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Journey to Another World 6

Ch. 4

Things really calmed down after Kit and I had our little...love session, out in the Trophy Garden. Kit was now back to her playful/happy self as she was now happily walking beside me or bounding around sniffing at the flowers, but unlike before she seemed to find something fascinating in my face as she couldn't seem to stop looking up at me with a contented smile on her muzzle. Though the moment was nice and serene as we walked back to our room, it didn't mean that their was going to be hell to pay later.

"I still don't understand why you wanted us to bathe in that fountain Kit. That water was practically freezing cold." I complained to her as we both stopped in front of the door to our room as I shhok my still lightly damp hair. "I think that I'm going to go and take a hot shower and..." I said as I grabbed the handle to our room and slowly opened the door.

"AND WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING?!" A voice said as a large serpents head with a very unpleasant look in it's eyes, quickly shot out of the door to our room to stop as it's face was quickly plastered into my own. "I have been waiting for the past three days for you to..."

"CAN IT UNDINE!" Came a Corus of voices from within the room from a very peeved Gardevoir and Lucario. "You are scaring our kids." And just like that a new Corus of, this time, crying came from within the room. I pushed past Undine to see that both my kids were crying in their mothers arms as both Jenavee and Rena did their best to console the frightened tikes. Both Jenavee and Rena were sitting on the bed next to each other with their legs under the covers, both the baby Riolu and Ralts were each nestled nicely in the crooks of their arms, and both were frantically squirming in their mothers arms.

It took us a few minutes to finally get the kids calmed down and relaxed enough so that they went back to nursing from Jenavee and Rena. "They're like little angels when they're asleep." I said happily once they'd calmed down. I scratched the Riolu behind it's ears, which made them twitch a little almost like that of a dog who's half asleep and it's leg starts twitching when your scratching it's favorite spot on it's stomach.

"Though they are a royal pain when their awake." Undine said which got all of us to turn and stare daggers at her. "What? You heard how loud they were just now." From that point on everyone just ignored the...irritating serpent and her continuous ranting about her being to good/beautiful to be with egg as she fanned herself with her fan like tail.

It was a little past three in the afternoon when there came a knock at the door and a man came in after I bid them entry. "Well...well....well. It would seem that the wounded have finally recovered." He said with a bit of a smile and a slight chuckle. "How do you feel my boy?"

"Just about ready for the riggers of he road, sir." I said as I carefully walked around my son and daughter as they were coloring in a coloring book on the floor in front of the bed. I still could not figure out where they had gotten the book or the crayons for that matter. I walked on over and held out my hand to which the handsomely dressed man accepted and shook. "I'd like to thank you for taking in all of us while I was recovering."

"Not at all my boy, not at all. Though I would like to ask, if you have taken a stroll through my Trophy Garden?" He asked with a bit of a proud smirk on his face. "It is quite a site to see as well as a very relaxing...." He went on and on about his beautiful Trophy Garden and even went so far as saying that Pokemon who visited the place were likely to come right up to good people such as himself and sit right in their laps. That was a bit hard to swallow, but I politely nodded here or there and promised that I'd take my Pokemon outside to visit the place before leaving.

And that's exactly what I did. I took both my kids on over to a tree swing there in the garden and happily pushed them on it, (As the swing was large enough that both could fit side by side) while both Rena and Jenavee watched on with smiles. It brought a smile to my face when both the kids would let out a happy laugh when they reached the apex of the swing. After the swing both Rena and Jenavee called us all on over for something to eat and we all ate our little pick-nick lunch.

" I do not know the last time that we all sat down to have such a wonderful meal." Rena said as she took a slow drink of lemonade from a glass bottle, then let out a cute little burp. " Oops. Excuse me."

"I would have to agree." Jenavee said as she looked up to a low branch over us at the tree that we were sitting under to see both the kids happily eating an apple together. "It is so peaceful here, that I could just wish that we would stay here."

"I couldn't agree more." I said as I set down my sandwich, but pulled out another Pokeball and held it up. "Though, we would all like to stay, there are others who need to be somewhere else." To which both Rena and Jenavee nodded.

" Then, what is next Donovin?" Rena asked as she set down her bottle and looked over at me.

"Hearthome City." I said simply. "The gateway to Hearthome City isn't that far North from here. Once we get through there, we just head east and that's where we'll find the Lost Tower to drop off our little friend here so that she can be reunited with her son."

"Hearthome City, huh." We all turned and saw Undine slither on up with a bit of and intrigued look on her face. "Is that not where you got those Poffins and where they have those Pokemon contests?"

"That's right Undine. And, you don't need to remind me of my promise to you about getting you some more Poffins the next time that we'd pass through there. I'll get you your Poffins and then we'll..."

