The next chapter is up and I hope you all enjoy; this side project seems to have a few of you interested but in reality this is all for practice and it's to help improve the main story. While I appreciate all the reviews go ahead and advise me if I do something wrong or if I need to add or remove something all advice can be helpful and flames will only keep me warm at night.

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Generalhyna: I think you got cut off at the end, as for other bonds I will see about that later.

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Now that all of this is done…ON WITH THE SHOW!

When you become a Bounty Hunter there are a few things you have to be prepared for. One would be the danger of the assignment; sometimes Hunters are sent out with almost zero information of the target. Another is the amount of time it might take to collect a prize and if you receive good enough payment for the work. However; one key thing a Bounty Hunter had to worry about always…

…Is the target.

"How long have I been chasing this guy for?" Grim asked himself as he pursued his target darting through the many streets and alleys Tokyo City had to offer. The Bounty Hunter's target has shown to be faster than he had anticipated but Grim kept at a decent pace.

"The only thing stopping me from using my bombs would be the people on the streets." True to his word Grim had to jump over a cart to keep speed with the target ignoring the angry words of the vender.

As the reaper ran his shadow grew to life and ran along beside him.

"And the reason it's taking so long to catch this one?" Doppelman asked in a bored tone. "We could be back at the osen now if you weren't slacking off."

"Who's slacking, besides this guy actually hard to catch no wonder he's known as the Slipstream." Grim argued back.

The now named Slipstream looked back with an arrogant smirk as he saw that Grim had no hope of catching up. "So you're the guy ranked number 1, please you can't even keep up with me…this is only a jogging pace compared to my real speed!"

"Oh great this one is cocky." Doppelman dully stated.

"Aren't they all…Doppelman use the shadows to go around and cut him off, I can gain on him faster as long as he's not running a straight line." Grim theorized as with each straightaway the distance between them was increasing.

"That could work" Doppelman was about to proceed with the plan until a silly grin formed on the shadow's face. "On second thought why don't we just wait?"

"Why?" Grim asked not seeing the point in waiting.

As the two talked Slipstream turned back to see how much distance he put between the bounty hunter and didn't see the object in front of him as it slammed into his neck. Grim and Doppelman stopped looking at the person on the other end of the clothesline move.

"Not that I'm not grateful but what are you doing around this area Rave?" Grim asked as he picked up a dizzy-eyed unconscious Slipstream and proceeded to cuff his arms and legs.

"I was just in the area and saw that you could use some help nya." Ravena smiled. Punnya was on her shoulder sharing her catlike grin. "Why are you chasing this guy?"

"Bounty…have to pay the bills somehow." Grim said as he secured the clay-cuffs. Once he was done he noticed Doppelman was nowhere in sight. Grim turned to Ravena and just stared as he saw Doppelman was fondling Ravena's chest (to her annoyance).

"I can sense these two beauties from a mile away." Doppelman said as he continued his groping not seeing the wicked gleam in Ravena and Punnya's eyes.

Punnya's form shifted into a hammer and Ravena took aim and slammed it against the shade's skull.

"Cat Impact!"

Grim sweatdropped as he heard Doppelman yelled as he flew into the sky. The twinkle afterwards gave him the idea of how far he traveled. "I think you broke you record this time Kitty."

"If Pervy-Grimmy wasn't so pervy I wouldn't need to send him flying every time nya." Ravena said. Punnya returned her true form floating in the air with her wings.

"Punnya?" The neko manju asked. Ravena followed her question and looked to Grim.

"You need some help taking that guy to the Guards Grimmy?" Ravena asked for herself and Punnya.

"I don't need the help but come with me so that I can split the pay with you." Grim said as he lifted Slipstream onto his shoulders.

"Nya, I didn't help that much you don't have to pay me." Ravena said.

"True but if you didn't show up when you did I would have been chasing him for who knows how long. To be honest running after him was getting bothersome." Grim said.

"Same old lazy Grimmy…sure I'll accept the money on one condition nya." Ravena said.

"And that condition is?"

"You have to spend the whole day with me." Ravena's said to Grim's surprise.

