“Knock, knock!” called a female voice from outside the hotel room, the soft clash of a fist and the door sounding off. It was a pleasantly familiar voice to the boy who had previously had little else to do than sloth around on the bed. He got up and felt his body aching as it had to get used to finally standing up again.

“Good to see you again, Moon,” he said, casually opening the door to see his old friend standing in front of him wearing a smile. Behind her the sky dimmed into a darker and darker night color, the sun having taken its farewell for the day. “Looks like I sorta kinda slept through the sunset.”

“Oh sorry Sun, did I wake you up?”

Moon kicked off her sporty black sneakers inside by the wall, threw off her hat, and sat herself down on the bed, seeing as how there wasn’t anywhere else to sit. Sun closed the door and sat next her, jumping onto the bed and landing on his rear, shaking the bed around and violating its equilibrium.

“No, you didn’t wake me up. I was just out for a while. I lost to the Elite Four today and after all that journeying only to lose, I was just done with everything today,” he recapped.

“Aw, well in that case it seems you were really close to having a battle with me,” she said, taking a chance to boast her champ status.

“Yeah yeah, Miss Champion. I couldn’t win the opportunity to battle the Great Queen of the League,” Sun sarcastically assisted in glorifying his friend’s title, “but I guess if I had to be serious, it’s both cool and surreal that my old friend is the Champion of Alola.”

“It feels surreal from my end, too. It can be some hard work at times, sometimes challengers like Hau come to me and proceeds to just barely sweep me with that Raichu of his. And a fun fact- it’s not easy cleaning up sticky webs from the battlefield…”

“Y’know, despite that, it still sounds like it’d be worth it to best you and become the champion myself.”

Moon half-smiled, happy to be able to talk with Sun again. She hadn’t seen him for a few weeks now, and getting older, it was weird to think she wasn’t seeing her friends as much as she used to. The two used to see each other nearly every day in childhood, but now that they were old enough to travel across Alola, it was different adjusting to not having the familiar faces around as often as before. Breaking that thought, she cleared her throat and moved on with the conversation.

“I hate to change the topic, but there wouldn’t happen to be a reason you called me here today, would there?” she asked. “I’m just asking since it’s pretty late and all.”

“Oh yes, there is, actually,” Sun said. “I’ve learned that you’ve been up to some interesting things lately.”

Moon’s casual smile shrunk down into an idle-lipped mouth of curiosity.

“W-What kinds of things?” she fished, for specifics.

“Really, really, really interesting things. The other day I aimed to beat Mina’s trial and she was having me decorate her feet until I made something she thought looked good. I asked her exactly what kind of trial it was, and she told me that some dark brown haired girl in a Muk tank and hat tied her up and…”

“Oh, I… hehe, um, yeah. I did do that… I get the idea,” interrupted Moon, turning pink at the realization Mina had actually turned her custom trial into an official one… and potentially might tell people about who started it all.

“And when I was battling Acerola, she recognized me as your friend from when we were all in the same place in Malie City a couple months back. She told me that you somehow got your Mimikyu to suck her into a realm where it tickled her for so long that when she was free, she found herself by the champion’s chair, where Kukui then announced you were the champion. Man, you must have left her completely breathless if…”

Sun was interrupted again by his female companion, “Okay, yes, I did do all of that. I really had no trouble jumping into it but now that people are starting to know… I guess I’m feeling just the smallest bit blushy…”

“Well, don’t be too embarrassed. I didn’t really know what to think about it, but that’s sort of why I called you here. You know, I don’t understand what you find so amusing about tickling, but if you got Mina to turn it into her trial, maybe there’s something fun about it. So I can’t believe I’m asking but… just to see what it’s like, you wouldn’t mind getting yourself and your Pokemon ready to tickle me for a bit, would you?”

Moon nearly had a heart attack of some kind. Her mouth dropped. Nobody had really asked her to tickle them before. More or less, her childhood friend…

“I-I’d love to. But boy, is this abrupt,” Moon said. “Are you sure nobody else in the hotel will be bothered by your eh… laughter?”

“Nobody else is staying here tonight. Not that you’d expect much of that from a hotel built on Poni Island of all places…” Sun assured.

“Okay, then. Lie on the bed. Try to stay close to the middle of that full and a half sized bed, and then put your wrists up to the board. Get as comfortable as you can.”

Sun methodically executed each of his now-captor’s instructions and sunk into his refreshingly cool pillow, his head feeling as though a cool breeze was breathing down the back of it. He rose his wrists up to the bed board and waited.

