Edward rested her chin on her palms, her elbows rested on her turned out knees as she sat indian style in the dusty corner watching silently. Her father threw dusty maps and rolled up documents behide him, paying no attention to the tom boy waiting patiently for him. He turned around and ran a hand through his wild short orange hair and looked at the girl. Her golden eyes sparkled and she smiled big. "Father-person done?" She asked in her usual out of touch with reality language. The huge man cocked on eyebrow and looked at her strangely.
"What are you doing here?" he asked truly and utterly confused. Ed's shoulders dropped.
"I've been here for 5 hours. Father person brought me along...'member?" she asked. He shrugged and went back to what he was doing.
"Duh...umm..Archie go and get me that thing from Macaslapper," he said over his shoulder as he through a money ranch behide his back. Edward narrowed her eyes.
"EDWARD NOT ARCHIE!" She shouted.
"Duh...yea whatever." The girl got up and walked out of the broken down building, her faithful friend Ein followed right behide her. McIntery looked at his boss's daughter as she came walking towards him.
"Father wants the 'thing'," she said dully walking past him. She sat down in the wooden chair next to him. The hot desert sand ran over her bare legs and arms as the wind blew.
"How do you walk around on this hot sand like that?" the assistant asked, not moving from under his shade provided by a large umbrella. Ed look down at her red feet and shrugged. "You wish you where back with them don't you?" he asked, reading her mind. The young girl just hugged her legs to her chest and starred down at her toes. "If you want," McIntery said putting his hands behide his head, "I'll take you back to be with them. Life around here is real boring, did you know I've worked with you father for over a year and he still doesn't know my name?" he laughed out.
"You'll take Edward back? But Edward doesn't know where to go! What about Father person?!" The girl said, ignoring the last part of his comment.
"Uh..yeah sure. If you want Your dad will be okay," That's all Ed had to hear. She jumped off her chair and ran inside the crumbling building quickly and hugged her father.
"Ed is going back home bye bye!" She shouted and picked up her bag that was leaning agasint the wall. Her father shrugged and went back to his work, her works not clicking in his brain. McIntery climbed up into the large tank and held the latch open for Edward and Ein who was running as fast as they could. Visions of Faye painting her toenails red on the yellow catch, Jet clipping his bonsai tree faithfully, Spike kicking back and smoking a cigarette listening to that music ...what did he call it? Aw yea, Jazz. Listening to his jazz music, all this flashed in Ed's mind. She had already missed the petty arguments that hung in the air like cigarette smoke, and the way the Bebop crew hung together but was so far apart it was confusing. Edward hopped in the tank and McIntery closed the latch. The vehicle buzzed smoothly as it ran over the sand to the nearest city.
"We have to find some information before we take you back to where you belong. You know bounty hunters move like mad," he informed.
"Thank you Mack!"
"Mack?"
"Yup!" Edward called out smiling happily.
"Call me Ralph kid," he instructed. Edward nodded slowly and smiled again.
"RALPHY!" She called out again falling on her back and kicking her legs widely. "Ralphy, Ralphy," she chanted moving her limps like they had no bones in them what-so ever. Ralph just smiled, shook his head and rode on to city.
Ralph opened the rusted latch with a grunt, letting sunlight and warm fresh air pour into the tank. Edward and Ein ran out of the tank quickly and onto the side walk, leaving Ralph calling their names. Ed paied no attention to the man behide her, getting sallowed in a large crowd of people, she just kept running, she had to find the Bebop...but where exactly would it be? She slowed down into a decreasing jog as she started to lose her slef assurence that she would find her way back. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" A voice asked almost mechincally. Edward stopped in her tracks, feeling Ein's fuzz ball body crash into her legs. Ed looked side to side, then up and down to find the voice. "Behide ya kid," the voice called out. The young girl swirled around and came face to face with a parrot, trapped inside a box-like cage. Other cages where stacked on top of that one, filled with dogs, cats, lizards and birds. The rainbow colored parrot hopped on his perch and turned his head to the side, letting his huge right eye get a good look at Ed. He whisled loudly, "Your differnet. Never seen your type before, nope nope nope." it said looking down at Ein. "He follow you home fella'? Yup yup yup, happens to me all the time, yup yup yup." he said hopping out of place then back to where he was. Ed looked down at her canine friend with question in their eyes. A parrot talking like a human to Ed as if she was a animal or something? And on top of that, it called her a HE, not a she, a HE. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" he repeated himself. His cage rattled and shook voilently, and the parrot shut up. A man with a large wooden pole in his hand stepped behide the large stack of cages and glared down at Edward.
