Hunter's quarters, Pioneer 2
Kidd was still confused
"But...what do you want with me?"
"Did you find a corpse of a hunter in the forest on Ragol"
"Yes! I told you! Why do you want to know?"
Break sighed, as though talking to a dumb child, and this just made Kidd even more annoyed.
"Ok, I'll tell you. You probably noticed, but that man wasn't killed by one of Ragol's monsters. He was killed by a group of people who call themselves the Shadow fighters."
"Shadow fighters?" Kidd interrupted. "They were disbanded when we still lived on Coral!"
"You sure about that?" Break Grinned for a moment, and then continued. "They were disbanded, yes. But they reformed because they think that this immigration to Ragol was a bad idea."
"They can't be the only ones." Kidd said, and then he had a thought. "Hang on, are they trying to overthrow the government?"
Break's face became more serious "Yes. They are. And they have found a new technology dubbed C.A.R.D technology."
Kidd was just about to ask, but then break suddenly said, "Look, I have to go now. If you want to know more, then see me at the Central dome in the forest tomorrow night. We can talk then."
"But-" Kidd was just about to ask him why but then he opened a transporter and disappeared, the transporter vanishing with him.
"The Central dome tomorrow...why there? Just who was he?" These questions repeated themselves again and again in his head as he entered his apartment. Then Kidd saw a letter on his bed, addressed to him. He picked it up and looked.
Kidd
There is a meeting of the Star raiders tomorrow to discuss
The recent events, mainly concerning the murder of that hunter,
Stratus. Try your best to be there, because you were also there.
Try and bring Zinks with you as well. I know he isn't in the clan
But he can still help us out.
Sirtom
Kidd looked at the letter, and then went to sleep, this was too much for one day...
Star raiders HQ, Pioneer 2.
The Star raiders were an elite division of hunters who were completely separate from the government, military and Lab, the three most powerful groups of people on pioneer 2. The Star raiders' independence from the three groups meant that people could trust them a lot. But they weren't taking any jobs today. Not with this happening.
"Ok guys, as you might have herd, Me, Turin, Kidd and our guest Zinks found a mangled corpse in the forest of Ragol." This was the voice of Sirtom, and whenever he spoke, the rest of the Star raiders listened. They trusted him, and respected his position as leader of the Star raiders. "We are going to show you a picture that our Guest Zinks took of the body."
"You took a picture of the body?!" Kidd whispered to Zinks
"Hey, it came in handy."
"Zinks," Sirtom spoke again. "I'm assuming that you brought the picture with you?"
"Got it right here!" Zinks held out the photo.
"Ok then, give it to Faulkie here and he'll project it."
"Here you go" Zinks gave the photo to the 13-year old boy, who winced when he saw what was on the photo. Faulkie took the photo to a machine, pressed a few buttons, and the picture of the corpse was shown on the wall.
When the other hunters saw this sight, they gasped, apart from Louie, and considering the scar on his face it was likely that he had seen this kind of thing before.
"Who or what did this?!" A voice called out.
"We don't know Matt, but we know it defently wasn't a monster from Ragol." When Turin said this, everyone got a lot more nervous.
"Can I speak?" Kidd decided to tell the others what happened last night. Sirtom let him and he told the rest of the Star raiders (and Zinks) what happened.
"I think that I should go, this guy might be able to solve some questions which I'm sure you all have."
After a brief silence, Zinks spoke.
"Well, I'm not sure about you guys, but I say Kidd doesn't go alone. This 'Break' might be the one responsible for this murder. His story about the Shadow fighters is either true or a load of bullcrap. I'm going with him, does anyone else want to join us?"
More silence. Then a voice spoke up.
"I'm in." The voice that spoke belonged to Jason, the best support fighter of the Star raiders. He stood up and Zinks was surprised, Jason was almost as tall as he was, even though he was human! But that was probably his spiky hair.
"Thanks Jay" Kidd said, sounding relived that he wouldn't be alone.
"I'll go to." This was Faulkie. "I could go and find Break's Profile right now if you want, and come with you when you see him"
After a bit more arguing, and the news that Break stopped his job as a hunter last year, it was decided that Kidd should look like he was alone, but actually Zinks, Faulkie and Jason would hide from breaks sight and help Kidd if necessary.