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Kuroneko: Nyaaa.
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Chapter 10: A Place for my Head
Captain Exsony and his crew reached Chevy expecting to see a regular town with the everyday people. But they saw a town that was half rubble more than buildings. People were everywhere rebuilding their town while children played in and around the rubble. After two days of traveling under the double suns, Captain Exsony and his crew just wanted to rest and get some food in their systems, but now Exsony's crew had a feeling that they weren't going to get just that.
Exsony looked over the town from his perch on one of the vehicles. He wondered what happened to the town, and he was going to find out eventually. Exsony sighed at the sight of the town. He looked down at his men. "Let's go help them, men."
Some of the men let a quiet groan out while others rolled their eyes, but never complained face to face to the captain. They all complied with their leader's orders and helped out the townspeople in rebuilding the town.
As time went on, morning turned into lunchtime and the townspeople were directed to the town square for their simple lunches: cold sandwiches and snacks such as potato chips and pretzels. Exsony's men got their lunches and gathered together in one area. Exsony got a ham and cheese with mustard and ate his sandwich while heading for the only standing building at the moment that is complete.
The building he headed for was small and simple; it was where the mayor was station while the town was being rebuilt. A guard halted Exsony and he told the guard why he was here. The guard allowed him into the building and told him to wait in a room while he went to tell the mayor that he was here.
Exsony was looking at some of the pictures of town events that were hanging on a wall when the guard came back to tell him that he was allowed to go see the mayor. The captain entered another room, but this one was more set up as an office, with a desk and chair and two other chairs in front of the desk. The mayor that sat behind the desk was much older that Exsony and had less hair. He hid his eyes behind dark-rimmed glasses and his pasty face told Exsony that he was afraid of what happened to the town.
"Captain, its good to see you here with your men helping out, especially after what happened to this town," the pasty-faced mayor stated.
Captain Exsony gave the mayor a small smile that looked more like a smirk. "Well, we were just in the town and I felt it would be better to have my men help. It would help in their strength."
The mayor nodded. "Well, what can I do for you today?"
"I want to know how this happen."
It looked like the mayor's face went a bit whiter, any whiter and his face would be pure white. He exhaled deeply. "It was that genetic experiment. Everyone in this town went after it and no one captured it. It was as though it was Vash the Stampede, but wearing black."
Exsony rocked back on his heels. He wasn't expecting one mere thing to do this much damage. Then again, it really wasn't it that did the damage; it was the bad aiming of the townspeople. But that thing was able to evade a whole town, a WHOLE town, with hundreds of people, all probably with guns and explosives for protection.
He looked at the mayor again. "May I sit down so we can discuss this more?"
*****
The stars shone brightly along with three out of the five moons of Gunsmoke in the nighttime sky. The air was still, as it has been for the past two days already, but the sand was still able to get everywhere. But since the wind wasn't blowing, Devi was able to make a fire near a huge rock formation. Devi poked at the fire once more before laying down. Her body ached and was exhausted after driving on her motorcycle for a day and a half straight after leaving Chevy. As she lay there on the sands, she felt a throbbing coming from her left thigh.
Devi sat up slowly, the soreness of her body reminded her of the events in Chevy. She hoped that it wouldn't happen again, but something in the back of her head made it seem impossible for that. Slipping her trench coat off, what Devi mainly saw in terms of injury, besides the gun wound, were few bruises, which looked like they were almost healed already.
She moved on to examining her left thigh. The wound was charred around the edge and a crystallized dark brownish-red in the middle. Some sand was sticking to the scabbed over wound, which means it is probably infected by sand.
Moving slowly due to her sore muscles, Devi stood and brought her pack over to the fire's light. She pulled out a medical kit and some loose clothing, which she got both while shopping for supplies. She changed into the loose clothing, which were a blue, long-sleeved T-shirt and a lighter pair of shorts.
