A/N: Hello!
Sorry for not updating in a while, I've just been busy writing and re-writing this damn chapter!
I'll explain more towards the end A/N.
Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 3: "Empty the Pockets!"
"So?" Dave pants out, digging into the ground, "When are we gonna build the house? Almost a week passed by already."
"Good question." William answers, cutting up large tree logs into boards, "We've still don't have enough materials. While I did make it so that it'd use as much wood as possible, I'd rather get access to steel so I could place the hiding mechanism with iron instead of pure wood."
"Can't... We just... buy... from the village?" Dave says whilst digging.
"Can't. Remember? We can't go there." William says, "I doubt that we can go so soon. I'd say better to stay away for another week."
"Ugh..." Dave groans out, not liking the constant work. Then stops to look at the nearby blueprints, checking if the hole is good enough.
"Hey, William?" Dave says, getting the large man's attention "I think I'm done now."
William raises an eyebrow and stops his work. He then goes to check up on Dave's work.
He sees a large hole, capable of hiding an entire house inside and more, if need be. "Well, I'll be damned." The large man states, looking down the hole, "You did an excellent job. It's big enough to hide a basement, 2 stories and an attic."
"Hope... you are happy..." He hears Dave say and feels his glare at the back of his head, "Because... fuck you..."
William rolls his eyes, "Yeah, Yeah. You do that."
"I'm serious... You're a pain..." Dave grunts out, tired completely.
William sighs and says, "Fine... We'll take a brake, since you are so desperate for one." and puts away his tools.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Dave silently roared to himself, something that William didn't pay attention to.
Dave climbs out of the hole he has dug, sweating, ragged and completely tired from his work. Whilst William brought some cooked fish and berries to the site.
Dave looks at the food that William brought and asks "Fish and berries, again?" a certain amount of disgust eminating from his voice.
"You're lucky we can have it be kept in the cooler still." William retorts with an eye roll, "The trucks battery will be dead in a week, if not days from now."
Dave rolls his eyes and asks "Then tell me, why haven't you fixed our little power issue?"
William then glared at Dave and answered, "Well, I'm sorry for the poor service. But if you haven't noticed-" He then gestures around, "I've been busy farming, fishing and cooking, you ungrateful bastard."
True to what William said, there is a large plot of tilled soil where vegetables are growing out of.
"Fine." Dave drawls out, really annoyed, "How will we fix the problem?"
William stops and becomes thoughtful for a solid minute...
"Well..." William finally starts answering, as he gives a fish and some berries to Dave, "One way is for me to craft a generator. We have an electric motor available that I could convert into a generator."
"The problem being?..." Dave drawls out, looking peeved already.
"The rinky-dink generator ain't exactly meant to provide high voltage." William states, "It's enough to power small devices, sure." He pauses for a moment, before continuing "But it won't do for a constant feed. And unless you are capable of doing a workout that lasts 24/7, we gotta focus on other stuff."
"Why not use the truck's engine to-?" Dave asks, but was cut off by William "Because we are in the middle of god damn Japan with little to no money."
Dave walks up to William with a raised eyebrow "Why do you even hate Japan is the question I'm wondering. They seem rather friendly, if a little short."
"Japan sucks. Simple as that." William retorts, stressing his words.
Dave waits for William to continue. But the man stays silent, prompting an "Okay then." from Dave.
The duo stayed quiet for a while, enjoying the silence. Before Dave questioningly asks, "Is it about the currency-?" "Yes it's about the stupid fucking currency. I hate the fucking economic shit here. Everything seems stupidly fucking expensive, like fucking hell." William hisses in, interrupting the question.
Yet again, silence resumes. Dave decides to finally sit down, as well as William sits down next to him. They both begin eating what they have available, getting their fills.
"Hey." Dave starts, getting William's attention, "We could employ someone to do the work for us." To which William raises an eyebrow and asks, "How? We don't have any... Yen, was it? Yeah yen. We don't have any yen to buy any services."
