Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun or the characters (except for the one's I made)….
Vash's eyes snapped open. He rose up and looked around the room. Every thing seemed to be in order. He looked at Meryl who was still sound asleep. Something wasn't right. He had woken up to something….Some one. He had felt a familiar presence appear, then disappear. He quietly got out of bed not wanting to wake Meryl. He slowly walked down the hall. Something was missing. He walked down towards Jade's room. He couldn't feel her presence. He gently knocked on the door.
"Jade?" He called quietly.
There was no answer. This made him nervous. He slowly opened the door.
"Jade?" He called again as he opened the door.
As he was walking into her room he stopped. His eye's narrowed, he couldn't speak.
Jade was gone, and there, written in big, red letters upon the wall, was the word "Knives".
Eighteen years ago
Vash had just returned from his battle against Knives. Knives was slung, unconscious, over his shoulder. Both Milly and Meryl had greeted Vash with a hug and almost immediately began to ask questions.
Even though he had defeated Knives, his life wasn't about to become easy. Vash had hoped that after their battle that Knives would have changed his ways. He didn't, Knives only became worse. He would rant and rave about how disgusting humans were, and how he absolutely hated the fact that he was living with a pair of "spiders". No one paid much attention to him, until he had found out were Vash had hid his gun. He had taken Milly hostage and escaped. Vash had caught up to him. He had to shoot him a couple of times again though. Then they tried just strapping him down to the bed, in fear of him hurting himself or anyone else. It worked fine, until he finally learned how to break free of them. He didn't take anyone hostage, he just tried to shoot anyone who got in his way. He shot at Meryl but luckily missed. Vash had to shoot him down again.
Knives was getting out of hand and Vash knew it. He finally came to the conclusion that Knives had to be put away. The idea of his brother in a mental institution made him sick, but it had to be done, especially since there was about to be two new additions to the family, that he would probably want to kill.
While he was unconscious Vash had called the institution. Men in white coats had come and put Knives in a stray jacket and strapped him to a bed. They left him in the jacket and strapped to the bed and had kept him in a small padded room. By this time Knives had woken up. What had bothered Vash the most was what Knives said as they were shutting the door to the padded room.
"You can't do this to me! I'm your brother! Vash!" He said as if he was about to cry. Then his faced changed. He smiled insanely and began to laugh. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you all! You'll see! I'll escape this hell hole and kill all the spiders in this building first! Then I'll find you. You can't keep me in here forever Vash!" And with that said they slammed the door.
Vash did not want to keep Knives in an institution but he didn't really have any choice. Vash had decided to try to forget about it, but as much as he tried it still haunted him. After Nick and Jade came along he almost completely forgot about Knives. Now he had come back.
"Damn you Knives! You can never leave me alone." He thought to himself.
Nick had walked into the room with Wolf closely behind him.
"What's going on?" Nick asked.
He looked at the wall and noticed Jade was gone.
"What the hell is going on? And where's Jade?" Nick asked in a very concerned tone.
Vash looked at Nick with sad expression on his face.
"Get dressed and grab your father's cross, punisher. I'll tell you everything on the way." With that said Vash walked out of the room and into his.
Nick hurried into his room and got dressed. He grabbed the cross punisher which was leaning against the wall. All the while Wolf sat there and watched him with a blank expression on his face. Nick walked out of his room with the cross on his back. Wolf followed. He met Vash in the middle of the hallway. They began to walk outside when Vash noticed Wolf following them.
"I think he should stay home." Vash said looking down at Wolf.
"I want to bring him. He may be able to sniff out Jade. And besides I don't think I could make him stay if I wanted to." Nick said putting on some sunglasses.
Vash nodded and they kept walking. The suns were now rising over the horizon. As they were walking towards the end of town Vash was telling Nick the whole story of Knives, himself, Rem, the gun ho guns, the institution he had put Knives into, and everything else. Nick just listened and said nothing. All the while Wolf was sniffing around looking for Jade. They reached the end of town when Vash suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Nick asked in a concerned voice.
"We need to split up if we want to find Knives in time." Vash said starring into the horizon. "I'll go this way, you go that way." Vash said pointing towards the North and the East.
"How do you know he didn't go that way?" Nick said pointing towards the West.
"I just know….." He said softly.
"Well if you know he's in these directions how come you don't know his exact whereabouts? I mean you're a plant right? Can't you like 'sense his presence' or something?" Nick said looking at him oddly.
"We don't have time to argue about this, just go!" Vash shouted as he began to run towards the North.
Nick stood there for a while when Wolf began barking and started running towards the East. Nick ran after him.
"Ugh…W-where am I?" The Jade asked her self, slowly waking up.
