What matters most is not what one appears like on the outside, for the most beautifully skinned apple can still be rotten at its core~

=A Dragalge's Tears=

= (Human) Paul / (Pokemon) Kelp =

*Narrator*

[We begin our story, in one of the many islands in a string of islands, known as the Orange Islands. This particular Island is famous for its coral reefs, its crystal clear waters, and its wonderfully clean air. The Pokemon have enjoyed a fairly balanced relationship with the humans on this particular Island, especially one Pokemon… who waits below the surface of the docks, waiting for her favorite human to arrive.]

(Kelp's PoV)

Kelp drifted underwater, just beneath the dock as she awaited the arrival of her Paul. Today she was going to swim with him and show him around the reef to 'help' his research in categorizing the various kinds of coral.

*Oh I hope he shows up soon!* She thought giddily, she couldn't wait to see him again. *I know it's been only two days but I just can't wait to see him!*

She definitely couldn't wait to see him, mostly because he was the only human who bothered examining her species around this island.

Being a Dragalge, she wasn't the most exceptionally good looking or impressive, compared to all of the other Pokemon that researchers were far more interested in observing. Around the island there were tons of reef Pokemon, Lumineons, Finneons, Mantykes, Mantines, Remoraids, and especially the Corsola found around the coral reefs. Then there was her extremely small pod of Dragalge and Skrelp, which had roamed in while searching for a new home.

Most of the other Pokemon didn't like her species, being a predominantly Poison type gave her species that image, and it didn't help that their nest areas were quite rotten and filthy compared to the beautiful and sparklingly clean coral reefs around the island. Even when she was a Skrelp she had that bad reputation, and after evolving and gaining a Dragon Type to replace her water type, she still had that image of a Poison type hanging over her head.

But then came the day where she met that one human, it happened on a stormy day, and she would never forget it. She and her parents were hunting for food near the coral reef, when they sensed the storm approaching. They had begun drifting back to their kelp territory, when she saw a boat above her tossing and swaying high above her.

At first she thought nothing of it, but when she saw something fall overboard, she decided to investigate it. As it turned out, it was a human boy of about nine years. She didn't know much about humans, but she knew that humans did not enjoy life underwater. So she tried to help him back up, but because she was just a Skrelp at the time, she didn't have much strength behind her muscles. In the end, she got caught up in the struggle of him trying to swim up, but after a few minutes of frantically trying to get out of his jacket, they were both pulled up by his father.

It turned out they had also been fishing for Remoraid, as a father-son bonding experience. But when they separated her from his coat, they discovered that her fins had been injured in his struggle to swim, so they took care of her until she could recover. It took her weeks, but eventually she was able to return to her home, and this time she returned the favor by convincing her parents to not kill them for 'capturing' her.

But she never forgot the care that boy gave her, or how polite he was to her while she lived in that dinky little tank to recover. Each day he fed her, cleaned her water, checked on her fins, and talked to her. Even if he couldn't understand a word of her language, yet after many days, she began to understand his.

She even got a name for him to call her by, Kelp, after the kelp she lived near.

From then on they were bound together. As he grew up around the water, she grew up with him, often swimming around him when he was near the water, enticing him to play or even to swim with her. When he was old enough, and he began schooling to become Oceanographer, she was one of his first specimens, much to the surprise of his peers and teachers. While the rest of his friends and classmates studied the beautiful or cool looking coral Pokemon, he studied the 'Ugly Poison' ones.

When she eventually evolved into a Dragalge, around the time when he graduated, she was also one of his chief studies that he always came back to. She often pretended to not notice him when he dived under to 'observe' her, but in truth, she knew he was there always. All the time he observed her, she would go about her business, making sure to go slow so he could get every bit of detail.

When she was mature sexually, she found herself becoming very 'interested' in him, and played off exposing her best assets to him as merely coincidence. Though he obviously didn't realize that this was happening, she made sure he got a good look at her from every angle, a 'very' good look at her.

That was of course, up until a year ago, when it was just him and her out in the water.

*He better not bring that Sharpedo of a girl with him.* She thought bitterly, remembering his new 'girlfriend' that he got.

Ever since he got this new girl, she's had to restrain herself from spitting poison at her every time he came around with her. He didn't know, but she had been watching this girl since the day she became his girlfriend. That spawn of Muk was not worthy of a fine male that was her Paul, not if what the Wingulls that could never keep their noses out of private issues told her was true.

"Keeeelp!" She heard a male voice call out, and it was the call she had been waiting for!

She eagerly forgot all about the girl and started swimming down and around the dock, before swimming back up. With a splash of water she burst to the surface, spraying her human and crying out eagerly at him.

That was of course, before she saw that witch right next to him, and heard her voice. "Ugh, are we really swimming with that Dragalge 'again'?" She said.

"She's my friend Vivian." Paul said.

