The Eyes of a Hunter (Baldur)

[Tatiana]

Tatiana was dressed in a black form fitting tank top with a white dress vest, along with dark wash skinny jeans and a wide white belt. On her feat was a nice pair of flats. They weren't that bad she concluded. She didn't really have a choice, when she was sent here for punishment they pretty much just gave her a bag of clothes and told her to wear them. It wasn't like she was going to tell them that her house was in the forest and that she didn't really live in one spot. So she made up some story and they bought it.

Walking around the school grounds, Tatiana began to analyze her surroundings. Her keen wolf eyes allowed her to view the landscape with peak percision. Her objective was to ge the hell out of here. She only went along with the humans who sent her here because she didn't want to hurt them, that and she was still recovering from a leg injury, which was now a dissapearing scar on her left quad.

This is not good. I'm fenced in, and it reaks of humans here. Strange ones at that. They are not like the humans in the city.

She was standing by the large fence like wall that boardered the school. Picking up a stick, she jammed it into the ground with impressive force.

Concrete. Digging will not be an option. Dammit. These walls are too high to jump over and to slick to climb. My situation is unbearable. I need to be with others like me. I havn't been around humans for a long while...I don't know how I will behave towards them. Sebastian..please, find me.

The stick she was holding snapped effortlessly in her hand. The thought of being confined to the same premisses day after day infuriated her. Although she was definately feeling angry, one could not tell from the outside.

I will find a way to get out of here...there has to be another way other then turning into my war form. I do not want to hurt these people. But still..

Her thoughts ravished her mind, as she leaned against the wall, both palms against it. She could feel her canines lengthen and at the same time, she dragged her clawed hand down the wall, leaving nail rivulets behind. Sighing in defeat, she turned away from the wall and decided to make use of the little forest that the school had to offer. Regaining some her composure, her claws turned back into normal finger nails and her canines shrunk down to a decent size.

The smell here, its annoying.

[Baldur]

Baldur looked out around the complex. He had been sent here for the rest of his schooling years. Great. AND he had to start over, back to square one...Freshman. He hated being a freshman there, and he would hate it here just as much.

But the good thing about it was this was a huge campus, and it had lots of woods to get lost in. That was always fun, too bad he didn't have his bow otherwise he would go have fun tracking down rabbits and squirrels. But Hiking would be just as good.

He set out roaming the campus. Passing by uncountable quantities of species of trees, a few small bodies of water and a great deal of animals that ran or came close as he walked by.

He loved nature and everything that was in it. Baldur only hunted big game only when he had too but hunted small game to keep their population down. One year they had a massive rabbit population spike that resulted in a ruined vegetable crop. They had enough meat that week to keep them through a brutal winter.

He stuffed his hands into his camouflage pants pockets as his Van tennis shoes glided above the grass. His sage green shirt almost matched the natural background. This place had perfect floral beauty.

He soon came to a wall. A wall. "What the hell? A concrete wall? Is this the Berlin wall of this school?" he said to himself as he touched a thin hand to the wall looking up. This place now was hell. You never kept a hunter caged...bad things happened when you did, very, very bad things.

[Tatiana]

As much as she wanted Sebastian to come and find her, she knew, that as the leader of her pack, that she was not his first priority. If anything, she would have to find them again, not the other way around. Something that could be an impossible feat. For the last time she saw her pack, was back in Russia, she was on an island the people called Japan.

The enormity of her task weighed down on her like an ant carrying a grasshopper. Tatiana was not in a good mood. As if that wasn't bad enough, she was starting to get hungry. Sure there was alot of game to hunt, but could she really risk changing? The last thing she needed was for someone to discover what she truely was. That would be disasterous.

The humans must obtain their food somehow. This would be so much easier if I could only remember when I lived with humans. That was seven years ago...what was that place called..the cafe...cafetar..cafeteria!

Tatiana wasn't totally clueless about the human world. She knew everything about it, she just was so used to living as a wolf and away from society, that her memories were a little bit fuzzy. All would come back to her in time, she would just have to rememebr to act decently.

After cajoling in the forest surrounding the school she began to walk in the general direction to the school building. On her way there, she happened to startle a deer grazing. Like any animal, it stared at her with wide eyes. The deer was smart, it could smell her scent, a wolf's scent. And just as quickly as Tatiana stumbled upon it, the deer bounded crazily away from her.

Sighing she continued to walk, listening intently. "It's not like I was going to eat you."

[Baldur]

Baldur walked around tracing a hand along the smooth, weather worn concrete wall. The concrete felt like a pebble worn smooth by a surging river. It made him think of home and the small creek that ran through a portion of the forest.

He gave a sigh and continued walking. Birds and small game ran around, scattering or drawing towards him in fear or wonder. He loved animals and everything about them. They showed true passions and never held lies from each other like humans did.

He wasn't saying humanity did lie all the time but still they were prone to lie more often then not. He gave another sigh as he walked away from the concrete wall and back into the woods.

He looked around to see the animals were scurrying towards him then past him in an exuberant manner. As if they were running away from a great threat. Most animals had a 6th sense for natural disasters but he didn't know what this disaster was, if it was one at all.

