome with millions of fans like Raihan or Gordie even. I'm just a Farmer who happens to be a gym leader. Of course I don't mind not being the strongest, battling should be about having fun!" 

"That's what you see in battles huh?"

He nodded. "Simply enjoy battling and have fun is my motto. But yeah...I don't think she'd be really interested in myself."

"Well that's not a fair conclusion. You didn't even ask me those things." Milo paused. "I like you just the way you are, and if you ask me you're pretty adorable.~"

His face whipped around to you wide eyed as you just smiled. "I-...You-...Y-Y-YOU KNEW THE WHOLE TIME?!"

You nodded. "It was kinda obvious with how you were acting."

He just continued to stare at you wide eyed before he groaned embarrassed. "Felix said the same thing. Is it really that obvious?"

"You act like you like me every time we're around each other." You smiled wider. "It's pretty obvious and pretty cute. You already know I don't care about those superficial things."

He sighed defeated. "I guess there's no getting around it. Heh..But if it's alright with you, can we keep this on the downlow and remain friends f-for now? I s-s-still have some feelings to sort out."

"Not a problem. Your feelings and comfort come first."

Wow. She really was understanding. He smiled in thanks-

"What are you two doing?" Milo yelped and both of you looked over at Felix standing in the doorway raising a brow. Daisy baaed next to his feet. 

"F-Felix! How long were you standing there?!"

"I heard you guys say my name and assumed dinner was ready." He pointed at Mary. "And where did that wooloo come from?"

"*sigh* Just come sit down. Dinner's ready."

You kept your word from that day on. Everything seemed normal. He'd do his duties, paid the rent and a portion of the products to you each month, Felix would try to wingman and embarrass him, and every so often he'd stop by to check up on the state of your land. Most of the produce was almost done growing so they could harvest it all pretty soon. And every so often you all would share meals together whether it be at your place or hers. However everything would change once a strange visitor showed up. He was tending to his fields rolling some of the new hay bails to be put in the barn for winter when he heard it.

CCCCCCAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!

The loud roar of a giant pokemon breached the quiet community followed by strong wing beats. It made him pause and stop rolling the hay bails to look up as the wing beats got louder and louder. Emerald eyes blinked as his face was blasted by a strong gust of air, his hand just barely snapping up in time to stop his hat from blowing away. In the sky a GIANT black mass was flapping above them slowly lowering with each wingbeat. His many wooloo baaed in fright before scattering off in different directions as the black mass touched the ground just a little ways from him, and revealed itself to be a corvinight. The giant flying Pokemon gave off a loud caw at the land and sat upon the flying taxi as the door opened and someone with Purple hair stepped out. Milo blinked for a moment at the newcomer..before smiling widely.

"Hey, Leon!," He greeted at the sight of the Champion who walked towards him. "Wow. I wasn't expecting to see you today! What do I owe the pleasure?"

The champion smiled. "Milo! Im sorry to say that I can't stay too long. I'm on official league business ordered by the Chairwoman herself.  I just dropped by to make sure you and Y/n got an invite." He said reaching under his cape and pulling out two beige letter with a red wax seal before holding it out to him. "Here! Your and Felix's official invite to the first ever Galarian Star Tournament later this year! Dont worry. I already delivered Y/n hers."

He blinked before slowly taking it from him and looking at it. "A tournament huh?"

Leon nodded. "Yep! All the information you'll need is in the letters! Just make sure to read it all thoroughly when you have time."

Leon had left a moment later after giving Milo a good bye and took off once more in the flying taxi more wing beats and powerful wing beats causing more wind. And then it left him there standing with two letters in his hands...Well curiosity got the better of him so he opened one to read the contents inside right there, and he hummed reading over the events. However one part saying he was allowed to bring a date caught his attention and stayed on his mind for the next few days. Maybe it was his crush on her. Or maybe it was Felix encouraging him to ask her. Or maybe it was the thought of bringing a nice date to prove he could get one. Or maybe cupid's arrow was that powerful. But either way he found himself red faced and standing on her porch. Knocking on her door. And fumbling as she answered the door smiling 

"Milo. What are you doing here?"

He gulped. "I-I-I wanted t-t-to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"W-W-Will you b-b-b-be my date t-t-t-to the tornam-m-ment?"