Hee hee hee; what would you expect from a Mary Sue fic, huh? Anywho...here
is the next chapter. What happened to Astra's parents that she's keeping as
a secret? And what's this? Astra's changing! Mainly in hair color at the
moment. But dun worry, its natural for her 'kind' to do such a thing. ^^
Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun or its chars, only mine.
Kuroneko: o.o nyao
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Chapter 10: The Truth
She was in the center of some city. Her hair was completely bright blue, but it was still straight. Her clothing was still the same, but no trench coat like the last time. Astra was fighting against her brother, gunfire and their elemental powers.
Astra dove and rolled to the left, avoiding a fireball. She shot at her brother, who dodged it and let it hit the wall of a building behind him. She then sent a lighting ball that hit Gavin in the chest.
Gavin flew back and rolled to a stand. He wasn't hurt at all. His eyes hardened at Astra.
"Time to end this," Gavin stated as his whole body became surrounded by flames. Using whatever energy he has, he made the fire stronger and larger.
Astra's eyes widened a moment, and then she knew what she had to do. She stood as lighting surged through her body.
"Not if I can help it," Astra said through the lighting.
She concentrated on putting every ounce of energy in the lighting. Astra felt light and started to float into the mid-air. She didn't know that she was doing so, and kept her energy up as much as possible for her power to charge.
Then she released the lighting and sent it towards her brother. At the same time, Gavin sent his fire energy at Astra.
Both elements collided and when they met, it sent a shock wave that broke windows and shook the buildings. People and cars were tossed everywhere.
Both Elements kept their powers as strong as possible. Astra didn't know how long she can last, but sent another surge of lighting to help weaken Gavin. She screamed in protest to keep going. Astra could feel her energy start to falter and lower, but she kept up a fight.
Then, she used the last of her energy and sent right at Gavin. She screamed even louder in protest as the lighting hit Gavin and destroyed the town.
Astra stayed suspended in mid-air for a moment before falling about 100 feet to the ground. Then everything went black as she hit the rubble of the town.
*****
Astra woke with a start as she landed on her bed with a thud. She bolted into a sitting position, breathing hard and a light coating of sweat all over her body. Her head jerked around to get her surroundings. She breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that she was in the same room that she first woke up several days earlier.
She climbed out of bed and noticed that it was still dark outside. She pulled her jeans on after she got out of her pajama shorts. Figuring her pajama top would be fine; she silently headed for the bathroom to brush her hair.
Turning the bathroom light on, Astra entered the bathroom. Astra splashed cold water on her face. She ran her wet hands through her hair and reached for her brush to start brushing her hair. When she raised her head and finally faced the mirror, she almost screamed.
Her hair has changed. It has bright blue streaks with her brown hair. It was the same length and was still straight. There was a flicker of remembrance as she remembered a vision that she had a while ago. She went on and brushed her hair, then went back into her room.
Astra grabbed her pack, turned on her lamp and sat on her bed. Opening the pack, she pulled out the cylinder that contains paintings that she wants to keep. She then opened the cylinder and poured the paintings out of the container.
Flipping through the papers, Astra briefly looked at the paintings until she found the one of herself, but her hair was completely different. It was spiked out everywhere and was a bit shorter than her original length.
Astra put the paintings back in the cylinder, turned the light off and headed for the bar downstairs. She needed a drink to lull her back to sleep. Ordering a beer, she seated herself at the bar.
Behind her, two people entered the saloon. One was a blue-haired man wearing a white coat with spikes on one shoulder and a skull on the opposite. His partner was a lilac-haired woman wearing a dark green trench coat. They sat at a table nearby.
Astra was able to see the two newcomers out of the corner of her eye. The man reminded her of someone, but she couldn't place it. Then she heard a voice in her head.
"Hello, Astra Kaji." The voice was masculine and had a psychotic monotone to it. She had a strong sense that it belonged to the man in the white coat.
Mentally, she asked, "Who are you?"
The man spoke again; his voice had a slight hint of laughter. "Legato. Legato Bluesummers. One of the men who had a hand in your parents' death."
Astra's muscles tensed, but she didn't move. In her mind, she said, "It was you."
"Yes," Legato hissed. "But I wasn't the only one who had a hand in it."
Then he and his partner stood. "We better get going. I'm leaving a bag here for you. There's something in it that could hold sentimental value to you. Until we meet again, Astra Kaji."
