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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.
Passing the time.
20 minutes had passed and in that time Richard had signed some documents needed in order to make his becoming a deputy official. Ethan had shown him to his locker with his uniform inside it. The uniform was different from Ethan's and much like Cleaves', the uniform comprised of a light green shirt with badge on the front of it, a black tie which Richard wasn't too keen on, dark green trousers and boots much like the ones Richard was already wearing.
"You can start tomorrow, Cleaves and I will show you the ropes." Ethan said.
"Thanks." Richard was now a deputy.
"Hey, I noticed that you and your friends were sleeping in the hotel. If you want you could stay the night over at my place." Ethan said, hoping to get to know more about his new deputy.
"Yeah, the hotel was beginning to be a drain on my wallet anyway." Richard responded with a smile.
"Good, I will meet you back at reception at nine then. Is that good for you?" Ethan asked.
"Yes, meet you at nine then." Richard headed back for reception, Tera and the Zangoose were waiting for him there. Tera and the Zangoose were talking when Richard arrived, Tera stood up and asked him a question. "Richard, are you the deputy now?"
Richard smiled. "Yes, Ethan and Cleaves will be showing me what to do tomorrow."
Tera smiled at Richard, she knew he would make a great deputy. "What are we going to do now then?" Tera asked.
"Well we will be coming back here to the station at nine so I guess we can do anything we want till then." Richard told her.
Tera looked at Richard with a quizzical look, Richard recognized that look and decided to tell her before she asks. "Ethan has offered to let us stay over at his place tonight. Anyway, what do you two want to do now?"
Tera and the Zangoose talked for a short while before coming up with an answer. "Let's spar!"
Richard looked over to the Zangoose. "Will the Zangoose be sparring with us?" Richard said, hoping the answer was no after taking another look at the Zangoose's claws. "No, she will be watching us." Tera quickly responded. Richard was glad to say the least that the Zangoose was only watching, those claws looked like they could slice his chest open with little effort. "Okay, but we will have to find somewhere open and out of the way of other people." Richard said.
10 minutes had passed and they had found a good, empty spot. The only things around them were trees, The Zangoose was sat down by one of them. Richard and Tera got into position, 2 meters apart and facing each other. They were both ready to fight but they both knew that neither of them were looking to do any real damage. Richard's gray-blue eyes locked on to Tera's Crimson eyes, reading them, watching for movement. Tera took two steps fowards, Richard did the same bringing them almost close enough to touch each other. Richard made the first move by trying to kick Tera in the stomach, but she managed to jump back in time. Richard waited for her counter attack but it didn't come. Their eyes were still locked onto each other. Richard threw another punch but it hit nothing but air as Tera ducked and kicked Richard in his stomach with her powerful legs, he stumbled back but stayed on his feet. Tera threw a straight punch to Richard's chest which made contact, she threw another punch this time aimed at his stomach but Richard grabbed her arm and stopped that from happening, Richard then sent his leg into her stomach which forced her to the ground. She quickly recovered and stood up, going back to watching Richard's movements. Richard quickly stepped forward and threw a punch, Tera ducked and rolled behind Richard, he spun around in time to see her throwing another punch, Richard thought fast and caught her paw in his hand as he threw his fist into the left side of her chest, careful to miss the solid spike in the middle. Both Richard and Tera backed away from each other. Tera moved in closer to Richard, he kicked forward at Tera but she ducked and took out his leg with her own, Richard fell on his back. He noticed that Tera was still heading towards him so he swiped at her with his leg whilst still on the ground, this made Tera jump back and gave Richard enough time to roll backwards and get back onto his feet.
Richard noticed Tera was looking a little tired and he didn't want to risk hurting her. "Want to call it a draw again Tera?"
Tera didn't want to stop just yet but she wanted to give Richard and herself small break. "Sure." Tera said in a nice cheery tone. Richard smiled at her and asked what the Zangoose and Tera would like to do next, Tera answered for the both of them again. "Let's look around the forest some more." Richard thought that sounded quite relaxing.
2 hours later.
