"Alright, this is it." They stood in front of the bounty hunter building. You could hear the sounds of drunk people inside from the outside.
"I'm kinda nervous..."
"Just stay next to us Earza and you'll be fine," Eddy patted her on the back.
Toyomo opens the door and walked in. They almost immediately caught everybody's attention. The whole bar almost went silent. Eddy went up to the man at the counter. Eyes still on them.
"Hello there sir, we were wondering how do we become bounty hunters?" Eddy asked.
"These kids serious?"
"They got to be pulling a prank."
They heard the people of the bar speaking.
"...None of you can't be a day over 13. Don't come in my Bounty house asking dumb questions." The man at the counter said.
Everybody in the bar laughs at them.
"So do we need to be a certain age to become one?" Eddy asked.
"No there-"
"Heh, this is a pretty nice weapon you got." A man with a crooked smile took Earza's weapon in the middle of them talking. He had to goons behind him.
"Hey give that back!" Earza said reaching for it.
"Woah there little rat. You don't need this weapon anyway."
"Give it back." Toyomo was not in the mood for this.
"What was that kid? Are you going to take it from me?"
"First of all you dumbass if you heard me then why did say 'WhAt WaS ThAt.' Like you obviously fucking heard me." Toyomo was mocking him.
"And yes I will take it back. But I'm giving you one more chance to give it back."
The man looks angry but Toyomo was not fazed at all.
"How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who I am!"
"A bitch." Toyomo quickly snapped back with.
"I'll take all your weapons you little shit!" The man said as he pushed Earza to the ground and ran at Toyomo. The man threw a punch at Toyomo face...Too bad he caught Toyomo in a bad mood.
Toyomo dodges to the left and trips the man and makes him hit his head on the counter. His goons didn't move in yet.
While the man was on the ground Toyomo stomped on the man's hand and made him drop the blade.
"Earza get you sword." Toyomo said.
She ran and picked up her sword. She seemed to be a bit shy. And not much of a fighter.
"How dare you do this to me! I am royal!"
"...So your royalty, huh? Today I figure out that right now royals are a bunch of brutal basters with no discipline. How bout I give you some." Toyomo had a crazy look in his eyes.
Toyomo raised his hand up and open hand smacked the mess out of the man! And the sound echoes In the bar.
"How dare-" Before he could finish his sentence and get up Toyomo smacked him again. And again and again and again. His goons didn't even try to move in.
"Now say sorry to her!" Toyomo said grabbing the man by his hair.
"Sorry..." The man was crying.
Toyomo slapped him again.
"Say it louder!"
"I'm sorry!" The man had snot coming out of his nose and was crying like a bitch.
"Know today you got your ass beat because you did something wrong you baster! So don't you dare go feeling bad for yourself!" Toyomo raised his hand up again.
"IM SORRY!" The man yelled flinching...from a seven-year-old boy.
Toyomo let go of his hair and the man just laid there crying. His goons came over and picked him up and carried him out.
Toyomo turned back around to the man at the counter.
"Continue your conversation," Toyomo said casually.
"O-oh right. Anyway, you can become bounty hunters but you got to start at lower rank bounties and make your way up the ranks." The man was singing a different toon after seeing that.
"That's what we were kinda hoping anyway so that's fine with us," Eddy said.
"Alright then, here's your F rank badges. You need to do at least 10, F, rank bounties to go into D. Then 15 to get out of D. And it just keeps going up by 5." The man explained.
"Well, it seems like we're going to be here a lot so what's your name?" Eddy asked the man.
"My name is Ilet."
The group said their names then went over to the bored and started picking out the first bounty they wanted to do.
"How about this one?" Toyomo said picking up a bounty that had demon bees on it. "Demon bees shouldn't be too hard."
"Then we can do that one," Earza nodded nervously.
"Alright, then I agree too," Eddy said.
They took the paper then left out and started their walk.
"That was scary."
"Sorry Earza, I didn't mean to scare you."
"N-no It wasn't you Toyomo! It's just that I was never really much of a fighter..."
"Oh, well until today I would only fight with my brother and sister. For some reason, my body has been fighting like it's been doing it, it's whole life."
"That was probably a trigger from the events that have happen today," Eddy explained.
"Yeah, that makes sense."
"It has been a crazy day...The sun will set soon though."
"Earza is right. We probably need to find somewhere to sleep soon."
"Yeah, we can to the bounty tomorrow. I feel drained anyway." Toyomo had bags under his eyes.
"Alright sleep it is."
"We can't sleep at an Inn though...I kinda did kill that fat baster royal. Word will most likely spread soon. And I don't want to be trapped if we are figured out."
"Yeah, that makes sense. Let's just find a roof then." Eddy said.
They found a roof and laid there for the night and fell asleep...That night Toyomo had nightmares about his sister and brother's death. He woke up with tears in his eyes. Sun was just rising and the morning air was fresh. Everybody was still pretty much asleep so everything was quiet.
