Things were going smoothly for about five minutes after the port shifted from view. Lisanna was hammering away at the boat, while Kaori gripped the rail and sniffed the air. Diana looked over Leon.
"Leon, huh?" she asked. He nodded.
"You don't talk much do you?" she asked. He shook his head.
"Why?"
He shrugged.
Kaori looked over. "Guys, we have a problem." She said. 'What?" asked Skales.
Lisanna ran up next to them, a hammer in her hand.
"Guys, good thing and bad thing, Good thing, I fixed the ship! Bad thing, there is a HUGE-ASS FREAKING MEGA STORM COMING OUR WAY!" she said quickly. Diana paled and Skales frowned. "When?"
"Do I look like I know? It's just over the west port side." She pointed to the west side of the ship. They could a mass of grey storm clouds coming their way, thundering and moving swiftly in their path. "Crap!" Skales said. "Um, lets raise the sails. We can't have them lowered in a storm. The best can do is hope the ship survives it."
"We can't move?" Diana asked.
"No, it's too close, if we move the ship now, we won't be able to raise the sails in time." Skales miffed.
Quickly, Kaori raised the sails, and Skales with Leon started to tie everything down while the storm lingered. The air changed, and with the change, Diana's stomach lurched. She really hated rough seas, it made her want to hurl. For the pirate she was, she really looked pathetic when she got sea sick. Lisanna, who had been last minutes repairs, looked over at her.
"Hey, you okay?" she asked, her voice concerned.
"Sea sick."
Lisanna frowned. "Okay, I'll take you down below before it starts! I can stay with you to, with a bucket!" she dropped the supplies she was holding and dragged Diana below deck.
"Oi!" yelled Skales as the two disappeared below deck.
'Don't bother, you don't want Di up here when the storm starts rocking the boat." Kaori consoled, finishing tying a length of rope around the mast. "She gets sea sick pretty bad."
"Where's Kai?" asked Kaori. "Below!" called Skales to her across the boat. The storm closer to them, and the sky above them had turned grey, you could hear the clouds gathering rain. "Get ready!" Skales yelled to Leon. Leon nodded. The winds picked up, blowing like crazy now.
The air was wet and heavy feeling, then the boat started to rock violently back and forth. Leon walked on the railing and handed Skales a rope. He motioned like he was tying a knot, then pointing to the railing. Skales took the hint and tied on end to the railing, then the other to his waist. Leon double checked the knot and gave the thumbs up.
They sky grumbled, and it began to rain violently, as though the sky was opening up to reveal the face of god. Lighting flashed in the sky, illuminating their faces for a brief second, before the dark overtook them again.
Kaori had tied herself to the mast, and was now gripping on to it for dear life. Leon grabbed her hand and held the palm for a moment, then let it go. She nodded, as though they had a whole conversation in that one moment. Skales gripped the rails like a vice, looking at the angry ocean.
"There's a ship!" he yelled. Kaori looked over at his voice. "No way!" she yelled back.
"It's a ship! No doubt!" he yelled back.
It was indeed a ship, maybe 3 kilometers away, a mere speck of brown that could barely be made out. Perhaps Skales could see because of his Devil Fruit. He squinted, brushing hair and water out of his eyes, trying to make it out. Lisanna threw open the door that lead to below deck.
She was holding a bucket.
She walked a step outside, sliding after a few step. As the boat titled left, she allowed the water on the deck to slip her to the left railing. She dumped the bucket into the water. The boat shifted again, and again, she rode the water to the right, but she held onto the door. Skales stared at her.
"She's sea sick alright!" she said, before shutting the door behind her. Skales shrugged mentally. She glanced over at the mast to Kaori, who looked like a drowned rat. "Kaori! How we holding up?"
She held her hand up. "We're good over here! Nothing's broken!" she called over the wind. Thunder boomed, and the ship was tilted awkwardly to the left and Skales felt his hands slipping. Under the wind and rain, he let go of the railing and was flung to the left, not using the graceful slide Lisanna had managed, but instead a series messy, panicked movements, He had no friction on the wet deck. He was about to be hurled over the edge, but the rope stopped him, using a (seemingly) heavy amount of force to stop him. He gripped onto the left edge, gasping from the sudden pull of the rope.
