This is the first story that I've have ever posted. Please tell me what you think of it. (And if you say bad, at least tell me why)
Kiara couldn't believe it, she was on an island, governed by the World Government, yet there where bandits on it. Bandits who had the guts to steal her stuff. She shook her head while she sat down on the chair one of the younger marines set in front of her and went to examine her jeans and shoes, they had gotten a little dirty from running after said bandits.
A hot beverage was set in front of her, making her look up. A man who stands in front of her bows, if she where to take a wild guess she would say he was the head of the division. "I'm truly sorry miss, if only my man had captured them properly. I will make sure that my subordinates will get your things back. Please accept this as an apology."
He puts a small bag in front of her, judging by the sound and the shape there where coins inside it. She extends her hand and put it on her lap, with a small smile she answers. "I accept your apology,."
Grinning she continues "I just hope that those terrible bandits will be brought to justice." Her hand went to her face, cupping her chin. "It would be a shame if someone was to hear of this incident."
He visibly swallows before nodding, making her smile grow. "Do not worry miss, we shall find them."
Silently she eyed the pictures behind the man, there were some big names behind him. Mostly of the big name marines, like Smoker, Aokiji and Garp, there where a few that she didn't knew. "Are those pictures all from marines?"
The man looks at the pictures with a dreamy look on his face before composing himself. "Yes miss, those are the big names from the marines and some of our very own force! We admire those above us because we ourselves can't do anything to these pirates."
He was standing in front of them now, his hands folded behind his back. "One of our own, was able to capture a pirate the other day."
He continues rambling while Kiara looks away from the man towards the window. She could easily see the harbor, there seemed to be a new ship docking, or well, if it wasn't sinking, it would have docked there. The people where running onto the dock and vanish quite easily. Judging by the flag that had disappeared under water, they where pirates.
She looks back at the commander who is still talking. She coughs loudly, making him shut up and turn around. "Some pirates just arrived at the dock sir."
He blinks sheepishly at her when the door opens and a marine walks inside. "Sir! A pirate ship who was engaged in combat with one of our own arrived at the docks. We are unable to identify who they are as we're waiting for a report. They seem to have escaped into the town. Your orders sir!"
He stood there, Kiara could see the unease in his face. First bandits and now pirates, the problems became bigger and bigger. The commander looks at her before speaking. "I'm sorry miss but I am needed. If they find the bandits they will call to this room, please stay here until further notice. My subordinate will be sure to look after you."
With that he pushed the younger man to the side and started shouting commands. She looked at the man and pointed to the doorway. "Is he always like that?" The guy laughs nervously and nods. "Y-Yeah.. He's… really.. Uhm… protective."
He pulled the cap further over his eyes and she saw him stare at the den-den mushy. As if to sympathize with him it started ringing. "With the commanders office… he just left to deal with another issue. State your code." He looks at her and nods. "Please bring it as fast as possible." He puts the hook down and he looks at her. "They have captured the culprits and are underway. We're expecting them soon."
Kiara nods, stands up and dusts her clothes off. "Wonderful, is it possible to meet them downstairs?" He nods walks towards the door opening. "Please be so kind to follow me."
They start walking down the who nows how many stairs when the marine decides to break the silence. "I'm sorry for being curious ma'am, but what is in your bag that has half our people running around?" She laughs "Mostly personal items but I was asked by Vegapunk to deliver something to one of his many students. I'm not sure what it is about as it's outside my field of interest."
The man nods "Your field of interest being?" She raises an eyebrow "I thought you didn't want to be curious young man?"
She can see him tense up, a soft laugh escapes her lips and he looks a bit more relaxed at her. With a grin she points her thumb at herself. "I'm mostly interested in chemicals and their reactions." The man nods "I take you work directly for the world government?" she shrugs as they reach the bottom of the stairs. "Are they here yet?"
The door opens and a group of about seven people walk in, four of them are dragging two of the bandits in between them. "Miss, We believe this bag is yours."
She accepts the bag with open arms. "Ow thank you! I will be sure to do a good word for you lot by the higher ups." They all brighten up visibly.
