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If you're thinking, 'Where have all the reviews gone!? WTF happened?' well it was due to an error, you see when the change over happened from the old AGNPH to the new one happened, I had to add my Co-authors back on, seeing as it took them off for some unknown reason. Anyway, when that happened, 2 copies of this story were made. I tried to delete the one without co-authors but when I did, it also deleted the other one, leaving me with no copies of blood and love, so yeah, have to re-upload. This is a pain in the ass but I heard that there was a problem with the text in all the older stories that made the text all glitchy, so maybe it was for the best that I re-uploaded it. Fortunatly, 'Blood and love' over at FanFiction isn't fucked up so that should make things easier. Also I've now noticed theres a duplicate 'Blood and love' story floating around, why this has happened I have no idea but I'm gonna try get it deleted. Oh, hears the stats for the story before it got wiped out.Views: 26,000Rating: 4.5Reviews: 59Oh, disclaimer. Yeah, Pokemon, I don't own it and I don't intend to make a profit out of it. This was done just for fun.
Rising tensions.
Richard walked down the hallway with Tera, holding her paw in his hand as he led her back to their room. He quickly got the key to the room out of his pocket as he got closer to the door, and then opened it and held it for Tera who walked into the room, and over to the bed. Richard then walked into the room and closed the door behind him.
Tera sat on the bed and watched as Richard walked over to her, and when he was close enough, she grabbed his hand and pulled him on top of her before closing her eyes and giving him a long passionate kiss. Richard closed his eyes and returned the kiss as one hand held the back of her head and the other went to her waist.
They both slowly pulled out of the kiss and looked into each other's eyes. Tera felt something deep inside of her, the desire to mate with the man she loves. "Richard, I love you so much." Tera whispered to him.
"I love you too Tera. I've been waiting so long to get you alone like this." Richard replied with a smile on his face before he went to kissing her neck.
Tera closed her eyes as she lay on the bed and felt Richard's kisses get lower, but they opened their eyes and looked to the door as they heard the sound of someone knocking on it loudly, followed closely by Owen's voice, which asked, "Richard, Tera, are you in there?"
Richard let out a sigh and followed it up with, "Yeah, we're here."
"Have you seen Kiara anywhere?" Owen asked them from behind the door. Richard then got up off Tera and went over to the door, and opened it; then told him, "No, haven't seen her."
Tera had a concerned look on her face as she asked, "Why? Is there something wrong?"
"I've found a body, and I think she knows how it got there." Owen stated as he looked over to Tera.
Richard really didn't like the sound of this. "Have you asked anyone else about this? Louis? Bruce?" he quickly questioned.
"No, just you two so far. I'm going to check Bruce's room, if he's not there, then I'll check at the bar." Owen informed tiredly, as he begun to walk away.
Richard didn't want to go with Owen, but he knew that he would feel bad if something had happened to his friend and he did nothing about it. "I'll come with you. Are you coming Tera?" Richard asked as he looked back to her.
She frowned, obviously because this ruined their current moment, but then realized that there was no use fighting it. "Of course." Tera answered as she got up and walked over to Richard.
1 minute later...
Owen knocked on Bruce's door. "Bruce, are you in there?" He said just loud enough to be heard from the other side of the door.
"I'm here." Bruce answered as he opened the door to see Richard, Tera and Owen standing there.
Owen quickly noticed Kiara on his bed, as did Richard and Tera. Owen also noticed the red marks on Bruce's face, as well as the small scratch on his neck. "I don't suppose you two would know anything about a dead body lying in one of the ships hallways would you?" Owen sarcastically inquired.
"Oh, so you've met Mick the Prick then?" Bruce asked casually.
Owen gave him a disapproving look before saying, "This is going to cause problems."
"What? You're not even going to ask why he attacked us?" Bruce questioned.
"No, it's clear it has something to do with Silas. It doesn't take much brainpower to work that one out." Owen responded.
Kiara looked over to Richard and Tera who were now walking over to her. "Hey you two, can you help out a crippled Glaceon here and get me painkillers?" Kiara asked.
Tera was the first to respond, "Painkillers? How did you get hurt?
Kiara sighed before stating, "Bruce's old friend that tried to kill him kind of banged my back legs off the wall when he tried to shake me off his arm."
