Sleeping on the couch wasn't as bad as Dawn had assumed. Lillie had suggested they go and ask the front desk for some extra blankets and a pillow, but Dawn elected to just unroll her sleeping bag onto the couch and use it like that. The combination was very squishy, but not in an uncomfortable way. Lillie briefly offered to trade and let Dawn have the bed in her place, but Dawn refused, since she'd already gotten set up.

Dawn slept through the night, but in the wee hours of the morning her slumber was disturbed by some kind of noise, like a person panting or grunting. It didn't quite wake her all the way up, and she managed to ignore it long enough to drift off to sleep again. An indeterminate amount of time later, she half-woke up again by the same odd noise. It was coming from Lillie's bed, and Dawn dismissed it as the girl just snoring or something. She was able to drift off to sleep again, but after a while the noise disturbed her again. By this time, an early ray of sunshine was slipping through the side of the curtains, reflecting off the white painted wall, and bouncing directly into Dawn's eyes. Between the sound and the light, she finally woke up all the way.

Her neck and shoulders were a little stiff – maybe the squishy combination of couch and sleeping bag wasn't such a great idea – but she otherwise felt well-rested and a little hungry. She was about to quietly ask Lillie if she was awake as well, but she stopped herself when she realized Lillie was behaving a little oddly. She saw that the girl had tangled herself up in the bedsheets and pulled them over her head, her body wrapped in fabric like a coocoon. And she was moving a little, with a sort of rhythmic motion like she was humping something.

It wasn't clear whether Lillie was awake or not, so Dawn chose to ignore her. She reached for the little table where she'd set her pokétch, and pulled up the app to check the weather. The forecast showed sunny skies, with a 0% chance of precipitation and ridiculously high humidity – so pretty much the same as it always seemed to be in Alola. Out of idle curiosity, she checked the rest of the week to see if anything was expected to change, but she was interrupted when a muffled gasp came from Lillie's bed. She looked over in time to see the girl roll over and throw the sheets off from atop her head, the sudden jerky motions indicating the type of panic from waking up suddenly.

"No-!" Lillie gasped, sitting up a little, her eyes not really looking at anything. She was breathing heavily, and Dawn wasn't sure if she was actually awake or just having some kind of nightmare. After several moments of neither of them moving, Dawn chose to break the silence.

"Are you all right?" Dawn asked.

Lillie looked at Dawn. Then she looked down at the sheets, which were still twisted around most of her body. Then she blushed and rolled over, turning away from Dawn.

"It didn't work," Lillie said plainly.

"What didn't work?"

"Your plan," Lillie said. "Having sex, it... it didn't do anything. And I just..."

"You looked like you were having a nightmare," Dawn continued.

"No, not really a nightmare," Lillie said. "I was dreaming about, um..."

"Wait, what do you mean it didn't work?" Dawn asked. "Do you still have...?"

"Yes, it's still there!" Lillie said, sounding incredibly uncomfortable. "And it just, um... oh god, it just... did its thing. You know? That's what woke me up."

"Were you having a wet dream?" Dawn said a little incredulously. "You don't have to give me the details, I know that's pretty personal."

"I guess you could say that," Lillie confessed. "Oh god, this is so embarrassing. I made a mess all over the sheets. It's like I'm some toddler who wet the bed..."

Dawn tried to sound reassuring as she chuckled a little. "It happens. It's perfectly natural. You're not a toddler. You're a victim of a magical curse. You're not used to having that thing."

"How am I going to explain this to the cleaning people?"

"Lillie, I'm sure people make gross messes in the beds all the time. It's a hotel. That's why they have laundry service."

"Ew," Lillie said. "I don't want to think about what other people might have done in these sheets before I was here."

"Nevermind before we were here," Dawn said. "You and me probably left a stain from last night, too."

"Stop it," Lillie pleaded. "Please just... stop talking. And don't look at me. I'm going to get out of bed and take a shower..."

Dawn politely averted her eyes as Lillie slid free from the sheets to go to the bathroom and clean herself up. Dawn chanced a brief look to confirm that Lillie was indeed still cursed, and she saw that the girl's unwanted manhood was sticking out proudly, like it hadn't just splurted all over the bedsheets. Dawn looked away before Lillie could catch her spying, and they both said nothing until Lillie had shut the bathroom door and started the hot water.

"I guess we'll have to ask Olivia about this," Dawn mused to herself.


The woman from the jewelry shop had told them that they could find Olivia near the lighthouse at sunrise. As Lillie and Dawn approached the tall building, Dawn cursed herself for not setting an alarm to wake them up earlier. It was well past "sunrise" by now, and she just hoped that the window to meet Olivia wasn't as precise as the shopkeeper had implied.

As they climbed up the little hill that the lighthouse sat upon, they could hear the sounds of a pokémon battle ahead of them. As they crested the hill, they saw two trainers and their pokémon squaring off, with Olivia standing to the side as a sort of referee. One trainer was dressed like a fisherman and was shouting commands at a Finneon, which seemed to have its opponent on the ropes. The other trainer was dressed in the khaki shorts and T-shirt of a stereotypical hiker, and his Rockruff fainted from a hard-hitting water attack only moments after Dawn first spotted the two of them.

"Freddie wins," Olivia said plainly as the Rockrull returned to its poké ball. The hiker slumped a little, accepting his loss.

"All right," the hiker said. "He can keep the bottle caps. I still think they're rightfully mine, but I'm not one to question the Kahuna."

"They were mine to begin with," the fisherman said. "It's not like you needed them anyway."

"Enough arguing," Olivia insisted. "You came to me to settle your dispute. I told you to settle it with a battle. And now it is settled. End of discussion. If I catch the two of you bickering over this again, it'll be my pokémon that you'll have to battle. And you won't like it when you lose."

"Yes, Kauna," the fisherman said. Then he looked over to the other trainer, who gave the woman a respectful nod.

"Now, if that's all," Olivia said, "please go back to fishing or whatever it is that you do around here. I've had to listen to too many arguments today as it is."

As the two trainers turned to leave, Dawn and Lillie closed the distance to Olivia, hoping that the Kahuna wasn't about to leave as well.

"Hello!" Dawn said. "I mean, um, Alola! I hope we're not too late. We're here to meet with the Kahuna."

