The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

Something was glowing in front of her. A pair of eyes that appeared to materialize out of nowhere. She turned around and started to run away from them as fast as she possibly could but then they suddenly appeared in front of her. She turned a corner with speed and agility, down the hallway, through crowds of faceless, motionless people. She could feel the eyes upon her even now as she turned around and did not see them. For a moment she thought she might have lost them for she did not see them. How come she still had the feeling they were watching her then? She heard a growl and slowly looked up as her eyes met the bright pinkish red pair. They made a leap for her and that's when she closed her eyes and crouched down in fear letting out a yelp.

Samantha woke up in a cold sweat looking around the room she was in. It reminded her of the captains room on the hugenot she had ridden earlier. She stood, holding her pillow in her arms and walked out of the room. She looked to the left and walked down the familiar hallway to an already open door. She stepped inside and saw the bridge which was completely empty and dark all except for a few lights of navigation. She walked into the room and approached the console where the navigation tech would normally sit and looked at the panel to see where they were headed.

"What are you doing in here?" She was startled by her father's voice and she looked up at the doorway that had her father in it now.

"Oh nothing father. I was only looking for you." She was curious as to where they were going but she would much rather be near her father. He was the only real comfort she had at the moment now that Angel Eyes had become her enemy. She walked over to her father and clung to his waist."Father, how can you operate this ship all alone?"

"I'm only operating the navigations controls." He looked directly forward and for a moment she felt cold from his lack of compassion, but then his hand gently scratched behind her ear.

"Where are we headed father?" Her tail waved lightly back and forth as she purred.

"To get you a new bandage." He gripped her arm and pulled it up showing that he had put what appeared to be an arm warmer on in place of it. He showed balance since he had also put one on the other arm and of course, less people would suspect her without the bandage.

"Thank you father." She smiled and hugged him more. "To manhatten then?" She released him and stood back a small distance.

"Smart girl." He walked forward to the railing in front of the captain's chair and watched as they passed several trains and ships in the California system. "When we get there, you must promise me somthing."

"Yes father, anything." She felt eager to be of use to her father.

"Stay, away from the old wreckage." He watched the jump gate open to accept them.

"Why is that father?" She could not see the reason.

He stood up and held his shaky weak left arm up to his forehead."No matter what anyone tells you, you must stay away from there."

"Yes father, but why?" She pushed the question. He stared at her for a moment.

"When it comes time, you'll visit that place, but not now." The ship jumped suddenly into the jump hole causing her to almost lose her balance. A moment later and they came out of the jump hole.

"Yes father." Samantha nodded obediently.

"We'll be landing shortly, in the meantime don't forget your Id and medical card. They won't be happy you lost your bandage." He stood and walked up to the navigation panel, sending them through the nearest tradelane. She smiled and quickly made her way back down the hallway and into her room. The ship was eerily silent and gave her the chills, but when she turned on the light in her room she felt much better. She looked over her items and quickly gathered them up into her small backpack, a bit hastily though. She pulled it over her shoulders and waited for the ship to land.

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"Well geeze if I would've known she was worth 100 million I probably would've done the same thing. It wasn't like I had a choice." His voice was slightly distorted by the bandages that covered his face. In fact, his whole body was covered in bandages, but he didnt' seem to mind as he took another bite of the sandwich that he'd been given and looked up at the short haired man.

"Is there anything usefull you can tell us? You said you had seen her there twice, when was the first time?" Angel Eyes was very frustrated that he hadn't gotten much out of the man. A very large number of bounty hunters and head hunters were all huddled around the table. Most of them were scattered and speaking with mercenaries or taking smoke breaks, but the gathering was getting alot of news and media which had been taken care of by the man known as Itana. Seemed he was quite popular, however Angel Eyes was unsure of whether it was hatred or love that fueled the media. He had heard he was a slave trader after all.

"Well, the first time was nearly a year back. I'm not exactly sure how she got there, but it seemed like she had been subjected to so much torture that she didn't remember anything." The first good food that he had had in a long time was now gone, but of course he gave the man a look which of course warrented him another of the sandwiches. "Believe me, a girl her age experiencing stuff like that to her left arm had to of been painfull. Seems her and her father have similiar injuries to their arms or something like that. It would explain why they would do such a thing to her." His hand gripped the table for a moment feeling sorry for the girl. "So, does she have some family that pissed them off or something?"

Angel Eyes seemed very displeased by what he had said. "Yes, her mother a long time ago was a big fan of killing pirates and anything she was allowed to. She had quite a lot of hate. She died fighting against a pair of unknown ships that coaxed hers into the atmosphere." He leaned forward again and looked the bandaged man directly in the eye. "But that was over 12 years ago and her father is not the man she's with now." The bandaged man suddenly lost his appetite and he looked back just as hard.

"So.....who is it?"

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Samantha purred lightly as she looked at the new bandage on her arm. She had to be sedated like usual but she didnt' care. The new bandage was grey like the old one only it reached up to her shoulder so it would be much harder to lose. She looked around the pier and then she looked directly out toward the ocean where the ship was poking out of the water. She was quite curious but she did not ask questions. She turned to walk away from the pier and accidentally bumped into someone. She almost thought they'd know her since she was bumping into alot of people who were familiar with her lately.

