Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the characters.
Why doesn't fate want me to write Agencyshipping? I wanted to have my readers explore Wonderland but then my sister showed me the trailer for the new Tinkerbell movie and I was like. "Disney stole my idea!" Joking XD but I wanted to get this out quicker because of that. Really rushed and had to slash an whole act for length.
At times, Blue loved her job as fairy guardian to the Grim Boys, and she enjoyed the Pirate Captain's company in particular. While she liked sparring words with the Hatter and finding new parts of the rolling hills with her brother, nothing compared to simply watching the few emotion of the Pirate Captain wash over themselves and his ocean.
If she believed in past lives, then she would've said that she was once a mermaid because she had always heard the ocean's lulling call. As a fairy, she couldn't travel over long stretches of water without fear of a stray drop of water taking away her ability to fly and herself drowning in result. But laying on the bow of the Merry Roger, she didn't have to worry about drowning. She was content to sit with the wind in her hair and gentle spray of the ocean.
Why no one agreed to be the Pirate Captain's fairy guardian before her was baffling, if not for the chance to relish in those quiet moments with the sea, then to spend time with the most feared person in all the seven seas. He was rather handsome to her and not at all like the person in his tales. He wasn't the most kind or talkative but he wasn't the worst either, always being respectful and patient with her.
As if her thoughts summoned him, a shadow fell upon her and she tilted her head up to gift him with a smile. She turned her body to sit on the rail of the ship as she grew to full size. She never felt comfortable being the size of butterfly around him unless it was to tease him. He didn't return her smile but that didn't bother her, used to his constant scowl and his eyes didn't hold the annoyance of his tight frown.
"Come away from there, pesky fairy. I'll not have you fall into the water and leave me with the duty of fishing you out," he told her and she stuck her tongue at him. Of all the rare times he had allowed her on his ship, every time he warned her away from the edge. He told himself that he would rather have her as his fairy guardian than another, no matter how much she pestered him, she let him get away with so much more than others would. "Now where do you wish to go?"
It was a common punishment for him he had to take her wherever she wished in trade for her silence of the matter of his revenge. But him doing so would mean one less day to track down the bastard that killed his sister for jolly old fun. The bastard was no longer a child, but a man trapped in one and that persona only allowed him to run free with murder.
"I want you to take me to Mermaid Cove, Green." She told him and he rolled his eyes at the name. He hadn't used it for so long that he had almost forgotten it. But she used it since she said she enjoyed the name much more than the simple Pirate Captain. There was something more softly about the way she said his simple name. "I want to look for the perfect pearl in the deepest sea of Wonderland."
Green nodded and signaled for one of his men to set a course for Mermaid Cove. From the corner of his eye, he watched her reach her hand towards the water. She laughed when two bubbly eyes appeared in the water before two water cannons followed, spraying her in the face. She folded her wings behind her so they wouldn't get wet as she waved bye to the blue turtle island swam on its way.
"Why do you never listen?" He gestured to the drops of water on her wing, starting to absorb the fairy dust that helped her fly. She quickly flapped her wings to rid herself of the water and laughed when she turned to see that Green was coated in water and fairy dust. Green didn't question how the few drops of water grew large enough to soak him since he had already accepted that Wonderland enjoyed his misery.
"Don't worry," Blue laughed as she waved a wand over him and summoned heat to dry him. He tilted his head at her gentle laugh, something so familiar to him now.
Someone called out to them saying that they were prepared to leave for Mermaid Cove and Green nodded to Blue even as she shrunk in size and flew off. She gathered fairy dust from barrels placed around the ship, barely stopping at each, before circling the ship until it glowed and lifted from the water. She landed beside Green again, growing to her full size as he poured some more fairy dust on her.
"You really are sweet, Greenie," She kissed his cheek and he only blushed. She stood beside him and leaned over the edge to watch the waves below. He didn't say a word but he didn't push her away. She felt herself leaning towards him but didn't do so fully. She wondered if she did if he would he push her away?
