Gambit

....They've been watching me for a while, I can feel his eyes on me.... its unsettling, Barney Is getting nervous too, he sweating bullets! he keeps wiping them from his eye... In contrast our opponents are cool and unbothered, They have something up their sleeves, I can feel it! Arthur keeps smirking at me, he thinks I'll mess up! I'll show him not to underestimate me! and Pedro.... well Pedro hasn't changed his facial expression at all! I can't tell what he's thinking at all! Well it doesn't matter! I can't keep stalling, I have to do it!

"Are you sure Kid? I could always-"

"No! I've got this!"

"Bah! Baseless boasting! I've believe it when I see it!"

I toss the poisoned Egg into the sleeping lion's mouth!

"!?" The lion monster woke up with a start, it rumbled and shook and roared until it went limp and died....

"You cheated! there's no way in hell you could make that shot otherwise!" Arthur snapped, his glasses nearly fumbled and fell off from his outburst, the air in here wasn't toxic for some reason..... so it was okay outside our Armour,"C'mon Art.... if the kid cheated Vince would have seen it, right?" Barney said, in response Vince nodded his head, "I didn't see any foul play, Arthur, Pedro Pay up!" Vince barked, Arthur and Pedro reluctantly forked over 50,000 Dashies each! ".....Next time, I'll pick Junior as my partner," Pedro muttered.

Wow! This is the most money I've had since coming to this hell hole! With this.... well I don't know how much this is worth still, It's gotta be good, right? Good thing Bradley insisted on playing games to pass the time till one of Barney's double returned.

They've been searching inside the Massive tunnel system for hours now, according to Barney, the escapee.... Ferr Gambit has been laying low here, Vince wanted to charge and brute force our way in but Pedro dissuaded him, according to Pedro and Barney, Gambit is fond of laying out traps when he goes adventuring, especially on his own.

BOOM

"There's another one! Damn, he really must be desperate to lay so many! hahaha!" Barney laughed.

".....that's 15th one, are you sure you're okay?" I asked.

"Yep! So far as he doesn't harm the first double, I can take it!"

And so we continued our little game, the game was slaying as many beasts we find as possible.... 'isn't it the same thing you've been doing already!?' you say? Well the catch is.... you can't use conventional weapons! Yep we're going Old.... Old.... Old school with this one, the sillier the kill the higher the money!

"Kwack!? kwack!?" A bird monster choked on a toothpick Bradley tossed into it's mouth!

"....how the hell did you do that with those sausage fingers?" I asked incredulously.

"Takes practice.... and Finesse, something a beginner like you can learn.... of course for a price!"

".....I don't see how that nonsense will help in real life though...."

"Bwahahaha! Men, this Kid is raw! Pffhahahhahah! ah Brad! no need to look so glum! I still think it's cool.... not a total waste of time at all, pfft!" Barney laughed.

"....The worst part is he said it with such confidence too...." Vince muttered.

I glance around looking for my new prey! Barney and I are in the lead and I don't wanna lose our spot! What? it's rather cruel to make a sport of hunting these gentle beasts you ask? Well my sympathy for them died hours ago! Everywhere I turn, these monstrosities lunge at me! Of course I've lost pity for them! Besides.....

"Culling them is part of our job!" I shouted while flipping a pebble at the nose of an incoming spiked bear! It panicked and slammed into another beast, a wolf-bat hybrid, the two started fighting immediately and killed each other in the process, "Wow.... a double kill, you're getting good at Kid!"

"Hell yeah! I'm having the time of my life!"

"!?"

"Wha!? did something happen?"

"We've found Gambit! Let's go!"

With that, We.... unfortunately had to stop our little game, on the bright side I made a killing! 100k in total, "What can this get me?" "A nice apartment at the Grace of Green apples," Pedro said, "That's good right?" "Yeah.... if you don't ont mind the pompous pimps, Hmph, I'm more of King's Galloway guy!"

"Of course you are Pedro, you're a pauper at heart afterall!" Arthur hissed, "I don't hear that from a guy that refuses to leave that shopping complex!" Pedro snapped back, "Wha!? I'm married to my research, of course I can't leave my lab!" "Yeah keep making your excuses.... cheapskate!" "Penny pinching little bastard! I'll claw your eyes out!" "Try it! Greedy li-"

"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" Vince roared and the two fell silent, We made our way deeper Into the Cavern, the stalagmites leaked black Gooey liquid like the spikes we found outside occasionally Arthur produced a beaker from.... God knows where and collected them, "This will make a good addition to my collection," Arthur muttered, "What are those," I asked, "Ah that's right you wouldn't have seen these before.... they're Sweeney spit.... they're like..... a stimulant, though I wouldn't recommend taking them raw.... they're likely to burst your heart if you do!" Arthur explained.

"We're here.... Gambit! We know you're here! Come out! I don't want to waste any more time in this gods forsaken swamp! Hurry up!" Bradley roared, ".....leave me alone! I-I don't want any trouble!" A rather.... squeaky voice cried, it sounded like a teenager on the edge of puberty, "I-I didn't want to do it! It's all Valor's fault! 'That fool will never see it coming! He'd be too busy touring the new sets! They're over 500 this time!' he said, I didn't want to-"

"Yet you did," Vince said, "We do not care about your reasons, we do not care about your regrets.... if we do not bring you back, Grazer will have our heads! Hurry up and come out!" He yelled.

"Ugh! I-I won't let you take me!" Gambit Screamed, A flurry of fireballs rained down upon us, "Take cover!" Bradley bellowed, We each found a hiding spot to avoid the offense, I peaked around and I saw.... "An elf!?" I shouted, He was rather tall, taller than me but his face was that of a teenager, he looked younger than me, and he had freckles and long black hair, with deep green eyes with the stereotypical elven ears and he wore flowing red clothes.... he was rather handsome, too handsome! In a young prince kinda way, "Well yeah, what did you think he looked like?" Barney asked, "I dunno I was expecting someone more...." "Manly? Bah! Ain't Sammie's style.... she likes the submissive type!"

"Get out! Get out! GET OUT!" Gabit screamed, increasing the number of fireballs, "Ah shit, he's starting to loose it.... Pedro!" Barney cried.

"KWAH!?" Gambit gave a rather strange cry, a dozen knives were sticking out of his body, they didn't seem to be in any vital spot but.... "That looks rather painful..." "It's his fault for going crazy! Now let's- !?"

" I won't let you take MEEEEEEE!" He screamed even louder now, his entire body on fire, he the temperature of the room increased, the rocks, stalagmites, basically everything around us started to melt!

"Uwah!?"

"Shit!"

"Brad do something!"

".....You couldn't just come quietly could you?" Bradley sounded irritated, "Ahhhh, I'm going to need a nice bath after this, Wahahaha!" Bradley laughed as he began to transform.