Bruce took small steps when approaching the tree, until he was about three feet away from it, at which point he quickly took a few steps to the side before ducking, expecting to find someone there, but only finding the other side of the tree, and nothing more.

"Mother fucker..." Bruce quietly swore to himself, keeping his weapon drawn just in case. Just as soon as Bruce started to calm down, he heard a noise, movement coming from behind a tree to his right. Bruce quickly took cover behind the tree he previously thought someone was hiding behind and shouted, "Fucking come out now or I'll fucking blow your brains out!"

There was no response, for a few seconds everything was totally silent, until Bruce broke that silence by firing three rounds into the tree he heard movement behind. Almost as soon as he did this, he heard something running away, it didn't sound like a human, something lighter than that, but that didn't stop Bruce from firing another five rounds in the direction that he had heard the creature fleeing.

"Get back here you cowardly cunt!" he shouted sprinting a short distance to take cover behind another tree before realizing it probably wasn't a good idea to chase down whatever it was that was watching him without backup. Even if it didn't sound heavy, it could still be deadly.

He quickly pressed a button on his earpiece which allowed him to communicate with all the other humans on the team using the earpieces.

"I've got some fucking movement here!" he shouted loud enough that he could be heard even if he didn't have the earpiece.

Everyone back at camp heard the gunshots, Owen, Tobias, Richard and Tera all began running towards Bruce's position where as the rest stayed behind and held their position, in order to keep their camp and transportation secure.

Meanwhile, Kiara was now out of breath, her fur still standing on end slightly from the shock "I-I can't believe he shot at me!" she exclaimed to herself as she began wondering how she could make her way back towards camp without getting shot at.

'I guess that's the last time I peek at Bruce. Why was I even trying to get another look? That was a stupid idea!' she scolded herself in her mind. She knew why she was trying to get another look at Bruce's private parts, she just really didn't want to admit it to herself.

She couldn't believe she was falling for someone who had tried to kill her on multiple occasions, someone who she had wanted to freeze to death when she had first met him, and more importantly, someone who was probably more flammable than petrol.

'Why the fuck do I like him so much!' she contemplated before going back to worrying about getting shot at again. 'Shit! Shit! Shit! Okay... Just walk back into camp and act casual... shit.' Kiara thought to herself before walking back to camp, slowly and carefully.

Meanwhile, Bruce was now shouting at Richard, Owen, Tera and Tobias. "I fucking know I saw movement! I shot at the fucker and it ran off!" he yelled, pointing his shotgun in that direction

Tera then quickly interrupted. "It could have been a wild Pokemon, or even you could've hit an innocent person!" she exclaimed.

"It was taking cover behind trees! It wasn't a fucking animal and if it wasn't a hostile Pokémon, why was it fucking hiding and watching me!" Bruce angrily shouted, staring at Tera.

Richard then quickly defended Tera's argument, standing in front of her. "Imagine what a wild Pokémon would be thinking seeing a human standing around in a forest with a pistol, if I was one I'd be hiding too." he replied, using hand motions.

"I don't like things watching me take a piss!" Bruce yelled, looking angry.

Richard shook his head before asking, "Which way did it run?"

"That way." Bruce stated, pointing into the direction which he shot yet again.

Both Richard and Tera walked over to where Bruce pointed.

Tera didn't know where Richard was going, she just followed him to make sure he was safe. As Richard approached a tree with a few bullets lodged into it, he looked down to the snow and noticed something, tracks.

He knelt down in the stow to take a closer look, from the looks of it, the thing watching Bruce was four legged and not very big.

Only one friendly culprit came to mind, but he didn't dare say, he just got up and looked back to Tera. "Whatever was watching Bruce probably wasn't hostile, but just keep your eyes open just in case." he said.

Tera looked at Richard with a concerned look on her face as she asked, "Do you think we're in danger?"

"As long as we're going after Silas, I think we'll always be in danger. But I don't think we have anything to worry about tonight, I'll be by your side all night." Richard told her; the last part to put her mind at ease, as he didn't want her worrying too much.

Tera smiled at Richard as she playfully said, "I can take care of myself you know."

