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Shapeshifter Isle Chapter 32; The Female Assassin & The Shifters
Topic Started: Dec 21 2013, 02:20 PM (751 Views)
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Time - Morning

Location - Iris' Tent
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I stared at the ceiling after a night long rest before raising my head and looking around. Iris was still asleep in her bag.

"It's 10 in the morning and you're still sleep? Wow." I look at her before unsipping the tent, grabbing my weapons and cloak, and stepping out into the cool morning air. It was quiet save for the odd conversation and the animals making noises. The call of a Eagle echoed everhead. I throw my hooded garb back around my neck and fasten it before throwing my hood on and strapping my axe and knife to me.

"Must've woken up too early." I say to myself stretching my arms and yawning loudly. I suddenly hear a bark coming from the pens. I sway my head over to the noise and see Axel propping himself up onto the side of the pen gate looking at me. He lets out another bark at me wagging his tail. I walk over to him and stand at the gate to which he licks my hand.

"You're happy to see me? I'm surprised you haven't attacked me lately. But you gotta stay in there for a lil bit longer buddy." I smile nudging his head with my palm. He looked as he had already eaten from the dried blood around his muzzle and the bones licked clean in his pen. As I proceed to walk away I hear Iris' voice as she emerges from her tent. She rubs her grey eyes vigorously before blinking and looking at me.

"You can't be quiet for shit can you?" She mumbles before retreating back into her tent. I give a puzzled look before walking back into the tent and sitting down.

"I wasn't loud...." I mutter under my breath as I sat across from her on my sleeping bag. She looks over at me before taking out her book and reading again. I sit there in silence before Iris speaks again.

"I had a dream last night Drake, or.... I guess what you can say a nightmare.... depends how you see it through." She says calmly as she flicks the page with her index finger. I take my hood off and reply.

"A dream about what?" I asked with a hint of carelessness. I didn't really care about her dream but if I denied listening to her since she already offered I could just imagine what she would do. Iris shoots me a look after catching my tone before speaking again. Axel can be heard barking outside.

"Well I was in my tent, and I woke up in a cold sweat, you were not here like at first so I inferred that you left in the middle of the night..." She begins speaking in a low tone while still reading as she flicks another page from her book. I continue listening.

"As I stepped out my tent and looked around, I suddenly found myself in the forest, it was dark.... and the air was filled with a thick and cold mist or fog." She continues. My heart skips a beat, this dream sounded familiar..... too familiar.... I swallow deeply before speaking.

"What happened next?" I said with a sense of urgency in my voice. I hoped this wasn't going where I think it was.... Iris inhales before speaking again.

"It was dark out.. the trees were twisted and jagged as if they were sick or corrupted.... as I looked around trying to figure out what was going on I had heard howling..." She keeps going. My eyes grow wider and wider as I listen.

"What in the hell? This is the dream I had before I killed the elk..." I think as I shift my legs on my sleeping bag and look at her before speaking.

"What happened next?" I speak right before a person emerges into the tent uninvited.

"Drake, Iris, get up time to rise and shine." Soren says with James standing behind him. Me and Iris exchange glances before I walk out the tent. These guys interuppted me right when I was about to find out if she was like me.

"I'm coming I'm coming just let me change clothes." Iris says closing her book with a highly annoyed tone, it seems she wasn't too fond of being interrupted. I stand back out into the open area of tents by Iris' tent before looking over to Soren and James.

"You guys have bad timing.." I mumble with a sarcastic chuckle. James smiles while Soren shrugs.

"Ah well." Soren says before motioning James to walk with him back to their camp. Iris emerges from her tent a few minutes later. I spin around and look at her, she was wearing her violet tanktop and black jeans again. I'm guessing she washes it every night, how tedious that must be.

"I'm going for a walk Iris." I say as I walk over to Axels pen and unlock the gate. Iris fiddles with her hair and grappling hook attached to her waist.

"Yea you do that, I'm going to handle some business and perhaps find my whore of a sister. I bet she's in a new mans tent probably sleeping under him as always." She fixes her hair before walking away from me and waving back.

"Later Drake." She yells back at me before breaking off into a run. I look at her run away for a brief second before whistling for Axel. The earlier conversation of her dream still swimming in my head.

"Lets go Axel, I gotta find us something to do today." I say to him before putting my hands in my pockets and walking away with him in the opposite direction of Iris. We headed for the CF camp.

A while later... at the CF campsite...

"Drake over here!" Walter says as me and Axel enter into the camp. He was the first to greet us, he also seemed to be the only one still uneasy about me keeping Axel. Everyone else was used to him by now.