"Are you okay? Can you walk?" Tera quickly asked.
"I'm fine, but I can't stand up or walk properly." Kiara told her with a sad expression on her face.
Bruce looked back over to Tera and said, "We knocked on at that medic guy's room but he wasn't there."
Owen knew that the best course of action would be to round up the remaining teammates. "You all stay here; I'm going to look for the rest." Owen stated as he walked out of the room.
Kiara looked over to Tera and asked, "If I can't walk for a while, can you carry me?"
"Of course I can." Tera told her with a smile on her face.
1 hour later...
Everyone was now in Bruce's room. Owen was standing on the corner of the room after Bruce and Kiara explained everything that led to Mick's death as Kovick tried to find out what sort of injury Kiara had sustained.
Richard and Tera were sitting on the bed with Kovick and Kiara, Bruce was on the bed with a bottle of vodka in his hand, lying down on it and drinking as if he was the only person in the room. Reaper and Louis were sitting on the floor, babbling at each other.
Bruce took one look at the drunken young man and Scyther and muttered, "Fucking lightweight drinkers."
Kovick got up off the bed and looked to Kiara. "Right, it's nothing serious although I would suggest that you shouldn't strain your back legs too much. When we get to Unova, I'll check if there is anything anyone sells there that can help speed up the healing process." Kovick professionally said.
"Thanks." Kiara replied.
Bruce looked around to everyone and thought out loud, "Well, when the fuck is this ship getting to Unova anyway?"
Just as Bruce said that, Owen looked down to his watch. "We should be there in just a few more hours. We should wait here for the time being, if there are more of Silas' men around, they won't attack us all head on." Owen responded.
Bruce silently shook his head. 'Great, looks like my plans for actually getting some sleep after jacking off just flew out of the fucking window.' Bruce thought to himself as he drank a little more vodka.
Richard looked over to Tera, he just wanted to spend the night with her, and now they were stuck in this room. Richard daydreamed of what they could have been doing together if they hadn't been interrupted by Owen.
Richard was soon drawn out of his daydreams when he felt Tera kissing his cheek. He looked back into her eyes and smiled as he saw her pretty face. "When we are alone, we'll continue from where we left off back in our room." Richard whispered to her.
Tera smiled in response and gave him a short kiss on his lips. "You promise?" Tera asked as she shuffled a little closer to Richard.
"I promise." Richard responded with a big grin on his face.
Kovick had noticed how affectionate Richard and Tera were towards each other, which reminded him of the talk that he was planning to have with them. But that would have to wait for now, he didn't really feel like giving those two some advice in front of an audience.
5 hours later...
"Come on, drive agent guy!" Bruce called out from his seat in the back of the big bulky car. His sheathed machete strapped to his back and his combat shotgun was now in his hands. After all the fights he's gotten himself into, he guessed that he should keep his weapons with him at all times now.
"That's what I'm doing." Owen tiredly replied. It was now sometime in the night, this area of Unova was a cold place so the roads were a little slippery and dangerous.
"You call THIS driving! Fucks sake man, grow some balls and put your fucking foot down on the accelerator!" Bruce shouted at him.
Kiara gave him a disapproving look before saying, "Accelerator is a big word for you Bruce. He's doing his best at least and unlike one person I could mention, isn't drunk off his ass and annoying as hell!"
Bruce smiled at the little pissed off look she was now giving him. "Don't forget that certain someone carried your frozen ass after you got injured, you still haven't thanked me for that by the way." Bruce spat with a smirk.
"And the day I thank you is the day you stop being an ass." Kiara told him.
"So you're going to thank me at my funeral?" Bruce chuckled.
"Ha! You think I'm coming to your funeral?" Kiara teased.
"Hey! I would come to yours... Even if it would be just to grab some free booze and piss on your grave afterward." Bruce insulted with a smirk on his face.
Kiara feigned a hurt look on her face as she said, "I would never do something like that to you."
"Yes you would!" Bruce accused.
"Okay I would, but I would at least try to look sad at yours!" Kiara stated.
"And I would try to look sad as I piss on your grave." Bruce replied as his smirk grew into a grin.
