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Al shook his head. "It's f-f-fine." He assured, trying his best to control his stutter. "She's ad-d-dorable."

"I've been c-c-camping out here f-f-for a f-f-few weeks now. T-t-taking a long b-b-break from home, r-r-really." He admitted with a small stutter. He couldn't seem to stop watching the little Happiny in the young woman's arms, though.

"Well, the gang and I clashed with Blizzard and it seems like the more we fought him, the tougher he got. I believe that he learned some of his hybrid attacks because of what we went through. Even Extrasensory...which...God, I fear to know how he came up with that. Anyways, things came to a head in Hoenn, where the both of us got wind that the Elemental was out that way for some reason. We clashed out on the Island City of Sootopolis, and the fight between us got dragged out to Shoal cave where he and I personally had at it. Little did I realize at the time, it wouldn't be the last time, despite the fact that Celcius got in the middle of our fight and took me away."

"I don't really remember all that much, other than some sort of tinge that was trying to convince me that it had the means of taking Blizzard out of the picture for good; to which I agreed to. Little did I figure out until far afterwards was that I actually made a deal with the icy devil. I found myself in Sinnoh, in the mountain innards just outside of Snowpoint City. I was beaten...badly. Whatever clothes I had on me...torn for the most part. Not really sure if that was the fight or...well. My change." she said. "Maybe a bit of both. I was obviously upset that I was like Blizzard...I never imagined myself being like Blizzard, to be honest. Keep in mind, I was human at one time. Hybrids to me were rarer than the rarest legendary Pokemon, as well as freaks of nature at the time...and thanks to Blizzard during that few months, something to be feared. I was trying to piece together what exactly happened...how long I was out, so on and so forth, just what the hell happened. I come to realize that I pretty much owed Blizzard...I was under Celcius's control, just as Blizzard was at one time, just not as long. Only a couple of weeks tops. Blizzard and Celcius had at it in Snowpoint, a fight which drew the attention of the locals in Snowpoint. Before the locals found us, I was already up and walking around and found Blizzard probably the most bruised, bloodied, and broken anyone would probably ever see him...and no Celcius. At the time, he and I could only assume Blizzard succeeded in taking Celcius out. While I was relitively a bad girl at the time, I did know when I owe someone. So...I got Blizzard out of the cavern and left him to be easier found by the Snowpoint officials."

"So, now you may be thinking at this point 'how is this really a hardship, you really had this coming for a while, blah blah blah.' Yea, I did, but the story doesn't really end there. Apparently I come to find out a few things that was hidden from me for quite some time which...makes me pretty upset."

"Tweety and I do a lot of fishing back home so it's not that big a deal, really" Al admitted, his flickering stuttering vanishing for the moment.

"Come in? You have a secret base too?" He asked of the young woman as he gave her a curious look.

"Well, when I left the Sinnoh region, I found my way after a while back to Johto, namely in Violet City, where we centralized ourselves. Apparently the group put me out of the picture, especially after now that I was a hybrid and allegedly a shell of what I am supposed to be to them. They left me out high and dry. There was only one that stood by me. He was a caretaker, but he acted more like a grandfather to me, really. He stood by me when no one else would, even during the turn over from my father's lead to mine." she said. "And my falling from grace of sorts was no different. The only reason why he stayed around as long as he did was for me. I was the precious snow angel, and he'd crack to this day that I'm more fitting of the role now. At any rate, it was him that broke the news to me."

"I never really knew my mother. She was killed when I was only five years old. I found out though her death was issued by my father. I come to find out that given my dad's dealings, she wanted part of it no longer. She was going to leave him as fast as possible, for her sake, and more so for mine. But it doesn't really stop there. While he put the hit out on my mother, someone paid off the man to put me out too, something that was not in my father's plans." she said. "Daddy got word about it and...well, killed the hit man after he killed my mom. He tried to stop the hit sooner before my mother was killed, because he wanted to do it on his own terms, but it didn't turn out that way. It did, however, tell him there was a rat among him. One that I would imagine that done him in years later when I came of age." she said. "He was poisoned. Arsenic poisoning...don't know how long though. It could have been for years. Just a little a time. How did I get off, I don't know. Guess someone didn't find me as a threat at the time." she said. "I got the feeling I know who done both of my parents in though, but just haven't really had the means to prove it though. True to our style, I suppose."

Keiko would be the first in a long time to find Al to be "cute". The 31 year old hadn't been referred to by such a descriptor since he had been in his teens. Handsome had been more recent, yes, but most couldn't get back his stutter. It was often present and most often showed itself in the presence of several people.

Following the girl behind the waterfall with Tweety in front of him, he gawked at the door. "How long has this been here?"

"Seems like it." Lykas agreed once he calmed down and climbed off the ceiling. He'd been listening in this whole time, just.....acting like he was a scared Meowth.