"You are late," Olivia said matter-of-factly, and for a moment it looked like she was going to scold Dawn for her tardiness. But then she recognized Lillie behind her, and smiled warmly.

"H-hello, Olivia," Lillie said shyly. Dawn wasn't sure what sort of relationship the two of them had – Lillie had only mentioned that she'd met Olivia once before. But the woman stepped closer to Lillie, like she was going to give her a big hug, which was probably a good sign.

"Lillie!" Olivia said as the girl shifted a little uncomfortably beside Dawn. "It's been so long! Come and give me a hug."

"Sorry, um, I have a cold," Lillie lied, clearly not wanting to be touched. "I don't want to give it to you."

"Oh dear! Well, I hope you feel better. Who's your friend?"

"I'm Dawn," Dawn said. "I'm on the island challenge, but that's not why we're here this morning. We need to tell you about something unusual that's happened, and we hoped that you as the Kahuna would be able to give us some guidance."

"Is this about your mother?" Olivia asked, looking concerned. "I heard she was back at the Aether Foundation..."

"No," Lillie said, "Mother is fine. She's, um, not running things anymore, but she is still working with the foundation. She's doing much better than... before."

"Then what's this about?" Olivia asked.

Lillie looked at Dawn with a pleading look, clearly at a loss for how to start the explanation.

"Can we talk about this somewhere more private?" Dawn asked. "It's a little embarrassing. I told you it was unusual."

"Unusual, huh?" Olivia said. "Let's go into the lighthouse. I just hope you're not involved with interdimensional beasts again, Lillie."

As Olivia led them over to the lighthouse door, Dawn raised an eyebrow at Lillie.

"Interdimensional beasts?" Dawn asked. "Again?"

"You don't want to know," Lillie sighed.

The interior of the lighthouse was fairly barren, with a spiral staircase going around the walls of the building as it wound its way up to the top. There was nothing else on the ground floor save for some old crates shoved into the corner. Dawn swore she could hear the echo of the three of them breathing, and she felt an instinct to almost whisper inside the old building.

Olivia shut the door behind them and turned to the two girls. "All right, what's happened?" she asked. "Is someone in trouble?"

"No," Lillie said, "but I don't, um... know where to start."

Dawn realized they hadn't agreed upon how much they were going to tell Olivia. Would they confess to spying on her and Kiawe? Or would they just leave out the details of what they had been doing the day before Lillie woke up with a penis? She decided that she would just start with the most important detail.

"Lillie woke up with a penis," Dawn blurted out.

"Oh my gosh, Dawn-!" Lillie whined. Olivia stared at both of them inscrutably.

"I'm sorry," Dawn insisted, "there was no other way to bring it up except to just say it. I know it sounds a little crazy, but Lillie has to have been cursed or something. If you don't believe me we can show it to you. We were hoping you might know what we can do to get rid of it."

Olivia stared at the two of them analytically for a long moment, her lips pressed tightly into something that wasn't quite a frown. She seemed amused by all this, but she was clearly more skeptical than anything.

"This is ridiculous," Olivia finally said. "And even if it's true – I don't know what you expect me to be able to do about it."

"It is true!" Dawn insisted. "I don't know why we would lie about this. And like I said, if you want us to prove it to you, Lillie is prepared to show it to you."

"Nnnnooo?" Lillie pleaded. She clearly didn't want to start taking her clothes off in front of the woman.

"If that's what it takes to prove to you that this isn't some weird joke," Dawn said, "then we'll do it. I don't care if Lillie goes into a coma from embarrassment. I'll pull her skirt down myself, if I have to."

"Dawn, no!" cried Lillie.

"All right, stop it," Olivia said. "I'm not going to make you show me your privates. I'll take what you're telling me at face value. If this turns out to be some strange joke, I'll be very upset with you."

"You'd have every right to be," Dawn said. "Thank you for believing us."

"So what else happened?" Olivia continued.

"What... else?" Dawn asked, losing a bit of her confidence. "What else do you want to know?"

"Surely there's more to this story," Olivia said. "Because I don't know how to turn a penis back into a vagina all by myself. Perhaps if you can tell me more, I can think of some other way to help you."

"There... is more, I guess," Dawn admitted. "This isn't the first time this has happened. I can't prove it, but while I've been in Alola, I've seen two other times where a girl has woken up with a penis."

"Anything else?" Olivia asked, prompting Dawn to continue.

"Both times," Dawn said, "the girl changed back after, well, having sex with someone."

"Oh my," Olivia said. "I've never heard of an Alolan suddenly waking up with a different set of genitals. But there are stories of the guardian deities handing down quests which could only be completed with a partner, so to speak."

"So I've been cursed," Lillie said. "I already knew that much..."

"Forgive me for prying into your personal life, Lillie. But it sounds like Dawn already knew about a way to break the curse. I'm assuming that you came to me because you already tried breaking the curse that way."

"She had sex," Dawn said, deciding not to go into too much detail. Lillie blushed deeply anyway.

"This is incredibly strange," Olivia said. "If it was anyone but Lillie involved in this, I'd just assume this was a prank and start looking around for the hidden camera. But I know Lillie is too pure and spineless to make up a story like this."

"Thank... you?" Lillie said.

"I don't know why the Tapu chose to do this to you," Olivia said. "But they are the only force in the world that I know of that could have done this to you."

"You're sure it had to be them?" Dawn asked. "I have a hard time imagining Lillie doing something that offends the gods."

"Unless you've been subjected to some truly bizarre medical experiments and not known about them," Olivia said. "I supposed I wouldn't put it past the Aether Foundation to try something like this. But I doubt they'd do it to an unsuspecting victim, much less the former president's daughter."

"It wasn't them," Lillie said. "They've been, um, running under a much stricter code of ethics since my mother, um... had her episode."

"Then it is the work of the Tapu." Olivia said. "You could call it a blessing, or a curse. The ancient Alolans used the same word for both."

"This makes sense to me," Dawn said. "But Lillie has been with me for a while, and she hasn't done anything that I haven't also done. So why would they just curse her and not me?"

"The Tapu are fickle," Olivia said plainly. "I don't know why they would choose to ignore you."