"I would probably be sad if I was a man and had your little thingy too." Kiara snappily spat.
"Oh, that was a low blow ice bitch, and I assure you it ISN'T little." Bruce responded with a middle finger to Kiara.
Everyone in the car ignored Bruce and Kiara arguing with each other, everyone except Kovick. He wasn't sure if they were messing around or if they really did hate each other.
He thought about stepping in, the last thing that he wanted was another injured person on the team, but he just let them argue. He figured that whatever went on between them should stay between them.
"Maybe." Kiara simply replied as she looked out of the window to see the snow covered trees that they were now driving past. "I think I'm going to like it here." Kiara told herself with a smile.
"Then by all means stay, then I won't have to listen to your icy ass nagging at me all fucking day." Bruce mumbled as he lay back in his seat and closed his eyes.
Kiara looked back at him and asked, "Oh, passing out already?"
"I'm not passing out, I'm getting some fucking sleep because I didn't fucking get any on that boat." Bruce angrily stated, still keeping his eyes closed.
"Well maybe you should have spent less time at the bar and more time in your room." Kiara sternly said to him.
"Well shit, now you sound just like my sister." Bruce responded.
"She's obviously smarter than you." Kiara snappily insulted him, attempting to get some sort of a reaction out of him.
"Now you sound like those nosy bastard neighbors back at Vermillion... Poor nosy bastards." Bruce laughed as he tried to stop a smile from coming to his face when he saw their houses burning down. 'Loud music and swear words were the least of their problems then.' Bruce thought to himself.
Kiara sighed and said, "You're hopeless."
"Only just realize that now did you?" Bruce asked with a smirk, still keeping his eyes closed.
"Just shut it drunkard." Kiara snapped back at him. Bruce opened his eyes, only to savor the pissed off look on her face.
Oh how he loved that look.
1 hour later...
Owen was now at a gas station, at the pumps. He had received the location of his next recruit from Rhea. Kovick, Louis and Reaper were buying some snacks and drinks from the gas station, as were Richard, Tera and Kiara.
Kovick picked up an energy drink when he heard Louis' voice. "Hey, Kovick is it?"
Kovick turned around and said, "Yep, that's my name."
"I've only just noticed something, your eyes; they have a sort of a red tint to them, how's that?" Louis curiously questioned.
Kovick wasn't surprised he asked that, a lot of people asked him that same question. "Oh, it's a genetic trait from my father." Kovick stated as he awaited the usual next question.
"So, your father had red eyes?" Louis asked.
"Well he's a Gallade so yes." Kovick answered.
Louis was a little shocked, he wasn't aware that a Gallade could be the genetic father of a human. It wasn't common knowledge to many people from Kanto that Pokémon could breed with humans, and successfully produce children. "A Gallade? But your mother was a human right?" Louis asked.
"Right... Where do you come from?" Kovick asked.
"Kanto." Louis answered.
Kovick hated Kanto, he remembered his parents telling him of how humans and Pokémon who love each other were kept apart by the law, separated forever, and when they were released, they were always watched.
When he was younger, he hated Kanto because if they lived there, he may have been taken away from his parents, now he was older, he still hated Kanto, but for a new reason. His Ninetales assistant.
If they had both served for Kanto, the choice to tell her how he really felt about her would be a dangerous one for both of them. He was just glad that they were both serving for Johto. Kovick had heard of some people being killed by others just because they weren't what they called 'pure', they killed those whose fathers were Pokémon.
They were extremists, and they were allowed to grow. Kovick didn't understand how they could call themselves pure when they kill innocent people, just because of how they were born.
In Kovick's eyes, those people lost their humanity when they decided to take up killing harmless innocent people, they weren't pure, they were evil. Kovick hoped that Louis wasn't like those people. "Are you surprised my father is a Gallade?" Kovick asked.
"Well, yeah, a little... I just don't really understand why your mother would want to... You know." Louis said as he tried to say something without actually saying it.
That wasn't really what Kovick wanted to hear, and he was going to make it clear that he wasn't happy. "You can't understand what? You can't understand that how my mother and father can love each other? Or you can't understand why they would want me?" Kovick angrily questioned.
