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China, The Great Wall
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‘...just thinking about that ten billion world dollar reward makes me all giddy! I’d have no problems opening up a whole chain of my restaurants all around the world!’
A young woman thought to herself, a large grin on her face. She wore a traditional Chinese styled red dress though it was covered in a thick wool coat since it was winter time. Her long brown hair was tied up in a large ring like fashion and held in place by a large golden hair ornament on top of her head. Her hazel colored eyes scanned the snowy ground in hopes of spotting Leopaldon, the bounty she was after.
‘It should be here soon...it was said to have been driven from A-Country to Russia and was suppose to have come over here in this direction.’
Jam Kuradoberi, culinary extraordinaire, and owner of the Chinese Cuisine chain restaurant “Shen Long Shao”, though to herself, shivering slightly from having been out in the cold for about two hours.
“See anything yet?”
A young feminine voice asked Jam. The cook sighed dejectedly.
“Nope, not a damn...hey wait a minute, where did you come from?”
Jam turned to see the one who addressed her. It appeared to be a young blond haired girl dressed in a blue nun’s hood and small white and blue dress, and was also dressed for the cold weather, in a similar coat Jam herself wore. Hazel eyes met azure ones.
“Why are you here little girl? Your definitely a long way from home, you know that?”
Jam stated.
“HEY! I’M NOT A LITTLE GIRL! Ahem...my name’s Bridget and I’m a boy, thank you very much, and I happen to be after a very important bounty.”
The boy, Bridget, stated. He had been raised in his family to be like a girl since it was considered a curse in his village for twin boys to be born. This had been for his protection, but it fueled Bridget’s desires to prove it was just a superstition. Of course he would have to first learn how to be a boy again since he was taught to be a girl for most of his whole life. He lost his cool for a minute there but was back on track to getting back into bounty hunter mode. Jam just stared at him like he had a third eye or something.
“With a name like Bridget and the fact that you dress and sound like a little girl...I don’t think I can take you seriously.”
Jam said as serious as possible, but it was easy to see in her eyes she was trying hard not to erupt with laughter. Bridget scowled.
“Look, I could prove it to you...though it would require a lot of embarrassment on my part...”
Bridget said, averting his gaze, his cheeks glowing red slightly.
“He’s not lying. He really is a little boy.”
This was another woman’s voice, though it was a very reserved and quiet sounding one. Both Bridget and Jam turned to see a beautiful blonde haired woman staring down at them, her lithe frame wrapped snuggly in a light colored fur coat of her own, which covered the small white dress with blue trim she wore underneath. Both Jam and Bridget recognized her, but Jam spoke first.
“Huh? Aren’t you Millia Rage? Why are you here? Your not a bounty hunter.”
She said. Millia sighed.
“That is true, however, when this Leopaldon creature came to Russia, he destroyed the apartment complex I was living at in one of his rampages. I only need a bit of the bounty to pay for repairs. You two can split the rest. That is...if we decide to work together.”
Millia explained her situation. Bridget shrugged. He was a rich kid who wasn’t into bounty hunting for the money.
“You two can split it, I’m just in it for proving to my family I can stand up for myself as a guy and that there is no village curse that dictates twin boys as being bad luck rather than reputation and fame.”
Bridget said, looking out from the vantage point on the wall. Jam narrowed her eyes dangerously, however, meaning she was not in favor of splitting.
“Just a darn minute, Rage, you can’t just go waltzing around pretending to be a bounty hunter and trying to claim the reward when it’s not even your occupation.”
Jam challenged. Millia just shrugged softly, her stoic expression not changing in the slightest. This was most likely due to the fact she was raised in the Assassin’s Guild, and was taught to not show any emotions which could affect her judgement. Though she was an ex-assassin now, it was an old habit she had yet to overcome.
“As I recall, back in the Bounty Hunting conquest at A-Country for the Gear, Dizzy, not everyone who participated in the event were bounty hunters either. Such as Ky Kiske or Potemkin for example. The boy doesn’t want the money and I only need a small amount, so you can have the bulk of the reward if you want, I don’t care.”
