(A/N): Hello everyone. I would like to apologize for not uploading the chapter on time. We have been quite busy with other stories and personal things but here it is. Hope you enjoy it.
Thanksgiving has come around once again as all families join together on this special day. We find our friends at Blair's house for a change. How will their day go let's find out...
"This is bull crap." Shawn heard his friend Nero complained as they were walking towards Blair's parents place.
"What? Walking into a mansion?" Shawn asks.
"Do you know how crazy that old Zoroark is?" Nero asks.
"Oh yeah. Him." Shawn smiles at him jokingly.
"I'm serious, every time I'm in the same area as him he's either throwing something at me, trying to shoot me with something painful, or beating me like I'm some new cadet soldier in boot camp." Nero complained.
"He wasn't that bad when he was guarding me at the Hospital." Shawn mentions.
"Shawn. This old fart is out of his mind. I say we find somewhere else to spend thanksgiving at because that crazy old man is gonna try to kill us."
"Only if we fucked with him. That would push him over to kill us." Shawn comments.
"It doesn't matter, Shawn I'm begging you please let's not drag our family and friends to this here mansion. I'm telling you he has landmines in his backyard. He has the whole damn place booby trapped. There's a true story about a mail man delivering bills to his mailbox, and the whole mailbox was rigged with a grenade."
"Would he have his mansion booby trapped if he knew we were coming and I mean all of us?" Shawn asks.
"You never know. I think he's that crazy. Anyrate when are we supposed to meet everyone?" Nero asks.
"Well, Phoenix and Tera are going to meet up with Blair and her kids. Our kids are gonna be with them. Glukhov said that he was already there. So we're going to the second pair of guests that arrive." Shawn says as they approached the gate and knock on the gate door. Only to get no response.
"And yet why am I not surprised there is no response." Nero crosses his arms.
"Koda, it's us." Shawn presses the talk button on the speaker box.
No response.
"This is a trap Shawn. Let's turn back and warn everyone before it's too late."
"Nero, Glukhov is suppose to be here."
"All we know, Koda maybe crazy enough to be eating him right now." Nero mentions.
"Okay, now you're going overboard."
"Hey this man tortured me and my son in his basement with a popsicle while shooting horse tranquilizers up my ass. I've been mourning for my ass since then Shawn."
"Well I feel bad for Hyro but it was your fault in the first for doing that crap. Torturing may be a bit much but you had it coming."
"Dammit Shawn you're siding with Crazy Old Man Koda?" Nero asked as they started walking around the wall.
"Hey, I'm not the one that goes sneaking around in someone else's backyard for a goddamn shortcut."
"Remember that time when we were kids and you thought the neighbor was hiding skeletons and you asked me to help you jump over the fence to dig up his yard for bones?' Nero asked with a smirk.
"Yeah but I realized it was just dog bones and old toys. It was just stupid kid shit." Shawn answers.
"Still I would watch your every step and move around here. I'm serious he has landmines in his backyard. Just ask Hyro he had to jump across them while being chased down and shot at by Koda that one time in his yard." Nero says as he watched his steps.
"I know. He told me. Plus I'm sure Sherry wouldn't want us to get shot or blown up." Shawn comments as walks normally.
It was at that moment something was thrown from the wall and lands in front of them.
"Grenade!" Nero jumps on Shawn and pushes away from what he thinks is a grenade.
"What?!" Shawn asks.
"Grenade!" Nero yells.
Shawn looks over and sees it didn't blow up. "It didn't blow up."
Nero looks over to see it was just a just a dummy grenade. "Its a dummy…"
As Nero says it the grenade blows red paint into his face and Shawn bursts into laughter.
"Oh shut it Shawn I could've just let it blow up in your face." Nero growls as he tries finding something to wipe the red paint off his face.
"Come on Nero. It was pretty funny." Shawn comments jokingly.
"See what I mean, that old bastard is crazy." Nero comments as he starts trying to crawl over the wall.
"I know and it's fun watching you like this. Come on. Let's get in."
"First off I'm going over this wall and I'm going to finally give that old fart a piece of my mind." Nero yells as he finished climbing over the wall and hops down. Upon landing, Shawn hears Nero let out a very painful yell.
"Nero, he's just gonna beat you stupid again. Don't do this."
