CHAPTER 4 CLOSER

Dalkar noticed how quiet Lore was after encountering the female, he watch Lore as he cleaned his strange looking sword over and over until the blade had become so shinny it glistened in the moons light.

"Are you going to tell me what's bothering you? Even thou I've heard that nothing really bothers you" Dalkar said whilst looking at his wrist communicator.

Lore didn't say a word he just looked at Dalkar with a serious gaze as if to indicate he should mind his own business.

"Fine O great warrior" Dalkar said in a sarcastic tone as he stood and walked over to make sure Snipe was cleaning his weapons correctly.

Lore sighed and was just about to walk over to talk to Dalkar when a message came through on Dalkar's wrist device.

"The other hunters are on there way as some of the oomans that guarded the building are headed in this direction, they must of seen the smoke from there fire" Dalkar said as he cloaked.

As Dalkar passed Lore he placed his hand on Lores shoulder and said "What ever it is that's bothering you Lore I'm sure you'll sort it"

Lore placed the sword back into it's casing and slotted it into the armour on his back and walked after Snipe and Dalkar, on reaching Dalkar's position he could see that something was happening, Lore stepped forward to see what was going on, he could see that armed oomans where shouting and pointing their weapons at the unarmed oomans around the fire, the unarmed oomans dropped to their knees and begged for mercy, Lore looked toward the female who too was on her knees with her arms bent and her hands on the back of her head.

Lore didn't even hesitate to fire up his cannon and fire straight at an armed males chest which sent his insides splattering all over the tree behind him, the other hunters joined in the blood bath and attacked every ooman that carried a weapon, the unarmed oomans fled for their life, a few of them picking up weapons to protect themselves which just made them another target for the hunters, the female to ran with the male oomans and one male passed her a gun, Lore shook his head and snorted at the stupid situation the female had just put her self in, he then ran after her.

Lore drew closer to the fleeing oomans and as he did spotted one hunter taking aim at the female, Lore ran faster and slammed straight into the hunter causing him to crash to the floor, Lore stopped and looked at the hunter de-cloak, this was one he hadn't met before, he was as broad as Lore and dark brown in colour, he rose to his feet spreading his arms and roaring in a very 'pissed off' manner, the brown coloured hunter retracted a double blade from his arm and was ready to battle with Lore then and there, suddenly the hunter plunged to the ground again as Dalkar rammed into him and grabbed his arms restraining him.

"GO, Lore" Dalkar said struggling to hold back the huge hunter.

Lore ran following the oomans heat signatures and only came to a stop when the heat signatures vanished, Lore slowly walked forward scanning every part of his surrounding area, he stopped when picking up a heat pattern behind a tree and started to approach slowly, Lore was caught of guard by a scared ooman male that started firing a weapon in the opposite direction and walking straight into Lore's massive bulk of a chest, the ooman turned quickly pointing his weapon directly at Lore's cloaked form, the ooman male saw Lore's silhouette in the sun light and started firing at him, the armour protected Lore from most of the bullets But, one penetrated Lore's arm causing him to growl loudly and de-cloak to show of his huge size to the ooman,

The ooman male's mouth dropped open and he tried to fire his weapon again 'but, Lore was fast and impaled the ooman male against a tree with two daggers, the ooman male let out a groan and slumped down as he let out his last breath.

Lore spun around fast sending his dreads flying through the air like whips after hearing clicking from an ooman gun been set up to be fired, it was the female, she stood there shaking slightly as she pointed the weapon towards his face, Lore had ' had enough and quickly used the back of his hand to whack the pistol from her hand, Lore growled and walked towards her causing her to walk backwards into a tree, the female tried to get away 'But Lore stopped her exits both ways by putting his hands on both sides of her, shoulder high.

"Wha, what do you want" the female said as she shook uncontrollable from fright.

Lore smelled her then looked at her with great confusion.

"Why are you so frightened? I thought all Taraziles where great powerful warriors? He asked as he leaned closer to her face and took in her frightened sent.

"I'm, I'm not full Tarazile" she said as she was thinking about ducking under his arm, until he picked up on it and slid his hand and sharp nails down the bark of the tree until his hand was at her waist height.

"My father was half Tarazile and I have lived with my mother on Earth since I was born" she said as she gasped for air as he moved his huge muscled chest closer to her body.

"You obviously posses some powers as you can understand me and was able to see my cloaked form" Lore said trying to get all the information he wanted out of her.

"Yes I can understand most creatures I found that out at an early age, and I can not see you properly when cloaked just better than the humans can" she said as she looked past his menacing stare and straight into his emerald green eyes.

"Why were you here, with the ooman males? Lore asked stepping away from her and turning his back to her.

The female suddenly ran off, Lore was about to take pursuit when he was hit with a steel punch in the face, Lore wiped his mouth and stood up tall facing the brown hunter he had encountered earlier, they both growled at each other and was about to kill each other when Dalkar put a stop to it.

"You aren't here to kill each other, Kartar this is Lore son of Taronzebkjarl, you will respect him" Dalkar said whilst looking to Kartar and the others.

Kartar grunted and walked away from everyone, Dalkar feared that these two were not going to get on and one of them would end up dead from the others hand.

"Come Lore lets get that ooman bullet out of you" Dalkar said whilst patting Snipe on the head as he passed.

Lore looked in the direction of where the female went and sighted as he looked to the one place that gave him peace, the night sky.

On returning back to there camp Lore noticed that one of the hunters had caught and tied up a ooman male, the ooman male was unconscious and Snipe took great pleasure out of poking the ooman with a stick, Dalkar removed the bullet from Lore's arm and patched up the wound.

"Right, you're good as new" Dalkar said as he cleaned his medical kit.

Lore stretched his arm up and exercised it in a circular motion 'But stopped when he noticed Snipe still plaguing the sleeping ooman.

"SNIPE, stop doing that" Lore said in an agitated voice.

Snipe jumped back away from the ooman and was taken back by Lore's temper with him.

"What's up Lore you feel sorry for the ooman" Kartar said whilst sniggering.

"I'm going to wipe that smirk from your face in a minute Kartar" Lore said as he jumped up and grabbed his sword from back.

"Don't hesitate, o great one, just do it" Kartar said whilst retracting his blades.

Lore stepped towards Kartar only to be met with Dalkar, Dalkar put his hand on Lore's shoulder and said "You will get your chance Lore, just not now"

Lore knew Dalkar was right and put his sword away, Dalkar looked straight to Kartar

"I'm warning you Kartar, one more act like that and you can forget any good words from me to your family" Dalkar said, but Kartar rolled his eyes as if he didn't care.

Dalkar crouched down besides Lore " it would give me great pleasure to see you wope his arse 'But, now is not the time or place, Kartar is a troubled warrior and sometimes I wonder if he will become a bad blood, I have spoken enough, get some rest"

Lore nodded to Dalkar and laid back against a tree closing his eyes and thinking about the female.