Trigun part deux
By Otaku no Baka
Yessire, the second part to "Lost July." I didn't think about naming the parts until recently. Well besides that, there is nothing much to say, since I usually do the A/N in some type of rant! Ah...I need to be more creative or at least have some go juice.
I'm not like most people and when it gets hot go outside more, so even after this three parter, I'll update sooner. Its mostly slow from still having no internet!
Remember, constructive criticism is helpful as well as ideas, since they might be applied to the story if it flows right. Flames, such as, "This is a Mary Sue/Gary Stu or whatever its called like the others," will only make me laugh and shown to random people as a joke
Ties up Nightow and writes up Trigun script for the anime improved HA! Now I can have MY Trigun! laughs insanly until Vash unties his creator and gives out speech
Yeah I still don't own Trigun....or Maximum...pouts But I do own Tanto and the others as well as the Trigun Maximum manga soon!
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Michm Strife has an emotion that he rarely shows until he joined Tanto: frustration and anger. After his mother's passing and becoming a bounty hunter full time, he put away any emotions except a few times around Madison.
He plodded throughout the streets, and many of the townsfolk avoided him like an angry T-rex. Some say that you can practically see the steam out of his ears as he marched.
(Why the hell do I bother?) His anger went down a notch the more he searched around. (I mean, I should leave or even try to make more money...) The navigator stopped his train of thought there. (I cannot go to that route again. I guess I will just finish my job here and go someplace with Madison.) The ex bounty hunter ran into the person he just thought of.
"Madison..." The woman glanced up and her eyes widened. She was taken aback from seeing her partner like this.
"Ah Michm...I ummm..."
"Did you find anything?" He turned his head and started off at something.
"Yeah I did." She breathed and composed herself. "This town may have been rebuilt from Bloody Villie's bloodbath, but it still doesn't have a stable system after close to fifty years."
"That makes sense." He gazed at her with darker green eyes and she almost fell backwards at his look.
"And umm...I investigated and even painstakingly asked about her, but they haven't seen the woman at all."
Michm's resentment only left a dull aura around him. "You mean no one knew about her or they didn't want to say anything about her?"
"I'm not sure, since the locals are pretty friendly and helpful here."
He sighed and fingered through his hair feeling back to normal. "Well what about Soba and Lea?"
Madison rubbed the back of her head and sweatdropped. "They are helping bust a robbery in one of the town stores."
"Figures...well the only thing we can do is look for Tanto then, even though he won't like it."
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The pair sought out the bishop in the industrial city. It became livelier, people volunteering each other and trading goods between other towns passing in.
"Tanto has to be somewhere around here." They looked around and scanned the stores, which is one reason why a person ran into them.
"Ahh...man what happen to my senses?" Michm winced on the ground where he fell at.
"Tanto!" The navigator blinked as a mini-whirlwind went past him and embraced the bishop. "We looked everywhere for you!"
Tanto laughed slightly and patted the somewhat destructive girl's head. "I'm sorry about the way I acted." He glanced to Michm who dusted himself off and huffed a bit.
"No you were right, it was none of my business."
"Actually it was part of your business...." The high official of the church helped Madison to her feet. "You did not have to help me at all and I am grateful." He bowed his head.
"Ah well..." The navigator's eyes lightened. His thoughts focused on the young woman behind Tanto and Madison, who had a hand to her chest and gazed at them with curio. "Who's that?"
"It's a long story." The bishop closed his eyes and sighed. "I just remembered it myself."
"Well, I guess the next thing we have to do is find board."
"My landlord could rent you a room to stay in." Villie's youthful innocent voice rang out. "That's if you want too."
Michm nodded. "Its fine with me. Well shall we go?"
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"So who is exactly that woman?" Michm pulled out a chair in the living room downstairs. Most of the party spent the time outside along with the landlady and her family.
"She is my twin sister." Tanto said that without preamble in the seat next to him.
That was way out there. Michm felt relieved that he could hid his emotions some of the time, or else he would have looked ridiculous after the bishop said that. "Your twin sister?"
"Yes...after a incident with a group of people, my sister, Millions Nicole Vithan..." The bishop still felt amused saying her whole name, "went off into the outer world of Neo Gunsmoke." The navigator pondered her name. Vithan....
"You mean she is Bloody Villie?" former bounty hunter or not, everyone feared that woman.
Tanto shrugged. "I don't know. When I asked her about the past, she could only remember what happened when she lived with our "fathers" and recently. Of course I always thought she had mental issues such as schizophrenia or maybe..."
