A/N: I own nothing in here except for the ones I DO own. Trigun, and all
related suchness belong to Yasuhiro Nightow. Ok, done with that, lemme tell
you that I have seen all the episodes, but only understood up to episode 10
^-^; because all the rest are in Japanese. I couldn't get my hands on the
dubs.
Dry Planet
~Innocence Of Evil~
Vash looked at Knives worriedly. He was clutching his head, eyes closed tight. Meryl felt helpless once again, not knowing what to do. Milly was still snoring away, turning only once during all this time. The blonde man quickly went over to Knives, sitting on Meryl's bed, his aqua eyes not straying from his brother. He placed a hand on the troubled man's shoulder.
"No!! Leave me alone!! Go away!" Knives pushed it away, scurrying far from his brother, only to bump into Meryl. Then he began to cry. Vash looked at Meryl for help, his vision blurred. Meryl did what her instinct told her to. She hugged Knives, who had turned into a child once again. As her gentle arms wrapped around his trembling shoulder, he quieted down. "Knives." she said, barely a whisper. "We don't want to hurt you. We want to help you. Especially your brother." She looked up Vash, smiled what she hope was a reassuring smile. Vash smiled back, and came close to Knives, and hugged him. "Yeah Knives. We want to help, but we can't unless you let us. Please, let us help." Vash stayed embraced with his brother, who slowly opened his eyes. He looked at Vash, studying him. Then to Meryl, and studied her too. This made Meryl a bit nervous, and fidgeted a little. With a nod, he closed his eyes, still sniffing. "Please.don't leave me alone.brother?" he said. "Of course I won't." "Promise?" "Promise." "Good." Meryl stood, and headed for the door. She turned and smiled at the brothers. "I'll get breakfast ready. Vash, why don't you help clean Knives up? And Knives, I meant what I said." She went out the door, leaving the two brothers and a sleeping Milly.
A month passed since Knives's awakening. It seems as if the use of two angel arms drained him dry of power, and now is very much like a normal human. At first, Knives avoided Milly and Meryl, or tried to. He didn't leave his room without Vash at his side. Then, he began to come out. He found out the destructive power of Meryl's sharp tongue, and, for the first time since the death of Rem, started to respect Meryl. He found Milly's company quite amusing. Slowly, without him realizing it, he was befriending the two girls. Since meeting these two, he put his past behind him, his grudge against human giving away. But, He always comes to visit him at night. His voice would taunt him, reminding him of his killings. Knives hated Him, He who took over his body, He who weakened the real Knives. Yet, He seems to disappear when the golden fringe of dawn pushed away the blue skirts of night. Knives found His weakness. Light. Every night, he would light a candle, and every night, He talked lesser and lesser, till even Knives don't feel his presence.
Vash woke at the sound of knocking. He got out of his cot, grumbling. Who the heck visits at this hour? He was sleeping in the living room that night, and it was still dark. He stubbed his toe hard against a table leg. Cursing inwardly, he groped his was to the door. He pulled a chain overhead, clicking on the light bulb. He blinked, waiting for his eyes to get used to the sudden light. Yawning, he opened the door, and there stood a girl that looks around 9. She was the palest person he has ever seen in his inhumanly long life. She has chalk-white skin; her hair is an almost white blonde. Her eyes were pale baby blue, with blue irises. It looked as it she was blind, yet her eyes focused Vash. "Um..can I help you?" Vash blinked again, and the child smiled shyly with her thin pale lips. "Yes you can." She said sweetly. "It's kind of cold out here. Can I come in?" "Oh, of course, come in!" He smiled, stepped aside to make room. That was when he noticed how cold it was, and shivered slightly. The girl curtsied, and stepped inside. She wore a white blouse, with a light blue-gray lace- fringed jumper. She also had on white leggings, and white Mary Jane's, an old-fashioned shoe style. He closed the door, puzzled. Sheesh, she's totally white, The only color I see on her is those blue eyes.she's creepy. He shuddered. Then he noticed the girl