Chapter 1
"Never Trust a Pirate"
"He's broadcasting on all major news channels across the globe!"
"Can anyone trace it!"
"Hurry up!"
"We can't pin point a location-!"
"Someone put it on the projector!"
It was madness in the station as people scrambled from one place to another, not wasting time. There was no time to waste when he appeared.
Surprisingly, Alfred looked calm, his deep blue eyes watching as his smirking face appeared on the wall. He was far from calm, though. His mind raced with thoughts, what should he do? If they couldn't track his location-
"'Ello lovelies,"
The room became quiet at the sound of his voice, bouncing off the walls. Alfred narrowed his eyes, one of the few moments when he was completely serious. This man.
"I'm guessing most of you know who I am, but for those of you who do not..."
Alfred glared into the emerald eyes of the man being projected, his hands clenched tightly at his sides.
"I am Arthur Kirkland, Captain of the sky ship Britannia." His emerald eyes twinkled and his demon like smirk grew in size.
Alfred could feel his stomach churn, part anticipation and part nervousness. He was practically staring into the eyes of the most wanted sky pirate in the world. Even he knew this couldn't be taken lightly.
"What's the tracking update?" Alfred's voice boomed through the tense room. It was quiet for a moment or two, no one knowing what exactly knowing what to say. "Well?" The tall blond asked again, this time more impatiently. He didn't play around when it came to Kirkland.
"U-um, we can't track him yet, Chief!" Toris spoke up nervously. He wasn't used to seeing the chief so serious.
"And why not?" His bright blue eyes never left the notorious sky pirate projected before him.
"We don't know, chief. We're still working on it. We think they have someone blocking the signal from us." The brunette answered. Alfred nodded, but said nothing else, he put his full attention back to the projection in front of them.
"Now, time to get down to business, aye?" His single earring gleamed as he shifted for something off camera. Alfred's breath hitched at what the sky pirate pulled into view.
"No way-"
"You- contact the government!"
"How did he-"
"Yes. It's the big man himself! The governor of Acirema!" Kirkland grinned maniacally, pulling out his silver pistol, with a dragon carved in the side of the shiny metal, he cocked the gun and put it to the large mans temple, who, in turn, flinched, but otherwise made no moves to escape.
The station went into overdrive, now they had to locate that despicable pirate. He wouldn't hesitate to kill their governor- why would he? He's the ruler of himself and thousands of dangerous men.
Alfred gripped the desk tightly in front of him, gritting his teeth he cursed Kirkland. How the hell did he manage to get the fucking governor right out from under them? Were they that incompetent? He shook his head- they needed to focus. Be positive, that's what Mattie always told him. He inhaled deeply, and exhaled. There. That always worked.
"What I want is simple; one hundred million charge, and I'll let this man go. Not a hair harmed on his disgusting, slimy, head." Kirkland grinned, "Deal?"
"Chief-?"
"We need to send the charge, as long as the Governor is safe, that's the only thing that matters."
"You can send the charge to this number-" a number appeared at the bottom of the screen. "Send it within five minutes, or this swine is dead." Using his gloved hand, he pushed his silver pistol further against the governors head.
Alfred swallowed the lump in his throat. His heart raced, the governor will be okay. The sky police didn't let bad guys like Kirkland win! They were heroes, for Christ's sake! The day Kirkland won, would be the day hell freezes over. Alfred would be damned if he sat idly by while Kirkland was out there.
"Toris," Alfred called his second in command over, the brunette quickly came,
"Yes chief?"
"Once the money is received and withdrawn, I need you to track that location. Kirkland's far from stupid, so they wont be nearby. But whoever withdraws the charge may be contacted to them in some way. Make sure we catch them." The wheat-blond briefed. Toris saluted, and went on his way to complete the new task, as well as tell others their orders.
