Author's note: Hello. Ok I have a couple of things I have to say, it's not long, just a few sentences. This is the first anime fic that I have written and post it on the internet. I did fanfiction before but only in the cartoon section on ff.net. I have a adequate knowledge about Cowboy Bebop but I'm not quite sure if Ed speaks in third person or not. I check most of the CB fics on this site and none seem to have her speaking in third person. However, if her dialogue is wrong, or characters personalities, and the quality of the fic is to you, can you please tell me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop or any of the copyrighted characters…. But I own my original characters so there :p
It's Just One of Those Bad Times
" Jesus Christ." Spike grumbled, " Why is it so damn cold here?"
Walking slowly down the hallway inside the ship through the cold morning air Spike remind himself that he and the others landed here three days ago on Mars because they were low on supplies, especially food. It was even considered a miracle they made it to Mars on account of the mechanical problems they had with the ship. Despite making it to Mars all on one piece and fixing the needed repairs on the ship all the money that they had burn to flames. Things were getting so bad that it was to the point that they barely have little money to buy toiletries. And business wasn't busy like Spike and the others wanted to be, the majority of the bounties they heard by ear or by television were literally worth pennies. It was almost starting to look just like the stock market; business was down, debt was up, and Spike was tired.
Despite his slow speed he finally made it towards the refrigerator. He grabbed onto the refrigerator handle and pictured himself opening the door finding the last can of Columbian coffee where he last put it, inside a near bare refrigerator. He opened the fridge felling the cold air through his heather gray T-Shirt and seeing the familiar dim yellow light, he fully opened the door, and he, frowned,
"…What the hell?"
All there was inside the refrigerator was just cold air and light. At the corner of his eye, he saw Faye in her white robe passing by drinking something with steam rising from it from her white mug.
Out of frustration, Spike grabbed the empty coffee can, slammed the door, and walked over to the living room.
On the couch Faye was sitting with her legs crossed sipping on the hot liquid reading one of the outdated magazines; she must have been very concentrated she didn't notice Spike,
" Faye."
Faye looked up at Spike and asked casually, " What?"
" I can't believe you drank all of the coffee."
, " No I didn't." Faye eyes widen with anger when she said that.
" You did," Spike tossed the can on the couch next to Faye and it bounced a little bit.
" Huh?" Faye grabbed the empty coffee can and examined it, she shake it, turned it upside down, she even patted it on the bottom and nothing didn't came out. She looked up at Spike and she must of read his mind.
" I didn't drank it all Spike, it must have been…uhh…a rat's…or something…." Faye said defensively. She pointed at the white mug and smiled innocently, " It's hot chocolate, see."
Spike narrowed his eyes and said, " The evidence is there Faye. Jet doesn't drink it 'cause he thinks it's unhealthy and we banned Ed from drinking it, so the only one who possibly did drank it is—"
" You think I drank all the damn coffee," Faye yelled, " Well I didn't Spike, so ya can play Sherlock somewhere else, alright!"
Jet walked in rubbing his left eye, he looked like he just woke up on the wrong side of the table, " Dammit what's all the yellin' about, ya guys just woke me out of a good dream, we had a good bounty."
Spike folded his arms and rolled his eyes away from Faye, " She drank the last of the coffee."
" No I didn't!" Faye yelled.
" Yeah you did." Spike yelled back.
" No I didn't!"
" Aww both of you shut up!" Jet interrupted, "I'm sorry I asked. I didn't know ya guys would act like two kids bickerin' on a playground in school!"
Spike look around to see if Ed was going to pop out of nowhere and rhyme something with the word kids, but there wasn't any Ed, or Ein too. Spike scratched his hair still looking around for the two, " Speakin' of kids, did anyone seen or heard from Ed?" Spike asked.
Jet put on his thinking face and his answer was, " Nope, didn't seen Ed this mornin' or Ein too." Faye placed the coffee mug on a small stack of old magazines and stretched her legs onto the coffee table and yawed, " Ed's probably out on a walk with Ein or something or she probably walking with one of her acquaintances she knows on Mars or…" While Faye was listing all the possibilities of Ed and Ein, Spike got a hold of Faye's mug and sniffed it. Faye stopped and looked at Spike sniffing the mug oddly. She snapped, " Spike! That's mine!"
After Spike lightly sniffed the coffee, his face twisted with confusion, " Faye."
Faye tighten her fist and put on her 'tough girl' look, " What!?"
There was a three second pause until Spike said," … This isn't coffee."
Faye and Jet look at Spike with blank eyes. All of a sudden, Faye grabbed her stomach and ran out the living room while holding her mouth, muffling her shouts of pain. Surprised, Jet walked over to Spike and sniffed Faye's coffee mug to figure out what it is.
