Argh…please don't hate me for leaving y'all at a cliffhanger there. I love MOST of 'em reviewers, not all though.
P.S – I will NEVER 'pick up my litter'! My stories are mine and if some people don't like my stories, here's my advice; don't read 'em and give me hell for a story you don't like!
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Another gunshot rang out at the same time Vash's did. It was Wolfwood. He had heard the commotion from inside the saloon and went to Vash's aid. He shot Vash's gun out of his hand before the bullet was able to hurt Fenella, but Legato didn't seem too happy about this.
"How did he get past me?" thought a bewildered Legato, "Why didn't I see him coming?"
Vash and Fenella were out of Legato's control. Fenella fell to the ground after letting Legato support her weight. Vash immediately grabbed Fenella's arm and lead her into the saloon. When the two of them got inside, they found Wolfwood having himself several shots of heavy rum.
* Sweat drop* "Wolfwood," said Vash, "what are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Wolfwood replied, getting up with his rum, "I'm celebrating!"
"Why?" asked Fenella, as Vash sat down and buried his head in his arms on the table.
Wolfwood gave her a funny look.
"Because I saved your asses!" he said, pointing to Fenella and Vash.
"Oh," she said, "that's a good reason."
"Isn't it though?" Wolfwood smirked.
"Hmm…well, now that we have that cleared, is Legato still outside, Vash?" Fenella tried to get Vash's attention, "Vash?"
"What?" asked Vash.
"Is Legato still out there?"
"Yeah…" Vash's voice sounded distant.
"Are you okay?" Fenella asked, "I can tell you're worried about something."
Vash let out a heavy sigh and gave Fenella his 'innocent' look, so that pretty much meant that there was something wrong. Fenella walked over to his table and pulled up a chair next to Vash.
"Vash," whispered Fenella, so Wolfwood wouldn't hear, "tell me what's bothering you."
"Fine then," Vash said quietly, "you want to know what's bothering me, well here it is; I could've killed you!"
Vash said this loud enough for Wolfwood to hear, that made him turn around and back and forth from Fenella to Vash and Vash to Fenella, and then he turned back around.
"Listen," Fenella lowered her voice, hoping that Vash would calm down a small bit, "I know that it wouldn't have been your fault in the first place. I realize what Legato was doing to me and to you. * sigh * Please, don't blame yourself for something you could barely control."
Vash glanced over at Wolfwood to see if he was still remotely sober. Vash saw that he still was still competent enough to drive and made up his mind about a tough decision that would affect Fenella, Wolfwood, and himself. He got up and pulled Wolfwood away from his barstool and bottle of rum, dragged him over to a window, and pointed to a bus that was parked a couple of buildings away.
"Nicholas," Vash said, "do you see that bus?" Wolfwood rubbed his eyes and nodded. "I want you to get that bus and drive to the nearest town."
"By myself?" Wolfwood asked.
"No, not by yourself." Vash glanced over at Fenella, who was still sitting at the table, "You're going to take Fenella with you."
"What?" yelled Fenella, (A.N- everybody gets to yell ^_^) "Why can't we stay with you?"
"Yeah, why can't we stay with you?" Wolfwood echoed.
"Because," Vash's voice turned deadly, while he grabbed Wolfwood's collar, "things are going to get very dangerous around here and I don't want either of you to get hurt."
"What about the civilians?" Fenella asked, "What will happen to them?"
"They're inside, so they're safe." Said Vash, as he let go of Wolfwood's collar, "But you're not, Legato has already seen you two, so he's going to know whom to kill."
"Well doesn't that sound comforting?" Fenella said, sarcastically, "So, how are we going to out of July?"
"The reason that I pointed that bus out in the first place was so--"
"We understand that part, but how are we going to get there if that psychotic freak is waiting for us?"
"I heard that." Legato said from outside, as everyone inside the saloon gave him an odd look.
"See!" Fenella lowered her voice to a whisper, "We need a plan."
"I'll distract Legato while you and Wolfwood get to the bus." Said Vash, looking outside.
"Alright…but we're putting our trust in you. Don't let us down." Wolfwood said.
All three of them stood up and Vash had signaled them to head outside. When the three of them were out in sunlight, Wolfwood and Fenella took off running in the direction of the bus. Legato began to use Vash as his gun and was pointing his Colt-45 at Wolfwood and Fenella. Vash was fighting the control that Legato had over him, but to no avail. When Legato started to make Vash fire at them, Vash was fighting with his heart to slow the path of the bullets. Luckily, it worked, so Wolfwood and Fenella had made it to the bus safely. While Wolfwood had ran inside the bus to start it, Fenella fought sudden urges to go back and help Vash.
"He's going to be killed if we leave him here!" She cried.
"Fenella!" Wolfwood yelled from the starting bus, "We need to get out of here!"
"But--"
"NOW! Vash wants us to go to the nearest town and we should listen to him. He's been on this planet a long time, he'll be fine!"
A loud explosion and more gunshots were heard. Wolfwood got out of the drivers seat and grabbed Fenella roughly by her arm and dragged her inside the bus. Regardless of Fenella's cries and pleads, Wolfwood led her to the back of the bus, went to the front, shut the doors, and began to drive off.
Fenella watched as July began to shrink off in the distance. She didn't want to leave, she still had a promise to stay true to. The young woman looked over the seat in front of her to see Wolfwood blankly driving in an uncoordinated direction. She stood up to move closer, but a monotone voice stopped her.
"Sit down." Said Wolfwood.
"Why?" Fenella asked.
"Because I have no idea where we're going."
"Nicholas, you're voice…"
"What about it?"
"There's no emotion in it."
"Now why would you say a little thing like that?" he asked.
"Well, it's true. Your voice is vacant and if something like that is affected by us leaving Vash, than I would mourn the expression in your eyes."
"You do realize that he needed us to leave."
"Of course, but do you?" she said.
Wolfwood slammed on the brakes causing Fenella to tumble forward to the front end of the bus.
"As much as it pains me to leave a friend behind, I cannot do much except for honoring his wish." Wolfwood leaned his head on the steering wheel while Fenella clawed her way back to her feet, "He's doing this to save our lives…even if it means risking his own."
"Look on the bright side…" Fenella said.
"What bright side?"
"The bright side that contains that town over there." She pointed towards a small glint in the desert's horizon.
"I know that town! It's Augusta." Wolfwood's tone changed dramatically.
"Well then, let's go!"