Message: This is a revision of chapter 1 of Wandering Hearts. It is completely different than the first one I posted. This is a fiction made by me and my friend. Please do enjoy it. It may be OOC, but please do enjoy it.
"Yo! Cloud! Where are you! We have a long day ahead of us!"
"Okay I'm coming!" The girl called, running to the dock. "Why are you in a hurry?"
"Well maybe because we need to get to the next island to get some food maybe!" The boy called, hopping into their little vessel they called a pirate ship. The girl called Cloud sighed and stretched, preparing for a long trip.
"About time you noticed Vena! Its been what? 3 hours?"
"... It's not my fault! I was hungry..." The boy told her as she hopped in.
"So, we leaving now?"
"What's it look like!" Vena asked, Cloud thinking for a few moments. He sighed and untied the rope holding the boat to the dock and looked at her. She shoved off, the boat drifting towards sea. Vena hopped up and pointed towards the rising sun.
"Let's go!" Cloud grinned and sat down, looking at the ocean ahead of them.
50 minutes of wandering later...
"I forgot to ask Cloud! Did you get the Eternal Pose!" Vena asked, looking at her. Cloud stared at him and he stared back, both with a look of confusion.
"..."
"..."
"I think I forgot it." She told him after a minute of thinking. "Crap... ... ... I'm really hungry."
Vena hopped up and leapt to her, pulling her face.
"HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE ETERNAL POSE!" Cloud glared at him and he returned it.
"I DUNNO!" Vena released her and rubbed his temples, frustrated at the younger teen.
"HOW DO YOU EXPECT US TO GET THROUGH THE GRAND LINE WITHOUT IT!"
"... God I'm hungry... You have leftovers right?" Vena thought for a moment then reached into his pockets, Cloud's face brightens. He pulled out breadcrumbs and she stared, Vena looking at the crumbs.
"These are from yesterday..." He said, splitting them evenly.
"Now we're lost AND starving..."
"Well whose fault is it that we're lost? Here's your half of the crumbs..." Vena dropped it into her hands and she popped one into her mouth.
"So... You think we could find some sort of island?" Vena shrugged and started looking around, Cloud eventually looking too.
"I don't see anything..." They said together, Vena sighing and lying down.
"Don't move a lot. You'll get tired. I'm just gonna take a nap..." He told her, closing his eyes. Cloud nodded and walked to the front of the vessel for watch.
10 days later...
"How are we not dead yet...?" Vena asked Cloud weakly, Cloud looking at him from the other side of the ship.
"I don't know... I say 3 days and we'll be either carnivores or dead..."
"God I'm hungry..." Vena moaned.
"You're not the only one... I'm tired of drinking sea water..." Vena sat up quickly and looked at her.
"YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO!"
"What else could I do! We don't have water!"
"You're supposed to drink then spit it out! You'll get sick!" Vena barked, digging in the first aid box.
"I feel fine..." She told him as he put a tablet in her hand.
"Take it." Cloud swallowed it and winced.
"Tastes horrible! What is it, ginger root!"
"No idea. Has an X on the bottle though." She stared at him, and then looked at the bottle.
"You have to be kidding... Is it poison!"
"I have no idea." Vena told her, the sky darkening. Cloud moaned and lied on the deck, looking at the sky.
"My fates been sealed by my own friend... My stupid, 27 year old friend..." Vena glared at her and examined the bottle more.
"Hey! It's called Medicine X! It's a MYSTERY MEDICINE!" He told her, grinning. Cloud tilted her head so she could throw a glare.
"Most likely poison... Why'd the sky grow dark...?" Vena looked behind her and his eyes widened.
"What's wrong?" He turned her head and she screamed. A tsunami was approaching them quickly, a low rumbling heard. Vena's eyes sparkled as he stared at the wave.
"SUGOI!"
"THAT ISN'T COOL! WE'LL DIE! ... Although I'd die no matter what..." Vena grabbed a Life Preserver and shoved it onto himself, Cloud still staring at the wave.
"Do your best!" Cloud looked at him and gaped.
"THAT'S THE BEST YOU CAN THING OF! A LIFE PRESERVER!"
"I have no idea. Hey do me a favor. If I sink save me, I'm a hammer remember?"
"Yeah I will... You gave me poison I don't see why I should save you..."
"It's mystery medicine! Not poison!"
"STILL IT COULD KILL ME!" A shadow over came them, the two not taking note of it.
"It didn't."
"WELL NOT YET!"
"Oh shut up and paddle!" Vena barked, grabbing a paddle and paddling quickly. Cloud grabbed another and helped with the escape, Vena looking at the wave behind them. He dropped the paddle and lied down on the deck, Cloud sitting and closing her eyes.