Devi sat on her trench coat that she folded up and adjusted herself so she can clean up and dresses her wound. She took one of her claws and she opened up her wound so she can get to the dirt that gotten into her wound better. Picking at the scab, blood came out and ran down her leg a bit. Devi took a piece of cotton to the opening of the alcohol bottle and shook it a moment to get some on the cotton. Then she carefully dabbed the alcohol soaked cotton on her now opened wound. The alcohol stung the wound so much that Devi bit her lip with one of her over-sized canines and punctured her lip.
The blood that came from her lip seemed to have comforted her as she finished on cleaning and dressing the wound. Granted, she's not much of a doctor, but she learned most of her skills one of two ways: teaching herself or watching the doctors when they did something to themselves. She a very good at learning just by watching, which is how she learned how to use the motorcycle when the doctors there were doing late night experiments and she would sneak out of her room and into the air vents and watch from there.
Devi smiled at the memories of sneaking around the facility that was probably the best part about it, except for escaping and the geoplant that was near the facility. The only thing she didn't like much about the geoplant was that it was where the most research took place on her. How fast she can go and so on and so on. And after half a day at the geoplant, they would take her into a lab and do blood work and they try to figure out what part of her genetic code gave her what abilities.
The wind picked up a bit and chilled her skin. Devi moved carefully and pulled out her blanket that she bought in town and began to get ready for a good night's sleep. The wind picked up a bit and a scent drifted to her nose. She became suddenly alert to her surroundings. Sniffing the air a couple of times, she realized it was the scent of her opponent in the town. Devi narrowed her eyes and went back to setting up her bed. He's probably watching me right now.
Devi carefully walked over to her motorcycle and pulled out her blanket. Then she pulled out her knife and tucked it out of site. Gathering the blanket and the knife, Devi walked over to her fire to set her blanket up for a good night's rest. Then she silently slipped off into the night to go after the person who is following her, following her nose the whole way.
*****
Knives got to the line of rocks an ile or so away from the female vermin he followed. He was able to see where she was by the glow of her fire. He was only there for about five to ten minutes because Knives couldn't drive for a day and a half straight like her. What endurance this one had, it wasn't normal for anyone to drive over twenty-four hours on a motorcycle, it had to be very uncomfortable, and not stop for anything to eat for drink.
There was something about her, something that he sensed actually. Power much like the plants, but only half the strength. What was also odd about this vermin was the way she moved and fought. Knives noticed that she had her own gun, a .45 Long Colt Peacemaker to be exact, but shortly after Knives turned around and the fight began. It was as though she preferred to hand-to-hand combat than a gun, or at least more comfortable. She was confident, or cocky, Knives really couldn't tell the difference, in the way she fought and that she knew what she was doing.
Knives peered down towards where that vermin was. He noticed that, even though he was far away, she was wrapping her leg. Hmmm... Knives thought, Apparently she isn't invincible.
The wind blew on his back and he turned around and sat hear where he made his fire to eat his meal of chicken broth and noodles. How is it that a vermin like her was able to throw him around like a rag doll? It just wasn't physically possible, especially since that vermin is a female nonetheless. Knives should have been able to kill her off easily. Maybe he was getting to be like his brother, soft. No. Knives wouldn't let that happen to him, never in his rather long lifetime.
He was about to start eating when suddenly, an arm wrapped around his neck and he felt a sharp pain on his back left shoulder. Sharply, Knives inhaled from the sudden impact of pain. Then he saw the shine of a knife blade and felt the breath of someone right behind him at his ear.
"First you try to kill an innocent girl off, which you do succeed anyway. Then you try to beat me up, which was a complete failure. And now, you decided to follow me. Do you have a death wish or do you just like me?"
It was that damn vermin again. How did she know that he was here? And how was she able to get up behind him so silently? Knives had to be a good ile or so away. This freaking vermin was practically the queen of all vermin. Very annoying, but for some reason is unpredictable.
"I was just trying to figure out how a weak human like yourself was able to beat someone as superior as myself," Knives comment, putting much emphasis on 'human.'
He got rewarded with more pain in his shoulder. "I'm telling you now," the vermin hissed. " I'm not human. And if you value your life, you would leave and stop following me."
