Prologue
"For the record, I blame you for this."
"You always blame me! Every time! Even the time that YOU lost the compass AND the map when we went camping! What did I do this time?"
"Let's see. First you read the map upside down, and then you went and asked for directions from a group of bandits!" A young woman of 18 with long red hair separated and braided into two piggy tails yelled this to her friend who was tied up to the same tree next to her.
The just mentioned bandits were currently gathered around their camp fire going through their belongings and talking about them as if they didn't exist. The younger friend puffed out her cheeks, turning her quickly so that her high pony tailed black hair swooshed and her too long bangs got into her ice blue eyes she hissed in her defense," Hey, how was I suppose to know they were bandits? Hm? Tell me that!"
"Oh, maybe the matching bandanas covering the lower half of their face and the tattoo all of them are sporting on their left arms? If we get out of this I'm getting you a hair cut to get your bangs out of your eyes, or I'm just going to cut them off myself!" Sharp grass green met frosty ice blue for another moment before they turned their attention back to the men who were now approaching them.
The leader was identifiable by his massive straw rain hat and ridiculous amount of metal armor he wore around his upper torso. With the lower half of his face covered the girls couldn't see but rather felt his sleazy unbrushed toothy smile while his eyes roved over their bodies. Getting close enough that he was well over their personal space boundary he put a finger under Roxie's -the red head- chin and purred in a grossly sweet voice," You fine young ladies have quite the collection of souvenirs. I couldn't help but notice that there wasn't any sign of love token's from your boyfriend's back home. Meaning you're quite available. So what do you say, be good little sweeties and be my girls, or all my men can have at you however they like."
The mere thought of being the Leader's girlfriend was enough to make Roxie and Hana want to throw up. Doing her best to keep the bile down Roxie asked nicely," How about some time to think it over, we'll give you an answer tomorrow morning, kay?" She made sure to add her sweetest smile to add more onto the act of innocence. Roxie didn't miss the minor eye roll Hana gave her, if her feet weren't tied by the ankle she would have stepped on her friend's foot.
The Leader looked back at his men who seemed content to lay about the fire and eat the girl's recently acquired provisions. His voice still sickening with it's sweet tone the Leader replied," Of course, but choose wisely. It would be such a waste to ruin such fine looking things such as yourselves." His beady little eyes giving them another once over he returned back to the fire to start joking around with his men about what they were going to do with them.
"Great, now what are we going to do? If we say yes, we're going to get raped by one guy, if we say no, we're going to get raped by all of them!" Hana was so tense about the situation that she started to gnaw on the ropes since she couldn't get to her fingers and was too tense to turn that perverted in her brain -her specialty-. Of course even with her gnawing the ropes wouldn't give since there was a metal cord in the centre, it was their rope after all.
Roxie ignored her anxious friend and starting looking all around them. The girls were tied to a massive tree that gave them access to see the entire clearing. With the sun starting to set all she could take in was the disgusting pigs holding them captive, empty space, more trees and a lot of bushes. A sudden twig snap from behind them drew the attention of the bandits, unable to see the girls were worried when the pigs got to their feet with their swords in hand. The Leader stepping forward he yelled at the intruder," What do you two want? These girls and their belongings are ours, we got them first!"
"We're not interested in what you claim to be yours fool. All we want are your provisions." A low raspy voice said this from next to Hana, causing the poor girl to jump and give herself rope burn and swear quietly. Craning their necks to see, Hana and Roxie gaped at the sight of a very tall blue skinned man in a black coat printed with red and white clouds.
The blue man's face was contorted into a somewhat pleased and disturbing smile that made their neck hairs stand on end. The Leader advanced further forward with his sword still raised,"You've got a better chance of all of us dropping dead than us handing over our provisions."
"How interesting you say that when it's about to happen." Confusion crossed the bandits faces before they morphed into shock accompanied by them grunting or gasping before dropping dead with kunai's sticking out of the back of their necks. From the other end of the clearing a normal looking young man with long black hair and an emotionless face stepped into the light of the fire.
"Oooooh fuck, we're so screwed now." Hana squeaked this out just loud enough for Roxie to hear.
Confused herself Roxie whispered back," What are you talking about? They just saved us."
"You don't understand they're -"
"Now what to do with you two witnesses." Big blue man with the raspy voice turned on them with his big sharp toothed smile. It was then that Roxie understood what Hana was talking about. These men didn't kill the bandits just to save them and take the provisions. They killed the men because they felt like it, and now it seemed they wanted to kill them for being witnesses as well.