A TRIGUN FIC
Chiriko-chan
I'm running out of things to say!
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RECAP!!!!
Vash the stampede our ever-joyous hero. Was waiting with his brother and the junior Gun Ho Guns (A/N: I have no idea where Wolfwood went for that chapter.) for Seiko to have his arm, which was lost in the last chapter, replaced. Meanwhile Med, Critos, and, Chi where baby sitting for Seiko's child who when Seiko came back from getting a prosthetic arm he named him named Shinji.
Eight: Strangers
"Hey, thanks a lot for getting Meryl to take care of Shinji, Vash," Seiko thanked the gunman as the whole group bounced along in a wagon being pulled along Gunsmoke's rockiest desert, by a pair of Thomases which looked like they where running from a hungry lion.
"You're wel- OOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!" Vash hit his head on a metal rib of the canvas roof. "You're welcome," Vash managed to finish as the wagon screamed to a halt, Vash flying to the front his head puncturing the canvas. "Hey what's going on…" Vash stopped because the wagon driver wasn't there. He had fallen down a whole. There he landed on the Thomases, which landed on their feet.
"Chi, do you hear that horn playing?" Seiko asked the psychic.
"Yes it appears to be a C major in allegro, a very fine piece for the saxophone or trumpet, although it could use accompaniment." Chi elaborated a bit of a smirk appearing on his face for a split second as the playing changed to the pattern of a knock some people use, the one that goes knock knock-knock-knock, knock pause knock, knock. "Ah, He want's in, Shall I admit him?" Chi asked for the horn player.
"… Sure…" Seiko answered not sure he understood Chi completely.
"What are you guys talking about? I don't hear a single thing, and I'm a professional musician," Critos wondered looking around seeing that Med was sleeping under the bench that Wolfwood, Knives and Vash had been sitting on.
"Here is what we heard," Chi came back into the tent having left when no one was paying attention. "Hornfreak son of Midvalley," Chi introduced the teenager.
"Hey instead of yackin' ya could come an' help pull Tongari out of the wall!" Wolfwood shouted as he and knives pulled on Vash's legs trying to pull his head out of the hole it made when the wagon slammed to a stop.
"Stand back," the new boy ordered putting the horn to his mouth, playing B-flat bursting a whole above Vash's head, the sonic waves going harmlessly away.
"Nanio!" Wolfwood shouted as he and the living plants drew their guns.
"It's Ok," Critos explained signaling for them to put their weapons away, "He is my half brother."
"Wait a minuet…" Knives halted thinking a minuet, "If you're his half brother and your father is Midvalley and your Mother is Dominique…. I can understand having kids outside of the Gun Ho Guns, but how did they do that with out me knowing, even Legato!"
"Knives it doesn't matter any more, yer not in charge any more," Wolfwood warned pulling the wagon driver out of the whole.
"Chapel you're on thin ice!" Knives shouted his vein throbbing, a possessed look in his eyes.
"Knives, its Wolfwood, remember?" Wolfwood commented helping Vash out of the whole after he got the last of the Thomases out.
"Chapel shut-" Knives stopped a black light engulfing him.
"Legato," Seiko growled knowing it was him that had repossessed Knives.
"Vashu where's Rem?"
"Knivesu, Rem died along time ago," Vash replied looking perplexed.
"Vashu, Vashu I know you, now really where's Rem, I don't fell like playing jokes."
"Knives, Rem died over hundred years ago. You killed her when I guess a demon possessed you. Then when we landed on this planet Gunsmoke after you had destroyed the entire ship. You formed the Gun Ho G-."
"Vashu you're so easy to kid!" Knives exclaimed, "Thanks for getting rid of the demon I was having trouble suppress it for the past few days!" Knives smiled.
"You're welcome," Seiko returned.
"Waffles!"
"Hornfreak!"
"Yo!"
"Why did you do that?"
"I don't like touchy family moments?" He shrugged his shoulders.
"Chi I never met this guy are you sure he's a Gun Ho Gun?" Seiko asked.
"He was born after you left," Chi told him.
"But, you guys where ten when I left, and Chi was thirteen, how could he look you guy's age? He'd have to be… six years old!"
"We'll you see when I said he was my half brother I was wrong he's actually my cousin," Critos corrected himself.
"That still doesn't help," Seiko stood as perplexed as Vash over the matter.
"His mom is your sister," Chi helped Critos explain.
"Wwhhaatt!!! She's only seventeen!"
"Yet she looks twenty-eight, old enough to fool Midvalley," Chi informed him, as Wolfwood looked on in half amusement.
"How? I thought she hated even being near any of the Gun Ho Guns?"
"Yet it happened! So we should just accept it and go on!" Hornfreak smiled.
"Hornfreak, you sure are random," Seiko commented.
"Hornfreak! Long time no see!" Med jumped up shaking Hornfreak's hand.
"Med! Hey great to see you!" Hornfreak greeted.
"Hornfreak did you even know your mother?" Seiko asked, wondering how some one who grew up around his sister could be such a- a- Vash thing.
"Nope, Legato killed her right after I was born." He managed to stay smiling through it all.
"… Tessa" both Knives and Seiko murmured at the same time then starred at each other for a few seconds. Just before the wagon driver turned around firing his machine gun on succeeding in hitting the cross punisher.
"Help! I cant stop my… self!" the wagon driver shouted his gun aiming down at Vash a pair of knives and bullets shattering it before it could fire.
"Expect no hold backs Vash the Stampede," Legato's voice reverberated from the man's mouth. "Meet me at New Oregon, or the town will die just like this man! Ahahahahahahahaha!"
"No!" Vash shouted rushing forward trying to stop the man from stabbing himself with the knife he pulled out of his gun. Without any success, the man slit his own throat falling dead. "Legato! Why! Why do you do this! … Why play this sick game again…."
"Vash ya gonna sit there or not we gotta bury that guy then walk t' New Oregon." Wolfwood woke Vash from his trance.
"Yeah…"
To be continued…