With that said, the vermin shoved Knives to the left, using the hand that was at his left shoulder to twist him around and land on his rear. At the same time more pain came from his shoulder. He faced that vermin once more. After glaring at her for a moment, then adjusted his gaze to her gloved hand and instantly saw something weird and out of place.
Protruding from her glove, were cat-like claws, which were at the moment dripping with blood. His blood. Knives went back to looking at the vermin. If looks could kill, he'd be dead ten times now. She was glaring, eyes like slits, down at him. Knives carefully move his right hand to his left shoulder and lightly touched the back of his shoulder. Wincing in pain from the touch, Knives jerked his hand away from the shoulder, revealing blood on his fingertips.
"What the hell are you?"
The girl turned away from Knives, at the same time allowed her nails to retreat back into her hand. "As I said before, I'm not human; I am a wanderer of the winds, coming and going as I please. Now go and leave me alone and don't follow me."
It was as though his feet had a mind of their own as he stood and walked over to the vehicle. Then he drove off, spinning some sand as he did so. Knives really wasn't thinking on following her, she was crazy. And what she did to his shoulder was inhuman-like. It was more like a sand cat just decided to use his shoulder as a scratching post.
*****
Devi stood there and waited for her Vash-like opponent to be out of site. When the lights of his vehicle disappeared into the night horizon, she moved to where he was sitting and picked up the pot that held the rest of his meal, which was chicken broth with noodles. She sniffed the contents in the pot and found it warm and comforting. Carefully, she took a sip of the warm liquid and could feel it slide down her throat. It warmed her against the night's cold air.
Before walking back to her camp, Devi kicked some sand onto a dying fire making sure that it was completely out. She couldn't believe that he would do such a thing as follow her. You would have figured that he would have learned from the first time around not to follow her.
She sighed upon finishing her meal and reaching her camp. Devi could now feel the weariness from the driving and what just happened. Her legs and arms felt sore, while she felt drained. She moved her makeshift bed a bit before she picked up her blanket and wrapped around her shoulders.
"Ah, bed," was all she said as she fell forward. Devi was out before she even hit her bed.
Kuroneko: Nyaaa.
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Chapter 10: A Place for my Head
Captain Exsony and his crew reached Chevy expecting to see a regular town with the everyday people. But they saw a town that was half rubble more than buildings. People were everywhere rebuilding their town while children played in and around the rubble. After two days of traveling under the double suns, Captain Exsony and his crew just wanted to rest and get some food in their systems, but now Exsony's crew had a feeling that they weren't going to get just that.
Exsony looked over the town from his perch on one of the vehicles. He wondered what happened to the town, and he was going to find out eventually. Exsony sighed at the sight of the town. He looked down at his men. "Let's go help them, men."
Some of the men let a quiet groan out while others rolled their eyes, but never complained face to face to the captain. They all complied with their leader's orders and helped out the townspeople in rebuilding the town.
As time went on, morning turned into lunchtime and the townspeople were directed to the town square for their simple lunches: cold sandwiches and snacks such as potato chips and pretzels. Exsony's men got their lunches and gathered together in one area. Exsony got a ham and cheese with mustard and ate his sandwich while heading for the only standing building at the moment that is complete.
The building he headed for was small and simple; it was where the mayor was station while the town was being rebuilt. A guard halted Exsony and he told the guard why he was here. The guard allowed him into the building and told him to wait in a room while he went to tell the mayor that he was here.
Exsony was looking at some of the pictures of town events that were hanging on a wall when the guard came back to tell him that he was allowed to go see the mayor. The captain entered another room, but this one was more set up as an office, with a desk and chair and two other chairs in front of the desk. The mayor that sat behind the desk was much older that Exsony and had less hair. He hid his eyes behind dark-rimmed glasses and his pasty face told Exsony that he was afraid of what happened to the town.
"Captain, its good to see you here with your men helping out, especially after what happened to this town," the pasty-faced mayor stated.
Captain Exsony gave the mayor a small smile that looked more like a smirk. "Well, we were just in the town and I felt it would be better to have my men help. It would help in their strength."
The mayor nodded. "Well, what can I do for you today?"
