Caretaker Charles

Aria opened her eyes to see her savior's sleeping form. He had brown hair, a small mole on the left of his cheek, somewhat long eyelashes and he had a simple face but simple in a Handsome way. She got off of the bed as quietly as she can and moved to the bathroom to freshen up.

As she entered she squinted a bit and noticed a familiar blue hoodie-vest on a hanger along with her clothes and underwear folded ever so neatly on top of the washing machine then took her shower.

As she dried her hair she took a whiff of the Hooded vest then to her own clothes.

'Same Detergent, not that I mind.' She smiled as she wore her beige Dolman sleeved shirt, Navy blue Capri pants, and blue sneakers with silver accents. She wondered if her savior's hoodie vest would look on her.

She faced the mirror delighted how well it fit her albeit it was a bit too big for her figure it.

'He wouldn't mind if I hold on to this for a while, right?' Eh, she'll cross that bridge when she got there. She tapped her CTR and it showed it was eight-o' nine a.m. nearly breakfast. As soon as she got out of the bathroom she saw her savior awake, wide-eyed, and red in the face. 'Right, The vest-' As electric blue eyes met with brown.

"G-good morning Aria," Her savior smiled and waved albeit nervously. She saw the Aron happily jump onto his head inciting an 'ow' from him as he fell off the bed. Giggling she walked a bit closer to pet the armor Pokémon on her savior's head and to offer a hand to him, smiling as she dutifully pulled him up.

"Sorry about wearing the Hoodie, It was a bit chilly." She hoped he'd buy her alibi, not that she was lying or anything. It was cold in the early mornings of February. She made a move to scratch Aron's chin."Camelot, right?"

Hero Chuckled and shook his head, shaking the Iron Armor Pokémon off his head and into his arms. He wiped his eyes and smiled in a carefree way.

"Yeah, Charles Nover, how's the arm?" He introduced himself as his stomach grumbled making Aria giggle and waved her arm to show it was alright as Camelot jumped off of his embrace."So, Breakfast?"

As soon as Charles opened the door he felt a tug on the back of his shirt. He turned to see Aria acting somewhat similar to Persona 5's Shy Futaba Sakura looking at the floor then to him as she fidgetted her fingers nervously. Her eyes darted all around the hallway squinting.

"I, can't see that well," She said with a nervous smile and twirling her midnight black hair as electric blue eyes met with his brown seemingly begging. As a blush creeped into her face making her as red as a tomato." I don't know what happened. I could see just fine before now... I have to squint to actually focus on something. Can I stay close to you? It's a bit unnerving if-"

"Come on, "Charles held her hand smiled at her chuckling as he began to walk with the adorable girl whose face was as red as his.

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Charles learned two things about 'The System'. Firstly, any and all symbols on the signs changed into the English alphabet which made things easier for him to pose as a sane person. Secondly, the Menu prompt changed and became similar to a heads-up display with a blinking message notification on the top left. He'd read that on a later date, for now, breakfast was their priority.

They stopped by the Nursery. Charles instantly looked for the Dreepy and saw it eating Aspear berries with gusto and chuckled as he saw Aria look at the Lingering Pokémon with wonder and tugged his sleeve. "So Charles, you're a PokéBreeder, right? How do you know if you're ready to take care of one?"

"You never know when you're ready to take care of anyone. You just do without any hesitation give them love and care." Charles waved at the Rough house of Tyrogues that were sparing with one of the PokéCenter's Audino as they were utterly defeated as the Mutters of Whismur shyly waved back." It's like being a parent. You never actually know until you start."

That is if you a parent allow your children to fight until one gets knocked out cold. Not that Charles had a problem with parent's back on Earth and their uh, choice of sports. Martial art was a good hobby but he was more into swimming and painting if he wasn't bombarded with household chores and schoolwork. Gods he has to let that go. He felt a poke on his cheek which transitioned to a pinch as she faced a pouting Aria.

