“So what are you going to ?” I ask Fnnery as we away from the fainted pokemon.

  “I’m thinking Night. Seeing as how it is a dark type pokemon I thought it might be fitting.” She replies as she pulls out her phoo s the pokeball with her new pokemon.

  Bea nods her head as she speaks up, “That’s a fitting name for it.”

  We tio chat as we walk. Eventually the slope slowly returns to ft ground and we find ourselves in ane cavern. Looking around the cavern, it doesn’t seem any different than the one we just came from. One big ge that I otice, but I’m not sure if the others do, is there are some small spots of light spread out. From where I am, I see small and dark silhouettes he lights, but not enough to tell what they are. If I had to guess, I would say that they are other traihat are traveling through the tunnels as well.

  *Smack**Crash**Smack*

  From nearby, I faintly hear the sounds of something fighting. I look around and I see a couple of Geodudes fighting against something near one of the cavern walls. I tap on Bea’s shoulder to get her attention.

  “Point your fshlight over there. It sounds like something is fighting.” I tell her while pointing in the general dire of the Geodudes I had found. As Bea moves her light over, what es into view is a yellow standing on two legs with red cheeks and hands that look like gloves. The Geodudes are ramming into the yellow pokemon over and over as the other pokemon pushes them away. It doesn’t really look like a fight but more like training of some sort.

  We move closer to get a better look on what is going on and I pull out my phone and open the pokedex. Once we are in range, I s the yellow pokemon.

  [Makuhita the guts pokemon]

  [Makuhita is tenacious—it will keep getting up and attag its foe however many times it is knocked down. Every time it gets back up, this Pokémon stores more energy in its body for evolving. Their daily routine sists of training together first thing in the m, eating and napping iernoon, and then more training afterward.]

  Bea’s eyes light up as I quietly read out the dex entry for us. This was the type of pokemon that would fit well with her team as she likes to spar with them. She tells us to stay back as she moves towards the Makuhita with a fident gait. She stands behind the Geodudes and faces the yellow pokemon.

  “How about a spar? If I win, you follow me. If you win, You tiraining.” Bea says towards Makuhita. The pokemon looks up at her just as a Geodude sms into it, causing it to tumble backwards. It stands back up and looks at her for a moment before nodding and taking a stahe pair of Geodudes quickly disappear into the cavern like they are running away. Bea mirrors Makuhita taking a stance of her own and waiting for the pokemon to make its first move.

  Makuhita takes a step forward and throws a normal punch. Bea effortlessly dodges the pund returns one of her own towards its stomach. Makuhita punches again, ign Bea’s punch, but not blog costs it as it is knocked down to the ground as her punch hits. Bea moves in and throws a couple more punches while it is down before pinning its arms to the grouing in Makuhita being pihe pokemon struggles against Bea’s pin for a while and nearly breaks free a few times. Every time it gets close, Bea knees Makuhita in the side and forces it bato a submission pose.

  Bea keeps the pokemon pinned until it stops struggling. She gives it a look, only to see it nod before she releases it and stands up. Once she is up, she helps Makuhita up as well. The pokemon looks at her with a grumpy look and turns its head away sulking. Bea just smiles lightly at its rea.

  “Since you lost, you will follow me from now on. o have you along partner, we will train lots to make you stronger.” Bea says with a smile as she pulls out ay pokeball. Makuhita perks up a little at the mention of training before fist bumping the pokeball and disappearing with a click a sed ter. The ball doesn’t even shake as Makuhita pletely submitted to being captured.

  “grats Bea!” We both say as soon as the button on the pokeball stops glowing.

  “Thanks! I didn’t expect to find anhting type around here. Guess I got lucky.” She says with a big grin on her face as she gives both of us a hug in her joy. “That’s one for each of us, now we just o find one for you, Frost.”

  “Yeah, good luck finding aype around here.” I say with a snort. I got lucky that Zephyr picked up aype somehow from being around me, but I also had a number of things happen that could have caused it. I doubt I would be as lucky with my pokemon. “It’s why Ice type specialists are rare, ice type pokemon are hard to find outside of cions. Maybe I could find a breeder or something. Or maybe I could find an Eevee somewhere and evolve it to be a G.”

  “I’m sure you will find something.” Fnnery says while patting my shoulder as I slump slightly iion.

  “You never know, maybe you find out how Zephyr ged a it for another pokemon? Create your owype team?” Bea offers helpfully.

  I give Bea a wry smile before replying. “I’ll get right on that, who knows maybe all they have to do is get caught by me.” I start to giggle at the thought of that. There is no way that is possible.

  We glide through the few hours with little excitement other than chatting with each other. The few times we run across a semi aggressive pack of pokemon, we quickly fight them off without spending much effort. We mainly seem to fight random packs of Zubats that we seem to disturb with our talking, but a few moves and they retreat to go after easier prey. Before long we are looking for a pce to step up camp again. After finding a good spot to set up, we go about setting up the campsite. When I pull out my tent, Fnnery looks at me like she wants to say something for a few moments before deg to ask her question.

  “Say, Frost babe, what is with the snow in your tent?”

  I bnch for a moment as her question throws me off guard before I try to quickly think of an excuse. I take a moment to finish pg my tent properly and quickly think before replying to her.

  “Well, you knoear hardly any clothes at all?”

  “Yeah, it’s quite nice holy. Though you don’t seem like the type that would like to wear something like that. I saw how put off you were by that guy at the entrance.” She replies while nodding. I give her a long stare at her statement at the start of her reply, but she just gives me the cutest little smirk that makes me blush slightly before I look away from her.

