Dawn had made a new friend while in Heahea City. Now they were eating breakfast together.
"I think you did the trials out of order," Lillie said after swallowing a mouthful of corn flakes.
Dawn had run into the clumsy blonde girl in the lobby one morning – literally. The oblivious girl had walked right into Dawn while digging around in her backpack, and Dawn had inadvertently knocked the bag right out of her hands like an oaf. The two had spent a solid minute apologizing to one another, both insisting that it had been their fault for not watching where they were going, before they were both overcome by the ridiculousness of the situation and broke into laughter. They immediately became friends after that.
"Where I come from," Dawn said, "it's considered rude to talk with food in your mouth." She said this knowing that Lillie's impeccable table manners would leave her pointlessly embarrassed. It was fun to tease the girl.
They'd shared breakfast each morning, swapping stories about what they'd seen on their respective travels. Lillie had mentioned that she had been in Kanto recently, but she was actually an Alolan native who had just come home. She was intensely curious about Dawn's progress on the Island Challenge, having never gone through it herself.
"Sorry," Lillie said automatically, even though Dawn herself was speaking through a half chewed bit of muffin. "But anyway, most trial-goers on Akala Island do Lana first on Brooklet Hill, then Kiawe in Wela Volcano Park, and then Mallow in Lush Jungle."
"Does the order matter?" Dawn asked. "I mean officially. No one really explained the rules to me when I started. And I keep learning new things about what I'm supposed to be doing, while I'm in the middle of doing them."
"Well, I guess that's the thing about traditions. They're rules, but no one talks about them because they just think everyone already knows them."
"Lana was supposed to make me take a ride pager, I think. Is that also part of the tradition?"
"You took one, right?" Lillie asked. "How else would you get around the island without one?"
"I've been getting around on foot, I guess? Or just with my bicycle. As long as I'm not trying to go straight up a rocky hill or through a muddy swamp, a bicycle works just fine."
Dawn recalled the rushed trip to get to Brooklet Hill, with people in the city staring at her as she rode by.
"Although... I guess people do look at me funny when they see my bicycle. I can't believe nobody owns a bike around here."
"I don't even know how to ride one..." Lillie said, blushing. "Mother bought me one while we were in Kanto, but... I wasn't brave enough to try and learn how to ride it."
"I could teach you," Dawn offered.
"No! No, it's fine. But thank you for offering."
Dawn wondered if Lillie's elusive mother even had the wherewithal to teach her daughter how to ride a bicycle. Dawn didn't want to dwell on the awkward subject, so she changed topics.
"Anyway," Dawn said, "I was going to challenge Kiawe's trial next, and after that I guess it's the Kahuna. That's Olivia, right?"
"Yeah! Olivia's tough. Or, um, that's the impression I got. She uses rock type pokemon, and she's pretty fierce."
"Have you met her?"
"Geeze, Dawn!" Lillie laughed. "Not everyone on Alola knows each other... But um, yes, I've met her before. I've watched her battle, too."
"You really like watching battles, don't you?" Dawn teased. "I get it, I used to do the same thing. I know it can be pretty thrilling!"
"Oh, you bet! I wish I could do half the things I see trainers pulling off in the middle of a match. But I'm more likely to just, um... freeze up."
"Aawh, that's fine. Every trainer has to start somewhere. You'll get over it with a little experience."
"Yeah, I guess we'll see... I didn't even have my own pokemon to battle with, until pretty recently."
On a previous morning, Lillie had explained how her mother had suffered some kind of breakdown and had to be taken to Kanto for help. Lillie had gone with her and started her journey as a trainer while she was there, but she didn't have much experience under her belt. Dawn wasn't sure if Lillie had even earned any gym badges, although it seemed rude to ask.
"Hey, I'll tell you what," Dawn said. "Why don't you come with me when I go and challenge Kiawe? You can learn something from watching me battle the totem pokemon."
"Gosh, is that allowed? Can you have spectators during a trial?"
"I don't know," Dawn said with a shrug. "Maybe? I would have thought you would know. What does the tradition say?"
"I'm not sure if there's a rule against it," Lillie said. "If the trial captain, um... just asks me to leave, well... I don't mind waiting for you to finish. Either way, I don't mind coming with you to the volcano park. It's supposed to be really nice, but... I don't know if I'd want to visit there all by myself."
"The trial is in a volcano?" Dawn balked. "That does sound scary."
