Oh yes... Trackers = Epic writing muses
Soreya is a very different Tracker, suspicious - maybe paranoid would be a better word, of everything. In her early life she didn't get on well with other Trackers, and most Trackers wouldn't trust her now. She's one of the most hunted creatures in the world, nearly every Tracker in existence has orders to capture or kill her. She's sarcastic, but very loyal to her mistress, Amaya, and is prepared to lay down her life if it would help her (Amaya). Nimble, fast and very strong, Soreya is the ultimate guard dog, trained in police pursuits, and therefore able to avoid them. You wouldn't want to meet her down a dark alleyway, though, saying that. she doesn't care much for humans, dismissing most of them except potential threats. Those people don't stand a chance. She has a rather warped sense of justice, and would gladly fight for what she thinks is right. (hehe, rhyming.)
Flame
When I was born, they called me Kasen, Fire Arrow.
It seems they wanted me to blaze out a trail for others to follow. But I didn't accept my name- no, my title; I left that life, an arrow straying from it's path, to find my own way, to be different. That is why they call me Soreya. The Stray Arrow.
But maybe I hit a hidden target.
Bright lights shone around me, that much I could tell. The hum of electricity was strong in this room.
"Tracker number 1313." A voice announced. Tasting the air, I determined they were a very bored human female.
Footsteps. She was coming towards me. Was she in league with the other pups? I growled, shuffling my paws as I gathered my hindquarters under me, ready to spring. She came closer.
"Sub-species: Wild Tracker."
She had something in her hand, something electric. A camera? She was creating a video-log, of course.
The image of the woman in my mind revealed a bottle blond woman with a scowl on her face and a video camera in her hand. Ah, the woman in charge of registering us.
The woman, who name I vaguely remembered as something like Romara, leaned forward and jabbed something into the base of my ear.
It hurt. I growled and leapt.
The woman moved to the side, smiling slightly.
"Field name: Kasen, the Fire Arrow."
I 'looked' up, startled, finally understanding what was going on.
The thing in my ear was a chip enabling me to 'speak' to my field partner, whoever had the other chip, or handset.
I was going on a mission.
Blood
The weeks of training, all leading up to the same goal. Symmetrical uses for separate dogs.
We are worth more, are not just fancy Alsatians.
I will not conform.
This was it. I bounced excitedly in the back of the van, desperate to be out of the small enclosed space and into the city. There was another dog with me, an aerial tracker named Remnant on his way to another mission. He'd growled at me a few time, said my bouncing was messing up his motion sensor. I'd ignored him, of course.
The heavy doors rolled open and Romara dragged me out on a lead.
"Right, Kasen, girl. This is your chance to prove yourself. Blaze us out a trail, Fire Arrow." She whispered, letting me sniff a small fragment of material. My strange ability to sense colour kicked in. It was a piece of purple ribbon sown onto white lace, which, in turn, was sown onto black satin. It was the strap of a dress, and it smelt of blood.
Romara removed the collar and I sniffed the air before dashing off, following the trail.
Her voice whispered in my radio as I ran through what seemed like an endless maze of alleyways.
"Kasen, be on your guard. We're looking for a dangerous killer, serial murderer Amaya of the Darkness. She's deadly. She's really, really deadly." Romara warned, just as the trail grew stronger.
I gazed upwards hungrily.
My quarry, this 'Amaya of the Darkness' was in that building. I could smell her.
A unearthly shriek and a slight figure leapt from a high window, landing in a cat-like crouch. I stared, incredilous. Noone could have jumped from that window and survived, then my instincts kicked in. The quarry was in front of me, and I could easily piece the image together in my mind; a small girl with one grey eye and one blood red eye. She had long wavy black hair and blood red highlights and was wearing a black lolita dress with white lace and purple ribbon. One sleeve was tattered and torn. I could smell blood again; her clothes were covered in it.
Despite all this, 'Amaya' was smiling.
I hissed into my radio."Target acquired and hostile, she's just killed."
Romara sounded gleeful and savage at the same time.
"Don't wait for us, just take her down; she's killed too many. Tracker 1313, permission to kill."
I snarl quietly and leap at the bloodstained female.
Shadow
They say looks can be deceptive, and I have to agree,
you'll not find a tracker as bad as me.
Though my fur's white as snow, and my purpose was good,
This Tracker was cut from a real different wood.
