CHAPTER 6 WATCHING YOU, WATCHING ME
Lore, had stopped after hearing ooman voices up ahead, before carrying on, he turned and looked straight forward between two trees.
"SNIPE, Snipe" Lore spoke out
"I've got your back Lore", young Snipe said whilst de-cloaking.
"Go back to camp! Dalkar has just sent me a message saying he's on his way back", Lore insisted as he pointed back in the direction of the camp.
Snipe grunted and kicked at the leaves on the forest floor before returning a look to Lore, seeing Lore's serious gaze Snipe turned back the way he had come.
Lore returned to the heat signatures and looked to the glowing green light of his waist belt, and followed the sound of ooman voices; he came across a rocky river where he saw the female and the male ooman.
Lore in his cloaked form laid down on the rocky cliff, which was over looking their position. He watched the female as she washed her hands and face in the river, Lore noticed her talking to someone on her right, which suddenly had Lore alerted as the ooman male she had escaped with, was on her left sitting on a rock.
Emerging from the other side of a protruding rock which had blocked Lore's scan, showed another ooman male, Lore put himself into a crouched position as curiosity grabbed him, he could tell this male ooman was a warrior of some sort, as a new body scan showed the new male was carrying plenty of weapons and wore camouflaged clothing.
The new ooman male was looking around at his surroundings as if checking no doubt for him or his fellow hunters.
Watching further Lore noticed the new ooman male take something from a bag and talk into it, Lore could only assume it was a communications device, and that the ooman was asking for more ooman warriors to arrive.
The ooman males and the female started to walk; they stepped onto rocks carefully and crossed to the other side of the river and entering a new part of the forest.
Lore followed quietly keeping his distance and then climbed up a tree after seeing them stop for rest.
The female was exhausted and stumbled causing the new ooman male to reach out and catch her, he held her up close to his body as he said something to her that made her laugh.
Lore watched the new male warrior take great interest in the female as he communicated with her a lot, looking to the weaker ooman male Lore saw him take another communicator out of his pocket and fiddle with it.
Lore started to think about the female been part Tarazile as he was, and if she would choose an ooman as her mate and have ooman off spring, or pair up with a Tarazile? Did she feel complete with her self?
Lore was brought out of his deep thought by the flashing of light which nearly made him loose his balance in the tree, Lore's sudden shift in body weight to steady him self caused leaves to fall from the tree, which caught the attention of the ooman warrior.
"Hey guy's I got my camera working" the weaker ooman male said as he turned and noticed the expression on the soldiers face.
Lore knew the ooman warrior was suspicious as he stepped back to look up into the tree with his weapon raised.
Steph and John scarped to their feet after seeing the soldier react the way he did.
"What is it? The ooman john asked with fear in his eyes.
Steph sniffed the air as she picked up the hunters sent and her eyes widened.
"Get back, something's here" the soldier shouted.
Lore pressed a symbol on his wrist device that would alert Dalkar to his where bouts before leaping out the tree and landing two feet from the ooman warrior, Lore de-cloaked and growled fiercely at his new opponent.
The soldier's eyes widened, he gritted his teeth together and pulled the trigger, bullets flew through the air as Lore ran in a circular motion to dodge the bullets and re-cloaked, the oomans froze and their hearts pounded against their chests, the soldier walked slowly trying to work out where the hunter was.
The ooman John fell on his arse from the shock and Steph nearly stopped breathing when she could feel the hunter's presence behind her, Steph didn't move, she had to get the soldiers attention somehow but he was to busy looking everywhere but at her, then she blurted it out.
"Geeze get a bath, you stink" Steph said
The soldier turned and looked at her with confusion as all he heard was her clicking loudly; the soldier looked Steph in the eyes, and then realized she was signaling that the hunter was behind her by shifting her eyes to the side.
The soldier shouted for her to duck and she did, the soldier fired like a mad man and hit Lore's cloaking device which caused it to spark and crackle, Lore stopped when noticing the ooman warrior's weapon had run out of ammo, Lore ripped the cloaking device off and extended his two pronged blade from his arm.
Lore beckoned the ooman warrior to come closer by waving his hand in an inwards motion; the ooman male retrieved a large bowing knife from his belt and started to circle Lore.
Steph gasped as all she could do was watch these two warrior males battle.
The soldier swung the knife around in circles with a fast wrist action, like he was trying to show off his skill to the large hunter. Lore's heart got faster with excitement as it had been far too long since he had battled with a worth opponent, Lore removed his mask and roared loudly at the ooman.
They stared at each other and then like two bulls charged at each other, the soldier forced his large knife down on the hunter's two pronged blade causing it to dig in the ground, with Lore's free hand he punched the soldier in the face causing him to stagger several feet away,' But still the soldier never went down, they ran at each other and clashed again and again until the soldiers knife got caught in the middle of the hunter's two pronged blade, they where locked, both hunter and soldier pushed each others body weight for a test in strength.
Lore knew he could easily over power this male, but pretended their strength was matched as Lore was enjoying every minute of this duel.
The soldier pushed harder revealing the prominent muscles in his arms, Lore gritted his teeth which showed of the muscle in his square cast iron jaw, Lore clearly had a lot more muscle which lined his entire body and was outlined more by his now shinny skin caused by sweat as was the soldiers, Lore grinned at the ooman warrior as the ooman tried his best to push back the hunter.
Lore looked around to see if Dalkar had arrived yet 'but, instead caught the sight of the female's mesmerized expression as she watched these two muscle toned males' battle it out.
Her mouth was slightly open, her heart rate raised, her body temperature was high, almost like she was in heat.
Lore's distraction was badly paid for as the soldier had enough time to pull a smaller knife out and stuck him with it, in the chest. Lore snapped back to reality and picked the soldier up by the throat and slung him several feet into the air.
Lore grabbed the small knife and yanked it out his chest causing a heavy stream of aluminous green blood; Lore blocked out the pain from his mind and stared at the female.
"Did you like that show of strength" Lore asked.
Steph didn't answer she just looked at the hunter and then to the soldier, who was been helped up by the ooman john.
Steph went to walk towards the soldier 'but, as she did Lore grabbed her arm as he fell to one knee from the lose of blood.
"Did you like watching us fight" Lore asked again.
"Yeah I did, and it looks like he won as he's the one still standing" Steph said with a smile
Lore gritted his teeth and growled immensely at her words.
Steph leaned close and said, "Believe me hunter, I didn't want it this way, I had no choice"
Lore looked at her with confusion just before passing out …