Dark Waters- Chapter 4A- Training and Capture

Sorry that it took so long everyone! But here is the next chapter along with a picture of Amanda!!!

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Hunter leads Amanda into her room, angry thoughts running through his head as he plans to find out why Amanda is pretending not to know him. As soon as he’s through the doorway he grabs Amanda and pulls her in, practically throwing her across the room.

"What the hell!" Amanda says, getting up and glaring across the room, in the wrong direction from Hunter.

"I’m over here," Hunter growls, finding it hard to not want to help her out.

"Good. Now I can hit you. What the hell are you so angry about. I haven’t done anything to you! I don’t even know you!" Amanda snaps.

Suddenly Hunter’s anger flares and he grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her.

"That’s why I’m angry! What do you mean you don’t know me!?" Hunter growls, practically right in her face. Amanda’s eyes widen as he shakes her.

"I don’t know you! If you know me then I’m sorry but I don’t remember you. I’m not even sure Amanda is my real name," she says, trying to calm Hunter down. Hunter freezes in place and his grip on Amanda’s shoulders loosens.

"What…" Hunter murmurs, somewhat stunned. He backs off after a few seconds,

"Sorry about that…" Hunter says, extremely sad and still somewhat angry.

How could she forget me? Hunter thinks to himself wishing he could cry

"Since I don’t remember you… who are you?" Amanda asks, feeling a sharp pain in her heart as she hears something almost like a sob from Hunter. Hunter looks up at Amanda and a corner of his mouth lifts up.

"My name is Hunter Panthera. I’m a panther shape shifter. I’m a few hundred years old," Hunter says, watching Amanda sit on the edge of her bed.

"Oh… well nice to meet you Hunter. Um… how did you know me?" Amanda asks.

"Well… I’m not sure what I was to you exactly. But I’m pretty sure I was a friend at least," Hunter chuckles and sees Amanda smiling as well.

"Well, Hunter, you seem like a really nice guy. I’d be happy to be your friend," Amanda says, her hand finding his shoulder so that she can wrap her arms around his neck in a quick hug. Hunter closes his eyes and smiles, happy to be able to have Amanda back, even if not in the way he would have liked. Just as Amanda pulled back and Hunter stepped away reluctantly, Kim entered the room.

"Well… nice to see neither of you are dead," She chuckles, looking at Hunter, "I’m sorry for what happened. I was sent to recruit her but after I guessed that you two were m-" she says, getting cut off by Hunter.

"Its fine," he says, making a censuring gesture meaning not to mention mates. Kim frowns and then walks up to Amanda.

"My name is Kim. I was formerly your room mate at college. The council decided that you and Hunter are going to be partners and I’m your supervisor and trainer. But also your friend," Kim says, crossing her arms over her chest. Hunter frowns at Kim and Amanda just smiles.

"Well then what are we waiting for!? What sort of training?" Amanda asks, seeming eager. Hunter frowns at her, not liking the idea of Amanda possibly being in danger, but since Amanda can’t see his frown it doesn’t really matter.

"Well first we gotta see what you two are best at," Kim laughs, seeing how eager Amanda is, "Come on. Lets go to the training areas," she says, heading toward one side of the huge area they were in. Hunter looks around, frowning at the area.

"So where exactly are we, Kim?" Hunter asks,

"Underground," Kim answers simply. She leads them into a huge room filled with obstacle courses, weapons, and other training things.

"There are many different ranks you can have here in Le Conseil. It all depends on what your best at. I’m a traqueur because my main skills are stealth, undercover work, and tracking or hunting. Almost everyone starts as a watcher, who simply are assigned to one magical creature and watch over them, making sure they don’t go rogue. I’m Hunter’s former watcher," Kim says. Hunter’s eyes widen and he stutters.

"What!? You’re a traqueur, watcher, and recruiter?" he asks, looking stunned.

"Yes. Most traqueur are also watchers. But it is quite rare for a traqueur to also be assigned as a recruiter. Anyway. Depending on your best skills you’ll be assigned your current rank. Oh and also there are different ranks for the different races of creatures. Hunter, although it’s slightly ironic, you’ll probably end up being a hunter, which is one step higher than a traqueur. They do basically the same job except Hunters also do the hunting and capturing," Kim says, snickering even though Hunter glares at her.

"Amanda. Since you have a special ability called ‘The Sixth Sense’ you’d mostly likely be a Assassin and Leader. Leaders are the ones who get the mission and then plan the whole thing out for the rest of their squad. The assassins… well that’s pretty self explanatory. Here lets run you guys through the exercises," Kim says.

A few hours later Kim calls Hunter away from tracking and weapon training and calls Amanda away from Planning, leadership, stealth, weapons, and martial arts training.

"Well it seems like you guys are doing really well so far. Tomorrow we’ll see how your doing by pitting you against each other," Kim says, grinning. Hunter just manages to look exhausted and Amanda grins from ear to ear.

"Sounds fun actually! What do you say Hunter!?" she says, jumping up and down. Hunter smiles tenderly at her and wraps his arm around her waist, "Calm down little one," he says, kissing her cheek. Amanda freezes in place and pulls away.

"Whoa whoa. Calm down buddy!" Amanda says, frowning in the wrong direction from either of them. Hunter looks surprised and hurt.

"I’m sorry edera…" Hunter murmurs, using the Greek term for baby, knowing Amanda doesn‘t know what it means. Amanda continues frowning but then relaxes, "Well I guess it’s time for bed," Amanda says, trying to head for the door but heading toward the wall. Hunter grabs her and steers her toward the door. Amanda moves away from him, seeming skittish. Kim sighs, feeling bad for Hunter as he leads Amanda back to their room.

As soon as their done Kim goes through the winding corridors of Le Conseil underground HQ and then through the doorway to head out to an empty warehouse outside of town.

"Hello!?" Kim says, wondering what the mysterious call she had gotten asking her to come to this location was about. Suddenly all the windows are blocked off and the door closes, locked tight. Kim spins around, startled by the darkness and suddenly extremely scarred. She had always been afraid of absolute darkness.

"Hello!? Who’s there!?" Kim practically screams, her heart beating faster than it should. She was completely terrified.

"Hello Ms. Kim, nice to see you again," a deep voice says from the darkness right behind Kim. Kim spins around and looks up into the bright golden eyes of Alexon. As soon as their eyes meet she whimpers slightly, still terrified of the dark.

"Don’t worry Milaya Moya," he says, using the Russian words for My Sweet as he catches Kim fainting into his arms, "your safe with me."