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(* means someone speaking on a denden mushi.)
Chapter 1-Death's Assassin
Law's POV
We are submerged under water, headed to our next destination on the Grand Line. The course is smooth sailing as I sip at my coffee looking over some charts in the navigation room. It's quiet as its only me and my navigator Cody in the room.
"Captain" a young mans voice calls me, and I look at Cody. His white hair held back with a red bandana, and confused blue eyes look at me.
"What is it?" I ask the 21 year old.
"Um, there's something in the water in front of us" he said and turned back to the window in front of him, I follow his gaze and found that I'm looking at what looks to be a human sinking head first deeper into the ocean.
"Get ready to go up." I told him and walk to the denden mushi that's connected all over the sub.
*Prepare to go above water. Bepo meet me on deck as soon as we're up* I command and leave to the deck. Now I don't normally bother with random drowning people, but I have a feeling that I should stop him dying.
As soon as I get on deck my first mate Bepo, and my two head mechanics Shachi and Penguin are there awaiting my orders.
I take my nodachi from Bepo and give out my orders for the person to be rescued from the sea. As Shachi is our best swimmer, he's the one that went to get him.
A couple of minutes later Shachi returns dragging someone behind him, who now I can see is a girl with raven black hair, and a … tail, a long, thin black tail with three orange stripes at the end of it before the fur gets long.
As soon as I see the blood on her I order for her to be taken to the infirmary.
I managed to get her to breathe again…just. And now am sewing up the wounds on her neck and wrists.
They all go a full circle around the girl's neck and wrists, and the cut is very messy like its been done with a saw, its almost like the appendages have been completely cut off, yet they're still attached and only a deep wound. How strange. As I finish with the stitches I wash my hands and order my medic assistant Jake to clean up the tools and operating table.
I clean the girls body of the blood and put her in one of Bepo's white t-shirts and her now clean underwear. But I cant help but notice the scar on her right eye and stomach. The one on her eye goes an inch from her eyebrows to just under her cheek, and the one on her stomach is from the middle of her stomach to her left brest.
Akira's POV
As the world starts to come back to me I slowly open my eyes to find myself in a bed in a room with metal walls, more beds, cabinets, a desk, an examining table and a metal door.
Without a thought I stand up and head to the door. With my mind still hazy and still half asleep I just wonder off to who knows where.
After a while of corridors, the smell of food hits my nose and I step into a room with a lot of tables and benches, and people sitting and eating.
"Ah miss, I'm glad your awake" came a calm voice from my left. As I look his way I snap awake and memories of what happed before I passed out came flooding back to me. With a scream I fell to the floor holding my head, eyes wide and tears running down my face.
Memories of my family, my parents and two older brothers on a holiday rushed into my head.
We we're having fun sight seeing in a foreign country. It was all joy and happy until it started getting late and we got surrounded by a local gang. We we're taken to an abandoned warehouse where they tied us up and started shouting at us about something but we didn't understand. In the end, my family one by one got taken away and never brought back, when it was my turn they took me through the same door and that's when I saw what became of my beloved family. Body parts and blood scattered everywhere. As my mind tried to process everything I didn't notice when I was tied up on a table. that's when I realized that my family is no more and I'm the next to suffer the same fate they did.
"No… mom…'sob'…dad …'sob'… " I cried into my palms.
"Hey, what's wrong?" someone kneeled down beside me.
Suddenly the room turned ice cold and deadly silent.
"That's quite enough child" a deep menacing voice called from in front of me. "Crying wont get you anywhere nor do you have time for such petty act" he said as I looked up tears still rolling down my face.
In front of me stood a very tall man, draped in black robes, with a big hood that I could only see two red glowing eyes, his hands are bones and one holding a scythe. Holy mother of… is that Death?! Has he come for my life?
"I am not here to take your life child, I just gave it back to you. I'm here to explain your purpose." he said looking down at me.
"What…are you talking about?" I asked with a weak voice, with fear evident in my tangerine orange eyes. He sighed and sat down in front of me cross legged with his scythe resting on his shoulder.
"The world you lived in is not the one you were born in nor belong to. When you died, I brought you back here." he explained.
"But why? Why couldn't you just let me die alongside my family?!" I asked my voice cracking.
"They were not your biological family, you belong here!" he shouted, which sent chills down my spine. "You were born in this world. Your mother Portgas D. Rouge gave birth to twins 20 years ago, you and a boy. She feared your lives so she made a contract with me that I take you two to a different world till its safe to return in exchange for her life. I could only take one of you." he explained.
"Me. Then Ace…" I said with a weak voice.
"Rouge died, and your twin got taken by a man and raised in safety. In the world you lived in, you came across an Anime that showed you this world, so you know exactly what happened to your twin"
"But it didn't show anything about there being a girl" I said as I remembered Ace's birth in One Piece.
"I took you away before anyone could notice your existence." he said as I tried to process the fact that I belong to the awesome Anime world that I know and I'm related to Ace, one of favourite characters… I'm the Pirate King's daughter. As realisation downed on me I remembered what is to happen to Ace.
"Ace, he will-" I tried to say but Death cut me off.