Alfred's deep blue eyes took in Kirkland's appearance. He was young. Younger than most people would think a successful sky pirate, and a captain no less, would look like. He wore typical, old fashioned pirate garb, which was a trend for the recent sky fugitives, a blood red coat adorned his rather slim shoulders, he had a matching red hat that only captains wore. His green eyes shone with arrogance and wrath. His 'pirate' look was complete with shaggy blond hair that only he had.
The very sight of him made Alfred's blood boil.
Today was the day. The day where Alfred finally caught the notorious Arthur Kirkland, sky pirate, and Captain of the ship Britannia, and many others. He will catch him, if it was the last thing he did.
On the projection, Arthur turned his head away from the camera as another man appeared next to him.
His first mate. He was a man from Ecnare and went my that name of Francis Bonnefoy. His personality rather contrasted with the Captains, but Alfred had a feeling most did.
The other blond whispered something in the Captains ear, and with a wink at the camera, he left the screens vision.
"I've just been informed we have received the charge," His lips were drawn into a thin line. Any amusement that were in his eyes, quickly vanished.
"We tracked where the charge was withdrawn! We're sending a few units over now." Toris told Alfed, who nodded in return.
The Governor seemed relieved, he let out a visible sigh, causing Kirkland's green eyes to turn down at him in disgust.
"But," Arthur started, Alfred's breath hitched in his throat- he wouldn't dare. The governor seemed equally confused and nervous. Arthur pushed the large mans body away from him, the Governor stumbled back a few feet before landing on his rear. The Governor looked up in fear,
"W-what are you doing!" He yelled at the blond pirate, who re-cocked his pistol, and aimed it at his head. Alfred's heartbeat sped up. Oh God no... no, no, no...
"Cut off the broadcasting! We have to make sure no one else can see this! Hurry!" The chief of the Sky Police yelled frantically. There were kids probably watching this! No good, no good...
"W-we h-had a... We had a deal, K-Kirkland!" His face was bright red now, he scooted back as far as he possibly could, the camera, as well as Kirkland, followed his every move. "Y-you don't have to do this, K-kirkland! I-I have a wife... and kids! I-I have k-kids! Please don't-"
BAM
A few people in the station couldn't hid there gasps or screams when Kirkland finally pulled the trigger. Hitting the blubbering man right in the forehead. Alfred let his grip slack a bit from the desk. Not only did he not save the most important man in Acirema, but he let the entire nation see his execution type murder...
He could just hear the intense ringing from all their phones they'll be receiving after people recover from their shock.
Back on the projection screen, Kirkland turned back to the camera, using his smoking pistol to raise his oversized hat out of his eyes, he smirked. "Never trust a Pirate, aye?" And with those last words, the broadcasting stopped, and it went back to normal programming.
Alfred sighed and ran a hand through his wheat-blond hair. This was getting frustrating. Even for him. Kirkland was just wearing him thin.
"Alfred?" It was Toris, again. His olive coloured eyes met his own blue ones. His eyes were filled with concern. "Are you okay?" He questioned softly. Alfred inwardly sighed, but he was grateful for the other mans concern.
Alfred put on his best smile and patted the smaller mans back, "I'm okay, dude! No need to worry." Toris seemed somewhat satisfied with that answer. He nodded,
"Good, because we have a lead."
Alfred blinked, and for a moment he was quiet, trying to process this new piece of information. "S-seriously?" Alfred had a hard time believing the smaller man. Kirkland never left behind leads. Never. He was always careful enough to clean up his tracks.
Toris chuckled at the others disbelief. "I am very serious, chief." Toris walked them out of the office and down a hallway, "It was a good call to send so many units to the withdrawal scene. We found the man who withdrew the money."
"That's great news!" Alfred grinned, "I'm guessing you checked the security cameras in the area, then?"
Toris nodded, opening a door to the video room. "We have the disks right here," Toris picked up a small disk and put it in the computer. After a few moments the security disk loaded.
On the screen a man, probably in his early twenties, looked frantically around him. He was in front of a ATM machine.
