Fireworks? Is something happening on the island today? There shouldn't be anything good happening right now because the island is under attack...
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Chapter One: Part One- The Kidnapping
I'm in an alley trying to hide from pirates that invaded this peaceful island.
"Hey, kid! Get out here!" A pirate stopped me from my thoughts. I sat curled up in a box, having been in there to hide from the pirates.
"Did you miss one," another pirate called over and also took notice of me. "A cat?"
"That's a girl that has cat ears, it doesn't mean she's a cat," the first pirate exclaimed.
"Honestly, it don't matter, just grab her while I go look some more," the first pirate exclaimed. The other pirate picked up the box with me in it and walked out of the alley. I really wanted to get out of this situation, but I'm just a poor little cat person with no weapons or powers.
"Get in there," the pirate carrying me in the box snapped, throwing me with the box into a dark room. Not too long after that, I heard crying, whimpering, or mumbling. I wasn't sure about what to do, so I huddled into a ball in my box which luckily had a fuzzy, soft red blanket to keep me from freezing.
I had originally drifted onto this island in my enclosed box. Everything was fine when I first arrived; nothing seemed out of the ordinary that would lead to this disaster. I was busying myself with collecting empty, unused boxes all around the island until this happened: I had stuffed all of the boxes into another location and tried hiding myself with the box and blanket I arrived with since I couldn't make it off the island before getting caught.
As I looked around the dark room, the others in the room watched me. I couldn't blame them. Only if there was something I could do…
A few hours later, the door to the room was opened again, and pirates stormed in to grab everyone.
"We're headin' out!" The pirates rejoiced, and they took everyone out to their large and spacious ship. The people of the island were crying and whimpering as I continued to feel disgusted by myself that there wasn't anything I could do to help.
We were all put below deck behind bars so we didn't try anything. I felt as if the ship was beginning to move, and all I could do was wait for something to happen.
The next day, the food was almost gone, and I felt so bad that I wouldn't eat anything until the others have eaten what they wanted. When it came for me to eat something, there was a single piece of bad-looking fruit left. I sadly ate it, and it definitely tasted so horribly disgusting that I almost would rather throw up and eat that instead. Some of the others may have felt like that too, who knows.
The following day, the pirates came down and dragged us up and onto an island, where it so happened to be that hundreds of pirates guarded the sidelines that faced the direction of maybe thousands of other humans who seemed to be victims of kidnapping, too.
I could only feel worse about myself since I couldn't do anything about this.
"Listen up," a pirate began. When everyone was on the island, the pirate had begun lecturing us all. "You have all been taken from your homes, but this is for a just cause," he claimed, but no one followed along. "We have been trying out some weapons, and we need more targets to prepare for defeating even more than we already have." Everyone began panicking as I could only stand and get tense. The hundreds of pirates around the island pulled out some guns and began aiming at everyone that panicked. "Thank you for your cooperation," the pirate finished, and gunshots were heard.
One after another, everyone began to fall. I became frantic as I believed I couldn't do anything to possibly keep anyone from dying. In a rage, I screamed at the top of my lungs.
"Go die," another pirate yelled in joy.
"Compared to what we've done, this is nothing!" Another pirate rejoiced.
"The running and screaming is entertaining," a pirate exclaimed.
My name is Lanari. I'm 18 years old about 5'1'' with long red hair and cat ears, the usual pink V-neck t-shirt with a white shirt underneath, and purple and pink striped socks with pink shoes. I am currently somewhere in the South Blue, and I don't know much of these waters since I'm from the East Blue. I do not have any sort of powers.
Once I stopped screaming, a silhouette zips by and all the bullets that had been shot at the people were thrown back at the shooters, and the pirates began to fall. I tried looking for that silhouette that dashed by, but in the end, I never found out who it was. I wanted to cry out in anguish; I wanted to find this person so he could help me get stronger so I could help instead of being the one that needs the help…
When the silhouette suddenly disappeared, the kidnapped began chasing what's left of the pirates away, and they all decided to take one of the pirates' ships they had docked on the island. When we finally got back to the island these people came from, they began fixing their houses. I went and got my box with the blanket and left without saying a single goodbye to anyone, however. I didn't do much to help them. I'd feel bad if I stayed.