Shawn heard no response.
"Nero?" Shawn asked a little worried.
When he got no response again, Shawn climb up the wall to see Nero in a hole with a heavily clothed and non lethal bear trapped caught on his ankle.
"Warned you Nero." Shawn smirks.
"Dammit Shawn don't just stand there with that wide ass smirk on your face help me out of this I think my leg is broken." Nero yelled in pain as he had trouble trying to get the bear trap to let go of him now broken ankle.
"Way ahead of you." Shawn takes out his phone and dials the number to Sherry. "Sherry? It's me Shawn. Yeah, friend of Blair. My brother fell into one of your husband's traps. Yes it's the hole nearby the gate door. You think you can bring a ladder and a few bandages because I think the bear trap broke his ankle. Thank you." Shawn hangs up still with a smirk on his face.
"This is not funny Shawn!" Nero yelled at him. "If it's the last thing I'm going to do I am going to get that old bastard back for this and you're gonna be next!"
"Well this is what you get for being so stupid." Shawn comments.
"Oh shut up before I get up there and kick your ass."
Around that time, they saw Koda come walking by whistling something while carrying a ladder on his shoulders and holding it by one arm.
"Alright, I was currently giving a fix up to my old 1970's mustang while talking with Glukhov about guns until my wife gets a call about a little shit who went over my wall and got himself stuck in my traps. Do I want to know the reasons behind why such a dumb ass move was made?" he asked irritated.
"You can tell who's in the hole Koda." Shawn comments as he points at Nero in the hole.
Koda looks down the hole to see Nero giving him the evil eye. Koda sighs and smokes his cigarette a little before thumping it down in Nero's face. "Well hello there dipshit, what brings you back in one the holes of my yard?" he asked.
"Well you didn't answer. What else was I supposed to do?" Nero questions.
"And what the hell are you doing with red paint on your face?"
"Someone threw a paint grenade at him." Shawn answers.
"Oh that. That's just another trap I have set up to scare intruders away. It used to be a real grenade." Koda lowers the ladder down. Hitting Nero on the head with the end of it as he sat it down.
Koda hops down as Nero groans in pain from a busted up head and his broken ankle. Apparently the ladder hit him so hard he was bleeding some. Koda however grabs him by the neck and stares in his eyes with an angry look.
"That's twice you've snuck into my yard without my permission young man. Next time you won't get off so lucky." he said as he yanked the bear trap open. Making Nero yell in leg pain. Koda grabs him and hoists him over his shoulder. From there Koda climbs out of the hole and looks at Shawn. "Well don't just sit there help me get him fixed up. And wipe that smirk off your face young man before I wipe it off for you with one of my whoop ass sticks." Koda tells Shawn.
"Alright." Shawn hops down and helps Koda bring Nero in the house. Sometime later, Nero lays on one of the recliner seats with his ankle bandaged up like his head. Shawn walks by and wraps an ice bag on his broken ankle and head. Nero still had an angry look on his face as he laid his legs up on the foot rest of the seat.
"Come on Nero don't be that pissed. It's Thanksgiving. Be thankful he didn't torture you with a popsicle again or worst." Shawn smirked.
"Shut… up… Shawn." Nero comments.
Glukhov enters the dining room and sees the two. "Ah Shawn welcome and...what happened to Nero?" he asked.
He let's out a slight long sigh. "Nero here decides to sneak around the house again and well… he fell into his traps and got caught in a bear trap. So now he has a broken ankle. And Koda what does Sherry think of this?" Shawn answers and asks Koda.
Koda comes walking in the dining room with a can of beer and sits down on another recliner chair. He lays back and turns the T.V. on to the football game.
"The traps? Well you could say she's mixed. Yes she doesn't like them accidentally hurting people but she does love the extra security and how I've made our own security with my bare hands. That way we don't have to pay for a rip off security device. Also I make traps as a way to deal with my PTSD." Koda took a sip of beer and looked at Shawn.
"PTSD?" Shawn asks.
"Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Both me and Glukhov have both got it after what hell we were dragged through and back in Vietnam. I have my beautiful wife Sherry and my lovely daughter and granddaughters to thank from saving me from my PTSD making me put a bullet in my mouth."
"Hm, I see now."
