Chapter 2: Problems Before The Boat
The pirate looking guy, who seemed to be the captain of the Good Ship Lollypop over there, raised a microphone to his lips and began to speak in a real, gruff, pirate voice. Like, totally Treasure Island style!
"Now, hear this, all ye scallywags! This here is the boat that'll take ye brave enough lads to the Hanging Neck Island. To the Dark Tournament! When ye enter this boat, there's no turning back. Now, all ye brave enough, let's go!" He cried out, motioning towards the boat. I knew that none of us gathered here really had much of a choice. Well, if ya wanted to get technical, we DID have a choice. We coulda chosen not to go on the boat but everyone we knew would die. So, we could have done that, but we're not Mister Freeze here so we decided to go. All the Demons in the meadow started to enter the boat but I knew we couldn't go in there yet. We were missing our Team Captain, for lord's sakes! Kuwabara looked near panic as I bounced from one foot to the other as I looked around the meadow, ya know, in case Yusuke's mastered how to appear out of thin air yet.
"Hey, hold on for a second! Our team leader isn't here yet!" Kuwabara called as he walked up to the captain, looking around as if Yusuke could pop out at any second, which he could. Oh yeah, now we were saved. Kuwabara was going to explain our problem to the strawberry shortcake captain and he'd be understanding and try to help us. Right? Not!
"Yeah? What's his problem if his not here?" The captain growled out, irritable. I knew the only reason he wasn't telling us to go jump in a lake was because there were still Demons heading into the boat. But soon the stream would end, so I knew it was time I stepped forward, cause when that stream ended, we were dead. So, time for Miss Siren: Master at Time Manipulation to step up to the plate.
"Well sir, I'm sorry to say that our team leader has got many, many problems. Mostly mental." I said heaving a sad sigh as I shook my head mournfully. I was stalling for time AND amusing myself at the same time. And the fact Kuwabara and Hiei were looking weirded out and Kurama was smiling showed that I was amusing them as well. I was about to show them how to completely take apart a grown captain. The captain now turned to glare at me irritable as I continued on with the sad, but possible true, story of our Team Leader.
"You see, his mother dropped him on his head when he was a baby. It was so very sad, sir. I was there for it, ya know. He's never been the same since then…for he also suffers from short term memory loss. He can barely remember his own name so when we told him to show up on time, I suppose he forgot, like he normally does. He also has a habit of forgetting to put on his clothes, he walks backwards and talks in gibberish. I, personally, have to remind him to check into the many, many mental hospitals he goes to, and remind him to take his medication. You know, I bet that was it! He forgot to take his medication. He's probably at the mall, leaping up and down imitating the monkey he probably freed from the zoo and eating chalk. He does that a lot, too. We can only pray he gets here this week." I said with a sad sniff as I told the sad, sad story of a sad, sad deranged man. The man of my personal fantasies! Kuwabara was chuckling now along with Kurama as Hiei just shook his head at all us. But there was an amused light in his eyes, if you looked really, really, reeeeaaaalllyyy deeply. The captain glared at us, mostly me, and definitely not amused. It seemed now that all the Demons were on the boat…expect us, that is.
"Really? Well, I don't care what kind of ailment he has! Rule says that if yer late, yer a refuser. We'll send assassins to deal with the lot of ya!" The captain said with a growl and a snarl. If ya squinted your eyes, he actually looked like a naked pit bull at this moment. I grinned at the thought and bowed lightly at him.
"Well captain! I'd say to ye, I refuse nothing! You says we'ings a refuser, if'ens we don't get on that boat? Well Ceptain! I musta say te ye that that looks more like a submarine den a ship! Where's that sodden laddy ye have te scrub the deck? I wanna look at his credentials while me take's a swig of me rum. Ye know! Yo ho, a pirates life for me!" I growled out in a thick pirate accent as I squinted my eyes over at him. The captain glared at me so fiercely, I knew I'd better do something quick. Like murder Yusuke when he gets here! Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
"Well! I'll say to ye, you're a refuser and you won't be able to stall for any longer, witch!" He said and started to say something else but that's when I cut him off with a loud shout.
"WHAT WAS THAT? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU! I'M A LITTLE DEAF IN THIS EAR. HEY, DID YA EVER HEAR THE PIRATE SONG BEFORE? NO? GOOD! I'LL SING IT FOR YOU! YO HO, YO HO, A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME!" I said shouting at the top of my lungs. After that, I started to sing the pirate song so loudly that Kuwabara and Hiei covered there ears and I could see Demons leaning over the railing with a shout. I think they were calling for my blood. The captain glared up at me, since I literally towered over midget boy, for a minute before pulling out a sword from lord knows where and pointed it straight at my throat. I stopped singing at that and leaped behind Kuwabara, our resident Human shield with a squeak.
"SHUT YER HUMAN MOUTH, FOR ONE BLASTED MINUTE, HELL-WOMAN!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, which was nearly as loud as mine shouting but not quite as high pitched. He sounded more like Josh Groban gargling with razor blades while I sounded more like Prince on his BEST day. I peaked out from behind Kuwabara who looked freaked out by the fact that since the sword was still pointed at me, it was pointed at him.
"As I was saying before you started to act like the idiotic Human you are, we're leaving now and we'll be sending assassins to deal with ya! I hope you die slowly, winch!" The captain said, still pointing the sword over at me. He growled and I swear to God, if what happened didn't happen, I think I would've bit the dust. But suddenly there was a rush of displaced air and the captains eyes widened.
"Lower your sword now, weakling, or we'll all get to see what your sliced up heart looks like." A dry and bored sounding voice bite out as Hiei stood behind the captain with his sword pressed lightly against his back. The captain glared up at me but hey! Wasn't my fault. It was my over protective boyfriend doing that one! God love him! I vaguely wondered if the first battle of the tournament was going to happen now when a voice spoke up.
"Boy, this looks like fun!" A voice called out. The voice happened to be right behind me so I leaped in the air about three feet and fell. Of course, that was bad since I was still hiding behind Kuwabara. So it was kinda like dominos. I fell on top of Kuwabara who then fell on top of the captain. Good thing he put his sword away the second before, and also a good thing Hiei took a step back or else he would have been crushed. I righted myself on top of a squirming Kuwabara and glanced up to see Yusuke grinning from the shadows. Right on time!
Chapter 3 - Coming soon!!!