Astra turned in her seat and watched Legato and his partner leaves the saloon. She looked back at the table and saw a brown paper bag.
She turned back to her drink and downed the rest of it. The warmth of the alcohol started spread throughout her body as she stood from the bar. Astra walked over to the table Legato sat at. The brown bag still sat there. She stood there a moment before reaching out and snatching the bag. It felt heavy.
Once up in her room, she placed the bag on her nightstand. I'll look at it in the morning, she thought as the warmth from the alcohol put her into a dreamless sleep.
*****
Nick, Milly, Meryl and Vash were awake and had their breakfast. Vash became curious and slightly worried as to what was taking Astra so long to get here. There was no sign of Astra. She wasn't up yet, or at least they thought she wasn't up. After Vash finished his drink, he stood from the table.
"I'll go.check on Astra." Vash stated, a little hesitant on saying that, then walked around the table and headed up the stairs.
Meryl and Nick both shook their heads after Vash disappeared up the stairs. Meryl was the first one to speak. "He just keeps getting weirder by the day."
"I'll have to agree with you there," Nick said.
Milly looked at Nick, then Meryl and Nick again. Then she asked, "Is that because Vash cares for Astra and doesn't want to admit it?"
Both, Nick and Meryl, fell over in their seats. Then got up at the same time and sat down again.
"Why do I have her for a partner," Meryl asked as she placed her head in her hands.
Nick started banging his head on the table. " I don't think you wanna know."
*****
Astra was awake and was sitting on her bed, staring at the brown paper bag on her nightstand. She wondered what it was that Legato gave her that would have "sentimental value" to her. Not being able to take it anymore, she reached over and grabbed the bag. Astra dumped the contents from the bag onto her bed.
The contents were actually two guns. One was a large silver .50 Lighting Storm Magnum. The other is a smaller sized gun that was black and is a .15 Firestorm Revolver. She recognized them as her parents' guns; the Firestorm belonging to her mother, the Lighting Storm her fathers. Carefully, she picked up the small black revolver. Her head jerked back and she closed her eyes at the same time. She was having a flashback.
~*Flashback*~
A young teenaged Astra was walking with her parents. Her hair was all brown and reached past her shoulders while she had a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses over her crystal blue eyes. She had a pair of plain jeans and a black shirt on along with her black boots.
Her parents were different from her. Neither of them had brown hair. Her mother had sky blue hair and matching eyes and her father had dark green hair with brown eyes. They were wearing clothing similar to their daughter's, but the colors varied.
Astra turned around to face her parents. "Why did Gavin have to stay home?"
"Because he caused a fire and we are making him clean it while we are here," her mother answered.
Astra turned around and was quiet. Then her father spoke. "Astra, why don't you go to the sweet shop and we'll meet you there after we're done shopping, alright?"
Her face lit up with joy. "Alright."
Astra ran off to the side and entered the sweet shop as her parents continued down the street.
"Dear, should we tell Astra? We already told Gavin last night," the mother asked.
Astra's father turned to his wife. "We've been through this already. We agreed to tell her when she starts to show signs of her powers. Just like what we did with Gavin."
On the side of the street, stood two men. One was the blue-haired man with the white coat. The other was a bleach-blonde haired with psychotic blue eyes. The bleached-blonde haired man saw the couple talking near the end of the street.
"Hmm...something has to be done about these vermin, they are just so pathedic and a waste of space," the bleach-blonde haired stated.
His companion silently agreed, then he smiled silently. An evil, psychotic kind of smile.
Down the street a bit, there were gunshots heard. There was a robbery going on, but there was something odd about the robbers. Their eyes were blank and emotionless and their movements were almost, if not, robotic.
People screamed and ran to get away from the robbers, but they were shooting at the retreating people. Both men stood calmly, watching the scene with great amusement. They were actually controlling the robbers for their own amusement. ((What sick minds.))
Inside the sweet shop, Astra just finished paying her daily supply of sweets when she heard screaming outside. Curious, she left the store with a bag full to the top with sweets. Seeing that it was actually a robbery happening and that the robbers were shooting everyone in sight, Astra went into the crowd to find her parents.
In the confusion of the crowd, Astra saw two familiar faces as they fell down after being shot. She made her way through the crowd, and saw who it was that was shot.
"Mom! Dad!" She yelled, kneeling next to her parents, crying.
Legato and his master still stood on the edge of the crowd, seeing the girl reaching her now dead parents. They weren't really expecting to see a child come onto the scene. Legato's master turned and walked away. Legato followed.
