The stowaway

Chapter 1

(Hey Look, I'm not dead. Sorry for the inactivity. Life stuff, school, hobbies, ect. I still write, its all just incomplete stuff. Anyway try to enjoy this.)

"Move it guys, we ain't got all day, we've got a full schedule!" The captain yelled as we loaded the large crates and containers onto the ship through means of cranes and other types of equipment.

I was on a crane, loading very large storage containers onto the boat. I had no clue what they could contain, and it wasn't really my business to know. I'm just muscle, just someone they need to load heavy shit and go back and forth with the boat to different nations. This is maybe my 5th? 6th year working here. I've been across the ocean numerous amounts of times, been to several other nations, and been through a lot of crazy storms. Almost died once, a container fell off of another and I jumped out of the way before it could crush me. As I loaded the several large metal containers onto the ship, I thought I saw something light blue dash aboard, not really caring what it was, I just got back to work.

"Hunter!" I heard someone yell, I looked down to see the captain looking up at me from the bottom of the crane.

"Yes!?" I yelled, he wouldn't hear me if I didn't.

"That's all we need, time to go!" He said as he walked towards the boarding walkway and onto the boat.

With a sigh, i turned off the crane and made sure everything is how it should be, and climbed down the ladder. Working so high up made me a bit uncomfortable, but I had to, the money helped me get by. I was trying to stock up on as much as possible until I can get enough to buy a home, and then I'll leave this job, and get a much easier and safer one. When I finally reached the bottom of the ladder, I jumped off and ran onto the boat, everyone else was on and my job was done. All I need to do now is report to the captain that I am on board and go to my room, they'll call me if they need me. All my stuff was already in my room, everyone had their own room and bed, but the rooms were a bit small. Except for the captain's of course.

Working on a boat for so long, I eventually got over my seasickness, but when I hadn't, it was terrible. I went up to the control station of the ship where the captain drove and such, also where the radio and the like are.

"I'm aboard captain." I said as I walked in, he was fiddling with the helm and looking at all the appliances around him.

"Good, ready to go?" He asked as he scratched his beard, he was maybe in his late 40s, around 5'10 and somewhere near 200 pounds.

"Yes sir, also, did you see anything blue by chance run onto the ship?" I asked curiously.

"Not that I know of, hopefully you just imagined it, we don't have room for any stowaways."

I walked out and down the stairs to the main hall, where we ate and such. The crew including myself, was around 50 to 60 or so people, mostly men with a few woman. We had a very very very strict no Pokemon policy, I had no clue why but I wasn't really allowed to ask. We all just went with it. I had few friends on the ship, most of the other members were older men in their 30s who didn't really socialize with the younger crew members. I'm twenty-two, I'll be twenty-three in five months. Most of the members that I was friends with on the ship were also in their 20s, except for the captain, for whatever reason he took a shine to me, maybe that's why the older crew didn't like me all that much. But whatever, I'm not here to make friends, just make the money I need and go.

I sat down at one of the tables and some of my friends joined me. One was a girl named Ivory, and the other was a guy named Brad. Ivory was a tall girl with brown hair in a ponytail, she talked funny, and a lot of the crew screwed with her about it but it was bad to piss her off, she could beat up anyone on the boat. She's also the boat's heaviest drinker, and the arm wrestle champion of the ship. Brad is the same height of Ivory, and her boyfriend. He's got short brown hair and a mischievous look in his eye, he's a big sports buff and he's constantly fighting Ivory for the dominant roll in their relationship. They sat down next to me and Brad slapped me on the back.

"What's with the gloomy face? Lonely?" He asked jokingly in his heavy accent, which made just about everything he said sound comedic.

"Nah, just tired." I said as laid my head in my arms on the table.

"You sure 'bout that hun?" Ivory asked, she called just about everyone but the captain "Hun," we just got used to it after a while.

"Yeah, I'm a bit hungry too, when's lunch?" I asked her, she shrugged and pointed towards the clock on the wall, which said "10:30am."

I groaned and got up from my seat, and headed to my room, I could just sleep off my hunger until lunch. As I walked down the stairs to the bedrooms, I caught glimpse of something blue dashing down the hall. I could tell it was about waist height, fast with a light blue color to it. I couldn't have been hallucinating, I quietly walked down the hall and towards the exit of the hallway, which lead into the maintenance and boiler room. I crept slowly down the stairs and towards the door to the maintenance room, the door was slightly open, and I peeked inside.