"The whole day, don't you have some guild stuff to take care off?" Grim asked.

Ravena shook her head and so did Punnya. "Tsunde-Rose dragged Shadow-kyun off who knows where, Illu can't come on for the day, Ani-Key is at a meeting, and DB-chan is at a gig somewhere in the real world…"

"And Bella?" Grim asked.

"No clue nya and it would get boring if Punnya and I have nothing to do." Ravena explained.

"Punnya-nya!" The neko pointed a tail to the sky. They all began to slowly here a scream and stepped to the side allowing the shadow to hit the ground hard leaving a small crater.

"What kept you?" Grim asked.

"I was actually in another planet…it was beautiful and only women." Tears somehow began to build in his eyes.

"And they kicked you off-world, figured out as much." Grim dragged Doppelman as he carried the target laundry style. "Ok Kitty, I'll spend the day with you."

"That's great nya!" Ravena then grabbed his arm. "Let's go nya!"

"Hold on, I carrying two things at once!"

"DP doesn't weigh anything at all nya!"

"He's still a pain in the ass to drag around!"

"Hey!"

(FFW-Admin Collection Office)

"The transaction is complete, here is your payment." A woman said handing Grim a wrapped bundle of munny.

"Nya, why did you want this guy caught?" Ravena asked. "He wasn't carrying anything."

"Punnya Nya-nya?" Punnya circled around the cuffed man who glared at her.

"He's not carrying anything because he is wearing them." The woman removed Slipstream's shoes. "These are experimental items we were transporting to the scientist here before he stole them two days ago."

"You think he would have skipped town by then nya." Ravena wondered out loud.

"Good thing he didn't, too much work to track down someone out of my locals." Grim took the munny. "Pleasure doing business with you…all right Kitty we're gone."

"Ok, come on Punnya." Ravena called to her pet as they began to leave.

"Punnya!" Punnya began to follow them back into the streets of Tokyo City.

"So Grimmy where to first nya?" Ravena asked curiously.

"My place, I want to make sure I have the munny in a secure place before we do anything." Grim answered.

"Nya, do you do that every time you get paid?" Ravena wondered.

"Every time, you don't know when you'll need some pocket change, besides I don't need to carry all of it with me at once." Grim said.

"Nya, makes sense, I wonder what kind of place a guy like you stays." Ravena smirked.

"It's nothing that glorious if that's what you're thinking I barely spend any of my munny unless I have to." Grim said.

Doppelman chose now to make himself known. "Our place is Spartan at best with a few things lying around…Grim will hardly by anything cool."

"Why would I pay to have a pool installed when we get free trips to the osen Doppelman?" Grim asked annoyed.

"It's a matter of necessity, you have the munny to buy the best things in life but you overlook them!" Doppelman argued.

"Sounds like Shadow-kyun." Ravena laughed.

"And Shadow probably has the same mentality I do when it comes to munny, even though you all technically live in that base of yours…how does that work when you get more members and run out of room?" Grim asked.

"We go to the Admin and pay to expand, once the building is larger we set up where the rooms and many things will be nya…though we are going to be renovating soon." Ravena said.

"Punnya!" Punnya said happily.

"I don't know how you convinced Shads Punnya but good work." She petted the neko who let out a satisfied purr.

Grim smirked and then stopped once they reached a house. "We're here," he said as he pulled out a key from his cloak and unlocked it."

They all went in and Ravena and Punnya looked around the small house. It was Spartan as it had a few things but it did have the bare essentials. The two then heard a sigh of relief as they saw Grim was now lying on the long couch he kept in the living room.

"Not the place I expected the Grim Reaper to live nya." Ravena sat next to him.

"The Devil May Cry settlements were bought out and I didn't like the feel of living in an ingame apartment so this is nice." Grim said with closed eyes. "It's a nice place to comeback to after long days of travel."

"It is homey nya." Ravena agreed as she laid back. Her bell jingled a bit from the movement and she then felt Felis's presence.

"You have a weird taste in men DeeDee," Felis commented from the back of her mind.

