Post by crocoduck on Feb 4, 2012 2:20:01 GMT -5
I love Z's personality (Z is the character i'm using in the one piece roleplay and I used him on another site before this). I have a couple of random stories i've written revolving him and I like to randomly write short stories with him time to time. Here's where i'll be posting them.
Feel free to comment with suggestions or critiques.
The man stood quietly. HE was completely invisible to any passerbys, not even an outline of his body could be seen in the shroud that he was immersed in. It was great positioning of himself, he had angled his body in a way so that both the shadow from the ceiling and the shadow from the wall kept him covered and out of sight.
The only thing that once and a while became visible was a small, circular glow that would appear for a second or two before disappearing. It was a watch with a lighting system, and every time the minute hand moved, it told the man hidden in the shadows that his partner was another minute late. All together, it had been an hour now, and this wasn’t a job he could finish alone.
Kento was a proud man. Proud of his skills, proud of his punctuality, proud in his class. Kento was smart, however, he refused to leap into a situation where he’ll probably die. Despite this, however, Kento was also a short tempered man. Each time his watch clicked, he visualized a different manner with which he would murder his “partner”.
His boss would not be happy, but Kento had to leave. They had missed their window of opportunity at least 30 minutes ago. They could have tried it up until now, but with half an hour past the deadline, the room would be full of guards, witnesses and trouble.
With that, Kento flickered away from the building, moving quickly towards his employers building. A few miles out, as he went, he could have sworn he heard some sort of explosion, but it might have been him just body flickering.
Kento was pissed. He had never missed a target. Ever. Now because of some idiot who couldn’t get there on time, his reputation was sullied and he was about to piss off one of the richest men in the underground.
The idea comforted him in a way. The punishment the late bastard would receive would be more than painful. By the time their employer was done with him, his associate would be wishing he were dead. It was with this comforting thought that Kento walked into his employers room with a half smirk.
Four large bodies blocked his way, each armed to the teeth with any kind of weapons they could store. Each looked menacing and each would last less than a minute against Kento, which brought him more comfort.
The employer knew this well and snapped for the guards to leave the room, allowing Kento to step forward and stand across a desk from the employer. It was a magnificent desk made out of some kind of beautiful wood that Kento couldn’t pronounce. The chair was equally breathtaking, enormous and the most comfortable material Kento had ever seen.
Despite the chairs size, the man still spilled out to the sides. As he swiveled the chair around to face his employee, Kento could now see the monstrous bastard that was his boss. AJ was an intimidating man. He stood at an impressive 6’6” and he was damn built. He looked unnatural , even Kento was a little afraid of him.
”Well?”
Kento frowned, now remembering that he had failed his assignment. Admitting to it was worse than actually failing.
“It was a failure.”
Kento said it with as little emotion as possible and avoided eye contact so as to not piss off AJ, but it was futile. With suprising agility for a man of his size, AJ darted up from his seat and slammed a gigantic hand onto his desk, sending a shockwave that pushed the neat stack of papers against each other and even off of the desk.
“WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, FAILURE?”
Kento gulped as he took a step back and explained the situation. “My partner never showed up, and without a partner of my level, I couldn’t take down all of the targets and get out alive, not with the place crawling with so much security. Literally, they’re crawling around in there, waiting for an attacker.”
AJ seemed to only get madder, his stature straightening as he took a gulp of hair in preparation for the hollering he was about to approve. It was cut short however, an incredible amount of noise suddenly started coming in from outside. It was a mix of grunting, yelling, crashing and smashing. There were breaking sounds too, but just as suddenly as it appeared, it disappeared. It happened faster than either Kento or AJ could even react to it.
Just as Kento moved to the door to open it and see what happened, the door swung open quickly and slammed into him, sending him flying to the side as a man walked into the room.
