Disclaimer. Miss Silly Goose feels it her absolute and undeniable duty to make absolutely clear to the reading audience

that neither she nor Miss Anthrope own Trigun.

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Chapter 1 "I'm not eating that."

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Knives stared in disdain at the bowl of soup offered him by Meryl. Vash looked on hopefully.

"Take away your...food. I do not need to suck the life blood of my brethren like a

vampire to sustain my own existence...Like you humans." With that Knives turned up his nose.

Meryl looked furious. Vash took a step back. The soup was applied to Knives' face. His soup-

covered up-turned nose quivered in wrath and a look of fury appeared on his face.

"You!...You...you! How dare...spider...But...Aaaah"

Meryl turned and walked to the nearest wall and began to beat her head upon it very

severely. She gave rise to a number of furious sounds. Knives smiled wickedly.

"Knives! You can't do that to the insurance girl! She'll sue you." Attempted Vash in some

panic.

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Just then there was a knock at the door. Vash moved to answer it. As he opened the door

the newly freed Meryl hurtled herself towards the now distracted Knives and attempted to

strangle him. Vash turned back around.

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"You can't do that to Knives! He's my brother! And he's not fully functional" He ran

over to the still soup covered Knives and attempted to detach him from the extremely dangerous

and fully operational Meryl. He left the door wide open, having been distracted from his task. He

managed with some trouble to separate the two vengeful individuals from death at the hands of

each other.

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The even now soup-covered Knives looked towards the open doorway. There stood a girl of

medium height with brown hair, rosy cheeks and a few freckles. She suffered from a rather

extreme cowlick that caused her hair to stick out at an odd angle, but she was rather pretty all the

same. She carried a bag of freshly baked doughnuts. Vash looked once more towards the

doorway.

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"Ahaa! You brought me doughnuts" He cried. "Come to papa my sweet little cakes of

honey" The girl stood watching, stunned for a moment.

"You must be Mr. Svidrigailov then." She said somewhat timidly. "I'm here from Mr. Heaven's House of Doughnuts . . ."

"That's my name! Thanks for bringing me these lovely little pieces of heaven" Vash

simpered. The girl left quickly.

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Knives was distracted by an emotion. He could not quite place it.

"What is this" He thought to himself. "It's somehow...familiar...I think it was nice...like

butterflies." He was so distracted, that he made no comment when Meryl cleaned his face. And

did not notice when he had eaten half a bowl of soup (and liked it). As he was brought to a more

complete awareness, he realized the extent of his behavior and was appalled. He had to do

something. He couldn't just submit to eating spider food like this (even if it was tasty). So, before

they could offer him another bite, he stated very matter-of-factly "I'm not eating that."