Paul, a normally white skinned human, but sporting a tan for being out so much, with dark brown hair and hazel colored eyes of about five feet, captured her attention as she ignored the tramp next to him. She smiled gleefully as she nuzzled his outstretched hand, enjoying how smooth his skin felt against her rough scales. She couldn't help but tingle inside as she saw him wearing a purple and blue diving suit.

As for his 'girlfriend', she was just under five feet, with golden blonde hair, a light tan on her white skin, light blue eyes, and sporting a light blue and green diving suit.

"I can see that, but why are we swimming with a Dragalge?" She asked him as she put on her oversized flippers. "We could be swimming with Corsolas, Mantines, even Seakings. Why do we have to swim with that 'love'?"

At the word 'love', Kelp wanted to spit acid at the girl even more, but refrained because Paul was there. "You don't even know the meaning of that word…" She hissed at her, but of course all that came out of her mouth to them was, "Dragalge Drag Drag Dragalge…"

"Now, now Kelp, you know she doesn't mean it." He said with a chuckle, calming her down by scratching behind her kelp-like mane.

What he doesn't realize is that because of her slender body, and the fact that she's so thin overall, is that 'that' particular part of her body is a pleasure point, one that her species use when showing affection during mating. So when he began scratching her there, it took all of her will to prevent herself from cooing in delight and lifting her tail up to reveal her sex.

After a few minutes, Paul and his 'girlfriend' Vivian put on their breathing masks and tanks, and finally jumped into the water with her. When he jumped into the water, all of her anger at his girlfriend all but vanished.

It was now him and Kelp in the wide ocean water, and she was prepared to show him all around it. She wasn't a fast swimmer, in fact she barely got around at a very slow pace, but since Paul wasn't exactly able to swim any faster, it meant that they could drift alongside each other at a lovely pace.

As she drifted alongside him, she smiled happily as he gave her a 'thumbs up', he looked so nice to her, even if he was wearing that diving suit.

But then Vivian came along and spoiled her lovely moment with Paul by swimming up alongside him and taking his arm and rubbing it through her flowing hair.

*This Muk doesn't deserve to be in the same ocean as him, let alone have him touch her hair!* She thought bitterly.

Oh how she wanted to rid her beloved human of this beast, she wasn't worthy of her human. If only she could speak his language, the secrets she would share with him, the earth shattering truths she could spill.

But she refused, even if it would hurt her relationship with him, she would not break up Paul and Vivian. To Paul, Vivian cared greatly about him, had great interest in him, but the truth was she didn't exactly care about Paul. At least, not Paul as a person.

As they swam over a section of the coral reef where her own lair was, she drifted by him and nosed his shoulder to get his attention. Then she pointed down at a portion of it, where the light began reflecting it to create a beautiful array of colors. He nodded and pulled out a waterproof camera. Then he pointed down at the reef and then both her and Vivian, indicating that he wanted to take a picture of both of them.

Behind her mask Vivian shook her head in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe Paul really wanted to take a picture of them.

For once Kelp was in agreement, she didn't want to share the same space as that girl, let alone be in a picture with her. But it was for Paul, and she would sooner endure drying up on land than turn down a request from him. So she drifted over so she was in frame, and a few moments later Vivian finally caved in and swam over.

When he was ready, he took the picture and gave them the thumbs up, then they resumed their tour of the reefs with Kelp leading them and showing all that she could. An hour later though, they had to return to land, and made their way back to the docks.

"Well that was an okay swim." Vivian said as she took her mask off.

"See, I told you that Kelp knew all of the best spots!" Paul exclaimed.

"Yea, but why couldn't she show you first and you take me then?" She asked. "If anyone sees me with a Dragalge I'll lose my reputation as a model! I have to pose for post cards to attract tourists, I can't be seen with a Dragalge!"

"It's alright, Dragalge are wonderful Pokemon." He said, not noticing Kelp glaring furiously at Vivian. "I'm sure they'd understand how amazing they are if you told them about Kelp."

"A good personality does not cover up her looks darling…" She said, shaking her hair to make it sparkle. "I'll see you later, I need to get out of here before any cameras spot me!"

As she walked away, Kelp hissed angrily at her. "And a beautiful body does not equal a great personality!" She snapped at her, but again, it only came out to Paul as, "Dragalge galge Drag!"

Paul sighed and patted her head in understanding. "It's not her fault, she just has to take care of her image." He said, electing a whine of content from her. "Thanks though for showing us around, I never knew about that section of the reef, and I've been swimming around and exploring for years."

She nodded in understanding, after all, she was the one showing him around all that time.

"Listen, I know I haven't been around or visited you as often, but my work doesn't exactly pay as much Vivian thinks." He said with a sad frown. "Everything that has been learned around here has been learned, and scientists aren't exactly as into learning about Dragalge eating habits and lair locations as they are about Dratini and Dragonair movements. But I have saved up enough for this!"

He reached into his suit and pulled out a very small box, protected from the water by his diving suit. He opened it up and revealed a necklace of shiny, but still low grade pearls, linked together by rings of coral and all held together by a thin waterproof wire. She stared at them with wonder in her eyes, impressed at the beauty he was showing her. "Beautiful…" She said.