"Well then, bye bye." With a wave and a smile Kiara puts the bag on her back and leaves the building quickly.
Once outside she starts running towards the other only big structures on the island, the workshops. Once arrived there she slows down to a jogging peace, she didn't want to stand out too much but it was still quite a bit towards her destination.
If only the government didn't pay so much for these kind of delivery's. Then again, after this one she should be free of that damned debt that, if it hadn't gotten higher since the last time she checked. She arrives at a gate and stops, this should be the place, it did seem a bit odd compared to the other busy workshops.
It had a no-entry sign next to the gate and only two or three people where visible from. She knocked on a plate of the gate. "Hello. I'm here for a delivery. To a certain" She quickly looks at the paper. "Daven?" She frowns at the name, really odd name but alas, they seemed to recognize it as they mentioned her to come in.
As she walks in a man walks up to her. "Daven is in the office." She looks at the worker and nods as a thanks as she goes trough the door he had pointed at.
A small office, with what appear to be blueprints is located behind it. There is one bureau located and behind it is sitting a man in a suit.
He seems out of place in the messy office with his nice and rather expensive looking suit, but the way his hands look tells her that he belongs there. "You where send by Vegapunk I presume?" She nods and rummages trough the bag. "I was told to deliver this to a person called Daven." She walks towards his bureau and holds the folded papers out to him.
Daven gestures her to sit down while accepting the paper, "Please take a seat while I confirm the delivery." Kiara nods and sits down, watching him as he opens the paper and takes something else out, he nods and closes them. "Consider it delivered."
She nods and was about to stand when she hears a click and see a pistol slowly being put to her head. "May… I ask what the meaning is of this, Daven?" she looks past the gun towards him, meeting his gaze.
"You see missy, this is a very troublesome project." Kiara frowns and moves the hand that was on her leg towards the tone shell that she had gotten and gently presses the button, making sure not to loose his gaze. "What do you mean?"
He sighs "These plans contain a thing that is not just interesting towards the navy. In fact there are brokers out there who are willing to pay a lot more for the completion of this project. If I have never 'received' the last bit of information, I can't complete. And you will take the blame for it."
He smiles which makes her frown "And so we come to this exact moment. I kill you, I will report you never came, I get more time and can build a new one so that we can sell this one."
There was a big smile on his face and Kiara was about to say something when she heard the falling of something metal. It was followed by a loud thump from just outside the office, making Daven lower the gun slightly. "What's that?"
He gets up while keeping the gun pointed at her when suddenly there's a lot of smoke and Daven is swung to the other side of the office, his back hitting the wall. As far as Kiara could see his gun had fallen to the ground, meaning she was free to move. Quickly she stops recording and crawls against the opposite wall, making sure that whatever hit Daven can't see her.
A few heavy footsteps later and she can see a shadow in the doorway. Judging by it, it's not just strong but also rather big.
She pulls a small black orb out of her pocket, along with a knife. In her thoughts she was softly repeating to wait, if he would at least move out of the doorway she could pull up a smoke screen and walk outside unharmed.
A few moments later, which had felt like minutes the person moves forward. Just before she can see the person their face they speak up. "Who's there?"
Quickly she slices trough the orb and holds her breath while smoke fills the small room. Voice from outside the office come closer, but determined she crouches towards the door. "What's happening?" "Who is there?"
She ignores everything and focuses on her vision, the smoke made it difficult but she was able to see at least four more silhouettes. Breaking another orb she crouches trough the door towards the far side of the warehouse where the smoke hadn't reached just yet. "There's more of it coming in. Open the doors!"
Once outside the smoke she released her breath and sucked in as much fresh air as that she could. There where people with guns in the workshop, she weighed her options before trowing an orb on the ground. She could hear the one closest to ask what to do before another answered. "Just shoot it"
Carefully she stretches a bit so that once it brakes she can run towards the entrance. A gunshot makes her flinch before realizing they just had done what she had hoped. With a smile beneath she runs past them, bumps into one but pushes them to the side and continues running towards the exit of the building. Even if she wasn't strong enough to push them over, with the confusion they wouldn't be as stupid to go fire, at least she hopes they weren't that stupid.