"Well, no, it's not actually inside a volcano. It's just a volcanic area. I think."
"That sounds really pretty though! I've never seen a volcanic park before. Just volcanic mountains, which are a pain to navigate and full of grumpy pokemon."
"How many volcanoes have you seen?" Lillie asked. She was often impressed by the things Dawn had encountered on her adventures, and she always seemed to want to hear more about them. Dawn was happy to share, even though she never thought of herself as much of a storyteller.
"Let's see," Dawn began, lapsing into a story from her days in Sinnoh. "There was Stark Mountain..."
Dawn and Lillie traveled on foot, going at a steady but leisurely pace. While a bicycle or a Tauros would have been faster, both girls appreciated having a traveling partner for once, and neither felt a need to rush. Route 6 took the better part of a day to traverse, ending at the mini-town that was built around the Battle Royale Dome. They spent the evening there, happy not to have to camp out in the wilderness, and Dawn discovered that Lillie hadn't even brought a tent with her on their trip. Before hitting the road again, Dawn insisted that Lillie buy a collapsible tent for herself, in case Route 7 proved longer than expected. Dawn's tent would have been too small for the two of them to share.
Route 7 did prove to be longer than the last road, as the grassy hills turned to rock, with mountainous foothills to the west and the coastline to the east. They considered taking a detour to enjoy the beach, but neither of them had brought any swimming gear and Lillie had been mortified by Dawn's half-serious suggestion of going skinny dipping. Dawn made a mental note to check out the beach on the way back from the trial. If nothing else, there was usually treasure to be found among the sand dunes, and she figured she could wow Lillie with the dowsing machine on her poketch.
They camped over night on Route 7, planning to visit the park the following day. But Wela Volcano Park turned out to be something of a misnomer. It wasn't just a park; it was a full-blown volcanic mountain, complete with steaming fumaroles and the distant scent of ash and sulfur.
"This wasn't what I was hoping for," Dawn admitted. "Are we going to have to climb this thing to get to the trial site?"
"My feet already hurt just thinking about it," Lillie said. "I definitely don't have the right shoes for this..."
The girl was still wearing the same plain athletic shoes that she'd worn in town. There were worse options for hiking up a mountain, but they were pretty far from optimal. Dawn was glad that her own stubbornness had led her to wear her sturdy pink traveling boots despite the tropical climate.
"Do you want to turn back?" Dawn offered. "I don't want to drag you along if you aren't up for it, especially not if I'm going up a mountain."
"What? Um, no, it's fine!" Lillie insisted. "Let's keep going towards the trial site. I, um...really want to watch you battle!"
They continued up the rocky path as it wound up the mountain. Dawn suspected the real reason Lillie had wanted to press on was so that she wouldn't have to trek back to the city by herself, but she didn't want to call the girl out for her lack of assertiveness.
The two of them crossed semi-narrow ledges and grassy outcroppings, weaving through cave openings and doing their best to avoid disturbing any wild pokemon. The path was mostly linear, going ever up and up the mountain, with just enough of an incline to make it a tiring climb. By the time the sun was beginning to set, the mountain's peak was in sight, with a painted wooden trial marker indicating the point where the road ended and the trial site officially began.
"All that was just to get to the start of the trial?" Lillie asked incredulously. "My knees are killing me..."
"Mine too," Dawn said. In truth she felt fine – she'd hiked further and longer than this before. But she was beginning to feel a little bad for bringing Lillie up here with her. Maybe the girl wasn't ready for this.
"Still, I'm glad we're here!" Lillie said with infectious optimism. "I think when you finish this trial, they register a flying pokemon on your pager. We can just fly back down the mountain, instead of having to hike."
"Oh, that... sounds really nice, actually!"
Dawn didn't have the heart to tell Lillie that she already owned a pokemon that could Fly, and that she could have flown back to town at any point.
"Anyway," Dawn continued, "Isn't someone supposed to meet me at the gate? There's usually somebody here, if not the captain themself."
"I have no idea," Lillie said. "Maybe it's late? They might have just gone home."
"What, and gone all the way back down the mountain? That'd be silly."
With no other obvious
path to take, Dawn strode confidently past the trial marker with Lillie following close behind. The rocky path sloped sharply upward, leading to the very highest point on the mountain. A thin haze of smoke hung above them, and for a moment Dawn was worried she'd find an open caldera at the top, but then she realized that the individual plumes of smoke had to be coming from ordinary torches.