"And what about the other two girls?" Dawn continued. "I don't think they did anything to offend the Tapu."

"You aren't telling me something," Olivia said. "Has Lillie done something that might have upset the Tapu?"

Dawn considered telling the whole truth, but she decided to share a little more detail first, hoping Olivia would be satisfied with the explanation. She wasn't ready to admit to her voyeurism just yet, especially not when they were in the middle of asking the person she had spied on for help.

"The first girl was me," Dawn said. "I woke up with a penis out of nowhere. I had only been on Akala Island for a couple of days, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't have done anything to offend the guardian deities in that time."

"Oh my," Olivia said. "Who was the second person?"

"Mallow," Dawn continued. "So if this is caused by people making the Tapu mad, I'd like to know how a trial captain could have screwed up in the same way that I did. I'm just some tourist."

"I don't have an answer," Olivia admitted. "I can only guess at the Tapu's motivation. You and Mallow must have been subjected to divine intervention. The gods intervened in the world for some unknown purpose, and once that purpose was fulfilled, they changed you back."

"But what about Lillie?" Dawn asked.

"I see two possibilities," Olivia said. "Either she has done something to offend the Tapu, and she'll have to make amends to appease them. Or she is also part of some divine plan, and they'll change her back once that plan is complete."

"But how do I change back?" Lillie pleaded. "I just want this thing gone, it's so gross..."

"The answer is simple," Olivia said. "You should ask the Tapu directly. They may be fickle, but they're not inclined to just ignore us when we pray to them. If you ask them what they want from you, I'm sure they'll explain."

"All right!" Dawn said. "I can't believe it's so simple. But how do we ask the Tapu? Does Lillie have to get down on her knees and pray or something?"

"You could try that," Olivia said with a little chuckle. "But if you really want to get their attention, you should go to the Ruins of Life and do it there."

"And they'll tell me how to change back?" Lillie asked.

"I don't know for sure," Olivia said. "I've never heard of this blessing before. But if the Tapu want something from you, they're going to let you know, one way or another. They may have already tried to tell you, but you might not have picked up on it yet."

"What do you mean?" Dawn said.

"The Tapu often communicate through dreams," Olivia explained. "They might be trying to tell you what you need to do. But you can never be sure if you've had a regular dream, or a vision from the Tapu."

"Oh dear," Lillie said, her eyes going a little wide. "This morning, I was... dreaming about, doing something kind of, um..."

"I don't need to know the details," Olivia said, cutting her off. "But it's possible that the Tapu are telling you what to do. You should consider acting on what happened in your dreams, unless it was something impossible or harmful."

"Uh, Lillie..." Dawn said, "It's none of my business, but this morning, when you woke up, weren't you dreaming about...?"

"Olivia doesn't need to know the details!" Lillie said very quickly, blushing even deeper than she had before. "And I'm sure it was just a regular dream. The Tapu wouldn't have asked me to do something like that. We should just go to the ruins of life and find out what to do to break this curse."

"Where are these ruins, by the way?" Dawn asked. "The name rings a bell, but I don't remember it being on the map."

"You said you were on the Island Challenge, yes?" Olivia asked. "It's not part of the challenge, and there's not much for tourists to see, so I doubt anyone would have told you to go there. But they're not far from Konikoni City."

"Oh, that's wonderful!" Dawn said. "And, um, speaking of the Island Challenge... I already defeated the three trial captains on Akala Island. So when we get back from the ruins, I'd like to battle you."

"How kind of you to take care of Lillie first," Olivia said, "Instead of just focusing on the challenge. I like you, Dawn."

"Thank you, ma'am," Dawn said. "Or, um. Kahuna. I'm not sure which to use."

"Just call me Olivia," she said with a laugh. "If you two would like, I can show you how to get to the ruins. But be aware, there's a major obstacle once you get inside."

"Uh oh," Lillie said.

"There are a set of enormous stone blocks that will have to be moved," Olivia said with a solemn look. "You'll need a pokémon on your ride pager that can-"

"I've already got a pokémon that knows Strength," Dawn said, cutting her off. "But thank you for the heads-up."

"Strength?" Olivia asked. "The pokémon move?"

"Yep," Dawn said. "It works great for moving blocks. I've done those kinds of puzzles before."

For a moment, the two Alolans just stared at her.

"What?" Dawn said. "You guys did not invent block puzzles. I don't mean to disrespect your sacred ruins or anything, but giant stone blocks are nothing special."


Olivia was able to give them directions to the ruins. It looked like getting there and back to the city could all be done in about a day of travel, so Dawn suggested they keep their hotel room for at least another night, fearing that if they checked out they would come back to find the place all booked up. Then Lillie and Dawn packed their things and hit the road.

Getting to the Ruins of Life meant passing near the graveyard at Memorial Hill. Lillie explained to Dawn that the hill was a burial site for the old, mighty families of Alola, who wanted to be laid to rest close to the guardian deity of the island. Apparently she'd heard this from one of the other trial captains that she'd met before. Lillie was a little nervous to go through the old burial site, not wanting to be perturbed by ghost-type pokémon. Dawn humored her, and the two of them gave the area a wide berth as they made their way to the outskirts of Akala.

They ended up going along the very edge of the island, where a steep cliff fell a little ways down to the sea. But they were able to follow a long, grassy path that eventually led them through some low, rocky hills that would have been impossible to climb over. Olivia's directions told them to just keep following the path, and since it was the only way they could go at this point, they figured it would lead them to the Ruins of Life eventually.

After trekking for a while, they could see a vertical rocky wall rising ahead of them, and they came to a stop when they found the path flanked by a pair of stone pillars carved in the shape of some vague, hideous monster. It was the sort of decoration that usually meant "KEEP OUT," but back against the cliff wall they could see an arched opening with pink markings painted around its edges. A triangle embossed into the top of the arch seemed to be pointing into the cave, and the dark hole was strangely inviting. Dawn stared at the cave opening for a moment, listening to the ambient sounds of nature around them.

"I get it," Dawn said after a while.

"What do you get?" Lillie asked.

"They're the ruins of life," Dawn said, "so of course they look like... this."

"I'm confused," Lillie admitted.