"Yeah, we all had. I never told you Shawn but I used to have it really bad. But thanks to everything you did for me I was able to recover from it in due time." Glukhov answered as he took a seat next to Koda.
"Of course Glukhov." He smiles at him.
"So Nero how's that young boy of yours? You haven't been teaching him any bad habits you have like sneaking in people's yards or having him peak at his dad's friend's daughter while she's showering?' Koda asked with a smirk.
"No you old ffff… man. I haven't been teaching my son that."
Koda tosses a newspaper at Nero to hit him in the nose. "That's old man what?" he asked.
"I don't know. Nothing." Nero answers.
Koda throws a magazine at him. "That's old man sir to you young man." Koda responds.
"Old man sir…" Nero answers.
Koda finishes his beer and tosses the empty can at Nero's hurt head. "Do I look like an old man to you young man?" Koda asked.
"Well…" Nero answers hesitantly.
Koda still tosses another magazine to Nero's nose. "That's well what?"
"Well sir…" Nero groaned.
Koda gets up from his seat and smack Nero behind the head.
"FIx that tone, and answer my question. Tread carefully because it could be your last."
"To be honest sir. You lived through Vietnam. I kinda expected you to be… old." He answers hesitantly.
Nero was expecting him to hit again. Instead Koda pats him on the head.
"That's better, and I am old but not that old." he answered.
Suddenly Koda smacks Nero on the nose. "But the first and last words out of your sorry mouth will be sir am I understood?"
"Yes sir."
Koda thumps him in the ear. "That's sir yes sir to you young man."
"Sir Yes sir?" Nero answers.
Koda pops Nero in the mouth a little. "Bullshit I can't hear you sound off like you got a pair." he ordered.
"Sir yes sir!" Nero yells it out.
"Uh huh, damn right. That's what I want to hear. With my help I can make you into a respectable pokemon yet."
Koda punches Nero's lightly in the chest, making him cough hard. "But until then you are the lowest form of shit that's ever been shot out of some low life's sorry asshole. You are not even a living fucking being. But if you survive my training you will be not only be a badass of war but a respectable decent being, and a good husband and father to his family. But next time you sneak in my yard I will castrate your pair with a rusty old sickle knife." Koda says as he lays back down in his chair and watches the game.
"Koda, stop torturing our guests." Sherry smacks him in the back in the head.
"Yes dear." Koda answered as she went back into the kitchen.
Shawn looked over to Nero who was still coughing hard from the pain in his chest. Shawn patted him on the back to help him. "You gonna be okay?"
Nero shoves his hand off. "Fine. Just fine."
Meanwhile, Phoenix with Blair and Tera as they drove down the street towards Blair's parents place. They were carrying most of the food for the celebration to cook with. Phoenix was holding Abby in her arms and letting her play with one of her fingers.
"So Blair…" Phoenix tries to make a conversation.
"Yes?"
"I've never been to your parents place. Or met your parents. Though I did meet your dad but only a little. What can you tell me about them?" she asked.
"Oh nothing much. They live in a personal mansion I grew up in. You see, my grandfather from my mother's side used to be the mayor of Lumiose City so daddy married into a very rich family." Blair began.
"Your grandfather was a mayor here?' Tera asked.
"Yes which is what made him so rich in the first place." Blair answers. "Arceus rest his sweet soul now in Heaven." she smiled.
"I'm sorry for you Blair." Phoenix gives her sympathy.
"It's okay. He passed away from lung cancer when I was only three years old. So it was a while back. Grandma at least stayed with him until the twins were born then she passed on from natural causes or old age." Blair answered.
"Oh goodness." Tera covers her mouth a little shocked.
"It's okay, grandma lived a very long and loving life and got to live to see her great grand daughters be born. She's in Heaven now with my grandfather. She passed away in her sleep surrounded by her family as she wanted." Blair answered smiling.
"Well I'm glad your grandparents died peacefully. Arceus bless them." Phoenix pats her shoulder gently.
"Amen." Blair and Tera agree.
The two continued driving down the street.
"So do we have enough for everyone that's going to be there?" Blair asked.
"I'm sure we do. Especially the turkey." Tera answers.
"Oh yeah, finding that thing was the hardest of the bunch. And to think we got to find another one for Christmas later this year." Phoenix answers looking back at all the food.
Blair giggles a bit.