"Hey Walter." I reply with a fake smile. He hands me a piece of the boar I had killed last not along with some salmon.

"You hungry? I saved you some food." Walter chuckles handing me the meat and fish. I take my hands from my pockets and grab the boar meat in my left and and salmon in my right. Both smelled extremely good and tasted even better as I chomped down on the smoked pig and fish flesh. Walter stares at me as I eat it all in a matter of 30 seconds.

"You must've been pretty hungry huh?" He laughs. I wipe the scraps from my mouth still chewing before swallowing.

"Yea I was, don't remember the last time I ate something that tasty." I laugh before thanking him for the breakfast and walking past him over to the group huddled around the now extinguished fire pit. I sit down next to Paul and Soren. James and Darrius sit across from us on the ground and Sect and Adam and Alex are to our left. Didn't see where the others were. Zachary once again was nowhere to be found sadly. The fuck was he doing?

"You guys seen Zane?" I ask clearing my throat. Paul finishes chewing on his fish before answering.

"Yea he's out in the forest practicing with his katana, can you believe he never used it before this island? I'm surprised he didn't chop his own finger off yet." Paul says. James is the next to speak.

"Or his balls hahahaha." He laughs aloud. Everyone bursts out laughing at his antics, you could tell he enjoyed the attention he was getting.

"Well see you guys, me, James and Paul are headed out towards the beach for some sea diving." Soren says packing up what's left of his meat and fish. Paul drinks his last bit of bottled water while James throws his bones into the fire pit. All of them get up and wave at us as they walk away without another word. I glance over to Adam and Alex.

"What about you two?" I say nudging my head at them while reaching down to scratch Axels chin.

"We are probably gonna prank the guys at the main camp. Come on lets go Alex." Adam laughs getting up and running off with Alex towards the main camp. I look over to Darrius now, it's just me and him.

"And you?" I say.

"Me and Seamus are probably gonna digging for any fossils if any exist. After that he's probably gonna go study the wildlife or something." Darrius finishes before cleaning his area. He waves at me and I wave back before watching him walk off to his tent. Everyone had something to keep them occupied but me, even Iris was busy. Walter and Clint were busy leading the cleaning efforts again, Dave, Nick, Morris, and Red were a whole camp away across that barren area between them and the main camp, and everyone here was already gone doing something but me, just sitting here on this rock like a bum.

"Guess I'll go find Zane then." I sigh before standing up and dusting myself off. I loom over to a nearby pen and pull Axel into it before locking the gate.

"You be a good boy now." I sigh rubbing his head. The black wolf stares at me before walking in a circle and then laying down to sleep, typical.... all he did was eat, sleep, and ignore my commands for the most part. I walk off into the forest looking for Zanes scent.

A while later.....
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"Zane? Zane? Bitch where are you?" I yell following his feint scent with my enhanced smell as I walked through the forest. A distant thunder can be heard off into the distance. I had been wondering why I head thunder but a storm never came ever since I scared the shit outta that Elijah kid. I pad through the grass with my bare feet as I looked around.

"Zane? Zane?" I yell again sliding my hands into my pockets. He was nowhere to be seen.

"His scent is nearby, where the hell is he?" I mumble to myself before inhaling the cool air and blowing a icy mist from my nostrils as I scanned the forest with my eyes. The son shined brightly through the spacious treetops. I wondered how far away I was from the CF and in this forest. I look to my left and catch the movement of a small deer bouncing through the bushes a few meters away from. I look up and see some woodpeckers chirping and smashing their skull and beaks into the wood like some lunatics. How they did some weird shit like that I'll never know. I inhale again, this time through my nose as the wind blows and something catches my attention. I smelled the scent of another human, it wasn't Zeros scent... or anyone I knew for that matter, infact I couldn't even make out the scent of the human clearly. The sweet smelling scent of honey and some other aroma I couldn't make out masked them.

"Ughh this shit is driving my nose crazy!" I growl covering my nose from the strong aroma. I look around my shoulder at the direction of the scent, I saw no-one. I did however hear shuffling of feet and snapping of branches from afar. They were feint but I could still hear it.

"Probobly just another deer of raccoon." I mumble before walking further into the forest yelling for Zane. I could smell him for sure, but that aroma kept fucking with me finding out his direction.

10 minutes later......

"Zero! Zero! I know you are out here! I can smell you!" I yell out cupping my hands. Still no reply. I shake my head in frustration.

"Goddammit what the hell is giving off that sweet scent? It's fucking with my nose!" I curse to myself as I climb up into a low hanging tree for a quick rest. I look through the cover of my hood at the vibrant green of the forest. Suddenly I hear the sound of something clashing. The noise gave off a high pitched sound couple with a loud thwapping noise, as if something was repeatedly being smashed against something made of steel and wood. I get stand up in the tree.

