Totora, Chameleon Pirates base
A large group of fifty or so Men worked tirelessly in the secluded area, unloading large crates from the ship and carrying them into the large workspace filled with a strange type of heavy machinery.
"ufufufu hurry up and unload those crates, don't make me wait any longer!" There captain laughed sitting back on his captain's chair overlooking his operation with great pride at how well it was going. His first mate walked up behind him bowing as he came to a stop.
"Captain Reon," The first mate began instantly being cut off by Reon.
"What, I said not to bother me as I work Gurin!" He laughed turning to the man with annoyed eyes. Gurin rose taking a few steps backs quickly.
"I apologise, but it appears we have a problem…" Gurin said taking a few steps back once more as Reon sudden stopped laughing.
"A problem you say?" He glared not liking the sounds of this
"It would appear one of our lookouts has spotted a marine ship in the Eastern harbour," Gurin said, looking up in surprise as his captain started laughing once more.
"Nothing to worry about then, if they come within our boundaries simply snipe them off ufufufu," Reon told the man standing and walking down the steps cracking open one of the crates to show a mud like stone.
"The time has come, let us begin our plans!" Reon shouted sending the room into an eruption of cheers and hollers from his crew.
Totora, West Blue Eastern Dock
A man in his mid-twenties walked out onto the deck, lighting a cigarette as he looked over at his younger sister who was staring out at the island just within reach. The girl looked up as she felt his hand pat her head, letting a small sigh escape.
"What's with that pitiful reaction, we're almost at the next dock, why look so down?" The man asked confused by the reaction as the girl stuck her tongue out.
"You know full well why Yoru don't even kid yourself into not knowing," She told him whacking away the hand. A bit shocked Yoru looked at his hand before nudging her shoulder.
"Cheer up Kuro, we'll be done here soon, and after our first assignments done we can head into grand line, so stop whining that the trips going to be so long since we have to start in West blue," He stated as the ship docked, watching a number of marines rush around the ship lowering the sails and anchor. Yoru smiled at Kuro motioning to the town in an attempt to cheer her up. "Here let's go for a walk and look around, that might cheer you up,"
"Ah you're as dense as always," Kuro muttered under her breath, Yoru gave her a strange look in return.
"Pardon me?" He asked jumping off the ship ignoring his confused look as he followed, motioning to the crew of men they were leaving. Kuro put on an innocent smile as she looked back at him.
"Let's get going then huh!" she laughed sighing in relief as he seemed to buy it, giving a smile back before promptly slapping her in the back of the head when her guard was down.
"Don't sass me," He warned moving on into the town in order to scope the area. Kuro grumbled following quickly so she wasn't left behind. Yoru slipped a few pieces of paper from his poket, letting out a breath of smoke as he studied the assignment once more nodding to himself. "Simple assignment, this shouldn't take that long at all, as long as civilians don't get involved,"
"And If they do is it really our fault they get hurt?" Kuro asked flipping her hair out of her eyes as she scanned through the people going about their daily lives. Not finding what she was looking for she turned back to Yoru who simply laughed at her comment.
"Your to morbid sometimes," He said looking to a wanted poster which he flipped back to Kuro. Raising an eye she scanned over the picture of a rough looking man, a green Mohawk sat atop an oval shaped head, his eyes were a strange distance apart on his face and a long lizard like tail hanging out of his mouth as he stared directly into the camera.
"Wanted Dead or Alive, 'The Chameleon' Reon, 23,000,000 beli?" Kuro read letting out a snort at his worth. "Why are we even bothering with someone who has such a low bounty, marines so pathetic they can't catch him?"
"Heh we're involved due to his growing threat to the government," Yoru explained stopping at a stall to have a look at the goods playfully winking at the woman manning it. Blushing she looked down with a giggle. Kuro sweat drop, hitting Yoru to make him cut the interaction out.
"I'm bored so I won't ask about the basics, can we hurry this along this will take longer if he catches wind we're here and runs for it," Kuro told her brother continuing to walk past, grabbing her brothers own trench coat in the process and pulling him away from his flirt session.
Yoru sighed giving her a nod "I suppose your right for once," he muttered putting his hands behind his head, shoving the papers away.
"For once!" Kuro asked in utter outrage "what the hell do you mean for once!"
"I'll let you think on that," Yoru smirked doing this purely to piss Kuro off as he motioned for her to follow shoving his hands into his pockets as he made his way to the end of town. Looking back to dock then back at Yoru Kuro huffed pouting slightly as she chased after him.
Totora, West Blue Northern Dock
A man shrouded in a black hood stepped out of a small dingy carrying only a small backpack as he read over a letter. Pulling his hood further over his head he began heading into the centre of town. Pulling out a lighter and burning the letter, letting it fall to the ground and allowing it to burn away to nothing.