Blue sat on the crow's nest, swinging her legs as she watched the other pirates sing and drink below. It was close to midnight but they didn't seem to notice the time and she envied their endless energy. She enjoyed spending time with the crew but tonight she found herself sitting on the main mast, just listening to the Wonderland sing through the wind.
Wonderland knew she wasn't going to get a tune from the pirate behind her. She leaned back and let her tall frame fall backwards to hand upside down so she could look at the man who didn't seem to notice her presence. She shrank again and flew so that she landed on his chest.
"You okay?" She asked him and lay on his strong chest, looking into his hard jade eyes. He didn't say a word even as she waved pixie dust over his chest so his locket began to float. He took it, intent on putting it back in his shirt but she wrapped her tiny arms around his fist. "It's that time of the year again, isn't it? She wouldn't want you to be like this."
"Your brother is still alive, so you don't get to tell me how to mourn." He took another swig of his brandy and his sharp tone didn't seem to faze her. He was sure that he could hurt her into leaving him in his misery. She sighed and grew to full size to kneel beside him.
"You need to picture for that locket," She told him as if he never spoke his sharp words. Green merely placed the locket back inside his shirt. He wanted to have Gold paint a likeness of his family but now that was impossible. "And you know that Wonderland forbids killing unless needed. That's almost as big a rule as 'thou shall not eat pie on Tuesday'!"
"So that bastard can kill my sister for the hell of it and I can't take my revenge?" Green shot back and she jumped at the roaring of the ocean beneath them, the waves lifting so that they towered over them. She worried about the fairy dust she placed on the ship but Green raised his hand to stop the water even before a single drop touched the ship and lowered it back into the ocean. "I need to rest."
Green climbed down from the crow's nest before she was able to say her piece. Never one to give up, she flew to his side and could see his frustration in his frantic movement. "I know you're hurting but you don't let yourself do anything but hurt. You can go anywhere in this ship but you chose to chase after that boy."
"Will you just let me be, you pesky fairy?" Green snapped at her and she backed away from his barbed words. "I never wanted you for a fairy guardian, and I don't need you, for all you do is frustrated me to no bounds. I shall kill that man and Wonderland be damn!"
Green felt the world beneath him jerk as his ship dropped from the sky and landed none too softly in the ocean below. That ocean reached up to catch the ship but the crew and barrels of their supplies dropped to the ground. He looked back to Blue shocked but she had already flown below deck and he flinched at the sound of her door slamming.
He knew he reacted poorly to her words and would need to apologize to her in the morning. He only said those words in anger and the only truth to them was that he meant to kill Pan. Even with all of that, he hated to think of their meeting that will come in the morning.
The crew wonder at why the ship dropped to the ocean without any warning and Green merely said that he had angered Blue but that was all the explanation the crew needed. Blue sat at the bow of the ship but she refused to speak with him. He walked to her side and watched that sun caressed over her chestnut hair, something he could never do himself.
Her ocean eyes turned to him in question and he could tell that she was still angry at his words. He tapped the rail and the ocean opened before them and when she looked in, she could see Mermaid Cove inside. "You did say that you wanted to go to Mermaid Cove to find yourself a pearl, didn't you?"
Blue didn't say a word even as Green motioned to one of his crew to sail forward. No one moved even as the ship dropped into the hole. Colours flowed around them as the crossed between worlds and the wind rushed around them. The Merry Roger had the ability to travel anywhere, no matter if it rest inside another dimension or the distance.
The mermaids below looked up as the sky opened and the ship slowly made its descent. They whispered to each other before diving into the water again to fetch the king of their ocean, knowing the destruction he brought on his last visit.
"I'm sorry," Green whispered low so that only she could hear him. He couldn't show any weakness in front of his crew but he didn't want any bad blood to flow between him and Blue. For a reason he could say, her opinion of him mattered to him. She was silent for a moment before bursting into a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. "I didn't mean any of those words I said to you."
