Eventually, May and Jackal arrived to their rented room of medium sized that was placed in the center of the second floor, of the three story building. "I'm sorry we don't have a better room available but it's a charming space regardless, isn't it?" Catherine would inquire with a brimming smiling. Jackal would slide open the door to the room and it would be revealed to both of them that it had a single giant fuuton spread across the ground with Sakura Theme bed sheets, May would think to herself "How pretty~" but when she glanced over to Jackal's side she felt like she could basically read his thoughts and became embarrassed by her own and tried to redeem herself heaving herself as she tried to speak against her own thought's , "Hmph, there a really good couple but they have terrible taste~!"

May and Jackal would enter the room and while Jackal rested his bag next o the fuuton May would spread out her body on the bed sheet's and notice how comfortable the bed was, she actually never had the bed in Notice and she slept on a mat with hay tucked under it as her way to imitate one but this was league's above what she thought it would be like. "I'm going to take a shower first. There's a public bath at this joint right? I'll go now that the crowd should be gone." Jackal stated. "Ah! Take Jake with you... He hasn't showered in quite a bit!" Catherine shouted as she heard what Jackal said.

Now that Jackal had left and Jake seemed to follow him Catherine would now turn her attention to May, "Well i have some business calculations to make and it take a few minutes, the ladies bathhouse will clear out a bit more around the time im done, you should join me, hope to see you then~" With Catherine gone May was left alone, she would sit at a small wooden table right of the room with floral designs over it, she detached her twin guns Marty and Darcy and placed them on the table before taking out a small handkerchief and a small q-tip and then removed the bullets from each, she begun to clean any gathered dust off of Darcy as she was a lady and needed to be kept clean before inserting the q-tip inside her bullet chambers so that they too would be clean and then repeated the same process for Marty that took her nearly fourteen minutes as it was a time where she liked to relax. Now that she was done cleaning them she would look back at the fuuton but then suddenly the gravity of her situation hit her and her face went red as she started to tremble and speak out loud to herself, "Oh my god! Im sharing a bed with a male!!" she begun to freak out running circle's around the room thinking about all sorts of things that could happen as her usual delusion's ran rampant in her own head.

She would hear a knock on the door and Catherine voice saying, "May-dear im ready now~" May would lift her head up as she had placed it on the table while she was over-thinking and spoke, "Ah im coming~!" May quickly grabbed a towel and soap and bin from the bag she had been caring for occasions just like this, as a dog mink she didn't bathe everyday like human's did but when she did it was a experience she both loved and hated mostly due to how her fur looked when it was wet.

When she opened the door she would see Catherine in a simple dress much diffrent from the one she wore earlier that mad her look stunning, May would smile as they begun to the female bath house, "So Catherine why such a dress? Could it be possible you and Gregory are going to have special time tonight~?" May would inquire teasingly to the elderly woman, Catherine response was much more simple, "Yep~ Today is actually our anniversary of being married for twenty five years~" Catherine gaze would shift back to May with her own agenda in mind, "So how about you and that mink male~? Plan to make special memory all alone in the dark where nobody can see you~?" May froze in place as all her fur seem to stand on end's as she stuttered while trembling, "N-n-n-no way!! We don't have that special relationship, it's not like he would want some ugly fur ball like me, who has no class in lady affairs and such!!" Catherine would have a single sweat drop roll down her forehead, "May-dear you can be quite negative when it come's to yourself can't you?" May couldn't even deny that statement and instead let out a low whimper in defeat.

A few minutes later they finally made it to the bathhouse, May quickly undressed in a corner of the room as there was other woman present and she was actually quite shy about exposing her body even in the presence of her own gender due to them being human and felt somewhat ashamed of her body in these situations, she then wrapped a towel around her body before stepping in to the larger bathhouse, there was only five other woman inside but they were busy chatting among themselves.

