"DEMON EMPRESS-ASHURA"
a.k.a.
TOORIMA
-PROLOGUE- ?
The Strawhat-Pirates' ship docked at LogueTown for the first time.
At the same time, an uproar was broadening, nothing special for the by pirates beleaguered town.
Hence no one really cared what was happening right at the same time in the shadows immediately close.
That was also the reason for nobody seeing how the crowd was literally rabbling itself through the tight trading routes. No wonder, nobody could know what exactly was in progress there.
At least it was nothing new, that the drunk, poor, pickpockets, orphans living on the street and all the remaining scum left, were "pestering" the city and -so it seemed- didn't have anything better to do but to beat each other up for food or money. That was generally-known to be by rabbles' nature.
So, this daily commotion didn't affect the Strawhats' stay.
Each of them was attending to one selves' business; Luffy wanted to see the scaffold, on which the former king of pirates "Gol D. Roger" had been executed, with his own eyes. Nami was only there for shopping and Sanji was most probably just chasing, under the excuse of needing to get fresh food supplies, after some random women. Usopp decided to use their time onshore to reequip and upgrade their ship anew.
Zoro, on the other hand, was acting according to plan, which he would be heavily obliged to be since he would be lost already after only a few seconds in town.
He had put himself the goal to look for extraordinary weapons and to randomly browse through some dubious Arm' shops for flukes for yet another katana. With only 2 swords, his 3-sword style was well knowingly hard to accomplish and it was hard to fight that way.
While the pirates were channeling their way through town, the uproar from before was drifting more and more to the center of the city and the scaffold-place.
By now it had already caused more of a commotion because it was lasting for quite a while now, too much of a while for just a small little brawl between drunk goof-offs.
No one knew yet, that the matter which was responsible for the commotion didn't have, in the slightest bit, anything to do with issues of drunk scum.
The person on whose behalf this quarrel had grown was having, already since early morning, a relentless pursuit through half of LogueTown.
The fact that those brawlers of the Starwhats hadn't noticed anything about this yet was indeed something like a wonder. But this could already change within a few seconds.
Everything still seemed peaceful; Luffy was ripping the merchants baldly off their foods and was making a run for it quickly before any of them could even notice their vendible had been stolen. Nami was already searching for some random citizen to fall victim to be her beggarly drudge and Sanji was heckling under hard nosebleeds after women at every corner of the street. Usopp would have without fail already for more than just once hammered his instruments on his fingers instead of hitting the nails and blanks.
Zoro had already found what he had been looking for. He had somehow managed to get his hands on a katana that was told to be cursed thus he had got it for free and they had almost thrown it after him – and all that without getting lost too many times in LogueTown.
So he made his way back to the ship in a good mood for training purposes because there wasn't anything left for him to do in town, with a big, aslope grin on his face.
This would become a more difficult thing as it sounded, since he was still walking non-knowingly in direction of the center of the city.
As he was just about to admit that he had actually lost his way for real, a loud, incomprehensive murmuring sound could be heard from a few streets afar.
After all, the voices got louder and finally changed into mad yells and wild curses.
Some hasty footsteps were followed by loud stamping of a 3dozents pair of feet, which seemed to belong to the commotion which had almost advanced up to the center of the city.
Hounded panting sounds of the haunted steps wafted unnoticed and fast through the alleyways.
"Hey -YOU…!" the mob screeched.
"You filthy little bastard! Stop and you might get outta this alive!"
But the figure didn't even think about turning around and kept lashing through the cramped, convoluted trading routes.
"Turn around or we're gonna shoot you down!"
The stones, which were thrown as a warning, hit the person at its head and caused it to stagger.
"Die, you ignoble little son of a bitch! When I get you I'm gonna send my men after you!"
At those words the figure stared back at its pursues over its shoulder. "Hrr…-!" it cursed and increased its speed again although the air was already burning like fire in its throat.
It was worth nothing, the mob drew closer and soon, the person would run into a dead end. …It was over.
"Goddamn it!" the figure gasped and lashed around the next corner.
Zoro in the meantime was looking around confused and disoriented "How the heck did I get here?!" he was asking himself flabbergasted in the middle of the merchants' stands far away from the docks, which had originally been his destination.