"You can make it up to me by finding me a pearl," She smiled as she looked back to the water. Green raised his hand and the water followed his movement until it solidified to a giant turtle. She couldn't swim without the water drowning her so she would always wait on the surface with the turtle she named Blasty on their adventures.
"Do whatever you wish until I return. I shall not be gone for more than a day." Green told his crew before held out a hand to her to help her down. He raised the water to form steps to the turtle below and she walked before him so she could greet the creature he summoned. It was excited to see her as well and didn't say a word as she climbed onto his back.
"I was wondering if you would want to search for the pearl with me," Green asked her.
"You know I cannot do so." She tilted her head to him in such a way he couldn't help but fall into the ocean in her eyes. Green told her to fold her wings in as he shrugged off his jacket and placed it over her shoulders. He explained that it was enchanted and as long as it was over her wings, the water wouldn't affect her. "What about breathing under water?"
She couldn't react fast enough before he grabbed the lapels the jacket and pulled her against him. Her gasp was swallowed by his kiss. She reached up to place her hand on his shoulder but he had already set her away from him. He turned away from her to hide his blush as he said, "That should allow you to breath under water but only until sunset."
Green tapped his foot on the turtle to signal its descent as she placed her wand in the jacket pocket. She gasped at the sudden pressure around her and she found herself in a world she never been to before. She began to float back to the surface and Green wrapped an arm around her waist to keep her from doing so.
"Think of heavy thoughts." He told her but when she thought of large object, she found that it only caused her hair to grow longer. He nudged her again, "Not those kind of heavy thoughts. Think of when you set Bravery with Beauty that only ended in his heartbreak."
Blue remembered how crushed Bravery was as he watched Beauty run to her Beast even as Beauty did so out of love. She stepped back and her guilt weighed her down so that she sank faster. Green kept his hold on her waist and stayed with her until they reached the bottom. She couldn't see much around her until Green tapped the water so that it rippled until she could see the paradise around them.
The coral grew like trees around them and lights reflected around them in the most unexplainable way. He watched her eyes grow wide with the most beautiful blue he thought only his ocean could hold. She had trouble at first adjusting to the new pressure around her and Green created a current to help her to the reef she was trying to observe.
Green easily walked on the sand to her side and took her hand, trying to lead her further from the reef since he knew that they floated much too close to Mermaid Cove. Her attention was on the multicolour fish that swam through the reef that she didn't notice the merpeople that swam towards them. He placed his hand on his cutlass and called to Blue. Her brows furrowed at the army approaching them and palmed her wand. Luckily her magic wasn't entirely dependent on fairy dust and could still cast spells.
"Why have you returned?" The leader demanded and Green stepped protectively in front of her. She rolled her eyes since at the thought of a Wonderland creature trying to protect their guardian. She moved to his side.
"I didn't think that the great Pirate Captain needed anyone's permission to enter his ocean," Blue said in a hard voice, tilting her head to the merman.
"The ocean, not Mermaid Cove," The man stated. "The man knows very well that Poppy forbid him to return! The last time you visited our cove you all but destroyed our home and almost injured our queen."
Blue turned a disinterested glare to Green, "Pan?"
Green no sooner nodded did Blue hit him over the head. She started to float away but Green warped his arm around her waist to keep her from floating away. He kept his hand on his cutlass even when he addressed the man, "I am not here to cause distraction. I came to here for my… friend Blue. She wanted a pearl and I couldn't deny her."
"Pearl?" The voice came from the carriage before a mermaid followed excited to stand by him. She saw Green and her brows furrowed. Blue could tell by the pearls in her hair that she was of high class, most likely the Queen. Blue was quick to wrap her arms around Green.
"Green promised me a pearl and I convinced him to take me to Mermaid Cove. What can a man do when the woman he loves wants something from him?" Blue asked sweetly and Green didn't know how to react as she kissed his cheek. "Can't you allow us to explore your beautiful cove?"
