District 1

Our young samurai heroine was sitting on the deck of the airship that had taken her and her jester companion to Bay city. As she peeked from behind the book she was reading she could see the outline of the skyscrapers that sat in the middle of the city, she knew they were almost there. She sat up and looked down at the young boy, who couldn’t be more than nineteen, she had been sitting on as he did pushups. She nodded at the boy as if a sign of approvement and the boy fell over and just laid there out of breath.

She then heard a loud and slightly aggressive voice say “Missy, you did a fine job wiping my crew into shape, I guess allowing you on board was a good choice.” Takami turned and looked at the man who was wearing a cowboy hat, a brown leather jacket that was open showing his chest off, jeans that looked like they might be a little to tight, and brown boots. She nodded and said “when will we dock at Bay city.” The man looked over at her and said “Oh, I can’t dock at Bay city. If the police see me they will throw me in jail so fast your head will spin.” Takami scratched her head and said “well how do I get into the city.” The man pointed to a rope ladder and said “I’ll lower it down and you and your friend can hop off.” Takami sighed and then just nodded, things were never simple for her.

She then watched as a deckhand came out and said “we are almost over the docks.” The man in the cowboy hat looked at Takami and said “well looks like its time for us to part ways, you be careful Bay city isn’t a place for the weak. If you want to get information your going have to use that sword of yours.” Takami looked at the large sword on her back that was wrapped up tight with medical gauze, it was a makeshift sheath seeing as the sword was to large for a normal sheath. She looked at the man and said “Thank you” She bowed respectfully and when she looked up the man placed his hat on her head and said “I’ll be back in a month, if you have your information by then I’ll take you wherever you need to go.” She smiled, picked up the bag that held the clothes she was traveling with, and then started to climb down the ladder.

When she and her companion were on the docks, she looked up into the sky and waved as the airship flew away. She then stretched her arms and legs a bit, she started walking toward the warehouses that all read district one, she then looked at the jester and said “ I think we should go find a place to sleep” She flung the bag over her shoulder and began walking all the warehouses looked the same, but some were different they had markings on them like signs to tell who owned the warehouse. Takami didn’t really care who owned the warehouses she just thought it looked odd to deface a building with markings. As she made her way through district one, she heard shouting and yelling as she got closer to a sign that read district three, when she got to the sign she saw that district three was just one long street that had a bunch of buildings along it and everywhere she turned there was someone yelling or screaming. She walked down the street and watched as a man was thrown out into the street by a group of four men, they each looked at her and one said “Hey little lady, how about we show you a good time.” Takami rolled her eyes, these guys were either drunk, perverts or a mix of both. She then looked at the small little hut of a building they came out of it looked like it was a shop. She walked inside and saw that it was a bar and gambling hall.
She walked up to the bar and sat down. The chairs revolved which entertained her has she spun around a few times. The bar keep stared at her and then when she finally stop she said a little aggressively “you going to stare at me all day or are you going to serve me a drink?” The bar keep smiled and said “what will it be?” She looked around seeing what people were drinking, everyone was drinking out of large clear glass mugs. She turned to the bar keep and said “I’ll have what they are having.” He quickly brought her a glass, she stared at it. She rarely drank alcohol, but as she watched as everyone else chugged down their drinks she didn’t want to seem weak by sipping on it, she had to gain a reputation if she wanted to get the information she wanted. She chugged down the drink and smashed the glass. She then heard everyone cheer and the bar keep just laughed, then suddenly a man came up behind her and hugged her, she turned around to see the drunk man. He smiled at her and said “how about coming back to my place?” Takami sighed and punched the man, when he hit the floor everyone looked at him then at her and then back at him. They all then cheered and went back to drinking and gambling.

Takami looked over at her Jester friend and said “I think I have an idea where we can sleep.” She grabbed the man by the shirt and dragged him outside, she tapped him on the face to wake him up and she said “where do you live.” The man mumbled a few words and Takami sighed and said “he is to drunk.” She left the man on the side of the road to sober up and she began walking off to look for a place to stay.

He sat their waiting for something to happen. He was just about to start something when this girl came in, spun around like an idiot on her chair, took a glass, chugged it down and smashed it then left. He was awestruck the minute it happened. He was watching her closely, hand on Talon and his hood up. When the girl left he decided to have a little brawl. He took his hood down, people seeing him reacted all the same way.

One went in low and the another tried to tackle his back. Max wasn't a visionary but he could hear the running steps to the leap. He backflipped over the leaping man at the same time of kicking the face of the guy who went in low. He knew this all to well. Others went for their swords. Same thing all over again. Max, the wanted man, the creator of brawls, the escaper. Much of these men had it in for him. Some for the money and others for a grudge they hold so tightly. Max was just sub-consciously side-stepping every attack and then he really got hit.

The man cheered and the others around him cheered with him. "That's it." He instantly took out Talon and whirled around, the deadly blade making every man step back not to get cut. "Let's start this for real." He took the sheath and bashed it on someone's head while as well striking with Talon for a blood wound so it could feed. Punch their, hilt bash here and whirl. Basic movements all, but enough to do damage. Then came in the sword-bearers. Max dropped his sheath, parried a man and dodged a sword all in one movement. He was fast enough for 3 moves but when dodging 5 incoming swords, he didn't have a chance. He kicked Talon's sheath in one of the patron's face, took his sword and blocked 2 swords with either of his sword. The man who got the sheath in the face smashed Max to the ground. The blow hit Max heavily and he found himself dizzy after. I'm still able to fight, he thought, time to bring out the real maneuvers. In the blink of an eye, Max was up and started cutting wounds in the opponents' sword arms. Flip, slash, flip, slash, flip. This was all of the mercenary's movements and none of them faltered. A good half hour past before he was out of the real trouble. Now all the gutless patrons were left. The others were heavily wounded to the arms. He dropped his other sword, grabbed talon's sheath and sheathed the sword. He put it on the corner of the bar counter.

Walking up to them, the patrons were scared. "Hello boys, mind if I have entertainment with you guys?" Before they could even say no, 2 of them were out through the window and the other was bashed through the door breaking it. The bar keep just sighed. "Max, will you ever stop this madness? It's the fifth time this week!" Max chuckled. "I was getting bored and I have to keep my reputation going Jakie." Jake sighed again as Max walked through the door he yelled, "This is getting off of your pay-check you stupid mercenary!" max just waved him off, put Talon's sheath on his belt and ran to cover some grounds. He had 2 reasons why he was running. The first, he had to catch up to the girl. The second, well the cops where about to show up....