Kid Leviathan (should I call you Levvi?!): Ah thank you! And I agree, Kid's crew really doesn't get enough love! But yeah, I think I'd really like to use this story to get to know the characters a little better... I actually wasn't sure how in character Kid was, to be fair but I'm glad you like it! And I'll be absolutely sure to check your story out!
Okay maybe I'm really bad with updates... I'm sorry! But I'll
try my best, but just remember I'm like a bloody snail. Alrighty so there are some new characters, and since we don't know all the names of the Kid Pirates I just made some up. So they aren't OCs or anything, I just gave them names. Alright, hope you enjoy and don't forget to review/follow/favourite!
Maria gulped, she hadn't been this frightened in a long time. Kid's grip had loosened, but he had most certainly not let go. His nails scratched at her skin every so often. Sometimes his thumb would tap over her pulse rapidly. Those actions of his really unnerved Maria, what if his light scratches meant he was going to rip my throat out? What if the taps on my neck mean he's gonna stop my pulse? What if he just clamps his hand down and strangles me right here and now? All these thoughts ran through her head before she wa interrupted. "We're gonna go now, not sayin' I'm scared but I sure as hell don't want anymore of those fuckin' marines outside," Kid spoke up, moving his hand to Maria's shoulder and giving a nod to Killer. Pulling Rose back, the masked man allowed his captain to pass, "I'll do you a favour and get rid of 'em for ya." He waved his hand once over his shoulder, dragging the smaller woman beside him. Maria twitched as she heard more voices from behind them.
"Oi, Eustass-ya, you weren't thinking of taking them on alone, were you?" The man Maria knew from his wanted posters as Trafalgar Law smirked over to the taller man from beneath his hat. "What the fuck is it to you, ya dirty bastard?" Kid growled, turning to face him.
"Oi oi! I wanna come too! It's not all up to you ya know!" A giggle came from the boy called Luffy, his eyes were bright and he looked much too young to be a real pirate. At least too young for Maria's standards. "I told y'already. I'll handle it, fuck off," Kid snarled, dragging Maria along with him.
"Uh, excuse me?" Maria squeaked.
"What the fuck do you want?" He glared down at her, his lips were brought down into a nasty scowl.
"Well, I was wondering... Please? Uhm, you know, just let me and Rose go?" She gulped, her voice was threatening to crack under his intense glare. He simply turned his head away from her, moving his hand to clamp around her forearm, hauling her along behind him. "Please," she choked out once more, his grip was hard and rough, his personality was even more abrasive. Dismissive tones in his voice and body language didn't do much for Maria's confidence of survival. Eustass Kid was the sort of man to slaughter someone to pass the time, she knew when he sent another glare to her that she needed to shut up.
"Oi! Kiddo! I'm coming!" Luffy grinned, staring at Maria with a smile. "Are you getting married or something? Is that why you're in such a rush?" He laughed, swinging his arms cheerily.
"No, Strawhat-ya, they aren't getting married. She's a marine." Law raised an eyebrow at her, pushing his sleeves up.
"STOP IT! I told you not I follow me, I'll fuckin' handle it, so piss off and leave me alone," Kid rumbled, tugging Maria closer to his side, as if he didn't want the other two men to take her from him.
As they arrived outside, the three boys still bickering relentlessly, they were greeted by hundreds of marines surrounding them. Looking up, Maria saw two of the boys from her ship stood there, fear present on their young faces. "MARIA! Oh God, Maria are you okay?!" One of them shouted out, taking a small step forward.
"Y'gonna answer your friend?" Kid grumbled, yanking her towards him by her wrist. She winced in pain, causing her marine friend to yell out once more, "MARIA!"
"Go back inside and find Killer, I need to deal with these dumbasses," Kid snarled, cracking his knuckles menacingly. "No! You mustn't!" Maria begged, her arm was shaking as his grip loosened. "What the fuck did you say to me?"
"No! I - I didn't-!" She shook her head pleadingly, his face only displayed anger, something she feared from the giant rookie. Watching him clench his jaw and pinch the bridge of his nose, Maria let out a shaky breath of relief as he pointed to the auction house. "Go inside or I will fucking kill you, d'you understand me?"
Hastily nodding, Maria began to run back towards the door, only to bump into someone at the top step. She blinked as she looked at her purple haired friend, "Rose!" She all but shrieked, squeezing her in a tight hug.
"Shhh! I'm trying to-" she began, only to be cut off by the man Maria knew as Heat. "Come on, if we lose you I doubt Chief Kid will be too happy about it," he said with a frown, placing a hand on each of their shoulders as he lead them back inside.
Although they both knew there wasn't much they could do to save themselves now, both of them still struggled in the man's grasp. "Hey! Leave him alone, just stand still," the masked man sighed deeply, his mask made his face unreadable, but judging from his tone of voice his patience was wearing thin. Rose huffed loudly, crossing her arms dramatically, whilst Maria began to kick at the tiles on the floor. Looking over to the aisle, the pair found themselves staring at the strawhat crew. There were quite a few of them, a few of them bickering amongst each other and some of them seeming to be helping a tall, blue haired man carry the mermaid from earlier.
"Oi, oi! Quit starin', love. Di'n't ya mum never teach ya no' ta?" A man with a ginger mohawk and dark sunglasses on barked. Rose crumpled up her face in disgust, "wha' sorta accent that s'posed ta be?"
