Bounty Hunters
#2 of The Life of Ven: a human slave
Author Note: (Part 2! still doing character development ^_^)
"Damn Krista, leaving me to do the skinning, she knows I hate it!" Snarled Rachel, "but of course she has to hunt just because she's the only one skilled with a bow!" She then finished tearing the meat from the deer and tossed its coat into a pile of various animal skins they had.
She stopped and rested for a bit, tired out from the skinning and her ranting. With a sigh she grabbed for her cup of water resting on a nearby stump and examined herself in the water.
Rachel was a young, beautiful, and well built bear girl. Her eyes were deep ebony and her hair was a light blonde that was short and set in spikes. She was dressed in a leather bra and a matching pair of shorts.
She also had light brown fur and was about six and a half feet tall, towering over most people. "But even if I was nine feet like my father with breath that could kill off a kingdom Krista would still stick me to the shitty jobs." Rachel muttered, drinking her water in a gulp.
She and Krista were bounty hunters, and were known as two of the best in fact. Krista was able to take out anyone from a distance with her bow, even if they were a mile away. Rachel herself was known for her punch that usually knocked out whoever was in front of it with little effort on her part. Entire groups could be taken out whenever she put on her gauntlets and started fighting.
Rachel sat down on the stump that she had put her water on and looked around; she was in a small forest clearing, in front of a small cabin. Outside the cabin lay a large handmade table, it was where Rachel had been skinning the deer and was stained with blood from many other skinnings. Next to the table lay three stumps, one of which Rachel was sitting on, sulking about Krista.
This place they made themselves, here in Loren Forest, they didn't need the city, far too many people recognized them and some were the family of various criminals they'd caught. Many times there had been situations were they had been attacked simply because a son, a father, a brother, a mother, or even a daughter recognized them as the people who put their loved ones either to jail, or to their death.
So they came here, hunting non-anthro animals, using their flesh for food and their skins to make money in case they had no criminal to hunt. Today they were gathering up their evening meal, not something easy as both could eat out an entire tavern with their appetite.
Lost in thought as she was Rachel still was able to hear the crunch of leaves as Krista fell from a tree branch into the clearing. Krista was a wolf girl, she was as fit as Rachel but her form was much leaner.
She had dark grey fur that ran all around her body and bright green eyes. She was dressed the same as Rachel, and had silky black hair that fell to her shoulders, smoothed back gently.
As she walked towards Rachel she had a wide grin on her face that suggested that she had found something good. Her tail wagged and her eyes were wide with excitement as well, she definitely had something to tell.
"Well?" Rachel asked, curious to know what Krista had found. Krista's grin grew deeper and she shrieked, "Were about to make a lot of money!" After declaring this Krista gave a small yelp and beamed at Rachel.
Rachel, now bursting with curiosity said, "What the hell did you find?! It's got to be good to get you this riled up."
"Well you know I was hunting around the entrance of the forest, searching for a target from a tall pine." Krista began.
"Yea..." said Rachel.
"Well while I was looking I saw this figure running towards the forest from Tarok, you know that city twenty miles down?" Krista asked.
"We do most of our shopping there, now what was the figure?!" Rachel demanded.
"I got as close as I could in the trees, I didn't want to go down to the ground in case he saw me, and squinted hard. He looks exactly like Shazeem's slave!" Krista exclaimed.
"That human that Shazeem was offering all the bounty hunters a hundred thousand gold for if he was captured alive?!" Screamed Rachel.
"Exactly, and the message Shazeem put out warned that she wanted as little damage as possible, I figure getting knocked out is favorable to a arrow in the leg." Said Krista, waving her off.
Nodding her head Rachel grabbed her gauntlets and dashed out, running to the forest entrance. "Pay day here we come!" She chuckled to herself, pulling on her gauntlets.
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Ven stopped for a minute to catch his breath. He had been running for days now, stopping only to rest and gnaw on whatever he could find to satisfy his hunger. He was kept in shape as a slave, and it was because of that he was not dead yet.
He wouldn't stop though. Ven knew that he would rather die the slow pain of starvation then face the flames of Hell than go back to Shazeem. His pride was worth that, his sanity was worth that...the memories of what Shazeem took from him were worth that.
He looked ahead and saw he was close to the Loren Forest, he didn't know much about geography but he did know if he went through he could reach the mountains. They said that over the Thuron Mountains there were colonies of humans, free ones.
Ven had no idea what he would do if he got there. The only plan he had made when he ran away from Shazeem's mansion was that he would never see her again, and that someday he would get her back. On that night he swore to that, and threw away his slave name, taking on the name of Vengeance.
He could form an army to combat Shazeem's guards, or he could simply find away to hide himself until she gave up the search for him. No matter what happened he would never forget her, or what she had done, he would find away to destroy her.
"When I kill Stan, it will be for my mother, when I kill you, Shazeem, it will be for my Ariona." Ven whispered to himself, slowing down again as he came close to the entrance.
Looking back to make sure he had not been followed Ven slowly backed into the forest, gazing along the road and the surrounding trees. Confirming no one from the town had come after him he turned around to dash into the forest.
As he turned though his head crashed into something soft and brown. Startled he fell back and looked up. To his horror he saw a large anthro-bear, and judging from the fact that his head had hit against her ample chest, he would conclude she was female. She smiled down at him, flexing her hands, sheathed in gauntlets.
