Chapter 2: *Insert episode names here* (Bat's POV)
We were on our way to the Grand Line, well the best we could since Snow and I had very little skills at reading Lain's map and the other couldn't read a map at all. Plus it would blow our cover as S.I.N. agents to use our tech especially since we passed our InBetween energy as Devil Fruit powers. We were also going to need to stop soon to restock hopefully we could find someone somewhere who could read maps with some skill. We were only able to make out there was a small island coming up and we could stop there. As we pulled up we saw a black shadow swirling around a mountain. We docked and left our ship. Even Draco which was surprising. We went separate ways so we could buy items and not attract attention. Lain went with Draco; Katherine went with Tory and Sprinkles; I went with Snow.
"So where should we go first ?" I asked.
"Let's get some new clothes.S.I.N. may give you your pajamas and some everyday clothes, but they aren't nice and they don't work for a fancy dinner which I want to eat at before we leave." Snow replied.
"O.K. let's go shopping." I said. We eventually find a small mall and realize everyone had the same idea. Lain, Draco, Sprinkles, Katherine, and Tory were all here. Draco was at a gun shop bargaining for the weapons, Katherine was at a gym, Tory was looking at medical supplies, and Lain and Sprinkles were shopping for clothes like we were about to. We went through avoiding Lain and Sprinkles and got clothes and left going back to the ship.
"So what's the treasure." Snow asks.
"Well we have a bunch of new clothes and some dresses, ugh." I replied. We went to change clothes. I changed into a plain white t-shirt, a pair of blue jeans and my converse. I came on deck and Snow was already on deck having changed into a white T-shirt with the Marines symbol across the front with a black X marking it out, with jeans, and boots. She was staring at the horizon. The black cloud around the mountain was breaking up showing it wasn't a cloud but winged people. Then they descended onto the city, Snow jumped off the ship and hit the ground running I followed suit and when we reached the city the bird men had started causing mayhem: they were breaking into stores and robbing citizens. Snow jumped right into action freezing two birdmen trying to rob some kids. I caused them to explode and we took off towards the main square where a lot of action was taking place. When we reached it we realized they and captured the whole crew except Katherine and had them tied up inside a cage. A birdman was in front of the cage. He was tall and beefy, black wings that were out the back of his armor, his arms were that of a human but his hands were like talons. He had a bird shaped helmet on top of his head.
"Did you idiots get the mayor yet or are you still fooling around!" he yelled. Two bird men dragged a old man into the street. "So you're mayor around here, good." he punched the old man. "Do you know how hard it is to live with feathers and not be accepted?" he hit the man again, "No you don't." he hauled the man over to a stone and raised a sword above his head. I rushed forward and tackled the bird to the ground then I threw out my hand and caused the cage holding everyone to explode. They were ready to fight as they are freed. The lead birdman just spreads his wings, "Do you think you can face me. Captain Mōkin of the Airborne Pirates. Get them men," The birds charged and I exploded their insides, Katherine sliced off wings and arms, Lain caught them on fire, Draco shot them, Snow froze them, Sprinkles cut at them while Tory threw something in vials at them. We basically sliced through them like the last crew. It was really embarrassing that nothing new happened with this crew, well nothing new till we got to Mōkin. He looked at his defeated crew and smiled.
"That was the greatest thing that's ever happened. Thank you for killing this damned crew cause now that means my curse has been broken," he said. We froze… a curse. He spread his wings and his eyes glowed a dark red. "My curse was I was forbidden to use my dark absorb spell until my crew was dead. Now thanks to you I can absorb my crew and become the bird god Thoth. He started smoking then the smoke traveled to his crew and pulled them towards him then a wall of feathers spun around him and blocked him from view. When the wall finally dropped he was still there except he had beautiful white feathers and was no longer wearing armor. He held out his arms and his armor repaired except it was black as night and covered all of his body except for his wings then he manifested a sword and rushed us. Katherine was the first one to respond running forward and meeting Thoth's sword with her own. Thoth was stronger though and it knocked Katherine back. She yelled then rushed again only to be knocked back each time he tried to hit Thoth. Eventually Thoth grabbed her lifted her high and slammed her to the ground, cracking the concrete on impact. He stepped onto and over her using her like a mat on the ground. He walked towards us and Snow tried to freeze him, but it failed to do anything. "Don't try to use you Devil Fruit powers on me. In my God form I am completely invincible to powers."
