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"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
[WANTED LEVEL]MEDIUM
[TARGET]
SALO KAUL
[BOUNTY]15,000Cr
[SPECIES]
HUMAN
[GENDER] MALE
[AGE] 27
[HOMEWORLD] CORUSCANT
[HEIGHT] 5'10"
[WEIGHT] 64 KG
[ALIAS] "DICE"
[STATUS] ARMED AND DANGEROUS
[CONDITION] DEAD OR ALIVE
[DESCRIPTION] SALO KAUL IS A MINOR BOUNTY HUNTER WHO KILLED A VALUABLE CARTEL EMPLOYEE. ATTOM DRAL'TRACEN HAS BEEN DISPATCHED TO KAUL THAT THE CARTEL IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY.
Things Just Got Personal
"He's heading to the hotel," A voice said over the com, waking me from my trans of emptiness. "get ready, we didn't come to Denon for nothing." I had set up in an opposite hotel nearly one-hundred meters east of the targets choice of refuge. "Remember, Kabur, we're taking him alive."
"I still don't understand why we don't just drop him right now,"
"Because death is too quick, Kabur," I said while setting up the sniper rifle with attachment cables, "Killing Kaul will get a message across, but the message is that the Cartel just gets rid of it's trash. If we bring him back alive we prove that the Cartel doesn't just let you off with a simple pop in the head. By the time it's all done..... he'll be begging for death."
Kabur scoffed, "Whatever you say," He looked up towards the tower in an attempt to see me, "as long as I get paid it makes no difference to me." After a few moments Kabur started walking with the crowd as Kaul began to get closer to the hotel. "I'm going up top now," he said as he took a sharp left and into the hotel.
"You still up there, Mazen?" I asked as I peeked my head up over the ledge and towards the top of the neighboring hotel.
"I'm still here and getting the cables ready now," He began draping over the side of the building two lines of 550-chord for repelling and saddled himself with a harness while he lay another adjacent to him on the ground. "we're ready."
"Good," I replied, "Kabur should be with you shortly." I knocked back the stock on the sniper rifle and set the cables to automatically fire when I give the word. "Any eyes on the target?"
He's in the elevator," Kabur said as he arrived at the top of the hotel, stepping out of the elevator and lifting the harness onto himself, "Alright, I'm strapped up. Give the word."
It was nearly two minutes later that I first saw the target and his smirking face. He had met up with two other people whom I assumed to be merely pawns or associates of his. He acted like nothing could hurt him, like the galaxy was his playground. "On my mark," I said as I whipped out a long metal bar with a bow in it, "Execute."
At the moment I gave the order, both Kabur and Mazen jumped from the top of the hotel and let their repelling cord stretch out as they plummeted towards the bottom. I, myself, had set the sniper rifle to fire, and it did. A three-prong steel grappling hook fired from the rifle and whizzed through the air in a blink of an eye as it slipped through the glass seamlessly and into the concrete walls where it expanded and caught itself inside. I quickly kick the rifle up and detached the 550-chord, stick it to the side of the hotel he was atop while he plunged himself off the roof and used the bowed bar to grind onto and towards the enemy. By the time Kaul knew what had happened it was already too late. It was the perfect heist, or at least it was, until things started to take a turn for the worse. I successfully smashed through the window and rolled to my knees as I looked up at Kaul now standing in a sea of glass. "Now son," I said with a condescending tone as I rose to my feet, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Moments later Mazen successfully entered the same window I had opened and drew a weapon. After what I thought was the most intimidating entrance quickly turned into a disaster as I heard Kabur over the com.
"MY HARNESS IS MALFUNCTIONING," Kabur exclaimed as he struggled to activate the emergency breaking on the cord's repelling device to no avail. After jerking and jerking the harness snapped almost in half, leaving one side to holster his body, causing it to then spiral out of control. "I CAN'T GET IT TO ACTIVATE! I'M SPINNING TOO FAST TO GRAB THE LEDGE!"
"You grab him, I've got the target!" Mazen exclaimed.
Without a second thought I turned as fast as I could to the window and outstretched my arm and barely grabbed Kabur by the collar. As I clasped his spinning body I was jerked out of the window itself. I quickly grabbed and held onto the platform the glass formally was placed in as hard as I could, grinding me and Kabur to a halt. "I have you," I grunted out as we dangled nearly 700 meters from the ground, "I won't let go!".
