I'm sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up! You see my computer broken and I was unable to get on the Internet not to mention I was afraid it was going to eat everything I had saved in it. So after saving everything to disks, cleaning out my computer, and starting as new I was finally able to wok out all the bugs, well most of the bugs in my system and get back online. Wooohooo, I almost went crazy with Internet withdraw!
THANK YOU!!!!
DarkGoddess29 : When dealing with Knives it is beat to keep calm, even if you really want to give him a good punch in the nose.
hope-is-forever : I guess you'll just have to read this chapter and see who saves Meryl:)
Kakeru : I always hated Meryl/ Vash Fiction so I just couldn't being my self to write about them, but I felt bad for Meryl. So I paired her up with Knives and that's just the way things ended up and people like it. And I should be the one thanking you for taking the time to read my story.
ChibiSess : I am a fan of InuYasha, but the similarities between Marvel and more coincidence than paining. However I did get the idea of calling her "The Demon" from InuYasha. Nothing else seemed to fit her rampages and cat like appearance.
Mimic12355 : I've been trying to incorporated a lot of action because I've never really written a lot of action before. I'm glade you liked it!
Faery Goddyss: So, I waited a really long lime to post aging. I was waiting for your wrath but it never came. I promise to do better and post more often:)
Zeheria: I'm obsessed with X/1999 and I'm glad you are too! Now if we could just make the rest of the world falling love with the amazing gothic tragedy that is X. I have a feeling if I found my twin star I'd end up the evil one tying to destroy the world.
Sasukegrl: Thank you and I hope every one get to read it too!
Reicheru: Sinful God, Gentle Angel in my favorite Fruits Basket story, and probably the only one I keep up on! Thank you for taking the time to read my story and review it as well.
Trapt-tears: I've been fighting the spelling and grammar monster for a long time. I seem to be getting better but still have my problems. Iv'e red through past chapters and noticed a few of them and thought they were pretty funny myself. And Yes the Trigun Manga does rock and all of you should go buy them! But pleas, leave a copy of Trigun Maximum 3 for me, ok?
Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun...admitting your problem is the first step to recovery.
With out any more of my interface here in the next chapter.........
Chapter 23: Death and the Reaper
'I don't regret it. Never has a day gone by that I regent the original sin that dammed me to these never ending existence. My heart sill pounds in my chest, beating strong each day never failing, never skipping a beat. People live and people die but I always stay the same, never changing with the same sad face and the same hidden smile. As one flame dies, another candle is lit sparking new life. My blazing touch has been ignited and swallows any thing too close to the flame, I will always be. I am the Demon'
Vash tore apart the thirds door down the hall second floor room in the small towns only inn. Thing went flying about as he rampaged through Marvel's belongings looking for what he was sent for. That old dirty handgun that looked worn and abused, carried by a strong tomboy of a woman who used it in memory of an unhappy past.
"Where's that stupid thing?" Vash sighed frustrated as he pulled free the clothing in the top drawers of Marvel's dresser throwing them all on the floor.
Nothing seemed to be able to distract the determined man from his mission. People's lives were at stake, Marvel's life was at stake. It was all up to him and nothing would get in the way of his pursuit of the small firearm. That was until he stumbled upon the last compartment in the low chest of drawers.
"Well, well what to we have here?" A tears formed in the delighted mans eyes as his gloved fingers ran through silky bits of clothing. "I've been looking for it so long and now I've finely found it! Marvels underwear drawer!"
Meryl lay on the ground motionless. The quaking foundation had stopped its trembling and everything had come to a sudden halt. The little dark-haired woman did not dare open her eyes fearing what she would see when she opened them. Then she felt it, a warm sticky puddle seeping through her blouse. The vital life giving fluid clung to her skin as a metallic smell ht her noise. It was strange, Meryl felt no pain her body starched out on the sandy hard ground below her.
Maybe...maybe I'm already dead! The morbid thought caused the panic-stricken woman to thrust open her eyes. A look of relief appeared on her face when she realized she was far from dead, but then shock from what she realized had happened.
