-----Chapter 6: Revelations-----
The bus reaches the town of Dembrey, and the group disembarks. They head into town, hoping to hear news of the whereabouts of Haryusa. Immediately they seek lodging for the coming night., splitting off into two rooms, Vash and Gina in one, Millie and Wolfwood in the other. After settling in they gather in Wolfwood's room to discuss their plans for the day.
Wolfwood: "Ok. We need a plan. How are we going to find Haryusa?"
Millie: "Well, Meryl always said the best place to learn stuff is in a bar."
The group goes silent at the mention of their deceased friend. The silence lasts, as everyone remembers their fallen comrade. Finally Gina breaks the silence.
Gina: "Millie's right. We should try the bar. I'm sure somebody there will know something."
Vash: "Yeah, and maybe we could get some food!!! I haven't had anything to eat in almost a day."
Wolfwood: "Yeah, Broomhead has a point. We'll be eaten alive by Haryusa right now."
Vash: "I wonder if this hotel has a free continental breakfast?"
They head to the bar, only to find it crowded with people, most of whom are already well past inebriated. Fights break out all over the large floor, so the group wisely decides on a table close to the door. A frazzled looking bar maid, comes by to take their orders, and after she has left they look around the room to see if anyone might be sober enough to provide the information they seek. None of the bar patrons seem to be coherent, and so they eat amidst the rabble. After eating Millie excuses herself, explaining that she needs to send the insurance company an update on her current assignment. Vash, Wolfwood, and Gina order some drinks, and wait, hoping someone will come in, and be sober.
-----Back at the hotel-----
Millie sits at the typewriter, chewing on her lower lip. Index ingers posed over the keys, she hunts and pecks out a letter.
Dear Sirs,
Millie Thompson here, reporting on our progress so far. Mr Vash ran into Mr. Haryusa in the city of Pilum. Mr. Haryusa admitted to causing the destruction of Pilum, but Mr. Vash was not able to apprehend him. During their fight, Miss Meryl got shot by Mr. Haryusa, and died. We are now looking for clues to the location of Mr. Haryusa in Dembrey. The people here seem to be scared of something and I think it is Mr. Haryusa. The events of Pilum Disturbed us all greatly. Without Meryl it is like we have lost our direction. Sure Ms. Meryl could be a mean person, But she was a part of our group, and in a way she was the reason we all met.
It has become plain to see that Haryusa is the reason for the destruction of Pilum, and a feeling in my gut tells me Dembrey may be next. I ask your advice in the best course of action.
-Millie Thompson
Having finished her letter to the Insurance company, Mille starts her other letters.
Dear Mother........................
-----Back in the Bar, 3 hours later-----
Wolfwood is facedown on the table, arms splayed out in front of him, while Vash and Gina dance on the table tops, occasionaly kicking one of the many bottles off the table and onto the floor. It would seem that they too have had a little too much to drink.The bar patrons, also drunk as hell, deciding to join in Vash's little game, climb up unto the table tops and begin dancing. Soon not a single tabletop in the room is empty. Bar maids are rushing frantically around the room, picking up broken glass, and passed out patrons. when one patron falls off the table top, another one replaces them immediately. In the frenzied dancing, Vash happens to step on Wolfwoods fingers.
Wolfwood: "OOOWWWW!!!! Hey! Wash it Broomhead. I'm shtrying to shleep here."
The drunken revelry continues for hours.
-----Back at the hotel----
Millie takes her stack of letters and places them on the table. This is the longest set of letters she has ever written. Writting like a woman possessed, she had finished them within 3 hours. She is proud of her work. and barely notices the small stains on the papers where she typed about Meryl. She has once again found the release for all of her pent up emotions, and yet again was more then willing to release them. However even with the tragic loss of her best friend, Millie remains ever the optimist. For there is still someone in her life, someone she had thought was long gone, and while her friendship is lost in death, she still has her family, and also she has love.