"Got any money kid? I'll sale you the parrot," he said popping his chewing gum. Ed raised a eyebrow and stepped back. "infact, I'll give you the bird free. He's been gettin' on my nerves anyway. All these animals been tested on by the lab up ahead. Every single one of 'em got somethin' wrong with 'em." he said as Edward checked some of the cages. He was right, one cat had a extra ear in the middle of its head like some odd birthday hat, even a dog with no legs. They all looked misebral inside the cages, closed in from freedom and turned into monsters. Edward's bronze eyes looked back up at the man.
"Edward doesn't have any money," she said holding her empty hands out. "Can you help Ed and Ein find the Bebop?" she asked, reaching up and pulling her goggles down from her head so they hung around her neck.
"Bebop eh?" the man said rubbing his stubby chin and eyeing Edward's large coach back that was hanging on her shoulder. He snapped his fingers and pointed across the street. "Ya know, I think I heard somethin' 'bout the Bebop," he said getting close to Ed's face. His breath smelled so bad it made her head spin. "Com' on, I'll take ya over there."
"Don't go!" The parrot cried loudly and squaked. The man shot the bird and look and smiled down at Edward's worried face.
"Bird's a little..coo coo if you know what I mean." he said. With that he grabbed her hand roughly and lead her across the street in front of a small Tv shop with 4 differnt size televisons in the window. A man with graying hair and dressed in a business suit flashed on every televison set.
"Tin Casadora for the 5:00 news on Channel 11.Today, in front of the famous 29th street chruch, many lifes where lost in what the police suspect, was a gang activity," he said seriously and stacking a few sheets of paper infront of him. "More, from Sally Adams." the screen switched to a young woman with blonde hair.
"Hello and thank you Tin, today was a very busy day for the police department-" the woman started, flashing to sevreal witnesses that could hardly give any details of what exactly went on. Ed pressed her fingers agasint the cool glass as she watched closely. "Serveal dead bodies where found inside the chruch as well as outside the chruch. The body of 29 year old Spike Speigal was laying face down in a pool of blood and broken glass from the Chruch. Witnesses say that the man fell from the window and landed out here. Amazingly only his leg and 3 of his rib bones are broken but sources say he still died from the long fall." just then it blinked to a old man bundled in a gray (or maybe it was just so dirty it looked gray) sheet leaning agasint the brick wall.
"Yup, I seen him, falling like a big ol' sack of potatos..HI MA!" then it quickly switched back to the picture of Spike, laying there in his own blood, shards of broken stained glass surrounding him in an almost sick art form. Edward pressed her body agasint the cool glass and pushed herself away.It felt like someone dumped Edward in a large pool of ice cold water, her nerves just going numb from the news. Her small tanned hands flew up and covered her mouth as bile started to rise in and make the back of her tongue hot with stomach acids. Sadly she didn't even have time to greif because the large man that she meet beside the animal cages snatched her bag so frocefully that the thick strap cut slightly into her shoulder before tearing in two. She whipped around and saw his bulky figure already faded into the darkness of an alley across the street and behide the stacked cages. She raced behide him, dodging beeping and honky cars, Ein on her heels.
"Don't go!" the parrot cried loudly again. Edward paid no attention until the bird said "He'll kill you." She stopped in her tracks right behide the cages. The bird contiued. "The alley is a dead end, he'll wait till your back there then him and his friends will beat you up or kill you, I've seen him do both," he said. Edward drug her feet to the front of the cages. The smart parrot hopped on his perch and turned his head so his right eye could get a good look at her, and whisled. "Never seen your type, nope nope nope." the bird repeated. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" Edward, to much in pain to cry or even speak, slowly raised a hand and flung open the lock on the cage. The rainbow colored parrot hopped on his perch a few times, looking outside before he flew outside his cage and landed on his door. Ed turned and unlocked the other cages, the animals running out and weaving under and between people's legs to freedom. The bird still rested on his open cage, starring down at Edward who had nothing but Ein to protect her and the green tinted goggles around her neck. "You're a pretty one you are," the bird said, making Ed look up at it with huge bronze-amber eyes glassy from unshed tears. "Your differnet. Never seen your type before, nope nope nope, never seen one so pretty." and with that the bird flew off. Ed filled her lungs with a few shaky breaths before reaching down in her pants and pulling out 5 thousand woolong dollars and stuffing them back down. She looked back over her shoulder and started to walk down the long narrow road jam packed with cars up ahead.
