This is my personal favorite chapter so far! I hope you'll enjoy :D
This was amazing! Selena was amazing! She was handling all those pirates on her own. I caught myself thinking: "I want to be able to do that." Not even the first mate lasted longer than one kick.
Mai and Rae came out of the ship with captain Trihold, who was unconscious.
"Selena, look out!" Mai screamed.
I turned around and saw a man running towards Selena, he put his hands in front of her eyes and said: "Guess who?"
"Ooh god no." Selena replied.
"Wrong!" the man said "We both know you know who I am! Aaah I remember the night you screamed out my name in pure pleasu-"
Selena had launched a kick towards the man, which he easily caught in his left hand.
"-re." He had lifted Selena up and was now carrying her, princess style.
"Damien…" Selena warned "let me down!"
"I'll never let you go, my love!" he replied.
This was Damien? The marine, the vice admiral? I question ally looked towards Mai.
"Yeah, that's him." She mouthed.
"Let. Me. Down!" Putting stress on each word Selena told him one more time. At the last word something happened and both Damien and Selena were lying on the ground.
Damien rubbed his head "Amazing," he said "every time I'm with you there's this incredible force that makes me fall for you all over again! Literally AND figuratively!"
Selena rolled her eyes and quickly stood up, taking as many paces as she could away from him. Meanwhile, Mai and Rae had come down from the ship, still carrying the unconscious captain.
"What's the situation?" Selena whispered.
"All pirates have been taken care of. No troubles." Rae answered.
"The trouble is this guy," Selena said "now that he's seen me the plan's all ruined. How'd he get here this fast?"
"Our ships have been updated, some mechanical unit makes them a lot faster now." Damien answered.
"How did you hear me?"
"With the ears of my heart!"
Jeanne giggled "He's totally in love with you." She remarked.
"No kidding," Selena rolled her eyes "a girl really can't have a one-night stand anymore." She sighed.
"Why did you even sleep with a marine? And a vice-admiral at that?" Mai asked teasingly.
"How was I supposed to know he was some big shot marine? He was wearing casual clothes, and let's be honest, he's hot." Selena whispered in the smallest voice she could muster.
And he was, Damien was a well-muscled man with dark hair and green eyes who looked quite good in his dark green suit with the marine coat draped over his broad shoulders.
Rae walked towards Damien with captain Trihold, dropping him before the vice-admirals feet.
"I believe you've been looking for this guy." Rae said in a cold voice, giving me the shivers.
Damien however, wasn't fazed at all. "So now you're a carrier pigeon?" He replied in a voice just as cold.
Rae snorted. "How 'bout you make yourself useful as a marine instead of swooning over a woman who really doesn't want to see you."
Damien laughed. "Jealous are we?"
While they glared at each other it was like I could actually see the tension between them. Then I noticed something. I tugged Selena's shirt to get her attention.
"Not that I'm an expert," I started "but don't marines usually come in, well, groups?"
"Yeah.." Selena answered.
"Then where are the rest of 'em?"
That's when realization hit her too. "We have to get away from here, quickly."
"Yeah, but how are we gonna do that? Rae and Damien are staring daggers at each other right now, but as soon as you move they'll notice."
"And there's no way Damien'd let us go just like that." Selena added. "Damn it! This is why I wanted to avoid all this."
Then we heard something like a thud. I turned around and saw Damien holding Rae's balled up fist, right before his face.
"Oh-ooh." We all said in unison.
Rae spread his wings and took flight, holding onto Damien. Damien laughed and threw of his marine jacket with a simple movement of his free hand. Rae then turned around and flew towards the ground at top speed, for a moment I was afraid they were both going to crash. Then at the last second Damien turned the tides around securing himself a safe landing on top of Rae. Damien planted his feet on Rae's wings and was sitting on top of him within a second.
"What ya gonna do now, little pigeon?" He smirked.
"Shouldn't we help him?" I asked, worried.
Mai and Selena shook their heads. "You shouldn't interfere in a fight between men." Selena said.
"Stop trying to sound cool," Mai said "Rae gets all cranked up if we interfere in his fights, something about his pride." She rolled her eyes.
Selena blushed a little "Men.." she said, heaving up her shoulders as if to say, "can't do anything about it."
"Heeeh." Rae said, sounding impressed. "For a pervert you're not so bad."
"I am not a pervert!" Damien proclaimed.
At that point his hold seemed to weaken and Rae created a big movement with his wings, successfully getting Damien off. Rae drew his sword, getting serious. I couldn't see very clearly since it was quite dark, but at this point I was pretty sure it was a katana.
"One-sword style." Rae began "Rain."
Within the blink of an eye it was like Rae had disappeared from his spot only to be right in front of Damien within that same blink.
"This is his special move" Selena whispered "look closely."
I watched, but I barely saw what happened. Rae was inhumanely fast. He moved his blade so fast it poured down on Damien like the rain itself. Though Damien tried he couldn't possibly avoid the attack and got hit multiple times. I didn't actually see that happen but I was sure he got hit because of all the wounds and blood suddenly appearing all over his body.
Damien seemed shocked but soon recovered himself, after a few moments he managed to catch Rae's blade between his hands, at that point he was panting.
"For a pigeon, you're not so bad either." He commented.
Rae smirked and withdrew his sword from Damien's hands, but before he could strike again Damien launched a series of punches. This time I saw Rae's body contorting in strange ways, first being hit right then left, up, down and so on. Damien too, was very fast. Soon however, Rae noticed the rhythm and managed to get out of range. Both guys were panting now.
"I wish you'd get serious." Rae said.
"What makes you think I'm not?" Damien answered.
"You haven't even used your devil fruit powers." Rae said, accusingly.
Damien laughed "And why do you think I have a devil fruit ability?"
Rae snorted "Come on, you're a marine vice-admiral. You know who we are" Rae motioned towards himself, Selena and Mai with his free hand "and still you honestly believe we have no idea what you marines really use all those gathered devil fruits for?"
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This was my first time writing a battle scene with about equal opponents, so I'd like it if you told me how I did or how I could make the fihgting scenes even better!
see you next week!