"Look at the opening," Dawn said, pointing to the arched hole in the wall. "It's supposed to be a big, abstract vagina."

"What? No it isn't!"

"Look at it!" Dawn insisted. "The doorway has those support beams around the edges, kind of sticking out and a little prominent, and painted pink? They're, y'know... lips."

"I don't see it," Lillie said.

"And there's the triangle," Dawn said, "with the pointed part facing downward. Classic symbol for a womb. And it's put right where the clitoris would be. The anatomy is a little confused and abstract, but it's there."

"I think you're overthinking this," Lillie said. "Where are you getting this from, anyway?"

"I knew someone who was into archeology," Dawn said. "She could probably take one look at this and tell us in an instant what every part of it meant."

"Well I still don't see, um, any girl-parts here."

"Let's just go inside," Dawn said with a sigh.

The arched opening lead into a straight hallway with a paved floor and the walls made of neatly carved stone. It opened up into a huge, rectangular room with a high ceiling and a decorative pink stripe painted high up along the wall. A long stone walkway was obstructed by an enormous set of neatly carved stone cubes. The blocks were too tall to climb over and completely obstructed their path forward, unless the blocks could be moved somehow.

"Are you sure your pokémon can push those around?" Lillie asked, seeming worried.

"Lillie, I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm an expert at block puzzles."

Dawn's pokémon rearranged the obstructions to make a path for them, and she was a little disappointed at how straightforward the apparent puzzle was. The old block puzzles she'd dealt with in Sinnoh had been much more elaborate. Perhaps the old Hisuian civilization who'd left them behind had more time on their hands to design their puzzles. Or maybe the Tapu's ruins weren't actually trying to keep out intruders.

With the blocks out of the way, Lillie and Dawn were able to cross the stone walkway and enter another tunnel that led deeper into the interior. Further inside, the tunnel opened up into another naturally formed cave with its ceiling reinforced by wooden beams. An elaborate raised platform stood at the back of the chamber, made of wood and stone, with wooden stairs on either side leading up to the top. Four small stone pillars stood in the middle of the raised platform, each holding a lantern with a lit flame. Behind them an array of large painted leaves were splayed out like a bird's fanned tail feathers. Flowering plants lined the edges of the room, looking vibrant and lively in defiance of the lack of natural sunlight.

"This is a little intimidating," Lillie noted. "I don't know if we're really supposed to be here..."

"But we have the Kahuna's blessing, don't we?" Dawn said. "She wouldn't have told us to come here if it wasn't allowed."

"Still... we should be respectful," Lillie said, slowly taking a few steps into the room. Dawn followed, taking a look around the dimly lit ceiling and the dark edges of the chamber. She could imagine all sorts of creepy crawlies lurking in the shadows here, but it was so quiet that she expected she'd be able to hear even the smallest Weedle.

"Do we... go up to the altar?" Dawn asked. She nodded towards the stairs that lead up to the raised platform, and Lillie went up one set with Dawn right behind her.

When they got to the top, Lillie stepped into the middle of the space, and Dawn paused for a moment to examine the four stone posts and the flames that flickered within them. For the fires to be burning, there must have been someone who came there regularly to maintain the lanterns. But as she was considering how that could work, Lillie's quiet voice pulled her from her curious thoughts.

"Guardian Deities of Alola," Lillie began, her tone reverent. "This is Lillie. I know I've been away from Alola for a while. I didn't really spend a lot of time on the islands back when I was living here, since I grew up on Aether Paradise. But Alola is still my home, and that makes you my guardians."

The flame in one lantern flickered momentarily, and Dawn wasn't sure if she had just imagined it. The air was so still, there wasn't anything that could have disturbed the fire.

"The other day," Lillie continued, "I woke up, um... like this. Olivia said it must have been your doing, and that I might have done something to offend you. I'm sure you know that we, um, were there when Olivia and Kiawe were... performing that ritual. Is that why this happened to me?"

Lillie paused for a moment, as if waiting for an answer. Dawn didn't want to interrupt the girl while she was praying, but she wasn't sure how long she should wait.

"What should I do to change back?" Lillie pleaded. "Please, you... you have to tell me what to do!"

The flame that had flickered suddenly went out completely, with the faintest pop and a tiny puff of smoke. Lillie ignored it, waiting for some kind of answer, and an uneasy feeling began to creep through Dawn.

"Maybe we should have brought Olivia with us," Dawn said into the uncomfortable silence. "Have her ask them on your behalf."

"Please, Tapu!" Lillie insisted, ignoring Dawn. "Answer me!"

All of a sudden a gust of air blew in from the tunnel entrance, like a windstorm had appeared out of nowhere. The air inside the chamber swirled violently, stirred up in no specific direction, and for a moment Dawn was worried the violent airflow might blow both of them right off the top of the altar. She considered grabbing onto the stone pillar with the lantern to steady herself, but as she reached for it, she saw that the flames in the other three lanterns were still lit, and, curiously, they didn't seem to be affected at all by the wind at all. Something unnatural was going on.

As the wind howled, Lillie looked around wide-eyed and terrified, and just as Dawn was considering grabbing the girl and making a break from it, a booming voice cut through the wind and drowned out any other sound.

YOU COME TO US BEGGING AND WIMPERING LIKE A PUP.

The voice echoed through the chamber with no clear origin, making both girls flinch. Before they could react any further, the voice continued.

YOU TELL US YOU DO NOT KNOW. YOU PLAY IGNORANT, OUT OF SHAME. YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU MUST TO DO TO MAKE AMMENDS.

"I... I don't!" Lillie pleaded, her voice sounding miniscule and weak in the howling wind. Then the voice boomed at her again.

DO NOT LIE TO US. WE SEE INTO YOUR MIND AND YOUR SOUL. WE KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AND WHAT YOU FEEL. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN ALL THE INSTRUCTION THAT YOU NEED. YOU HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO PUT TOGETHER THE PIECES AND TAKE ACTION.

"She doesn't know what you want!" Dawn cried, trying to stand up for the girl. But her voice was practically lost in the maelstrom.

YOU.

Though it came from no single direction, Dawn could feel that the voice had turned to address her now.