"Are you immune to this," a voice, Tory's, yelled. He looked over and a vial hit his helmet lighting it up with green flames, Greek Fire. He yelled and removed his helmet. His face was covered in white feathers and was like a dove's head.
"You will pay for that," he pushed forward with his wings. He grabbed Tory and started up with her. No one here could fly so we could only watch. Then Draco reached into his backpack and pulled out a sniper rifle, how did he fit that in there, and aimed it he fired a shot and we saw Thoth fly backwards, he must've been hit. Then we saw him drop Tory and she was plummeting fast. Then right as she would've hit the ground Katherine shot forward and caught her. Thoth landed and roared in frustration. "Why can't all of you just die," He then let out a sonic screech, at first it was just hurting my ears, then my arms started turning a porcelain white and started cracking. He was about to turn us into dolls and shatter us. I slowly started walking and made my way towards Snow. I eventually reached her and took her hand. I closed my eyes and focused, I felt my InBetween energy and Snow's find each other. I then had my touch hers it was a cold energy and mine started wrapping around hers. Even if she somehow didn't know it was me our powers were combining. Once they were combined I opened my eyes and released it at Thoth. A beam of pure energy shot at him. He smiled and opened his arms wide to show it had no effect, except the energy went straight through him and left a hole in his torso. He stared at the hole and then the hole started to spread completely disintegrating him. Eventually there is nothing left and the wind blows the ashes away.
"Well that was disturbing." Draco said.
"It worked at least." Katherine said. After that a glowing light came from the sky. It started talking.
"Thank you for purifying me. As thanks I like to give you my assistant Star." a shimmering form appears as girl is dropped in front of you wearing a dress with a start pattern on it. She is also equipped with two swords made of stars and has short brown hair.
The girl bows, "Hello I'm Star, my lord Thoth wanted me to join you to thank you for cleansing him."
"Hey it was no problem." I said.
"So what do you do?" Katherine ask.
"I'm a navigator, I can sail with the stars and because I was with a God I can predict weather before it happens and tell all parts of a ship to sail smoothly."
"Well then welcome to the crew Star," Lain says coming up and extending his hand. "I'm the Captain of The SINful Pirates."
She takes his hand and shakes it, "Nice to meet you Captain. Shall we get going?" We lead her back to the ship and show her to a room and show her around the ship. She watches as Draco climbs to the crows nest. She follows him saying she'll be able to navigate better from high up. We all go back to our daily routine. Tory was in the medical bay, Lain was at the helm of the ship, Sprinkles was training in combat with Katherine, Snow was practicing with her InBetween energy, leaving me to do what I did best; go read. I headed to my room and dug into my bag and pulled out my KHR manga and started reading it. I'm in a really good part when I hear a knock on the door. I opened it and to my surprise it's Draco.
"Hey Draco, what did you want?" I asked.
"Lain wanted me to tell you we're coming up on an island and we want to have a plan." he said before leaving without another word to me. I laid my book still open face down on the bed and left. The group was together and waiting.
"So what's the team huddle for?" I asked.
"Well we want to have a game plan before we land on an uncivilized island. Some of us need to stay behind to watch the ship with the cavalry and some need to scout ahead. We need to figure out team A, B, and C." Lain replied.
"Hey if we need a leader for team stay back I volunteer." Draco says stepping forward.
"O.K. Draco, team back-ups Leader is Katherine, and team first response leader is me."
"Well I want that one and that one." Katherine says pointing at Tony and Sprinkles.
"Well I'll take Bat and Snow with me if anything gets in the way they'll be useful." Lain responds.
"So I got Star and… myself." Draco finished.
Lain started up again, "Well then it's settled let's go." Then we were off onto the island. There wasn't wasn't much in the way, but we wanted to explore the island for eatable food and so far we had bananas, coconuts, and some berries.
"You guys think we'll find actual food somewhere?" I ask.
"You hoping for a fast food joint somewhere?" Snow asked laughing.