Richard was sat by a river, just watching the water flow over the rocks. Tera and The Zangoose were close by, talking to each other. Another hour passed, Richard had fallen asleep by a tree near the river. Tera and the Zangoose saw him sleeping, Tera smiled. "Aw, cute." She said whilst crouching next to him. She placed a paw on his shoulder and shook him slightly. Richard's eyes slowly opened, he saw Tera with her paw on his shoulder. He looked up to the sky and saw it was beginning to get dark, it always gets darker sooner near winter. Richard stood up and headed back to town with Tera and the Zangoose following him. A few minutes later and they were already in the town and eating at the local restaurant they ate at last night. An hour passed as they were eating and drinking, Richard payed the bill and left. As the group walked out side they felt the cold air hit them harshly, Tera and the Zangoose started shivering despite having quite thick fur. Tera noticed that Richard didn't seem to be cold even though he was wearing a short sleeved shirt. Tera wondered if it was down to his training as a mercenary, or maybe where he came from was colder, Tera wanted to know but there was a more important question to ask him.
"Richard, where are we going now?" Tera asked.
"Well we still have a few hours to kill, maybe I will just head back to the police station. Cleaves seems like the kind of guy that knows whats going on around town." Richard responded, heading towards the station.
The group were now in the reception room of the police station, there was no one behind the front desk. "Cleaves?" Richard called out.
"In here!" the voice called out from the office, Richard entered the room and saw Cleaves working on a computer with a Pokemon besides him, it kind of looked like a cat, its body was black, it had gold ring patterns on both its fore and back legs, gold stripes could also be seen on its long ears and tail, there was one gold ring pattern on its head as well.
Cleaves spun around in his chair to see it was Richard "Oh, your back. Is this a friendly visit or do you need me to stitch up somebody's head again?" Cleaves said sarcastically.
"Who's your friend?" Richard asked whilst pointing to the Pokemon besides Cleaves.
"My little friend here is my Umbreon, his name is Stripes, he's also my backup." Cleaves responded.
Richard was slightly confused. "So... they gave you a Pokemon as backup?"
"Only if you put in a request, but I didn't request little Stripes here, I already had him when I became a deputy." Cleaves explained. "But I don't think you came down here to talk about Stripes did you?"
"No, I just wanted to ask, what is there to do in this town?" Richard said.
Cleaves remembered that Richard was new to the town. "Well its a small town, so there's not much to do around here, when I get bored I usually just head over to the shooting range on the other side of this building."
Richard wasn't really surprised that there wasn't much to do, the town looked like the quiet and peaceful sort. He knew he was probably not going to get anything useful out of Cleaves "Alright then, sorry for interrupting... whatever it was you were doing." Richard said.
"Bye." Cleaves said as he left the room.
Richard made his way over to Tera and the Zangoose. "Well, it sounds like there's nothing to do around town. Don't suppose you two have any ideas on how to pass the time do you?" Richard asked.
Tera turned to the Zangoose again, she then turned to Richard to give him their answer "Nope." Richard was expecting a completely different answer. Richard tried thinking of something to do around this town... That's when he remembered what Cleaves said about the shooting range. "Cleaves!" Richard called out. Cleaves heard him calling and quickly minimized the picture of a naked woman on his computer and headed over to reception to see why he was calling, Stripes followed closely behind. "Yes, what is it now?" Cleaves said sounding tired. "I bet I'm a better shot than you are." Richard declared.
Cleaves didn't know where this came from but he sensed a chance to make a little money. "Is this a challenge? If it is I only play for money."
Richard had a smile on his face "How does 50 pokedollers sound to you?"
"Sounds like its mine." Cleaves said with confidence in his voice.
Richard looked at his smug face, he was going to enjoy taking his money. "Lets get to the range then!" Richard said with enthusiasm.
Richard and Cleaves were standing next to each other, Tera, the Zangoose and Stripes were watching the two humans. Cleaves quickly began explaining the rules "OK, now you will start off with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, the clip contains six bullets for six targets. The targets will be shaped like humans, a head shot gets you two points, body shot gets you one point. There is also a civilian target in there that will pop up to trick you, its colored differently from the rest and if you hit it you loose three points. The targets randomly pop up so you wont be able to predict where the targets pop up from and they only stay in their place for two seconds, after that they will just go back into their slots. I think that's everything you need to know so, who do you want to go first? Me or you?" Cleaves asked.
