The wind were starting to blow hard, the storm were finally coming in from the sea. The storm were coming in towards the grand governor's mansion in Arcadia. The grand trees in the garden where waving slightly in the wind. The guards hutted as the wind was freezing, but yet they had to guard the garden, and with good reason too. The night was darker than ever before. As one guard passed on of the outer walls he cowered as the fist lighting striked. Had he not done that he might have seen the shadow that stood on the wall. As the light disappered so did the shadow. As the next flash of light you could see in the few seconds it lighted up the garden that he was a young man.
He stood crocked down looking at the guards hiding from the lighting. At his shoulder sat a white falcon. As the light disappeared again the falcon took of and passed around the garden. With out a sound the man were suddenly jumping down into the garden and ran up to the mansion. Before the next flash of light he jumped into an open window and hid in the half darkness in the empty hall. The falcon came quickly in after him.
"All clear. The guards where more busy trying to find somewhere to hide from the lighting." A voice said inside the man's head. He smiled. In the weak light of the few lights that here on you could now see him more clearly. He held his head high. He was 27 years old by the looks of him. His suit were black with grey zippers on the sides. His suit were quite close sitting with a red brim around his neck. The edges on it had a silver grey color. It had a brim around his chest as well where he had a silver grey skull with two crossing sabers. Around his waist he had two belts both with a silver grey buckle on. The first buckle had a skull on it and the other one had the crossing sabers. The last belt also had a gravity saber and a gun hanging by it. He turned his head a little looking at his falcon again. His Auburn hair moved slightly as he did. His grey brown eyes shined in the darkness. As he smiled the scar across his face moved slightly. The unmistakable scar of the Harlock clan. The white falcon rustled his feathers. He had golden eyes and a sharp beak, his feathers where white as snow but spotet with black edges.
"Now all we have to do his to find out where the Governor is." The young man smiled.
"Are you sure of this, master?" The bird asked looking down the hall. The young man nodded his eyes gleaming dangerously in the dark.
The falcon took of again flying to an table where he could look around the corner. The young man moved up to him and as the bird move to the next corner, he moved on down the hall.
"Shit master, guards!" The falcon cried in his head, and the man moved into a empty room, carefully nearly closing the door, holding his gun ready as he hid behind the door. The falcon landed on a table before the guards saw him and spread his wings. Standing completely still the falcon looked like he was stuffed out.
"The governor must be mad, I tell you." The first guard said as they crossed the corner. "Believing that the pirates will be after him.. No one has seen any signs of the pirates for year now, and good is that I tell you." They were dressed in green guard suits and the first one was shot and round as the other one was long and thin.
"You keep forgetting about the reaming Pirate. He is not gone." The other one said.
"What? That runt... Fritz Harlock?" The first one asked looking to his friend.
"That runt has been said to match all three of the Harlocks so far. Some even said that he matches up to the great pirate knight himself." The other one said shivering. The first one blowed it of.
"Yeah right, thats just rumors. No the real Captain Harlock, he on the other hand were scary. I once came to be in a group that were gonna arrest him. One look of his steel cold eye and everyone fled for their lifes. I tell you it was horrible... Are you even listening to me?" The first guard asked, as he saw his friend were staring at the white falcon.
"Yeah, I just... I can't remember it being here before..." The other one said. The first one sighed.
"Just where are you at day time? The governor were out hunting before the news of the pirate ship came. He probably killed it today." He said waving his arms. The young man relaxed a bit as he had been ready to strike when it looked like his bird were in trouble.
"It looks like it is still alive, if you ask me.." The other one said.
"Still why the governur would have something as ugly as a dead bird out side is bed room is something I can not understand." The first guard said. The young man's brow grey eyes narrowed as he heard. The two guards kept on going down the hall, and as soon as they were out of sigh, the falcon relaxed his wings. The falcon nearly looked like it sighed relived.
"It's safe, master." He sent out to the young man. Coming slowly out of the room, he stopped out side the door that the guards had looked at. The falcon landed on his shoulder.
"This is it, Silvereye. This may be our one chance to find my dad, and the others." The young man said. The falcon nodded.