He then saw a deer stand in the middle of the woods, looking around, ears as high up as skyscrapers looking or listening for something that was around the area. Was it him? No, most likely not, he was downwind from the creature.

It then sprinted off with a vigor like no other. Baldur looked past his white hair to see a rather cute girl walking steadfastly down the forest. He wondered who she was. A student most likely but who?

He was new to the school so he didn't know anyone, maybe she was new too. Or maybe not. But most likely she wouldn't think to talk to him. So he just stood next to a tree and looked through the dense green forest in every direction to get a sense of Nature.

[Tatiana]

Watching the deer run away, made her body tingle with the desire to change into a wolf and hunt the deer down. It was a nice size, but she would never be able to eat it all, besides it was the joy of the hunt that really mattered.

Memories of previous hunts danced in her mind. The wind rushing against her silky fur, the feeling of the soft earth beneath her clawed paws, the comfort of feeling her friends running along beside her all of it would be truely missed. For now, if she ever had the desire to hunt again, she would be alone. The earth she trudged along would never feel the same again.

Maybe I'll just give up the hunt all together. Maybe I won't turn into a wolf for as long as I stay here. Maybe..ugh, this is ridiculous!

Shaking her head slightly, she took another step forward and immediately stopped. She sensed a pressence. Although she couldn't smell it, for it was downwind from her, she could certainly hear it. The woods were quiet after all, and even if the creature was trying to be silent, at this proximity, Tatiana could hear it clearly.

Looking over her shoulder, her eyes laid upon a human boy leaning against a tree. It surprised her to see him out in the woods, totally at ease, like he belonged there. He seemed to be looking at her as well, and in one swift moment, they made eye contact.

Tatiana was totally calm and in a stoic manner, which was the usual for her, she continued to walk, minding her own business, as if the boy was nothing more then another animal in the woods.

His hair, reminds me of the moon.

[Baldur]

Baldur turned back after he scanned the area. There were no more animals in the vacinity so he was alone with the girl. Well not with her, but it was just them in the woods now.

He was bored and had nothing better to do so he just stood there for a moment or two more before walking quickly in the direction the girl was going. Keeping wide of her as to not alert her more of his presence since they had locked eyes a few moments ago.

Slowly and gradually he started turning to intercept her intended path. He stopped about 30 feet in front of her and vanished. Yeah, he just vanished from sight. Nothing could see him unless they had thermal or bio-electrical goggles.

As he stood there he began to wonder what she would do when he sprang up right in front of her. He suspected nothing short of a solid hit from her as she seemed like a tomboy sort of girl. But he was bored and would take it with a smile since he always had loved games of hide and seek, and he would be the hider that was right in front of the seeker.

[Tatiana]

The wind touseled her blonde, lower back length hair, in vicious curls around her face. She liked the feeling of her hair blown back by the wind, it made her feel like she was truely free. She smiled slighty, but the smile was short lived, for a new scent had drifted into her line of smell.

Tatiana had a very keen sense of smell, and this smell was definately a human scent. Why would a human be all the way out here? Could there be another one lurking about the forest, like the boy she had previously saw? Not thinking much more about it, she continued walking.

Odd. The scent keeps getting stronger, which means I'm getting closer. The persons presense is strong to.

Furrowing her brow, she stopped in her tracks once again. She was getting tired of this, always having to stop to examine things. All she wanted to do was quell her rumbling stomach, but Tatiana was a natural observer at heart. She had to check things out, it was her insticnt.

Taking a deep breath, she was positive the human had to be around her somewhere. If her nose was correct, and it always was, the person should be directly infront of her, but there was nothing there. Absolutely nothing, just air.

Confused, she began to circle the spot where she knew a human should be. The source of the scent was emitting from that spot, the source of the pressence was emitting from that spot. She just couldn't see the person.

How..is this possible?

[Baldur]

Baldur just stood there grinning, invisibly as the girl was staring around the area in puzzlement. He knew what he was going to do but not what the girl was.

She started looking around the area. Obviously searching for something, did he know what? No, but once she started circling him he knew what was troubling her. But how could she sense him? That was what was puzzling him.

But deciding to give up the little game as she obviously knew where he was he waited for her to be directly in front of his face before he 'de-cloaked' with a grin on his face and said "Boo." Nothing bit or witty but still startling nonetheless.

He then blinked casually and kept the grin up taking a step back. He didn't know what to expect from the girl but he would assume the worst and that she would hit him and rant to him.

[Tatiana]

In a split second, the spot she was staring at started to waver, like heat waves on a hot summer day. The wavering lasted only momentarily, and soon enough, there in the spot she suspected there was a human, was the same boy she had seen earlier.

It all happened so fast. When once there was nothing there, now stood a boy, totally and physically there. This startled her and her defensive reflexes took over. Gracefully, her legs dug into the ground and she jumped back a few feet, landing on all fours, glaring.

I must not growl, I must not growl.