Kiara runs trough the exit and continues running until she has left the workshop area, there she slows down a bit and orientates herself. She must have ran further than had been her plan, she was already by the docks. In the distance she could see one of the marine ships docked with the head of the devision walking towards it with someone else.
Checking if the tone dial was still in her pocket she walks over to them, following in their lead. When they stood still she gently tapped the command on the back, making him look around surprised. "Miss, you're back already? Did something happen?"
She nods. "As a matter of fact, something happened, there seems to be a fight at the workshops." His eyes widen and he quickly gathers his men before rushing towards the workshops, leaving Kiara alone with the person from the ship. She looks up at the person, they where wearing the traditional Marines military coat, meaning he was the captain from the ship? The person was wearing sunglasses and had braids, if it wasn't for the goatee she would have thought it was a very tall woman.
He held his hand out towards her, "I'm captain Hiro , you're Kiara I presume?" She nods slowly and the person takes their glasses off.
"I had received a message that you would be here on dr. Vegapunk's orders." She takes a step back, if Daven had already sent that message out she would be in deep trouble. "We where fighting with a group of pirates earlier as such we where unable to convoy his latest message to you. I apologize."
The man bows down and the braids fall forward. "His latest message? Wait before you continue, I have a recording that I need to send towards professor Vegapunk!" Hiro nods, "We can contact headquarters from our communication room, he can tell you it yourself then."
He holds his hand out towards the ship. "Ladies first." Kiara swallows before walking onto the ship. It rocked a bit in the waves but it didn't look ready to leave just yet, so she should be able to escape if they planned on capturing her, right?
On the ships there where quite some man repairing the damage that those pirates had probably done. Hiro saw her look and started talking while showing her the way towards the communication room. "It was quite a fight, they where able to stop and even send some canon shots back. We're not sure how though. I will guard the door while you're inside."
She nods and steps inside, seeing only one man sitting there she relaxes a bit. "You can use this den-den mushy, we have already established a connection to dr. Vegapunk. We had been planning on contacting him anyway." She thanks the man and sits down next to him.
She takes a deep breath and picks the transmitter up "Sir I ha-" She is interrupted by the doctor. "Just a moment Kiara, I know you probably have a lot to tell me as you normally never call me but I have something urgent." With a frown she answers. "As you wish. Please continue sir."
The den-den mushi frowned before looking neutral again. "The plans that you had where incomplete, the delivery has been canceled. You see, last night I was over looking the things I send with you and I found some faults into it."
He continues to ramble about the things that would have to be changed, making her frown but listen none the less.
It continued for a few minutes until the man next to her pushed her arm, making her remember the situation from earlier. "Professor. I'm terribly sorry to interrupt you when you're telling so many interesting things but there's a problem"
He stopped talking. "Sorry, what is it?" "Daven plans on selling it to a broker. I have the confession on that tone dial that you had given me."
She takes it out of her pocket and holds it near the transmitter before pushing the button. Once the tone dial is done repeating what it had to say she puts it down. "I see. I'm glad you're uninjured. Let Captain Hiro deal with the issue at hand. This is outside your area." She nodded.
"Professor, what about the debt?" She could feel her hands shake, if the debt had gotten bigger wile she was traveling it would mean she had to continue in this line of work for longer.
She wasn't really feeling up to it after what had happened. A sigh was heard from the other side of the line. "I'm afraid I won't bring good news. Under normal circumstances it would have heightened with around 40.000 beri."
She sighs and whispers "I see…Thank you prof-" He interrupts, "Seeing as what had happened I will go and put in a good word for you. I'm sure they won't deny a request of me."
She heard him laugh and shook her head. If only he would act like his age and in comparison to the brilliant brain she had she wouldn't hate having to deal with him. "Well then, if that was all I will close the call." "Thank you professor Vegapunk."
She could hear the old man on the other side laugh even harder. "You better hurry up and pay it off, I could use some more hands."
With that he hung up and the den-den mushy closed it eyes again.
She stands up and thanks the man before walking outside towards captain Hiro and explaining what had happened.
Edit: Devided parts up in an attempt to make it easier to read. Not sure if it's better