Trigun part deux
By otaku no baka
Well this is the second part to this episode. I'm in slight rant mood when I typed this, that and I just had nothing to do. Mostly pissed off at my relatives and society. Its always about money, money, money and ways to get it! Like I said, "If you don't have cash, ways to get cash, or the internet, you really don't have nothing to do."
So I have been depressed lately to say the least, but writing my fanfics always cheers me up, so I have plenty of motivation
Grabs legal contract to own Trigun OH YEAH! Trigun is mine! Now I can make a manga alternative where all the guys and girls are gay, Kuroneko is a cute little demi-human kitty, and Mr. Nightow person is a stoner hippy!Runs around insane and on a sugar high
Tanto appears "Otaku still doesn't own Trigun and drank too much pop again. She does own the ideas on us though, and I pray she doesn't make this into a yaoi..."
Yeah right Tanto...just because I made two of my fanfics with shonen-ai doesn't mean I will automatically make this one too! (I'm making a joke based on I ended up reading more shonen-ai stories and yaoi than hentai or hetero romance fanfics. Oo But action and humor beats them in the total fics I read!)
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The sun shined again in the small town, shabby homes showing some activity for the new day. You never know what tomorrow may bring, so everyone did the day with vigor and excitement than the last.
A young man performed his duties with different liveliness though. "Tanto, are you sure about this? I mean we could like ditch this town and..."
"No Madison..." The bishops straighten his robe in the mirror, making sure he had everything for the fight noon. "I keep my promises and it might cause more trouble than its worth to leave without fulfilling them."
The bounty hunter still wore a forlorn pout. "Bossman..." All of them were in Tanto and Michm's shared room.
"We'll back you up if you need anything Tanto."
"Thank you Lea." The bishop smiled and closed his eyes.
Michm was silent, pondering on what to do about the situation. (He was an assassin, that is why his name sounded familiar...he was know for using his profits in order to run a school, but nobody knows where exactly, since this place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere and dinky.) He cursed to himself. (Its mostly my fault that bossman ended up in this...me and Madison have a bad reputation.)
"Madison, Michm." Two heads regarded the bishop at the door. "Don't fret about me so much. I understand about your past." He opened his eyes and saluted a bit. "I'm doing this to help friends, so my battle is not in vain."
(Friends.) Madison grinned weakly but wished him luck. Michm exhale noisily and nodded.
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When the twin suns reached noon, the town showed another side. "I heard sensei battles someone today!" A young student of the Niji-teki na Gakubu excitedly told about the fight between Tanto and Soba. The word soon reached the whole area, and many of the townsfolk prepared themselves for the mêlée, but still kept a watch out to see it.That's one thing about this place; when anything happens, the whole place has to know about it. Soba turned to onlookers hiding in their homes to make room for the men, but still cracked windows and doors to be nosey.
The Man group prepared themselves nearby so that they could help out just in case he tried something funny. (I still don't trust this man.) Michm sat near one of the homes on the far end of town, were a sand dune stood for the swordsmen's fight.
"Ah I see you arrived." Tanto stood near the middle of the dune, with an expressionless face, silent. "Well let's begin this, shall we?" Soba crouched down into a stance and smirked.
The man dashed forward and in a flash he strikes Tanto from what it seemed.
(Damn...I didn't even see him!) Madison's eyes widen at the speed of the swordsman.
"Urg..." The smoke clears a bit and the viewers now see that Tanto used his sheath to block the katana's hit. Using the other's weight, the bishop pushes forward and throws him off. Once the teacher gains his balance, he comes at him again, but this time Tanto takes the offensive and begins to fight with him. The clergyman shifts his foot and crouches down. "Velocity Typhoon Counter!" He pulls the blade out with such speed that it causes a mini-whirlwind. Soba covers himself with the katana from the onslaught of sand and dust. Even with his vision temporally blinded a bit, he still blocks Tanto's strike and pushes him blade so that they are face to face.
"I thought you would offset that..." Tanto panted briefly before they separated and flew at each other again, two swords clashing together at different speeds and velocities.
The onlookers gasp at the battle, with the swiftness both men are going in, only people with good eyes could actually see when they clash together and when someone makes a mistake and almost gets hit with a blade. Michm blinked, taken aback. (Tanto is better than I thought!)
Soba falls back and pants a bit, grinning. "You are just what I thought of bishop!" He takes his sheath and puts in on his shoulder as if it was a gun. "But you can't avoid this!"
Tanto gasps and his eyes widen somewhat. (I know that...!) A missile files out of the sheath to show that it's a mini missile launcher as well.
"That bastard had a gun all along in that case!" Lea grinded her teeth and gripped her shotgun. "We have to help him!" She turned to Michm, who had the same expression.
