The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

Samantha was again running through the spaceport as fast as she could. She had no idea whether the boy was on her tail or not but she had to get back on the ship where it was safe. She ran up the escalator and stopped when she stepped up the last step. She looked to the small river flowing between her and the other side for those who were coming back in and she spotted someone very familiar to her. He was bald and had a goatee, and of course, staring directly at her.

"Ms. Grey, please stop!" The man stood on the edge of the other side and leaned forward slightly. Samantha wasn't afraid at the moment, after all the man would have to get terribly wet if he wanted to reach her in time. Samantha smiled and stuck her tongue out at him.

"No, I don't trust any of you. My father says to stay away from you so that's just what i'll do." She decided that it would be best if she left now. If there was the bald man, there would be the woman and the other man. She could hear him calling out to her and of course, she heard a splash which indicated he did decide to go through the middle. She made her way down the long hallway and stopped at the big detector that was just before the long moving floor. She looked out of the window at her ship and felt her heart sink. There in front of her ship were a very large number of people who didn't look like they were admiring the paint job. She had no place to run but back out into the streets of Manhatten. That's exactly what she did. She watched as the bald man got out of the water, on the other side of the river and stopped to taunt him. He threw his hands up in the air in a very frustrated manner and decided to be a little bit smarter attempting to go down an upwards escalator.

Samantha raced to the bottom of the escalator and jumped down to the bottom. She looked up in time to see a girl with brown hair reach out and grab her arm.

"Gotcha. Hey, over here." Samantha looked toward the upwards escalator and saw the boy from earlier helping the bald man off the escalator. The girl didn't seem to have too tight a hold on her and she struggled with her. The girl did not let go of Samantha's arm. Samantha opened her mouth wide and bit deep into the girl's hand, this however did not make her let go, instead the girl bit her lip and closed one of her eyes as well as tightened her grip.

"Let go of me! Father!" Samantha called out loudly and as if responding to her call, her father appeared behind the girl. Her father's eyes blazed red as the girl looked down at Samantha.

"I'll take you to your father. Hey, stop looking at me like that." Samantha's father placed his hand on the girl's arm that was holding Samantha and gripped very tightly.This caused the girl to wince and let out a low cry of pain. The girl instantly released Samantha and fell to her knees holding the wounded area. Samantha didn't have a moment to think as her father took her into his arms and raced toward the exit of the spaceport. Samantha looked out behind them and watched as the boy started to run after them, but a moment later and he appeared to dissapear among the crowd. Seemed she got lucky with large crowds of people.

"Stop right there! Via the bounty i'm to take you in!" Samantha turned forward and saw two men. One of the men was Angel Eyes, while the second was just another bounty hunter.

"Look, I don't want to hurt you." Angel eyes lifted a gun in one hand and aimed it at them. Samantha covered her eyes and could only hear the sound of two gunshots going off as well as feel the splatter of blood on her face. For a moment she thought her father might have been hit but when she reopened her eyes she had to close them again instantly. Her father had impaled the bounty hunter with his hand in much the same way he had done the gaurd on the station. She listened as the man groaned and fell over on the floor and assumed that Angel Eyes would be too busy helping him to follow. A moment later she felt the wind of the ocean in her hair and opened her eyes. She looked out to the ocean and then in toward the harbor where they were headed spotting what appeared to be a low flying starflier. The pilot perhaps was running laps to get their liscense, but to Samantha they sure didn't know how to fly. They passed the pier where they had always stood when visiting Manhatten. Her father must have been looking for her here and when she wasn't there came looking for her. Finnally home free of the nightmare of being captured. She wished she could be as strong as her father, she could feel herself drifting off to sleep, but she never fell into dreamland, the sound of sirens went off all around her.

Samantha felt her feet touch the ground and she quickly scurried behind her father holding onto his waist. She looked forward toward the force arrayed in front of her. The force around her ship was small in comparison and must have been there to seal her exit. The amount of bounty hunters and mercenaries was baffling, at the front of the pack was Jason and the man from new tokyo. Behind her there was approaching the boy from earlier and the bald man as well as a small group of bounty hunters. He never quit and must have found Samantha to be very important for some reason or another."There's no escape. What will we do?"

"I regret not teaching you how to see with your eyes. I will not let you die now." Samantha wrapped her arms around her father's neck, not completely understanding what he had meant by that.

"Samantha, you belong to me! What don't you understand about that? Stop resisting and come here right now before I get angry!" The red haired man's eyes flared up as he gripped his hands tightly. Jason leveled his gun with at her father and pulled the trigger almost to the point of firing. A sound filled Samantha's ears, one of an engine."Just give up now and the punishment will be only half as severe."

"With my eyes, I can see what you cannot." Her father crouched down and was almost touching the ground."Hold on tight." Samantha did as she was told and felt her father jump into the air just as a starflier passed by, his hand caught the wing of it and of course sent the pilot straight toward the water.Samantha closed her eyes and held on for her life. There was a quick splash followed by the inability to breathe for quite a time before finnally she took in a deep breathe and opened her eyes. Her father was crawling into a patrol boat that had just docked moments ago with some of the bounty hunter passengers. Samantha released her father and stood at the back of the boat, watching as the people rushed to get to them. It only took a moment for her father to get the boat moving away from the dock. Samantha felt great relief as the people began to board their own ships, but they were too far behind to catch up.

"I see with the eyes of the hunter, no one can escape." Samantha turned forward and felt her heart drop as she spotted the boy from earlier. He didn't look like much of a match for her father though and suddenly she felt relieved again, standing behind her father, watching as the boy approached them. "Comon my half sissy, quit this nonsense."

"I'm not your sister! Father, do I have a brother?"Before her father could respond the boy filled in for him.

"I said, half sissy. You should be glad i'm out here trying to help you and all, but instead noooooo.....you gotta go causing all this trouble for me. How do you think my girlfriend feels about the whole arm thing? She was pissed!" His eyes remained their pale yellow color.

"She shouldn't have tried to take me from my father."The boy didn't look confused intead he laughed slightly.

"Geeze, now I know why you don't look older. Must have been the materials in that escape pod."Samantha didn't trust him one bit, but was quite curious what he meant.

"Older? I'm only seven."

"Maybe you're seven physically. I went through the same thing. Some say that people who've been in cryo life pods are prime for being possessed and such. Believe me, that's completely true." He put his hands on his hips and looked at her with a forcefull gaze.

"Are you suggesting i'm possessed? I'm quite sure that i'm not."

"No no no....." He shook his head and laughed again, the sun behind him was begginning to go down. "Just imagine drifting for years on end, staring into the void of space, with nothing to do and no one to comfort you. Kind of...gets to your mind...makes you forget things.....your father is back waiting for you at the dock." He gave her the come here motion."Come on, we'll fix up that torn mind of yours when we get back."

Samantha felt very confused by what he was saying, but more so enraged by his insulting her father who was standing right in front of him. "Do you not see my father right here!? I only remember him being there for me! There was no one else and my mother is long gone as far as I know she could be dead!"

Now he was shocked."What?" He scratched his head and thought for a moment."Wait, you still have that information on the wreckage out there?"

"Yeah, so, I can't read it."

"Look again."

She did as she was told and looked at the data pad. Suddenly she could read it and she did not like what it said.

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