YOU HAVE COMITTED THE SAME SIN AS THIS ONE. IT IS ONLY THE PROTECTION OF YOUR LORD OF TIME THAT STAYED OUR HAND FROM JUDGING YOU AS WELL.

"Lord of time?" Dawn asked. "You mean Dialga? What's he got to do with this?"

YOU ALREADY ONCE RECEIVED OUR BLESSING. WE STOLE YOUR SEED TO USE FOR OUR PURPOSES. THIS OFFENDED THE LORD OF TIME, AND WE WERE COMMANDED NOT TO MEDDLE FURTHER WITH YOU. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS DIVINE MANDATE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SPARED OUR WRATH.

"Stole my seed?!" Dawn cried. "First of all, to quote Lillie; Ew!"

Lillie cringed a little.

"Second, are you talking about when I had sex with Lana? Was that something you... wanted me to do? Why would you care about that?!"

WE DO NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN OURSELVES.

"That's a lousy answer!" Dawn yelled defiantly. "That's just what someone says when they don't have an explanation!"

"Dawn!" Lillie cried. "Don't argue with the Tapu! What are you doing?!"

BE SILENT.

The voice seemed to address Lillie again.

YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO MAKE DEMANDS OF ANYONE OR ANYTHING. WE APPRECIATE THAT THIS SINNOHAN HAS SPIRIT, EVEN THOUGH IT LACKS RESPECT.

"...thank you?" Dawn said. Then the voice seemed to regard her again.

SINNOHAN OR NOT, DIVINE MANDATE OR NOT, YOU ARE WITHIN THE HEART OF OUR DOMAIN. IT IS WITHIN OUR RIGHTS TO BLESS OR ADMONISH ANY MORTAL WHO COMES HERE, HOWEVER WE SEE FIT. DO NOT EXPECT THE LORD OF TIME TO PROTECT YOU HERE. IF YOU CONTINUE TO SPEAK DISRESPECTFULLY, YOU WILL BE UNMADE.

Dawn considered arguing back, but something about the vagueness of the word "unmade" gave her pause, and she decided not to try and call the deity's bluff. Then it seemed to address Lillie again.

YOU HAVE COME HERE SEEKING GUIDANCE. YOU HAVE ASKED WHAT YOU MUST DO TO MAKE AMMENDS. WE HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU, IN YOUR DREAMS.

"You mean last night?" Lillie balked. "I'm not... doing that!"

THEN YOU WILL LIVE WITH OUR GIFT FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS.

"What did you tell her to do?" Dawn asked. "Was it something sexual? That seems to be what you've been doing lately!"

"Last night I, um... oh god, Dawn... in my dream I was having sex... with my brother!"

"That's disgusting!"

WE HAVE SET THIS TASK UPON THIS ONE AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PLEASANT.

"This is rape," Dawn yelled to the gods with all the contempt and defiance as she could muster. "You call yourselves guardian deities? This is the most awful punishment I've ever heard of! If a person did this to another human, they'd lock them up and throw away the key! Not even Team Rocket stoops this low! What is wrong with you?!"

"Dawn," Lillie whined, "You're going to make them mad..."

"I don't care, I'm mad too!" Dawn yelled, utterly livid. "Why are you dragging her brother into this? Has he done something to offend you, too? Or do the guardian deities just have a thing for... for... gay incest?!"

YOUR TONE OFFENDS US, HUMAN. WE HAVE MADE OUR DECISION AND LEVIED PUNISHMENT AS WE SEE FIT.

"Be reasonable!" Dawn pleaded. "Her brother has nothing to do with this!"

REMEMBER, HUMAN. THE PUNISHMENT THE GIRL BEARS IS FOR BOTH OF YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS. DO NOT EXPECT US TO BE MERCIFUL IN OUR DECISION.

"Let's make a bargain," Dawn said. "You said you couldn't punish me because Dialga is... protecting me or something. But you can do whatever you want to me while I'm in here, apparently. So give me my fair share of the punishment and be a little more lenient with Lillie instead!"

"W...wait, Dawn!" Lillie cried. "You don't know what they might do to you!"

BE SILENT, YOU COWARDLY CHILD. THE SINNOHAN MAKES A SELFLESS OFFER ON YOUR BEHALF. WE CAN RESPECT THIS.

"It was mostly my fault anyway," Dawn said, trying to sound confident. "I was the one who led us up the mountain, and I was the only one who was really spying on Olivia and Kiawe. Lillie was trying as best she could to space out and not really be there. I'm the one you should be punishing."

And I don't have a brother you can order me to have sex with, Dawn thought to herself. She was a little worried that the Tapu might come up with some other strange punishment for her, but she was willing to accept almost anything to spare Lillie the prospect of trying to convince her brother to do something sexual with her.

For an uncomfortably long time, the wind in the chamber howled and no words came from the disembodied voice. Dawn stared up confidently at the ceiling, not sure how else to address the one she was speaking to. Lillie just watched her with disbelief, as the silent deities seemed to be deciding their fate. Finally they spoke to Dawn again.

YOU HAVE COURAGE. AND YOUR OFFER AMUSES US. WE SHALL STAY OUR JUDGMENT UPON OUR SUBJECT, ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU SUBMIT TO US ON HER BEHALF.

"Sounds fair," Dawn said defiantly. "Just tell me what you want me to do."

The wind kicked up debris and stripped leaves off of the brush lining the edges of the chamber, swirling around into an opaque vortex in front of Dawn. The other four lanterns flickered on their posts, and then each flame went out with a silent puff of smoke. Within the vortex, Dawn could see four humanoid figures coalesce out of nothingness, and then finally the wind died away, leaving the chamber still once again.

Olivia now stood in front of Dawn, alongside Kiawe, Mallow, and Lana. All four of them were completely naked as they eyed Dawn with a slightly predatory look. Most alarmingly, each of them was endowed with an erect cock.

"O...Olivia?" Lillie said with disbelief, taking an uncomfortable step away from the four newcomers.

"I don't think that's really them," Dawn said. Apart from three of them having the wrong genitals, the imposters seemed somehow alien to her, their posture slightly uncanny, the definition on their muscles and joins just a little too real. It was like looking at four hyper-detailed statues, made by someone who wanted to add just a touch of their own flair to the work.