"Yea, it cost me a good two years of my savings, but their worth it." He said with a smile. "I'm going to propose to Vivian later today and ask her to marry me. I was hoping to give her this during our tour today, but she kind of left on a sour note, so I'll wait till later when the time is right."

At the words 'proposal', 'marry', and 'later' she felt herself die inside. *Marry… you mean that… 'Woman'… you're going to marry that woman?* She thought in despair. *You can't… if you marry her…*

"I know you're speechless, so am I Kelp!" He said with a chuckle, obviously misunderstanding her lack of speech for inexpressible joy. "I can't believe I'm finally going through with it, I was single all this time, now I'm going to be getting engaged. But I promise we'll still be friends Kelp, I'll always come visit and I swear I'll stop by every week!"

Again, at the word 'friends' she felt herself die even more inside. *Friends… but I…*

"Alright, I've got to get going, I'll stop by later with the good news about me being engaged." He said. "But before I go, can I get a high five for good luck?"

She saw his hand held out, but she didn't want to tap it. Yet she couldn't leave him hanging, and sadly bumped her head against his in an imitation of a high five.

"Thanks Kelp, wish me luck!" He said, getting up and walking away from her, off into the mainland where she couldn't follow him.

"Drag…alge…" She moaned sadly to him, but in her language, her true words were more painful.

"Good… luck…"

Sniffling sadly, she went back underwater and toward her lair, next to the beautiful section of coral she showed Paul earlier. As she drifted down to her lair, she felt her tears leak from her eyes, a mixture of poison and salt because of her nature and how she was feeling. She could not help herself, she was feeling dead inside, as if the weight of a thousand Aggrons were pressing down on her.

What few know about Dragalge, is that while they do emit various toxins and poisons, what they eject from their bodies reflects how they feel. In battle they eject poison from their bodies, either on the points of their body or in their attacks they launch, the poison they release can be injected in various forms. It is even true that their poison could eat through the hull of a tanker, and it is indeed true that they spray it indiscriminately. But that was only in the heat of battle.

Outside of battle, they can release poison, but they can also release a pure liquefied gel from their eyes, capable of curing any poison a Dragalge could release. However for the purified liquid to be emitted, it must be released while feeling extreme joy and happiness. Something very few Dragalge achieve, because of this, her species has the image of a venomously poisonous dragon type, spraying acid and venom at anything that moves.

*Oh Paul…* She thought sadly as she floated into a small tunnel, and drifted through it and into her lair.

Her lair was large, large enough for multiple Dragalge to live in. But what made this lair special was that it had a secret inside, one that she was proud of having discovered. She floated up to the top of her lair, and broke the surface of her lair's underwater air bubble. There, lying beneath the surface of the ocean, was a small air pocket, with a very tiny tunnel which connected it to the surface to allow air in. Within that air pocket cavern was a stone shelf that she was using to tuck away trinkets and oddities that she collected from time to time.

Among her trinkets were a few plastic cups, a soda can, half a bamboo fishing rod, a glass paper weight, a small bag of marbles, and most important of all, wrapped in a fine cloth and displayed in the center was a small clay statue. A clay statue of a Dragalge, or at least what looks like a Dragalge, hand crafted by Paul.

She sniffed as she looked at the clay statue, of all her little trinkets, this statue was her most treasured possession. It had been carved in his art class in high school, and since he didn't need it, he gave it to her. To him it was just a clay statue of his Pokemon friend, a gift from him to her, but to her, it was a priceless treasure, worth more than all of the gold nuggets in the world.

She loved it, not because it resembled her, but because he had given it to her. *Oh Paul… how stupid can you be…* She thought sadly, feeling even deader inside as she pictured her human going to that 'filth' and proposing to her. *Can't you see… she doesn't care about you… not like I do.*

It was true, she did care about him, she deeply cared about him, and her feelings bordered loving devotion. She would do anything for him, just as he once did everything for her. She loved him greatly, and tried her best to express it to him in any way she could. From nuzzling his arms, to showing him the reef, to drifting alongside him every time he dived with her. She figured if she could just show him, she would eventually win him over.

"But in the end… I lose to a female human." She whispered in disgrace. "Because I'm an 'ugly' Dragalge to him… and not some pretty, beautiful human female like Vivian."

She wasn't the prettiest Pokemon in the sea, but she did have some of the best traits her species had. Her mane was soft and flexible like algae, her fins were perfectly suited for drifting at her species' maximum speed, and she even had a bulging midsection where her eggs sat, waiting for fertilization. Heck, she even had tons of points on her shell, each capable of delivering poison in defense at a moment's notice.

"But it's not enough… I'm just a Pokemon… and she's a human. If only I could tell him… if only he knew what she was really like, what I'm really like… and now he's going to marry that woman."

