-----Chapter 7: Liberation-----
(This chapter is happening concurrently with chapter 6. I thought a chapter from the view point of the Villain would be fun. Oh yeah, I am also fond of the flashback, just like the show, so sue me. On second thought, don't sue me, I have enough debt as it is {Grin} as always I would like to invite any feedback to be sent directly to me at Chaotichappenings@yahoo.com. On with another violent addition to The Crimson Angel saga.)
Outside the city of Mei, there is a space vessel submerged in a vast ocean of sand. A vessel that was shut down not so very long ago by Vash The Stampede. This vessel was also just recently reactivated, by a man who looked strikingly similar to Vash. Now, the vessel acts as a base of operations for Haryusa. The robot guardians, now stand at the ready. Haryusa has taken after the example made by his brother Knives. Haryusa has taken the initiative to form his own group of elite gunmen, unlike Knives, Haryusa does care whether or not they perish, in fact, Haryusa rather hoped they would die. They were only a small portion of his plan, a mere distraction for Vash.While Vash played with them, he would act on the real part of his plan.
Already he has dispatched Morphia the Dreamer, a woman who's psychic presence is so powerful it can distort the very fabric of a persons dreams. A skill Haryusa believes will be very useful against Vash and his friends. Also in the group is Brilliant Dynamite Neon, a foe that bears a grudge against Vash... who seeks one final duel to the death. Rounding out the trio was a creature called Umbra the Shadow, a creature that can fool control almost all aspects of his body, even the very shape.
Having already sent out Morphia, Haryusa sends out Neon, and Umbra, telling them to head for Dembrey, and to leave a couple days between them, so that they don't arrive at the same time. Neon takes the lead.
Having gotten rid of his henchmen, Haryusa heads to Mei to begin the first part of Operation Liberation.
-----Brilliant Dynamite Neon, the road to Dembrey.-----
The road to Dembrey is a hard one. Almost 45 Iles of straight desert, no cities, nothing just a lot of sand. It is easy to lose your way in the barren wasteland, and if it weren't for his compass, Brilliant Dynamite Neon would have wandered into the desert never to be heard from again. His drive is uneventful, and he spends the time thinking about his coming duel with Vash the Stampede. Many times he has thought of his last battle, a battle he rightfully should have won, a battle that he only admitted defeat because of a sense of sympathy for the injured man who had agreed to fight him. This time, he will make sure Vash is in top form, and they will decide once and for all who the better gunman is. Neon doesn't give a damn about Haryusa's master plan, all he cares about is his duel, anything beyond that is pure frivolity.
The road winds on, and Neon drives.
-----Umbra The Shadow, Home base-----
Umbra paces around the base, he has promised to wait at least two days before he follows Neon. As he paces his form alters, seamlesly flowing through thousands of imperceptible alterations. His form is like liquid, only able to remain a comfortably solid norm through a supreme effort. However now his mind was not too worried about how he looked. So Umbra paces, mildly afraid that he might not get a chance to test his mettle against the man who has been regarded as the greatest gun man of all time. He idly flips through some mental images he had telepathically lifted from Neon's mind. The two insurance girls, Vash, various members of Neon's gang, he tried on each form on, testing them. Finally settling into his regular form, he sits.
The time flows on, and Umbra sits.
-----Haryusa, the abandoned city of Mei-----
Haryusa stands in the shadows of a decimated building. Looking around, he heads towards the large tower, that is nothing more than a dismantled space ship, a cruel smile playing across his lips. The suns glare down on him as he treks through the city, heading ever closer to the hollowed out space ship that was the cities power supply. The red tinted sand still sits in clumps, from his previous rampage through the city. Only a few buildings actually bear the scars of his previous rampage. He managed to only destroy thirteen buildings, and shot a mere forty seven others. The walk brings back memories of his joyous dance of death in this very city, not even three weeks ago.
-----Mei, flashback-----
A gunshot shatters the silence of the night. Haryusa sits perched on a bedside table, staring down at the headless child. His parents come rushing into the room, and see their childs headless corpse. Opening their mouths to scream, no scream escapes, for they are both to busy coughing up blood, after having their lungs pierced by bullets. They slump to the floor, as Haryusa takes a backflip out the window, landing gracefully on his feet, and picking off an entire crowd of people in a blink of an eye,the bodies falling limply to the ground. More townsfolk come out to investigate, some actually manage to avoid the first shot and start running, only to be tagged in the back of the head. Laughing as he goes, Haryusa starts lobbing grenades at large groups of people, watching as flaming limbs fly, showering the streets in arms and legs.