Millia stated simply. Jam still disapproved, and the two then began to get into an escalated argument, mostly with Jam screaming out loudly while Millia’s voice remained calm and unwavering during the argument at hand.
“Uh, you two...”
Bridget said trying to intervene with their argument and get their attention. He was ignored.
“Uh, ladies...”
He said again, but was left with the same results of being ignored.
“WOULD YOU TWO SHUT UP AND LISTEN!”
Bridget roared back. The two women stared back at him, Jam’s face was somewhat shocked, and Millia was otherwise still emotionless, though her eyebrow arched a little high when he screamed at both of them. Bridget cleared his throat in embarrassment.
“Uh...we have company.”
He said, pointing. Both women looked to see Leopaldon stopped a good half a mile away from their position.
“So that’s Leopaldon...funny, I thought he was suppose to be shorter than that.”
Jam murmured. Millia shook her head.
“Don’t believe everything you hear out right.”
She said, the fur coat she was wearing started to retract, since it was actually her hair that had been formed to look like clothing. This was one of the special abilities Millia gained in the Assassin’s Guild, to control her hair completely and use it as a weapon.
“We should be careful. I heard Leopaldon is quite hard to take down.”
Bridget informed, pulling off his coat to grab a red yo-yo whose string was attached to a giant handcuff around his waist. Jam also threw her coat off before assuming a fighting stance.
“Who cares? The bigger they are the harder they fall anyway.”
Jam said with confidence. Confidence that would not last long as Leopaldon made its way sluggishly to the trio. The three had to look way up to actually see the giant’s head.
“ERRR...”
Leopaldon growled lowly, sensing the threat in front of it.
“...tired...go...away...”
The beast replied in a low voice. Bridget looked surprise.
“Hey...it’s speaking.”
He stated. Leopaldon began to growl again, seeming annoyed.
“GRRR...cold...not...enough...must...have...RAAA!”
Leopaldon roared, pounding its fists into the snowy ground, surprising the three. Suddenly, Leopaldon began stomping off at alarming speed, bowling over Bridget and burying the poor lad in the snow and quickly bypassed the two women, who equally quickly went to the side to avoid meeting Bridget’s predicament. Jam frowned.
“Your not going anywhere.”
She said to the beast, who simply ignored her. Bridget rose from the heap, a loud gasp escaping his lips before he shivered slightly.
“That was unexpected...”
He said as he got up, his teeth on the verge of chattering. Jam already chased after Leopaldon, going to his side before striking the beast with her stiletto heel. Leopaldon grunted slightly, slowing down.
“Yeah, that’s right, blindy, stay right there. Ryuujin!”
Jam’s entire leg was enveloped in Ki energy as she soared in Leopaldon’s direction, foot first. Leopaldon was struck hard against the chin, the force of the attack making it back up slightly.
“Kenroukaku!”
Jam went into spiral of kicks to ascend higher as she struck Leopaldon repeatedly.
“Gekirin!”
Once Jam was over Leopaldon’s head, she twirled in the air as her leg gathered Ki energy again to manipulate a flame attack into a downward kick.
“YARHHH!”
Leopaldon roared in anger from being struck by a heat based attack. It retaliated brutally with a powerful right uppercut to Jam’s stomach, knocking the wind out of the Chinese chef. Leopaldon then used the other paw to send Jam on her back against the snowy ground. It lifted its foot, intent on crushing the dazed bounty hunter under it’s foot. It did not get that luxury, however.
“Emerald Rain!”
A large disc of magic energy struck Leopaldon hard in the back. Millia twirled around, creating another one with her hair before sending another projectile at Leopaldon’s back. Her final one flew at the back of the beast’s head, and Leopaldon swerved and look to almost be falling but quickly gained balance to face Millia. Leopaldon bared its teeth in anger. A red yo-yo soon flew into Leopaldon’s face, striking it in the nose.
“Hey, Ms. Jam, you have to get up and fight or else Ms. Millia will take the whole bounty.”
Bridget said. Jam was up instantly though, when he was about half way finished talking.
“You don’t think I already know that, short stuff? I just had a minor mishap of underestimating this thing’s power.”
She said to him, her voice still confident. Millia shrugged.