is gone. "Er, little girl? Little girl!" He searched the living room, kitchen, and bathroom, but no girl. "Yessh, where'd that ghost girl gone to?" "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" "What the (bleep)?!" Vash jumped at least 3 feet of the ground, and the screams continued. He ran to the owner of the screams, and found two scared insurance girls coming out of their room. He stopped at Knives's door and swung it opened. Vash found Knives, staring down at the pale, blue-eyed girl. The girl was kneeling, looking up at Knives strangely. "Milord! What is wrong?" She blinked her huge eyes. Knives saw Vash, he scrambled out of his bed, ran pass the girl and hid behind Vash. The girl turned and stared, mouth opened in disbelief. "MiLORD!! Have you gone mad?! You.you.you're amongst humans!!!" she spat human out as if it was garbage, too low for her vocabulary. She narrowed her icy eyes into hard slits at Vash and the Insurance Girls. "You low-lives! You brainwashed His Majesty!! How dare you! You shall pay, apes. Once I find Captain Legato, he'll bring King Knives into his senses." "Huh?" all but Knives stared at her as if she was crazy. But the girl continued on. "I will punish you, that I will." She smiled sweetly, her face now turned into that of a little girl, her anger passed away. "Let's play a game!" her eyes shone of innocence. "I know a very good one, it's called Freeze Tag!" Meryl and Milly sighed with relief, and Vash smiled. "Sure! I love that game too!" Can't believe I thought she would hurt us. She's creepy, but still is a little girl. "Yay!" She jumped up and down. "Knives seems too tired. I'll take him to the living room." Meryl said as she and Milly took his arms and helped him away. Vash nods and faced the girl. "Well, let's start." He smiled at her. She smiled back, twice as innocent as before. "I'll be It! This'll be easy, with only you." She ran towards Vash, and before he could blink, she leaped into the air, giggling. She swung her delicate hand at him, forcing a burst of icy wind at the man. Vash, who thanked is inhumanly nature, rolled away and the wind froze the spot he was just a moment before. Then he heard more giggles, and he instinctively rolled away was again out into the hall. He ran down the hall, screaming, in a zig-zag motion. He reached the living room where the girls and Knives were and turned. There stood the girl, innocently as before. "Teehee! This is fun! Now we have more players! Whee!" a gust of blue wind formed around her, then shaped into a horse. She vaulted herself over it, her hand already pushing the cold wind towards Milly. The brunette swung up her stun gun, and blasted several stunners at the wind. The wind whistled past them, freezing them in the process, and reached the stun gun. The gun froze; a coat of ice covers it. "Aaaaiiii!!" She tossed the frozen gun away and hid behind the couch. Meryl fared better than her partner, and managed to reach her room. She opened, hearing the wind-filled whinny of the wind horse, and dived under her bed, the soles of her feet getting numb as the wind just missed. She grabbed a box, ripped it opened, and pulled out a canister with a nozzle. She feinted going to the right, but rolled out from the bed to the left, and pointed the nozzle at the girl on her wind horse. At the same time, she tucked the canister beneath her arm, and her thumb pushed a button. A stream of fire flared out from the nozzle to the girl. The girl screamed, her steed reared and evaporated away. She ran from the room to the living room again, her little face pulled into a snarl. Around her hand, blue-white wind swirled around, and compressed together into a gun. She turned and took quick aim, and pulled the trigger. Then ice bullet sliced through the air, and Meryl tried to dodge it, but she wasn't fast enough. The bullet lodge itself deep into her calf. She cried out in pain, her whole right leg numb with cold, the wound was frozen with a thin layer of ice forming from the bullet hole. "Meryl!" Both Milly and Vash cried out, and Vash reached Meryl first. He held her, and glared at the girl. "Who are you?!" "Little ol' me? Heh, I'm Gun Ho Gun number one, Monev" (pronounced mon-ay- v) "the Gale. I was sent here to retrieve His Majesty, King Knives, back home." She aimed her ice gun at the blonde man. "I was also ordered to chill all