Hey readers of fan fiction! I'm going to try to make this authors note short because I'm really tied tonight. I do have a big gripe about the wonderful Trigun Manga that was suppose to come out Wednesday. I check every Anime source I had to make sure it was coming out this week and I was so excited. I planed to go to the bookstore right after work and pick it up. I had to have it the first day it was out. So I call and they don't have it! They have no clue when it's coming in because Dark Horse did not specify the release date, the only thing the computer said was October. I curse you Dark Horse Comics for giving a girl such high hope of seeing her favorite outlaw in Manga form then taking it away! I hope you like this chapter. I wrote my grief from being deprived of the Trigun Manga.
Thank you!!!
Bulma the goddess *** Why thank you very much and I hope I have time to R/R your story soon.
Arika* *** My silly friend I hope you FFN to work for you so you could get your second chapter up. I plan to read it soon, may be even in the next few days. And thank you sooo much for the picture of Knives, he was pleasing to the eyes as always.
KelliKatt *** I have many ways I wished Trigun had continued. Some day Maybe I can get tem all in story form. But with how bad I am about getting chapters written on time I'll be lucky to get this story finished. One thing at a time I guess.
Kagome-angel2000 *** Well he's the next chapter just for you!
Ujiji *** Yeah so maybe that Harry Potter thing was a little crazy. I don't think I'll be telling that one to any of my friends any time soon. I don't even read the books and that's what should really scare you.
Faery Goddyss *** I knew you'd love that chapter. After I wrote it I thought, "Faery Goddyss is really going to get a kick out of this one!" And oh how fun the face rubbing will be!
WW *** Marvel and Legato being a striking pair isn't even half of it. Those two were the bringers of death and destruction as they lusted for one another. I've been thinking about writhing a prequel about their relationship, but it might not fit in to the PG13 category. Cover your kids because a story about those two is not one about cookies and fluffy bunnies.
Abby-chantheblackcat *** I'm extremely sorry about the awful spelling and grammar. No matter how many times I check my chapters I always seem to miss so much. I almost wish I had some on standing behind telling me when I make a mistake. This story should come with the disclaimer: Warning: Author is the English teacher worst nightmare!
^*^*^*A special note form one of my favorite reviewers!
Hey guess what? This is Arika* here, to tell you that I am writing a Trigun fic, and it's called "Angel of Light" and it's under the penname Arika*.D~I implore you to come and read and review it. Um it's my first fanfic. So I might make some mistakes.....but I will learn.
Ja Ne!
Ps:I so....love you nova!!!!!!!
*^Disclaimer- I don't own Trigun or any of it characters because if I did the freaking Manga would come out on time! What are these people trying to do to me! I mean come on!
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Kaleidoscope
Chapter 16: The Greater Danger
Marvel sat in the town saloon, Legato seated next to her at a small round table in the middle of place. He calmly ate his burger as Marvel sat quiet. She didn't know what to say to him, she knew the time the two had together was slipping away at a fast rate. Soon he would leave and never return. It may not be this time or the next but it would happen soon.
A sound caught Marvel's attention. Two brown triangle ears pushed up through her hair to investigate the sound further. She put her glass back on the counter and looked down concentrating on the sounds her sensitive feline ears had picked up. There were more muffled screams and some scuffling. But that voice it sounded like...
"Emily." With realization Marvel turned her face up her expression panicked.
"The girl she's in trouble isn't she?" Legato didn't even look up from his sandwich.
"Damit Emily! I told you to stay put!" Marvel was out of the bar in a snap running in the direction of the helpless girl.
"Well little girl what are you going to do now? What other tricks do you have up you sleeves?" Tears ran down Emily's face as one of the man held her body close to his. His chest pressed against her back.
"Hey why don't you men pick on some one tour own size?" A shadow-coved woman stepped toward them.
"You don't look much of our size ether, but if you willing to play let's play." Marvel could smell Emily's salty tears and the small amount blood the fearful girl had lost. Anger caused her blood boil inside her blue veins.
"Now Marvel don't you think these men should learn a lesson?" A man stepped out of the shadows behind her. It was still hard to see the two but the men had no fear, the outlines of the pair's bodies didn't look threatening.
"Legato? You fallowed me?" Marvel felt him wrap his arms around her from behind. He leaned over to whisper in her ear.
"You expected me to stay behind and miss all the fun?" He hugged her closer. The feline woman closed her eyes and tipped her head back letting it fall back on Legato's chest taking in the mans unique sent.