"Remove your clothes," Olivia said, giving Dawn a curt nod.

"Definitely not them," Dawn remarked. "Four guardian deities for four islands, and now four people in the ruins with us. Are you the Tapu?"

"Remove your clothes," Olivia repeated. "Or they will be removed from you."

"Don't hurt her!" Lillie said, interposing herself between Dawn and the four imposters. Olivia regarded Lillie with a cold stare, but the other three seemed to express a bit of amusement.

"So you have a little courage after all," Mallow said. If anything she seemed pleased to see Lillie trying to stand up for Dawn.

"Your friend assumed responsibility for both of your transgressions," Lana said.

"You no longer have a say in this matter," Kiawe said. "Now stand aside."

"I'm not going to let you hurt her!" Lillie insisted. "You'll have to get through me!"

"You think so little of your gods," Olivia said with a frown. "It is not in our nature to harm the living. To senselessly maim an innocent human is anathema to us. The Sinnohan will not be damaged."

"Lillie, it's fine," Dawn said, hoping Lillie would stand aside. "You guys want to fuck, right? Isn't that what this keeps coming back to? Because I'll do it, if it means you'll change Lillie back to the way she's supposed to be."

A part of her wanted to call out the imposters for their hypocrisy. Even though they claimed not to want to hurt people, she had seen them handing out curses like they were candy. Clearly the guardian deities had a strange sense of morality and a high opinion of themselves, but now seemed like a bad time to argue with them about that. After all, they had threatened to "unmake" her just a moment ago.

Before Lillie could argue further, Dawn began to take off her clothes, starting by kicking off her boots. It seemed disrespectful to leave them lying on the altar, but since they'd been standing on it up to this point, she couldn't think of a better place to put them. Seeing that Dawn was cooperating, Olivia stepped past Lillie and stood proudly in front of Dawn, naked and shameless, waiting for Dawn to finish taking her clothes off.

"I... should leave," Lillie said, looking back and forth nervously between Dawn and Olivia.

"You should observe," Lana said. "Your friend is doing this on your behalf."

Lillie stepped to the side, too scared to argue, not sure if she should be watching Dawn or the four imposters. As Dawn pulled her top up over her head, she saw the three false trial captains looking her up and down with an approving reaction. She felt uncomfortably like a piece of meat being eyed at the supermarket.

"The hat stays on," Dawn said stubbornly, as she began to shimmy out of her skirt. Olivia frowned a bit, but before she could object, both Lana and Mallow nodded in assent. As Dawn removed the rest of her clothes, Lillie turned away from her, the girl's face bright red. It occurred to Dawn that, despite the two of them having had sex before, she hadn't actually had the chance to see Dawn naked before. The imposter Lana had told the girl to watch, but they didn't seem keen to actually force her to do so.

"On your knees," Olivia said, her erect member pointing at Dawn's naked body aggressively. As Dawn complied, Mallow and Kiawe stepped past Olivia, moving to stand behind Dawn.

"Wait, there's too many of you," Dawn said, as she gently lowered herself to her knees. The floor of the altar was hard, but it felt surprisingly warm on her bare skin.

"You have two holes," Olivia said, nodding to Mallow and Kiawe. "Present them."

Dawn could feel the imposing presence of the two imposters standing behind her, even though she couldn't see them. Her heart thudded in her chest and the last thing she wanted to do was present her ass and pussy to both of them at once.

"Can't you... take turns?" Dawn suggested. "There's four of you and one of me."

"You have two holes," Olivia repeated.

"Three," Dawn said before she could stop herself. "But still, there's four of you. Someone's sitting out."

"I like the way this one thinks," Lana remarked. The two imposters behind her said nothing.

"On your hands and knees," Olivia said. Dawn had the sense that she was getting tired of asking.

"All right," Dawn said, "Just... be gentle, please. I'm just a girl, not a god or whatever. You said you didn't like to senselessly harm people..."

She got onto her hands and knees, presenting her hindquarters to the two imposters behind her. She closed her eyes, hanging her head a little, bracing herself for what they might do to her. Then she felt a pair of strong hands grabbing her hips, and the warm prodding sensation of someone's dick pressing up against her asshole.

Of course they're starting there, Dawn thought to herself. She cracked her eyes open, looking down and behind herself just in time to see Kiawe push his hips into her, causing his cock to sink more than an inch into her ass. She was immediately met with a stinging sensation and let out an involuntary little yelp.

"Lube-!" Dawn cried as her ass tensed up involuntarily. "You're deities, aren't you? Conjure up some lube! Please! You're going to tear my ass apart if you don't!"

Kiawe ignored her, gripping her hips a little tighter before pulling her further onto his dick. Dawn's ass was on fire, the thick intruder probing deep into her hole with no regard for her.

"Ouch!" Dawn cried. "Ow, ow! Slow down!"

"You're hurting her!" Lillie yelled, pointing out the obvious.

Dawn tried to squirm free, and her hips slipped free from Kiawe's tight grip, his intruding cock sliding out. Once he was free, the stinging in her ass began to fade.

"Haven't you ever done it in the butt before?" Dawn whined, her ass sore. "I thought you guys were gods. Or did you learn this from watching human porn?"

"I thought you were tougher than this," Kiawe said, judgmentally.

"Well I'm sorry if I get a little sassy when being buttfucked," Dawn retorted.

From behind herself, Dawn heard a squelching sound, like a condiment being squeezed from a bottle. She looked behind to see the imposter Kiawe holding an inexplicable bottle of some clear liquid, and she watched as he coated his length with it. Dawn didn't question where it had come from, chalking it up to some minor divine intervention.

"Thank you," Dawn said. And as Kiawe grabbed her hips again and lined himself up to sodomize her further, she realized that in the momentary break, the pain in her hole had quickly faded to nothing.

"Within the Ruins of Life," Olivia said, as if she was reading Dawn's mind, "no injury can persist, and no physical discomfort lingers."

It occurred to Dawn that she had been kneeling on bare stone for a while now, and her knees should have been rather sore. But somehow, they felt just fine.

"Woah, cool..." Dawn mused. But then her thoughts were interrupted as Kiawe forcefully sank several inches into her ass, the lube allowing him to probe deeper than he'd reached before. Dawn gasped in surprise and discomfort, but this time it barely hurt.