"So where are the others now?" Phoenix asks.
"Hyro and Zeya are going to go get Rex, Pepper, and Clara and meet us at my parents place while picking the Twins up for me. Shawn and Nero already left to meet Glukhov there so they should all be there by the time we arrive." Blair answers.
"So we're good then?" Tera asks.
"By the looks and sound of it. Yeah we should all be good." Phoenix answers as she cradles Abby a little. Abby slowly falls asleep in Phoenixes arms with her small hand her mouth.
"You have a beautiful baby daughter Phoenix. I wished my babies could stay like that forever." Blair commented.
Phoenix smiled and nodded in agreement as she gently helped Abby's small hand out of her mouth and cleans it while not waking her up.
After a few minutes of driving they final arrive to Blair's parents mansion as Blair uses a remote and opens the gate. She drives in as the gates shut and parked in the garage. Everyone gets out of the car.
"I'll take Abby in Blair. I'll come back to unload the car okay?"
"Okay." Blair answered as she started trying to get as much stuff as she could carry.
Phoenix walks in with Abby and sees Shawn first before Glukhov. "Hey Shawn."
"Hey Phoenix." They kiss each other. "Hey there Abby."
Abby cooes softly at Shawn just as Sherry comes out.
"Koda, come give Blair and our guests a hand." she called out.
"On my way."
"Oh Phoenix I forgot. Mom this Phoenix she's a friend of mine. Phoenix this is my mother." Blair introduced them.
"Hello. Of course I'm Shawn's wife."
"Oh how wonderful. Such a beauty for a handsome man. You're quite a lucky man."
Sherry looks down and smiles at Abby. "And hello Abby it's good to see you again." she smiled and pets her cute little head softly. Abby cooes and laughs a bit from the petting and plays with her fingers.
"Mrs uh…"
"You may call me Sherry." She smiles.
"Mrs. Sherry, have you seen my husband around?" Tera asked.
Koda comes out and starts helping unload everything. "He's in the dining room in pain from the broken leg and busted up head he got for sneaking in my yard for the second time in a row." he answered.
She gasps and runs inside the mansion to the dining room. She sees Nero laying on the recliner chair with his leg and head bandaged and had ice bags wrapped on them. He was resting quietly.
"Nero?" She says quietly a little shocked.
"Hey Tera," he answered with his eyes still closed.
"What happened to you?"
"Tried to give that old fart a piece of my mind when he didn't answer his door and threw a paint grenade in my face. So I climbed over his mansion wall again and fell in one of his traps." he sighed.
"But your leg..." She firmly touches it.
"Yeah, had a safe bladeless baretrap under the hole that got my leg good. And when he brought the ladder down to get me out I swear he purposely smacked my forehead with it." Nero cringes from her touching his leg.
"I won't stand for this Nero. He first tortures our son and now you have a broken leg. This can't go on for long. It has to stop."
"I guess I deserved it. Snuck in his yard for the second time while thinking he was eating Glukhov alive." Nero sighs.
"Listen I don't usually side with him on this but what you did was stupid. But this I can't go with."
"I agree." Sherry walks in.
"Look, let's just drop it, leave it be, and not let it ruin our Thanksgiving okay. Now at the moment I kinda just want to lay here until we start and not get on anyone's bad side please…" Nero requested as he rubbed his sore head.
"Okay." She kisses him on the cheek and walks back out with Sherry, letting him rest peacefully.
Around that time, the front door bell rang and Sherry walked over to it. When she answered she found, Hyro, Zeya with her granddaughters as well as Rex, Pepper, and Clara.
"Hello everyone. Please come in." Sherry greeted them as she stands aside holding the door as everyone comes in.
"Hey grandma." The twins said as they hugged their grandmother softly.
"Hello there." Rex introduces himself.
"Hey you must be Rex, I've heard some nice things from you from my daughter who says she's heard great things from her friends." Sherry says as she hugged her granddaughters.
Meanwhile, Zeya and Hyro were looking for their parents until they found Nero laying down on the recliner in his messed up state.
"What happened to you dad?" Hyro asks.
"Remember that time we snuck in Koda's backyard?" he asked while not opening his eyes.
"You did it again?" Hyro asks.
"Wanted to give the old fart a piece of my mind and yeah…" he answered.