I could see what I thought was a blue tail, but it dashed into the boiler room. I had a hint of what it was, and being that it probably is what I think it is, it won't do well in a hot boiler room.

I walked towards the boiler room door, inside of it was like a sauna, the air was hot and it was hard to breath. Before I walked in, I heard a feminine voice from inside.

"Dammit, no food in here, and it's way too hot... I've got to get off this ship before it leaves." It said.

I walked inside and confirmed my suspicions, it was a Pokemon, to be more precise it was a glaceon. Her fur was dirty and rough and she looked like she hadn't eaten in a while, her almost regal look that most glaceon had faded away, she looked ragged. She noticed me and started to quiver in fear as she backed away, and closer to the boiler.

"Wait! I'm not going to hurt you, just stay there, don't back up anymore or you'll touch the boiler and hurt yourself." I told her as I tried to inch closer to her.

"Just let me off okay, and I'll be gone, all I wanted was food." She pleaded, her voice shaky from her nervousness.

"I can't, we've left the dock, we're too far out to try and bring you back."

"What?," She said in a very frightened tone, "So I can't leave?"

"Yes, you'll just have to wait until we reach land again, but that will be a few weeks from now."

"A few weeks!? What am I supposed to do? I can't stay in here, I'm a ice type! I'll die!" She said, obviously frightened.

"You can hide in my room, you just have to be quiet and careful okay, and you've got to trust me. There's a very strict no Pokemon policy on this ship, if any are found they're given to the authorities when we land. It's considered trespassing being on this ship."

"I can swim back."

"Not from here you can't, unless you want to drown."

"But how will I eat?"

"I'll sneak you food, just you've got to trust me if you want to get home."

"I don't have a home." She said sadly, her eyes becoming watery as she began to cry.

"Why don't you?"

"My old trainer abandoned me, he said that I wasn't strong enough, and that I was no good." She said as she collapsed onto the ground and continued to cry.

I pitied her, I couldn't let them arrest her, and I couldn't leave her in here either. The safest place was my own room, no one would be in there but myself, other than the people who occasionally come and clean the rooms. I walked over to her and gently picked her up in my arms, she was pretty light, despite being up to my waist in height, and 3 and half feet long in length. Also because she probably hasn't eaten in a while.

"I'm going to take you to my room, but you must stay quiet okay?"

"Okay." She said as she tried to stop crying, sniveling quietly as I walked out of the boiler room and back to my room.

I ran to my room and closed the door behind me, placing her on the bed, and locking the door. I sat down on the bed next to her and looked out the small window on the wall. I was pretty lucky to get a room right on the edge of the ship, I got to see outside.

"So what's your name?" I asked the glaceon, who was looking out the window.

"December"

"Mines Hunter."

December continued to look outside and around my small room.

"This room is tiny."

"Yeah, we aren't able to make large bedrooms on ships, so this will have to do."

"Where will I sleep?" She asked me curiously.

"Well you can sleep beside me or I can make you a small bed in one of the compartments." I said as I opened the small door in front of my bed that contained nothing, which she could probably fit inside of.

"It's ok for me to sleep with you?" She asked.

"Yes, you can sleep with me, it doesn't bother me much." I told her as I ran my hand down her back.

She seemed startled by my touch, but gladly accepted it. I had no clue how long she was homeless, but it must of been a while since anyone has shown her any kindness or affection.

"But there are some rules I have to set down okay?" I told her, she nodded and listened eagerly.

"You can't leave the room unless you're with me and only when it's nighttime. When we talk at anytime in the day or night, we have to be very quiet, the walls are thin and so is the door. Every few days someone comes into the rooms to clean beds, when that day comes, you'll need to hide. I'll sneak you food every night and at lunch, but you can't leave any remnants, they're annoying about leaving food around the rooms. If you need to use the bathroom you'll need to tell me, so I can get you there, same when you need to shower. Okay?"

"Yes." She said as she nodded.

"Good, now, I'm going to sleep a bit so I'll wake up around lunch."

"What if someone walks in?"

"They can't, doors locked."

"Oh okay... Can I sleep too?" She asked sheepishly.