Totora, Chameleon Pirates base
"Heh Reons such a fucking freak, that tongue gives me the creeps and that laugh, god sounds like a complete mental patient" One of the Chameleon pirates threw down a card playing a small game of poker while they were on look out. The group was hidden safely away in the tree tops under the cover of leaves. The second Chameleon pirate smirked.
"More like idiot," He retorted throwing down his cards to show a full house causing the first to throw his cards down beginning to cuss. The third pirate turned to the laughing hysterically as he rested himself on the floor.
"you two better be careful he doesn't hear you saying that, he'll hang you by your intestines if he caught wind of th…shh," he said turning as he heard a crack quickly placing himself at the sniper. The two other men rushed to their own weapons pointing it in the direction the sound came from as Yoru casually walked into sight whistling a song. Not seeming to notice them.
"heh keep quiet," The first guard smirked carefully lining up a headshot pulling the trigger as Yoru suddenly looked directly into the snipers scope. The bullet reversed blowing up the sniper rifle, causing the man injury. The other two panicked rushing to shoot at Yoru again only to find empty space where he once stood.
"Keep your guard up." The third guard muttered backing away from the edge. The two looking around their landscapes for any sign of him.
"Hello gentlemen!" Yoru's arms shot out grabbing their weapons and pulling so they slammed into each other's heads causing them to drop what they were holding. Groaning the third pirate stood trying to run only to be pulled back by Yoru who gave a polite smile to the frightened man.
"I'm so sorry but I'm afraid I can't let you raise the alarm right now," He grinned his eyes turning a vibrant purple as the third man suddenly passed out. Dropping him to the floor Yoru slammed his foot onto the second's man's leg pulling him back up so they were face to face.
"Where's your captain?" He asked, the second man raised his hands pointing towards the base.
"j-just keep going forward and you'll hit it, listen man let me go we can work this out, I was drafted, Kidnapped I have a family let's not do anything drastic please let me go!" He laughed nervously only to be knocked out like the other two men and dropped to the ground. Yoru jumped down to the ground motioning for a small group of marines to come get the three other captures he had made.
"Nice work," The captain chuckled rubbing his beard as he walked up behind Yoru "that should be all of the lookouts and guards around the base,"
"Not bad yourself back there Arnold," Yoru smirked patting himself off as he looked towards the direction he was shown "Kuro should be a the back of the base now, so her and I will get as close to Reno as we can then destroy his machine, surround the area and be ready to capture as many as you can when Kuro gives the order, Reno and his crew shouldn't be too much trouble I think," he said, continuing as he gained a nod of approval from Arnold.
"Don't underestimate him, his bounty may be low but he's there's been rumours the marines that let him escape are mysteriously massacred," Arnold warned Yoru who calmly raised a hand with an strong air of cockiness.
"Chill, heh just have the marines surrounding the building got it," he called back disappearing into the distance.
"Tch I won't deny their skills, but these new recruits are rash and cocky, let's hope that won't cost them," Arnold muttered to one of his men quickly motioning for them to prepare themselves.
Yoru had made his way around the side using the cracks in the wall to climb up to one of the windows high up in the base. Taking a deep breath he grabbed the edge looking inside to think of a way to handle this next task.
"Shit so many, I didn't expect this," He muttered turning towards Reno who was yelling out orders to the men below him. Yoru's eyes stopped on the substance they had narrowing having not heard of them using this substance in the report.
"Oni stone…..this is bad if they've used that on the island," He said pulling out a baby den den moshi from his bag and calling Kuro who was currently hiding in the shadows of the metal bars holding up the ceiling, high above everyone else. Kuro jumped slightly as she heard it ring, swiftly answering it while hiding herself in a better position almost being spotted by Gurin. The man looked around for the sound before promptly going back to watching the process of grinding down the Oni stone when he saw nothing. Letting out a breath she had been holding Kuro turned her attention back to the call.
"You idiot, I almost got caught, why ring me," Kuro whispered pushing herself more into the shadows as she did so.
"That stone, when you destroy the machine destroy that as well, don't leave any of it behind not even dust," Yoru told her bluntly
"hi to you to," Kuro smirked, curiously looking at the stones in the creates "why might be a good question?"
"Oni stone when grind down becomes a high dangerous and illegal substance, it's able to absorb energy from the ground when scattered around an area and was used to power electrical items, but poisoned the land so nothing could live on that island again," He explained. Kuro nodded understanding looking at the stones with an interested look
"I see…I'll destroy the building and machines first and you take these guys out straight after, everything ready outside?" She asked looking out the window spotting her brother as he gave her a thumbs up. With a nod the two hung up and Kuro looked around before bolting across the bearer slipping to the other side and using the ceiling to make her way behind the machine without being spotted.
She dropped down using the shadows to cover her before sliding over ducking behind it, peaking out to make sure everyone was still clueless. Smiling as she noted now was her chance she snuck back placing her hand on the machine. Closing her eyes in concentration she took a deep breath.
"Fuko no….grr," Kuro jumped back her eyes snapping open as she was cut off, Gurin holding a cutlass to her neck.