The thought that he would soon marry her, that he would be sharing his life with a woman that doesn't truly love him, only caused her more distressed. And with that knowledge, she went back underwater and drifted over to a rock where she normally would curl up around for sleep. Then she cried more tears, more toxic tears that began to eat away at the rock.

(Paul's PoV, Many hours later)

Paul was wearing his best suit as he walked confidently toward a restaurant his girlfriend had asked him to meet her at. In his hand was the case with the necklace he had spent a large portion of his savings to get, ready to be given to the lucky lady of his choice.

He figured Vivian was just calling him for dinner, but he was going to surprise her by proposing to her, and asking her to marry him. Sure she was an up an coming model for the island's tourist attracting business, posing for pictures of the beautiful scenery to draw tourists, while he was an Oceanographer, albeit a very poorly paid one since he really only worked on the Pokemon nobody else wanted to bother with around this island.

When he wasn't diving and studying Dragalge, his favorite one to observe being Kelp, and observing how she lived her daily life he was working at a local fast food place. It was okay pay, enough to pay the bills and a little extra for himself, though he spent most of it these days on Vivian, but because he liked living on this island he never pursued what he had gone to school for, oceanography.

But now he was ready to take the next step in his life, marriage. Sure he didn't make a lot, at least compared to Vivian, but he was sure that she didn't mind.

As he approached the restaurant, he took a deep calming breath, put on his best smile, and strode forward proudly.

He was going to walk in there a single man, but when he left it, he would walk out an engaged one.

(Kelp's PoV, close to midnight)

Kelp sighed as she stared around her lair, unable to get to sleep after thinking about Paul, perhaps even now mating with that female.

He had said he'd be back later to tell her the 'good news', but she just couldn't bear to hear about him getting engaged. To her, he getting married to a female human was about the worst thing.

But she felt even worse for not going to meet with him, to at least hear him.

She sighed again as she uncurled from her rock and drifted out of her lair, deciding that perhaps a short swim would clear her head.

Many minutes later she drifted over to the docks where most of the boats were anchored for the night. And out of habit, she drifted over to the dock where she would go and wait for Paul.

She expected nobody to be there, or she expected Paul to be there with Vivian, but what she saw instead was Paul, all alone.

*Paul, what is he doing here?* She thought as she watched him. *He doesn't seem to be with Vivian… and he doesn't look happy. What happened?*

Deciding to investigate, she drifted over to him and rose up to the surface to get a better look, and what she saw made her feel for him even more. He was just sitting there at the edge of the dock, crying silently, with that box he showed her earlier sitting beside him. Realizing something terrible must have happened, she got his attention by poking him with her nose.

He looked over at her and gave her a very sad smile, but still scratched her head softly. "Hey Kelp…" He said hoarsely. "You sure took your time showing up."

"What happened?" She said, but of course it only came out as, "Drag galge?"

He only chuckled sadly in response. "She dumped me… can you believe it?" He said. "All this time I thought we had something, but it turns out she was just interested in me spending my money for her. Not like I had much money to begin with… but I thought she loved me…"

At that, Kelp's emotions exploded twofold. First she was furious, extremely furious at that woman for breaking her Paul's heart. Second she was happy, happy that although the turn had been ugly, she had her Paul once again all to herself. But the main emotion that took over was concern, she had to cheer him up somehow and ease his broken heart.

"It's okay… it's alright Paul." She whispered, nuzzling his arm with her nose. "Draaag… Dragalge."

"She dumped me, for some rich surfer." He moaned sadly, still scratching her head. "All he does is surf competitively… sure he wins a lot but… still… she's hardly known him for a month and already she gets 'married' to him? I knew her for over a year…"

*And you've known me for longer… and you don't have to pay anything to have my love…* She thought sadly, wishing she could talk to him just to say those words to him, but all she could do was nuzzle him affectionately.

She felt him stop scratching her and looked up to see him still looking depressed with bloodshot eyes. "I spent over two years of my savings for this…" He whispered, reaching over and grabbing the box, opening it up to reveal the pearls inside. "Was hoping to give her it as an engagement present. Now I can't even return it for a refund… because it's a special order item. Now what do I do with it?"

She looked at it before an idea came to her mind. She smirked and nuzzled him, hoping he would take the hint.

"Well, I guess you can have it, not like I can wear it." He chuckled slightly, but he pulled it out of the box and undid it so he could place it around her neck. "There you go." He whispered. "Well… at least I gave it to 'a' girl today. Here, you can also keep this… it's the photo we took earlier… I wanted to frame it but… well…"

She beamed at him as she looked down on the necklace hanging from her, ignoring the photo for now. *I know he didn't propose to me… but if he did, my answer would be yes.* She thought happily.

He yawned slightly and got up to leave, but before he did, she gave him one final nuzzle, this time on his cheek. "I'll see you around Kelp." He whispered, still looking slightly depressed as he left.

"I'll see you again as well… my love."She whispered quietly.

