*warning a bit darker theme still keeping to the MA15+ rating -sigh- *
The thirteen year old glared at the two other females in her group. Out of the 8 of them only 3, 3!!! got to get into a Feild. The rest were considered too weak and failures only good for being brooding hens.
Done with her assessments, she followed Racker into the working Canyon, where the real Feilds were.
Several runners were waiting to take the new trainees to their new trainers.
"I want Jenner!" she demanded.
"You'll get who you get Jade." Racker growled back at her as the others were sorted out to whom and where. Until Jade was the last pup. "Now.. Jenner?" he asked her seriously.
"YES! Jenner is the BEST!" She snapped.
Racker shrugged. "Bring this one to Jenner, see if he's going to bother training." He told a runner.
The other rat nodded and lead Jade up the paths to the Top Interigators cave.
The runner lead the female rat to Jenner's upper cave. Entering the very front of it.
"Jenner sir, A trainee requested you. Would you be willing to train?"
Jenner snorted. The front of this cave held a table and a row of the back of lockers. Rounding the lockers Jenner glared at the dark furred female.
He curled his lip. "Why should I train something like you?" he demanded.
Jade shoved her way past the runner, her eyes drinking in the black rat in front of her. She knew it!
She smirked.
"I think the best student deserves the best teacher sir," she replied. "I want to be an Interrigator. I refuse to take anything less, even if I have to cripple every other pup you want beofre you accept me. You're the only one I'm going to accept to train me. I have worth that this Tribe has ignored all my life, and I'm going to prove that I'm not some little breeding bitch to be tossed asside carelessly like a peice of trash."
Jenner Crossed his arms. "You'll cripple all the other trainees?" He smirked. "Yer worth more than a breeding bitch?" He smirked. "You think I'm the best there is?" he chucklled. "Well looks like I got a trainee." He turned his back on her, rounding the row of lockers.
The narrow dark cave didn't open up, instead a bunk was carved into one wall.
"Thats your bed, thats your locker." He pointed to the very end dented locker. Moving along his own bed, a stone shelf on the wall with a thick padding and blankets.
Bathroom in the back, you can bath once a month like the rest of us." he stated. Turning around to face her.
"You get up one hour before dawn, you go to bed one hour after dark. You eat in the morning and in the evening. You stick inside the bounderies or I'll kill you myself if someone doesn't do it first. Weapons will be issued AFTER you complete your training." he snapped. "Any question?"
"Just two sir," she responded as she saw the runner leave out of the corner of her eye. "One, can we start now? And two... do you know who I am?"
"We're starting now. Take notes. And Yes, your a little bratty worm who has NOTHING better to do than train." He snapped. "Now Put down that crap you think you call clothing in your locker!"
"Actually I was talking about my lienage sir," she said as she did what she was told. She trembling from eagerness a little, and she had to bite the inside of her mouth to keep from smriking. "I had heard so much about you, and my name... Jade. I was curious... and had a theory, but I know now it has to be true."
"Jade?" Jenner hummed darkly. "Are you one of mine or the last of Jinx's?" He asked curiously. "And what theory is that?" he watched her almost bounce with enery. She held everything the Darkline was known for. Dark fur, short demanding temper. He wondered if she had the rage, if she was his, she just may.
Her paws fitted her hands, her feet and tail also the proper portions. "Whos your momma?"
"She's called M of Dark Line sir," she answered, barely able to keep the eagerness out of her voice. "And my theory was who you were to me. I know the rules, you aren't suppose to know, and neither am I, but I can't think of anyone else who would be." She snorted. "It's not like it was hard to figure out. All the mothers assume pups are too stupid to track that kind of thing, but inlike most females, my brain does happen to work."
She crossed her arms over her chest.
"Not that it ever got me any recongnition," she snarled. "I was always a problem to foist off on others. Nursary Relief hated me, just becuase I would hurt other pups. Bah, they never did understand me, or what I was trying to do."
"Ohh?" Jenner smirked. "Well Jinx never crossbred like I did, M is my sister. Soo.." He grinned. "That makes you NOT my pup." he stated coldly.
"Now.. " Taking a hold of her arms he wretched them from across her chest. "Hurt other kids? let me guess you were training yourself." He hummed Spinning her around and checking her out thoroughly. "You ain't gonna get too big in the chest. Your got some good bone structure." He held her hips. "You'll fill out nicely eventually."
Squeezing her arms. "Once I get some decent meat on them bones that is."
"Of course I'm not sir," Jade replied dutifully as she watched him.
She offered no resistence as he looked her over. He seemed please with her... at least a little.
