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Radiant Blood

#4-Bounty

#4-Bounty

Oct 10, 2025

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Iwba went into the shack and searched for it. He found the rod and grabbed it. It seemed off; it looked like a normal metal rod, but when he grabbed it, his pores tingled in all sorts of ways, like energy was flowing into him.

He carried it back to Cko and gave it to him. Cko was giving Iwba this odd stare as if Iwba was gonna get harmed by whatever is gonna happen. "Yo Iwba, we're gonna make a reactor." The sun was blazing behind him lighting up the "night" sky. But the atmosphere was kind of messed up so it started showing anyway(appeared after the incident)

(Author's note: I don't like Cko or his hair)

*Iwba stared in shock. The blazing sun reached behind him, still lighting up the night sky. The fence and exit to the property was also behind him.*

Iwba locked in for a second and asked Cko a question. "Why are we gonna need a reactor?"

Cko stared back at Iwba and told him, "You know how there are 'magic' crystals that were supposedly supposed to make your health better? Imagine this as that but for real!" Iwba seemed unsure about what this meant, because Iwba didn't even go to school. 

Cko started yapping about the functions, but Iwba wasn't paying attention. All Iwba heard was "Magic rock", "alluminum foil", and "Cube" But in the end, Cko had a medium sized alluminum cube that was about as big as a hand. He pointed at Iwba. "We're gonna implant inside your abdomen!" Cko pointed towards Iwba ecstatically.

"I think my medical skills are superb! So don't worry you're in GOOD hands!" Cko began approaching Iwba menacingly.

*After a few hours, with many mistakes, Cko semi-successfully implanted the reactor in Iwba's stomach. Most of the time during the surgery Iwba was coughing violently. Cko didn't pay much time to what organs Iwba had cause his target was opening the organ and tossing the reactor in there! Normally this would result in death but Cko's technique was able to stop it from resulting in death.*

Iwba stumbled out of the shack with Cko helping support him. Iwba had a large scar across his stomach, but nothing a simple shirt couldn't cover. Iwba looked to Cko, "What now?" Iwba coughed violently.

Cko let go and let Iwba fall to the ground. "Your goal is to survive the abnormal amounts of energy in your body now. I want to see if you can manifest a power. Cko pulled his left eye open a bit and stared down at Iwba with it. "I have a special type of eye that lets me see the energy and what type it is. So try to get rid of the energy overflowing from your gut!"

Iwba started tweaking out on the floor. After the surgery Iwba was left in extreme pain and it felt like there was something expanding in his stomach. Cko interrupted Iwba's suffering time "Can you feel your veins in the beneath the skin? Try to push it out, just like we trained."

Iwba took his advice and looked like he was making progres for a second until he coughed again and fell on the floor.

Come on, Iwba, you got this. Let's try pumping out the blood as a last resort. I don't think we're gonna make it-

Iwba let out a scream as his skin shot out blood from the pores of his skin, but Iwba felt relived. He stared up at the sky, he could feel the energy coming out. He felt relieved.

"Good job, Iwba! I can see you found out how to let it out, but you don't seem to have anything special to it. Try shooting out more blood maybe that'll work!"

Iwba turned his head to Cko, covered in blood. He just stared with his mouth slightly open. "Why... the HELL would you make me do that!"

Cko stared at Iwba and said "Get up and I'll tell you." Iwba got on his knee and gradually stood up.

"Good. Anyway, the reason I did that is to awaken your technique... But I don't think you have one!" He began laughing a bit at Iwba. "Don't worry though, when I think you're ready I'll get you an implant."

"An implant?..." Iwba said. He took a moment to think



"Yeah, an implant. People who can actually emit energy are uncommon... But I'm pretty sure you were a regular person. But I see a fire in you. The effort you put into stuff is immense!" Cko spread his arms wide.

"Iwba, I'm sending you on a mission. I want you to go find a bounty, find them, and bring back money to me to prove you did it. Or just bring the person." Cko walked toward Iwba and kicked him out of the property.

Fast foward a few minutes and Iwba was wondering around the city. He saw a bounty board and looked at it. "Not many good options here. I'll take the one with the least I guess. " 
"Wanted for stealing various organs from an implant store"
 
 "Last seen at a local Jimmy's"

Iwba went down by, asking people if they knew any 'Jimmy's' near by. Iwba didn't know what it was but most people did. Iwba found the Jimmy's and saw the person on the picture. The person was eating... A burger? Iwba started yelling at them from behind the glass. "Hey! You! I needa turn you in for money!"

The person heard the yelling and then turned to Iwba. They stared at him but something seemed off. The person lowered their sunglasses revealing pale blue eyes with crosshairs. "Who the hell are you!"

Iwba saw the eyes they had. He recogized them from some where. He remembered Cko's eyes, but he only had one of them. Cko had said something about it being special and it can see energy. "You're going with me whether you uhh!... Like it or not!"

"What are you gonna do about it? Huh?" They stood up on the chair, standing higher than Iwba, looking down on him. "Fight me if you want to arrest me so much!" They waved their hand, breaking the glass between them. Iwba let out a little scream and stepped back a bit.

"I can see you're strong, energy is overflowing out of you. Every inch of skin!" They jumped towards iwba and proceeded to punch him in the gut. A clanking sound came from within Iwba. The punch felt like a flame of sorts. Iwba gained his footing and focused the output to his fist and he punched the mysterious person in the face. They coughed out blood. "OW! WHY DOES THAT HURT SO MUCH!"