While drifting with the waters of the South Blue after waking up since drifting away from the island, I found myself looking at a black top hat with a red stripe around the middle. On it was a note:
"I helped you out, so I expect you to help me. -M"
I had no idea who this was unless it was the silhouette from the island. Confused, and not knowing how to even meet this person, all I did was keep it with me in my box for the meantime, hoping I would soon find out who this person is so I can learn how to become stronger from this person. I don't want to stand around and be unable to do anything when others are in danger ever again.
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As I continued drifting off with the waters of the South Blue, I saw an island in the distance and decide to go there for some food. It took a while, however, because I didn't have much of a paddle with my hands against the waves. It took so long to get to the shore, and it wasn't very pleasant when I got there either.
"Halt," a marine called out to me as I hit the shore. "What business do you have here?"
"I need some food," was all I had to say.
"Are you a pirate? Who exactly are you?"
"I'm from the East Blue, I'm not a pirate," I sighed.
"Do you have any kind of identification to prove that?" He put his hand out.
"I don't have anything but this box and blanket," I noted. "Do you know how hard it is to live like this, from one island to another?"
"If you don't have any proof of not being a pirate, then I will have to take you in until we can prove exactly who you are." The marine picked up the box with me in it, which I was sick and tired of people doing, and he carried me to a cell at their marine base. The joys of feeling kidnapped already yet again. Just as I arrived in the cell, though, I heard from outside the dungeon about something interesting.
"You've gotta be kidding me! You didn't know?! The Supernova Majiko is coming here!"
"Like I was supposed to know that?" Another voice said.
"Yes, you were! He's only the best pirate in the world! He goes to every island at least once, and he hasn't come here yet! The supply ship with Supernova Majiko in it is supposed to arrive in two days!"
"I don't see what's so exciting about him," another voice had sighed.
"Really?! He's, like, the only Supernova that will do anything he can to help islands or do something for them! He helps all of us normal people!" I was kind of hurt to some reason after hearing that. I'm a cat human, there hasn't been anyone that has exactly called me 'normal'...
"I'll have to see it to believe it; pirates are pirates and always will be pirates," another voice mumbled.
"You'll see! He's great!"
"Quit it already," the others snapped. "We'll believe it once we see it!"
The conversation began to fade away, probably walking farther away from here. The more I think about it, the worse I feel about myself. Why do I have to be a cat human? Why did I have to end up like this? Who would ever help someone like me?
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"Pirates!" This is what woke me up. I had slept in the cell overnight, but there wasn't anything that would have led me to predict pirates would come here. Then again, it's true that pirates don't all specifically go for certain islands.
"Stop kidding around," someone snapped. "There haven't been any pirates since a year ago, we're fine!"
"I'm not lying! There're pirates coming!" The yelling faded away just as another set of footsteps arrived with the group outside.
"There's nothing to fret about, he's doing what he always does," the female voice assured. Nothing else happened after that, everything was quiet for a while. I sat inside my box, biting gently against the edge of the box with the red fuzzy blanket around me.
Later that day, I was visited by some marines. I was still gently chewing on my box. Sometimes it can be annoying to get out of good old habits of mine.
"Since you don't have any proof about who you are, we need you to tell us where you're from so we can verify who you are exactly," a marine asked. He was much taller than me and had red hair. I was still too frightened to say anything. "It won't do you any good to keep quiet; the longer you refuse to say anything, the longer it is you will be stuck in here. This island has been attacked by pirates way too often, and it was decided that we must come down here and make everything strict as to prevent anything from happening again. I will ask you again, who are you and where are you from?"
"I…" I don't like telling people anything about me. I don't want anyone to get hold of who I am. If there was somehow information slipped out, I would be in great danger, along with the rest of them.
"You what," the marine asked like he had all the time in the world- and he kind of did have that right now since he's not doing whatever it is marines do when they're not fighting pirates.