"Training... amongst other things sir," she answered. "I wanted respect. And respect stems from fear. If you can make someone afraid of you, they admit you're better than they are. Just like Leader. We respect him because he has the power to kill any of us with just a word. We stay in line for fear of our lives. If I could make the other pups fear pain, they'd fear the one who brought them the pain, me. And it worked, it brought me to you, who've I've respected as long as I can remeber. Everyone knows you, fears you. I want to be like that someday myself. I think I deserve a chance for that kind of power just as much as anyone, but I'm the only one who seems willing to work for it."
"Now THAT is the darkline talking." He pulled her against him in a tight rough hug. "Why have I wasted my time on Jacket when you've been around all this time?" He grinned. "When yer old enough I must test out the rage factor in you. I havn't seen it on a female just yet." He chuckled letting her go, slowly.
"Come, I'll give you a tour of the bounderies. You KNOW how important they are. Step out of them, you die." He started out of the cave. "Hurry up."
She went rigid at the hug, thinking for the briefest of moments she had angered him somehow and he was drawing her in to kill her. She smiled at the compliment though and let herself enjoy his obvious approval of her.
"Yes sir," she said as she trotted slightly to keep up with his long stride. She was by no means a runt, but at 13, she was still growing. It was no shock that his stride was hard for her to match and she did not expect him to wait. "What do you mean, rage factor sir? And why can't it be tested now. I'm old enough for any kind of training you want to give me."
Jenner laughed. A honest side splitting laugh as they reached topside. "OH that is rich!" He sat down on the edge of the cliff. "Come here sweet Jade. Sit down and listen good."
"The rage is a Darkline trait, on the males mainly, But.. Seeing you have the aggression it maywell appear to emerge. The only way it will. He smirked patting her head. "When a male pup is old enough, his balls decend and with that,he's mature enough to breed. Then, tested." He smirked again chuckling.
"Jacket, oh Jacket is a sin in himself, his first time having sex, he clawed and bit her to ribbins, I had to do the only thing I could and kill her. He lost his entire mind to lust. Me? I.. well... I have to have it, I start I finish it, and marking the back of the neck." He grinned broadly.
"just finishes it all."
He turned his head to look at her. "Now you.. you're a female, so far, they've been aggressive in bed, but not much before their maturity." He poked her chest.
"You got a bit more to go before I can train you on that and see just how aggressive you become, maybe even have enough of a blinding demanding fit that you kill your mates."
Jade looked away as he laughed. If anyone else had just called her that, she would have hit them. But comming from him in such a way, it didn't seem like an insult.
"No ones ever called me sweet before sir," she said. "Thank you I suppose. I don't think I'm too immature to be tested. I have breasts, there just small. I'm ony thirteen. So if this Jacket tried to breed he'd just kill the girl. So in effect he's incapable of breeding in a round about way." She snorted. "My, he sounds useful."
Jenner smirked. "He's proven, just waiting for the delivery... He is useful..once you muzzle him, tie his hands and feet and tail up. He's very useful. Its the rest of it that makes him so well liked." Jenner almost purred.
"But you.." he tapped her nose with a long claw. "Need to be thoroughly tested in everything else before I can bother to test you in that area." he smirked. "Much as I would now."
"I'm not sure I understand sir," she admitted. "Seems like it's important. But I'll follow your orders." She paused. "Does it hurt? The first time I mean."
He smirked. "You do it right, yeah it'll hurt a lot. Do it correctly no.. but it takes a long time to do it correctly and I don't like waiting." Standing. "Come along." walking he pointed out land marks. "The boulders you don't go past. Nor that group of rocks, the ridge isn't to be passed. This is the messanger trench, you come here daily to check for messages for Me and only Me." He paused jumping down. "It means a job, it could mean nothing."
"Do you get jobs often sir?" she asked. Actually, her head was still spinning a little from his answer. What was te difference of doing it right and doing it correctly? She wasn't sure what he meant by waiting either. "When you work, will I be allowed to help? Or is my position strictly to observe for now?"
"Depends on how competitant you are, You'll be coming with me my young Jade, I'll teach you how to get information out of a vic.. yes I get jobs often, the was is the best damn thing for the Tribe. Fish are the best payers too, just make sure your money is up front." He stated. leader her around the canyon.
"How many ways could there be sir?" she asked. "I'm sure if you hit someone enough times they'd talk... or is it true that you... take enjoyment in your work, more than what most would deem appropriate that is. There are so many rumors flying arround you at the Nursary, and I'm sort of curious how much is true. Some mothers threaten to their pups that you come in and steal away any of us children that wander arround at night when they should be asleep. Can't believe anyone buys that one though. Pups never go missing from the Nursary, but they still think you do it."
