Trigun part deux
By otaku no baka
Well this is the start of the three parter to: "Lost July," were a lot of things happen! Even so, I still have a long way to go to finish this story, and I still don't have all the fillers up yet.
I forgot to thank all the reviews since I am still without net and have to use baka school computers. Demonic Kuroneko, I hope this pleases you since I am going to post four chapters instead of one this time around after an absence.
Michm slides in : "She still doesn't own Trigun, and would probably change it for the worse if she did. Unfortunately she does own us "
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The town of July has been nicknamed "Lost July" for a long time now. The first incident happened with a man called the humanoid typhoon destroyed the inhabitants without a trace of evidence. The other was with a woman called Bloody Villie, a massacre and complete destruction of the city and its people. Even so, close to fifty years after Bloody Villie first made herself known, people still developed July, so it's a blooming town, but more alert and adaptable than before.
A young woman hummed a tune to herself as she walked down the streets of July. She entered a store and waved to a lady over the counter.
"May I have the following groceries on this list?" From inspection, her hair was a sunny blond, spiked up. A long red coat donned her, with various black buttons and straps. Under the flaps were the coat ended she wore a pair of loose black pants. The woman hummed loudly to the music that came from her headphones. Green rimmed glasses covered her eyes and she blew a bubble.
"Come on honey, it won't be so bad." The woman pulled off her glasses and turned at the voice of a man that looked like a bulldog or a pug, his face scrunched up and having a bit of growth. He tussled with a teen girl that was half his size wearing plaid and jeans.
"No way you pervert! I won't let you touch me!" She bit and pulled on the man's bulky arm with no success.
"Well too bad, because your old man can't pay his dues so I can get you." He licked the side of her cheek and she spat at him.
(Grr...there's nothing I can do...) the clerk grimaced in disgust.
"! Why you..."
"Umm excuse me." Both people turned to the woman's voice. "You really shouldn't try to do that."
"Oh, and what are you, my mother?" He held the girl with one arm and grabbed the lady by the shoulders. "Actually...you look too good to be my old lady."
She breathed and closed her eyes, shaking a bit. (No I can't do that...calm down.) The blond opened them and kicked him where the sun doesn't shine.
"ARRRRG!" She took a moment to get her air back before hitting him in the chest with her foot.
She put a hand to her chest and let out a sigh. (Good good. Except I swallowed my gun during the skirmish.) Glancing at the teen, which ended up on the floor shocked, she held out a hand.
"T...thanks." She bowed before smiling and waving.
"I'm sorry about your window and the inconvenient!" The woman laughed a bit and pointed to the guy hanging outside.
"Oh its fine fine! And for your thanks, the food is on the house!" The clerk was glad he was gone, since the man used to mess with her customers.
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The woman hummed to herself again, strolling down with a bag of groceries. A few people that passed her by waved and said hello. They grew used to the young blond woman and welcomed her as if she was a relative.
"Ah, hello Nicole!" Nicole glanced to see her landlord making food in the building main kitchen. "Lunch will be ready soon."
"Ok thanks!" The woman skipped upstairs to her apartment. It was fully furnished, but also had a small refrigerator, showing off the wealth and technology of July. Nicole put a few of her items inside and pulled out a box. With a gleam in her eyes, she opened it up to show it was a box full of baked goods. Carefully and almost preciously, she pulled out a...Danish.
"Wee...my favorite...blueberry!" She took a bite and grinned as if it was the last danish on Neo Gunsmoke. "With the right cheese too!" She plopped on her bed and munched on her delight, still listening to the soft playing music near her ears.
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She had a dream. Hands, sweaty evil hands touched her everywhere. Pain, somewhere close by but also far away.
"No I can't stand it...please..."
A bright light flashed and she ended up in a field. To her shock, she had on different clothing, sky blue shorts and shirt.
A voice called her that was distant. She tried to make it out, but it ended up being gargled.
"Next Next Next....."
Another scene but this time she ended up in the desert, alone. She listened to voices in her head screaming out in anguish.
"Let me out! Let me feed! Let me breed you stupid woman!"
Nicole gasped as she sprung up. Within a few seconds she realized it was a nightmare. (I...where am I?) She rubbed her eyes to get focused. (Oh yeah, this is July...) Pain hit her temples and she grinded her teeth. Sweat dripped from her body to form pools on the sheets. The pain passed and she gripped herself and cried mutely, the last of the dream playing in her head. "I cannot let you...."
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Tanto had another vision. That same woman from the man's dreams stood with her back turned, long blondish hair blowing in a wind that wasn't there.
"Destroy me...help me...."
What do you mean?
"Kweh?" Tanto didn't understand the woman's words now. He walked as if he was in water to her.
"Tan-to!" As she turned slowly a bright flash erupted and he woke up.
"I...can..." He closed his eyes and felt different. "I know her...I..." He glanced to the watch he had on and realized it was too early to go yet.
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"Bossman are you ok?" Madison leaned and gazed at Tanto.
"I'm fine Madison..." But his gaze was somewhere else. His thoughts were somewhere else. "We are about a few iles to July."
"How do you know that?" Michm looked up from his map that he coordinated around the table to the hotel.
The bishop went back to himself at that moment. "I...don't know."
"You know Tanto, strange things has been happening with you on our journey..." Lea spoke up from the group, but concern melted in her voice.
"I guess it's the fact that I cannot remember any of my past outside of joining the minister." The cleric thought that idea was disturbing.
"You don't even know your childhood?" Soba rarely spoke, but this was interesting.