Poppy thought for a moment before turning back to her captain of guards, Pearl, and wondered if the same light in the fairy's eyes shined in hers? She didn't think that they would cause her kingdom any trouble. "You two are welcome on the condition that once you have found a pearl to your liking. You must return to the surface. My men will be watching you in case though."
"Thank you," Blue hugged the mermaid quickly before taking Green's hand and whistling to her Blasty to take them away. She sat more comfortable on the turtle's back as she watched the merpeople become smaller. Green sat next to her and noted that some swam away from the group. "The woman's in love so I know that she would let us stay if I told her that your intentions were pure."
"We did not need their permission since I know a better place to find pearls than Mermaid Cove and that was where I intend to take you. Now they will follow us, you realize." He pointed out as he tapped the turtle again to signal for him to move to the sea forest where he could easily find a pearl. Blue slipped her hand into his and smiled that singed of mischief.
"Then we must act as if we are in love." She laughed at the little blush that appeared before he turned away for her muttering how she pestered him. They stopped in front of a wall of seaweed and he parted them for her to enter.
"I should've asked you to take me here sooner," She laughed as she floated down the path of sea shells and towering coral. Green followed some distance behind her, just enjoying watching her as several fishes swam around her, glowing more brightly when she brushed her hand over them. He had never showed anyone his world but seeing her childlike joy made him glad that he did.
"Mermaids have swings?" She asked him and he realized that in his musing she had swam quite a distance from him. He walked to her side even as she tried to swing herself but the water current only spun her in a circle. She laughed though and he controlled the currents to push her properly. "Push me!"
"I am," he told her even as he walked behind her and pushed her gently. She laughed even as she almost made a full circle around the swing. She spotted a giant clam in the distance and floated off the swing. Green caught the falling chair easily as she swam to it, calling out for him to follow. He couldn't help but smile at her and began to follow her.
"She's different," He turned sharply and could sense a shifting presence among the towering seaweed. "Why did you bring her here when you know anyone connected to your ocean is bound to die? You couldn't protect your sister, and she knew about the dangers of the ocean. This one does not."
"Where are you Pan?" Green didn't know another that would taint him so. He slashed at the seaweed, hoping to take the head of the boy as well but when they fell away, there was no one. He could feel the water change around him, growing colder but he ignored it.
The ocean called out to him and he could see Blue in his mind, reaching for a pearl within the clam she had spotted. He swore beneath his breath and swam quickly to her.
"Where is that man?" Blue muttered to herself before turning to the aqua pearl resting within the mouth of the giant clam, large enough for her to rest inside easily. She ran her hand over the creature and she felt no life force in it so thought that it was dead already with a beautiful pearl for her taking.
Feeling safe, she swam into its mouth and took the pearl in her hand. It was smooth to the touch and the aqua colour shined in the shade of the clam's mouth. She put it in her pocket when she heard whispers about her. She summoned light around her and saw eyes glaring down at her. They screamed that she was a thief even as the clam began to close.
She was about to swim out but found that her feet was stuck to the tongue of the clam. The eyes staring down at her taunted her even as Blue tried to summon attacks to ward them off and slow the mouth enough for her to escape. She panicked when blood splattered over her until she heard Green swearing.
"Let her go!" He ordered the clam as he held its mouth open despite the pain he felt as its rough edges cut into his hand. Blue summoned blue fire to burn the clam and she fell back against Green's chest, sending him back as well. "You okay?"
"Yeah, and look I still have the pearl!" She told him as she held out the gem to him. He sighed, didn't she understand the danger she was in?
Green looked up at the knock on his door. He called out for her to enter as he rubbed his hair dry. He knew who it was even before she opened the door and floated towards him. He raised a questioning brow at her but she only raised a basket in answer. "I wanted to thank you for today."
"You didn't give me much of a choice," He told her even as she took his hand. She began to rub ointments on his scratched hands and bandaged them, speaking to him about nothing in particular. Her wings fluttered quickly, drying him. "Thank you."