Louis could clearly see Kovick was pissed, but he didn't see why he should have to suppress his opinions. "Yeah, I don't understand. I mean can your father even talk?" Louis asked.
Reaper felt like cringing at this conversation, he felt like jumping in, but he didn't he just watched. He felt like it was just between Louis and the medic guy.
Kovick was now beginning to hate this man in front of him. "Yes, he can actually. Can I ask you a question Louis?" Kovick asked, trying to sound as calm as possible, and failing.
"Go ahead." Louis told him.
"Do you have a problem with how I was born?" Kovick angrily inquired, now no longer bothering to sound calm.
"What? No, it's just that I don't understand why humans and Pokémon would want to mate with each other!" Louis said back to him, raising his voice.
Louis' comment got the attention of Richard, Tera and Kiara who all looked back to see the two men staring at each other as if they were getting ready to fight each other.
Kovick wasn't about to let this go. "You don't understand? It's what people do when they love each other!" Kovick shouted at him.
"But it's just not fucking right! That's like bestiality, you don't go around fucking dogs do you!" Louis angrily shouted back at him.
'Bestiality? Is that what he sees it as?' Kovick angrily thought to himself. "It's not the same thing! Pokémon can consent, animals cannot. Most Pokémon are just as smart as the average human, some are even smarter, so do not tell me it is the same thing!" Kovick yelled back at him.
"Your parents aren't even the same species!" Louis shouted at him.
Richard felt like taking Kovick's side right now, he felt like punching Louis in the mouth, he was beginning to remind him of that snobby waiter back on the ship who made his dislike for both Richard and Tera very clear.
Kovick didn't want to listen to another word this man had to say, but he was determined to have the last word. "Well let me tell you, I'm in love with a Ninetales, her name is Aneko, and yes, I do want to be with her. What do you think of me now? Do you think I am sick?" Kovick questioned him with hate in his voice.
"A Ninetales? Does she not remind you of a dog?" Louis questioned.
Richard's mind jumped back to when he first met his father, he remembered his father calling Tera a dog, that's what then triggered something in his brain, something that told him to punch him right in his face.
Everybody could see Kovick lean in a little, with his fist clenched and a look on his face that said he wanted the man in front of him dead. It looked like he was about to go for Louis, but he didn't. He just leaned in and said with a deep tone in his voice, "Don't you ever fucking talk to me again."
Kovick dropped the energy drink he previously held and stormed right out of the gas station, back to the car.
Louis watched Kovick walked out of the door, when he left, he then noticed Richard staring at him. "What?" Louis questioned to Richard.
"My father called Tera a dog too; I punched him in the face, then knocked him out for saying that. You got off lightly." Richard replied as he turned his back to him and walked over to the till to pay for the snacks he and Tera were carrying.
Louis looked back over to Reaper, but they didn't say anything to each other, they just looked around for the stuff they needed, and got ready to leave.
Meanwhile...
Bruce stepped out of the gas station toilets and breathed in some fresh air. "Fuck, I don't think I've appreciated air without the scent of shit and piss this much before." Bruce thought out loud as he walked back over to the car, he left his shotgun and machete in the car.
He guessed that if whoever works at the gas station saw him walking towards it with his combat shotgun and machete strapped to his back then he'd likely end up surrounded by cops. He walked up to the car and opened up one of its doors and climbed into the back and sat on his usual seat.
Bruce noticed something, Owen and Kovick were the only ones in the car, not only that, but Kovick looked pissed about something. "What's got you so pissed? Someone switch your morphine with caffeine or something?" Bruce asked with a smirk on his face as he searched around his backpack for his next drink.
Kovick just looked to Bruce and angrily said, "Louis and I just disagree on some matters..."
"Oh, what matters?" Bruce asked as he took out a bottle of vodka and leaned in, eager to hear about what got him so pissed.
"He thinks that being with a Pokémon is basically the same thing as bestiality." Kovick stated as the hate in his voice rose.
Bruce looked confused and inquired, "So, that got you pissed?"
"My father is a Gallade, I'm in love with a Ninetales, and he asked me if she reminded me of a dog, so yes, it got me pissed." Kovick almost shouted.
"If you're that pissed, then maybe you should have punched him, release your anger on his face." Bruce told him as he opened his bottle of vodka and tried to get the man in front of him more pissed than he already was.
