Story Notes:
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.
Personal history.
It was now 3 o'clock and the sun was still shining bright. Richard and Tera were now following a dirt path, neither of them knew where it would lead but they followed it anyway. Richard and Tera had given each other tips after the match they had, Tera had taught Richard how to defend himself from Pokemon while Richard taught Tera how to defend herself from humans.
Richard's bruises were now more visible but thankful most of them were on his torso so nobody could see them, not without lifting his shirt up anyway. Tera's soft fur was now covered in dirt but she didn't seem to mind.
Richard was thinking about their little sparring match, he kept thinking how agile but powerful she was, he admired it. Tera began to examine Richard's aura, the depression than she saw in him had almost vanished completely, replaced with happiness, 'Seems I wasn't the only one that enjoyed the fight' she thought to her self. Richard's mind went from his traveling companion to money, he only had 125 pokédollars left and that would probably only last one day.
"... Hey, did you hear that?" Tera asked.
"Hear what?" Richard replied, puzzled as to what she meant.
"It sounds like water."
Water was all Richard needed to hear, since the fight he felt thirsty, really thirsty. "Might be a waterfall or a spring. Can you find out where the noise is coming from?" Richard asked.
"Sure, follow me!" Tera then began running off into the woods, Richard followed closely behind her. They soon found them selves at a small waterfall, the view was amazing and the water defiantly looked clean enough to drink. Richard went over to the plunge pool which the waterfall had made and began to scoop up some of the water with his hands and drink it. Tera's first thought was to wash the dirt off her fur. Richard decided that now was a good time to take a small rest so he walked over to the shade of the tree and laid on the grass.
After a while Tera was still washing her fur in the cool water of the plunge pool and Richard was now fiddling about with his combat knife which he taken out of his boot. He examined his stainless steel knife closely, it was just like any other combat knife except that his had the letters 'CW' engraved on the end of its handle. He slid it back into the side of his boot when he noticed that Tera had came out of the plunge pool. 'She looks beautiful' as Richard thought this it soon became clear to him that he was attracted to her. Richard got up and decided to move back up to the dirt road, he didn't want to move but if he stayed then he just might have kept staring, and that would have been awkward for both of them.
4 hours later.
It was now dark and both Richard and Tera were tired of walking still following the seemingly endless dirt road.
"Damn, doesn't look like we are going to get to a town tonight." Richard sighed
"What are we going to do then?" Asked the Lucario.
"Keep moving and hope we find some kind of shelter." Richard responded.
1 more hour passed before they stumbled upon an old rangers cabin.
"Looks abandoned." Richard commented.
"I wonder why they would leave it." Tera said.
"I don't know but as long as the roof stays on it I don't really care" Richard said as he opened the creaky wooden door.
Richard and Tera walked into the cabin, it looked creepy, like something from a horror movie, it looked like it had been stripped of anything worth money. Richard didn't like it.
"This place is creepy as hell but this is probably the only shelter we are going to get." Richard said whilst moving into the corner of the cabin.
"It's cold in here." Tera said.
"Yeah, but it's better than sleeping outside." just as Richard said this a cockroach crawled across the floor. Tera gave him a look like she was raising an eyebrow.
"... Alright I was wrong." Richard admitted
"Are we even going to find some decent shelter?" Tera asked.
"I don't know but I think sleeping on the dirt road would be better than sleeping in this dump." Richard said as he watched the cockroach scuttle across the floor.
Richard and Tera both left the cabin and continued down the dirt road. Tera talked to Richard to pass the time.
"When did you become a mercenary?" The Lucario asked.
"About 3, maybe 4 years ago." Richard said
"So you were about 21 or 22 when you became a mercenary?" The Lucario questioned.
"Yeah, around about that age." Richard told her.
"Did you like being a mercenary?"
"No." Richard replied sharply
"Why did you stay a mercenary then?" Tera asked with confusion.
"Because..." Richard thought about what he was going to say, would he tell her the truth and say he stayed on because he wanted to die? Because his life was worthless? He had to choose what to say.
"Because... do you remember when I told you about my friend? The one that died because I was too damn slow to react?" Richard's voice had both anger and sadness in it.
"Yes, I do." Tera replied.
"I stayed on so I could protect him." This was partly true, Carter was the most calm mercenary leader, all the others were savages and killed innocent civilians if they got in the way of the mission, but not Carter. Richard figured if he kept Carter alive then he could save lives that would be taken if the mission were carried out by one of the other merc leaders. But he mostly protected him because he became his friend over the years.
"You stayed on risking your own life to protect your friend?" Tera asked.
"Yes."
"Didn't you care about your own life?" Tera asked with a vague look of shock on her face.
Richard thought about his answer again and decided it was best to tell the truth, he decided to tell her why he didn't care about his life.
