Last time: As Tim meets Kenshin, they become friends and go to where he lives. Tim is introduced to everyone and has something to eat with them. During this time, he tells the whole truth about himself and everyone is shocked. Afterwards, a guy named Gohei Hiruma has come to fight Tim. But why! The reason is because he knows he's a good fighter but Tim says he isn't. Gohei get's to yelling and provokes Tim to fight, but with a wooden sword! Well, this is it. The fight is about to begin!
Act I: Introduction
Chapter 3:
Journey
Tim: Gohei! What do you want with me!
Gohei: Heh! Like I said, to do battle with you!
Tim: Like I said, I haven't held a sword before!
Gohei: Shut up! Now, let's fight!
Tim: Fine!
Kaoru: Tim, be careful!
(Tim and Gohei charge at each other.)
Gohei: Get ready to taste my blade!
(Gohei swings his sword at Tim and misses by an inch. When Tim has a chance, he swings his wooden sword at Gohei but misses too.)
Tim: Damn!
Gohei: I'm not being fooled by your act. I know you're faster than this! Now, come on!
Tim: SHUT UP!
(Tim swings again, but to no prevail, misses again, then when Gohei has his chance, swings his and cut's Tim's sword in half.)
Tim: NO!
Gohei: Ha ha ha!
Kenshin: Tim!
Gohei: You have no more weapons! Now, you're dead!
Tim: Uggh...
Sano: This isn't good!
(Tim stands where he is and thinks about what to do, until...)
Tim: Kenshin, throw your sword here!
Kenshin: What!
Tim: NOW!
(Kenshin throws his sword to Tim and he struggles to catch it. When he holds it, he get's accustomed to the weight, until a big flash of light surrounds him.)
Gohei: What the...!
All: Tim!
(After a few seconds, the light has faded and we are shown Tim again, standing there holding the sword.)
Kenshin: Tim, are you alright!
Tim: Well...yeah!
Gohei: I don't know what the hell that was, but now that you have a weapon, we can get on with the fight.
Tim: Fine with me!
(They both get into fighting stances to start off round 2.)
Gohei: I'm ready when you are!
(Tim has an angry face on him and takes the sword out of the sheathe then throws it to the ground!)
Tim: Here we go!
(All of a sudden, like before with Kenshin, we see Tim on the other side of Gohei and Gohei is just standing there. His eyes are in back of his head with a shocked look on his face, then he falls to the ground.)
All: HUH?
Tim:(stunned)What...did I...just do!
Kenshin: This is UNREAL!
Kaoru: He said he's never held a sword before until he uses yours and it's like his hidden powers are revealed!
Sano: That's gotta be
it!
Yahiko: I mean...he said he never held a sword
before!
Megumi: This is all too weird!
Gensai: I agree!
Tim: Is...this for real!
Kenshin: Tim, I agree my sword has revealed your hidden powers.
Tim: Probably! But still...
Kaoru: What is it, Tim?
Tim: Is this the reason...why I'm here?
Gohei: (getting up) Uggh...
Tim: What!
Gohei: Heh heh! So THAT'S the power I've been waiting for! So now that I know who you are, let me tell you something in 2 words. Makoto Shishio!
All: WHAT!
Kenshin: I thought he was killed! I know it, I was there!
Gohei: Nope, he's alive and well, thanks to little battousai!
Tim: Hold on! My name is Tim Ouellette and I wouldn't consider myself a battousai. Anyhow, what do you mean by, "thanks to me!"
Gohei: Somehow, he came back to life with all his followers of the Juppongatana with him when you showed up here in Tokyo!
Tim: WHAT! I'm the reason for his resurrection!
Gohei: Looks that way, doesn't it? Ha ha ha ha ha!
Sano: Shut UP!(Sano charges him and punches him square in the stomach. Gohei lets out a large wail, then falls to the ground!)That shut him up!
(Everyone is now silent.)
Kenshin: Shishio...How can it be!
(For
those of you who want to know, Makoto Shishio was/is a madman who is
31. In the past, he was just like Kenshin, a manslayer, but was
considered the successor of Kenshin. One day, the government thought
he was going to far and decided to put a stop to his evil plans. They
drenched his body with oil, then set him on fire. They watched him
burn too see him die, but somehow he survived the flames. After that,
he became a demon of revenge and gathered together a group of
warriors that he called the Juppongatana and spread his evil. Just
recently, Kenshin and the others got back from Kyoto with a long hard
battle with Shishio. Kenshin, during the fight, almost died, but
thanks to friends he's met and the skills he's learned, he overcame
defeat but the thing is, Kenshin didn't actually kill him. It was due
to the environment they were fighting in and Shishio's condition from
the burns he got from the fire incident. The environment was kind of
like a boiler room, but was outside, where smokestacks were sticking
out and spitting out fire, and because of fighting too hard and the
hot environment, Shishio combusted. But, like Gohei said, due to Tim,
he's alive again! But, how! He also said the whole Juppongatana. It
is quite a mystery.)
Tim: But...Is this why I'm here! To fight Shishio!
Kenshin: I don't know Tim, but maybe.
(Tim sit's down for a moment.)
Tim: So, will I leave this place, after I beat him?
Kenshin: Maybe.
Tim: But I don't want to! I don't want to go back to my dad. He's so cruel!
Kenshin: So, you DO have a family?
Tim: Yes I do. I said I didn't before because I wasn't telling the truth before.
Kenshin: Oh, I see.
Yahiko: So Tim, what are you gonna do?
Tim: I...don't know.
Kenshin: Well, if you think the reason you're here is too fight Shishio, then well, maybe you will have too.
Tim: I didn't expect ANY of this.
Kenshin: I don't know what to tell you.
(Silence)
Kenshin: So, what's it going to
be?
Tim:...
Kenshin:...
Tim: I guess...I'll have to go,
Kenshin: Well, it's your choice Tim. It's up too you.
Tim: Yeah.
(After this, they went to bed and thought over all that happened, especially Tim, who is going to be expecting a long, hard journey that Kenshin has once taken.)
Next time: Tim says goodbye to his friends and takes his leave. He also stops at places to buy supplies, which is including...WHAT! A japanese sword! Find out why next time as Tim's journey begins next time as Act II begins with Chapter 1:Embark.
