Dr. Heart Stealer
Ch9: Fighting For an Escape
"User of the illusion-illusion fruit, the main attraction, the one, the only..." Daron paused, the lights that were originally running around the stage came together and lifted towards the closed curtain, "Kazue Zepheron!" All of the pirates heads turned around so fast whiplash would not be surprising at all. With shock written all over their faces the all yelled.
"WHAT!?"
The group of pirates stood frozen in shock, of course Law's face had returned back to normal only a few seconds after the shock came. Law heft a sigh and walked towards the middle row, the frozen pirates jumping out of shock, and sprinting to reach him. Law sat down dead center in the stands, which were deserted, the rest of his crew with him followed suit. "So Miss Kazue, would you please give us a demonstration? Kah~" Daron asked her, a wide smile planted on his face, as he walked to her to take off her sea stone handcuffs. She look over to him and smiled. It looked genuine to the crowd, but Jake saw the hint of anger exposed in it.
"Yeah... Like hell no." She said shaking her head lightly at him. A deep scowl appeared on his face. She used her unskillful power. She was going for making it look to Daron, and only Daron, that she had shown her power to the audience, but narrowing it down to a single person was obviously to hard for her to handled. Instead of the outcome she wanted the whole audience was shown a scene cluttered with flowers and rainbows... okay so maybe it was more like a graveyard, but some of the tombs still had flowers here and there. Law couldn't manage to suppress a laugh. It was muffled but still able to be heard. When her illusion vanished a shout was heard from the back of the room, towards the grand doors.
"NOBODY MOVE!" the marines. They had obviously come to get proof of slave trading here, this was all the proof needed. "I am Lieutenant Adam Williams, I'm here to place Daron Armijo under arrest!" A man with shaggy blond hair and next to white skin yelled. His outfit was rather... interesting, he was wearing a blue, red, green, and pink tie-dyed turtle neck shirt and dark jeans that were rolled up, a rainbow cargo designed bandanna was wrapped around his upper arm in a X shape, the thing that set it all off was his neon yellow shoes with white laces and bright green socks. He was also equipped with the standard lieutenant's coat draped around his shoulders. Kazue blinked at his appearance and stayed still for a good minuet before she burst out in howling laughter.
"Oh my god, you looked so serious! Keh-chichi!" she fell onto her back and started rolling around. She sat up and wiped a tear out of her eye. "Y-Your getup! Keh-chichichichi! Oh my god!" her laughter was seen by all, including a now pissed lieutenant.
"Do you have something to say about my clothes civilian?" He yelled over the crowd's booming voices as they made for a hasty escape, being held back by a hoard of marines. Kazue sat back up in a calm manner, her face completely straight, not one hint that she was laughing her ass off just seconds ago.
"Yes, yes I do. No one, and I mean no one, should ever wear two colors such as bright green and neon yellow together, unless they work together. You are wearing bright green and neon yellow! There is a difference between bright and neon! And there's your problem! Oh no we can't forget the little detail that clearly says, 'neon yellow and bright lime greens wash out light skin!'" She shouted while standing up. Her head was down and her eyes were dark with an evil intent mixed in very well. Her head shot up, and she brought her hand up to point at him. "And you are wearing tie-dye with rainbow! I could understand if the bandanna was tie-dyed too or vice versa, but it's not! It's cargo! Not even the same colors!" She was now very pissed off. "And tie-dye doesn't work with turtle necks!... on most occasions... This good sir just happens to be one of those occasions! Also if I do say so myself, tie-dye, rainbows, and black almost never work together! And I speak from experience! Yes, yes your mother most likely never showed you how to chose clothes for yourself, but that doesn't mean you can go around being an eyesore to everyone! It's plain rude!" she took a deep inhale and sat back down. "Please go fix you choice of clothing, it hurts to look at you." She glared at him. Everyone who was actually listening gaped at her outburst. Jake placed a hand on his forehead.
"Yep, that's Harmony, we found her." Jake said with a large sigh. "Come on lets go get her." he stood up only to be brought back down by Sadao. "What?!" He hissed.