'Nya, what do you mean?' Felidae asked not understanding what her other half was talking about.

"Never mind, you probably wouldn't understand…" Felis simply said.

Before Ravena could ask another question Grim got her attention by petting her ears causing her to purr in content.

"Thought that would get your attention, I was asking you where you wanted to head first for a couple of minutes now." Grim said. Ravena then saw that Grim's foot was on top of Doppelman's head.

"I don't want to know what he was trying to do but thanks for stopping him." Ravena said.

Grim nodded, "Now since you wanted to spend time with me go ahead and jut choose a place or we can stay here."

"Nya while your place is nice let's go out it's a shame to waste this day." Ravena offered.

"All right" Grim got off his couch and lifted up Doppelman easily. 'Behave yourself.'

'I would but they just keep calling me…' Grim sighed knowing that it was hopeless to reason with his shadow.

"Rave do you have anything to keep DP under control for the day?" Grim asked.

"As a matter of fact…" Ravena smiled as she pulled out a tag from Punnya's mouth.

"The hell are you going to do with that, blow me up!" Doppelman said in horror while he tried to escape.

"That's a plan and it would be hilarious to see." Ravena chose to ignore Felis's suggestion.

"I'm not that cruel nya, but you get to be my guinea pig Pervy-Grimmy."

Doppelman tried to flee but was still being held by Grim, Ravena stuck the tag on his head and the paper and the shade glowed before Doppelman turned into a tiny version of Grim.

"What kind of tag was that?" Doppelman asked.

"Interesting, and he's solid too." Grim said poking the now chibi-lookalike.

"Hey stop that!"

"A Ravena and Terri-patented Chibi-Tag, give whoever is stuck with the chibi effect." Ravena introduced. "I tried on Hy-Nya's men and on Shadow-kyun but I'm surprised it worked on Perv-Grimmy."

"That's some strong magic," Grim stated.

Ravena smiled and curtsied. "That's what happens when two geniuses put their minds together, now we can go and Pervy-Grimmy can easily be punished now."

"Don't I get a say?" Doppelman asked.

"No"

"Ny-ope!"

Ravena turned to Punnya. "You're in charge of the pervert ok Punnya."

"Punnya!" Punnya used her tail to salute, showing that she understood.

"Now that Doppelman has a babysitter we can get going." Grim said.

"That's right nya!" Ravena led the way out with Grim following. The reaper dropped Doppelman to the floor and the little guy was about to say something until he was carried off by Punnya.

FFW

Ravena led the group to a few different places like a magic store to browse and buy supplies and a few stands selling treats around the Merchant District. They were now sitting on a rooftop bench enjoying the things that they bought.

Ravena took a bite out of her second creampuff of the day. "Nya, nothing gets better than this."

"You sue enjoy sweets, you took us to at least three shops for them." Grim said taking a lick of his ice cream.

"Can't help it, every day is better with sweets!" Ravena tossed a creampuff to Punnya who swallowed it whole Kirby-style. In the corner Doppelman was also enjoying his treat of ice cream.

Grim took another lick before speaking. "Why did you get all those supplies, planning an expedition?"

"Something like that nya," Ravena finished her treat. "You know about Cheshire's Path right?"

"Who doesn't, Rose gets some of her best finds from digging around there." Grim answered.

"It's the best place to find rare stuff, a lot of cool items nya." Ravena explained. "But there's one that I'm interested in getting."

"Really, what's that?" Grim asked.

"Secret" Ravena answered causing the reaper to look dejected. "I'm preparing so that I can get the others to come with me."

"Wouldn't that slow you down having a big group?" Grim asked.

"Sometimes but it's always fun adventuring with friends nya, also I kind of need their help to get what I want this time." Ravena answered.

"Is finding it what you're having trouble with?"

"No, just what's guarding it…the Admin started placing monsters down in underground paths to discourage players and protect the routes."

"But what could possibly give you problems?" Grim wondered.

Ravena pulled the last creampuff from her bag and began to eat it. "Leeches nya."

"A leech?" Grim said questionably. "A bunch of leeches are what's giving you problems?"