The hours fly by, in an orgy of blood and violence, Haryusa moves with amazing speed, he picks off every fleeing citizen. When the last few remain, he lets himself be a little playful. He purposely allows the last four people to run, they exit the city limits, and run screaming into the desert, and then, his fun begins. He chases after the first one, that had exited the city to the northwest. Following the man, at about 200 yarz. He watches as the man stumbles, falls, and scrapes his way through the desert. Finally the man's plight begins to bore Haryusa, and so he bgins his assault on the man, pumping several successive rounds into each shoulder, severing the arms from the rest of the torso. The mans ragged scream pierces the night. Another shot , takes the man from the back, severing his spinal cord, and decimating his Larynx as well. One more shot, and a bullet embeds itself in the mans brain. He slumps to the ground, and Haryusa looks for his next victim.
Haryusa: "Come out come out wherever you are........"
He heres a crying noise to the south and takes off in that direction.He covers the distance, in less then thirty seconds, and finds a woman curled up defensively around her child. The childs loud cries, that echo off the dunes, and the mothers sobs arouse no sympathy from Haryusa. Two quick shots and the mothers legs are disabled. She screams, and temporarily releases her hold on her child, and just like that, Haryusa grabs her daughter, and holds hher high, out of the womans reach.
Woman: "Not my baby.....please not Panta...she's only a year old....please"
The rest is lost in undistiguishable screams, and sobs, the woman watches as Haryusa drops Panta to the ground. The fact that her child life has been spared makes her oblivious to the gun being raised and pointed at her. Haryusa squeezes off three more shots, shoulder shoulder face. The woman falls backward, the sand turning a dark crimson. Haryusa leaves the child, clutching at her mothers breast. He doesn't have the need to kill the child. One day exposed to the desert heat, and the harsh rays of the suns will bake the child, and besides, he has one more victim to catch.
Closer to the city, he finds a 12 year old boy, cowering in a cave. The boys loud sobbing, had betrayed his location, and now he comes face to face with Haryusa. Blocking off the boys only exit, Haryusa sits, with his guns laid out on his lap. The boy backs up, flattening himself against the caves back wall.
Haryusa: "So, how does it feel to be the last surviving citizen of Mei?"
Boy: "Please don't kill me.....I don't want to die"
Haryusa: "I just killed your entire family, everyone you ever loved. If you live, you will be haunted by the images you have seen today, you will wake up at night screaming. You will never have a normal life, the only thing you will ever know, is pain. Is that what you want? Do you want to live in pain? I have come to end that pain... after today, you shall sleep for eternity, no pain ever again. So I bid you Adieu."
Having finished his talk, he grabs the boy, ties him up, and leaves him in the cave. The boy screams as loud as he can, but the screams are heard by no one other than Haryusa. Haryusa slowly walks away. At about 50 yarz, Haryusa turns around, and grabs his last grenade. Pulling the pin, he lobs it with amazing accuracy, into the small cave he had just left the boy in. On one hand, he holds up one finger, two fingers, three fingers. The explosion is loud, and at fifty yarz, Haryusa feels the heat of the blast on his face. Large rocks fly into the air, mixed with the mangled parts of the boy. The unnatural rain falls at Haryusa's back, as he walks off towards town.
Haryusa: "So sad, I didn't even work up a sweat."
He heads into town and begins the work of leaving his message for his brother, and the dead bodies will make a great writing medium.
-----Mei, present-----
Haryusa chuckles at the memory of the massacre, but their is no humor in the sound. He makes his way to the hollowed out spaceship, and finally comes face to face with the object of his quest. A giant Light bulb shaped object glows in the the center of a large room. Haryusa walks up to the object and places his hands on the cool glass surface. Energy seems to enter his body, invigorating him.
Haryusa: "Soon. Soon my plan shall come to fruition."
The glass bulb begins growing brighter. Hairline fractures stem out from the spots where Haryusa's hands touch the bulb. The brilliant light grows stronger along these cracks, finally the glass shatters, showering Haryusa with a fine spray of crystaline shards. The glow is blinding at this point, and Haryusa is forced to close his eyes. Gradually the glow fades, and the brilliant white perfection resolves itself into shades and tones. Soon colors emerge all revolving around a central glow. At last, the glow diminishes completely, and the shape inside becomes clearly visible. Haryusa stares at the shape, and grins.
Haryusa: "Excellent."
