Chapter 1

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Italic stands for thought / dreams/ event from the past

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Underline stands for letter

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Bold stands for emphasis

Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone

The Silent Hunter

A group of people stared at a big grizzly bear ahead of them with a horror filled eyes, they were tourists who were on their way walking through a forest in Hokkaido as a part of their touring program. But when they halfway through the forest, a big grizzly bear appeared with foam from it's mouth, a sign that the bear had caught a rabies.

They were worried, frightened, and panicked. They never experienced something like that before, the were in the part of the forest that are clear of hunting ground, so how they should reacted when they come face to face with a rabid grizzly?

Their tour guide told them that they need to walked backwards bit by bit and never lose contact with the rabid bear's eyes, but since the bear was rabid, it's not likely that they will be able to get away uninjured, let alone without a big wound.

The grizzly roared at them and move to strike them, and just when they thought that they would be killed by the bear, a long arrow stabbed the bear in it's head and went though to the other side, killing it in an instant. They can only gasped and gawking in shock when the big bear dropped dead on the ground, it's blood flowing from the arrow in it's head.

"What?" The female tour guide mumbled in shock and disbelief, one second the bear was ready to strike them, and the second later the bear dropped dead on the ground, "What happened?".

"The bear . . ." The male tour guide muttered in the same level of disbelief before recognizing what had pierced the bear's head, it's an arrow with it's head made from bronze, "That arrow, it's The Silent Hunter's".

"The Silent Hunter?" One of the people from the group asked, he was tall and had spiky green hair.

"The hunter nowadays are using guns, but there's this Hunter who used bow and arrows instead of gun." A man from behind them spoke, they turned to see another male tour guide in front of many people wearing blue uniform walking to them, he was around 19 years old and has spiky blue hair wearing a bandana, "And since he is using arrow, he always never make a loud noise when he attack so his target wouldn't know that they were targeted, that's why he's called The Silent Hunter".

"Senior Horo Horo!" The two tour guides exclaimed happily at him, they are still new in tour business, Horo Horo was the one who told them everything.

Horo Horo grinned, "It's good that I called him, are you guys alright?" he asked cheerfully.

"You called him?" The female tour guide asked in surprise, "Then you knew that something like this will happen?".

Horo Horo shook his head, "No." He answered with a grin, "The hunters from the hunting area reported to me that there's a crazy grizzly, but they were all failed in killing the bear, some even get scared. So I contacted him and told him to help me killed the crazy bear so no one will get in danger, and no animal will get infected by the bear rabies".

The green haired man looked at Horo Horo with calm expression, "But how can he know that the bear would come here?" he asked, "Just who is this Silent Hunter again?".

Horo Horo grinning widely at him, "He is a friend of mine who are very skilled at hunting with his bow and arrows, he also a very skilled combatant who can use many other weapons. He is used with tracking animal's movement, he also can shot his targets from a far distance, so I guessed that he saw the bear ran to you and attack immediately to prevent any harm for you lot." He explained to the crowd, then his eyes met with the man, "About his identity, I promised him not to tell since he prefer to work in secret so he can still enjoy a normal life, without getting famous or stuffs like that." He said with a grin as he pulled out the arrow from the dead bear's head before looking at the people behind him, "Get the bear's body to my clan's village, they will know what to do".

The people nodded to him before working to do as they were told.

The man was watching silently before he turned to look at Horo Horo, "Do you know how to contact him?" he asked, "Maybe one day I will need his assistance." He explained when Horo Horo raised an eyebrow at him. Actually, he was curious about that Silent Hunter and want to know his ability, maybe that Silent Hunter will be able to help him in his job.

Horo Horo grinned, "You are a foreigner, right?" he asked rhetorically, "If you ever need his help, just search about The Silent Hunter from Internet, you will get to his website and can get his E-mail address in there." He answered before he turned around to get back to wherever he came from.

An 18 years old guy yawned when he turned off his car, he just get back from Hokkaido to Izumo, the travel was really long indeed. He got out from his car and pulled out his Silver Bow and Bronze Arrows, the bow was decorated with leaves pattern and was a very well designed too, he got it as a gift from his friend, Tao Ren, during his 16th birthday.

