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.
Meeting people.
Richard and Tera walked down the streets of the town, nothing special about it, some houses, fire station, police station, pokécenter, a couple of shops and a hotel.
5 minutes later and Richard was down to 25 pokédollars after renting the room for the night. This room didn't have a couch, just a double bed, a TV, a couple of old looking cheaply made drawers and a door leading to the bathroom. Both Richard and Tera collapsed on the double bed, Richard was aching all over from the sparing match combined with walking down the dirt road for a few hours. Richard began to feel selfish because he hadn't asked Tera if she was hurt after the match.
"Tera, you're not hurt are you?" Richard said, his voice showing concern for her.
"Just aching a little, I'm fine... But thanks for asking." Tera noticed the concern in his voice. It was nice to know she had someone that actually cared for her.
"Well it looks like we're going to have to share the bed, I'm sorry that we couldn't get a better room." Richard apologized.
"It's fine Richard, at least its better than sleeping outside or in that cabin." Tera said with a smile.
"You're right about that. I'm going to get myself washed up." Richard said as he made his way to the bathroom to wash the dirt left on him after their little sparing match.
By the time Richard had finished washing up Tera was already asleep. Her paws were twitching, Richard figured that she was having a dream. 'Aww, she's so cute.' Richard thought to himself as he pulled the covers over her shoulders and then slowly got into the bed so he didn't wake her.
Richard easily drifted of into a deep sleep. Richard used to have nightmares every night, those nightmares were usually old memories, people dying, getting slaughtered, but since he met Tera, he hasn't had one bad nightmare, so far.
Morning came, it was now somewhere near 11 o'clock and both Tera and Richard were now awake. Tera was in the shower and Richard was watching the TV flicking through channels again, as he did he spotted something, a Televised Pokemon battle. Richard hated Pokemon battles, he saw it as unnecessarily violent and it served no purpose except for human entertainment, he saw the Pokemon as slaves and their trainers as pathetic kids that wanted to feel powerful. He doubted very much that the trainers could handle themselves in a combat situation 'Anyone that cared for the Pokemon would not make them fight until either one is knocked out or killed.' Richard's angry voice said in his head. Richard saw a Blastoise and a Charizard getting into position, their trainers behind them with smug arrogant looks on their faces and decided that he had already seen enough. He switched the TV off and began to think about what his next move would be, he needed money, maybe there were some jobs around town or maybe somebody needs help with something. He decided he would figure it out once he had eaten something. Tera came out of the bathroom.
"Where are we going next?" the Lucario asked.
"I'm not sure, lets go get something to eat before we figure that one out." Richard answered while moving to the front door. Tera knew that he didn't plan ahead, but she trusted him.
Later that day, Tera and Richard were now in another cafe, the people around them looked like locals, some were wearing farming overalls and some in casual clothes but one person stood out the most among the people in that cafe, a man in a sheriffs uniform. He had blonde hair short at the back and sides, a little longer on top, around about the same height as Richard, he was wearing a green jacket with the word, 'Sheriff' written in yellow on the back of it and a badge pinned on the front right side, Green jeans and black boots, he looked like he was somewhere in his mid thirties. Richard noticed a few times he glanced over making him suspicious. Richard and Tera were now both eating a big steak, Richard had also bought some chocolate bars for the road ahead, he heard somewhere that a Lucario can eat chocolate, he wasn't sure if that was true but he guessed he was gonna find out. Richard and Tera had finished their food and Richard had payed their bill which left him with no money at all.
Tera and Richard were now walking down the streets, for Tera this was just a stroll but for Richard it was time to spend thinking about what to do next. Richard's thoughts were interrupted by someone shouting over in their direction.
"Hey, you two!"
Richard and Tera stopped and turned to look at who was calling out to them. It was a man, he had black long hair, looked to be in his 40's, he wore a white shirt and blue jeans. The man began running towards them, Richard and Tera glanced at each other as he did. The man finally reached them, he was out of breath and breathing in deeply despite the street he ran down not being to long.
"Is there something wrong?" Richard asked the man.
"Do... Don't suppose you two want to make a little money do ya?" the panting man asked the two now in front of him.