Finally the path leveled out, depositing the two of them in a flat, circular area that was ringed by sharp volcanic stones. This was the totem arena, and an enormous stone slab sat in the middle of it, with three stone steps leading onto the circular platform where the totem pokemon would be battled. There was no one else here.
"Did Kiawe know you were coming?" Lillie asked.
"Was I supposed to make an appointment?" Dawn replied. "It's not like I could have called him or something. There's no cell signal up here."
"Oh, no..." Lillie said. "Don't tell me we came all the way up here for nothing..."
"No, I'm sure the trial captain is around here," Dawn said. "Maybe he... stepped away to eat dinner?"
"Either way," Lillie continued, "I'm not sure if we're supposed to be here uninvited like this. And, um, unsupervised..."
"Unsupervised? What are we, little kids?"
"No, but, um... the trial sites are important. They're sacred places. And just loitering in one is... disrespectful."
"Oh, I guess it would be," Dawn said, feeling guilty. "Should we go back down the mountain and try again tomorrow?"
"What? No, um, let's wait and see if Kiawe shows up. We're already here, so any damage is done. We can apologize to him for loitering once we see him."
Dawn walked over to the rocky edge of the arena, taking a cautious step up onto the rim to see over the rocks ringing the summit. She could see straight down the mountain from here, the view stretching out across the entire island and fading out to sea. The sky turned a brilliant pink-orange to the west as the sun was beginning to set, with the eastern horizon already disappearing into a deep blue darkness.
"Um... be careful up there, Dawn..." Lillie said.
"This view is amazing," she replied. "I feel like I can almost see Sinnoh from here!"
"Sinnoh's, um, barely even in the same hemisphere as us," Lillie said. "You're probably just seeing Melemele Island."
"I know. But this view really sparks my imagination, you know? You should step up here and see this."
"No thanks, I'm good. Just... please don't fall, okay?"
Dawn stood at her viewing post for several minutes, straining her eyes to see how far she could see. After a little while, Lillie seemed to grow nervous that Dawn had been so close to the edge for so long.
"Hey, I have an idea!" Lillie said. "Let's have a pokemon battle."
"Right here?" Dawn said, finally stepping down. "In the trial site?"
"Sure!" Lillie said. She seemed relieved that Dawn had moved away from the rocky edge.
"You never actually told me what pokemon you have with you," Dawn said. "I have a full team of six. I don't want it to be a one-sided fight."
"I just have Clefairy with me," Lillie said. "I'm sure you have some stronger monsters from your adventures. Maybe, um... take it easy on me?"
"Sure thing," Dawn said as she reached for one of her weaker partners. "No need to worry about that. I only fight fair."
The battle was short, with Lillie's inexperience showing. Clefairy landed a few good hits, but even with Dawn pulling her punches, her own pokemon was more than a match for the Kantonian fairy. Lillie accepted her loss gracefully, not seeming to be the least bit surprised. But just they were putting away their pokemon, Lillie's eyes widened with alarm.
"Did you hear that?" Lillie whispered.
Not sure what Lillie was reacting to, Dawn silently shook her head.
"Voices!" Lillie hissed. "Someone's coming. Hide!"
As Lillie looked around frantically for something to take cover behind, Dawn whispered, "Why?"
"We're not really supposed to be here," Lillie pleaded, "and I don't think we should be having our own pokemon battles on the trial site!"
"It was your idea," Dawn said.
"I just wanted you to get away from the edge before you slipped and fell!"
Dawn couldn't argue with the girl's concern for her, and in that moment she heard the distant echo of someone's voice coming from up the path to the arena. The two girls scampered over to the edge of the arena, finding some large jagged rocks that were just high enough to take cover behind. Climbing behind the rocks put them uncomfortably close to the edge of the summit, but as long as they didn't back up any further, there was no risk of them falling down the mountain.
Now out of sight, Dawn dared to peek up over the rocks in time to see a dark-skinned man and woman walking into the arena, the man carrying a thick rolled up blanket. The man was shirtless and wore a necklace with the four-pointed charm that marked him as a trial captain. His hair was dyed black and red, sculpted to look like a flickering flame, and his baggy red shorts and sandals made him look like he belonged on the beach. The woman looked a bit older than him, with several primal-looking bracelets, anklets, necklaces, and other jewelry suggesting she was an authority figure. Her high heeled sandals clacked faintly on the stone and her low-cut pink shorts clung to her hips so tightly that even Dawn found herself staring a little.