"Skales!" cried Kaori, fear quivering in her voice. Being blind and in a storm is proabably not a good feeling for her.
"I'm okay!" he called.
He pulled across the railing so he was near the supplies. Everything was going to be alright. Yet, he didn't notice that the roped were fraying breaking from the mass force, and the sheer amount of the rain. He also didn't notice when some crates fell loose, and lurched forwards, right on top of him. He felt the impact, and his knees buckles as his vision went foggy, then black.
***It's Bob! Line space! *ahem* a while Later…***
"Skales! Skales, wake up! Skales!" cried a voice. Skales fluttered his eyes open, squinting in the bright light. It wasn't rainy anymore, though he was still soaked. So were Kaori and Leon, who both leaned over him. "Did he wake up yet?" she asked. Leon tapped her twice on the palm. "Oh thank god! I was so worried!" she cried. "Leon said that the crates came loose and hit you, I was like, really worried!" she said quickly all in one breath.
"How long was I out?" he asked, then winced. His throat felt raw and sore.
"I don't know! Maybe…" Kaori turned towards Leon for help. He shrugged.
"Well, the storm ended a while ago." she offered. "Lisanna still hasn't come out with Di yet. Seem like she's having some pretty bad shit, but not as you!" Kaori told him.
"You hurt your head! We totally need a doctor or something." She dipped her hand next to his head on the deck and pulled it up, her fingertips drenched with red. "I smell the iron, you're bleed. The crates must have cut you. Don't sit up."
She turned again to Leon. "Go get Diana and Lisanna, they might know what to do." Leon walked away. He opened the door and traveled down to the first room on the right, and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" said Lisanna through the door. Diana was sitting on the couch , but leaning over, so her head was near a bucket. Lisanna was sitting next to her, a hand on her back.
"Yeah?" Lisanna asked.
Leon pointed up and make some quick moves, describing something.
"Huh?"
He made a frustrated movement, then pointed up.
"Oh." Lisanna said. "Diana, we got to go." She said to Diana, nudging her. Diana gasped. "Yeah… I'm fine… lets go…" she stood up, and Leon walked back up. Kaori had wrapped Skales head in gauze, making him look more deadly then he probably was.
"It stopped." she breathed relived. "But you still need a doctor. Maybe that other ship?" she asked. Leon didn't know if they were friendly or not. There were no noticeable signs that they were pirates, they might just be a cargo ship. Since the Golden Apples didn't have anything to show them off as pirates either, maybe they could ask to see a doctor.
The door opened again, and Lisanna with Diana joined the others on the deck.
"What happened!?" cried Lisanna when she saw Skales.
"Some crates knocked over and hit Skales. I stopped the bleeding, but he needs a doctor." replied Kaori. Diana glanced up. "I don't want to know right now." she looked paler then normal and was sweating. "We can try that boat, but I don't know." Kaori said. "Boat?" asked Lisanna. Koari waved to the ocean.
'It'd take a while to get to it." She said.
"Really? It's like, ten feet from us."
'Whoa what!?"
"How on EARTH could you not notice that?!"
"I'm BLIND remember?"
Diana looked over at the boat. It was large, and went deep into the sea, probably with many levels down. She glanced at the mast, following up towards a flag. It was a black flag, with a skull with a two-row smiling lower jaw similar used as the symbol of the Shichibukai, smiling with it crossed out across.
.Gosh.
She knew that flag. It wasn't known well to many people, but she knew that flag. Kaori knew it as, well, she had seen it before she became blind, but of course, she couldn't see it, and none of the crew could know of it.
"Guys!" she screamed. The crew looked at her. "Get the ship away from the other ship, now!" she ordered.
"Why?" asked Lisanna looking at the ship.
"It's a slave trade ship!"
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