"I though you wanted to fight. You look like you two just need to get a room!" Listening to the sounds in the air Marvel could tell where each of the four men stood and which had Emily who struggled in his arms.
"Now Marvel I think its time you showed these ingrates what you are." Legato's soft voice spoke close to her ear once more. He smiled then kissed his lover right below her human ear.
Marvel's eyes opened abruptly glowing an eerie green. At a fast rate of speed she ran toward the man with Emily in his arms. He had no time to react as the woman used her sharp nails to slash across his face.
Emily fell to the ground. She crawled at first then pushed off the ground and ran away from the men who had just been holding her captive. Looking back she was horrified and another man caught her in his arms. Terrified she began to struggle but a voice stopped her.
"Emily it is ok. It is only I, Legato. You have no reason to fear me." Crying the tiny woman griped on to the blue haired man's white trench coat barring her face in his black shirt. She had been so scared it was all so awful. Those mans hands all over her body, she felt so unclean. She needed to go back to her room and take a weeklong bath. Emily looked up to see Legato not watching her but only Marvel. She herself turned to see one of the most gruesome sites she had ever seen.
"Marvel, no how could you?"
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"Those men who attacked me, Marvel ripped them apart with her own hands. I hadn't ever seen her do anything like it. She's such a kind person even thought she acts so cold. It was awful and that man just stood there and watched with a smile on his face." Emily spat out bitterly "He just watched as Marvel used her claws to pull apart four men. When she was done you could hap put here remains in buckets, two for each of them. She ripped their flesh from the bone and I couldn't do anything to stop her. It was like I was paralyzed. That wasn't Marvel at all it was someone else something else"
Vash looked forward with concern written all over his face. This woman that he loved was capable of such destruction. In the wrong hands Marvel could proves as the ultimate weapon. That's why Knives had sent Legato after her and why he had probably stuck around for so long. If they could have convinced her Knives causes as her own she would have even be formidable foe for even Vash.
"He triggered it." Emily looked over at Vash
"What do you mean?"
"The beast inside he could trigger it making Marvel lose control." The man next to Emily seemed to be in deep thought. One thing confused him. If she had refused Knives wish for her to join the Gung-Ho Guns why was she still alive. Why hadn't Legato or on of his lackeys killed her.
"That makes sense. About four years ago he convinced Marvel to travel with him for a while. She was gone for about six months and all I remember hearing from the surrounding cities was the destruction she cause. I didn't believe any of it till I saw her do what she did to those men that day. While she was gone my mother became very I'll. Marvel came back just in time to see her before she passed away." Tears welled up in Emily's bright blue eyes "She loved Marvel so much."
A light creaking of the wood flooring close to the doorframe that lead out of the room caused both Vash and Emily too look towards it. Marvel stood in the frame, she was trying to escape unnoticed but her bad luck had once more caused he to be caught.
Emily looked back at the woman tears still in her eyes. "Marvel, how long have you been standing there? How much did you hear?"
"I herd enough." She walked away from the room the two had been sitting in. It hurt, the look in Vash's eyes we he looked into hers hurt. He was ashamed of her, maybe that he had even been with her.
Vash watched her walk away with mixed emotions. The things she had done in the past were what he had been fighting to stop. The man she had loved was the man who made him break his vowels to Rem. But that was her past and now in this moment he had fallen in love with her.
"Marvel stop!" Vash hopped up from the table and ran after the beautiful woman with such a dark past.
He fallowed her up the second level of the home to her room. She was much faster than him but her was able to keep up enough to see where she went. When Vash opened the door she sat on the edge of the bed. Marvel's body was trembling as she hugged herself.
"How do you feel knowing what I am really capable of? Can you possibly love a monster like me? Maybe that's why the two of us were perfect, Legato and I. I knew what he was, I knew being in his company was wrong but when he touched me it felts to right. The beast inside me never frighten him he embraced it"
"He did more than embrace it and you know it. He used you Marvel. He didn't love you, all he wanted to do was use you to make Knives happy." Vash closed the door behind him but didn't move any further inside the room.
"That's a lie! You didn't know him like I did. He was such a stubborn man. So cold and calculating that even he believed he had no feelings. But he was wrong he loved me. He believed that life was pain and living it was the greatest pain of all. In a world where he had no friends only a master and his minions Legato found me." She hadn't moved an inch since Vash had come into the room. Marvel only stirred at the floor her voice and body shaking. "He even told me I was his only love and he protected me to the best of his abilities form Knives. I'm supposed to be dead right now, but he just couldn't kill me."
