Tracker Dog Application Series 8Username: To Kill The Necarae
Tracker Dog you want: #24
Name you'll give it: Dialis
Reason why you want it: I love the coloring, and the idea of a "spare flashlight". He's also the perfect male counterpart to Next. Both are sharp-witted, and both enjoy "higher" priority missions. And, seeing as I always lose my batteries... The markings also remind me slightly of a snowleopard, one of my favorite Big Cats.
Will it be used in any kind of story?: Of course. I love my stories. =]
Describe its personality:
Brutal: Hell has no fury like a Tracker with a threatened Master.
Loyal: He was bred for this, to be the faithful companion to Master.
Human: Although Dialis is 'invented' and thus not given to be capable of higher thought, he feels emotions. Sorrow and hate are the strongest.
Brilliant: There is no situation in which Dialis cannot think himself out of, nor any problem which he does not find himself capable of solving.
Write an introduction for your Tracker:
He will not see me stopping here...My feet thumped against the snow, mirrored by my hard breathing. The only sounds to break the silence of the night, snowflakes falling all 'round.
To watch his wood fill up with snow...I was furious that they would do this to me. They knew I hated being used. I wasn't meant for this type of mission. She was a runaway, the lowest kind of criminal. What did they need me for? The girl wasn't armed, she hadn't robbed anything, there was nothing on her criminal record.
She was just a runaway.
The trail was beginnging to fade, the snow coupled with the wind was sweeping it out from my sight. I snorted, determined to give them a show, even if I hated them for it.
Between the woods and frozen lake...Why would she do it? I paced in a small circle, trying to hold on to the whisps of scent that remained as the wind picked up.
What went wrong?
I stumbled, a near-frozen cloak in my path. Tasting the air around it, the runaway again flashed into my mind. It was hers, for sure. How far had she gotten from here without protection form the wind and cold?
The darkest evening of the year...I followed the weaker trail from the jacket, heading to the left. I saw no use in bringing the jacket, it was frozen into an unmanagable shape and would be no help if I found the girl.
The temperature was dropping faster now, the wind was raging and snow flurries beat against my sides as I struggled to keep the trail. The girl woud be lucky if she still had all her limbs, let alone fingers, when she got out of this. The trail veered off here, into an area that I'd never been in before.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep...As soon as I set foot on the snow, I knew I was in trouble. There was ice under powder snow. Which meant, under the ice was water. So I was standing on a lake. With no way to tell how thick the ice was.
I backed up untill I could feel the banks of the lake, safe and solid, under my feet again. I sniffed into the wind, trying to determine if the trail really went over the lake.
It did.
But I have promises to keep... It was my bane, the desire to win, to always come out on top.
With a running start, I skittered onto the ice, sliding across the slick surface, trying to hold some direction against the beating winds. As I slid into a snowbank, the scent trail suddenly lit up. A blue-green shape was forming.
She was here!
Frozen, stiff and cold like her shed cloak, the girl was curled in the snowbank on the edge of the lake. Her backpack was covering her internal organs, but I knew it was too late.
I begain to glow, letting my Master know I'd found his daughter.
And miles to go before I sleep...
And miles to go before I sleep...