Chapter 4: Emerald's past; the forbidden mark.
Emerald was now seated in the main dining hall in the palace area in the company of Boa Hancock, Sonia, Marigold and Nyaon. He was quite worried though, every second he wasted here, was a second wasted towards which he should be looking for his captain. "Well, we're waiting" Sonia.
"Sorry, but on my current list of priorities this is rock bottom" Emerald retorted, "Look, my captain is in trouble and i'm sitting here..." Emerald starts as he takes a sip of tea before hitting realisation and imidiately stopping "DRINKING TEA" he yelled which made heads turn in common anger at his tone towards the pirate empress, "I can tell you my story but i would rather explain it on the way to Sabaody, thats why i came here pirate empress, i need your help to save my captain, if you will offer it" Emerald finished calmly bowing respectively. it was silent for a moment as Hancock felt as though she recognised him from somewhere, her sisters actually had the thoughts. After a while Emerald sighed in defeat "I'm sorry but i really have to go" Emerald said as he picked himself up and started towards the exit.
"GET THE SHIP READY" Hancock yelled as he reached the door and froze at those words and turned around slowly "WE'RE GOING TO SABAODY ANY OTHER REQUESTS EMERALD?" Hancock asked as Emerald turned away from the door.
"RECOMENDATION ACTUALLY, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN LISTENING" Emerald corrected accidentally using more authority than he probably should have as he handed Marigold and Hancock a type of remote. "If i may recomend leaving a few of your warriors on Amazon lilly, if i may add, those remotes are wired into a beacon a friend jammed in my body, give the button a press and I'll know you need assistance, the remotes are numbered so i know where to go, I will be remaining on the Archipelago for artillery support" Emerald explained, "your sisters can come with to get intel but i reccomend that for the main mission they come back here with a few warriors so they can alert me of another buster call" Emerald explained.
"We'll sort that out later, but for now my future husband is in danger and we have to move" Hancock responded.
"Well let's go then" Emerald said as Hancock led the way to the ship.
(2 hours later)
The ship is now on open water and well on it's way to Sabaody, Emerald sat on thefigurehead of the ship contemplating the situation he was in, he was allowed to roam the ship but after seeing his captain sit in the same place of the sunny he's decided to give it a shot, and he had to say that it was a nice place to sit and think while overlooking the crystal clear skies and deep blue ocean until... "EMERALD" Hancocks voice rang.
'I suppose it's time to come clean' Emerald thought as he picked himself up and headed to the source of the voice "I guess I have to come clean now" Emerald assumed as he reached his destination, "Though I have 1 request"
"And that is?" Hancock asked
"I'm not comfortable talking about my past so can a maximum of 4 other people who want to hear this come to a more private place on the ship" Emerald asked fidgeting quite a bit. Hancock thought about this for a while before responding.
"Is your past really that embarassing?" Hancock asked loud enough for the whole ship to hear.
"Well, yes and no, yes because it is kind of embarassing, but no because i would use the term classified due to certain reasons such as..." Emerald stopped and whispered the following "Last time I told someone, a marine was nearby and arrested him for having connections with me, and i vowed that my past remain secret from then on" Emerald spoke the last bit loud enough for most of the people nearby to hear
"Very well then, MARIGOLD, SONIA, SAPPHIRE you're with me" Hancock called as the three girls came forward with Nyaon in tail "I DIDN'T CALL YOU HAG" Hancock yelled.
"The choice is yours in the end but i don't think it could be that bad, besides if theres something you don't understand she may be able to 'translate' so to speak and vice versa if she says something you don't understand" Emerald encouraged practically forcing the words out against his will.
"Very well then, we will talk in my chamber" Hancock declared as she led the group to her chamber where they all took a seat and waited for Emerald to start talking.
"Ok, Ok...where to begin. I supose I should explain what I am to start with, you see, 17 years ago, my parents wanted to try and at least reduce the friction between human and fish-man kind, my father was a fish-man, and my mother was a human, and in doing that they created a hybrid, me, I really have 3 forms, human, 50/50, and full fish-man, and that's about it for what I am" Emerald explained.
"Can you prove what you said is true?" Nyaon asked as Emerald sighed.
"I can, but it takes a shit tonne of my energy" Emerald said as he took a deep breath and gradually his body started changing. First gills formed on his neck, then his teeth sharpened to a point, his overall facial structure suffered minor changes. Fins then developed on his arms and finally his build became more muscular. Once the transformation was complete everyones jaw dropped "Done" Emerald panted as he changed back. "Anything else you want to know?"
"How can you still swim after eating a devil fruit?" Hancock asked.
"AH, thats an old tale, but let me just try to find the memory" Emerald explained as he entered deep thought "Ah there it is, well I'm sure everyone has heard the tales of the devil fruits but have you ever heard of the even rarer angel fruits (Again, going off one piece theory)" Emerald asked as everyone shook their heads "Not suprised, these fruits are the rarer counter parts of the devil fruits and mine was..." Emerald froze and looked at Sapphire knowing he's seen the Boa sisters before he wanted to have a private conversation with them "Excuse me Sapphire, would you be able to leave the room for a bit there's some higher ranking classified information for only Nyaon, and the sisters to hear, i'll come and get you when you can come in"
"Well, Snake princess?" Sapphire asked.
"If it is not ment for your ears then leave the room for a bit" the pirate empress ordered as Sapphire left the room without question "Now continue."
"Well, if you recognise me then you will know what happened with my abilities" Emerald explained.
"Just tell us, the only men i remember from my past are those celestial dragons, Luffy and my cell neighbour who i only recognise from his wanted poster" Hancock explains as she takes out the most recent wanted poster of the man. the poster read Swimming Devil Emerald, the picture was the male showing his bare back revealing the claw of the celestial dragons, his face was to the side so you could get an idea of who you're looking for, he was also flipping off the camera. But that's not all, almost as if he knew he was getting a mug shot his name and bounty were surrounded by quotes like 'throw me to the wolves? I'll return leader of the pack' 'I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU' 'I don't care about you, but you touch my freinds, I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU' and so on.
"Hmm, maybe if i show you instead" Emerald said getting up and turning away from the group before pausing "I need you to trust me here, the main thing I need to show you is on my bare back" Emerald assured resulting in slow nods from the group as Emerald removed his shirt told the girls to move to the sides, flipped off the wall behind him and angled his head to the side revealing the mark of...THE...CELESTIAL...DRAGONS and creating a perfect match to the wanted poster causing jaws to hit the floor before Emerald reclothed himself "My powers were practically force-fed to me, not that I don't wish otherwise, I mean, I'm a Badass motherfucker now" Emerald explained, "It's been a while hasn't it girls?" Emerald asked rehtorically causing the group to snap to reality
"Yes it certainly has Emerald...Now we have to move on, bring Sapphire back in" Hancock said.
"THERE'S STILL MORE?" Emerald yelled in shock.
"Did you just..." Hancock started
"I know" Emerald sighed "I'm sorry, I'll just go get Sapphire" Emerald finished as he left the room to locate Sapphire.
-To be continued-
A/N: wow, tense chapter, done in a few hours to the best of my ability, I hope you enjoyed it, now that I'm reduced to using word pad i will be typing the word count for this chapter on the next chapter and so on, cya laters.