( The events described in this story take place immediately after the events that transpired in the final episode of Trigun. The character of Bounty is used with knowledge of the original creator. The characters of Vash, Meryl, Millie, Knives and Wolfwood, as well as the cities of Mei and Inepril are used without knowledge, nor written consent by the original companies. I ask that if the original creator, or the owner of the Trigun property do read this story, please don't sue me..... ^_^ .... Thank you. Read on and enjoy.... and after you read, review that sucker, because.... well I can't get better if I don't get reviews, and I can't continue writing in the same calibur if no one tells me they liked it, ok? Ok....I'm done ranting. Read on and enjoy......wait I forgot.... If the owner of the Trigun Property does read this story....MAKE MORE TRIGUN!!!!! I even went through the teouble of creating a story line... all you have to do is animate it....come on...PLEASE......I need more trigun......... Could I be anymore pathetic? ........On with the story.)
Yet another night of sleep disturbed. Meryl sat up again in her bed, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she looks across the room at the scarred man tossing and turning. The man is shouting the same thing he has for the last week, a mantra of pain for the gentle man worth $$60 billion.
"Knives....Knives....KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEES!!!!!!"
Those three words repeated every night assure the weary Meryl that The Humanoid Typhoon truly does miss his maniacal brother. The same maniac who killed Vash's first love, and best friend Rem. The maniac who helped to bring about the destruction of July, and who was in part responsible for the death of one Nicholas D. Wolfwood, wondering priest with the cross "full of mercy". Knives, a man who had been taking away from Vash everything that he loved. Yet still Knives was a living being, and so by Vash's philosophy he deserved to live, he did not deserve what happened.
----Flashback one week ago----
A gun shot, and then silence. Vash woke up, looking around, seeking the source of the noise. Another shot, and Vash is able to pinpoint the direction it came from...
"KNIVES!!!!"
The gunshots had come from the room in which his wounded brother was sleeping. Quickly getting dressed and grabbing the twin guns off of the nightstand, Vash quickly makes his way to the next room, only to find the door smashed to splinters, and the walls were speckled with blood. Inside the room, one could find a very Spartan setting. A single bed, a single table, and no other furnishings. The bed however did have one adornment... the body of Knives, minus the eyes. And on the wall a scribbled note, written in a brilliant red...
"One monster dead. You are next Vash the Stampede,
Signed,
Haryusa the Dragon"
Vash stared at his brothers body, and wept. He was still weeping when Millie and Meryl made it to the room.
Millie: "What happened Mr. Vash?"
Vash: "He........killed Knives......."
Meryl: "Who? Who killed him?"
Vash just points at the wall, still weeping.
Millie: "Who's Haryusa the Dragon?"
Meryl: "Is he one of the Gung Ho Guns?"
Vash: "He's ....... my brother"
Meryl and Millie: "Your.....Brother?"
----Flash forward several hours----
Millie: "I thought Knives was your brother?"
Vash: "He was. Haryusa was our other brother. He was more unstable then Knives. So they put him in cold storage. I had thought he was killed with Rem. I never thought he would turn up again. Knives and I had agreed never to speak of him again, it was the only thing we were able to agree on."
Meryl: "This isn't good. Now we have someone actively seeking you, and he knows who you are.... we're going to need some help. We're going to need to hunt down Haryusa before he finds you and...(gulps)... kills you."
Vash: (Scratching head and making goofy faces) "Couldn't I just hide from him?"
Grumbling Meryl walks off, shortly followed by Millie.
Vash: "Girls where are you going? Come back here...."
Meryl "We're going to go find some help. If you want to hide, stay here."
----Flash back to the present----
And so they had looked for the last week. No luck. besides the nightly outbursts, Vash had been taking the death of his brother well. The days had passed without event, no further violent attacks, in fact there had been absolutely no sign of Haryusa at all. Calm days and sleepless nights have been all that they have seen. Lazy days of sitting in the tavern, doing nothing. This day found Millie and Meryl sitting at a small secluded table in the corner.