"Idiot, do you not see the marines? What would you do if they saw us? We can get Ms. Zepheron back any time now that we know where she is located, can we not?" Sadao asked calmly despite the situation at hand. Penguin put a hand on Jake's shoulder.
"Sorry, but I have to agree with Mr. Creepy Calm over here. We can't be seen now, now we need to get out and make a break for it!" Penguin whispered harshly.
"Couldn't have said it better myself Penguin-ya" Law said as if in thought.
"Fine, fine. I get it, I get it." Jake huffed.
~X~Kazue~X~
After my speech on how that crazy man's outfit was completely out of whack. I was harshly tugged back up to a standing position by the other crazy man, Daron Armijo. With a few sharp jerks I was brought back behind the stage curtains. Where no one could see Daron and no one could see me. His hand was still grappled onto my wrist as he led me back to where I had first woken up when I arrived at the auction house. He shoved me onto the ground roughly, my head impacting with the ground as he did. He was definitely not happy with my bowed head because he took a fist full of hair and yanked it up so I was eye level with his now crouched figure.
"Listen up." He said meanly, a stern look imprinted in his eyes. "I am going to torch you. Simple as that. If I had never gotten you, my auction wouldn't have lasted this long and the marines would still be oblivious to this! I will give you two minutes to get out, that's only because I'm a nice person. After you time is up, it's game over for you." he shoved my head back to the ground, and stood up to leave. He closed a locked door. And now I'm stuck, aren't I? Standing on shaky legs I noticed the sent of gasoline. A speaker above me shouted 'YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES! NOW GO!'. I knew that within two minutes some sort of fire would erupt from somewhere in the room. I took my pistol out of my bra. I knew it would be handy keeping it there. The speaker once again shouted at me, 'WHAT!? NO FAIR! NO FAIR! NO FAIR! WHO SAID THAT YOU COULD BE ARMED?!'
"I did." was my simple reply. Now all I had to do was find a hidden spot that could possibly cause a fire, and shoot it... hopefully not causing a fire in the process. I ran around the room looking for the point of fire, or the POF as I decided to call it. Thirty seconds was up, one minute and forty seconds to go. When I had one minute left with no luck, I heard a pounding sound on the locked door. Was someone trying to get in? Ten seconds later the noises stopped completely. Another ten seconds and the door was found on the ground, Lieutenant Adam Williams there with an extended arm attached to a fist with iron knuckles. "Yo." was what I said. Was I surprised to see the marines trying to help me? Yes, very much so. But not quite enough for me to loose my cool. "Now that I can see you up close I would have to say that white pants might be the way to go... a change of shoes and socks wouldn't hurt either." I was nodding my head while walking towards the door, out of the flammable room. "Now that I'm out of that room, I won't be torched!" I said gleefully, the marines granted me confused looks. I turned on one foot to face them. "And now I can go meet up with Law!" I slammed the door shut, the majority of the marines trapped inside. Screams of 'Let me out!' and 'I don't want to be cooked alive' came from inside. I giggled and walked away from the door.
"You are just going to kill my men like that, after we saved you? You're just as bad as a pirate..." The voice heard belonged to Adam. I froze and ran to the closest room and slammed the door shut. Do you want to know what I found in there? I found more freakn' marines! All had their guns aimed at me, a sword was pushed against my neck. Desperate times call for desperate measures. My fingers wrapped around my pistol's safety. I turned it off. As fast as lightning I raised it to the swordsman's heart and fired. I used him as a human shield against my ruthless attackers. I spun my pistol in my hand for a moment before throwing the dead man into the air, I spun around shooting bullets into many a man's heart.
"Bullet Tornado!" I shouted. Half down half to go. Inside I was having a miniature war: to use my devils fruit or not to use my devils fruit. Finally I decided to use it. Using all the focus I had I tried to make the world around us look like a burning hell fire. It was more like an out of control fire. Not even a big one! But the marines were still confused and slightly scared. A few of them went so far as to pull off their coats and attempting to pat down the fire. Using the confusion to my advantage I shot four people with deadly accuracy. About 12 more people were standing. A strong presence appeared behind me. I was fully aware that it was either Daron or Adam. I personally didn't want to know who it was. I could fight off small fry for hours in a video game, but when it came to the boss battles I would always loose. I saw Adam, as I turned around with a dangerous gleam in my eye. Who knew I would enjoy killing things so much?
