Legacy of the Pantheruos

Legends 2...

3rd POV

While the guards were asleep and the sun peeked over the horizon and trees, he finally moved after a long night of just staring and keeping guard. He merely went over to the guards that were keeping watch and shook them awake, waiting for them to finally notice him there before ignoring their startled cries. They thanked him for letting them take it easy for the night while he just nodded and begun to walk towards the guild building. There were people already in there and the moment he stepped in, he went to the counter, only to have to wait while a Huntsman flirted with the guild girl. She plastered on a fake smile while just nodding at everything he boasted about. It didn't fly over Raptor's head that she was annoyed but didn't have the heart to tell the man off.

"You should've seen it. I dodged like this and it didn't even stand a chance when I-" The man droned on and Raptor had stopped listening. His mind was elsewhere as he patiently waited for the man to stop boasting about his feats and move. It seemed that the others were fed up too but for some reason didn't have the galls to tell the man off as he continued to boast about the fact that he defeated an Ursa with a spear. He even named it after himself, which Raptor thought was completely unnecessary in the highest regards considering it was nothing but a tool meant to assist its user.

As more time passed by, he stood at a table with long chairs and begun to wait quietly, ignoring people that glanced or stared at him. Pretty soon the man left and Raptor finally went to the counter and set the bounty paper with an large slash through it, presumably to signal that he had completed it. She blinked when she realized that he had returned before giving him a rehearsed smile.

"Oh, um... I-I really didn't know you to be back." She gave a sheepish smile.

"You expected me to die?" He questioned.

"N-No! Of course not. I merely..." She stumbled with her words before looking at him from underneath his hood before sighing. "Yes..." She sighed. Her hands suddenly went to her ears in fear of him yelling at her but she was just met with silence.

"..." He really wasn't mad at her, that bounty had been up there for quite some time he presumed and it meant that those who had taken it probably died trying to take the Grimm down. It was old and had a lot of scarring on its body so it wasn't a surprise when she tried to coax him away from it.

"I'm sorry, I just thought you'd perish like some of the others who taken it." She admitted.

"I didn't." He said. Again, she flinched at his tone but wondered if he was mad at her. She didn't really enjoy irritating people as much as she didn't enjoy boastful people.

"Well, I need to consult with some of the others. That bounty has been up there for almost a year so we need to go get your reward and send scouts to verify if it has truly been eliminated." She said then disappeared into the room behind her. His hearing picked up various whispers as he went to the table with the long chairs and waited patiently for her to return. He knew it would take hours for those scouts to verify that he had actually done the task and he was fine with it. Sometimes he kept forgetting that this wasn't the Pantherous Military and some things were extremely far back to where they needed to use actual people to verify if a task is done. It didn't bother him that they needed to verify that he did it, possibly because people lied in the past to get their reward.

For the time being, he let his mind wander around about his predicament with the Pantherous Military and how to think of a more effective but smart way to contact them less. The whispers got louder and eventually that grew to chatter about him but he didn't really care. He posed no threat to them nor did he want to but if they provoked him then he had every right to retaliate and defend himself.