Ok I'm back.Heres the next chapter. i hope you all like these chapter and
review, seeing as I'm updating a bunch of chapters at once. HEHEH I figured
I'd be nice and do that. HOLD ON A SECOND ME AND NICE IN THE SAME
SENTENCE?!?!?! THAT HAS GOT TO BE ILLEGAL!
Ah and heres my new poem for this chapter.
People get mad, People get dissed You sue me and I'll get pissed! HAHAHAHAH Disclaimer: I dont own Trigun so screw off lawyers!
Grayfalls eyes began reading the letter earnestly. his face grew more and more ashen as the words flew by.
This is what the letter said:
****************** Layne,
The contents of this letter may be hard to believe, but I implore you to help us.
My name is Orchid Springs, and I was once the wife of a man named Millions Knives. After marrying him I had a son named Zaccheus, or Zac. 5 years after he was born I was kidnapped by bandits. At the time I was pregnany with my other son, Maximus. Knives didn't know I was pregnant again though. I managed to escape and Maximus grew up. Maximus scares me. he is mean and ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He is just like his father used to be. He wants to create a place where plants can live by themsleves without humans. He has been silently tracking down and attacking all the plants on Gunsmoke,even people with just a little plant blood. He puts them into coma's but doesn't kill them so he can steal their souls and bring them to the Eden he created somehow. Somehow he had devised a way to make Gunsmoke become like Eden. And the main tool, is you Layne. I remember the look in his eyes when he found out that you and Lorienth were born, and that the plant-human hybrid had been breached. He plans to use you somehow to kill of all of the humans and turn Gunsmoke into Eden. I don't want this to happen. The humans did nothing wrong. Humans are not much different than ourselves,minus the life span and things like that.
Maximus attacked you in the desert.It was he who had tormented you through your life. It was him who drove you to run away. And it was him who tricked you into becoming an outlaw so that you woud never find someones love.He constantly manipulated you and your family into pain and grief. But you overcame it and got back to your family.Seeing this he atacked you. Afterwards he stole your soul after knocking you into that coma. You were almost buried alive beacause of him. While you were here in Eden, Roxanna Grayfall, your friend, and I tried to drop you hints about the place you found so facinating. But unfortunatley you don't pick up on the obvious very well. All of the people you saw in 'Eden' are victims of Maximus' plot. We are not dead, our souls are just trapped in another place. Maximusis keeping all of our bodies so he can awaken us back into this world after the humans are dead.I managed to get the location of this place. It is in a huge 'cave' near Septombre City. There are markers, though not obvious ones, marking the way there. You should know them when you see them. Please help us.You are the only one who can go back nad forth between 'Eden' and Gunsmoke. All oyu have to do to come and get one of us is touch the bulb that we're in. You'll instantly be transported to 'Eden', at the place of the persons whereabouts at the time. To bring them back you just have to dab them with you blood as the world starts to dim out. I can't ask you to spare Maximus' life when you fight him, I know that a fight is inevitable.But at the same time he is my child and I cannot ask you to kill him. I have no say in this matter, but do what is necessary to achieve your goal.
You are my niece, though you might not know it yet. I have faith in you. And, Roxanna asks me to have you tell Grayfall this. Keep your father strong. I know that Layne will triumph and then I will be back with you all again. We are part plant and included in Maximus' list of survivors. My soul was taken at your birth and I do not know you my son, but please remain strong and safe so that I may see you atleast your face once in my life.
Orchid and Roxanna ******************
Grayfall finished reading the letter, letting it float to the ground.
"Mother......"he whispered, falling to his knees. The contents of the letter registered slowly in his head. Layne had stopped crying. She was still shaking but no longer crying. Layne slowly crept over to Grayfall, barely making it because her knees kept buckling.
"Grayfall," Layne whispered, collapsing near his feet, tears spilling down her face again.
"This is all my fault. It's my ault your mother died, it's my fault that rchid was taken from Zac. I hurt my mother when it wasn't her fault---" Layne cried, getting hysterical. It hurt Grayfall, hearing Layne blame herself like that.
The slapping noise rang thorugh the air. Layne grabbed her cheek and snapped out of her hysteria. Her eyes were puffy, she looked terrible. The very sight was wrenching his heart out.
"Grayfall....I'm so sorry. This is all my fault,--" Layne cried softly, still clutching her cheek. Grayfall shook his head and pulled Layne close to him. Her head buried itself in his chest and she cried more. theo nly thing he could think of doing was stroking her hair and 'shhhing'.
Layne cried for a long time. A brief thought passed through Grayfall's mind that it was strange that no one had woken up. But then, Laynes family slept like logs when they slept. (A/N this is the reason they don't wake up until much later). Eventually the beating of Grayfalls heart calmed her and lulled her to sleep.
Grayfall looked down as the sobs dispersed. He was surprised to find that Layne was asleep. Below him his legs were getting numb. As carefully as he could he sat down the correct way, back resting against the bed Layne cradled in his lap still. It wasn't long before Layne's rythmic breathing lulled him to sleep as well.
Damn, that was a hard chapter to write. I actually ahd to go back and rewrite the last chapter (don't worry it hasn't been posted yet, I'm positng it with this one) so I could get this one right. I can practically here the awwwss about the ending situation. I don't like being mushy, but I had to. Bah. Anyways.i hope you like this chapter, beacause Im putting my rep on the line to write it.