~You love it? you hate it? plz plz PLZ review! It's my first bebop fic. I probably got some info wrong, tell me if a did.
*smoochiez* ^.~
"What are you doing here?" he asked truly and utterly confused. Ed's shoulders dropped.
"I've been here for 5 hours. Father person brought me along...'member?" she asked. He shrugged and went back to what he was doing.
"Duh...umm..Archie go and get me that thing from Macaslapper," he said over his shoulder as he through a money ranch behide his back. Edward narrowed her eyes.
"EDWARD NOT ARCHIE!" She shouted.
"Duh...yea whatever." The girl got up and walked out of the broken down building, her faithful friend Ein followed right behide her. McIntery looked at his boss's daughter as she came walking towards him.
"Father wants the 'thing'," she said dully walking past him. She sat down in the wooden chair next to him. The hot desert sand ran over her bare legs and arms as the wind blew.
"How do you walk around on this hot sand like that?" the assistant asked, not moving from under his shade provided by a large umbrella. Ed look down at her red feet and shrugged. "You wish you where back with them don't you?" he asked, reading her mind. The young girl just hugged her legs to her chest and starred down at her toes. "If you want," McIntery said putting his hands behide his head, "I'll take you back to be with them. Life around here is real boring, did you know I've worked with you father for over a year and he still doesn't know my name?" he laughed out.
"You'll take Edward back? But Edward doesn't know where to go! What about Father person?!" The girl said, ignoring the last part of his comment.
"Uh..yeah sure. If you want Your dad will be okay," That's all Ed had to hear. She jumped off her chair and ran inside the crumbling building quickly and hugged her father.
"Ed is going back home bye bye!" She shouted and picked up her bag that was leaning agasint the wall. Her father shrugged and went back to his work, her works not clicking in his brain. McIntery climbed up into the large tank and held the latch open for Edward and Ein who was running as fast as they could. Visions of Faye painting her toenails red on the yellow catch, Jet clipping his bonsai tree faithfully, Spike kicking back and smoking a cigarette listening to that music ...what did he call it? Aw yea, Jazz. Listening to his jazz music, all this flashed in Ed's mind. She had already missed the petty arguments that hung in the air like cigarette smoke, and the way the Bebop crew hung together but was so far apart it was confusing. Edward hopped in the tank and McIntery closed the latch. The vehicle buzzed smoothly as it ran over the sand to the nearest city.
"We have to find some information before we take you back to where you belong. You know bounty hunters move like mad," he informed.
"Thank you Mack!"
"Mack?"
"Yup!" Edward called out smiling happily.
"Call me Ralph kid," he instructed. Edward nodded slowly and smiled again.
"RALPHY!" She called out again falling on her back and kicking her legs widely. "Ralphy, Ralphy," she chanted moving her limps like they had no bones in them what-so ever. Ralph just smiled, shook his head and rode on to city.
Ralph opened the rusted latch with a grunt, letting sunlight and warm fresh air pour into the tank. Edward and Ein ran out of the tank quickly and onto the side walk, leaving Ralph calling their names. Ed paied no attention to the man behide her, getting sallowed in a large crowd of people, she just kept running, she had to find the Bebop...but where exactly would it be? She slowed down into a decreasing jog as she started to lose her slef assurence that she would find her way back. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" A voice asked almost mechincally. Edward stopped in her tracks, feeling Ein's fuzz ball body crash into her legs. Ed looked side to side, then up and down to find the voice. "Behide ya kid," the voice called out. The young girl swirled around and came face to face with a parrot, trapped inside a box-like cage. Other cages where stacked on top of that one, filled with dogs, cats, lizards and birds. The rainbow colored parrot hopped on his perch and turned his head to the side, letting his huge right eye get a good look at Ed. He whisled loudly, "Your differnet. Never seen your type before, nope nope nope." it said looking down at Ein. "He follow you home fella'? Yup yup yup, happens to me all the time, yup yup yup." he said hopping out of place then back to where he was. Ed looked down at her canine friend with question in their eyes. A parrot talking like a human to Ed as if she was a animal or something? And on top of that, it called her a HE, not a she, a HE. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" he repeated himself. His cage rattled and shook voilently, and the parrot shut up. A man with a large wooden pole in his hand stepped behide the large stack of cages and glared down at Edward.
