Blind – Episode 3: Ringo's Appearance
Django, still in his wolf form, then shape shifted into his black form. He stands there with that sharp fang of his as he liege down. He chokes and coughs out some blood. His body quickens cools down as he recovers back into his regular form. In his Red Django form he is able to use his normal human instinct rather than his wolf, bat or vampire form. He smears off the blood from his chin.
Badly blinded and unable to speak anymore, he loses his will of a solar child. Everything is closing ease on him despite how much and hard he tries. Django personally don't know why Dainn have such a great hatred against him. It must have been something that happens ages ago when his father Red Ringo was still around. Django sits there letting the sun beat him down with its solar ray.
He opens his mouth and tries to say something but all that come out was a burble of ah---s and eh---s. Django is in lost of hope. He hold grip of his head as his grey eyes shiver rapidly. Everything is too much for him to take. He bit his lips and cry. He wanted the assistance of Master Otenko, the caring of Lita, wisdom of Zazie and of course the comfort of his older brother. Django wipe off his tears as he brings himself together in focus.
He knows that home is north. Where ever the sun speaks and shine is where Sun Miguel is. He remembers his guardian Otenko's saying of 'The sun will rise tomorrow' if that is true so will him but even though that phrase did bring some hope in him his spirit was already crush. There is no life in his soul. The poor solar boy is stranded alone out of the no where.
Using his right hand he touch the bitten mark that his father Ringo given to him. It is still a wonder to why his father bitten him. Is it to bring peace and harmony? Or is for the usage of destruction and power?
Django never really know who his dad was besides hearing the say that Django's dad was a good man. Ringo is the savior of Sun Miguel along side kicked with the Sunflower Girl. Django also don't know who his birth mother that well either. Zazie and Lady always assume that Django's mother is the moon goddess Mani but there isn't much proof for that. Of course, Django and Sabata already know that Mani and Ringo are their parents but they prefer to keep it a secret along with Master Otenko and Steel Smith.
Random thoughts and question gush into Django's head. He kicks his knee away from him and sun bathes there. He touches his lucky scarf and snuggle within it gapes. The blood on his chin stoned.
'I need to find a way back home… even without the help of my eyes or commutation…'
Thump, thump, thump, the sound of many foot step approaches.
'… Who may that be…?' The creatures squeak loudly and hurl over Django. He luckily turns over which avoid the acid spit and run for it. 'What else can go wrong?' Django runs and trip over a medium size rock. "Ah! -----" Django fell down and scrape his knee. It stings but there isn't time to wine! Django need to get out of there fast! The charades of undead and zombie grew quick before Django. He can smell and hear the creatures surrounding him. Weaponless he listens for an opening. To his left is empty he quickly jumps down to his knee and let the crowd stumbles him. He makes his escape by crawling under the hind legs of the monsters.
Out of site and danger Django once again find himself lost. The only thing he recognizes is the rectangular stone he is leaning to. He bit his thumb and settles down. Exhausted and out of breaths the solar boy figures that he can't go on like this any longer.
The sun is now going down. Shadows are appearing on the surface as the light retrieve into darkness. Django sits quietly and rubs his hand over his tummy. He sighs and stands up again. He rest long enough and is now ready to make his way back home.
'Okay… so traveling during the night was a bad choice but what else could I have done?' Django walk up north. 'As long as I am going north I should be able to reach Sun Miguel before midnight.' He thought. He set foot and take caution. Django preferably would have travel during day time but if he did there would have been too many zombie and undead roaming around.
As he wander into the darkness alone a small little immortal follows him. Django senses the immortal but since the caution of the immortal didn't seem that serious Django just ignore it. The little red hair girl walks aside with Django. Django finally stops and asked to himself. 'Why are you following me? If you want to kill me why not do so earlier? I know you been following me for some time.'
The small immortal stops and say "I can hear you." Django freak out and turn to his right to where the girl is standing.
"It's like Dainn say… you are blind. But killing you in this condition wouldn't be that much fun. Beside that… I don't like to kill." She answers and looks back at Django. "You should be thanking me; I'm actually kinda walking you home." The immortal giggle.
'Well, I don't need your assistance.' Django imply and quickly stumble off. The little girl continues to follow Django. Django bump into a wall and land on his butt. The sky become black and rain starts to fall. His hair became wet as he sits there silently sobbing.
"Look at you, you're a mess." The girl leans over to help the boy up. Django jumps back and race off the opposite direction. "You can trust me! I don't take interest in killing you---." She comes to a sudden shock and cried, "I don't want to be alone!"
Hearing that, Django's feet stop. He looked back the other way. The little immortal stand there crying as for Django, the rain drip down his cheek as quietly mumble her name. 'Durathror…' Django frown and pats the rain on his shoulders. He walk pass her and continue to move north. Durathror watch Django carefully. She wipes her eyes with her small hand and before she knows it Django was out of site.