Seeing him walk away in distress brought up her anger again, and now that she had comforted her love and her giddiness had subsided having him back to herself again. Now it was time for her to exact her revenge, and she had just the plan to do it.

She swam over to a section of the docks where the Wingulls stayed during the night, knowing that she would need their help to make it happen.

(Vivian's PoV, The next day.)

Vivian admired her new boyfriend's ring that he had bought her, it was a high grade Sapphire gem, embedded in a sterling silver engagement ring. Oh yea, she had definitely picked a good one, not only was he a super mega hunk, with his six pack, pitch black hair and green eyes, but he was also a wicked popular surfer. Not to mention rich, all he needed to complete his image was a beautiful girlfriend, and she just so happened to have been 'single' and looking for a better boyfriend than who she was currently with.

She was planning on dumping her ex the next day, but when Roger showed her the ring, she instantly said yes. Then she called Paul and told him to beat it, saying that they weren't working out. Though she didn't hide her fancy new ring from him, or the fact that she was engaged to that smoking hot guy she mentioned.

"He even has a yacht, mom always said, get em rich and hot, and you'll be set for life!" She chuckled as she walked down to the beach to get some exercise swimming. "You got the guy, you got the fame, you got the looks, and now you've got the money, life will only get better from here on out!"

As she took off her clothes to strip down to her Bikini, she heard the calls of the Wingulls above her, circling like the Pidoves they were, looking for scraps of food to munch on from tourists. Ignoring them she stretched for a few minutes before wading into the water and beginning to swim.

That was of course, before she felt scorching hot water pushing her back and forcing her back onto land. "Ah!" She screamed, running back onto land and trying to cool off her front.

As she watched, she saw a Dragalge poke its head up from the water, stare angrily at her, before hiding beneath the water again.

"Stupid ugly excuse for a water Pokemon." She complained angrily, deciding to wait until that poison type left before swimming again.

Yet half an hour later, when she deemed it was a sufficient enough time, she waded back into the water, but once again was pushed back by scalding hot water. As she watched she saw it was the same Dragalge from before, but upon closer inspection, she swore it looked like it was wearing something around its neck. Then it sank beneath the water again.

*Narrator*

[The next few weeks for Vivian continued like this, as unbeknownst to her, Kelp was the Dragalge who continued to hound her every time she set foot in the water. Thanks to her friendship with the Wingulls, she was able to watch for her each time she tried to swim or went near the water.]

[Kelp made it her goal to ruin Vivian's life however she could, in whatever way she could manage. She kept her from swimming to keep her form, she ensured her photoshoots near the water were ruined, and she sprayed acid on her clothes on shore when she left her alone, ensuring she walked around in nothing but her most skimpiest clothes, and even one time skillfully spraying acid on her Bikini so she was naked for some boys to take pictures of. The boys enjoyed that greatly, and she hoped they got plenty of good pictures. Yet her greatest prize came three weeks after Vivian dumped Paul.]

[When Vivian tried to go for a ride on Roger's yacht with him, the Wingulls marked the yacht for her, and late at night when it was anchored, she melted the metal chain linking it to the dock, and pushed it so that it beached itself on the shore nearby. Then she melted the hull of the lower deck so that it would sink, melted the propellers so it couldn't move, and melted holes into the side so that every deck would become flooded. For the finishing touch, she left the picture of her, Paul, and Vivian in it, with a special acid that highlighted Vivian near the back.]

[When Roger saw this the next morning, he got the message from her, she was targeting Vivian for revenge on Paul, and so long as he was with her, she would target him as well. Later that day, he dumped her harder than he could drop a Snorlax, and once word got out about how Vivian had broken Paul's heart for some rich and hunky surfer, and how a Dragalge was exacting its revenge on her because it was his friend, she was no longer the picture perfect girl to attract tourists. Weeks after this drastic course in her life, Vivian found herself working at a fast food restaurant, accepting minimum wage to get by in life now.]

[But for Kelp, her happiest moment came the day after Roger dumped Vivian, when Paul visited her upon hearing the news.]

(Paul's PoV)

Paul waited by the dock when it was close to night time, waiting for Kelp to come up. He wanted to talk to her about something important that happened recently.

Soon enough, a Dragalge wearing a pearl necklace surfaced and beamed at him happily. "Hey there Kelp." He said. "Are you the one everyone's talking about? The Dragalge giving Vivian a hard time and making her fiancé dump her?"

"Drag!" She said proudly.

"Not that I approve but… why?" He asked. "I know she was bad now, but did she really deserve the treatment you gave her? Everyone on the island's talking about her, her fiancé dropped her, nobody wants to shoot photos with her, the tourist attraction company that she worked for has fired her, and now she's at risk of losing her modeling career now."

"Dragalge!" Kelp said with a determined face.

He sighed as he knew she was only doing it for him. "Well… thanks Kelp, thanks for being a good friend." He said, scratching her behind her mane.

