VOl 14 Summary

(This picks up where my 'Post-Eclipse' section leaves off, just as Gatts leaves Godo's place)



Retribution Arc: Lost Children



We start this new story arc with The Holy Iron Chain Knights, a group of highly adorned young men, led by Farneeze, a young woman. The Holy Iron Chain Knights were dispatched by the Clergy to find the source of the evils in this world, that were spreading.

Farneeze comes upon the place of the eclipse, which they call the 'Red Lake/Sea'. It is a large open place, with the remains of bodies, and swords, all in a giant lake of blood. The Holy Knights speak of a prophecy in which the appearance of the Red Lake marked the birth of the 'fifth'. They call him the Dark Hawk. Then Farneeze says: "The blind king of the white sheep serves as shepard to the villany of the black sheep..." And we end the chapter.

Now we flash forward 2 years forward to Gatts. In his past 2 years (vol 1-3) Gatts has taken down 2 apostles, and squared off with Femto for the first time, but this is not a summary of vol 1-3, this is a summary of vol 14 =)

We see a place under a tree where bandits are gathered. They have kidnapped a young girl, and they begin discussing the tree that they are unders origins. Apparently, some bad omens have been spread about this tree being involved in some 'Tree lovin Druids', and their sacrifices to the tree.

One of the stupider of the bandits decides that he wants to see what would happen if they make a sacrifice to it, so he begins to cut open Jill's ( the girl they kidnapped ) dress. Then the bandit is attacked by a 'BURADEE NEEDURU'!! Pakks weapon of choice =) The bandit looks up just as lightening crashes across the sky, and se see, tucked away in the tree, is Gatts, our main man, all cozy in his cute lil hood =) The bandits are taken aback, and ask him how long hes been there, Gatts replies "I was here first" =)...anyways well make long story short: Gatts bickers with the bandits, until one of them attacks him, gatts smashes his face in with his steel arm, then the tree turns into a monster, and kills half the bandits. Jill is frightened, but Gatts saves her, and defeats the tree. Pakk introduces himself, and Jill says something to the effect of "a rel fairy?!"...The Bandits run off scared as hell.

The Bandits run into a fairy looking creature...the scene ends.

Gatts follows Jill back to her town ( with her consent, you nasty folks ) and it appears deserted. After a while, the townspeople come out, and they crowd around Jill. Jills mother asked where she has been. Then Jills father comes out and complains about her running off after he got a little drunk again. Then a skirmish ensues involving Jill and her Father. Apparently some time ago, he and his friends fought some battle and lost, but they remember it as 'protecting their country'. Its really just an excuse to validate his pointless, scumlike existence. He just gets drunk all day and beats up on Jill. His friends tell Jill that theyre sorry about the otehr night. ( speculation, that its molestation ). Pakk intervenes by throwing another "Bloody Needle" at Jills Father. He then blames Gatts, but Gatts points out Pakk to the crowd and they go crazy, ranting about " AN ELF HAS ENTERED THE TOWN! OH NO!" Apparently the townspeople have a bad history with elves, or elf like people. Pakk has no idea what it could be though. Jill sticks up for Pakk, saying The Townspeople insist that Gatts hand over Pakk, Gatts of cource, sticks up for his lil pal,and eventually makes off, with the entire town attacking him with rakes and shovels. But Gatts escapes unscathed.

We cut to Jill, in her bed at night. Her father has gotten drunk again, and one of his friends tries to break into her room ( gee such quality people in the Berserk World! )But Jill locks the door...

We cut to Jill running to the windmill on the outskirts of town, where she told Gatts to stay...she returns Gatts cape to him ( he lent it to her because she was almost naked, thanks to those great nice guy bandits )...SHe then curls up next to him.

Gatts wakes up, just as a dream-demon is about to enter his thoughts. He smashes it with his iron fist (not politically, mind you) Then eventually the three of them are awake ( Gatts, Jill, and Pakk ) and gatts asks Jill about Misty Valley ( the place that the elves are from, that Jill seems so interested in )

Jill tells Gatts that the Misty Valley is within the mountains to the east of town. It has Mist surrounding it all year long, and Legend has it that Elves live in there.

She then explains that the town is affraid of Elves because a few months back, the neighboring town was decimated, apparently by elves. They had been attacked by some sort of magic, and all the cattle, and villagers were destroyed. Jill also says that she saw one during that time, it looked like it had a human body, only smaller.

Pakk says that thats impossible. Elves arent supposed to destroy Human Villages, theres no point in it.

Gatts brand starts to bleed, and he storms outside, and sees the sky lit up by a horde of flying elves. They are heading towards the village. Jill yells out: " Its them!" Gatts says "Those arent your normal elves, they're MY kind."

Many villagers are eaten and killed by the elves, Gatts manages to swat hordes of them down with the Dragon Slayer though, and leads them to a barn, using a little boy as bait (he hung him by his shirt on the Dragon Slayer =) Once he had all the elves in the barn, he began to see their true form. IT was more of an insect than an elf...Then Gatts tosses a package of black powder, and fires upon it with his hand-cannon, rolling away with the explosion, effectively killing all the elves that were inside. Very nice!

But then, A Giant Elf Girl lands next to Gatts. THis is the same elf-girl that the bandits found when they escaped...

End of Volume 14