"I want to know how this happen."
It looked like the mayor's face went a bit whiter, any whiter and his face would be pure white. He exhaled deeply. "It was that genetic experiment. Everyone in this town went after it and no one captured it. It was as though it was Vash the Stampede, but wearing black."
Exsony rocked back on his heels. He wasn't expecting one mere thing to do this much damage. Then again, it really wasn't it that did the damage; it was the bad aiming of the townspeople. But that thing was able to evade a whole town, a WHOLE town, with hundreds of people, all probably with guns and explosives for protection.
He looked at the mayor again. "May I sit down so we can discuss this more?"
*****
The stars shone brightly along with three out of the five moons of Gunsmoke in the nighttime sky. The air was still, as it has been for the past two days already, but the sand was still able to get everywhere. But since the wind wasn't blowing, Devi was able to make a fire near a huge rock formation. Devi poked at the fire once more before laying down. Her body ached and was exhausted after driving on her motorcycle for a day and a half straight after leaving Chevy. As she lay there on the sands, she felt a throbbing coming from her left thigh.
Devi sat up slowly, the soreness of her body reminded her of the events in Chevy. She hoped that it wouldn't happen again, but something in the back of her head made it seem impossible for that. Slipping her trench coat off, what Devi mainly saw in terms of injury, besides the gun wound, were few bruises, which looked like they were almost healed already.
She moved on to examining her left thigh. The wound was charred around the edge and a crystallized dark brownish-red in the middle. Some sand was sticking to the scabbed over wound, which means it is probably infected by sand.
Moving slowly due to her sore muscles, Devi stood and brought her pack over to the fire's light. She pulled out a medical kit and some loose clothing, which she got both while shopping for supplies. She changed into the loose clothing, which were a blue, long-sleeved T-shirt and a lighter pair of shorts.
Devi sat on her trench coat that she folded up and adjusted herself so she can clean up and dresses her wound. She took one of her claws and she opened up her wound so she can get to the dirt that gotten into her wound better. Picking at the scab, blood came out and ran down her leg a bit. Devi took a piece of cotton to the opening of the alcohol bottle and shook it a moment to get some on the cotton. Then she carefully dabbed the alcohol soaked cotton on her now opened wound. The alcohol stung the wound so much that Devi bit her lip with one of her over-sized canines and punctured her lip.
The blood that came from her lip seemed to have comforted her as she finished on cleaning and dressing the wound. Granted, she's not much of a doctor, but she learned most of her skills one of two ways: teaching herself or watching the doctors when they did something to themselves. She a very good at learning just by watching, which is how she learned how to use the motorcycle when the doctors there were doing late night experiments and she would sneak out of her room and into the air vents and watch from there.
Devi smiled at the memories of sneaking around the facility that was probably the best part about it, except for escaping and the geoplant that was near the facility. The only thing she didn't like much about the geoplant was that it was where the most research took place on her. How fast she can go and so on and so on. And after half a day at the geoplant, they would take her into a lab and do blood work and they try to figure out what part of her genetic code gave her what abilities.
The wind picked up a bit and chilled her skin. Devi moved carefully and pulled out her blanket that she bought in town and began to get ready for a good night's sleep. The wind picked up a bit and a scent drifted to her nose. She became suddenly alert to her surroundings. Sniffing the air a couple of times, she realized it was the scent of her opponent in the town. Devi narrowed her eyes and went back to setting up her bed. He's probably watching me right now.
Devi carefully walked over to her motorcycle and pulled out her blanket. Then she pulled out her knife and tucked it out of site. Gathering the blanket and the knife, Devi walked over to her fire to set her blanket up for a good night's rest. Then she silently slipped off into the night to go after the person who is following her, following her nose the whole way.
*****
Knives got to the line of rocks an ile or so away from the female vermin he followed. He was able to see where she was by the glow of her fire. He was only there for about five to ten minutes because Knives couldn't drive for a day and a half straight like her. What endurance this one had, it wasn't normal for anyone to drive over twenty-four hours on a motorcycle, it had to be very uncomfortable, and not stop for anything to eat for drink.
