This is my first attempt to do a One Piece story with my own characters I hope people will like it if there's any problems with it I will like to hear it through your reviews.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece and all rights and privileges to the manga and it story belong to Oda and all other owners.
Darkness Coming
Prelude
The only thing Kaya remembered of that night was the smell of burning wood, the shattered glass that cut into her feet, the sky as it lit up like fireworks. But that night would forever haunt her, as she ran with her mother the sound of guns and cannons rang through her ears as she saw the people around her run away and the many who were falling around her not knowing what was going on.
"Mum where's dad" asked Kaya as they ran past people after people
"He's going to catch up with us later honey just keep running" said Kaya's mother, noticing her mother's voice was scared Kaya wondered why she was scared, did it have something to do with what was going on with all the ships around the island firing straight at their home and everything else as well.
"Mum why are those people firing at us, what we do to make them angry" Kaya asked her mother as they ran passed the palace as it burned brightly from the cannon fire that had hit it.
"I don't know honey all I can say is that they want to kill all of us" kaya's mother said.
"But why…." Boom Kaya never finished her sentence as the cannon fire sent her flying several feet from where she was running, Kaya gradually stood up from where she has landed looking around her to find her mother she felt blood dripping from her face. She touch her face to feel a large cut across her face from where the shattered glass had cut her, she could feel tears at the back of her eyes from the pain of the cut on her face but held back as she noticed a figure in front of her laying under a heavy beam of the house that had fallen on them.
"MUM" Kaya cried as she ran to help her out, she started to move rocks from around her and tried to move the beam but couldn't budge it, she still tried to move it but nothing had changed. "Help Somebody Help Please" Kaya cried but no one stopped to help her so she went back to trying to move the beam from a top of her mother.
"Kaya…" Kaya heard the weak voice of her mother and went straight to her to hear what she was going to say, "Mum hold on I'll get you out" Kaya said as she moved back to move the beam but her mother grabbed her before she could move. "Listen I want you to keep running to the northern shore, there is a ship waiting for you it will take you to the next island and when you get there….arrr" she let out a sound of pain from the injury of the beam weighing down on her.
"Mum what you saying I won't leave you, I'll stay here with you I don't want to be alone" Kaya cried out as the last of the people ran passed them.
"Kaya you can't stay here…. Listen you have to go now and when you get to the next island you must not tell anyone your real name; you mustn't get caught by these people, only trust those you consider your friends and you must remember to never lose your temper… promise me Kaya that you'll remember what I've said please…. Promise me" Kaya sat their confused by her mother words she couldn't understand why she was giving up and why she was saying she should make this promise.
"Mum please don't say those things I won't leave you please I'll get you out so please don't say those…." "PROMISE me Kaya" as she shouted those words, Kaya had never heard her shout before not even when her father was being stupid or when her friends told her off for her silliness. As she looked at her mother's face she saw the tears run down her face, somehow inside Kaya heart she knew her mother wasn't going to get out and that this was the last time she'd see her.
"I promise Mum I promise" Kaya cried as she said those words to her mother, she saw a smile come on her face she knew then that her mother would be happy to know she promised before she ran off.
"Are there anymore around" said a stranger's voice as Kaya heard the voice so did her mother, "Kaya Run, Hide, Get away and don't look back you hear me, go" as her voice became more concerned, Kaya did as she was told and ran as fast as she could and she would of kept going before hearing the stranger's voice again saying.
"Hey I found someone and I think she's a live one" said the stranger's voice Kaya looked back and hide behind a broken building to see what was going on. She saw that the stranger wore a stranger white outfit, long white trousers and a white shirt and over the shirt was a coat and very long white coat that she had seen before. Her father had told her that the people who wore those clothes belonged to the marines, they as she was told worked for the world government they were people who protected people by sending the marines to catch pirates and villains of a nasty nature.
Kaya watch and wondered why the marines were here and why did they attack their island her home, why did the attack and kill so many people. "So this is where you ended up" said the stranger from what Kaya could see this man was tall and had jet black hair and a young face, telling her he was a young man and had some authority over the other marines that were with him.
"Bastard you won't get away with this….you will pay for what you've done….cough" Kaya heard her mother and had a puzzled look on her face when she saw the look of disgusted on her face at the man in front of her.