"Oh sorry about that. You're short and I didn't see you there." A young and quite odd looking boy looked down at her and pressed his hands on her forehead, hoping to reduce the impact.

"It's fine, it was my fault." She smiled back up and watched his incredibly long blue hair wave in the wind. She wondered to herself how someone got hair both that long and dyed it all that color or why they'd want to. Considering this, she decided to ask."Um, why is your hair...blue?"

The question seemed to take him off gaurd and he scratched his own black cat like ears and looked off in the distance with his pale yellow eyes. "Well.....I dye it?" The boy was semi short seeming and very slender with a womanish figure to him. The light blue t-shirt he wore said woot on it and his mismatched black and grey shorts screamed out at her like a thousand knives.

"Well, yes, but why not just let your hair stay it's natural color?" She tugged one of the two long strands of hair that fell in front of his face.

"Some of us are born without pigmentation in our hair and sometimes it's very embarrassing for a little girl to ask why." He looked down at her as if she should know better. "My hair's naturally white like yours but I love blue and....well....nothing nevermind. You're too young to understand."

"You think you're weird with white hair. I think you'd look much better if you cut it all off and dyed it black if you really wanted to look normal." She crossed her arms and stuck her nose up at him.

The boy just laughed at her and smiled. "Think I care what other people think?" He shrugged and then looked a bit closely at her."Hey, i'm looking for someone and all, but i'm horrible at finding people, maybe you could help me."

"Um, I don't know how I could be of help, but sure." She ignored the laugh and still found the boy to be detesteble.

"Well, all you got to do is tell me if you've seen them." Samantha nodded as he put his hands on his hips, his tail standing stiff for a moment. "See, it's a girl i'm looking for. She's....um...well hey, here, take a look at this list of things that match her appearance and tell me if it rings a bell. I've never actually seen her before." He removed a folded up piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her. Samantha unfolded it and read it off in her head.

-Defining traits

-Albino with yellow instead of pink eyes.

-Semi long white hair.

-Usually wears black and white with a black ribbon in her hair.

-Black ears and matching tail.

Yeah and one more note for ya bro. Bounty hunters keep saying NOT to call her by either of her names or she'll run from ya. Just remember not to go around hugging every little cat girl ya see like I know you like to do. You know Luna would kill you anyhow. If ya do manage to hug her, then ask her if she's Samantha Grey...um...forgot your last name. You'll have to tell me when you get home Frozen boy.

-Your pal,
Jake.


Samantha took a moment to finish reading the not to find the best way to go about the situation. She carefully handed him back the noted and smiled."Well actually I've never even seen someone who looks similiar to that description."

He looked dissapointed,"Damn. Seeing you I thought you were like pals or something or another ya know, the whole black and white scene, woot or something." He scratched his head nervously and then looked back down at her.

Samantha couldn't help but feel as though the boy was a complete moron. "Well no sorry, i'm actually not from around here....anyhow, um i'll be going now, you have yourself a nice day ok." She turned around and started to head for the spaceport a moment later she broke out in a run. She most certainly didn't want the boy to catch her if he did realize who she was.

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"Hm....could've sworn She'd know."The girl scurried away from him as he scratched his head and looked at the note. Suddenly he felt a hard thud against the back of his head.

"Where's she going?!" A girl had come up from behind him and hit him sqaure on the noggin. "How do you expect to catch your little lost half sister if you let her get away?!" The girl's long brown hair fell over her face for a moment but her hand pulled it back away from her sparkling emerald eyes. Of course it was only his imagination that made them look like emeralds, but he was in love so what could he say.

"I thought she'd be taller ya know...and bustier....with like...a full sexy body or something." He crouched directly after saying this and covered his head for fear of the imminent blow that would come after saying such a thing, both about looking at another woman the wrong way and about his half sister in such a way.

"You son of a....." She held her hand up above her head and clenched her fist for a moment but then sighed and let her hand down at her side."Look, that was her ok?" She tried her best to relax and put her hands in her jean pockets like she always did when she felt the need to hit him. It helped her but it was just a nervous habit. Seeing he wasn't going to be punished, he stood up and smiled before pinching her brown cat like ear.

"You know you love me."

"You're making this really hard for me." This lead the boy to stare at her chest for a long moment. He roused from the moment and looked at her.

"I'm sorry, were you saying something?" Of course this led to another beating but it was followed up by the girl turning her back on him.

"I won't help you find her if all you're going to do is oggle me and other women." She crossed her arms and closed her eyes. She felt his arms wrap around her waist and she felt his nose brush across her cheek.

"We've been through this a million times and you know how it always ends up." The girl gritted her teeth and felt revulsed by his touch.

"That's what happens when I push your angry buttons, not when you push mine." She felt her hands gripping even tighter as though she might literally start blowing steam out of her ears. She felt his lips on hers and although it had taken a few minutes to build up her anger, the kiss had drained it all away. She opened her eyes and after he broke it off she sighed very deeply and blushed.

"No more hitting me and getting angry or I might get angry and it'll lead to the three letter word." She purred a bit for a moment.

"Maybe I want that." The boy put his hand on his forehead.

"Later maybe, I gotta catch up to my half sissy." He hugged the girl and grabbed her hand."How come she doesn't look older anyhow?"

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