Disclaimer: I don't own any thing other than the characters that do not appear in POTC and the plot.

A/N: For those of you who don't like this, too bad. This is for my own enjoyment. I thought that this would be a pretty good story, so I just decided to post it.

Summary: A hunter named Wolf faces her past as her partner and her step into a time-vortex to hunt Vampires. She is taken back to her original time, and faces the troubles that she thought she had left behind when she had slipped into a time-vortex eight years before.

Scars of the Past Introduction

"Cassie, what the Hell are you doing?" A young woman yelled the age of twenty-three. She had hair the color of a fire, and it flowed freely. Her eyes were the color of gold. She was dressed in a pair of camouflage pants and a black wife beater. She had a red bandana on her head.

A young woman the age of nineteen rolled her eyes as she sat down where she was, "Well, gee, Wolf, it seems that I can do nothing right!" She had long blond hair with crystal blue eyes. She was wearing a pair of tight blue jeans with a tight tank top. She giggled, "Hey Wolf, I see you still have those black outlines from lack of sleep!"

Wolf, the twenty-three year old, growled, "It isn't from lack of sleep! It comes from my ancestors! I can't get rid of them!" She walked over to Cassie, "It seems that you leave me once again to do all the work! I am sorta sick an' tired of takin' you places an' then you don' help me after we come back!"

Cassie shrugged, "How am I supposed to help you get ready for your next lesson? I have no clue how to use a sword or knife, let alone a gun!" She sighed, "You are the one teaching me in your spare time, why do I have to help you?"

Wolf snarled at her, causing Cassie to shrink back in fear, "It is part of your training!" She then sighed, lowering her head, "Sorry, Cassie, I didn' mean to be angry towards you."

"No prob!" Cassie smiled, "I know that it is your job to get angry with people. First you get angry, then you torture, then at the end, you kill!" She laughed, "Easy said and done!"

Wolf shook her head as she grabbed two swords off the wall she was beside, "You will learn soon enough." She then threw one of them at Cassie, "'Ere, catch!"

As Cassie caught it, Wolf came running at her, her sword at her side. Cassie gasped and spun away from Wolf, narrowly missing the blade as it slashed just where she was standing, "Wolf!"

Wolf smirked, "Now Cassie, the first to three bloodshed wins!" She then nodded, "Use any weapon you choose, but you have to be quick!" She laughed as she pulled out a concealed knife she had hidden and cut Cassie on her right thigh, "You have to be quicker if you want to win!"

Cassie jumped back away from her, biting her lip as she slammed up against the wall. She now knew Wolf's reasoning in pulling out her concealed knife. It was to back her up so she could get another weapon, one that she preferred.

Cassie spared no time as she grabbed a whip from the shelf of weapons and cracked it at Wolf. As it lashed just an inch from Wolf's face, she smirked, "Better watch out now, Wolf, I have my weapon!"

Wolf shrugged, "That weapon is only for long distances with you being the master, it will be easy!" She then darted in closer to her, lashing out with her sword. The sword nicked her stomach area. Wolf took in a breath, "You smell that, Cassie? That is the smell of fear in your blood." Wolf smirked, "You know that if I wanted to, I could kill you right now, or I could leave you to die with those monsters you so want to hunt!"

Cassie glared at her, "Not anymore!"

"Think 'bout it, Cassie, two bloodshed to none. One more an' I win!" Wolf snarled, circling around Cassie. As Cassie turned so that Wolf stayed in her line of sight, Wolf growled at her and lunged on her.

Wolf grabbed Cassie's head and pulled it to the side, exposing her neck. She then leaned down so that her mouth was right up against it. Cassie froze where she was, afraid to move. Wolf smiled, her breath hot against Cassie's neck, "'Ell, 'ell, 'ell, doesn't this pose seem familiar?" Her smiled fled as she saw from the corner of her eye that Cassie was crying silently. She quickly took her knife and made a small gash on her arm. Wolf then whispered into Cassie's ear, "I win."

Cassie closed her eyes, "You know, Wolf, if you wanted to, you could."

Wolf quickly jumped away from her, breathing heavily. Cassie looked into her eyes to see a pain in them that she couldn't understand. Wolf turned away from her, her eyes once again becoming clear of emotions, "Cassie, that is enough for today." She then waved her hand in front of her, "Do you want to go get a drink or something?"

Cassie dropped her head, "I'm sorry Wolf, I didn't mean to bring up the past. I know it is hard for you." She then looked up, "Wolf, what about Christopher? Has he heard of anything that we can go hunt yet?"

Wolf smiled, rolling her eyes, "Nothing. We will have a while to wait still."

Both walked out to Wolf's firebird. She got into the driver's seat while Cassie got into the passenger's. As they drove out of the parking lot of the building that they were in, Cassie looked up at it, "It is funny that this building is supposedly the building housing the most feared hunter."