"Dad… For Arceus's sake." He rubs his eyes in annoyance.
"He didn't answer the gate when we knocked, and I got my face splattered with a paint grenade trap. So yes I was pissed and it lead me over the wall and in a hole where I got my ankle broken and my head busted up."
"Dammit dad."
"Look son, give your old man a break please and go help your mother with whatever." Nero requested annoyingly as he cringed from his leg pain.
"Alright but you need to stop doing this kind of stuff." Hyro says as he walks out to go help his mother.
"What I need is to give crazy old man Koda a piece of my mind with my broken leg kicking his ass." Nero groaned quietly to himself as he went back to sleep.
Meantime, Zeya and Hyro walked outside to help the other unload. "Hi mom, dad, Abby." Zeya greeted her family.
"Hi sweetie." Phoenix greeting back.
"Hey baby girl. How are you two doing?" Shawn kisses her on the forehead after asking.
"Sorry we were late. Rex had to go take care of something before we got here. Are we too late?" she asked.
"Nope. Were just getting ready. So don't worry." Phoenix answers.
Zeya and Hyro helped the other load the rest of everything back in the house. Sometime later back in the dining room, Shawn, Hyro, and Rex sat on the couch with Glukhov while Koda and Nero sat on recliner chairs.
"Are you serious? Glukhov, wearing a beret?" Rex asked as he was about to burst into laughter.
"I kid you not. Glukhov used to wear a light blue beret forty to fifty years ago." Koda joked.
"Have you ever heard of getting with the program?" Rex asks.
"Rex, it was standard issue for ranking officers of the Soviet Spetsnaz of the time to wear one. That and I thought I looked sharp in it." he smirked.
"Well I'll admit you don't look half bad in that monkey suit." Rex comments.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah whatever you say Rex. Take in mind I'm still forty years older than you and I've worn some of the finest and sharpest things the years had to throw. Even now I look sharp while you look like something from a street punk." he joked.
"Sure Rex. Sure." They both laugh.
Hyro notices a picture and takes a look at it. It showed a younger Koda and Glukhov probably in their late teen early twenties. With them where two humans and a Machoke. The two humans, Machoke, and Koda were wearing U.S. Green Beret Uniforms while Glukhov was wearing a Soviet Russian Spetsnaz uniform with a beret on. They were apparently in a jungle like environment.
"Hey Koda, is this you and Glukhov when you guys were young?" Hyro asked,
"Yes, thats us from the old days." Glukhov answers.
Shawn takes a look at the photo. "Wow Glukhov, never in my life have I ever pictured you to look so young. Come to think of it this is the only photo I've ever seen you this young."
"Well these are old time war photos. You'll barely see me in any old photo like this."
"Yeah but you never did show me a photo of you as a young man." Shawn mentions.
"Hm, you're right. I never did."
Shawn puts the photo back. "So who's the others in the photo?" he asks.
"The skinny human with the glasses is Jonathan or Johnny boy as we called him. He was the brains with the skills to back up his strikes of the bunch. The Machoke next to him is Deku, the former two time heavyweight boxing and wrestling champ of the U.S. marines and the dude so badass we used to joke that nothing could take him down. And finally the human at the center was good old Ashten Prikes aka the Lovable Hard ass who held our entire team together. Come to think of it if it wasn't for Ahsten Glukhov would not be alive today or in that photo because it was Ashten who stopped me from putting a bullet in Glukohv's head." Koda answered.
"Wow, quite amazing." Shawn comments.
"Yeah, wish those three were still with us." Koda mentions as he watches the football game.
"I know Koda. I know." Glukhov walks up behind him and pats him on the back.
The group were silent for a moment. Rex looks over at Nero and just notices his injuries.
"Hey Nero." he asks.
Nero waves him off as he tries to rest.
"Okay. So, since the game is on, who wants to make bets?' Rex suggests.
"I might as well." Shawn joins.
"Alright, bets anyone?" Hyro asks with a smirk.
"I'm staying out of this because my dang head hurts." Nero groans.
"If you say so. I'm up." Glukhov also joins.
"Same here." Koda joins in.
"What about the ladies?" Shawn asks.
"I think they're busy getting everything set up for in the kitchen." Hyro answers.
"Hm, Clara?" Rex asks.