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"That was close Knives. I thought Mille had figured something out for sure. She's smarted than she seems you know." Meryl walked across the room with the tray of food Millie had brought to the room. She sat on the edge of the bed and placed the tray on the chair next her and Knives.
"I don't think the priest and that woman are going to be a problem. They are too preoccupied with each other to notice anything." Knives sat up in the bed behind her. He grasped her small body by her arms and pulled her close to him. He hugged her laying them both back down he stretch out over the small matters. Meryl put a hand on his chest and tucked her head under his chin. "We, on the other hand, have to prepare for the return of my brother and that bitch of his."
"What do you me prepared? I'm prepared! I'm going to rip her limb from limb! Sorry, guess I got a little over dramatic didn't I?" For some reason the small insurance woman felt better just saying it, even if she didn't really mean it.
"That sounds like a good start but you don't know what that woman is capable of. Legato and her caused so much death and destruction all over this wasteland it's hard to understand how she did not meet the same fate as him. They bathed in the blood of their victims all over Gunsmoke." So Knives was embellishing a bit, or possibly so much he was lying. Meryl didn't have to know.
"Did they really kill so many people?" Even if Vash wasn't hers she couldn't let him fall in to the arms of such a villain, could she?
"That woman would rip someone's insides out while they're still alive. Then after a day of taken the lives of the innocent she would spend the night pleasuring Legato in his bed Even I began to fear the duo, till I was able to get Legato under control again." It was working he could feel it. Meryl was beginning to sway about her feelings for Marvel. She may have hated the woman but she hardly believed she was a danger to Vash. The stupid fool always managed to get out of the clutches of any danger you could throw at him but could this even be too big for the likes of him?
"Knives why would you want to stop someone who kills? Don't you yourself want to end the existence of human kind?"
"Because she is not only a threat to your kind but mine. She is almost unstoppable even by me. So you and I have to stop her before she destroys us all" Meryl clung to him afraid of what had to happen. What if all of this killed her, what if she was really going to die this time? There was no Vash to protect her; he had been doped in to loving that vicious woman.
"Meryl you don't have to fear anything. I will be here to protect you. With me you can grow stronger than you have ever imagined. I know what you've gone through in the past. It's written in your mind like a book Do you remember right after Vash killed Legato? He was in so much pain but you weren't even strong enough to help him face it." The memories flashed in her mind like a picture show while Knives stroked her hair running his finger through the short black locks. "He screamed out in pain and you couldn't even go to him. You pretended like he wasn't hurting that bad."
"He was in so much pain and I didn't know what to do. He hurt so much that I felt it too but I couldn't do any thing."
"You could have held him in your arms and told him everything was going to be ok. He would have welcomed to comfort, but you were too afraid of what he might think to comfort him. You didn't have the strength to do such things. I want to give you that strength so we can stop Marvel and bring my brother back to us." Knives placed a small kiss on the woman's forehead.
"What If I can't do it? What if I disappoint you?"
"You won't, you could never disappoint me Meryl. All you have to do after this is over is stay by my side and take care of me. Till then we have to wait for my brother to return with that woman. We'll just stay here and wait for them here together. They wont suspect a thing "
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"He was supposed to kill you?" Vash moved closer now, he had gained the courage to face Marvel again.
"At first it had all been a con a game he was playing to entrap me, but he really did fall in love with me. The last night we were together was suppose to be my last night on Gunsmoke, but he loved me so much that he couldn't do it." She hadn't even noticed Vash had come so close to her. The tall man sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her trying to stop her body from shaking.
"Tell me about it and maybe I can understand why you hurts so much. Why you loved a man I thought wasn't capable of loving anyone who was human, even himself. I want to know why you can love him and not me." Marvel did something he didn't expect her to. She embraced him laying her head on his chest inhaling his masculine sent.
"I wasn't even sure he loved me until it was too late. I though maybe his intentions had been nothing but to cause me pain and misery by capturing my heart. But when he looked into my eyes and told me the truth about every thing I knew he loved me."
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So that's the set up for Chapter 17: You're all I need. Well find out the truth behind Legato's feelings for Marvel and what happened between them. A strange letter come in the mail for Marvel and sound like a challenge, but there is nothing to link it to anyone she knows. Also Knives and Meryl wait impatiently for the return of Vash and his woman. What will they do to pass the time?