"You don't have to ask me if you can sleep." I said as I laid back in the bed, kicking my shoes off and onto the floor as December laid beside me.

Her body was especially cold, but that didn't bother me too much, it was stuffy on this ship a lot so it helped a little. Her fur was very soft though, it was especially bushy, which is probably how she was able to handle cold weather even though she's an ice type. I wrapped my arm around the ice type and she nuzzled into me and cried softly.

"Thank you Hunter, it's been so long since someone's cared about me."

"You're welcome December." I told her as I rubbed her head and slowly began to fall asleep.

When I woke up, she was still asleep by my side. I looked at my watch to see that it was 12:30, and lunch had been served. I got up very carefully, making sure not to wake up the glaceon. I had a key to my room, everyone had a key to their own room. I locked mine behind me so no one could get to December, and headed to the main hall. Everyone was talking and eating, I headed to over to the line to get food and waited patiently. I was barely awake, and all I wanted was some food. I finally got my plate, typical stuff they served on a ship, fish and the like. Nothing new, hopefully she likes fish, she probably won't complain being she hasn't eaten much in a while.

I ate what I could and walked off to my room with my plate, no one really gave a shit if we ate in our room, just as long as you didn't let it become a mess and you threw away what's left. I unlocked my door and swiftly shuffled inside, closing it shut behind me and locking it. December was laying down on the bed and looking out the window.

"I got you food." I told her as I sat down on the bed and placed the plate in front of her.

"Thank you so much." She said, almost tearful.

She greedily ate all the food, with little to no time to breath, it was like she had eaten the plate along with it. Finishing off by wiping her face with her paw. She still had some food left on her face and I wiped it off with my thumb.

"Thank you." She said as she nuzzled me affectionately.

"It's no problem, now, I'm going throw this away but there's something else I've got to do."

"What is it?" She asked worriedly.

"I've got to go work, they need me to do stuff for them, this is my job anyway. So I'll be back in a few hours or less, just sleep for now, but just don't leave the room okay." I told her as I rubbed her head.

"Okay." She said as she nuzzled my hand and smiled happily.

I unlocked the door and walked out with the plate in my hand, making sure to lock the door behind me. I walked over to the main hall and placed my plate on a pile of other plates, the people who's job is to cook and such will clean them. Kitchen duty basically. When I reached the main deck there were people carrying around crates and boxes to certain parts of the boat. Other people walked around giving orders, my job however was a bit different than the rest of them. I have guard duty, I sat up a high catwalk near the bridge and did lookout. Mostly for other vessels, possible obstacles, shipwrecked boats, people lost at sea, and the worst of the bunch, hijackers.

Wouldn't be the first time we've dealt with them. Small groups of armed men who capture ships and their crew and kill them, take their boat, take the cargo, or take the crew and boat's cargo and hold them for ransom. Other than being the muscle that carries stuff around, I was also the lookout, and bodyguard. Luckily the first time we ever dealt with hijackers, there was a coast guard ship near by that heard our distress call and scared them off.

I walked up and onto my little watchtower and grabbed my binoculars, looking around in every direction, luckily there was nothing. I could look down at all the people working around on the main deck, I could see Ivory walking around, eventually glancing up at me and giving me the finger, she must of thought I was creeping on her. I laughed it off and sent her the middle finger right back before putting my binoculars down and sighing, leaning onto the railing and looking around. My thoughts kept returning to December, I needed to make sure she didn't get caught and given to the police. I was curious about the Pokemon policy, so I decided to ask the captain it, he was inside the bridge, sitting in a chair and sipping a drink from a mug as the co-captain handled the controls.

"Yes Hunter, what is it?" He asked me curiously.

"Sir, I'm curious about the anti Pokemon policy, why is it that it's so severe?" I asked him hesitantly, I knew he was an honest and kind man, but certain things could show his bad side.

"Well, some Pokemon are mostly companions, and have no need to be on the ship. Say a Pokemon like a machamp, lucario, or an alakazam could be helpful with certain things but, some of our employers don't really trust Pokemon, so the policy is something we had to have placed. Also Pokemon tend to eat more than people, or take up a bit more space than one person." He said with a loud sigh.

"But why so severe a punishment if one is found aboard?"

"Not my decision, in all honesty I'd feel terrible throwing them into to jail, but it's for the business, and not my decision. If ones found aboard, even if it was stowing away or not, it's considered trespassing, because they were where they shouldn't be."

