Jester and Tristessa became bored, so Jester said "Trist, on our way here, I noticed an abondoned pub, maybe we could clean that up, restore it a litte, and make La Maison from it". She stood up and went, "lets check it out". So Jester led the way to the abondoned pub. When they got there, Jester noticed that it wasn't as abondoned as he had calculated. As they were walking to the front door, there was a bloodied up man (though still consious) thrown out on his arse. As we looked at the beaten-up person we saw a big shadow eclipse the victim. Jester and Tristessa then hear a deep voice screaming, "WHAT PART OF HAD ENOUGH DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!?". Jester looked up and stared blankly at the powerful being. He was carrying two big futuristic guns on his back. Jester also noticed that this man was no ordinary man, for he also had black wings on his back which not only used for flying, but for sheathing the guns as well. He also had black hollow eyes. He looked the appearance of an assassin. As Jester stared, the man looks at Jester and says, "WHAT ARE YOU STARIN' AT!?". Jester got cocky, looked down at his feet then back at his face and says, "TSH, not much. Now excuse me but my friend and I want to check out the place". As Jester tried to pass the man, he placed his arm out to his side, blocking Jester's entrance. Jester draws his sword and immediately goes for the arm that's blocking his entrance. Unfortunately, the man drew his gun pressing it against Jester's temple in unison with Jester's sword one centimeter away from the man's shoulder. They both knew they were evenly matched, so Jester with his keen intellect which came from his mother, flips his sword in the air. As the man watched the sword flip in the air, he had forgotten the most important rule in the code of the assassin which is "never take your eyes off your target". This gave Jester the opportunity to give the man a big right hook to his jaw. The attack was so powerful that Jester himself spun around 180 degrees. The man rearing back barely after the hard punch, noticed Jester then. Spitting out only a tiny drop of blood, which was all Jester got out of him...says, "You're the only guy who's ever landed a hit off of me!". Jester with his back turned says, "gonna give me a medal or something?". The man grabs Jester by the shoulder, spins him around, gets in his face and takes his hand shaking it in gongratulation of Jester's success. They then introduced each other. His name was J-Man. He didn't have a home so he lived in the pub and sorta ran it for drifters to come in and have a drink. He was also the bouncer of the place which was the reason for throwing the guy out. He's actually a freelance assassin just as Jester predicted. J-Man then invited the two in. Of course Jester being the gentleman turns to Trist and goes, "ladies first". J-Man then looks at Jester and says, "aren't you coming in?". Jester holds up his index finger signalling a "hold on" message. Jester leans to the right a little and his sword lands perfectly into his sheath. "Now I am" he replies. "Showoff" J-Man muttered. So they talk about this and that and discuss the Pub. Though the two kept getting sidetracked, Tristessa mentioned Normic. After J-Man had heard her mention his name, he slams his fist on the table breaking it in half. "What did you say his name was?" J-Man asked with a cold dead look on his face. "Normic, you know guy who ran the village, corrupt as hell, wears a brown robe, carries a stick preferably for anal masturbation, has a yellow bird with him..." Jester says very cocky. "...and has a pair of the ugliest shoes you've ever seen" Tristessa finished for Jester. "THAT SON-OF-A-BITCH SCREWED ME OUT OF A JOB!!" J-Man screamed with fury as his eyes glowed a ruby red. Jester then discovered that J-Man was not only an assassin, but also a full-blooded demon. "I was once a hired assassin for Normic. I finished my task accordingly, but when it came down to paying me, he refused and had me cofined...27 years in solitary confinement. And you mean to tell me HE'S STILL ALIVE!?" J-Man's voice began to get deeper with a dark sense of power flowing around his flesh. "Where is he?" J-Man demanded. "He's...", before Tristessa could finish, Jester interrupted with a slight shake of his head. Tristessa knew Jester wanted Normic's soul, which is why he didn't wanna give out anything. "...unknown right now. We haven't a clue where he is", Jester finished. Jester was looking at J-Man very oddly. The explosive tempered expression J-Man had reminded Jester of his fight with his father. J-Man's expression looked just like Dameticus. Coming out of his flashback, Jester stood up and says, "You got anything to drink?" J-Man also having a sense of humor, calms down and says "this is a pub...what do you think?" Jester goes behind the bar and pulls out a barrel of beer. J-Man gets up to assist him by stabbing a hole into the barrel thus pouring the beer into the glass and hands it to Jester. "You want anything?" J-Man asked to Tristessa. "Sure" Tristessa replied. "You know Jest, maybe I should go with you two to find that bastard" J-Man demanded. Jester knew that if he told J-Man where Normic was, Jester would no longer be able to consume Normic's soul into his blade, for J-Man would have already done the dirty deed...so he didn't tell him where Normic was. "Not gonna let me in on it huh? Is there a bounty on his head or something?" J-Man asked. "Yeah a pretty big one" said Tristessa. "So that's what this is about. Want the bounty all to yourself huh?" J-Man started to get angry. Jester simply replied "not really, I just want his soul, they can keep their reward". J-Man came up with an idea saying, "how about I kill him and get the reward, and you can reap his soul?". "Sorry, no dice, I have to kill Normic in order to consume his soul. You see, my blade has the power to consume souls and burn them for all eternity. That's what I want him to feel. It also makes my sword more powerful" Jester explained to the gun-weilding demon. "FINE, I GOT OTHER THINGS TO DO ANYWAY!" J-Man said in anger. Jester began staring at J-Man again. "NOW WHAT!? DO I HAVE SOMETHING HANGIN' OUT MY FUCKING NOSE OR SOMETHING!? HUH!? WHAT IS IT!?" J-Man stated impatiently. "Jester is really distraught right now..." Tristessa assisted answering. "...he just killed his father." "HE MUST'VE BEEN A PUSSY AND YOU WERE ASHAMED OF HIM WEREN'T YOU!?" Jester with a cold look on his face staring into his beer. "He raped my mother which made her pregnant and had me. Now he's resting non-peacefully in my blade." J-Man asked "Gotta name did he?" Jester looked at J-Man going "Yeah...Dameticus". "WHAT!?" J-Man asked with a shocked look on his face. "DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU KILLED!?" Jester looking back down, "Yeah my father". J-Man corrected him saying, "not your father...OUR father."
To be continued
