“Turn this to the right... and give it a push... and there!”

	The ground began to rumble as I withdrew my paw. The massive, sandstone door began to shudder and groan as it separated into two halves, with both sides receding into the cavern walls. I took a prideful step back and waited for the gate to fully open, revealing the next – and hopefully final – room.

	“Good work, Fée,” a warm paw patted my head. I looked up and saw my partner, a Riolu that I named Blue, smiling down at me. He rubbed the top of my head with his paw and walked toward the now – open door.

	“It wasn’t that hard,” I said, my cheeks turning pink as I followed after him, “I’m sure anyone could’ve solved that puzzle.”

	Blue gave a small snort as he carefully checked the doorway for traps, “You’re selling yourself short. Not every Eevee has your smarts, I bet.”

	“Oh please,” I said dismissively. “flattery will get you nowhere, buddy.”

	Despite saying that, I still couldn’t help but wag my tail at his praise. My partner chuckled at me as he stood up and motioned to me that the corridor was safe. He walked through it first, with me following after him shortly.

	I glanced around the rocky corridor. While the sandstone door was fairly large and wide, the corridor was anything but. As we trekked down the dim hallway, my partner and I began to move closer and closer together as the corridor became narrower and narrower. By the time we reached the halfway point, it had become so cramped that I felt like we were being crushed into a sandwich!

	“This... this is a little awkward,” I heard my partner grumble as he rubbed his head with his paw. I glanced up and saw that even the corridor’s ceiling was lowering itself as we walked. As a Pokémon that walked on two legs, poor Blue must’ve bumped his head on the roof.

	“Why don’t you try walking on four legs?” I suggested, “You’ll give yourself a little bit more room to work with.”

	Blue bumped his head against the ceiling again as he nodded. Grumbling, he dropped himself down to the ground and began to crawl with his hands. I giggled as I watched him awkwardly try to move his arms and legs together, with his tail stuck straight up in an effort to keep his balance. My mirth quickly subsided though, when I realized that all I could see in front of me now was his behind. Blushing, I tried to look away from my partner, but the corridor had narrowed to the point that all I could really do was avert my eyes.

	“How long is this stupid tunnel?” I heard Blue grumble out of frustration. I sneaked a peek back at him, only to catch another eyeful of his furry posterior. I also wished that the tunnel would end soon, but for a different reason...

	After several agonizing (and embarrassing) minutes, Blue suddenly let out a yelp of joy, making me jump up with a start and bumping my head against the low ceiling.

	“There it is!” He shouted as his tail twitched happily, “I see the exit, and I hear running water too! Come on Fée, let’s get out of this cramped nightmare!”

	“A – alright,” I replied hesitantly. From my angle, his enthusiasm translated into him wiggling his behind wildly as he tried to speed up his crawl as much as possible. I felt a burning sense of shame as I closed my eyes and followed him out. He’s my partner, I shouldn’t be thinking of him in such a way!

	As we exited that claustrophobic tunnel, we found ourselves standing in a medium – sized chamber made out of rock. As Blue had reported, there was a small stream running through the center of the room, as if it was cutting it in half. To my delight, the floor was carpeted by a thick layer of soft grass, making it a welcome change from walking on hard stone all day.

	I rushed up to the little stream and splashed my burning hot face with water. I didn’t want my partner to get curious over why my face was glowing bright red. As I tried to cool myself off, the image of Blue’s rump stubbornly reappeared in my mind, making me dunk my entire head underwater in an effort to get rid of it.

	“Hey, look at that!”

	Water dripped off my wet fur as I withdrew my face from the stream. Through my blurry vision, I could see Blue slowly walking toward the center of the chamber. I brushed away the droplets of water blurring my eyes to refocus my vision.

	“It looks like an altar of some kind,” I heard Blue say as I rubbed away the remaining water on my face. Taking a closer look, there was indeed some sort of tall protrusion made out of stone in the center of the chamber. Blue jumped up and pulled his head over the top of the altar.

	“Hey, be careful!” I yelled at him, “It could be trapped!”

	“There’s something here!” He shouted back, “It looks like an orb of some kind.”

	“An orb?” I echoed. “Can you tell what kind of orb it is?”

	I felt a little disappointed that our treasure at the end of this expedition was nothing more than a single orb. If it was an Escape Orb though, we could use it to save a little bit of money.

	“I don’t think I recognize this one. It doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen before.”

	“Eh? You can’t recognize it?”

	Blue turned toward me and shook his head, “It’s all pink and there’s some sort of strange gas floating around inside of it.”

