Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun.
Back story: Before meeting up with Vash again, Wolfwood found some lost technology. Recording technology, after figuring out how it worked, he used it to record his life story.
Prologue
Millie felt horrible, she felt like she wanted to die. The man she loved had been killed. She kept trying to find someone she could blame. The first option being God, but she knew that Nicholas wouldn't want her blaming Him for his death. If she had known who had killed him, who it was that pulled the trigger on him, maybe she could have found a little solace, knowing who to blame.
Millie was sobbing into her pillow, hardly wanting to believe that he was dead. She wished she could have had more time with him. She felt like she had never truly appreciated the time she had with him, that given even one more day, she may have been happy. The moment she learned of his death kept replaying in her head.
Vash walked into the room, hanging his head. With the Cross Punisher behind him, "Millie, get Meryl. There's something I need to tell you two."
Millie had given him a puzzled look, "Okay Mr. Vash. But, why do you have Mr. Wolfwood's weapon?"
At this point tears began to stream down Vash's face, "Please just go get Meryl. I'll explain everything when you return," he said as he sat down on the bed.
Millie left the room quietly, and headed down the hall to the room Meryl was staying in, all the time wondering what was wrong with Vash. When she reached the room she knocked on the door, "Meryl. Are you in there? Mr. Vash has something he needs to tell us."
Meryl came to the door, behind her was a half written report to the main office of the Bernardelli Insurance Society, "Alright Millie. Let's go then," she said as the pair walked back down the hall to the room Millie and Wolfwood had stayed in the night before.
Vash was still crying when the girls returned, "Alright Mr. Vash, I brought Meryl just like you said to. Now will you tell me why you have Mr. Wolfwood's Punisher?" Millie asked, her normally chipper voice seemed a bit solemn, as if she knew what he was going to say.
"Yes, I will. Today Wolfwood and I faced two of the Gung-Ho Guns. I left him so I could take on the one known as Cain the Long shot, I don't know who the other one was. When I saw Wolfwood in town after coming back, I assumed he had won, and hoped he hadn't killed someone else. When he disappeared, I noticed a trail of blood, I followed him.
"I saw him in a church, slumped over, resting on his Punisher. It seemed that he had been praying. Wolfwood died today girls. I'm sorry." Vash got up from the bed, dried his tears, and left the room.
"No. No. This... THIS CAN'T BE POSSIBLE!" Millie yelled, as she fell down into the bed, sobbing. Meryl stood behind her, with her hand covering her face, in an attempt to hide the tears, but it didn't work.
It had been hours since that happened, and Millie was pacing back and forth, not watching where she was going, not that she could have seen anything through her tears even if she wanted to. A moment later, she noticed that she had hit her foot on something. When she looked down to see what it was, she noticed that something had fallen out of it. It was strange, a small rectangular object with holes in it.
She went in search of Vash, to see if maybe he knew what it was. She found him right outside the door to the house, leaning against the wall, "Mr. Vash. Do you know what this is?" Millie asked, holding it up so Vash could see.
His eyes went wide, and he snatched it from her, "Millie, where did you find this?"
"It fell out of one of Mr. Wolfwood's bags."
"Bring me to that bag." Vash said quickly. She complied, leading him to the bag. Vash immediately started going through it, tossing out more and more of these strange things.
"Mr. Vash, are you sure you should be going through Mr. Wolfwood's things like that?"
Vash then pulled a larger object out of the bag, "Millie, do you have any idea what you've just found?"
"Well, no. I've never seen anything like those."
"This is lost technology. It was used for recording. The only question is what's on the tapes." Vash said, putting the thing he called a tape into the larger object. After pressing a button a voice started coming out of the device, it was Wolfwood's voice.
"I hope this thing is on. A big hello to whoever is out there listening to this tape. My name is Nicholas D. Wolfwood. I'm a traveling priest, and a gunman. My life may not have been extraordinary, but for some reason I feel the need to make a record of it. And this seems as good of a way as any."
The sound stopped when Vash pressed another button, "Go get Meryl. Now," he yelled excitedly.
End Prologue
A/N: All of the following chapters will be first person, they will be the tapes of Wolfwood's life.