Boogie-Woogie Feng-Shui

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COWBOY BEBOP #21

Jet narrates.

JET: This strange story began on a blistering hot day. I had received an unexpected mail from an old acquaintance of mine but the message was just this: "Seek the sacred beast from Anzan. I am at the meeting place of the four gods."

Session #21

BOOGIE-WOOGIE FENG-SHUI

Jet continues narrating.

JET: Pao, the sender of the message, was an acquaintance of mine but it didn't mean that we kept in touch all that well. I grew suspicious and started to research Pao's current whereabouts. They say that Pao is one of the three greatest Feng Shui masters here on Mars... But when I found his whereabouts, he had already left this world...

A cemetery on Mars. Jet stands before Pao's gravestone.

JET: Are you sure you weren't the one that sent me this mail?

A girl, Pao's daughter, Meifa, rises from behind the stone.

MEIFA: The one who visits from the inauspicious back door... Receive the word from the heavens, and lead me to the sun stone... So the pa-kua divination is true!

She spots two thugs with guns behind Jet.

MEIFA: Look out!

She pushes Jet out of the way of gunfire. The shots hit Pao's gravestone.

THUG A: Where are you shooting?!

They hide behind another gravestone.

JET: They sure are disrespectful fellows.

Meifa consults her luo-pan.

MEIFA: The escape route!

She stands up, and grabs Jet by the hand and runs. The thugs shoot at them and miss.

THUG A: Idiot!

THUG B: Shit!

They chase after Jet and Meifa.

Jet and Meifa jump into a wooded section. They reach the end; under them is a strip of road. Meifa spots a two-story bus.

MEIFA: Escape route!

They hop on. The thugs chase them in a car. Meifa spots a river next to them.

MEIFA: Chi of Earth!

JET: Hey!

They jump in and resurface.

MEIFA: That was really close! I'm glad we're safe.

Jet stares at her, confused.

The Bebop parked on the river. Spike and Amber spot Faye, Ed and Ein 'after making out' from the shadows of the hallway, spying on Jet and Meifa in the living room.

AMBER: Looks like we made it to whatever party in time.

SPIKE: Looks like it... What are you doing?

FAYE: Hey, over there... Who is that? I wonder if she's a new girlfriend.

SPIKE: For that, she's rather young.

AMBER: Oh, come on you guys. Spike and I are a couple, that girl with Jet... Please. That's plain freaky.

ED: Weird one, hot dog bun, loved one!

FAYE: Maybe she's his secret love child?

Amber whacks Faye on the head.

AMBER: Ah! Okay, Whore, now you're being sick! Jet said a friend of his got a message who's the daughter of the guy for they're in danger.

SPIKE: For that, she's rather old.

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