Kovick had wanted to do that, but he knew that would not go down well for either of them. "No, it's not worth it..."
"Not worth it? Sounds like pussy for I don't want to." Bruce imitated the last part with a fake high pitched voice before taking a mouthful of vodka.
"Fighting isn't always the answer... You should stop drinking so much, that stuff will kill you." Kovick told Bruce.
"And the slavers that are coming to kill us all won't?" Bruce reminded as he took another swig of his vodka.
"Good point." Kovick said, not bothered about Bruce's drinking problem right now, too busy thinking of how much he hated that man, Louis.
Tera sat on the bed and watched as Richard walked over to her, and when he was close enough, she grabbed his hand and pulled him on top of her before closing her eyes and giving him a long passionate kiss. Richard closed his eyes and returned the kiss as one hand held the back of her head and the other went to her waist.
They both slowly pulled out of the kiss and looked into each other's eyes. Tera felt something deep inside of her, the desire to mate with the man she loves. "Richard, I love you so much." Tera whispered to him.
"I love you too Tera. I've been waiting so long to get you alone like this." Richard replied with a smile on his face before he went to kissing her neck.
Tera closed her eyes as she lay on the bed and felt Richard's kisses get lower, but they opened their eyes and looked to the door as they heard the sound of someone knocking on it loudly, followed closely by Owen's voice, which asked, "Richard, Tera, are you in there?"
Richard let out a sigh and followed it up with, "Yeah, we're here."
"Have you seen Kiara anywhere?" Owen asked them from behind the door. Richard then got up off Tera and went over to the door, and opened it; then told him, "No, haven't seen her."
Tera had a concerned look on her face as she asked, "Why? Is there something wrong?"
"I've found a body, and I think she knows how it got there." Owen stated as he looked over to Tera.
Richard really didn't like the sound of this. "Have you asked anyone else about this? Louis? Bruce?" he quickly questioned.
"No, just you two so far. I'm going to check Bruce's room, if he's not there, then I'll check at the bar." Owen informed tiredly, as he begun to walk away.
Richard didn't want to go with Owen, but he knew that he would feel bad if something had happened to his friend and he did nothing about it. "I'll come with you. Are you coming Tera?" Richard asked as he looked back to her.
She frowned, obviously because this ruined their current moment, but then realized that there was no use fighting it. "Of course." Tera answered as she got up and walked over to Richard.
1 minute later...
Owen knocked on Bruce's door. "Bruce, are you in there?" He said just loud enough to be heard from the other side of the door.
"I'm here." Bruce answered as he opened the door to see Richard, Tera and Owen standing there.
Owen quickly noticed Kiara on his bed, as did Richard and Tera. Owen also noticed the red marks on Bruce's face, as well as the small scratch on his neck. "I don't suppose you two would know anything about a dead body lying in one of the ships hallways would you?" Owen sarcastically inquired.
"Oh, so you've met Mick the Prick then?" Bruce asked casually.
Owen gave him a disapproving look before saying, "This is going to cause problems."
"What? You're not even going to ask why he attacked us?" Bruce questioned.
"No, it's clear it has something to do with Silas. It doesn't take much brainpower to work that one out." Owen responded.
Kiara looked over to Richard and Tera who were now walking over to her. "Hey you two, can you help out a crippled Glaceon here and get me painkillers?" Kiara asked.
Tera was the first to respond, "Painkillers? How did you get hurt?
Kiara sighed before stating, "Bruce's old friend that tried to kill him kind of banged my back legs off the wall when he tried to shake me off his arm."
"Are you okay? Can you walk?" Tera quickly asked.
"I'm fine, but I can't stand up or walk properly." Kiara told her with a sad expression on her face.
Bruce looked back over to Tera and said, "We knocked on at that medic guy's room but he wasn't there."
Owen knew that the best course of action would be to round up the remaining teammates. "You all stay here; I'm going to look for the rest." Owen stated as he walked out of the room.
Kiara looked over to Tera and asked, "If I can't walk for a while, can you carry me?"
"Of course I can." Tera told her with a smile on her face.
1 hour later...