"No not leeches, a really BIG leech nya! And it can absorb energy from far away but I can't get near it either." Ravena said sadly. "Magic, Chakra…all of it and he's immune to it."

'Sounds familiar' Grim finished his cone and tossed the remains in the trash nearby. "What if I give you a hand, it will mean paying you back for the Slipstream thing."

"You don't have to Grimmy, and you already paid me back nya." Ravena said.

"No I gave you your cut of the munny for helping me; this will be returning the favor." Grim said. "Besides didn't you say adventuring is more fun with friends?"

Ravena laughed a bit and nodded her head. "Ok have it your way Grimmy nya!" The Nekomata's wings grew larger as she got ready for takeoff.

"What are you…?" Ravena then grabbed Grim's arm.

"We'll get there faster by flying, hang on tight Grimmy!"

Grim yelled in sudden surprise as he was lifted into the air by the catgirl. Doppelman was laughing at his predicament until he too was lifted high off the building by Punnya. The former shadow began to freak out flapping his arms irritating the neko manju.

Grim looked down a bit as they flew. "If you could have warned me I could have made some thing from my clay to fly on." He insisted.

"That's a waste, plus you need to save it for when we get there." Ravena said.

Grim sighed but agreed with her reasoning; he looked around as they flew. "You know this is one of the first times I've seen you use those wings, I thought they were for decoration."

"As if nya, a flying cat can do more than one trapped on the ground!" Ravena said.

"You've been doing all right so far." Grim joked; he soon went from enjoying the bird's eye view to looking at something else. Ravena soon noticed Grim's eyes were on her.

"Nya, what's up Grimmy?"

The question shook him out of his silence. "It's nothing," He said while using the collar of his cloak help hide the pink that appeared on his face.

"I can tell you what it is!"

"Punnya you can drop him…he's live, probably."

"Punnya!" The neko let go of the transformed shadow.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" Doppelman screamed as he fell through the sky. Punnya then did a quick nosedive and caught him inches off the ground.

"Pun-nya!" She meowed appearing to laugh.

"That wasn't funny!"

Ravena and Grim soon landed next to him as they were all next to a sealed hole leading to underground.

"We're here; this will get us there the fastest." Ravena said as she lifted the cover of the hole.

Grim nodded and looked to Doppelman. "Any chance you can change him back, he will be needed if we want a fighting chance."

"Of course" A snap of her fingers and Doppelman returned to his true form.

"I'm free!" Doppelman then looked down the hole. "Underground, are you crazy?!"

"There's enough light in there so why are you complaining?" Grim said.

"You're not the one who has to worry about fading out of existence when all light goes out!" Doppelman yelled back.

"Fine, I have some flares just in case but we're going." Grim pulled out his sightscope and attached it to his eye. "Lead the way Kitty."

"Right!" Ravena and Punnya went down first followed by the Reaper and shadow.

FFW-Cheshire's Path

"I've only been down here a few times but this place still looks confusing." Grim said talking about the many twists and turns of the underground dungeon.

"Then it's a good thing you're with me nya!" Ravena continued to walk. "We're almost there."

Grim nodded as they walked along and he kept an eye on things with his sightscope. Thanks to Ravena's knowledge of the paths they soon found themselves pressed against a wall hearing the sound of something…eating.

"I think we caught it between feedings nya" Ravena said.

Grim took a small peek and saw the creature. The Leech was definitely big as it towered the room almost reaching the ceiling, it also had rows of teeth within its mouth as the Reaper found out as they showed it devoured its meal.

"The other monster must have stumbled in here, what would a leech be doing underground they belong in water areas." Grim said.

"I know, this can't be something the Admin would do nya." Ravena looked past it and saw the goal. She pointed not wanting to gain too much attention by yelling.

Grim followed her hand and saw she was pointing to something resting on a pedestal near the beast. He couldn't make out what it was so he used his sightscope to get a closer look.

"That can't be what I think it is can it?" Grim asked.

The nekomata nodded her head. "Yep, that's what we came here for nya…a dreamstone."

