Err…..hey. Sorry I haven't updated. Ehehehe ;

I'm very sorry to say, but I have not been able to find most of the character bios you, my readers, have sent me. I still have about two of them, I think. But just to be on the safe side, I will not be able to use two of them, at least until further notice. I'm very sorry. Feel free to throw rotten produce at me.

The Anime Crew, you were the one(s) who sent me the bio o Angel the daredevil, correct? Could you please send me that again?

Disclaimer: Geez, I don't own Trigun, got it?

The $$60,000,000,000 Rose

Chapter 11: Falling From The Trees

Vash watched, entranced, as this great, golden creature opened it's eyes. He gasped along with the crowd; The creatures eyes….as if they COULD be merely called eyes. No, simply calling them eyes was an insult. Deep and fathomless, they were an endlessly shifting miasma of gold and green, brown and black. To look into them was as if gazing into a forest that shifted endlessly, of deep, cool caves, of deserts sands, of rocky mountains. Calming orbs, ancient, yet holding the hint of a youthful wistfulness. It was if he was peering into the very heart of the earth, the firm soil, and seeing the birth of thousands of trees, flowers…..Like he could see the souls of all the things of nature…

Vash didn't notice Psyche quietly walking up from behind to stand beside him. Ryuuen stood not far away.

"Beautiful, isn't she?"

Vash, startled, looking down at her. Her voice sounded…different. It somehow reminded him of gentle winds, calming and cool, and carrying the voices of the past… Psyche glanced up at him, golden eyes seemingly older than her apparent years. Before he got a chance to say a word, she spoke again.

"Just because someone is of a different spirit, and appears to be of inhuman body, don't believe that they are all-powerful, without need for basic human emotions, or detached from the rest of the world. It just means that they are more vulnerable to rejection than the rest of humanity. Just remember that they are still human, for the most part."

"W..What are you talking about?"

Psyche smiled, a sad look in her eyes, before turning back to gaze at the golden fox in front of them.

"You know," her voice back to it's usual cheerfulness, the seemingly wind-like quality of her voice gone, "Miss Saria disappeared. I think that tree just burst out from underneath her feet. I hope she's okay…"

And yet again, before Vash had a chance to speak, something interrupted him.

The great golden fox suddenly lunged to it's feet, swaying slightly with it's mouth open, and let out a deafening scream.

Oh goddess, it burned. It felt like her bones were snapping, all at once. Her insides were shifting, burning. She lurched to her feet, and opened her sore jaws, screaming in a voice that was not her own, a unearthly wail of a piercing, earsplitting caliber, and then felt something like…tails swishing madly behinds her.

The people…the people who were watching her had screamed when she got up, and began scattering. As they ran, the ground began to buckle and toss, like waves…

Her scream slowly tapering off, she tried to take a step, but before she could, some large white-ish thing beside her buckled as well, and seemed to burst out of the ground, growing, taking her along for the ride. Her vision faded and she passed out, not knowing that she had become a fox, and only know was returning back to normal….

Still slightly in shock from gazing into that awesome creature's eyes, and witnessing the magnificence of the gargantuan tree before him, he jerked back as people began screaming and running away.

Snapping out of his stupor, he tried to make his way forward, eyes locked on the tree and the giant fox-creature, but was knocked back as a particularly large man smashed into Vash's side.

Vash pitched forward, his gaze thrown to the ground and his eye contact broken. BY the time he managed to right himself, the tree had grown twice as large, and the fox-creature was nowhere in site. Saria however….

She was dangling from a large exposed branch, around the top, and appeared to be unconscious. As he watched and hurried forward, a loud crack ripped through the air, and she plummeted towards the hard, unforgiving ground…

Unbeknownst to our heroes, a two pairs of fiery red eyes watched them from the shadows, although not together, oh no. One watched from afar, gaze unfeeling and stern, while the other….watched close by, from the shadows, bewilderment and shock carved into their depths…..

Well? How was it? I hope it was as good or better than I have been writing.

If you feel the need to tell me to move faster, drop me a line at username is Asreith. If you can't reach me there, send a message to my friend Fatalis Duex (at Gaiaonline, of course), telling him to bug me about it.

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Plus, I'll try updating my CYOA. I'll be reposting the CYOA on E-fiction, since isn't CYOA savvy. Sorry.

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Ja ne!

Lady Kitsuna