Chapter 2. Stormy seas

Credit´s: I don´t own One Piece. It rightfully belongs to the great Oda Eiichiro. I only own my OC´s and story line in this fiction.

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The mess hall of the marine ship is always a lively and a loud place no matter what is the current meal time. All of the soldiers had accustomed to the loudness of the hall and how horrible food was over the months or years they had been on the fleet. Food in their fleet was not even considered food on the deck, it was always referenced as 'It'. Today's breakfast was this bad excuse of porridge… Wait why is it moving like that?

Yet they took what they were given and it had given them all strong stomachs against unexpected currents and storms, plus their superiors always said that the pirates had only food infested by parasites and worms. That was enough to make everyone stop complaining in an instant and laugh for a good amount of time.

Suddenly a loud shout of "WHAT THE HELL!" echoed through the hall making countless heads turn towards it. Looking towards a table where the shout had erupted, they could see two marines in a table near one of the portholes, their empty food bowls and chess board on the table along with chessmen, most of them were white suggesting that the shouter had lost miserably. Looking at the players they could see that the woman was clearly happy about winning and man was utterly in rage. Ren and Oscar… of course, who else?

Soon sighs and annoyed mumbles of "Not again…" and "Are those two really going to start arguing at 8 am?" filled the mess hall for a while. Soon tough everyone returned to their own conversations and business.

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Oscar didn´t understand it… How in the name of Marine H.Q he had managed to lose in chess to Ren… ten times in a row less than 20 minutes. Looking at his best friend in disbelief as he muttered childishly"You cheated…" This made the dark brown haired woman sigh. Oh she didn´t appreciate this part of her friend's personality. "Oscar… How many times do I have to say this? I´m a tactician in training and you can barely follow a simple attacking pattern. There is no way you can beat me in chess." Ren closed her eyes as she explained the truth to Oscar rather calmly, yet with a hint of cockiness and pride.

A vein popped in Oscar´s fore head as his overly big ego had a hard hit from the woman… He sprung up from the dining table and flipped the chess board, making it and his bowl of porridge fly towards Ren. The woman yelped and dodged the two objects quickly. "What the hell was that for!?" Ren yelled to her comrade staring down at the green eyed man with a glare from her now furious brown ones.

Both growled at each other until a low menacing voice echoed behind Ren… "I would like to ask the same, Oscar…" The two slowly looked towards the voice, only to see really angry Saul, his face covered by his breakfast and his death glare from his green eyes rivaling their superior's own. Oscar gulped and shuttered "H-hey Saul… How ya doing?"

Saul sprung towards Oscar and quickly took him to a tight headlock. "Ow! That hurts!" Oscar shouted as he tried to squirm out of the tight hold. "You know… I would like some respect from you as a Warrant officer* especially due to the fact you are my younger brother…" Saul growled as he tightened his grip. "Oh shut up! You are only a year older than me! And decides that porridge thing was an honest accident! I swear!" With that sentence from Oscar's mouth Saul threw him on the floor.

"That a side Oscar… You need to start to take your responsibilities more seriously... You are 24, yet you are acting like a 10 year old! Do you even know that Ritius is considering sending you to G-5!?" This all seemed to go past Oscar's ears.

" You have done pranks too..." Ren reminded Saul.

Saul looked at Ren with annoyance"Well I don't take them over board like couple of immature idiots I happen to know!" Ren shot an annoyed glare and hissed "OI! The shower room prank didn´t go that overboard!" "Oh! A flood over the whole 3rd floor isn´t over board to you?! ". Saul roared in pure rage.

Ren mumbled… It wasn´t her fault that Umiko had put way too much explosives to the showers, way more she had told her.

Ren growled in irritation at Saul but soon chuckled in amusement when she saw Oscar showing tongue to his big brother like a five-year old. "You know that Warrant officers aren´t even that great…"

This made the Warrant officer turn back to face Oscar, jump on top of him and start a one of their not so brotherly fist-fight's, which usually lasted for good amount of minutes.

Ren laughed uncontrollably hitting the table with her fist and tears forming in corners of her eyes.

The tall woman's laugher was stopped when she felt a nudge on back side of her uniforms shirt. Ren glanced at her back only to soon look downwards to see her small friend smiling her usual innocent smile. Ren smiled back at the black haired kid and said "Hey Umiko! Got yer duties done early?"

The small girl hopped to the bench and placed her bowl of it onto the table. "Yep! But Mrs. Maria had us working for hours..."

Ren chuckled to herself. Oh she remembered how she and Oscar always got lectured for doing a poor job or slacking off by that old hag. Or the time when she switched the salt to chili pepper and Oscar had switched their jam to mashed liver… Oh that was hilarious, until Mrs. Maria had told Ritius about it and they had been tied to the head-mast heads downwards for good amount of time.

Girl smiled to Ren, but after giving a small glance towards the quarrel of Oscar and Saul sighed and asked "What the fuck are those two arguing about this time." only to receive a hit to her head by Ren. "What was that for!?" Umiko yelled to Ren. "Do you even know what 'fuck' means?" Ren asked Umiko.

Umiko pouted and muttered"No…"

"Then don't say it… Decides it´s not wise to swear when you´re in your current age and position…" Ren started scolding the eleven year old

"Being a chore girl you should watch out what you say you know…."

She still looked at Umiko and continued "As for what are those two arguing about: Responsibility." Umiko sighed and said "So nothing unusual…"

Ren then looked at the two brothers who were still fighting and were surrounded by about dozen other marines, who were chanting

"Fight! Figth! Fight!"

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Ritius took a step out of the report room and headed towards the balcony in front of the ship´s main mast with his top navigator.

Climbing up the stairs looking towards the sky… Oh how he had became paranoid about the weather of the new world over all of these years… Finally stepping to the balcony and walking towards a den-den mushi which was connected to speakers in all of his fleet's ships, as he was saluted by about ten lower ranked marine officers.

After saluting back Ritius picked up the den-den mushi and as he heard the small click coming from the snail he started speaking and gave coordinates towards

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Saul couldn´t believe what he had heard from his superior's mouth. Hurrying towards Ritius who was walking towards his cabin… Ren and Oscar along with other marine soldiers had started to change the course towards Gunner Island. The Warrant officer quickly cached up to his superior and called him"Ritius!" Ritius turned around and smiled at him.

"Hey Saul… What´s the matter?" The Rear-admiral questioned.

"Why are we setting sail towards Gunner Island?! That island is completely under "Bloody Eyes" Jack´s control!"

Ritius sighed and said with a low voice "It´s direct order from the fleet admiral and world government, the island is surrounded by valuable minerals which are used by government frequently … As marine's it´s our duty obey them."

Saul clenched his fists and said"Father…I understand that perfectly… But, it sounds like a perfect way to get all of us slaughtered."

Ritius looked at his son with understanding look "I know you are worried… And I understand perfectly why. Jack himself is known to be very brutal against his enemies and even towards his crew. But even so he´s only just an ignorant rookie brat with dangerous plans. "

Saul grunted at his father's response "But a bounty of 500,000,000 Beli´s should be taken seriously!"

Ritius chuckled and said "I´m taking every single one of my missions seriously… And I have taken out criminals with bigger bounties than that."

With that Ritius turned around and before he left Saul alone to the hallway he said

"Start preparing the canons… and tell everyone to prepare for battle within the next 35 hours… We are going towards island which has become the perfect hell."

(A/N * Warrant officer is the 12th highest marine rank in One Piece universe. Just Google about them and you´ll find more about the rank.

Okay that was the second chapter. I hope you enjoyed it! Reviews and advices are welcome!)