"I will." Richard answered.
"OK, step behind the yellow line and get ready." Cleaves headed over to the wall behind him and hit a green button which then triggered the targets.
The first target popped up on the wall just left of Richard, he pulled off an easy head shot, second one flipped on the wall to the right of him, another head shot. The civilian target popped up in the center, Richard took aim but paused after seeing it wasn't like the others, that pause almost made Richard miss the target that popped up to the right, he didn't have time to aim for the head so he just aimed for the body and shot, it hit. Targets five and six popped up at the same time but they were close to each other, he managed to aim and hit both of their heads. Cleaves was impressed, but he wanted to keep his money.
"Nine points, good job." Cleaves said calmly as he took the gun from Richard and loaded 5 more bullets into its clip. He took his position and looked at Richard "Push that green button over there." Cleaves pointed over to the button he pressed for Richard when he began shooting the targets. He pressed it and Cleaves shot his first target, head shot. Another popped up in the center, another head shot. The next target came from the left of the room, another head shot. The civilian target popped up from the right, Cleaves shot at it but he managed to miss it by centimeters. Two targets popped up again, next to each other like in Richard's round, he shot the one to the right and quickly shot at the second target, his bullet missed the second target and hit the wall behind it. "...Shit." Cleaves said quietly to himself, he had lost.
Richard saw the look of defeat on his face, it made him want to smile but he kept a straight face. Cleaves walked over to Richard to give him 50 pokedollers "Nice shooting." Cleaves said calmly, trying to hide his disappointment.
"Thanks." Richard replied. Cleaves and Stripes headed back to the office, Richard, Tera and the Zangoose headed over to reception to wait for Ethan to show up. Richard, Tera and the Zangoose talked until he arrived.
Ethan walked through the front door and saw the group sitting on one of the couches in reception. "Oh, there you are. Come on, I will take you to my place in my squad car." Ethan said whilst waving his hand towards the door. Richard, Tera and the Zangoose got up and headed outside to Ethan's car, they didn't know what his place looked like but they just hoped it was better than the hotel.
"You can start tomorrow, Cleaves and I will show you the ropes." Ethan said.
"Thanks." Richard was now a deputy.
"Hey, I noticed that you and your friends were sleeping in the hotel. If you want you could stay the night over at my place." Ethan said, hoping to get to know more about his new deputy.
"Yeah, the hotel was beginning to be a drain on my wallet anyway." Richard responded with a smile.
"Good, I will meet you back at reception at nine then. Is that good for you?" Ethan asked.
"Yes, meet you at nine then." Richard headed back for reception, Tera and the Zangoose were waiting for him there. Tera and the Zangoose were talking when Richard arrived, Tera stood up and asked him a question. "Richard, are you the deputy now?"
Richard smiled. "Yes, Ethan and Cleaves will be showing me what to do tomorrow."
Tera smiled at Richard, she knew he would make a great deputy. "What are we going to do now then?" Tera asked.
"Well we will be coming back here to the station at nine so I guess we can do anything we want till then." Richard told her.
Tera looked at Richard with a quizzical look, Richard recognized that look and decided to tell her before she asks. "Ethan has offered to let us stay over at his place tonight. Anyway, what do you two want to do now?"
Tera and the Zangoose talked for a short while before coming up with an answer. "Let's spar!"
Richard looked over to the Zangoose. "Will the Zangoose be sparring with us?" Richard said, hoping the answer was no after taking another look at the Zangoose's claws. "No, she will be watching us." Tera quickly responded. Richard was glad to say the least that the Zangoose was only watching, those claws looked like they could slice his chest open with little effort. "Okay, but we will have to find somewhere open and out of the way of other people." Richard said.