" If it's not coffee then what the hell is it?" Jet asked.
Spike put on a grin, " It's one hundred percent pure Mars soil."
Jet chuckled and looked at Spike, " I can't believe ya pulled somethin' like this on Faye Spike." Spike nod his head left to right and stared at the 'coffee'.
" I didn't do it." Spike said, " And if Faye got Mars dirt, where's the coffee?"
Ed along with Ein was skipping down an alleyway holding a clear plastic bag of coffee nuts. Ed was smiling widely singing, " We got coffee! We got coffee! " Ein barked and look at Ed. She glanced at Ein and smiled, " Ed hopes that Fay-Fay and the others don't mind the other stuff in the can we put. It taste the same anyway, huh Ein?"
Ein barked as if he can actually answer back.
The two finally reached the end of the alleyway and ended up at the manmade river. Around here fisherman and boaters hang around here, also peddlers, travelers, hippies, and whatever that is to the mundane to the insane you will probably find it at the manmade river.
Ed tossed the clear plastic bag of beans in front of the floor. Facing the coffee beans was two hooded figures. The left hooded figure was large and bulky and the one next to the hooded figure was small and thin. The large hooded figure grabbed the plastic bag of coffee beans and nodded, " Thank you, Ed."
" You welcome." Ed smilled.
Ein barked.
The small thin hooded figure shook on the large bulky hooded figure's shoulder and asked, " Can we take these cloak's off it's getting hot."
" Ed can you tell us if anybody's around." The large hooded finger asked. Ed looked around and smiled, "Nobody's around to see you."
The two hooded figures uncloaked themselves and threw the brown cloaks in the back of their bright orange homemade tent.
" Once again, thank you Ed." Smiled the large bulky man.
For an middle-aged man he looked handsome for his age, he has short wavy sunny blond hair, grayish green eye's and color skin just like Ed's. You can tell from his gray cotton shirt that he use to work out when he was younger.
" This is great Dad we get to have something hot when we get to eat." The young boy said joyfully.
The boy did not share his father's grayish green eyes but instead had a mix of dark blue and gray in his eyes. He did not have his father's sun tanned skin but a fair complexion that can easily have sunburn. And Instead of being big and muscular like his father he was very slim, almost a little too slim, for his age. These two men would have been polar opposites if they didn't share their short blond hair together.
The boy's eye's brightened when he seen Ein, he waved his hand and the boy shouted happily, " Hey Ein!" Ein barked happily, ran towards him and jumped into his arms. The dog licked on the boy's face constantly and the boy collapsed next to his father. Dad made a hearty laughed and smiled, " Now Ted you have to be clean now, I got a surprise for you and Ed."
Ted, Ed and even Ein look at Dad with glossy eyes and all together, excluding Ein because he a dog, they said, " Really!? What is it?"
Ed jump for joy and started to make cartwheels singing, " Dad have a present! Dad has a present!" Ted rolled his eyes playfully and smiled, " No Ed, he is my father. Didn't you say your father was on Earth somewhere?"
" Yeah," Ed laughed, " But I don't know where he is."
Ted jump back with surprise, " Ed! How can you not know where your father is!?"
The girl with the golden orbs thought for a while and answered with a smile, " I forgot where he was." The blond boy almost fell back from Ed's answer.
Dad started to reach for his pocket from his raggedy old stonewashed jeans, but suddenly he stopped and grinned, " Now you two, close your eyes."
Ed and Ted closed their eyes both were grinning happily. A few seconds that felt like hours for Ed and Ted went by and Dad finally called out, " Ok now open 'em." Ed was the first to open those golden orbs and she saw a thick wad of—
" Money! Money! Money!" Ed singed. Ted opened his eyes and gasped at the large sum of money his father suddenly appeared with, " Dad! Where did you get all this dough from?"
" I kept it just for the occasion." Dad shrugged while smiling, " You and Ed can do anything you want with it."
" Really?!" Ted asked. He never had a present like this in his life, even if it's on his birthday, however, he knew that Dad needed the money more then he did. He folded his arms behind his back and he asked, " I-If you need it Dad I won't use it. You probably need it more then I do." Ed knows that kids her age usually say that to make sure that presents and gifts were actually theirs, but when she looked at Ted's expression on his face, it was genuine. Ed looked at Dad and said, " I won't use too. You probably need it more then me too."
Dad looked at Ted and Ed and laughed, " Here." He tossed the money to Ted and the blond haired boy caught it with hesitation. Dad crawled out of the tent and stand up and assured Ted and Ed, " Don't worry guys, I have plenty left. Now you guys better get out of this dump and spend it all before I give it to Ein."