"No...I...don't." Tanto actually showed anger. "Its blank...or there but like a smudged picture...existent but you cannot decipher it." He sighed. "I only remembered when I joined the church...they said they found me outside December and decided to raise me. When I turned twenty, I trained to become a bishop, but they did not give me all the passage for some reason." The bishop stopped and contemplated that event. (Why did they do that?)
"It still doesn't explain why you say things out the blue sometimes." Madison wanted to know about Tanto too.
"Well...a few times of my life I did go into states that...how to put it." He rubbed his chin. "I felt like I was sleepwalking awake...but someone else did my actions."
"I....ummm...found the location of July to the small town we are in and its about four to three iles from here....like bossman said." Michm decided to change the subject at that point.
"Ok then, lets go to July and try to end this." The bishop ran outside the door before anyone else inquired more questions.
"He seemed to be in a rush." Madison cocked her head and Michm coughed.
"Well he's right so come on guys!" He ran out after him and Madison laughed.
"He's trying to save Tanto's skin." The bounty hunter smirked and the others sweatdropped.
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Nicole spent the day by cooking breakfast for the landlady and her family, and then playing with a few of the town kids in kickball. She sat lazily in the bar, drinking a milkshake and eating a danish.
"Milkshakes and Danishes are the creeeeeamiest!" The bartender snickered at her comment.
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The Man group looked around quickly of the town of July, and didn't expect it to be flourished and advance looking.
"They rebuilt it?" Michm rubbed his head. "I thought July ended being a unmanageable area to the planet Neo Gunsmoke and only poverty and criminals would go to this place..."
"Its better than I thought...man...mom said it was wreaked!" Lea walked inside and gazed at the buildings. "They look as good as Tokai!"
Tanto had other options in mind. "You guys go look around, I'll find her myself."
"What?" Michm and Madison looked at him funny. "After all the crap we went through, you want to do it yourself!?"
"I want to see this Bloody Villie!" Wraith coughed and sweatdropped at his partner.
"No...it's a personal matter..." Tanto had that distant look again.
"Hey, we ended up in your personal business!" Everyone was surprised at Michm's voice. "And we are going to help you at the end! That's what partners and friends do!"
"Michm, go off with the others...you won't understand...." The bishop almost said something else.
The bounty hunter frowned and growled. "Fine...have it your way...but its not over yet. Come on Madison, guys, lets let the moron find Villie and get himself killed."
"Michm?" He grabbed his partner's arm as Madison started at him with large eyes. "But Tanto..." He dragged her off as Lea looked at him with sadness and Soba closed his eyes.
(No...I did not want to say that! Let them come with you!) But he didn't listen and instead walked off to do his mission.
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"You sure love those ol milkshakes Nicole."
Nicole smiled like a Chester Cat and sipped on her chocolate milkshake. This bar makes it with the right ice and filling! She sighed happily at her dessert until the bartender spoke at someone.
"Is there anything you want sir?"
The woman turned to see a man in a bishop robe, with bi-colored hair, brown and platinum blond. His eyes were a sea green and off somehow. She stopped mid slurp and frowned.
Tanto stared at the woman and blinked, back to normal, but with new memories and ideas rushing at him so fast that he thought he would pass out.
"Sister..."
Nicole almost dropped her cup. Sister? She then gazed at the man again. Bi colored hair....
"Tanto?!"
The bishop smiled at his name "Onesan...sister..." He rushed at her and hugged. "Its been so long...and then the events..." He left it in the air.
The blond woman patted him on the head. The bartender just blinked.
"Do you still remember...Vithan?" Tanto whispered in her ear and grinned at her hairs standing up.
"VITHAN!" She pushed him off and he laughed.
"Yes you still hate the name our father gave us!"
She huffed and grumbled, but ended up giving it mentally. 'Call me Villie silly brother.'
He pushed himself up to a stool "A banana split please." His sweet tooth came back after so many years.
"Its been so long Tanto..." She sipped on her milkshake again.
"Yeah....I...ended up forgetting."
"How did you end up forgetting...oh yeah...you assimilated yourself into human society." The bishop frowned at that.
"No...I ended up looking for you silly." Villie gazed down, but went back to her drink again. "Its just that I was lost along the way."
"But how did you become a bishop?" She gestured towards his robes as the bartender came back with his dessert.
"It came from living within the church of Wolfwood...."
"Wolfwood?! The Wolfwood that papa talks about so much!?" She rose from her seat so fast that the stool fell over. The bartender just shook his head and made drinks, knowing that this man was probably related to her from the excitement.
He nodded and put a spoonful of banana in his mouth. "Yes...I was there for....about....twenty five years?" Tanto shrugged at his estimate. "Not counting the years I tried to find you."
She kicked the table but gazed at him with navy blue eyes. "Yeah....I.....it wasn't me brother....please believe me."
"I believe you but its hard to say that to everyone else. They did not know what happen and people are not forgiving to suffering."
Both of them didn't say anything at all for a while. "I'm sorry that I didn't find you sooner. My...I forget about everything, but my own mind and heart reached out to you eventually." Tanto's voice only rose to a whisper. "Now I understand...the minister...the picture that is familiar but unknown to me..."
"Picture?" She munched on the last of her dessert.
The bishop opened his robe and reached inside to pull out a photo from his pants pocket. It seemed recent, but from the age on the creases, years were behind it. The picture contained three people, a young man, a young lady, and two older men, all behind a forest wildlife area.
"Eden" Villie hissed that word like a sacred god. "I know when we took this picture." A saline drop fell in the middle of it, and the woman covered her face with an arm. "...brother...."
The clergyman hugged her in a soothing way. "Its ok Villie...I'll help you. We will both work on this."