The girl sniffed the air and looked up, suddenly on guard, but to late. She managed to step backwards and I landed just in front of her, ready to leap again.
But for some reason, I hesitated.
"Tracker." The girl speaks, in a hissed and feral voice. In the image I fit together her mismatched eyes are terrified, but defeated. She knows it's over.
I glower at her, snarling.
"Go on then. Finish it." Her voice is still defiant, but trembling.
I stop snarling and shake my head. I cannot kill her. She's too much like me. Everything that I feel in her aura is a echo of my past, a past I wouldn't have wished on anyone. I go to turn, but suddenly there's a siren. Blue lights everywhere.
Romara.
"HOLD HER, KASEN!" The voice of the blond woman is loud and savagely triumphant.
"Romara!" Suddenly, Amaya is panicked. I race away from the killer, determined to get something I see hanging from Romara's belt, not realising I am playing right into the blond woman's hands. I grasp the bag in my teeth and rip it loose, but by running away from Amaya, I gave Romara's people a clear scope.
A deafening racket fills the air as about 20 semi-automatic pistols go off at once.
Amaya cries out and falls, but somehow she has managed to avoid most of the bullet. She's clutching her left wrist, holding it tight to her body. Suddenly she's just another 15 year old girl, like the ones I'm sworn to protect. I can taste her terror.
She's helpless.
I can't let her die.
Tearing the bag open with my teeth, I run to her, holding a syringe in my mouth. I lick her wrist as I toss it to her, and she plunges it into her not bleeding wrist. She has the other chip and now we can communicate. We're partners. The Tracker and the Killer.
Growling, I stand tall in front of her, facing the police. "Amaya, stay calm."
"What d'you know." She muttered, still clutching her bleeding hand. "The Fire Arrow's strayed from the target."
I growl at Romara, who glares at me.
"Kasen! MOVE! I can't get a shot!"
I shake my head deliberately from side to side, then lunge for her throat.
"RUN, AMAYA!" I scream to my partner.
"Shall do, Soreya." Amaya hisses in a jokey tone, still wincing, leaping into the shadows and vanishing.
Soreya. I like it.
It has potential, if I ever get out of this alive.
I turn, snarling, from Romara, who lies face down on the floor, unconscious, and glare at the policemen. One of them raises his gun, but I snarl-bark an order to stand down at him, and even though he can't possibly understand, he does.
I leap into the shadows after my partner.
Death
Trackers are supposed to catch criminals, but I work with one. I AM one.
Wilds are most often found in cold places, but the place I live is warm.
White fur is suited to snow, I live in a city.
Looks ARE deceptive, with one exception.
I look fierce, I'm deadly.
Amaya was leaning against a wall, one hand on her hip. A man stood in front of her, a steely look in his eye.
My partner yawned, examining her long black nails, each filed to a point.
"So." She purred, her voice feral. "You want me to kill this guy?"
The guy nodded once, his face expressionless but his eyes cold. "So, will you?"
From the tone of his voice, it was clear he thought there was only one answer.
Amaya, paused, considering. "Hmmmmmm...No."
The man started, anger sparking in his cold eyes.
"Now look here, Missy-" He growled, stepping forward, his hand sliding into his jacket and drawing a knife.
Amaya's blood red eye caught the glint of steel. She yawned and spoke just one word. "Arrow."
Recognising my cue, I leapt through the wall of boxes separating me from Amaya, snarling.
At the sight of 'Arrow,' the legendary and much feared Tracker rumoured to guard savage
girl assassin Amaya of the Darkness, the blood rushed from the man's face. He backed away,
hands held in front of him, looking over his shoulder.
"Call it off, Miss Amaya," He pleaded desperately as I prowled closer, grinning. "Call it off!"
The man had no idea that I didn't like being called an 'it,' but he was about to find out.
Amaya had built a receiver into the lace choker around my neck, so I could speak to anyone I wished to.
"I am not an it." I growled, pinning the man to the wall.
Amaya smiled, showing sharp teeth. "Good one, Arrow. Dispose of it."
he man looked up at her, terrified. She smiled again.
"Amaya of the Darkness doesn't appreciate threats, Mr Brown."
At the sound of his name, the man's eyes widened.
Amaya gave one command, and laughed as blood stained her black lolita dress.
Whoa. That was possibly the most morbid story I've ever written- and my word it was fun! I almost want to write it again! 