"Zero?" I mutter to myself as I follow the feint clanking sound. I traverse through the trees for a few minutes as the clanking got louder and louder. As I jumped and swung closer and closer to the noise I started hearing the sounds of an object being slammed into the ground and knocked around.

"The hell is going on?" I speak in a low tone as I hop and flip from a high hanging tree branch and plummet to the ground like a falcon before extending my arms and hands outwards and grabbing a lower branch from another tree and swinging off it into the next tree. As I got closer and closer to the noise, the sweet aroma also got stronger and stronger. I could now hear the sounds of conversation and weapons clashing.

"He's one of those CF camp affiliates. So I guess he's on our list regardless." A mans voice echoed into my ears as I stopped a few trees away and stared into the clearing the voices were coming from. I looked down at them from afar and could make out a small circle of about 3-4 people, all with clothing and makeshift rags masking there identities and distinguishing traits huddling around 2 figures fighting to what looks like the death. I hop out the tree rolling into a thicket of bushes as I ease closer and closer to the group. The words spoken finally crystal clear to me. I saw one figure that looked awfully familiar, he was wearing a black jacket lacking a hood and dark grey pants along with barefeet. His clothes had several rips and tears in them and he was bleeding moderately from his right arm and forehead. He grips his katana firmly in both hands before charging his opponent for another slash. His opponent, a feminine figure dressed in dark jeans, a dark jacket with the hood up masking her head, and black shoes, easily dodged Zanes swing with his sword before taking her weapons, 2 seemingly homemade ice axes with wooden handles and a curved jagged steel blade on each one, and slashing into his jacket with them, cutting into his clothes and leaving 2 gashes in his right side. Zane hits the ground cringing with his sword still in his hand. He gets back up and attempts another swing, the female switches both axes into a reverse grip before sliding them parallel across Zanes katana and hooking it into the crevice of her axes where the blade connected to the wood. The female speaks through the cloth wrapped around her face under her hood only leaving her eyes visible.

"Your swings are so broad and predictable... I can tell you aren't a skilled swordsman, if you were I should have been dead by now..." She laughs before kicking Zane in the face and sending his body crashing into the grass and mud. Zane chokes and coughs as blood runs from his head. One of the men and women huddled around them speaks.

"I honestly don't see how he managed to kill Devin, Tyler, and the other guys with them by himself. The bodies we found didn't even have sword slashes in them." One man from the group spoke through his dark brown cloth wrapped around his lower face. The girl continues stomping Zanes head into the dirt.

"Ah well, this guy was too much of a gentlemen.... refusing to hit a female... awww poor baby..." She chuckles before picking his head up by his hair and putting her ice axe to his throat.

"Now then, where is Drake and the guys with him who killed our friends?" She speaks looking into his eyes. I sit in the bushes quietly after hearing that sentence.

"These guys... are from that underground group me and Dave took care of.. shit Zane..." I mumble to myself as I continue to watch the fight, I couldn't rush out into them like I wanted to, there were too many, each with some type of weapon on them ranging from a small knife to bone clubs. The girl waits for a reply from Zane.

"I don't know what the hell you are talking about..... who are you guys?" Zane chokes out the words. The mystery sweet smelling assassin back hands him with the hilt of her ice axe. Zane hits the ground with a thud again.

"Ah, we've been at this for over an hour and the guy still won't speak. Just kill him already, we'll find the killers of Devin and Tyler some other way." Another man from the group says in a annoyed tone. The girl assaulting Zane looks towards him and nods.

"As you wish, this will teach those bastards to mess with us again." She says through the cloth and hood shrouding her face from being identified.

"Shit!" I curse to myself before barraging out the bushes at the group. The mystery woman raises her axe about to finish off Zane.

"Stop!" I yell emerging from the brush. The group and the woman glare at me through their makeshift masks. Suddenly the one that assaulted Zane is the first to speak.

"Awww look it's Drake, come to save your friend?" She says twirling her axes in both her hands. The way she handled those axes and how she wielded them together reminded me of myself and my ambidexterity. I glare at Zanes bloody and battered body before looking at the assassin.

"You're the one smelling of honey?" I say smelling the sweet aroma emanting from her. She nods.

"Why of course, I made sure it was extra strong hoping it would throw off your sense of smell... shame you still found us though..." She chuckles before darting at me with her axes. The group behind her immediately then runs over to Zanes body and picks him up.

