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Chapter 3 - New addition to the Gaman family

Inside Shalour City Hospital, in the labour room, a woman was shouting all the profanities she could master. The hospital's obstetrician-gynecologist is taking care of the woman with help from a nurse-midwife.

"Push Mrs. Gaman. It is almost there." The nurse-midwife said.

"Breathe in through the nose. Allow the breath to fill the tummy and then the chest. And then exhale through the nose. Deflate the chest first and then the tummy. Remember even if you feel unbearable pain, follow this breathing pattern." The female OB-GYN said.

"F*CK, SHIT, C*NT, SHIT EATER *breathes in* M*THERF**KER *breathes out* PUBLIC B*TCH" the woman in labour kept repeating like a broken record.

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* a few hours earlier*

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In the nearby Seashine Village, in a small cottage 3 hours ago a pregnant woman named Julia Gaman had her water breaks, she's having real contractions and she feels a bearing down sensation, she's in full-on "this baby is coming now" mode. Her husband Haden Gaman took her immediately to the hospital in the nearby city sharing the same name as the place, Shalour City Hospital.

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*Now*

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Haden "Sweety, language."

Julia "I dare you to touch me ever again, *breathes in* I will make sure you mysteriously disappear *breathes out* that much I can promise you."

Haden "Come down, baby. I am with you. Just breathe."

Julia "Goddammit."

Doctor " The head is out, one last push."

Julia "Oh Arceus, ahhhhhhh!!!!"

OB-GYN Doctor "The baby is out Mrs.Gaman. Now, you can take some rest."

A baby cry rings in the labour room. Finally the woman, Julia smiles.

The nurse-midwife checks on the baby to make sure the baby is healthy. She then gently washes and applies baby skincare medicines on the baby before carefully wrapping the baby in a sanitized blanket.

The baby has dark blue eyes from his mother and blond hair from her father. The nurse-midwife congratulates the couple on their first child.

Nurse-midwife "Mr. and Mrs. Gaman you had a very cute and healthy baby girl."

Haden "Thank you so much for helping in her childbirth as a midwife, Miss Ellie. Now, can I carry my child?"

Ellie "Sure, but first wash your hands with an antiseptic soap. Be careful of infecting the baby with germs. She has not built up strong immunity yet. She needs to be vaccinated to be safe."

Haden "I know Miss Ellie. I am a junior researcher in Sycamore Pokemon labs, so I will be careful."

Haden washes his hands with liquid soap, then drys his hands with a sanitized towel.

The OB-GYN named Alessa asked "Isn't it in Lumiose city, opened a few years back. I heard the research center is quite struggling to publish its research paper. No offense, Mr.Gaman."

Haden "None was taken. Yeah, we are quite struggling as the research community does not accept any papers without proof of our research on more than one applicable pokemon species. Also, our head researcher is well known as an 'eccentric ladies man."

Alessa "So, what your research center is researching on?"

Haden "A new typing of pokemon. We researchers declare a pokemon type when some conditions are met. First, a weaker pokemon of the said typing can deal damage to a stronger pokemon of known pokemon typing. Second, the said typing can tank damage from known typing attacks. Last, taking a common pokemon of known typing and comparing it to its variants in the other region. If we can prove every individual pokemon from a single species has the same typing effectiveness and weaknesses and this effectiveness and weakness also present in every individual of a different species, that holds true for every region, we have a new typing.

We are finding it hard to prove all of these conditions. But, we are almost there. Once, we compare our findings with other regional pokemon we can prove our thesis.

I am personally researching the special evolution after a pokemon reaches its final evolution stage with our head researcher, Prof.Sycamore."

The nurse-midwife, Ellie gently hands over the baby to her father.

Alessa "It must be hard for you, Mr.Gaman as a junior researcher but hold on for your wife and your baby. Now, if you will excuse me, I had run a check-up on another child."

Ellie "You see, our city's gym leader Gurkinn had a granddaughter named Korrina two months ago. This dotting old man comes every week for a check-up of his granddaughter."

