"How did you meet Blaze?"
The question echoed in Shine's mind.
"Well you see... It all started back when I first met him at a small shop back in my hometown."
"Wait, you didn't live in the forest?" Thunder blinked in surprise at his girlfriend's statement.
Shine laughed and shook her head with a fond smile on her face. "No, of course not you silly Pikachu!" she told him teasingly.
After a few more moments of silence, she continued to speak.
"It was a few years ago..." Shine began, sighing and fidgeting with her paws as she continued speaking. "He was a Chimchar when we first met. I was attacked by some wild Murcrow and he rescued me."
Thunder blinked and stared at her with wide eyes. "Wait, he did what?"
Shine blinked and tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Huh? What?"
"Blaze saved you from a flock of Murcrow?" Shine nodded her head at that.
"Yes, yes he did." Shine told him truthfully. "I had gotten lost on my way home, it had been raining pretty hard that day... and I had no clue how to get back to Silver Falls. And before you ask, yes, that's my hometown."
"So... what happened after Blaze rescued you?" Thunder asked her quizzically.
Shine sighed and looked up at the moonlit sky for a few moments before she turned back to face Thunder.
"I started helping Blaze at his job. He was a waiter at a café nearby my house, a few streets down from my older sisters house."
Thunder's jaw dropped open in shock. "You what?!"
"I helped him at the café, and a few months or so later we started dating." The Aipom sighed softly for what felt like the hundredth time that day as she took a deep breath before continuing.
"And how he got that scar?" she continued, looking away from Thunder and staring off into the distance. "He had gotten into a fight with Kindle, his old girlfriend. But before I could do anything to stop her, she leaped at him with killing intent flashing in her eyes."
Shine shuttered at the memory. "A Chimchar is no match for a Cinderace with the intent to kill."
Thunder's eyes popped wide open in terror, knowing what that meant but seriously hoping that what he was thinking was wrong.
"What happened to Blaze?" the Pikachu cloaked out. "Did he survive?"
Shine, seeing the look of pure terror on her boyfriend's face, nodded her head her head and gave him a small smile.
"Yes, yes he survived," she told him with a sad look clouding her eyes. "But, after the attack... he went insane. His mind clouded with white hot rage and any kindness that might be left inside of him is buried deep down under all of the hate and fury."