(Kelp's and Paul's PoV)

As he began to leave, Kelp realized that it was time, the time had finally come to show him what she truly wanted to be for him. She was tired of just being his 'friend', she wanted to be more. "Waaaait!" She whined, but it came out to him as, "Dragaaalge!"

Paul turned back and saw her whining at him, before she beckoned him back to her. "What is it?" He asked.

She nodded at him first, then splashed a little water to give him the message, she wanted him to dive with her.

"But I don't have my diving gear, I can't dive for long without air." He said.

She shook her head and nodded confidently, again splashing water at him, urging him to join her. He finally sighed and removed his shirt, revealing his toned body, shaped from years of swimming and diving. It made her blush at the thought of how strong he was. Then he jumped into the water and started swimming with her as she lead the way out into the open water.

Once they were above her lair, she signaled at him to grab ahold of her neck, which he did, careful to avoid the poisonous points on her back. Then when he took a deep breath, she plunged underwater and drifted as fast as she could down to her lair. He only had enough air to last just a little under half a minute, but as she descended, he recognized the location as the coral reef he took the picture of with her and Vivian.

As he watched, he saw a small opening to an underwater cave, which she drifted into quickly, and then they began rising upward after some length.

Just as he was beginning to feel the pressure of holding his breath, he saw the surface above them, and they broke it into fresh cool air.

He took several breaths while she merely floated there, letting him recover, then he looked around where they were. "Is this your home?" He asked, his voice echoing off the walls which were reflecting faint moonlight which barely came in from a thin opening above them.

"Yes…" She said, never once showing him her home before, and feeling slightly giddy at what she was planning now that he was there. "Drag…"

"I always wondered where Dragalge made their homes, I thought your species always lived in kelp forests." He whispered, before he noticed the stone shelf off to the side, where a bunch of junk was sitting. "Wait a second…"

He waded over to the shelf and saw that there was something other than junk, among a soda can, plastic cups, bag of marbles, and other things, was a single clay statue of a barely recognizable Dragalge.

"Is that the Dragalge statue I gave you?" He asked, which she nodded happily. "You've kept it all this time… but why? It's just something I poorly made in class when I was younger."

At that, she began to blush, and knew that the time was approaching. Deciding that it was best to just get it over with, and since she can't talk to him in a language he can understand she leaned close to him, looked him straight in his eyes, took a moment to angle her head right, and then pressed her lips against his.

She knew this was something any idiot would understand.

A few seconds of surprise later, and Paul was trying to understand what was going on. His best Pokemon friend had taken him to her lair, showed him her collection of objects, and now she was kissing him? If this had been a girl, he would have thought it was all planned out to confess to him.

But then he realized that Kelp 'was' a girl, and that she 'had' planned it all out. She asked him to follow her to her home, she showed him her prized collection, obviously prized because it was protected and cared for, and she was now confessing to him in the only way she could. She was kissing him on the lips.

When they separated, he was speechless, and she merely watched him and waited. "Are you saying… what I think your saying?" He whispered quietly.

"Yes… I love you." She whispered back just as quietly, but again, all he heard was, "Drag… Dragealge."

"I don't know what to say…" He whispered.

All she did was smile and look at him hopefully, waiting for him to give a response. She had waited for this moment, it was just him and her, alone below the ocean surface. There was no Vivian to spoil the moment, there was no world outside of what she was showing him. All she had wanted was what was there right now, no matter what his response, she could live the rest of her life happily.

"I guess… it is unusual…" He said, holding onto her while he rubbed her cheek with one hand. "But… you're a girl just like any other girl. You have feelings and a heart just like everyone else. If you really do mean what you say… I guess I can say the same as well." Then he leaned close to her ear and whispered four words. "I love you too."

She exploded into a storm of emotions, but all she could do to express them was whine happily and press her lips against his again. As she did she pushed him against the rock shelf to give him a place to rest, this way he could focus all of his energy into kissing her.

As he kissed her he licked her mouth a bit, wanting access to the inside of it, which she obliged and opened up. He didn't know what he was expecting, but the inside of her mouth wasn't what he figured or assumed. Her tongue was small, and quite weak compared to his. And her mouth itself was thin and very long like her face and head. But it seemed that she was enjoying his tongue exploring her mouth, and easily relinquished control to his tongue because her own was so feeble in muscle density.

As he moaned into her mouth, he used one hand to stroke the back of her head, where her kelp-like mane met her body, and his other hand began trailing down her body. He surprisingly found her sex, and it was nowhere near her tail, in fact it was just at the base of her midsection, precisely where his legs were floating as he instinctively wrapped around her to get a better hold of her.

Knowing now that she had another reason for bringing him here, and seeing that she wasn't resisting his advances, he began fingering her to see what she felt like.

Turns out she felt extremely soft on the inside, and the moment he began fingering her she separated her mouth from his and moaned blissfully. In fact, she moaned so hard that without even realizing it, he had caused her to orgasm, but when he felt the liquid pressure on his finger, he understood.

