Second "Part". It's shorter than the first part, but the next is going to be a little longer. Hope you guys, you know, like it.
Please, READ ON!
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Memoirs of a Bounty Hunter
Part 2
Easy. That was the only word for it. Two pirates, dressed as normal sailors, guarded the one ramp that lead to the Chameleon, the ship that the Camouflage Pirates sailed on. Shuraiya had already figured out their plans: sneak into the town, dressed as normal townspeople. Then, slowly, discard of important officials by assassination and replacement. After the town was under their control and they siphoned any riches from it, they would all leave and travel on to the next island. It was a perfect way to kill time before their Log Pose set anyway.
He suddenly realized his eyes were still poking out from over the barrels that hid both him and his sister. He dropped back down and looked at his sister, "You stay here," He said, emphasizing the statement by pointing at the ground, a scowl on his face. His sister looked away in disgust, her cheeks puffed up. Shuraiya took that as a "Whatever", and leapt over the barrels. With a smirk, he placed his hands on his hips, and raised his voice so the guards could hear his taunt, "Just as I thought, these people can only afford maggots like YOU to watch their precious ship!" It was all he needed, and he crouched for a second, dashing expertly into combat.
The pirates at their stations blinked at the charging man, and one of them gave a hoarse, intimidated cry, "I… it's Shuraiya, the bounty…!" He couldn't even finish his sentence; the bounty hunter was already upon them before they could draw their steel. He came down with a shout and slammed their heads together, and Adelle gave a silent "Hurray!" for her brother as he looted the bodies of anything useful in a fight. Obviously, he found a short sword on each. He hadn't dual wielded in a long while. It'd be good practice.
"Oi, Adelle, you going to hide there forever?" The man asked. His sister popped her head over the barrel, and he winced at the blood in her hair again. It gave him new desire to kill the bastards who did it to her. She nodded and hopped over the barrels, jogging to his side.
"Onii-Chan! How cool!" She shouted, dancing around her brother, raising her hands high above her head, "You're the best!"
"Quiet!" Shuraiya said quickly, making his sister cover her mouth with her hands. Too late, there were figures on the ship that were alerting other pirates to the two's presence. Meh, it was easier this way anyway. He rushed up the plank to the Chameleon, swords flying in a deadly dance that only a self trained fool would attempt to try to use. Adelle began hide her face; the battle was too gruesome for a young girl such as herself should see. Of course, when Shuraiya finished off the entire deck of the Chameleon, she told herself that it was okay to see the damage and allowed herself a peek. Shuraiya tapped his foot in a puddle of blood, swinging one of the short swords in an arc, back and forth, back and forth, "Tch," He muttered at the last living pirate on the deck. The weakling had, quite literally, wet himself in fear, "Is this it? I might have thought… Ahhh, alright, it's not like I care whose ass I kick, as long as you bastards get off of my island." He leaned over so he could be much more intimidating than he already was, his crazy smile boring deep into his opponent's mind, "Go collect your captain. Perhaps, we can discuss this like decent gentlemen, ne?"
The pirate was up like a shot, and Shuraiya flipped one of his short swords around so he could take his black hat off and wipe it of dust. As the enemy rushed off to where his captain was, the bounty hunter prepared himself by licking his thumb, and rubbing a bit of blood from his hat. Dammit, he'd need to grab some stain remover for when the day was over, this was his favorite hat! With a grumble, he reapplied his headgear, and turned to look at his sister, "You shouldn't be here, Adelle. You need to leave, now."
Adelle blinked innocent eyes at her brother, skipping across the blood and guts to get to him, "But you told me not to leave your side, Onii-Chan dear!" She proclaimed, making Shuraiya give off many expletives in his mind. Damnit, he really… REALLY… hated her right now…
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Zaizen the Brute, Captain of the Camouflage Pirates, grumbled angrily as he drummed his long, coarse, yellowed fingernails on his throne-like chair. The men hadn't fixed the small leak that usually dripped water from the deck to his head. However, it wasn't water that dripped one bit at a time on his head, it was now blood. SOMETHING… was up…
"Ca… Captain Zaizan!" The captain winced as another blood droplet fell upon his head, and watched as one of his underlings rushed down to the captain's cabin. He dropped to the floor, bowing before his master, and explained what just happened from above, "S… Sir! It's… Shuraiya! The Pirate Executioner, Shuraiya, has attacked! We didn't stand a…"
"SILENCE!" Zaizen roared, making his underling quiver with fear. The underling would have soiled himself again if he could. The pirate captain snapped his fingers, and rose. From the shadows, a hulking man with brass knuckles applied to his hands, strode to meet with the captain, who was sporting a fatigue, making him seem a lot like a guerrilla. Zaizen acknowledged the man and turned to his underling, "Right, Kolin. It appears that it is up to us. Finish up here, I'll meet you up on deck."
