Introduction

Bang Bang Bang Bang

I slide over to Elias to take cover.

"Here! Take this gun!" Elias shouted.

I took the gun from him, a Finnegan's Fury Rifle 1881. Not much of a good gun, but I mean rumors say it's good for defense and often used for hunting. I started shooting back at the Marshals and the Posse.

Bang Bang Bang

The gunshots are so loud my ears started to ring.

"We got all of the money!" Clay Bennet shouted as he held 2 bags of money coming from the back room of the bank.

Jebediah Stone and Maverick Jones followed behind with 2 bags of money each.

"We have to lower their numbers! There's too many of them for us to go out!" Elias said.

Jasper Clay, Sarah Hayes, Amelia Thorne, Rosalie Bell, and Wyatt Hayes, Sarah's brother, are at the outside shooting at the Marshals and aiding us. Civilians inside the bank can be heard crying and shouting for help.

"It is okay to come out now!" Jasper Clay shouted.

The 5 of us came out of the bank, the other 5 shoot at the remaining Marshals. I helped the 3 with money to climb their horses and hide the money in their saddlebags. We rode off with Elias in front. The remaining, including me, also rode our horses after the Marshals died out and started to follow the others.

We rode in the road in the dark night, a lot of people were on the sidewalk and were watching us. Some even rode their horses and started chasing and shooting at us. Amelia Thorne shot one in the arm, making the civilian drop his gun.

Whistle

A whistle sounded from the right, more Marshals on their horses coming right at us. We started shooting at them as we saw them, just like what we trained and do.

BaBaBaBaBaBang

Elias wiped out half of the Marshals, we took care of some of them. Elias really has some cool skills he learned, he just called it Quick Draw, just like its name, drawing his gun at lightning speed. He said he learned it from his father and said not to share it with others but teach it to their next generation. We respected his reason.

We galloped as fast as our horses could until we reached the exit of Sunstone City. The Marshals and Posse shoot from behind us.

We are in the plain flat view galloping in a straight line.

"Split Up!" Elias shouted.

We started to split up 3 by 3 by 4. I am with Clay and Rosalie. We stayed on the left, the other 3 went to the right to go to the mountains and the remaining 4 remain in the middle to approach the big bridge. We went to the nearest small bridge that lead us to the thick forest.

I looked behind, the Marshals also split up to catch the others and us. I looked below, we could see some bear traps are already activated. Lily Rose and Elizabeth Skye took good care to set these traps. The 3 of us shoot at the Marshal behind us until all of them are dead. We started to go to the path we planned for the heist. We arrived at the spot where we hide our own horses, we change our clothes and let our backup horses go away from us.

"Let's split up if we don't want our cover blown," Clay said to us after finishing changing clothes.

He hid the money again properly in his original owned horse who he named Dusty. He rode off leaving me with Rosalie. How many times do I have to tell them to not leave me behind with a girl? I am not good around with girls, mostly being alone with girls. Should have waited for me to get changed.

"Alright Dark Rider, just as planned, stay low and don't blow our cover," Rosalie said to me.

They sometimes gave me nicknames because I usually use dark clothes. They even gave me nicknames back on the gang like Shadow, Reaper, Black Belter, and lots of more. The WANTED poster about me in town, they gave me the nickname Dark Rider because of my clothes during a robbery or shootout or other more.

Rosalie galloped away. I hid my dark clothes on my horse's saddlebag, hid my guns in a secret compartment and rode my horse, I named him Shadow because he is dark. I want to use him during a robbery because he will fit in with my all black clothes, especially he is a very fast horse but the gang denied because people around will know the horse and I owned it. I lit and put my lamp on the saddle horn and went to the south where the 2 didn't go and also lead back to the camp.

I just trotted on the road silently, there are 3 officers approached me.

"Have you seen 3 any people who passed through you? A lot of people know Dark Rider because of his clothes and easy to know him," one of the officers replied.

"I don't know, but I saw Dark Rider alone galloping at the direction over there. I am very sorry that I didn't stop him or shoot him, mostly that I am too young and have no guns," I replied while pointing at the direction where neither the 2 went.

"The direction is enough, it is okay that you didn't stop him and it is for your safety," the officer replied while patting my shoulder.

They went in the direction I pointed where my backup horse went, so when they saw the lonely horse, they thought that I went on foot and just focused in that area and reduced their army.

"Sigh"

Lying to a good loyal officer is such a pain for my morale. Should I have been an officer or a marshal? I dunno, but too late, I am already a WANTED person. I just trotted going back to the group while looking at the beautiful night sky. I can see what they called a Milky Way, the Stars, the Moon, and some unknowns.

I trotted on the way and suddenly encountered people on around a wagon. A woman saw and ran up to me.

"Can you help us fix our wagon?" The woman asked.