The rain stop and the sun came back out. It is a new day. The town people of Sun Miguel are awake. The Mall is full of people buying and selling items. It is the typical Saturday. Every where you go is crowded with people doing community service or promotion. Every turn you walk to you will be expose to the city loudness and gossip. But that is okay because it been too long since Sun Miguel had any activity.
There is little activity in the Inn so Lita goes out to do her selling of solar fruits. "I'm heading out Master Otenko." The maiden pack her bags and belongings. "May sure Sabata get the things I ask him to get okay?" Lita puts on her brown boots. She closes the door behind her and spots Zazie. She smiled and walks the other way to her shop. Zazie seem too busy chattering to the people to notice the maiden.
"Huh? No? Nada? Darn that's just too low then. Thanks for the info!" The sunflower girl pats the man and tells him to go on his way. "This is harder then chewing down solar nuts." She goes to another crowd of people and start asking again.
Zazie hang out with the folks in town and gather information regarding of the solar boy disappearance. Around the end of the Far East is Sabata walking down with two bags of goods. He have his face down, he made a turn to Lita's fruit shop. Lita greets him with a welcome. Sabata quickly dispose the goods on the counter and headed out with out a good bye.
He kicks the tiny rocks in his path and makes his way to the Library. Once he got there he walks to the request form board and look through the request. He nods and shakes his head at the one he approves and disapproves in doing. Lady sits in the back counter filling out forms.
"Lady… these requests are three days old aren't there any new ones?" Sabata turn to face the librarian. Lady puts down her fake reading glasses that she wears for public appearance and smile.
"Ah, my, Sabata I would never imagine you'd to be here without your brother." She stands up from her chair and walk to Sabata. "It's always Django who seem to do them for the people of Sun Miguel… any whom." She drops the topic. "What type of request are you after for?" She bent down and presses her finger into Sabata's hair.
"Anything that will help me find Django." Sabata answers. He withdraws from her and step back to bring focus to the request board. Lady snaps her fingers.
"I think I got one." She said. Sabata twirl his attention back to her. "Let me go back and get the paper. It is stack with the other pile of forms." She head back to her counter. Sabata stand there waiting. In the next three minutes she returns with the paper.
"What?" Sabata asked. Lady tells Sabata to follow her into her office. The two went into her mini office and discuss of the request. Lady set the paper on the table and set her forehead on her hand. She let out a long tiring yawn and takes out a pen.
"Sit down Sabata." She laughs at the boy who is still standing by the door way. Sabata takes a seat and scoot closer to see what she is writing down. Lady cross out the squares with an X then gives Sabata the pen to sign his name. Sabata sign the paper on the bottom where it says signature. "Now about this request… unfortunate we don't know who asked this request and because of that that is why I didn't want to post it up on the board." She folds the paper and set it aside from Sabata. "—But the request did mention something about Black Solar."
"Black Solar?" Sabata questions. "What the heck is that? You mean Black Light or Lunar Light?" He looks to his right then up. "No… never heard of the term Black Solar before." Lady picks up the sheets and compiles them neatly then hand Sabata a card. "Eh, a tarot card for what?"
"It's the Lovers card to be exact. I usually don't give them away so be thankful. I figure you may want it." She smiled.
Afterward Sabata waves goodbye to Lady. He puts the Lover card in his pant pockets and head to Steel Smith's steel shop for some advice. When Sabata arrive there he notice the door not tightly shut. He entered inside but sees no Smith. Sabata looked around the small workshop for some brief moments and goes out of the place. He closes the door. Seem like Smith isn't home.
"Hey!" A small high pitch voice over hear him. Sabata look up and sees Violet. Violet slightly blush and jump downs. "CATCH ME!" She shouts. Knocking Sabata off balance but he manage to catch her. "That was fun!" She giggles. Her puffy yellow hair covers Sabata's sleeves. Sabata laugh along and put her down. She hand him a chocolate bar. "It's the good ones! You should try it." She gesture. Sabata kneel down to nibble a small portion of the chocolate bar from Violet's hand.
"Indeed it must be." He wipes the taste from his lip. "By the way Violet where's your old man? I came to see him but he's not in."
"Huh? Oh I think he went to see Otenko." She bow down and tap her tiny feet. "Want me to show you where at?" She softy tug Sabata's index finger with her tiny hands and yearn for Sabata to say yes. Sabata say yes and Violet happily show him the way to Otenko and Smith.
"I don't think Ringo's whereabouts is the causing of the damage toward Django. Smith, if you are trying to take it out on Ringo then please do so with facts instead of concerns for Django. I raise him since the day Ringo left him and I can tell you that his progress of growth has matured in many ways that you and many other will ever know and understand."
"Master Otenko I'm not taking it out on Ringo but I am concern about Django. I show him the ropes and I know what Ringo is like and if I know better he is perhaps a minor cause in why strange things had been happening to Django lately." Smith pulls back his white sleeve and sits up.
The two have been going on about the discussion for hours. Luckily Sabata came just in time to stop the two from further discussion. As Sabata is Django's brother, Otenko and Smith want to keep things as low as they can. Sabata enter the dark room with Violet by his side.
