“Well, this certainly turned into a mess.” Hayden muttered, sheathing Sin as he and Thanatos stood back to back in a room full of corpses.
“Eh, just a little a fodder. No biggie.” The elder Zaynesworth shrugged, walking over to one of the crates before prying it open with one of his daggers. Popping the lid, he ripped the rest of it off before tossing it to the ground, smiling when he saw the muskets inside.
“Well, well, well, looks like I wasn’t being lied to. There really was a shipment of Marine weapons here. I almost feel bad for killing that information broker… Almost.” Thane laughed while Hayden took a seat on one of the crates, drinking from a flash he kept in his pocket.
“Hey, nephew.” Thane called out to Hayden who paused mid-drink, glancing towards his uncle out of the corner of his eye. “Show it to me.” The older man ordered and Hayden lowered the flask, giving him an annoyed yet confused look.
“Show you what?”
In response, Thane removed his jacket, showing off a few tattoos and scars, but the main focus was the birthmark on the inside of his forearm.
ᚺ ᚻ ᚠ
Hayden could feel his mouth twitch as he slid off a crate, raising the bottom of his shirt so his uncle could see the right side of his abdomen.
ᚱ ᛊ ᛗ
“Well, isn’t that cute?” Thane spoke rhetorically and Hayden glared.
“What is it?” He questioned bluntly, letting his shirt drop and Thane allowed a whimsical smile to make its way across his face.
“That, my boy, is your rune. All Zaynesworths are born with them somewhere on their body. It’s our connection to Fate. They appear on our body in the first ten seconds after our birth – if they don’t, well… Then that’s basically Fate’s way of saying ‘you’re fucked, son.’.” Thane explained, leaning back on the crate of weapons and Hayden huffed.
“Well then, dear uncle, what is my ‘fate’?” He queried, getting a chuckle from Thane as the man wagged his finger.
“Ah-ah-ah. That’d be cheating. I know what my runes say, and I’ve fully embraced it. But… I highly doubt you’d like it if I told you what yours says, soooooo you’re just gonna have to wait it out. But, trust me; you’ll understand what your runes mean when they’re actually important.” Thane grinned and Hayden felt the urge to strangle him then and there.
“Anyway, help me get this shit back to my base, and then I will help you get on your way.”
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“Well damn.”
“Goddamn.”
“Go-damnnnn.”
“Goddaaaaamn.”
“Damn gurl.”
“Damn.”
“Gadammn.”
Hayden sighed violently as he smashed the back of his head against a wall, sick and tired of Thane and Rhino’s constant ‘Goddamns’ as the weapons were unloaded in his uncle’s warehouse.
“Ooooooooooh~ What’s in this one? More weapons? I think sooooooooo~” Thane sung as he skipped over to another crate which was completely metal.
“I’d assume it’s more weapons.” Rhino laughed heartily and Hayden glared at him.
“You do know they say assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups, yes?”
“I’m pretty sure they say assumptions are the – shut up.” Thane laughed as he popped it open and he was instantly blown back.
“AH!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
“… Are you done?” Hayden inquired as Thane and Rhino finally stopped screaming.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
“Now–”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! … AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay I’m done now.” Thane smiled as Hayden flung a rock at him, barely ducking beneath it as it rolled to the spider-dog-deer-frog-bear that was kept contained in the last crate.
“What the fuck is that?” Hayden questioned and Rhino shrugged, slowly approaching it.
“I don’t think it’ll hurt u-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Rhino screamed when the thing lunged at him and he quickly slammed a fist down on its misshapen skull as Thane shot it with one of the guns.
“O-Okay… Uh… Yeah. Fuck the rest of the metal crates. Toss ‘em all into the sea.” Thane ordered his men and Hayden facepalmed.
This idiocy had to stop….
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“Well, nephew, we’ll have a ship ready for you in a few hours. So, you can just relax in this barrrrrr~” Thane slurred, tossing an arm around his nephew’s neck who promptly elbowed him in the stomach, pushing him away into a crowd of drunkards.
“Fuck off, you drunk shithead.” Hayden ordered as everyone continued to get even drunker and his uncle and Rhino eventually broke out into song.
“Get low! Get low, Get low!”
“To the windooooooooooooooooows!”
“To the walls!”
“To the sweatdrop down my balls!”
“To all these bitches crawl!”
“I’m gonna kill myself…” Hayden whined as he slammed his face on the bar and he sighed, completely done with just about everything.