Having finished the letters, Millie decides to lay down, and take a nap. After the nightmares from last night she could use some sleep. Lying down she is quickly overtaken by exhaustion, her last thoughts of none other than Nicholas D Wolfwood.
-----In the Bar, again-----
At the bar now, Vash and another man sit talking. Naturally the conversation turns to the one topic that is on the forefront of everyone's mind, Haryusa the Dragon. The destroyer. Haryusa has made Vash's own infamy seem minute by comparrison. The man that talking to Vash seems to be too drunk to care about the looming threat of Haryusa.Wolfwood, meanwhile, lounges about at his table, looking around the room, hoping to find a clue. Gina, takes a different approach. She sleeps on the same table top, which earlier had served as her dance floor.
Not much is gathered in the lines of useful information. Most of it is common knowledge, some is mere speculation. One person actually claimed that Haryusa came into town and bought a pair of boots and a hot dog, needless to say, the man was too drunk to remember his own name.
Finally the threesome leave the bar, and wobble their way back to the hotel. Drunk, and barely mobile, they split up and head to their own rooms. Vash and Gina say goodnight to Wolfwood, and enter their room. Wolfwood, then enters his own room, only to find Millie asleep on the bed. His drunken mind is more than a little amorous, he proceeds to disrobe, and heads towards the object of his affection.
Alerted by noises in the room, Millie awakens, to see Wolfwood staggering towards her. The glazed look in his eyes did absolutely nothing for her mood, and she immediately gets up and backs away. She stands by the wall in her nightshirt watching as Wolfwood makes his drunken advance.
Wolfwood: "Hey baby, let's have some fun, eh?"
Millie: "Mr. Wolfwood, no.....noy when you're drunk."
Wolfwood: "Baby, I'm not drunk, just a littly tipshy. I'm fine."
Millie: "Mr. Wolfwood, just go to sleep."
Wolfwood: "I'll go to sleep...rigt after I have a little fun."
Millie: "I warned you."
Saying this Millie pulls out her stun gun, levels it and aims it at a surprised Wolfwood, who promptly goes flying up against the wall, leaving a small dent. He falls to the ground unconcious. Millie picks him up, and places him in the bed, covers him up, and walks over to a nearby chair. She spends the rest of the night watching Wolfwood sleep.
-----Vash's Room-----
Vash closes the door, and turns around, only to be met by Gina, who grabs him around the neck, pulls him down, and kisses him. Vash is at first caught by surprise, but soon he is returning the kiss with as much passion as Gina. The kissing continues, as they clumsily take off their clothes, stopping only long enough for them to remove their shirts. Naked, and very much aroused, they make their way to the bed. Lying there tangled up in each others arms, and held in a powerful liplock, they proceed to do the one thing that can relieve their desires, as Vash turns off the light.
-----Outside, Hotel Courtyard-----
A woman sits on a bench in the Hotel courtyard, staring up into the stars. Listening to the creaking and moaning coming from the window two floors above her. She doesn't mind, she just waits for them to sleep, and patience is quite possibly her only virtue.
-----Vash's Room-----
Vash and Gina finally are spent, and with their passions satiated, they lie there, in each others arms, the blanket covering their naked forms. They lie there fully content, and still very much drunk. Soon the alcohol does it's work, and the lovers begin to drift off into, what they hope will be a peaceful slumber.
-----Vash and Gina,Dreaming in Unison-----
Vash and Gina lie in bed, Vashes scarred chest exposed to the world. Gina stares at the complex weave of scars, and feels a pang of sympathy. She wonders idly what happened to cause so many scars.
The world darkens imperceptibly.
Gina's idle wondering is cut short, as a tall blue haired woman enters their room. Her long blue hair flows over her back, and flutters in an unfelt breeze near the small of her back. Her eyes are blue, and contain all the warmth of an arctic winter. Her black clothes , hug her form. Spiked shoulder pads, a black belt, and a pair of thigh high stilettoes complete the ensamble. Her presence exudes menace.
