Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: Do I really have to do this every chapter? Oh all right…I DO NOT OWN BOF III CHARACTERS, SCENERY, OR ANYTHING! There, you happy now?

And now…

Chapter 2-A Day in the Lives of Thieves

Ryu walked out of the cabin he was in, still in his pajamas. He had raided the cabin a bit, but found no clothes.

He walked down a path, looking around. Where is there to go? he wondered. Suddenly, a green goblin and a pink one jumped out of some bushes.

Ryu started, falling back a bit.

The pink goblin yelled out something and pointed at Ryu.

"Yes sir!" said the green one, and started to move towards Ryu.

Ryu was petrified-but thankfully, not for long. As soon as he regained his senses he took off as fast as he could.

Finally, he made it out of the forest. He had seemed to lose the goblins, but he didn't want to take any chances and sped down towards a village in the distance.

He stopped at the entrance to the village and looked down at his pajamas. Okay, so maybe I'm gonna look a little weird…He shrugged. I'll have to live with it.

He walked through the gates to the village-and immediately heard a crashing noise.

What was that? Ryu turned to his right and saw a purple-haired boy run out of a house as fast as his legs could take him. He was followed by a tall boy who seemed to be half-tiger. The two boys collapsed onto the path in front of Ryu.

"No use, Teepo," said the half-tiger. "The townspeople are all on the lookout for us."

"I'm not surprised," said the purple-haired boy. Ryu now knew his name was Teepo. "What with the bad harvest and all-what?"

Teepo had finally noticed Ryu staring at them.

"Hey, Rei, look at this! He's up!"

Rei looked up. He gave a little noise of appreciation. "Must be pretty good to get all the way here from the cabin."

Ryu looked confused. "Do…do you two own that cabin I was in?"

Rei nodded. "Yep." He then sighed. "This is gonna be tough-we got another mouth to feed and there's absolutely no chance the townspeople are gonna give us some food." He rolled his eyes upward in a "Why me?" gesture.

Again, Ryu was confused. "What's going on?"

"We'll tell you later," said Teepo. "But first, I think we oughta get you outta your pajamas."

Ryu looked down and smiled sheepishly. "Eh heh…"

"I'll go grab some clothes for him," said Rei and he walked down to the local weapon shop. Ryu and Teepo followed him.

"Don't worry, Ryu," said Teepo. "Rei'll get you fixed up with some armor in no time!"

Suddenly, he and Ryu stopped, realizing what Teepo just said.

"Wait…did I just call you Ryu?" said Teepo.

Ryu nodded.

"Is…that your name?"

Ryu nodded again.

Teepo raised an eyebrow. "Okay, that was strange. Why do I-"

BAM!

The door to the weapon shop opened up and Rei sped out, some clothes and a sword over his shoulder. "Run for it!" he yelled.

Ryu and Teepo complied and ran as fast as they could while the weapon shop owner cursed and threatened them.

A few minutes later, Ryu, Rei, and Teepo finally slowed down, gasping for air. Rei stood up first. "Well, at least we made it." He turned to Ryu. "Slip these clothes on," he said, tossing a pile of clothing to Ryu.

Ryu blinked as he caught the clothing. "Hey, this is armor, not clothing."

"Sorry. They don't have a clothes store in the village." Rei sighed and leaned against a tree.

As Ryu put on the clothes, Teepo told Rei of the fact that Teepo had called the boy "Ryu" without even knowing his name in the first place.

Rei raised an eyebrow. "That's strange, but I think it's nothing to worry about." He noticed Ryu had finished dressing.

"Oh yeah, got something else for ya." Rei dug around in his satchel and pulled out a foot-long sword. He held the blade and said, "Catch." He tossed it at Ryu, who grabbed its handle.

"Thought ya might need a weapon, too," said Rei.

"Cool!" said Ryu. He swung the sword around in practice swings.

Hey, wait a minute, Ryu thought. I've never used something like this in my life…yet this is so easy. What's up with that?

Rei turned away from Ryu and Teepo and noticed a sign. It said "Yrall Road."

"Hmmm…Hey, Teepo," said Rei. "We're at the road. Think Ryu's up to the job?"

Teepo grinned. "Most likely. Yo, Ryu!"

Ryu stopped taking practice swings. "What?" he said.

"This is the Yrall Road," said Teepo. "A lot of people come by, and we…er…kinda…mug them."

Ryu's eyebrows shot up in surprise.

"Ah, don't worry," said Rei. "We never actually hurt anyone-just steal from 'em. That's not as bad as hurting them."

Ryu nodded like he understood, but he didn't really agree.

"So…anyway…" Teepo looked around. Now what do we do? he thought. "Aha!"

There was a large tree by the side of the road, and it was big enough to hide five people.

"Hey, guys, let's hide behind that tree!" said Teepo. "Then the first person to come by…wham!"

Rei shrugged. "All right." He ran behind the tree with Teepo behind him.

Ryu sighed. "Guess this is better than starving to death." He walked behind the tree.

After about a minute of waiting, a large man about seven feet tall walked down the road.

"Okay, Ryu, here's your chance!" said Teepo.

"Uh…why don't one of you guys go?" stammered Ryu.

"Nah, take a shot at it!" With that, Teepo grabbed Ryu and flung him into the man.

Ryu bounced off the man's arm and landed hard on the ground.

"Um…oops?" whispered Teepo. Rei looked at his face and could tell (probably because he had a grin that stretched from ear to ear) that he didn't really mean it.

The man looked down at Ryu. "What're you doin', kid?"

"Um…nothing. I tripped," Ryu said quickly.

"That didn't really feel like you tripped, kid," said the man. He looked at Ryu carefully. "Say, do I know ya from somewhere?"

"No, I don't think you know me," said Ryu.

The man laughed. "Sorry. You just looked like this criminal kid named Teepo."

What? thought Ryu.

"By the way, if you see those fools Rei and Teepo sometime, tell 'em ol' Bunyan's gonna give 'em a pretty hard whack!" Bunyan laughed hoarsely and resumed his walk down the road.

Teepo and Rei walked down onto the road and Teepo kneeled down next to Ryu.

"Well, you were close," Teepo said, slapping him on the back.

Ryu rubbed his neck. "Whatever. I don't think I'm really the mugging type."

Suddenly Rei's eyes lit up. "Hey, wait a minute…Ryu, was that guy Bunyan?"

"Uh…yeah…"

Rei grinned. "Bunyan lives alone in the Cedar Woods. Maybe we could…oh, I don't know…nab a piece of food or two?"

"Yeah! All right!" said Teepo.

Ryu sweatdropped.

"Ah, come on, Ryu!" said Teepo. "It's not like we're gonna demolish his house or something!" He and Rei started to walk north. "C'mon!"

Ryu sighed. I have a feeling I'm gonna regret this…He shook his head and ran after Rei and Teepo.

End of Chapter 2-Chapter 3 coming soon!

Author's Note: If you know the story like the back of your hand, don't start flaming me because this is inaccurate, alright? If you do flame me, at least tell me what needs to be improved. Thanks!