"No. I was brought up in an orphanage so I didn't know of any family, so nobody was going to miss me if I died. When I reached 18 I got mixed up in gangs, some of the members were talking about joining mercenary groups, but I didn't join. The next year fled the area after I killed most of the gang. I spent the next year traveling, surviving on whatever food I could find and sleeping in caves. Sometime later I knew that I wasn't going to last long living like that so I joined up with the mercenaries. On my first mission we were sent to take out a club owner in one of Johto's city's, Carter was leading the mission, the club had about fifteen big bodyguards all armed with pistols and machine guns. We were a team of eight, and only three of us got out alive. Carter saved me on that mission, I had ran out of bullets and it was only me and this big bouncer guy in the room. Carter was fighting some other guys somewhere in the club with Dwayne who also survived that night. Anyways the big bouncer guy charged at me and pinned me to the wall, I sent my foot right between his legs but that just made him more angry, he grabbed my head and slammed it against one of the tables, I was stunned and down on the ground. The bouncer then kicked me a few times in the stomach. The bouncer when off some where and I heard some glass breaking, I heard his foot steps coming towards me again but just as he reached me a gunshot went off and I heard his body hit the ground and before I knew it Carter was picking me up off the floor. I turned around and I saw the bouncer with a hole where his eye used to be and in his hand was a large broken vodka bottle. I owed Carter my life, so I promised to myself to always watch his back. Over the next few years we became like old war buddies, swapping stories, knocking back a few drinks, hell he even gave me a birthday gift."
Richard stopped his story to grab his knife.
"Stainless steel, his initials are engraved at the end of the handle. Carter Wilson was his full name."
"Why did you kill the gang members?" Tera asked, still confused and intrigued by his personal history.
"Because they kidnapped a small girl... she was only 6 years old, she was frightened and wouldn't stop crying. The leader tried to stop her from crying... by punching her. When I saw his fist raised against that little girl I lost control. I threw myself at him, pinned him on the ground and bashed his face in with my fist whilst slamming his head against the concrete floor. There was only me, the leader and one other gang member in that room, the other gang member tried punching and kicking me off him but I didn't move. I noticed that the leader had a pistol clipped to his belt so I grabbed that and shot the other gang member in the chest. The other gang members heard and came rushing in with weapons, mostly pipes, knives and wood pieces, thankfully there were enough bullets for all of them and I managed to get out of there alive. I dropped the girl off at the first police station I could find and ran off to flee the city."
Tera looked at Richard stunned, 'He's been through so much but only cares about others.' Tera thought to her self, she could see justice and determination in his aura and she admired him for it.
"Your a strong caring person Richard, don't think otherwise." She said to Richard hoping it would cheer him up.
Richard raised his head a little and said, "Thanks." before giving a little smile. Both Richard and Tera looked onwards and now began to see a town.
Richard's bruises were now more visible but thankful most of them were on his torso so nobody could see them, not without lifting his shirt up anyway. Tera's soft fur was now covered in dirt but she didn't seem to mind.
Richard was thinking about their little sparring match, he kept thinking how agile but powerful she was, he admired it. Tera began to examine Richard's aura, the depression than she saw in him had almost vanished completely, replaced with happiness, 'Seems I wasn't the only one that enjoyed the fight' she thought to her self. Richard's mind went from his traveling companion to money, he only had 125 pokédollars left and that would probably only last one day.
"... Hey, did you hear that?" Tera asked.
"Hear what?" Richard replied, puzzled as to what she meant.
"It sounds like water."
Water was all Richard needed to hear, since the fight he felt thirsty, really thirsty. "Might be a waterfall or a spring. Can you find out where the noise is coming from?" Richard asked.
"Sure, follow me!" Tera then began running off into the woods, Richard followed closely behind her. They soon found them selves at a small waterfall, the view was amazing and the water defiantly looked clean enough to drink. Richard went over to the plunge pool which the waterfall had made and began to scoop up some of the water with his hands and drink it. Tera's first thought was to wash the dirt off her fur. Richard decided that now was a good time to take a small rest so he walked over to the shade of the tree and laid on the grass.
After a while Tera was still washing her fur in the cool water of the plunge pool and Richard was now fiddling about with his combat knife which he taken out of his boot. He examined his stainless steel knife closely, it was just like any other combat knife except that his had the letters 'CW' engraved on the end of its handle. He slid it back into the side of his boot when he noticed that Tera had came out of the plunge pool. 'She looks beautiful' as Richard thought this it soon became clear to him that he was attracted to her. Richard got up and decided to move back up to the dirt road, he didn't want to move but if he stayed then he just might have kept staring, and that would have been awkward for both of them.
4 hours later.
It was now dark and both Richard and Tera were tired of walking still following the seemingly endless dirt road.
"Damn, doesn't look like we are going to get to a town tonight." Richard sighed
"What are we going to do then?" Asked the Lucario.
"Keep moving and hope we find some kind of shelter." Richard responded.
1 more hour passed before they stumbled upon an old rangers cabin.
"Looks abandoned." Richard commented.
"I wonder why they would leave it." Tera said.