Iwba looked shocked. "You're the one who started it!" he pointed at them.

Both stepped back and Iwba stared at them. They suddenly stood up tall and pointed to themselves in the chest. "You can call me Sam." They smirked. Their jacket blew in the wind majesticly along with their black hair. But in the midst of their aura farming Iwba would've punched them right in the face, knocking them out.

 (I couldn't do the head justice)

Iwba tried carrying Sam on his back but it was either Sam was too heavy or Iwba was just weak as hell. Iwba looked down and decided to just drag them by both of their hands. But their hands looked a bit off as if it weren't a man's hands.

1 hour later Iwba got back to the property, sweating. He let go of sam and yelled out for Cko. "Yo Cko, I'm back with the bounty!"

It went silent for a good bit.

Cko came running out the barracks and saw who Iwba brought.

"Cko can you please open the gates!"

"On it!" Cko slugged towards the gate, tiredly. He opened it up and looked at who Iwba brought.

"Iwba, it looks like you brought some junkie to this place. Are you sure this is the bounty?"

Iwba through a rock at Cko "Have you even seen the bounty!""

Sam woke up and looked up. Their eyes were blinded. "Hey what did you do with my sunglasses!" Sam pointed at Iwba. Cko saw their eyes. "Oh I see why someone would want to get this specimen. Iwba, this idiot got two eyes implanted instead of just one. They seem to be in-experienced. Yo, Iwba, what's their name?"

Iwba thought a bit "They said their name was 'Sam'."

Cko gestured Sam to get up. "What's your technique?" Sam looked up at Cko.

"What the hell is a technique!" Sam shouted at Cko

"What's your power?"

Sam gave Cko a weird look "I can heat stuff up I guess."

"Good, you seem to have calmed down. Anyway, Iwba, we can either execute the criminal and turn in their head or we can take them in."

Iwba stared at Cko like he was crazy. "Let them join us I guess. Why would we execute someone anyway!" Iwba pointed at Cko. He responded "For money of course. Anyway, both of yall, follow me." Cko began walking further and further away from the gate. Iwba didn't really know how big Cko's property was but it seemed gigantic. After 10 minutes, they reached a square concrete floor in the middle of nowhere. It was so far to the point where pale grass grew.

Cko turned around. "I wan't yall to spar here. I'll be watching." He faded into the field. The area grew silent and they stared at eachother. Iwba walked up to Sam and proceeded to try to punch them in the stomach.

Sam blocked and counter attacked going for the face. Iwba got hit right in the face and stumbled back a bit. He looked up and charged toward Sam. But then he stopped as soon as he got close. They took a moment to look eachother in the eyes before Iwba swirled around and kicked Sam right in the side of their abdomen, knocking them down.

Sam coughed and looked up at Iwba. "Let's take this up a bit." Sam smirked and stood up, hands raised as if Sam was holding fire in their hands. Sam was, but Iwba couldn't see it at all. Iwba began emitting more energy and proceeded to hit Sam right in the face, knocking them down again before picking them back up and kneeing them three times. "For real?" Iwba continued with a chain of punches in the stomach.

Sam looked up, gritting their teeth. "I wont be letting you win!" Sam punched Iwba in the face full force. "Our fight is just getting started!" Iwba stumbled back yet again, his nose bleeding. Iwba returned the punch but Sam blocked it and went in for an uppercut. Iwba got hit and proceeded to try to go beyond, and tried expelling the most he could through his hands. But then POP!

Iwba looked down at his hands to see they were covered in blood. A searing pain engulfed his hands and he fell to the floor whining like a child. The pain was similar to Sam's punches

Sam looked at him with concern. "You doing alright?"

Iwba took a moment to look at Sam. The more he thought of it he started think Sam was a girl. The baggy pants, dark shirt and the big black jacket made it a bit hard to believe Sam was a girl but Iwba was still unsure, especially since their hands were awfully feminine.

"Yo, Sam, you're a guy, right?"

Sam got nervous and looked a way for a second. They looked back "Uhhh, yeah, I'm a guy." Sam twirled his fingers around.

Cko emerged from the shadows and clapped his hands. "I think y'all have done enough. Particularly Iwba. Sam was it?... Go grab Iwba and bring him back to the property."

Cko began walking away without warning. Sam rushed to grab Iwba and began dragging him by the arms trying to catch up with Cko.

Another 10 minutes later and they were back. Cko entered the Barracks with Sam and showed him the rooms. "The one on the left to the end of the hallway is yours. I have big plans tomorrow so don't dissapoint me."

Iwba was laying on the ground, already sleeping. Cko went to go look at him. "I can already see his potential increasing. I'm sure he's gonna be able to help me with my true goal." he thought to himself.

Sam looked at his room. It was a plain bed and a night stand with a lamp on it. Sam took his jacket and shoes off and went into bed. But, he couldn't sleep. "My eyes... They're burnt out. I can still see the image of that guy's energy. It was flowing stronger than mine... But how is he able to do it! What's providing all this energy to where it overflows!" Sam though to himself. he put his hand on his stomach and went to sleep.

To be continued
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Cko sends Iwba to go do a quest after implanting a nuclear reactor in his radiation storage organ. He brings back the bounty but decides to spare them. Cko sends them to the pale blue field to fight. Iwba injures himself and gets dragged back by the bounty(Sam).

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