-----End Chapter 7-----
(This chapter is happening concurrently with chapter 6. I thought a chapter from the view point of the Villain would be fun. Oh yeah, I am also fond of the flashback, just like the show, so sue me. On second thought, don't sue me, I have enough debt as it is {Grin} as always I would like to invite any feedback to be sent directly to me at Chaotichappenings@yahoo.com. On with another violent addition to The Crimson Angel saga.)
Outside the city of Mei, there is a space vessel submerged in a vast ocean of sand. A vessel that was shut down not so very long ago by Vash The Stampede. This vessel was also just recently reactivated, by a man who looked strikingly similar to Vash. Now, the vessel acts as a base of operations for Haryusa. The robot guardians, now stand at the ready. Haryusa has taken after the example made by his brother Knives. Haryusa has taken the initiative to form his own group of elite gunmen, unlike Knives, Haryusa does care whether or not they perish, in fact, Haryusa rather hoped they would die. They were only a small portion of his plan, a mere distraction for Vash.While Vash played with them, he would act on the real part of his plan.
Already he has dispatched Morphia the Dreamer, a woman who's psychic presence is so powerful it can distort the very fabric of a persons dreams. A skill Haryusa believes will be very useful against Vash and his friends. Also in the group is Brilliant Dynamite Neon, a foe that bears a grudge against Vash... who seeks one final duel to the death. Rounding out the trio was a creature called Umbra the Shadow, a creature that can fool control almost all aspects of his body, even the very shape.
Having already sent out Morphia, Haryusa sends out Neon, and Umbra, telling them to head for Dembrey, and to leave a couple days between them, so that they don't arrive at the same time. Neon takes the lead.
Having gotten rid of his henchmen, Haryusa heads to Mei to begin the first part of Operation Liberation.
-----Brilliant Dynamite Neon, the road to Dembrey.-----
The road to Dembrey is a hard one. Almost 45 Iles of straight desert, no cities, nothing just a lot of sand. It is easy to lose your way in the barren wasteland, and if it weren't for his compass, Brilliant Dynamite Neon would have wandered into the desert never to be heard from again. His drive is uneventful, and he spends the time thinking about his coming duel with Vash the Stampede. Many times he has thought of his last battle, a battle he rightfully should have won, a battle that he only admitted defeat because of a sense of sympathy for the injured man who had agreed to fight him. This time, he will make sure Vash is in top form, and they will decide once and for all who the better gunman is. Neon doesn't give a damn about Haryusa's master plan, all he cares about is his duel, anything beyond that is pure frivolity.
The road winds on, and Neon drives.
-----Umbra The Shadow, Home base-----
Umbra paces around the base, he has promised to wait at least two days before he follows Neon. As he paces his form alters, seamlesly flowing through thousands of imperceptible alterations. His form is like liquid, only able to remain a comfortably solid norm through a supreme effort. However now his mind was not too worried about how he looked. So Umbra paces, mildly afraid that he might not get a chance to test his mettle against the man who has been regarded as the greatest gun man of all time. He idly flips through some mental images he had telepathically lifted from Neon's mind. The two insurance girls, Vash, various members of Neon's gang, he tried on each form on, testing them. Finally settling into his regular form, he sits.
The time flows on, and Umbra sits.
-----Haryusa, the abandoned city of Mei-----
Haryusa stands in the shadows of a decimated building. Looking around, he heads towards the large tower, that is nothing more than a dismantled space ship, a cruel smile playing across his lips. The suns glare down on him as he treks through the city, heading ever closer to the hollowed out space ship that was the cities power supply. The red tinted sand still sits in clumps, from his previous rampage through the city. Only a few buildings actually bear the scars of his previous rampage. He managed to only destroy thirteen buildings, and shot a mere forty seven others. The walk brings back memories of his joyous dance of death in this very city, not even three weeks ago.
-----Mei, flashback-----
A gunshot shatters the silence of the night. Haryusa sits perched on a bedside table, staring down at the headless child. His parents come rushing into the room, and see their childs headless corpse. Opening their mouths to scream, no scream escapes, for they are both to busy coughing up blood, after having their lungs pierced by bullets. They slump to the floor, as Haryusa takes a backflip out the window, landing gracefully on his feet, and picking off an entire crowd of people in a blink of an eye,the bodies falling limply to the ground. More townsfolk come out to investigate, some actually manage to avoid the first shot and start running, only to be tagged in the back of the head. Laughing as he goes, Haryusa starts lobbing grenades at large groups of people, watching as flaming limbs fly, showering the streets in arms and legs.