"I don't know but as long as the roof stays on it I don't really care" Richard said as he opened the creaky wooden door.
Richard and Tera walked into the cabin, it looked creepy, like something from a horror movie, it looked like it had been stripped of anything worth money. Richard didn't like it.
"This place is creepy as hell but this is probably the only shelter we are going to get." Richard said whilst moving into the corner of the cabin.
"It's cold in here." Tera said.
"Yeah, but it's better than sleeping outside." just as Richard said this a cockroach crawled across the floor. Tera gave him a look like she was raising an eyebrow.
"... Alright I was wrong." Richard admitted
"Are we even going to find some decent shelter?" Tera asked.
"I don't know but I think sleeping on the dirt road would be better than sleeping in this dump." Richard said as he watched the cockroach scuttle across the floor.
Richard and Tera both left the cabin and continued down the dirt road. Tera talked to Richard to pass the time.
"When did you become a mercenary?" The Lucario asked.
"About 3, maybe 4 years ago." Richard said
"So you were about 21 or 22 when you became a mercenary?" The Lucario questioned.
"Yeah, around about that age." Richard told her.
"Did you like being a mercenary?"
"No." Richard replied sharply
"Why did you stay a mercenary then?" Tera asked with confusion.
"Because..." Richard thought about what he was going to say, would he tell her the truth and say he stayed on because he wanted to die? Because his life was worthless? He had to choose what to say.
"Because... do you remember when I told you about my friend? The one that died because I was too damn slow to react?" Richard's voice had both anger and sadness in it.
"Yes, I do." Tera replied.
"I stayed on so I could protect him." This was partly true, Carter was the most calm mercenary leader, all the others were savages and killed innocent civilians if they got in the way of the mission, but not Carter. Richard figured if he kept Carter alive then he could save lives that would be taken if the mission were carried out by one of the other merc leaders. But he mostly protected him because he became his friend over the years.
"You stayed on risking your own life to protect your friend?" Tera asked.
"Yes."
"Didn't you care about your own life?" Tera asked with a vague look of shock on her face.
Richard thought about his answer again and decided it was best to tell the truth, he decided to tell her why he didn't care about his life.
"No. I was brought up in an orphanage so I didn't know of any family, so nobody was going to miss me if I died. When I reached 18 I got mixed up in gangs, some of the members were talking about joining mercenary groups, but I didn't join. The next year fled the area after I killed most of the gang. I spent the next year traveling, surviving on whatever food I could find and sleeping in caves. Sometime later I knew that I wasn't going to last long living like that so I joined up with the mercenaries. On my first mission we were sent to take out a club owner in one of Johto's city's, Carter was leading the mission, the club had about fifteen big bodyguards all armed with pistols and machine guns. We were a team of eight, and only three of us got out alive. Carter saved me on that mission, I had ran out of bullets and it was only me and this big bouncer guy in the room. Carter was fighting some other guys somewhere in the club with Dwayne who also survived that night. Anyways the big bouncer guy charged at me and pinned me to the wall, I sent my foot right between his legs but that just made him more angry, he grabbed my head and slammed it against one of the tables, I was stunned and down on the ground. The bouncer then kicked me a few times in the stomach. The bouncer when off some where and I heard some glass breaking, I heard his foot steps coming towards me again but just as he reached me a gunshot went off and I heard his body hit the ground and before I knew it Carter was picking me up off the floor. I turned around and I saw the bouncer with a hole where his eye used to be and in his hand was a large broken vodka bottle. I owed Carter my life, so I promised to myself to always watch his back. Over the next few years we became like old war buddies, swapping stories, knocking back a few drinks, hell he even gave me a birthday gift."
Richard stopped his story to grab his knife.
"Stainless steel, his initials are engraved at the end of the handle. Carter Wilson was his full name."
"Why did you kill the gang members?" Tera asked, still confused and intrigued by his personal history.
"Because they kidnapped a small girl... she was only 6 years old, she was frightened and wouldn't stop crying. The leader tried to stop her from crying... by punching her. When I saw his fist raised against that little girl I lost control. I threw myself at him, pinned him on the ground and bashed his face in with my fist whilst slamming his head against the concrete floor. There was only me, the leader and one other gang member in that room, the other gang member tried punching and kicking me off him but I didn't move. I noticed that the leader had a pistol clipped to his belt so I grabbed that and shot the other gang member in the chest. The other gang members heard and came rushing in with weapons, mostly pipes, knives and wood pieces, thankfully there were enough bullets for all of them and I managed to get out of there alive. I dropped the girl off at the first police station I could find and ran off to flee the city."
Tera looked at Richard stunned, 'He's been through so much but only cares about others.' Tera thought to her self, she could see justice and determination in his aura and she admired him for it.
"Your a strong caring person Richard, don't think otherwise." She said to Richard hoping it would cheer him up.
Richard raised his head a little and said, "Thanks." before giving a little smile. Both Richard and Tera looked onwards and now began to see a town.