Meryl: "Another quiet day...... do you think that this Haryusa guy has left?"
Vash walks into the tavern with his regular brazen confidence, and lack of concern.
Vash: "Hey girls? How are you today?"
Millie: "Hello Mr. Vash! I'm doing just fine Thank you."
Meryl: "Finally decided to leave your little hole?"
Vash: "Well actually I was a little hungry and....." (Vash's stomach growls rather loudly)
Meryl: "You are always thinking with your stomach.... do you ever think about anything except for food?"
A new girl walks into the tavern, and immediatly Vash's eyes lock on to her. She is wearing a tight black tank top, which leaves little to the imagination. Her eyes are an amazing silver-gray color, and her raven black hair, hangs down her back in a single braid.She walks with an air of confidence around her, and seems to take in the entirety of the room in a single glanceEventually her eyes come to rest on the man in the bright red trench coat. A small smile touches the tips of her lips and she begins to stride over towards Vash and his friends. Vash's eyes were as wide as saucers, and seemed to get wider as the beautiful girl walked closer.
Mystery Girl: "Is this seat taken?"
(Simultaneously) Vash: "No" Meryl: "Yes"
Millie: "Have a seat ma'am. Hello, My names Millie Thompson pleased to meet you."
Mystery Girl: "You can call me....Bounty."
Meryl: " So what do you want Bounty?"
Bounty: "I'm looking for a bounty....the largest ever."
Vash: "Not another one.......I thought people were done looking for me....."
Meryl: "Shut up, Vash."
Bounty: "Vash..... as in Vash the Stampede? Then you may be just the man I need!"
Vash: "You mean, you aren't after me?"
Meryl: "Then who are you after? Who can be worth more then $$ 60 billion?!?!?!?!?"
Bounty: "There is currently an $$ 80 billion reward on a man calling himself...."
Vash & Meryl: "Haryusa the Dragon?"
Bounty: "You've heard of him?"
Millie: "Yeah, he killed Mr. Knives."
Bounty: "Was Mr. Knives one of the residents of Inepril city? Or was he a resident of Mei City?"
Vash: "What does Mei and Inepril have to do with anything?"
Bounty: "Haven't you heard? Not too long ago a man named Haryusa waltzed into Inepril, and began to slaughter the citizens. No massive single explosion like July, instead he started to kill them one by one, and if they ran, he shot them with a sort of grenade launcher, he managed to kill everyone....in a matter of hours. After he was done there he did the same thing to Mei. Not a single survivor."
Meryl: "Dear.... God....."
Vash: "If there were no survivors....how do you know all this?"
Bounty: "This is where the singular sickness of this man comes into play. After he killed everyone, he used their bodies to spell out a message.In the City of Inepril the message said 'Haryusa The Dragon is coming.' In Mei the message read 'Your days are numbered'. And after that there have been no new incidents, but it was enough for them to place a bounty on his head.... and remove the bounty on Vash the Stampede."
Meryl: "You mean he is no longer under bounty? He can live free and clear? The humanoid Typhoon....is a free man?"
Vash: "I'm Free? No more towns people trying to kill me everywhere I go? I can tell people who I am without fear?"
Bounty: "Yes. And if you help me you can even get a cut of the profit."
Meryl: "What kind of cut are we talking about?"
Meanwhile Vash has left his seat and is prancing around the tavern.
Vash: "I'm Vash the Stampede, the Ex-$$60 billion man! HAHAHAHA I'm worthless now!!! No Bounty on my head now!!!"
As Vash is doing this he gets pelted with empty beer bottles, to shouts of "Shut up", and "I don't care who you are".
Bounty: "Is he always like that?"
Millie: "Yes, Mr. Vash is always doing something silly."
Meryl (with the characteristic Throbbing vein in her forhead): "That broom head can't stay out of trouble. If he were in a small room with no way in or out, trouble would STILL find him! "
Bounty: "Wow. I never realized he was that accident prone. How do you ever get along with him?"