Her eyes widened as she observed her surroundings. There were trees, flowers, and she wasn't laying on sand, but grass. She had never seen anything so beautiful. Was she dead? Was she in heaven?
"No, your not in heaven, just my little Eden." Said the tall man with short, pale blond hair, sipping his glass of wine. He was sitting at a small table.
"Who are you! What do you want with me?" She asked angrily.
"Don't tell me you don't recognize your own uncle." The tall man said with an eerie smile.
"What?" She asked in disbelief.
"Unfortunately you're my niece." He said with an irritated sigh. "You filthy half breed." He said quickly standing up from the table and glared at her.
"What the hell are you talking about?" She asked, confused.
"I suppose your father never said anything." He said calming down a little.
"Didn't tell me what?" She asked curiously.
"Very well, I'll explain every thing to you." He said sitting back down on the table making himself comfortable.
Jade sat up and listen to him. He told her every thing. She found out that his name was Knives and that she wasn't even all human. She was half plant. After he had told her every thing she slowly stood up and walked towards him. She stood right in front of him.
"So what do you want with me?" she asked quietly.
"Simple, revenge. I'm going to kill you as soon as your father gets here so he can watch you die. He must be punished." He said calmly. "And I also can't let a, filthy half breed like you, live." He said sipping his wine.
Jade clenched her fists as tears slowly began to fill her eyes. She looked at him with hatred and finally punched him in the face. His glass of wine fell to the floor spilling red liquid all over the grass.
"You're such a jerk! You deserved to be put in that insane asylum! They should have given you a lobotomy you asshole!" She said yelling in his face.
He quickly stood up from his chair knocking it over. He punched her in the face knocking her to the ground. He knelt down next to her and grabbed her by her hair and looked at her straight in the eye, his eyes narrowed down to slits "Don't you EVER touch me again!" He hissed.
She looked at him, her face swollen, lip bleeding, and spit in his eye. "I'm not afraid of you, you bastard." She said giving him a cold stare.
He wiped his eye and threw her back on the ground. He stood up and drew his gun. He shot the ground right next to Jade's face. It left a rather large hole next to her. She stared at it in horror.
"Next time that'll be your head." Knives said calmly. He walked over to the table and picked up his chair. He sat there and waited.
It seemed as though they had been running for hours when finally Wolf stopped. Nick ran next to him. They both stared in amazement.
"Whoa!" Nick said looking at the big patch of green trees. "I bet that's were Jade is." Nick said emotionlessly.
Nick and Wolf slowly walked towards it, not knowing what lies within it. Nick looked up, he noticed something in the sky. There were clouds in the sky. Not the normal small clouds they usually see, but big fluffy clouds, and they were only over the small patch of trees.
"That's weird." Nick thought to himself. Then looked back down.
They both slowly walked into the small forest, keeping an eye out for anything unusual. There were trees, flowers, and grass every where. He had never seen anything like it. It was beautiful. He planted his weapon down in the grass and looked around.
"Jade! Are you here?" Nick called.
"Nick? Oh my God, is that you?" Jade called back.
"Jade? Are you alright! Where are you?" Nick answered trying to follow the sound of her voice.
"Nick! Don't! He's coming!" She called in a panicky voice.
"What! Who's com-"
But before Nick could finish his sentence a fist came across his face. His sunglasses flew off his face and on to the soft grass. He fell to the ground. He opened his eyes to find Knives standing over him with a gun pointed to his head.
"Who the hell are you?" Knives hissed "And were the hell is Vash!" He said tightening his grip on the gun.
"I decided to give Vash a break from his asshole brother. If that's ok with you, your majesty?" Nick said smartly with a smirk on his face.
Just as Knives was about to pull the trigger Wolf leaped on top of him, and began biting tearing the clothing and flesh on his back. He let out a painful scream.
Nick quickly got up and ran to his weapon. He opened the middle chamber and pulled out two small hand guns.
Knives grabbed Wolf from his back and threw him as hard as he could against a tree. With a yip Wolf fell to the ground unconscious.
"Damn dog!" Knives said pointing his gun at Wolf.
"Hey, Forks!" Nick called pointing his guns at Knives.
Knives turned around and gave Nick a sinister glare. "You have absolutely no idea who you're dealing with, do you human?"
"Apparently not, plant." Nick said calmly.
"Your cockiness irritates me." Knives snarled. He pointed his gun towards Nick. Then paused. "You look oddly familiar…" He said curiously. "Hmmmmm. Ah yes! You look like that pathetic priest that worked for me some time ago." He said calmly.
"What?" Nick asked slowly lowering his weapon.