"That's him." Alfred nodded, his blue eyes, hidden by glasses, observing the auburn haired man. The tape sped forward, and the auburn haired man got the charge from the machine, he hurriedly put the charge in a bag and scurried a few blocks away from the site. The man was obviously nervous, he stumbled and tripped along the way. He finally stopped in an alley, where two other men appeared.
The auburn haired man shakily handed over the bag, which the bigger of the two took easily. They exchanged words for a few minutes, which the camera couldn't pick up. The bigger of the two new guys laughed loudly then turned his back on the auburn haired man and left with the other man.
Though, something caught Alfred's eye. The tall one, as he was leaving he glanced up at the security camera and smirked, before looking away. It only lasted a second.
Alfred furrowed his eyebrows together and bit his lip. Did he know that camera was there? If so why.
The auburn haired man flailed his arms frantically, trying to stop the other two, but tripped over his own feet.
He didn't move for a few more minutes. But eventually, he picked himself up and walked to the nearest wall and leaned against. He brought his legs up to his chest and rested his head on them. Fast forward another few minutes and then the Sky Police showed up.
Toris took out the disk, "And that's when we arrived. We found him just like that. He was a crying mess, could barely form a coherent sentence without breaking off on a tangent." Toris sighed, shaking his head.
"Has he said anything about Kirkland?" The tall blond asked as they left the room.
"He has said a few things about him, though they don't make sense. The poor man is scared out of his wits right now." Alfred nodded, he asked a few more questions while they made their way down to the interrogation room, where the auburn haired man was being held.
They arrived at the interrogation room and went in. Alfred walked up to the one sided mirror, getting a closer look at the young man who was, practically, on the verge of tears. Alfred narrowed his eyes, "That's him?" Toris nodded. Alfred furrowed his eyebrows and sighed. He took off his wire framed glasses and rubbed his eyes in a tired manner. "He doesn't seem the type to work for someone like Kirkland..."
It was true, the young man looked as innocent as a kid. His baby face and how scared he was acting gave away that he wasn't used to doing things like this. He probably had never been involved with the law before this. And he probably didn't know anything about Kirkland either, if they just left him there.
With another sigh, Alfred put his glasses back on and smiled at Toris, "Let's just make this quick and easy. Yeah?" Toris returned the smile and agreed. Alfred burst through the door, a large grin planted on his face. "Hey there!" That seemed to... startle the young man, more than anything.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I-I didn't want to do it! I h-had to! I have to find my brother, and this was the only way I could do it! A-and Jack and L-Liam left me there! I was so confused! Please don't hurt me Mister Officer Sir! I'm sorry-"
"Woah there!" Alfred took a seat across from the auburn haired man, who was trying to catch his breath after the rant he just yelled out. "I'm not here to hurt you, none of us are."
The man blinked in a confused manner. "You're not?" Alfred nodded. "Then what are you here for?"
"I'm here to ask you some questions. Like; what's you name?"
"F-Feliciano..." The man- Feliciano, answered, albeit, nervously. He seemed to calm down, so that was good.
"Nice to meet ya, Feliciano. My name's Chief Alfred Jones, I run the Sky Police here in Acirema." Feliciano nodded, mumbling something along the lines of 'nice to meet you, too...' but it was too quiet, so Alfred couldn't be too sure. "So, I want you to know before we ask anymore questions, you're involved with a national case involving the abduction and murder of the governor of Acirema. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of Law. Do you understand?" He nodded with a sniffle and looked down at his lap. Alfred smiled again, "Good! That being said, the more things you tell us, the easier we can catch Kirkland and bring him to justice. That way he wont be able to harm any more people. Got it?" Feliciano nodded again, still not looking up.
"'Kay, so what exactly were you doing before you were arrested?" Alfred asked, patiently looking at Feliciano, who was still starring down at his lap, sniffling. Alfred thought he wasn't going to answer, but the man did speak up.
"I-I was sitting in an alley."
Alfred nodded, "And before that."