Richard chuckled a little before stating, "I know you're strong, you don't need me to stay safe, but that won't stop me from trying."

"You're stronger." Tera giggled, with an added blush.

Richard smiled as he replied, "You underestimate yourself, I bet you could easily take me down in our sparring sessions, if you didn't hold back so much."

"You hold back a lot too." Tera quickly pointed out.

"True, but that's because I don't want to hurt you so much, even if the pain is only temporary." Richard told her.

"And that's why I hold back too." Tera repeated with a soft smile on her face.

Richard then held out his hand, saying "Come on, lets go back to camp."

Tera placed her paw in Richard's hand. "Okay, maybe later you can show me how strong you really are." Tera suggested in a shy yet seductive way.

Richard smiled when those words left her lips, but then he remembered Kovick's advice.

Then he quickly reminded himself just because they can't mate doesn't mean they can't have a little fun. "How about I show you right now?" Richard said to Tera as he led her back to camp whilst holding her paw in his hand.

Tera could feel her cheeks starting to heat up as she nodded and hurried back to camp with Richard, rushing back to their tent.

Kovick was now sitting by the campfire with his handgun drawn, Louis and Reaper were a little further away from him, by the tents and near the car, keeping watch. Kovick wondered what Bruce had seen, whatever he seen, it sounded like he was convinced that it was hostile, he must have been pretty sure if he shot at it.

Kovick kept and looking all around himself, around the tents and the trees surrounding them, and then he saw movement. Kovick quickly stood up but didn't aim his pistol, because he recognized what the source of the movement was. "Kiara!" Kovick shouted, waving his hand over to her as he walked towards the Glaceon.

"Hey." Kiara nonchalantly replied as she walked towards the blond-haired human.

"Do you know what's going on in the forest?" Kovick curiously asked her.

"I heard shooting and Bruce shouting, I just guessed he was trying to open up one of his bottles." Kiara joked as she smiled, almost as if she wasn't shot at a few minutes ago.

"I don't think that was Bruce trying to open up a bottle." Kovick began with a small chuckle. "So, what were you doing in the forest? Keeping watch again?"

'I've been keeping watch on Bruce very well.' she thought, and was about, "Err, yes! So, what have you been doing?"

"Me? Oh, just talking to Owen about family stuff." Kovick answered, looking out into the distance.

"Family stuff? Owen has a family? I mean, he still talks to family?" Kiara asked with a confused look on her face.

"I don't really know about that, he just sort of got me talking about my family." Kovick replied, directing his attention back to her.

As Kiara talked to Kovick, she began planning her excuse for spying on Bruce if someone found out it was her spying on him. She just hoped she wouldn't need an excuse any time soon. A few minutes later, Bruce and the others finally came back to camp.

Kiara was trying her hardest not to seem suspicious, but maybe she was trying too hard. She didn't know if she should make some snappy comment about his drinking problem or to just keep her mouth shut. She really didn't want him finding out it was her that was watching him.

Bruce now walked back over towards the campfire and sat down by it. He knew he saw something, he saw the prints in the snow, they looked like they were from a cat or a dog, but the prints were too messy to tell what they were really from. He guessed it was some kind of Pokémon because it was smart enough to use cover, but then he began thinking,

'What Pokémon would wanna watch me taking a piss?'

A few more minutes passed, and everything was settling down once more, although Tobias still kept alert. Owen, Kovick, Bruce and Kiara were now sitting by the campfire. Owen talked to Kovick to pass the time, although he knew the incident with Bruce probably wasn't a hostile encounter, he didn't want to take any chances. He wanted to stay alert until he was sure they were out of danger.

"So then, any brothers or sisters?" the agent asked Kovick, getting back to their previous conversation.

"Nope, I'm an only child. What about you?" Kovick curiously inquired, putting a hand to his chin.

"The same." Owen replied, laying back.

"What's your family like?" Kovick asked, wanting to know more about Owen. He didn't say much about his personal life at all.

"I'm not sure." Owen responded, sitting up again, and looking at the ground.

"You're not sure?" Kovick asked with a confused tone in his voice.

"It's a long story." Owen stated.

"And it sounds like we'll be on this mission a long time, come on, tell me." Kovick said to him.