"Zane!" I yell as I leap backwards from a diagnal swing from her left ice axe. She swings again with her right axe, I duck before taking out my own axe from my back in a split second as I hook it onto the axe she just swung at me with. She brings down her other ice axe in an overhead swing at me.

"Damn!" I yell as I yank my tomahawk hooked onto her other caught axe over to shield me from the second blade. It crashes onto my axe and she bears all her strength on them as I lay pinned on the ground. She was well versed in fighting with axes just like me. A brief silence ensued as we are locked together by our entangled axes. I look over at the men disappearing into the forest with Zane.

"NO!" I yell before ripping my tomahawk from her ice axes and kicking her away. She staggers back a little as I roll onto my feet and attempt to run after them.

"Don't turn your back on me!" She yells swiping at my left side with both her axes. I once again parry both of them away with my tomahawk before reaching down for my knife. I grab my knife from my calf and then attempt to drive it into her skull but she swiftly dodges it and manages to slash into my shoulder with her axe before backing away. I hit the ground with a thud.

"Damn..... you're something else.... i guess I can't go easy on you..." I say getting up and looking at the rip in my cloak I had recieved from her, blood drips out from the shallow gashes. I then take a step towards her again before bull rushing and jumping at her like a wolf. She sidesteps my lunge but I then leap at her from the ground like I did when I first fought Zane, she brings both her axes in front of her chest as a guard as I smash down onto them with my own blade. We hit the ground before she kicks me off her.

"What the hell are you doing! Get Zane back here NOW!" I snarl at her. I could see the outline of her smiling through the dark red cloth masking her face, her panting getting harder. You could tell she wasn't prepared for my style of attacking.

"Why would I do that? I could just kill you for your betrayal right here and now, or better yet... just kidnap you too and use you to get to Walter and the Zachary as well as the guys that helped you kill Devin and Tyler." She says in a sadistic tone before bracing herself for another assault. I squeeze the handle of my tomahawk before crouching down and running at her again. I could understand Walter and Dave, Red, and even Nick... but Zachary? What did they want with him and Zane?

"Then I'll decapitate you right here and be done with it all!" I yell in frustration as I switch my tomahawk into my left hand and knife into my right for a different style of attack. I allowed Zane to get beaten and bloodied, and then let them get away with him... what kind of friend was I? How could I just sit there and watch this female assassin beat the hell out of him? Had I attacked them while Zane was still concious things might have been better.... I raise my tomahawk in my left hand before jumping at her and slamming it into her left axe. She shifts her wrist and hooks my blade onto hers and entangles our axes together. I look in shock as I see her swinging her right axe towards my skull.

"Game over Drake......." She laughs as her blades swoops towards my hooded head..... I quickly toss my right hand up switching my knife to its reverse grip position before blocking her attack as best as I could. The razor sharp jagged edge managed to cut into the back of my right hand anyways as I prematurely stopped her axe from smashing into my jaw. How the hell did she fight so well? I glance into her hazel eyes through my hood. She speaks again.

"Awwww is the baby surpriesed? I'm shocked at how you managed to block my axe with your knife...." She laughs as we remained locked in a fatal embrace, she had my tomahawk caught up in her axe while I held her other axe mere inches from my skull with my knife and forearm. Something was wrong, I should have easily been able to overpower a female in this situation... yet I couldn't gain an inch of ground.... what the hell was going on?

"You little..." I start speaking as I suddenly feel like I'm about to faint.... My vision gets hazy... and my muscles feel as if they are about to give out... I make out the next words she says.

"Perfect..... seems like those flowers also work on humans... feeling a little relaxed Drake?" She laughs. A breeze washes over us wafting the strong honey aroma from her robes and cloths into my nose giving me a headache..

"What the...." I mumble looking at her while we still stayed locked into a fatal embarce. I try to yank my axe free from her but was losing strength fast... I could feel my knife and arm giving way as her ice axe inched closer and closer to my head. If only I had an even range like her instead of an Axe and knife... I probably would have fared better....

"I know I can't take you or Zane on in a match of strength, so I coated my axes in liquid from the same flowers we used to calm and relax the animals... how do you like it?" She chuckles. It then hit me.... during our whole fight... she only cut me with her axes once... in my left shoulder.... after that she just parried and hooked my weapons until the drugs kicked in... how did I not see it?

"You..... son of a.... bitch.." I mumble as my strength kept fading. Her axe now a few centimeters from my jaw as she muscled her way through my arm and knife blocking her axe.

"it's over..... I'm done.... outsmarted by a female.... just like what happened with Darrius all those years ago....." I think to myself as she finally unhooks her axe from mine and hits me over the head with the butt of the handle. I hit the ground face first before losing all control of my muscles, it's as if my body was sleeping.

