Unusual hunting tactics

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"I kept my eye on the radar day and night, checking every single new data added to the countless screens on my airship, my hunt for the black wolfess became an obsession...I know this is by all means my duty, but it became a personal matter since that duel, A creature mighty enough to beat a experienced palatine like me in combat must be put down or contained by any means nescessary! altought this was my initial directive my hunt took a strange turn of events.

Thanks to intercepted police communications I received information of a dark furred feline lady causing trouble in a nearby medium sized city, this time I went on foot looking for her, if she was smart enough to execute a highly precise terrorist attack she would surely recognize my airship easily, by following the tracks from the data gathering I was able to locate her on a comercial district...begging for money...I was not expecting it, I followed her for a while keeping my distance to ensure she could not detect my scent. After receiving some donations from some charitable bystanders she entered an tavern, in this moment I had a choice I could call the kill teams to surround the place, with air support we could surely bring her down...but the colateral damage would be enourmous, the street and the tavern were full of inocent bystanders, and there was no way to force an evacuation without alerting the beast,even if I tried to duel her again, our fight would raze this street...I was not eager to have even more innocent blood in my hands...

After some minutes thinking I came up with a risky and ludicrous plan, yet for some reason I followed with it, I entered the tavern swiftly and immediately located my target's table, she was alone on a small table in the corner eating bread and cheap beer, I darted to her direction and without announcing myself I sat on the oposing chair, the surprise on her face was indescribable, before she could do or say anything I opened saying:
-Beast, wait! I come in peace, I just wanna talk!
-Wait!?do you think I'm stupid!?
-I came alone, I genuinely just wanna talk!
-Grrr!!...I don't smell lies on your words...but still, what you want hunter!?
- To be honest I came here initially to kill or capture you, but I had a change of heart...I think both of us are not interested in collateral damage, judging by your actions on the yacht last month.
- I don't wanna fight here...but doesn't mean I will not defend myself if you try anything funny...
-Good, then we are on the same page...look I can see from afar that you are very hungry, and this meager bread will not be enough for a beast like you...how about I pay a proper meal for you and in exchange you answer some of my questions?
-What's the catch?
-There's no catch, I just wanna understand everything...I know you can smell truth on what I'm saying...
- Grrrrr....fine! but I want meat!

