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to make it even more i'll write more for all you totally awesome readers!
One Piece isn't mine. just my OC! X~X
Flames Of Farewell
"Oiiii! Snowy! Join my crew!"
2 days and he's still yelling for Xia. She kept ignoring him, staying up in her lighthouse room, taking care of her injured arm. The blast sure did a number on her. She rotated her arm around a few times, wincing only slightly at the pain. She opened and closed her hand a few times, the tingling not as bad. Thanks to her never ending training, taking a few hits like that really doesn't do much. As bad as it sounds, she was kind of thankful it was her right arm because she's a lefty.
"He's not going to leave here you know."
She glanced over at Yani with a pouty face. "I don't care. I clearly told him it's not a good idea to have me on his crew."
"He seems to like you though."
"Don't care. I'm not joining!"
"Snowy Snowy Snowy! Join my crew!"
"Annoying little punk." She stomped towards the window, yanked the shutters open and leaned out. "Get lost Monkey. I said I'm not joining!"
"Yes you are! Get down here!"
"No! Go! A! Way!"
"You're my friend so you're joining my crew Snowy!"
"You can't decide that for yourself! And stop calling me Snowy!"
His arm stretched up to the window sill and he pulled himself up. "You're joining my-"
"Denied!"
She punched him right in the face making him fly down and bounce off the ground several times. She noticed some of the other crew members were just hanging out on the grass, enjoying the clearing day. If the sun giving her a headache wasn't bad enough, she has this stupid Monkey bugging her. She slammed the window shut, stomped back to her bed and sat with an angry breath. Yani came over and sat next to her, drinking his coffee calmly.
"Quite the stubborn young man isn't he?"
"He's a pain in the ass and a fool for wanting to have me join his crew."
"Then what does that say about Yuta?"
"He was a fool too. A fool for letting me join and for falling in love with me." She placed a hand on her stomach, feeling the pain. "I don't understand why things ended up the way they did. Why would Koji do that?! He was Yuta's flesh and blood, but he turned on him like he was an enemy."
"Xia, I'm saying this as your friend. Forget the past and move forward to the future. Start with a clean slate and forgive yourself for whatever sin you believed you committed."
"Easy for you to say. You didn't sleep with the captain of your ship and have feelings for him."
"Sorry, but I prefer women. Lucky for you, you're not my type."
"Ouch, that kinda hurt."
Yani patted her head like she was a dog and left the room. Join the Straw Hat pirates? They're greenhorns, barely able to understand the world around them, with exception to Robin. She doesn't want to join another crew after what happened. Yet her body acted on it's own when she protected the ship. She called them her friends, fought with them when she could have minded her own business. And Luffy just won't leave her alone.
She stood from her bed, going to her closet and pulled out the box with her ruined clothes. That was the last time the Illusionist of the Requiem pirates fought. She picked up the tattered scarf, feeling a bit sad. He's never coming back. Nor are her dead crew mates. The Requiem pirates are gone forever, but she'll keep living with their memory, their pride. She'll live for her dead comrades. After all, she still bares the mark and will for as long as she lives.
Xia closed the box up and bolted out her room, running down the stairs to the basement. Like Yani said, she'll forget the past and send it up in flames. She went straight to the back where the furnace was and unlocked the little door. The flames licked the side of the cylinder, almost reaching out towards Xia. She stared at the box for a moment. It felt rather heavy, but she didn't want to think of it as a burden.
"It's not easy to forget about the past is it, Yin Qi."
Xia looked behind her at Robin. "The past can't define us. We hold onto something like that, it will only drag us down."
"Quite poetic. But I must ask, why do you want to forget who you were?"
"Simple. It's a life I wish never to live again."
"You are an interesting person, Yin Qi. For someone that enjoys fighting as much as you do, you don't appear to be an untamed beast many claim you are."
She smiled softly. "Oh I am, but I've learned to control that. I suppose you could say that my brother and I were lucky enough not to have grown up in the environment a true Yin Qi would have. But even still, we take pride in our blood. If people want to call us demons, so be it. If I have to be a demon to protect the people I care most about, then fine."
Robin returned her smile and turned to leave. "It would be a shame if you decided not to join our crew. I'd like to know more about you, Yin Qi."
She left the room and Xia looked down at the box. Though she had only been with them for 4 years, it was the most freedom she felt. They made her smile when she didn't want to. Made her laugh when she felt like she couldn't. Showed her most of the world when she could only dream of it. Gave her a reason to move on when she felt like giving up. She had clung onto her brother and felt lost when he suddenly left. She's grown up now. Knows more than most people.
"I must bid you farewell. The Illusionist will fight for another, but thank you for the memories."
Xia threw the box in the furnace, the flames accepting the gift with it's brilliant fingers. The fire felt more and relaxing. That burden she had on her shoulders, the pain she carried in her heart, it all seem to vanished with the flames. It was even enough to make tears well up. The fire seemed to comfort her and forgive her. And she smiled, a broad smile like she use to. She wiped her tears and took a deep breath, closing the furnace door. Her ears perked when she heard someone behind her, seeing it was just Yani.
"You going to take up his offer?"
"Whaaat? I never said anything like that."
"Do you think I'm stupid Xia. Just go with them already."
"Don't boss me around. I'll let my pieces fall and see where they land. But that doesn't necessarily mean I'm joining the Straw Hats."
Yani wanted to just give up. "Now that I think about it, I never could win a solid argument with you, could I?"
"And you never will. Yet you can have this one."
"So you are joining."
"Idiot. Didn't you hear what I said? Life is uncertain. You can go around expecting everything to come your way. But I'll have to say, that Monkey is pretty convincing. I'd just be running away again, wouldn't I?"
"The Illusionist of the Straw Hat pirates has a bit of a ring."
"It sure does."
X~X yosh! i finished it!
so next up is leaving the island and heading towards one of my favorite arcs Water Seven! which i might have to reread.
but there will be a few random islands in between to make the story interesting.
please review? tell me what you think and thank you very much for reading. later gators! X~X