Vash: "Who are you and what are you doing in our room?"
Woman: "You killed my brother."
Gina: "He asked who you are, bitch. Not who he killed!"
Woman: " My name is Pandora Bluesummers.... but they call me Morphia the Dreamer!"
The world shifts, the bed is gone, and Gina and Vash stand fully clothed. The desert winds blow sand into their faces. Morphia stands several yarz away, her ice chip eyes glowing with hatred. Now there is a wind, and her hair flows behind her rippling, and snapping. The desert is filled with large rocks, and cacti, a perfect set up for a gun battle. Gun belts form on the waists of all three people, and a revolver on each hip. Vash attempts to use his gun arm, only to find that for the first time in years, it is not there... it is his real arm once again.
Morphia: "You have one chance to live, and that is to kill me like you killed my brother. Failure to do so, means you will perish in the dream, and a death in the dream, is the same as physical death. You each have a total of 12 bullets. Oh yes, and before I forget, I control the dream. Let the games begin."
With that she jumps into action, pulling her revolvers, and taking aimshe pulls off two quick shots, both of which only graze Vash's left arm. Gina and vash both grab their revolvers and fire shots at Morphia, the shots miss completely, because Morphia is no longer there. While both Vash and Gina stare dumbfounded at the spot where their adversary had been mere seconds before, simultaneous blasts are heard behind them, followed by searing pain in their right feet.
Morphia: "You aren't even trying. I should kill the both of you now!..... but then where would the fun be?"
Gina: " Bitch! You're insane!"
Morphia: "Am I? So what if I am? At least I have two working feet."
At this, Morphia lets off another shot, taking Gina square in the left foot. The bloody pools at their feet, is quickly soaked up into the dry earth. Gina shrugs off the pain, and takes aim, point blank this time, at Morphia's left thigh. Squeezing the trigger, the blast is heard, and the bullet flies far to the right of it's target.
Morphia: "You are pathetic. You try and hit the woman that controls every aspect of the dream realm..... I could destroy the both of you now. Squash you like insects. And you try to hit me..... you'll have to do better then that."
The fight continues and the bullets fly, not a single one ever manages to hit Morphia, and other than the one blind shot to the foot, not a single one hits Vash. Gina, however is quickly disabled with shots to both hands. With Gina out of the way, Morphia turns her attention to Vash. A cactus he has taken shelter behind, suddenly bends, and ensnaring him in it's thorny embrace. Casually walking over to her vanquished foe, Morphia stands over him, smiling, but at no point does even a hint of mirth touch it. Pulling out both revolvers, she fires several shots into his arms and legs, then reloads.
Morphia: "Oh did I say I only had 12 bullets..... I must have miscounted. Too bad for you.... Now you die Vash."
Leveling the guns again, she places one over each of Vash's eyes, the hammers click, she apply's a bit of pressure to the triggers, and continues squeezing.
-----Hotel courtyard (for those confused this AIN'T a dream)-----
A body in a black suit, along with a hefty chunk of the wall come falling down, and hit the blue-haired woman. Standing up the Man dusts himself off, and looks around dazed. A metal X lie discarded in the rubble. Millie looks out through the hole in the wall, stungun slung over one shoulder.
Millie: "NO MEANS NO!!!!!"
Satisfied, she turns around and goes back to her chair. Wolfwood meanwhilerubs his sore chest, and starts making his way through the rubble.
Wolfwood: "I'm lucky something broke my fall."
Looking down he sees Morphia, dazed ( like this @__@ ) under the rubble.
-----Vash and Gina's room----
Waking up, the couple rub the last vestiges of sleep out of their weary eyes. Getting up, they head over to the window, where they hear a commotion. Looking down, they see a group of people removing a blue-haired woman from the rubble of a broken wall. Looking over, they see a man shaped hole in the wall. They see wolfwood talking to a group of police officers.
Wolfwood: "Honest Officers..... It was like that when I got here."