My dangerous bet paid off, I had the beast face to face in a peaceful state, I immediately called the waiter and asked for a generous meal worthy of lordling, while the meal was prepared I ordered her mug to be filled with strong beer of good quality...and it worked better than anticipated , the meal took half an hour to be done, meanwhile she drunk 4 full mugs, I could see she was getting tipsy, it was not part of the plan but I was not complaning...when the meal arrived it filled the small table, I could see her eyes shining eager to devour that:
- Now with such local delicacies served to fill your belly, I hope we can have a civilized and productive conversation...
-it's ALL for me?
- Yes, and don't be shy to ask for more beer, I will pay for everything.
- Alright...thanks, you are fairly generous for a genocidal monster...if I knew you was willing to buy me expensive food I would not beaten you so hard last time!
- Genocidal monster you say...well first I would like to congratulate you for your victory in our last duel, I was undefeated for the last five decades, but you wiped the floor with my body, you have my respect.
- Thanks I guess...congratulations for surviving, no one who fought me ever survived before...
- I'm honored, since we are both special to each other, can I know your name? you already know mine from what I heard.
- ....Danadriel Montresor...
- Danadriel...beautiful but rather exotic name,tell me Danadriel, how long you know you are a lycan?
- Since like 7 months ago I think.
- 7 months!? and you already mastered movement and combat!? how? are you trained by someone?
- No, I never trained anything...I learn from my dreams...I have horrible dreams about horrible places.
- I'm impressed, I'm wish I had such dreams, would spared me from decades of training!
- Haha, maybe if you spend less time butchering children and more time sleeping you would be having more useful dreams.
- Rather bold accusation miss Danadriel...do you have anything to back it up?
- Don't play dumb...you know your sins.
-So, when you ambushed me in the sheriff's house you were trying to punish me for my sins?
- Yes...it was an opportunity hard to pass...but in hindsight it was a mistake, you deserved to die...but not just I failed in killing you but also blew my cover...so much so that now you are here sharing a table with me.
- You're not wrong, now that I know your real face and its part of the Order's database, its rather unlikely you will be able to escape me.
- Well...It only means that I have nothing else to lose, if I can't escape I will die killing as much of your kin as I can...how many of your zealot brothers do you think I can kill? 100? 200?...not to mention all the fancy machines I can break...
- I don't doubt it,bring you down will not be cost effective in both lives and material resources...this is why I'm choose diplomacy, I want to understand your side of story before anything else.
-Understand my side of the story!?...Is this some kind of very elaborate joke? there is a camera somewhere?
- haha no, why is so hard to believe?
- You are a brain dead zealot! all your kin does is scream around and hunt down people who dont fit in your vision of a perfect clean world!
- You have a rather simplistic assessment of things, no offense, I do assume you got it from your experiences with amateur hunters, they sure fit your description...but we the Order are above such commom rabid rabble, we are keepers of this world, we are the bulwark that keep darkness away, our task require violence but we are far more precise and reasonable than the average hunters you met.
-Yeah sure, guardians of the power of friendship, sunshine and rainbows and all...
- Tell me Danadriel, what are common people supposed to do if a lycan like you start invade a city to hunt its citizens...or if a powerful witch loses her sanity and began to immolate entire villages...or a necromacer wakes up with dreams of conquest and raises ten tousand corpses to raze the nearby kindgoms?...tell me how the commom man are suposed to face such threats?
-....I dont know....
- This is why we exist, you may not like us, but we are a necessary part of a civilized world, someone has to go outside and face the horrors that lurk...someone must be organized,trained and geared to face what the common man cannot.
- Yeah yeah I get it! the peasants need their angels to protect them from evil things like me...yet I dont get were you are trying to arrive...Are you trying to convert me? or hire me? do you want a curriculum too?
- Honestly I would love to have such mighty beast as an ally in my crusade...but sadly it is against all the Order's rules and tenets.
- Awww there go my childhood dream of being a lap dog for theo-fascists...my day is ruined!
-Another rather bold accusation...tell me, this is why you killed Grand Master Joakihn? for you he was just an authoritarian zealot in need of a beating like me? and what about the other victims on that yach, what they done to deserve such grim end?
-They were all money hoarders, greedy worms upholders of the status quo...and your master was a genocidal monster like you...
-For the wealthy participants of that gathering I hold no empathy, there's no way to get that rich without exploiting the common man...but Master Joaquinh was one of our most empathetic and beloved commanders, widely know for his mercy and...
- DID HE SHOW ANY MERCY FOR MY SISTERS IN THE RED ROCK CASTLE!?DID HE!?...fuck I hope no one heard that...
-So you are aware of the events in Red Rock castle...interesting, but how? was you there?
-...no.
-That operation is not exactly common knowledge, not just it highly classified but it happened in a remote location...tell me Danadriel how do you know about it, and how do you know it was me and master Joakinh in charge of it...
- My sisters told me ev....fuck I said too much...you are interrogating me!
- Now everything make sense, I knew you were not operating alone...let me guess, survivors of the purge found and recruited you, they brainwashed you and made you in to an attack dog.
- Don't dare to speak ill of them you swine! they are my family!
- Please remain calm, I would discover all of it inevitably...but since you gave this information through peaceful means I can offer you a deal.
- What kind of deal!?
- I personally have no intention of keep pursuing the survivors of Red Rock...they suffered enough, but your sisters commited a serious crime against the Order that cannot be simply forgiven, they must be taken to justice...so I offer you the oportunity of surrender to me and tell me where are your sisters, in exchange they will have a fair trial and a painless execution, no torture or bonfires...and since you are just a tool in the entire scheeme I can offer you freedom, you will be relesed on a distant forest where you can live naturally and far from civilization.
- Here I have a counter deal, how about you take me in your fancy airship straight to the headquarters of your order, there I will transform and kill every single one of your brothers and leaders, and since you are just a tool in the whole scheeme I will give you the privilege of kneeling and sucking my fat lycan cock in the end, how about that?
- I will assume this is a rather complex and impolite way of rejecting my deal.
- Of course it is! fuck you! do you think I will betray my family and deliver them to certain death!? I will die fighting to protect them!I will paint this land with the blood of your stupid order before I let any harm come to my sisters!
- Danadriel, please reconsider, this is only the opportunity you will have to spare them of suffering, we can end this story without more bloodshed...
- No, there will be blood! your blood! this meeting was peaceful but next time I see you or any of your filthy order cronies I will attack on sight! go ahead do your worst, hunt me as much as you want...I will show you who is the real hunter here!

Danadriel chuged the rest of her beer mug and left the tavern enraged, in the following days I tried to keep track of her but she got smarter, she somehow vanished without leaving trace, while she accidentaly gave me alot of information I think I let something slip on my side too, now she knows I'm hunting her, so she will do her best to cover her tracks, and any easy clue she leaves behind can very much be an ambush...sinful as it may be to admit I think I'm getting pleasure from this, I dont care anymore for my mission or to avenge our lost Grand Master...I just wanna feel the trhill of this hunt..." (Pietro)

Not gonna lie, the main reason I drew this is because I wanted to draw food :U

Oh I can feel a vibe of "enemies to lovers" in the air X3

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