Marvel's body leaded over Meryl's as the smaller woman lay on ground below. The strong brunette held herself up by her left arm using it to support her weight so she would no collapse on the horrified woman under her. Blood oozed out of a large hole in the catwoman's shoulder and a long spear made of solid rock peeked out three or four inches the crimson liquid rolling off the point onto Meryl's clothing.
"Do you ever listen to anyone!?" Marvel spat out to the woman shielded by her body. Her left arm began tremble, it might not be able to support her much longer. The almost unbearable pain throbbed in the wild cats right arm and her loss of blood made her dizzy and unable to focuses. "You should've just left when I told you too! Now look, I'm a mess!"
Marvel attempted to stand but swayed a bit as she pulled her self to her feet. Meryl hastily stood up right and steadied the staggering woman but was pushed aside by a clawed hand. Now feeling useless Meryl watched as Marvel took her good hand wrapping her fingers with those long nail claws around the lengthy piece of stone mineral logged in the back of her shoulder, seizing it with one hard yank she ripped the limestone free from her body with a sharp blood curdling scream. The blood now oozed more freely from the opening in her arm. Marvel found her legs giving way beneath her, she fell to the ground her knees hitting hard with a thud clutching her mangled arm.
"Marvel! Don't move!" Meryl dropped to the ground next to the injured woman sitting her upright. Marvel hissed in pain. "You can't keep this up! You'll die!"
"I have...to do this." It was hard to breath, for the fist time in her life the unbelievably strong woman tough she just might die. With each beat of her heart the blood pump through Marvel's veins forcing blood to gush steadily out of her shoulder. "He must be punished...for what..he's..done."
The large predator stood a few feet away looking over the scene. Marvel crumpled on the grasping her wounded arm as the blood spilled out all over her saturating her clothing. Meryl cradled the crippled creature in her arms watching her face drain of color and her breaths come out in short puffs and the man who caused all of this destruction and chaos did nothing. But then the menacing wolf man erupted in a deep bone chilling laughter. Kyeo found this turn of events particularly amusing.
"I thought the head strong 'Marvel the Demon' would last longer!" The evil canine chuckled aloud. "You're really pathetic aren't you, just like you've always been. Nothing but a pretty waste of space."
"YOU'RE WRONG!" The forceful voice of a young woman filled the silent open air. Emily stood be hide the unholy mutt steadfast with the angriest look she could muster and all the courage she had. "Marvel is not pathetic! She's the strongest person I know! There's no way she'll let you win, never in a million years!"
"Emily." Marvel croaked out the teens name pushing it out of her dry scratchy throat. Forcing herself to move she tried to stand once more.
"Marvel won't let us down!" Emily could no longer hold back her tears as she looked on at her broken friend bleeding to death only a few feet away. "MARVEL WON'T DIE, SHE CAN'T!" The teen screamed to the beast at the top of her lungs.
"Marvel you can't!" Meryl tried to hold the determined woman down but even in her beaten state, she was still much stronger than the tinny woman. "You don't have the strength to fight him! You'll be killed!"
"Thin I'll die! But I'll die on my own terms! This place, theses people are important to me." Marvel finely made it to her feet in an awkward and unstable stand. "I will not let him destroy all that I've protected for so long."
"How Cute" Kyeo laughed once more. "Look at the untainted view of a child. It's it funny Marvel, how she believes you so strong as you lay dieing covered in your own blood." The large wolf man took long lumbering steps towards the suffering catwoman as stumbled side to side. His approach was halted when a rock about the size of a fist whizzed past his head.
"Hey, Mr. Big dark and unattractive. Why don't you pick one some one who can fight instead of the weak!" Emily tossed another small rock past the man's brain box.
"Looks like I'll have to deal with the girl first." Kyeo turned his attention to the small blond girl behind him.
"Meryl tell me something" Marvel looked over at the woman who was trying to steady her wobbly swagger.
"What is it?"