"You are a fool Marla D Lillian, you and your husband couldn't have hidden that thing from us it belongs to us and us alone so if you want to live long enough to see it in the right hands you will tell us where you hidden it and maybe the government will overlook your families treachery" the man exclaimed in front of her mother, Kaya became even more confused and puzzled by what this man was saying what was it that her mother had hidden and why did the government want with it, was this the reason they attack the island was that why they killed so many people.
"Sorry but your too late it already gone from this island you and the rest of the government will never find it, it will hide from you and when the time is right it will show up and it will destroy you as it was told by our ancestors…..you Lose "blood streaming down her mouth as the last of her word became too weak to hear even by Kaya.
"So be it if you won't tell us where it is then you can join the rest of your people and your husband in the next life" said the man as Kaya heard those word she had a look of shock on her face, her dad was dead all her friends all her neighbours why, why was the government doing this, why were the marines doing this she always believed they fought for justice and what is right so why did they have to kill so many people for whatever it was they were after no one needed to die for this.
"I don't care at least I die knowing I stopped you from getting your hands on he…" "Bang" in the instance Kaya heard that gunshot she had witnessed something unforgivable something that would forever scar her soul. The man had a pistol in his hand and it was aimed at the lifeless body of Kaya's mother.
"Remove the body and take to where the others are I'm sure the fleet admiral will want to identify this body so that the world knows that there all dead" said the man as he walked away from the body.
"Captain Brody should we search the area to be sure there's no survivors" said another marine, "There's little point now we got the last of them trying to get to the sea we bombarded their ship and caught the rest and executed the last of them I doubt there any more around here that will be alive" said the man named Brody.
"What you going to say to the fleet admiral about what that woman said about it not being on the island" said the marine next to him, "I'll tell him that will need to look around the other islands it couldn't have gotten far…." The rest of the conversation faded out as they moved away taking with them Kaya's mother as soon as they were out of sight Kaya moved out of her hiding place and ran as fast as she could from where she had witnessed her mother's death and as she ran thoughts ran through her mind.
"I promise to never give my name to anyone, I promise never to be caught by the government, I promise to never let the marines catch me, I promise to find friends who I can trust with my life, I promise to never get angry, I promise never to cry again, I promise to make them all pay for what they've done to my family, to my friends, to my home, to me; I swear on my soul that they will come to regret ever coming to destroy us" Kaya's thought shout these promises over and over until they burned though her soul till she reach the ship on the northern coast.
"Are you Marla D Kaya" Kaya jumped as she turned around and saw a tall masculine man stood before her, "Yes…who are you" kaya's voice shook as she spoke to the man, "My name is Conan that is all you need to know about my name since you're the only one here, I'll take you with me and keep you safe as your mother instructed me in case she didn't make it, I'll tell you more when we reach the next island for now get in the boat" said the man, kaya did as he said and sat as he paddled the boat further from her home.
As they got further out Kaya saw the flames of her home reach further into the sky, to her it was like she saw her who life burn away she saw everything she knew turn to ash, In the end she had decided she would never go by Kaya again that name had burned away with her family and her home she would go by a new name a name no one could ever care for, she would get stronger so she could fight to survive and get more stronger so that she could fight the world that had taken everything from her, and then when she had achieved a feet so great the world would shake from the mere whisper of her name in the wind.
"When we reach land you will stay with me, will need to think of a name to hide who you are so the government won't come looking for you" said Conan as he finished the sentence he notice the cold look in the girls eyes along with the deep cut across the girls face it made him shiver for a moment, he knew from the look she gave that this girl had witnessed true horror and that she would grow to become a threat to the world that they sort to control. "I don't know what you saw or what your feeling Kaya but remember this your mother gave her life to keep you alive if you want the world to keep remembering your home or your family you'll need to become stronger than even you know, do you understand because if you do I can teach you to survive out there but it'll be up to you on how you live after that" said Conan.
"I understand, I promised mum I'd do as she asked before she died and I will keep my promise and my name is not Kaya, Kaya no longer exists" as Kaya looked at the last glimpses of her home and of the ship that now surround it she knew she would never return to that place.
"Then what is your name" said Conan as he looked at her with a stern face.
"My Name….Call me Hunter".
