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CHAPTER 3

Hunters Guild, and a mysterious encounter

As the three teens left Sean's house, they were fairly silent, Sean figited with his Section ID badge, he was a GREENILL. He thought a moment about saying something, but just as he had worked up the courage to say what he was going to say, he saw a flash of red and white jumping from rooftop to rooftop....he nudged Sarah and David both, and gestured subltely to where he had seen the spectacle....they saw nothing, as it had already vanished. He shrugged and they continued toward the city, a half hour later arriving without incident.

"There it is, The Hunters Guild." Sarah said. David looked at all of the Hunters, Rangers and Forces milling about. Sean saw a Force eye his Cane for a moment before shrugging and walking inside. A pink and white Android followed him in, a wicked looking rifle slung over her shoulder casually, as if it were a parasol.

They walked inside, seeing a tall Hunter standing at the counter, signing a digital holoform with a stylus. Sean and Co. froze in place. They had seen this man before, he had a Delsaber's Buster (it's right arm) in a makeshift sling to carry it in, and a the left arm of a Delsaber, using it as a shield, strapped to his left arm. Sean had heard from Squall that this man's name was Adus.

Adus turned, feeling eyes focused on him, and saw three teens staring, mouths agape, at him. One of his two Kama twin MAGs chittered at him, the other taking the stylus he had used to sigh his contract and depositing it at the counter before returning to him. "Hm....that one.....his eyes.....hm...." Adus said to himself, as he stared at Sean's eyes...which were an unusual shade of green....a very bright shade, that seemed to glow in the light. Sean looked away, uncomfortable with someone looking at him like that. Adus looked away as well, realizing that he had been gawking, and headed for the door, pausing for just a moment longer to regard the three of them, before making his exit.

"What....was that all about?" Sean said to no one in particular...."Why did he look at me like that?"

The three of them walked up to the counter, Sarah chatting for a second with the lady at the desk. She came away with a form and signed it in several places before handing it back to the lady. David then spoke with her for a few minutes before she handed him a large stack of papers and a pen. He looked at it in mock horror and posed for Sarah who had brought a camera with her, she took a picture of him with his face of terror look, suppressing a laugh....She walked with him to bench with a coffee table in front of it and began to assist him in filling out the 30 forms handed to him.

Sean stared out of one of the viewports, silently looking at Ragol as Pioneer 2 orbited the beautiful, but deadly, world. He felt someone watching him, and looked to his left, where the Force from outside was next to him, a bemused expression on his face. The Newman Force adjusted a pair of googles and then said "You a Force or something? 'Cause I've never seen just anyone running around town brandishing a Cane."

Sean looked at him. "No, I'm not.....why?' Sean answered with a question of his own.

"Oh......I just noticed that you had the feel of one of us....a sharp intellect and my amazingly quick wit..." the Newman said in reply..."Well.....I was kinda thinking about becoming a Hunter or something...." Sean said, not really knowing why he was opening up to this guy...."You have Squall's scent." The weird man said. Sean stared openmouthed and dumbfounded at him...."w-w-w-wha-!? What the blazes are you talking about!?!" Sean demanded as soon as he found his voice again, now slowly becoming kinda freaked out by this odd man..."uuuuhhhhh....." the strange man was looking kind of nervous now....as if Sean had just sprouted spikes and blades from every part of his body or something....he began backing slowly away....others were looking too, Sean realized, and he looked at his reflection....which was no longer exactly human in appearance.....

"What......the......."

He looked at himself again....he looked human again, but his eyes were all weird now, like a cats or something....

"I think I have an idea....and I said that last thing 'cause it seems like you were around Squall recently...I was just going to ask how he was or something, really! Why that just happened......My name is Doctor Montague, by the way....." the Doctor said quickly. Sean just stood where he was......looking at the Doctor for a moment, before....

"So......you have an idea what just happened?" he asked Montague.

"Yeah...I do......but I would need to run some tests first....to confirm what my theory is...." Montague said. "No tests, not yet..." Sean said. Sarah and David had finished David's forms long ago now, and were silently watching the conversation, the forms lay forgotten on the table. Sean looked at them for a second, then back at Montague as he said "Just give me a few minutes....I have to take care of something...."

Sean walked up to the counter, and spoke with the lady for a few minutes, coming away with a stack of papers and a pen.....he sat down at a table, alone, and filled out the paperwork silently, aside from occasional scoffing sounds when he came across a stupid or nutty question...

The crowds had thinned by then, David had taken his forms to the counter and deposited them already. Sean finally finished them forms an hour later and took them to the counter....the lady spoke with him for a few minutes, then told him that the Guild member that he had been given apprenticeship to would be with him momentarily......he sat down with Sarah and David. Montague's beeper sounded, and he walked to the counter, chatted and flirted with the lady for a few minutes, then, dumbfounded, he stared at Sean, who stared right back.

"...so...it was you....." the Doctor said, sneezing.

"Yep.....that's right." Sean said.

"So, your name is Sean then......hm....very interesting! And David, my apprentice! Hello! How are you!?" Montague said, hyper now that he had two students, instead of one like normally.

"uhhhh.....good......?" David said, kinda freaked out by the overwhelming power of the Doctor's uber-enthusiasm.