"That's Olivia," Lillie said, her voice so low that Dawn could barely hear her from an inch or two away. "And Kiawe."
"They're both really hot," Dawn mused. Lillie in turn just stared at her incredulously.
"Sunset," Olivia said. "We got here just in time."
"You didn't say the ritual had to be done at sunset," replied Kiawe. "If I knew there was a time limit, I would have hurried."
"I knew we'd make it," Olivia said. "It was only the challenge of finding a partner that I was uncertain about. Thank you again for agreeing to do this."
"You're thanking me?" Kiawe said with disbelief. "I should be the one thanking you. Making love to the Kahuna is nothing short of an honor."
Kiawe threw down the blanket with a bit of flourish, the thick rectangle unrolling in the middle of the stone platform. Olivia stood casually beside it, staring up at the reddening sky. Dawn ducked back behind the rocks, afraid she might be seen.
"Making love?" Lillie mumbled, again barely audible. "What are they doing?"
"Isn't Olivia sort of like Kiawe's boss?" Dawn asked quietly. "Is it okay for them to be doing that?"
"They can't be about to do what it sounded like," Lillie said. "Especially not with us here. We need to leave."
"The only way out of here is to go right past where they're standing," Dawn said. "We're not getting out of here in secret."
"We should just apologize," Lillie said. "It'll be super embarrassing, but it'll be worse if they find us in, um... in the middle of, um..."
"I agree," Dawn said. She stood up partway so she could see over the rocks again, prepared to announce he presence and apologize for disturbing the two of them. But her eyes were met with the sight of Olivia ripping her top up over her head, jingling the little charms and bangles on her necklace and exposing her significant chest for the world to see. Both Olivia and Kiawe were standing with Dawn to their side, giving Dawn an ample profile view of the woman's magnificent tan breasts, and the bulge growing in Kiawe's shorts.
"Is giving me an eyefull part of the ceremony?" Kiawe asked. He was clearly smitten by the woman standing topless in front of him, but he managed to play it off like having her breasts in his face was an everyday occurrence.
"No, you've got me. This part is just for fun. I like to tease younger guys."
"I'm teased," Kiawe said. "I'm considering drooling, too, if I'm honest."
"Maybe don't do that," she replied. "But you can touch them if you want."
As Dawn ducked back behind the rocks, she whispered, "I'm not interrupting this."
"Oh no," Lillie said. "What are they doing?"
"Foreplay?" Dawn responded with a half shrug. "It's a lot more than just flirting."
"What do you mean?"
"She's got her shirt off and I don't think she was even wearing a bra to begin with. She invited him to grope her, I guess."
"Eeww... Dawn, you have to let them know we're here so we can just leave."
"I'm not interrupting them," Dawn said again.
"I do not want to be here for whatever they're about to do!" Lillie said, a note of panic creeping into her whispered voice.
There was a "plop!" as something landed on the ground near where Dawn and Lillie were hidden. After a moment's consideration, Dawn chanced a look over the rocks again, afraid that their cover was blown, but she only saw that Kiawe's shorts had been thrown in her general direction. She looked over at the pair to see that Kiawe had stripped entirely, and now Olivia was standing very close to him with one hand reaching for his sizeable cock. As Dawn watched, Kiawe lifted one hand to cup Olivia's breast, giving the woman pause.
"Are you just going to jerk me off?" Kiawe asked. "You said this was a sacred mating ritual."
"A more accurate translation," Olivia said, "would be 'orgasm ritual' or 'ecstasy ritual.' And it doesn't really matter which one of us does it." As she said this, she wrapped one hand around Kiawe's member and began stroking him.
"Are you expecting me to just blow my load all over your shorts?" Kiawe asked.
"Crude," Olivia said. "I'd rather you not get it on my clothes, if I'm honest."
"I thought we were going to have sex," he complained. "That's what I brought the blanket for."
"Do you think you can handle me?" Olivia teased. "You seem a bit inexperienced to me."
"I won't let you down, Kahuna."
"All right, then put those fingers to work. I don't mind if my shorts get messy from that."
"It's way too late to stop them," Dawn said as she ducked back down behind the rocks to address the mortified Lillie. The other girl was red in the face, looking as if she might faint from embarrassment, or possibly just explode.
