Trigun part deux

By Otaku no Baka

Hmm...why does Vash eat donuts? Why did they name Knives Million Knives? So many questions so little time!

Michm pops in again "That and you have nothing else to do on your hands yet."

Oo I thought you supposed to be working in the story?

Michm: shrugs

Ah well...a brief warning is that this part is pretty dark and violent now, and leans towards the serious part of the story...I thought about changing it to a higher rating but it doesn't seem to need it...it limits itself within pg-13 without going overboard. Well, if you can't stand violence, then skip that part!

If I did own Trigun, then I won't live in the states then. Heck, if I did live in Japan I would make a doujinshi story out of this!

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The days passed by in the town of July. The Man group serviced as a sort of police task force. While they kept the criminals out, they also worked along in the local shop helping the owner named Jane. Villie supported them as well, volunteering at the Inn in exchange for their stay.

Its been a month already. Michm Strife relaxed during his mid-afternoon break. Propped feet on a table and completely laid back, his thoughts wandered. "Villie how do you feel about humans?" The ex bounty hunter turned second in charge to the Man task force asked on day.

"I'm not really sure..." She bit her lip as if she was in deep concentration. "Its hard to say how I feel about people. I seen them do the worse things, but also understand that not all of them are bad." A slightly false smile spread on her face.

Michm's thoughts wandered back to the present. He really wanted to know about both of the fraternal twins. The information Tanto gave him peaked his interest. The man said he was around forty or so and to appearances, most people would mistake him for a twenty year old. It didn't make sense, especially with his bi-color hair.

He could have a genetic issue; I mean you witness others who had hair out of place or appeared older than they seem with the rest of society. The navigator fiddled a pencil on his nose. But...he still is off to me. Its like he doesn't really know himself or hiding something. And the issue with him and contact with bulbs...and there's the matter with his sister...

"Hey second in command, hello!" Michm almost fell out of his seat at Madison's hand.

"What do you want?" He gazed at her like a child pestering a parent at work. Oh how he knows she loves to annoy him.

The woman tried to have an innocent face, but inside she was laughing. "Tanto wants you to investigate a crime ring that has been popping out lately."

After propping the chair back, Michm gave her a look and put on his coat from the back of the chair. "You know you have to go along with me on this."

Madison rolled her eyes and mumbled something like, "He can't do anything on his own."

"Its only if things get bad like last time woman." Wraith swept off his trench coat and kept the cool facade. The woman only rolled her eyes again.

"Whatever, let's just go and get this over with."

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"Tanto, do you need any help with that?"

The bishop averted his gaze from the makeshift bomb to stare at his sister. "No I'm quite fine Villie. Hmm...you seem eager today."

"Well its...I just want to spend more time around you brother."

The clergyman understood since he hasn't seen his sibling for so long. Even after a month in this town with her feels like a day.

She sat on the bed, wearing her hair down inside of in a broom fashion, making it look like a spiky mop. "Tanto, do you remember anything about our lives? The reason why you joined the church?"

"I do know that the minister found me outside exhausted from the heat. What I don't understand is the fact that my mind doesn't want me to remember it."

"Maybe it's our age or the time you spent at the cathedral gave you so many new memories that you forgot your old ones."

Tanto bowed his head so that his sliver bangs hid part of his face. "No I don't think I would forget our Eden," He frowned at how foreign the words sounds. "Over a short period I spent there with the humans." The bishop glanced at his sister. "I just don't know...ever since I started this journey to find Bloody Villie, its like part of me isn't myself."

"Who's Bloody Villie and why does she have my nickname?" The blond gazed at him with wondering eyes.

The head of the Man group blinked. Even with his memory still a bit fuzzy, he still remembers what happen in the past. "You don't know?"

"Know what?"

"...."

"For the longest I've traveled, a few people used to call me Bloody Villie. I haven't heard this woman before or seen her. Please Tanto, tell me if you know anything about her."

The bishop let out a sigh before Lea barged in his room and interrupted him. "Sorry Tanto, but we have to go. Something major is happening in the middle of town."

"I'll tell you later sister." The man bowed to her before he ran out with his partner.

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Michm conversed with people around town to any disturbances. The latest case they had came from an eyewitness who said she ran from a group of slave drivers. They made themselves known after the July incident long ago, and have been kidnapping women and children underground. When one of their best workers escaped, they appeared out of the woodwork to get her back as discreetly as possible.