Astra was still kneeling next to her parents, crying.
*****
Astra returned to her home alone. Her parents are dead and she felt that it was her fault, but she knew it wasn't. She entered the house.
Gavin was in the living room sitting on the couch. He stood when he heard the door and expected to see his mom and dad any second. Instead, his younger sister, Astra entered the room, tear-stained.
He looked confused. "Where are mom and dad?"
Astra looked at her brother. "They're.they're.they're dead."
"What?" Gavin couldn't believe his ears.
"They're dead, Gavin. They got in the crossfire of a shootout."
"I don't think that. Are you sure you didn't killed them?"
Astra looked at him astonished. "What? Why would I want to kill them? You weren't even there to see it."
Gavin shrugged. "Maybe because you were jealous of me getting all the attention from Mom and Dad."
~*End Flashback*~
Astra snapped back as she heard someone knocking at her door. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she said, "Come in."
It was Vash who entered her room. His face had a hint of concern as he smiled at Astra. "Hey you, aren't going to come and join us for breakfast, even though we already finished?"
Astra gave Vash a weak smile. "I'll pass."
Vash sat down on her bed. "Something wrong?"
Astra shook her head as she lied and avoided eye contact with Vash. "No, nothing's wrong."
Vash saw through that lie as he gently made Astra look at him. Then he took notice as to what was in her hands and then of the silver gun on her bed. "Where did you get these?"
"Uhh." Her mind raced a moment, but decided to say. "Someone gave it to me."
At least that was part of the truth; she didn't want to say whom she got it from. Astra watched Vash nod his head and not say anything. Vash then stood up.
"We're down stairs if you wanna join us." Then he left the room after Astra nodded in an 'alright' kind of matter.
Astra looked down at the gun in her hands and thought. Why didn't I tell him everything? Because I'm stubborn. Betcha I'm probably gonna regret this moment later.
She reached over and lifted the silver Lighting Storm from her bed. It was slightly smaller than Vash's Long Colt, but it was just as hefty. The Lighting Storm was perfect for her father, he was strong and was able to lift such heavy things around with ease. But she knew she would have slight difficulty using it for the weight of it.
Standing up from the bed, Astra placed the silver gun and the black revolver into her pack. Then she turned away from the pack and headed for the saloon to join her friends.
Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun or its chars, only mine.
Kuroneko: o.o nyao
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Chapter 10: The Truth
She was in the center of some city. Her hair was completely bright blue, but it was still straight. Her clothing was still the same, but no trench coat like the last time. Astra was fighting against her brother, gunfire and their elemental powers.
Astra dove and rolled to the left, avoiding a fireball. She shot at her brother, who dodged it and let it hit the wall of a building behind him. She then sent a lighting ball that hit Gavin in the chest.
Gavin flew back and rolled to a stand. He wasn't hurt at all. His eyes hardened at Astra.
"Time to end this," Gavin stated as his whole body became surrounded by flames. Using whatever energy he has, he made the fire stronger and larger.
Astra's eyes widened a moment, and then she knew what she had to do. She stood as lighting surged through her body.
"Not if I can help it," Astra said through the lighting.
She concentrated on putting every ounce of energy in the lighting. Astra felt light and started to float into the mid-air. She didn't know that she was doing so, and kept her energy up as much as possible for her power to charge.
Then she released the lighting and sent it towards her brother. At the same time, Gavin sent his fire energy at Astra.
Both elements collided and when they met, it sent a shock wave that broke windows and shook the buildings. People and cars were tossed everywhere.
Both Elements kept their powers as strong as possible. Astra didn't know how long she can last, but sent another surge of lighting to help weaken Gavin. She screamed in protest to keep going. Astra could feel her energy start to falter and lower, but she kept up a fight.
Then, she used the last of her energy and sent right at Gavin. She screamed even louder in protest as the lighting hit Gavin and destroyed the town.
Astra stayed suspended in mid-air for a moment before falling about 100 feet to the ground. Then everything went black as she hit the rubble of the town.
*****
Astra woke with a start as she landed on her bed with a thud. She bolted into a sitting position, breathing hard and a light coating of sweat all over her body. Her head jerked around to get her surroundings. She breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that she was in the same room that she first woke up several days earlier.
She climbed out of bed and noticed that it was still dark outside. She pulled her jeans on after she got out of her pajama shorts. Figuring her pajama top would be fine; she silently headed for the bathroom to brush her hair.
