Valeriya The Half Breed: Chapter 1 - The Hunters Prize.
My name is Valeriya, but that is not my given name. The name I was given by my parents I detest and never use, which caused them much grief. Supposedly I was the byproduct of an interaction between an African-American air force lieutenant and my mother who is 100% Japanese. The joke was on them when I came out with Japanese facial features, build, and skin tone to go along with my western looking blonde hair and blue eyes. It was obvious that my mother's new husband was not my biological father. The two of them divorced shortly after I was born.
Mother eventually latched on to another US air force member, they fell in love and were married. Even though I was his stepdaughter my mother's new husband decided to adopt me and give me his last name. I ended up with the last name Hernandez, which caused me so much grief amongst my peers. Even though I was part Japanese and was born in Japan, I was always gaijin and was picked on to no end. Even worse than being gaijin, I was called half-breed and because of that I did not fit in with the Anglos or the Japanese kids. No matter what I tried, or how nice I was to others I was always hated and tormented. This prompted Major Hernandez to put in for a transfer back to the states along with mother and me after his three-year tour of duty in Japan had ended.
I have no idea how much time has passed since my abduction outside a mall in Tokyo Japan as I never learned the conversion algorithm between Earth and Galactic Standard Time. All I know is that it has been a very long time. My abduction was pretty straightforward. The gray skinned humanoid looking creatures that took me prisoner in the mall's underground parking garage gave me little choice, it was either accompany them or they would vaporize my boyfriend. As bravery goes, my 26-year-old Staff Sergeant boy friend showed none and did his best to convince me to go with them. He even stood behind me and shoved me in their direction. I am not saying that he was a coward, but I suspect that he did have a brown moment when they pointed their atomic photon blasters at him.
I was abducted with another girl from the mall that day; she was an American dependent and like me had just turned eighteen. I suppose the alien abduction perverts knew how to spot girls who just celebrated their eighteenth birthday. The legality of our capture had been questioned a few times since the slave hunters were forbidden by the Galactic Trade Federation to hunt on worlds that did not possess faster than light travel, and at the time the people of Earth were only able to orbit their own planet with manned space stations and send unmanned probes to the nearest planet.
The rules on slavery by the junta that was currently in control of the Galactic Trade Federation at the time of my capture believed in selective enforcement of the rules that they made. If you paid them enough they would look the other way on various offenses. In regard to my capture, the rules state that a slave cannot be coerced into entering a slave/owner agreement, yet when I was presented with my three-year servitude contract I was placed in an airlock with a tablet and a writing stylus. I was told that I had three minutes to sign three years of my life away before the airlock was opened to space. My captors would say that they never held a gun to my head, or a knife to my throat and that was true.
I was told that Larissa the girl that was captured with me refused to sign. I never saw her again so make of this what you will. I was processed into the slave's registry and received basic training on how to behave and to carry myself until I was auctioned off at the slave market. Since Earth was a planet off limits to slave hunters I found that a golden skinned Asian girl of medium height (5'5") and average weight (120 lbs) was not in great demand unless you take into consideration my long golden blonde hair and slightly above average breasts. Those two items started a nice bidding war for my services after my DNA was checked to ensure that my blue eyes, breasts and golden blonde hair were not fake. After the bidding was concluded I ended up with a Praxian Madame named Borella. She had great plans for me as one of her whores since my attributes were natural attention getters.
Humans made the best sex slaves I was told, and the rare Earth girls were at the top of the list given that we were the most entertaining, the girls from Asia were the best they say. I was not sure if that was because of our proficiency in sex, or if it was because that we were forbidden fruit that made us so valuable to our owners. My Madame and her clients considered me pretty and nicely built but I preferred to think of myself as an athletic tomboy. At a young age I found that I could out run, out jump, and out wrestle most of the boys in my age group. There were a few that were quite proficient at kicking my ass and did so often after calling me such names as lesbo and dyke.
At the time we were stationed at Tyndall Air Force base in Florida and my stepfather wanted to get involved in my dilemma but the last thing I needed was for a Lieutenant Colonel to come down hard on the sons of enlisted men. That would have made things much worse for me so it was decided that I take classes in judo so that I could better defend myself and fight my own battles without parental interference and without being branded as a snitch. This is when I started to be more of a tomboy since the workouts helped me lose my baby fat in favor of lean muscle.
My training progressed well and I moved up through the ranks and the various colored belts. I never did get a chance to confront my tormenters as their fathers were transferred to other bases. My father swore that he had nothing to do with but I always suspected that he was responsible and did what he thought was right to protect his stepdaughter. We were transferred shortly after when father was promoted to Colonel and given an assignment as a squadron commander.
We moved to Japan where he was assigned to Yakota Air Base outside of Tokyo. The closest place for me to continue my judo training was too far away to be convenient so I traded judo for Shinobi or ninjutsu as it is referred to in the western world. Over the years the dojo trained me in hand to hand techniques as well as the Japanese long bow and various bladed weapons. Stepfather made sure that the dojo taught their students that their training was to be used only in competition and self-defense situations.
He was concerned that his little stepdaughter would be turned into some sort of ninja assassin if I studied with the Shinobi masters. The owners of the dojo assured him that they trained in the art of the ninja just to pass the knowledge from one generation to the next without encouraging their students to graduate and become assassins. Their goal was to preserve the traditions of the Shinobi to future generations. After checking them out thoroughly my parents allowed me to train with the Shinobi.
Those that attempted to bully me in my new school soon found that the judo that I had taken was more than enough to put them down hard. One of the boys that did actually lay his hands on me in a non-friendly way found himself down on the floor in a very painful triangle chokehold. Lucky for him that one of the school's gym teachers was near by to break up the altercation before I forced him to tap out and admit verbally that girls are better than boys. The boy was sent to the principal's office while I was taken to the coach's office to discuss what I had done to the boy and who had taught me such an advanced hold. After about 10 minutes of interrogation I was asked if I would be interested in signing up for the boy's junior varsity wrestling team. I had never wrestled before but had watched many hours of professional wrestling on TV so I agreed to sign up. It was easy to get dad to sign the required papers but mom hesitated over the fact that boys would be groping their little girl in the name of sport. There was no girls' wrestling team so if I wanted to participate, it would have to be with the boys team.
Over the years from middle school to high school I lettered in several track events including cross-country, hurdling, and archery. The ninjutsu training included the longbow so it was not hard to apply that training to the compound bows in use by the school's athletic league. I kept most of my training a secret from my classmates since I did not want to scare off any potential friends or dates with boys. Even though I was good at keeping secrets I was not good at making friends or attracting boys since I quickly got the reputation as a tomboy, and the undeserved reputation as being a lesbian, which I was not. Another thing that worked against me was being a blue-eyed Japanese girl. That got me labeled as a freak, or a genetic mutant.