Catherine took May's hand and guided her to the washing area and begun washing her as if a mother washing her child, it was relaxing as May had never had any type of relationship with her own before she was abandoned so it caused a tear to emanate in the corner of her eye that wouldn't be noticed due to her own fur and the fact the water she was getting splashed with, suddenly she would feel hands grip her breasts with caused her to let out a low whimper in surprise as she realized it was Catherine's hands, "C-c-catherine what are you doing!?" Catherine made nothing but a amusing sound, "Well your the first mink female i had the pleasure to see and i was just wondering if your bodies worked just like us human females~" Catherine gripped May's breasts more tightly causing a girlish screech to escape from her lips in surprise once more as Catherine begun to fondle May, "C-C-Catherine stop~! Im weak there!!?" It wouldn't be for another two more minutes that Catherine would finally release her grip after May let out girlish moans that rebound through the bathhouse grabbing the other woman's attention as they laughed at the female bonding bathhouse ritual that the mink had just went through, May now released from her grip fell to the floor in utter defeat as she thought to herself, "I can no longer get married.."

No sooner than a few seconds later May would hear the sound of explosions and then meant with Jackal scaling the bamboo fence that had separated the Male and Female bathhouse followed by his yelling, "May! Old' Lady Catherine! Are you okay!-" For a minute there was a empty silence before the woman started screaming all except Catherine, while May who was looking up at Jackal could see his manly bits from underneath his towel even through the steam the bathhouse provided, May whole body heated up as she realized her body was in full display to Jackal for that brief moment but then he spoke again, "I swore ya'll were in danger. I didn't now you were interested in female Lesser Minks. Sorry for interrupting your fun." and just like that he left by going back to the other side, Catherine would make a low whistle before teasing May saying, "Looks like your boyfriend got a little peak show before the main event~" May however had been completely stunned by the how event and the only thing she was doing was mumbling words like "He saw.." "I can never get married.." "Ill be alone forever.."

eight minutes later May recovered from her delusions and was now soaking in the warm bathwater along side her as they relaxed and had their eye's closed enjoying the sensation on their skin, "This is soooo nice... I never been to a bathhouse before~" Catherine responded with a wheezily laugh, "Really now? Why is that?" May would open her eye's as she thought about to answer her question without saying too much to ruin the moment, "Well...on my island everyone bathed by just filling up buckets with water and cleaning themselves that way..~" May thought to herself, "Although that was only limited to me and uncle Pier as outsiders.." Catherine dint look her way but by the small humming sound May could feel like she was on to her, if not for the water and the steam around them she might have been able to tell there was a sweat drop running down her forehead, but for better or worse Catherine simply answered, "That sounds tough May, hopefully you can enjoy alot more new things now that your traveling"

They sat their relaxing for a bit but then suddenly May's sensitive ears could hear something that was ticking, she looked around before asking Catherine if she could hear it but at that moment a large explosion took place near the walls, May instinctively pushed Catherine head and her own into the water to avoid the few fragments of the wall that flew their way. She then took her head off Catherine and quickly jumped out of the water with nothing but a towel wrapped around her body, there was only one man present but his size rivaled that of giants of fairy tails and his muscle's gave further testimony to that, she asked but one question "Who are you...!!?" and then she suddenly felt a sharp pain on her ribs before flying across the room until eventually hitting the floor and skidding across it from the water all over, May couldn't breath in that moment as she felt like her ribs were cracked but knew they couldn't be as she recovered quickly enough to breath again.

When she got back to her feet slowly after recovering she would hear Catherine scream as she was brutally being lead by the arm by a unknown man wearing the same suit, on reflex May tried to pull out her twin guns but was shocked to find them missing, she quickly realized she left them in the room but at this moment she didn't care, someone she cared about was being taken away and she had to do something guns or no guns. May instantly charged up her fists with electro before charging to the large man since he seemed like the boss, when she went to throw a punch he caught it like it was nothing before punching her so hard that she coughed up trace's of blood, the man then head butted her and her world went blurry as she begun to feel herself collapse to the floor, the last things she saw would be Catherine carried off and the cries of Jake and old-man Gregory before she lost consciousness.

Walking through a field of flowers a small figure could be seen picking Roses and Camilla with a enthusiastic smile plastered on her face, on closer look the small figure was humanoid but resembled a dog more with a tail wagging side from side and ears twitching as she listened to the things around her with glee. Suddenly from her left side despite having sensitive ears something crept up on her and pushed her face straight into the dirt, she would hear the sound of three voice's snickering as if mocking her situation before a voice would speak up, "Look boys, just like any other dog, groveling before it's human master!"  