"Sorry to intrude Master Otenko… but may I speak with Smith?" Otenko nods and Sabata pulls up a seat and started to ask questions.
"I don't know whether it's a good idea for me to try forging my weapons or not. I mean Django recommended me to but… it's not like I have any special gear that can suck and pick up lunar power when I need to." Sabata sank down and lay on the flat cool table. "Any idea?" Sabata ask.
Smith crackles up with that deep voice of his and takes a gulp of his cup of root beer. He set aside and coughs. "Sabata you don't need magic forging. You're fine with what you got. After all your body is adapted with dark matter." He pats Sabata on the back. "I'll refine your Gun Del Hell. Does that sound good for cha?"
Sabata lean backward and form a grin. "Okay. Thanks Smith." He jumps down from his seat and places his hand over Violet's small shoulder. "So about that trip to the field… do you still want to go?" Violet cheers happily and cuddles onto Sabata. "Smith, I'm off to go pick daisy with Violet. I'll bring her back before sun down."
The sun is on its horizon Sabata watches Violet jump back and forth along with Nero picking the white daisy. The view looked nice and wishes he could spent it alone sometime with his little brother. He tells Violet to come back and that it was getting dark.
"Sabata! Sabata! Lookie here!" Violet rush up to Sabata. "You think grandfather will like them?" She shows him the patch of hand pick daisy. "Nero and I only pick the nice ones that don't have thorns."
Sabata run his finger through the patch. "Daisy doesn't have thorns." Violet giggles and says she knows and was only testing his knowledge of flowers. "Oh is that so? Well I'm sure Smith will love them." He grabs hold of the girl hand. "Come on let's hurry up before Smith picks a fight with me not returning you back safely and on time for supper." He winks.
"Okay! Come along Nero!" The cat meow and jumps on her shoulders. Sabata walk the two back home.
Django is strap down to the tree created by Durathror. The little red head immortal whip out vines from her hand and attach them to Django. Thorns spikes out of the vine and stab through Django's arms and leg. Django let out a hurtful scream. Streams of blood flow down his two thighs. He shut one of his eyes.
"Solar Boy Django I'll ask you again. Please come with me to help full fill Dainn's plan." She commanded the vines to bind onto Django. "Or else I'll have to kill you which I rather not want to." The vines constrict Django's neck. Django gasp for air but didn't show any sign of giving up. "I guess that is your decision… Good Bye then Solar Boy Django!" The vines pick the boy up from the ground and sent thorns piercing through his body.
30 minute into the battle.
Durathror, unwilling to kill Django just yet, waited patiently for the boy to pass out to drain his sol. Groundless, up in the air, Django play dead as his body slowly recover its strength back. Durathror stomp her feet and a dark root pop out of the ground lift her all the way up to meet face to face with Django. The girl gives a mean look.
"-- Just passed out already!" She pouts. Django didn't move. She transforms her hand into a sharp cutter and swung at Django. A slit of blood crosses his shoulder. The vines toss Django to the hard sand. Django cough blood out. Her roots lower her back down. She is about to strike Django once more until a clouded object jumps over her. She slide back from the boy and see a man in a brown trench coat and hat standing high in front of Django.
The mysterious guy picks up the beaten boy and turns to Durathror. He made an ugly howl. His face is the color pale blue and he looked like he haven't eaten for days. It is another Vampire; Immortal and he seem to be interested in Django. It startles Durathror but she wasn't going to quit just yet. A gust of sand flashes by. Durathror throws vine whips at the two. Every hit misses as he fled away with Django in arms. Durathror quickly jump and snatch the man's coat. Passing through the gust Durathror notices that the three of them are now in mid air. The vampire shake her off but Durathror's persistence pays off. His eyes glow red and scare Durathror. Durathror lost her balance and let go of the vampire's coat.
After awhile Django regain his conciseness. He is inside of some stone cave. There is a little heated fire lamp across from him. Feeling cold and half naked Django know that someone have aid him. Bandages are wrapped around his whole chest and back. The brown trench coat covers Django as a blanket. He forces his body up but drop back to here he begin with. His feet felt numb. Django senses a vampire near by and lay low hoping it won't come inside of the cave. The vampire walked in slowly in and glare at the boy. He was the same guy that saved Django earlier. Django gulps. He thought he is a goner when the vampire hand touches his neck.
The hand reaches down to peal the long white bandages off. He pulls the boy up and apply herb on the chest. Django shrink down and blush slightly. The vampire's body feels familiar to Django. Instead of feeling worry Django felted welcome. In the end of the aiding process Django finally squeak a sound that sounded like father before he goes back to sleep within the vampire's grasp.
Sabata flip through the pages of ancient books and readings as he skims down the pages for the term BLACK SOLAR. He been in the Library for over three hours and it is already night again. No luck and shut goes the book. Sabata yawn and knock his side head with his knuckle to not fall asleep. He looked out the window and stare at the moon. It wasn't a full moon or anything but it was glowing very bright.