"Hmm if you don't enjoy your work, you Shouldn't be in the feild." Shrugging. "I endulge at any opertune moment I get, on the job or training ill mannered trainees that need an attiude adjustment. Some may say I take things too far but at the same time, the information is always gotton."
Jenner grinned. "They remember that huh?" chuckling a bit. "Pups did go missing when I was still in the nursary." He licked his muzzle. "Oh mind you they all were my own age or younger, but yeah.. I did take them, and... played with them until they broke."
"What other nightmares do they say about me?" he hummed curiously.
"Lots of things," she repleied with a shrug. "All of them classic horror story nonsense. They say you're evil, but I don't really believe that. I think you just chose to live by your own rules, becuase no one else can force you to conform to their standards. They also said I was a fool for wanting to be trained by you, and you'd probably kill me in a fortnight just because you would think it's funny to watch me fail. I think the adults simply didn't want to have to deal with another rat like you."
She glanced at him in curiousity.
"Sir, when did you decide you wanted to be an Interrigator anyway?"
"...by you, and you'd probably kill me in a fortnight just because you would think it's funny to watch me fail. I think the adults simply didn't want to have to deal with another rat like you."
Jenner had to chuckle at that. "Could be, either or."
"When? I always knew, it's in the blood. I had more fun torchering than I ever did trying to out right kill, everyone knew it from an early age, Even the assessors. They tried me in a couple of feilds but Interorgation is just what I'm fit for." he shrugged. "Long way down, Start walking." He pointed to a trail a few meters below them. Easily; even for a rat of his height, he slid over the edge and picked his way down on the cliff wall to the trail.
Jade wasn't sure what to say to that, if there was even anything to say. So instead she simply kept her mouth shut and followed him as best she could. She slipped a little on the way down, but catching her footing was easy enough.
"I don't think you'll kill me," she said after a little bit of silence. "I don't really see a reason for it asside from me failing, which I don't plan to do. I know you like to hurt people, but if that were what you were plan I'm sure you would have just rapped me and tore my throat out before I even had a chance to tell you why I deserved to train under you. I'm smarter than to expect you to be nice to me, but I do plan to prove myself to you."
"You havn't failed yet." he reminded her watching her climb. "Good, you climbed at the nursary." He nodded."So many brats don't bother honing their skills." heading down the trail once her paws hit it. "You got a long way to prove anything to be. So far you only managed to outshine most useless pups who come through here and don't last more than three days... those one.. are tight, tastey and bleed a lot." grinning showing off his yellow crooked teeth.
"I knew the second I knew the difference between males and females how hard I needed to work," she answered. "Very few females make it through assesment, and even fewer making it through training. I think some of them don't care. I guess they figure it's easier getting through life by their backside. But I don't want that. Breeding for pups is one thing, but I'm going to keep my name. Being known only by a letter and your line is a little too demeaming for my tastes. I want to be known by everyone in the Tribe, and I don't care if I have to work harder because I'm a female, I'm going to get it."
"I'm going to make you work harder than anytoher trainee." Jenner grinned. "Almost as hard as Jacket, ya wanna be the best damn shadow." he smiled toothily at her. "I'm gonna make sure you are, long as you darn well work out. Otherwise.. meat grinder it is." He chuckled.
"Death doesn't really scare me sir," she replied honestly. "Being shoved in a role I would hate until I die of old age and no would would mourn me if more my motivation than anything else. But in any case sir, what are we going to start on first?"
Jenner grinned sadistically. "Well in that case, if you fail, I'll be more than willing to specify I want YOU as the only YOU as my Pup barrer." chuckling they entered his cave again. "The tools of the trade."
He opened a locker and pulled out a roll. Untieing it he unrolled it. "Now.. these are slivers, they slide under the finger nails, these ones are for under the toe nails. This little (dentist) hammer helps drive them up further and further."
Jade bristeled as she followed the runner. How dare that male Racker tell her she possibly wouldn't get who she wanted to train her?! She had every right as anyone else to be trained well. For her to have gone to anyone else was insulting! Just because the other pups were too stupid to think about who would be the best to go to didn't mean she wasn't.
But that was the problem, wasn't it? She was too smart, and fierce, a wild child they had called her. Just because of the fights she started, or the other children she hurt. The mothers at the nursary were too stupid to understand that she had been training. She was too good to end up a whore for any man to pick out. She deserved more than that! And she had proved it. She was not heading back to the nursary. She was heading to the man she wanted, the one person she respected in all of Tribe for the possible excpetion of Leader and his mate. He had power and it was because of who he was, not just the position he had.
She wanted that power so bad it hurt.
All my life I've looked for something better. Maybe when I lose hope I'll settle for you.