The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

Samantha smiled excitedly at the table with Angel eyes in front of her. Jason was standing very far off in the corner next to an assortment of other marines and they were drinking and laughing. Aparently multiple people had escorts as well. Also very apparently diamonds sold very well for a reason. She looked around the room at all the glistening diamonds on people's fingers, in the ceiling fixtures, in boxes in the pockets of men for their loving wives. Samantha had seen enough of them and found it very sickening that people would pay so much for something that cost so little in dresden. However, she tried not too look at it and found the silent ruckus of the marines to be far more comforting even though noise cancelling technology made it impossible for her to hear anything other than what angel eyes said, she could still imagine the many laughs they were having judging by their movements.

"Are you enjoying the food Samantha?" Samantha shook her head and looked over towards him and nodded.

"Yes, it's very good." She smiled and pushed the empty plate forward next to her empty cup of milk. "How can you afford such a fancy resturant?"

"Fancy? Oh....yes well we make a very large amount of money and this is very little in comparsion." He leaned on his hands and looked at her."But there is another reason why we're here."

Samantha had begun to gaze back at the marines but quickly focused back on him."What do you mean?"

"Well, I've been looking up some things and I found some stuff out about you."He leaned forward as if someone might hear him. Samantha felt her heart skip a beat, what was it?"Do you remember your mother?"

"Yes....well, no I don't remember her. I can only remember her saying some nice things to me, but the rest is faded."

"Well, your mother used to pilot a cruiser around 14 years back." He put a data pad on the table and pressed it forward into her hands."One day, she was fighting in the new york system against a pair of incredibly skilled pilots. Apparently she had something that they wanted."

"My mother, used to fight? That must be how she met my father and why he won't speak about her." She felt very nervous and feared to look at the data pad."Where is she now?"

"Well, take a look at the data pad and find out for yourself. This information comes directly from a science team investigating that Hugenot crashed in the sea of manhatten."

"Ya mean, my mother and father fought aloneside one another?" She felt very confused, why wasn't she with them today then?

"Please, Take a look at the data pad Samantha, it should clear everything up for you, then I have quite a few questions for you." He expressed the importance of examining the data pad with his hand. Just as she was about to look at it, the door opened to the resturant behind her. A man with short fiery red hair stepped through the doorway, his black cat like ears stood firm on his head and the outfit he wore was incredibly familiar as well as the yellowish eyes that were surprisingly docile. She knew him, but from where? The only thing she knew 100% was that his outfit reminded her of a slave trader from far away. The bald man and short hair woman from before were standing behind him, dwarfed by his height.

The man spoke and even with the noise cancelling she could tell what he was saying. "Samantha, I've finnally found you. Come home, come where you belong." Around the man's belt there was a number of items and among them was a long taser and an all too familiar crest, a crest that looked familiar as well. It looked like the apocathery symbol and it was blazing hot as if ready to be used.

"Oh here already. I'm sure you'll be able to recover your memories from him." Angel eyes smiled as Jason stood over her rather suddenly and his hands reached down to grab her at which point she darted under the table. She had no idea who any of them were anymore as she rammed the chair that the leader of PK was sitting at and didn't turn around when it fell over with him in it. She headed for the exit of the resturant as Jason literally strode across the origional table to get at her.

"Samantha y..." His voice cut out as she passed under the noise canceler of another table, she didn't have time to apologize to the couple at the table as she crawled under it and out. Jason's voice came to her ears again, this time slightly further away."...hide and seek! They're here to take y..."She ducked under a group of tables, the complicated noise of love you's and crashing tables mixed with screams didn't matter to her. She saw the red haired man as he stared at her and began to approach her, his hand hand out in the stop sign motion, speaking words she could not hear or understand. No way out but the window to which she eagerly smashed through. Glass filled her shoulders and back as well as the dress which she quickly tore off revealing her old outfit. How could she have trusted any of them. She might be able to still use the train though. Maybe the crew hadn't heard from their leader yet. After she was satisfied she was far enough away she ducked into an alley way to catch her breath. She held within her hands the data pad from earlier. She took a moment and then looked at it reading the information that was held. The data must have become corrupt because she couldn't read any of it. Perhaps it was just in a different langauge, she'd have to ask someone later as for now she had to get off the planet. She didn't waste anymore time and headed for the spaceport.

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"I'm very sorry Mr. Itana. I had no clue she'd run off like that." Angel eyes apologized to him as everyone around him looked on very angrily. The manager of the resturant tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to a bill that had been....updated. The red headed man placed a card in the manager's pocket and pointed away from the two of them.

"I'll pay for that, such a little bill." The man looked around for a moment as the bald haired man and woman returned to the resturant without the girl."Lets not worry about it. Here's your payment." He handed angel eyes a card as well and then turned and walked to the door, stopping momentarily."I think I know where she'll head." His eyes seemed to spark to life and began to glow with a great intensity."It's been a long time....how she even survived I dont' know. My son will be very glad to have a friend to play with aside from that troublesome girl." He made a motion with his hands and the two subordinates made their exit.

"If you want, I could look for her too." The leader of PK offered his hand.

The red headed man turned toward him and looked at his hand before shaking it."It's been a while...my eyes might fail me. You have my number, don't dissapoint me." The man turned and exited just as quickly as he had come. Jason stood up behind him and smiled.

"How much we get paid for that?"

"30 million. She must be really important for just the information on her." He turned around and looked at Jason who suddenly walked back over to the bar and pointed to a few drinks which were quickly handed to him."And what may I ask are you doing?"

"Hey, the guy seems rich, geeze, I just said put em on his tab. Who is the guy anyhow?" Jason laughed and waved bye to the marines who were leaving with their VIPs.

"A slave trader. I will have to look more up on him as well, but I do know that something about his family and their last and middle names and yadda yadda, I'm sure his last name is Itana though but his first is a mystery.

"So why does he want Samantha?"

"No clue, but I never intended to get her hurt. I thought maybe it was her father or something." He shrugged and grabbed one of the bottles out of his hand."Wow, what year is this?"

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