A/N: Lo' there people! If you've read this story before, then it's just cleaned up a bit. I added some more too. The rest will be redone also, if wanted that is. ^_^
Luv - :3~

Disclaimer: If I DID own Bebop, I would be making more episodes INSTEAD OF TYPING, WOULDN'T I ?!?!



Episode 26 & ½: The Lost Serenade

"Morality is but forever fleeting"
Ha. Who ever said that never knew the great Spike Spiegel. Well, you probably didn't know him. Those who did said little to nothing about the guy.
Spike is, err, was a "Cowboy". One who is down on their luck or just have a thirst for the green. Or the red…so to speak. Bounty hunters, mercenaries, outlaws, whatever. He didn't care about what you called him.

Though, his gun did.

By now, your impression of this bounty hunter might be turning the wrong way. The best way to describe him is to put together a fighting master, an intelligent weaponist, and, of course, a teenage kid who thought about food more that anything else.

Then again his mind could hardly be called cluttered. Maybe the best way to approach him was with an open mind and a loaded gun.

But he did have friends, almost enough for a group. Jet Black, a man who had lost his arm in a police battle (ironically by his own partner). Faye Valentine a cryogenically frozen girl from the earth. Her memory lost, but not her foxy and chronic gambling nature. And to make things even more confusing in reality she should be 70+ years old.

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the third. Or just Ed, if you like. She is a computer hacker (one of the best) and is only 13, at least that's what she tells everyone. Then theirs Ein. She's a dog. A very intelligent does who has a super hu-err-dog brain. She likes food, napping, and hanging out with anyone who wouldn't kick her.

Yep, Spike knew, even cared, for them all. But Spiegel understood his fate. He had enemies. Bad one's. The kind that haunt you all your life. Or until the end of his.

He faced his greatest enemy, his rival, his ex comrade.
Gun to sword.
For one last time.


He never came back.


Death is what he wanted more than anything and everything, but as the old song goes "You can't always get what you want".

I should know that better than anyone…


Upcoming episode:
Ed (older sounding): Ah, it's been 5 years...time for a new start, a new beginning, and maybe a new character. Next episode:
A Long December.
Don't worry, it'll all come back to you.