10 minutes had passed and they had found a good, empty spot. The only things around them were trees, The Zangoose was sat down by one of them. Richard and Tera got into position, 2 meters apart and facing each other. They were both ready to fight but they both knew that neither of them were looking to do any real damage. Richard's gray-blue eyes locked on to Tera's Crimson eyes, reading them, watching for movement. Tera took two steps fowards, Richard did the same bringing them almost close enough to touch each other. Richard made the first move by trying to kick Tera in the stomach, but she managed to jump back in time. Richard waited for her counter attack but it didn't come. Their eyes were still locked onto each other. Richard threw another punch but it hit nothing but air as Tera ducked and kicked Richard in his stomach with her powerful legs, he stumbled back but stayed on his feet. Tera threw a straight punch to Richard's chest which made contact, she threw another punch this time aimed at his stomach but Richard grabbed her arm and stopped that from happening, Richard then sent his leg into her stomach which forced her to the ground. She quickly recovered and stood up, going back to watching Richard's movements. Richard quickly stepped forward and threw a punch, Tera ducked and rolled behind Richard, he spun around in time to see her throwing another punch, Richard thought fast and caught her paw in his hand as he threw his fist into the left side of her chest, careful to miss the solid spike in the middle. Both Richard and Tera backed away from each other. Tera moved in closer to Richard, he kicked forward at Tera but she ducked and took out his leg with her own, Richard fell on his back. He noticed that Tera was still heading towards him so he swiped at her with his leg whilst still on the ground, this made Tera jump back and gave Richard enough time to roll backwards and get back onto his feet.
Richard noticed Tera was looking a little tired and he didn't want to risk hurting her. "Want to call it a draw again Tera?"
Tera didn't want to stop just yet but she wanted to give Richard and herself small break. "Sure." Tera said in a nice cheery tone. Richard smiled at her and asked what the Zangoose and Tera would like to do next, Tera answered for the both of them again. "Let's look around the forest some more." Richard thought that sounded quite relaxing.
2 hours later.
Richard was sat by a river, just watching the water flow over the rocks. Tera and The Zangoose were close by, talking to each other. Another hour passed, Richard had fallen asleep by a tree near the river. Tera and the Zangoose saw him sleeping, Tera smiled. "Aw, cute." She said whilst crouching next to him. She placed a paw on his shoulder and shook him slightly. Richard's eyes slowly opened, he saw Tera with her paw on his shoulder. He looked up to the sky and saw it was beginning to get dark, it always gets darker sooner near winter. Richard stood up and headed back to town with Tera and the Zangoose following him. A few minutes later and they were already in the town and eating at the local restaurant they ate at last night. An hour passed as they were eating and drinking, Richard payed the bill and left. As the group walked out side they felt the cold air hit them harshly, Tera and the Zangoose started shivering despite having quite thick fur. Tera noticed that Richard didn't seem to be cold even though he was wearing a short sleeved shirt. Tera wondered if it was down to his training as a mercenary, or maybe where he came from was colder, Tera wanted to know but there was a more important question to ask him.
"Richard, where are we going now?" Tera asked.
"Well we still have a few hours to kill, maybe I will just head back to the police station. Cleaves seems like the kind of guy that knows whats going on around town." Richard responded, heading towards the station.
The group were now in the reception room of the police station, there was no one behind the front desk. "Cleaves?" Richard called out.
"In here!" the voice called out from the office, Richard entered the room and saw Cleaves working on a computer with a Pokemon besides him, it kind of looked like a cat, its body was black, it had gold ring patterns on both its fore and back legs, gold stripes could also be seen on its long ears and tail, there was one gold ring pattern on its head as well.
Cleaves spun around in his chair to see it was Richard "Oh, your back. Is this a friendly visit or do you need me to stitch up somebody's head again?" Cleaves said sarcastically.
"Who's your friend?" Richard asked whilst pointing to the Pokemon besides Cleaves.
"My little friend here is my Umbreon, his name is Stripes, he's also my backup." Cleaves responded.
Richard was slightly confused. "So... they gave you a Pokemon as backup?"
"Only if you put in a request, but I didn't request little Stripes here, I already had him when I became a deputy." Cleaves explained. "But I don't think you came down here to talk about Stripes did you?"
"No, I just wanted to ask, what is there to do in this town?" Richard said.