-----End Chapter 6-----
The bus reaches the town of Dembrey, and the group disembarks. They head into town, hoping to hear news of the whereabouts of Haryusa. Immediately they seek lodging for the coming night., splitting off into two rooms, Vash and Gina in one, Millie and Wolfwood in the other. After settling in they gather in Wolfwood's room to discuss their plans for the day.
Wolfwood: "Ok. We need a plan. How are we going to find Haryusa?"
Millie: "Well, Meryl always said the best place to learn stuff is in a bar."
The group goes silent at the mention of their deceased friend. The silence lasts, as everyone remembers their fallen comrade. Finally Gina breaks the silence.
Gina: "Millie's right. We should try the bar. I'm sure somebody there will know something."
Vash: "Yeah, and maybe we could get some food!!! I haven't had anything to eat in almost a day."
Wolfwood: "Yeah, Broomhead has a point. We'll be eaten alive by Haryusa right now."
Vash: "I wonder if this hotel has a free continental breakfast?"
They head to the bar, only to find it crowded with people, most of whom are already well past inebriated. Fights break out all over the large floor, so the group wisely decides on a table close to the door. A frazzled looking bar maid, comes by to take their orders, and after she has left they look around the room to see if anyone might be sober enough to provide the information they seek. None of the bar patrons seem to be coherent, and so they eat amidst the rabble. After eating Millie excuses herself, explaining that she needs to send the insurance company an update on her current assignment. Vash, Wolfwood, and Gina order some drinks, and wait, hoping someone will come in, and be sober.
-----Back at the hotel-----
Millie sits at the typewriter, chewing on her lower lip. Index ingers posed over the keys, she hunts and pecks out a letter.
Dear Sirs,
Millie Thompson here, reporting on our progress so far. Mr Vash ran into Mr. Haryusa in the city of Pilum. Mr. Haryusa admitted to causing the destruction of Pilum, but Mr. Vash was not able to apprehend him. During their fight, Miss Meryl got shot by Mr. Haryusa, and died. We are now looking for clues to the location of Mr. Haryusa in Dembrey. The people here seem to be scared of something and I think it is Mr. Haryusa. The events of Pilum Disturbed us all greatly. Without Meryl it is like we have lost our direction. Sure Ms. Meryl could be a mean person, But she was a part of our group, and in a way she was the reason we all met.
It has become plain to see that Haryusa is the reason for the destruction of Pilum, and a feeling in my gut tells me Dembrey may be next. I ask your advice in the best course of action.
-Millie Thompson
Having finished her letter to the Insurance company, Mille starts her other letters.
Dear Mother........................
-----Back in the Bar, 3 hours later-----
Wolfwood is facedown on the table, arms splayed out in front of him, while Vash and Gina dance on the table tops, occasionaly kicking one of the many bottles off the table and onto the floor. It would seem that they too have had a little too much to drink.The bar patrons, also drunk as hell, deciding to join in Vash's little game, climb up unto the table tops and begin dancing. Soon not a single tabletop in the room is empty. Bar maids are rushing frantically around the room, picking up broken glass, and passed out patrons. when one patron falls off the table top, another one replaces them immediately. In the frenzied dancing, Vash happens to step on Wolfwoods fingers.
Wolfwood: "OOOWWWW!!!! Hey! Wash it Broomhead. I'm shtrying to shleep here."
The drunken revelry continues for hours.
-----Back at the hotel----
Millie takes her stack of letters and places them on the table. This is the longest set of letters she has ever written. Writting like a woman possessed, she had finished them within 3 hours. She is proud of her work. and barely notices the small stains on the papers where she typed about Meryl. She has once again found the release for all of her pent up emotions, and yet again was more then willing to release them. However even with the tragic loss of her best friend, Millie remains ever the optimist. For there is still someone in her life, someone she had thought was long gone, and while her friendship is lost in death, she still has her family, and also she has love.