"Maybe, but this is dangerous. Are you sure?" The falcon asked looking at him with his right golden eye. Again the young man nodded. Holding his gun in his right hand ready, he carefully opened the door. The falcon looked in first.
"All clear, the only one in the room is laying in the bed." The falcon said as he took his head back. The young man walked slowly into the room. Carefully closing the door, while the Falcon kept his eyes on the man in the bed. As the young pirate moved up to the bed he saw the elder face of an old rival to the Harlock clan. The governor of Arcadia, a man that had sworn his loyalty to first the Illumidas empire and then later to the Mech Empire.
"Governor Draghund." The falcon growled. Both of them remembering well the governor's many plans to harm Captain Harlock, using hunters to use the electrocution rings to bring them to him to make a trap for Harlock. It had nearly cost the captain his life, Emeraldas her freedom, his father his life, and even Young Harlock's friend Tochiro his life once. He had even heard a story where some hunters had nearly broth Maetel to him. What the young pirate could not forgive was the memory of Draghund using hunters to snipe the captain, and as his father had saved the captain got badly wounded himself, a wound that nearly had killed him when they were tortured by the Hunter Brothers. The young man aimed his gun to the sleeping man's forehead.
As the cold metal made contact with the man's skin the elder man's eyes shot open. He looked at the man in the shadow. The lights were dimmed but he reconised the scar on his face.
"Harlock!" The elder man cursed as he lifted his head slightly. The young man forced his head back down with the gun.
"Wrong, try again." He growled. The elder man looked at him and as the falcon moved on his shoulder, the governor's eyes widened. He looked back into the young man's eyes.
"Fritz Harlock, I should have known." The governur cursed.
"I have a few questions for you." Fritz growled. The governor looked at him with a hard look.
"What then? I am an old man, I need my sleep." He said lifting his hands slowly up.
"Well I will give you eternal sleep if you try anything." Fritz growled. "Ever since I was a kid and even before that you have been after Captain Harlock and his friends. Using every trick you could to win, and failed every time. Now all my friends and family is gone... What do you know of it?" Fritz growled as he pointed the gun down on his head hard.
"Heh, you think I have something to with that? As much as I enjoy the world now that Harlock is gone, I will never find peace before I know he is dead!" The governur growled and pushed down on something in his hand.
"Watch out!" Silvereye called inside his head. Fritz backed of quickly.
Suddenly the door slammed open behind him and about twenty guards where aiming their guns to them.
"Shit!" Fritz cursed angry. The falcon were flying next to him.
"Go for the window, I will keep them busy." Silvereye called and took of strait into them. The men tried to duck out of the way as the falcon became a white cloud of feathers and dangerously sharp talons and beak. Fritz ran towards the window, using his gun to take down a good few of the guards.
"Cowards, do I have to everything myself?" The governor growled and aimed his gun to the falcon. The sound of the gunshot and the painful scream, that came from the bird as the laser bullet went strait through the birds right wing, froze Fritz in his tracks.
"Silverye!" He called as he saw the falcon fall to the ground. "Bastards!" He growled shooting towards the men again wile running towards the fallen bird. He fell down on his knees as the hilt of a gun hit him in the bace of his neck.
"Now! Grab him!" The governur called as he stepped away. The reaming five men ran up and grabbed hold of Fritz while he was dazed out. Quickly taking his guns and forcing his arms behind his back, it still took all five of them to hold him down, as Fritz head cleared.
"Let go of me!" He called. "Bastards, Silvereye!" He called to his unmoving bird, as he struggled in the men's grip. The governur smiled.
"Seems like I overestimated you, Fritz Harlock." He spat as he said his name. "Now I have some questions for you, but first I think I will feast on a falcon fillet, and the rest of him I will stuff out." The governor laughed as he moved up towards the bird.
"Bastard! Don't you dare! Silvereye!" Fritz called, his furry burring like a wild fire. The governor laughed as he came up to the bird and aiming his gun to kill.
"Silvereye!" Fritz called. Suddenly the bird's eyes shot open and he threw himself around, making the shot miss by a few inches.
"What the..." The governor cursed and aimed after the bird as it jumped quickly over the floor.