"Tell me, does that tie of yours come off?"
"Yeah, why?" Meryl gave the woman an odd look. She didn't understand why she would ask such a strange question at a time like this, Emily was in danger.
"Alright, then I need you to untie it." Still confused the small woman did what she was asked to and freed the limp tie from around her neck. "Now lift up the back of my shirt."
Meryl continued to fallow instructions lifting up the back of Marvels shirt that was sticky with dark red liquid that now covered her clothing. She gasped surprised to find what had been hidden there. Dark gray eyes fallowed a brown leather holster that was half hidden in the back of the taller woman's denim jeans. Sheathed in that unexposed place was a dirty gunmetal handgun, the same Vash had been sent off to find.
"Wait, I thought you left this in you room?" Meryl stared at the weapon not sure of what to do with it.
"It is, now give it to me" Marvel felt the cold metal slide against her skin as Meryl pulled the free from its holder.
"What's going on here?! If you had this al along why'd you send Vash to bring it to you?" Meryl placed the gun in Marvel hand but noticed her clawed fingers couldn't grasp the gun in a firm grip and her digits held loosely on to the steel piece.
"Damn, just like I thought." With her good hand, Marvel held onto right wrist with her weapon dangling in a relaxed handhold. She figured there was no way her mangled appendage would have the ability to hold her gun. She looked at Meryl briefly before answering the question she had been asked "I was trying to spare Vash from what I thought was going to be a gruesome victory."
"So you lied to him?!"
"Pretty much." With her good hand, Marvel forced her structure lees fingers to hold her weapon. "Give me that ribbon of yours!" Wavering the blue tie around her hand and the gun the weekend woman tied several knots in the fabric keeping each finger where it needed to be to operate her small piece of artillery.
All Meryl could do was look on confused.
"You don't plan on taking him on, do you?" Marvel could only nod as she quickly tightened her work with her teeth. "Do you know how crazy this is!"
"I think I can still pull the trigger, so all I have to do is aim with the other hand."
Vash at on the sold wooden floor thinking hard about where he had last encountered Marvel's gun. The last time he really could remember seeing it he's just been shot by it. ("I mean who teaches a 17 year old girl to be a gunslinger anyway!" He'd said to him self) Matter-of-fact his lack of memory had drove him so insane the great Stampeded started smashing his head against the rooms solid wooden night stand.
"Wait! Now I remember it was right here before I left to check Knives room. Which means…only one of two people could have grabbed it!" Vash groaned angrily aloud "That double-crosser I bet she had it along! Sending me off looking for her gun when..."
A large crash from the other room startled the gunman out of his own thoughts. IT sounded like the whole room was being tore apart. He herd a woman's voice calling out next door.
"Miss Emily, Miss Emily where are you? Come on this is no time for hide and seek!" Millie had been ripping the whole inn apart looking for the teen Nicholas D. Wolfwood and her had spent the last half hour or so watching over.
She was frantic, looking under beds and in closets. Emily didn't seem to be anywhere, and to make things worse Millie felt more intense trimmers and heard loud garbled voices outside. She didn't know exactly how things were going but she did know it was sill no where near safe enough to go back out there with out being prepared to fight.
When Vash cam upon the tall brunet woman She was crying big we tears from large sad eyes. Millie looked up at him sniffing wildly as the tall blond entered the room.
"Oh, Mr. Vash I've lost Miss Emily. Mr. Wolfwood and I have looked all over the place and we can't find her anywhere!" She broke into short sobs. "And Miss Marvel was counting on me to protect her!"
Vash leaned over placing a gentle hand in her back trying to console her the best her could, when her noticed something thrown aside on the floor. It was made of red material, which looked, warn and weathered. The long coat, the front covered in a multitude of buttons, sat alone bathed in the sunlight of the room's single window. Distracted Vash started to reach for the cloth that seem close enough to grab with the tips of his fingers.
"Hey, sad eyes try no to look so glum." Vash jumper about 10 feet in the air grasping the hanging over head light fixture in the room, Wolfwood's silent entrance spooking him.