"But sir, that's kind of cruel."

"I know son, I know, but I'm not the one who makes the rules. If it were up to me, I'd let them aboard, they can be extremely helpful. See anything of importance outside?"

"No sir, just open ocean."

"Good, you do remember where our firearms are right?" The captain asked as he sipped from his mug.

"Yes sir."

"Good man, hit the alarm if anything troubling shows up." He told me as i opened the door and walked back onto my catwalk.

I sighed and my thoughts returned to the glaceon, I didn't know what I'd do if she was found out, maybe I could beg the captain to hide her existence from the officials. I still needed to clean her off, she smelt bad, and her coat is all dirty. I didn't say anything about it to her because I didn't want to upset her.

"I can't do this for a few weeks!" I thought to myself as I watched from Hunter's window, looking out at the open ocean.

I could see Pokemon swimming by: walrein, floatzel, luvdisc, and even a vaporeon. Maybe my old master would of kept me had I evolved into a vaporeon, instead I had to be a weak glaceon. I sighed and laid down on Hunter pillow, his scent was very heavy on it, like he had used it for years.

I could tell where he was from his scent, he was maybe 100+ feet away, and on a higher deck. I couldn't do anything other than think, but bad memories came up. I sighed at the thought of my past on the streets, I had to do things I'm not proud of when I was desperate for food. None of them that used me were Pokemon, all of them were human, luckily they didn't really have the time for the full deal. Even if they had used me, down there, I have a very low chance to get pregnant from a human anyway. They all just had me suck them off, they gave me food and left, none were kind enough to take me in, all they wanted was pleasure. It made me angry, they used me and left me there with a tiny payment, they knew that I would eventually have to repeat the process for more food.

Luckily those days were over, hopefully, maybe Hunter would take me in. He seems kind enough, and he doesn't seem like the type to use someone, if he was he would of used me the minute he brought me into his room. But he didn't, and I was grateful for that, he treated me with the same respect anyone would treat any other sentient being. I curled up in bed, I couldn't get him off my mind, and I began to worry that I had gotten him dirty when we were napping. He didn't seem bothered by it, and he didn't have any marks from my dirty coat. I really wanted to get clean soon, mostly because I didn't want to get him or his bed dirty anymore.

I started to think about my old home, and mom, who was an umbreon. She was so kind and pretty and she told me that I'd grow up to be big, strong, and beautiful. Now here I am, a dirty glaceon that had to do bad things for food, I failed her. I thought about dad too, he was a Mightyena, he didn't really spend much time with me. I was surprised mom never had any other babies, I always wanted siblings, from what she told me when I was older was that she had a very low chance of pregnancy because of something wrong with her body, and the fact that she had me was a miracle. Dad took that as a sign that the two could be frisky just about any time he wanted without having to worry about the after affects. Dad should of been a bit more secretive about his fun times with mom.

When I was older, I finally met my old master. He was a kind young boy at the time, very handsome and strong, he befriended me and I moved in with him. Eventually I grew into a glaceon, that's when things went downhill; he started abusing me, beating me and sometimes making me go without food for days if I did something wrong. He eventually told me that I was useless, and that I'd just be his other pokemon's "breeding bitch". That's when I ran away; I couldn't take it anymore, and I didn't want to have the child of someone I didn't love.

A child, maybe two has always been a thought in my mind, but a dormant one. No one loved me, so I always pushed back the idea of having my own family. I sighed once again and laid my head down on Hunter's pillows, his scent was comforting, and it helped me finally fall asleep.

"Ugh." I groaned loudly as I constant scanned the horizon for anything with my binoculars, this was extremely boring, and I was stuck doing it just about every day.

Lucky for me, someone else takes my shift at night. Like me, there was another watchman, his name is Mathew. He's in his mid 30s, kind and respectful, but he could turn serious in a matter of seconds. He had dirty blond hair and he's ripped, the dude could pick up maybe 300 pounds. Definitely not someone to pick a fight with, but he was a nice person, as long as you're nice to him. I looked over at the water once again, lucky to find several water Pokemon breaching the water and jumping back in. I saw a vaporeon, some wailmer, and some luvdisc. Far off in the distance, I could see a wailord coming to the surface for air, the huge whale Pokemon just barely surfacing, then diving back down.