I you like this chapter! The next on is going to be filled with suspense, or at least that's how I plan it to be. I hope I see you all then and maybe even some new readers too, so tell your friends!
So go read Arika's story right now! Just like I'm going to!
See ya!
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Bulma the goddess *** Why thank you very much and I hope I have time to R/R your story soon.
Arika* *** My silly friend I hope you FFN to work for you so you could get your second chapter up. I plan to read it soon, may be even in the next few days. And thank you sooo much for the picture of Knives, he was pleasing to the eyes as always.
KelliKatt *** I have many ways I wished Trigun had continued. Some day Maybe I can get tem all in story form. But with how bad I am about getting chapters written on time I'll be lucky to get this story finished. One thing at a time I guess.
Kagome-angel2000 *** Well he's the next chapter just for you!
Ujiji *** Yeah so maybe that Harry Potter thing was a little crazy. I don't think I'll be telling that one to any of my friends any time soon. I don't even read the books and that's what should really scare you.
Faery Goddyss *** I knew you'd love that chapter. After I wrote it I thought, "Faery Goddyss is really going to get a kick out of this one!" And oh how fun the face rubbing will be!
WW *** Marvel and Legato being a striking pair isn't even half of it. Those two were the bringers of death and destruction as they lusted for one another. I've been thinking about writhing a prequel about their relationship, but it might not fit in to the PG13 category. Cover your kids because a story about those two is not one about cookies and fluffy bunnies.
Abby-chantheblackcat *** I'm extremely sorry about the awful spelling and grammar. No matter how many times I check my chapters I always seem to miss so much. I almost wish I had some on standing behind telling me when I make a mistake. This story should come with the disclaimer: Warning: Author is the English teacher worst nightmare!
^*^*^*A special note form one of my favorite reviewers!
Hey guess what? This is Arika* here, to tell you that I am writing a Trigun fic, and it's called "Angel of Light" and it's under the penname Arika*.D~I implore you to come and read and review it. Um it's my first fanfic. So I might make some mistakes.....but I will learn.
Ja Ne!
Ps:I so....love you nova!!!!!!!
*^Disclaimer- I don't own Trigun or any of it characters because if I did the freaking Manga would come out on time! What are these people trying to do to me! I mean come on!
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Kaleidoscope
Chapter 16: The Greater Danger
Marvel sat in the town saloon, Legato seated next to her at a small round table in the middle of place. He calmly ate his burger as Marvel sat quiet. She didn't know what to say to him, she knew the time the two had together was slipping away at a fast rate. Soon he would leave and never return. It may not be this time or the next but it would happen soon.
A sound caught Marvel's attention. Two brown triangle ears pushed up through her hair to investigate the sound further. She put her glass back on the counter and looked down concentrating on the sounds her sensitive feline ears had picked up. There were more muffled screams and some scuffling. But that voice it sounded like...
"Emily." With realization Marvel turned her face up her expression panicked.
"The girl she's in trouble isn't she?" Legato didn't even look up from his sandwich.
"Damit Emily! I told you to stay put!" Marvel was out of the bar in a snap running in the direction of the helpless girl.
"Well little girl what are you going to do now? What other tricks do you have up you sleeves?" Tears ran down Emily's face as one of the man held her body close to his. His chest pressed against her back.
"Hey why don't you men pick on some one tour own size?" A shadow-coved woman stepped toward them.
"You don't look much of our size ether, but if you willing to play let's play." Marvel could smell Emily's salty tears and the small amount blood the fearful girl had lost. Anger caused her blood boil inside her blue veins.
"Now Marvel don't you think these men should learn a lesson?" A man stepped out of the shadows behind her. It was still hard to see the two but the men had no fear, the outlines of the pair's bodies didn't look threatening.
"Legato? You fallowed me?" Marvel felt him wrap his arms around her from behind. He leaned over to whisper in her ear.
"You expected me to stay behind and miss all the fun?" He hugged her closer. The feline woman closed her eyes and tipped her head back letting it fall back on Legato's chest taking in the mans unique sent.
"I though you wanted to fight. You look like you two just need to get a room!" Listening to the sounds in the air Marvel could tell where each of the four men stood and which had Emily who struggled in his arms.
"Now Marvel I think its time you showed these ingrates what you are." Legato's soft voice spoke close to her ear once more. He smiled then kissed his lover right below her human ear.
