- Chapter 2

(No ones POV)

There stood a tall, black haired boy named Kaito at the school pool, bewildered. He couldn't believe his brown eyes.. Actually he couldn't even grasp what just happened. All he remembers is that he was about to jump into the pool to pull Suzune out of it until a blast of light came from the pool, blinding him. As he stands there near the pool, looking down noticing that it was now completely empty and the only thing left was a book. Sadly enough, he didn't notice the book since he was so shocked he took off running to tell someone what he had experienced. He didn't realize then that the book was going to be a key to mysterious connection in the future.

"This can't be happening..." He said to himself, "I only threw her in the pool to surprise her so she wouldn't do be freaking lazy, not make her disappear! I was going to pull her butt out of the water... It's definitely not my fault!" He kept convincing himself as he forced his legs to move forward.

As he ran away from the pool, questions start to hang in the air... What happened to Suzune? If she did disappear, where to then? Was she even alive or not?...

...

(Suzune's POV)

*splash splash*

'Water?' I think to myself.

'Why am I in water?... Where am I?" A cold breeze blows on my face, I slowly open my eyes and see that the color blue. I stare blankly at the clear sky. I start to notice that I'm floating on the water.

'What am I doing here?' I ask as I can't seem to remember anything. I look around while floating in place.

"I'm... in the middle of a huge body of water?" I ask myself starting to get more and more confused at the fact I can't understand how I got here. I look slightly down and notice I'm wearing clothing I don't recognize at all. It seemed to be tight on my body. 'What am I wearing?' (It was her school swimsuit.)

Then '...!' I realized something, 'I can't even recall what happened before I got here..' Thinking that I start panicking. I try my hardest to remember what I had done before I woke up, but nothing comes to mind. Afterwards, I ask myself,

"Who am I?"... I keep myself as calm as I can as I try to remember my name.

"I... Don't know my name?!" I yell out panicking again. Considering that freaking out right now wasn't the brightest idea since I was starting to slowly sink into the sea. I get ahold of myself and swim back to the surface. Keeping myself floating on my back I somehow relax my nerves and again continue thinking who I am...

Time flew by and I came to a conclusion that I have fully lost my memories.

'What am I going to do? I don't where am I let alone where I should even be going..' I sigh. Though I seem to be familiar to swimming and floating because I felt like I knew how to do this... Once I found that out I seem to be relieved that I did have a life before.

'Thankfully my body remembers even if I don't.' I smile at the sky.

Just then I see something moving my way from the corner of my eye.

'What is that?' I couldn't see it clearly as it was small.

"Hello?" I call out to the object approaching me. It starts to slow down and circle around me from afar. I figure out the outline of a fin and gulp. 'Is that a dolphin or... a shark?' I can't see it completely yet, but I hope it is a dolphin.

I keep my breathing in control as I nervously watch the fin circle around me slowly at a distance. It doesn't stop for at least an hour or so. I finally realize it was a dolphin much to my relief.

The dolphin now closes the distances between us and stays in front of me. Then the most unexpected happened at that moment.

"A woman in the middle of the sea?" said a female voice that came out of nowhere.

I look around, "Who said that?"

"Did you hear me speak?" The voice replies back to me.

"Yes, I did hear you, but where are you?" Puzzled, I look to find the source of the feminine voice.

"Interesting... A human can understand us mammals?"

I stare at the dolphin. "Did you just speak?" I point at it.

"Of course I did, human." The dolphin says while circling around me.

"You... Can talk?!" I could not believe this was happening! How could there be a talking dolphin?!

"Human female, I have always been able to speak, but no human has ever understood the mammals way of speech." The female dolphin stops to look at me... Or at least I think she did?... I can't process what is happening... I'm talking to a dolphin? A living creature from the sea that was never able to speak. How am I understanding it?! I don't know!

"Answer me this." The dolphin demanded, "How are you able to understand me? Who taught you it?" It starts asking me loads of questions that I, myself, have no answers to.

"I don't understand myself how I'm able to talk to you Ms. Dolphin and I clearly have no memory of anyone teaching me either! That's why I'm so shocked right now that I can understand you." I explain to the creature.

"What do you mean you don't understand? Every human has a home where they get taught everything they know, now where did you come from and how did you learn the talent of speaking to us mammals?" She wasn't very friendly like I imagined dolphins would be.

"I don't remember!" I yell out. "I don't know how I ended up understanding you dolphin! If I did I would have told you by now. I don't have any memories since I woke up floating in this water a few hours ago! I don't know where my home is or who I even am!" I franickly tell her my situation.

She swims around and stops infront of me. "You do not remember? How foolish."