"I…was…" I couldn't find anything else to say because I was so bothered being here. The opening of a metal door was heard, and a marine much bigger than the others down here came over and saw me.
"Gentlemen, can't you see she's terribly frightened? She's a cute little cat, and cats hate being in cages!" This marine said that in a way of saying he thought I was out-of-this-world cute. He kind of looked like a captain or something, but I don't know much about marines other than they fight pirates. On the other hand, I wasn't frightened about anything other than the fact that they want to find out about me, which I don't want others knowing, but I decided to play along and act frightened just to see what happens.
"Sir, she—"the marine was interrupted by the big marine.
"Don't 'but she' me," he snapped. "You're treating this little girl terribly!" He walked over to me and pet my head. "She's a little girl!" I didn't know if I wanted to feel glad or disturbed.
"We need to know who she is exactly before doing anything! You know the rules, Captain," one of the marines snapped, but the Captain glared at him.
"You dare to raise your voice against me," he grumbled. "Someone of higher authority?!" The marine backed up a few steps.
"No, sir," he apologized as he saluted. The marine Captain again looked back to me.
"I suppose that what he did say about finding out who you are is true, however," he sadly motioned. "Why don't you come with me, and we can talk about what we can do to let you go," he said as he ordered marines to pick up the box that had me in it. They carried me out of the cell outside to another building. When we went inside, they took me up the stairs, and we walked into a room down the hall. "Where were you born and raised," he asked me calmly. I could only watch him. "There's nothing to fear or worry about. You don't look like you're the sort to be a pirate or thief, so you shouldn't have anything to hide," he smiled friendly.
"I…" it was really hard for me to answer him, even if he was all friendly. What was also really hard was trying to continue acting like a ten year old, or whatever age it is that he believes I am. It's true, though, that I'm not a pirate and have nothing to hide. "I… I'm from the… East Blue…" I said, and he nodded, looking at a pile as he takes a little stack from it. Probably any known threats and pirates that are from the East Blue.
"What was the name of the island you were raised at," he asked. I didn't want to say anything else about me, so I had to try coming up with something.
"It… I… I can't… remember… it's been so… long…," I slowly answered as if I really were frightened. The advantages of others seeing me as some small child even though I'm really eighteen years old. He looked at me painfully. Without another word, he looked through every last piece of paper in the paper that he had taken off of the larger pile. Once he looked through them all, he made sure to look through the rest of the other pile, most likely the pile of wanted posters for the other seas. After waiting for maybe half an hour, he put down the last wanted poster.
"I don't see anyone or anything that resembles you and anyone from the East Blue, or anyone or anything from any other area. You should be okay." I sighed to myself, relieved. "I'll take you outside," he smiled. Still in my box, he carried me down the stairs to the outdoors and put me down.
"Thank you," I said gleefully, and I noticed that he was blushing.
"P-Please, don't mention i-it," he stuttered with a grin. "Good luck with your visit," he waved, walking back inside. I didn't really know what to do at this point. All I could do was sit in the box, unsure of what to do. I suddenly remembered that I was going to get some food, though, because I hadn't eaten for a while before being taken in to the dungeon. I didn't see anywhere in sight to get some food, so I decided to finally get out of my box and look around with the box in my hands like a hug, my tail somewhat dragging on the ground.
"Look at that freaky girl," I suddenly jumped. "Who walks around with a tail and cat ears?" I heard laughter, along with a group of others laughing with the first one. Now, if I were my younger self, I would be curling my tail around my feet, but just because I don't look like I'm eighteen, it doesn't mean I can't act like it. I walk over and punch them.
"Don't go being mean to someone you don't even know," I said evilly as they shivered and ran. No matter how many times I handle smaller things like these, I can't do anything with bigger things such as pirates, and it irritates me just to think about it. Shaking my head, I continue on my search for finding somewhere to get food. I soon find myself standing in front of a bakery, and then I walked in.
"Hello," I heard someone call out from the other side of the bakery. "What can I do for you today?" I looked over to find someone baking bread in an open oven.
"I'm looking around for some good food to eat," I pointed out, but he looked at me funny as he turned to look at me and began hesitating.