obstacles that'll keep me." She pulled the trigger, and the bullet zoomed out at Vash. "Stop!" Knives stood between the gun and Vash. Monev gasped and shot a blast of wind at the bullet, forcing it to swerve to the side. Her gun vaporated away, and she kneeled down to him. "Millord, forgive me." Her hand jerked, and a soft breeze surrounded Knives, carrying him away. Kick and punch as he might, he was forced out through a window, carried away. "Knives!!" Vash began to stand, when Meryl grasped the front of his pajamas. "Wait!" She then pushed the canister into his arms. "You get rid of this brat. Milly and I will get Knives." Then she turned to Milly. "Milly!" "Yes. Ma'am!" She ran over, and helped Meryl up. Monev's ice gun reformed again, this time becoming a machine gun. She began to shoot at the girls, and would've got them if it weren't for the wall of fire caused by the flamethrower used by Vash. "Oh icicles!" she pointed her gun at Vash, who dodged expertly. Taking advantage of the distraction, Milly and Meryl went outside, with the shorter woman dragging her numb leg. They both got on their Tomases and ran off, towards where the flying Knives is still visible. Monev, seeing her machine gun won't work, reshaped her weapon back into the old form. She created another wind horse, this time with eight legs. She got on the horse, at the same time, creating a small dragon. As if having a mind of it's own, the wind dragon ran off, circling Vash. Monev also circled Vash on her cold steed. Vash began to sweat. Crap! If I shoot at her, the dragon'll get me. If I shoot at the dragon, then she'll get me. Damn it! He ran toward a wall, to get his back upon. Vash skidded to a stop as the eight-legged horse appeared in front of him. He shot out fire towards the girl and her horse, but Monev shielded her and the horse with a flick of her free hand. A wall of ice formed in front of them, the fire hitting into it. Both forces canceled each other out. As Vash dealt with Monev, the wind dragon pounced and sunk it's ice teeth into his back. Like venom, the dragon's freezing breathe entered Vash through the icicle teeth. Vash screamed as his back began to freeze. He grabbed at the dragon, but since it's only wind, his hand passed right through, only to come out slightly frosted. Then a thought came to him. Quickly, he shoved the still hot canister at the dragon. The dragon let go of him, roaring in protest, leaping away. Vash's ears heard the click of a trigger, and he dodged away, the bullet grazing him. He brushed at his pant leg, the frozen cloth crumbling away. The dragon ran toward him again, and the blonde man pointed the nozzle at it and pushed the button. The dragon inhaled deeply and blew out a jet of blue-white steam. The steam and fire met, and with a hiss they both disappeared. With him occupied, Monev rode closer, quickly aimed, pulled the trigger, and drew away. At the corner of his eyes he saw the glint of the ice and shifted his position, so the bullet shattered as it hit his gun arm, leaving a dent in the metal. "What in the world?" the girl blinked, surprise at the metal arm. The dragon itself blinked, looked from its mistress then to Vash. Thanking his lucky stars for this moment, he shot at Monev, full blast. The fire flared out from the nozzle, it's heat so great, Vash can smell his hair burning. The nozzle and the canister became unbearable, even to Vash. Screams from the girl could be barely heard over the roar of the fire, and the tortured shrieks of the dragon, having a mind of it's own so it can feel pain. As fast as it appeared, the fire went out in a mushroom of smoke. Vash covered his mouth and nose with his shirt, coughing. The smoke cleared away, and Monev was on her knees, her clothes burnt to shreds. Burn marks and soot covers her pale skin. Her face shone with perspiration as she gasps for air. Her icy blue eyes had turned colder, glaring ice shards at Vash. "You.how.dare.you."she narrowed her eyes into thin slits, and hissed through clench teeth. "You'll pay.human." She reached up to her left ear, took off a diamond earring, though Vash could safely guess it was made of ice, and smashed it in her palm. Freezing gales tore from her fist, engulfing her, howling as it did. The wind wrapped around her so tight, that it was practically a cocoon, and then it disappeared out the window.