Marvel's eyes opened abruptly glowing an eerie green. At a fast rate of speed she ran toward the man with Emily in his arms. He had no time to react as the woman used her sharp nails to slash across his face.
Emily fell to the ground. She crawled at first then pushed off the ground and ran away from the men who had just been holding her captive. Looking back she was horrified and another man caught her in his arms. Terrified she began to struggle but a voice stopped her.
"Emily it is ok. It is only I, Legato. You have no reason to fear me." Crying the tiny woman griped on to the blue haired man's white trench coat barring her face in his black shirt. She had been so scared it was all so awful. Those mans hands all over her body, she felt so unclean. She needed to go back to her room and take a weeklong bath. Emily looked up to see Legato not watching her but only Marvel. She herself turned to see one of the most gruesome sites she had ever seen.
"Marvel, no how could you?"
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"Those men who attacked me, Marvel ripped them apart with her own hands. I hadn't ever seen her do anything like it. She's such a kind person even thought she acts so cold. It was awful and that man just stood there and watched with a smile on his face." Emily spat out bitterly "He just watched as Marvel used her claws to pull apart four men. When she was done you could hap put here remains in buckets, two for each of them. She ripped their flesh from the bone and I couldn't do anything to stop her. It was like I was paralyzed. That wasn't Marvel at all it was someone else something else"
Vash looked forward with concern written all over his face. This woman that he loved was capable of such destruction. In the wrong hands Marvel could proves as the ultimate weapon. That's why Knives had sent Legato after her and why he had probably stuck around for so long. If they could have convinced her Knives causes as her own she would have even be formidable foe for even Vash.
"He triggered it." Emily looked over at Vash
"What do you mean?"
"The beast inside he could trigger it making Marvel lose control." The man next to Emily seemed to be in deep thought. One thing confused him. If she had refused Knives wish for her to join the Gung-Ho Guns why was she still alive. Why hadn't Legato or on of his lackeys killed her.
"That makes sense. About four years ago he convinced Marvel to travel with him for a while. She was gone for about six months and all I remember hearing from the surrounding cities was the destruction she cause. I didn't believe any of it till I saw her do what she did to those men that day. While she was gone my mother became very I'll. Marvel came back just in time to see her before she passed away." Tears welled up in Emily's bright blue eyes "She loved Marvel so much."
A light creaking of the wood flooring close to the doorframe that lead out of the room caused both Vash and Emily too look towards it. Marvel stood in the frame, she was trying to escape unnoticed but her bad luck had once more caused he to be caught.
Emily looked back at the woman tears still in her eyes. "Marvel, how long have you been standing there? How much did you hear?"
"I herd enough." She walked away from the room the two had been sitting in. It hurt, the look in Vash's eyes we he looked into hers hurt. He was ashamed of her, maybe that he had even been with her.
Vash watched her walk away with mixed emotions. The things she had done in the past were what he had been fighting to stop. The man she had loved was the man who made him break his vowels to Rem. But that was her past and now in this moment he had fallen in love with her.
"Marvel stop!" Vash hopped up from the table and ran after the beautiful woman with such a dark past.
He fallowed her up the second level of the home to her room. She was much faster than him but her was able to keep up enough to see where she went. When Vash opened the door she sat on the edge of the bed. Marvel's body was trembling as she hugged herself.
"How do you feel knowing what I am really capable of? Can you possibly love a monster like me? Maybe that's why the two of us were perfect, Legato and I. I knew what he was, I knew being in his company was wrong but when he touched me it felts to right. The beast inside me never frighten him he embraced it"
"He did more than embrace it and you know it. He used you Marvel. He didn't love you, all he wanted to do was use you to make Knives happy." Vash closed the door behind him but didn't move any further inside the room.
"That's a lie! You didn't know him like I did. He was such a stubborn man. So cold and calculating that even he believed he had no feelings. But he was wrong he loved me. He believed that life was pain and living it was the greatest pain of all. In a world where he had no friends only a master and his minions Legato found me." She hadn't moved an inch since Vash had come into the room. Marvel only stirred at the floor her voice and body shaking. "He even told me I was his only love and he protected me to the best of his abilities form Knives. I'm supposed to be dead right now, but he just couldn't kill me."
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"That was close Knives. I thought Mille had figured something out for sure. She's smarted than she seems you know." Meryl walked across the room with the tray of food Millie had brought to the room. She sat on the edge of the bed and placed the tray on the chair next her and Knives.