At that, Dave lets out a grin. "Yeah? Well I got an idea, Willy." He states, continuing to chew whilst talking, "We could go to the underground of the village and look for info. Possibly get heads up on other things as well."
William turns pale, "Hang on, are you suggesting that we'd do a thieving j-job? That ain't really up our alley, and you know that Dave! That's more Stuart's thing!" He says, putting up his arms, "Besides, How are we even gonna access the criminal network-? Scratch that, is there a criminal network to begin with?!"
Dave got more annoyed, until finally he says "Quit your whining! It's just a simple info rounding up. That and Stuart ain't here, is he? We would have heard of him by now." But as soon as he said that, he pauses, "Hang on, if I arrived two days ago, you arrived by crashing, the does that mean?..." He asks, looking at William to see if he was on the same page.
William looks at him in thought, before suddenly getting up and saying "In the truck. Now." as he started running, to which Dave nods woth a grunt and gets up, following in suit.
William opens the door and jumps in, followed by Dave hopping into the passenger seat, only to find himself legs up on the seat.
The truck starts up and William hits the gas, making the truck lurch forward, driving towards the village.
"And what makes you think that Stu's in the village?" Dave asks, correcting his sitting position, "For all we know, he might as well be in the mountains."
"It's quite simple, really. He'd also head for the nearest civilization. If they ended up in some sort of different place then us, words nd rumors are bound to move about." William explains, taking out a tobacco pipe, "Which means either he was getting contacts in the village or he arrived there quickly and got contacts. Either way, he'd plan something big."
"Well, let's hope what you said is true. Because if so, we found the perfect solution to our little homeless problem." Dave replies, taking out a cigarette pack from his suit, taking a single one out and putting the rest back, "Got a light?"
"In the glove box." William replies, to which Dave grunts and opens up the glove box, taking out a lighter, "Could you light my pipe as well, once you are done lighting yours?" William asks, to which Dave responds with a simple "Sure."
Dave quickly light his cigar and then lights William's pipe, as they both begin smoking.
After a bit of silence, William asks, "You do have your gun ready, yeah?" to which Dave lets out only a grunt.
After a few minutes of driving, they soon are about to reach the village gate. The guards standing by.
They raise their weapons at the incoming vehicle, but start shaking in fear when they realized it isn't slowing down. Soon after, they jump out of the way as the truck slams through the wooden gate, destroying it.
"Looks like we are in!" William shouts, driving the truck between people walking, "Now is to jist wait for Stuart!"
"Yeah, yeah. This is one of the few things I hate doing. It's letting you be the driver." Dave complains, keeping an eye out, "And could you not drive through the market distri-, huh?" He stops complaining, seeing that William somehow nabbed all sorts of food whilst driving. Dave looks at William funny, before looking forwards again, asking "How good are you at stealing by drive-by?"
"Well, considering I had to join the adventures of you, Stu and that giant of a man, I'm quite good." William answer, throwing the food to the middle, "Besides, we're committing crime anyway by destroying property, why not take some food?" He asks, before focusing again, "Now if I were Stu, where would I be?"
Meanwhile the truck was drifting by man sectors of the village, dodging people and knocking over carts.
Dave scoffs, "Probably boasting about getting the treasure of some important figure the villa-," He stops, looking forward and mutters, "Well, son of a whore, the guy done did it."
William lets out a "huh?" whilst looking at his partner, before focusing on the road, "Oh."
(MUSIC: Down - To - Noise from: Pizza Tower FanGame - Sugary Spire)
As soon as William heard a single note come out of the radio, he turned to look at Dave with a glare. "What?" Dave asks, to which William responds with a "Nothing."
In front, there is the village square. A stone statue standing in the middle of it. But on top of said statue was a skinny man wearing a red Hawaiian shirt, bright yellow shorts and sandals. A pair of glasses on their head and relatively long dark hair.
"Oh, it seems he spotted us." Dave says, as the man waved at them in the distance...
~? POV - A few minutes prior.~
"Heh. A solid find, if I say so myself!" And indeed I do! Managed to steal right under their nose! A bag of gold, jewels and yen!
