Vicious

[Carthrat]

Carthrat was about to say 'more than anything', but something stopped him.

What was at home for him, after all? Another pointless day wasting away at home or school or enduring the pointless babble of his so-called 'friends'...

Granted, he had *some* control over his life there, and not much more here, but if he played his cards right..

Hang on. Home was where he had to be, wasn't it? Carthrat wasn't Vicious. He wasn't cut out to BE Vicious. He might want control, and power, and the ability to kill, but aside from that-

This couldn't be happening...

"...relatively badly."

[Bean Bandit]

The shadow man grinned, and inclined his head.

"Remember...that's only one of the possible rewards. Think of this as a chess game. Reach the end of the board, and the possiblities are endless. The question is...how far are you willing to go to reach the end of the board?"

[Carthrat]

"That would depend on who's playing the game.

To be perfectly serious... I think I'll stay here a while. I mean, it's not like I have a choice...

Who knows. Something might come up..."

[Bean Bandit]

The shadow man regarded him thoughtfully.

"Focus, spanky." he chided irreverently. "I want you to do something when you go to Callisto. Something that wasn't in your anime collection."

[Carthrat]

"...like what?"

[Bean Bandit]

"...Kill Spike Spiegel."

The shadow man stared hard at Vicious. "Do you have any difficulty with that?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat blanched.

"Kill Spike?!"

In absolute truth, Spike was probably the person Carthrat most wanted to be. It'd be like... way too weird.

"Welllll... I need one piece of info to kill him.

When the hell does the music box get into the frigging fighter? Gren never goes near it till the end... Vicious had Spike right up until then.."

[Bean Bandit]

The sillouhette smirked at the white haired man.

"You watched the show, but you didn't pay attention," he chided. The shadow man made a gesture as though he was deep in thought, then chuckled.

"Okay. A freebie, this time. Next time you get lost, A hint will cost you. Gren will slip the music box into the bag of red-eye. He didn't need to go near the fighter. You...or...Vicious, put the music box on himself."

The shadow man smiled, crimson eyes fixed on Vicious. "All caught up now?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat internally slapped himself. Of *course*...

"One... more thing. Whoever it is you're fighting... would they happen to have a few surprises waiting for me?

Because if they do, Speigal will act somewhat differently, I'm sure, and you know as well as I that this entire plan relies on knowing every move he's going to make.."

[Bean Bandit]

Chaos' eyes were solid red, but he somehow managed to convey the impressing of rolling them.

"Do you really need your hand held every step of the way? You won't last a minute in the body you wear now if you don't show a little ruthless creative thinking..."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat bit back a sarcastic remark.

"Well, hadn't you better dissapear and let me get on with it, then?" he replied, moving back to his seat, and picking up his discarded weapon off the floor.

[Bean Bandit]

The shadow man grinned darkly. "Aren't you forgetting something? Or don't you want my help anymore?"

[Carthrat]

"What, to protect my mind? I'm sure it's not all that simple...

Go ahead... though I'll need Vicious's... 'killing' mentality to take out Spiegal... may as well leave what's already sunk in there.. or whatever it is you do."

[Bean Bandit]

The shadown man smirked.

"I don't protect. I can organize it a little for you, though. It should make it easier to manage your new...'drives'. Vicious has quite the interesting little accumulation of 'habits', you know."

The writhing shadow form stared directly into his eyes. "Do you want it, or not?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat steeled himself. "Do it."