Hello once again. I've returned for a new chapter. I just got a huge wave of inspiration from a few other Hunter X Hunter fanfic. I'm not going to steal anything, the inspiration is to keep on writing. Anyway, here the new chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter 2: Conflict and Solution
Felix blinked a few times before turning his head to see what's behind him that cause Anna to freeze like that. After turning. He came face to face with a bunch of guys that was initially just sitting around doing nothing. Felix had to admit that these guys are not average guys. They were all fighters. This could easily be proven with all those nasty scars covered their entire body. Hell, some of them are even blind in one eye.
"Hello gentlemen! What's seem to be the problem here?" Felix started the conversation with a friendly tone. Anna looked at him with a hanging jaw on how Felix could started a casual conversation with these people without a slight of fear in his voice. One man stand up from his sitting position and started at Felix. "I heard a girl's voice. Where is she?" said the big man with a demanding voice. Anna gulped and tried to hide behind Felix. However, the he just smile and nod to the man's question. "Oh. You mean Anna? She's right here." Felix answered as he step aside to reveal Anna, who not only hiding behind him but covering her face with both of her hands.
After a long silence, Anna looked up and see everyone was staring at her. She gave out a nervous laugh before waving slowly at them. "Hello. I'm Anna." "I KNEW IT!" "THERE'S A GIRL ON BOARD!" "WE'RE SAVED". "FINALLY, I'M GETTING TIRED JUST BEING AROUND MEN". Those are some of the lines escapes the mouth of a few man simultaneously.
"Uhh…Felix?" Anna tried to get the man's attention.
Before she could continue, a pair of heavily muscular arms grabbed both of her shoulder and lifted her high into the air.
"Miss, you don't have a place to sleep tonight, right? How about I let you rent my bed? With a VERY reasonable price" the man offered and followed by a nasty chuckle. Even with an innocent mind, Anna knew where this is going. Before she could retaliate, she was dropped and the perverted man was lying unconscious a few feet away.
A loud gasps can be heard from the crowd of men and she turned her head towards Felix.
"What did I tell you gentlemen? If there's any inappropriate behavior or language or anything that makes anybody feels uncomfortable is shown on this ship, between the different genders or even between the same gender. He or she will have to get off the ship in the next hour."
"But, we're in the middle of the ocean. There no port in hundreds of miles." Anna tried to explain. "The only way to do that is by throwing him overboard". Anna started to laugh nervously in order to get Felix said he was only joking.
"You're not joking?" Anna muttered. To her, other than knowing his first name, Felix was still a total mystery, he was nice and warm one minute and completely ruthless the next. She was deep in her thought when someone tugging on her pants in order to get her attention.
She looked down to see the same man that tried to sexually harass her just know. 'He dragged himself all the way here?' "Miss. I'm sorry for what I just did. Please! Don't let him throw me overboard. I can't swim. I don't want to die like the others!" The man literally beg for her forgiveness.
Anna's eyes widened with shock due to the statement. Feeling sorry for the man, she did something that her parents had taught her ever since she was old enough to speak.
"Okay, I forgive you. Just don't do such thing again. It's not nice" Anna told the big man as he rapidly nod his head. Anna smile at him before skipping to Felix, who currently talking to an older man in his late fifties. "Felix! We need to talk!" Anna shouted as she closes the gap between them.
"Not now Anna. I'm busy." Anna refused to let this chance slipped by, so she did the unpredictable. "FELIX! PLEASE DON'T THROW THE MAN OVERBOARD. HE CAN'T SWIM AND HE IS SORRY FOR WHAT HE DID!"
Every pair of eyes on that ship turned towards her. Felix's eyes widened and he is trying to say something but no word come out. "I know it's not nice for what he did. But, I cannot let someone die in the middle of an ocean because of me. I forgave him and I wish you would reconsider his punishment". Anna finish that with a huff while crossing her arms and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, she popped one eye open and say "please?"
All of a sudden, a loud hearty laugh was heard from the old man. "Well, we have an interesting young lady here. State your name, miss. I'm captain Lyod. The captain of this great ship. I believed you already met my nephew, Felix."
Anna smiled before complied, "Anna LoveJoy. Seventeen years old and currently on the mission to be the world's greatest Hunter."
The captain nodded his head before asking Felix to show Anna her room. Upon arriving there, Anna lunged herself on the bed. Felix sighed and smiled at the five-year-old that was trapped in this seventeen-year-old body.
"Thanks Felix" Anna said before having a horrible realization and her smile turned in a scowl and looked away from Felix.
"What is it, Anna?" Felix started to get worried after seeing the girl's reaction.
"I'm still mad at you. I thought you were a nice guy. Guess I was wrong." Anna spat out while puffing her cheeks. "Anna, it's not like I like doing such thing. There's need to be something to keep these guys in line." Felix explained to the girl.
"If I've done something inappropriate like that, would you throw me overboard?" Anna challenged him.
Felix just froze in his place. She got him. Twice in one day. "See? You do need something to keep them in line. But, not through fear. What they need is respect for each other. You wouldn't throw me overboard because you respected me, am I right Mr. Felix with-an-unknown-last-name?" Anna asked him in a sing-song voice.
Felix nodded before opening his mouth. "Fine. I won't throw him overboard. But, he still getting punish."
Anna smiled at this. "Thank you. You're a nice guy after all. I like guys like you." Felix stared at her before he quickly dash out of the room, hoping Anna would not see his blush.
After wash herself and rested, Anna walked back to the deck. She can see that all the men are either laughing, sharing stories or just snooze off. She saw the man from earlier and he caught her in his sight. He rushed towards her and hugged her while spinning her around. The rest of the men could not help burst out laughing.
"Thank you! Thank You! You're an angel! How could I ever repay you?" the man put her down and Anna was trying not to lose balance due to her dizziness "Hahaha, no need to thank me. I forgive you".
"At least let me be your bodyguard. I'm strong. A nice girl like you need to be protected at all times."
'But, you just got knocked out by Felix a while ago.' Anna thought to herself.
"How about let just be friends?" Anna kindly suggested. The man, who said his name was Damel nodded at this before rejoining his friends, leaving Anna alone. Anna leaned at the edge of the ship and stared at the big blue ocean and the big blue sky. 'Mom, dad, hector. I haven't left the island more than a few hours but I already got harassed, screamed at a stranger and befriended my harasser. What's next? Meet my one true love?' Anna snorted at her own thought before seeing Felix walked towards her.
"Well, Damel still alive. But, his punishment is to clean the storage room tonight trust me when I say that there's a couple of boxes that haven't seen the daylight in decades" Felix said before joining her.
Anna hold a laughter but managed to nod at the Felix's statement before turned towards the brown haired man. Felix feels her intense, yet gentle stare before decided to break the silence.
"What is it? Is there's something on my face?"
"Hey Felix. This might seem out of the blue. Could you tell me about yourself, please?"
To Be Continue…
So, that's it for the second chapter. I'm sorry if there's not going to be any fight scene in the first few chapters (I don't like writing fights that much and I'm not that good at it). I'll try to write fighting scenes if you want me to. Anyway, I hope the readers would please comment about the chapter, is there any changes I should be making. No flames please…
Also, what are your thoughts on Anna and Felix (two of my proud OC), leave your comment and I'll try to post a new chapter soon. Bye guys…