"He only meets me if you will let him. I gave you the power of shape shifting and control over Hell's fire, in exchange I expect you to act as my assassin. In other words use the katana I gave you as your death scythe to kill the people I'll give you the names of and you will be able to repay your debt to me. I also gave you 9 lives, as the people you have to kill are a lot stronger than you. The crystal ball with the black rose in it represents that. The rose has 9 petals and when you loose a life, a petal turns orange." he explained.
"A rose?" I asked in wonder.
"How to use your powers will come to you naturally but you have to train to awaken them. What you do with your life I have no concern for and will not interfere as long as you do what I ask you to." he said standing up. I looked down in thought as I noticed a black furry…that is attached to my…butt…I have a tail.
"Aha, and why do I have a tail?" I asked as I too stood up and held my tail up pointing the end that has long fur at him. I'm somehow not afraid of him, either because of my shock or just I'm simply not.
"A present" he said and I could swear he is smirking, as much as a skeleton can smirk -_-'
"So I just have to kill these people you ask me to?" I asked ignoring my new tail as I let it go and it moved around my leg. 'wow I can feel it moving so weird'
"Yes. don't worry I will also send you a picture and their whereabouts. Until we meet again child." he said and with that faded into darkness disappearing.
The room became warm again, but no one dared to make a sound.
I took the time to look around, all the people in the room were men, and all wore white jumpsuits that I immediately recognized and I quickly spotted the Captain of the Heart Pirates. Trafalgar Law sat of the floor leaning against the wall beside the door way, all colour drained from his face, then again all of them looked like that, even Bepo seemed shaken with his fur standing on end.
Of all people it had to be Law who's ship I ended up on, oh excuse me yellow flippin submarine!
Law stood up as he snapped out of his state of fear. It was Death himself who showed up after all.
"Miss, what's your name?" he asked with that all too familiar smirk.
"Portgas D. Akira I guess." I said, its better if he doesn't know about my fathers name.
"Miss Akira. Your joining my crew" he said. I had to take a moment to not fall flat on my face like they do in the Anime.
"Say what?" I sharply asked.
"Your joining my crew" he simply repeated with his smirk still on.
"Don't just decide on your own" I glared "And no, I don not want to join your crew" I spat arms crossed, emphasizing the 'not'.
"And why is that?" he asked amused.
"Because you're an arrogant prick, who's a control freak, not to mention a sadistic psychopath" I growled at him angrily. Yup that is my genuine opinion of that bastard. "And I don't like being told what to do or follow rules, so you can just shove it because you're the type of calculative person I don't trust or like at all" I said, well that's not entirely true, I love his hoodie, but he doesn't need to know that.
As fast as I blinked I was shoved against the wall with his hand on my throat and him glaring daggers at me.
"Listen here miss Akira, you are on my ship and you will do what I tell you to. And don't you dare speak to me like that again" he hissed in my face inches away.
"Or what?" I glared back.
"I will kill you in the most brutal way possible, you said it your self that I'm a sadistic psychopath, I'll just have to prove it to you how right you are" he tightened his grip on my throat as it became harder to breath.
"I'm not afraid to die. But I'm pretty sure Death wont be happy about you wasting my life" I said. I hated to use that card but its true and I don't really wanna see Death again for a long while.
"Oh I don't have to kill you, a little torture would just do fine, besides I also have your sword and crystal ball." he said with a smirk.
"You black mailing and threatening me. That's low, and I thought the 'Surgeon of Death' was better than that" I said with my own smirk. But before he could respond and alarm went off in the sub and everyone started to run out of the galley shouting about being under attack.
"You got lucky this time, but watch your mouth or you wont get away that easily the next time you talk like that." he gave me one last glare and ran off to probably the deck to deal with the attack.
I frowned and walked into the kitchen to find some food. After I ate I went back to the room I woke up in, except I…got lost. I curse my directional skills and their lack of. Seriously this sub is like a flippin maze, metal corridors after metal corridors. And I have opened enough of unwanted doors for a lifetime.
"Akira-san" I turned as I heard my name being called.
"Bepo?" I asked as none other that the white fluffy polar bear stood in front of me in his orange jumpsuit. Omg he looks so cute I just want to hug him and never let go X3 of course I cant do that cause he's the first mate of that arrogant prick. So I held back my urge to jump on him and faced him properly.
"Captain wants to see you in his infirmary to check on your wounds." he said politely.
"Wounds?" I asked confused then I remembered the pain in my wrists and neck. Shit how did that happen?! Oh right I got brutally murdered by a gang of thugs -_-
"How'd you find me?" I asked, ignoring the pain in my heart for the loss of my family, step family I should say.
"I'm sorry" he suddenly went depressed.
"Eh? Its ok you don't have to apologise." I reassured him, I totally forgot he did that -_-'and he took me to the infirmary, which turned out to be the room I woke up in.
After deciding I was too tired to put up with Law and his bullshit, I just opted to glare at him while he changed my bandages. After that he left and I went to sleep. I'll come up with a plan to escape tomorrow.
That's it for the first chapter. Please review and tell me what you think X3