"Are you okay, Dawn...?" Lillie asked.

"I'm fine," Dawn said as Kiawe pulled back a little, then shoved himself further in, causing Dawn to gasp. "No need to- nngha! Worry...!"

With several gentle thrusts, Kiawe worked himself deeper into Dawn's ass, the man's lubricated cock probing deeper than either of Dawn's previous partners had been able to reach. His slippery cock did all the work of lubricating her insides, and Dawn tried to relax, her tight hole involuntarily gripping the intruder far tighter than she would have liked. There was another squelching sound as he applied more lube to the outer edges of her hole, with some of it leaking down to her crotch.

With increasingly deep thrusts that left Dawn nervous and breathless, Kiawe finally bottomed out, the entirety of his cock speared into Dawn's back door, spreading her open far wider than she thought she could have handled. He continued to thrust his hips a little, working her open and loosening her further, and Dawn realized that the sensation of being probed so deeply had left her pussy rather starved for attention.

Then with a sticky squelching sound, Kiawe slid himself out of Dawn, leaving the girl feeling empty and violated. He let go of her hips and sat down on the floor behind her, his lubricated cock sticking upward and twitching. He seemed to be waiting for Dawn to do something.

"Sit down," Olivia commanded. Kiawe extended his legs as she said this, as if he was inviting her to ride him.

"Oh... him?" Dawn asked. But then Mallow grabbed her hips, pulling her backward and downward, steering her into position to line his cock up with her asshole again. Dawn lowered herself gently, her stretched hole accepting the intruder's length in its entirety once more. This time it actually felt rather satisfying, almost pleasurable.

Mallow stepped in front of her now, standing over Kiawe's legs with her gaze aimed at Dawn's crotch. Kiawe grabbed just above her waist, pulling her back, and she involuntarily extended her own legs to try and maintain balance. But then Mallow climbed on top of her in a crude imitation of missionary position, her own cock trying to find Dawn's pussy.

"Wait a second!" Dawn gasped. "You can't do both at once, you're going to tear something...!"

"You will not be harmed," Kiawe insisted. He held Dawn's waist steady, his rock-hard member still impaled in her ass, completely preventing Dawn from moving her pelvis. Mallow found Dawn's slit and pressed herself inside, the second cock probing a few inches into her. Dawn held her breath for a moment, afraid that it would hurt, but as Mallow penetrated deeper into her, there was no pain at all.

"Oh my gods..." Lillie mumbled. Dawn couldn't even see her now, her view blocked by Mallow. "I don't know that was, um... even possible, in real life..."

Seeming a little eager, Mallow started thrusting, her hips slapping into Dawn, her wet and desperate cunt accepting the second intruder without hesitation. Kiawe just held her steady, the motion from Dawn's pelvis grinding his dick into her ass. All Dawn could do was gasp in disbelief.

"H...holy shit!" Dawn cried. She could hear a little noise coming from Lillie, somewhere between a whine and a gasp. She could hardly imagine what was going through the other girl's head at this point.

Suddenly Kiawe thrust his hips upward, and the combined attack from the two cocks mashed into some part of Dawn that sent a shockwave of pleasure surging through her. She cried out in a half-scream and some distant part of her mind acknowledged that Lillie would probably be worried they were hurting her. But pain was the furthest thing from her mind at this point as her body began to tremble with pleasure, both her holes stuffed full and submitting to the imposters' will.

Mallow humped her fast while Kiawe contributed a slow, gentle fuck from underneath. Olivia just watched for several minutes, as Dawn grunted and moaned with pleasure as her two holes were abused. After a while Mallow slowed down a little, and Olivia stepped to the side of the trio.

"Open your mouth," Olivia said.

Dawn complied, not sure what else she could say in this state. Olivia stepped over her, straddling her now, and gently grabbed her head with both hands. She moved her hips forward, aiming her cock at Dawn's mouth.

From the corner of her eye, Dawn could see Lana approaching the four of them, but before she could see what the girl was doing, Olivia's cock was shoved into her mouth. It hit the back of her throat, and she gagged, but Olivia held her head steady and didn't pull out. Then Mallow started humping her again with quick little thrusts that made her pussy beg for deeper penetration, and Dawn gasped around Olivia's cock. Kiawe still gripped her hips so tightly that she could hardly move them as the two cocks speared her helpless holes.

Something touched her clit, and Dawn's holes squeezed tighter involuntarily. An unseen hand started rubbing hard yet gentle little circles into her most sensitive spot, and Dawn knew it had to be Lana. But she was struggling to breathe now, inhaling what air she could through her nose as Olivia pulled out and started to face-fuck her. The woman had roughly gripped Dawn's hair with both hands in a way that should have hurt, but the combined sensations from everything else utterly drowned out any pain she could have felt.

A second hand grabbed her chest, groping one breast like a curious boy who'd just gotten to second base. She couldn't even see who was groping her; it could have been Lana or Mallow, and by now she hardly cared. Olivia pistoned her hips aggressively, not really caring what Dawn did with her mouth as she used Dawn's face as a sloppy fuckhole.

It was a slight adjustment from Mallow that finally sent Dawn over the edge, the girl's eager thrusting finding the right combination of force and depth to send Dawn's world reeling. She screwed her eyes shut and struggled to breathe through the mouthful of cock as her body tensed and screamed with pleasure. She could feel the two imposters still fucking her lower holes as roughly as they wanted, and every muscle and tendon below her waist clamped even tighter around the intruders as her mind went blank from white-hot bliss.

Olivia relaxed a little as Dawn started to come down from her high, letting all but the head of her cock pull free from Dawn's mouth. Mallow and Kiawe were still fucking her, utterly careless of the little aftershocks that rocked through her, and she breathed heavily through her nose since Olivia was still in her mouth. But then she felt Kiawe increase his pace, and as the man jerked his hips up into her to force his cock as deep as he could manage, he started to spill his seed inside of her.