"I really don't remember what I'm doing here, really! All I know is that I have been trapped in the sea this whole day, but I don't remember how I even got here or how anything today is turning out! Please don't hurt me! I didn't even know I could understand you!" I look at the dolphin with desperate eyes.

She doesn't seem to move or speak for awhile. So we just stare at each other.. Or at least I think she's staring at me. Some time passes and I start to feel waves get higher.

'Oh no, don't tell me a storm is coming?!' I look at the sky and find dark clouds coming this way. I look back at the dolphin.

"Ms. Dolphin. I do not have any memories, even if there was a chance you would lead me to land, I don't really know where or what I would do since nothing comes to mind, but I beg you to take me away from this storm! I will do anything to repay you back if you help me." I try my best at begging to the dolphin. I really wanted get away from the storm waves, that were now getting bigger by the minute.

"Human. Do you think I will aid you?" She asks seriously.

"Um... Maybe? I don't have a choice since you are the only way out of the storm and maybe even my only way to live." Sadly, I look out at the waves coming towards me, trying to hold back my tears, thinking this dolphin won't help me.

"..." The female dolphin doesn't say a word as she watches me closely.

"... Human, if what you say is true, then you shall repay me back by following me for the rest of your life." She tells me and comes closer letting me hold on to her while she swims away from the coming storm. I was so happy she accepted, but didn't know what would happen later... I had so much on my mind.. What happened to my memories? Why did they disappear? Maybe I did something and was thrown overboard on a ship? I couldn't have just popped in the ocean for no reason. What was going to happen to me from now on, now that I will be following this female dolphin everywhere?... I sigh sadly thinking what was to become of my life, but somehow was a bit excited as well.

After for what seemed hours of silence my stomach growled.

"Um.. I'm sorry about that." I shyly apologize.

The female dolphin payed no attention and swam to what seemed like a rock. She told me to get on it and wait for her to come back. I obeyed and stepped onto the rough rock as she swam away somewhere. Though it was pretty slippery I tried to keep my balance and found a spot comfortable enough to sit on. While waiting I start digging through my mind trying to remember whatever I can from my life. After thinking for a long time I couldn't remember anything so I just stared out at the sea. I notice the sun was almost about to set. It looked so amazing... I have never seen anything like this before. Though I don't have memories, I figured that the past is in the past so I should just have to make new memories.

'I should start my new life by making a name for myself.' I smiled a little bit as I thought up a name. As the sun starts to set I start humming a melody. 'Weird.' I tell myself ' I feel like I know this song.' I start singing it and the lyrics just naturally come to be me. Then, I remembered it was a lullaby that I loved. It's a soothing song even if I couldn't remember the name. After finishing the song a name pops into my head.

"Sue?" I say. The name seems familiar so I decide I'll call myself by the name Sue, not entirely sure if that was my name or not. As I was thinking this, the female mammal came back with something in her mouth.

"Welcome back." I tell her once she was in front of me.

She sets down a small dead fish on the rock and says, "You, eat this. Even if you don't want to, you need to if you want to live."

I look at her and smile happily, "Thank you for getting me food. Though, I feel sad about eating it, I do need my strength to continue on." I wasn't entirely thrilled that I had to eat a dead fish, but it was my only food source so I had no other choice.

"..." The dolphin stayed in place while I ate the fish.

Though it took some time, I finally ate the fish. I had almost swallowed a few of the bones so I had to chew rather slow even if I hated it so much, I forced myself to eat the tasteless raw fish. After eating it I realized it didn't taste so bad as I thought it would. My stomach seemed to fill up from the small meal and I look over at the dolphin.

"I have finished my meal. Thank you for the food." I let her know that I'm grateful that she cared to give me food.

"Good. Now human, you said you don't have any memories, correct?" She questions me with interest.

"Yes, I do not know anything about my past. I only know that I was floating in the middle of this ocean when I woke up, realizing that my body knew how to swim, and then I found out I can understand you." I explain looking out at the dark sky. The sun had set so the stars were now coming out.

"Do you not own a name, human?"

"No, I don't, but I thought up a name while you were gone, Ms. Dolphin." I announce to her, "My name is now Sue. I don't know if that is my real name or not, but it would be better to be called that than being called Human, right?" I felt her stare at me when I said that. Then I realized something, "Hey Ms. Dolphin? Do you have a name?" I stare at her.

She looks away and swims around the rock. After a short moment she speaks, "My name is Cari." It seemed like she didn't want to tell me her name but I'm glad she did.

"Well why don't we start over?" I held out my hand, "My name is Sue. It's a pleasure to meet you, Cari. I hope to experience a nice new life with you."

