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It was by chance that they all heard it.

Their comms were linked in case trouble happened. They may be criminals but the first rule of being a ravager was crew is family. As the comms were linked, when one of them heard somebody speaking about the Spartax – their current employer – Yondu told them to listen to what was said.

"Did you hear about what J'son has done?"

"No. What?"

"He's ended the Silent War."

"The Silent War?"

"Right I'll explain it to you then. Years ago there was a race of people. They were said to be beautiful and eternal. They lived for thousands of years and were the first space faring race.

"The name for their species was Bloods. But once other species started going out into space, they started to mate outside of their species. The offspring was exactly like the Bloods, but their blood was gold and so the Bloods split in two. They split into the colours of their blood, the originals became the White Bloods and the offspring of those who mated outside of the species became the Gold Bloods. The White Bloods began to fight with the Gold Bloods and a bloody war called the War of the Bloods began.

"It ended when a powerful witch fell in love with a White Blood. They loved each other very much but as she was an outsider any child they had would be a Gold Blood and his oath to the king would force him to kill the child for any oath made by a Blood is binding. The White Blood fell in battle and in her grief the witch cursed the Gold Bloods. She cursed them to see the evil in the hearts of all they met, to feel the sorrow, anger, hate and grief of those they came across, never able to help. She cursed them to see the horrors that have been, that are and that will be and to never rid their mind of the images seen until somebody willingly listened and to remain forever fragile."

The speaker took a deep breath before continuing. During the time that they were speaking, a lot of people had gathered to hear the story, quite few of them ravagers.

"It was only after she had cursed them that she found out that she was pregnant. In cursing the Gold Bloods, she cursed her unborn child too. In a desperate attempt to save her child she tried to undo her curse but found that she could not, the only thing she could do was alter it slightly.

"They would see the evil in hearts but also the good. They would still feel the negative emotions but would be able to increase the positive. Instead of being forced to see the horrors of the universe they could look into the future and see what would happen and only then would they see the horrors. But in order to forget the terrible images they would still have to speak them to somebody willing to listen. Every Gold Bloods was born with the knowledge of what had happened and the curse on their kind.

"The witch did all she could and was never able to recover from it. She was weakened forever and when it came time for her to give birth to her child she was too weak to survive and died a few hours later. The week in which she died was the last week of the War of the Bloods, for the witch was the only Princess of Spartax. After her death the king of Spartax blamed the Bloods for her death and started the Silent War. Her child was the first victim.

"Not many Bloods survived the first few years, the ones that did scattered across the universe. The Gold Bloods were wiped out first. They refused to have children due to the curse and their ability to see what was to come often drove them mad the where gone within a hundred years. The White Bloods were harder to find as it was easier for them to hide. They moved on often and were never in one place long enough to have children. Slowly their number dropped over the thousands of years that followed until the last was found about six years ago.

"Apparently J'son tortured him until he revealed that there was still one Blood left – his son, a Gold Blood. J'son immediately sent out men to search for the child until he was found. Even as I speak the child is being brought closer and closer to J'son, to his death. I cannot help but wonder if he has seen his end"

The speaker turned from the female she had been speaking to, to look through the crowd. Her eyes came across the group of ravagers and she called out in an attempt to lighten the tense atmosphere that had spread across the street.

"I don't suppose you and your crew have taken a mission from J'son to capture a child now have you?" She called out.

Laughing and shaking his head, Yondu lied, "No, we haven't."

With those three words Yondu left taking his crew with him. As they walked back to the ship the same thought was running through all of the ravagers' minds it can't be, can it.

The ravagers would do many things for units lie, steal even murder, but the one thing they would never do is cause the death of a child.

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