Turning the bathroom light on, Astra entered the bathroom. Astra splashed cold water on her face. She ran her wet hands through her hair and reached for her brush to start brushing her hair. When she raised her head and finally faced the mirror, she almost screamed.
Her hair has changed. It has bright blue streaks with her brown hair. It was the same length and was still straight. There was a flicker of remembrance as she remembered a vision that she had a while ago. She went on and brushed her hair, then went back into her room.
Astra grabbed her pack, turned on her lamp and sat on her bed. Opening the pack, she pulled out the cylinder that contains paintings that she wants to keep. She then opened the cylinder and poured the paintings out of the container.
Flipping through the papers, Astra briefly looked at the paintings until she found the one of herself, but her hair was completely different. It was spiked out everywhere and was a bit shorter than her original length.
Astra put the paintings back in the cylinder, turned the light off and headed for the bar downstairs. She needed a drink to lull her back to sleep. Ordering a beer, she seated herself at the bar.
Behind her, two people entered the saloon. One was a blue-haired man wearing a white coat with spikes on one shoulder and a skull on the opposite. His partner was a lilac-haired woman wearing a dark green trench coat. They sat at a table nearby.
Astra was able to see the two newcomers out of the corner of her eye. The man reminded her of someone, but she couldn't place it. Then she heard a voice in her head.
"Hello, Astra Kaji." The voice was masculine and had a psychotic monotone to it. She had a strong sense that it belonged to the man in the white coat.
Mentally, she asked, "Who are you?"
The man spoke again; his voice had a slight hint of laughter. "Legato. Legato Bluesummers. One of the men who had a hand in your parents' death."
Astra's muscles tensed, but she didn't move. In her mind, she said, "It was you."
"Yes," Legato hissed. "But I wasn't the only one who had a hand in it."
Then he and his partner stood. "We better get going. I'm leaving a bag here for you. There's something in it that could hold sentimental value to you. Until we meet again, Astra Kaji."
Astra turned in her seat and watched Legato and his partner leaves the saloon. She looked back at the table and saw a brown paper bag.
She turned back to her drink and downed the rest of it. The warmth of the alcohol started spread throughout her body as she stood from the bar. Astra walked over to the table Legato sat at. The brown bag still sat there. She stood there a moment before reaching out and snatching the bag. It felt heavy.
Once up in her room, she placed the bag on her nightstand. I'll look at it in the morning, she thought as the warmth from the alcohol put her into a dreamless sleep.
*****
Nick, Milly, Meryl and Vash were awake and had their breakfast. Vash became curious and slightly worried as to what was taking Astra so long to get here. There was no sign of Astra. She wasn't up yet, or at least they thought she wasn't up. After Vash finished his drink, he stood from the table.
"I'll go.check on Astra." Vash stated, a little hesitant on saying that, then walked around the table and headed up the stairs.
Meryl and Nick both shook their heads after Vash disappeared up the stairs. Meryl was the first one to speak. "He just keeps getting weirder by the day."
"I'll have to agree with you there," Nick said.
Milly looked at Nick, then Meryl and Nick again. Then she asked, "Is that because Vash cares for Astra and doesn't want to admit it?"
Both, Nick and Meryl, fell over in their seats. Then got up at the same time and sat down again.
"Why do I have her for a partner," Meryl asked as she placed her head in her hands.
Nick started banging his head on the table. " I don't think you wanna know."
*****
Astra was awake and was sitting on her bed, staring at the brown paper bag on her nightstand. She wondered what it was that Legato gave her that would have "sentimental value" to her. Not being able to take it anymore, she reached over and grabbed the bag. Astra dumped the contents from the bag onto her bed.
The contents were actually two guns. One was a large silver .50 Lighting Storm Magnum. The other is a smaller sized gun that was black and is a .15 Firestorm Revolver. She recognized them as her parents' guns; the Firestorm belonging to her mother, the Lighting Storm her fathers. Carefully, she picked up the small black revolver. Her head jerked back and she closed her eyes at the same time. She was having a flashback.
~*Flashback*~
A young teenaged Astra was walking with her parents. Her hair was all brown and reached past her shoulders while she had a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses over her crystal blue eyes. She had a pair of plain jeans and a black shirt on along with her black boots.