"I don't want to see this," Lillie whined. "I don't want to hear this. I don't want to be here. This is wrong. This is so wrong..."
"It's kind of hot," Dawn admitted. She had never considered herself to be a voyeur, but she'd never been in a situation like this either. A part of her wanted to watch the two of them go at it. Olivia was well-endowed and beautiful, and Kiawe's muscular chest had left a memorable imprint in Dawn's mind. She liked the way he was just standing there so stoically, his calves and biceps just a little bit tense as his penis was presented to the older woman to manhandle, and the confident yet gentle way he had grabbed ahold of her breast in turn, the two of them confidently flirting with one another... Dawn could only have dreamed to be a part of an exchange like that.
Lillie was covering her ears now, staring off into space. "I'm just going to pretend that I'm back in Kanto," she muttered. "People in Kanto don't do lewd things like this outside. I wish I hadn't come back to Alola. I hate it here. Everybody is gross and weird and..."
"Maybe I can distract you?" Dawn whispered. She could hear the sounds of the two islanders grunting and moaning a little and a faint wet sound that was probably the two of them making out. She hadn't gotten the full story of Lillie's adventure before leaving Alola, or what had led to her coming back from Kanto. Maybe if Lillie told her some stories, it would cover up the noise.
"Please, yes, anything to distract me," Lillie whispered. "I'd rather not be hearing what I think I'm hearing."
"Why'd you leave Alola?" Dawn asked. "I know it was to help your mother. What were you doing before all that? It sounded like you went on some kind of an adventure."
Lillie took a moment to compose herself, still staring off into space, and Dawn took the chance to look over the rocks again. Olivia and Kiawe had sunk down to a kneeling position, the thick blanket wrinkled a little around their knees and their arms wrapped all around each other's bodies as they mashed their lips into one another. As Dawn watched, Olivia gently bit Kiawe's lip in a dubiously playful way, and it didn't seem to bother the man.
"...so then my mother started researching the Ultra Beasts," Lillie said. Dawn realized she had already missed a part of the story, partly because Lillie was still whispering and the girl seemed to be talking to herself more than to Dawn. She was still blushing pretty severely, looking halfway like she could die of embarrassment at any moment.
"Was that before or after she was made president of the Aether Foundation?" Dawn asked. Lillie had told her a fair bit about her mother when they first met.
"It was after," Lillie said. "She had discovered that..."
Kiawe's hands were stuffed crudely into Olivia's shorts, and it occurred to Dawn that the woman may not have even been wearing any underwear. He was fingering her now, with a determined look on his face as she leaned into him, her eyes screwed shut. She was letting out little gasps and panting noises, and the sounds of her pleasure and sheer arousal was echoing back and forth in between Dawn's eardrums.
"God I wish that were me," Dawn muttered to herself. Lillie didn't seem to hear her.
"Cool it," Olivia said after a while. "You're doing great, but I want more."
"You're welcome," Kiawe said cockily. "Does this mean we're moving on to the main event?"
Olivia put both of her hands on Kiawe's chest, and gently pushed him backwards, the man allowing himself to fall onto the blanket. As Olivia climbed on top of him, she slid her sodden shorts down her hips. From the angle, Dawn couldn't quite see the woman's nethers, but Kiawe's throbbing penis stood proudly and pointed at the woman.
"...and when we finally got to the ruins, we found out that Nebby was the legendary pokemon! It evolved into..."
Lillie was still rambling, and Dawn couldn't tell whether the girl actually couldn't hear what was going on in the arena, or if she was just pretending not to. Dawn tried to feign interest in the story, but she couldn't take her eyes off of the lovemaking that was about to happen.
"Wait, what are you...?" Kiawe grunted as Olivia positioned herself on top of him.
"Mmm," Olivia said with delight. "My pussy may be ready, but I'm not. I'm saving it for marriage."
"What? Are you kidding me? Are you really changing your mind, now?"
"Relax, Kiawe... there's a loophole we can take advantage of. A hot, tight loophole, that I'm sure you'd love to stick this great big meat rod of yours into."
Dawn watched with a level of disbelief as Olivia reared up, positioning Kiawe's dick in between her asscheeks, holding the desperate member in place with one hand."
"No way..." Dawn said to herself.