Dry Planet
~Innocence Of Evil~
Vash looked at Knives worriedly. He was clutching his head, eyes closed tight. Meryl felt helpless once again, not knowing what to do. Milly was still snoring away, turning only once during all this time. The blonde man quickly went over to Knives, sitting on Meryl's bed, his aqua eyes not straying from his brother. He placed a hand on the troubled man's shoulder.
"No!! Leave me alone!! Go away!" Knives pushed it away, scurrying far from his brother, only to bump into Meryl. Then he began to cry. Vash looked at Meryl for help, his vision blurred. Meryl did what her instinct told her to. She hugged Knives, who had turned into a child once again. As her gentle arms wrapped around his trembling shoulder, he quieted down. "Knives." she said, barely a whisper. "We don't want to hurt you. We want to help you. Especially your brother." She looked up Vash, smiled what she hope was a reassuring smile. Vash smiled back, and came close to Knives, and hugged him. "Yeah Knives. We want to help, but we can't unless you let us. Please, let us help." Vash stayed embraced with his brother, who slowly opened his eyes. He looked at Vash, studying him. Then to Meryl, and studied her too. This made Meryl a bit nervous, and fidgeted a little. With a nod, he closed his eyes, still sniffing. "Please.don't leave me alone.brother?" he said. "Of course I won't." "Promise?" "Promise." "Good." Meryl stood, and headed for the door. She turned and smiled at the brothers. "I'll get breakfast ready. Vash, why don't you help clean Knives up? And Knives, I meant what I said." She went out the door, leaving the two brothers and a sleeping Milly.
A month passed since Knives's awakening. It seems as if the use of two angel arms drained him dry of power, and now is very much like a normal human. At first, Knives avoided Milly and Meryl, or tried to. He didn't leave his room without Vash at his side. Then, he began to come out. He found out the destructive power of Meryl's sharp tongue, and, for the first time since the death of Rem, started to respect Meryl. He found Milly's company quite amusing. Slowly, without him realizing it, he was befriending the two girls. Since meeting these two, he put his past behind him, his grudge against human giving away. But, He always comes to visit him at night. His voice would taunt him, reminding him of his killings. Knives hated Him, He who took over his body, He who weakened the real Knives. Yet, He seems to disappear when the golden fringe of dawn pushed away the blue skirts of night. Knives found His weakness. Light. Every night, he would light a candle, and every night, He talked lesser and lesser, till even Knives don't feel his presence.
Vash woke at the sound of knocking. He got out of his cot, grumbling. Who the heck visits at this hour? He was sleeping in the living room that night, and it was still dark. He stubbed his toe hard against a table leg. Cursing inwardly, he groped his was to the door. He pulled a chain overhead, clicking on the light bulb. He blinked, waiting for his eyes to get used to the sudden light. Yawning, he opened the door, and there stood a girl that looks around 9. She was the palest person he has ever seen in his inhumanly long life. She has chalk-white skin; her hair is an almost white blonde. Her eyes were pale baby blue, with blue irises. It looked as it she was blind, yet her eyes focused Vash. "Um..can I help you?" Vash blinked again, and the child smiled shyly with her thin pale lips. "Yes you can." She said sweetly. "It's kind of cold out here. Can I come in?" "Oh, of course, come in!" He smiled, stepped aside to make room. That was when he noticed how cold it was, and shivered slightly. The girl curtsied, and stepped inside. She wore a white blouse, with a light blue-gray lace- fringed jumper. She also had on white leggings, and white Mary Jane's, an old-fashioned shoe style. He closed the door, puzzled. Sheesh, she's totally white, The only color I see on her is those blue eyes.she's creepy. He shuddered. Then he noticed the girl is gone. "Er, little girl? Little girl!" He searched the living room, kitchen, and bathroom, but no girl. "Yessh, where'd that ghost girl gone to?" "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" "What