Cari stares at my out stretched hand then puts the tip of her mouth on it and nods "It's nice to know I'm not alone for awhile, Sue. Now, let's go to another location." Said Cari as she opens her mouth to lightly bite on my wrist and pull me into the water.

"You didn't have to pull me! You could have told me to get into the water!" I pout at her.

"It's faster this way. Come now, hold on to me. It's time to move." She starts to move a little as I grab hold. In the distance, I notice a dark outline of a boat and ask Cari about it.

"Hey Cari? What's that boat doing over there?" I point to it to let her know, though she doesn't even look and tells me,

"It's best to ignore any ship on the sea, Sue." She keeps swimming away from it while I still stare. Before it was out of view I realized it really was a ship not a boat. I actually wanted to see more of it, but Cari just kept swimming farther away without letting me protest.

...

(No one's POV)

On the ship that Suzune, now Sue, was staring at were the pirates of Sirius. A blonde with green eyes, who was on look out duty, noticed the girl swimming with the dolphin through his telescope and informed the black haired navigator of the ship, "Eduardo! I just saw a girl being taken away by a dolphin!"

Eduardo glared up at him with a hazel eye while a eye patch over the other, "Russell, why are you informing me about something so trial?"

"I was thinking you would do something." Russell said.

"Getting ahold of the treasure is more important than going after a little girl." Eduardo said coldly.

Russell shook his head and continued to look out. Then a dark skinned man with black hair came onto deck.

"Is there something wrong here?" The man smiled kindly at them.

"No." Eduardo plainly said.

"What do you mean no?!" Russell yelled, "I just told ya what was wrong."

"No, there's just something wrong with your eyes." Eduardo explained.

Russell replied, getting angrier, "Don't go blaming on anything on my eyes, Eduardo! Or I'll- "

"Now, now, let's not get into another fight." The dark skinned man interrupted. "What's this about a girl?"

"Hmph. Let Russell tell ya, Doc." Said Eduardo, uninterested.

"Doc, I'm tellin ya, my eyes are not playing tricks! No lies!" Russell said leaning over on the crow's nest.

"What did you see Russell?" Asked Doc. Russell explained how he saw the girl holding onto a dolphin while swimming away from the ship. At that moment, came a running red haired boy saying,"Christopher! I organized the herbs in your office!", but stopped and asked, "What's this about a girl?"

"Ah, well done Thomas. We were just talking about how Russell saw a dolphin carrying a girl." Christopher kindly smiled telling him what Russell just explained. Thomas looked at Russell with interest," Did you really see that?! I wonder if that dolphin is friends with the girl! It must be nice.."

Christopher chuckles at Thomas' childish remark and tells him he can go rest. Thomas says thanks and returns to his room below deck saying goodnight to everyone. Christopher turns back to Russell and says, "Well Russell, I've never heard about a girl being in the middle of the sea with a dolphin. That is quite mysterious, isn't it?"

Just then, a big buffed guy with a feathered hat comes out of his cabin and appears on deck laughing heartily. "What do we have here? A story about a young maiden being carried away by a sea creature? That must have been a sight!"

"Captain!" yelled Russell.

"Hello Captain. Do you think this story is a bit odd? Maybe we should have helped her." Asked Christopher while facing the brown haired man named Captain.

"It is odd, but we have no time to lose. We don't want Alan getting ahold of the treasure before us! I'm sure the girl would be alright." Captain tells them. Eduardo smirks at Russell knowing he was right while Russell just turns around with a 'hmph' and starts mumbling complaints. Captain walks over to the side of the deck and leans on it.

"Eduardo, how much longer until we reach our destination?" He asks the navigator.

"About four more days, Captain." Eduardo says confidently.

"Alright. Well then, keep up the work, men!" Captain heads back to his cabin. As he was about to step on the stairs he notices a dirty blonde haired guy with a bandana standing near the doorway beside the set of stairs. He had been standing there the whole time.

"Ah, Nathan! Do we have enough food and materials for the rest of the trip?" Captain asks and Nathan just nods saying, "We got everything."

"Perfect! Continue on, men! I will be seeing you all in the morning." Then Captain disappears into his cabin.

"Where's Thomas?" Asks Nathan.

"Went off to bed." Eduardo answers.

"I sent him to rest since he got everything done." Christopher finishes.

"He didn't finish peeling the potatoes." Nathan mumbles as he walks away. Christopher looks at Russell and says, "Now you two should get some rest as well. I'm sure there's no need to worry about the girl with the dolphin." Russell climbs down from the crow's nest and nods while Eduardo just continues to look straight at the ocean.

One by one everyone in Sirius went to rest, not entirely forgetting about the girl that Russell had mentioned. They all had different opinions about the girl. Who would have thought they would actually meet the same girl very soon.