The city of Amber. Home of over 300,000 people. In which over half were rich and powerful. The rest obeyed what the upper class said. still this place was a little short on marine heads to piss of though, so the time past without trouble…
most of the time, for some reason a marine fleet was sent into the harbor earlier this day and it made the pirates a little nervous.
A small shipment of whitebeards fleet was on that island to check up on supplies. So far they had a week to be there, and the remaining two days were going to rush by fast. The island was a huge, so it was easy to escape the marine's on this island because of the endless number of people who lived here. And by the short amount of marines that were there, then this was a good place to be for a pirate.
The first commander of white beards crew was sitting inside a room in an inn. This was truly a strange town they sailed in. Marco smiled and leaned back in his chair. His smile grew when sweet music came flowing in the room and filling it with a romantic atmosphere, all that was missing now was a nice looking girl in front of him and all his trouble would vanish for good. Outside, Ace was walking around, trying to find a decent place to take a nap. In this time of the day the weather was weary warm so Ace didn't stick out just as much as he usually did.
It was about noon, and Ace had just finished stuffing his face with all the place had to offer, after that he stood up and went exploring. Marco thought about going after him for a little while, he decided that it would be better to go after the guy since trouble seemed to hunt him down. He stood up and walked out.
And before him the glorious city of Amber shined in mid day sun. Well, Ace didn't really need to be found right away…
The day passed without any trouble. The city was like the most laid back city in the grand line. It was so normal it was almost boring. The people were so calm, Marco could walk on the street and he would get a friendly glance from people who walked past him. Sure they went to bars and dank their body weight in beer. Then the people saw how strange it is to have pirates on the island but the fun only ended in a painful hangover. And then the people grinned at our faces.
Marco walked through the town, on the orange-red street and the red painted houses. He wondered sarcastically why it was called the city of amber when the color everywhere was ruby red. It was just the top of the strangeness in the city. He walked the street for hours; he enjoyed the city life once in a while, it sort of reminded him of home, when you mentioned it.
Without him even noticing it the day had past and the sun was setting. Still in two hours the day would be over and he had to find Ace, it was plenty of time, he wondered where the music was coming from…
The sun was setting in the east and to Ace it was a rather beautiful sight. When you're tired and alone sometimes you just love to sit and watch the sunset…
Ace smiled, this was one of the things that made him happy to see.
"Hey!" some voice called from behind him and he looked behind himself.
Marco was standing there smiling. He had a tray of food in his hands which he planted beside Ace and sat down beside him.
"Hope you're hungry." Marco said in a mocking tone since, he knew it was one of his favorite thing to do, and Ace was always hungry.
He nodded, not getting the mocking, and ate the food, fast as usual.
"You know, it makes me pretty bored to see how quiet this place is…" Marco started and looked at his friend.
"Your point…?" Ace asked and looked back at Marco.
"We need something to make things… interesting…" he continued, and smiled. Ace grinned at his friend's statement and nodded in agreement.
Then they stood up and started walking into the city of Amber.
As they walked through the city they saw the usual sights, agent artifacts, and old houses… boredom.
Marco wondered why it was called the city of Amber… maybe for the pretty girls, for the food, the buildings…? No clue.
"So I was thinking…" he stopped when he heard something play.' Music?' he thought and turned his head the way it came from, he listened and found the same flow of music earlier that day
Ace herd it to, he let the tune flow threw his ears without noticing it and felt himself flow with it,
"You hear that?" Ace asked his friend and he nodded. Smiling they, probable without noticing it, went to the sound of beautiful music.
As they walked through the crowd the music became louder and better... More soothing. The two pirates smiled at the sight that appeared when the crowd moved away
In a corner up against the wall, where the fiddle and flute music was coming from, two persons just sitting there and playing.
The beat from the player's were so calm, like they didn't even know that people were watching them play.
This was a couple of travelling performers, apparently, they were two, one was playing a fiddle and the other was playing a flute, at least it looked like flute. It looked like it was crafted into a knife, blue-ish color and the fiddle was the same blue with light and cobalt blue streaks decorating it.
The couple played like nothing, it was like breathing to them, and it made them happy to see the people watch them play. The both of them were wearing a black cloche which covered their eyes complete.
