History of Cowboy and K
From Samsons Quest
Cowboy and K are members of Samson's and Meta's groups respectively. They were once best friends, but after two incidents seven and ten years prior to the story, they became bitter enemies. Their feud exists separately from the main plot, but is continually brought into the spotlight because of the groups they belong to.
K's Perspective
K's parents both died when he only six years old. He was left with only one person in the world: his best friend Cowboy. The two were inseparable. They were competitive but very close and vowed that they would always be there for each other. When they got older, both of them joined the military and, always trying to best each other, quickly soared up the ranks. Having no other friends or family, Cowboy meant everything to K.
Eventually, though, Cowboy met a girl, Mookie, and fell in love with her. He began to spend less time with K, and soon he and Mookie were married. K missed his friend and resented Mookie for taking him away. Feeling alone and desperate, he poured all his energy into improving his skills becoming stronger in hopes of impressing his friend. Mookie, though, felt that K was becoming dangerous, and told Cowboy to be cautious of him for the sake of their newborn daughter, Boxer. Mookie’s distrust made K resent her even more.
One day, Cowboy and K’s village was suddenly attacked by a large enemy contingent. The two friends led their squads into battle, but the enemy was fiercer than usual, and before long they were fighting side by side in the thick of things. Through their sheer strength they were able to fend off the advancing lines. Suddenly, though, Cowboy saw a group of soldiers approaching his house where his family was hiding. In a moment of panic, he suddenly broke away from K and ran away to check on them. K, shocked by his friend’s disappearance was overwhelmed by the enemy and had his arm completely sheared off at the shoulder. Left bleeding to death on the ground, K’s last memory before he passed out was of a shadowy figure standing over him and his body feeling lighter than air.
After Meta floated K off the battlefield, he treated him and had him fitted with a prosthetic arm. While K convalesced, Meta “explained” how Mookie had persuaded Cowboy to abandon him on the battlefield. K became bitter at his friend’s “betrayal.” After three years, having fully healed and mastered his new arm, K returned to confront Cowboy in their hometown.
Cowboy denied Meta’s version of events, but K, who trusted Meta completely due to his kindness, became enraged. He attacked Cowboy and overwhelmed him (wounding his eye), but before he could deliver a fatal blow, Mookie threw herself across Cowboy and pleaded for his life. Suddenly, K decided that the best way to take revenge on this friend would not be to kill him but instead to take everything dear away from him, as he believed Cowboy had done to him. With one cold slice, he dispatched Mookie leaving her to die in Cowboy’s arms.
As he was leaving, K noticed that Boxers was sleeping in her bed in other room unaware of all the commotion. He raised his claw to kill her, too, but something stopped him. Having lost his parents so early, he had always wanted to be a parent himself. In a moment of simultaneous compassion and selfishness, he gently picked up the sleeping child and stole away into the night with her.
K told the Boxers that her mother and father had been killed by one of Meta’s enemies and the impressionable young child believed him. He raised her as his own daughter and trained her to become a skilled fighter. Boxers saw K as a father and Meta as an uncle and developed a hatred of anyone who opposed them. Aside from being filled with bloodlust, Boxers was a normal adorable child who liked stuffed animals and boys and dresses. As a team, K and Boxers were unmatched and Meta considered them his most important assets besides his imported subbed One Piece DVDs.
Having mostly accomplished his revenge on Cowboy, and having become completely cold and evil (except to Boxers), K proceeded to concentrate instead on serving Meta and fulfilling his wishes. Cowboy, however, had vowed to take revenge on his former friend for killing his wife and taking his daughter. He became a bitter wanderer, unable to love or show affection and obsessed with finding his former friend and paying him back.