	“Can you take it off the pillar?” I said, “I might be able to identify it I can get a closer look.”

	“Sure, give me a second,” Blue reached over the top of the altar with his arm and groped around for the orb.

	“Be careful, you don’t want to shatter it!”

	“I’m always careful,” Blue retorted with a cocky tone, “I just need to... get a good grip on the thing...”

	I sighed. He was always like this, foolhardy and overconfident in his skills. But, that was something I’ve always liked about him. Smiling to myself, I glanced around the chamber while he continued to struggle with the orb. Strangely, the chamber was almost cuboid in shape. The walls looked like they were carved out by skilled hands, with the surfaces looking almost perfectly smooth.

	I lifted my head up into the air and took a sniff. Now that my nose was cleaned out a bit by the water, I noticed that there was an odd odor wafting around in the air. It smelled sweet, almost cloyingly so. I couldn’t quite place my paw on what the strange scent could be, but whatever it was, it was beginning to make my muscles feel tense for some inexplicable reason. Turning around, I noticed that my tail had straightened itself out without my knowledge, and was now sticking straight up.

	“Aha, got it!” Blue’s triumphant shout snapped me out of my daze. I looked over at my partner and saw him hanging off the altar with one paw. He was waving around a pink – colored orb in his other as he grinned at me.

	“Alright, get down from there before you hurt yourself,” I couldn’t help but smile at his antics. Nodding, the Riolu leapt off the side of the altar and landed on the grass with a soft thump. He held up the pink orb in his paws and held it up to his face.

	“Huh, I wonder what this thing does?” Blue asked aloud as he turned the orb over in his paws, “It’s filled with some sort of pink gas. Maybe it puts Pokémon to sleep?” He knocked the backside of his paw against the orb, trying to get some sort of reaction out of it.

	“H – hey, are you crazy?” I took a step away from him, eying the orb cautiously, “What if it goes off?”

	Blue laughed and gave me a teasing smirk. He tossed the orb up into the air and began to juggle it as if it was a clown. I made a disapproving noise and shook my head at him. He didn’t mind though, and continued to play around with the precious orb. As the shining ball spun around in the air, I noticed that the pungent odor present in the room was becoming thicker and thicker. The cloying scent clung to my nostrils like a dollop of sticky honey.

	“Blue... do you smell that?” I said as I clutched my nose with my paw, “There’s... there’s something weird in the air...”

	Blue stopped juggling the orb and sniffed the air. His eyes narrowed as he scanned around the chamber. “Yeah, I definitely smell something odd.” He took a few more prudent sniffs before his eyes suddenly widened.

	“Did... did you find something...?” The smell was getting really strong now. Even with my paws clasped over my nose, I could still taste the sugary feeling in my mouth. My mind was becoming unfocused as I continued to breathe in the odor.

	“It’s coming from this!” Blue held up the orb, showing it to me. Pink gas was escaping from its glassy casing. The amount of smoke emanating from the orb wasn’t much, but considering how long Blue was throwing it around in the air earlier...

	“W – what is this smell?” Blue coughed as he inhaled a little bit of the smoke, “It’s too... too sweet...” The Riolu dropped down onto his knees and began to pant heavily. The orb rolled off his paw and into the grass, still spewing out pink gas like a tiny geyser.

	Blue clutched his forehead as his breath became ragged, “I feel... I feel strange...” He shook his head and weakly reached his arm forward in an attempt to grab the orb again. But, as soon as his paw came in contact with the sphere’s surface, a loud noise exploded from within the orb. Immediately after that, a huge cloud of pink smoke burst forth from within the glassy sphere, enveloping my friend within seconds.

	“Blue!” I cried out in horror as my partner’s head vanished underneath the billowing cloud of pink, “Blue!”

	Without any hesitation at all, I dived right into the encroaching cloud of pink, inhaling several lungfuls of the sweet gas in the process. My eyes stung and my nostrils were burning, but it didn’t matter. I waved my paws around, desperate to find Blue within this blinding pink fog. After several long seconds of swiping at the air and the grass in a blind panic, my paws finally hit something soft and furry. I looked down and saw the faint outline of my friend lying on the floor.

	“Hang on, I’m going to get you out of here!” I leaned down and bit down on the loose fur around his neck. Groaning in exertion, I strained myself to tug him out of the pink mist. Why, oh why did he have to be so heavy?

	Once we were out of the cloud, I opened my aching jaw and let his body flop onto the ground. Panting heavily, I sat down and held my paw up to my chest. My heart was still racing, and my mind was unfocused. The cloying smell continued to ravage my senses, making my thoughts run wild inside my head. I tried to clear my thoughts by shaking my head and slapping my face, but it had little to no effect.