Grim now knew this was a serious mission; dreamstones were one of the rarest items of the game as they had the ability to become anything. Ever since FFW's launch they had become more and more scarce and they only spawn once a year.

"So what now, I distract it and you go for the stone?" Grim asked.

"Nya, I can't leave you to fight that by yourself." Ravena said.

"You said so yourself there is almost nothing you can do to hurt it; I'll go grab its attention and you go for the stone." Before Ravena could argue the plan Grim had already shot forward into the room.

The Leech continued eating until a wave of pain surged through its body as a large jagged gash appeared on its side causing fluid and data to spill. Grim had landed by it with his legs already transformed to their chainsaw form.

"Hey, try fighting against something that can fight back!" Grim yelled hoping to further gain its attention.

The Leech stopped squirming in pain and began to glow; as it did the wound that Grim inflicted began to shrink.

"This just got more troublesome." Grim said.

"You want me to jump in yet?" Doppelman asked.

"Not yet, let me test this thing more." The chain saw blades roared to life and left slashes on the ground as Grim braced himself.

The Leech stared at him with its giant maw and roared a morbid screech as it slithered over to him.

(Play: Break by Three Days Grace)

Grim jumped back as the Leech slammed itself on the spot he just stood. He flipped midair and landed on his hands and began to spin his legs, both chainsaw blades shined a white color.

"Saw Foot First Gear: Vortex of Carnage!"

As he continued spinning more and more cuts appeared on the leech tearing it to shreds, the monster shrieked again as more fluids poured out. The Leech reared back and fired some of its fluids out its mouth and at Grim who backed away.

Grim saw the melting stone and smelt the familiar odor of acid as he saw the Leech began to heal itself again.

"Oh no you don't!" Both hands went into his pouch and he sent several clay swallows towards it. Grim didn't here Ravena's warning until it was too late.

Instead of dodging or avoiding the clay whatsoever the Leech just opened its mouth and swallowed them whole. Grim waited for the sound of clay detonating but it never came. He then remembered Ravena's words.

'They may be bombs but they are still powered by my chakra…dammit!" Grim yelled. He then had to run again as the beat fully healed and now switched from physically attacking to shooting and spraying acid.

Ravena stopped moving watching Grim fight wanting to help him. Before she could turn away from the goal someone reminded her of their plan.

"Are you going to make what he did in vain, grab the stone before it notices you!" Felis yelled.

'I can't just leave him to fight on his own!' Felidae thought back.

"Punnya!"

"Punnya?" Ravena looked at the manju. Punnya then began to give her an idea.

Back to Grim he was still avoided the drops of acid as they fired all over the dungeon. He tried to think of a plan to either kill or incapacitate the Leech.

"Maybe we can summon the Golem?" Doppelman suggested.

'That thing isn't giving me time to breathe much less summon!' Grim thought back.

"Maybe we could…WATCH OUT!"

Grim dodged the acid but suddenly the Leech stretched its body and slammed it against him. Grim rolled and tumbled along the ground while the Leech slowly pursued. As the Leech reached to bite down on the two a swirling pink beam of light hit it beginning to spiral though it; Grim followed the beam and saw it was coming from Ravena.

"Run Grimmy!" Ravena yelled as she kept the Punnya Cannon alive. Grim ran over to her watching as the beast changed to absorbing the blast through its mouth.

"Monsters like these have a limit; it can't absorb too much energy without consequences!" Grim said.

"It's still taking a lot nya! While I'm firing I can't move!" Ravena said.

"We have to overload it," Grim looked to the transformed Punnya. "Can anyone feed power into Punnya?"

"Yeah why?" Ravena asked wondering what his idea was. Grim then stood behind her and placed his hands on the barrel of the cannon.

"Let's see how much he can handle." Grim began feeding his energy into the cannon causing it to turn from its usual pink to a blood red color.

The Leech staggered at the increase in power but it continued eating; the standstill held as Ravena and Grim force-fed their energy into it.

"It's not enough nya!" Ravena yelled.

"Doppelman add yours too…Doppelman?!"

"Why not use this?" The shadow returned to them with the dreamstone in hand.