The man smiled to an old lady who helped him with thoughtfulness by telling him about a few suspicious men lurking around the town. He was glad that this area had its fair share of benevolence or the only lead he would have would be the woman who escaped in the first place.

The navigator put his hands behind his back and strode along, his next destination to his partner. They both split up and questioned the whole town about the matter.

Michm twitched his ear a minute. He swore that he could hear something. He paced a bit slower and edge towards an alleyway between homes. Using his quick pace, he darted inside and waited for the person or whatever to come near.

Wait...He darted out the way at the right time before a man collided with him above. Wraith took a rapid right swing before another man appeared out of the other exit. The man knew he was cornered and prepared to fight.

But instead he leaned back into one of the home's walls and closed his eyes as an explosion ran out in the alley. He waved the smoke around and coughed when he ran into Madison outside.

"You had to be obvious eh?"

The woman called boom boom hauled her rocket launcher on her back. "I couldn't help it since there's about ten guys chasing after men right after I talked with a lead." Both of them weaved in the town, dodging bullets from their retreating backs. "And from the looks of things on your end, I'm glad I brought my baby!"

Michm rang out some shots towards them and just glanced at her funny. "Thanks anyway though."

Madison beamed before she ducked and ran faster.

"What happen to your rifle?"

"I didn't think I would need it!" She ducked from a few more shots and the navigator rolled his eyes.

"After four years you would learn." The woman growled but kept silent as they edged towards a corner of the town were Soba fought with more of the slave drivers.

"These men need to be punished." The swordsman remarked to the men on the ground, who he kicked in the wrong places with their wounds. Madison even had to wince, despite their deeds.

"Lea went to get Tanto." Soba sighed after his rage was spent and Michm closed one eye at other men coming out from nowhere.

"Damn we had to be surrounded." The second in command positioned himself as another onslaught came by.

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Villie peered out of the home. She knew Tanto wanted her to stay here, but still worried about her brother. The gunshots and smell of blood in the air didn't help her nerves any.

The door suddenly opened up all the way, and she met face to face with a man that looked a cross between a pit bull and a frog, from the way his jaw slacked tight over a good portion of his face.

"Even with that little bitch escaping, I think the boss would be happy with someone like you." The woman instantly felt paralyzed against her good judgment, and tried to work her body so that she could pull out her gun.

The speed of the man surprised her, and she gasped as he closed the gap between the two of them. She felt his whole massive weight against her, since he had to be around the height of a behemoth.

"Its no use fighting it...you belong to mustard now." He rubbed his thumb over her cheek and the poor woman kicked and growled, but his strength overtook her, especially since he pinned her on the wall.

Mustard man leaned over and licked her cheek slowly, as if he savored the taste of her fear and innocence. His other hand groped and squeezed her body despite her weak protest.

"I think I'll break you, since it won't do the boss any good if you are like this to customers...even though they would get a trill out of tainting you."

Nononono not again...she chanted to herself as visions of pain, death and blood entered back into her head like a fresh wound as his assault worsens. Using what was left of her vigor, she screams loudly.

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Tanto and Lea stood face to face with the supposed ringleader of the group. He didn't appear like the other men, instead clean cut and stood with a bunch of other suited men.

"It doesn't matter if you win or not, we will take over this town eventually like everyone else. Its July, the ill fated forgotten place."

"I still will strike against you for the people that cannot help themselves here." He crouched down in a stance.

"I cannot let you use children and people like pawns to your own selfish ideals!" The wanderer pointed her shotgun at them

"Hn, yeah right, like you are some ruler of this planet...and you are just a weak-minded woman like the rest." The bishop frowned at him before he sensed something. Sister...his heart ached and the emotion of despair and anguish entered his head.

The ringleader seems to experience it too as his head turned in the direction of the yell. He motioned for a few of his men to go after it. Lea started to shack against her own accord.

"What was that Tanto?"

"Something that I pray isn't true."

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Madison swore again. She used the last of her shots trying to help her partner and used her weapon as a billy club. Soba and Mich didn't look any for wear either, both showing fatigue as they fought another round of men that seemed endless.

"Dammit we cannot beat all of these guys...there are over thirty of them not counting the ones we just knocked out!"

"Have some faith partner..." But even after saying these words the navigator appear to be close to passing out.

The woman turned sharply to hit another round of them and avoid being killed until she met face to face with Villie...or who she thought was Villie.

