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CHARACTER PROFILE:
Character: Aria Canora
Age: 19 years old
Description: greyish purple hair tied up in pig tails with deep purple eyes, she normally wears a light purple shirt the does not cover the shoulders with long sleeves the split partly at the end and a black tank top underneath along with comfortable black pants and shoes, and a black neck collar with garnet stones in it.
Personality: naturally good natured until she sees something she don't agree with against the law or not.
History: She lives alone in the town of Azcart on the Island of Janora in the middle of the second half of the grand line known as the new world. She was left there as a child at the age of 3 after the death of her father and her mother by a pirate crew that had picked her up floating around on the ocean. Growing up she lived in an orphanage until she aged out at the age of 15. Since then she's lived on a farm that only grows crops to sell in the market but continues to maintain a good reputation throughout the town.
CH.1
Aria and The Red Haired Captain
I was just finishing pulling some of those troublesome weeds from the garden "should have gotten to this earlier" I muttered to myself wiping the sweat from my brow. I grabbed the last weed and pulled hard but it wouldn't budge so I stood up slightly hunched over and tugged hard. The weed cut into my hand but I kept a hard grip till it came out and I was sent flying to my butt. I tossed the weed in the bucket looking at my bleeding hand "damn" I cursed silently "bloody weeds just keep getting worse at this" so I got back up and carried the bucket full of weeds to the edge of the large field. It was early to be planting but I wanted to have the ground prepared for when I started to plant. The sun was warm but there was also a cool chill in the air and I knew I was out of bandages back at the house. I checked my pockets for my wallet and found it there still stuffed with a bit of money. I walked out of the yard and down the street into town my hand still bleeding but the towns people were accustomed to seeing me walk towards the drug store this way. I stepped inside the drug store and walked along the Isles till I found the bandages and some antibiotics then went to the counter. A man who I didn't recognise was watching me from a nearby counter noticing my wounded hand. He had red hair and wore a shirt that wasn't buttoned up only tucked in at the bottom with a sort of sash, regular pants and sandals with a sword hilted to his side. I walked up the cashier tom (an elderly man in about his 50's but still very much capable of taking care of things.) "Cut your hand again eh Aria?" Tom noted nodding to the hand I wasn't using I laughed guiltily "yeah Tom" I said "damn weeds are a pain in the butt" "300 belli" Tom said and I set the money on the counter before walking over to a bench and sitting down opening the containers clumsily. I poured some of the antibiotics of my hand letting out a hiss of pain as it stung "maybe you'll get yourself a pair of gloves now" joked tom "and I won't have to sell you any more bandages" "maybe" I laughed "or not!" I started to clumsily wipe the blood off until a hand grabbed the cotton swabs from my hand and another grabbed my hand holding it out "here lass let me take care of this" a voice said and I looked up to see the red haired man looking calmly down as he wiped my hand clean. The cut was deep but I didn't really mind "nasty gash you got there" my face flushed slightly as he grabbed the bandage and wrapped my hand "um thanks" I said "you didn't have to do that" "s'alright" he said looking back up to my face and smiling kindly "I don't mind helping out a pretty lass and anyways you should really get some stitches in that" he then got up giving a slight bow and walked up to the counter and paid for the medical supplies he held then left. "Well" said Tom "I'd never in my mind imagine that, wonder how long he's gonna be around?" I stood up returning the supplies to their boxes and stuffing them in my pocket "ya I wonder?" I said half to myself as I turned and walked out back along the street towards home. I stopped along the way deciding to take the man's advice for once and went into the doctors office.
Shirley the secretary met me at the door "well I'll be" exclaimed Shirley brushing back a loose strand of brown hair "I'd never think I'd see you here!" "Just taking someone's advice" I replied casually -I hate this place- I thought to myself -damn docs a perv.- "and who might be this someone be?" asked Shirley "I want to thank them for knocking some sense into ya" I sneered a fake laugh "ha, ha" I said "anyways where's Doc Gerard?" just then the young doctor stepped into the room. As hot as he was I hated his perverse attitude "Well Aria what a pleasure" Gerard said "and what brings you here?" I lifted my hand showing off the somewhat expert wrapping that I couldn't have done with one hand. "Garden attacked you?" Shirley asked jokingly "more like a weed" I replied . "well come on in I'll have a look at it" Gerard said so I followed him into the back room and sat on a chair as he unwrapped the bandage and poked at it some "hmm" Gerard said "this don't look like your work well at least half of it anyways. The clean up job I mean" "I had some help" I replied blatantly and he just nodded "who wouldn't help a beautiful girl as you?" and I whacked him hard on the head "Just get on with it" I said so he pulled out the stitching tools and got to work. I bit my lip to keep from crying out in pain for every stitch he put in then he re-cleaned it and wrapped it up again "there we go beautiful" Gerard said and I raised my good fist again so he cringed a bit "sorry" he said and I got up again leaving the room annoyed, dropping off some money with Shirley before exiting the building and went on my way back home.