He yawned again when he walked to his big traditional family house, it's his inheritance from his parents, they both had gotten themselves killed in the past in a car crash, a drunk man driving a car so late at night and crashed with them, that was a reason why he promised himself to never drink alcohol.

He walked to his house and placed his bow and arrows at the training hall, a room for him to train his skill. His family was a family of Bounty Hunters, he himself had gotten the license, but he was more to hunting rabid animals than wanted criminals, so he had many kind of weapons in the training hall.

After he returned his bow and arrows to their places, he walked out of the hall and went to his bedroom. He then checked out his E-mail through his smartphone, it's already become his routine to check his E-mail inbox before he went to sleep. He saw that he has two new E-mail, one is from an unknown address while the other was from his friend, Horo Horo. He opened the mail from his friend first and read what his friend had written for him.

Yo! Yoh! My friend! The Silent Hunter!

Glad that you come in time! Or my business might get in trouble for what happened today T T.

Thanks to you no one was injured XD.

Anyway! Since you done the job I asked you, I just sent the payment to your bank account, it's the usual amount. Thank you and have a good night! I will contacted you again if I need your help again.

Horo Horo

Yoh chuckled when he read the message, it's just like Horo Horo to use so many exclamation mark in his mail, his friend would often use more exclamation mark when he was in high spirit.

Okay, Thank you. Glad that I can help you, Good Night.

He sent the E-mail, Horo Horo know that he would only read all his mails at night, so that's why they always greet each other with good night. After he sent the mail, he opened the second E-mail he got.

Mister Silent Hunter,

I would like to request for your help. What I need help is not for you to hunt a rabid animal, but to catch a wanted criminal. The one I want you to catch is Faust VIII, the crazy doctor who became a serial killer, it's said that he's in Japan at the moment. If you accept this job, please contact me.

L.D.

Yoh raised his eyebrows in surprise, it's the first time someone ever requested him to catch a wanted criminal. He wondered why this L.D. wanted him to catch Faust VIII, it's said that many Bounty Hunters had took challenge, only to failed at their job, some even get killed.

Why do you want me to catch him?

He asked through E-mail, he only need to wait for a short time before he received the answer.

I want you to catch him because I'm curious about your skill, if you are strong, I might ask for more helps in the future. So, would you accept?

Yoh hummed softly as he read the message, from the way L.D. writing to him, he can guessed that L.D. was a part of the Police or something like that since he wanted to catch many criminals. Wait, he thought as he remember something, L.D. . . . He know someone who has that initial, but the one he know was not a Police officer or even a part of the Police force, the L.D. he know was a famous pianist, Lyserg Diethel. But then again, Lyserg had told him that his Father was a famous Detective, Maybe . . . he thought as he opened his browser to search for a Detective in the name of Diethel. Yoh grinned as soon as the result come out, the Detective name was Liam Diethel, his initial would be the same as his son, L.D.

I see. Fine, I will accept. But I don't know where Faust is, Liam Diethel-san, I don't have any information about criminals whereabouts unless they got into the news. But what is it in you if I catch him? Do you have a grudge with him or something? You said you are curious about my ability, so this will just like you challenging me, but what should I do once I get him?

Yoh sent his question and wait for the answer with confusion clear on his face, when the answer come though, he couldn't help but laughed.

Oh, I never thought that you will know that it's me just by seeing my initial, I thought many people has L.D as their initials.

Anyway, I thank you for accepting the job. Yes, just like you guessed, this is like a challenge letter for you. If you succeed the job, you just need to send him to the Police station, they will pay you. I don't have a grudge with him or something, but as a Detective, I want for someone like Faust to pay for his sin.

If I ask for your assistance in the future though, I will pay you. Just this time that I won't, since the government already announced that they will pay for whoever managed to catch Faust.

I will send the information I have about Faust through a document, please wait for a moment.

Can I ask for your contact person? It would be troublesome if I contact you through E-mail only.

Yoh shook his head, but he typed the number that he prepared for people who want to get in contact with 'The Silent Hunter' as people called him, he purposefully prepared two different phone numbers since he didn't want his personal life to get disturbed.