Having finished the letters, Millie decides to lay down, and take a nap. After the nightmares from last night she could use some sleep. Lying down she is quickly overtaken by exhaustion, her last thoughts of none other than Nicholas D Wolfwood.
-----In the Bar, again-----
At the bar now, Vash and another man sit talking. Naturally the conversation turns to the one topic that is on the forefront of everyone's mind, Haryusa the Dragon. The destroyer. Haryusa has made Vash's own infamy seem minute by comparrison. The man that talking to Vash seems to be too drunk to care about the looming threat of Haryusa.Wolfwood, meanwhile, lounges about at his table, looking around the room, hoping to find a clue. Gina, takes a different approach. She sleeps on the same table top, which earlier had served as her dance floor.
Not much is gathered in the lines of useful information. Most of it is common knowledge, some is mere speculation. One person actually claimed that Haryusa came into town and bought a pair of boots and a hot dog, needless to say, the man was too drunk to remember his own name.
Finally the threesome leave the bar, and wobble their way back to the hotel. Drunk, and barely mobile, they split up and head to their own rooms. Vash and Gina say goodnight to Wolfwood, and enter their room. Wolfwood, then enters his own room, only to find Millie asleep on the bed. His drunken mind is more than a little amorous, he proceeds to disrobe, and heads towards the object of his affection.
Alerted by noises in the room, Millie awakens, to see Wolfwood staggering towards her. The glazed look in his eyes did absolutely nothing for her mood, and she immediately gets up and backs away. She stands by the wall in her nightshirt watching as Wolfwood makes his drunken advance.
Wolfwood: "Hey baby, let's have some fun, eh?"
Millie: "Mr. Wolfwood, no.....noy when you're drunk."
Wolfwood: "Baby, I'm not drunk, just a littly tipshy. I'm fine."
Millie: "Mr. Wolfwood, just go to sleep."
Wolfwood: "I'll go to sleep...rigt after I have a little fun."
Millie: "I warned you."
Saying this Millie pulls out her stun gun, levels it and aims it at a surprised Wolfwood, who promptly goes flying up against the wall, leaving a small dent. He falls to the ground unconcious. Millie picks him up, and places him in the bed, covers him up, and walks over to a nearby chair. She spends the rest of the night watching Wolfwood sleep.
-----Vash's Room-----
Vash closes the door, and turns around, only to be met by Gina, who grabs him around the neck, pulls him down, and kisses him. Vash is at first caught by surprise, but soon he is returning the kiss with as much passion as Gina. The kissing continues, as they clumsily take off their clothes, stopping only long enough for them to remove their shirts. Naked, and very much aroused, they make their way to the bed. Lying there tangled up in each others arms, and held in a powerful liplock, they proceed to do the one thing that can relieve their desires, as Vash turns off the light.
-----Outside, Hotel Courtyard-----
A woman sits on a bench in the Hotel courtyard, staring up into the stars. Listening to the creaking and moaning coming from the window two floors above her. She doesn't mind, she just waits for them to sleep, and patience is quite possibly her only virtue.
-----Vash's Room-----
Vash and Gina finally are spent, and with their passions satiated, they lie there, in each others arms, the blanket covering their naked forms. They lie there fully content, and still very much drunk. Soon the alcohol does it's work, and the lovers begin to drift off into, what they hope will be a peaceful slumber.
-----Vash and Gina,Dreaming in Unison-----
Vash and Gina lie in bed, Vashes scarred chest exposed to the world. Gina stares at the complex weave of scars, and feels a pang of sympathy. She wonders idly what happened to cause so many scars.
The world darkens imperceptibly.
Gina's idle wondering is cut short, as a tall blue haired woman enters their room. Her long blue hair flows over her back, and flutters in an unfelt breeze near the small of her back. Her eyes are blue, and contain all the warmth of an arctic winter. Her black clothes , hug her form. Spiked shoulder pads, a black belt, and a pair of thigh high stilettoes complete the ensamble. Her presence exudes menace.