The underworld is so shallow though, almost nothing is there! I only got this because of some rumors!
"Hey! Have you heard what some of the people have been saying?" I hear from around the corner. Seems like I am in Japan, from the language I could guess.
I walk up right to the corner, leaning on it and pretend to read a newspaper that I have acquired for myself by means of stealing.
"What? Have they been commenting on new outsiders again?"
"That's given here, but I mean some of the more juicier gossip."
"Oh?"
"Yep. Apparently someone hit big, got quite a fortune."
"How? There aren't many ways to-."
"Yes, I know. Will you let me finish?" *Sigh* "Anyway, word has it that someone got big for selling vital information to youkai and vice-versa."
"What? Are you saying info has been leaked."
... "And that's not all, they are also known for... selling certain type of things..."
"Like?..."
"They've been trafficking. Humans to youkai."
"... Who are we talking about?"
"The overweight man."
"You mean the outsider?"
"No, I mean the one who lives in a two story building by their self."
"Oh, you mean the decorated one? Near the centre?"
"Yes. But let's drop this discussion. We have-."
Well, this certainly IS juicy... I think I found something to steal.
"Hey! Get back here, you slimy bastard! All outsiders are the same! They steal from anyone they can!" An overweight man roared out.
"Tsi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi! Catch me if you can! If your legs can move, that is!" I taunt, jumping out the window. I can hear them roaring from here!
Oh, a lot of folks are glaring at me right now! "I have to say, a real interesting find if you ask me! But I have other business to take care of. Toodles!" I say happily, before running away.
I run to the central area and jump onto a statue that is in the middle of it. But I heard a lot more commotion then there should be, "Weird. It's like they are destroying everything to get me." I say with a frown.
Suddenly, I spot a very familiar looking truck in the distance, "Ah! Well would you look at that! My rescue is here!" Then raise my hand to wave, "Hey! Over here!"
~Third Person~
"Well, we know what Stu's been up to at least." William retorts, still driving the truck. Dave nodded to his statement.
As soon as the truck was close enough, it started drifting around the statue. Stuart quickly hopped onto the cabin roof, grabbing hold as the truck finished merely half a turn before driving forwards again coming from the given direction.
Stuart moves his body in a way to look through the passenger-side window, "Hey Willy! Davy-boy-!"
Dave quickly glares at him though, "Don't call me that." But Stuart simply ignores, "So I have stolen some nice goods, real nice. Hey mind if you could scoot over?"
"You're gonna have to sit on the roof this time." Dave replies, causing Stuart to pout. "Well, I formerly request to have the music changed." stated Stuart.
"In your drea-" "Sure." "Eh!?" But William cuts in David's retort, already his hand on the music player.
(MUSIC STOP)
"What?!" Dave yells, as Stuart giggles behind, "Is my taste that bad?!"
"Stuart's obsession with Lupin the Third anime is more tolerable than your horny game wishes." William says calmly, whilst also driving the truck like a maniac still, "Besides, just your overall taste sucks." He adds, getting a "hey!" from Dave and more giggling from Stuart.
"He's sure got you beat there, Dave!" Stuart says in a teasing fashion, prompting Dave to yell "Screw you!" and sulk in the chair.
"Quit acting like a baby. And also keep look out!" William yells, "I need to focus forward, you need to focus everywhere else, including you, Stuart."
"Ah, jeez. Why do you have to be so mean?" Stuart asks, whining. But then he notices something interesting, "Huh? Who are they?" Getting a "Huh?" from Dave.
"Who are who?" Dave asks, looking to the side, before his eyes widen, "Oh fuck!" He spits out, noticing someone he quickly identifies. Then sees the other person next to them.
The person was Keine Kamishirasawa, carrying a bag of food. Next to her, was a woman with a red dress appearance, wielding a stick. Dave quickly identifies her as Reimu Hakurei, which causes him to pale even more.
