EPISODE 3: The Great Assassin
DISCLAIMER: I don't own OLS, Sunrise does, and I don't own the characters Gene, Melfina, etc. So, don't sue me. Now, leave me alone and let me sleep...
Assassins and bounty hunters come in many forms; be it humans, cyborgs, androids, or alien races. As bounty hunter/ assassins differ in shape and size, they also differ in their view on their job. Most assassins foresee their job as just a job, that their victims' lives are irrelevant to them. Some assassins show respect for the ones they kill, giving honor to those that have passed away because of them. However, there are some who take on the job of assassination and bounty-hunting only to feed their lust for carnage and blood. None of these assassin/ bounty hunters is more feared than a woman named Aiyuma Sau'Ria. Her instincts to kill and fight have left bounty-targets mentally broken and have left few remains of her assassination victims. For one who is well known for her lethal skills, little is known about Aiyuma herself. There are rumors that state that she is cyborg, and others that tell about her having acute senses that are impossible for a human to possess all at once. There are even rumors that say she is a deadly cloning/biological engineering experiment gone wrong. Whatever the case, Aiyuma is a foe whose name means one thing in galaxy: "Terror..."
Jutubyra crouched into a sprinting position, ready to leave the ship's cargo bay ASAP. Miyumi saw this and decided to do the same.
"Alright, get ready to run on the count of 3," Jutubyra advised his new travel-partner.
"Just hope that you can keep up with me," Miyumi boasted with a grin.
"Whatever..." Jutubyra shook his head. Just then, the doors began to open up. "OK, 1...2...3!" Just as he gave the word, Jutubyra sped off at speeds usually impossible for a Terran to attain without the aid of some vehicle.
Miyumi simply stared in disbelief as she saw Jutubyra run off into the distance. Remembering that she too needed to leave, Miyumi sprinted behind Jutubyra's position, trying to keep up. Eventually, the blur of Jutubyra running suddenly disappeared into the distance.
"What the HELL?" Miyumi said to herself, yet again, in disbelief. She kept running at her usual pace, which was pretty fast for a Terran.
Miyumi arrived at the exit gates for the spaceport, only to find Jutubyra resting against the fencing as if nothing happened.
"About time you made it here," Jutubyra grumbled a bit. "Do you have ANY idea how long I've been waiting here?"
"You never told me that you could run that fast," Miyumi scowled at Jutubyra after she caught her breath. "You could have AT LEAST let me catch up with you."
"Look, I told you earlier that if we got spotted, they'd throw us in jail for trespassing. So, therefore, I couldn't wait up for you, YOUR HIGHNESS." The way Jutubyra said 'YOUR HIGHNESS' really got on Miyumi's nerves. Jutubyra was, once again, getting dangerously close to hitting one of Miyumi's anger spots.
"Why, you son of a-" Miyumi began to cuss.
"Spare me. Besides, it's not MY fault that you can't keep up with a superior being..." Jutubyra said smugly. Unfortunately, Jutubyra had REALLY crossed the line of Miyumi's tolerance for his insults this time. And with Jutubyra's remark, Miyumi did the worst thing that she could think of to Jutubyra:
She kicked him HARD in his GROINS.
"OH SH-" was all Jutubyra managed to cough out as he fell to the ground, curling into a fetal position in agony.
"There. Who's the superior being NOW?" Miyumi smirked as she looked down at her victim. "Well?" Miyumi backed her foot up for another kick
"Y-you are..." Jutubyra said painfully. `This is just great,' he thought to himself. `I have to let her WIN now. Jutubyra didn't usually like submissiveness. In fact, he absolutely HATED it. But then again, when you've just taken a blow to the most sensitive region of your male body and a few words to be said are all that stands between you and never being able to perform in bed; admitting defeat in an argument and killing your pride doesn't seem so bad any more.
"That's more' like it." Miyumi beamed triumphantly. At her feet, Jutubyra started to get up.
"Geeze, this sucks…" Jutubyra mumbled to himself as he stood up, making Miyumi face-fault. "Let's go, then," he said to his Chinese `friend.'
" Where to?" the princess asked as she got back up after seeing Jutubyra making a full recovery from her kick. "Do you have a place in particular that you'd like to go to?" she asked.