Kolin nodded at the guerrilla as he walked from the room, and the man with the knuckles took a few steps forward. The pirate lackey looked up at Kolin, and his eyes widened as the brass was brought down on his head. The Camouflage Pirates' First Mate gave the failed lackey a swift and painless death, cracking his skull in two. The former underling crumpled to the floor in a heap, and Kolin cracked his real knuckles, following his captain to meet with the pirate hunter that was after them.
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Jii-Chan nearly slammed into the Marine secretary's desk, "I need to get in touch with Captain Marlain! It's an emergency!"
The secretary blew her bubble gum, blinking at the old man as she looked up from her files. Her eyes were half banked as she looked at Partia's census, and the bubble popped, "Ahhh, Biera-San…" She murmured, finally finding the man's name on the paper, "Good day. May I help you?"
"Didn't you hear me?" Jii-Chan shouted. He actually had to remember that his name WAS Biera. After all, the entire town had taken to calling him at least "Jii-San". Now, this secretary was pissing him off, "It's pirates! Pirates down at the docks!"
"I honestly have no idea what you're talking about…" The secretary said, attempting to keep the man's blood pressure down, "I'll try and get some lieutenants down there, but we can't just send an army out for any old 'emergency', that would be…"
"Just get me to Captain Marlain!"
"Biera-San!" The secretary shouted, slamming her hands on the desk, "Please, contain yourself! You three!" She pointed at three privates who were trying to keep out of the conversation, "Please, lead Biera-San out of here. I am busy at the moment and cannot entertain him…" Jii-Chan growled a bit as the secretary went back to her work and the Marines attempted to lead their guest out. Just then, one of the young men stopped to look at the secretary.
"Waitaminute…" He muttered, releasing Jii-Chan's arm to take a better look at the woman, "Something's… different about you today, Jenny…"
"Whatever do you mean?" She asked coolly, although beads of sweat accumulated on her brow.
"You usually have D-Cups," The man said, getting perverted thoughts as he reminded himself of this fact, "And today you hardly have a chest! And wait, your figure doesn't have any fine, delicate curves. Something is DEFINITELY… different about you…"
"I have no idea what you're…" "Jenny" was interrupted as the private snatched rather rudely at her hair and yanked off a wig!
"Just as I thought! You're not Jenny at all!" He pointed at the cross dressing man, who seemed obviously embarrassed. Whether it was because he was discovered as one of the Camouflage Pirates or that he was discovered as a drag queen, Jii-Chan would never know, "Hey! Brian, Damian, get Captain Marlain now!" He smirked at the sweating pirate before him as he dragged out the handcuffs. He nodded at the smiling Jii-Chan, and finished his speech as his buddies cheered, "We've got a bunch of rats we need to flush out of our fair city!"
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"The hell are you doing?" Shuraiya asked as Adelle wandered around the deck. She appeared to be searching for something. Well, Shuraiya was as well, only he was looking for enough unstained cloth to wipe the blood off of his "borrowed" short swords. His sister had no right looking for something on a PIRATE SHIP.
"Nothing," Adelle said sweetly, deciding that right now, honey was better than vinegar, especially when it came to her brother. Finally, she found something that caught her eye, and she yanked it up from the corpse of a fallen pirate. Smiling, she held a pistol up for her brother to see, "I can shoot a person in the heart from ten paces away!" She proudly proclaimed, remembering that time she had shot Luffy, although… it hadn't worked the way she expected…
"PUT IT DOWN!" Shuraiya roared loudly enough that everyone on the ship would obviously have heard it, and Adelle stared at her brother like a deer stared at blaring headlights, "Not you… not you too. Put it down, NOW…" Adelle, under normal circumstances, would have thought up a nice comeback that would keep him wrapped around her little finger, but his sharp demand nearly made her drop the gun in the first place. She knelt down and placed the weapon on the floor, and as she stood up, she stared at the blood that littered the ground. It was much less scary than the look of bitter disappointment the bounty hunter gave her.
"What the hell is this?" The two suddenly looked up, and blinked at the bulky first mate of the Camouflage Pirates. As he walked up onto the deck, Shuraiya prepared for battle and everyone watched as the captain, Zaizan, walked onto the deck behind Kolin, his hands placed smartly behind his back, "I would never have thought that a man… no, a simple BOUNTY HUNTER could give my crew this much trouble."
"You haven't met many, hiding your existence from most of them like this…" Shuraiya spat. Veins appeared on the temple of the captain, and he pointed straight at the bounty hunter.
"Kolin… GET HIM!" It was a blur for Adelle as the two dashed into battle.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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