They knew to steer clear of them ship, if they came close they could get hurt. Seeing all the Pokemon made me think about December. Is she okay? Was she found out? It was making me really nervous, so I decided to make up the excuse of needing to use the bathroom so I could run down there and check up on her. I unlocked the door and went inside, quickly shutting it behind me. She was nowhere to be seen, she wasn't on my bed or the floor, did someone already find her?

"December?" I asked quietly, hoping that she was just hiding.

"Hunter? I'm here, I hid just incase it was someone else." I heard her say as she appeared from the compartment under my bed, then she jumped up on the bed and curled up to sleep.

"You scared me, I thought they had got you." I told her as I sat down on the bed next to her.

"I'm sorry." She said as she nuzzled my hand.

"There's no need to apologize, besides it was a good call, I should of expected you to do that."

"Oh okay, aren't you supposed to be working?"

"I came to check up on you, make sure no one had caught you, but being you're still here means that your'e safe, so I've got to go back to work."

"Oh... Okay." She said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Is something wrong?" I asked her, worried about if she was okay.

"Just a bit lonely and bored, there's nothing for me to really do." She said as she sighed and looked out the window.

"Hmm... can you read?"

"Yeah, I can read a bit."

"Okay, I've got a book you can read." I told her as I opened the compartment where I put all my possessions.

There's not many sources of entertainment on this ship, so I often brought books with me to read. I pulled out several books and placed them on the bed for her to pick out, there were a bunch of horror, science fiction, and mystery books with like one romance book because the author was one of my favorites and I hadn't got around to reading it. She seemed to be interested in the horror books more than anything else, so I let her read that, and left the others out just in case she wanted to read more. She thanked me and I walked back out the room and locked the door behind me.

"Hey Hunter, what are you doing down here?" I heard a familiar voice say, I turned around to see Ivory standing there.

"Oh I was just looking for one of my books to read while on my boring watch duty." I told her quickly, hoping she hadn't her December and I's conversation or had saw her.

"Well why don't you have it?"

"Left it back home, forgot to bring it."

"Ah, well I brought a few books if you'd like to read 'em." She told me, which was honestly a good idea, watch duty was boring and I needed stimulation.

I followed her to her room and she opened it up and let me inside, digging around in her mess of clothes to find it, flinging bras and panties in every direction. One ended up slapping me in the face, funny thing about it was that it had an eevee depiction on it, solid brown with a drawn on bushy white and brown eevee tail. I laughed at it and just threw it in her clothes pile.

"Like 'em? If you think that one was funny, Brad has some sylveon boxers." She said as she laughed, flinging more clothes as she looked for the book.

"How typical of him."

"Wanna hear somethin' funnier?" She asked me, I nodded and she laughed to herself a little before telling me.

"Sure."

"One time when Brad was drunk off his ass, he had told me that he would bang a sylveon if one was into him, we had just started dating at the time!" She said as she laughed hysterically.

"Really, did he explain why?"

"Yeah, ever seen an eeveelution? The eveelutions have really nice hips and butts, that's apparently a big turn on for him."

"I'm going to pick shit with him so much with that now." I said as I couldn't help but laugh.

"You should of seen him, he went way too in depth on detail. He would make the form of their rear ends with his hands in the air and he'd say, 'I don't give two shits if they're pokemon, that ass is godly, and I'll worship that ass as if it would grant my wishes."

"What's your opinion on those type of relationships?" I asked her, I was curious if whether or not she was jealous.

"What? Different species relationships between pokemon and people? Ten years ago I would of said somthin' like, 'No way! Pokemon should be with pokemon only!' because of where I was raised, just grew up being told that. After I moved out though that changed, if they love each other then I have no right to voice my opinion on somethin' that doesn't really affect me. If the relationship is between two happy and consenting partners, who am I or anyone else to say something about it. Besides, I have no right to rule someone else's life."

"Yeah."

"Here it is!" She finally said as she got to the bottom of her Mount Everest of dirty clothes, she handed me the book, which was a horror thriller type book.

"On the topic of relationships, you still a loner?" She said as we walked out of her room and she closed and locked her door.

"I'm not a loner, just haven't found the right one yet." I told her as we walked to the upper deck.