Vash: "Who are you and what are you doing in our room?"
Woman: "You killed my brother."
Gina: "He asked who you are, bitch. Not who he killed!"
Woman: " My name is Pandora Bluesummers.... but they call me Morphia the Dreamer!"
The world shifts, the bed is gone, and Gina and Vash stand fully clothed. The desert winds blow sand into their faces. Morphia stands several yarz away, her ice chip eyes glowing with hatred. Now there is a wind, and her hair flows behind her rippling, and snapping. The desert is filled with large rocks, and cacti, a perfect set up for a gun battle. Gun belts form on the waists of all three people, and a revolver on each hip. Vash attempts to use his gun arm, only to find that for the first time in years, it is not there... it is his real arm once again.
Morphia: "You have one chance to live, and that is to kill me like you killed my brother. Failure to do so, means you will perish in the dream, and a death in the dream, is the same as physical death. You each have a total of 12 bullets. Oh yes, and before I forget, I control the dream. Let the games begin."
With that she jumps into action, pulling her revolvers, and taking aimshe pulls off two quick shots, both of which only graze Vash's left arm. Gina and vash both grab their revolvers and fire shots at Morphia, the shots miss completely, because Morphia is no longer there. While both Vash and Gina stare dumbfounded at the spot where their adversary had been mere seconds before, simultaneous blasts are heard behind them, followed by searing pain in their right feet.
Morphia: "You aren't even trying. I should kill the both of you now!..... but then where would the fun be?"
Gina: " Bitch! You're insane!"
Morphia: "Am I? So what if I am? At least I have two working feet."
At this, Morphia lets off another shot, taking Gina square in the left foot. The bloody pools at their feet, is quickly soaked up into the dry earth. Gina shrugs off the pain, and takes aim, point blank this time, at Morphia's left thigh. Squeezing the trigger, the blast is heard, and the bullet flies far to the right of it's target.
Morphia: "You are pathetic. You try and hit the woman that controls every aspect of the dream realm..... I could destroy the both of you now. Squash you like insects. And you try to hit me..... you'll have to do better then that."
The fight continues and the bullets fly, not a single one ever manages to hit Morphia, and other than the one blind shot to the foot, not a single one hits Vash. Gina, however is quickly disabled with shots to both hands. With Gina out of the way, Morphia turns her attention to Vash. A cactus he has taken shelter behind, suddenly bends, and ensnaring him in it's thorny embrace. Casually walking over to her vanquished foe, Morphia stands over him, smiling, but at no point does even a hint of mirth touch it. Pulling out both revolvers, she fires several shots into his arms and legs, then reloads.
Morphia: "Oh did I say I only had 12 bullets..... I must have miscounted. Too bad for you.... Now you die Vash."
Leveling the guns again, she places one over each of Vash's eyes, the hammers click, she apply's a bit of pressure to the triggers, and continues squeezing.
-----Hotel courtyard (for those confused this AIN'T a dream)-----
A body in a black suit, along with a hefty chunk of the wall come falling down, and hit the blue-haired woman. Standing up the Man dusts himself off, and looks around dazed. A metal X lie discarded in the rubble. Millie looks out through the hole in the wall, stungun slung over one shoulder.
Millie: "NO MEANS NO!!!!!"
Satisfied, she turns around and goes back to her chair. Wolfwood meanwhilerubs his sore chest, and starts making his way through the rubble.
Wolfwood: "I'm lucky something broke my fall."
Looking down he sees Morphia, dazed ( like this @__@ ) under the rubble.
-----Vash and Gina's room----
Waking up, the couple rub the last vestiges of sleep out of their weary eyes. Getting up, they head over to the window, where they hear a commotion. Looking down, they see a group of people removing a blue-haired woman from the rubble of a broken wall. Looking over, they see a man shaped hole in the wall. They see wolfwood talking to a group of police officers.
Wolfwood: "Honest Officers..... It was like that when I got here."
-----End Chapter 6-----