Chapter 5

Story by Koji Haeos on SoFurry

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#34 of Love and Pain

Toshiro shares his knowledge of the skull hunters.


The group walked inside and went up the first flight of steps and opened the door. It was pretty large with 4 bedrooms each of which had a king sized bed. There was a large bathroom with a large whirlpool 2 person bath tub shower combo and a huge 82 inch high definition LED TV. The group gazed in awe. The fridge was a massive double door with an electronic touch screen on each door.

On earth a room like that would easily cost over a thousand dollars a night and was normally found at a fancy 4 star hotel but they were allowed to live there expense free until the oblivion entered Wyvern space. Flora then handed them each a key card. She showed them how to use all the electrics in the room from the fridge to the TV. The TV was voice activated while the fridge touch screens were similar to that of a touch phone. By pressing what they wanted on the screen the shelves inside would rotate accordingly so when the opened the fridge they didn't have to search for any food or drinks. The TV got a lot of channels them never seen before but them also had all the channels on earth as well. It seems intercepting earth cable network signals was easy. Flora then handed them her number.

"If you need anything call me alright?" She said.

The group nodded and the dragoness left. Jaden sat on the couch and began watching television Sure enough they had ever earth channel in existence and of course the furs and reptoids had their own TV channels. Jaden finally settled on a channel and watched anime.

"How can you calmly watch anime at a time like this?" Chase asked.

"The only thing we can do now is wait, Besides Toshiro would know more about what we are going up against." Kiyo said.

"Yeah, I came into contact with them once.... I was still a little kid back then; it had been a few months after we left earth." Toshiro said.

*flashback 7 years ago*

It had been several months since the furs left the earth and settled on Wyvern's moon. Toshiro had just recently enlisted and was a student at the academy. The school was also used to train the reptoids troops and the draconian elite guard. This was the first time that furs and reptoids trained in the same place in over a thousand years. Toshiro soon found out just how high tension between the two races was. The reptoids were quick to assert their dominance by beating furs into submission. Many of the fights ended with a trip to the infirmary for stitches and even broken bones. Toshiro himself has also been in a few fights. Now he was on a scouting mission with Miyu. She had originally wanted him to stay behind as this wasn't a mission she wanted help with but Toshiro insisted. The two now where in a vast forest several miles from the academy when they came to a large building that lay in ruins.

"What is this place?" He asked

"This is the discipline area. Dis orderly recruits were imprisoned here.... However during the beginning of the war it was used to hold war prisoners for the recruit to...practice on in gladiatorial matches. The reptoids believed in learning on the job so any fur imprisoned here would fight for their lives. It got the troops used to killing. However many of the furs normally had their paws bound during fights so they couldn't defend themselves." Miyu said.

"That's horrible! They all just stood there and watched innocent people get beaten to death!?" Toshiro fumed.

"A lot of my friends died here." Miyu said.

The two went inside the ruins and down a flight of stairs into the basement where they found the old fighting ring. The whole room was painted bright silver and the floor and parts of the walls of the ring still had spots of dried blood, a lasting reminder of the carnage that once took place there. Miyu found a computer and was amazed that the some parts of the building still had power. However they were being watched from the shadows. Miyu was concerned. The systems haven't been used in many years but yet they were still warm which meant that someone else was there before them. Toshiro looked at the holding cells where were not too far away from where his mentor was. He gasped a bit as there were a few copses still in the cell. They were heavily decomposed the holes and broken bones along the skulls chests gave him a very clear idea of how they died. He also notices they their wrists where still tied together. There even a few that were undamaged, they were most likely left there to die when the place was abandoned.

"I thought this place was empty." A voice said startling Toshiro.

The Akita spun around to find a male king cheetah standing before him. He was tall like many of his kind with a slim but a toned build. He wore an F.A.S uniform with a slash going through the paw badge. His hair was short but spikey. The cheetah smiled emitting a low growl. Toshiro jumped back getting some distance taking a stance. The cheetah raised a brow.

"So the puppy wants to play. I hope you can keep me entertained kid." The cheetah said calmly.

Before Toshiro could react the cheetah punched him hard in the stomach knocking the wind out of him before jabbing him in the face sending sprawling to the ground in a single fluid motion. Toshiro got up shaking a bit from the hit trying to figure out what happened, he knew cheetahs where known for their speed but this was the first time he has encountered it firsthand. Miyu seeing the commotion ran to help him but a female snow leopard stood in her way. Miyu could tell by her sword and clothing she was a samurai. She was a tall one standing at 6 foot 5 with an equally long thick tail, a curvaceous but toned build with large breasts, piercing blue eyes and long black hair tied into braid the went down to her rump. She placed a paw on her sword.

Miyu took out her bladed tonfa and charged. She slashed at the snow leopard that easily dodged her attacks side stepping each of them. She then held up her sword which as still sheathed blocking Miyu's strikes topping the tigress in her tracks. Toshiro was now on his feet again using his kunai to guard against the cheetah's claws. Toshiro remembered his training as he went for the cheetah's legs knowing that if he could injure them that would put an end to the speed but the cheetah was 2 steps ahead of him and avoided the blade and kicked Toshiro in the face sending him sprawling to the ground.