"Could you not do that!" A terrified Vash swung helplessly back and forth from the ceiling light.
The gruff priest laughed whole-heartedly and the sights of him hanging like a monkey in a banana tree.
"Nice to see you too spiky head!
"Nicholas, pleas tell me you found Emily!" Mille rushed over to the tall man clad in black.
"Sorry sweetheart, I couldn't find her anywhere. But you can bet she'll turn up soon." The new clam was shattered by the sound of bullets.
Vash dropped down to the ground and grabbed on to the wad red material setting on the floor.
"Come on something going on out there, and I have a bad felling about it."
Marvel ran around hopping from place to place trying to get closer to her pray while avoiding the shards of rock that hurtled towards her. Each time she had lined up a decent shot she narrowly missed being crushed by a bolder or Impaled by a sharp spear. She had only managed to keep Kyeo distracted with her movement that were considerably sluggish compared to her normal cat reflexes and super human speed.
He's toying with me! Marvel thought to herself as she clumsily dogged three solid fist sized rocks the zipped by her left ear. He could hit me any time at the snails pace I'm moving at.
"Enough with these games." A sadistic smile twisted onto the stone cold features of the devil dogs face. A wicked grin forced his sharp-yellowed fangs to peek out over his thin bottom lip. "Lets end this."
A rumbling force ripped through the ground below Marvel's feet and the quaking surface underfoot began to pull apart in an uneven zigzag pattern leaving an open gorge. Unsteadily the weakened woman stood wobbly on her feet rocking side-to-side fighting to keep balance. In the end Marvel lost the war as her legs gave way and she toppled sideways landing painfully hard on her already mangled sholder. Dizzy the cat woman hissed in pain her arm burning with pain. She felt herself loosening touch with her surroundings as they began to swirl around her.
"Marvel, Marvel get up! COME ON GET UP" Panicked Emily could do nothing but scream to her fallen friend who lay half conscious.
She could only watch in horror and large sections of the rocky planet gave way and plummeted down word towards the planets center. Each getting closer to Marvel who in this state would be surly sucked down into one of the gaping holes if something wasn't done. Emily turned her attention to the evil man causing the chaos. Marvel once again tried to stand watching Emily distracted Kyeo.
"Stop this! Stop torturing her! You have no right to do these things!" Unsure the small blond girl started taking small steps towards the brutish man. "I said leaver her be you fat headed jerk!" More confident Emily's eyes burned blue with an unbridled rage. "I know you can hear me ugly fool why don't you..."
It had all happened in an instant, so quick no one had seen it coming. A moment shorter than a quick breath it was over. Emily hadn't even finished her sentences of taunts and ranting before she felt a sharp pain shoot through her chest. She barley had time to look down and see the long shard of limestone buried in breast as her body collapsed dropping to the ground with a lifeless thud.
Meryl coved her mouth in horror and in disbelief. How could a man be this wicked, so evil that he would take the life of a child? Tears rolled over her cheeks slow and steady at firsts in the muddled confusion of it all. She watched as Marvel stood shakily on her feet. Bloody, beaten and broken she took slow steps clutching her mangled arm and she edged closer the breathless body on the young slain victim of the hell hounds fury.
Marvel fell to her knees next to Emily's tiny frame. No longer did she see the soft hint of pink that always kissed the teen's cheeks only a cold white color coved her skin now as the blood pushed out around the spear that pierced her heart and pooled in a growing puddle beneath her. Blue eyes starred upward at the sky vacant and empty. Marvel laid down next to Emily in what seemed to be a shock induced daze. The ruby liquid that covered ground seeped into her clothing covering her skin. The golden brown locks that coved her head turned dark in blood soaked clumps, as she lay there motionless looking in to the face of her friend's still corpse.
I wish the ground would just open up swallow me whole.
Answering her silent prayer the ground shock and begin to open. Marvel closed her eyes awaiting the escape of death feeling the rock shift below her finally beginning to fall sucking her below into the darkness. She herd what sounded like the scuffling of feet before something caught the wrist of her good undamaged arm.