Richard couldn't believe his luck, but his mind turned to what he wanted in exchange for money. "That just depends on what your asking us to do." Richard replied sternly to the man.
"Well, something has been prowling around out side of my house, its been leaving scratch marks on my door and been making low growling sounds that's got both me and my little boy on edge. I just need you to find out what's behind it all." The man answered.
"Why did you ask us and not anybody else?" Richard asked with suspicion in his voice.
"Well everybody here is caught up in their own business and some wont do it because they are scared of what they might find. I asked you two because your not from around here so your probably not as busy as everybody around here and you both look like you can handle yourselves if you do come up against something nasty."
Richard took a moment to think about what he was asking of them, he needed the money but it was probably going to put him and more importantly Tera in danger too. He then turned to Tera.
"What do you want to do Tera?" Richard asked.
"We should help this man if it puts his mind and his child's to rest."
Selfless, another thing Richard admired about her. "Alright, we will help you." Richard answered.
"Fantastic! Come with me, I will show you my place." The man began to walk in the direction he came from with Richard and Tera following close behind. About 30 minutes had passed and they had now reached the man's cabin located on the outskirts of the town. Richard noticed scratch marks on the cabin's door.
"Well, here we are. Whatever it is that keeps skulking around here always comes when it starts to get dark so you could stay here till then... Oh, by the way my names Derick." the man said as he opened the cabin door. They all walked in to the cabin and there was a small boy, looked to be around 7 or 8 sitting on the couch that now looked over to the group that just walked in.
"And this is my boy, Chris."
The boy got up and walked over to his dad, his eyes going over the man and the Lucario that entered the cabin.
"Hello." the boy said with a shy tone to his voice.
Richard knelt down to the boy so he would seem less imposing. "Hi, my name's Richard, and this is my friend Tera" Richard said whilst pointing to the Lucario behind him.
"They're here to find out what's been sneaking around outside." Derick said to his little boy.
"But what if they get hurt?" Chris said obviously worried for Richard and Tera.
"Don't worry, we will be careful." Tera said hoping to calm the little one. The boy gave a smile and walked back to the couch to watch something on TV.
"If you manage to find out what's been sneaking around out there then I will pay you 100 pokédollars, another 100 if you manage to make it stop."
Both Richard and Tera quickly looked at each other as he finished his sentence.
"We will find out what it is but I cant promise to make it stop." Richard replied with a serious tone to his voice.
"That's fine. Your welcome to stay here till it gets dark, that's when it usually comes around."
sometime later.
It had gotten dark and Richard and Tera were now lying on the ground, prone. They couldn't see much and they didn't want to talk to each other just in case they gave away their positions to whatever it was they were watching out for. Richard had taken his knife out of his boot just in case they had to fight anything. Tera had spotted movement by the bushes near the cabin, she tapped Richard on the shoulder and pointed towards the bush, Richard gave a nod in response. One more minute had passed and they could now see the the perpetrator, a cat like thing, around about 4 foot tall, white fur, red zigzagging pattern across its stomach, one red ear and red fur on its front paws. Richard examined it from a distance, he looked towards its paws and saw on both of them that it had two large claws. Tera knew this was a Zangoose, from the looks of things it was shivering and looked like it was trying to seek shelter, it didn't look like it meant harm.
Tera turned to Richard "It doesn't mean any harm, I will go talk to it."
Richard reached out for her and grabbed her by the shoulder "Wait, I'm coming with you." Tera nodded and they both got up and walked towards the Zangoose. The Zangoose's finely tuned ears picked up the sound of foot steps behind it and snapped around startled by the sight of a man and a Lucario standing behind it. The Zangoose backed into the wall of the cabin and began to snarl at the two of them, at first it thought the human was going to capture it but it saw no pokéballs. Richard and Tera stopped in their tracks.
"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you." Richard said to the still snarling Zangoose. Richard figured that it either didn't understand him or it wont listen to him.
"Tera, can you talk to it?" Richard asked.
"I'll try." She responded.
A few minutes went by and Richard was still looking on, Tera had said nothing... Well, nothing that could be heard by Richard anyway and all he could hear from the Zangoose were faint growls and whines, he could have sworn that it had said it's own name a couple of times.