"Y-you're an Unemagi," he pointed at me. "G-get out of here, you fox!" He picked up the wooden tool used to hold the bread up in the open oven as to use it for hitting me. I quickly ran out of the bakery and looked elsewhere.
How does he know about the Unemagi? There shouldn't be anyone that knows what we are! As I continued walking, I lost my thoughts because of the yelling I heard behind me. It was the baker making chase for me.
What did I ever do to him?!
I began running again with the box in hand. I may be small for my age, but that doesn't mean I'm slow, too. The baker continued being persistent with catching me, so I needed to get rid of him as fast as I could. What really surprised me, however, was the increase in number of people chasing after me. Does everyone on this island know about Unegami?!
"No! I want her," I suddenly heard behind me.
"Never! She's going to play with my daughter," another yelled. All I could do was make a disgusted face as I kept running: I absolutely hate being thought of as cute. Sure, I used to not care about being known as cute, and I use my cuteness to get out of situations I don't want to be in, but it's disgusting to think of being cute to play and be there for children. Kids are a pain. I continued running with that disgust in mind as I got faster and faster, eventually getting them out of site finally. I didn't even stop running after that just so they didn't try following me and find out where I am. In the process, many citizens were either angry at me or confused when I bumped into them accidentally. As I ran, more and more people began chasing after me. A few marines were chasing after me, too.
"What's going on," a familiar voice called out ahead of me. It was the head marine of the island. He saw me and got tense. "What're you going off and doing, you cat?!"
"Waaah," the people cried out.
"Now I can't take her home with me," someone complained, along with other complaints by the others. After overhearing that, the head marine began steaming up as he charged for the people.
"How dare you want to molest this poor little cat!?" The people ran for their lives as the head marine chased after them. I could only sigh as I headed for the shore. As I did, though, I saw many marines standing in a line as a massive ship began docking. As I stood there watching the ship, I took notice in the pirate flag: it was a flag I've never seen before, a skull with a black top hat with a red stripe on it, along with curved swords pointing downwards instead of bones. I took notice in the top hat, though, looking back to the message I had gotten along with a top hat which looked just like that one.
"You're clear," a marine called out to the ship, and pirates began coming onto the shores with large boxes in their hands. One of them wore a top hat and talked to the marines. From behind, I heard someone coming up towards me.
"You haven't met Majiko, the Supernova, have you," the head marine asked me. "Let's go chat with him." I grumbled, not really wanting to go after thinking about the letter he left me. "Welcome, Majiko. It's a privilege to be meeting you," he announced as we drew closer to him. Majiko looked over and waved us over.
"No, I'm the one that's privileged to be here," he humbly said. "I hate seeing islands that are in pain and are starving, and I enjoy having the opportunity to help anyone I can!" The marine head laughed.
"If you were some other pirate, I'd have shoved you off the island," they both laughed. "It's also a good thing I've known you beforehand, too."
"Sure is," Majiko laughed. "There have been a few islands that are just like you, allowing me to help support them, but there also have been those that wouldn't allow it, but I still left boxes of food on the shores of those islands." They both laughed again. "There isn't a single thing I have forgotten!" He laughed some more.
"Why don't you come with me for some grub," the head marine gestured.
"Sure, why not," Majiko smiled. Before they left, though, I walked up to Majiko, but he didn't seem pleased about it. "What do you want?"
"I wanted to know why you sent me that note," I asked him, but he growled at me angrily.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he snapped. "Leave me be." He walked off, following the head captain. All I could do was worry.
"There isn't a single thing I have forgotten!" "I'll have to see it to believe it; pirates are pirates and always will be." "I don't know what you're talking about." These thoughts kept running through my head. I didn't believe this was a very pleasant pirate. That, or someone is impersonating as the real one.
I shrug it off. It doesn't matter to me whether or not it's really him. Sure, I'm someone that cares about helping others that are in need, but I don't care about something I hear from random people. I'm not soft for people that aren't in danger.
…come to think of it, though, what if this person really isn't this Majiko person, and is going to do something horrible to others?
End of Part One
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