Chapter7

-Rhez-

Rhez slowly opened his eyes and held is head. "Damn it that hurt." He sat up and looked around, he was in a pew. The pew was one of many in the large church he was in. A sleepy light drifted in from the big stained glass windows and illuminated the church. Than he remembered, Vash. Rhez jumped up and started to leave, but found that he was chained to the pew. "What the hell?" Someone walked up behind him and sighed. "Well, you do have quite the knack for bad language. Rhez turned around and saw a priest standing there and smiling. He was dressed in preacher clothes, but with a long black trench coat. His hair was medium length; it was slicked back and was black with grey down the sides. "Who are you?" He said with contempt. The priest sat down a couple of pews away from him. "I am a friend of Vash. He has asked me to help him deal with you." Rhez sat back down and frowned. "Deal with me?" He asked. The priest nodded and spoke. "Yes, my name is Tobias Granz, I knew the late Nicholas Wolfwood, and met Vash at his funeral." Rhez pulled at his chains and looked at Granz. "Unchain me now and I will make your death quick." The priest frowned and stood up. "Vash was right, it's as if you know not what you have done. You threaten a priest, a man of God with death, and yet there is no remorse in your eyes." Rhez shot up and pulled his chains to their tightest. "And you know not of what I am about to do priest." Granz smiled and shook his head. "If you think that you can intimidate me, you are very wrong. I am a soldier of God, and nothing can sway me from my path." Rhez stared him in the eyes and his anger started to get the better of him. "You do not want war with me, priest. Because the only thing you have on your side is a three letter word." The priest frowned again and reached into his pocket. "Vash asked if I would restrain you until he could calm himself down… so I don't think he'll mind if I restrain you a bit more." He pulled a small black cross out of his pocket and held it out. He pressed a button on the back of it and electricity jolted off of the tip and shocked Rhez. He screamed and dropped to the ground convulsing. Granz laughed and put the cross back in his pocket. "See now, isn't that better?" He said as he laughed and walked away. "I'll pray for you now." He said as he walked away whistling.

-Stran-

"Who are you" asked Stran. "Just a traveler looking for a treasure" replied the tall blonde man. "What do ya know me to" Says Stran as he looks the traveler. "Your clothing look all most identical to my brother's" "That's because me and Vash come from the same ship." Stran looks up at the sky and puts a finger under his bottom lip. "O yeah welp Mr. Traveler guy person I got to get digging so I'll see ya later I'm kinda in a hurry." "Well then let me help you maybe where after the same thing" "OK" Stran says excitedly at the thought of doing less work. Stran grabs a hand full of the apples that clonked him on the head. Stran walks the edge of the crater turns back towards the middle and starts passing off "1…2…3…4…"till finally reaching 43 "Well this is the spot." Stran look up towards the man as he has a shovel thrown to him. "Hey a shovel thanx." Forty five minutes of digging later Stran sticks his shovel into the ground to pull up another pile of dirt "THUD" the two men look at each other then kneel down and start whipping away the rest of the dirt reveling a large wooden hatch. Stran reach's down to pull the door open "CLINK CLINK" "Its locked Stran says while looking at his new friend. Stran looks back down at the door and shrugs "well I suppose the situation is important." Stran grabs the handles again and gives the door a hard jerk ripping the doors and several of the concrete blocks it was attached to out of the ground "Well you're a strong one arnt you." Rolling his eyes and whistling Stran rocks back and forth on his heel's "Yeah I guess I don't know my own strength some times. "Shall we" "Yes we shall" "After you" "No no I insist after you" "NO no no after you I insist" "Ok on three we both go." "Ok" "1…2…" The blonde man push's Stran inside and he stumbles down the steps landing face first on the bottom step. "MAN what happened are you ok in there that was one strong wind." "Yeah thanx a lot FRIEND." Stran looks up at the room "wWOOWw" Stran says to him self "Hey you got to get down here and see this its amazing." Stran surveys the room there's racks and racks of every kind of gun semi shotgun full auto rifles sawed off's everything and below "There got to be at least seven hundred and at least sixty, fifty five gallon drums of ammunition " Stran says while walking to the other side of the room. "hey look a string " Stran pulls at the string dangling in the middle of the room "VOOSH VOSH VOOSH" several bright white lights turn on and shine onto the back wall "Holy crap look at these" Stran says while looking over the wall there's was a very long sniper rifle, a long golden pistol, there was a katana, there where a short stubby pair of pistols, the remains of a wrinkled up saxophone. In the middle of the wall was a giant metal cross with a long red coat on it above the cross was two giant revolvers one chrome one jet black. "These must be the ones Vash wanted me to get. Stran grabs the red coat and folds it into a roll sticking it in a near by cylindrical sack. He wrapped the cross in a white cloth sheet the was hanging off the back of it and buckled it up tight and set it by the bag. Stran hesitated for a second as he reached for the two giant revolvers he felt that something was wrong but couldn't tell what it was. Maybe Vash was in trouble, maybe the city was in trouble. He went over several scenarios in his but just couldn't place the feeling. Stran pulled the guns off the walls and hooked them to some straps on the side of his legs underneath his coat he picked up the cross and threw it over his back letting one of the straps rest on his right shoulder and go under his left arm.

Finally he garbed the sack and puts some ammo in with the coat for the revolvers. Walking back to the steps he turns and looks around the room again. Turning back around and walking up the steps he sees his new blonde friend sitting at the side of the hole eating an apple "Did ya find what you where looking for" "Yep I suppose I did" Replied Stran. The blonde man reached down into the hole helping Stran back out. "Well thanx for helping me dig. "The two guns you found in there do have them on you" Stran stopped and at that moment he knew what that feeling was he knew that he had been tricked. "Knives" "Your as ignorant as Vash is" Said Knives. Stran spun around and drew the to revolvers pointing them at the blonde mans face. "Was dose my family always have to point guns at me. O-well" Knives raise's his hand and snaps his fingers.

Instantaneously Stan begins scream in pain as parts of the guns fly off. The internals of the gun begin to spin and electricity begins to pulse from it. Stran sleeves rip as his arms double in size his arms turn a dull gray, his shoulder's bulk out and Stran continues to scream as the pain continues growing with each passing moment by the time its all done Stran stands there with two hulking gun arms grey in color at the shoulders the base of the guns are slotted, covered in feathers and a brilliant yellow glow flares from them at the end of the barrels a glowing ball of energy and electricity swirls and sparks. "These are our angel canon's young one these are the weapons we'll use to clens this earth."