Review, Or I might just forget how to type and wont be able to write the next chapter:) Just kidding.....REVIEW!
THANK YOU!!!!
DarkGoddess29 : When dealing with Knives it is beat to keep calm, even if you really want to give him a good punch in the nose.
hope-is-forever : I guess you'll just have to read this chapter and see who saves Meryl:)
Kakeru : I always hated Meryl/ Vash Fiction so I just couldn't being my self to write about them, but I felt bad for Meryl. So I paired her up with Knives and that's just the way things ended up and people like it. And I should be the one thanking you for taking the time to read my story.
ChibiSess : I am a fan of InuYasha, but the similarities between Marvel and more coincidence than paining. However I did get the idea of calling her "The Demon" from InuYasha. Nothing else seemed to fit her rampages and cat like appearance.
Mimic12355 : I've been trying to incorporated a lot of action because I've never really written a lot of action before. I'm glade you liked it!
Faery Goddyss: So, I waited a really long lime to post aging. I was waiting for your wrath but it never came. I promise to do better and post more often:)
Zeheria: I'm obsessed with X/1999 and I'm glad you are too! Now if we could just make the rest of the world falling love with the amazing gothic tragedy that is X. I have a feeling if I found my twin star I'd end up the evil one tying to destroy the world.
Sasukegrl: Thank you and I hope every one get to read it too!
Reicheru: Sinful God, Gentle Angel in my favorite Fruits Basket story, and probably the only one I keep up on! Thank you for taking the time to read my story and review it as well.
Trapt-tears: I've been fighting the spelling and grammar monster for a long time. I seem to be getting better but still have my problems. Iv'e red through past chapters and noticed a few of them and thought they were pretty funny myself. And Yes the Trigun Manga does rock and all of you should go buy them! But pleas, leave a copy of Trigun Maximum 3 for me, ok?
Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun...admitting your problem is the first step to recovery.
With out any more of my interface here in the next chapter.........
Chapter 23: Death and the Reaper
'I don't regret it. Never has a day gone by that I regent the original sin that dammed me to these never ending existence. My heart sill pounds in my chest, beating strong each day never failing, never skipping a beat. People live and people die but I always stay the same, never changing with the same sad face and the same hidden smile. As one flame dies, another candle is lit sparking new life. My blazing touch has been ignited and swallows any thing too close to the flame, I will always be. I am the Demon'
Vash tore apart the thirds door down the hall second floor room in the small towns only inn. Thing went flying about as he rampaged through Marvel's belongings looking for what he was sent for. That old dirty handgun that looked worn and abused, carried by a strong tomboy of a woman who used it in memory of an unhappy past.
"Where's that stupid thing?" Vash sighed frustrated as he pulled free the clothing in the top drawers of Marvel's dresser throwing them all on the floor.
Nothing seemed to be able to distract the determined man from his mission. People's lives were at stake, Marvel's life was at stake. It was all up to him and nothing would get in the way of his pursuit of the small firearm. That was until he stumbled upon the last compartment in the low chest of drawers.
"Well, well what to we have here?" A tears formed in the delighted mans eyes as his gloved fingers ran through silky bits of clothing. "I've been looking for it so long and now I've finely found it! Marvels underwear drawer!"
Meryl lay on the ground motionless. The quaking foundation had stopped its trembling and everything had come to a sudden halt. The little dark-haired woman did not dare open her eyes fearing what she would see when she opened them. Then she felt it, a warm sticky puddle seeping through her blouse. The vital life giving fluid clung to her skin as a metallic smell ht her noise. It was strange, Meryl felt no pain her body starched out on the sandy hard ground below her.
Maybe...maybe I'm already dead! The morbid thought caused the panic-stricken woman to thrust open her eyes. A look of relief appeared on her face when she realized she was far from dead, but then shock from what she realized had happened.
