Actually, I had to break this into three parts...
The royal ship slowly approached the white ghost-like ship they will near them within an hour. Otoya's was excited and scared at the same time. He will finally get to see his beloved Lady but what if she's traumatized or hurt. Reiji and Malraux noticed the redhead's body movements and decided to address it.
"Ikki relaxed she is fine," The captain in green said.
"Please...Don't call me that..." Otoya said softly.
"That's your birth name why do you want to throw it away?" Reiji asked.
"I think it's obvious captain," Malraux said, "He wanted to leave his old life behind and have a fresh start. Am I right?"
Otoya slowly nodded his head. He may not remember much about his past but he knew his father was a pirate captain. He just assumed his father did bad things.
"Why leave piracy behind? Your father was the nicest pirate in the world!"
Otoya looked at him with a surprised look on his face, "Really?"
"Yep, he was like the Robin Hood of the seven seas. So you have nothing to be ashamed of Ikki...I don't want to force you to be a pirate but I also don't want you to think your father was a horrible man either."
"Wait a minute!" Syo set a heavy crate down, "Are you say that this guy is the son of the Red Angel?!"
"You bet he is, just look at him! He has his father's eyes and jawline," Reiji patted the redhead on the back.
"Wow, You automatically have a good reputation!" Natsuki said.
"I do?" Otoya didn't know how much of a big deal his father really was.
"And Young ladies love rugged buccaneers," Ren said as he leaned against the mast.
"They do?" Otoya looked over at the man with slight confusion in his eyes.
"Don't listen to him," Masato said as he was tying the sails down, "We are considered a phase to women. When they are young they look to us for excitement. When they get older they look for men that are stable marriage material."
"Oh..." Otoya started to reflect on himself. Was he considered stable marriage material for Lady Naomi or was he just a phase.
"We're approaching the ship soon," Tokiya announced.
"I wanted us to make the exchange on land but I guess beggars can't be choosers," Ai said.
Lady Naomi saw the ship her closer and closer and immediately recognized it as one of the royal ships. She squinted her eyes but she couldn't see anyone familiar yet. "Captain, do you have a telescope I can use for a moment."
Camus nodded his head, "It's in my quarter... I'm sure you know where that is." He smirked lightly when he saw her blush lightly.
"Yes, I know this ship like the front of my hand knows your face," she counters with a smirk on her face when she saw his eyes widen.
"You got a lucky shot big deal!" He called out to her as she left.
Naomi's moved through the narrow halls and when into Camus's room. She spotted the telescope by his window and grabbed it. The lady left the room and was about to go on deck till she heard murmurs from down the hall. "Hm?" She knew better than to eavesdrop but it sounded like the crew was having a meeting without their captain.
"Remember as soon as we get the goods we're sinking the ship and dumped those 20 other guys overboard, got it." She heard Yamato's muffled voice.
"Good I never liked them anyway...They never do or say anything!" Nagi exclaimed.
"It's true...they always react...it's like they're just nameless background noise," Shion added.
"What about the girls? We can't keep them with us forever."Eiji pointed out.
"That's the beauty of Moulin Rouge island," Van said, "When our gems lose their shine...We will simply pawn them off to someone who will find a use for them."
Naomi's eyes widen and let out a silent gasped. Not only did she hear them plan a mutiny, they are also planning on selling the ladies into prostitution when they're bored with them. 'I have to warn Camus,' she thought as she slowly backed away from the door. Suddenly a large hand covered her mouth before she could utter a scream. An arm tightly wrapped around her body, causing her to drop the telescope.
"Now now angel let's not ruin the surprise for the captain," she heard Eiichi's voice in her ear.
"Mmph!" She thrashed about in his arms as he started dragging her to the captain's quarters. The Heavens crew heard the commotion and came out the room.
"Some of you have to be on deck and distract captain. Make sure he doesn't come down here looking for the girl." Eiichi ordered as he tried putting the struggling Naomi into the , Van, and Eiji decided they prefer to be the distraction and went up deck. "The rest of you get rid of the crew...make it clean, fast, and quiet." Nagi, Kira, and Hyuga nodded before going to the crew's barracks. Once Eiichi was done giving orders, he managed to get Lady inside and let her go.