"Sure, for all I know you could be fucking a pokemon and I'd never know or not." She teased.

"I don't like pokemon that way."

"That's what Brad said before he saw a sylveon, now he probably has wet dreams of 'em... The females, I hope." She said as she slapped me on the back as we went our separate ways to the different parts if the ship that we worked on.

I headed back to my post and picked up my binoculars, looking in every direction that I could see. Nothing new but ocean, I did see an oilrig though, which was pretty cool to see, I was always curious to how they built shit like that in the middle of the ocean. I went to reading to my book and would occasionally stop reading every fifteen minutes to look around for ten minutes, then repeat the process. Still nothing, the sun was slowly starting to go down, that was one of the only changes in scenery. Off in the distance I could see some very large thunderclouds, which I should probably warn the captain about so he can decide to change courses or go throw it. I walked into the bridge and he was snoozing in his big chair as usual, he gets pretty pissy if we wake him up from his naps, but this is something important. I tapped on his shoulder and said his name, he woke up, looking around groggily and finally finding me.

"Something wrong? Pirates, Icebergs, Wailord?" He asked me as he got up and yawned.

"No sir, there is a big storm heading our way and I thought I should tell you about it. Might want to take a look, it looks pretty nasty." I told him as I handed him my binoculars as he walked over to the windows and put them up to his eyes to see.

"Hmm, that is a pretty nasty storm, hope it's not some tropical storm brewing up. Being we have a tight schedule, we can't really afford to change course, or our shipment due date will be late. We're going to have to power through it." He told me as he handed me back my binoculars.

He went over to the co-captain and informed him of the storm and such then he picked up the mic to the boats intercom system.

"This is your captain speaking, fair warning, we will be powering through a nasty storm up ahead, because of our due date, we can't really change courses. So, make sure everything is strapped down and try not to get crushed by anything or fall off the ship. Oh yeah, might want to get a raincoat, you might get wet." He said as he chuckled and turned off the intercoms.

"Boo!" I said as I walked towards the door, he just shooed me away.

I laughed and headed down to my bedroom, making sure no one was around when I went inside. I opened the door and I accidentally startled December so bad that she jumped about a foot up into the air.

"You scared me half to death!" She said, almost teary eyed.

"I'm sorry, but we should hurry up, now's a good time to get you all cleaned up." I told her as I checked the hallway for anyone.

She jumped off the bed and quickly followed me down the hallway to the washrooms, luckily no one was down here yet, so I got her into a single shower, turned it on and washed her off, drying her would be a hassle.

"Watch this." She told me as she took a step back, taking a deep breath as she concentrated really hard.

The air got very cold suddenly and the water on her body suddenly froze and crystallized, she shook herself and all the crystal fell off. She explained that she surrounded her body with cold air and froze the water on her fur into little crystals, it was hard to understand but cool to see. Her fur was clean now and poofy, she looked like a mass of blue fur with legs and a head. We ran back to my room and got back inside, we had done all that in less than 5 minutes and we were both exhausted. We collapsed onto the bed and laid there trying to relax and calm down. I grabbed my comb out of my bag and used it to flatten December's fur and put it back to normal. She started crying while I was doing it for her and I asked her why.

"Because no one has ever been as nice to me as you have." She told me as she jumped onto me and pushed me onto my back and nuzzled my face.

I just hugged her and caressed her as she continued to nuzzle me, eventually stopping and getting off my chest to continue reading her book. She would shake occasionally when she read some parts, maybe that's why I startled her earlier, the book put her on edge. I dug into my bag on the side of the bed and pulled out headphones and my little MP3 player so I could listen to music. She looked over at me and asked me what it was and I explained it to her, unplugging the headphones and letting the music play from the MP3's speakers. All I listened to was classical rock and soft rock, nothing too over the top. She seemed to really enjoy it, so I let it play like that so she could listen. There was a soft knock on the door and I heard Ivory's voice, asking if she could come in. December hid under the bed and I hid all proof of her existence before letting Ivory in. Ivory walked in, closed the door behind her and glared at me.

"Where is it?" She said flatly, I started to get nervous, hopefully she meant the book she gave me.

"Where's what?" I asked innocently.

"The pokemon, I heard it, where is it?"

I sighed and called December out from under the bed, she crawled out with her tail between her legs, her ears low, and her head pointed down as she hid behind me.

