The Fading Demon Ch. One; Quickest Blade
Quiet, very quiet, aboard the blackened small scout ship there was nothing but dead silence as the owner, pilot, and master of this ship was sleeping in his quarters while the human AI finished transferring data it had gotten from the last job that the youngish hunter had been on for the humans. Ryan "Freedmen", a middle aged man by how he looked who was a half breed Yautja. One of the best hunter breeds in the galaxy, and he was a half breed.
Snoring quietly in his sleeping quarters, he was snuggled up in his bedding of furs and his pillow, which were a mixture of beasts he had hunted upon earth, once upon a time. Then all of a sudden, with a loud crash and rumble, the youngish hunter jumped from his bed, eyes wide open and he was ready to kill. Though, he was in a crouching tiger combat position on the floor on the other side of his room, he looked around to notice he was alone, and still in the buff.
With a slight sigh, he began to stand and look around, a fairly standard room for him to live in, looking around again before another bored sigh, and he quickly ran towards the corner of the room near the door where he kept his under armor and actual armor. Quickly slipping on the skin tight suit before grabbing the wrist gauntlet and claws then exiting his room, he would finish getting armored up later, first of all, he needed to sweep his ship for any, unwanted guests.
Though, what he was greeted with, when he opened the door from his room to the hallway, was not what he was excepting, standing there in front of him, were two others, both of his kind of race, just not being half breeds. They looked at him, and he quirked a brow before making a few processes of clicks and body motions. The message stating for them to explain who the hell they were and why, or how, the hell did they get aboard.
They shared a glance at first before one started up with a series of clicks and a few movements of his body. Though, it was easy to tell this one was lying, even with the bio-mask this Yautja had on, but then again, Ryan has always been easy to read others body language, he took a single glance to his partner, another, smaller Yautja, only a few inches taller than this half breed. Taking a quick look over before giving a smirk, then in seconds, both the new predators felt blades inside of them. The first one to drop was the smaller of the two intruders.
Obviously an unblooded bad blood, he slowly looked to the one holding him by the wrist now, shocked by the fact that he, without hesitation, just stabbed someone who he would have thought that he had convinced Ryan that they were in need of help. He was also surprised that Ryan had his wrist blades through his own stomach; slowly look down at it he didn't get a single second to react to what happened next.
It was only a few seconds but, it was clear of what happened. A small thud happened as the now dead body on his blades was headless, and said head landed on the floor behind it. "Damn it all…" He whispered before looking down to the younger of the two, this one wasn't dead, but it was nearing it, so he just quickly finished it off with a stab through the eyes with his free armed wrist blade before removing his arms from both the bodies.
'How did bad bloods of all things find me? My ships supposed to be cloaked and my do- Goddamn it Alaska…'
Quickly moving to back into his room to gather the rest of his gear and armor, he slipped each piece on as quickly as possible before placing the last bit on, the bio-mask over his face. With a sudden his and click, it was locked in place and he was out of his room faster than you can blink. Heading straight towards his little armory to gather the rest of his weapons other than the shoulder mounted plasma casters and wrist blades he already had on him.
On the way, he spoke aloud through the Bio-Mask knowing his AI for the ship would be able to hear him, hell, he'd be able to hear him just because he had the mask on. "Damn-it Alaska, did you really let them in!?" He said loudly out of annoyance, he didn't hate that he let them in, he just hated he had to kill so early in the damned day, hell they weren't even worth collecting trophies from.
In reply, he got a sudden buzzing noise before a voice spoke. "Sorry Sir, but it seems I'm confused, your orders were clear that if they give that specific code, I was to allow them entry to the ship to find you."
He stopped, and blinked once, then twice before sighing. "Damnit! This means I have to change the code, again!" He shouted in anger through the ship before he finally made it to his armory. Simply skipping over something's that he never used in the first place (human weapons he picked up.), he went and gathered his usual gear, the custom smart-disc, his whip, etc. etc.