"She says that she was looking for shelter because she was freezing." Tera finally said, He didn't know how she could understand the Zangoose but he didn't want to ask to avoid a really long and possibly complex answer. Richard now had to decide what to do with the Zangoose, he wondered weather Derick would consider taking her in, if not then he didn't know what to do, he also wanted to know whether she was hostile but he thought Tera would be the best judge of that.
"Do you think she could be harmful to others?" Richard asked Tera.
"No, she only growled at us because she was startled and when I talk to her I don't sense any anger or hate in her voice."
Richard trusted Tera's judgment, he made his way over to the cabin door and knocked three times. Derick opened the door looking slightly cautious but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Richard standing there, unharmed.
"I found your problem." Richard pointed to the right of him which was out of Derick line of sight, he looked around the corner of his door and saw Richard's Lucario with a Zangoose. When Derick realized that he sent a man that looked like he was a soldier and a Lucario just to find a Zangoose at his cabin, he felt rather stupid but it did raise some questions in his mind.
"Do you know why it was scratching at my door?" Derick inquired.
"Tera tells me that she was looking for shelter because she was cold, I guess she was scratching at your door to get your attention so she could rest up in here. I... I don't suppose you would consider taking her in would you? " Richard asked.
Derick now looked slightly ashamed, he wanted to let her in but he couldn't trust a wild Zangoose around his little boy, so he gave his answer. "I'm sorry, I would take her in but... I just don't want to but my boy in any danger ya know?"
"I understand." Richard responded.
"Here's the money I owe ya." Derick handed over 200 pokedollers to Richard who gladly accepted. Derick then closed the door to his cabin with the look of shame still on his face. Richard headed over towards Tera and the Zangoose.
"Well, the good news is that we now have money but the bad news is that the Zangoose still has nowhere to stay." Richard said in a disappointed tone.
"What should we do? We cant just leave her to freeze out here." Tera looked very concerned for the Zangoose. Richard thought about it but he wasn't sure whether it was a good idea.
"Tera... Ask her if she wants to come with us, we will head back to the hotel, we have enough money to stay another night now." Tera knew Richard wouldn't just leave the Zangoose behind, he was too caring and kind to do that. Richard looked on as Tera asked her the question.
"... She said yes." Tera responded.
5 minutes later and Richard was down to 25 pokédollars after renting the room for the night. This room didn't have a couch, just a double bed, a TV, a couple of old looking cheaply made drawers and a door leading to the bathroom. Both Richard and Tera collapsed on the double bed, Richard was aching all over from the sparing match combined with walking down the dirt road for a few hours. Richard began to feel selfish because he hadn't asked Tera if she was hurt after the match.
"Tera, you're not hurt are you?" Richard said, his voice showing concern for her.
"Just aching a little, I'm fine... But thanks for asking." Tera noticed the concern in his voice. It was nice to know she had someone that actually cared for her.
"Well it looks like we're going to have to share the bed, I'm sorry that we couldn't get a better room." Richard apologized.
"It's fine Richard, at least its better than sleeping outside or in that cabin." Tera said with a smile.
"You're right about that. I'm going to get myself washed up." Richard said as he made his way to the bathroom to wash the dirt left on him after their little sparing match.
By the time Richard had finished washing up Tera was already asleep. Her paws were twitching, Richard figured that she was having a dream. 'Aww, she's so cute.' Richard thought to himself as he pulled the covers over her shoulders and then slowly got into the bed so he didn't wake her.
Richard easily drifted of into a deep sleep. Richard used to have nightmares every night, those nightmares were usually old memories, people dying, getting slaughtered, but since he met Tera, he hasn't had one bad nightmare, so far.
Morning came, it was now somewhere near 11 o'clock and both Tera and Richard were now awake. Tera was in the shower and Richard was watching the TV flicking through channels again, as he did he spotted something, a Televised Pokemon battle. Richard hated Pokemon battles, he saw it as unnecessarily violent and it served no purpose except for human entertainment, he saw the Pokemon as slaves and their trainers as pathetic kids that wanted to feel powerful. He doubted very much that the trainers could handle themselves in a combat situation 'Anyone that cared for the Pokemon would not make them fight until either one is knocked out or killed.' Richard's angry voice said in his head. Richard saw a Blastoise and a Charizard getting into position, their trainers behind them with smug arrogant looks on their faces and decided that he had already seen enough. He switched the TV off and began to think about what his next move would be, he needed money, maybe there were some jobs around town or maybe somebody needs help with something. He decided he would figure it out once he had eaten something. Tera came out of the bathroom.
