Author's Disclaimer: All right let’s get things going. First here is the disclaimer. This entire work finds basis in Metroanime's Wild Horses and Pokegirls universe setting. Now this particular tale will deviate from the original work. Though references made to such are well taken in the context of this setting (though I intend to keep things separate if at all possible. Though the original intention of this work was to run a tale parallel to the events of WH&PG, which took place else where on that large grand world. ) Any way all references are thus most likely the work of some other group, author, corporation, or such. So I intend to say now that all that follows is not necessary the product of my own dream child. Though I wish it was. Well wouldn’t you? I mean seriously wouldn’t you want to claim all this as your own? Now don’t go and tell me that you don’t ‘cause we both know you would be lying. Disclaimer Redux: WARNING: NC-17. At least, that is if I ever get around to writing lemon scenes. DISCLAIMER: Various elements from this come from Greyman and a few other erotic (Or at least NC-17) Addventure writers on the web, Nintendo, R.Takahashi/Viz, Fred Perry and Antarctic Press, plus other writers too numerous to mention, and other ideas contributed by Redpriest of the 17th Order as well. Tales of the Shadow League: Cats in Shadows Chapter 1 It was warm summer morning that found a trio of young man sitting outside in what would best be described as a park area. In actuality it was a picnic area next to a remote pokecenter. To the casual observer the three young men did not appear overly special. But rest assured they were. In fact they all had a few things in common. All were young. (With the oldest being 21 and the others 19 and 20 respectively.) All were tamers. In particular tamers that had feline pokegirls, what more all three were Rangers of the Shadow League. Now that wouldn’t be all that impressive normally, or sure it would raise a few eye-brows, but Rangers did tend to congregate when they are in the same area. To relax, trade stories and news, and maybe talk shop. No what really set these three apart was the fact that they were actually ‘Gym Leaders’ and in particular ‘The Three Little Kittens’. Yep. The infamous ‘Three Little Kittens’, some of the youngest Gym Leaders in all the Leagues, each whose career choice was completely different from the norm. Chris (better known as Shadow Cat, in tamer/league circles.) was the oldest at 21 and an explorer for the Shadow League. Taba Yoichi (age 20) is the owner and sole operative of a private security firm over in the Edo League that specializes in the capture or elimination of dangerous Pokewomon. While the youngest John better known as the Redpriest of the 17th Order, was simple watcher turn diplomat who is currently assigned to the hidden city BE Dorado, which is somewhere in the wilds of the Tyroon continent. If you think that these three boys were out enjoying the weather all-alone, well to that I say, HELL NO! Each of the Gym leaders entire harem were out and about enjoying the beautiful morn. Every pokegirl the boys ‘owned’. From Red’s twin cheetits to the oddly talented ladies of Taba’s Kagura Total Security. In fact the group of pokegirls who knew each other (more or less) divided into a smaller groups. And trust me when I say that what some of theses groups were doing would scare lesser tamers or pokegirls for that matter. But I’m sure that wouldn’t scare you now would it. Well don’t say I didn’t warn you. “RAT-TA-TA-TAT” “BOOOOM!!!” “Bwhahahahhaahhaahaha!!” “MWHHAHAHahahahhahahahhah!” At the sound of machine gun fire several of the pokegirls hit the deck, a few got into low defensive stances, while couple started looking curiously at the others. The last two groups joined the first on the ground at the explosion. And every one of them groaned when the twin maniacal laughs broke out. Guess who? John and Taba hid under the table, Taba incidentally ending up in a compromising position with his sleeping A-bra, Yu, who just happened to be napping under the table. After a few moments, in which there was no ridiculous speech the two rangers looked to each other and noticed that the only other male member of their group hadn’t joined them. Getting slowly back up the two looked towards where Chris was sitting to see him massaging the bridge of his nose. Just like some people do when they have a migraine. After a moment he put his hand down and cleared his throat. “Brianna! How many times have I told you not to use your poke’splosives except when it is absolutely necessary.” The aforementioned G-spliced looked towards her now slightly irate tamer and nervously responded “Umm. 10? 25? 