"What's this?" He asked looking the much shorter girl over "They sent a midget to do their work, how pitiful,"
"Tch so smug," Kuro's eye twitched at being called a midget looking up as she heard Reno laugh.
"Ufufufufu what's this, a little girl, what are you doing here, tsk kill her," Rena ordered as Gurin went to slash the young girls neck. Smirking Kuro dropped a sickle from her sleeve leaning back and slamming it into his cutlass creating sparks.
"Now!" Kuro screeched to the outside as the doors slammed open and marines charged in. Reno turned his laughter disappearing instantly as he backed away quickly looking down at Gurin.
"you've been a great service, please deal with as many of these as possible before your captured ufufufufu," Reno laughed backing away as he ran towards the back door abandoning his crew. Gurin gave a look of disgust as Kuro smirked holding the cutlass at bay.
"Pathetic captain, you'd think he'd be better," She teased jumping away as he broke free and began attacking her again with a growl.
"Shut up wench!"
"Geez your nice," Kuro laughed blocking most of his attacks with equal skill, moving quickly she trapped the cutlass shoving it into the machine, her eyes glowing a bright purple
"Fuko no un," She muttered, the cutlass began to crumble and the machine faltered beginning to fall apart. Smirking a little Kuro looked up from the cutlass and let out a growl as she saw Gurin had disappeared from the building.
"Gah he got away shit!" She yelled in shock, taking a deep breath to calm herself putting her sickle away. Walking out she stopped and picked up a piece of the metal "Hmp, but this crew has such loyalty to their captain, heh, or fear," Kuro smiled at an inward thought tossing it to the ground and continuing her way outside leaving the pirates to the marines.
Reno headed towards the ship only to be blocked off by Yoru. In a panic he turned back only to meet Captain Arnold.
"nice try," Yoru said as Reno raised his hands in surrender grinning widely at the two. "This won't be the last you hear of me," he said as Yoru sighed cuffing him.
"Doubt that's true but try me," He responded pushing Reno towards Arnold as they took him around the front, Arnold nodding at Yoru to take him to the ship as he went inside to make sure the rest of the mission went smoothly. Kuro jumped down in front of them walking alongside the two as the marines finished up the raid, starting to follow with any pirates they had captured.
"There burning up the stone," Kuro told her brother who nodded at her with a grin.
"That's all that's all I need, heh so we've finally caught…eh," Yoru sweatdropped seeing a knocked out marine in the place Reno use to be.
"Gr they were right," Yoru sighed rubbing the back of his head.
"Shit he's good," Kuro burst into laughter receiving a dirty look.
"It's not funny, "Yoru flicked her head uniting the man and throwing him over his shoulder. "I'll take him back to the ship,"
"You will, and I'll go get lunch," Kuro nodded at him quickly walking off.
"Wait Kuro get back here and help finish this up!" Yoru shouted after her clenching his fist together as she gave him the finger, whirling around so she could stick her tongue out in disrespect.
"I did my job, besides I'm hungry so I'm getting food, later big bro!" Kuro waved, being ignored as he rolled his eyes heading back to the ship.
Totora, Bar in the center of town
The hooded figure put down his sake leaning back in his seat as the bell for the door rang. He smiled as he felt someone sit down in the chair behind him glancing back.
"Miss Tamai, so long, you haven't grown much since you were nine," He stated as Kuro leaned forward on the table smirking.
"heh long time no see Karasu, how's it been, did you miss me?" she asked, the two trying not to look suspicious as they talked.
"Of course," He chuckled looking into his mug. "It's been boring lately,"
"My proposition?" Kuro began crossing her arms as she looked back at him.
"Will you join me or not?" she asked growing impatient as he fell silent. Karasu waited a few more moments suddenly standing.
"of course, I'll gladly join your crew,"
"Heh I knew you wouldn't disappoint me Karasu," Kuro grinned as she stood herself turning to face him. "Then let's begin the journey to my reign as pirate queen hmm?"
guess who's back after so long. Sorry about so many chops and changes but I was doing some major rework and design and crap. Aka I like drawing more, So a few things
First, characters aren't being accepted for the crew anymore! I find I wasn't getting really desirable characters and it was easier to think of story lines and use them if they were from my own mind. The only acception to this is when I talk and RP to their creators often enough it can be discussed and shown how to use them. However if you have a second gen crew feel free to PM me about getting them into the story, if I find them interesting enough I'll see. Then we can talk about relationships between the two crews and such.
Secondly, yes I accept constructive criticism but criticism is not flaming. If you can't back up what you're saying and tell me ways to improve your comment won't be taken into consideration.
Lastly, this rating is M now, due to cussing and other acts that will be done later in the story, please keep in mind the characters for Kuro's crew are based strongly on horror and as such will be doing that kind of thing. So if your sensitive or don't like a different take on the one piece stories now, stop reading here.
Anyway hope you enjoyed