A man, probably his husband, is doing something to the wheel. Maybe it's a broken wheel. Doing something good wouldn't hurt right? I accepted the request and fix the broken wheel. The wooden wheel is so broken so we looked around for materials and crafted a makeshift wheel. I helped him install the wheel and it worked.

The 2 with their 2 kids thanked me and we went our separate ways. 30 minutes later, I have arrived back to the camp. They are happy and drinking around the camp celebrating. There are 17 of us in total including me.

Elias Reed

Ryder McAlliver

Clay Bennet

Jebediah Stone

Maverick Jones

Jasper Clay

Sarah Hayes

Amelia Thorne

Wyatt Hayes

Rosalie Bell

Lily Rose

Elizabeth Skye

Ethan Sage

Jesse Joseph

William Sage

Laura Clint

Hellen Clint

William Sage is the youngest here aging 14, next is Laura at the age of 17 then me which is 19 while Jebediah Joseph is the eldest at the age of 42. The 2 teens are named Laura Clint and William Franz. Laura Clint is the daughter of Hellen Clint. They've been abused and abandoned by the father and have nowhere to go. While William Franz, the son of Ethan Sage, the mother cheated on Ethan so Ethan took away their son and the gang met him.

Elias started the gang 6 years ago, it is a long running gang but slow growing. 3 years ago, my parents got robbed and killed by bandits while I hid in below their bed. I was alone and wandered around accepting my fate until Ethan Sage saw me and decided to take me to the camp. They have good hearts, they taught me their activities, some knowledge, and I grew and grew until I am 19 and started to join robbing stores and banks.

That is not how my parents taught me, but I have no choice.

"Good to see you alive McAlliver! I thought you were dead or caught. You've been gone for too long and we've been worried about you," Elias said as I enter the camp.

The others greeted me for my arrival.

"Sorry to worry you all," I said.

"Start the Countdown! 1!" Elias shouted.

The people who rob in the bank, including me, counted down up to 10, no casualties.

"Great job people! If we keep doing these! We will be the most famous gang in the country!" Elias shouted.

We called the gang renegades, focused on renelling and killing, but sometimes we just help people in need, so Elias changed it to Elias Elite's, people who heard the group name, why we change it, it symbolizes our skill and reputation. I went to the others and asked for a beer and drank. Rosalie sat beside me, there's literally a space at Clay, Maverick or Lily, and sat down beside me?

"Hey there handsome," Rosalie said to me.

Rosalie is a chick 1 year older than me. I've been eyeing on her as we grew up and the time I joined the group. She looks so drunk for a while now, so it means I've really been gone for too long.

"I'm glad you made it. Been celebratin' without you but I'm glad you made it." Rosalie said.

Rosalie started to open her bottle of whiskey, but I stopped her.

"Hold on there, you look too drunk for another one of those. Take it easy or go to sleep. Remember that you nearly shot Elias because of how drunken you are," I said to her.

"But it's our victory drink! We pulled it off, Ryder! No casualties, no fuss, just a whole lot of loot! And of course try not to shoot someone, look the gun is not on me," she said while showing her empty hip holster.

She pushed my hand away and drank a bunch. I just let her and asked Jebediah for another.

"Say, your mother good in the hospital now?" I asked Rosalie.

She went quiet.

"Yeah, after getting our cut, I'll send them some money for my mother's medical bills," she replied.

Rosalie's mother was rushed to the hospital because of a typhoid fever. Rosalie's parents somehow support Rosalie even though she is a wanted person or a rebellion, not for her money, but just a loving parents. Rosalie has brothers and sisters at home with their parents.

Somehow, most of the group that joined here is because of problems, not only to join because they want to. I asked again Jebediah for a beer. I suddenly remembered my father being one of the top 10 most dangerous sheriffs in the country, going around saving the country. And suddenly our house is surrounded by bandits killing both of my parents.

When people around the country found out that my father has a son, they went to an investigation and led into me, that's why they know more about me than the others in the gang. They've been thinking why would the son of McAlliver join the rebellion?

I only accepted this group because I want to seek revenge on the bandits. I want to find them and kill them. When I was hiding below the bed, I heard about their leader named Jeb, Jeb Hanks. They even shouted his name. I asked people around for info about him but no one knows him. Only Elias knows him. Jeb is once a friend of Elias, but suddenly they went to a fight and Jeb accidentally killed Elias's sister.

I really miss my parents now, such loving parents. My father gave me a paper, containing 16 types of abilities of the way of a gunslinger with descriptions and images about it. He said if I learned all of this 16, I might be the next most dangerous in the country. I just waited to get older so that my brain will improve and understand this gibberish, but I can learn it tomorrow.

I looked at Rosalie, she is sleeping with her head on the table with her mouth open wide. My vision is very dizzy now, I rest my head on the table to fight. People around us are very noisy. My eyes started to close without me realizing and I went to sleep.