Marco and Ace walked closer to the couple, who just finished a song they took a little moment to decide another song. Not a long time passed before started to play another one, more upbeat.
Ace and Marco stopped just a few meters away. The crowd was forming a circle around them end people were throwing coins into a box they had close to them. They gave a dashing smile every time they heard a coin cling in the box.
It was obvious that this was boy and girl, one of them had a little red stubble on his chin and thinner lips. He had manly features that were unmistakable…
The other one was a girl, no question, a long red lock of hair came from under the hood and full pink lips were shown. She was playing the fiddle.
Suddenly they looked up for a brief moment and looked each other in the eyes. Then they stood up. And their real performance began!
They swept their cloches of and the hats flew away and the couple was looking at each other fearless. From under the cloches they were wearing an equally blue loose shirt and tight cream colored pants. Then they smiled and the man winked the girl who turned to face the audience
"Welcome to watch the performance! And thank you for all your generous donations" she shouted and earned a loud clapping from the crowd. Her smile grew. But no one saw her eyes, a white mask covered the upper half of her face, still flaming red curls fell down her shoulders like a red waterfall…
Ace and Marco looked at each other and smiled, they clearly agreed that she was beautiful. The way she shined in the spotlight was remarkable; though they didn't see half her face the smile caught them.
"Now this little theater will be performing active dance. " She said and winked before jumping in the air and smacking her partner in the jaw the crowd shouted and laughed in the same time "trust me I don't enjoy doing this!"She said and winked, the crowd laughed.
Ace and Marco watched as the man stood up and walked close to the girl who started telling jokes about her partner and a duck… bad joke none the less…
Then her partner wrapped his arms around her waist and threw her in the air, she landed in an elegant swoop in the air and finished it by landing on her face, it was obvious that they were acting. Like they were just having fun 'fighting' each other in public.
The men shouted out cheering sounds as the man walked around whit his hands in the air, he took a swoop by an incredible talent and elegance. He had equally red hair as the girl; actually he kind of looked like the girl. Maybe they were siblings. Come to think of, that red hair kind of made him look like Shanks, a little. All he was missing were the scars over his eye. But he no one saw his eyes, for his eyes were covered by the same white mask. Just like his female dancing partner. Behind him, the girl stood up and was about to charge back when suddenly somebody grabbed her shoulder.
"Excuse me, do you have performing permission?" the marine asked, she didn't answer only slid out of his grip and moving to their little box of money.
"What if we don't?" the man asked and moved behind his partner
"Then I will have to take the money you collected, they belong to the government!" the marine said and stepped closer to them.
"You can't take them, we earned that money!" the girl shouted and picked up the money box,
"I can and I will!" the marine said and walked closer to them. The crowd booed the marines and shouted curse words at them.
"I'm afraid we can't let you closer…" the man said and held his partners shoulders, like to protect her.
Marco and Ace grinned at the sight the girl looked like a mother lion protecting her babes and the man looked like protecting his family. Only there family and baby was a small box of money.
They both took positions, the man behind the girl. But they didn't even get a chance to fight because the crowd was getting angry and they gathered around the couple shouting and yelling at the marines, something about taking their fun and entertainers. This seemed to snap something to place in the performer's heads and they started to run, swimming threw the sea of people. Ace and Marco saw this was the time to leave and started to back out of the angry mob, attacking the poor defenseless marine…
"I need back up, hold the crowd! They are getting away!" he screamed and soon the place was filled with marines, Ace was thinking of a way to escape but the marines didn't seem to be interested in white beard pirates…they were after the performers.
Marco thought about the look the two partners got on their faces, he was exited to see their faces be shown to the crowd. But when they didn't take the marble white masks off Marco only gained interest. When Marco took a close look they had the exactly same face on, they had to be twins or something... he wondered what they did to get the marines after them…
'Oh, well better them then us' he thought and followed Marco into the forest.
"Well that was fun…" Marco said sarcastically and sighed… Ace knew he didn't mean it. This was a total bust; the marines ruin everything fun all the time.
The performer's names were Kirara and her twin brother Aaron. They were wanted… and in trouble…
"Damn, Aaron I blame you for this trouble!" Kirara shouted at her brother, he answered with a witty smile
"Trouble? You're only in trouble if you get caught!" he screamed back at her and grabbed his sister hand to lead her out of this trouble…