“Had I not interfered, that thing would have taken your life for your little mishap.”
She stated softly, her hand combing through her long hair. Leopaldon began advancing again.
“...get...out...of...our...way...”
The beast warned, before using a sweeping claw motion that almost caught all three of the fighters with its long reach. Bridget had been the first to evade and was already coming in for a counter offensive as he sped forward, riding his yo-yos.
“Kick Start My Heart!”
He rammed into Leopaldon, though his light frame did hardly anything to harm Leopaldon severely. He jumped over Leopaldon, turning around to aim for the back of the massive head.
‘Ms. Jam’s last attack really hurt Leopaldon badly, so flame type attacks and magic must be a weakness, therefore...’
He prepared his other attack, hoping to turn the tides against the toughness of Leopaldon to their favor so they could drag it in to the proper authorities.
“Tragedy During Maintenance!”
Bridget let a massive explosion hit Leopaldon hard, and sending Bridget flying backwards from the blast propulsion.
“ARGGHHHH!”
Leopaldon roared in pain. It had already been severely weakened from the fall off the May-Ship and going through constant battle with bounty hunters and police officers alike. Leopaldon refused to fall before those he considered insignificant, however, and would retaliate twice as strong.
“Banri Senken!”
Jam struck from a distance this time as Leopaldon was engulfed in the flames of Bridget’s attack, sending a long trail of Ki energy in the shape of a dragon lancing towards Leopaldon’s body. Jam kept firing and did not bother aiming much, as Leopaldon was so big, it was definitely not an easy target to miss. Millia had a great dislike of losing hair during combat, so she refrained from attacking Leopaldon head on because she didn’t want her hair getting singed or burned, so she took the same approach as Jam, by striking the beast from afar with her Emerald Rain technique. After a long session of blasting Leopaldon, the three stopped when they saw Leopaldon’s burning form fall to the ground. Leopaldon made a deep impression into the earth due to its massive weight as it fell on its back. It remained motionless while the three cautiously made their way towards it, wary for any sudden movements, but Leopaldon remained still.
“I wonder if we got him? Good work on my part, eh?”
Bridget said, a huge smile on his face as he kneeled before the side of Leopaldon’s head, where one bleeding eye socket was situated. Both Millia and Jam stood by Leopaldon’s left arm.
“That’s all well and good, but how are we going to haul this creature to the police and receive the bounty?”
Millia asked simply, her guard never being dropped as she kept her keen eyes focused on Leopaldon at all times. Jam shrugged, poking at Leopaldon’s arm with a stiletto heel.
“Good question. I was planning to drag it back with the help of the company’s van, but I don’t know if we’d get very far with how much this thing weighs! Unless you had something to use, boy.”
Jam said, redirecting the idea from Millia to Bridget.
“Well...maybe I could have my father call for some airship transportation to be sent over. It’s worth a shot.”
Bridget told her, peering closer to Leopaldon’s head. One crimson eye opened, startling the young English boy as he saw his reflection in it. Leopaldon’s claws sifted through the snow as its fists clenched and unclenched.
“RAAARRRHHHH!”
Leopaldon bellowed as it thrashed about wildly, seeming to try and right itself up. The three fighters had already backed up a safe distance. Finally, Leopaldon spun and lifted itself into the air briefly before landing on all fours. It glared darkly at the three who attacked it. Though the cold climate’s temperature was not enough for Leopaldon to cocoon itself, it was still able to draw enough power to regenerate and heal the wounded eyes on its head.
“Uh...I think we really pissed him off now...”
Bridget mumbled out.
“No, you think! Wouldn’t you be pissed too if some people decided to pop you full of magic?”
Jam stated sarcastically. Millia’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Careful. It will attack soon.”
She warned. Jam and Bridget composed themselves and Leopaldon began walking towards them, but this time on all fours. Leopaldon was completely running on animalistic instincts now, the rational and intelligent part having been suppressed. Bridget tossed his yo-yo over the beast’s head, preparing an attack.
“Let’s hope this works...Come out Roger! Me And My Killing Machine!”