Marvel's body leaded over Meryl's as the smaller woman lay on ground below. The strong brunette held herself up by her left arm using it to support her weight so she would no collapse on the horrified woman under her. Blood oozed out of a large hole in the catwoman's shoulder and a long spear made of solid rock peeked out three or four inches the crimson liquid rolling off the point onto Meryl's clothing.
"Do you ever listen to anyone!?" Marvel spat out to the woman shielded by her body. Her left arm began tremble, it might not be able to support her much longer. The almost unbearable pain throbbed in the wild cats right arm and her loss of blood made her dizzy and unable to focuses. "You should've just left when I told you too! Now look, I'm a mess!"
Marvel attempted to stand but swayed a bit as she pulled her self to her feet. Meryl hastily stood up right and steadied the staggering woman but was pushed aside by a clawed hand. Now feeling useless Meryl watched as Marvel took her good hand wrapping her fingers with those long nail claws around the lengthy piece of stone mineral logged in the back of her shoulder, seizing it with one hard yank she ripped the limestone free from her body with a sharp blood curdling scream. The blood now oozed more freely from the opening in her arm. Marvel found her legs giving way beneath her, she fell to the ground her knees hitting hard with a thud clutching her mangled arm.
"Marvel! Don't move!" Meryl dropped to the ground next to the injured woman sitting her upright. Marvel hissed in pain. "You can't keep this up! You'll die!"
"I have...to do this." It was hard to breath, for the fist time in her life the unbelievably strong woman tough she just might die. With each beat of her heart the blood pump through Marvel's veins forcing blood to gush steadily out of her shoulder. "He must be punished...for what..he's..done."
The large predator stood a few feet away looking over the scene. Marvel crumpled on the grasping her wounded arm as the blood spilled out all over her saturating her clothing. Meryl cradled the crippled creature in her arms watching her face drain of color and her breaths come out in short puffs and the man who caused all of this destruction and chaos did nothing. But then the menacing wolf man erupted in a deep bone chilling laughter. Kyeo found this turn of events particularly amusing.
"I thought the head strong 'Marvel the Demon' would last longer!" The evil canine chuckled aloud. "You're really pathetic aren't you, just like you've always been. Nothing but a pretty waste of space."
"YOU'RE WRONG!" The forceful voice of a young woman filled the silent open air. Emily stood be hide the unholy mutt steadfast with the angriest look she could muster and all the courage she had. "Marvel is not pathetic! She's the strongest person I know! There's no way she'll let you win, never in a million years!"
"Emily." Marvel croaked out the teens name pushing it out of her dry scratchy throat. Forcing herself to move she tried to stand once more.
"Marvel won't let us down!" Emily could no longer hold back her tears as she looked on at her broken friend bleeding to death only a few feet away. "MARVEL WON'T DIE, SHE CAN'T!" The teen screamed to the beast at the top of her lungs.
"Marvel you can't!" Meryl tried to hold the determined woman down but even in her beaten state, she was still much stronger than the tinny woman. "You don't have the strength to fight him! You'll be killed!"
"Thin I'll die! But I'll die on my own terms! This place, theses people are important to me." Marvel finely made it to her feet in an awkward and unstable stand. "I will not let him destroy all that I've protected for so long."
"How Cute" Kyeo laughed once more. "Look at the untainted view of a child. It's it funny Marvel, how she believes you so strong as you lay dieing covered in your own blood." The large wolf man took long lumbering steps towards the suffering catwoman as stumbled side to side. His approach was halted when a rock about the size of a fist whizzed past his head.
"Hey, Mr. Big dark and unattractive. Why don't you pick one some one who can fight instead of the weak!" Emily tossed another small rock past the man's brain box.
"Looks like I'll have to deal with the girl first." Kyeo turned his attention to the small blond girl behind him.
"Meryl tell me something" Marvel looked over at the woman who was trying to steady her wobbly swagger.
"What is it?"
"Tell me, does that tie of yours come off?"
"Yeah, why?" Meryl gave the woman an odd look. She didn't understand why she would ask such a strange question at a time like this, Emily was in danger.