	“H – hey... are you alright?” I spoke in a labored voice at Blue. The Riolu’s body was lying on the grass, face down. Pink smoke escaped out the corners of his mouth and his nose as he continued to pant heavily. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was moaning quietly, I would’ve thought that he had fallen asleep.

	The amount of gas I had inhaled... even though it wasn’t that much was beginning to affect my own body as well. My hindquarters were beginning to tighten uncomfortably, and I could feel a faint moisture staining my underside...

	“B – Blue...? Are... are you awake?” I reached forward in a daze to try and rouse him. As soon as my paws touched him, it felt as though I was hit with a sudden jolt of electricity. My tail sprung up again as my fur bristled at the invigorating sensation. I didn’t know what happened, but whatever it was, it seemed to have an energizing effect on me.

	“Ohhh...” Another moan escaped Blue’s throat as I drew back from him, panting. The Riolu shuddered as he tried to push himself off the grass. However, he collapsed back onto the ground almost immediately after arching his back up. For some reason, he was trying to lift himself off the ground with only his legs. His arms were underneath his body instead of pushing against the floor.

	I lowered my head to see what his arms were doing.

	“B – B – B – Blue!” My eyes widened as I nearly fell back out of surprise. I quickly covered my eyes out of embarrassment, “W – What are you doing with your paws?!”

	“Eh...?” Blue mumbled at me in a muddled voice. His paws were fumbling around with something in between his legs. Before I covered my eyes, I thought I had spotted him holding something bright, red, and erect...

	“P – Put that away...!” I shouted at him, my face burning up again. Despite myself, I peeked out between my digits at my shameless partner. Almost immediately, I wish I hadn’t.

	“Fée... for some reason... I feel really great...!” Blue moaned as he stroked his length with a dazed look in his eye. Despite my best efforts to try and avoid looking at it directly, I found myself transfixed at his indecent display. My mind was swimming with thousands and thousands of questions, wondering why my friend would be doing such a.. such an... immoral act all of a sudden.

	Then, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the little orb lying in the grass. The pink cloud had dissipated into a fine, rose – colored mist by now.

	Ah. That was it. That strange gas from the orb... it must’ve had some sort of mental... no, arousal effect...! But... I’ve never heard of such a thing before... Wait... maybe... no...

	My thoughts were coming and going like a swarm of Combee. I simply couldn’t focus on a single thought long enough to fully develop it into a theory. I clutched my head and closed my eyes, trying my best to rein in my out – of – control mind. However, the sweet scent that was still ravaging around inside my head made my attempts completely and utterly futile.

	All of a sudden, a new scent appeared in the midst. It smelled familiar... yet, at the same time, it had an odd, exotic feeling to it. I opened my eyes and – to my horror – found that Blue had shoved his member directly underneath my nose. I had no choice but to take a deep whiff of his musk out of sheer surprise.

	“N – noooo!” I shoved the Riolu away with my paws, my nose tingling from the vivid scent he left behind. Blue growled and knelt onto ground, his member sticking straight up in between his legs. He stared directly at me, his red eyes glowing and his chest heaving. His mouth was wide open, his tongue lolling out and dripping with saliva.

	I took a deep gulp and tried to back away from him. Despite my best attempts to stay sane, I found that my subconscious had other ideas. Vivid images began to flash inside my mind, showing me scandalous scenes involving my partner and I. His strong, supple body laying against mine... his tongue rolling around on my body... and his big... his big...

	All of a sudden, a painful tightening of my lower regions caused me to snap back into reality. I quickly slapped my face, forcing those lewd images out of my head. “N...no... w – we can’t...!” I stuttered back at him, shaking my head furiously. “We... we’re on an expe.. expedi... trip, remember...?” I shook my head at his disappointed face, “We... we can’t do this... no, we shouldn’t be doing this...!”

	Blue didn’t seem to understand what I was saying. He continued to stare at me with his intense gaze, sending shivers down my spine. All of a sudden, he dropped down to the ground on all fours. He crawled his way through the grass like a predator seeking out his prey, moving his way over to where I was sitting with alarming speed. Then, before I could even react to his approach, he leapt up from the ground and plunged his muzzle deep into the thick fur around my neck.

	“B – Blue...!” I groaned as I felt him breathing inside my ruff. He made deep, sensual murmurs with his mouth while his arms began to caress my belly. His soft, yet firm paws ran up and down my underside, making me moan with unbridled pleasure. He continued to dip his paws lower and lower down my body while his face moved up past my neck and reached my cheek. He licked my face with his warm tongue, sending a shiver down my spine.

