Boom Boom Family(1)

After that was settled we had all of our tents set up for the night, though Gyro was keeping watch of the camp, Johnny was working with the cork in his hand and Stocking was reading in our tent while snacking on candy.

I on the other hand was cleaning my Colt Navy 1861 Revolver, making sure the barrel was clean of any sand or dirt that might have gotten in along with cleaning out the cylinder and reload it before holstering and pull out the second of my four guns as I start the cleaning process once more.

Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I see the cork within Johnny's hands begin to spin and making his eyes widen.

"Gyro! Hifumi! Look! I-I Did it! I made the Cork Spin!" He said though Gyro's focus was in the distance though I looked up and saw it.

"Oh, nice Johnny, seems your getting the hang of the Spin." I say which makes him smile, though Gyro still seems distracted.

"Now Johnny, try doing it again but use the Spiral instead, it should spin like a top in your hands." I say before pulling out one of my bullets and placing the tip on top of my palm before it began to rapidly spin like a top.

Seeing that as an example he takes the cork and puts it on its head, it doesn't move but because of its head size it doesn't fall over, and soon enough he was able to make the cork spin like a top.

"Good Johnny, remember that both the Spin and Spiral come from similar roots as such if you understand the basics of one then you can easily understand the basics of the other." I say to him which he seemed to understand as how he did both wasn't much different from one another.

Though the Spin in his mind looked more like an intense Ballerina Dance where as the Spiral in his mind appeared more akin to a spinning top, however he could actually feel something Spiral out from his arms when he was focusing on the Spiral where as the Spin felt something more external in nature like he was taking something outside of himself and making the spin happen along with creating the spin inside his body as well.

Gyro looked over finally and was a bit surprised at how quickly Johnny was on the uptake, though he could tell what he was seeing was Hifumi's Spiral and not his Spin, but as the concepts were similar he didn't really care about the minor details, "Keep that up Johnny, although you did bring a gun right?" He asked as he saw that I had one in my hand.

"Yeah? Why you ask?" Johnny says looking up at Gyro who went back to look towards the distance.

"I have every reason to believe that we will meet people who will want to attack us during this race like that last guy before, the hot air balloons that have been watching us for this race have set for the night and thus if any attacks happened by other racers they won't even know about it in the first place so at night anything goes and if people want each other dead then night time is the perfect chance for them to do so." He went onto explain which made Johnnys eyes widen as he put his cork in his pocket and then went to search through his stuff in order to get his gun.

Though as he was doing so several of Gyro's things fell out of his satchel that was next to Johnny's and letting him see some of Gyro's paperwork along with his family emblem.

"Oi…. Didn't you learn while growing up not to look through other people's things?" Gyro said while looming over Johnny.

"I-I wasn't Looking though! But you! Your not from this country are you?!" Johnny accused but Gyro just stared at him.

"You should mind your own damn business and stick to opening your own luggage instead." He said before turning away.

"Forget it Johnny, if he wants to tell you more he will in time, same with me as well, though I will say that I'm also not from this country either, but my Name hopefully gave that away at least." I said to Johnny while carving into a apple with a knife and eating a piece.

Johnny looked at me and at Gyro before sighing and shoving Gyro's stuff back into his satchel, Johnny wanted to know more but hearing what I said he knew he was in the wrong in the situation in the first place.

As the tension settled and Johnny had his gun Gyro put his binoculars down, "We got company."

"You think he's going to try and race through the night?" Johnny asks before I begin to stand up and walk over to Gyro's side.

"He really is coming over, get your guns ready." Gyro says to us before looking back towards the approaching guy.

"ALRIGHT! NOT A STEP CLOSER! YOU! YES YOU ON THE HORSE! I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING STOP COMING OR WE WILL SHOOT!" Gyro shouts out at the guy while I raise up my gun and point it towards him and the same with Johnny but he was just holding it at the ready.

"W-wait Please! D-Don't Shoot! I'll stop! I'll stop! I mean no harm!" The young guy said as he pulled the reigns on his horse to stop himself.

"Whether you mean harm or don't I will be the judge of that after you get the hell out of here!" Gyro shouted back while the guy was clutching his left hand.

"Poisoned?" I couldn't help but say as I saw his hand from this distance completely swelling and purple on his left pinky and ring finger, though hearing me say that Gyro looked at me for a moment before looking back at the guy.

"I was bitten! It's really bad man! I think what bit me was poisonous!" He said getting off his horse.

"Hey! What the fuck did I say asshole?! Did I tell you to get off your fucking horse or what?!" He said before looking at us. "Did he say what bit him?" To which we both shook our heads as Johnny got back up onto his horse.

"It was some poisonous lizard man! It had yellow and black stripes man! Please let me use some of your fire so I can cauterize it!" He says while clutching his hand.

"Spotted Salamander is what bit him then, if it circles his whole body then he's gonna die." Johnny says but I place my hand on Gyros shoulder.

"Gyro, I got a bad feeling about this guy, think about it, we took the long distance path that is also the shortest route in this part of the race, when the four of us went along our way it was just us four and that guy from a few hours ago that went this way, but I never saw hide or hair of this guy at all." Hearing me say that suddenly put Gyro and Johnny on edge as well.

"Let me handle this, and whatever I do don't question it, no matter how merciless or cruel what I'm about to do." I say before holstering my revolver while keeping my hand under my coat.

"Alright, we will give you some fire to clean your wound, But only if you answer a few questions." I say to him as I looked to Gyro who grabbed a burning piece of wood.

"Oh Thank You! Thank You! Yes I will answer whatever you want of me!" He said streaming tears of joy at first but stopped when he looked at me and noticed I was now holding a Winchester Repeating Rifle in my hand.

"It's just three questions I'm going to ask, answer truthfully then you get your fire, lie to me and I'm going to shoot at you, first one will be a warning, second will be a gut shot, and the third one will go right between your eyes…." I said as the air got very tense.

Whatever he said could lead to either his Life or his Death here today.