"Not exactly. I've never been here before, so, I think we should go into town and check it out. Unless you have a PROBLEM with that." Jutubyra said as a reassurance to Miyumi that he wasn't going to try and do something that would make her mad. Lord knows he didn't want to take another blow from Miyumi's foot AGAIN.
"Fine then. We'll go into town." Miyumi grinned, knowing why Jutubyra asked her if she had a problem with his plan. And so, the two walked off towards the city to see what they could find.
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After walking for a half hour, the two travelers gave up and called a taxi to rode to the city. They arrived at around late afternoon, a few hours before sunset. The city was awesome. No, awesome couldn't accurately describe it. It was emense, bright with color, full of action and (just as Jutubyra's luck would have it) full of beautiful women.
`Hot Damn!' Jutubyra thought with joy. `This is gonna be one GREAT stay on THIS planet…' Jutubyra looked around, trying to find a place packed with women. And, just as his luck would have it AGAIN, one of these places was a really nice looking bar. `All right. I was getting kinda thirsty any way…' Jutubyra looked at Miyumi, still staring in awe at the city. Seeing his moment of opportunity, Jutubyra made tracks for the bar.
"Hey, Jutubyra," Miyumi started. "what do say we go find a- Hm? Jutubyra? Where'd you go?" Miyumi looked around for her fellow traveling companion. She looked all around until she came across a place that he MUST be at: the bar. Miyumi sweat-dropped and proceeded into the hang-out of alcoholics. `Yech…` She thought in disgust. `What a sty!' She looked around the vicinity and spotted a boy in a leather bomber-jacket sitting at a table with a girl (about his age) in a SUPER skimpy outfit. Miyumi stormed up to the table, over-hearing their conversation as she approached the two.
"…Yeah. It's loaded; and, if you get me a couple more drinks, I'll let you shoot off my gun, babe." Jutubyra said to the girl sitting with him. She considered his offer and decided to accept it. She got up and left Jutubyra to get two more bottles of some of the strongest alcoholic drink the place had; which Jutubyra would like. At that point, Miyumi grabbed Jutubyra by the ear and dragged him out of the bar, causing everyone to look over at him and laugh at the spectacle. "Oh sh*t…" Jutubyra groaned to himself, totally embarrassed. Eventually, what seemed like an eternity to Jutubyra, the two had left the bar and stood outside on the sidewalk. Jutubyra glared at Miyumi in rage and disgust. "Why the HELL did you do THAT for?" he growled at the girl in fury.
"I take my eyes off you for ONE second, and where do I find you? In a sleazy bar, chugging down booze, and getting ready to pay something like $14.99 an hour to be with a trampy hooker. You should be thanking me for getting you out of there." The princess said as if she had a point that was valid.
"To start off with," began the enraged Jutubyra. "that `sleazy bar' was actually a restaurant. Second, I was drinking some expensive Sake. And finally, I was paying $4.99 an hour." Jutubyra was about to rag on Miyumi on how selfish SHE was until a person walked by our main character and STAPLED a flyer onto his forehead. "OW! What the f**k!?" Jutubyra swore as he tried to yank the staple out of his head.
"Wait! Hold still…" Miyumi said as she got out her bokken and used it as a lever to pull out the staple. Within seconds, the wooden sword flicked the tiny piece of metal off of Jutubyra's skull. "Are you OK?" Miyumi asked as Jutubyra rubbed his head.
"I've had worse. Now, WHO did that?" Jutubyra looked around to find the culprit. He couldn't see any one who stood out in the crowd. "Damn it."
"Hey, Jutubyra," Miyumi began to say. "Look at the flyer. It says `Come visit the Heimdal Mountain Hot Springs. Free Food Bar with every stay. Free Message by our Professional Hot Spring Girls…" Miyumi continued to read on out loud, but Jutubyra only caught the last two things she said: free food, and a group of spa-chicks there to give him the time of his life.
`Well well well… Oppurtunity knocks once more… He thought and grinned. "Let's check it out, Miyumi." Jutubyra suggested.
"What? Really? You want to go-" Miyumi said, looking up from the brochure.
"Absolutely. In fact, let's go now."
"Um… I'm kinda broke so-"
"Fine, I'LL pay."
"What's with the change of heart? You suddenly want to be nice to me. Did that staple go a little too far into your head or something?"
"No, no. I figured as long as we're here, we might as well go do something BOTH of us can agree on. Plus, whoever nailed this ad to my head will probably be there, so I can pay them back.
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