"I can't believe you orchestrated such a thing! I thought you and the captain were childhood friends." Naomi did her best to keep her distance from.
"That just shows how little you know about me," He smirked lightly and step closer to her, "I've been planning this betrayal for years...I just needed to find the right day to execute that plan."
"Why didn't you just do it sooner?" She asked him as she tried to look for something in the room to protect herself.
"I saw that Ikki was still alive...but let's not spoil the moment with such minor details." He stopped moving towards her when Naomi grabbed the letter opener off the desk and pointed the sharp point at him.
"Don't you come near me." She stared him down with her rose colored eyes. On the inside, she was a bit frightened. Who knows what he's truly capable of and what harm he could really do to her.
"A little girl giving me orders..."He adjusted his spectacles, "How cute..." he continued to walk towards her as if he was calling her bluff.
"I...I will slash you in the face!" Naomi was even more frightened that he kept coming closer.
"Try me..." Naomi swiped the little knife at Eiichi but he was faster than her. He tightly gripped her wrist, forcing her to drop it. "You have a lot of fire in you, Angel." He complimented while dragging her to the bed making her fall onto her stomach. The taller male got on top of her and used his weight to keep her pinned on her stomach. "It's going to be a pleasure extinguishing that flame." He started undoing the blue sash around his hips.
Naomi started freaking out, thinking that he was going to rape her right here and now. "No please stop!" She felt her body being flipped over so that she was face to face with the traitorous first mate. She tried using her free hand to hit him but that only seemed to help him.
"You know unlike the White Devil..." he pinned her hands above her head and began tying the to the headboard with his sash. "I'm not exactly tolerable when it comes to naughty girls hitting me." To make a point he tightened her restraints making her cry out in pain. "There this should keep you out of the way," Eiichi said as he moved off of her. "We can have more fun together after the mutiny." With those words, he left.
Naomi looked up and observed the knot and groaned, "How the hell am going to get out of this?"
The royal ship slowly parked itself next to the larger pirate ship. There was an awkward silence in the air.
"Um so do we board them or do we let them board us?" Otoya asked.
His question was answered when a large and wide plank of wood landed on their side of the ship, created a bridge between the two.
"Looks like they're boarding us..." Malraux said.
Camus stood on his side of the bridge, "I hope you didn't come here empty handed."
Ai stepped forward onto his half of the plank and did was he was destined to do...Negotiate the terms till they suit him. "We didn't and I hope that the ladies are untouched."
"They are..."
"Help!" Naomi called out for the 7th time but no use. Everyone is on the upper deck talking. "I hope Otoya is okay." She needed to find something to cut the sash but what? Camus had to have an extra knife lying around somewhere. Lady Takeda looked over at one of the pillows. "A captain must always be ready for nightly attacks right?" She moved around in bed till she was able to move one of the pillows off the bed. Underneath that pillow was a gun and a knife. "Bingo!"
"I need proof that every girl is accounted for," Ai said. There could be a chance that one of the girls could be missing. God forbid that one of the girls are dead.
"Hmm very well." He snapped his fingers and the crew had the girls out of the prison bellow.
Ai looked and nodded his head. Natsuki and Syo took that as a sign to bring up the chest of gold coins. "You have each of your crew members bring forth a hostage and I will give you the amount for each one. That way no one escapes from the exchange."
"You don't seem to trust me that much," Camus commented.
"I'm putting your history in consideration," Ai countered.
"You leave a man stranded on an island twice and you're suddenly labeled as untrustworthy, "Camus narrowed his icy blue eyes at Reiji. "If you had to deal with this idiot for a long time you would do the same thing."
"Hey!"
"Nonetheless I will comply." One by one a lady was escorted across the bridge and each crew member of the White Devil returned with a bag of gold. 'Hmm...is it me or am I missing some crew members.' Camus thought before going back to his ship.
Otoya's red eyes quickly scanned over the different faces of girls that boarded the ship and not one of them was Naomi's. "She's not here..." He traveled all this way to see her unharmed and she's not here. "Where is she?!" He already thought of the worse. Why wouldn't she be with the other girls? Otoya was about to run across the bridge to search for her himself but Malraux held him back.
"Easy. You know the rules of exchange. No one makes rash movements." The silver-haired pirate said before letting go of the boy's shirt.