Everyone was now in Bruce's room. Owen was standing on the corner of the room after Bruce and Kiara explained everything that led to Mick's death as Kovick tried to find out what sort of injury Kiara had sustained.
Richard and Tera were sitting on the bed with Kovick and Kiara, Bruce was on the bed with a bottle of vodka in his hand, lying down on it and drinking as if he was the only person in the room. Reaper and Louis were sitting on the floor, babbling at each other.
Bruce took one look at the drunken young man and Scyther and muttered, "Fucking lightweight drinkers."
Kovick got up off the bed and looked to Kiara. "Right, it's nothing serious although I would suggest that you shouldn't strain your back legs too much. When we get to Unova, I'll check if there is anything anyone sells there that can help speed up the healing process." Kovick professionally said.
"Thanks." Kiara replied.
Bruce looked around to everyone and thought out loud, "Well, when the fuck is this ship getting to Unova anyway?"
Just as Bruce said that, Owen looked down to his watch. "We should be there in just a few more hours. We should wait here for the time being, if there are more of Silas' men around, they won't attack us all head on." Owen responded.
Bruce silently shook his head. 'Great, looks like my plans for actually getting some sleep after jacking off just flew out of the fucking window.' Bruce thought to himself as he drank a little more vodka.
Richard looked over to Tera, he just wanted to spend the night with her, and now they were stuck in this room. Richard daydreamed of what they could have been doing together if they hadn't been interrupted by Owen.
Richard was soon drawn out of his daydreams when he felt Tera kissing his cheek. He looked back into her eyes and smiled as he saw her pretty face. "When we are alone, we'll continue from where we left off back in our room." Richard whispered to her.
Tera smiled in response and gave him a short kiss on his lips. "You promise?" Tera asked as she shuffled a little closer to Richard.
"I promise." Richard responded with a big grin on his face.
Kovick had noticed how affectionate Richard and Tera were towards each other, which reminded him of the talk that he was planning to have with them. But that would have to wait for now, he didn't really feel like giving those two some advice in front of an audience.
5 hours later...
"Come on, drive agent guy!" Bruce called out from his seat in the back of the big bulky car. His sheathed machete strapped to his back and his combat shotgun was now in his hands. After all the fights he's gotten himself into, he guessed that he should keep his weapons with him at all times now.
"That's what I'm doing." Owen tiredly replied. It was now sometime in the night, this area of Unova was a cold place so the roads were a little slippery and dangerous.
"You call THIS driving! Fucks sake man, grow some balls and put your fucking foot down on the accelerator!" Bruce shouted at him.
Kiara gave him a disapproving look before saying, "Accelerator is a big word for you Bruce. He's doing his best at least and unlike one person I could mention, isn't drunk off his ass and annoying as hell!"
Bruce smiled at the little pissed off look she was now giving him. "Don't forget that certain someone carried your frozen ass after you got injured, you still haven't thanked me for that by the way." Bruce spat with a smirk.
"And the day I thank you is the day you stop being an ass." Kiara told him.
"So you're going to thank me at my funeral?" Bruce chuckled.
"Ha! You think I'm coming to your funeral?" Kiara teased.
"Hey! I would come to yours... Even if it would be just to grab some free booze and piss on your grave afterward." Bruce insulted with a smirk on his face.
Kiara feigned a hurt look on her face as she said, "I would never do something like that to you."
"Yes you would!" Bruce accused.
"Okay I would, but I would at least try to look sad at yours!" Kiara stated.
"And I would try to look sad as I piss on your grave." Bruce replied as his smirk grew into a grin.
"I would probably be sad if I was a man and had your little thingy too." Kiara snappily spat.
"Oh, that was a low blow ice bitch, and I assure you it ISN'T little." Bruce responded with a middle finger to Kiara.
Everyone in the car ignored Bruce and Kiara arguing with each other, everyone except Kovick. He wasn't sure if they were messing around or if they really did hate each other.
He thought about stepping in, the last thing that he wanted was another injured person on the team, but he just let them argue. He figured that whatever went on between them should stay between them.
"Maybe." Kiara simply replied as she looked out of the window to see the snow covered trees that they were now driving past. "I think I'm going to like it here." Kiara told herself with a smile.