"I know, it was so crazy." Lillie said. "I don't even know where we were. Ultra Space basically goes on forever, but we just had to go and save her, no matter what the risks were."
Olivia sank down onto his cock, gently, her jaw falling open in a long extended gasp. Kiawe just stared up at her from his position, speechless as the woman let him bury himself in her ass.
"Oooh..." Olivia moaned. "It's been a while since I've done this."
"I've never done this at all," Kiawe said plainly. "Not like this, I mean. I've had sex, just not... damn..."
Olivia used one hand for balance as she slowly worked her way down to Kiawe's hips. Her other hand went to her crotch, rubbing aggressive circles into her mound.
"I've gotten to the point where I can't get off without something up my butt," Olivia said. "No matter what I do to my clit. This virgin pussy has specific needs."
As she was explaining this, Dawn watched in fascination as she began to work her hips back and forth, Kiawe's dick grinding into her, causing the man to grunt with pleasure.
"...we found out that the specialists my mother needed were based in Kanto, so I ended up taking her there. The Aether Foundation had some contacts with Silph Co's medical division, so they were able to..."
Olivia started bouncing on Kiawe, his dick sliding in and out of her back door with a perverse ease. Meanwhile Olivia's hand was hard at work pleasuring herself, leaving Kiawe lying there doing none of the work. But after a minute or two of thrusting and grunting from both of them, Olivia's humping pace began to slow, and Kiawe grabbed her hips to stop her.
"You're going to kill your legs doing that," he said. "Your thighs must be burning."
"A little," Olivia admitted.
"Get up. Let me do some of the work."
Olivia leaned forward, allowing Kiawe's cock to spring free from her hole, and he motioned for her to turn around, steering her to get onto her hands and knees. The woman complied, and Kiawe positioned himself behind her.
"Are you sure about saving this pussy for marriage?" Kiawe asked. "I wouldn't mind punching your V card tonight. We could call it a tribute to the guardian deities."
"Charming offer," Olivia said, "but for you to deflower the Kahuna before marriage would be blasphemy."
"And the Tapus have no commandment regarding sodomy?"
"They're silent on that topic. Almost deliberately so. Now less talking and more fucking."
"Yes Ma'am," Kiawe said, as he eased himself into her again. Olivia let out a little hiss, and once again her hand went to work on her aching womanhood.
"...so since she was better, we came back here to see how things were going with the foundation. They wouldn't let her go back to being President, at least not for a while, but she was happy to advise them on research topics and they were happy to have her expertise on hand to..."
Kiawe grunted with desperate pleasure as he fucked the woman, Olivia's head lowered and her mouth hanging open with animalistic gasps. Dawn could tell that both of them were lost in a sea of pleasure, and it was clear that neither of them would last much longer.
"Deeper," Olivia begged. "I'm so close, I'm gonna.. gonna..."
"Yeah," Kiawe said through clenched teeth, "Can I... cum in your ass?"
"Don't you dare pull out," Olivia said. "Cum in me, Captain! Give your Kahuna what she needs!"
With an undignified sound that approached a yelp, Kiawe hilted himself into Olivia's ass, and Dawn watched in twisted awe as all the muscles in his hips and thighs clenched and tensed as the man reached his climax. A moment later, Olivia tensed up, kicking her legs a little and panting heavily as she came as well. The two of them ground their hips into one another, each trying to prolong the peak of their pleasure as the Kiawe emptied his balls inside the woman's back door.
"...and since she didn't need me looking after her all the time, I came back to the main islands to try and catch up with what I had missed. And that's about when I ran into you, Dawn."
"This is the hottest thing I have ever seen," Dawn said, paying no attention to Lillie whatsoever. Watching the muscular man hammer Olivia's ass and cumming inside her without pause was more erotic than anything she had ever seen, experienced, or even fantasized about. She realized her heart was racing and there was a nagging heat in between her legs, as she watched the two of them ride out their euphoria.
"Oh my gosh, Dawn, were you watching them?!" Lillie hissed with disbelief.
"A little," Dawn lied, ducking back behind the rocks again. "It was pretty distracting. Can you blame me?"
"Was?
You mean, um, past tense? Are they finally done?"
"I think so?" Dawn said. "I'm pretty sure he just came in her ass."
"Ew!" Lillie whined. "Please don't just say things like that."
"Sorry," Dawn said. She didn't usually talk like this, but the circumstances had certainly left her mind in some sort of gutter. Then something Mallow had told her a few days ago suddenly rose up from the back of her mind.