  “Ahum, yes well, I seem to have a dition that causes my body temperature to be much higher than normal. I have to wear very revealing clothes to let as much heat as possible escape through my skin. Grandpa decided to help me out after we found out about my dition by imp a bunch of Never-Melt ice that we shaved down and turned my tent into a snoe that is extra cold so I actually sleep.” I tell her the story I thought of. It isn’t far from the truth but it’s ly true either. The snow in my tent is special but it isn’t Never-Melt Ice, at least I don’t think it is. Both of them look at me like I have two heads until they give me a slight pitying look. “Oh don’t give me that look. I have found some special clothes that I wear, but one is currently badly damaged and the other is way too over the top to wear normally.” At my remark they start giggling softly before it slowly turns into full blown ughter.

  “Over the top is correct! Don’t get me wrong, you looked awesome in it and were quite awe inspiring, but you went with the whole ‘Ice Queen’ vibe way too hard.” Bea remarked after she calmed down with her ughing.

  “‘Queen’ you say. You should have heard some of those boys iands, half were drooling over you and the other half were worshiping you as a Queen and w if asking if you could step on them and degrade them would be possible.” Feases me with that damnably cute smile. I wish I could be bold enough to tease her back.

  “Both of you hush. Keep this up and I won’t cook tonight.” I reply in a pouty voice as I turn my head away and feign pouting.

  “N-now now, o go that far right? We were only teasing you.” Fnnery panics at my statement about not cooking.

  “R-right, we were only joking Frost. Please cook for us!” Bea joins in to e into cooking tonight.

  I let them squirm and beg for a moment before turning back to them with a big smile on my face. “Of course I’ll cook. I would rather have something edible to eat, I ’t trust either of you to cook something I could actually eat.” The both of them pause in their pleading with a funny look on their faces which causes me to start giggling untrolbly. The two of them snap out of it before tag me and they start tig me in revenge. Soon our campsite is filled with the joyful sounds of ughter from the three of us.

  Once we calm down, I get cooking and decide to make a dish that her of them have had before. In my old world, before my parents had me, they traveled to a number of tries and my mother would always learn to cook something from there to remember it. I happeo learn a few recipes when I had helped i and what I was making was one of the easier recipes to remember and make, beef and date tagine. Once everything was finished and our dishes were again, we decided on the same watch rotation as the night before, so the two of them climbed into their tents as I made myself fortable at the edge of the camp with my back to the light.

  Skadi settles on my p as I grab my music pyer off my hair and start to fiddle with it. I press on the face of it and a holographic s pops up that looks simir to Spotify. I browse through the different musid find that you find any musi here. Maybe it was the talk of snow earlier, but I felt like listening to some christmas music so I found a station that pys Trans-siberian Orchestra and other bands across the multiverse with a simir style. tent with my music choice for the night, I pce it ba my hair, he hair tie for my ponytail.

  The hour is filled with me humming along to christmas music that I reized. When “Carol of the Bells” my music pyer started pying it louder than normal as it sehat I ehe song. Part way through, Skadi gets up from my p and looks up at me befrowling slightly. I raise an eyebrow at her and then turn my head to see what she could be growling at. As I turn my head, I notiething golden at the er of my eye so I twist my upper body to see a brass bell with a red and white kumihimo ing off the back of it floating nearby. The bell has two little arms and two stubby legs and just above the split in the bell are two eyes. I look at the floating bell like pokemon, but it doesn’t seem aggressive. I take a moment to pull out my phone and open the pokedex to find out what it is.

  [gling the bell pokemon]

  [This pokemon enjoys musid will oftentimes be found near certs or other pces where music is on. There is an orb is mouth. When it hops, the orb bounces all over and makes a ringing sound. It deafen foes by emitting high-frequency cries.]

  “g, g gling.” The pokemoo sing along with my music that is currently pying in my ears. I smile at it slightly and leave it alone as it doesn’t seem to want to attack, only to listen to music with me. I reach up and adjust the music pyer to py random songs again befoing back to watch as I calm Skadi down. She settles ba my p but keeps an eye on the gling floating near my head that is “singing” along to my music. The rest of the watch goes by slowly but ufully as eventually Bea calls me from behind.

  “Who’s the new friend?”

  “Hmm? Oh you mean this gling? I dunno, it just randomly came up to me during watd decided to hang out with me.”

  “Did you catch it?”

  I shake my head. “No I didn’t. It was friendly so I decided to leave it alone.”

  “How about catg it? If it doesn’t mesh well with you, you always release it. It’s unlikely you will be able to find a true ice type before the gym.” Bea says while shrugging.

  I think over her words for a bit and I look at the gling, still hanging out without care nearby. “Hey gling, would you like to travel with me?” It looks at me for a single moment before making a nodding motion and going back to “singing”. “I guess that does it then. Wele to the family.” I pull out one of my empty pokeballs with a snowfke on it befently tapping glings head. The pokeball just beeps oo let me know that it was captured successfully before I let it back out.

  “Ling~” It makes a gentle ringing noise as it rubs against my cheek happily. I pat it gently and realize it feels cool to the touch like brass normally does. Now that it has been caught I s it with my pokedex again to get the rest of the data for it.

  [This gling is Male]

  [gling has the ability Levitate]

  [gling knows the following moves: Tackle, Growl, ic Power, Wish, Astonish, fusion, Ominous Wind]

  “You are quite powerful aren’t you?” I smile a little at his happy response befetting up and stretg. I look over at Bea who just smiles sleepily at me.

  “Alright I’ll go hit the sack. Hope you have aful night.” I give her a quick hug before I retreat into my tent, quickly pulling off my clothes aing down into my nightly meditation.

  Kurotsuki007