Disclaimer: Just a reminder that Outlaw Star doesn't belong to me.
Story three
Part three
(Jim's POV)
"Gene!" I yelled as I rushed down the hallway into the kitchen. It was almost noon, and the ship was finally empty.
"Yea, what is it?" My partner replies from inside the room. "I'm really hunger right now so if it's about some job, than you can stuff it!" "I've already missed breakfast today thanks to you."
"Quit your whining," I scowl him. "I mean, I haven't eaten anything today either, and you don't see me crying like a baby, besides if you could have found a job on your own yesterday, than we wouldn't have had to miss breakfast this morning."
"Well, if you didn't come up with this bright idea of keeping this job a secret from the other, then I wouldn't be having this problem either," Gene shouted back.
"Shut up, Gilliam is going to hear you," I warn him. "Besides do you remember the last big bounty we had?"
"I think so," Gene sat back in his seat by the table. "Wasn't it that Cyborg guy?"
"No, that was the decoy, the real guy was taken out by Suzaka," I sign, and she didn't share a cent with us.
"Yeah, but I still don't see why we didn't at least tell Mel, about it," Gene mused as he pulled out his Castor gun and a few shells, which he place inside of the Castor.
"Enough Aniki, we have better things to do than argue," I quickly ended the argument," especially since I have just manage to get the girls out for the day."
"Fine o-great master, I hear and obey," Gene grin as I grab a seat and sat beside him.
"So what about that letter?" "Have you open it yet?"
"Nah, I was just waiting for the right moment," he answered with a starry-eye look.
"So pretty much you just forgot that you had it," I smiled breaking him out of his trance. That was a big mistake as Gene reached over and pulled me out of the chair and into a headlock.
"Say that again, I dare you," Gene smiled as I wiggled helpless in his grasp.
"We don't have time for this," I screamed as Gene began to tickle me. "Ha, Ha, Ha!"
Thirty minutes later, Gene had finally called it quits and he had opened the letter.
"Another challenge letter?" I asked him as he went silent.
"Yea, and she wants us to meet her tomorrow afternoon at the park." Gene spoke seriously.
"Great, I can go over there today and scope out the area for a good place for me to hide during the match." "Hanmyo, doesn't know just how easy she had made it for us to take her down." I smiled trying my best to keep up the illusion. To be honesty, I had kind of hope that letter was something else, beside a challenge.
"Yawn, well, since I don't have anything else to do today." Gene smirked. "I guess I can go out for a drink."
"Gene, remember Hanmyo isn't one of our normal bounties, she is one of the Anten Seven, which means that we shouldn't under estimate her."
"You worry too much," Gene quickly slid out from the table and stood up," at this rate you're going to be a old man before you get in your thirties."
I was totally taken back by his little speech and in a desperate attempt I shouted something that I would forever regret "Well, with your attitude I'll be surprise if you get that old." I said as Gene left the room.
It was then after a few minutes of silences, which meant that Gene was long gone, that I noticed the letter laying on the table. So, I quickly picked it up and begin to read it, and to my dismay it said pretty much what Gene had told me.
"Humph, what was I expecting a love letter," I chided myself as I placed the letter down and went to the refrigerator and grab a soda. I then returned to my seat and picked up the letter again. I didn't know why, but for some reason I couldn't believe that there wasn't more to this letter, and with this thought I open the soda which shot out of the can like a gysher. I could bet this was Aisha's fault. She was always pick up a soda, dropping it, and placing it back in the refrigerator like she didn't do it. Anyway, it splashed me in the face and got all over the letter.
"Damn it, Aisha," I called out as I wiped my face clean of the soda with a paper-towel that Mel always kept on the table for those incidents that normally happens on this ship. It was after this as I curse her again, I took a good look at the letter, than I realized there was something else written into the letter, almost as if there was two sheets of paper stuck together. The soda that had fallen on the paper had made the paper on top thinner in some areas, so that I could see the message partly.
B-But the rest was still a mystery to me I thought as I took it into the other room and turn on a lamp so that I could see the rest of it.
Hey, Jim Hawkings
I bet you thought I was going to make this easy on you, Hmm. Well, think again, because I'm not the type to go easy on anyone. Oh yeah, I hope you aren't really attached to those other women. I really am the jealous type. See-ya tomorrow at noon,
Luv you,
Hanmyo.
"Whoa, how did she know that I would find this?" I spoke outloud to no one in particular. I really was more focus on the fact that she had written this letter to me and not to Gene, and less aware of what was actually said in the letter. But that didn't last too long.
"I wonder why she said that she hope I'm not too attach to those other women, and what other women could she be-be," It was then as I was about to finish to sentence that it struck me like an anvil. "She is talking about Melfina, Aisha, and Suzaka!" I quickly leapt away from the table and called out to Gilliam.
"Gilliam, did the girls tell you where they was going?"
"Yes, Jim," a small pink can shaped bot appeared before me as it slid effortless on a rail above my head. "Melfina and Aisha went to the mall, while Suzaka went after a bounty."
"There are hundreds of malls here, Gilliam, I need to know the name of the exacts one." I shout in a state of panic. If I was right, Hanmyo might be going after the girls, which might mean that we would have to encounter her a lot earlier than this letter had predicted.