Cleaves remembered that Richard was new to the town. "Well its a small town, so there's not much to do around here, when I get bored I usually just head over to the shooting range on the other side of this building."
Richard wasn't really surprised that there wasn't much to do, the town looked like the quiet and peaceful sort. He knew he was probably not going to get anything useful out of Cleaves "Alright then, sorry for interrupting... whatever it was you were doing." Richard said.
"Bye." Cleaves said as he left the room.
Richard made his way over to Tera and the Zangoose. "Well, it sounds like there's nothing to do around town. Don't suppose you two have any ideas on how to pass the time do you?" Richard asked.
Tera turned to the Zangoose again, she then turned to Richard to give him their answer "Nope." Richard was expecting a completely different answer. Richard tried thinking of something to do around this town... That's when he remembered what Cleaves said about the shooting range. "Cleaves!" Richard called out. Cleaves heard him calling and quickly minimized the picture of a naked woman on his computer and headed over to reception to see why he was calling, Stripes followed closely behind. "Yes, what is it now?" Cleaves said sounding tired. "I bet I'm a better shot than you are." Richard declared.
Cleaves didn't know where this came from but he sensed a chance to make a little money. "Is this a challenge? If it is I only play for money."
Richard had a smile on his face "How does 50 pokedollers sound to you?"
"Sounds like its mine." Cleaves said with confidence in his voice.
Richard looked at his smug face, he was going to enjoy taking his money. "Lets get to the range then!" Richard said with enthusiasm.
Richard and Cleaves were standing next to each other, Tera, the Zangoose and Stripes were watching the two humans. Cleaves quickly began explaining the rules "OK, now you will start off with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, the clip contains six bullets for six targets. The targets will be shaped like humans, a head shot gets you two points, body shot gets you one point. There is also a civilian target in there that will pop up to trick you, its colored differently from the rest and if you hit it you loose three points. The targets randomly pop up so you wont be able to predict where the targets pop up from and they only stay in their place for two seconds, after that they will just go back into their slots. I think that's everything you need to know so, who do you want to go first? Me or you?" Cleaves asked.
"I will." Richard answered.
"OK, step behind the yellow line and get ready." Cleaves headed over to the wall behind him and hit a green button which then triggered the targets.
The first target popped up on the wall just left of Richard, he pulled off an easy head shot, second one flipped on the wall to the right of him, another head shot. The civilian target popped up in the center, Richard took aim but paused after seeing it wasn't like the others, that pause almost made Richard miss the target that popped up to the right, he didn't have time to aim for the head so he just aimed for the body and shot, it hit. Targets five and six popped up at the same time but they were close to each other, he managed to aim and hit both of their heads. Cleaves was impressed, but he wanted to keep his money.
"Nine points, good job." Cleaves said calmly as he took the gun from Richard and loaded 5 more bullets into its clip. He took his position and looked at Richard "Push that green button over there." Cleaves pointed over to the button he pressed for Richard when he began shooting the targets. He pressed it and Cleaves shot his first target, head shot. Another popped up in the center, another head shot. The next target came from the left of the room, another head shot. The civilian target popped up from the right, Cleaves shot at it but he managed to miss it by centimeters. Two targets popped up again, next to each other like in Richard's round, he shot the one to the right and quickly shot at the second target, his bullet missed the second target and hit the wall behind it. "...Shit." Cleaves said quietly to himself, he had lost.
Richard saw the look of defeat on his face, it made him want to smile but he kept a straight face. Cleaves walked over to Richard to give him 50 pokedollers "Nice shooting." Cleaves said calmly, trying to hide his disappointment.
"Thanks." Richard replied. Cleaves and Stripes headed back to the office, Richard, Tera and the Zangoose headed over to reception to wait for Ethan to show up. Richard, Tera and the Zangoose talked until he arrived.
Ethan walked through the front door and saw the group sitting on one of the couches in reception. "Oh, there you are. Come on, I will take you to my place in my squad car." Ethan said whilst waving his hand towards the door. Richard, Tera and the Zangoose got up and headed outside to Ethan's car, they didn't know what his place looked like but they just hoped it was better than the hotel.