Unlike most people, I do not get sleepy after drinking alcohol, quite the opposite actually.
Hau and Lillie are sleeping for so long using my legs as pillows that now I am in a deep need for a walk so I can stretch my body a little.
Cautiously I lay Hau's head on the couch but he son reacted at the loss of his pillow. I took Lillie's now empty bag and used it as a substitute.
I know Lillie is going to be a little harder. That girl is a really light sleeper and I am sure that if I do anything too fast she will soon wake up, and this is not what I want. She deserves a little rest after staying with me for so long when I gave Tapu Koko my letter.
Kukui is sleeping on a chair with his arms crossed above his chest and his head is going back and forth as the boat travels. I managed to break free from Lillie (which I must say have the softest hair I had ever seen, except maybe for Pinkie Pie) and stood up effortlessly. The fresh air of the ocean is a temptation I can not resist so I went toward the door stopping only to give a quick glance to the almost cute scene in the room.
Lillie is sleeping on the couch without her usual hat and with Nebby in her arms while both Kukui and Hau are trying not to drool on their sleep.
"Men..." I murmured with a soft smile upon my face and opened the door as silently as possible.
As expected the moon is shining with its pale light and the stars are clearly visible even with all that fog
I went to the edge of the boat where the wind is not going to find any obstacle before hitting my face. I took a deep breath and looked at the horizon expecting to see nothing but the sea, however, I was wrong.
"This..." A shadow of a smile crossed my face as I narrowed my eyes a little and the shadow of an island finally appeared in front of me despite the fog. "Akala island?"
I have no idea why, but suddenly a strong feeling of impatience appeared on my chest as I noticed how much I want to land. Kukui said that unlike Melemele, this island has three trials and one grand trial. What kind of people there is here? What kind of pokemon there is here?
I heard a strange sound behind me. I turned toward the origin of the sound but thanks to the growing fog it took me some good seconds to understand what exactly had caused it, but not much longer than that I finally managed to spot Lillie in my point of view.
"I am sorry, did I wake you up?" I narrowed my eyes a little more. This fog is starting to really piss me off. "I really needed a walk, but look, we already can see the next island!" I looked at Lillie expecting to see a shared excitement, but that ended up not being the case. "Lillie, are you alright?"
Instead of answering she just gave some small steps toward me with both hands behind her back. I narrowed my eyes. Something... Something just seems odd, but what? Her dress? No. The way she is walking toward me? Maybe, but no... And yet I am feeling extremely intimidated by those golden eyes that are piercing through me.
When she got only three feet away she stopped and stared me for a few more seconds.
Think stupid brain! What is wrong?
She took her own hat and looked at it as if she does not like what she is seeing, and then she smiled. And she simply throws her hat away toward the sea.
"What are you doing?" I tried to reach her hat before it fell away from the boat but Lillie stopped in front of me. "This is your favorite hat..." That was the exact time my brain stopped working.
With confidence, Lillie put her arms around my waist and approached her face of mine.
I have no idea what the fucking hell is happening. She smiled in a very creepy way and pushed me toward the edge of the boat. "L-LILLIE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Not the smartest phrase I ever used, but like I said my brain is not working anymore. "I know I swing both sides but this is definitely not a smart thing for us to do!"
She took my cap and put it on the top of her head and... Walked away from me?
I took this opportunity for me to breath again. I know that my brain is still trying to work again, but what is wrong with me to say something so personal just because a suspiciously golden-eyed girl hugged me?
My own eyes widened. golden eyes? But Lillie's eyes are green!
"Luna?" Lillie's voice finally reached my ears, but not from the girl in front of me, and instead, from the same girl that was looking at us shocked... But she was on the door I left a few minutes ago.
As a simple matter of reflexes I tried to catch the fake Lillie that was just a few feet away from me, but not only she dodge with a back flip but she jumps onto the floor of the captain cabin without seeming to have any problem. "Who the hell are you?" I asked while keeping eye contact with the fake but my only answer was a giggle.
"What is happening?" The true Lillie stopped by my side and a few seconds later the door opened again.
"What is all that noise?" A very sleepy Kukui walked toward us with both hands on his pocket. "What are you two looking at?" He turned his gaze toward where we are looking with a blank expression. For a few seconds, he stared the fake Lillie and then looked at the real one by my side and scratched the back of his head. "I think I'm a little drunk..." He walked toward the door and closed it behind his back.
"Hum... Should we tell him?" Lillie asked.
"Tch, I will end this my way!" With my right hand I tried to take Moon's Pokeball, after all, there is obviously a high chance of this being a pokemon's trick... But where are my pokeballs? I desperately tried to find the side belt where I keep my pokeballs, but it was not with me.
But how? I do not let it go from me even during a second since I got on board.
A giggle caught my attention. I looked at the fake Lillie that was still wearing my cap and showing something very familiar on her hand...
...
"When I lay my hands on you, you better pray God for mercy, because this is not something I will be giving you," I almost roared. Who does she think she is? Arsene Lupin?