"Guess I won't be able to enjoy sleep for a while..." Toyomo wiped his tears and got up and woke up Earza and Eddy.
"I couldn't even get morning wood because of that damn dream..." Toyomo whispers to himself.
"What did you say?" Earza asked.
"Nothing important. Anyway, we should get to work. We can't be blowing silver and gold at restaurants, so that bounty is the only way are eating today."
"Alright then let's get to work," Eddy said stretching.
They all climbed off the roof and began their walk. After walking a little outside the kingdom they walked about 2 miles and found their bounty.
"Alright, Eddy I'm going to need you to shoot them from back here and I and Earza will sneak around the side."
Eddy nodded then got his bow ready. The bees were 1 yard and there were 4 of them.
"Damn this bow feels nice in my hands I can defiantly land my shot with this." Eddy pulled back the string for the bow and took a deep breath... And fired! The arrow moved fast and got a directed hit! He hurries and loaded another arrow. And lands another direct hit. Toyomo runs in and slash's a bee in half with his hand then Earza stabbed the other one in its side but it was still alive. It was about to attack her but then another arrow came and hit the bee and killed it.
"That was close," Earza gave a sigh of relief.
"Hey, you alright!" Eddy yelled running to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks."
"...So what's your guy's relationship?" Toyomo asked them.
"We had just met 2 days before you had saved us. Both of our parents were killed by that man..." Eddy explained.
"Oh. Well, guys on a more not depressing note our first bounty is done," Toyomo gave them a grin.
"Yeah! Now we can go eat!" Eddy said as they started walking away.
They went back to the bounty house.
"Ilet we finished our bounty," Eddy said sitting down on a stool.
It was still morning by the time they made it back.
"Good job and your first bounty. And none of you died."
"Yeah, it wasn't that hard, to be honest," Toyomo said.
"..." Earza just stays silent.
"Heres your pay." Ilet handed them 5 bronze.
"Not bad So what's our next bounty after we eat."
After that, they just in 1 week went into D class. Earza got a little better with her sword but not a huge amount. And Toyomo got better at Using his Iracuj.
And the word about the royal's death was out and spread like wildfire. But nobody knew who did it. So it worked out perfectly.
The group had gone from D to C in just 4 weeks.
They were just coming back from a bounty it was their 2nd one of the C class.
"Man that last one was tuff," Eddy said rubbing his head.
"Yeah, I think after we turn this bounty in we will need to train a bit more so don't get trapped in a corner on our next one," Toyomo said.
"How would we train though?"
"Well, Earza I'm glad you asked that. We have been getting better at using Iracuj by just simply fighting. But we need to increase our knowledge on Iracuj. So we can get even better." Toyomo explained.
"Where can we learn?"
"We'll ask Ilet about it," Toyomo said as they walked into the Bounty house.
"You guys finished the bounty?" Ilet said.
"Yep and we have a question. Where can we learn about Iracuj?" Eddy asked.
"You guys are rank C and you don't know much about Iracuj!? Well, lucky for I have some books you can read. Here." Ilet reached under the counter and pulled out a stack of books.
"Dang, you were prepared," Eddy stared at the stack of books.
"Always am. Anyways read as much as you like."
"Thank you," Earza said
They picked up the books and sat down at a table and started reading. They learned about Iracuj transfer. How to train your Iracuj and much more. They study for a whole week. Then after they got the knowledge they started training fighting weaker monsters just to get the hang of things. And their weapons made it easier. A whole month passed by in a flash and they had gotten way stronger. And started clearing C rank. Aren't training montages beautiful?
Word started to spread about the kids who were climbing the ranks fast. They decided to go visit James.
"Hey, James," Eddy said as they walked in.
"Hey, guys!"
"You look happy James. So that means everything I said is coming true?"
"Yeah, the business has been great! So it seems that you guys have gotten stronger as well."
"Yeah, things have been going great for us too. We are one more mission away from B rank." Eddy said then suddenly the man that Toyomo smacked until he cried walked in. With about 10 people and 50 people outside. The man stood there with a smug smile.
"Hello, feel free to take a look around!" James said.
"We aren't here to buy weapons. I'm here to get revenge!" He pointed at Toyomo aggressively. Toyomo looked unfazed.
"Hey, this man has business to run weirdo if you want to fight you'll have to do it somewhere else," Toyomo said shooing them away.
"I am Santulli now head of my family! You will respect me!"
"Respect Dees nuts bitch. And You're the head of a family, I know everybody struggling in that family." Toyomo said chuckling.
"How dare you. Even though my father was killed I will not let his legacy die!"
"your Father was killed? Damn my bad. What happened to him?"
"He along with his men were brutally murder at a cabin. We still don't know who is responsible, but when I find them I'll kill them." When he was done talking Toyomo and his friends had run out.
"Hey get back here! after them!" All the men started chasing them.
They started running all through the city. They ended up running through a gate in the city. And the houses looked nice and big. They hopped on the roofs. They hopped roof to roof.