"She's right we..." His mouth opened agape and he blinked a few times. Before the missile hits the bishop, he pulls off his coat to fire out a few missiles of his own. Both of them exploded on contact.
Madison gawked at the sight. "What's a bishop doing with missiles?"
Her partner glanced up beyond the smoke to see that the swordsman avoided the impact. Soba growls a bit, but glances to see that Tanto has a few bombs in his hands. "Here!"
The assassin could only cross block as the impact hit him and sent him to the ground.
"I still can't believe bossman has bombs under that robe."
"Well he told me that he makes them."
"He makes his own bombs? But Tanto...I thought..." Lea learned something new everyday.
Tanto landed on the sand and gazed at the man, who was still alive, but his clothes were in shambles and he seemed to be in pain.
"You should give up now, before I have to beat you in more." Tanto's eyes had the same emotionless expression, and his voice seemed annoyed and dull. He walks over and kicks him lightly on the chest. The swordsman hisses in pain. "You are only human after all...aren't we all?"
"Bossman...are you alright?" Madison peeped out to see if the leader was ok. Tanto blinked and he went back to his old self.
"Oh I'm fine, but I don't know about him." He pointed out to the man on the sand, who passed out.
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"You are lucky that Tanto didn't kill your ass!"Soba was in the town hospital bed, bandaged up and broken. Since he couldn't do anything really, Madison ranted at him with full force
"Madison..." The woman stomped and hissed at him with a big head, as the swordsman just glanced at her funny. Michm sighed and shook his head.
"I still wonder how a woman like you is Boom Boom Madison." Her partner dragged her off before she started another round of ranting again.
"I apologize for hurting you this bad." Tanto rubbed his shoulder meekly. He gazed over to his party, most of them too busy discussing about the battle and acting it out.
"I mean...Tanto did do something alright! I didn't know he had missiles under his coat and it was like BOOM and...!"
"No, I should have not cheated. It was supposed to be a swordfight only...I have to expect anything if I used another weapon." Soba's eyes showed wonder about the other man. He was about to say something else, but remained silent.
Tanto knew what it was though. That was the reason why he didn't show off his skills; it was like a beacon. They weren't normal like everyone else, but almost inhuman. The bishop couldn't remember why they were like that though. (I'm not like everyone else....)
His attention soon turned to his friends, who ended up getting too excited. "Lea you didn't have to hit me that hard!"
"You want to join us?"
The bandaged swordsman grunted in reply and nodded his head. Michm only gave a cocky look.
"Not saying much since you were beaten eh?" His reply was a glare that almost made him cower.
"I don't mind, since it could help us in our travels and you seem to know these parts." Tanto bowed at the other and the swordsman glanced at him with curiosity again.
"The Bernardelli Insurance Society is west of here about 10 iles." The man pointed with his good arm towards the open sand. "I'll guide you there myself." He hoisted his sack and jumped into Tanto's sidecar.
(Ah...this might cut into expenses...but maybe I could...) The navigator tried to settle on how to add in another person in their travels.
"Well then, lets go, since we are done here." Madison didn't seem pleased to go though.
"Come back again soon sensei!" All of Soba's students waved him farewell as he headed off on another travel.
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"Ok it should be straight ahead!" Soba yelled over the roaring engine. Tanto craned his goggled face to see if he can find anything.
Michm glanced over his toma's head to see a big building in the middle of a town. (I can't believe I am actually going to this place.) His mind protested against it, but he wanted to do it for Tanto. (He's my friend and they might not recognize me anyway.)
"So this is the Bernardelli Insurance Society." Lea craned her neck to glance at the top of the vast structure in front of them. Michm nodded vaguely and walked inside.
"What's his hurry?" Tanto only shrugged and Madison joined with him.
"I thought so, they have been here before." The two of them were started at the sound of Soba's voice.
"Hey come in guys..." Madison gestured for both of them to go within.
"Well...why not? This is were we were trying to get to after all."
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Michm stood in the middle of the hallway. "I'm going to take care of some business. I might end up with the information that we need, but go ahead without me and investigate. If you have any gripes, tell them that I am Michm Strife."
"Where's Madison?" Lea felt small in such a place, since most of the people were busy running around and it had massive areas.
"She went to the locker to find some files, she should meet you before I do though."
"Michm, how do you know this place?"
"It's a long story Tanto, I'll tell you once we are done." Michm saluted a bit before running off into the forest of the organization.
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"Who are you?" A man on a desk glanced up to see Michm.
"Michm Strife sir." The guy gasped and jumped up.
"You are Meryl's son?" The bounty hunter sighed but nodded his head. "Its been years since you worked here. I mean...you was...fifth-teen or so?"
"Yes...about seven-teen before I decided to retire." He remembers that day when his mother died. "But I didn't come here to recite old memories...I actually came on an assignment."
"For what?"
"A friend of mine is looking for the last location disaster of Bloody Villie."