"Ivory, you can't tell them, she hasn't done anything wrong." I begged her.

"So you were screwing a pokemon." She said with a smirk.

"What? No! No, December and I are just friends, nothing like that." I explained, my face burning up from blushing, December's was too.

"Sure, I don't plan on telling the captain, I think that policy against pokemon is bullshit, but still you should be careful and not get caught." She told me as she sat down on the bed, trying to coax December to talk to her.

It seems she didn't feel comfortable around her, I sat down on the bed and December sat on the side of me farthest from Ivory.

"She sure does cling to you though, you're name's December right? My name's Ivory, it's nice to meet you." Ivory tried to say nicely and introduce herself but she was way too shy.

Ivory just sighed and told me to be careful before leaving the room to go to her's. December calmed down and laid her head down on my lap and sighed.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"I just don't trust other people yet."

"That comes with time, don't worry."

"You think she likes me?"

"Of course."

Ivory returned a minute later holding a bunch of books from her room.

"They probably need you to help strap everything down on the deck, I'll keep December company." Ivory told me.

Hunter walked out and closed the door behind him, leaving me and Ivory alone together.

"So December, how'd you get onto the ship?"

"I was looking for food, the boat had left the dock before I could get off."

"Do you have a home or family?"

"I don't have a home, and I haven't seen my parents in 2 years."

"You've been homeless all that time?"

"No, I had a trainer who took me in after I left from my home, but he was mean and abusive, so I ran away."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"He was so nice to me until I evolved, then he started hitting me and not giving me any food. Then he said he was just going to keep me as a... Breeding tool."

"Oh god, that's terrible. You should have him arrested."

"I'd rather forget about him. It's too much drama. Plus he comes from a really rich family, we won't be able to do much to him."

Ivory and I talked a little to get more comfortable. She seemed nice.

"Are you Hunter's girlfriend?" I asked her, she just laughed.

"No, are you?" She said back.

"No. I only just met him, of course I'm not his girlfriend."

"I'm just teasing, you just seem to hold him very highly already."

"Because he's been so kind to me."

"Yeah, he is really sweet, so take care of him. He tends to take others before himself sometimes, so watch out for his own health too."

"I will."

"Just be careful, don't get caught. If you do, he'll will for sure come to help you, I will too."

"Thank you."

"Anyway, I'm going back to my room. If you ever want to talk, just ask him to come get me. You can keep these books while we're on our trip, thought you'd might like them."

Ivory got up and left me in Hunter's room, she seemed nice. I inspected some of the books she had, most were romances. She had a few action, horror, or mystery books. Which I took more of a liking to. A few minutes had gone by, then Hunter had come back. He was drenched.

"Are you alright?" I asked him.

"Yes, just soaked." He said as he closed the door behind him.

He started to undress, so I looked away, even if a tiny smidgen of curiosity wanted me to watch. I kept looking away, and outside the window. I could see the storm raging outside and the large waves slamming against the ship.

"Thank you for looking away." I heard him say.

I looked back at him to see he was wearing different clothes, more causal, sleep like clothes. Hunter sat up on the bed with me and laid down while I laid against his leg and read my book. We didn't speak for a while, but when I finally went to ask him something, I found out that he had fallen asleep. Understandably so, his job must be strenuous both mentally and physically, plus having to take care of me. I put my book up and memorized the page I was on before I laid down to sleep too. I just couldn't however. The sound of the storm and the rocking of the waves was making it hard to sleep.

I looked at Hunter to see that he was sleeping perfectly fine, which was understandable considering he was probably used to having to sleep like this. Before I realized it, I was crawling into the nook in his arm. I hadn't even noticed I had started to move. I hadn't seemed to bother him and I did feel a lot more comfortable. Hopefully he wouldn't mind me sleeping this close to him.

I woke up the next morning to find that December was laying up against me. I didn't mind, but it just seemed unusual of her to be this close to me. I sat up slowly, being careful not to wake her up. I looked out of the window to the ship, the storm was still raging like last night, but it seems like it had dulled down. I got completely out of bed and got into my work clothes. Before I could leave the room, December groggily woke up.

"Hunter?"

"I'll be back, don't worry."

She just nodded and balled up in a circle to sleep.

Wooo long stuff, there is already other chapters I've written of this story that i will post not too long after this