She knew that voice, it was the sound of the leader of a gang of bullies in the village nearby Ken the leader and his two lackeys Leo and Blitz, try with all her might did May try to break free of Ken's grip so she could get up and run away, but the boy being twice her size and the son of the village's best hunter she found that she was no match for his brute strength and in her desperation she made plea's, "Let me go Ken, I didn't do anything!! I was just picking flower's!" She heard the sound of Ken clicking his teeth before pushing her further into the dirt, "That's the problem, your soiling the nice flowers with your touch, now there going to wither away and die making this meadow look hideous. Im going to teach you a lesson in the art of pain about soiling precious flowers!"

May knew what was coming, this happened once before but never could she imagine it would happen twice to her on the same exact island as before, May braced for the pain quickly while clenching her teeth to endure the pain to come, but there would be nothing. When she opened her eyes she would see Pier, a man she called uncle but was more like a father to her on the island where nobody liked her, when she looked around for the boys Ken was already on the floor crying and in the distance she could see his lackey's running straight towards the village at full sprint.

"Come May, i got dinner ready, your late!" May quickly brushed herself on and instinctively held Pier's hand for protection and then they started to walk back to their home in the forest, as they went back May looked down with a sad face that eventually caught Pier's attention, at first he was going to let it go but his own nature was too kind so he eventually broke down and asked, "What's wrong, your not usually this upset." May was silent for a moment before speaking as well, "The villager's...why do they hate me? I haven't done anything wrong yet they treat me with scorn..
"

Pier voice made a humming sound before stopping to look May in the eye as he bended down with one knee, "Look May, full fledged human's aren't like your wonderful spices, were cruel, evil, greedy and selfish. But above that list of human nature is the fear of the unknown, humans tend to fear what they do not understand and they begun to cast it out and ignore it to sate that feeling, today you got the short end of that feeling but one day your be able to defend yourself, I promise you that." May Smiled, "Thanks Uncle Pier i feel better~!"




Suddenly within her dream state May felt a shock that made her eye's open as she begun gasping for air and rising her upper body up only to feel pain making her hold the air instinctively, she then realized she was surrounded by a couple of people and that Jackal was at her side, Jackal started to ask questions but May was still in a daze and her memories felt scattered until she remembered the scene of fighting the colossal size man and how they took Catherine and the screams of Jake and old man Gregory on the other side of the wall.

As Jackal asked where the assailant's go May would fight off the pain in her body and answer his question, "The man was huge, much larger than the average size human, just like the guy's from earlier he wore a suit. Meet me outside, im going to get my gun's im coming with you, I...can't sit back, they took them right in front of me and i couldn't help them...they were our friends!" May would look at Jackal seriously while talking with full resolve in her words and eye's, "I'm Coming with you rather you like it or not!" She then made a full sprint towards the room  to change and get her pistol's and then she would meet him outside.

When May grabbed her guns and made it outside to meet with Jackal with no hesitation, the man grabbed the woman, and squatted down giving her a piggy back ride on his shoulders. Had May hadn't been focused on the sole fact that three people she now considered friends were in danger she would have been put in a daze about being carried around like some sack of meat ready to be harvested, and the fact that her breasts were now closely pushing against his hard muscular back that honestly made her blush despite the situation. "It'll be quicker this way. Hold on tight. I think I found him." Jackal stated, May would do as he said and grabbed on tightly too him before suddenly he basically flew into the air with one leap which caused a gasp to escape her lips unintentionally, earlier Jackal had proved he had some strange ability but now it seemed he was physically way stronger than the average human let alone mink, despite saying he was a simple bandit May didn't believe it anymore now.

