6

After the rain stopped it was the time for Nick to fight Monev the Gale.

"I, Monev the Gale, am indestructible!!" he shouted to Nick.

Nick took his pistol from Chapel.

"Thanks Chapel." Nick said.

"So long." Chapel said.

Nick holstered his pistol and waited for the clock to hit the top of the hour

Vash saddled up his Thomas.

"Hey wait a moment? Where are you going?" Meryl asked.

"I need a ride to clear my head." Vash said, getting on top of the Thomas.

"Look, I've been meaning to tell you this but, I..."

Vash didn't listen as he rode off out of town and into the empty land.

"I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!" Meryl shouted.

Monev started up the gun barrels on his arm and had a big bazooka on his back.

The clock hit 12.

BANG

Vash's Thomas reacted to the shot heard far away.

Nick was still standing but Monev wasn't until he began to get up and then sink down. Luckily for Nick he hit him in his head.

Chapel locked Nick back into the chains.

"Nice shooting preacher. It looks like you're heading to the semi finals." He said.

Nick said nothing as he was pulled off. Milly wiped a tear from her face.

Vash wandered around the gravesite to see if he could find a grave he made. An old man from town who was also the doctor saw him and knew what he knew.

"I know you are looking for Rem's memorial. It's gone; Knives burned it down after you put it up here." The old man said.

Vash looked up at the man.

"So you know who I am?" He said.

"Yes, but I have not seen you since you were a child." The old man replied.

Vash pulled out a faded ID card with the words "Project SEEDS" on it. The name read "Rem Saverem" and had the brown haired girl's picture on it.

"She was a true friend."

"The people of that town are good, but they're just afraid. They keep hoping and praying that someone like you would come and stop him. No one can do it but you."

"I can't, I had my chance and I chickened out. I can't to kill him." Vash said with sadness in his tone.

"You have to." The old man said.

Vash had more flashbacks of his past.

Now that Rem is gone you and I can build a whole new world for just us and no one to get in our way." He said.

"You bastard. Give Rem back!!!!!" Vash shouted.

Knives knocked Vash down when he tried to punch him.

"She was such a fool. She really thought she could save the people." Knives chuckled.

ORBITAL TRACJECTORY CHANGING.

"What? No!!!" Knives shouted.

Vash stopped when it began raining again. Without a doubt in his mind he rode back to town to finish this once and for all. The next day he found Knives sitting on a bench in front of the saloon and stormed towards him.

"I challenge you." Vash said.

"No." Knives said.

"I won't fight anyone else. It's you I want." Vash demanded.

"I've already been challenged." Knives said as Legato, with his friends, walked up.

"It's time to see if I'm my dad's equal." He said as he went into the saloon.

"You would fight your own kid. I'm gonna kill you if I have to follow you to the ends of the earth and back." Vash swore.

"Did I wrong you in another life or something? What is it with you wanting to challenge me?" Knives asked.

Vash didn't answer as he walked off.

At the saloon Vash and Nick talked.

"I won't fight you." They both said to each other.

"Just step down, let me take him in the finals." Nick pleaded.

"I won't, I came here to kill Knives and that's what I'm going to do." Vash said.

Knives overheard them talking.

"Look, you WILL fight each other. No one backs out. You should've left when you had the chance. If you don't fight or try to leave town my men will shoot you." He threatened.

Later that day the time came for the fight with Legato and Knives.

"Clear the street, only 2 fights today. Mr. Knives fights Legato, and the Blonde man fights Nick." The bartender said.

Vash talked to Legato in the gun shop.

"You don't have to do this Legato. You have nothing left to prove." He pleaded with Legato.

"I do, I want him to acknowledge me as his own, even if I have to kill him to do it in." Legato said, loading his pistols.

Knives waited on the street as Legato strolled out. The people cheered him as he took his position at the other end of the street.

"You made your point, drop out now while you still can." Knives said to him.

"Look people, he's scared. The old man isn't as fast as he used to be, and as for me. I'm in my prime." Legato said, spinning his guns and holstering them.

Both men held their hands close to the grips of their guns as the clock ticked down to the 12.

It hit 12, both men drew.

BANG, BANG

Knives held his shoulder as he fell back, his men rushed over to him.

"I......got him." Legato said as he sank to the ground with a bullet hole in his heart.

Vash and some townsfolk rushed over to help Legato.

Suddenly Knives stood up, it seems Legato's aim was off a tad and only grazed his shoulder. The bartender shook his head in anguish, hoping Knives had died.

Legato looked up.

"Did I kill him?" Legato asked.

"You got him kid." Vash said.

Legato slipped away as Knives stood over him with a cloth on his wound.

"It was never proved he was mine. It was the plant that- no, he wasn't mine." Knives said.

Vash glared at him, not even giving recognition to his dead son.

"I gave him a chance to drop out, but he wouldn't. What do you want from me?" Knives said, and with that he walked off.

Vash sat in the bedroom of the gun shop, and then he had an idea. He spoke to Neil about a certain item and then talked to Nick until the time to fight.

"I need your help." Vash said.

"What do you have in mind?" Nick asked, curious.