"Got any money kid? I'll sale you the parrot," he said popping his chewing gum. Ed raised a eyebrow and stepped back. "infact, I'll give you the bird free. He's been gettin' on my nerves anyway. All these animals been tested on by the lab up ahead. Every single one of 'em got somethin' wrong with 'em." he said as Edward checked some of the cages. He was right, one cat had a extra ear in the middle of its head like some odd birthday hat, even a dog with no legs. They all looked misebral inside the cages, closed in from freedom and turned into monsters. Edward's bronze eyes looked back up at the man.
"Edward doesn't have any money," she said holding her empty hands out. "Can you help Ed and Ein find the Bebop?" she asked, reaching up and pulling her goggles down from her head so they hung around her neck.
"Bebop eh?" the man said rubbing his stubby chin and eyeing Edward's large coach back that was hanging on her shoulder. He snapped his fingers and pointed across the street. "Ya know, I think I heard somethin' 'bout the Bebop," he said getting close to Ed's face. His breath smelled so bad it made her head spin. "Com' on, I'll take ya over there."
"Don't go!" The parrot cried loudly and squaked. The man shot the bird and look and smiled down at Edward's worried face.
"Bird's a little..coo coo if you know what I mean." he said. With that he grabbed her hand roughly and lead her across the street in front of a small Tv shop with 4 differnt size televisons in the window. A man with graying hair and dressed in a business suit flashed on every televison set.
"Tin Casadora for the 5:00 news on Channel 11.Today, in front of the famous 29th street chruch, many lifes where lost in what the police suspect, was a gang activity," he said seriously and stacking a few sheets of paper infront of him. "More, from Sally Adams." the screen switched to a young woman with blonde hair.
"Hello and thank you Tin, today was a very busy day for the police department-" the woman started, flashing to sevreal witnesses that could hardly give any details of what exactly went on. Ed pressed her fingers agasint the cool glass as she watched closely. "Serveal dead bodies where found inside the chruch as well as outside the chruch. The body of 29 year old Spike Speigal was laying face down in a pool of blood and broken glass from the Chruch. Witnesses say that the man fell from the window and landed out here. Amazingly only his leg and 3 of his rib bones are broken but sources say he still died from the long fall." just then it blinked to a old man bundled in a gray (or maybe it was just so dirty it looked gray) sheet leaning agasint the brick wall.
"Yup, I seen him, falling like a big ol' sack of potatos..HI MA!" then it quickly switched back to the picture of Spike, laying there in his own blood, shards of broken stained glass surrounding him in an almost sick art form. Edward pressed her body agasint the cool glass and pushed herself away.It felt like someone dumped Edward in a large pool of ice cold water, her nerves just going numb from the news. Her small tanned hands flew up and covered her mouth as bile started to rise in and make the back of her tongue hot with stomach acids. Sadly she didn't even have time to greif because the large man that she meet beside the animal cages snatched her bag so frocefully that the thick strap cut slightly into her shoulder before tearing in two. She whipped around and saw his bulky figure already faded into the darkness of an alley across the street and behide the stacked cages. She raced behide him, dodging beeping and honky cars, Ein on her heels.
"Don't go!" the parrot cried loudly again. Edward paid no attention until the bird said "He'll kill you." She stopped in her tracks right behide the cages. The bird contiued. "The alley is a dead end, he'll wait till your back there then him and his friends will beat you up or kill you, I've seen him do both," he said. Edward drug her feet to the front of the cages. The smart parrot hopped on his perch and turned his head so his right eye could get a good look at her, and whisled. "Never seen your type, nope nope nope." the bird repeated. "Where you goin' so fast kiddo?" Edward, to much in pain to cry or even speak, slowly raised a hand and flung open the lock on the cage. The rainbow colored parrot hopped on his perch a few times, looking outside before he flew outside his cage and landed on his door. Ed turned and unlocked the other cages, the animals running out and weaving under and between people's legs to freedom. The bird still rested on his open cage, starring down at Edward who had nothing but Ein to protect her and the green tinted goggles around her neck. "You're a pretty one you are," the bird said, making Ed look up at it with huge bronze-amber eyes glassy from unshed tears. "Your differnet. Never seen your type before, nope nope nope, never seen one so pretty." and with that the bird flew off. Ed filled her lungs with a few shaky breaths before reaching down in her pants and pulling out 5 thousand woolong dollars and stuffing them back down. She looked back over her shoulder and started to walk down the long narrow road jam packed with cars up ahead.
~You love it? you hate it? plz plz PLZ review! It's my first bebop fic. I probably got some info wrong, tell me if a did.
*smoochiez* ^.~