"Then by all means stay, then I won't have to listen to your icy ass nagging at me all fucking day." Bruce mumbled as he lay back in his seat and closed his eyes.
Kiara looked back at him and asked, "Oh, passing out already?"
"I'm not passing out, I'm getting some fucking sleep because I didn't fucking get any on that boat." Bruce angrily stated, still keeping his eyes closed.
"Well maybe you should have spent less time at the bar and more time in your room." Kiara sternly said to him.
"Well shit, now you sound just like my sister." Bruce responded.
"She's obviously smarter than you." Kiara snappily insulted him, attempting to get some sort of a reaction out of him.
"Now you sound like those nosy bastard neighbors back at Vermillion... Poor nosy bastards." Bruce laughed as he tried to stop a smile from coming to his face when he saw their houses burning down. 'Loud music and swear words were the least of their problems then.' Bruce thought to himself.
Kiara sighed and said, "You're hopeless."
"Only just realize that now did you?" Bruce asked with a smirk, still keeping his eyes closed.
"Just shut it drunkard." Kiara snapped back at him. Bruce opened his eyes, only to savor the pissed off look on her face.
Oh how he loved that look.
1 hour later...
Owen was now at a gas station, at the pumps. He had received the location of his next recruit from Rhea. Kovick, Louis and Reaper were buying some snacks and drinks from the gas station, as were Richard, Tera and Kiara.
Kovick picked up an energy drink when he heard Louis' voice. "Hey, Kovick is it?"
Kovick turned around and said, "Yep, that's my name."
"I've only just noticed something, your eyes; they have a sort of a red tint to them, how's that?" Louis curiously questioned.
Kovick wasn't surprised he asked that, a lot of people asked him that same question. "Oh, it's a genetic trait from my father." Kovick stated as he awaited the usual next question.
"So, your father had red eyes?" Louis asked.
"Well he's a Gallade so yes." Kovick answered.
Louis was a little shocked, he wasn't aware that a Gallade could be the genetic father of a human. It wasn't common knowledge to many people from Kanto that Pokémon could breed with humans, and successfully produce children. "A Gallade? But your mother was a human right?" Louis asked.
"Right... Where do you come from?" Kovick asked.
"Kanto." Louis answered.
Kovick hated Kanto, he remembered his parents telling him of how humans and Pokémon who love each other were kept apart by the law, separated forever, and when they were released, they were always watched.
When he was younger, he hated Kanto because if they lived there, he may have been taken away from his parents, now he was older, he still hated Kanto, but for a new reason. His Ninetales assistant.
If they had both served for Kanto, the choice to tell her how he really felt about her would be a dangerous one for both of them. He was just glad that they were both serving for Johto. Kovick had heard of some people being killed by others just because they weren't what they called 'pure', they killed those whose fathers were Pokémon.
They were extremists, and they were allowed to grow. Kovick didn't understand how they could call themselves pure when they kill innocent people, just because of how they were born.
In Kovick's eyes, those people lost their humanity when they decided to take up killing harmless innocent people, they weren't pure, they were evil. Kovick hoped that Louis wasn't like those people. "Are you surprised my father is a Gallade?" Kovick asked.
"Well, yeah, a little... I just don't really understand why your mother would want to... You know." Louis said as he tried to say something without actually saying it.
That wasn't really what Kovick wanted to hear, and he was going to make it clear that he wasn't happy. "You can't understand what? You can't understand that how my mother and father can love each other? Or you can't understand why they would want me?" Kovick angrily questioned.
Louis could clearly see Kovick was pissed, but he didn't see why he should have to suppress his opinions. "Yeah, I don't understand. I mean can your father even talk?" Louis asked.
Reaper felt like cringing at this conversation, he felt like jumping in, but he didn't he just watched. He felt like it was just between Louis and the medic guy.
Kovick was now beginning to hate this man in front of him. "Yes, he can actually. Can I ask you a question Louis?" Kovick asked, trying to sound as calm as possible, and failing.
"Go ahead." Louis told him.
"Do you have a problem with how I was born?" Kovick angrily inquired, now no longer bothering to sound calm.
"What? No, it's just that I don't understand why humans and Pokémon would want to mate with each other!" Louis said back to him, raising his voice.
