#hunter5

[rinegadetales]

Hunter/Fives; "run"

“Fives?”

Hunter shakes his head, blinks his eyes, tries to discern anything that isn’t the throbbing pain that’s wracking through his body. 

“Hey, hey cyare. We don’t have a lot of time. The Empire will be on our tails in seconds.”

Confusion wrinkles Hunter’s features, but he nods and allows Fives to lift him into his arms. He barely registers the explosion down the hall, nor does he immediately recognize Echo and Tech running from the blast. 

“Run! Go, go!” 

[schokokokatze]

“Good of you to come! See, I was wondering, since you have so many dogs and we’ll need a breeding pair for the next generation as well, if y-”

“Yes, please, take one, here you go, thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

“Uhm. Okay.”

[schokokokatze]

Since they were mostly just working on their hut and the tribute to the chief, the week was a little uneventful, but at least they’re living much more comfortably now and were able to get out of their cave.

[schokokokatze]

This is, unfortunately, all we’ll see of these pups. There are several. I swear. Since they were low on food and had to pay tribute to the chief still, most of the remaining week was spent gathering enough to survive and pay their taxes. On the plus side, this left Diama with precious little time to mourn the loss of her baby sister to a terrifying curse.

[schokokokatze]

Diama did not handle certain information well.

[schokokokatze]

Diama: “You can’t tell me she’s alright! She was away all night again. And she keeps staring at everybody like she wants to lick their eyeballs or something, it’s creepy!”

Naife: “Pretty certain that she’s not alright, I really wasn’t going to tell you anything like that. But ... I don’t know what to do about it. She’s your sister.”

Diama: “... and I’m scared of my sister. Ever since that ship came here and she spent all day talking to that weird woman, she’s been ... different. I shouldn’t have let her out of my sights.”

Naife: “Di, I don’t know what to do about it. I just know it’s probably not your fault.”

Diama: “Naife ... you’re no help at all. I ... guess I’ll go talk to her.”

[schokokokatze]

“Gods, you’re a dirty little guy. Hey, Deer, where are you off to this late?”

The girl looked at Gardan and smiled an odd, little smile, before running away. She was quite fast.

Deer didn’t know what happened, but she did know that there had been a woman with the last tradesmen that had come to the village, and that she’d been really nice, and that while talking to her, time seemed to move differently and Deer wasn’t sure what they had even talked about.

What Deer was quite sure of, was that she was now able to overtake real deer on foot, ram them off their feet and bite into their strong, furry necks until they died. It wasn’t what Deer was really wanting to eat, but frankly, it was good enough for now.

[schokokokatze]

The hunter ladies are all grown up and since they now have a breeding pair of dogs, they are now officially the village’s main hunters and are treated as commoners. Naife and Diama are officially heads of the household, with the girls Deer and Gardan as their helpers. Little Mere is Diama’s lovechild and she (badly) keeps her parentage a secret for now.