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I told your boys I was on the list, but they didn’t listen. Here’s yo’ bag o’ heads.” Z said with a large smile as he lobbed a large trash bag onto AJ’s desk. IT made a disgusting smushy noise, the sound of severed heads squishing against each other.
With a dubious and shocked face, AJ opened up the bag and peeked inside as Kento stood up, angrier than ever. “Who the hell are you? I’ll kick your ass you stupid bastard” AJ replied quickly, before either of them did anything. “He was your partner, and he took out the targets that you said were impossible to take.”
AJ spoke with a satisfied voice as he tilted the bag and opened it so Kento could see the faces of the targets that were rolling around inside. Kento’s face was just as surprised as the lifeless ones in the bag. “What? How the hell did you kill them? There was no way you could have gotten past all those guards.”
Z looked at the man with a confused face. “What? Why the hell would I go past them? I killed them all.”
The room went quiet for a second with both AJ and Kento switching glances from each other to Z. “You killed… all two hundred of them?”
As if he was just asked the weather, Z replied with a casual voice. “Yep. Now where’s my money.” AJ smiled at Z, he knew he was powerful, but he didn’t know he was this powerful. With pleasure, he opened up a desk drawer and pulled out two large suitcases and handed them to Z. “One of those was supposed to go to a Kento Yamanaka, but seeing as he didn’t do anything, you get his share.”
Z smiled at his would be partner as he took the money. “Better luck next time, noob.” With that, he strolled out of the room, stepping over the corpses of what used to be AJ’s body guards.
Inside the room, Kento’s face reddened with anger and humiliation. AJ couldn’t care less and sat down, picking up the phone and calling the bodyguard company for some new stooges. After five minutes of Kento just standing there with disbelieve, AJ snapped at him. “Get the fuck out of here, what the hell are you doing?”
As if he was a walking vegetable, Kento turned and stumbled towards the door, stopping only once to turn and speak. “Who…. Was that man?”
AJ smiled and looked up. “They told me that they call him the space cowboy. Some call him the gangster of love. I have no idea what his name is.” AJ chuckled as Kento nearly weapt while leaving and closing the door shut behind him.
Space cowboy just earned his first rival. A very angry one at that.
Feel free to comment with suggestions or critiques.
The man stood quietly. HE was completely invisible to any passerbys, not even an outline of his body could be seen in the shroud that he was immersed in. It was great positioning of himself, he had angled his body in a way so that both the shadow from the ceiling and the shadow from the wall kept him covered and out of sight.
The only thing that once and a while became visible was a small, circular glow that would appear for a second or two before disappearing. It was a watch with a lighting system, and every time the minute hand moved, it told the man hidden in the shadows that his partner was another minute late. All together, it had been an hour now, and this wasn’t a job he could finish alone.
Kento was a proud man. Proud of his skills, proud of his punctuality, proud in his class. Kento was smart, however, he refused to leap into a situation where he’ll probably die. Despite this, however, Kento was also a short tempered man. Each time his watch clicked, he visualized a different manner with which he would murder his “partner”.
His boss would not be happy, but Kento had to leave. They had missed their window of opportunity at least 30 minutes ago. They could have tried it up until now, but with half an hour past the deadline, the room would be full of guards, witnesses and trouble.
With that, Kento flickered away from the building, moving quickly towards his employers building. A few miles out, as he went, he could have sworn he heard some sort of explosion, but it might have been him just body flickering.
Kento was pissed. He had never missed a target. Ever. Now because of some idiot who couldn’t get there on time, his reputation was sullied and he was about to piss off one of the richest men in the underground.
The idea comforted him in a way. The punishment the late bastard would receive would be more than painful. By the time their employer was done with him, his associate would be wishing he were dead. It was with this comforting thought that Kento walked into his employers room with a half smirk.
Four large bodies blocked his way, each armed to the teeth with any kind of weapons they could store. Each looked menacing and each would last less than a minute against Kento, which brought him more comfort.
