Smokey and the Bandit [Mission #4]

[Shokugo "Sautrn" Gozai]

Saturn felt as though a new mission was in order. He was not about to let himself get rusty after doing his best to get back into the swing of things. He was feeling as though there was an uncertain degree of discomfort with the village as well. Hostility was something new to him now that stores would not sell him food, restaurants would not seat him and friends would no longer hang around with him. Only a select few people would even look at him nowadays. He was not trying to give the world a reason to hate him but one had literally been forced into him. He was now hated, for no reason other than containing a beast too powerful for him to understand. The villagers knew he was a hero... but he could certainly keep his distance from them, they did not want his kind of help.

Most of it was fear that he did not have control over the beast within him. The Rokubi was not something he was just able to take charge over and use to the fullest of it's abilities just because. No, it was the type of thing he would have to work his ass off in order to get anywhere with. He felt as though there was little he could do to stop it, he needed to learn control over the beast and his lord might have had an idea how. He had heard in the past people used special alters in order to evoke the power of the beasts in order to gain control over. It was not that it should or would take ones whole life to learn control, it would probably only take a portion of his life in order to master, once he has tamed the beast though his power will be beyond that of a normal person, he will be superior.

Saturn had always felt as though that was why he was chosen. His lord saw this coming and needed someone to be his right hand man. Provided Saturn only had a fraction of the power his lord would, even with his powerful beast at his side the lord is still incomparable to anything else Saturn knew of. Even now as he was doing basic missions though, Saturn was going to show this world how he was going to become stronger. He was going to do his best to show the world what he was capable of and finish this mission with flying colors and a gold star. He knew one day these would be a cake walk for him but in the mean time, he was going to show the world how things were done, and was going to show his master he was capable of doing missions that require more than just the good graces of god.

He felt himself get nervous as he was handed a new mission. It was apparently some cool jewel the countries temple wanted back. Sure the damage done to the place was severe but it was more about what he had taken, that jewel. They didn't want him to do much else besides find the man who did this, get the jewel before it gets to a black market of sorts and then come back. He found the mission to be rather basic, he was hoping for the need to protect some huge important figure or getting to battle with a hoard of demons or something like that. This was still a really cool mission, much more interesting than what he dealt in his usual day. Getting to catch a criminal sounded fun so long as he got something for it in return. He looked towards the open road, wondering what was going to happen. First was to get to the temple and see what was going on, see if he could get any information on what had happened.