Owen sighed once before saying, "Okay then. My father was an agent, like me. My mother was a soldier, so as you can imagine, she was quite strict. My father seemed to know everything about me despite nearly never seeing me, he was always too busy working, he was a workaholic."

Owen looked up and around slowly, continuing, "I didn't have much of a childhood; they were always too busy pushing me to do my best, sending me off to expensive schools that I never wanted to go to. On the plus side, I did get to meet interesting people, the down side was that I didn't really have time to get to know them because of the piles of work I got buried under."

"That sounds like too much responsibility for a child." Kovick responded, with a look of concern.

"It was, but I got used to it. Anyway, when I was around about nineteen, my mother died, lung cancer. My father died shortly after her, natural causes they say." Owen said in a less then happy way.

"You think he died some other way?" Kovick curiously asked.

"I don't think anyone killed him, not intentionally anyway. I just don't think he died of natural causes." Owen explained, rubbing his chin.

Kovick kind of regretted asking Owen about his family now. 'I should have known there was a reason he didn't want to bring up his family!' he thought to himself before saying, "Err, well, I'm sorry for your loss."

"It wasn't much of a loss. I hardly knew him." Owen flatly replied.

Kovick could clearly see that Owen resented his parents, it reminded him that he was lucky to have parents that care about him. "Do you have any other family members?" Kovick asked before quickly kicking himself in his mind for asking about Owen's family again, knowing the answer may not be a positive one.

"I'm not sure, I remember finding out that I did have some family in Sinnoh, but that was a while back. I don't know if they're still alive but I don't really feel the need to find them. They probably don't even know I exist anyway, it's best to keep things that way." Owen coldly replied, with a small frown on his face.

Kovick guessed in a way, Owen was right. He could imagine how awkward it would be, introducing himself to his own family that didn't even know that he existed. But then he began thinking, what if they do know he exists, and want to meet him? "What if they do know you exist and what if they do want to meet you?" Kovick questioned him.

"They can live without me, just like they always have done. I asked my contact, Rhea, to do some digging up on my family. Apparently I have an uncle and two cousins, but I don't feel the need to tell them I exist. It was like the rest of my family avoided my parents, or maybe they were just so busy they cut the rest of my family out of their lives and mine. Even at their funerals, the rest of my family was nowhere to be seen, just their friends and people they worked with." Owen replied as he looked into the flames of the campfire.

"That doesn't mean they don't want to meet you." Kovick told him.

"They might want to meet me, but I don't think they'd even like me if I did meet them. I looked up my family history, not once did any member of my family marry or have children with a Pokemon, they're rich, pure humans. I don't think they'd want me, a bisexual man in love with a Gallade, disgracing their rich perfect family." Owen replied with a sigh. "Even if they didn't care about that, I'd only put them in danger as long as I'm working as an agent." he added.

"Is that why your father wasn't around? Because he was afraid of putting you in danger?" Kovick asked him.

"That had crossed my mind, but... I just don't know." Owen responded as he started to stare at the ground.

Kovick could see depression in Owen's face, he couldn't help but feel like he made the agent suddenly feel like crap. "Cheer up, things will get better." Kovick optimistically told him.

"I hope they will." Owen said as he turned his attention back to the medic.

Kovick felt like saying what's the worst that could happen, but he already knew the answer to that wouldn't be a good one, so he just stayed quiet as he reached into his pocket and took out a chocolate bar that would've melted by now if it wasn't so cold.

Meanwhile, both Richard and Tera now lay on their sides, in their tent, facing each other, kissing.

They embraced each other tightly, lost in their own world as they explored each other's hot wet mouths with their tongues. Tera's paws were on the back of Richard's head, pulling him deeper into the kiss. His hands stroked her lower back, stroking a little lower with every second they spent holding the intimate kiss they shared. Together, they slowly pulled out of the kiss, giving each over several smaller kisses after doing so.

Richard now looked into Tera's perfect crimson eyes as he whispered to her, "If I could kiss you for an eternity, I would."

Tera smiled brightly as she suggested, "I wouldn't; I'd be too busy mating with you for an eternity."