the (bleep)?!" Vash jumped at least 3 feet of the ground, and the screams continued. He ran to the owner of the screams, and found two scared insurance girls coming out of their room. He stopped at Knives's door and swung it opened. Vash found Knives, staring down at the pale, blue-eyed girl. The girl was kneeling, looking up at Knives strangely. "Milord! What is wrong?" She blinked her huge eyes. Knives saw Vash, he scrambled out of his bed, ran pass the girl and hid behind Vash. The girl turned and stared, mouth opened in disbelief. "MiLORD!! Have you gone mad?! You.you.you're amongst humans!!!" she spat human out as if it was garbage, too low for her vocabulary. She narrowed her icy eyes into hard slits at Vash and the Insurance Girls. "You low-lives! You brainwashed His Majesty!! How dare you! You shall pay, apes. Once I find Captain Legato, he'll bring King Knives into his senses." "Huh?" all but Knives stared at her as if she was crazy. But the girl continued on. "I will punish you, that I will." She smiled sweetly, her face now turned into that of a little girl, her anger passed away. "Let's play a game!" her eyes shone of innocence. "I know a very good one, it's called Freeze Tag!" Meryl and Milly sighed with relief, and Vash smiled. "Sure! I love that game too!" Can't believe I thought she would hurt us. She's creepy, but still is a little girl. "Yay!" She jumped up and down. "Knives seems too tired. I'll take him to the living room." Meryl said as she and Milly took his arms and helped him away. Vash nods and faced the girl. "Well, let's start." He smiled at her. She smiled back, twice as innocent as before. "I'll be It! This'll be easy, with only you." She ran towards Vash, and before he could blink, she leaped into the air, giggling. She swung her delicate hand at him, forcing a burst of icy wind at the man. Vash, who thanked is inhumanly nature, rolled away and the wind froze the spot he was just a moment before. Then he heard more giggles, and he instinctively rolled away was again out into the hall. He ran down the hall, screaming, in a zig-zag motion. He reached the living room where the girls and Knives were and turned. There stood the girl, innocently as before. "Teehee! This is fun! Now we have more players! Whee!" a gust of blue wind formed around her, then shaped into a horse. She vaulted herself over it, her hand already pushing the cold wind towards Milly. The brunette swung up her stun gun, and blasted several stunners at the wind. The wind whistled past them, freezing them in the process, and reached the stun gun. The gun froze; a coat of ice covers it. "Aaaaiiii!!" She tossed the frozen gun away and hid behind the couch. Meryl fared better than her partner, and managed to reach her room. She opened, hearing the wind-filled whinny of the wind horse, and dived under her bed, the soles of her feet getting numb as the wind just missed. She grabbed a box, ripped it opened, and pulled out a canister with a nozzle. She feinted going to the right, but rolled out from the bed to the left, and pointed the nozzle at the girl on her wind horse. At the same time, she tucked the canister beneath her arm, and her thumb pushed a button. A stream of fire flared out from the nozzle to the girl. The girl screamed, her steed reared and evaporated away. She ran from the room to the living room again, her little face pulled into a snarl. Around her hand, blue-white wind swirled around, and compressed together into a gun. She turned and took quick aim, and pulled the trigger. Then ice bullet sliced through the air, and Meryl tried to dodge it, but she wasn't fast enough. The bullet lodge itself deep into her calf. She cried out in pain, her whole right leg numb with cold, the wound was frozen with a thin layer of ice forming from the bullet hole. "Meryl!" Both Milly and Vash cried out, and Vash reached Meryl first. He held her, and glared at the girl. "Who are you?!" "Little ol' me? Heh, I'm Gun Ho Gun number one, Monev" (pronounced mon-ay- v) "the Gale. I was sent here to retrieve His Majesty, King Knives, back home." She aimed her ice gun at the blonde man. "I was also ordered to chill all obstacles that'll keep me." She pulled the trigger, and the bullet zoomed out at Vash. "Stop!" Knives