"What was his name?…Was it, Wolfwood? Yes! That was it. Nicholas D. Wolfwood, as I remember." Knives said pondering on this. "But you couldn't be him, I had him killed quite some time ago." He said looking at Nick with an evil smile.
"Y-you killed my father?" Nick said raising his guns towards Knives.
Knives smile grew. "Yes." Knives said in an evilly pleased tone, knowing the emotional conflict within Nick. "But that doesn't matter now. You will be dead shortly." He calmly added.
He raised his gun and shot at Nick. Nick dodged it, but barely. He quickly returned fire at Knives. He easily dodged it. They continued firing and dodging for about ten minutes when all of Nick's handguns had run out of bullets. He quickly ran over to the punisher and picked it up. He opened the chamber revealing the machine gun. He pointed it towards where Knives was standing.
"Where'd he go?" Nick said looking around.
He turned around to find Knives standing right behind him. Knives gave him and insane smile and punched him in the face. Nick backed up trying to keep himself balanced. He regained his posture to look at Knives but he was gone again. He looked behind him and Knives punched him. This time Nick fell to the ground on his back. Knives slowly walked up to him.
"You stupid human!" He said kicking Nick in the face. "Did you actually think you could defeat me!" He questioned kicking Nick's side.
Nick began to cough up blood. He looked to his side and saw his punisher lying next to him. He slowly began to reach for it. Knives stepped on his hand. Nick let out a painful cry.
"I'll just finish you now, you worthless human." Knives said aiming his gun at Nick.
His finger slowly began to tighten on the trigger. Just as Knives was about to pull the trigger Wolf jumped up and bit his hand. Knives dropped his gun and held his hand. Wolf stood in front of Nick with his back arched, the fur on his back standing on end, teeth showing, and growling. He lunged at Knives again. Knives punched him and he fell to the ground right beside Nick seemingly unconscious.
Knives picked up his gun and slowly aimed at Nick. "Don't worry human, it'll all be over shortly."
Nick reached for his punisher, but was in too much pain to pick it up. He could only accept fate. "I'm sorry Wolf….Jade, I love you." He said softly as he closed his eyes.
As Knives slowly pulled the trigger the sky darkened. He shot two more times. Nick's eye's snapped opened and narrowed.
There, standing over him, now with three bullet holes in his chest, was Wolf. Nick's eye's filled with tears, as Wolf fell to the ground. Rain drops began fall on his lifeless body. It slowly started raining.
Knives looked up to the sky. "Ahhh, Lovely weather we're having." He said with an insane smile. He looked back down at Nick who was now on his knees hanging over Wolf. Knives rolled his eyes.
Nick held Wolf's cold, lifeless, body in his arms and began to cry softly.
"The love you have for that mutt is pathetic." Knives said disgustedly. "You're pathetic! All humans are pathetic!" He added in an angry tone. "That's why I'm going to kill you and the rest of your disgusting race." He said pointing his gun at Nick.
"You bastard. You will pay!" Nick said picking up his punisher. All his pain seemed to have just disappeared. He stood up and pointed his punisher towards Knives.
"Are you threatening me human!" Knives shouted angrily.
He shot at Nick. He dodged it easily. The only thing running threw Nick's head was the fact his best friend, Wolf, was now dead, that Jade was in danger, and Knives was the cause of it all. His mind was clouded, he was not thinking strait. He aimed for Knives head, but he jumped out of the way.
"I grow tired of fooling around with you. I'll make this quick." Knives said as he began to fire many bullets at Nick.
Nick dodged them all but one, which hit him in the shoulder. He dropped his gun and quickly put his hand over his wound.
"Shit!" Nick said wincing. He knelt down in pain.
Knives reloaded his gun and pointed to Nick's head. "Your time ends now human." He said putting his finger on the trigger.
"NO!" Came a voice from behind.
Knives turned around to see a weeping Jade. "Don't shoot him! He has nothing to do with this! Shoot me instead!" She said with tears running down her face.
"That can be arranged." Knives said with an insane smile and pointed his gun at Jade.
Nick's narrowed. He grabbed his gun and stood up.
A gun shot went off. Jade's eye's widened in horror. Nick stood there emotionless. Knives fell to the ground with a bullet in his head. Nick pointed his gun at Knives's body and began shooting it many times. His eye's were blank and emotionless as if no one was in there. Blood began to spray on his face.
"Nick stop it! Stop it!" Jade shouted in tears.
Nick snapped out of it. His eye's went back to normal, as if his soul went away for awhile and suddenly returned. He looked down at Knives's lifeless body now full of bullet holes. His eye's widened. He dropped his gun and began to shake. Tears began to roll down his cheeks. Jade slowly steped away from him.