"I don't think the priest and that woman are going to be a problem. They are too preoccupied with each other to notice anything." Knives sat up in the bed behind her. He grasped her small body by her arms and pulled her close to him. He hugged her laying them both back down he stretch out over the small matters. Meryl put a hand on his chest and tucked her head under his chin. "We, on the other hand, have to prepare for the return of my brother and that bitch of his."
"What do you me prepared? I'm prepared! I'm going to rip her limb from limb! Sorry, guess I got a little over dramatic didn't I?" For some reason the small insurance woman felt better just saying it, even if she didn't really mean it.
"That sounds like a good start but you don't know what that woman is capable of. Legato and her caused so much death and destruction all over this wasteland it's hard to understand how she did not meet the same fate as him. They bathed in the blood of their victims all over Gunsmoke." So Knives was embellishing a bit, or possibly so much he was lying. Meryl didn't have to know.
"Did they really kill so many people?" Even if Vash wasn't hers she couldn't let him fall in to the arms of such a villain, could she?
"That woman would rip someone's insides out while they're still alive. Then after a day of taken the lives of the innocent she would spend the night pleasuring Legato in his bed Even I began to fear the duo, till I was able to get Legato under control again." It was working he could feel it. Meryl was beginning to sway about her feelings for Marvel. She may have hated the woman but she hardly believed she was a danger to Vash. The stupid fool always managed to get out of the clutches of any danger you could throw at him but could this even be too big for the likes of him?
"Knives why would you want to stop someone who kills? Don't you yourself want to end the existence of human kind?"
"Because she is not only a threat to your kind but mine. She is almost unstoppable even by me. So you and I have to stop her before she destroys us all" Meryl clung to him afraid of what had to happen. What if all of this killed her, what if she was really going to die this time? There was no Vash to protect her; he had been doped in to loving that vicious woman.
"Meryl you don't have to fear anything. I will be here to protect you. With me you can grow stronger than you have ever imagined. I know what you've gone through in the past. It's written in your mind like a book Do you remember right after Vash killed Legato? He was in so much pain but you weren't even strong enough to help him face it." The memories flashed in her mind like a picture show while Knives stroked her hair running his finger through the short black locks. "He screamed out in pain and you couldn't even go to him. You pretended like he wasn't hurting that bad."
"He was in so much pain and I didn't know what to do. He hurt so much that I felt it too but I couldn't do any thing."
"You could have held him in your arms and told him everything was going to be ok. He would have welcomed to comfort, but you were too afraid of what he might think to comfort him. You didn't have the strength to do such things. I want to give you that strength so we can stop Marvel and bring my brother back to us." Knives placed a small kiss on the woman's forehead.
"What If I can't do it? What if I disappoint you?"
"You won't, you could never disappoint me Meryl. All you have to do after this is over is stay by my side and take care of me. Till then we have to wait for my brother to return with that woman. We'll just stay here and wait for them here together. They wont suspect a thing "
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"He was supposed to kill you?" Vash moved closer now, he had gained the courage to face Marvel again.
"At first it had all been a con a game he was playing to entrap me, but he really did fall in love with me. The last night we were together was suppose to be my last night on Gunsmoke, but he loved me so much that he couldn't do it." She hadn't even noticed Vash had come so close to her. The tall man sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her trying to stop her body from shaking.
"Tell me about it and maybe I can understand why you hurts so much. Why you loved a man I thought wasn't capable of loving anyone who was human, even himself. I want to know why you can love him and not me." Marvel did something he didn't expect her to. She embraced him laying her head on his chest inhaling his masculine sent.
"I wasn't even sure he loved me until it was too late. I though maybe his intentions had been nothing but to cause me pain and misery by capturing my heart. But when he looked into my eyes and told me the truth about every thing I knew he loved me."
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So that's the set up for Chapter 17: You're all I need. Well find out the truth behind Legato's feelings for Marvel and what happened between them. A strange letter come in the mail for Marvel and sound like a challenge, but there is nothing to link it to anyone she knows. Also Knives and Meryl wait impatiently for the return of Vash and his woman. What will they do to pass the time?
I you like this chapter! The next on is going to be filled with suspense, or at least that's how I plan it to be. I hope I see you all then and maybe even some new readers too, so tell your friends!
So go read Arika's story right now! Just like I'm going to!
See ya!
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