“Alright Butterfree, time for your String Shot’s binding power,” Moon called out, throwing a red and white ball into the air and summoning the butterfly Pokemon after a beam of light flashed.

Squealing with glee, Butterfree fluttered toward the ceiling and slickly shot a string of silver silk toward Sun’s right wrist. Like a perfectly aimed sniper shot, Butterfree’s silk piled up into globs of sticky, tape like restraints. Curiously, Sun tested out the strength of them and thoroughly concluded that he was not gonna be able to get out of it anytime soon. His fate was sealed as he felt the second glob of silk bind his wrist to the bed, rendering him incapable of moving from his position. Sure, his legs had room to squirm around, but he was transfixed to one location, unable to escape the torment that was to come.

“Alrighty, now let’s search for your tickle spots…” said the tickle enthusiast, twiddling her fingers and hopping onto the bed. Settling down on her knees, Moon leaned over her would-be victim’s body and slowly slipped her hand down one of Sun’s sleeves. Her hand searched for the very inside of the boy’s armpits, and once positioned, she slowly etched her fingers around.

Sun caught himself tingling at the very sensation of being touched. However, he didn’t feel phazed by Moon’s fingers teasing his vulnerable underarms. Not a single giggle left his mouth. Instead, he simply bit his lower lip, thinking about what would happen when Moon did end up locating a ticklish spot. He himself had no idea where he was ticklish, so an element of not knowing where Moon had to search added more uneasiness to the situation.

“Guess I’m not too ticklish there. M-Maybe I’m just not ticklish anywhere and we can call it quits,” Sun attempted to persuade, already hesitating.

“Oh that’d be just awful if you weren’t ticklish anywhere. Let’s keep looking, though,” persisted Moon.

Her hands moved over to the bottom of Sun’s white shirt. Delicately, they lifted up the garment until plenty of bare belly was exposed. Fingers instinctively wriggling, Moon let her urges take the front seat and swooped in, scritching at her guy-friend’s pale belly.

“Are you ticklish here?” pondered Moon, gradually increasing the pace of her fingers’ meandering movements.

“I ah- I- ahahaha! I think I ahahaham!” Sun replied through involuntary giggling.

“Bingo…”

Moon let up her tickling and looked over at Sun’s socked feet. She usually found her victims to be quite ticklish on their feet. Would Sun be an exception? Peeling off the pair of crew socks, Moon hoped it to be the case as she unveiled two pale, soft guy feet that scrunched their toes at the loss of their protective fabric. Moon mindlessly tossed the socks behind her and onto the floor. Grinning, she gave Sun’s arches a poke with the very edge of her nail.

“Ack!” Sun chirped.

“Beautiful! A ticklish tummy and ticklish feet,” cooed Moon, “too bad I can’t tickle all of them at once, sooo come on out Mimikyu!”

A beam of light took form of a small cloth-covered being that made a playful yet spooky cry as it was called out from its ball. It only had to look around for a few seconds to see what it was called out for. It found itself right beside Sun’s foot, of which it was nearly the same size as.

“With one touch of a finger on his foot, he was already singing. So get him everywhere on his feet, Mimikyu,” instructed Moon. “Go!”

With little hesitation, Mimikyu readied its Shadow Claw tendrils and got to work etching and scritching all over the soft foot right next to it. The pointed tips of each claw on each long, streaming indigo tentacle meandered through each nerve ending with trained precision. Curiously, three claws on one tentacle scribbled around Sun’s toes, which protested at the quickly electrifying sensations. Another claw hopped from heel to arch to ball and back. All of it added up to the production of lots of laughter from the victim.

“I’m reeheeheally not sure about this! That Meemeeheeheehaha! That Mimikyu is mahahaking me go crazeeheehee!” giggled Sun.

“Oh it’s waaayyyy too late to stop,” Moon assured, “this is absolutely nothing.”

Sun trembled at the sincerity of that comment, and the trembling soon turned into bouncing around as Moon dived in for his belly. It felt as though Moon had become practiced in belly tickling, as every single spot that every single finger went into happened to be equally as laughter-inducing. They skittered and spiraled all over the surface area of the pale, already-quivering tummy.

“Tickle tickle tickle!” Moon eagerly teased. “You’re quite a treat for tickling team like Mimikyu and I. You’re the first boy we’ve ever gotten our tickly claws on. It’s only natural that we should celebrate by extending this session to midnight, or maybe even longer than that! How foolish of you it was to get yourself into this situation, heehee!”