"What else is a guardian to do?" She tilted her head to him and sat next to him, pulling the pearl from her pocket. "Thank you for saving me, I didn't think that it was alive so I didn't think that it would attack me. But it's well worth it for this little gem, isn't it? Have you ever seen any pearl as beautiful as this?"
"No," He agreed. He took the pearl from her hand and raised the gem to the light so he could study it. She took the pearl with one hand and his locket with the other which he didn't understand why she did. Opening the empty locket, she rubbed the pearl into place so that it layered the locket. When she turned it to him, he saw a portrait of his sister within.
"It can change to anything you want," She told him. "I thought that you would want something to remember your sister."
"You wanted to get a pearl for me?" He asked shocked.
"Why not? I thought that you might want to have something nice to remember today rather than the memory of what happened to your sister. I wanted to make this day happy for you, since I want that for you. You're not a bad person and I want you to have something more than revenge."
"Thank you," He said to her softly, staring down at the picture. "I guess it's time to go home now."
"I can't wait to see everyone again," She laughed and lay back on the bed and he enjoyed listening to her talk about the things she planned for their friends. No doubt she would have him help her as well, he had spent enough time to know. He couldn't remember the number of times she had spent with him and he always wonder why she spent so much time speaking with him.
"Thank you Blue, for everything." He said once again and she only smiled at him.
Green knocked on Blue's door the next morning, intent on spending the day with her as thank for what she did for him the previous day. She had been kind to him despite what he said to her, even if she did pester him to no bound which he knew was on purpose too. He had to give her something in return and a dinner might be the thing to repay her, and that would give his friends a day of reprise as well.
"Blue?" He started to worry when she didn't answer. He knew that she was always one to wake early in the morning but this morning he couldn't find her on deck so thought that she slept in today. Why wasn't she answering him? He opened the door and found a mess of her room. Seeing shredded clothes and broken glass thrown around the room but what worry him most was the missing Blue.
The crew jumped at Green's roar as he stormed up to deck. "We're going to find that damn Pan!"
Blue screamed as she saw water rushing towards her but she was trapped. She flew as high as she could until her back slammed against the roof of the metal box she was carried in. She could hear their laughing from outside and swore at them. "Let me out! I swear when I get out, you'll wish you can die!"
She saw the lid open once again and rushed to escape. To her horror, water was poured in the opening before she could escape, thoroughly soaking her. She gasped when she felt her wings harden and began to sink to the bottom despite her efforts. She heard someone call for Pan to shake the box and she slammed from wall to wall. Her lungs burned but she refused to die according to him.
She summoned fire so that the metal turned hot and burned Pan's hand causing him to drop the box. The lid burst open when he did so and she quickly moved out of the water, growing to her full size once she was free. She coughed out water even as she tried to fly away, her wings turning to ice from the water. She cried out in pain when Pan stomped on her wings so she couldn't escape.
"What game shall we play next men?" The lost boys danced around her as they called out games they could play. She took her time to study what part of Neverland they were in so she would be better able to escape them, knowing that there were too many for her to fight all at once. They were on the beach and she held out hope that Green would be able to find her soon.
"Let me go!" She slammed her hands on the sand and air burst from under them so that several of the boys flew into the air. She couldn't run with her heavy wings dragging her behind and created a barrier of wind around her so she could regain some strength.
"The mermaids told me that they saw Green come through here and I thought I could play with his friends again. But you people never seem to want to play with me." Pan screamed as he slammed his hand on her shield, trying to break it.
"You killed a woman and playing a cruel game with me!" Blue screamed but her words only made him angrier. She strengthened her shield and shot rocked hidden in the sand at him.
"It was an accident, why do you all still blame me? I just wanted to play for her and if she didn't move than I wouldn't have hit her! I didn't know she couldn't fly either, she just fell!"