"Alright, then I need you to untie it." Still confused the small woman did what she was asked to and freed the limp tie from around her neck. "Now lift up the back of my shirt."
Meryl continued to fallow instructions lifting up the back of Marvels shirt that was sticky with dark red liquid that now covered her clothing. She gasped surprised to find what had been hidden there. Dark gray eyes fallowed a brown leather holster that was half hidden in the back of the taller woman's denim jeans. Sheathed in that unexposed place was a dirty gunmetal handgun, the same Vash had been sent off to find.
"Wait, I thought you left this in you room?" Meryl stared at the weapon not sure of what to do with it.
"It is, now give it to me" Marvel felt the cold metal slide against her skin as Meryl pulled the free from its holder.
"What's going on here?! If you had this al along why'd you send Vash to bring it to you?" Meryl placed the gun in Marvel hand but noticed her clawed fingers couldn't grasp the gun in a firm grip and her digits held loosely on to the steel piece.
"Damn, just like I thought." With her good hand, Marvel held onto right wrist with her weapon dangling in a relaxed handhold. She figured there was no way her mangled appendage would have the ability to hold her gun. She looked at Meryl briefly before answering the question she had been asked "I was trying to spare Vash from what I thought was going to be a gruesome victory."
"So you lied to him?!"
"Pretty much." With her good hand, Marvel forced her structure lees fingers to hold her weapon. "Give me that ribbon of yours!" Wavering the blue tie around her hand and the gun the weekend woman tied several knots in the fabric keeping each finger where it needed to be to operate her small piece of artillery.
All Meryl could do was look on confused.
"You don't plan on taking him on, do you?" Marvel could only nod as she quickly tightened her work with her teeth. "Do you know how crazy this is!"
"I think I can still pull the trigger, so all I have to do is aim with the other hand."
Vash at on the sold wooden floor thinking hard about where he had last encountered Marvel's gun. The last time he really could remember seeing it he's just been shot by it. ("I mean who teaches a 17 year old girl to be a gunslinger anyway!" He'd said to him self) Matter-of-fact his lack of memory had drove him so insane the great Stampeded started smashing his head against the rooms solid wooden night stand.
"Wait! Now I remember it was right here before I left to check Knives room. Which means…only one of two people could have grabbed it!" Vash groaned angrily aloud "That double-crosser I bet she had it along! Sending me off looking for her gun when..."
A large crash from the other room startled the gunman out of his own thoughts. IT sounded like the whole room was being tore apart. He herd a woman's voice calling out next door.
"Miss Emily, Miss Emily where are you? Come on this is no time for hide and seek!" Millie had been ripping the whole inn apart looking for the teen Nicholas D. Wolfwood and her had spent the last half hour or so watching over.
She was frantic, looking under beds and in closets. Emily didn't seem to be anywhere, and to make things worse Millie felt more intense trimmers and heard loud garbled voices outside. She didn't know exactly how things were going but she did know it was sill no where near safe enough to go back out there with out being prepared to fight.
When Vash cam upon the tall brunet woman She was crying big we tears from large sad eyes. Millie looked up at him sniffing wildly as the tall blond entered the room.
"Oh, Mr. Vash I've lost Miss Emily. Mr. Wolfwood and I have looked all over the place and we can't find her anywhere!" She broke into short sobs. "And Miss Marvel was counting on me to protect her!"
Vash leaned over placing a gentle hand in her back trying to console her the best her could, when her noticed something thrown aside on the floor. It was made of red material, which looked, warn and weathered. The long coat, the front covered in a multitude of buttons, sat alone bathed in the sunlight of the room's single window. Distracted Vash started to reach for the cloth that seem close enough to grab with the tips of his fingers.
"Hey, sad eyes try no to look so glum." Vash jumper about 10 feet in the air grasping the hanging over head light fixture in the room, Wolfwood's silent entrance spooking him.
"Could you not do that!" A terrified Vash swung helplessly back and forth from the ceiling light.