Regaining her composure, Tatiana, once again stood on two feet and began to brush her hands off on her jeans. Her facial expression showing no previous emotions.

What an odd thing for someone to do. But I was right about one thing, the humans here are different then the any of the other humans I've met. These ones seem to be able to do things that others cannot, hence this humans ability to appear to be invisible.

"That's a useful trick you got there," she said casually, still getting around the fact that she was attempting to converse with a human.

"For future encounters, I suggest you do not attempt something like this again. For the next time, I will not hesitate to inflict harm upon you."

I don't think I will ever fully understand humans. I will certainly try to. For such a pretty thing, his way of greeting is certainly weird.

[Baldur]

Baldur grinned as he saw the girl jump back. He loved her reaction. She had jumped back and landed on all fours. He wondered why but dismissed it as just something that meant nothing.

She then stood back up and told him that his ability was a useful trick but not to do it anymore to her or she would hurt him. He raised an eyebrow to the comment. So she wasn't going to hit him? That was something he didn't expect.

He then got a good look at her. Before he had seen her from a distance, now he had a front row view to her. She had gorgeous blond hair; solid glistening blue gray eyes; and toned build that spoke volumes that she was active and if he was bold he would say her figure was sexy but he wasn't so bold to say it.

He then grinned at her and shrugged. "I'll take your word on that." he said and laughed. "Oh, I have not properly introduced myself, I am Baldur Ortega." He said with a small bow. "What name, if I may be so bold to ask, can I call the lady I stand before?" he said properly.

[Tatiana]

She nodded her head slightly when he spoke his name to her. It was her was of saying 'I acknowledge your greeting' or something along those lines anyway.

"I am called Tatiana the Lo ----" The Lost One. That is was my name in the Red Vangaurd, the name that Sebastian had given to me. It suited me because it seemed that I was always lost in my own thought. It suits be even better now that I'm actually lost from the pact.

Catching herself before she could speak the full phrase she answered. "Dragunov, I'm Tatiana Dragunov, pleased to meet you."

Now that was a name she hadn't called herself in a long while. It was her human name, long forgotten. It seemed very foreign to her, but she might as well get used to it.

After the introductions, Tatiana just sort of stood there and observed him, subconsciencly placing a hand on her rumbling tummy.

[Baldur]

Baldur gave a smile, she had started to say something else but cut herself off to give her name. Tatiana Dragnuov. Pretty, at least the first name, he knew what the last name was since it was a sniper rifle. He read about guns in his studies at school, how the Dragnuov was a Russian sniper rifle and highly efficient at what it did along with being maneuverable.

She placed a hand over her stomach. Which he saw her do. He had two guesses at what that meant, either pains in her stomach or she was hungry. Well, he wouldn't let her stay here talking to him when she was starving.

He gave a soft smile and offered a hand. "Would you like to get something to eat with me?" He said looking into her eyes with his purple ones, they were really contacts and his eyes were really blue but he didn't think she could tell. As he offered his hand to her he held the smile the entire time.

[Tatiana]

Her stomach once again nagged her for some attention. She had been avoiding her hunger for a while and now it wouldn't let her neglect it any longer. When Baldur offered to take her somewhere to eat, her eyes beamed at the offer. Finally food!

As he offered a hand to her, she noticed his very purple eyes. She wasn't sure if it was his natural eye colour, but it would be cool if they were. Tatiana always wanted a solid eye colour, but instead she was born with flecks of gold in hers.

"I'd love to get something to eat."

With a small gesture, she shook his outstreched hand with hers. Grinning, she said "Nice meeting you, Baldur, please show the way." Those words being said, she returned her hand to her side and waited for him to start moving.

[Baldur]

He smiled and nodded as he dropped his hand to his side. He thought she would take it and he would lead her to get something to eat but evidently not. He didn't know if she didn't see the gesture as that or if she just didn't want to take his hand.

He shook his head and turned around as he looked around the forest and to the sky. The sun sets in the east so...Its this way... He thought as he headed south towards the school building.

He looked back to Tatiana and gave a soft smile. "So Miss Dragnuov, mind if I ask you a little bit about yourself?" He asked curiously as his purple eyes sparkled.

[Tatiana]

Tatiana noticed how his hand dropped to his side in a deafeated manner. She knew that he wanted for her to place her hand in his, so that he may lead her. Quite frankly, Tatiana didn't like to be lead by anyone other then herself or Sebastian and she didn't feel ready to 'touch' a human yet. Maybe in time, she would gladly take his hand if he so offered.

They began to head south. As they walked, Tatiana automatically took in her surroundings and made sure to study them. It was an old habbit. After a few mintues, Baldur looked back at her with a smile.

"So Miss Dragnuov, mind if I ask you a little bit about yourself?"

How very polite...

"I suppose I can tell you a little bit about myself," she said, twiddling with the tooth necklace around her neck. "As long as you tell me about yourself in return." It was only fair.

I will tell him all that I can, without revealing to him, of what I really am. If I'm lucky, he will never find out. But I should not be worrying about this, after today, I'm sure we will not see eachother again...but no one really knows what time holds.