Louis' comment got the attention of Richard, Tera and Kiara who all looked back to see the two men staring at each other as if they were getting ready to fight each other.
Kovick wasn't about to let this go. "You don't understand? It's what people do when they love each other!" Kovick shouted at him.
"But it's just not fucking right! That's like bestiality, you don't go around fucking dogs do you!" Louis angrily shouted back at him.
'Bestiality? Is that what he sees it as?' Kovick angrily thought to himself. "It's not the same thing! Pokémon can consent, animals cannot. Most Pokémon are just as smart as the average human, some are even smarter, so do not tell me it is the same thing!" Kovick yelled back at him.
"Your parents aren't even the same species!" Louis shouted at him.
Richard felt like taking Kovick's side right now, he felt like punching Louis in the mouth, he was beginning to remind him of that snobby waiter back on the ship who made his dislike for both Richard and Tera very clear.
Kovick didn't want to listen to another word this man had to say, but he was determined to have the last word. "Well let me tell you, I'm in love with a Ninetales, her name is Aneko, and yes, I do want to be with her. What do you think of me now? Do you think I am sick?" Kovick questioned him with hate in his voice.
"A Ninetales? Does she not remind you of a dog?" Louis questioned.
Richard's mind jumped back to when he first met his father, he remembered his father calling Tera a dog, that's what then triggered something in his brain, something that told him to punch him right in his face.
Everybody could see Kovick lean in a little, with his fist clenched and a look on his face that said he wanted the man in front of him dead. It looked like he was about to go for Louis, but he didn't. He just leaned in and said with a deep tone in his voice, "Don't you ever fucking talk to me again."
Kovick dropped the energy drink he previously held and stormed right out of the gas station, back to the car.
Louis watched Kovick walked out of the door, when he left, he then noticed Richard staring at him. "What?" Louis questioned to Richard.
"My father called Tera a dog too; I punched him in the face, then knocked him out for saying that. You got off lightly." Richard replied as he turned his back to him and walked over to the till to pay for the snacks he and Tera were carrying.
Louis looked back over to Reaper, but they didn't say anything to each other, they just looked around for the stuff they needed, and got ready to leave.
Meanwhile...
Bruce stepped out of the gas station toilets and breathed in some fresh air. "Fuck, I don't think I've appreciated air without the scent of shit and piss this much before." Bruce thought out loud as he walked back over to the car, he left his shotgun and machete in the car.
He guessed that if whoever works at the gas station saw him walking towards it with his combat shotgun and machete strapped to his back then he'd likely end up surrounded by cops. He walked up to the car and opened up one of its doors and climbed into the back and sat on his usual seat.
Bruce noticed something, Owen and Kovick were the only ones in the car, not only that, but Kovick looked pissed about something. "What's got you so pissed? Someone switch your morphine with caffeine or something?" Bruce asked with a smirk on his face as he searched around his backpack for his next drink.
Kovick just looked to Bruce and angrily said, "Louis and I just disagree on some matters..."
"Oh, what matters?" Bruce asked as he took out a bottle of vodka and leaned in, eager to hear about what got him so pissed.
"He thinks that being with a Pokémon is basically the same thing as bestiality." Kovick stated as the hate in his voice rose.
Bruce looked confused and inquired, "So, that got you pissed?"
"My father is a Gallade, I'm in love with a Ninetales, and he asked me if she reminded me of a dog, so yes, it got me pissed." Kovick almost shouted.
"If you're that pissed, then maybe you should have punched him, release your anger on his face." Bruce told him as he opened his bottle of vodka and tried to get the man in front of him more pissed than he already was.
Kovick had wanted to do that, but he knew that would not go down well for either of them. "No, it's not worth it..."
"Not worth it? Sounds like pussy for I don't want to." Bruce imitated the last part with a fake high pitched voice before taking a mouthful of vodka.
"Fighting isn't always the answer... You should stop drinking so much, that stuff will kill you." Kovick told Bruce.
"And the slavers that are coming to kill us all won't?" Bruce reminded as he took another swig of his vodka.
"Good point." Kovick said, not bothered about Bruce's drinking problem right now, too busy thinking of how much he hated that man, Louis.