"Wait a minute. Schizophrenia?"
"Yes. After the incident, she became so mentally distraught that I wondered if she developed two personalities just to hid from the pain."
Michm didn't want to ask what the incident was since he had a general idea; especially since she was a young woman.
Tanto folded his arms. "She also told me that she wandered into this town and only spent a few weeks here before the people grew on her. She cannot remember what happen before."
"Didn't you suffer from memory loss too?"
"Yes, hmm...it might be because part of my mind didn't want me to remember it or spending time at the church ended up putting it in another part of my mind." The clergyman put a finger to his cheek and closed his eyes. "It also might be my age as well..."
"I thought you were like...twenty five?" The man called wraith glanced at him with confusion. "You shouldn't forget stuff so easily from your age."
"Well..." Tanto decide to tell him. "I'm actually older...by a few years?"
"What then? Twenty? Twenty-Nine? Thirty maybe?" Michm cocked his head.
The bishop counted his fingers. "Around fifty...The Minister picked me up during fifteen and I stayed there about twenty five years or so...I guess its around forty years than fifty...."
The navigator face faulted. "Around fifty?! Forty or so!" Tanto sweatdropped as the other grabbed him to look face to face. "You barely appear younger than me! Your hair is even bi colored!"
"You know this is actually my natural color." Tanto raised an eyebrow.
Wraith shuddered and walked back to his seat shaking a bit. "You cannot be human..."
Tanto shrugged again and Michm glanced at him with wide eyes at his non- response. "You're not?!"
"Well I know I have a link with plants..." The bishop blinked as the other pounded his head again and again on the table.
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Lea wiped the front of her forehead and balanced her shotgun on her shoulder. She strode with Soba in perfect harmony. The wanderer felt good after the deed she accomplished, and to her surprise that the swordsman actually helped her. I guess he does have a code of honor she thought smiling.
The sound of gunshots caught her attention and she ran towards them with the other man, thinking it's another situation. Instead, they found Madison and a few others outside a home watching a young woman firing at a line of cans with what seemed to be a six-shooter, green and shinning like jade or a tree.
Soba's eyesight was at another matter entirely. Instead of gazing at the gun like Lea, he glanced at the woman's hairstyle. She didn't have it in a braid or even down like most girls, but combed and spiked up like a broom. Part of it that didn't go up remained in a ponytail that reached a bit passed her shoulders.
"That was great!" Madison clapped excitedly. Once her partner and the bishop joined them, Michm hinted that the woman named Nicole was the dreaded Bloody Villie, but she shrugged him off. Its hard to believe that this woman and the one she heard of when she was a little girl by her parents were the same; vileness tales of being a natural destruction and getting thrills out of hurting others. The woman before her didn't even look like she would hurt a fly, heck she played with the landlady's kids in hide and seek as well as Simon said.
Villie closed her eyes and let out the breath she didn't know she was holding. She hasn't used this gun in so long but everything came back naturally. She opened them and blinked as two more people ran towards them.
"Hey Tanto, guys!" Lea skidded right next to the bishop along with a curious Soba. "Who's this?"
Before Michm could say anything Tanto did for him. "She's my twin sister."
Madison, Lea, and the others blinked. "Whoa I didn't know you had family Tanto." Lea extended her hand to the girl. "My name is Lea and this quite brooding man is Soba."
Villie bowed slightly and shook her hand. "Charmed."
"Man no wonder she is good; bossman's sister!" The ex bounty hunter waved one of her arms and yelped in excitement. Suddenly her partner felt embarrassed to be him.
"Now that we are all here, I need to discuss something." The members of the Man group crowded around the navigator, who had a cross between forlorn and frustration. "We many have found the woman we were looking for, but coming here took the last of our funds. The tomas can lead us back to the town we rented them for, but any other supplies: water, food, and shelter is out of the question."
"You mean...we are completely broke and have to work just to survive!?" Madison gasped in surprise and annoyance. She worked before when her and Michm needed cash, and some of the jobs were a pain in the butt to say the least.
"So I'm stuck in another town." Lea pondered, her face wistful. Being a wanderer had its disadvantages.
"I know someone who can give you work." Villie rushed over to them, the flaps of her red coat having minds of their own. "I'm sorry to be rude, but I overheard. It's a job as a store clerk from the store I visited when I need supplies."
"The job seems easy enough, thank you. Ok, we have to find other occupations before we move out." Michm rose from the makeshift seat on a rock.