[@Crossfire] [@CloseEnough]

Shots continued to ring out as bullets just narrowly flew past Reese, he kept going through alleys and making any turns he could, both to avoid being shot further and to lose a few of them that were on his tail, figures that bandits would have a grudge when they instigated the aggression first, Reese couldn't help but think if it would've been better to have killed them, then he wouldn't be putting the town in danger because of something he'd done.

He was nearly to the weapon shop he had dropped his rifle off at when he heard another set of gunshots ahead of him, he was wondering if those were additional bandits, but it didn't make any sense, seemed like they were mostly after him, he doubted even they would be so blind as to randomly kill people just to get to him, they didn't seem to do that before. He glanced over at his wounded arm, seeing the small amount of blood trickle down it, he was going to need to take care of that, he had a feeling that he might be rolling around in the dirt against these bandits, he couldn't risk an infections, but now wasn't really the time, he needed to get to his rifle and then take care of the bandits.

Ral, Liv, and the bandit leader paused for a moment when they heard gunshots ringing out just a bit further ahead of where they were sure Reese was, “Was that us?” The leader asked, not knowing if the rest of his people were that far ahead.

“Uh...I don't think so boss, most of them are spread out near us or behind us, we didn't have anyone stationed up ahead.” Ral responded.

“We'll need to be careful, either he has some friends with him or there's another party at play.” He growled as he examined the area around them.

“Right boss, but do you really think but do you think if someone else is here, they're after him?”

“I don't know either way it's both good and bad for us, let's hurry up and continue after him before he manages to slip us.” The leader responded, his heavy footsteps once more stopping into the ground, his second and third in command right behind him.

Reese was starting to fatigue a little, both from the running and from his minor wounds, but he couldn't give up, not when there was a danger in the town, though he didn't know about the second one. He had a feeling though that these bandits after him weren't going to be easy, well mostly the leader, but still, from the few he had counted, it seemed to him like there were about ten bandits, even if they weren't skilled enough with a gun, they still had firepower on their side, something Reese couldn't fight directly no matter how good he was.

He eventually spotted a who looked to be carrying his rifle, he recognized him as Brick, the man that had took his transaction, though Reese was a little curious why he was out here with it, he certainly couldn't have heard about the bandits already, maybe the gunshots were heard, he had no idea, he did know though that he head to quickly get his gun. Though a man had jumped down from the roof near him and landed in front of him, halting him in his tracks and then tried stabbing him, Reese quickly shifted his body from the attacks, using the gun to parry some of the attacks he couldn't avoid before unfortantely slipping up and was stabbed in his shoulder near his still fresh gun wound. He winced and gritted his teeth, that's all he needed, another wound near the same spot.

He pistol whipped the man across the face as he was pulling his knife away and the shot him blindly, hitting him in the stomach and then keeled over, Reese didn't have time to check if he wounded him fatally or not, he had much more pressing concerns and continued to make his way towards the man with his rifle.

“Hey! Brick right? I need my gun, some bandits are after me!” He shouted to the man as he ran towards him, glancing back and seeing some figures in the distance starting to catch up, [i]'Damn, I thought I would've had more time before they caught up,'[/i] He thought to himself as the distance grew between the man hold his gun and Reese himself.


“I think I see him up ahead boss.” Ral spoke with a bit of short breath as they continued to shorten the distance between the two of them.

“Good, all this running is irritating me, no pathetic being escapes me.” He growled as he glared at the target they were approaching.