CELESTIA

Chapter Eighteen Secret Base

"Celestia?" Axelord whispered, gently nudging me. "Wake up, please."

Upon hearing his voice, I slowly opened my eyes to see my master in front of me. For a moment I wondered how I fell asleep until I concluded that the stress, worry and the long trip made me tired. I scanned the whole place, seeing that my big brothers were out of their poke balls. The place had furnitures, toys and other stuff I can't describe.

"Garde voir?" I wondered where we are.

"Hello, Celestia," Axelord greeted. "Welcome to my secret base! I mean, OUR secret base."

Blaze, Swift, Fang, Rising Star and Razor also greeted me with a festive chirp.

"Ohhhh. I didn't know we had a secret base." I telepathically said while levitating myself on my feet. "So.. Where exactly are we in Hoenn?"

"About a couple of miles away from Fortree City," Axelord answered. "This base is hidden in an old tree and no one would EVER know its location. Here, we'll hide out for a while until tomorrow. We'll be safe here and the best part, you can play with everything here. Just for you and for the rest of the team," He explained with a smile.

"Oh wow! That's.. Very nice, master!" I was surprised with everything he just said. Play with everything? I began scanning around the secret base, looking for a lot of possible things I can play with until something caught a hundred percent of my attention. A giant Wailmer doll. It was just as big an actual Wailmer, only it was softer. Grinning, my instincts and urges suddenly kicked in. I dashed my way to the giant Wailmer doll and pounced on it. The moment I landed on it, my whole body sank deep enough for me to feel the softness of the doll.

"Gaaaaaaaarrr~!!" I squealed happily before laughing like a child.

Axelord smiled seeing me and the boys happy. He was really happy for his pokémon, able to play and have fun again while hiding from all the tension outside. This was really what we all needed. Axelord checked the entrance of the secret base, making sure the leaves hid the inside of the base. He even pushed a desk to block the entrance and once he was satisfied with the security, Axelord huffed.

Meanwhile I approached Swift who was making something out of clay. I got tired of playing with the giant Wailmer doll and became curious with what Swift was doing. Once I sat down beside him, Swift showed me that he was sculpting a model of me because he made all models of the team including master Axelord. My eyes sparkled at his amazing work of art. I didn't know Swift had this hidden talent.

Just then, he handed me some clay and I began sculpting something. Turned out I wasn't very good with this kind of thing so I stopped. When Swift completed my model, he displayed it with the rest of his collection.

"Big brother Swift? Have you ever been in love?" I suddenly asked him. Swift was caught by surprise and just looked at me.

"Where is this suddenly coming from, little sis?" He asked wile blushing. "Y-yeah, I had a crush before but.. I never got to tell her because I met master."

"Ohh," It was all I could say.

"What about you?"

"Not yet. I honestly wonder how romantic love feels like and what it is," I shrugged.

"Oh? Sadly I'm not a romantic expert.. But I'm sure you'll meet someone at the right time."

The next day, Axelord was the first to wake up. He looked around to see the team still fast asleep and the desk still sealing the entrance. Everything was fine and Axelord got up with a blanket in his hand and approached us. Once he was near, he crouched down to place the blanket over us. I was asleep in between Razor and Blaze who were both hugging me although I was facing Blaze.

Once settled, Axelord went outside to inspect the area. Peeping out of the leaves, the sun was still about to rise and he sighed, knowing it was still too early.

"I gotta stop with this bad habit," He told himself. He really had a bad habit of waking up too early in the morning. Outside, he suddenly saw someone he didn't expect to see.

"One, two, three. Yeah, you're right. Okay okay, my turn. I spy with my little eye," The blond girl said while walking with her Gallade.

Axelord was surprised to see Sophia and Prince again. So far, they both looked like they were having fun and not caring about what Sophia was walking into. By the looks of it, she was about to walk into a Mightyena ambush.

Panicking, Axelord didn't know what pokémon to get to stop the Mightyenas since everyone were all asleep. Still, he had to find a way to help her.

"Something-Ahhh!" Sophia jumped back when the Mightyena appeared followed by seven more Mightyenas.

"Gallade!" Prince instinctively went in front of Sophia to protect her, but before Prince could attack, The Mightyena attacked first, charging with its bare fangs.

A split second just before the Mightyena could bite Prince, there was a sudden dazzle and gleaming of powerful fairy light, blinding everyone in the process but only damaging the pack of Mightyenas.

"Woah what was that?!" Sophia looked up to see the sudden disturbance. She had her arm over her head to shield her vision from the blinding light. "Hey, isn't that-?"

Prince's eyes were shining while the pack of Mightyenas growled. The light soon faded, revealing my presence. I stood in front of Prince as I faced the Mightyenas.

"Master, command me to impress her," I telepathically told Axelord without lookingat him.