He scratched the back of his head and stared up to the sky "Just theoretically this should be the right place, shouldn't it?" he thought as he gazed up at the suns' location, which did not in any way relate to why he was lost.
"Fuck-!" he started cursing because he didn't have the slightest clue from which direction he had come in the first place. Sense of orientation wasn't one of his strong points;
.all!
Bugged out, he stretched one of his fingers and started counting which street he should take next. After all he still changed his decision, because he thought his senses might eventually lead him to the right direction by accident. Hence, he turned around and headed to one of the streets, which seemed to be most likely the right one to him; the most sinister and gloomy one in his reach.
He should really HAVE chosen the path according to where his finger had pointed; this could at least have kept him from getting into trouble…
He was watching at the exact false direction, right at the moment when he heard a loud noise from his right.
He was just about to pull out his katana, but too late.
Something – or rather SOMEONE pretty small slammed at full weight and at a tearing pace right into him.
Afterwards, a cursed "What the fucking-"literally 'flew' outta his mouth and was followed by the huge mob.
- ZOROS' VIEW –
Immediately, I stared down at the ground and looked for the one that had tried to knock me over. Right in front of me a small girl was crouching down on the cobblestones, it was her who had crashed into me, so it seemed…well…she ended up falling to the ground pretty hard.
"Err, umm – well…" I kept murmuring incomprehensibly and clutched at her arm cowardly to pull her up. The following still stays a miracle for me; afterwards, many things happened at the same time with a tremendous speed.
The girl snapped her head up and stared at me.
Shortly after, I felt throbbing pain as she pulled out some dagger and cut right through the stretched out palm of my hand. Within only a few seconds she leapt up on her feet and was now setting her gaze right at me. I could barely do anything but to follow suit in shock.
I was staring down right into those clear, light green eyes.
Her gaze seemed hounded, almost desperate.
And now that I finally stole some proper glance of her, I noticed that her scraped up knees were trembling, she was breathing heavily and her temple was bleeding incontinently.
Her young face was reflecting the same shock as mine.
I estimated her age only around 16, if anything. But then, she suddenly tore her face around again and my view followed her. Then I finally understood.
Without hesitation she raced past me and disappeared in another alleyway, just as an over 30-head strong mob came running around the exact same corner, the girl had just come from. They seemed to have pursuit her, for whatever reasons…
Totally flabbergasted those brainless guys were goofing off at me.
"Hey, where the fuck'd she go?!" an extraordinary shabby-looking old thug grunted.
I furrowed my brows and put my sword back into its cover.
"Wherever the fuck she is, we gotta find her!" it resounded from the back of the crowd.
"YEAH! Let's find her and fuck her up!" the others joined in.
"Let's see what crazy ass stuff we can drag outta her!" a coarse giant hissed, spat on the cobble and ran past me into the direction in which the girl had just run off to.
"Let's go 'n get her! As long as she's alive, we'll at least get her bounty!"
Now I heard up.
"This is gonna be quite the fun!"
I almost tore my katana out of their fastening and drew closer to the mob.
Without batting an eye, I swung my blades while the sky got lanced by splatters of blood. One by one, they fell to the hard plastered ground and stopped moving.
Shaking my head, I put back my weapons and turned to go.
They probably wouldn't get her today anymore, that small one would guaranteed already be miles away, I thought while looking into direction of the towns' center as I walked on into dusk.
- PROLOGUE END -
authors note :
well umm...so this is my first fanfiction.
I've already been writing stuff like that for over 2 years, but I've never before translated all of it into english, so just ignore the mistakes I might have made, okay? *sweats*
Don't hesitate to correct me if it bothers you too much ^^
I'm happy about anything coming from you readers; private messages, reviews...whatever^^
Hope u liked or even enjoyed it, I'll try do upload chapter one as soon as I transalte it :)
SEE U NEXT TIMEE!
P.S:
I made some slight changes in this one, her age e.g, keeping her that young simply wounldn't fit in later chapters.
Since it's the first chapter, I think it won't matter to everyone knew to this story...for all those who read it and see it as an update...you won't even spot the differences anyway ^^