"She's with the twins and Zeya." Hyro answers.
"Looks like it's just us then." Shawn confirms.
"Alright place your bets everyone in this hat." Hyro comments as he grabs a hat close by and holds it out.
"Hm." Shawn bets $10 and puts it into that as the others did the same.
"Alright its the Electric Buzz Strikers vs. the Charmander Burnboys." Koda mentions.
"Alright. Get ready to lose assholes." Rex taunts everyone.
Koda slaps Rex on the side of his head. "No cursing with my granddaughters in the house."
"Ow!" He rubs the back of his head.
Koda slaps him on the side of the head again. "That's Ow what young man?"
"Ow… sir."
"That's what I want to hear." Koda smirks as he leans back on his seat.
"Why is he like that?" Rex asks.
"Don't ask me, ask either Blair or Sherry who are in the kitchen." Shawn answers.
"Actually I'm good."
Meanwhile in the kitchen, Blair, Phoenix, and Sherry were fixing everything up while Clara, Pepper, and Zeya were with the Twins and Abby. Phoenix and rest begin wrapping themselves in Aprons and begin placing out the food to cook.
"It's been quite the year this year. With all that trouble with Legion going around and all." Sherry mentions.
"Yes, it was great." Phoenix answers sarcastically feeling a bit blue.
"I'm just glad that we're out of it so far and that we were all able to make it out safe and sound." Tera comments.
"Yeah but for how long will till they drag us all in again." Phoenix contributes.
"Hopefully never again, he got what he wanted and helped get us out of a mess. And Glukhov has taken care of all the aftermath issues. So as far as we know, we're done with all that." Clara mentions as she plays with Abby a little.
Phoenix smiles slightly feeling a bit relief until Shawn came into the kitchen for a beer. He takes one and looks at Phoenix's ass under the Apron and gave him a devilish idea. Without her and the others knowing he slowly sneaks up on her and pinches her cheek as Phoenix jumps up with a "eep!"
Shawn almost choked on his chuckle before Blair gently grabs Shawn softly and whispers. "Um Shawn, if it's okay with you, could you please not do anything sexual while in my parents house in front of them and my twins please." Blair requested politely and softly but at the same time giving his arm a tight joint lock squeeze.
"Sure thing. And come on Blair it's just a little fun. Don't get your panties in a twist." Shawn responds with a bit of struggle.
"Yes but I would rather not have my children who are too young to see that see that. And this is my parents house and you are there guests, and daddy does have a no screwing around rule in the house. Trust me…you don't want to be caught screwing around in his house, he almost castrated Logan once when he caught us screwing around a little." Blair smiled and softly let Shawn go.
"Okay Blair. I think you've made your point." Phoenix comments.
Blair smiled at Shawn. "Thank you Shawn." Blair goes back to prepping the food.
Shawn walks out with his beer back to the game as the ladies continue prepping the food.
"Hey Sherry, if you don't mind me asking. How did you and Koda first meet?" Zeya asked as she was playing a game with the twins.
"Well that's...quite the story Zeya. And I do mean quite the story."
"I would love to hear it." Said Zeya with an interested look.
"Well, let me see. I used to work as a psychiatrist. And so I think it was 1982 I think. Anyrate, Koda was a war veteran who had just moved to Lumiose city. The Sheriff at the time was this, well he was a piece of work, and he thought Koda was an unwanted nuisance, so he tried to kick Koda out. Koda refused and so he was arrested. Of course, in one of their mistreatments of him it forced him to have a flashback in vietnam and he snapped. He escaped into the woods not far from here. When the police followed he used his skills to brutalize and permanently cripple and disable them all one by one. Forcing the whole national guard to be called but even they couldn't do anything." Sherry began.
"Oh my Arceus." Zeya gets shocked a bit.
"Yeah, and he took down half of the national guard and made the other half too scared to come after him. Eventually he got cornered and trapped into a building. They called his best friend Ashten to come in and try and calm him down. Koda goes into a rant about the treatment he received when he returned from Vietnam and suffers a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-triggered breakdown before surrendering. He is put into state custody and driven away to a prison hospital. A month later I was assigned to be his therapy doctor." Sherry continued.
"Is that where you met him?" Zeya asks.