For a brief moment, as if everything was slow motion. Keine was talking to Reimu, but then noticed the truck passing by at alarming speed. Overall her eyes widen from remembering who the truck belonged to. Meanwhile Reimu's eyes widen because of other reasons. Mainly by the fact that some outsiders just drove by haphazardly, knocking over items in it's wake.
And as brief as it was, the truck went on by.
"W-W-William?" Dave starts, shaking with a smile, "W-We may have a-a slight problem."
"What is it? Spit it out, I don't have time right now." William says, irritated.
"W-We just drove by Keine." Dave tells him, causing the man to react with a violent "What?!" then paling.
"I don't intend to be rude, but there's a fine maiden flying towards us. And I mean float flying, not speed flying." Stuart interrupts, causing the other two to panic for a moment.
"Fuck!" William yells, then looks at the broken side mirror, spotting Reimu in the sky. Glowing balls falling from the sky.
William does a sharp turn into an alley, continuing to drive the truck forward. "I know we should've gotten a smaller vehicle!" Stuart complains, to which William replies, "Worry about that later, dipshit!"
"Willy, what's the chances of using one of the carts as a ramp?" Dave asks, as the truck just exits the alley. "Unlikely." Came the reply, "The truck is too heavy to do jumps, period. Not to mention it's too banged up as well. Another good crash and we'd most likely got no vehicle anymore."
"Then what about using one of those balls?" Stuart interrupts, "They explode, don't they?"
"Yes, but they are practically harm-" William starts saying, but suddenly stops. Then he smiles, "Actually, that isn't a bad idea." "What?!" Dave yells, but gets ignored.
"I noticed that they DO exert a miniscule amount of force on the truck. So having it jump onto one and exploding under us can launch ourselves high and forward, if done right." William said with a smile, before turning to Dave and saying, "Dave. Mirror."
Dave, with the ever-rare serious face nods, saying "Got it." before grabbing hold of the passenger side mirror and pulling it loose.
He looks at the beautiful patterns that are formed, then suddenly throws the mirror infront of the truck. It flew for a bit and one of the bullets struck it, causing it to bounce in an angle where it hits the ground underneath the truck.
It exploded and launched the truck fairly high into the air. "And why did you want me to do that?!" Dave asks, his usual personality setting in, "Are you trying to kill us?!"
"It's because the guards would've likely regrouped in front of the gate with Keine." Stuart butts in, "I know about her due to the very few contacts I made here."
William and Dave process this for a moment, but William figures it out quicker, letting out an "Ah." soon followed by, "I forgot you learned as many languages as possible." "Oh yeah, forgot about that." Dave adds his two cents.
The truck sails through the air, and Dave looks down to see themselves just flying over the gate, leaving behind a shocked Keine at the gate.
"Hey, when are we gonna put some mu-" "NO!" Both William and Stuart interrupt Dave's proposition to add music.
And just as soon as it flew high, it crashed down again, making all three let out their respective grunts and groans.
William looks at his modified dashboard and scoffs, "Damn. The back axel came loose."
"What does that mean?" Stuart asks, but was replied by Dave, "It means our back wheels can't provide power to move forward, we're forced to rely on the frontal wheels."
William nods, "Yep. So essentially we can't move as fast as before... if at all, but depends on the condition."
"So in other words, we lost the vroom of the vehicle?" Stuart asks, "Yes." William answers with annoyance.
Suddenly, the trio heard yelling from the distance. It was Keine, yelling in Japanese, filled with anger. "So? What is she saying?" William asks, as Stuart finally climbs down, holding onto the driver-side door.
"Well, they were basically cussing us out. Saying stuff like 'Never return ever again' and 'You reckless idiots' followed by 'When I get my hands on you'. You know, the usual pissed off rant." Stuart says with a smile, looking also forward.
"Ah... Say, what happened to the girl-" "Right above us." Stuart buts in, serious somehow. William immediately put the pedal to the metal and drove as fast as possible. The back of the truck grinding immensely.
"Step on it, damn it!" Dave yells, pointing a pistol out the window and firing, "This chick is not interested in any of our crap we're selling!"