After a new E-mail received, he opened it and download the document about Faust, it's already a long time since he done some Bounty Hunting, he normally would get excited just by thinking about it, but this time he only had a sad smile on his face.

Liam was waiting near the place where Faust stayed, he was waiting to see when The Silent Hunter will arrived and how the Hunter would do his job. If The Silent Hunter could do the job and good at it, he will ask for The Silent Hunter to do the real job.

Liam then saw a car arrived in front of the building and being turned off, he then saw a young man come out of the car wearing a pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a black jacket, his brown hair shown under his black hat. He raised his eyebrows, Is that The Silent Hunter? He asked himself in disbelief, the man was so young, less than 20 years old, so how come a young man like him get a well known name as The Silent Hunter?

Curious, Liam walked nearer to the building, watching everything in shadow to see what will happen. Would The Silent Hunter succeed in catching Faust? Or will the young man got killed by Faust instead? He wondered, of course he wouldn't let Faust to kill the young man, he will help the young man if he thought that his help was needed. At the moment though, he would just watch and see for himself if The Silent Hunter really is as skilled as what the tour guide said before.

Liam heard the door knocked, so he paid more attention to the young man. Not long after that, the door opened to shown a pale skinned man with blond hair and has a pair of purple eye bags and equally purple lips, he looked like a walking skeleton with his sewn chest showing to the world.

"Who are you?" The man, Faust VIII asked in a voice that sound so soft but there's a hint of insanity in it.

Liam saw the young man pulled out something from his pocket and looked at Faust while comparing the crazy doctor's face to the picture he had, after some time, the young man nodded to himself before put back the picture in his pocket.

"Answer me, boy." Faust hissed as he pulled out a knife from his doctor's mantle and pointed it to the boy, "If you don't answer, I will kill you".

The young man smiled at Faust, although the smile looked somewhat sad, it's enough to caused Liam to stared open mouthly at the scene. Then before he even had a chance to blinked, the young man already grabbed Faust's right hand, the one which holding the knife, and at the same time elbowing Faust at the chest straight at the crazy doctor's heart, with a great force too seeing the look of pain and shock from Faust's face.

Liam can only stare, the young man not even using any weapon, and even he by himself known just how dangerous Faust could be, but here he saw the crazy doctor dropped to the floor from a single elbow hit from a young man. He know that the young man had an element of surprise, but to knocked out a dangerous criminal in one hit?

The young man sighed, "You changed so much that I couldn't recognize you. Faust, it's a shame that you become like this." he said, "I had to catch you since the Detective hired me, sorry." He lifted the unconscious man from the ground, "I went easy on you since you helped Mother to gave birth to me long ago, maybe if you get rehabilitated in the prisoner's hospital, you can get over Eliza-san's death and become your real caring self again".

Liam's eyes widened when he heard that, he would never guessed that. He only know that Faust was a serial killer, but he never really pay much attention to the man's case since the man had gone insane even before he found the man. So, the cause for Faust's insanity was because the lost of the woman named Eliza, he thought to himself with a sigh, he felt like he had failed in his job as Detective, he didn't try to find out what had caused the man to go insane, all he thought was that Faust needed to be arrested and pay for his crime.

As he saw the young man handcuffed Faust's hands and carried him to the car, Liam smiled to himself, The Silent Hunter was more than qualified to do the job he had planned to ask the young man to do. So, with a satisfied smile, he go back to his own home.

To be continued . . .

Froim : It's a new story of mine. About my other stories . . . my head is kinda blocked, so I decided to rewrite every one of them.

Yoh : What?! Them all?!

Froim : (Nodded) Yes, compared to continuing them but the story become too ugly to read, I decided to rewrite everything. well, except for 'Unexpected' since from the title itself, the story was supposed to be unexpected, even to me.

Hao : You crazy.

Froim : (Stuck out tongue at Hao) Not as crazy as you.

Hao : (A vein popped) Get ready to die. (Growled with a ball of fire on his palm)

Yoh : (Held Hao in place) Oh, come one, if she died then the stories will never finished.

Hao : (Huffed) What is my role in this story again?

Froim : If I say then it wouldn't be a surprise anymore for our dear reader, right? (Winked)

Yoh : (Laughed cheerfully) Please your review.