"I was going to let you go without a problem Ms. Zepheron, but you seem to pose a threat. And I will not allow pirate scum like you to roam free!" he punched at me, I jumped out of the way.
"Who said I was a pirate?!" I asked furiously.
"You're not a pirate? You certainty act like one." he said astonishment danced with his voice. I could feel the tick mark appear on my forehead.
"You bastard! Don't go assuming things you have no proof of!" I shouted as I fired another bullet at him.
"Well you said 'and now I can go meet up with Law!', is the Law you are speaking of Trafalgar Law or not?" he asked slightly irritated by his slip up. Attacking an innocent citizen who just happens to not like marines can't do well for your record.
"I did say that, and we are thinking of the same Law. But he is ten times better than you revolting marines! Even if he is a cruel, sadistic bastard he has his stupid heart felt moments! And he has a decent fashion sense!" I said a very light blush painted my cheeks. "But none of that means I agreed to become a pirate! That is my reasoning and I'm sticking to it!" I said standing up a little taller, to show off my pride. The lieutenant shook his head.
"Okay, you ask for an early death, I will gladly give it to you." he said with a small smirk. I glared at him and he shivered. My spine tingled as I side turned, a fist flying past as I did. I shot at him and he raised his iron knuckles to deflect the bullet. Shock made it's way to my face. The wasn't even any evidence of the bullet hitting the hand! "Silly, silly little girl... these babies are made of sea stone!" shock left my face and anger took it's place.
"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLN' LITTLE GIRL, SISSY BOY!?" I screamed, oh yes my temper just resurfaced. I ran up to him my pistol still ready to be fired, and hit him hard on the head using the magazine. He bent his knees to absorb the impact and shot back up punching me square in the jaw. I stumbled backwards falling on my butt. A tired pant left my lips. Damn! I expected sea stone to really hurt devils fruit users, but dear god that hurt beyond pain! "Holy shit, that hurt!" I got up on shaky legs. "Well Mr. Bastard you have found my weakness... but realizing weakness only makes me stronger!" I shouted in determination. Using my trusty pistol I shot a projectile at his head, and he blocked it. I shot at his knee this time. He used his other hand to block it. He ran up to me his hand drawn back prepared to punch at the ready. I stood still waiting for the punch to come towards me. When it did I jumped up and landed on his left arm. Lady luck was on my side because I landed on the spot without sea stone on it. I smirked as I fired my pistol with perfect precision and amazing speed. I only shot his arm, but I shot the entire length of it. Sure to cause a lot of pain when the nerves realize they've been hit. He lurched back and I fell off of his arm. He growled at he as he took off his immobile limb's iron knuckles. He threw them at me. That was not very surprising, I was guessing he would do something stupid when I saw him taking them off. When the iron knuckles hit the floor they shattered in to millions of small pieces now littering the battle field. Making me unable to move far without stepping on them and loosing my abilities. So I didn't move. Instead I focused. Focused on my ability. My goal was to make his arm feel the pain of a frozen fire. A burning felling that is so hot it becomes cold. The illusion-illusion fruit is only limited by my own creativity. One of the few things I excel in.
"Frozen Fire!" I yelled. Ice ran from my feet over to the opposite wall. I was not cold but my enemy was shivering. I could see an ember spark where his middle finger ended. Soon the small spark became a burning inferno eating his arm. He let out an ear-shattering shriek. I covered my ears in an attempt to shut out his voice. My illusion was fading the longer he screamed. NO! I would not let it fall. Slowly I took my hands away from my ears and gripped my pistol, aiming it at his right leg. First I shot his knee, then his ankle, last on that leg I shot his calf. I did the same to the other leg. A fire blazed upon his legs, a fire so hot it froze. He fell forward his good arm keeping him from falling on the ground. My strength was wavering, the illusion was as well. I wouldn't be able to keep it up much longer. So instead of wasting my energy I simply let it fall. His scream no longer was deafening. But it sure as hell seemed just as loud. My legs started to shake from my lack of energy. I fell to my knees gasping for air. Still heavily breathing I stood back up and glared at him. "Be glad I'm not a murder." I said as I staggered towards the opened door. Take a guess who I saw there, leaning against the door frame smirking away. Traffy. I walked over unsteadily, and tripped and fell onto him. His smirk widened.