"Jade…." He sad in a quivery voice. He began to feel faint. A sharp pain hit him in his shoulder. He looked at his shoulder, and realized he was loosing blood and fast. He looked back up at Jade and passed out.
"Nick!" Jade called running over to him.
She knelt down to his side. She noticed his wound. She began to look around franticly not knowing what to do. Finally she decided to rip off one of the sleeves of Nick's shirt. She tied it around the wound to stop the bleeding.
"Now what?" She said quietly to herself. She looked down at Nick, then to Knives's dead body, and then to Wolf's body. Tears began to fill her eyes. "What the hell am I doing here!" she sobbed.
Suddenly it stopped raining. Jade looked up at the sky and saw the clouds quickly fading. The twin suns began to shine again.
"Jade? Nick? Are you here?" Came a wonderfully familiar voice.
"Dad?" Jade called jumping up.
"Jade! Is that you! Where are you?" Vash called.
"I'm over here!" She shouted.
She finally spotted him. She ran towards Vash and hugged him. He hugged her back.
"Are you Ok? Is Nick here?" He asked in a concerned tone.
"I'm fine, but Nick needs help." She walked over to where Nick was lying, Vash followed.
Vash stopped when he saw Knives's lifeless body next to Nick. "What happened?" Vash asked in a very serious voice.
"I-I don't want to explain now. We should help Nick first." She said quietly.
Vash looked over at Nick. He picked him up and put him over his shoulder. "Wait. Where's Wolf?" he asked.
Jade looked down then looked over to where Wolf lied. Vash saw that he had been shot. He looked at Jade who was staring at Wolf with tears in her eyes.
"Come on, lets go home." He said solemnly.
"You mean we're just going to leave their bodies here? Shouldn't we at least bury them?" Jade said sadly.
Vash sighed. He put Nick down and leaned him against a tree. He observed Nick's wound. He stood up and looked at Jade. "We'd better hurry."
Nick slowly woke up. He saw Vash standing next to Jade. They were both standing next to two, big, lumps of dirt, with two sticks tied together to look like a cross at the end of each lump. They were graves. Nick didn't know where he was or what had happened. He tried to stand up but his shoulder began to throb. He grunted in pain. Suddenly he remembered everything. Vash looked over at him.
"Oh, you're up. We'd better get you home." Vash walked over and helped him up. He put Nick's good arm over his neck and helped him stand.
"I'm sorry, Vash." Nick said quietly. He winced.
"Shhhh, don't talk. Save your energy. I'll carry you home." Vash said as he put Nick over his shoulder.
With heavy hearts they walked home.
Two years later
Nick and Jade are at the alter. Milly, Vash, and Meryl are in the audience, teary eyed. As the preacher is talking Nick looks to the side. In the back of the audience was Wolfwood leaning against the door way, arms crossed, with a grin on his face, and by his side was Wolf, as always, panting happily. Nick smiled. He looked back at Jade who was giving him a look asking "What is it?". He just smiled at her.
"Do you Nicholas take Jade to be your loftily wedded wife?" The priest asked looking at Nick.
"I do." Nick said with a smile, never taking his eyes off Jade.
"And do you Jade take Nicholas to be your loftily wedded husband?" The priest asked looking at Jade.
"I do." Jade said smiling back at Nick.
"You may now kiss the bride." The priest said closing his bible.
The audience begins clapping and cheering as Jade and Nick began to kiss. Milly and Meryl began to cry tears of joy as they hugged each other, and Vash just cheered.
Wolfwood looked down at Wolf, who was looking up at him. "Let's go home boy." He said with a smile. He put his hands in his pockets and began to walk out of the church. Wolf followed. Wolfwood and Wolf are walking side by side into the horizon and slowly disappear.
THE END!
And thus continues the legacy of Wolfwood!
Well t-th-th-that's all folks! (for this story anyways) I hoped y'all liked it! I'm gonna point out a few minor details I didn't put in the story. Like the reason Vash didn't know the exact whereabouts of Knives is cause he hadn't really used any of his plant powers for 18 years so lets just say he was "a little rusty" (and I really wanted Nick to kill knives, not Vash lol). And the reason I made it rain was to help the mood of the story, and it was supposed to be kinda symbolic of when poor, Wolf died. Sorta like tears or something because Wolf wasn't suppose to be an ordinary dog and he gave his life to save Nick. Yeah, and the reason Knives couldn't read Nick's mind when he snuck up behind him and shot him, was because Nick wasn't thinking anything. Ya know like when your adrenalin is really high when your mad or something, and you can't really think strait or anything. And he can't read Wolf's mind cause he's special. Yup! Well I hoped it was good! Reviews please!
