Cinos was born a monster. His mother was a minor demon and his father was a minor angel. All he ever wanted was to be human. All he could ever be was a Bounty Hunter in the Twin Grounds of Candy Kingdom. Then the Lynch came along. He said that if he delivered a boy named Finn to him, he would make him and his dimensional partner, Ciara, human.
"You want him alive right?" he said.
"Oh yes," The Lynch said.
"And you won't hurt him either?"
"Of course not."
"Figures, otherwise you wouldn't have come to me. What's the time limit?"
"You have three hundred fifty minutes." Just as he said it the timer imprinted on Cinos' arm clicked to 00:350:00 and started to tick down, second by second. The target's face appeared on his hand. He had long hair, some of it covering his eye. He couldn't tell anything else about this guy Finn. Cinos jumped off the roof where he met the Lynch And sped through the city on the rooftops, looking for a hotspot. He found it. The arrow indicator pointed out Finn in the north side of the Plaza. It took about three seconds for Cinos to track Finn by the sound of his yelling for a girl named Fiona.
"Can it," He said. "Talk about noise." He hanged down for a minute, Scaring Finn off his perch. So he jumped down to the street to join him. "Finn, right?"
"Y-yeah," Finn said. "But how did you-?" before he could finish Cinos grabbed Finn's right arm and studied it, there was a bounty timer on the arm. It was set to seven zeroes, meaning he wasn't on a mission, or he failed one recently.
"Looks like you're a Hunter," Cinos said.
"Hunter?" Finn asked.
"Bounty Hunter," Cinos stuck out his timer keeping the target's face hidden. "Anyone who becomes a bounty hunter in Twin Grounds has a timer imprinted into their skin, this timer lets the hunter know how much time is left before the bounty is void. And this bounty I can't afford to lose. My Partner and I need to work together."
"Okay," Finn said. He put his hands behind his head and smiled. "I don't know how I became A 'Hunter,' but can I help?"
"What?" Cinos criticized. "Time out, do you trust every stranger you meet? I'm sorry. You're no good, you and I exist on the same ground, and my pact is with someone else."
"Okay, we can't be partners, Why not I help as a friend?"
Cinos was scared now. "Now we're friends? Look it's not that easy?"
"Never said it was, but you could make it easier."
"Hah. Alright fine, let's go."
Cinos started using the Hunters' control of the environment to make himself move faster through it. The he realized that Finn probably didn't know how to use that power. So he went back and showed him. They reached third district and Finally Finn had to ask.
"Hey, I never caught your name."
Rift Riders, Creatures that belong on the Dimensional Boundary came around to attack them.
"Rift Riders!" Cinos yelled.
"Weird name," Finn commented.
"Not me, them!"
"I know!" Finn took out a sword. Forged in Devil's Blood by the look of the red blade. Cinos took out his own sword, the Heaven and Hellblade. They started slashing through the Rift Riders mowing them down in seconds. Finally the last few took to the Boundary again. Leaving one behind to be slain by the two of them together. They rested for a minute.
"It's Cinos by the way."
"Huh?"
"Cinos Shadowblood. You asked."
"Cinos…Shadowblood… That's a mouthful."
"Ahah, No it's really not."
"Well shouldn't we be looking for your target?"
Cinos felt kind of sorry for Finn, He didn't know that he was the target, and they were looking for the Employer. "I already took care of my target. I'm looking for the employer."
"Then why do you need me?"
"You happen to be on the list of Objectives for some reason, I can't succeed without you."
"I see… Then let's go find the Employer."
Cinos got up and they went to the Tavern Street.
"I brought you Finn! We had a Bargain!"
"What's the matter? Cinos?" But Cinos was too focused on finding the Lynch. Then he looked behind them. The Lynch, a monster so hideous with horns coming out of the chin and going back into the head, skeletal limbs and a cloth covering.
"No way! You were employed by him!?" Finn drew his Devil blood sword and prepared to fight the Lynch, the same could be said for the Lynch, only with an Angel blood Axe.
"Hey!" Cinos said. "That wasn't the Deal! You said you wouldn't hurt him!" he rushed up with the Heaven and Hellblade in hand and slashed across the space where the Lynch used to be.
"No, Cinos! Stop! He's too dangerous," Finn said. But just before the cowardly Lynch could hack Cinos in two, Cinos cut his hands off and the Lynch retreated. Finn looked amazed. "How did you do that!?"
"Reflex, there's a whole lot of stuff you don't want to know about me." The timer reset to seven zeroes. "Looks like I failed this mission." Cinos took off.