Her parents were different from her. Neither of them had brown hair. Her mother had sky blue hair and matching eyes and her father had dark green hair with brown eyes. They were wearing clothing similar to their daughter's, but the colors varied.
Astra turned around to face her parents. "Why did Gavin have to stay home?"
"Because he caused a fire and we are making him clean it while we are here," her mother answered.
Astra turned around and was quiet. Then her father spoke. "Astra, why don't you go to the sweet shop and we'll meet you there after we're done shopping, alright?"
Her face lit up with joy. "Alright."
Astra ran off to the side and entered the sweet shop as her parents continued down the street.
"Dear, should we tell Astra? We already told Gavin last night," the mother asked.
Astra's father turned to his wife. "We've been through this already. We agreed to tell her when she starts to show signs of her powers. Just like what we did with Gavin."
On the side of the street, stood two men. One was the blue-haired man with the white coat. The other was a bleach-blonde haired with psychotic blue eyes. The bleached-blonde haired man saw the couple talking near the end of the street.
"Hmm...something has to be done about these vermin, they are just so pathedic and a waste of space," the bleach-blonde haired stated.
His companion silently agreed, then he smiled silently. An evil, psychotic kind of smile.
Down the street a bit, there were gunshots heard. There was a robbery going on, but there was something odd about the robbers. Their eyes were blank and emotionless and their movements were almost, if not, robotic.
People screamed and ran to get away from the robbers, but they were shooting at the retreating people. Both men stood calmly, watching the scene with great amusement. They were actually controlling the robbers for their own amusement. ((What sick minds.))
Inside the sweet shop, Astra just finished paying her daily supply of sweets when she heard screaming outside. Curious, she left the store with a bag full to the top with sweets. Seeing that it was actually a robbery happening and that the robbers were shooting everyone in sight, Astra went into the crowd to find her parents.
In the confusion of the crowd, Astra saw two familiar faces as they fell down after being shot. She made her way through the crowd, and saw who it was that was shot.
"Mom! Dad!" She yelled, kneeling next to her parents, crying.
Legato and his master still stood on the edge of the crowd, seeing the girl reaching her now dead parents. They weren't really expecting to see a child come onto the scene. Legato's master turned and walked away. Legato followed.
Astra was still kneeling next to her parents, crying.
*****
Astra returned to her home alone. Her parents are dead and she felt that it was her fault, but she knew it wasn't. She entered the house.
Gavin was in the living room sitting on the couch. He stood when he heard the door and expected to see his mom and dad any second. Instead, his younger sister, Astra entered the room, tear-stained.
He looked confused. "Where are mom and dad?"
Astra looked at her brother. "They're.they're.they're dead."
"What?" Gavin couldn't believe his ears.
"They're dead, Gavin. They got in the crossfire of a shootout."
"I don't think that. Are you sure you didn't killed them?"
Astra looked at him astonished. "What? Why would I want to kill them? You weren't even there to see it."
Gavin shrugged. "Maybe because you were jealous of me getting all the attention from Mom and Dad."
~*End Flashback*~
Astra snapped back as she heard someone knocking at her door. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she said, "Come in."
It was Vash who entered her room. His face had a hint of concern as he smiled at Astra. "Hey you, aren't going to come and join us for breakfast, even though we already finished?"
Astra gave Vash a weak smile. "I'll pass."
Vash sat down on her bed. "Something wrong?"
Astra shook her head as she lied and avoided eye contact with Vash. "No, nothing's wrong."
Vash saw through that lie as he gently made Astra look at him. Then he took notice as to what was in her hands and then of the silver gun on her bed. "Where did you get these?"
"Uhh." Her mind raced a moment, but decided to say. "Someone gave it to me."
At least that was part of the truth; she didn't want to say whom she got it from. Astra watched Vash nod his head and not say anything. Vash then stood up.
"We're down stairs if you wanna join us." Then he left the room after Astra nodded in an 'alright' kind of matter.
Astra looked down at the gun in her hands and thought. Why didn't I tell him everything? Because I'm stubborn. Betcha I'm probably gonna regret this moment later.
She reached over and lifted the silver Lighting Storm from her bed. It was slightly smaller than Vash's Long Colt, but it was just as hefty. The Lighting Storm was perfect for her father, he was strong and was able to lift such heavy things around with ease. But she knew she would have slight difficulty using it for the weight of it.
Standing up from the bed, Astra placed the silver gun and the black revolver into her pack. Then she turned away from the pack and headed for the saloon to join her friends.