"Oh, I see. So, Miss Ellie can I take my wife and child back home?" Haden asks while playing with the curious baby child.

Ellie "It's already late for today. Also, we need to make sure the baby has the immunity to not feel ill outside sanitized environment. You can take them tomorrow after both mother and daughter get vaccinated. Also, Mr.Gaman do make sure to buy nutrition supplements for the mother as she will feel weak after childbirth.

And Julia do take care. We will meet again after you open your boutique again in the town square."

Julia "Sure, see you soon."

Alessa " A nurse will come and help you to shift to another ward. Take care."

Haden "We will."

Both Alessa and Ellie leave the husband and wife with their new child.

Haden " Aww, she is so cute."

Julia "Let me also see my daughter."

Haden "Here see, isn't she the cutest thing in existence. "

Haden teases Julia a bit showing the cute face of the baby, but not letting Julia touch the baby.

Julia "Let me also hold her." She says sternly.

Haden "Can you wait for a minute or two, I had not played enough with her."

As he's saying he plays the generic peek-a-boo card and the baby giggles giving a critical hit to both father and mother.

Julia "Let me hold her right now."

Haden reluctantly lets his wife hold their baby.

Julia and the baby play for a few minutes. As the baby feels sleepy, Julia began to breastfeed the baby.

After seeing that the baby is full, Julia sings a lullaby to make the baby fall asleep.

Haden "She so cute, her giggle just made my day. Let's name Nada, meaning dew in the sunrise."

Julia "No, I was thinking about naming her Siria, meaning the 'sun'."

Haden "Nah, how about Solana, it also means the 'sun'."

Julia "Let's think for a bit."

Both parents think about the name of their child for quite a while. Then suddenly, Julia remembers her time as an archeologist. She and her archeological teams unearthed ancient ruins from the Sinnoh region even before it was known as the Hisui region. In those ruins, they found many hieroglyphs about the God pokemon, Arceus. And from there while translating they come to know about the word 'Adya'. This name was given to represent the feminine side of Arceus by the ancient people. This word meant the 'first power' or 'unequaled' or 'the world' in the modern language.

Julia then decided "Adya Gaman, meaning the world."

Haden "Sigh, so you have already decided hah. A name meaning the world, sure she is definitely our entire world."

Julia "Yes, I believe she will achieve many things in the future holding the other meaning 'unequaled' also true."

Haden "I don't want her to be someone great, if she is happy, I will have no problems."

Julia "You make me sound like an unloving parent, who is only ever happy with the child's achievements. I have a mother's intuition that without even our forcing, she will do something great."

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After this conversation among the parents, months slowly passed away. Like any normal baby, Adya began 'cooing' some syllables she heard repeatedly, by the time she became 6 months old. When Julia heard 'Ma-ma' she almost had a heart attack. Haden became jealous as he gets only the weekends to play with his little girl, the rest of which he was in the research center in Lumiose City. So, on the weekends he began teaching his daughter to say 'papa', to Haden joy Adya fulfilled his wish after few weeks of his trying. Adya began crawling at 6 months and couldn't walk properly till she was 1 year 2 months old. In these months' time, she could understand simple words like 'yes' and 'no'. Haden and Julia had kept Adya away from both of their pokemon for safety reasons and will only let her play with them after she completes all the vaccination required for a baby, that is not until she turns almost four.

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3 years pass by as Adya starts learning to speak and walk properly. As a child develops a functional architecture of neural networks from their birth to age 3, the neurons unconnected at the time of birth begin to make connections with one another. So after turning 3, Adya began gaining wisdom and knowledge of another world, like she had the experience of watching movies but doesn't remember the people she went with thus making her learn and develop even faster.

As a 3-year-old she thought of it as knowledge gifted by the gods. She told her parents but they dismiss it as a child's imagination. Since she had not gained all her 20 years worth of knowledge instantly but gained the knowledge slowly as her brain further developed, making it a gradual process with her brain development. As a child explaining the plot of frozen she watched in cinema to her parents didn't help to prove her god-gifted knowledge. So, she gave up on explaining it to her parents and started getting excited for her fourth birthday.