Call of the Hunt.

[yogurtfresh]

a new story i am attempting to write. i'll put up the first chapter and see what people think.

First Blood:

The Mary Cain cut through he unnaturally still waves of the ocean, light dancing off the crystal wake it was leaving. the sun shone violently and there were no clouds. This was a huge risk.
The party goers danced, drank, ate and sang, music was loud and the drink was a-plenty.
The lone man sat cross legged at the bow, his clothes too different from the bright colors of the drunken men and women, his grey coat splayed behind him, the charms on his leather braces clinking quietly. He had been waiting for a signal for a while, but they were behind scedule. A man wearing similar clothes, minus the charms and light armor walked up behind him.

'Crow, We're going to have to stop here.' he said, not looking at him and holding himself steady one of the ropes.

'Finally, you make sure everyone stays safe, i'll talk to the captain. Thank you Nihil.' Melancholy Crowcall answered.

'I'd prefer it if you refered to me by my last name, Crowcall.'

'Sorry Blackclaw. i' ll be off.'
Of all the people he had to take this bounty with, it had to be Nihilus Blackclaw. the two had hated eachother since they both started Their jobs. but a hunt was a hunt. and if the boat went down, they went down with it. Nihilus gripped his rapier and walked off. Crowcall pulled himself up and walked towards the captains wheel. The captain, a tall, fat and redfaced man, looked towards him with dissatifaction.

'Yes, can i help you?' he spat.

'Your going to need to stop here i'm afraid.' Crowcall put a hand on the captains shoulder.
the captain looked at the gloved hand on his shoulder.

'Ye must be mad. our destination isn't far now.' He said trying to be nice.
Crowcall used his other hand to pull back one side of his coat and then put his hand on his hip, revealing a selection of knives strapped to his torso.

'You can stop and live, or you can keep going and we all die.'
The captain was frightened of the young man with many sharp objects, and orderd his crew o hoist the sails. Nihilus began to usher the partygoers indoors deck much to their dissatisfaction.
After they had been herded Nihilus gave the thumbs up.

'Whats this about then?'
Crowcall put his fingers to his lips, the captain silenced.

'What now Crow?' Nihilus shouted up deck.

'We wait.' Crowcall shouted back.

[Xenos Infinity]

ooh, spooky. ^_^

hope you don't expect me to fit pirates into my story as well, though.

[yogurtfresh]

no, and they aren't pirates. just sailors.
but they are sailing

[iceberg]

I want to read more, but only because it's so short.
Also, you'd think people with such long names would stay to calling eachother by nicknames. Or if they are crooks by nature, false names.

[yogurtfresh]

it's their chosen names, i've alrady put them down as Crow and Nihil, i wont be using their full names much.

First blood cont.:

Crowcall had moved onto the deck with Nihilus, who had already drawn his rapier. it was awkwardly silent.

'Any plans?' Crowcall asked.

'don't smurf up this thing. is that good enough? Just leave enough to prove it's been done.' Nihilus said.

addmitedly Nihilus was the most naturally talented of the two, Crowcall was always reluctant in the practicle side of things. He had always been a bit of an annoyance to Nihilus.

'Strange' Nihilus muttered.

'what?' Crowcall responded.

'it should be here by now...'

No ripples were made now fish swam and there was no bottom to the endless blue. the empty echo of death.
A few hours passed, the only words exchanged were to try and get the captain to shut up.

'This is as boring as fishing, all this waiting.' Crowcall sighed.
Nihilus snorted
'Don't be stupid, take this seriously. After all this is the biggest fish you'll see in a long time.'

As if on cue, a mass of bubbles rose a few ten meters out sea.
Nihilus readied his rapier. Crowcall placed his hand next to his Thigh, ready to draw Pityless.
the bubbling stopped. crowcalls hand relaxed. bad move.
the ship was dipped sideways by the force of the wave. a huge blue dome had ruptured from the water followed by a mass of writhing tendrils and tenticles. waves crashed against the hull, water sprayed on deck. Both Men spluttered, blined by the ea water. when they got their sight back the were treted with the sight of their prey.

'Crap!' shouted crowcall, drawing Pityless and readying his scope.
The geat beast just floated in the middle of the ocean, hundreds upon thousands of tenticles, finding their way through the air at a slow speed, as if adjusting to the the change of it's surroundings.
The Head rose. the snakelike head uncurled from beneath itself, the snakelike neack streaching and it's horrific, giant black eyes as dark as it's own soul, teeth like needles bared and pouring with salt water.