CIAO FOR NOW, R.K.
People get mad, People get dissed You sue me and I'll get pissed! HAHAHAHAH Disclaimer: I dont own Trigun so screw off lawyers!
Grayfalls eyes began reading the letter earnestly. his face grew more and more ashen as the words flew by.
This is what the letter said:
****************** Layne,
The contents of this letter may be hard to believe, but I implore you to help us.
My name is Orchid Springs, and I was once the wife of a man named Millions Knives. After marrying him I had a son named Zaccheus, or Zac. 5 years after he was born I was kidnapped by bandits. At the time I was pregnany with my other son, Maximus. Knives didn't know I was pregnant again though. I managed to escape and Maximus grew up. Maximus scares me. he is mean and ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He is just like his father used to be. He wants to create a place where plants can live by themsleves without humans. He has been silently tracking down and attacking all the plants on Gunsmoke,even people with just a little plant blood. He puts them into coma's but doesn't kill them so he can steal their souls and bring them to the Eden he created somehow. Somehow he had devised a way to make Gunsmoke become like Eden. And the main tool, is you Layne. I remember the look in his eyes when he found out that you and Lorienth were born, and that the plant-human hybrid had been breached. He plans to use you somehow to kill of all of the humans and turn Gunsmoke into Eden. I don't want this to happen. The humans did nothing wrong. Humans are not much different than ourselves,minus the life span and things like that.
Maximus attacked you in the desert.It was he who had tormented you through your life. It was him who drove you to run away. And it was him who tricked you into becoming an outlaw so that you woud never find someones love.He constantly manipulated you and your family into pain and grief. But you overcame it and got back to your family.Seeing this he atacked you. Afterwards he stole your soul after knocking you into that coma. You were almost buried alive beacause of him. While you were here in Eden, Roxanna Grayfall, your friend, and I tried to drop you hints about the place you found so facinating. But unfortunatley you don't pick up on the obvious very well. All of the people you saw in 'Eden' are victims of Maximus' plot. We are not dead, our souls are just trapped in another place. Maximusis keeping all of our bodies so he can awaken us back into this world after the humans are dead.I managed to get the location of this place. It is in a huge 'cave' near Septombre City. There are markers, though not obvious ones, marking the way there. You should know them when you see them. Please help us.You are the only one who can go back nad forth between 'Eden' and Gunsmoke. All oyu have to do to come and get one of us is touch the bulb that we're in. You'll instantly be transported to 'Eden', at the place of the persons whereabouts at the time. To bring them back you just have to dab them with you blood as the world starts to dim out. I can't ask you to spare Maximus' life when you fight him, I know that a fight is inevitable.But at the same time he is my child and I cannot ask you to kill him. I have no say in this matter, but do what is necessary to achieve your goal.
You are my niece, though you might not know it yet. I have faith in you. And, Roxanna asks me to have you tell Grayfall this. Keep your father strong. I know that Layne will triumph and then I will be back with you all again. We are part plant and included in Maximus' list of survivors. My soul was taken at your birth and I do not know you my son, but please remain strong and safe so that I may see you atleast your face once in my life.
Orchid and Roxanna ******************
Grayfall finished reading the letter, letting it float to the ground.
"Mother......"he whispered, falling to his knees. The contents of the letter registered slowly in his head. Layne had stopped crying. She was still shaking but no longer crying. Layne slowly crept over to Grayfall, barely making it because her knees kept buckling.
"Grayfall," Layne whispered, collapsing near his feet, tears spilling down her face again.
"This is all my fault. It's my ault your mother died, it's my fault that rchid was taken from Zac. I hurt my mother when it wasn't her fault---" Layne cried, getting hysterical. It hurt Grayfall, hearing Layne blame herself like that.
The slapping noise rang thorugh the air. Layne grabbed her cheek and snapped out of her hysteria. Her eyes were puffy, she looked terrible. The very sight was wrenching his heart out.
"Grayfall....I'm so sorry. This is all my fault,--" Layne cried softly, still clutching her cheek. Grayfall shook his head and pulled Layne close to him. Her head buried itself in his chest and she cried more. theo nly thing he could think of doing was stroking her hair and 'shhhing'.
Layne cried for a long time. A brief thought passed through Grayfall's mind that it was strange that no one had woken up. But then, Laynes family slept like logs when they slept. (A/N this is the reason they don't wake up until much later). Eventually the beating of Grayfalls heart calmed her and lulled her to sleep.
Grayfall looked down as the sobs dispersed. He was surprised to find that Layne was asleep. Below him his legs were getting numb. As carefully as he could he sat down the correct way, back resting against the bed Layne cradled in his lap still. It wasn't long before Layne's rythmic breathing lulled him to sleep as well.
Damn, that was a hard chapter to write. I actually ahd to go back and rewrite the last chapter (don't worry it hasn't been posted yet, I'm positng it with this one) so I could get this one right. I can practically here the awwwss about the ending situation. I don't like being mushy, but I had to. Bah. Anyways.i hope you like this chapter, beacause Im putting my rep on the line to write it.
CIAO FOR NOW, R.K.