I yawned as I stretched out, or should I say tried to stretch. Something was stopping me from moving my arms apart and that when I remembered.
"AHHHH!" I shrieked as I started flailing around. I was goanna drown, I was goanna drown.
"Hey why am I still breathing?" I asked out loud when I noticed that I wasn't drowning. Actually I was floating quite well. How the hell am I floating though? I'm pretty sure that I should be drowning, not that I'm complaining here, I'm just a wee bit confused.
I tried to stretch again, forgetting about the sea stone cuffs…..
"SWEET!" I yelled. The sea stone cuffs were keeping my sorry ass from drowning. Ha-ha. Those bandits did me a favor, cool. I knew they secretly loved me. No one can resist the all mighty Riku!
I laughed to myself as I took in my surrounding. Fuck, nothing in sight, not even my ship. That got me a little steamed. Those bandits took my ship. Hey it might be small but it was MINE, and I don't like people taking what's MINE.
Anyways, I pretty much saw nothing in sight, so I had no idea where the hell I was. Greeaaaat.
"You know what I'm still tired; I'm going to take a nap." I said out loud, leaning back so I was floating on my back. And in a few minutes I was once asleep, though this time my head wasn't in danger.
I spoke too soon.
"Son of a bitch!" I yelped as something collided with my head.
"Holy fucking shit!" I yelled, holding my head. God damn it hurt. I heard someone yelp before something warm grabbed my arm lifting me out of the water.
"What the hell are you doing in the middle of the ocean?" A very sexy voice asked. I rubbed my head as I looked up at whoever hit me. It took all my strength to keep my jaw from dropping. THANK YOU JESUS!
I was saved by a very hot man, who did not ware a shirt. I would be thinking that I was dead if not the killer headache I was now getting.
"Sun bathing I think." I answered while trying to collect my thoughts. My brain hurts.
Mr. sexy let out a snort as he hoisted me out of the water.
"I think I might have hit you a little too hard." He muttered as I held me in his arm. Hey I'm not complaining here! Having a smexy guy holding you is a pretty damn nice thing to experience.
"Maybe, or I night just be crazy." I said. He looked at me before laughing. Damn his laugh was hot and so was his body, I mean his body was HOT. Damn, how can someone be so warm? Whatever, feels good on my cool skin.
"I think I better take you back with me and get you check out." He said as we started moving. I looked down to see that we were standing; well he was anyways, on a surfboard looking thingy. Sweet!
"Nice board thingy." I told him. He grinned as we went faster.
"Weeeeeeeeeee!" I squealed, loving the speed we were going at, the wind rushing though my hair.
"You're sure a happy little thing." He said. I gave his a glare.
"I'm not short." I growled out. He laughed adjusted he gripped, making me cling to him. I don't wanna go back in the cold water.
"I didn't say you were short, I said you were little." He shot back, grinning. I rolled my eyes as I looked ahead.
"What's your name?" He asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Riku. What's yours oh savior of my water logged bum." I teased. He laughed again.
"Ace."
"Nice to meet you Ace. So where are we going?" I asked, finally seeing something in the distance. I felt him tense a little.
"Back to my crew." Was all he said as we went even faster. I didn't get a chance to say something, seeing as I was staring at a huge ass ship.
"Dude that your ship?" I asked. Holy shit, I could like fit over a thousand of my dinky little ship in there and there would be still more room. Daaaaamn.
"Yeah, well my captain's ship anyways." He said, moving arm so that he was waving up to a couple of people on deck. I heard them shout something as they tossed a rope over the side just as we got there.
"Well, how are we going to get you up there?" He asked, more to himself than to me. I grinned as I grabbed the rope, climbing up it like a monkey.
"Okay then." I heard him say as he started climbing the rope with his surf board thingy on his back.
"HEY! You're not Ace." Someone shouted.
"I should hope not seeing as ace is a guy." I retorted before feeling someone hit me in the head, AGAIN. Damn how many times am I going to get hit there?
"Shit." I heard Ace swear as he caught me before I could hit the deck. I gave him a grin before pass out.
"Damn it Rocky, what the hell was that for?" Ace yelled as the rookie. He got over the side of the ship just in time to see Rocky hit Riku on the head. He winced, seeing as she already got hit earlier by his fire board.
"Sorry commander, I thought she was an enemy." The rookie said, looking a bit shamefaced. Ace glared as the kid before hosting Riku back into his arm.
"You'll report to the crow nest for the evening shift for the rest of the week." With that Ace turned around, carrying Riku, as he headed down the stairs into the belly of the ship.
He looked down at Riku, taking time to get a good look at her.
She had short white hair that went only down to her chin. He couldn't remember just what color her eyes where, but he thought that they were some kind of blue color.
She was tan under what looked like half healed bruises and cuts everywhere he could see skin, which was a lot. Her shorts and shirt where in ruins and just barely covered her. Also she was a little too thin for his tastes. It looked like she was held captive for a while, which would explain the cuffs on her hands, the large gash on her head and why she was out in the middle for the grand line.
"What the hell happened to you?" He muttered as he entered the room that the crew used as an infirmary.