"Is that him, the large dude with the green jacket?" Jackal would ask bringing May out of her thought's, "Yeah that's him, im sure of it!" After leaping another thirty-five meters in, Jackal let her down and they begun to tail the man on foot before Jackal turned to speak to her in whisper's, "May. Whatever you do... We'll only strike once he's alone. Too many people means possible casualties. Besides... We don't know what's the condition of the old bats and the kid..." May simply nodded, they didn't know their friends conditions and attracting further attention would only complicate matters even more. After traversing the end of the street, the colossal man slipped into an alleyway, with May and Jackal on his trail. Once they we're a few ways in, the man would halt his walk, turning around to face them eye to eye. He then emptied the contents of the bag onto the alleyway revealing it was Gregory, Catherine and Jake, all covered in bruises and blood from being dragged against the ground in the sack, "So you's two are the furry bastards who interfered with my men huh?" May wasn't listening at this point, she kept her gaze focus on the slightly bloody figure's of her friends during Jackal and the man conversation.

Before she realized they were now surrounded by twenty other man, May who had been silent at this point felt her primal instincts kick in and started growling in utter rage not for herself but for her friends who were hurt because of her. With quick speed May didn't hesitate to unstrap Darcy and Marcy from her side's and using precision she shot three bullets to her left and right side aiming for each of their head's one by one without mercy or regret killing them in one fell swoop reducing the number's down to sixteen within ten seconds before turning back to the colossal male teeth bared hairs on end and a look of murderous intent in her eye's way different from her usual personality , "Your going to pay for hurting my friends!"

Upon taking out some of the force's attempting to corner Jackal and may in the alleyway, the male mink wasted no time in deploying his own attack, with a sharp breath he took in some air and before May even knew it a explosion all around them dominated both her hearing and eyesight yet despite the fact the explosions seemed to cover the whole alleyway where they stood was untouched, May knew it was Jackal who caused it. As the smoke cleared the man in charge that called himself Bistro the pawn was gone and so was Jackal, the only people left standing were May, Jake, Catherine and Gregory and six more grunt's that were as pale as a ghost and looked as if they were statue's frozen by fear beyond comprehension.

In either case May needed to take of the remaining man as they were a obstacle to releasing her friends, May begun to run straight at the guard frozen in fear near the center, the man stiffed in fear seemed to now be recovering as he lifted up his weapon and aimed it directly at her, May as she ran was paying attention to his trigger finger as they lightly begun to put their finger on it ready to shoot. The man who was closest to pulling the trigger to the far left was sweating, it seemed the event's that happened in such a short period of time affected his mental state and May was going to take full advantage of that, just as the man found the resolve to pull the trigger with his eye's closed he would miss completely as May was now sliding underneath the guard at the center and used Darcy to shoot the man's left inner thigh causing him to fall to one leg, however May quickly got back onto her feet and kicked the man's thigh's upward involuntarily making him stand back up despite the immense amount of pain coursing through it.

As the other man who seemed to snap out of their funk and begun rallying their weapon's May would now slightly twist the man's body who was now bleeding from his inner thigh and used her free hand to grip his shirt to keep him up so he could take any attack meant for her with his own body, Meanwhile May used Darcy to turn around and quickly aim directly at the other two men jugular artery causing them to drop their weapons as they now tried to stop the blood that was flowing out of their necks before dropping to the floor. Now that her back was safe May pushed the man who at this point was dead towards the remaining three as he took the brunt of all the shot's that was aimed for her causing him to fall down and be weighted by the literal dead weight of his comrade, one of the two men still standing took out a pocket knife and ran up to May with a horizontal slash motion aimed at her stomach in which she jumped back to evade, he man followed up with two more horizontal slash's before May finally had enough and shoot his foot with Marty messing up his "combo" she then moved in and placed Darcy under his chin before shooting which caused blood to spurt out slightly from the top of their skull, she then took their pocket knife and throw it like a dart at the man who was beginning to push off his dead comrade and right between the eye's.

With all five comrade's dead before him one of the Bistro's lackeys who seemed even more terrified then before indicated by the wet marks on their pant's looked at May frozen in fear, she simply waved them off and they begun running frantically from the scene as May took a breath of relief. She then rushed over to her friend and the elderly couple and started to lightly shake them to wake them up, "Hang in there guy's!"