"Damn it's been like 15min and they are still after us!" Eddy yelled.
"Shit! Get ready to jump through a window!" Toyomo said. The building in front of them was so tall that a window was the next thing they could jump through.
They ran and busted through the window and it looked like a ball was happening inside of the place everybody looked up and saw them coming through the window. It was like everything went in slow motion. Then they started falling and they rolled and got up and looked around them.
"Oh no. I'm not good at parties." squeaked Earza.
"Yeaaah, that's probably the least of our concerns," Eddy said as Santulli's group bust in through the front door.
"What is going on here!?" A Lady yelled from a throne.
Everybody cleared the floor and only Toyomo's group and Santulli group were there.
"M-my queen! I'm so sorry for interrupting your daughter's birthday party!" Santulli got down on one knee and hung his head.
"Wait this is a party? This looks lame as hell." Toyomo said to himself.
"Santulli!? What is going on here!?" The queen yelled.
"Yeah Santulli go ahead and tell her why your chasing kids around," Eddy said with a smug look.
"You baster!" Santulli thought to himself.
"These kids stole something from me and I was chasing them to get it back."
"Oh, bullshit! You were chasing after us because I made you cry like a little bitch!" Toyomo ridiculed Santulli.
"Heh." A girl next to the queen chuckled a little.
The rest of the people were shocked by the way he talked. It was from hanging out in that bar so much.
"How up absurd! I would never!" Santulli Lifted his head.
"Yes, you would." Earza and Eddy said at the same time.
"Ay, this dude was drunk in the bar and came up to my friend here and took her sword then he hit her and tried to punch me when I asked for it back. The dumbass tripped and fell and hit his head. And I taught him how to say sorry." Toyomo explained.
"Thats not what-" Toyomo raised his hand up like he was about to slap Santulli in the middle of him talking.
"I'm sorry!" Santulli yelled on instinct and ducked his head down. A grown-ass man got traumatized by a 7-year-old bru.
Toyomo just sat there and smiled at him smugly. "See told you."
"you little...I'll break your arms!!" Santulli jumped up and threw a punch at Toyomo. Toyomo dodge then slapped him in his face. Santulli fell to the ground.
"How embarrassing."
"I know right."
The other royal started talking about him.
"Oh, snap they got food," Toyomo said jumping over Santulli's body.
"Hey! Who said you could eat that!?" The queen yelled.
"I mean I thought it was for everybody it's kinda just out you know."
"Do you not realize the situation you're in!?" The queen was getting angry.
"I do but like if I'm going to die I mine as well do it on a full stomach."
"You got a point, shit let's did in!" Eddy said getting a plate and putting some food on it.
"Hey, you should calm down. Your way too beautiful to be stressed out like that." Toyomo said eating some chicken.
"Flattery from a kid is not going to help you."
"No, I'm serious queen your a 10/10! You don't look a day over 25."
"...Well you know I do try." The queen was starting to fall for it.
"To look that good and to be running a kingdom is amazing."
"Oh stop it." It seems like Toyomo's sweet talk was working.
"Yeah running a kingdom is hard but as queen, I'm willing to be the one who does it."
"I'm sorry about that. By the way who's the birthday girl?" Toyomo managed to talk her down to a causal level with a few compliments. All the other royals were just in shock.
"I'm right here." The girl who was chuckling said.
"Happy birthday! How's your birthday been?" Toyomo said walking closer.
"Well, it's been fun." The girl was 10 and had Orange hair just like Toyomo.
"You say that but your eyes say different. Your eyes scream loneliness. If you want I can be your friend." Toyomo gave her a bright smile.
She stood there in shock. Then she smiled.
"I would like that a lot." The girl said.
"Cool. My name is Toyomo."
"My name is Anna Akushia."
"That's a cool name! Mine makes me sound like a weird guy with a mustache."
Anna really laughs like she never heard a joke before. The queen noticed this.
"You made my daughter laugh. So I guess I can let you off the hook this time." The queen said smiling.
"Really? Thanks! I should probably get going now. I wasn't supposed to be here in the first place."
"Wait! You'll come back and visit me right?" Anna said.
"...I'll try," Toyomo said grabbing a crap ton of food and walked out.
Then they started running as soon as they stepped outside.
5 min later...
"Oh man, that was close," Earza said.
"Yeah, but at least we got a free meal," Eddy said taking a bite of his food.
"...When I looked into that girl's eyes all I saw was sadness. And she looked so happy when I asked her to be my friend. I know what a bad person looks like...And I can say that the queen and her daughter were not bad."
"...You having second thought about this place," Eddy asked.
"I think. Just because we got screwed over by one guy...we shouldn't hate everybody because of it."
"...I've been thinking the same thing," Earza said.
"Then we'll do this differently. We'll find all the bad royals instead and only get them instead of the whole kingdom." Toyomo said.
"Yeah, that sounds way better," Eddy grinned.
"Then we'll do that instead then. Good thing we met the queen."
See you next time space cowboy.