The teasing, foot tickling, and tummy tickling all coming from such sadistic assailants was enough to already turn Sun into a melting puddle of broken laughter. He pathetically failed to squirm away from the tickling, and could only protest to his friend as the realization that he was trapped at her mercy being harvested for laughter loomed over him.

“Nohohohoho! Moon! Ohmygod it tickles so much! HAHAHAHAHAAA!” whimpered Sun.

Moon revelled in Sun’s laughter and gleefully resumed teasing him, a sensation of happiness rushing to her facial expression.

“N’awww… what a ticklish little tummy…” she cooed in the cutesiest voice she could drum up.

Her victim sulked back and continued to take the tickling that felt like it had been being dished out for a good twenty minutes by now. It would be mind blowing if he had known it had only been three minutes. His tummy was under heavy fire, and his foot wasn’t being treated any more kindly either. As Mimikyu’s Shadow Claws dug into his feet, he curled his toes in defiance to no avail. Butterfree flew over and watched the whole event unfolding. With Moon, she had grown to love being at service in these tickling sessions with all of these friendly new faces.

Moon remembered Butterfree was still out, and looked around in the room to find it, still keeping Sun’s belly under heavy, tickly fire.

“Come on Butterfree, get his other foot!” she invited. “I know you don’t have the most capable arms in the world but I do know that hasn’t stopped you before, right?”

Butterfree happily flew down to the bed and fluttered just above the toes of Sun’s right foot. As she had been taught to, she used String Shot on his ankle.

“Whahahahat’s Butterfree doing?! The bed wihihihill… pfffahahahaHAHA!” Sun failed to intervene.

“Oh relax, I’ll take responsibility for cleaning off the silk later,” promised Moon. “You just focus on laughing… and laughing and laughing and laughing…”

Butterfree had to get a lot of silk piled up until it connected to the floor, truly immobilizing his right foot, toes completely pinned down and all. Finally, it got to work on using its small, stubby, but quickly proving to be very effective bug-hands to tease Sun’s right foot.

“OH DEAR! B-BUTTERFREEHEEHEE! NONONONONOHOHOHO!” squealed Sun.

“Oooh, wonderful Butterfree! You too Mimikyu!” Moon complimented.

The night was young, and with everybody completely set up in their positions, Moon giddily got comfortable in her position, knowing she and her Pokemon had multiple hours left to sit there and make the poor boy squeal.

“I’m so glad you asked me to tickle you Sun,” Moon said, “cause you’re so much fun for my Pokemon and I to tease. And you know something? If you end up enjoying this, I’d be more than happy to do this again with you someday-”

Again? After this whole thing had barely started? She had to be crazy, Sun thought. But then again, he was the one who asked for it. Reconsidering… maybe, just maybe…

...he might end up not finding this to be all that bad in the end...

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Finally, another picture done!

The reason it took so long, besides other hobbies, was that Moon tickling Alola pics usually go all-out. These pictures are generally the ones I put effort into the most.

One goal I had for this one was making Moon look good. In the past four pictures, Moon has either looked anatomically incorrect (Lurantis's Root Tickles) or just flat-out terrifying (Acerola in Mimikyu's Tickle Realm). This time, however, I think I got her down nicely. Biggest issue I have is that the arms probably are a bit wrong and the left leg is definitely anatomically incorrect. Although the room is supposed to be based on the hotels on Melemele, Akala, and Ula'Ula Island (ex.) the one Gladion rented), certain aspects such as the pattern of the bed and pillow, the wall color, and Stufful plush have all been tampered with. In the case of the first two, it's laziness. In the case of the last one, as well as the Rowlet plush... I wanted to have fun. My excuse for changing everything that I did... the hotel is on Poni Island, one that was built for purposes of idunno. Just for the story. And for this picture.

Some of you extra needy viewers might notice that Moon has her socks on. Either that, or I'm just proud to announce it. There will come a time when all of you who follow the series for long enough will see Moon get hers, but it certainly isn't now. Instead, it's Sun's turn. I wanted a crack at him cause if I have to be honest, he's pretty cute. Yes, yes, put me and handcuffs and that sort of meme, but let's be real here. As a cartoon to select for clean, SFW, playful tickles, and as a design in general- he's cute. Plus my gallery doesn't usually get many */M pictures aside from the one character, so it's good to mix it up.

Alright, after making you read a story and rant, or you just skipped one or the other, I will let you free.

Sun, Snorlax, Butterfree, Rowlet, Mimikyu, and Moon belong to Nintendo, Game Freak, The Pokemon Company, etc.