"There's no sensation in the world quite like having both your holes filled at once."
"Maybe Mallow was on to something," Dawn wondered aloud.
Lillie had nothing to say to that.
"Do you want to go another round?" Kiawe asked.
"Heh," Olivia chucked. "You're such a gentleman, offering to pound a lady's ass a second time. You didn't even have to buy me dinner first."
"I paid for the blanket," he said. "And I loaned you the use of my trial site."
"Thank you for that, by the way. But the ritual is now complete."
"Was that really all we had to do?" he asked. "It seems like a weird ritual."
"The Tapu demand an offering of pleasure. We could have satisfied it by eating a particularly good meal, or by telling a particularly enjoyable story. But this is my preferred way of doing it."
"Well I'm not complaining."
"Of course you aren't. But since we're done, let's go back down the mountain. I'm rather tired."
"You're tired? This dance took two people."
Dawn could hear the rustling sound of the blanket being rolled up. She realized Kiawe was likely to come closer to their hiding place to pick up his shorts, and she motioned for Lillie to remain completely silent. The two of them stared at each other for a moment, waiting to see if they would be discovered.
"Oh, darn it," Olivia said. "I forgot my ride pager."
"I'll have Charizard pick us up," Kiawe said. "He can carry both of us back to ground level."
"Thank you," Olivia said. "I guess you're the responsible one in this relationship. Maybe I should buy you dinner."
"I wouldn't say no to that," Kiawe said.
It took several minutes for the two of them to get dressed and call a ride. Once they were gone, Dawn and Lillie climbed over the rocks they had hidden behind, not sure what to do with themselves.
"I can't believe we did that," Lillie said. "We just... spied on them. Like a pair of perverts."
"I can't believe they did that!" Dawn exclaimed. "I thought the trial site was sacred or something! You didn't even want to be here without permission. Can you imagine two people just coming up here to have sex?"
"I'm trying not to imagine it, Dawn! And I can't believe you watched them!"
"I was... only glancing, a little," Dawn insisted. "There was no way I could have ignored them completely."
"We shouldn't have done that," Lillie said. "They were... doing some kind of ritual, they said. Something important. Even though it looked like they were, um... y'know, doing it. They were doing it for the guardian deities."
"Yeah, that's what they said they were doing. You Alolans do weird stuff to appease your gods. I can tell you that nobody in Sinnoh has sex in the name of Giratina or whatever."
"You don't understand," Lillie pleaded. "We shouldn't have been here. We shouldn't have spied on them. The Tapu are going to be, um... upset. With *us."
"...huh," Dawn said, not sure what to make of that. "Are you saying something bad's going to happen to us?"
"I don't know!" Lillie said. "The guardian deities are... well, they're fickle."
"We probably shouldn't linger here, then."
"No, we should definitely leave. I'm sorry you didn't get to complete your trial. But we really need to go, right now."
"Tomorrow I'll see if Kiawe has a phone number I can call," Dawn said as she searched her bag for a ball with a flying pokemon. "Maybe I can make an appointment to do the trial. And next time, we're flying directly up here."
"THE RITUAL HAS BEEN COMPLETED."
"THERE WERE INTERLOPERS. THIS IS SACRILEGE."
"YES. THERE SHOULD BE PUNISHMENT."
"FOR ALL FOUR OF THEM?"
"NO. THE KAHUNA AND THE CAPTAIN COMMITTED NO FAULT. IT WAS THE TWO WHO DISTURBED THE RITUAL THAT SHOULD BE PUNISHED."
"ONE OF THEM IS AN OUTSIDER. NOT ONE OF OUR SUBJECTS."
"YES. THAT ONE RECEIVED OUR BLESSING IN THE PAST."
"THE LORD OF TIME HAS DECREED THAT THIS ONE IS TO BE LEFT ALONE, FOR A TIME."
"THEN THE OTHER MUST BEAR THE PUNISHMENT FOR BOTH OF THEM."
"YES. FOR THIS TRESSPASS, THAT ONE WILL FACE OUR RETRIBUTION."
"SMITING THE MORTAL IS NOT WARRANTED. THAT ONE FEELS REMORSE FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION."
"YES. THE MORTAL WILL NOT BE SLAIN. BUT IT WILL FACE RETRIBUTION NONTHELESS."