	“Please... we can’t... do this...” I spoke between moans, desperately trying to appeal to him, “We’re friends... remember...? Blue... come to your senses...!”

	“Friends...?” His paws stopped just short of my most private area. Taking this chance, I placed my own paws on his shoulders and pushed him away, separating the two of us. He had a startled look on his face as he fell backward onto the grass. His... malehood stuck straight up in the air as he lay on his back, mulling over my words... I hope.

	“Y – yes, Blue,” I averted my gaze from his nether regions as I continued to try and snap him out of his reverie, “we’re partners.. remember...? We’re not... we’re not lovers... or anything... j – just partners...”

	I took a deep gulp and tried to give him a grin. I felt as though I had swallowed several ice cubes as I coughed out those words. Despite how much it hurt me to say it, it seemed to have a positive effect on my body. The heat that was surrounding my lower regions was beginning to cool off, and the lewd thoughts that pervaded my mind was fading away.

	“We’re... not lovers...” Blue repeated what I said in his sluggish tone of voice. Ignoring the pang of sadness that just speared my heart, I steeled myself and nodded at the Riolu. “Since we’re... not lovers... we can’t do it...”

	“T – that’s right, Blue,” I said, faking enthusiasm in my voice, “this... this sort of thing is the thing you do... with someone you love... so... so...”

	I felt like crying as I made myself nod at my own words. Even though I knew this was just to try and cure my partner, I still couldn’t help but feel depressed at what I was implying.

	“Then... that means...” I watched as my friend pushed himself off the ground and back onto his feet. With unstable steps, he meandered his way over to where I was sitting, his bright red erection still standing at attention.

	“That means...?” I asked as I averted my eyes from his lower half.

	“That means... we just have to be lovers!”

	My eyes widened as I spun my head back at him. What kind of crazy leap in logic was that? I opened my mouth to shout at my partner, but before I could even react, he tackled me and pushed me onto my back. His arms snaked around the back of my head, lifting it up from the grass. I could only stare, dumbfounded as his grinning face filled my vision.

	“Wha... what are you doi –mmph?!” My incredulous words were cut short as he suddenly pressed his lips onto mine. In that instant, my brain shut down from shock. It felt like time had frozen around us  as we kissed. A thousand... no a million cheers and explosions rang out inside my heart, applauding and crying out in happiness. I closed my eyes as tears began to roll down my cheeks.

	“Mmm...” Without breaking the passionate kiss we were sharing, Blue carefully let my head down onto the grass. Once he was sure I was comfortable, his mouth opened and he pressed his tongue against my lips, seeking permission to enter. Without any hesitation at all, I opened up my lips and felt his tongue touch mine.

	A mischievous thought ran through my mind. I threw my paws around Blue’s head and pulled his face even closer to mine. My tongue pressed hard against his, trying to enter his mouth as his was doing the same with mine. With a strong push, I pressed down on his tongue and claimed my right to explore his mouth. I felt his shoulders slump in defeat, but he allowed me passage with no resistance. I giggled inwardly as I imagined just how disappointed he must’ve felt.

	As we made out on the grass, I felt Blue’s body lower itself onto mine. His blue fur intermingled with my brown as our bodies touched each other, sending sparks of excitement running through me. Something hot poked against my belly, making me flinch out of surprise. Reluctantly, I separated our faces, making him whine a little out of disappointment.

	“Blue...” I moaned as I felt his malehood press against me. The burning hot sensation of his member against my fur made my body react accordingly. Warm liquid was beginning to flow out of my precious area, moistening it and preparing it for what was about to come.

	Blue arched his behind up, making his throbbing member slide across my belly. I shuddered and cooed as he positioned it directly above my wet slit. I could see it... his redness hovering over my most private place. As for what about was to happen next... I could only close my eyes in anticipation.

	“Fée...” I heard him speak my name as the tip of his member brushed against me. A feeling of frustration and impatience welled up inside my heart as he continued to tease my entrance. A low growl emanated from my throat as I opened up my eyes to glare at his dumb, grinning face. He placed his paws around my face, gently holding my cheeks as he leaned down and kissed me again.

	I didn’t even have time to enjoy it. In the instant his mouth touched mine, he thrust his hips.

	“Mmmph!” My scream was muffled by the kiss. It was like a searing hot needle had just been jabbed into my body. Tears welled up in my eyes as I thrashed about in agony, trying to get away from the awful pain. Even though I was crying and rampaging around underneath him, Blue remained patiently still, determined to not break the kiss.