"I w-was waiting for the charge to be transferred into the account..." Alfred again nodded, he shifted in the metal chair before smiling at Feliciano.
"Before you mentioned that you 'had' to do it?" Feliciano looked up, and for the first time made eye contact with the blond. He had a more serious expression on his face, at least more serious than before.
"Si." He confirmed.
"Captain Arthur Kirkland, made you do it?"
Feliciano looked a little unsure, but he eventually shook his head. "N-no..."
Alfred cocked his head and raised an eyebrow, "No? Then who did?"
"T-the first mate I think... Francis Bonnefoy."
"Is it always the first mate that gives orders?"
"N-no! I-I mean... Captain Kirkland usually gives everyone orders... to the crew, and more personal ones too... I heard he cares a lot for the crew-"
Alfred couldn't help but mentally scoff and give an eye roll at that. Kirkland? Care? Ha! That was something he would never believe. He'd seen first hand how cruel and ruthless the blond sky pirate could be, the event from just an hour ago was still fresh in his mind. He'd be damned if Kirkland was caring.
"What kind of caring captain leaves one of their crew to be arrested?" His blue eyes narrowed at the Ailatlian, who was unnerved by the sudden coldness in the, so far, nice Sky Police officer.
"U-um...-"
"Or what about a man who shoots someone who's on their knees begging for mercy in front of millions of children and people?"
"Well... um-" His amber coloured eyes started to well up.
"Or how about someone who pillages villages and tears families apart?"
"I-I don't-"
"And what about-"
"Alfred!" Toris' voice rang through the mic that connected to both rooms. Alfred's head snapped in the direction of his voice, eyebrows furrowed in annoyance, why had he interrupted him while he was saying important things? He obviously wouldn't be able to see the Ainauhtian, but it was a force of habbit, anyways. He sighed, and turned back to the Ailatlian, shocked to find him a blubbering, crying, mess.
"Oh- shit!" He cursed and stood up quickly, not quit sure of what to do. He'd never made someone cry before! "Shit- um...! Okay, calm down! I'm sorry!" The auburn haired man didn't seem like he would stop anytime soon.
Alfred sighed for, what felt like, the hundredth time, today. He ran a hand through his wheat coloured hair. He turned to the one way mirror and attempted a, very poor, smile. "Hahaha... I think we're done today. He's been through a lot, after all." He awkwardly glanced back at the man, "Alright, we'll continue this tomorrow, okay?" He didn't receive a reply. And with that, Alfred left.
When he walked out of the steel room, only to be greeted by Toris, and his 'why-on-earth-did-you-say-that?' look. It was very guilt inducing. Very.
"Sorry..."
Toris sighed, "I know, I know. You didn't mean it. It's been awhile since we last even seen Kirkland, then he does something as messed up as that and-"
"'And I couldn't do anything to stop him.'" Alfred finished. That might not of what Toris was going to say, but that's how Alfred felt. He entered the Sky Police because he wanted to catch criminals like Kirkland. And all he wanted to do was bring them to justice! But sometimes it seemed so- impossible. Like Arthur Kirkland was surrounded by some magic that made him untouchable. It was so, so frustrating sometimes! "But.. but now we have a lead. The biggest lead we've had by far. We'll catch Kirkland, and I can tell it's gonna be soon!"
Alfred ginned and fist pumped in the air.
Toris smiled next to him, "That's the spirit, chief. That's the spirit."
This is what I do when I have to update my other story when I don't want to. I write new AU's!
So if you couldn't tell, this AU is kind of like a futuristic Pirate thing. It takes place slightly in the future, where everything is in the sky. Hence the sky police and the sky pirates.
IMPORTANT: I REALLY need a beta that is good with dealing with plots/characters! So if you're one, and you're not terribly busy, please become my beta? :D I'm willing to take tons of constructive criticism, and I want to! 3 3 thanks!
Please review! It's the first chapter, and that's when I need the most motivation; so if you like it and want me to continue, REVIEW!