"Silvereye! Get out of here!" Fritz called worried, still struggling. The governor shot a few shots after him but the bird got under the bed and were gone. The governor looked under the bed, ready to shot him as soon as he saw him.
"What the..." He asked and stood up. Moving over to the wall he turned on the lights and looked under the bed again. The falcon were gone.
"Where the hell?" The governor asked. "A falcon that can't fly cant disappear.." He growled. Fritz exhaled relived, but did not show it. The governor growled, moving over to the desk he opened a drawer. Taking out two tings from it, he threw a couple of cuffs to one of the guards. The guard took and locked it around Fritz's wrists. Fritz struggled but there was nothing he could do. He looked around on the floor looking for his friend.
"I know that you know of this thing, my good pirate. Tomorrow I will see if you can take pain like a Harlock." The governor laughed as he forced an electrocution ring around Fritz's neck.
"Sleep well to night Pirate, tomorrow you will answer my questions." The governor laughed as two of them haled Fritz with them down the hall and down into the basement.
"Now you three, find that falcon. I want it shown to me dead by day break." The governor growled as he changed room to sleep in.
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Fritz struggled in the cuffs, he knew that Silvereye was not dead, and that gave him hope.
Silvereye is properly on his way back tot the ship now to tell the crew. He thought to himself.
"Not really master." A familiar voice said inside his head.
"Silvereye!" He said. "Are you hurt? Where are you?" He asked.
"Luckily wounds suffered when not in our true form is not transfered on if we change." Silvereye said relived. " As for where I am... I am hiding under your brim." He said and moved out. Fritz smiled glad as he saw the little grey mouse.
"Thank heavens. I was getting worried there. So that is how you made your trick." Fritz smiled. The mouse nodded.
"As soon as I got under the bed I changed, and then ran along the wall and up on your back when they were turning on the light." Silvereye said. Fritz smiled.
"Are you pleased now, master? It seems like he has no idea of what happened to them. Or else he would not want to torture you, he would have just killed you." Silvereye asked. Fritz nodded.
"yeah, this was another dead end." Fritz said.
"then lets get out of here." The mouse jumped down on the floor and ran out. Soon after Fritz heard a surprised yelp as the guard outside his cell were knocked out. A young teenage wolf looked at him. His silver grey fur shining in the light. His one blue eye and the other silver grey eye smiled at him, as he teared open the cell door.
"Lets get that of shall we?" The wolf asked. Fritz smiled. The wolf jumped up behind him and bit of the cuffs, soon after taking of the ring as well.
"thanks. lets get out of here." Fritz stood up and moved out of the cell.
Not another word was spoken between them as their mind were as one. Soon after they had gotten Fritz's things back and after taking down a few other guards, they left the mansion behind them.
Coming to the place where his ship the Talon waited for him in the cave where the Atlantis had waited for his father, Fritz had to smile. The wolf had changed back to his falcon form and where resting on his shoulder again.
"Captain!" One of the crew members jumped to his feet as he was really supposed to guard the entrance. Fritz smiled but said nothing.
"Any luck captain?" The crew member asked low. Fritz shook his head.
"Just another dead end. Let the crew know we are leaving." He said and moved on down the cave.
"We'll find them, some day we'll find them." Silvereye said growling. Fritz nodded, he kew that Silvereye was a frustrated by their friends disappearese as he was. His fathers guardian wolf, a black wolf named Mind, had been like a father to Silvereye, had disappeared with his master as well.
"Yeah, some day." Fritz agreed as they had come to the brigde of the Talon. Taking hold of the helm Fritz swore to himself to protect the Earth, while they were looking for them, and swore to find his father again.
Author's note:
So this was kinda strange I know. This is a Gift Fic for Gemini. It's her OCs I have used here; Fritz Harlock, Silvereye, Falco Harlock and Draghund. This was meant as a sort of beginning to a new story line, and will only be this one parter for now. If this continues, then it will be a new story line, making up new pirates to fill in the places for those who are missing... I am mostly happy about how it came out.
Anyway here you are Gemini. Hope you liked this little gift.
Feel free to tell me how I did.
Lightingtooth.