'Steady...' Nihilus said to Crowcall, as he took aim from arms length.

Crowcall, aimed for one of it's huge eyes, in a perfect positing, Crowcals finger tightened the trigger.
Pitylessess prism span, the light crystals hit the prism and sparks flew through to the barrles, the light itself sharpened inside the two barrels. and as the bullets left the barrel, one of the great krakens tenticles slitherd between the bullet and it's destination.

The light exploded on it's thick hide, chunks of sinew thrown into the water, the creatures limp hung limp retreated it under the surface.

the thing screamed in pain and anger, a screech that pierced the water itself, then chaos ensued.

[Xenos Infinity]

did it? I assure you it had nothing to do with me. Blame sam, he's the one who keeps trying to make giant amphibious fishy things.

[yogurtfresh]

Well, fair enough but this is chaos as an atmosphere.
i can't write a story just now but i will explain pityless to you.
Pityless is Crowcalls custom revolver.
it has a grip moulded to the shape of his hand and is fitted with a rifle barrel. it has an over-under double barrel style. it has a double trigger for rapid fire and a barrel-length bayonette wich ends in a handleguard which is also bladed. as is the butt of the gun. the most important thing is the firing system, where the bullet cradle would have been there is a round, green prism made of a crystal known as flareinite. it can concentrate light to the point of being solid. the hammers of the gun are custom fitted with light crystals. when struck these crystals release intense light, the prism directs it into the barrels (which have glass lenses in them, like a sniper scope has) and the light comes out as an explosive solid. it also has a magnifier scope, for adjusting sight.
it has a black/silver designe and pityless written in fancy letterd gold on the top barrel.
it took me ages to make this up.

[Xenos Infinity]

interesting. essentially a Photoballistic rifle. Looks to me like the Polaris, but light instead of...

I've said too much already. Just don't try ordering one.

[yogurtfresh]

it's a converted pistol really.

[Xenos Infinity]

what I said just means it makes light into a solid and fires it. Like a laser bullet, really.

[yogurtfresh]

pretty much, but more 'magic'.
this was meerly a side project that i regret to inform might not be continued, i will be slow to update.

[xelemental]

yogurtfresh said:

Well, fair enough but this is chaos as an atmosphere.
i can't write a story just now but i will explain pityless to you.
Pityless is Crowcalls custom revolver.
it has a grip moulded to the shape of his hand and is fitted with a rifle barrel. it has an over-under double barrel style. it has a double trigger for rapid fire and a barrel-length bayonette wich ends in a handleguard which is also bladed. as is the butt of the gun. the most important thing is the firing system, where the bullet cradle would have been there is a round, green prism made of a crystal known as flareinite. it can concentrate light to the point of being solid. the hammers of the gun are custom fitted with light crystals. when struck these crystals release intense light, the prism directs it into the barrels (which have glass lenses in them, like a sniper scope has) and the light comes out as an explosive solid. it also has a magnifier scope, for adjusting sight.
it has a black/silver designe and pityless written in fancy letterd gold on the top barrel.
it took me ages to make this up.

Hmm....there are two loopholes though.
1. Any thing reaching the speed of light has it's mass multiplied by like, infinite.Making light into solid equals that, besides, light is already solid in form of practicaly particles without state mass.

This means you'd throw yourself into black hole for a quantum timeparticle.then threw out.as an energy.
Or, you'd go BOOM.

2. If it hits anything on the way to target, it goes BOOM.

3. If target get's hit, it goes BOOM.

4. Why not use just a gun with explosive bullets? Doesn't kill you and everyone around atleast.

5.Light can't reflect in a space whereby the distance beetween reflections is less than light's wavelength.This is the cause why gamma-rays can go through most things.It also doesn't allow to send radio waves in a computer because of limited wavelenth.

PS: by BOOM I mean like something used to destroy ten-story buildings.Or more.

PSS: Alternatively, you could use He2-powered explosions with certain system - namely using tiion(I think that's the correct spelling). It's mass = 200 e- masses.Allows to merge them into C.
Practically, no afterradiation, but BOOM.

[yogurtfresh]

thanks for the physics lesson.
normal bullets are boring and explosiv bullets are too sameold. it's distorted light, it moves slower, it's arcane! dont blame me!

[xelemental]

There is only one thing that changes actual light speed.Gravity.
Meaning you need quite massive object there, right behind your back.

[yogurtfresh]

or that the speed of light differs. it only goes its fastest in a vacuum.