"No, I'd say they are incredibly interested in us, Dave! They're following like a really beautiful fly!" Stuart says, "I'd say they look incredibly nice in that outfit!"
"She's a shrine maiden, idiot! And she wouldn't be interested in a thief!" Dave yells out, still firing the pistol into the air."
"Dave, your pistol is shooting those glowing projectiles as well." William interrupts, getting a shocked "WHAT?!" in response. Which also made Stuart giggle at Dave's misfortune.
Dave suddenly points at Stuart on the cabin roof and fires, but Stu managed to barely dodge the shot. And the next few shots.
"God damn it, you cheeky bastard!" "Hey! Stop trying to shoot me!" "You asked for this, you dumb bastard!" "Aren't you a mercenary?!" "I still am and I won't hesitate to torture your guts!' "Ah, so you really do care?!" "STUART!"
William let's out a sigh, "Damn, the two are bickering again." Before looking forward and seeing the shrine maiden standing right on the hood of the engine bay.
His eyes widen, "Shit!" and starts driving left and right, the truck tilting more and more out of control.
"Hey! Watch how you drive" "Yeah!" "You're gonna get us all killed!" The complaining duo started complaining about William's driving, all the while the shrine maiden stayed perfectly still on the hood.
"If you two hadn't started whining like babies, then she wouldn't have-!" William yells in anger, but suddenly the shrine maiden jumped off the truck. Behind her was a quickly approaching tree. His eyes widen in surprise, "Oh, shit!" he yelled, quickly pressing the brake pedal.
It was all in vain though, as the truck crashed into the tree and caving in the engine bay. Dave flew out of the passenger side windshield, hitting his back against the tree, Stuart flew off and got hit bluntly in the stomach by a branch, now resting on it. And William hit his head against the steering wheel, causing his head wound to reopen and pass out...
"Agh, my freaking back." Dave complains, as he and stuart are being tied up by the shrine maiden.
"Your back? I still feel stomach aches from crashing like a damn test dummy." Stuart states, annoyed.
"Yeah, well you're not the only one! William here has a serious injury on his head and is losing blood fast!" Dave points out, "Because of your stupid stunt that you did, he might die from either a concussion or blood loss!"
"Don't diss our resident mechanic like that!" "Shut it, you damn wanna-be!" "Oh, piss off horn dog!" "You wish!" *THUNK* Suddenly, the shrine maiden hit the duo in their head with a stick, annoyed by their bickering.
"Damn whore." "Shut it, Dave." The duo said, before finally staying quiet.
The shrine maiden starts walking towards the truck, prompting Stuart to yell "Hey! Where are you going?! Leave our pal-! Youch!" "Shut it, Stu." Dave headbutts Stuart, stopping him from talking.
The woman reaches the truck and opens the driver side door, to a passed out William, who is bleeding from the head.
She carefully pulls him out of the cabin, She sighs and starts thinking. "The medkit is at the back." Dave interrupts her thinking, making her nod. She heads to the back of the truck and opens the back.
"So, who is she anyway?" Stuart asks with curiousity. And Dave answers calmly, "She is a local shrine maiden. Often said she resolves major incidents in this land." He pauses, "Her name is Reimu Hakurei, shrine maiden of the Hakurei shrine."
"So no game catch, eh?" "Nope. Most likely nah. They're more focused on keeping their shrine." "Ah..."
Soon she comes back from the back of the truck, an aidkit in hand whilst dragging William with the other. She places William in a way that the man would have his back on the truck, sitting on the ground.
She then starts tending to his wound, whilst Dave and Stuart keep quiet. But after a while, Stuart finally asked something in Japanese. A moment of silence, then the woman looks at the duo from the corner of her eyes and answers in English, "Because I still want answers from you three troublemakers."
"Ah, so you understood what we said." Dave said with a straight face, to which she answers, "Yes. And you two bickering with eachother is really annoying." causing a smile to appear on Dave's face.
"Happy to oblige, ma'am." Dave states, then gets elbowed by Stuart, "Shut it, you horn dog. It's better to stay quiet, at least 'till the fat bastard there wakes up."