"Now just hold on a minute." She interrupted me as she pointed her tail fin at me. "I think it's about time to really show everyone how beautiful of a Goddess that I am." We all looked at each other in a bit of shock as well as a bit of nervousness, then looked back up to her as she started ranting again. "You all have done nothing other than undermine on how a Goddess, such as myself, should be treated." She raised up her tail fin which snapped open with a snap, and she began to fan herself. "So I demand that you place me into one of those contests. That way I can finally show you all just how much of a Goddess that I am and finally get some respect/worship around here."

'This could be the best thing ever...' I thought... 'Or, an utter nightmare.' Jenavee finished for me as we all looked towards the north and past to where Hearthome city lay.

The next day I was all packed up and ready to leave. Though before we were to set out on the road I decided to at least thank my host and say goodbye to everyone else. I found Andrew talking with his father and explaining his plan of becoming a Honey salesmen and selling his wares all over Sinnoh. His father was a little reluctant to go along with the idea, but when Andrew had him try some Honey on his bread for breakfast that morning he was instantly hooked. Rian on the other hand was a little different. He said that he was going to travel back to his home town to take on Crasher Wake after he'd do some more battling in the Marshes between his home town and here to also earn a little cash for a new invention that was coming out from the Deven Corp. "There are a lot of trainers that pass through that area that are just ripe for a battle. Being weak after battling Wake and dealing with the wet/muddy terrain, they shouldn't prove that much of a problem." He said as we shook hands and parted ways.

With all that said and done, Jenavee/Rena/the kids/ and myself all headed North. "I still think sending Undine into a Beauty Contest is not such a great idea Donovin. What if she actually wins? Do you know how much more of a Pain she will be if she actually accomplishes that feat?"

" I would really have to agree with Jenavee. She is such a royal pain to deal with right now, just imagine on how much more she will be if she actually wins." Rena said as her daughter let out a little whine to emphasize the point.

I stopped in my tracks, dropped my head, and took a long sigh. "And imagine if I don't put her into one of those contests." I said as I straitened up and turned to face them. "I haven't forgotten the headache that she gave me that night when we first left Hearthome City and I for one definitely don't want a repeat of that." I turned and looked over my shoulder and could see the gateway to Hearthome City from the south once we'd passed through the gateway. "Though I'm trying to think of something even better than that."

Both Jenavee and Rena looked at each other in confusion then walked up to stand beside me. "What do you mean Donovin? Do you have something else in mind?"

" You know he does Jenavee." Just then Rena snickered. "_ I think he is going to place her into one of the toughest Beauty Contests that there are, so that she is sure to loose _."

"That's one of my ideas in my head, but not all of them." I said as I turned and looked at them. "The last time we were passing through there, I think I overheard someone talking about other kinds of contests that they have there." I then reached out to my girls and hugged them to my sides, as I got them to start walking with me again. "Wouldn't it be something to show her up on how beautiful the two of you are over her."

This got both their eyes to widen and them smiles to quickly spread across their faces. "You mean that you want us to participate in a Beauty Contest as well? I do not know if they will allow you to enter three Pokemon into one contest Donovin. That might be a little unfair to others."

" Do not be such a downer Jenavee. Think positive. I would love to be in a contest....though." She then looked down. "_ If the two of us are in a contest. Who will look after the kids _?"

"Kit will of course," I stated simply. "And our friend Samantha will as well. We'll head on over to the Pokemon center, get a room so that they all can stay and watch the proceeding over the television, and that way they'll be safe and sound in the room with protection if anyone were to try anything." Both Jenavee and Rena were a little reluctant about leaving their kids, but knew that Kit and the Mismagius would do everything in their power to protect the kids.

Over the remainder of the day, I did some asking around Hearthome City and learned quite a lot about contests and how they were all held. They were held in three parts. The Appeals stage where Pokemon were to show off their moves in the most spectacular way (Beauty for Undine). The Dance Stage where the Pokemon is to dance to a certain beat. Then finally the double battle stage where the last of the Pokemon trainers that had the most points were to battle the other opponent that'd earned the most points.

Looking down at the sheet that lay before me on the desk in our room at the Pokemon center, I thought long and hard as to what I was going to do. 'Undine is no doubt going to do the Appeals stage of the contest, but what about the Dance stage? She's a serpent after all and can't exactly dance.' I scratched at the back of my head and took a long sigh as I turned around in the swivel chair to look around the room at all my family/Pokemon.

The kids were on the floor, playing with Kit's tails. She would dart her tails around when the kids would try and catch one of them only to have it come around and tickle them along their sides which would make them laugh and squeal in glee, Mismagius was at the window looking towards the Lost Tower towards the East as she would let out a chanting moan every once in a while as if talking/hoping that her son was alright without her, Undine was in the bathroom trying to get the bathtub to turn on so that she could start to bath herself and get ready for our training session tomorrow, and Jenavee and Rena were out getting us all something to eat.

'I'll have to think of something for the Dance part of the competition tomorrow as the contest is in a few days.' I thought as I leaned back in the chair and started to balance a pencil between my upper lip and my nose.