As she shook old man Gregory and his wife Catherine and little Jake they would only groan in pain. At that moment Jackal walked up and quickly swooped the old couple onto his shoulder's and carried Jake into his hands before speaking, "We've gotta move May. Just in case these lot called for backup." May nodded and quickly started to follow Jackal from behind, they had only just meet for the first time but five to six hours ago but she felt no need to distrust him, no it was quite the opposite she felt the need to completely trust him. They kept a direct route back to the Inn on foot, just like earlier from the day people stared at them obviously but unlike before it was meant with deep suspicion, May however didn't care this time as the situation was too dire to worry about thing's that don't matter, if they wanted to look then by all means May would display the action's of saving three innocent's by staining her own hands with blood proudly.

Upon making it back both May and  Jackal entered into the main lobby and Jackal immediately  signaled  the hostess to lock the entrance behind them. The lights from the Chinese Styled lanterns illuminated the common area, It was a blessing that this happened at the dead of night where all the guests wouldn't have to see this causing the couple to lose business on top of sustaining injuries, after looking over there bodies Jackal quickly took out some weird looking snail from his pocket and started to tap what looked like dials and then stated talking explaining the situation while asking someone named Gilbarb to come along with someone else named Sinbad and hung up the phone turning to May and the hostess nearby, "I need as all of the bandages and clean clothes you have. May, we'll move Jake and the Old Bats into the nearest downstairs room." Jackal said towards the hostess affirmatively and then  turned to May "Once my crew gets here... They'll guard the perimeter of the Inn from any further interference's." May simply nodded as this was crunch time as her friends lives were at stake.

After arriving into a secured room Jackal begun doing makeshift patch up's, luckily Jake's wounds were the least severe as he only got bruised up and was mostly mentally exhausted from the affair, however Gregory and Catherine's conditions were the most severe in contrast. May and Jackal would try their best but the old couple's wounds were too much for them to deal with without prior medical training and Jackal seemed to stopped trying at one point and wait for whoever he was talking to earlier to arrive and stationed themselves to at least cleaning their bandage's and applying new one's to their wounds. "This isn't exactly how I pictured my week ending. Shishishi..." Jackal would say, May would release a sigh that was mixed in with a laugh, "No kidding." Jackal continued, "Your a pretty wicked shot with those pistols too. I need to stop teasing you as much. If I had a sharpshooter like you to watch my back, I bet my heists would go much smoother."  May gasped loudly as she looked at Jackal with her eye's slightly trembling and her face flushed as she misheard the words "watch my back" with "wash my back", "Wash your back?! D-D-D-Do you mean you want me to take a bath with you next time like were on a honey moon!? No way, i can do that! We only just meant!!" As she said this she would change Catherine's bandage's as they were getting quite bloody and also because she was dealing with her nerve's, she thought about how they would wash each other's bodies before Jackal carried her off to their bed, at this point May's nose was bleeding from over thinking perverted thought's that even her mind couldn't handle.

May delusion broke with the sound of Jackal laughing but he quickly lowered his volume still aware of thir injured friends and how they were sleeping, "Watch. Not Wash. You're as interesting as ever. I mean, I wouldn't mind having you wash my back... Shishsihi..." May nervously chuckled at her own mistake as she told herself she is such a airhead sometime's but noticed out of the corner of her eye he winked at her and she actually did somewhat enjoy it. For a few minutes there was awkward silence although May didn't know exactly why but then Jackal spoke up again with a rather serious but calm demeanor like he showed earlier, "Join my crew. I think we make a good team. I used to have a partner who used pistols as well."

May froze, she heard the words but not once had she ever been asked to join something, the thought of it brought a tear to her eye that she couldn't control but in her shyness she turned her head the opposite way trying to regain control, "What's the deal then May? Up for seeing the world? My crew's a little rowdy but they're a good bunch. Little greedy and noisy but we look out for each other. I mean, if your more interested in washing my back... That can be arranged to." May turned back to face him while laughing with even more tear's in her eyes that stood out more because of her flustering face at his latest comment, "If your fine with a emotional, sometimes lazy, pessimistic mink gunner like me...i wouldn't mind seeing the world with such a rowdy group and my good captain overseeing it all."