I looked at my hand as I walked attempting to put it into a fist and stretch it out again but failed miserably so I put it back down before heading through the gate to my property and heading into my house closing the door behind me. I pulled out my supplies and stuffed them in the cupboard. "Just who was that guy?" I muttered to myself before heading back out to the field in the backyard. I walked over to the till and spent the rest of the day tilling the ground till it was nice and loose and had ok lines. I returned the till to the barn then plopped down on a bucket wiping the sweat off. -that was a little harder than normal- I thought -gotta be more careful from now on- I then got up and took a long shower before coming out and getting dressed and putting my hair up. I headed out the door my wallet in my pocket and my jacket on because of the cool air and walked down to the street towards the local bar Atlantis. I stepped inside and found a seat at the bar where the bar tender Andy met me. Andy was about my age but also strong for his age, brown hair and eyes and 6" 4' but the easiest person to get along with as long as you were on his good side. "You're late tonight" Andy said "and what did you do to your hand this time?" "Weeds are evil" I half laughed "I'll just have some pasta and water if you got some" "sure thing" Andy laughed before turning towards the backroom and calling in the order "one pasta and water!" charley a short pudgy man just did a one finger salute before getting to work and Andy turned back to me. "So anyways how's the garden coming?" "Not bad" I replied "got the land tilled up already" "with that hand?" Andy asked a little shocked "you're as crazy as usual I'm surprised you didn't damage your hand any worse than it is!" "I've developed a technique" I replied "not easy and takes longer but it works" charley hit the bell passing the plate over to Andy who set it in front of me with a fork, napkin and a glass of water. "Ahhh food " I said before dumping a few bills on the counter "keep the change" Andy just smiled walking away with the money and to tend to another customer as I dug into the food.
When I finished I pushed the plate back with the dirty napkin and fork on top. Andy came back over clearing the dishes then sat down "you know what?" said Andy leaning over the counter "what?" I asked curiously "we got ourselves a pirate crew visiting our little town."Andy said "They just came in this morning" "wow that's news" I said "not often we get many visitors around these parts, must be pretty good to get this far." "Well" said Andy "see the guy with the red hair on the other side of the bar that's their captain." I lifted my cup to take a drink as I leaned back to have a look and nearly dropped my cup when I saw the man from this morning. "That's him!" I asked surprised "I saw him this morning in the drug store!" "Really!" said Andy "cool what was he doing there?" "Picking up some supplies" I said "he was the one who wrapped my hand in the first place before I got it check by the stupid pervert Gerard" "whoa!" exclaimed Andy "you went to get your hand checked out!? Who are you and what did you do to Aria?" I laughed at that "it's me you idiot" I said "I took the guys advise and got it checked out seems I needed to get some stitches like he said" Andy looked at me weird like as if the world was going to end. "How many stitches?" Andy asked and out of the corner of my eye I noticed that the red head was watching my and probably listening in to as he drank his rum. "15 I think" I replied casually as if it was nothing "Idiot tried hitting on me to But I set him straight. The pervert will hit on anything thing with boobs" Andy laughed and out of the corner of my eye I could see the red head trying to hide a smirk. "Hand me a rum" I said placing the money on the counter and Andy placed the rum in front of me already opened and grabbed the money this time giving me my change before I could say keep the change. I downed the rum then grabbing Andy's hand like a way of saying goodbye I slipped a bill into his hands and whispered into his ear "give the red head one of what ever he's drinking tell him the lass says thanks" I smirked then left the bar looking back once to see the red head look at the bottle in surprise then look around to see me leaving and I started to slowly walked back down the street in the night air back home. After a moment of walking I heard the bar doors swing open and foot steps hurry over to me "oi lass" came the red heads voice so I pretended not to hear him and continued to walk slowly till a hand grabbed my should so I stopped and turned around "Oh hello" I said faking surprise "did you buy me that rum?" he asked and I just smiled "Yup" I said "that was me" "by the way I'm Shanks what's your name?"the red head said "Aria" I replied "Aria Canora" "well miss Aria Canora pleased to meet you" Shanks said holding out his hand so I took it with my good hand as if to shake it but he quickly lifted it up and kissed it before letting go again. "So I'm guessing you don't like the town doctor eh?" Shanks asked and I put on a sly smirk "so you were listening?" I asked and he put on a 'oh shit!' face "um...no..." shanks tried to cover then gave up and said "I mean...arggg...yea I guess" I laughed "tid ok, so you're the new pirate captain eh?" I asked and he gave me a surprised look "how did you know that?" Shanks Asked "I never told you that yet" "Andy told me" I laughed "and being a bar keep he keeps me filled on who's new in town, we don't get to many visitors this way" "ahhh" Shanks said "we'll be staying for a few day or longer if that's of no trouble to anyone?" "That's ok" I said "everyone will enjoy the visit, we don't mind pirates so long as they don't try to trash the town I took care of the last crew that tried to" "you did?" shanks asked a bit disbelieving "by your self?" "Only had to fight one guy" I said "once their captain was gone they left without another word" Shanks laughed "well lass do you mind if I walk you home?" and I laughed "ok" I said as we walked back towards my house. When we got to the house he stopped at the gate doing a slight bow and left as soon as I entered the house.