Wolf shrugged, "I don' live in style. 'Never have, never will. It just isn't me." She then kept her attention on the road. After a couple of minutes, she broke the silence that had come over the two of them, "Cassie, I am sorry 'bout your life."

Cassie kept quiet for two minutes before answering. "I understand, Wolf. They just got in the way. That is one of your prime rules: If in the way, exterminate!"

Wolf sighed, "It only applies when I am sure no one will miss them. I never knew that James had a daughter. He kept you a secret from me. I think that he didn't want me to use you like I did others."

"You mean as blood donors," Cassie replied, anger in her voice.

Wolf glanced at her quickly, "One must do what one can to survive!" She stopped the car, getting out of it and walking towards the lake that they were at, "I took you in after your father's death! I have kept you safe from the others that wouldn't think twice 'bout using you!"

Cassie got out of the car and followed Wolf, "What about all those times that you have locked me up in that building? What about you barring your teeth against me?"

Wolf spun to face her, her face full of anger. That was only once! When I first took you in! I did not harm you, I did not take any of your blood!

Cassie winced as Wolf emphasizes her anger in her head, "I'm sorry, Wolf, I didn't mean it." She then whispered, "You have done nothing but help me in my life. I know you want me safe, and that is why you do the things you do." She lowered her head, "You are not one of them, I know that. You will never be one of them. You are only half, and I know that you only want to get rid of them like me."

Wolf walked to the edge of the lake, sitting down and running her fingers over the top of the water, "Do you know how I became half of what they are?"

Cassie's head shot up, "No, how did it happen?"

"I was young, 'bout five," Wolf sighed, remembering the past, "my parents were murdered right in front of me by a man that was called Streak. I had no clue back then what was happening as he told me lies 'bout that I would live peacefully if I went with him." She paused, her heart clenching. She took a deep breath, "He then decided that he liked me. He cared for me like I was his daughter. Two weeks after he took me in, he drank from me, feasting, but not taking enough to kill me. He whispered in my ear afterward that I could be his daughter if I wanted to. He tricked me, forced me to drink some of his blood." She then smiled, "Mother always told me I was special, and I proved it. I was supposed to become fully one of them, but my blood battled with his, forcing his blood at bay. I still carry it, but I will never become one of them fully. His blood can no longer harm me." At Cassie's confused look, Wolf chuckled, "Of course his blood has fused with mine, but I am not one of them, nor am I human. I will not degrade myself to feasting like they do. I never kill a life."

Cassie didn't push the matter, she just sat down beside Wolf, putting a hand on her shoulder, "Wolf, you are like a sister to me." She then closed her eyes, "Streak? I've never heard of him before."

Wolf laughed quickly, but it had no emotion, it was a hallow one, "That would be because I killed him before you knew they existed." She sighed and closed her eyes as well, feeling the pull of Cassie's mind against hers. She knew it would be easy to feast on her, she had already offered herself to her, but Wolf had promised herself that she wouldn't do that to Cassie.

She grabbed her necklace that she kept hidden under her wife beater. It was a silver wolf howling as it sat. That necklace meant the world to her. She never took it off, not even to train. It had saved her life hundreds of times before. The power inside that necklace and inside her were enough to kill any of her enemies if she were to ever use it.

Cassie looked into the water, "Uh, Wolf, what is that?"

Wolf looked up to see what she was looking at. "What the Hell?" There in the water was a whirlpool-vortex thing. She could feel her necklace radiating with power. Her eyes went wide, "Cassie, I think this is our next hunt. Our next adventure!"

"But what about weapons and supplies? We have never gone into a hunt without notice!" Cassie almost screamed in panic.

Wolf smirked, "I can just 'commandeer' some stuff for us, fair enough?"

"I hate it when you say that instead of stealing!" Cassie stated as Wolf stood up, dusting her pants off.

Wolf grabbed Cassie's arm, pulling her to her feet with ease. She then started to walk out on the water, pulling Cassie with her, "'Stealing' is such a harsh word."

Cassie gasped as she noticed that she didn't ink into the water, "What is going on?"

Wolf smiled, "'Ell, you see, this is a time vortex. It will take us somewhere in time, be it the future of the past." She then pulled out a gun from a holster on her waist, "An' I have weapons, so it'll be easy to get them!"

"You cannot be serious!" Cassie whined as she trudged along. As they came right up to the time vortex, she gulped, "I guess this is it."

Wolf looked at her curiously, "What are you talking 'bout?"

"We will probably be stuck wherever for the rest of our days!"

Wolf laughed as she pushed Cassie into the vortex, "Only if you want to stay! Who knows, Cassie, you might find someone to spend your life with!" With that said, she jumped in herself, closing her eyes as she felt herself being pulled on in every direction.