"Yeah, he was my first patient in my career. And he told me his story and I listened to every detail. And I just felt so sad for him. He was a man who suffered for his country and was treated like a criminal by the very people whose rights he defended when he came back. It was cruel and it was wrong. And I just didn't how I could help him. Because even if he was fixed, where could he go, where could he live, who would take him in. So within the months and year I stayed as his doctor, I grew very fond of him, and yes it lead to love I guess. So after a year when I finally got him released, we started dating and the rest is history." Sherry smiled.
"Wow, such a story." Tera comments.
"Yeah, he still suffers very much from his severe PSTD. And it reached its peak when his best friend Ashten died many years ago by a bunch of street thugs. Ashten was like the brother he never had. Infact his team was his whole world. And when Ashten died and he was the last one of them, he felt like he truly was alone in the world. It took me a month of more therapy to help him recover from the lost of Ashten." Sherry sighed sadly.
"I know that feeling with Shawn when he lost his brother." Phoenix mentions.
"Yeah I remember seeing daddy getting upset one day when I was seven. First and only time I ever seen him cry." Blair mentions.
"Yes but I think being a father and grandfather has helped so very much. And he was able to meet Glukhov again who used to be his worst enemy until they became great friends at the end of the war." Sherry mentions as she finishes with her set of food.
"Wait Uncle Glukhov knows Koda?" Zeya asks.
"Oh yeah, they fought each other allot in the 1960's during the war. In fact, Koda almost killed Glukhov. But it was Ashten who stopped him from putting a bullet in Glukhov's head. After they continued going after each other until eventually become great friends. Koda would never stop talking about how much fun they had trying to destroy or blowing the other up." Sherry giggled.
"I see." Tera giggles and rest giggled along.
"Oh yeah there was thing they did I think it was during one of the first time they met in 1964. Glukhov was this cocky young Spetsnaz soldier who at the time did a little mockery of America. So much that he called out to Koda in an american western dual to try and mock america again. And Koda was like "screw this," took and RPG and tried to blow up the whole area Glukhov stood at. And when Glukhov realized he survived from Koda trying to blow him up he shout out. "Yes I am invincible," in Russian." Sherry laughed.
The girls giggled and laughed at what Sherry said.
"Yeah this is all true stuff I kid you not. Koda literally blew up half a forest trying to blow Glukhov to smithereens."
"Wow, I didn't think he was that crazy." Clara comments.
"Just ask Glukhov and he'll confirm it." Sherry mentions
"Hm I thought he would tell me that." Clara thinks.
"It's probably one of those embarrassing things he wouldn't want to talk about." Sherry smiled. "So Tera how's the Turkey coming along are we about ready?"
"Yep nearly done. Phoenix, how's the ham and the mac and cheese?" Tera asks.
"Finished it and ready to put out."
"Alright I'm just about done here with the desert so we should be ready in five minutes. Anyone volunteer to get the men out of their best game?" Blair asked.
"I'll try." Clara volunteers.
"Good luck." Pepper mentions as she takes Abby for her.
Clara walks back into the living room with their men getting very intense into the game. They jump from the couch making a few touchdowns while in. Clara stands in front of the T.V. with a certain pose.
"Hey boys. Dinner's almost ready." Clara mentions.
"Oh come on Clara I'm about kick away of winning some cash here." Rex groans.
"Come on boys. We're just about finished so get ready for dinner."
"Come on Clara just one more touchdown that's all we need." Shawn asks.
"I've already won this so I'm ready." Koda smirks.
Clara grabs the remote and shuts off the T.V. as they all groaned.
"Oh come on just a kick away." Rex mentions.
"Well since the Steiker were ahead by one point I say me, Koda, and Glukhov won the bet. So pay up everyone." Hyro smirks.
They pay the money and all got up and walked into the kitchen to wash up before dinner.
"I was a kick away, I demand a rematch to that bet." Rex asks.
"Hey dad you need help getting in here?" Hyro calls out.
"No I'm fine, on my way." Nero groaned as he slowly made his way into the kitchen.
Clara walks back into the kitchen to help set up dinner as Phoenix was placing plates, forks, some napkins and glasses onto the table. Blair takes some of the food onto the table. She first places Ham along with the Macaroni and cheese. Next she places a few pumpkin and sweet potato pies, a few vegetables and salad. Then was brought stuffing and jelly to the table all being placed in order and leaving one open space for the turkey. Everyone gathers around the table and taking their seats next to their loved ones and finally Sherry brings in the turkey as everyone looks over at it and places it in the middle of the table as Blair brings in apple cider for everyone but apple juice for Abby and the twins.