Kelp could not believe how good it felt, normally her species just came together to mate, and she would accept the male's seed so her eggs could try and absorb as much as they could, hoping they would become impregnated. When he began fingering her soft walls, it was too much for her to bear, and all she could do was moan in pleasure.

*We haven't even mated… and it feels 'this' good?* She thought happily as she calmed down. *If we mate… how good will it feel?"

"Are you okay Kelp?" He asked her as her breathing became normal.

"Yes… I am now." She said. "Drag… Dragal Dragalge."

As she felt something poke at her sex entrance, she glanced down and smirked, before looking back at Paul with a smile. She only had to nod to get the message across to him.

He nodded as well and separated from her so that he could remove his shorts and undergarments, as he did he put them on the shelf so that he could collect them later. While he removed his clothes, she went wide eyed at his member. She could not believe its size compared to her sex. Sure she was roughly taller by a few inches, but that was only in height, in width she was a very thin Pokemon, and her sex's entrance was tiny by comparison. Even though he was 'average' sized around four or five inches, to her he was massive.

"Are you ready?" He asked as he finally wrapped his legs around her waist again, her tail acting as support for them, with his waiting member poking at her entrance.

She nodded, slightly terrified at how he was going to fit inside of her, but determined to go through with this act. Her species didn't practice the same mating habits of humans, for them it was just a male finds a mate, he insert into the female, releases his sperm, they hope the eggs become fertilized, and they wait for an egg to come out of the mom. But she had spied on humans mating, after all, she's a slow Pokemon, she isn't very noticeable when underwater, but she saw that they practiced different mating rituals. If she knew what was coming was coming, she knew she would be at this for a few minutes, depending on the male.

But as she watched him push slightly into her sex, she felt herself tighten around him, oh he was definitely big, way too big for her thin sex, and with each centimeter he pushed in she feared he would tear her apart. But somehow, by some miracle of Kyogre, she began to take all of him, her passage slowly expanding to encompass its new arrival. Then she felt it, she felt his member fully hilt, and felt the tip leave her exceedingly tight passage and enter her inner egg chamber.

*He actually did it… he reached my eggs!* She thought in amazement.

For a Dragalge, to even reach the entrance to the female's egg chamber was the male's best chance to impregnate her, and they almost never fully reached the entrance. But to actually enter it with his member, a male Dragalge would have to be the epitome, the pinnacle, the greatest specimen of her species.

And Paul was merely a human.

For Paul, it was so tight inside of Kelp, she was absolutely warm inside, but at the same time incredibly tight. Her sex wrapped his member in a bind that was slightly painful but incredibly pleasurable. When she groaned into the surrounding wall, and then nod to indicate she was ready, he began to slowly thrust in and out of her, feeling his dick touch something hard and smooth at the same time.

"Draaag!" She moaned loudly as she laid her head on his should, letting him do what he wanted, unable to control herself with how wonderful she was feeling.

"It feels amazing Kelp…" He said as he gripped her tightly, reaching around and stroking her behind her head.

"Draaaaaaag!" She moaned even louder, feeling him rub her pleasure point and unable to stop herself from crying out in joy.

Unfortunately her sudden movement accidently brought his hand down and against the hardened carapace of her back, where the poisonous points were. Upon being probed, they reacted instantly and released a tiny but powerful toxin upon the intruder. Because he was so busy focusing on the motion of his member entering and exiting her sex's passage, he didn't notice that he pricked the palm of his hand against the sharpened points. Nor did he realize the potent poison that coated the tiny wound. All he was concerned with was enjoying himself, and all Kelp was concerned with was enjoying her lover.

He continued to thrust in and out of Kelp's sex, but since it was his first time, he felt a pressure growing in his groin, and something told him to go faster. So faster he went, he began slamming into Kelp as hard as he could, using her own body as an anchor so he could maintain the rhythm. Kelp could feel the sudden change in speed, and understood what was going to happen.

She didn't know what the outcome would be, but she knew that this was it, the moment she had been waiting for. The two of them were about to truly become one, once he marked her, she would forever be bound to him. She would never leave this island's boundaries and she would always follow him wherever he went. She would be his forever, and she was prepared for that step.

"Kelp… I'm about to…" Paul groaned as he wrapped his arms around her neck, pounding into her as hard as he could.

"Drag… galge!" She screamed, unable to form a coherent sentence with how much pleasure she was feeling.

A few violent thrusts later, he shoved himself as far as he could into her and released. She felt his seed coat the inside walls of her egg chamber, and felt it begin to pool at the bottom. She didn't know what the outcome of this union would be, if there would be any outcome, but she didn't care.

She loved him, and he loved her, and they were finally together. As she leaned forward and kissed him, she felt his hand rub the side of her head where her eye was.

Then she began crying, she couldn't express it any other way, verbally or physically, so her body expressed her inexplicable joy at finally mating with her beloved human.