A thick load of cum with a temperature like molten glass was blasted into Dawn's ass, and the extra lubrication let the man hammer into her even harder. He collided with Mallow's cock through the thin barrier separating Dawn's ass and pussy, and she could feel what seemed like a torrent of cum go squirting out from around her stretched asshole. He didn't stop thrusting as he came, sending so much cum up into Dawn's body that she imaged she was able to taste it. Then Mallow seemed to reach a similar feverish pace, and as the girl pounding Dawn's pussy approached her own climax, Lana seized the opportunity to attack Dawn's clit even harder, and suddenly Dawn's head was sent spinning again.

Olivia didn't wait, forcing Dawn to swallow her cock again. Dawn was far too lost in the throes of pleasure to even gag as Olivia deep-throated her. She could feel Mallow's cock pulse another liquid hot stream of cum into her, the girl spearing up into the back of Dawn's pussy as deep as she could possibly reach. Dawn's womanhood ached and pulsed with unbridled pleasure as it was filled with cum, and even in her dazed state Dawn swore she could feel some of Mallow's liquid seed leaking past her innermost barrier and pooling inside her womb.

The two imposters didn't stop, even with Dawn's holes full of cum and her body rapidly depleting its reserves of stamina. Olivia would alternate between forcing herself into the edge of Dawn's throat, all but choking her; and pulling back just enough to let Dawn catch her breath before abusing her mouth some more. Every time Dawn started to come back to her senses, Lana would do something else to her body, toying with her pussy, her nipples, her belly button, or some other spot that Dawn never even considered to be an erogenous zone.

Dawn was only dimly aware when Olivia came inside her mouth, the woman's cock having been thrust deep enough that Dawn could only swallow the thick load and let it slide warmly down into her stomach. She was pretty sure that Kiawe and Mallow hadn't let up yet, still fucking her sticky holes with inhuman vigor until they each came again, their tireless cocks flooding her body with more even cum. Dawn was too lost in the exhausting sea of pleasure to consider whether the imposters could actually get her pregnant; if they could, she was too far gone to do anything about it now.

She wasn't sure what prompted them to stop, but eventually the four imposters seemed satisfied with having made Dawn into a cum-stained mess, and they all disentangled themselves from her. Dawn's abused holes were finally allowed to rest, and they left her lying on the stone floor in a small pool of cum. Dawn's world spun for a while, her holes now lonely and empty, her body cold and sticky as she tried to recover from the experience. She was only pulled back to reality when she heard Lillie let out a pained yelp.

"Lillie...?" Dawn mumbled, her voice a little hoarse, the taste of cum lingering in the back of her throat.

The girl fell to her knees at the side of the altar, grabbing her crotch through her skirt like someone had kicked her. She looked alarmed, but didn't seem to be in any pain.

"It's... gone!" Lillie gasped.

Dawn sat up slowly. The four imposters were nowhere to be seen, leaving only herself and Lillie alone in the ruins. The flames on the four stone pillars were lit again, and the room was quiet and still once again. Dawn could still feel some of the cum oozing out from her, as well as a cold, sticky sensation from more semen on her belly and chest. She wasn't even sure whose jizz it was.

"What's gone?" Dawn asked. "Are you okay?"

"The... my..." Lillie stammered. "It's gone! My, um, girl parts are back!"

"That's... really great," Dawn sighed, not sure what else to say about this.

"Oh my gosh, Dawn! You did it! You broke the curse!"

"Yeah, I guess I did it, all right," Dawn said with a sardonic laugh.

"Are you okay?!" Lillie cried. "I can't believe you did that! With... all four of them! At once!"

Dawn looked herself over for a moment. Despite being splattered with cum from four different people, and despite most of her body feeling sticky and soiled, she actually felt pretty great. She didn't feel tired or sore in the slightest. Even the hard stone of the altar wasn't uncomfortable on her bare asscheeks.

"I actually feel great," Dawn said with a measure of surprise. "I almost feel like I could go another round."

"Um, don't say that..." Lillie said. "What if they come back?"

"I think they were satisfied too," Dawn said. "Look at how much them came. Whose cum is on my chest, by the way?"

"It was, um, Lana, I think," Lillie said, blushing again. "She was masturbating while she was, um, licking your nipples. I think."

"She licked my nipples?" Dawn said. "I don't even remember that part. It's all kind of a blur after Olivia made me deep-throat her."

"Let's not talk about it too much," Lillie said. "I kind of wish I hadn't seen any of that, if I'm honest..."

"The important thing is, we fixed you," Dawn said. "And nobody got hurt or anything."

"Are you sure you aren't hurt?" Lillie asked. "You just... did... all that stuff!"

"I'm honestly... fine?" Dawn said, feeling a little surprised herself. "They said the Ruins of Life prevent injury or something, and they said they don't like to hurt mortals for no reason. So I don't think there was ever any danger of them hurting me."

"When you and Kiawe were, um, starting to do it... you looked like you were getting hurt..."

"Maybe they were just getting warmed up," Dawn said. "Or maybe that part was, like, a test of courage or something. Gods like doing that sort of thing, don't they?"

"Dawn, I have no idea," Lillie said. "For a minute there I, um, thought they were going to make me watch while they, well.... really hurt you..."

"Your gods are rapey," Dawn said with a solemn look. "But I don't think they're completely sadistic. It's more like..."

She tried to think of a way to describe her feelings towards the guardians, but she didn't really have the scholarly background to describe her feelings very well.

"You know when a little kid is playing with their toys," Dawn began, "and they're kind of rough on them, right? Maybe they whack them together and the paint gets a little scuffed, or they bury one of them in the sand and lose track of it? I think the Tapu are kind of like that. But it doesn't mean they don't care."

"I dunno, Dawn," Lillie said, "After all this I think I wouldn't mind going back to Kanto and getting away from them."

"If you're saying you need a vacation," Dawn said. "I don't blame you. This was supposed to be my vacation, until I started having all this sex. I think I might need a vacation from my vacation."

"Does that mean you're, um, giving up the Island Challenge?"

"Are you kidding me?" Dawn laughed. "I just got deep-throated by Olivia while two other people fucked me. After this, challenging her for real is nothing to me. I'm going to kick her ass tomorrow."

"You, um, might want to get cleaned up," Lillie said, nodding awkwardly to the drying cum that was all over Dawn's body.

"Y....yeah," Dawn said, deflating a little. "Definitely going to take, like, four showers after all this. One for each of them."

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