"Abasi stop wasting your time with the child already. Stick to our objective." The snow leopard said in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Come on Aris lets have some fun with these two. It's been a while since I really got to enjoy myself." Abasi said to Aris before joining walks over standing by her side.

Aris pulled her sword back allowing Miyu to go to Toshiro's side. She gazed at the two sizing them up before closing her eyes with a sigh.

"Fine..." She said.

"Stay behind me." Miyu whispered.

"You can't take both of them alone." Toshiro said.

"They are skull hunters; they are NOT people you want to pick a fight with. They are to be either arrested or killed on site. Here they come." Miyu said.

Abasi quickly charged at Toshiro who jumped out of the way throwing a kunai at him. Abasi deflected it and the two began to brawl. Toshiro was ready for him this time using his sharp hearing to hear the sound of Abasi's footsteps enabling him to hold his ground but Abasi was much more skilled easily blocking the Akita's strikes. Meanwhile Aris and Miyu squared off. Miyu's tonfa blades began to glow a light blue as energy coursed through them.

"An ion weapon..." Aris thought to herself as she drew her sword.

Miyu charged in and they clashed the loud sound of metal echoing through the air. Miyu seemingly had the upper hand locking blades with Aris pushing her back a bit. However Aris like the other skull hunters had a high resistance to ion based weaponry. She also shared their immunity to ion radiation poisoning.

"An ion weapon like that one won't work on me..." Aris said.

The blade of her katana starts to glow an eerie purple. She then broke through Miyu's guard knocking the tonfa out of her paws shattering them. Aries then swung her glowing sword barely missing Miyu's head as the tigress ducked but she did slice off a few strands of hair. Matching Miyu's moves Aries gave her hard kick to the face. Miyu raised her arms blocking the kick but knocked her back a few feet. Aris's sword began to spark as she swung it again unleashing a massive purple energy wave. Miyu rolled out of the barely avoiding being hit. Her eyes widened in shock at the blasts wake. There was a massive straight gash in the floor. There was a loud rumbling as the wall collapsed cut clean in half. There was a loud rumbling as the half of the wall crumbles and collapsed. She then looked at the remains of her tonfa scattered on the ground.

"Those walls were heavily reinforced. And were even bomb proof. But she cut through them like it was nothing. And that energy she uses...She's no ordinary fur..." Miyu thought to herself.

Toshiro hit the wall hard. His armor was in tatters and he was covered in bruises and cut. Abasi cracked his knuckles smiling. The Akita stood up again his legs wobbling.

"It's been a long time since I have been able to kill a child with my bare paws ... I had almost forgotten... how much FUN it is!" The feline said.

Abasi drew his claws as he readies to finally kill Toshiro. He lunged at Toshiro but suddenly a figure appeared and hit him from the side. Toshiro looked up to see a white poodle caring a katana with 2 pistols strapped to her waist. She was wearing a black halter top which concealed her D cup breasts. Her long white hair flows in the small breeze. It was the leader of the warlord Mugen's faction, Tayuya herself. Toshiro had never met her personally but he knew of her by reputation. She was the female youngest fur in history to make lieutenant rank in the F.A.S at the age of 14 and now like her mother before her is one of the strongest female canines, Now she is Mugen's top student.

"Only weak cowards would dare attack a child. Leave now and I will let you live." Tayuya growled

"Is that right, Like I am about to take orders from some over grown cotton swab." Abasi growled.

"Regardless of her breed she was trained by a warlord of the stars. She's not someone to be taken lightly." Aris warned.

Tayua suddenly drew her pistol shooting at Abasi. The poodle fired 2 shots. The cheetah jumped evading the first shot before he suddenly felt a huge pain in his leg. The second shot had ricocheted off the wall and hit him. She knew he was too fast to hit directly so she set a trap. The first shot was to make him jump while he was avoiding the first shot he wouldn't notice the second which he wouldn't be able to dodge in midair. The bullet cut right though the cheetah's thigh crippling him, leaving a nice bleeding exit wound. Abasi hissed landing on the ground limping slightly.

"Let's see how well that you can use that fancy foot work with a tunnel in your leg." Tayuya said.

"LOOK OUT!" Miyu cried.

Tayuya eyes went wide with shock an even a bit of fear. Aries was right behind her sword drawn mere seconds from a fatal strike. There was no time for Tayuya to doge and Aris was too close there was no escape. She was focused on protecting Toshiro from Abasi she left herself open to an attack from behind.

"An amateur mistake...you were so focused on Abasi you left yourself vulnerable..." Aris said calmly.

Everything seemed to move slow motion for Tayuya as she turns around only to see Aries swings her sword. Toshiro watched as fresh spilt blood hit the floor too weak and too shocked to move.

To be continued....