There was something about her, something that he sensed actually. Power much like the plants, but only half the strength. What was also odd about this vermin was the way she moved and fought. Knives noticed that she had her own gun, a .45 Long Colt Peacemaker to be exact, but shortly after Knives turned around and the fight began. It was as though she preferred to hand-to-hand combat than a gun, or at least more comfortable. She was confident, or cocky, Knives really couldn't tell the difference, in the way she fought and that she knew what she was doing.
Knives peered down towards where that vermin was. He noticed that, even though he was far away, she was wrapping her leg. Hmmm... Knives thought, Apparently she isn't invincible.
The wind blew on his back and he turned around and sat hear where he made his fire to eat his meal of chicken broth and noodles. How is it that a vermin like her was able to throw him around like a rag doll? It just wasn't physically possible, especially since that vermin is a female nonetheless. Knives should have been able to kill her off easily. Maybe he was getting to be like his brother, soft. No. Knives wouldn't let that happen to him, never in his rather long lifetime.
He was about to start eating when suddenly, an arm wrapped around his neck and he felt a sharp pain on his back left shoulder. Sharply, Knives inhaled from the sudden impact of pain. Then he saw the shine of a knife blade and felt the breath of someone right behind him at his ear.
"First you try to kill an innocent girl off, which you do succeed anyway. Then you try to beat me up, which was a complete failure. And now, you decided to follow me. Do you have a death wish or do you just like me?"
It was that damn vermin again. How did she know that he was here? And how was she able to get up behind him so silently? Knives had to be a good ile or so away. This freaking vermin was practically the queen of all vermin. Very annoying, but for some reason is unpredictable.
"I was just trying to figure out how a weak human like yourself was able to beat someone as superior as myself," Knives comment, putting much emphasis on 'human.'
He got rewarded with more pain in his shoulder. "I'm telling you now," the vermin hissed. " I'm not human. And if you value your life, you would leave and stop following me."
With that said, the vermin shoved Knives to the left, using the hand that was at his left shoulder to twist him around and land on his rear. At the same time more pain came from his shoulder. He faced that vermin once more. After glaring at her for a moment, then adjusted his gaze to her gloved hand and instantly saw something weird and out of place.
Protruding from her glove, were cat-like claws, which were at the moment dripping with blood. His blood. Knives went back to looking at the vermin. If looks could kill, he'd be dead ten times now. She was glaring, eyes like slits, down at him. Knives carefully move his right hand to his left shoulder and lightly touched the back of his shoulder. Wincing in pain from the touch, Knives jerked his hand away from the shoulder, revealing blood on his fingertips.
"What the hell are you?"
The girl turned away from Knives, at the same time allowed her nails to retreat back into her hand. "As I said before, I'm not human; I am a wanderer of the winds, coming and going as I please. Now go and leave me alone and don't follow me."
It was as though his feet had a mind of their own as he stood and walked over to the vehicle. Then he drove off, spinning some sand as he did so. Knives really wasn't thinking on following her, she was crazy. And what she did to his shoulder was inhuman-like. It was more like a sand cat just decided to use his shoulder as a scratching post.
*****
Devi stood there and waited for her Vash-like opponent to be out of site. When the lights of his vehicle disappeared into the night horizon, she moved to where he was sitting and picked up the pot that held the rest of his meal, which was chicken broth with noodles. She sniffed the contents in the pot and found it warm and comforting. Carefully, she took a sip of the warm liquid and could feel it slide down her throat. It warmed her against the night's cold air.
Before walking back to her camp, Devi kicked some sand onto a dying fire making sure that it was completely out. She couldn't believe that he would do such a thing as follow her. You would have figured that he would have learned from the first time around not to follow her.
She sighed upon finishing her meal and reaching her camp. Devi could now feel the weariness from the driving and what just happened. Her legs and arms felt sore, while she felt drained. She moved her makeshift bed a bit before she picked up her blanket and wrapped around her shoulders.
"Ah, bed," was all she said as she fell forward. Devi was out before she even hit her bed.
