Karigoya Yabureme
Chapter 3
By shadows/of/flame
Thanks very much to every single lovely reviewer. You have all given me inspiration... and for that I am thankful.
With the guessing thing "I lo..." One person was right.
Meeting the Underground.
Keira gulped as she saw the man that was going to teach her how to use a gun.
He had coffee brown skin, and one eye was replaced with a glass eyepiece, which also served as a sort of telescope.
The thing that scared Keira the most...
Was the huge gun he held in his dustbin sized hands.
"The names Sig." he held out one of his dustbin sized hands and Keira gulped.
Not meaning to be rude, and get Torn pissed off, she shook his hand, withdrawing it before Sig tightened his grip enough for her hand to snap litle brittle spaghetti.
"I am Keira. Pleased... to meet you Sig."
"Torny here ordered me to teach you how to use a gun. But ordered is such a harsh word, right cherry?"
Keira nodded fearfully, stifling a laugh at the 'Torny' thing.
Sig laughed at her expression, and steered Keira to the gun range behind the hideout.
But steered is such a harsh word, right?
"As you know, this is a gun. Today I am going to teach you how to use 3 different types of gun. The Blaster Gun, The Scatter Gun and The Vulcan Fury."
As Sig was about to finish, Keira interrupted.
"Can I own a gun that Jak doesn't have?"
Sig started to laugh again.
"I didn't say you were going to own them.I was about to say, chilli pepper, that if you are successful, you will get a gun. The Dawn Raid."
Keira blushed as red as the gun was.
"Shall we begin?" Sig pondered out loud, handing her the scatter gun.
Keira trained for many hours, Torn occasionally making an appearance to see how she was going. She was determined to own the Dawn Raid, and go on the "important" mission for Torn, to finally impress him and Jak, and to show her worth.
The Dawn Raid was a stunning gun. It was light orangey-yellow in colour - much like a mixture of the dawn and the setting sun themselves.
It had 2 types of ammo - a diamond triple laser, and a rare bullet type called the Yyvn, which suspended the enemy in the air for 5 seconds before decimating them completely.
Sig told Keira not to fire it anywhere in the city - the setting wasn't exactly programmed to tell friend from foe.
"If you're doin' outside missions for Torn, no one important enough will be around cherry, so you can shoot it to your hearts content."
Finally, after 6 hours of vigorous training with all 3 guns, Sig surrendered the Dawn Raid.
Keira aimed the laser at a bird, and when she pulled the trigger, all that was left was a lone beak.
Torn came just as the beak was blown to the ground, and he smirked faintly.
"Sig gave you the Dawn Raid?"
Keira was surprised to hear him speak - he hadn't said anything while she was training, and Keira nodded.
"I had a Dawn Raid when I had my first gun. In fact..."
Torn was unable to finish the sentence before Sig stepped in.
"Thats Torns old one. Its special cherry, he wanted you to use it, so use it well and take good care of it, you hear?"
Keira was confused. "Of course I'll look after it!" But she still didn't get one thing...
Torn giving something away for free?
Unheard of.
Torn gave her something wrapped in cloth, and she unwrapped it to see a beautiful careworn holster.
"Yours too?" she asked.
Torn chuckled.
"My first ever one."
Keira giggled.
"Since when were you so charitable?"
Keiras next job was to meet some of her future partners - the people she may have to work with in the future.
"Everyone!"
At Torns voice, the people in the assembled rec room stopped eating pizza, and turned to Torn to listen.
"This is Keira. Keira, I'll introduce you to to some of your "work mates". First up, Jinx. Hes an explosives expert. Used to be Krews boy, but after Krews timely demise, he came to our side with valuable information.
"You know Daxter - useful for getting into small places; Tess - our guns maker - made every gun but the one you own; Ashelin, good for getting inside info on the Haven City Council and the Krimzon Guard; Onin and Pecker, witchcraft related stuff and good for knowing where EVERYTHING is; Samos, Eco King you know him already, and healer if anything happens to any of my men (or women) and of course..."
Torn turned around, and pulled a rather grotesque face at Keira, then turned to the others, "Jak - hotshot and pighead extraordinaire. Handles most of the missions, with a tag along expert, so he's your main competition."
Jak laughed. "A girl? Competition? Pffft."
Keiras hand went to her gun holster.
"Yes Jakky DEAR, I am your competition, and I plan to whoop your butt everytime."
Everyone apart from Jak started cheering for her.
Torn cracked a smile.
And in the middle of it all, Jak and Ashelin were left sour faced.
That was a bit rushed, but here ya go! Another chappie!