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Chapter 10: Monsters

Knives

The woman's eyes scanned the room, looking for an empty table, spotting a table in the back corner she moved swiftly towards it. Her feet barely making a sound.

Slipping her bag off of her shoulder and letting it drop onto the floor, she sat in the chair that would give her a full view of the room and its patrons. Her brow knitted together with worry as some of the male humans eyed her.

Vash leaned over, but kept his eyes on the woman, "Her eyes are like Legato's."

I lifted my chin a little, "Yes, I see that."

"Think she's related to him?"

I snorted, "I wouldn't know, I found Legato wandering at the age of four, calling for his parents telepathically. I have no knowledge of his relations." Nor do I want to know. I said to myself silently.

"Oh, man... I hope there aren't a bunch of Legato like people wandering around." Vash whined mostly to himself.

I tuned out Vash's voice and stared at the golden eyed human. If there were others like Legato... I had always thought him one of a kind, a fluke in human genetics. But the presence of this woman, said

otherwise.

This could be a problem, even a few humans with Legato's level of power could be a threat to my hopes of freeing the Plants.

But then again, if I could find more of these people and get them under my control...

I smiled, it could work.

I glanced at Vash and flinched, except for him of course. Vash was intent on keeping me under constant watch.

I sighed. This was no good. He had beaten me once. He could very well do it again.

Strange how he ceased to surprise me after 130 years.

I glanced back at the gold-eyed woman. She was speaking to the waitress who had a very pale face, I smirked, just looking at the woman's strange appearance seemed to frighten the waitress..

Pathetic humans. Frightened so easily.

The waitress nodded at the woman, and left for the kitchen.

Suddenly the bar door and wall around it shattered inward. Vash and I threw ourselves to the ground.

The people closest to the wall were buried under the rubble created. I could hear their shouts for help. I expected gunfire to start any second. I peered over the edge of the table and saw four cloaked figures. They were tall, very tall, I could only guess about eight feet tall.

One of them let out a sound halfway between a hiss and a growl.

I expected them to head for Vash, thinking that they were bounty hunters, but instead they headed for the back. Towards the gold-eyed woman.

The woman was crouched behind her own table and was hastily trying to get something from out of her bag.

Vash crawled over next to me and watched the four cloaked figures approach the woman.

She finally pulled out a strange looking gun and pointed it at the four, I could already tell she didn't know how to use it. She held the gun as if it were going to bite her.

One of them, the leader, reached out a hand and knocked the gun out of her hand. Whatever these thing were... they weren't any thing close to human. The thing's hand... it had been scaly, muscular, and had

black claws.

I wasn't the only one to see the appearance of the hand, I heard Vash gasp, and a few of the human women scream.

The woman tried to dive to the left of them, but ended up being tangled in a table cloth. The leader took that chance, reached down and grabbed the woman by the back of her neck.

She cried out and tried to kick the beast.

It spun around and threw her into a wall. She slumped limply to the ground.

"I gotta save her." Vash muttered to himself. I saw him reach for his gun and before I could say anything, he jumped out into the fray.

He used one of the beasts as a springboard and tackled another who was standing over the woman.

A third one took a swipe at Vash getting to back of his head. Vash stumbled forward from the blow.

Damn. Vash couldn't go up against these thing alone. He'd be killed.

I stood and grabbed the nearest object I could find, which happened to be a beer bottle. I threw it at the beast approaching my brother.

The bottle shattered against its head making the hood fall. Its face was like nothing I'd ever seen in my life. Its head looked very much like that of a some sort of lizard. It had a large snout, and vicious

looking teeth sticking out of its jaws. Its eyes were black pools.

The thing swiftly turned in my direction and roared.

My god, what the hell were these things?!

"Knives! Look out!"

I dived to the side and rolled to a stop at the other side of the room.

The thing lunged at me and it tried slicing me across the stomach, but only succeeded opening a few of my old wounds.

Vash took a shot, and the metal chandelier above the beast's head came crashing down.

I saw Vash crawl up next to the woman and lift her up, "Let's go!"

I dogged another blow by the beast and ran after Vash out through the missing wall.

I hear four distinct roars of anger behind me and ran faster.

Sorry for the delay my peoples! I hope it was worth the wait. My beta reader was traveling. I nearly went insane from the wait, I can only wonder about you all.

It might be a little bit more time for the next chapter, I did have a few more written but I'm not really happy with them so I'm going to do some rewriting.

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