forum Hunter and The Hunted (closed but stalkers are welcome)

Started January 23, 2020 by @Hybrid-Is-tired

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"Hello…?" Blake stepped defensively in front of Shadow, she didn't want anyone to attack him.

“Yumi. Great. I’m Dare,” she said shortly, but not unkindly. “An inventor? Could be useful. May I borrow some of that scrap, if you would be so kind?” She didn’t want to grab for anything without Yumi’s consent because she didn’t want to spook her away. In this girl, Dare could have just found a valuable new resource she couldn’t afford to lose. “Oh, I’m sure you’re not useless. No one is,” she said with a small smile.

Tempest backed up and let out a little sigh, glad they were getting along. His ears would not longer stand up on their own as the last few weeks caught up to the young boy. Any steps he took dragged along the snow just a bit. He had been running off of power naps and energy drinks for about three weeks and now that he was separated from one of those things…well he knew he would crash eventually. Tempest knelt down by the water and splashed some on his face, for he couldn't afford to be dead weight in the new trio they had formed

The green haired boy did not stir in his sleep as Blake called out

“I… I have a mech suit… if that’s any help… and use my stuff as you need. I usually use them to build stuff.” Yumi said, putting her hand on her chest plate. “I’m not much of a fighter, but I’m a good defense… and I know how to treat wounds.”
Yumi looked over at Tempest. “Sorry for me being startled. I’ve been getting attack a lot recently, I’m not sure why.”

"It's uh…well understandable I know what that feels like." Tempest assured her, sitting on the snow covered ground as he tries to let his lightheadedness pass

A functional mech suit and medical knowledge? Yumi was far more capable than she first appeared. “Trust me, you sound more than helpful,” Dare said in what she hoped was a reassuring tone. “Thank you for allowing me access to your materials. I promise I will repay you.”

"More useful than I'm being right now at least." Tempest joked a bit as he stood back to his feet to pick some more cherries

Blake pouted, and walked up to the boy. She leaned over him. "Wake up!"

The boy still didn't wake up. Either he was a heavy sleeper or…something else. Shadow let out a little and let out a little "wuf" from Blake's side

"Is he…" Blake nudged the boy with her still-armored foot.

The boy's eyes shot open and he pushed the coat off of himself, revealing an olive colored tee shirt, worn out jeans, and vans skating shoes. He also had many different charms all attached to a single thin chain around his neck. He quickly scooted across the dry ground he had cleared ahead of time reaching for a charm as his eyes widened

Blake backed away from the boy. "Woah, woah. Chill out." Blake remembered she was still armored. "Oh, yeah. Good night, Willow." The suit of armor folded back into her prosthetic leg. "Do you know where we are?"

His hand dropped from his charms and he signed in ASL 'A forest last time I checked' hoping she understood sign language.

Blake blinked at the boy. She tapped her foot, and as usual, the keypad popped up. Upon tapping a command, her leg unfolded into a half-suit of armor that covered the left side of her chest and her left arm, ending at the top with a visor. "Can you sign that again?"

He nodded and repeated what he had signed but added 'you must be one of the hunted' pointing to the symbol on her uncovered right hand

"More useful than I'm being right now at least." Tempest joked a bit as he stood back to his feet to pick some more cherries

Yumi blushed from the sudden praise. She wasn’t used to complements at all. “Um.. thanks… I…”
Yumi gulped. “I’m not a fighter though… my mech does enough… but I’m helpless in a fight…”
Yumi glanced at the creek, she shivered a bit. “And I’m scared of a lot of things…”

Blake tapped the side of her visor, enabling the translation software she'd installed. "The… hunted? Is my translation software messed up?"

"We're all scared of things." Temp drew his sword again and leapt up, slicing a whole branch off that was full of cherries. He defiantly had used some magic to gain extra height in his jump. He shifted back into his blond thin teen boy form as he couldn't retain his canine like form with as little strength he had in his body at this point. "Oh dear I didn't mean to use another burst." He tried to pull off a easy going smile but sat down close to the two of them, holding the fruit filled branch out to them, his hand shaking quite a bit

'No you and seven others were pulled here as game in a large scale hunt' the green haired boy signed to Blake

"That explains the seven." Blake thought for a moment. "So, where are the others? And who's the one who pulled us here?"

'Very evil man. Has very twisted views. He's powerful in his type of magic that I'm sure you've seen by now.' Gio signed, blinking the sleep out of his eyes

"Is… he the guy who made the wolves?"

Dare saw his shaking limbs as he held out the branch and internally rolled her eyes. “Alright. You, Tempest, are going to take a nap. Immediately,” she commanded. She gently rested a hand on his shoulder. “I don’t have time to be worried about you trying to be a martyr and passing out from exhaustion.”

'he is…are you aware that the thing with you was also created by him?' Gio signed with a nervous look to his icy blue eyes.

Slash grinned and flicked his switch blade open "Well isn't that-" He suddenly was blasted by some sort of blast, causing him to grunt out in pain and get launched deeper into the woods "No Slash You won't be getting one already, nor any if I can help it." It was a woman who stepped out from the deep brush. She appeared to a dragon human hybrid. She wore a halter top and black sweatpants under a grey robe. Her skin was part scales and part skin. Her eyes shone a dark grey. She put what could assumed to be a wand back into her robe's inside pocket

Tempest nodded to Dare and cleared a little section of snow the normal way and curled up, shifting into his other canine form so he wouldn't freeze. With that he promptly slipped into a deep sleep.

Yumi shivered a bit, she used her chest plate to build a wall around her.
“Um, I’m going to rest as well!” She yelled through the metal.
Yumi curled herself in the snow, using a lighter to melt some, and caught a card on fire. She grabbed some sticks and built it into a pile, then put the card on it. Yumi was used to fumes, it never bothered her.

Tempest still shivered in his sleep as the worries that he didn't speak out loud slipped into his dreams. Thoughts of not being enough to protect his little group was just one among the many. Zerack spoke into his mind You can't protect them from me…they are mine