The gruff priest laughed whole-heartedly and the sights of him hanging like a monkey in a banana tree.
"Nice to see you too spiky head!
"Nicholas, pleas tell me you found Emily!" Mille rushed over to the tall man clad in black.
"Sorry sweetheart, I couldn't find her anywhere. But you can bet she'll turn up soon." The new clam was shattered by the sound of bullets.
Vash dropped down to the ground and grabbed on to the wad red material setting on the floor.
"Come on something going on out there, and I have a bad felling about it."
Marvel ran around hopping from place to place trying to get closer to her pray while avoiding the shards of rock that hurtled towards her. Each time she had lined up a decent shot she narrowly missed being crushed by a bolder or Impaled by a sharp spear. She had only managed to keep Kyeo distracted with her movement that were considerably sluggish compared to her normal cat reflexes and super human speed.
He's toying with me! Marvel thought to herself as she clumsily dogged three solid fist sized rocks the zipped by her left ear. He could hit me any time at the snails pace I'm moving at.
"Enough with these games." A sadistic smile twisted onto the stone cold features of the devil dogs face. A wicked grin forced his sharp-yellowed fangs to peek out over his thin bottom lip. "Lets end this."
A rumbling force ripped through the ground below Marvel's feet and the quaking surface underfoot began to pull apart in an uneven zigzag pattern leaving an open gorge. Unsteadily the weakened woman stood wobbly on her feet rocking side-to-side fighting to keep balance. In the end Marvel lost the war as her legs gave way and she toppled sideways landing painfully hard on her already mangled sholder. Dizzy the cat woman hissed in pain her arm burning with pain. She felt herself loosening touch with her surroundings as they began to swirl around her.
"Marvel, Marvel get up! COME ON GET UP" Panicked Emily could do nothing but scream to her fallen friend who lay half conscious.
She could only watch in horror and large sections of the rocky planet gave way and plummeted down word towards the planets center. Each getting closer to Marvel who in this state would be surly sucked down into one of the gaping holes if something wasn't done. Emily turned her attention to the evil man causing the chaos. Marvel once again tried to stand watching Emily distracted Kyeo.
"Stop this! Stop torturing her! You have no right to do these things!" Unsure the small blond girl started taking small steps towards the brutish man. "I said leaver her be you fat headed jerk!" More confident Emily's eyes burned blue with an unbridled rage. "I know you can hear me ugly fool why don't you..."
It had all happened in an instant, so quick no one had seen it coming. A moment shorter than a quick breath it was over. Emily hadn't even finished her sentences of taunts and ranting before she felt a sharp pain shoot through her chest. She barley had time to look down and see the long shard of limestone buried in breast as her body collapsed dropping to the ground with a lifeless thud.
Meryl coved her mouth in horror and in disbelief. How could a man be this wicked, so evil that he would take the life of a child? Tears rolled over her cheeks slow and steady at firsts in the muddled confusion of it all. She watched as Marvel stood shakily on her feet. Bloody, beaten and broken she took slow steps clutching her mangled arm and she edged closer the breathless body on the young slain victim of the hell hounds fury.
Marvel fell to her knees next to Emily's tiny frame. No longer did she see the soft hint of pink that always kissed the teen's cheeks only a cold white color coved her skin now as the blood pushed out around the spear that pierced her heart and pooled in a growing puddle beneath her. Blue eyes starred upward at the sky vacant and empty. Marvel laid down next to Emily in what seemed to be a shock induced daze. The ruby liquid that covered ground seeped into her clothing covering her skin. The golden brown locks that coved her head turned dark in blood soaked clumps, as she lay there motionless looking in to the face of her friend's still corpse.
I wish the ground would just open up swallow me whole.
Answering her silent prayer the ground shock and begin to open. Marvel closed her eyes awaiting the escape of death feeling the rock shift below her finally beginning to fall sucking her below into the darkness. She herd what sounded like the scuffling of feet before something caught the wrist of her good undamaged arm.
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