"Let's get some Food," Aria took the lead as she smirked and patted his cheek." Hopefully, we tame that Swallot and Mightyena battling in your tummy."

"It's not that... *Graaow* bad..." Fuck my life.

" I rest my case."

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"You know Lisa you're becoming more of a stalker than a doctor, right?"

"It's not like I'm following them everywhere! I just seem to find them whenever I roam the building!!"

Harmony Caldera, Head of all PokéCenters in the Atolea Region was having difficulties in believing her collegue and friend. She noticed how different she reacts to a certain kind-hearted Breeder(albeit she watches him from afar). It's been four days since Charles and Aria arrived at the PokéCenter and within those days she has been seeing Lisa Sonata, Doctor, and Gym leader, stalking the two. From volunteering on helping out around the Center to accompanying and playing the Little ones at the Nursery noticing the changes the Dreepy in terms of behavior. The Lingering Pokémon interacted with Charles and Camelot playing with them and when it tuckers out the little one goes for Aria's embrace which Charles brought out the question if Aria can adopt the Dreepy if she, as the Breeder corrected the Head, wanted her.

She allowed it as the Little one is now had her own Pokéball and trainer was happily named Symphonia and now in the present time she watched as Charles gave the Raveonette advice on caring for the baby dragon and training with her at the Center's 'backyard'. She looked to her collegue gaping at the show of care and skill the Breeder had with his Thoroughbred Aron from what she noticed a few moves that proved her suspicion. Superpower and Headsmash moves that are rare for an Aron to have. Her eyes widen as the Armor Pokémon crashed into the forest and a water spout came out.

She watched as Charles began to dash to his Pokémon's aid probably drenching his clothes in the process and noticed as Aria was laughing her ass off at the sight then became silent and ran to where the two medical professionals were seated. They turn to see Charles with a tire smiled as his Aron followed him. They could not unsee what they saw that day. Broad shoulders with defined abs, lats, and triceps physical features you'd normally see in a swimmer or a Pokémon Breeder that Specialized in Water types. In Harmony's defense, she didn't notice the breeder's build even though on the first evening he had changed in front of her due to the poor lighting in the room and expected him to be well-built but NOT THIS WELL-BUILT. He's Eighteen for Arceus' sake! She can't have Sliggoo eyes for someone that was six-years her junior, can she? Non no no non! Bad Harmony! No oggling the Hot Breeder! Oh no, I THOUGHT HE WAS HOT! NOOOO MY CAREER.

Meanwhile, Lisa Sonata was having a meltdown and essentially shut-down eyes blank dropping the can of Oran berry soda on to the floor. The image of the Breeder's body was permanently imprinted into her mind as he walked towards them wringing his shirt.

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'Keep calm, breathe, and act confident, keep calm...' is what Charles repeated in his mind as he was shirtless and was approaching the veranda where Nurse Harmony and Doctor Sonata were currently seated.

It was nice of them to let him and Aria stay for four days now, he would want to stay at Gredli town to help out in the Center but the talk with the Goddess said otherwise.

As much as she had the power to create anything she could not, however, control the fate of the world nor the people that lived in it however she can piece together what was happening to the regions in it. She explained that this region had its own pair of Legendary Pokémon; Sperakinite, The Pokémon Knight Of Hope and Fideminion The Pokémon Dragoon Of Faith that if one would awaken the other shall rise with a master of its own to do battle for a wish to shape the world. As outrageous as the lore of these two pokémon Charles shouldn't forget this wasn't a game and Pokémon don't tend to follow his world's rules.

He was now assigned by Atlea to be The Caretaker of the region via being a Champion. Which meant traveling the whole region, Which meant battling Gym Leaders, which also meant chaos for his life.

'Fuck my luck.' Now how to explain to Aria that he needed to go far. As much as Charles was concern she needed to recover from the trauma she had and she needed someone to talk to. Well shit.

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to be continued at-