Meryl: "A lot of time and patience... Anyway about our cut?"
Bounty: "Oh yeah, It would be 50/50 Between me and you guys."
Meryl: "Why do you get such a big portion?"
Bounty: "Simple, because I brought it to your attention, and...."
Meryl: "And what?"
Bounty: "If you don't take it, I'll just find someone else to do it."
Vash (still on the ground surrounded by broken glass): "A little help here?"
****End Chapter 1****
Yet another night of sleep disturbed. Meryl sat up again in her bed, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she looks across the room at the scarred man tossing and turning. The man is shouting the same thing he has for the last week, a mantra of pain for the gentle man worth $$60 billion.
"Knives....Knives....KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEES!!!!!!"
Those three words repeated every night assure the weary Meryl that The Humanoid Typhoon truly does miss his maniacal brother. The same maniac who killed Vash's first love, and best friend Rem. The maniac who helped to bring about the destruction of July, and who was in part responsible for the death of one Nicholas D. Wolfwood, wondering priest with the cross "full of mercy". Knives, a man who had been taking away from Vash everything that he loved. Yet still Knives was a living being, and so by Vash's philosophy he deserved to live, he did not deserve what happened.
----Flashback one week ago----
A gun shot, and then silence. Vash woke up, looking around, seeking the source of the noise. Another shot, and Vash is able to pinpoint the direction it came from...
"KNIVES!!!!"
The gunshots had come from the room in which his wounded brother was sleeping. Quickly getting dressed and grabbing the twin guns off of the nightstand, Vash quickly makes his way to the next room, only to find the door smashed to splinters, and the walls were speckled with blood. Inside the room, one could find a very Spartan setting. A single bed, a single table, and no other furnishings. The bed however did have one adornment... the body of Knives, minus the eyes. And on the wall a scribbled note, written in a brilliant red...
"One monster dead. You are next Vash the Stampede,
Signed,
Haryusa the Dragon"
Vash stared at his brothers body, and wept. He was still weeping when Millie and Meryl made it to the room.
Millie: "What happened Mr. Vash?"
Vash: "He........killed Knives......."
Meryl: "Who? Who killed him?"
Vash just points at the wall, still weeping.
Millie: "Who's Haryusa the Dragon?"
Meryl: "Is he one of the Gung Ho Guns?"
Vash: "He's ....... my brother"
Meryl and Millie: "Your.....Brother?"
----Flash forward several hours----
Millie: "I thought Knives was your brother?"
Vash: "He was. Haryusa was our other brother. He was more unstable then Knives. So they put him in cold storage. I had thought he was killed with Rem. I never thought he would turn up again. Knives and I had agreed never to speak of him again, it was the only thing we were able to agree on."
Meryl: "This isn't good. Now we have someone actively seeking you, and he knows who you are.... we're going to need some help. We're going to need to hunt down Haryusa before he finds you and...(gulps)... kills you."
Vash: (Scratching head and making goofy faces) "Couldn't I just hide from him?"
Grumbling Meryl walks off, shortly followed by Millie.
Vash: "Girls where are you going? Come back here...."
Meryl "We're going to go find some help. If you want to hide, stay here."
----Flash back to the present----
And so they had looked for the last week. No luck. besides the nightly outbursts, Vash had been taking the death of his brother well. The days had passed without event, no further violent attacks, in fact there had been absolutely no sign of Haryusa at all. Calm days and sleepless nights have been all that they have seen. Lazy days of sitting in the tavern, doing nothing. This day found Millie and Meryl sitting at a small secluded table in the corner.
Meryl: "Another quiet day...... do you think that this Haryusa guy has left?"
Vash walks into the tavern with his regular brazen confidence, and lack of concern.
Vash: "Hey girls? How are you today?"
Millie: "Hello Mr. Vash! I'm doing just fine Thank you."
Meryl: "Finally decided to leave your little hole?"
Vash: "Well actually I was a little hungry and....." (Vash's stomach growls rather loudly)
Meryl: "You are always thinking with your stomach.... do you ever think about anything except for food?"