"Fackin' 'ell, love, not even an ounce o' respect! These fackin' marines, I tell ya," he shook his head wildly, making his hair sway with it. Frowning at the man, Maria tried to guess at his strange accent, it was so strong, and oh-so familiar to her.
"Ah!" She clapped happily after a while of the man talking loudly about the audacity of the Navy. The man stopped mid sentence, frowning down at her, "what?"
"Cockney!" She nodded, looking over at Rose to see her shaking her head slowly.
"Don't mind her, she's a li'l slow sometimes, honey," Rose whispered loudly, giving Maria a wink.
"That's a bit rude of you," Maria gasped, shaking her head dramatically with a small smirk on her face. It seemed as if the pair had forgotten the close-to-hostage situation they were in, much to the entertainment of Kid's crew. "Oi, Ug, go see if that lot 'ave finished up yet, will ya?" The ginger man elbowed the bulky blond man stood just next to him. "Ug? What's that s'posed to mean?" He grumbled, moving to the door.
"Short f'r ugly, now go on," the man grinned cheekily, stepping back as the blond stomped towards him.
"Oi Kurt, just leave it, go see if Kid's done yet," Killer sighed, tapping the side of his mask lightly in annoyance. Kurt grumbled once more, shuffling off to the exit.
Rose looked the the ginger man with narrowed eyes, "I ne'er caught your name, sweetheart. You gon' tell us?"
"Eh? Oh err, me name? Jus' call me Bird if ya like, don't really mind," he scratched the back of his head with a frown. Maria nodded at him, "so we've got; Kid, Killer, Heat, Wire, Kurt, and Bird." Counting each one off with her fingers, she spoke up again, "I'm Maria, and that's Rose, just so you know." Killer nodded slowly, before turning his head away to look for Kurt.
"Hey! They're done!" They heard the blond yell from outside of the building. As each of the men took off, the other pirate crews swiftly followed, murmuring about how reckless their captains were. Following up behind a man with a casquette hat on, and a man with green hair, Maria and Rose ambled along, as if trying to edge away. However the truth was that both of them knew there was no chance of escape, due to Bird walking backwards, staring at them both warily.
"Captain! Take it easy, you're wrecking the place!" Sighed the man with the casquette hat, shaking his head.
"They're extremely reckless, eh?" The green haired man rolled his eyes with a growl.
Killer tilted his head as Kid stared blankly at the straw hat boy. He shifted his eyes slightly, his features donning a thoughtful pose. Deep in his thoughts, it seemed, the red haired captain didn't notice a marine sprinting in his direction, sword raised and yelling a battle cry before it was too late.
"Look ou-!" Maria stretched her arm out with a shriek. But as quick as lightning, Killer had sprung forward, slicing the man's throat clean in half. "OI! Kid! What are you doing? Come on," Killer rumbled impatiently.
"Hey Killer, you remember on our way here when we would say we were off for the one piece, and people just laughed at us? I mean, I killed anyone who did laugh but... Now we're gonna be on the seas where if that ain't what you're saying, you're dead. Heh, only those with ambition have any worth in the New World.
"Oi, straw hat, I won't go easy on ya next time I see ya. But let's meet again in the New World," Kid smirked, turning his head slightly to the shorter boy, receiving a nod in return. "Alright, alright. COME ON GALS!" Bird yelled over to Maria and Rose, who were trailing behind extremely slowly. "Oi oi! I said COME ON!"
"We can't go with you! We're marines! What are you going to do? Sell us?! Use us as slaves? What do you want from us?!" Maria snapped at the ginger man.
"She's right, anyway we got a reputation ta uphold, if ya don't like it y'all can go on ya merry way without us," Rose nodded, folding her arms with certainty. With thy said, Kid turned slowly, his eyes slanted into narrow slits. "Look here, woman," he spat. "You're gonna be part of my crew now, and what I say goes. You get your goddamn asses over here or so god help me-"
"God help you what? Are you going to slap us around until we give in? We aren't weak you know! We're marines for a reason!" Maria frowned at him, jabbing her finger in his direction. Squeezing his eyes shut, he pinched the bridge if his nose, whispering something incoherent. Maria glared at him wildly before he stepped forward, grabbing her by the waist and slinging her over his shoulder. "I don't have time for any of ya shit, little girl. Killer, grab the ugly one," he growled before heading off with an angry blonde slapping his back angrily. "Put me down! Put me down! I'll scream I swear, put me DOWN! AND DON'T CALL MY FRIEND UGLY!"
"Yeah, yeah, girlie. Shut your hole and calm the fuck down, ain't gonna put you down for a while now," he growled shrugging his shoulder violently to jump her up and down a bit. Meanwhile, Killer seemed to be having a rather hard time trying to tame Rose. "Just stay," he huffed as he grabbed her arms and sides as she wriggled about frantically. "STILL!" He yelled, bending down and wrapping his arms around her in a tight squeeze.
"Get offa me, jerk!" She spat furiously, still trying to wiggle her way out of his ever tightening hold. Placing a hand under her bottom, he hoisted her up onto his shoulder, immediately wrapping an arm around her to keep her in place. "Jeez, if you'd have stopped moving it wouldn't have been so bad on you, you know!" Killer shook his head, waving his hand behind him to signal for the others.
Striding down to the bridge, Kid led his crew over it, stopping quickly to bring a hand up for the other crews. "C'mon, we're outta here before a damn marine shows up." Moving forward, they all nodded in silent agreement. But little did they know what was just ahead of them...