The man jumped again. "BLOODY VILLIE?!" The door shook a bit. "That localized disaster that is worse than the humanoid typhoon?!" He sighed and rubbed his baldhead. "I remember my parents telling about her...and now to this day she is still..." He shook his head briefly and grumbled. "Here...I have a file that says she was last causing damage at July...but its iffy. That was actually the first place she destroyed."
Michm made a face and closed one eye. "Why would she go back to the first place that she destroyed?"
The Editor shrugged. "Who knows? I mean, rarely anyone lived to see that woman, that's for sure. The rest don't even know what she looks like. But that's the last place that filed insurance reports about her, so its better than nothing."
Michm grinned. "Thanks again sir! I owe you one."
"Yeah yeah, its nothing...just don't end up finding something nutty like your mom and her partner..." The navigator chuckled a bit and waved.
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Tanto and the remaining others took a tour around the facility. They observed people doing tasks such ask typing up files, running around about new information from the mail, and communication services.
"Um...excuse me...?"
"Here's another file for an insurance claim about bounty hunters in the town of March!"
Tanto sweatdropped at the woman gone from her seat in an instant.
A couple sat with representatives discussing a claim from the result of a sandstorm.
"It blew the roof of our house like that!"
"I was so scared!" She whimpered and cuddled her husband. "I'm glad my children were not in the attic at the time."
"Looks like the whole place is busy." Lea and the others glanced around the chaos.
"Ah there you guys are!" Madison hopped over a few desks and apologized after almost running into a woman with a stack of manila folders.
"Whew....its not always like this, but from what I heard it's a bad month." The bounty hunter rubbed her head and laughed a bit.
"Umm...Madison...do you and Tanto work here?" Lea gazed at the other woman in her eyes.
Madison stopped laughing and sighed. "Yeah we used to work here, when our parents were still alive." She sat down in one of the spare wooden chairs, showing the others that they should make themselves comfortable in a seat. "We wanted to help out our folks since they didn't have much and my dad passed away."
She gazed out the window a minute, before she began again. "My family was a big one, but used to work in various farms around Gunsmoke, so its hard to contact them. Michm started bounty hunting when he needed extra cash for rent and all. The man...only twelve at the time..." Her voice reached melancholy and desolation. "...shot his first man dead. Michm told me that he didn't really want to be a bounty hunter, but instead use his gun for something positive, like his mom used to say when she was still alive. I think that's a reason why he joined you Tanto."
"So you finally told them about your crazy mom eh?"
"Mich..." Michm stood with his coat in his arms and a folder.
"I mean...you act like her...and look a bit like her. At least you knew your dad...my father I never knew. All the family I had were you and your relatives, with mother. Well...to answer how I know so much, mom used to tell me about a man named Vash and his friends." Wraith shrugged. "As well as most of the landmarks and events of Neo Gunsmoke. The rest of my information came from here and my travels." He gestured towards the madness of the Bernardelli Insurance Society.
Everyone sat silent and Madison for once showed weariness. "Michm I..." She gazed at him with a stare that felt as if her persona was young and old at the same time.
"Hmm?" The man glanced at her with a forced smile.
"..." She couldn't stand his expression and just fiddled with the chair.
"Anyway..." He handed Tanto a folder. "I found out that the last place Bloody Villie reports were in July."
Madison gained her voice back. "Oh yeah...I also have a few listings if she isn't at that town." She frowned slightly. "Mostly the main towns, but I do have a few unlisted ones...but I don't know if she hit all of them."
"July...as in Lost July?" Lea pulled her head up at the mention of that town.
Michm grimaced. "Yeah...why do people call that town that?"
"Its because the town was destroyed by not only Vash the stampede and another assailant, but also Bloody Villie." All of them turned their attention to Tanto and Soba.
The swordsman raised an eyebrow. "Its constant gossip in my travels," but Tanto did not know what to respond.
"I...researched a bit about it." Well its better than nothing and half truthful.
"Well we know where that woman is, so lets end this!" Michm put a hand to his arm. "Maybe this party could be the police force of Neo Gunsmoke!"
"Michm you are raising your hopes up too much." Lea and the others sweatdropped at him.
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Yeah this chapter is important if you are curious about part of the life hoods of Madison and Michm. What surprises me the most is that the story seems short, but is actually appropriate. I tried to stretch it but it didn't work ; oh well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter along with the rest of the story!For those of you who are curious, I actually seen the episode when they showed the Bernardelli Insurance Society, (it was a bit after fifth moon, when Meryl and Millie went to find Vash again.) The only issue was what the heck was that town; not even major sites had the location! Ironically, I found it in a fanfic, but wasn't 100 percent sure it was right, so I just became creative again. Shrugs
Next episode: Lost July! Will the Man group ever find Bloody Ville?