Bridget’s yo-yo transformed into a brown teddy bear. The stuffed toy, Roger, rode a small bicycle that made a large revolving flamed wheel spin around it as it crashed into the unsuspected Leopaldon. The beast grunted in pain as it was struck by the strange yo-yo coordinated attack. Leopaldon retaliated in its rage, swiping at Roger with a claw, batting the bear back to it’s owner uncontrollably. Roger transformed into a yo-yo again before striking Bridget in the fore head and making him fall on his rear.
“Ow! That hurt!”
Bridget groaned as he rubbed his throbbing forehead. Leopaldon opened its gaping maw as it gathered energy within, before blasting at Bridget with the Perfect Rainbow beam. Bridget narrowly evaded the attack, and made a mad sprint away from the beam as Leopaldon moved its head, so the beam followed Bridget as he ran away as the blast uplifted dirt and snow in a wave. The beam came so close that Bridget could not do anything other than keep moving.
“We have to stop this.”
Millia said softly before she ran towards the beast with great speed. She jumped into the air, flipping forward and sending a dagger of hair flying towards one of Leopaldon’s eyes.
“Silent Force!”
The razor sharp lock of hair would have cleanly hit Leopaldon had the beast not seen it from the corner of one of his eyes. He swatted the dagger shaped piece of hair to the ground, all while keeping his Perfect Rainbow beam going and homing in fast on Bridget as he continued to run from the devastating beam following him. Millia air dashed to get near Leopaldon’s head, before she dove down to it.
“Bad Moon!”
Her hair completely surrounded her as she kept spinning forward, her hair taking on the form of a fairytale moon, complete with a face as well. She kept spinning down on the beast like a boomerang, before striking Leopaldon cleanly against the side of the head, making the beast reel back slightly from the blow, and halt the beam. It turned to face Millia as she landed, the dagger of hair in the ground forming with the rest of her hair again. Leopaldon let out a small growl as it struck out with a paw, but Millia jumped over the attack to land on top of Leopaldon’s head. Her hair extended, and wrapped around Leopaldon’s mouth to keep it closed. While Millia restrained Leopaldon, Jam was already by the underside of the beast, gathering Ki into her left arm.
“Geki Saishinshou!”
Jam came forward, bringing her palm up to hit Leopaldon. Upon her hand making contact, a geyser of flame rose up from the ground behind her to strike Leopaldon, making it stagger back angrily from the blow. Leopaldon was getting more enraged as Millia kept his mouth clamped together. In an unexpected motion, Leopaldon jumped high into the air, performing a back flip, not only to escape Millia’s hold, but to strike her in the back with his hind legs as well, sending her face first in the snow. Millia lifted her head from the snow, seeing her body cast in a large shadow. She turned her head up to see Leopaldon now descending on her in a belly flop.
‘I won’t be able to escape...’
Were her final thoughts before closing her eyes to impending doom. But she hadn’t counted on Jam dashing right under Leopaldon to grab her by the waist before hauling her out from under the giant, narrowly escaping getting both of them flattened by Leopaldon. Leopaldon fell with tremendous force, uplifting a massive amount of snow and dirt, and causing a large shockwave to send both Millia and Jam flying through the air to land on their backs.
“Whoa! You two okay?”
Bridget was there in an instant to help the two women up into a standing position.
“Thanks.”
Millia said as she nodded in Jam’s direction. Jam simply scoffed.
“You save me, I save you. It’s simple payback.”
Jam replied back.
“Yeah, but who’s going to save us from Leopaldon? It just won’t fall again!”
Bridget exclaimed, stepping back as Leopaldon walked in their direction again. Jam frowned.
“Shoot! We need to work up a good rhythm like before when we dropped him the first time.”
She stated, trying to gain any ideas.
“I don’t think it will fall for the same tactic twice. We better come up with ideas, and fast.”
Millia stated.
“Damn it, I’m thinking, I’m thinking, just calm down for a moment.”
Jam said in an annoyed tone.
“I’m always calm...and I think I may have an idea.”
Millia replied. Bridget and Jam turned to her expectantly.
:ToBeContinued:
 Mariah_Silvermane · Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 09:09pm · 0 Comments |
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