As she opened her eye and looked though, she felt a spike of fear, his hand had a very noticeable prick, with a tiny ring of purple surrounding the small wound. She had poisoned him, without either of them noticing, she had poisoned her lover, and one of the spikes on her back had poisoned him with a deadly, fast spreading toxin. The poison she had inexplicably injected him with was her most deadly, unless he was rushed to a hospital and treated within a few minutes, he would be…

Then she saw something else, just as she noticed the ring of purple, she saw the tiny gelatin like substance coating the wound. It was slowly seeping into the wound, but unlike the purple ring she had been fearing before, it was a clear crystal blue with just a hint of green.

She smiled happily. Her body had reacted, protecting her love from her poison, no matter how fast the toxin could spread, and the antidote she had unconsciously just delivered to him would cure it within seconds. Not only that, but now he would be immune to her poisons, in fact she had just given his body an antidote to every single poison her species could deliver, meaning only something more powerful would ever infect him ever again.

*This… is what should have happened… three weeks ago.* She thought happily, as she felt Paul pull out from her, having emptied every drop of his seed into her egg chamber.

=Three Months Later=

(Paul's PoV)

Paul headed down to the docks to meet up with his 'wife', Kelp, having just come back from a trip to an Oceanographers Meet, where he talked about the various habits of wild Dragalge, talking about their diet, their hunting methods, and even how they react to threats around them. He wasn't as well received as some of the others there, but his work helped professors researching the subject of Dragalge greatly.

Yet he had been gone from his home for nearly a whole month while he was at the meet, and all that time he hadn't seen Kelp. She wanted to follow him, but there was no way she could keep up with the plane that had taken him to the Kanto Region.

Now that he was back, he was eager to see her again.

When he reached the dock he saw her poke her head out from under the dock for a moment, before hiding again underwater. "Come on Kelp, I saw you." He chuckled, knowing she was just playing with him.

He saw a ripple appear and expected Kelp to poke up from under, instead, he saw a tiny Skrelp's head appear. "Skrelp." It whispered.

"Huh?" He said in confusion.

Then he became even more confused as another Skrelp popped up, and then another, then a fourth appeared, and finally Kelp herself. "Dragalge…" She whispered to him, squirting him with water and smiling.

"Stop it!" He giggled as the Skrelps started joining in with her.

"Draaa gal gal gal gal." She giggled in mirth.

"Alright I get it you missed me." He said, before turning his attention to the Skrelp. "Did a pod of Dragalge and Skrelp move in while I was away?"

"Draaaag…" She said, shaking her head with a grin.

"Okay… then did some of the other Dragalge around here have any eggs?" He asked, now thoroughly confused.

"Dragaaal…" She replied, shaking her head again, now with a hint of giddiness to match her smug grin.

"Are… they… yours?" He asked, unable to come up with any other answer.

She nodded and then pointed at him, before pointing at them with her nose.

Her message was obvious… they were hers and his.

(Kelp's PoV)

"Is that really daddy?" One of her sons asked.

"He doesn't look like you mommy!" Her second son asked.

"Did he really mate with you underwater?" One of her daughter asked.

"Of course he did, mommy never lies!" Her second daughter said.

"That he did… that he did." Kelp said with a smile. "Well what are you waiting for… play with him!"

"Water Guns!" They all shouted and began spraying him, making him laugh and fall into the water.

As she watched them all crowd around and nuzzle him, she smiled lovingly at her 'husband'.

A month after their union, she felt herself preparing to lay eggs, but alas could not get Paul to stay with her. So she had to go through it alone, but she couldn't be any happier knowing who it was that fertilized four of her eggs.

For a female Dragalge, the potential of a male lies in how potent their sperm is. The more eggs they fertilize the better, and on average, a male Dragalge can fertilize one egg each season. A female is considered lucky to have on average, four eggs a year, with each season bearing one egg. To have two eggs in one season is a blessing.

But her Paul, he gave her four eggs in one season, after one time.

Her children would mature quickly, staying with her only until next season, when they would leave to find their own territories. But she would stay, after all, her Paul was here, and she didn't need to go anywhere else.

And with how 'potent' her Paul was, she was most definitely interested in the remaining three seasons this year.

She still has quite a few eggs waiting inside her chamber, waiting to be fertilized by her love, and she wanted to have many more children with him. She would produce more eggs each year, and the cycle would repeat, with her mating with him each season where he would fertilize them.

Thus the life of a female Dragalge, in love with her human.

As she watched her love playing with their children, she began crying tears again.

Tears of extreme joy and happiness.

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=Author's Notes=

Hi everyone, it's me… your imperator! As some of you noticed, yes… it's a Lemon Compilation Fic. I've finally caved into the demands of some of my readers and began this.

The shorts of this fic will be like this one, a pairing of Pokemon and human, with a story behind each one. In other words, it won't be JUST about lemons.

If you have a paring you'd like to see, or have a story you'd like to see done, either write a review or PM me. And remember, review my stories, the more reviews the better I do :D

Till next time… keep reading.

And remember, Arceus smiles upon those who smile upon others and have good hearts.