The hours fly by, in an orgy of blood and violence, Haryusa moves with amazing speed, he picks off every fleeing citizen. When the last few remain, he lets himself be a little playful. He purposely allows the last four people to run, they exit the city limits, and run screaming into the desert, and then, his fun begins. He chases after the first one, that had exited the city to the northwest. Following the man, at about 200 yarz. He watches as the man stumbles, falls, and scrapes his way through the desert. Finally the man's plight begins to bore Haryusa, and so he bgins his assault on the man, pumping several successive rounds into each shoulder, severing the arms from the rest of the torso. The mans ragged scream pierces the night. Another shot , takes the man from the back, severing his spinal cord, and decimating his Larynx as well. One more shot, and a bullet embeds itself in the mans brain. He slumps to the ground, and Haryusa looks for his next victim.
Haryusa: "Come out come out wherever you are........"
He heres a crying noise to the south and takes off in that direction.He covers the distance, in less then thirty seconds, and finds a woman curled up defensively around her child. The childs loud cries, that echo off the dunes, and the mothers sobs arouse no sympathy from Haryusa. Two quick shots and the mothers legs are disabled. She screams, and temporarily releases her hold on her child, and just like that, Haryusa grabs her daughter, and holds hher high, out of the womans reach.
Woman: "Not my baby.....please not Panta...she's only a year old....please"
The rest is lost in undistiguishable screams, and sobs, the woman watches as Haryusa drops Panta to the ground. The fact that her child life has been spared makes her oblivious to the gun being raised and pointed at her. Haryusa squeezes off three more shots, shoulder shoulder face. The woman falls backward, the sand turning a dark crimson. Haryusa leaves the child, clutching at her mothers breast. He doesn't have the need to kill the child. One day exposed to the desert heat, and the harsh rays of the suns will bake the child, and besides, he has one more victim to catch.
Closer to the city, he finds a 12 year old boy, cowering in a cave. The boys loud sobbing, had betrayed his location, and now he comes face to face with Haryusa. Blocking off the boys only exit, Haryusa sits, with his guns laid out on his lap. The boy backs up, flattening himself against the caves back wall.
Haryusa: "So, how does it feel to be the last surviving citizen of Mei?"
Boy: "Please don't kill me.....I don't want to die"
Haryusa: "I just killed your entire family, everyone you ever loved. If you live, you will be haunted by the images you have seen today, you will wake up at night screaming. You will never have a normal life, the only thing you will ever know, is pain. Is that what you want? Do you want to live in pain? I have come to end that pain... after today, you shall sleep for eternity, no pain ever again. So I bid you Adieu."
Having finished his talk, he grabs the boy, ties him up, and leaves him in the cave. The boy screams as loud as he can, but the screams are heard by no one other than Haryusa. Haryusa slowly walks away. At about 50 yarz, Haryusa turns around, and grabs his last grenade. Pulling the pin, he lobs it with amazing accuracy, into the small cave he had just left the boy in. On one hand, he holds up one finger, two fingers, three fingers. The explosion is loud, and at fifty yarz, Haryusa feels the heat of the blast on his face. Large rocks fly into the air, mixed with the mangled parts of the boy. The unnatural rain falls at Haryusa's back, as he walks off towards town.
Haryusa: "So sad, I didn't even work up a sweat."
He heads into town and begins the work of leaving his message for his brother, and the dead bodies will make a great writing medium.
-----Mei, present-----
Haryusa chuckles at the memory of the massacre, but their is no humor in the sound. He makes his way to the hollowed out spaceship, and finally comes face to face with the object of his quest. A giant Light bulb shaped object glows in the the center of a large room. Haryusa walks up to the object and places his hands on the cool glass surface. Energy seems to enter his body, invigorating him.
Haryusa: "Soon. Soon my plan shall come to fruition."
The glass bulb begins growing brighter. Hairline fractures stem out from the spots where Haryusa's hands touch the bulb. The brilliant light grows stronger along these cracks, finally the glass shatters, showering Haryusa with a fine spray of crystaline shards. The glow is blinding at this point, and Haryusa is forced to close his eyes. Gradually the glow fades, and the brilliant white perfection resolves itself into shades and tones. Soon colors emerge all revolving around a central glow. At last, the glow diminishes completely, and the shape inside becomes clearly visible. Haryusa stares at the shape, and grins.
Haryusa: "Excellent."
-----End Chapter 7-----