As I stand there looking at my new fish buddy I can't keep the grin from my face, he's perfect! except he looks a little skinny, and quite young as well, a month maybe? But really the first thing I noticed was….. and not 100% on this…. But according to what I know from my pk Magikarp should not have that many, if any facial expressions…..

But this Magikarp has beached himself in his excitement and is currently looking at me with what I can describe as an emotional thousand-yard stare, and it is intense….. also seems aura can pick up general Pokémon emotion, and this Magikarp is laying down some intense feelings of….. I want to say clinginess or possessiveness toward me, but that's not quite right.

I guess if I had to put it into a word, he's feeling like I'm home….. I know I wished for the dude, but this aura emotional shit is heavy, And I'm feeling some attachment to him As well, weird….. yet it feels right?

I'm getting minor feelings of attachment toward to chest he brought ashore as well to which I can only think of one thing, my other 2 crew members!, as I walk up to Magikarp, I notice pops azumarill watching us…. Gotta say it's big…. Or maybe it's because I'm small.. but if I had to guess it's around 6'2, which now I think about it Pokémon are a bit bigger than described in the game and or show in this world...But I'm getting sidetracked.

As I make it up to my new pal, he's laying on his side just looking at me, not flopping around and just waiting for me to approach as I do and kneel down, I put my hand on him, and suddenly a rush of what I can only describe as his life journey….. but in feelings, trippy as hell… but I can feel the betrayal of his kind, loneliness and then hope and joy.

Holy shit I did not sign up for this heavy bonding session…. And my aura also flows into him and he perks up and starts wiggling around in excitement.

And I just flop down next to him onto my back and look at the sky and he just lays next to me with glee, and I have to admit when I first wished for my I only wanted a goon to do my bidding but now….. it's like a brother I never had, closeness and…. Damn….

Well…. as I lay there, Magikarp conveys to me a feeling of 'look that way', for what you might be wondering, Pokémon can't speak, only those insane power psychic types can communicate, and it's mental imaging into words, and not really talking, more like more complicated emotional projection.

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Anyways I look at what he wants to look at and I see the chest he pushed onto shore, I quickly get up to check it out and as I come to it, I see a padlock…..

For the next 15 minutes, if you were to be in my general area, you would probably hear a child screaming with language that could make a sailor blush, profanity probably this world has never heard before.

As I'm trying to break apparently the world's fucking sturdiest padlock with a rock I found on the beach.

Me "BREAK *BANG* YOU *BANG* FUCKING *BANG* PRICK!!!*

And nothing, not even a scratch, 'fucking fuck….'

As I've just about given up on life I see Magikarp staring at the box with hatred and I can tell we both have the general thought of 'fuck this box and the people who made it

Just as I notice him concentrating I see a small blue ball form in front of his mouth and I can tell that it's not water energy…. It's fucking aura!!!

My Magikarp can use aura sphere!? That's fucking sick! As I'm celebrating inwardly he manages to fire off a marble-sized aura sphere toward the box... and missed it by a mile.

My first thought was 'do it again!'…. But my second thought was 'holy shit!!, our crew is in there!!!'

Gideon" Magikarp stop! you might hurt what's inside!"

He seems to understand and stops his next aura sphe…. Marble and we seem to be back to square one and hating that fucking adamantium goddam padlock when the unsung hero of our little adventure casually walks up and pulls off the padlock like it's nothing…..Azumarill

It watched us fuck around like morons for like 20 minutes, it either has had its laugh at a pair of dickheads like us or is sick of watching us fail at a simple task, whichever it was it doesn't matter now!!

I open the box to find 2 football-sized eggs sitting snugly in what I could describe as medieval wrapping, so leather, and cloth.

One was black with red squiggly lines around it and the other was grey with pinkish swirls lining the bottom of the egg, and at that moment I knew what and who they were, and smile like a loon

Gideon" looks like the crews all together now"

I thought for a second about how to handle this and thought about my 2 items left for the week and almost stood behind the box and pulled 2 incubators out of thin air out of sight of azumarill, don't know if it would even react but it's better not to take a chance and made it look like it was attached to the back of the box

Now, these don't actually exist in this world but luckily for me they just look like metal cylinders with a glass front, which you would have to say it's crystal because apparently glass doesn't exist either, this world technology is all over the place….

Anyway back to the important thing, they don't need electricity to function apparently they somehow juice themselves, and generate their own fluid to nurture the egg, I don't get it but I'm in a world with giant magic animal friends who can shoot laser beams and have more or less elemental bender powers, just kinda gotta let it go….

So I put both eggs in the incubators and then search the rest of the chest and find nothing so leaving it there I carry my new yet-to-be baby crew members over to Magikarp.

Gideon" alright buddy ima need you to get in this ball till we get home then we can get you some food and talk"

He nods at me, with his whole body and I take out the luxury ball, enlarge it and tap it on his head, he vanished in the ball with a beam of red light, no shaking or anything, just caught... Nice

I stand up and thank azumarill and return him as well and start to head him, got some aftermath to deal with and some plans to start….