69? Ahh..Is this a rhetorical question?” Sighing she continued meekly. “I’m gonna be punished for this aren’t I?” “Growwl. Brianna.”, Chris took a took a moment to calm down, “Brianna I’m not gonna punish you but….” Of course before he can say anything more Chris was promptly tackled by a happy little Cheetit and Supe-Bra Genius amalgam. As she began to smother Chris, Brianna spoke rapidly, “Thank you, thank you, I promise I’ll be good for the rest of the day, just please, please don’t take away my poke’splosives or taming.” Deciding to take the opportunity to turn her smothering into an attempt at seduction Brianna drawled out in a more sultry voice. “And I want to show you just how ‘good’ I can be. Purrrrrr”. While Chris struggled to detach his amorous explosive-phile, Red and Taba (who has yet to notice that Yu was currently hanging off him, and that she was still sleeping), returned to their seats and looked towards their other girls to make sure they were all right. And they were. Red’s twin cheetits were still sitting with Chris’s vixxen and catgirl, as well as Taba’s kitten and growlie. The girls were apparently holding notebooks and discussing their tamers. At the next table over Gina and Takami (a Supe-Bra Genius in Chris’s harem and G-Pointdexter of Taba’s) sat discussing hacking techniques over their laptops. And beyond that little group, Taba’s Amazon-lee Eiko was sparring with Britanny, Chris’s cheetit. Returning their attention back to Chris, Taba saw his gun-bunny looking at him apologetically. Waving his hand to forestall any pleading, “Maki, just put your toys away and leave it at that.” Continuing quickly as to prevent his on self from following in Chris’s footsteps. “Why don’t you just go sit down over there, with Brianna and talk shop.” While all this was going on Red was trying his best not fall over laughing. This sort of thing all ways seemed to happen when the ‘Three Little Kittens” got together. Personally he chalked it up to the fact that all three of them bore the “May you live in interesting times” Blood Curse. Watching as Brianna (who Chris successfully detached himself from) and Maki walked off to the next set of tables, discussing the advantages of various pieces of military hardware, Red tried to get back to the what the boys where doing before they were interrupted. Taking a sip from his coffee. Red tried to get the conversation back on track. “So Taba, why you here, I mean not that I’m complaining our anything but your usually over in the Edo League or something. What ya doing way over here in the Crescent League?” “I could ask you the same thing Mr. Ambassador. But to answer your question, me and my girls were called in to aide the Jozetsuzoku over in Indigo. They were having some of trouble eliminating a Widow. Cologne apparently asked the Shadow League to send some help just to be safe. Though they were able to eliminate the damn thing without us. The League sent us over on a couple of red eyes and a long distance teleport. Before you ask, we didn’t get to see any thing. We arrived a day after the fact, the Amazons had managed to burn the thing in its lair. We stuck around a few days to help with the clean up and make sure there weren’t any eggs. The site ended up clean, thank the gods. Before we left Cologne relayed a message from Julia, stating that you two could be found down here in the next few days. So we decided to try to meet up with you. We definitely needed a few days to recover form the trip over here. And well here we are so why you here oh Redpriest of the 17th Order.” Stirring the dregs of his tea Chris looked spoke, “Yeah, Red I was sorta wondering about that myself. I mean you are an ambassador to BE Dorado for the Shadow League. I didn’t think you would be able to travel too far.” “Normally I’m stuck in BE Dorado, with the occasional foray out into the Tyroon Continent. Yet every few months I get called ‘home’. I was on by way back from the home office. They needed to debrief me on a few things, you know standard procedure, and the powers that be decided to give me a week leave to relax.” “So what made you stop here?” “Julia.” “Julia, how the hell is does she know where I’m going to be staying? Heck I don’t even know where I’m going to be staying until I get there.” “Well you know Dr Diggers is a magic expert with several magic types at his disposal, and Julia is his ‘wife’.” “So what does that have to do with how Julia knows where Chris is Red?” “Taba, Julia’s precious daughters are in the care of our illustrious Shadow Cat here.” Slapping his fist into his palm Taba made the connection. “That’s right, I almost forgot.” Red continues where he had left off. “So that being said, she’s probably got hubby keep track of where her precious babies are.” Chris, interjecting, “Theo wouldn’t need any prompting to keep an eye on his ‘little girls’. Trust me, he was nearly frothing at the mouth when they decided to join me. I rather face a Widow that’s been exposed to Lust Dust, while bound naked, then Theo if anything happened to his daughters.” The other two turned to look at one another and back at Chris. The silent question passed between them asking simply this. Is he that bad? To which Chris just mouthed the words ‘He’s worse.’ The boys shuddered both at the mental image and at what could be possibly worse. “Anyways Chris I’ve been meaning to ask you about that.” “About what Taba?” “How you got started in the Shadow League? I mean Red mentioned a few things to me before but I don’t know much.” “Oh that, well if you got the time I don’t see why not. So do you want the long or the short?” “The long, its not even 10:30 yet. We have all day to relax and tell our tales besides I think we both want to know more about how you came to be where you are. What made you choose this path, why’d you become an explorer?.” “Yeah I was curious about that too, Chris. You never did tell me how you got into this job. You only mentioned that you originally wanted to be a researcher. How did that turn into becoming a Ranger for the Shadow League?” “Okay I’ll tell you all, but in exchange you two will tell me yours, agreed?” At their affirming nods Chris calls the various pokegirls over. Its story time for the lot and after sending a couple of the girls in to get some more snacks, the group then settled onto some picnic blankets. “Now before I tell you all how I became an explorer and Ranger of the Shadow League, you should know that at first I wanted to be Pokewomon Researcher. And that……” Author’s Notes: Ha-ha. You have to wait for the next chapter if you want to know the story. As you can see the chapters are going to get longer. I’m going to try to fit the ‘origin’ story into about two chapters, maybe three. If you want to know about Taba or the Redpriest then look for my companion works. Tales of the Shadow League: Phantoms and Shadows or Tales of the Shadow League: Of Redpriests and Golden Cheetits. Some vignettes (short stories) that tell a little of the origins and life of the two other members of the ‘Three Little Kittens’. Of course when I get to writing these I won’t know. Oh well. Some stuff follows. Ciaow! Character Bio: Name: John “Redpriest of the 17th Order” Age: 18 Occupation: Shadow League Ranger and ‘Gym Leader’ Carrier of the Golden Cheetit Badge Employed as a Watcher and is Currently assigned as Diplomat to BE Dorado Tamer Level: 42 Approach: Pampering Political Party: Parity Blood Gifts: True Blood Gift of Catskills (Agility, Balance, Night-vision, Empathy Bonus with Cat-types) Pokeboy Gene: Cheetit- Phase 1* Blood Curses: May you live in Interesting Times Pokeboy Gene: Cheetit -Phase 1* Harem (As it currently stands.) Kaela: Cheetit (Identical Twin: Alpha)** Cyan: Cheetit (Identical Twin: Alpha)** *Pokeboy Gene: A blood gift/curse that grants sons traits akin to their pokegirl mother. This Blood Gift (some consider it curse) give the individual physical traits (no special abilities save in certain circumstances, such as having cat eyes) of their mother. If mother was a tigress then you would have some tigress traits. Could be as simple as having feline eyes or a tail, to having striped fur or patterned hair. 1/3 of BE Dorado have some form of this blood gift. Phase 1: Minor physical trait. Hair color, build, ears, eyes, teeth, minor things that may not be noticeable except under close scrutiny. Phase 2: More noticeable traits. Fur, feathers, or other obvious pokegirl triats. Phase 3: Considered male version of a pokegirl. Minus the powers. If any applicable. Example: Redpriest is a phase one Cheetit. Thus he has blonde hair with light brown almost black spots in it. He also has slightly pointed ears and if you look closely enough pupils that are slightly narrowed. Stryyp’Gia ‘Stripe’ the current ruler of BE Dorado is a phase two Tigress. He has pointed ears and striped fur over his body. (no tale, if he was phase three he would have tail, claws and heighten senses) (If flying type would have feathers and wings-not necessarily functional) Phase one is relatively common, phase two is not quite (BE Dorado 1/3 population is Phase 2), phase three is rare. **Twins: In the PW universe twins are quite rare and those that do exist fall into two categories. Nearly Identical and Identical. All twins regardless of category share all duties and responsibilities. A two for one deal if you may. Of course they are not clones and each has their own minds/personalities and will style their hair and clothes (if any) how they choose. In the case that the twins belong to a species with multiple branches from the base form (Eva, kitten, etc.) they need not take the same branch. Twins are never voluntarily separated. Nearly Identical are as the name implies. There is some sort of physical characteristic that set them apart. Eye color, hair color, etc. The Puma Sisters (Dominion) are considered nearly identical. With only their eyes (left blue right green and left green and right blue) and hair slightly different shades being the only thing between the two that is different. Count as one pokegirl against your max on hand six (so techanically can have seven balls). So long as both twins remain the same species/branch. Identical: As the name implies. No physical differences save the cosmetic ones. Hair styles, clothes and such. Count as one pokegirl in concern with your count against your on hand six. Also being as the genetic template is identical you only need one ball for the pair, if they evolve to separate branches then treat as Nearly Identical. Being one ball each, but only counts as one when figuring on hand six. In general Twins (Triplets are even rarer as are other (number)-lets) are most commonly found among breeds with large litters. Bunnies, various mouse types, Some cat-types and others. Twins and the like are hard to come by as so the larger numbers tend to be quite rare. Save in titmice. Where triplets are nearly common with sextuplets being uncommon.