AN: I'm so sorry about the constant change in the formatting and style.. It really depends on how the story flows... (/my mood... *cough cough*) and other factors...
Disclaimer: (Refer to previous chapters)
"Where's our lunch huh? Weren't you going to get it for us?" A voice rang from her right.
"Yeah! Where's your gratitude for us hanging out with you and being your good friends?" Another spoke out while several others can be heard snickering.
A rowdy group of brawny kids loosely surrounded a small figure against a corner, not that they had any intention to release their prey.
Isn't that someone from our class...? I don't really know him though. Artemis squinted through the body and legs of the crowd around the shaking form, from which several noises of sniffing could be heard. She stood where she was, wondering if she do something about the situation in front of her. One of the large kids who held the boy by his shirt against the wall, lifting him off his feet. Perhaps he would be my friend if I rescued him or something... She stood rooted to the spot.
She didn't have the time to decide as one of the goons had noticed her prolonged staring, "Hey! Whatcha looking at eh? Wanna play hero and save this poor kid over here?"
Here goes nothing. She took a deep breath, good people always win in stories, right? She pushed away the seed of growing anxiety unsuccessfully. "You wouldn't like it if someone bigger and older treated you like what you did to the kid right?" As the older boy sneered at her without replying, she tried to fill her awkwardness, "Err, go pick on someone your own size..."
Dark eyes narrowed at her. "And age... " her voice trailed as her uneasiness grew. O..kaay, that didn't go as well as I hoped for, not like I had a plan in the first place. "Well, why don't you replace the little guy then?" Hands that were terrorizing the victim threw him forward roughly, then slowly walked past the falling body, the crowd naturally gave way for him. That's the leader then, oh man.
The fallen figure quickly scrambled away once freed, barely casting a glance at his savior mutely as expected by the bullies, who were looking on with interest to how their leader would handle the new victim. As she looked at the fleeing figure, an unknown emotion dropped to her stomach.
Oh man... She thought again as large palms gripped her shoulders powerfully.
"RAAWRRRRHHHHHHHH!" The body that was asleep on the floor moments ago jolted upright, taking an open stance and baring its fangs openly. Its eyelids flared open, her previously golden eyes had turned into a piercing and violent violet.
Fur stood straight on their ends as the enraged wolf snapped its head left and right, registering its surroundings. Robin turned to Chopper, "What is she so agitated about?"
"Uhh... S-she's shouting something like 'betrayal' and... Ehhh... Expressing her anger." Chopper stuttered, backing away slowly to not catch the attention of the large angry wolf that once swallowed him. As expected, the wolf is scary! Even if she is, or was, supposed to be his patient! She already tried to eat him once!
"Betrayed? I'll kick the ass of the shitty idiot who dared betray my lady upside down!" Sanji roared in indignation, unfazed by the sudden change in demeanor.
Robin glanced at the second agitated being. Hmmm, he still considers a large raging wolf whom he heard was a female teen as a lady. I wonder how severe his female amorosity is.
Meanwhile, the large wolf they took their attention off tore through the door and sped out of the dinning room. "T-the door could be opened..." Chopper squeaked belatedly.
The wolf blindly rampaged through the corridors, oblivious to the resulting damage.
"Hey, what's the ruckus abou-" A certain sharpshooter opened the door only to see a life-threatening scene approach. He slammed the door(and his mouth) shut, locked it, stacked as many bulking items behind and hid in a corner. Murmurs of "This is a dream, it is an illusion... I think I'm suffering from the Imagining-too-much-death-threats disease..." could be heard if one listened very closely outside.
A blur of silver and black crashed through the final barrier to the open deck on the ship, pieces of splintered wood flew outwards.
The temperamental creature finally stopped running. Instead, it sat in a stance and howled, loud and long.
Luffy, who was fishing on the railing of the deck for more food, turned his attention to the new arrival and its incomprehensible song. His eyes turned into shinning stars and his jaw hung open, "COOOOOL!~" He sat unmoving and eyes gleaming, entranced by the wild melody.
As it ended, the black-silver being finally noticed the presence of an audience and once again raised its hackles and bristled its pelt, letting out a loud growl.
Luffy grinned nonchalantly and waved.
~ To be continued ~
AN: I really hope I can finish this fic.. But it's really hard as I keep having ideas for the body part of it and not how to connect the start to it _... I already have some middle chapters written but I need to bridge them somehow! Plus school work and other commitments doesn't exactly help :/
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