All the time you hear stories. About many things, but stories happen everywhere. Everywhere is excitement, everywhere things happen. More often then not those happenings are ignored. But the really good ones, the juicy exciting ones make it big. This isn't a big story but I thought I would tell it anyways. Sometimes the little guy has to get up to the plate. Maybe then he'll swing the bat, maybe.

A kid taught me that, a kid. I hate kids, I think. This one was okay though. He was very adult for his age, still in elementary school. I met him at a bakery, that's where he lived. He was twelve, now I remember. We went to check out a bounty on some girl who played with fire. Samejima Mamimi was her name, only in high school. The bounty was pathetic but it was that or a slightly bigger bounty that was suspected to be hiding in the Linus Mines. After the last experience there no one wanted to try it again.

So Mabase it was, another boring ordinary town on Earth; another boring ordinary bounty.

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Nothing exciting happens here. At least, nothing exciting happened here until Haruko came. That changed everything. And then Spike came and that changed everything even more. Or did it? It was scary I will say that but was I changed? He influenced me sure, but I don't know about change. Change was a scary word. It was exciting. All of the grown-ups got excited when the Medical Mechanica building came. Everyday it secretes a white smoke that covers the whole town.

He was exciting. He smelled like Mamimi, cigarettes and smoke. Yet he seemed so.ordinary. He was like me, in a way. I hope I'm like him. He was so cool in a laid back non-caring kind of way. Nothing fazed him; he always had this.passive look on his face.

But it was still cool.