" Ok Dad." Ted said. Ed grabbed onto Ted's wrist and was about to make a mad dash towards the alleyway. Until Dad shouted,
" Hey Ted!"
Ted looked back and asked nicely, " Yes Dad."
You forgot your hat son." Dad tossed Ted's red baseball cap as if it was like a Frisbee and Ted caught it. The fair skinned boy put his cap on and turned it backwards. Some of his hair was popping out of the adjusting part of the hat.
" Thanks Dad." Ted said. Ed grabbed Ted's hand again and shouted happily, " Ed say's Ted's gonna have fun!" And both kids ran into the alleyway that exit's to the streets of Mars.
It's been five hours since Faye drank the "coffee". Spike was lying on the couch watching his semi favorite show "Bigshots". A show that had a man with a mexican accent and a busty blond in cowboy gear that told today big bounties. They even noticed the not so good times.
" The times are getting' rough." The mexican man said.
" Uh huh!" The blond agreed, " It seems like there isn't any more big bounties out their, nope." The blond looked at the mexican man and with her sad blue eyes, she wooed, " Where have all the bad guys gone?" And miraculously, at the same time, she wiggled her hips.
" I don't know lil' lady," The mexican man said, " The man took off his hat and placed it on his chest, as if he's feeling the tough times, " But I know our cowboys and cowgirls out there are experiencing worst then us and expecting worst as the days go." The man turn his head to the blond and said dreadfully, " Do you know what this means?"
The girl shook her head side to side like a little child who doesn't know better, " No?"
" They may have to get an real job!" The mexican man yelled in fear as the blond girl screamed, once again shaking her hips at the same time.
Spike mumbled a few words like, stupid and you-got-to-be-kidding-me. He shut the TV off and rested his head on the pillow. He mumbled over to Jet who was sitting on the couch across from him, reading an article in a very old magazine about bonsai trees. He looked very interested,
Spike knew things were getting really bad if Jet was reading about bonsai trees. He knew everything about them from dirt to leaf. " Been here for three damn day and still no good bounties." Spike sighed, " What's the world coming to Jet?"
" Just wait Spike," Jet said reassuringly as he turn the page, "soon were gonna get the jackpot. And then were going to be out of debt." He looked over at Spike and grinned, " We can actually buy some toothpaste when the time comes."
Spike laughed quietly, " Yeah right Jet." The fuzzy moss green haired man closed his eyes and started to go to sleep, until his portable cell phone started ringing. Spike searched and researched his pockets until he found the phone and quickly he answered, " Yeah, who is it?"
" Is this the man who call himself Spike?" The woman asked.
" Yeah…" Spike look over at Jet who was signaling him who's on the phone.
" Lady who are you, how'd you get this number and how did you know my name?"
" I can answer all your questions if you come at the Nortormolla building in two hours. If you're a no show then the deal is off and I'll look for business elsewhere…" There was a long pause and she continued, "… oh and please bring in your partners too." And then she hanged up.
Spike was spooked out, he hanged up the cell phone and tossed it to the other side of the couch and stared at it. Jet wanted to know what happened and all the information he could possibly get, " Spike! Who the hell, what the hell, why the hell?!"
" It was a woman," Said spike, " Sounded like she's in politics or some business crap, she's probably around her late thirty's early forties. She told me, you, Faye and Ed to come to the Nortormolla building."
" The Nortomolla building?" Jet asked, " That's the first office building ever made on Mars."
" This is weird. I don't think we should bring Ed along." Spike said, " It's probably a trick." Faye walked in with her usual clothing and grumbled, " We don't even know where Ed is and I hope Ed stays there too! When I get my hands on that scrawny little-"
" Child abuse Faye." Jet pointed out.
" I don't call it child abuse, I call it 'child reconstruction'." Faye grinned angrily. Her mood suddenly changed when she asked Spike, " So what's up?"
" Some lady called." Spike said. Faye look like she seen a ghost she asked, " I-Is it the."
" No it's not them," Spike assured her. Faye exhaled and smiled, " Great. So what are we standing here for, let's go."
Alright, that was the end of Chapter 1. So how did you like it? Originaly, the title was going to be " Ed & Ted" But then I changed it because it kind of reminds you of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" A movie that I like…but…don't really want this story to relate to. And I thought this title was best suited for this story anyway. I already have Chapter 2 written I just have to edit it. But you guys may have to wait for Chapter three to pop up for awhile. I Don't forget to review! f it sucks, it sucks and if it's good then I'm really surprised J. I was kind of hesitant to post this story because but I have to branch out into new things. And if you're interested in my other writings then feel free to click on my pen name and read some other stuff! Review that too!
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