"Okay everyone. Let's have our blessings before we eat." Koda announces.
"Let each of us as we celebrate Thanksgiving pray to the Arceus: Heavenly Pokémon, in this season of gratitude and abundance we give. You thanks for our many blessings as we pray for all who struggle with hunger and want. We pray for those of you who are traveling, may your travels be safe and know that we look forward to your safe arrival back home. We pray for those who could not be with us on this day and that they find peace held in your loving arms. We pray that we, the holy, extend a true spirit of welcome to all; and may those who gather today at the Arceus's table be grateful and acknowledge all as gifts from Arceus. We pray for the homeless, the unloved and forgotten. May they come to know hope through our caring and our actions. Amen."
(Everyone) "Amen."
"Great we can eat now." Everybody starts to eat down the turkey and everything else. Everybody was having a great time into their conversations as Phoenix was feeding Abby as Blair did the same helping her twins. Hyro was eating his pie but he flanged his piece into Blair's face by accident as her daughters laughed. Blair was a bit irritated. So she picks up her pie and throws it but misses him and hits Clara's face.
"Looks like we gotta food on our hands." Rex smiles and mentions.
Clara picks up her mashed potatoes and throws it at Glukhov by accident as now everyone begins to join in except Koda as he was getting very angry for making a mess in the dining room.
"Don't look at me sir, I didn't start this." Nero calmly says as he took a bite of turkey.
Koda growled and gently smashed Nero's face in his plate of food. "I said the first and last words out of your sorry mouth will be sir. Get it right."
Everyone continues throwing food at each other until that one throw of a pie by Tera hits Koda straight into the face. Koda tossed the pie on Nero's back and sighed annoyingly.
"You people do know this means war." Koda sighs as he pulls out a grenade from his pocket and pulls the pin.
"Whoa Koda. Let's calm down for a second." Hyro tried reasoning.
Koda tosses the Grenade in the air that lands right inside the turkey. Within a few short moments the turkey explodes and sends pieces flying everywhere hitting everyone. All except Koda who uses nero as a shield to block all the raining pieces at him. When the turkey finished Koda sat Nero down and crossed his arms.
"Anyone else want to try and throw anymore food?" Koda asked with a serious tone.
When everyone shook their heads no he smiled. "Good." He grabs a piece of Turkey leg from Nero's head and takes a bite. "Mmm...cocked well done, just the way I like it."
Minutes later after the dinner as the plates were nearly empty and everything was half eaten. Everyone began wiping and cleaning themselves up after the food fight.
"Hey game still on, let's see who's still winning." Rex mentions.
"Nah, my kids are pooped out from the fight. We're heading home. Same for Blair's twins." Shawn contributes.
"Not so fast young man. You contributed to the food fight that dirtied my living room and made me blow the turkey up. So you help clean this mess up with us." Koda mentions.
"Come on sir. My kids need to go to bed."
"Oh they can sleep on the couch while you and the others help me clean this living room. Another rule in my house, you make a mess you clean it." Koda then gives Shawn a sponge. "So start cleaning youngman." Koda then walks off to start washing the walls.
"Told you it was a bad idea to have thanksgiving here." Nero whispers to Shawn with a smirk on his face.
"Hey it wasn't my idea. Tell that to Phoenix and Blair and their ways of convincing me."
Nero still smirked to himself as he laid back. Since he couldn't be much help with his injuries. Phoenix comes next to Shawn to contribute
"And it was very good way."
"Well I can't deny that."
"But you have to admit I had fun today just like last Thanksgiving we did this." Phoenix mentions.
"Oh yeah. I remember that."
"Maybe after we finish cleaning up and go home I might need a little help with my milk jugs." She whispers to him.
"And maybe add a little stuffing to this sweet tender turkey." He whispers back.
"Oh Shawn." They both giggled quietly and continued cleaning the house along with everybody else.
And so here we end another adventure with Shawn and his friends after having a little fun at the dinner. What lies next on their journey? Stay tuned as the journey continues...