Wild One

[Scarlet Sonata]

Azura crouched down and looked at the earth, her hair covering one eye as always and she had to push it away to see properly but it was the tracks of a large boar. She smirked, "That is dinner for a week if the size of the tracks are right..." she muttered, making sure she had all of her weapons, two medium length knives and an hatchet she would be using to kill the boar. She stood up, looking out in the distance of the woods and marking broken twigs or crushed leaves to show where the boar had gone. Azura was one of the most beautiful and dangerous of her tribe. She just happened to be the best hunter, the best fighter, and to top it off she was the daughter of the tribe leader. All of the men in the tribe wanted her but she had yet to give herself away, her father and her own personality made it difficult for her to allow men close, most of them were gutless cowards who wanted her purely for their own gain.

That mattered not, she planned on becoming the first female tribe leader and as such she wanted to prove herself, getting food was just one of the ways she was doing this. After awhile she came upon the top of a hill and at the bottom she could see the boar grazing, she crouched down and began making her way towards the boar, ready to make the catch. Of course she happened to miss the footprints on the ground as she walked, human footprints all over the place. So as she approached the boar she was totally unaware of the danger in the woods, her woods and the trouble she was getting herself into by coming to this place alone and without a hunting partner or two like was usually required. Truth be told even if she brought the boar back without incident she would be in trouble, the only reason she was doing it was for the prestige, the inexperience of a young 22 year old girl.

 

[ks9045]

Henry was a slave trader who was pretty well known in the black market. He also ran a brothel back in the city in the red lantern district, every single female worker there was a slave that he had caught and trained. His brothel was full of many races ranging from elves to even a succubus. Lately the girls in his brothel were becoming worn out and as the patrons put it "boring and stale." He needed some fresh meat and fast something that he could put in his store for the next couple of months to entertain his customers before he made another big haul from his expeditions. He heard rumors of a small tribe living in the eastern forests from a hunter who frequented his shop. He knew that it'd be a long shot but it was better than trying nothing and ending up with a group of slightly unsatisfied customers. So he put together a very small hunting group consisting of himself and two other men that he had hired from the local merc guild. They equiped themselves with poison tipped arrows and crossbows. Henry fancied a small pistol and a giant gun that shot a steel net.

They had been hiking in the forest for hours now. Henry was used to this kind of thing but the two men he had with him were only experienced in fighting people on open fields or in cities and grew tired quickly. Henry carefully inspected the forest to look for signs for any humanoids in the area, he was an expert tracker due to his many years of being a slave trader. He knew that someone was in the forest and from the looks of it the person was alone. Henry and the two mercs made their way towards a hill when they spotted a huge boar grazing at the foot of the hill. "Gods that thing is huge." "We could take that back and have a feast tonight." The two mercs prepared to kill the boar but Henry stopped them. "Wait" he grabbed both of them and made them stay back. He had spooted Azura sneaking in the bushes in the distance and decided that it would be best to let her kill the boar first before he tried to capture her. He told is men to ready their crossbows and he himself began to take aim with his net gun as well. The moment she killed the Boar would be the moment they make their move.

 

[Scarlet Sonata]

Azure was close to the boar at this point and so she drew her hatchet and before the boar could make its escape she flung the weapon into the spine of the boar and smirking as it hit the ground with a thud. "Oh yea... A feast there shall be..." she said going over to the boar and pulling her favorite weapon from the things neck. God it was huge, it was probably the biggest kill in several moons and with that would come a great deal of prestige from tribe. She turned around but when she did she saw something she didn't quite like, three human males, two looked like mercs but the other... He seemed to be much better equipped than them. She immediately knew she had to do something quick and she reached back, pulling out the knives she kept and launching them both up the hill and into mercs without any trouble, a nasty smirk on her face, she was ready to kill the last one. The only problem was that her hatchet wouldn't make it up that hill at this distance, she would have to close the gap.

Azura took a deep breath and took off up the hill, hoping that this man wouldn't use those weapons he had on him but she couldn't worry about that, she was just trying to move in as quickly as possible. She was a bit nervous but she had been in battle before, not with the recent settlers but she was one of the best combatants of her tribe and the easy disposal of the two mercs, maybe this man would just run off so she could take the boar as well as the stuff off the mercs back to her tribe. As she got nearer and nearer up the hill, her movements looking quite beautiful despite the look of concentration and blood lust on her face. She raised the hand with the hatchet as she was close to being in range, ready to throw it inside of the last human scum on her tribes land. Whatever their reason for being here they were not allowed.

 

[ks9045]

The man payed no attention as the two mercs behind him fell to their deaths. In fact he was glad to be rid of them they were more trouble than they were worth. "That's what I get for the discounted price I guess." The man mumbled to himself. Henry saw the tribe woman run towards the hill and he saw her ready her hatchet. He knew what was coming, thanks to his many years of experience. He drew his pistol and took aim at the hatchets blade and he took the shot. The bullet hit the flat sides of the hatchets blade and shattered the weapons head, the shock from the impact wuld sure have hurt the girls wrist as well, after all her kind was not used to the severe force that a gun can dish out. He then quickly reached behind him and swung around his huge net gun and shot at her. The wild girl got caught in the net and went tumbling down the hill. The man ran the rest of the way down and slowly approached the girl.

"Whew, that was easier than I thought." As the man got closer he managed to get a better look. "Well now this one looks pretty young, no wonder it was so easy." The man took careful notice of his surroundings to see if she had any companions. But he saw no sign of them and judging by the trail she left it seemed like she traveled alone. "You inexperienced punk, did you really think it'd be safe to go out into the forest alone, especially a woman?" The man saw her face. "What's with that look on your face, huh, punk, oh wait you probably can't understand me what with your backwords tribe living outside of normal civilization." The man dragged the girl by her legs and tied her to the boar. He then began to carry her back to the city.

 

[Scarlet Sonata]

Azura felt the weapon in her hand fly back and the blade of her hatchet shattered, not to mention the pain in her wrist which slowed her down substantially. "Fuck..." she muttered in her own language before starting back up the hill towards the man, intent on getting into combat with him. Before she could get another few steps he turned and shot some sort of net at her, hitting her head on and sending her flying down the hill, hitting down and rolling until it stopped and she found herself unable to move because of the net. She watched as the man approached her and curse in her own language angrily, the look on her face one of fury, she would not be treated like this, she was a princess of their tribe, she deserved some form of respect, that was why her tribe hated outsiders.

He was talking about her though, she didn't understand it perfectly but she had learned a small portion of their language, enough to figure out most things and speak a bit of it but it was always broken and not perfected yet. From the gist he was commenting on her age and inexperience, throwing in words of obvious insult along the way. She simply snarled not letting him know she understood and wriggling around in the net. "I will kill you!" she yelled in her language again as he began to drag her and the prize boar away towards the huge city that had been founded nearby, a place she had never been and never wanted to visit. She began squirming more than ever when she realized this, trying to escape to no end.