The woman stood before a group of men mutilated on the ground appeared to be out of it. Her navy blue eyes dulled into a sickly color and half of her body including part of her face was covered in blood and other substances. Her face is what scared Madison the most. It wasn't there completely, lost and in a false porcelain grin that seemed out of place, laughing.

Her laugh wasn't the joyous once she heard from the woman at times in the days before, but a creepy scary one that you do when you are crying after someone close to you dies.

The woman covered her mouth and stepped back, bewildered and almost falling over men on the sands. "Michm...she isn't her is she?"

The second in command sudden felt fear. Now I understand what Tanto described. She...her other personality is the same one told about even after fifty years...

Soba stood his ground, but even he would back out of this fight. They gazed around for a split second to see that all of the men they were fighting were gone.

"She killed all the slave drivers?" Madison shook and couldn't stand up straight.

"Y..yeah..." Wraith stepped back when she edges towards them "This...she is a schizoid...she has more than one personality."

"Correct." All of them winced at her grainy voice, as if it hasn't been used in years. "I took over for now, but it doesn't matter you are trash, I will destroy all of you in the end."

"But what did we do to you?" The ex bounty hunter felt some of her resolve come back.

"Do..." All of them shriveled back from the power she started to admit. "DO! You made me you trash! I will destroy all of you humans! Anything that you don't understand you kill, mutilate, rape..." She ranted on so fast it become nonchalant. "Only Tanto understands..."

She gazed to the side if she saw him. "Tanto...he is with those trash again...I think I will teach them a lesson." A shimmer and she vanished into air.

"Where did she go?" Madison felt sick to her stomach, but kept her focus and energy. She still had to help her friends.

"She disappeared like the wind...no...she said something about Tanto, so lets go see!" Michm wondered how she transferred like that.

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Tanto focused on the men coming towards him but still had the sensation of forbearing and chaos. Lea prepared to fire, but the man before her fell to the ground. The bishop watched and understood then, he roughly grabbed Lea and hid her into his arms.

"Wha..."

"Get out of the way." He watched horrified as all the men began to fall in bloody heaps across from them like dominos. The bishop didn't even blink as the ringleader screamed in view of his footmen die like cheap dolls.

Tanto stood like a statue while the younger woman glanced out and gasped at the carnage. In the middle of it was the woman who she spent months knowing and compared her as a little sister, even though Lea was the youngest out of the group.

This is what happened fifty years ago. The bishop slacked from Lea's grip as his sister gazed at him with a crazed look.

"Please Tanto tell me you are not with them." Her voice changed from before, now sounding enraged and hitting torture if he didn't say what she wanted to hear.

The man cried and tried to run from the chaos, slowed down from losing his bodily functions and the bodies. "Villie" only sighed in mock annoyance before she shifted slightly and grabbed the man brusquely.

"I am fear and a plague to you humans...liberation to others...my onesans." Her voice had only malice and no innocent or youth like before. "I will kill you not like the others, painfully and swift, but slow and in your own twisted ideals..."

The woman pulled out her green six-shooter and waved it around like a toy. "Hmm hmm? Now what should I do with this? Maybe I should shoot off parts of your body...bit by bit?" She went close and grinned at him darker.

"Villie please..." Villie's eyes converted back to normal and she turned around to gaze at Tanto's navy blue eyes filled with sadness.

"Brother..." She glanced around at the bloodshed and the man who passed out in her hand. "I'm...I'm sorry..." Tears ran down her stained cheeks and she gripped her head, screaming a yell of pain and sorrow.

Tanto cried with her and Lea stared as the woman started to glow like the twin suns, brighter and brighter until she vanished as if she never existed.

"Tanto..." The wanderer walked to him and comforted him. "You'll see her again and I'll help you. I'm sure the others will too...I promise."

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Even after another massacre in July, the town still hasn't forgotten the deeds we did that day. I wonder if it was worth trying to help humans in the first place. Or maybe we shouldn't have been born...father....papa....I don't understand my destiny....

Tanto sat on a sand dune and stared off into the vast desert, another page turned out for him that he didn't make.

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Nah this story is not done yet, actually its only the beginning! Now this part is where we will see what is Villie exactly and her tale, as well as what happen after the July incident? I'll make another part to this just so you won't be in suspense XD

Actually I am trying to cheer up since this part seems to be depressing. I always feel sorry about Villie and her insane persona -- Oh well, at least it's done.

Next episode: Villie and her other "self" as well as another town with more mysteries that reveal a woman from the past of Neo Gunsmoke.