She was very pretty, but Ven didn't really care to see that. He could see that she had been hunting for him; he could see she was a bounty hunter. Also he could see her muscled and well tone body, hard biceps bulged as she flexed and she knew he was watching.
"Hello there little man, you have a very large price on your head if you are who me and my partner think you are." She said, grinning, "come along quietly and I won't have to knock you out cold."
Ven growled at her and leapt to his feet, she was strong, and he'd have to be sneaky. He grunted and shook his head; trying to make her think he was retarded, make her think knocking him out was her only choice, Ven had a plan now.
Rachel sighed to herself as the slave started to grunt and shriek nonsense at her. "Another insane one, these owners think of so many ways to drive them crazy its not even funny anymore, though why Shazeem is paying so much for this one I have no idea...Oh well, knock em' and grab em' I guess." She thought.
Smiling inwardly as he saw the bear girl raise her fist high Ven continued his act. Then as her gauntleted hand came flying towards his head, he ducked. Not even registering her confusion he swept in close and stroked a nerve right along the side of her left breast.
Rachel was taken aback when the slave ducked, almost as though he was expecting her to hit him. Then she felt get close to her, and astonished her further by touching her breast. Then the feeling she had now...it was over powering... she had no idea what he had just done to her. She moaned and felt herself dampen down below, and now warmth curled inside her, she leaned against the tree for support, closing her eyes.
To his satisfaction she moaned loud and fell back a little, surprise and pleasure taking over her mind. Ven then ran, deciding not to finish the job, fearing the partner she mentioned had been close by.
He ran hard coming to a stop to catch his breath, smiling weakly as he saw no one. Perhaps her partner had lost him, or maybe she wasn't even in the forest, perhaps in the town getting supplies.
"Oh no meal ticket, you ain't getting off that easy!" Said a voice from above. Ven looked up and his vision was filled with grey fur. A wolf girl had just jumped out of the pine he was resting against and landed on him.
Krista could not believe that this guy had actually beat Rachel, but she wasn't going to let shock stop her. Keeping up her good humor she realized that he could be taken by suprise, and had jumped on him. To her delight she aimed her jump well, landing squarely on top of his torso.
Looking up Ven saw the wolfen sitting on his chest, smirking at him. "Hello!" she said, giving a small excited bark. "Uh hello..." Ven replied, unsure of this perky girl. "You must be powerful to beat Rachel, but you have crap for instinct, I got ya easy!." She said cheerfully to him.
"Uhh Rachel?" Ven said in askance. "She's that bear girl you knocked down, weird how you didn't even seem to hit her... oh well I still managed to get ya!" Frowning Ven said, "Lemme guess, you want Shazeem's cash?"
She nodded her head eagerly and said, "Yup, sorry fella, nothing personal but the gold she's offering is too good to ignore!" Ven then darkened his gaze at her, and said "Too bad not even the likes of you or your partner will make me go back!"
Krista was normally upbeat but this human was making her extremely nervous now. She didn't know why but his stare robbed her off all of her confidence, made her pity, fear, and love this stranger all at once. She never felt this before, and she wasn't sure if it was good or not.
However before she could think further the human suddenly lifted his head and brought it close to her stomach. Before she could find out what he was doing he licked softly right below her belly button, and the feeling rushing to her now made her scream loud. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" Krista screamed, surprised to find her lower body drenched now in what seemed to be her cum.
Ven grinned deeply, it was almost impossible to get that nerve. It required a touch so soft fingers wouldn't do, however he was just close enough to get it and once he had it was an overwhelming effect. He remembered when he did it on Shazeem...she had to cancel three appointments simply to clean out her fur.
He shook his head then, he would not remember Shazeem! Then he heard a branch snap and turned around, there he saw the bear girl, this Rachel, looking around, still dazed from her experience with him.
"What the fuck you do to Krista!" She roared at him, stumbling slightly. "Just a more extreme version of what I did to you." Ven replied casually.
Then catching her off guard he flung himself at her, knocking her to the ground. "For this I am truly sorry." He whispered to her. Then he punched her in the head, not enough to cause serious harm, but enough to knock her out.
He then saw their clothes and decided to take some for himself. He took Krista's shirt and Rachel's shorts, though they were large, and obviously meant for girls they were better than his loin cloth. Also on their feet they wore boots, also leather with soles fashioned from hooves.
Ven whistled, taking the wolf girl's pair for himself as the bear girls were far too large for him. "They really are paid well!" Ven said in awe, examining the leather of the clothes and boots, and the soles of the boots.
Non-anthro cattle were rare and expensive, leather was even more so, and the hooves must've been melted and formed specifically for their foot sizes.... All of it was worth quite a bit.
As he put them on his dagger fell out of his loincloth belt, clanging to the ground. He now examined the blade he had swiped and looked to the girl's bodies. "They'll keep chasing me if I don't end this..." He whispered.
He went to Krista, knelt over her body and raised the dagger high, aiming for her heart. He then slammed the dagger down, but as he drove it, his hand pulled away and instead planted into the ground between the two.
"I can't do it." He said to himself. He was going to kill Shazeem and her assistant, but he couldn't kill these two... this wolf girl... only his Ariona had ever been as kind as she... and the bear girl...In those moments before she swung he had seen care in those eyes.
He sighed and got up, walking away, turning for a minute to gaze on their bodies. "Krista...Rachel...Beautiful names." He said, turning back to the woods and running off.
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