"This isn't gonna work... See you in the afterlife Cloud..."
"Yeah... See ya..." The wave crashed onto the two and Cloud was shoved under, Vena simply floats away. Cloud finally broke to the surface and took a deep breath, looking around for Vena, who was gone from site.
"I KNEW I should have grabbed a life preserver...!" It pushed her under again and Vena looked around from his location, having been spun around a lot by the wave.
"Wow! I'm dizzy... and weak..." He muttered, passing out from energy lost from the sea. Cloud desperately looked around and started swimming in a random direction.
"VENA! WHERE'D YOU GO!" Another wave hits the two, sending Cloud under and the unconscious Vena spinning again.
"Crap... I feel tired... Vena...! Where are you...!" She called again, looking around. Vena was nowhere to be found on the horizon, Cloud losing hope of finding him fast. A bottle floated by her and she grabbed it, looking at the label. It was the Medicine X bottle, but after closely examining the label, she found out it was just a sticker. She tore it off and looked at the actual medicine.
"ADVIL….."
She blinked and sighed. "Maybe I was just imagining being tired... I haven't ate in a long time... that and the medicine will explain how I'm not cold.'' She looked up and saw a ship sailing in the sky. "... I'm hallucinating... Vena...! Answer me...!" A bird flew over head, Cloud looking at it.
"AHO! AHO!" It crowed, the girl glaring at it.
"SHUT UP...!" The waves started rippling and she looked off to the south to see a sail with a Mugiwara Boshi on it. She squinted and her eyes widened.
"Not them...! VENA...! WHERE ARE YOU...!" The ship suddenly stopped about 200 feet from her and she moaned. "They saw me..." A guy with yellow hair pulled something from the sea then gave a signal to continue sailing. She blinked and tried to see what they picked up. "I wonder what they picked up... Probably a human they found for dinner...!"
"AHO! AHO!" The bird crowed again, the ship getting closer to her. It finally stopped beside her and she stared at the side of it.
"I'm their main course... Nooo..."
Cloud hears footsteps above her then a silhouette of a person. It threw a rope down to her and she stared at it. She looked up at what she could now make out as a green haired man and stared. "You gonna eat me? You look like a guy that'd eat people!" He gave her a weird look then grinned evilly.
"Depends, do you taste good?"
"NO!"
"... You wanna be rescued or not?" Cloud sighed and grabbed the rope that was floating by her.
"That answers your question?" The man sighed and pulled her onto the deck, Cloud automatically lying down.
"Thank you..." He nodded and looked at something on the deck.
"You know him?" Cloud looked and saw a man with a Life Preserver on him. She gasped and climbed to his side.
"Vena...! You okay...!" Vena reached up towards the sky.
"A pretty light..."
"HE SEES THE LIGHT!" Cloud screamed, smacking him. Vena's eyes snapped open and he sat up, holding his chin.
"Thank you." He looked at her and gave her a charming smile, a twinkle of light on his teeth. She shuddered and looked away, Vena lying down again still giving his smile. A boy with a Mugiwara Boshi jumped out of what they presumed was the kitchen because he was holding a huge slab of meat in his hands, and he looked at them.
"Oooi! Zoro, Sanji! Who'd you find!" The blond haired man ran to Cloud holding a bouquet of flowers.
"Are you okay, madam!" He asked, Cloud staring.
"Y... Yeah I'm fine..." She told him, standing up and wincing at the weight of her clothing. A red head emerged from the kitchen, along with a beautiful black haired woman. Cloud gave Vena a nervous look to only find that her friend was once again, having fantasies.
"Pretty butterflies..." Cloud slapped again and the black haired woman laughed.
"Is that you God...?" Vena sat up in the same pose he gave Cloud before, Cloud reacting the same. Vena snapped back to reality and the boy in the Mugiwara Boshi jumped down to them.
"Hi I'm Luffy! Who are you! Where'd you come from! You like meat! Do you wanna play!" Vena stood up and bowed to everyone.
"Thank you for saving me and my very rude friend." Cloud glared at him as she bowed as well.
"He's my mentally retarded friend; you'll have to excuse him..." The blond haired man named Sanji pranced to her and grabbed her hand.
"What is the name of thy lady!"
"C... Cloud..." Luffy tilted his head in confusion.
"Hey isn't that a guy's name?" He asked, Cloud shrugging. Vena suddenly jumped forward and punched Luffy in the jaw, sending into the sky.
"No one insults Prin... er Cloud's name!"
Message: Well, that's chapter one hope you enjoyed it. I'll post the next one as soon as I revise it. Please R and R. Thank you!