A new girl walks into the tavern, and immediatly Vash's eyes lock on to her. She is wearing a tight black tank top, which leaves little to the imagination. Her eyes are an amazing silver-gray color, and her raven black hair, hangs down her back in a single braid.She walks with an air of confidence around her, and seems to take in the entirety of the room in a single glanceEventually her eyes come to rest on the man in the bright red trench coat. A small smile touches the tips of her lips and she begins to stride over towards Vash and his friends. Vash's eyes were as wide as saucers, and seemed to get wider as the beautiful girl walked closer.
Mystery Girl: "Is this seat taken?"
(Simultaneously) Vash: "No" Meryl: "Yes"
Millie: "Have a seat ma'am. Hello, My names Millie Thompson pleased to meet you."
Mystery Girl: "You can call me....Bounty."
Meryl: " So what do you want Bounty?"
Bounty: "I'm looking for a bounty....the largest ever."
Vash: "Not another one.......I thought people were done looking for me....."
Meryl: "Shut up, Vash."
Bounty: "Vash..... as in Vash the Stampede? Then you may be just the man I need!"
Vash: "You mean, you aren't after me?"
Meryl: "Then who are you after? Who can be worth more then $$ 60 billion?!?!?!?!?"
Bounty: "There is currently an $$ 80 billion reward on a man calling himself...."
Vash & Meryl: "Haryusa the Dragon?"
Bounty: "You've heard of him?"
Millie: "Yeah, he killed Mr. Knives."
Bounty: "Was Mr. Knives one of the residents of Inepril city? Or was he a resident of Mei City?"
Vash: "What does Mei and Inepril have to do with anything?"
Bounty: "Haven't you heard? Not too long ago a man named Haryusa waltzed into Inepril, and began to slaughter the citizens. No massive single explosion like July, instead he started to kill them one by one, and if they ran, he shot them with a sort of grenade launcher, he managed to kill everyone....in a matter of hours. After he was done there he did the same thing to Mei. Not a single survivor."
Meryl: "Dear.... God....."
Vash: "If there were no survivors....how do you know all this?"
Bounty: "This is where the singular sickness of this man comes into play. After he killed everyone, he used their bodies to spell out a message.In the City of Inepril the message said 'Haryusa The Dragon is coming.' In Mei the message read 'Your days are numbered'. And after that there have been no new incidents, but it was enough for them to place a bounty on his head.... and remove the bounty on Vash the Stampede."
Meryl: "You mean he is no longer under bounty? He can live free and clear? The humanoid Typhoon....is a free man?"
Vash: "I'm Free? No more towns people trying to kill me everywhere I go? I can tell people who I am without fear?"
Bounty: "Yes. And if you help me you can even get a cut of the profit."
Meryl: "What kind of cut are we talking about?"
Meanwhile Vash has left his seat and is prancing around the tavern.
Vash: "I'm Vash the Stampede, the Ex-$$60 billion man! HAHAHAHA I'm worthless now!!! No Bounty on my head now!!!"
As Vash is doing this he gets pelted with empty beer bottles, to shouts of "Shut up", and "I don't care who you are".
Bounty: "Is he always like that?"
Millie: "Yes, Mr. Vash is always doing something silly."
Meryl (with the characteristic Throbbing vein in her forhead): "That broom head can't stay out of trouble. If he were in a small room with no way in or out, trouble would STILL find him! "
Bounty: "Wow. I never realized he was that accident prone. How do you ever get along with him?"
Meryl: "A lot of time and patience... Anyway about our cut?"
Bounty: "Oh yeah, It would be 50/50 Between me and you guys."
Meryl: "Why do you get such a big portion?"
Bounty: "Simple, because I brought it to your attention, and...."
Meryl: "And what?"
Bounty: "If you don't take it, I'll just find someone else to do it."
Vash (still on the ground surrounded by broken glass): "A little help here?"
****End Chapter 1****