"I think we need a better strategy next time we attempt this," Kabur said jokingly, "just pull me up please. I don't typically enjoy feeling like I might plummet to my death at any given moment.
As I pulled us back up onto the level floor of the flat I was greeted with a blaster barrel shoved against the back of my head and a familiar voice.
"Hands up, Tracen." It was indeed Mazen, my second in command, or at least now he would be my FORMER second in command
I rose to my my feet and turned to face him, as did Kabur. The look of disgust on my face could not be seen, but it sure as hell was felt was we stood silently staring at eachother beneath our helmets for what seemed like an eternity. I quickly glanced and saw Kaul retreating like the coward he was, eagerly mashing the elevator buttons. I myself could do nothing. My weapons, it seemed, were taken from my belt while I went to grab Kabur, but who would think to secure their weapon when they were trying to save a comrade? I broke the silence with a query, "Why did you do it, Mazen?"
"Money. Power. Hell, I did it to save my own skin. If you think that you're of any importance to the Cartel, you're wrong. They are just using you like they used Kaul, and the moment you slip up they send the hunters after you. I've been watching, planning and waiting. Waiting for the moment that I secure an alternate future outside of the Cartel. We can't Hunt forever, Attom."
I could sense the fear among the tension, a fear that I had not taken into consideration, 'what happens once we've run out of uses'. "You're delusional, Mazen," I spoke out while gritting my teeth, "you've let your greed get the better of you. Now you try to cover that greed with lies and scenarios you've conjured in your head. YOU might not be able to Hunt forever, but I sure as hell can. I LIVE for the Hunt."
"I'm not you, Attom."
"The truth comes out," I said with a smirk as I caught Kabur gathering glass shard int he corner of my eye, "if you were me you might have had a chance of leaving here alive."
"And what makes you think YOU'RE getting out of here alive?"
"If you wanted to kill me you would have kicked me down while I was saving Kabur," I said before exclaiming, "NOW!" And in a split second Kabur completely unloaded the debris into Mazen's eyes, giving me enough time to grab my weapon from the ground, but not enough to set it to fire, which gave Mazen an opportunity to shoot me while I was exposed. Mazen stumbled slightly and realized his open shot in that moment and took it. My heart stopped, my mind went blank, and all I could see was Kabur standing infront of me as I raised my head up after the shot went off.
I watched as Kabur fell to his knees and I did not hesitate to unload my entire clip into Mazen. Bolt-after-bolt, I pummeled the bastard until his mid section looked like ground meat. I quickly dropped my weapon and ran to meet Kabur only to find the shot had hit him just below the neck. By the time I had rolled him over he had already passed. What was I to do? I cursed Mazen, I cursed this heist. I had known Kabur for many years and had served with him during the Sith and Mandalorian wars, and now he was gone. I had let the Bounty escape, alerted the police to my location and completed destroyed a flat and my former crewmate. What was I to do? I could not stay there, I need to leave, so I evacuated the area and have been tracking Kaul ever since......
The Hunt Continues......
It's been almost 3 months since the last sighting of Kaul and that was the same night when things hit the fan and I lost my crew. However, I hadn't been dormant and I was nowhere near ready to give up on tracking down the schutta. I started branching out, finding new crew and traveling to different parts of the galaxy to get leads and listen in on rumors with even the slightest significance to Kaul. I had gotten myself a new hip, new hide-out and a new crewmate, Zane Galla, an aspiring Bounty Hunter with a knack for getting himself out of tight situations. It's been a while since I have served with anyone, so my social skills aren't exactly pristine, nor do I put any trust in the individuals I deal with these days. Nevertheless, he and I were to meet today outside of Mos Eisly in a Cantina near the requisition offices. Hopefully he would show, but if not the Cartel had told me they were sending another Bounty Hunter to assist in the capture, or death, of Kaul, one with a little more experience than even me and someone they think I could trust for the short amount of time; Elohim Aeon.
The only thing to do now is wait. Normally I wouldn't mind waiting, I was actually a decently patient person, but even since the failure 3 months ago I could not wait one second without going insane. I had leads on Kaul, but no crew to help me capture him. I surely was not going to go against him myself after witnessing how many henchmen and bodyguards he has acquired to protect himself since last we encountered eachother. I had been trained to kill Jedi, and I was good at it, but I doubt even I could stand against an army of decently trained henchmen and droids. But if I had an ally, or two, watching my back, then we'd be an army in ourselves.
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