"Yeah, yeah." Dave mutters, and continues to watch Reimu treat William's head injury. Stuart just watches in silence.
Once she was done treating him, she let him rest there, while she herself sat down cross-legged and eyes closed, waiting for William to wake up.
After a while of silence, Dave let out a small hum, then quietly stating "Seems like we are being kept here for interrogation." "Seems so." Stuart says, nodding along.
"Can't even grab a smoke." Dave quietly complains, to which Stuart starts scrutinizing him, "Of course you can't. Your hands are tied! Besides, aren't those death sticks deadly for your health?" "It's the same with being a mercenary and a thief, Stu." "eh? ah- uh... Point taken."
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"Hey, do you have some food, Dave?" "No." "Why not?" "Because William was the one providing food whilst I worked." "Worked? For what?" "One of Willy's projects." "Ah... Wait, what was on offer anyway?" "Cooked fish and berries." "Youch, that's bad..."
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"Think we can get a bathroom break-?" "SHUT UP ALREADY!" Reinu suddenly screams, glaring at the duo "You two are so annoying to listen to!"
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"ugh..." A small groan escaped from William, as he slowly opened his eyes, "Where?..." Dave noticed this and quickly shouts "Wake up faster, sleeping beauty! We're waiting on you!" which causes Reimu to glare at Dave intensely.
"Yeah, yeah..." William mutters, his vision blurry as he tries to get up. "Hey, sit down and stay still... You need rest." He hears suddenly.
Once he regained his vision, he sees Reimu sitting next to him. It takes a moment to process this and once he did, his eyes widen and he started panicking. This makes Reimu really start worrying, "Is he okay?" She asks the duo, whilst William was trying to move backwards, but the truck is in the way.
"Not really. He usually gets like this when he realizes the fact that he is unprepared for the situation." Dave explains with a sigh, and Stuart decides to add his two cents "He has severe paranoia. The only one he isn't paranoid about is me, Dave, and a friend we've yet to meet."
"Yep. It's best to calm him down though, before he gets the idea of blowing up his truck again." Dave adds as well, making Reimu sigh.
She looks at the large man again and says "Hey, it's okay, it's okay." She reassures with a slight motherly voice, "I'm just asking some questions. Is that okay?"
Slowly the large man calms down, hesitantly nodding, "A-Alright... But can I be near them?" He asks, pointing towards Stuart and Dave. She shakes her head and says "Sorry. I can't do that, because you and the others might cause trouble again." William nods in understanding, knowing the possible reasons why.
Stuart and Dave stare in surprise, before on of them reacted, "Rarely seen that happen..." Dave mutters in slight shock, getting Reimu to chuckle. "Sometimes I had to deal with children..." She says, "But... Sometimes I had to help traumatized people."
Dave let's out an "Ah" before saying "Good to know. At least we know who to go to when Willy gets another panic attack." "Yeah... It sucks when we can't figure out how to calm him down." Stuart adds his own thoughts.
Reimu nods, "That is sad to hear... But introductions should be in order, so I will start first." She then introduces herself, "I am Reimu Hakurei, the Hakurei shrine maiden." Then she glares at the duo, "Now who are you two?"
A/N: Hey, uh... Hi?
Sorry for not updating at all. I had a bit of writer's block here. Not to mention things are being a bit hectic on my end now. Having to slowly study for exams.
There also might be a slight possibility that I will have to join my country's military. Don't get confused though, I'm not in Ukraine. So I won't likely go there. But I am in eastern Europe, so if my country does get attacked... Well, i'm just screwed anyway, right?...
Anywho, dropping that depressing topic, I've been working more on creating new stories and updating existing ones. I was actually stuck with this for such a long time, I've forgotten my writing style at the time!
Now, hope you enjoyed the story!...
Ah, yes. Reviews as well... I should address them.
Ahem, right...
Nah, not doing it. I enjoy reading the reviews. Not gonna answer them though. So y'know...
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(sorry, no jokes here.)