Hearing that made Richard chuckle a little. "I'd like that a lot." he said with a smirk.

Tera responded by kissing Richard's cheek and quietly whispering, "I love you Richard."

"I love you too Tera." Richard happily replied as he kissed the top of Tera's head.

Tera quietly cuddled up to Richard, closing her eyes as a few words left her lips. "I wish we had more alone time together." he whispered into her ear.

"Lets make the most of our time now." Richard said before kissing her snout and gently placing his hands on her butt, causing her eyes to flutter open.

Tera smiled widely before pecking Richard's lips, and moving herself on top of him. Her eyes locked on to his as she felt Richard's fingers at her opening, rubbing it slowly, causing her to let out a few lustful whimpers before whispering, "L-let me make you feel good Richard..."

Richard could feel his cheeks heating up as he began blushing just at the sound of her sweet voice, completely forgetting what Kovick had told him not too long ago. "Only if you let me make you feel good." he whispered back to her.

Tera responded with a shy nod before getting off Richard and kneeling besides him as she began taking off his pants, with a little help from him with the belt. It didn't take long for her to fully strip Richard, exposing his hard member. They both lay on their sides as Tera licked the tip of Richard's manhood while he now rubbed the lips of her hot pussy.

Tera licked and lapped at her lover's cock with her wet Lucario tongue. She felt like taking his entire length deep into her throat, but she just took small licks of his tip instead, restraining herself for the time being as she felt Richard's fingers slowly being pushed into her cunt.

Richard pumped two fingers into Tera's wet slit as her amazing tongue licked over his tip repeatedly, causing him to let loose a pleasured sigh from his lips. He didn't want to just make her feel good, he wanted to make her feel amazing. He pulled out his fingers from her slit, now coated in her warm clear love fluid, and replaced them with his tongue.

Tera hummed slightly as she felt Richard's warm wet tongue, licking over her entire slit several times before quickly lapping at the top of her cunt. Small huffs could be heard from Tera as she felt her lover's tongue assault her sensitive clit, she felt tempted to squirm but she wanted Richard to keep licking, uninterrupted.

Suddenly, Richard let a small moan slip pass his lips as he felt Tera taking his tip into her mouth, and sucking on it hard. Slowly, he could feel the pressure building up inside him, wanting to unload into her mouth. He then licked back up and down her slit, causing her to suck a little harder before he worked his tongue into her tight fuck hole, feeling it clench at his tongue slightly the more he licked at her inner walls.

The air around them grew heavy with passion. Tera began breathing in and out a little more heavily now as she took more of her soul mate's length into her mouth, sucking and licking at it hard and fast, wanting to please her human lover as she felt something wet running down one of her thighs as that tingling feeling started to rise deep inside her. She knew it wouldn't be long now.

Richard tried to hold back the deep lusty moans that were building up inside him as Tera sucked and licked at his cock, trying to suck out his seed as he went back to lapping at her clit before quickly plunging his tongue back into her perfect wet pussy, as strong lusty groans left his mouth whilst thrusting very slightly into Tera's mouth, feeling himself seconds away from his release he so needed.

Tera could feel herself shake as a sense of satisfaction washed over her, completely overriding her other senses for a moment as her tight cunt became even tighter, beginning to gush her warm feminine juices into Richard's mouth who hungrily licked up every drop from her cunt. She wanted to just scream out, but her lover's cock down her throat stopped that from happening.

Richard closed his eyes tightly, he would've shouted out because of the extreme pleasure he now felt, but still, he lapped away at Tera's slit as he felt his hard cock spurting his hot cum deep down into Tera's throat.

After the feeling of paralyzing pleasure very slowly passed, they both took their mouths off each others genitals, but not after cleaning them with their tongues. After that, they both just lay there, panting very heavily before they both slowly sat up right and looked into each others eyes.

No words were exchanged, the loving look in their eyes said all they wanted to say before they closed them, and both kissed each other, mixing their saliva among their sexual fluids as their tongues clashed for some time before they both slowly pulled out of the kiss, and lay on their sleeping bags with each other, both happy and satisfied as they cuddled up to each other before closing their eyes.

They quietly stroked each other until they both fell asleep.