"That's what we came here for, we can't leave without it!" Grim said.

"But you'll die if you don't, even if I help it won't be enough!" Doppelman said. "I doubt us combined or 'Psyco-Saiko' can help!"

While Grim chatted with his shadow Ravena was having a conversation herself.

"You're going to have to use the stone DeeDee." Felis said after a brief silence.

'I can't do that we came this far…I'll probably never see one again for a while.' Felidae said.

Felis remained silent before talking again. "I don't understand your behavior around men, most of them are weak and inferior to us and are no better than cannon fodder…yet you won't leave this one to fight by himself and you're risking your life for another."

'I don't see others as subordinates nya, and what's wrong with helping friends?' Felidae then began to plead. 'I know how you feel sometimes Felis, we are the same person…but now you need to put those feelings behind you and help!'

The other half let out a sigh, "Fine, I'll help this one since he has earned more of my respect than others…but incase even this is not enough…"

It was Felidae's turn to be silent using it to answer Felis's question. The Punnya Cannon grew more as Felis added her power to the mix.

"We got to keep this up nya!" Ravena said; she turned to Grim to see he had the stone in his hand. "What are you doing nya?"

"This thing is like a bottomless pit, if we don't take a chance we'll die." The rainbow colored stone began to sparkle and glow in Grim's hand as he placed it on Punnya. "Besides, you can always find another one if you're alive."

Ravena said nothing but didn't move to stop him (even if she could). Grim then broke the stone and made his wish. The Punnya's Cannon's beam turned white and soon enveloped the whole room.

The Leech was trapped and was caught in the colossal beam shrieking in pain as it soon evaporated to dust. After the room finished shaking the two opened their eyes and saw that there were no remains of the monster.

"That was some wish nya." Ravena said as she helped Grim up. Punnya returned to her manju form and Doppelman stood by them.

"I wanted just enough to completely destroy it, didn't think it would work out like that." Grim admitted. The Reaper looked at his hand that once held the dreamstone and sighed as he turned to Ravena.

"Sorry I couldn't think of anything else and we were running out of options." Grim apologized.

"Its fine, I was about to do the same but you beat me too it nya!" Ravena looked to the pedestal and then to Grim. "Nya, let's go back to Tokyo, I had enough adventure for today."

Grim nodded and they both walked back into the tunnels of Cheshire's Path.

FFW

Once they were back in the town Grim decided to apologize again only for Ravena to reassure him that it was fine and that she was ok.

"Still it is my fault that you lost it after all that planning." Grim said.

"One will turn up eventually nya, besides you saved us both from an early death so it's all right." Ravena said.

"Punnya!" Punnya agreed.

Grim sighed but decided to accept her reasoning as they walked around. They both found out that they have spent longer underground then they realized as dusk was settling in the sky. Ravena then turned to the reaper.

"I have to log out now but it was fun fighting with you nya!" Ravena smiled.

Grim smiled back and was about to say something until the catgirl did something that made him freeze. A blush was still on his face even after her lips left his cheek.

"We're even nya, I helped you and you helped me." Ravena said.

Grim could only nod as he still silent, Doppelman chose to stay in shadow form as to not ruin the moment between them. Ravena and Punnya soon finished their goodbyes and then took off to the air again leaving the two behind.

He brushed the cheek that she kissed and let his blush fade before walking away back to his house.

"I don't see why you don't ask her out, you both have a lot in common." Doppelman said.

"Not really; though doing something like that would be…troublesome." Grim said.

Doppelman sighed. "You're just lazy in everything; even relationships, how many girls have to show interest in you before you pursue one?"

"I rather not have to worry about you groping all the women I do end up meeting." Grim said.

"And you know that's not happening." Doppelman said.

"Exactly"

That's the end of another oneshot everyone; a lot of difference between this and the first one huh though I'm switching up the kind of atmosphere I set in each one. I still have work to do with fluff and everything about it but I say I did a good job. The next couple has already been chosen so no votes this time or for a while because I have a surprise for all of you but you have to wait seven more days to see what it is.

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