"You should get up before everyone gets here." he said simply. I groaned as I shoved him away, using the momentum to stand myself back up.
"How much did you see?" I asked hesitantly.
"Enough to know that you aren't as weak as I first thought." He responded. After he said that Hiro, Shachi, Penguin, Bepo, Sadao and Jake ran to us, well Sadao walked, but the rest ran. Jake had a relived expression stamped on his face. As did everyone else.
"We finally found you! Harmony don't run away! Did you get hurt?" Jake asked at me, his voice exerting worry and relief at the same time. I laughed at him and his worry filled expression.
"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks for finding me. Someone needs to teach that old man at the bar a lesson. Who's with me?" I asked, everyone cheered.
"I already did that." Said an intelligent voice, belonging to Itsuki. We all looked his way. He was walking over very calmly a bit of dried blood was matting his purple hair. "It wasn't very hard, no worries." he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"How did you teach him a lesson?" I asked out of curiosity. A warm smile made it's way onto this lips.
"I got him drunk, while within that state he told me about why the island is known for shanghaiing and I he was kind enough to tell me the history too. Ten minutes and fifteen seconds after he was done telling me about the history, he told me that he had caught this 'ertty lady 'ith 'ifferent colored eyeses' . I told him that she was apart of the crew, according to the captain very important. So I went ahead and used my flail(1) on his head." his smile never wavered during his story. Many of the people in front of him shuddered at the smile. "Shall we get going back to the sub?" He asked us. We all nodded and walked to the opened door, most of us stepping over twitching disembodied limbs. Law and I were in the back of our little group. He snatched my wrist to stop me. Only he pulled my body so it was pressed against his chest. I blushed at the contact. He lowered his head to my ear and whispered into it.
"It's a pleasure to know you would prefer to stay with a cruel, sadistic bastard like me, rather than in some marine base." his voice was low and a smirk could be heard in it.
"Y-you were there from the beginning weren't you?" I hissed. He chuckled and walked to the front of the group. Leaving a tomato-faced me behind.
~X~X~X~
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A/N: if you must know I wrote this the day after I posted chapter eight. I felt so accomplished! But I have waited until now to post it! You wanna know why? Do ya? Well I don't care if you do or not so I'm just gonna tell you! That's way to fast of an update for me, and now I am a chapter ahead! I plan to not post a chapter unless I have the next chapter done, I'm doing this so if I have to go on a trip or something and I can't find the time to write, or it's on a computer that's not mine I can post a chapter for you guys. So anyways... the rant! Oh my god, Kazue's rant! I was laughing the whole time! Especially the last part: 'Yes, yes your mother most likely never showed you how to chose clothes for yourself, but that doesn't mean you can go around being an eyesore to everyone! It's plain rude!'. And I apologize if I somehow managed to offend someone with her rant of clothing choice. I may or may not have offended myself by mistake without even realizing it... not even joking. The part about black and rainbows. I have a shirt that's black and has rainbow designs in random places. It's one of my favorite shirts too (no tie-dye anywhere on it). And I don't know if everyone out there knows what a flail is (I didn't know what it was called until I got to that part, I had to go look it up like a fool... or at least I felt like one...) a flail is a weapon that has a chain with a spiky ball at the end of it. BEFORE I FORGET! NEXT CHAPTER CONTAINS A LOT OF SPOILERS FOR THE ANIME AND MANGA! BUT IT'S STILL A REALLY IMPORTANT CHAPTER! Until next time, keep being awesome!