Then, quickly after words in a dash, he goes for the cockpit of his ship and or bridge as it were, but really it was just the ship-jocks controls. As soon as he made it to there, he moved to the pilot's chair and sat down. "So…Any news from anyone? Maybe messages on my terminal Alaska?" He asked curiously, wondering if anyone be them human to Yaujta wanted something. He also, kicked on the ships engines and started it to just move towards a single direction with no real destination.
"Nothing noteworthy sir. Is there anything sir shall require?" The AI designated Alaska asked in a submissive tone, with a slight British butler accent.
"No, that'll be all Alaska, if something comes up I'll let you k- Actually no, set the ship on a course for Earth's orbit, it's been far too long sense I've had a hunt." He said slowly standing up. "Also, once we are in orbit, keep us there; I'll be taking one of the pod ships."
"Yes sir." Alaska simply replied before the voice disappeared and the ship started to change its course.
About twenty later still middle of space nearing earth.
"Sir, we are nearing earth, might I suggest preparing faster?" A truly worried voice came through the speakers on the inside of the mask, which made Ryan smile.
"Don't worry about me Alaska, I'l-"He was suddenly cut off by a sudden ship wide black out and after that, time seemed to just, stop.
Completely, for everything, just stopped. It felt like forever before it started up again. Everything changed all of a sudden, and Ryan's gut was telling him to be very, VERY cautious. "Alaska! What the hell just happened!?"
"Sorry sir, but I have no relative information of what has happened in the past twenty minutes, but it seems we are now orbiting earth… Strange, it's not how it's supposed to be though, it seems to…primitive sir, and I'm not picking up any colonial frequencies. Strange…Only satellites are in orbit other than us, but with the cloaking device active we should be find to hide from them. More so now than before for obvious reasons."
Sighing to himself right just shook his head to think for a moment. "Okay, prepare one of the scramblers for the sensors so I can use the pod, I'm going planet side to figure this out."
"Yes Sir…"
Shinto Teito, 9:20AM, With Minaka, MBI Tower.
Minaka couldn't be happier; he was leaned back with a smile on his face as his game was going off without a hitch, so far everything was just staring. Everything was going great, here and there were Sekirei being emerged, and it was all going smoothly, hell, even Takami was being kind today.
It was really looking up for him, at least, that was until just now when he could hear her shouts of annoyance and anger.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SATELLITES AREN'T WORKING!?" She shouted, while the employee, who was working, wasn't able to have a voice loud enough for Minaka to hear, then there was another roar of rage before a loud thud, this sent a shiver down Minaka's spine. Happy to all high hell that he wasn't on the receiving end of her wraith for once. He had actually been a good boy today as it would seem.
Though, now he did get worried, the satellites being offline does hamper them quite a bit at the moment, but not only them, probably half of the whole damn world!
"What the- They just came back online!" Another shout from a now more female-sounding employee.
"Good! Keep it that way!" The voice belonging to the white haired demon woman known as Takami shouted before walking away towards his office.
Just what happened to the satellites he couldn't help to wonder, and then he turned his attention to the window to see something scare the living day lights out of him. No…..no…t-that can't be real…
He seen something come out of orbit, a large black ship looking thing before it just suddenly, disappeared. Quickly shaking his head and dismissing it as if he needed some sleep. He quickly raised his voice. "Could someone bring me some coffee please!?" He shouted in distressed voice of worry. That ship reminded him of something, something he didn't expect to see. If that is what I think it was, this game just got a whole lot more interesting…and dangerous….plus, a Hunter here of all places at this time… the gods have a funny sense of humor for our game of evolution.
Then he gained a grin and sat down. Leaning back further into his chair he couldn't help but to grin in glee, who knows? Maybe that creature is the one who ascends the throne to a god like status, and then, out of nowhere Minaka started laughing, loud and hard.
With Ryan, Landing Site, Open warehouse.
After landing, Ryan ended up "persuading" (More like slaughtering, taking the deed, and putting his name on there.) the owners to give up the property to him. After that, a small smile played onto his lips under the bio-mask as he then cloaked himself before disappearing towards the inner city.
The Fading Demon's Game Is About, To Begin.