"A man doesn't blame others for his actions," Blue yelled and controlled the wind so that it lifted him in the air before slamming him back into the sand. Doing so made her barrier falter for a moment but that moment was all for some of the lost boys to throw rocks at her already injured wings. She winced at the pain but still tried to escape by rolling away from them and manipulate the grass some distance from them to form a cage around them.
"Blue!" Her heart lightened at the sound of Green's voice some distance from them. She looked to the sea and was so glad to see his ship come towards them. Even before the ship stopped, he jumped down from the ship and ran across the water. She wanted to run to him but her heavy wings weighed her down too much to do so.
"Looks like a new friend came to play," she turned to see Pan drawing a dagger. Green saw this too and ran faster, why wasn't she flying away? He wished he could summon a wave to quicken his steps but he didn't want to risk getting Blue wet. He drew his pistol. He only had one bullet but that would be enough for what he intended. Wonderland would forgive him for killing the boy if it were to protect Blue.
He swore when he saw Pan throw the dagger at Blue. Not thinking twice, he shot at the dagger before it could reach Blue. She was already controlling the sand at Pan's feet to turn it into quick sand so he couldn't escape. By the time Green reached her side, she was almost out of magic.
"Blue?" He wanted to take her into his arms but he was afraid to do so at the sight of her colourless chipped wings. Careful not to touch her wings, he gather her in his arms and cradled her against him. Her raising chest reassured him that she was still alive but he couldn't stop his racing heart, "I am so sorry I didn't come sooner."
He only casted the boy one glance before moving to take Blue back to the safety of his ship. Let Tinkerbell save the boy, he didn't want to be bothered by him. Green did call over his shoulder to the boy though, "leave me be boy, you've taken enough from me already and I am not going to lose her. This shall be the last time we meet, I will not seek you out again."
"I'm so sorry my ocean did this to you," he whispered into her hair as he walked back to his ship with her still heavy in his arms. The thought that the water from his ocean was the thing that crippled him weighed heavy on him but he tried to keep himself from sinking.
"It's okay," she whispered back to him though she couldn't kept her sadness from her voice. "It just means that I get to ride on your ship more."
Green didn't say a word, knowing that flight was a part of her life and joy. And he took that from her. If he hadn't waited so long to speak with her maybe she wouldn't have been captured. If he stayed with her that night, he would've been able to save her. If he hadn't took her on his ship, she wouldn't be in danger of the water.
"Please stop with the 'ifs'," she turned her face into his neck and he realized that he spoke his words out loud. "I don't want you to go back to you're anger."
"You've given me so much and all I seen to do is take," he said in a low voice. "I wish I could give you something back. I was so scared when I couldn't find you this morning, I thought I would lose you. I need you so much more than I need, for reasons I didn't think of. I need your laugh, I need your light, I just need you. I might be mad for saying this but, I love you Blue. And I do nothing but hurt you."
"It wasn't you or your ocean," she took his face in her hands to bring his face down to look at her. He could see the tears in her eyes and caught them on his thumb. "You stole my heart long before now, my Pirate Captain."
She raised her lips to his but a voice echoed in the back of his head, his ocean. He didn't question it as he sank to his knees so that his ocean pooled around their waist, making her gasp. She started to question him until he pulled her closer to kiss her deeply. Warmth spread through her and she leaned into him, placing her arm around his neck.
She felt warmth flow from his hand as he ran them over her now steel wings, and water trailed over her wings, filling in the cracks. She pulled away from him and looked to see her wings glowing until it dimmed and her wings were delicate ice. With careful movements, she flapped them and found them strong enough to lift herself and Green into the air. She laughed and the sound melted Green as she hugged him tighter.
"They're beautiful Green," she whispered, her voice thick with love.
"They're too delicate to fly as high as you used to," he told her, in his heart knowing that if she flew to high in the sky they would melt.
"They not so delicate that I can't swim in the sea. I have all the worlds now, thank you for giving that to me." she told him with a smile. "Maybe not as deep as you can but it's more of you than I had before."
"You have all of me," he whispered against her lips before taking her back into his arms again.