"Bye bye Drake, you were really a attractive male too... shame." She whispers to me before planting her left foot on me head digging my face into the grass as she lifted both her axes for the finishing blow.

"Managed to take me and Zane out..... I guess it should be a honor I'm gonna be killed by you huh?" I chuckle before going limp. She simply laughs.

"I guess so." She utters out as she prepares to bring down her axes into my back and neck. I suddenly hear the voice of someone I least expected coming to my rescue....

"Drake!" Zachary yells at me as he leaps out a tree and runs to me with his steel kukri knife. I make out his figure from my eyes as the mystery woman backs away from me.

"Z-Zach..... her axes..... drugged...... don't.... g-get.... cut....." I utter out the words. The woman assassin suddenly laughs in excitement.

"First Zane, then Drake, now Zachary? I get all three of you in one mission? This my lucky day it seems." She laughs as she lunges at Zachary. She swings her left axe at his right arm but he sidesteps her. He rushes in for the kill with his kukri in both his hands as he lunges for her throat but she dodges it and causes Zach to stumble. I felt in my gut that Zachary was gonna suffer the same fate as me and Zane, all he had to combat her deadly efficiency with her dual axes was just his kukri knife... If me and Zane couldn't beat her.... I had no doubt in my mind Zach was gonna lose as well... but I prayed I was wrong as I watched Zach dodge all her assault with surprising speed and reflexes, she stayed on him like white on rice with her vicious assault before she dodged another lunge from Zach and rushed at him before he could fully turn around.

"Join Drake now." She laughs as she swings both her axes at Zachs backside. He manages to turn around and look at her just as she swings at him with killing intent.

I could only lay there and watch.........

TO BE CONTINUED..........

@VD
This doesn't conflict with anything you're writing does it?
Edited by Black Ice, Dec 21 2013, 02:30 PM.
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Dec 21 2013, 08:49 PM
Yes i can, the reason you cant is because you wrote out of turn and fucked up my plan and Imo a better way to punish such rule breaking is for your character to suffer, not you, fear not it shant be too bad cause im not that annoyed by your actions but Rashido, such inconsistancy deserves a more sever punishment, Not only does he not allow me to be a pantherine shifter, he then turns around and becomes one himself conflicting with his own story (as it says hes a fox) and showing a great deal of disrespect to myself. I shall not allow him to get away from this unscathed.
Lol just kidding. Fair enough.
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I think so.
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Dafuq, I'm going through and editing for consistency. Don't PMS all over it or you'll be the next Lord Tampon.
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Shut up you butthole.
Why bother editing? next week im sure you will want to be a rhino.

Imma be a fox, no im a be a dog, no imma be a otter, no im actually gonna be a dog, no imma be a lion even though i said they dont exist on the island hurr durr derp.

Im not mad that i dont get to be a lion, im mad that you shot down my idea then turned around and used it yourself, might aswell of spat in my face, nothing but pure disrespect, not a wise thing to do to one of your highest contributing posters especially when your about to loose a different one for an extended period of time.

Edit: this makes me seem more pissed off than I am but seriously your switch out is bullshit.
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Dec 21 2013, 10:15 PM
Shut up you butthole.
Why bother editing? next week im sure you will want to be a rhino.

Imma be a fox, no im a be a dog, no imma be a otter, no im actually gonna be a dog, no imma be a lion even though i said they dont exist on the island hurr durr derp.

Im not mad that i dont get to be a lion, im mad that you shot down my idea then turned around and used it yourself, might aswell of spat in my face, nothing but pure disrespect, not a wise thing to do to one of your highest contributing posters especially when your about to loose a different one for an extended period of time.

Edit: this makes me seem more pissed off than I am but seriously your switch out is bullshit.
damn calm down vd its only a story
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Dec 21 2013, 10:15 PM
Shut up you butthole.
Why bother editing? next week im sure you will want to be a rhino.

Imma be a fox, no im a be a dog, no imma be a otter, no im actually gonna be a dog, no imma be a lion even though i said they dont exist on the island hurr durr derp.

Im not mad that i dont get to be a lion, im mad that you shot down my idea then turned around and used it yourself, might aswell of spat in my face, nothing but pure disrespect, not a wise thing to do to one of your highest contributing posters especially when your about to loose a different one for an extended period of time.

Edit: this makes me seem more pissed off than I am but seriously your switch out is bullshit.
Lol next he will want to be a rhino.
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@Apex like i said it makes me seem more pissed off than i am but its not the story its teh Gawd damned princimipal!
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