Chapter 3
Authors Note-So to anyone that actually reads this there will be decent progress between pairings in this OR the next few chapters
As the boat docked on the icy shore zer0 almost had to force his body out of the warmth of the vessel, Zer0 cautiously walked up the icy slope to a bridge overhanging the small,valley like icy hell-hole, as he was almost under the bridge he heard through his helmets comm link bandits yelling incomprehensible nonsense as they charged after what looked like a small red light-runner, he began to make out one part of the yelling match between the opponents, but as fate would have it, the bridge blew and almost took zer0 out with it. He leapt from the fiery wreckages would-be landing place in the nick of time, as years of assassin training from many different sources had allowed his senses to be enhanced about triple that of any humans, and thus also increasing his reaction speed.
He thought that it would be difficult to turn back so decided to keep going, but stopped as he noticed the bullymong nests and hidey-holes on ice pillars, he drew his blade.
He drew his blade, knowing full well there could be a potential challenge lurking in one of those ice began to enter his predatory state, stalking up the iced slope to where the wretched beasts lurked, he heard an almighty roar and looked up to see a surprisingly large bullymong leap from where it had once rested, it took most of the ice hole with it.
As it landed on what it thought had been zer0, it didn't know that he had quickly lunged out of the hulking beasts way and put several feet between them both, although he knew that it's roar was more of a battle-cry as it had attracted a good deal more of the beasts, he knew he should fall back and attempt to shoot them all, but his thirst for a challenge and blood from his prey had been put off for too long, he charged one of the smaller beasts hoping to use some of the momentum from this one to his advantage, he swung at the monglets leg, taking it clean off as his hyper-heated side was swiftly brought back down upon the beasts neck.
As he flipped from the now dead beast, he landed upon another one in a matter of seconds, this one however seemed to be considerably larger and decided to try and fling him about, zer0 being a heartless and emotionless master killer responded by dragging the hyper-heated side of his blade down the beasts back and before jumping off the creature, lunged his hand in and ripped out the beasts spine with an almighty *CRACK*
The only beast left now was the big one, the smaller ones had fled after zer0 had tore the monglets apart in mere seconds, he pointed his blade at the creature and decided to utter out in his cold, metallic voice,"I saved you for last beast, do not disappoint me, bring me my challenge"
The beast roared, it leapt at zer0, but he simply sidestepped it's futile attempt at killing, he ran at the beasts back and instead of stabbing the creature, he threw a handful of kunai at it, specifically all fire ones, the beast roared out in great pain, zer0 simply smirked at this and slashed the creatures hamstring, severing the the beast clawed at zer0, he felt disappointment wash over him as he stalked towards the beast, his helmet lit up the beasts face and the snow around it as it displayed the number '0', and with that he sliced its head clean off.
As he cleaned off his blade, he only now realised that there was a bandit encampment not too far from the beasts lairs, he walked with the same dangerous elegance as he approached the bony gate, a sign above written in what zer0 assumed was blood was 'PIZ OFF'
Although amused, he was still going to butcher all living things inside this camp, he leapt up on the gate head (as it was made from the jaw of some ancient and long gone behemoth of a beast)
He scoped the camp out for a few minutes before deciding to head around the side, as the front would lead him to an early grave, he seeked challenge not death.
As zer0 leapt up onto a small huts roof, ready to strike at an unsuspecting psycho, something happened, something...zer0 could not fathom, a blinding purple light had emitted throughout the camp and he heard the screams and cries from many psychos and nomads, he had just regained his eyesight back when he noticed a familiar face, not from the train but from...from...The Bounties!
Zer0 brought up the siren bounty and confirmed it was her, the crimes for this 'Lilith' and the Firehawk were identical, liquification of many and mass murder of Hyperion and Atlas personnel, he had seen many like this, but only at the end of his blade, the only reason Hyperion thought the Firehawk was worth more was due to the Identity hiding and vice masking over echo, he did not care for those types, he was known as the masked killer of his old quadrant only his mask was shown to others, not his face or him as a person, he would strike this woman down for using the system and milking it for money and attention, he did however notice her beauty, how her hair swished across her face in combat, how she moved with great elegance and care throughout the battlefield, although still shouting and spewing profanities.
He had a single split second of doubt kick in, he instantly pushed it away and focused on how he would kill the woman who has cleared half a ba- ok a full bandit camp on her own,' the harsh landscape and environment of Pandora has moulded her well' he thought, he will follow her, back to her hideout or lair, a siren this powerful would not wander the lonely landscapes, unless she was not alone, she would have allies, powerful allies...challenging allies, he smirked, a dark and sinister smirk at the thought of a challenge this great, perhaps even ANOTHER siren, he will follow her, find her allies and kill...them...all.
As he turned to leap off of the hut he was lying on, he saw the all to familiar gleam of a sniper scope, zer0 acted fast and calculated that this, hunter was 78 feet from him, he swiftly threw a small corrosive kunai at the scope to blind the hunter, he scaled the small cliff face with relative ease as he approached his target, he saw them draw a great blade, a katana like his but not hyper-heated, it was crimson lance,he smirked but was slightly aggravated, he knew this would take up time that could be used to track his target, so he activated his deception at thirty feet away and threw a fire kunai, the hunter avoid it but stumbled at landing, 'Fucking amateurs' thought zer0, the hunter pulled a pistol and aimed it at the now visible zer0, zer0 lunged forward, grabbing the barrel and pushing the gun to the side, bringing himself closer he kneed the hunter to the gut, and elbowed him on the back of the skull, effectively concussing him, and to finish a quick *SNAP* and his neck broke.
Zer0 looked at his handy work and turned back to see this siren approaching his location, she may have heard the neck break, it echoed throughout the landscape, he shoved the body under a pile of snow and crept under it himself, keeping an eye on her, he saw her eye up the broke rifle and owner-less pistol, as-well as burn marks aswell, he looked as she bent over to pick the pistol up, and could not control his,'male anatomy' from being provoked at this action, 'Ah,curse you,chemical make-up!'
She lifted it back up out of the snow and dusted it off, "Huh,looks alright, if a little beat up" she said to herself, her voice was angelic, a warriors type of angelic, he could lunge and cut her up right now, leave her parts sprawled out here and claim this bounty, but the promise of a greater challenge was the only thing keeping him from acting on this decision, 'Soon, siren, soon you and your friends will be notches on my kill count', he saw her begin to wander off into the wasteland, he wondered where she could be going, he decided to follow, a goo 100 feet behind in the snow so she could not see him, he'd zoom in with his helmet now and again to see if she changed course.
And so began one of the longest walks of zer0's career.
Authors Note-If you like, leave a review or pm me, btw that was surprisingly hard to type up soooo...yeah...