"Where are we going next?" the Lucario asked.
"I'm not sure, lets go get something to eat before we figure that one out." Richard answered while moving to the front door. Tera knew that he didn't plan ahead, but she trusted him.
Later that day, Tera and Richard were now in another cafe, the people around them looked like locals, some were wearing farming overalls and some in casual clothes but one person stood out the most among the people in that cafe, a man in a sheriffs uniform. He had blonde hair short at the back and sides, a little longer on top, around about the same height as Richard, he was wearing a green jacket with the word, 'Sheriff' written in yellow on the back of it and a badge pinned on the front right side, Green jeans and black boots, he looked like he was somewhere in his mid thirties. Richard noticed a few times he glanced over making him suspicious. Richard and Tera were now both eating a big steak, Richard had also bought some chocolate bars for the road ahead, he heard somewhere that a Lucario can eat chocolate, he wasn't sure if that was true but he guessed he was gonna find out. Richard and Tera had finished their food and Richard had payed their bill which left him with no money at all.
Tera and Richard were now walking down the streets, for Tera this was just a stroll but for Richard it was time to spend thinking about what to do next. Richard's thoughts were interrupted by someone shouting over in their direction.
"Hey, you two!"
Richard and Tera stopped and turned to look at who was calling out to them. It was a man, he had black long hair, looked to be in his 40's, he wore a white shirt and blue jeans. The man began running towards them, Richard and Tera glanced at each other as he did. The man finally reached them, he was out of breath and breathing in deeply despite the street he ran down not being to long.
"Is there something wrong?" Richard asked the man.
"Do... Don't suppose you two want to make a little money do ya?" the panting man asked the two now in front of him.
Richard couldn't believe his luck, but his mind turned to what he wanted in exchange for money. "That just depends on what your asking us to do." Richard replied sternly to the man.
"Well, something has been prowling around out side of my house, its been leaving scratch marks on my door and been making low growling sounds that's got both me and my little boy on edge. I just need you to find out what's behind it all." The man answered.
"Why did you ask us and not anybody else?" Richard asked with suspicion in his voice.
"Well everybody here is caught up in their own business and some wont do it because they are scared of what they might find. I asked you two because your not from around here so your probably not as busy as everybody around here and you both look like you can handle yourselves if you do come up against something nasty."
Richard took a moment to think about what he was asking of them, he needed the money but it was probably going to put him and more importantly Tera in danger too. He then turned to Tera.
"What do you want to do Tera?" Richard asked.
"We should help this man if it puts his mind and his child's to rest."
Selfless, another thing Richard admired about her. "Alright, we will help you." Richard answered.
"Fantastic! Come with me, I will show you my place." The man began to walk in the direction he came from with Richard and Tera following close behind. About 30 minutes had passed and they had now reached the man's cabin located on the outskirts of the town. Richard noticed scratch marks on the cabin's door.
"Well, here we are. Whatever it is that keeps skulking around here always comes when it starts to get dark so you could stay here till then... Oh, by the way my names Derick." the man said as he opened the cabin door. They all walked in to the cabin and there was a small boy, looked to be around 7 or 8 sitting on the couch that now looked over to the group that just walked in.
"And this is my boy, Chris."
The boy got up and walked over to his dad, his eyes going over the man and the Lucario that entered the cabin.
"Hello." the boy said with a shy tone to his voice.
Richard knelt down to the boy so he would seem less imposing. "Hi, my name's Richard, and this is my friend Tera" Richard said whilst pointing to the Lucario behind him.
"They're here to find out what's been sneaking around outside." Derick said to his little boy.
"But what if they get hurt?" Chris said obviously worried for Richard and Tera.
"Don't worry, we will be careful." Tera said hoping to calm the little one. The boy gave a smile and walked back to the couch to watch something on TV.
"If you manage to find out what's been sneaking around out there then I will pay you 100 pokédollars, another 100 if you manage to make it stop."