The employer knew this well and snapped for the guards to leave the room, allowing Kento to step forward and stand across a desk from the employer. It was a magnificent desk made out of some kind of beautiful wood that Kento couldn’t pronounce. The chair was equally breathtaking, enormous and the most comfortable material Kento had ever seen.
Despite the chairs size, the man still spilled out to the sides. As he swiveled the chair around to face his employee, Kento could now see the monstrous bastard that was his boss. AJ was an intimidating man. He stood at an impressive 6’6” and he was damn built. He looked unnatural , even Kento was a little afraid of him.
”Well?”
Kento frowned, now remembering that he had failed his assignment. Admitting to it was worse than actually failing.
“It was a failure.”
Kento said it with as little emotion as possible and avoided eye contact so as to not piss off AJ, but it was futile. With suprising agility for a man of his size, AJ darted up from his seat and slammed a gigantic hand onto his desk, sending a shockwave that pushed the neat stack of papers against each other and even off of the desk.
“WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, FAILURE?”
Kento gulped as he took a step back and explained the situation. “My partner never showed up, and without a partner of my level, I couldn’t take down all of the targets and get out alive, not with the place crawling with so much security. Literally, they’re crawling around in there, waiting for an attacker.”
AJ seemed to only get madder, his stature straightening as he took a gulp of hair in preparation for the hollering he was about to approve. It was cut short however, an incredible amount of noise suddenly started coming in from outside. It was a mix of grunting, yelling, crashing and smashing. There were breaking sounds too, but just as suddenly as it appeared, it disappeared. It happened faster than either Kento or AJ could even react to it.
Just as Kento moved to the door to open it and see what happened, the door swung open quickly and slammed into him, sending him flying to the side as a man walked into the room.
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I told your boys I was on the list, but they didn’t listen. Here’s yo’ bag o’ heads.” Z said with a large smile as he lobbed a large trash bag onto AJ’s desk. IT made a disgusting smushy noise, the sound of severed heads squishing against each other.
With a dubious and shocked face, AJ opened up the bag and peeked inside as Kento stood up, angrier than ever. “Who the hell are you? I’ll kick your ass you stupid bastard” AJ replied quickly, before either of them did anything. “He was your partner, and he took out the targets that you said were impossible to take.”
AJ spoke with a satisfied voice as he tilted the bag and opened it so Kento could see the faces of the targets that were rolling around inside. Kento’s face was just as surprised as the lifeless ones in the bag. “What? How the hell did you kill them? There was no way you could have gotten past all those guards.”
Z looked at the man with a confused face. “What? Why the hell would I go past them? I killed them all.”
The room went quiet for a second with both AJ and Kento switching glances from each other to Z. “You killed… all two hundred of them?”
As if he was just asked the weather, Z replied with a casual voice. “Yep. Now where’s my money.” AJ smiled at Z, he knew he was powerful, but he didn’t know he was this powerful. With pleasure, he opened up a desk drawer and pulled out two large suitcases and handed them to Z. “One of those was supposed to go to a Kento Yamanaka, but seeing as he didn’t do anything, you get his share.”
Z smiled at his would be partner as he took the money. “Better luck next time, noob.” With that, he strolled out of the room, stepping over the corpses of what used to be AJ’s body guards.
Inside the room, Kento’s face reddened with anger and humiliation. AJ couldn’t care less and sat down, picking up the phone and calling the bodyguard company for some new stooges. After five minutes of Kento just standing there with disbelieve, AJ snapped at him. “Get the fuck out of here, what the hell are you doing?”
As if he was a walking vegetable, Kento turned and stumbled towards the door, stopping only once to turn and speak. “Who…. Was that man?”
AJ smiled and looked up. “They told me that they call him the space cowboy. Some call him the gangster of love. I have no idea what his name is.” AJ chuckled as Kento nearly weapt while leaving and closing the door shut behind him.
Space cowboy just earned his first rival. A very angry one at that.