She laughed really loud this time. She sounds just like a prankster fox, and this seems to let the real Lillie by my side a little furious. "How we will get her?" She asked
"Well, if we can not bring her down..." I focused a huge amount of strength on my leg and aimed carefully. I probably have only one chance. And without a warning, I jumped toward the fake Lillie that had only a second to understand what is happening, and I used this opportunity to hit her with all the strength my body could muster in the air.
My attack probably was an overreaction, but it worked in the end. Both of us hit the windows of the captain's cabin and shattered it with our bodies, luckily I am wearing some really heavy clothes so the falling glass did not cut much of me. And in front of me, I could see a very surprised pokemon.
He is a bipedal, Pokémon with a muscular build. Feline and with bright green eyes with yellow sclerae, and tiny, pointed ears. His torso is gray with several black stripes and seems to resemble a wrestler tank-top; the front and back both have a single vertical stripe up the center, crossed by two horizontal lines. Around his waist is a belt formed from flames that somewhat resembles a championship wrestling belt. The arms, legs, and tail are all red with black stripes forming bands around them. The arms have three stripes, spiky tufts of black fur over the shoulders, and large five-fingered hands with white claws and a single light red pad on the palm. Its legs have only two stripes and simple three-toed paws, and the tail has one stripe and a tuft of spiky black fur around the tip. If I have to bet he is Kukui's 'partner'.
I looked down expecting to see the fake Lillie, but instead (as I suspected) there is a pokemon I never saw before. He is a bipedal, gray-brown, fox-like Pokémon with purple and black accents. It has a pointed snout and ears with also purple insides. It also has some purple rimming its eyes and mouth. It has a large, purple, voluminous mane with black tips and a very defined physical body.
I smiled. "Caught you, you little Arsene," The pokemon smiled too and tried to break free from me, but I held him down. "Not this time!"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BOAT?" Kukui's loud voice reached my ears. I think he is not as drunk as he thought he was... I felt a huge pressure on my belly and without even being able to understand what is happening the pokemon sent me toward the ceiling with all his strength.
Obviously, I was sent flying, but I do not let go of his hand so he immediately regretted his actions because soon he was flying too. I hit the ceiling with a lot of force, but when we fell the pokemon was squeezed between me and the floor, and he did not like it.
"LOOK YOU TROUBLE MAKER, YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION FOR... OH MY GOD!" Kukui got on the second floor followed by Lillie, and both of their expressions showed pure shock at the sight of this pokemon. "CAPTURE IT NOW!" He took a different Pokeball than the ones I am used to, this one is not red on the top, but instead is black and yellow, and sent toward me that took it with my left hand, but I do not use it immediately.
The Pokemon tried to break free again, but I bet he is not under his best condition. "First, I want my cap AND my pokeballs," I ordered and the pokemon took my cap from his head and put it back on mine, and after receiving my Pokeball back I stood up calmly letting go of the pokemon.
Kukui and Lillie are looking at me as if I am crazy, and the pokemon seems just as confused. I cleaned my cap and looked back at the pokemon that was standing up cautiously. "So, you can disguise yourself? This is impressive," I put my cap back and adjusted my gloves. "And you are a great thief too, in a way, I admire that,"
"Seriously, that's the part you admire?" Kukui asked. "I think we should study your sense of moral, yeah," He tried to make me feel bad, but I ignored him and cleaned my jacked that was full of shattered glass.
"I will not force you to join my team, that is not my style, but I can say you are very welcome," I stretched my hand with the Pokeball toward the pokemon, he looked at me really surprised, as if he is not used to having this option. "And of course, I would tell you about the that was probably the biggest thief of all times, and you will even receive his name!" That phrase definitely caught his interest. "Maybe you can learn a thing or two with him,"
"You're trying to catch a pokemon by teaching him how to steal?" Lillie asked.
"Why not? he is already good at it," I shrugged, and when I was distracted the pokemon hit the button and the familiar light engulfed him taking him inside.
A few minutes of silence filled the room.
Kukui also took his pokemon away and turned to face me. "Do you have the slight idea of how lucky you are?"
"Do you want to rephrase the sentence?" I crossed my arms and stared him with an ironic look on my face.
"You just gave an option for a shiny pokemon to go away!" He said as if this is something absurd.
"And?"
"Hum, putting it simply, a shiny pokemon is like a normal pokemon, but his colors are different," Lillie quickly explained. "Its something so rare that the best comparison would be you actually,"
"So he is rare?"
"Let's just say that the chance of finding a shiny pokemon is the same as finding a blue-skinned girl, yeah"
...
"Oh," I finally understood what they were trying to say. "Now I get it..."
"Good," Kukui again assumed the command of the boat. Without Arsene, the heavy fog disappeared and I could see that Akala Island is just a few minutes away. "If you don't have any more questions, I think we should wake Hau up, he will like to see this,"
"Actually, I still have a question," Lillie looked at me as if trying to remember something. "What exactly means 'you swing both sides?'"
...
"I'm not being the one to explain!" Kukui jumped through the window of the cabin leaving me and Lillie behind.
"Traitor..."