Both Richard and Tera quickly looked at each other as he finished his sentence.
"We will find out what it is but I cant promise to make it stop." Richard replied with a serious tone to his voice.
"That's fine. Your welcome to stay here till it gets dark, that's when it usually comes around."
sometime later.
It had gotten dark and Richard and Tera were now lying on the ground, prone. They couldn't see much and they didn't want to talk to each other just in case they gave away their positions to whatever it was they were watching out for. Richard had taken his knife out of his boot just in case they had to fight anything. Tera had spotted movement by the bushes near the cabin, she tapped Richard on the shoulder and pointed towards the bush, Richard gave a nod in response. One more minute had passed and they could now see the the perpetrator, a cat like thing, around about 4 foot tall, white fur, red zigzagging pattern across its stomach, one red ear and red fur on its front paws. Richard examined it from a distance, he looked towards its paws and saw on both of them that it had two large claws. Tera knew this was a Zangoose, from the looks of things it was shivering and looked like it was trying to seek shelter, it didn't look like it meant harm.
Tera turned to Richard "It doesn't mean any harm, I will go talk to it."
Richard reached out for her and grabbed her by the shoulder "Wait, I'm coming with you." Tera nodded and they both got up and walked towards the Zangoose. The Zangoose's finely tuned ears picked up the sound of foot steps behind it and snapped around startled by the sight of a man and a Lucario standing behind it. The Zangoose backed into the wall of the cabin and began to snarl at the two of them, at first it thought the human was going to capture it but it saw no pokéballs. Richard and Tera stopped in their tracks.
"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you." Richard said to the still snarling Zangoose. Richard figured that it either didn't understand him or it wont listen to him.
"Tera, can you talk to it?" Richard asked.
"I'll try." She responded.
A few minutes went by and Richard was still looking on, Tera had said nothing... Well, nothing that could be heard by Richard anyway and all he could hear from the Zangoose were faint growls and whines, he could have sworn that it had said it's own name a couple of times.
"She says that she was looking for shelter because she was freezing." Tera finally said, He didn't know how she could understand the Zangoose but he didn't want to ask to avoid a really long and possibly complex answer. Richard now had to decide what to do with the Zangoose, he wondered weather Derick would consider taking her in, if not then he didn't know what to do, he also wanted to know whether she was hostile but he thought Tera would be the best judge of that.
"Do you think she could be harmful to others?" Richard asked Tera.
"No, she only growled at us because she was startled and when I talk to her I don't sense any anger or hate in her voice."
Richard trusted Tera's judgment, he made his way over to the cabin door and knocked three times. Derick opened the door looking slightly cautious but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Richard standing there, unharmed.
"I found your problem." Richard pointed to the right of him which was out of Derick line of sight, he looked around the corner of his door and saw Richard's Lucario with a Zangoose. When Derick realized that he sent a man that looked like he was a soldier and a Lucario just to find a Zangoose at his cabin, he felt rather stupid but it did raise some questions in his mind.
"Do you know why it was scratching at my door?" Derick inquired.
"Tera tells me that she was looking for shelter because she was cold, I guess she was scratching at your door to get your attention so she could rest up in here. I... I don't suppose you would consider taking her in would you? " Richard asked.
Derick now looked slightly ashamed, he wanted to let her in but he couldn't trust a wild Zangoose around his little boy, so he gave his answer. "I'm sorry, I would take her in but... I just don't want to but my boy in any danger ya know?"
"I understand." Richard responded.
"Here's the money I owe ya." Derick handed over 200 pokedollers to Richard who gladly accepted. Derick then closed the door to his cabin with the look of shame still on his face. Richard headed over towards Tera and the Zangoose.
"Well, the good news is that we now have money but the bad news is that the Zangoose still has nowhere to stay." Richard said in a disappointed tone.
"What should we do? We cant just leave her to freeze out here." Tera looked very concerned for the Zangoose. Richard thought about it but he wasn't sure whether it was a good idea.
"Tera... Ask her if she wants to come with us, we will head back to the hotel, we have enough money to stay another night now." Tera knew Richard wouldn't just leave the Zangoose behind, he was too caring and kind to do that. Richard looked on as Tera asked her the question.
"... She said yes." Tera responded.