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Hee hee, Fuzzmaster is back and now she writes Cowboy Bebop ficcies!!! Yayy!! This isn't very typical of Fuzzmaster though, this ficcie is supposed to be kinda angsty, romantic and dramatic. Fuzzmaster loves manipulating evil characters to do what she wants them to! Tee hee!! Uh oh…Enjoy the ficcie, plz review!! *dodges a decapitating swing from Vicious's sword and runs away*
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The rain fell from the sky as a gentle mist, creating puddles in the streets of a little spaceport town called New Avolon. It was a nearly silent night in a far off block of New Avolon, the buildings stood menacingly on either side of the street and alleys appeared here and there. Running footsteps broke the silence, splashing through puddles and echoing off the buildings.
Her lungs ached and her heart was pounding from all this running. Why couldn't those idiot bounty hunters leave her alone? They knew they couldn't catch her yet they sent her running anyway.
Ha! The warehouse was right there in front of her, there was no way that they'd catch her now. She stopped a few feet from the warehouse's open door and gasped is the polluted city air, grateful to have gotten away again. It wasn't easy to avoid bounty hunters with a 50 million woolong reward on her head.
Every day she wondered if she was living a nightmare and it would all end when she woke up, but she never woke up and all the important people she had killed were all too real. Killing was like a drug, it took everything you had to start but once you did it was so easy to do again. So here she was, Cassandra Havoc, running from bounty hunters because she killed another high class bastard.
Slowly she made her way into the warehouse, silent as death and just as deadly. She let her eyes adjust to the dim light, discovering that there were crates and boxes stacked high and low, creating a maze. Her breathing calmed to its normal pace and she could faintly make out the sounds of two men talking to each other. Their conversation ended and she could hear a single set of footsteps coming her way.
It was only one of them but it could still prove itself to be a problem. 'Oh great, kill or be killed again, yippee!' She thought bitterly as a dark humanoid figure approached the door. She brought her gun to eye level and aimed for his head. Something made her pause when he stepped into the dim light. He wore all black, but a little red badge adorned his left shoulder. When she couldn't figure out why it was so familiar she fired.
The gunshot cracked the silence with the force of a hammer, shattering the warehouse's silence to pieces. The man's body dropped to the ground with a loud thud, his head with a neat little unnatural hole through it. Just out of curiosity Cassandra silently crept over to where his body lay, trying to figure out what the badge meant. It was a red dragon inside a circle, that wasn't good. 'The Red Dragon Syndicate?! No way! How could I be so stupid!' No one really screwed with the Red Dragon Syndicate unless you were stupid or really powerful.
'How could I kill someone from the Red Dragon Syndicate?' The footsteps of the other one approached her, echoing through the still silence. She slid behind a large crate, dropping to the ground. 'Maybe this guy will end my worthless existence as a walking bounty', she thought miserably, knowing beyond all doubt that he probably would. She caught that other one by surprise and she could tell he wasn't very high up on the Syndicate's food chain, this one would be a different story. His footsteps stopped on the other side of the crate. He knew she was there. Cassandra poked her head around the corner figuring she might as well know what he looked like.
Unlike the other one he wasn't wearing a suit, but a black shirt and a jacket instead. The symbol for the Red Dragon Syndicate's higher members adorned the shoulder of his jacket, instead of a gun at his side she saw the hilt of a katana. His stark white hair seemed to shine silver in the weird warehouse light and hung about to his shoulders. His ice blue eyes scanned the room and then met hers (A/N: does Vicious have blue eyes? I dunno) while she knew that her eyes held a fairly evil look to them, most men found it attractive and suiting to someone of her comeliness. His were just evil.
Vicious scanned the warehouse quickly, then turned his gaze upon the intruder. It was a female, which surprised him, but like usual he didn't show it. Her hair was dark blue, as were her eyes and she wore a long sleeved black shirt and baggy black jeans, not typical of a killer. As evil and cruel and he was, he had to admit she was really good looking. He was a guy after all.
"So, are you going to kill me?" She asked boldly.
"No, not yet, but I'm not going to let you go, you've seen too much." He said in his usual Vicious tone of voice. "You have a 50 million woolong reward on your head don't you?" He more stated than asked.
She nodded. "You want to turn me in?" She said, even though she knew what his answer was.
"No, I'm not a bounty hunter." He said. "Come on, you wouldn't want those bounty hunters catching you now would you?" He turned around but kept his eyes on her.
Vicious knew she wouldn't offer any resistance, it almost seemed like she wanted to die. Maybe she did, he didn't know. A sudden pity edged its way across his mind, 'pity? What the hell was that all about? Pity, feh.' he though bitterly. Of course her life must have sucked, living day to day running from all the bounty hunters in the universe.
'I wonder why she hasn't given up yet,' he wondered, pondering for a few second then walking off, the girl not far behind him. They exited on through the door on the other side of the warehouse to a secluded area where a ship awaited his return. The door to the ship hissed open and he walked in.
"Don't just stand there, I don't have all night." Vicious said in his usual tone of voice. She followed him quickly, not really wanting to be left behind but probably not wanting to go with him either.
"What happened to Joe?" The pilot asked him after they took off.
"He met with an unfortunate accident." Vicious replied calmly.
"Who's the chick?" He asked, jerking a thumb at Vicious's "prisoner".
"Must you ask your superior so many questions?" He said sharply.
"Nope, don't need to know." The pilot said nervously, turning back around to his flying. They rode the rest of the way in silence, no one really wanting to talk to one another. After an hour of silence they finally touched down on Mars, which held a recently established base for the Syndicate's higher members.
Once again the door hissed open, Vicious grabbed Cassandra and shoved her through, following not far behind. After an hour of thinking and pondering he had finally decided not to kill her, just out of curiosity, she might even be a good Syndicate member. After all she had eluded bounty hunters for almost all her life and managed to kill some high ranking people. "How many years have you been running, Cassandra?" He wondered aloud.
Cassandra looked sort of surprised that he knew her name, but then again it wasn't confidential news. "I've been running all my life, it's my usual routine." She responded dully.
"Well, you wouldn't want to end up running from the Red Dragon Syndicate now would you?" He asked.
"I won't have to worry about that soon will I?" She said, referring to the fact she thought that he was going to kill her or have her killed.
They descended silently down a hallway once they had reached the building, then took a turn and went down a long set of stairs to a single door. Vicious opened the door and shoved her through, following quickly himself. "You'll stay in here." He said, putting a little emphasis on the word "stay". The room was dark as a moonless night with a concrete floor and concrete walls. "I'll figure out what to do with you tonight and let you know tomorrow." He paused letting her try to get her eyes adjusted to the dark emptiness. "I'll send someone to make sure you don't starve." He added, walking out the door and slamming it shut, leaving Cassandra to a complete dark abyss.
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Wheeee!!!! Chapter one ish donneeee!!!! Yay!!! Okay, I've got this whole thing kinda planned out in my mind but if you've got any suggestions lemme know, I'm wide open for improvements. Anywho, I already missed the first half of Inu-Yasha so Sayanora people!
Please R/R! I'll be your bestest buddy!