stood between the gun and Vash. Monev gasped and shot a blast of wind at the bullet, forcing it to swerve to the side. Her gun vaporated away, and she kneeled down to him. "Millord, forgive me." Her hand jerked, and a soft breeze surrounded Knives, carrying him away. Kick and punch as he might, he was forced out through a window, carried away. "Knives!!" Vash began to stand, when Meryl grasped the front of his pajamas. "Wait!" She then pushed the canister into his arms. "You get rid of this brat. Milly and I will get Knives." Then she turned to Milly. "Milly!" "Yes. Ma'am!" She ran over, and helped Meryl up. Monev's ice gun reformed again, this time becoming a machine gun. She began to shoot at the girls, and would've got them if it weren't for the wall of fire caused by the flamethrower used by Vash. "Oh icicles!" she pointed her gun at Vash, who dodged expertly. Taking advantage of the distraction, Milly and Meryl went outside, with the shorter woman dragging her numb leg. They both got on their Tomases and ran off, towards where the flying Knives is still visible. Monev, seeing her machine gun won't work, reshaped her weapon back into the old form. She created another wind horse, this time with eight legs. She got on the horse, at the same time, creating a small dragon. As if having a mind of it's own, the wind dragon ran off, circling Vash. Monev also circled Vash on her cold steed. Vash began to sweat. Crap! If I shoot at her, the dragon'll get me. If I shoot at the dragon, then she'll get me. Damn it! He ran toward a wall, to get his back upon. Vash skidded to a stop as the eight-legged horse appeared in front of him. He shot out fire towards the girl and her horse, but Monev shielded her and the horse with a flick of her free hand. A wall of ice formed in front of them, the fire hitting into it. Both forces canceled each other out. As Vash dealt with Monev, the wind dragon pounced and sunk it's ice teeth into his back. Like venom, the dragon's freezing breathe entered Vash through the icicle teeth. Vash screamed as his back began to freeze. He grabbed at the dragon, but since it's only wind, his hand passed right through, only to come out slightly frosted. Then a thought came to him. Quickly, he shoved the still hot canister at the dragon. The dragon let go of him, roaring in protest, leaping away. Vash's ears heard the click of a trigger, and he dodged away, the bullet grazing him. He brushed at his pant leg, the frozen cloth crumbling away. The dragon ran toward him again, and the blonde man pointed the nozzle at it and pushed the button. The dragon inhaled deeply and blew out a jet of blue-white steam. The steam and fire met, and with a hiss they both disappeared. With him occupied, Monev rode closer, quickly aimed, pulled the trigger, and drew away. At the corner of his eyes he saw the glint of the ice and shifted his position, so the bullet shattered as it hit his gun arm, leaving a dent in the metal. "What in the world?" the girl blinked, surprise at the metal arm. The dragon itself blinked, looked from its mistress then to Vash. Thanking his lucky stars for this moment, he shot at Monev, full blast. The fire flared out from the nozzle, it's heat so great, Vash can smell his hair burning. The nozzle and the canister became unbearable, even to Vash. Screams from the girl could be barely heard over the roar of the fire, and the tortured shrieks of the dragon, having a mind of it's own so it can feel pain. As fast as it appeared, the fire went out in a mushroom of smoke. Vash covered his mouth and nose with his shirt, coughing. The smoke cleared away, and Monev was on her knees, her clothes burnt to shreds. Burn marks and soot covers her pale skin. Her face shone with perspiration as she gasps for air. Her icy blue eyes had turned colder, glaring ice shards at Vash. "You.how.dare.you."she narrowed her eyes into thin slits, and hissed through clench teeth. "You'll pay.human." She reached up to her left ear, took off a diamond earring, though Vash could safely guess it was made of ice, and smashed it in her palm. Freezing gales tore from her fist, engulfing her, howling as it did. The wind wrapped around her so tight, that it was practically a cocoon, and then it disappeared out the window.