"No I was hoping for a small rabbit to kill and eat or a bird." I say looking around wondering where any of the animals are. Then we heard rustling to our left and a giant log dropped and hit us and we fell back into a net trap. Then we heard hollering and hooting and men dressed in tribal paint and outfits walked from the forest. The head one had a bone through his nose and was the fattest. He grabbed the net and started dragging us behind him. We didn't know where the destination was until we reached a ship which was half on the land with a huge rock lodged in the front of the hull. He pulled us onto the ship and released us into a prison below beck. I shook the cage, Katherine, Sprinkles, and Tory would've seen us be captured and shouldn't be far behind so we needed to escape fast. I turned to Snow.
"Want to freeze these for me?" she gripped the bars and her hands glowed blue as frost spread across the bars turning them brittle. After they were fully froze I released a bubble and was about to explode it when I heard someone walking down the stairs. I waited and let the guard get in front of the cell and exploded it impaling him with ice shards.
We rushed out and immediately headed up the steps. We saw the head tribal man adding Lain's sword to a giant throne made of weapons. Two guards saw us walking up the stairs and attacked us. Snow froze one and shattered him. I simply exploded a bubble on each side of his head. I had a policy on killing anyone, only if they harmed children or were really violent.
The head man turned towards us, "Well, well, well, looks like the prisoners have started a riot."
"Yeah, but they aren't alone big boy." I heard Katherine yell. The big guy looked up at the crow's nest of his ship as Katherine slammed downwards towards the main deck. Katherine landed in a superhero pose, both cutlass drawn.
"Hahaha. You want to face me. The mighty Aku Aku Man Eater, of the Uka Uka Pirates."
"No I wish to face Silent Mouth, of the Bitch Ass Pirates." Katherine taunted. Aku Aku got red faced and reached for his throne grabbing a war axe he ran for Katherine and brought his axe down on her. Katherine caught the blow on her cutlass and held the axe. Then a vial came from the crow's nest and it exploded in a cloud of smoke. Aku Aku jumped back and Sprinkles and Tory slid down ropes to land next to Katherine.
"Sorry we were late, but we had to get the signal high enough." Tory said pointing up. We looked just as a smoke version of our Jolly Roger disappeared.
Aku Aku just laughed, "If your calling for help. They fall to us and you'll be dead before they get here."
He pulled anhorn from his belt and blew it. All around the ship pirates ran from their huts and charged the ship. I threw a bubble and caused the gangplank to fall causing many of the pirates to fall into the water, but most were still climbing up the sides. Snow flew into action starting to freeze guys, Katherine was right behind her charging Aku Aku, Lain ran for his sword, Tory and Sprinkles stood back to back fighting off pirates with a machete and bow staff. Then a explosion rocked the ship. I saw the Ole Sea Sins come around the curve firing cannons.
The Uka Uka Pirates saw our small group pushing them back and the tide was seriously turning now that the ship was coming in, so they did the smartest thing all day and ran off the ship. Aku Aku who was engaged with Katherine shoved her off.
He yelled at his crew, "Where you going you cowards." One of the cannonballs hit the mast it started to snap and fall. Katherine saw in headed in her direction and rolled out the way. Aku Aku wasn't as fast and the mast fell on top him and smashed through the ship. The ship started caving in and I ran for the stern and jumped off and dropped into the water as the ship fell apart. I swam for our ship and climbed up the side and dropped on the deck soaking wet. Lain, Tory, and Sprinkles also pulled themselves out the water while Katherine and Snow where standing on the rock the ship was stuck on. Katherine grabbed Snow and jumped from the rock to the ship landing flat footed on the ship.
Lain clapped his hands together, "Ok everyone let's get changed into dry clothes and come back up to regroup and see if we can find any treasure in that camp of theirs. I headed downstairs and changed out of my wet clothes and pulled out a dry pair of blue jeans and a pink t-shirt. I was pulling on my boots in favor of my wet tennis shoes when the ship violently rocked to one side throwing me off my bed. I ran outside my room barefoot. Tory was coming out buttoning up a white blouse and Sprinkles was snapping closed her blue jeans while still in a pink bra. We rushed up the stairs and when we reached the main deck we saw three huge four armed men standing on the deck.
"Hello. I am Nacho of the Shokan Pirates. I wish to welcome you to join us in our celebration to the goddess Kali."
"If we refuse?" I ask.
"We give you to Kali as a sacrifice."