"Pirates actually follow the rules?" Otoya asked.
"Well they're more like guidelines," Reiji said. "If we don't follow them every once in a while then it's going to be chaos for all."
"This stinks!" Otoya felt that something wasn't right. "I don't see Lady Naomi anywhere... what if something happened to her."
"I guess you will have no reason to go back home then," Reiji shrugged his shoulders.
"Especially since you're most likely going to jail for treason as soon as they see you," Malraux said.
"Woah I bet your wanted poster looks so cute!" Natsuki pipped up.
"I don't want a wanted poster! I didn't do anything that bad!" Otoya argued.
"Hm well, lets go down the list of charges that might be held against you." Ai counted them off his hand. "You broke out two pirates that were supposed to be sent to the Chateau D'if, the assaulted and battery of 5 royal guards, destruction of private property, lying to the member of the royal court, impersonating royal sailors, and most importantly having a deep association to the Pirates so that counts as treason to the crown."
Syo let out a low whistle when all the charges were listed, "That's about 25 to life right there."
Otoya sat in the corner and went into despair. "I can never go back..."
Naomi was finally free from her confinement. For those of you who are wondering: How was she able to use the knife to cut herself out? Well, I guess we can say she carefully took the knife into her mouth and pass it to her hands... yeah let's go with that. Don't test it out just take my word for it.
Anyway, Naomi took the trusty knife and put it back in its sheath so she can take the more practical weapon with her, the gun. She stepped out of the room but froze when she saw Nagi, Kira, and Yamato coming down the hall.
"Oi, what are you doing out!" Yamato yelled.
"Uh oh..."She waved at them before taking off down the hallway with the three pirates right behind her.
Dahlia was standing next Myriam and Kruemel while the transactions happened. "Geez if this not demeaning then I don't know what is..."
"Where's Naomi? She didn't come back in the past few hours..."Myriam pointed out as she looked around.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked around when they heard screaming getting louder and louder. Suddenly Lady Naomi ran onto the deck with three pirates chasing her. Luckily all the other ladies where on the royal ship by now but all White Devil's crew were on the other ship.
Malraux looked up at the large ship and moved around to try and get a clear view, "What the hell is going on over there?"
"I don't know I can't really hear much from down here," Reiji said, "Why did he have to get such a big ship!"
"Otori get this under control," Camus said as he saw Lady Naomi and the rest of his crew members run around his ship like a bunch of children playing tag.
"Aye Captain..." Eiichi clenched his fist and was about to approach the frantic woman. However, he was surprised to see her aim a small gun at him. 'Where the hell did she find that?'
"Don't you dare touch me..." her rose colored eyes narrowed at him.
"My lady you don't even know how to use that thing," he was about to take another step closer but then he backed away with the rest of his friends when he heard the clicking sound.
"That makes me all the more dangerous..." she backed away, making sure aim the gun at any pirate that came too close for comfort. "Just like me knowing your little plans made me a threat...Ah!" She felt a strong force wrap tightly around her like magic rope, causing her to drop the gun.
"Woman, what are you talking about," Camus spoke as he decided to take matters into his own hands by using his powers to restrain her. He knelt down and picked up his small silver pistol he got from the West.
"Captain Camus...you need to trust me when I tell you that your first mate planned a mutiny." She told him as she tried to break free, but the more she struggled the tighter it got.
"That's insane..." Eiichi spoke, "Captain I have been by your side for years...We have history. She has probably gone mad from being a hostage."
"It's not true...He had most of your crew murdered and he planned on killing everyone else so he and the six others can all of the ransom money and the ladies..." Naomi looked at the Pirate dressed in white with tearful eyes. "Please believe me..." They are all doomed if Camus chooses Eiichi over her.
White Devil stood there in deep thought for a moment. If Eiichi had no problem in betraying Reiji, then what made him think that Eiichi won't betray him? 'Damn...she probably telling the truth.' With a sigh, he snapped his fingers releasing the lady from his magic.
"I see..."Eiichi looked at the ground, "So that's how it's going to be?"
"You tell me..." Camus said firmly.
The now former first mate started to chuckled and then that just grew into a sinister laugh as his spectacles caught the light of the sun. "Looks like the cat got out the bag sooner than we wanted it to be boys." He looked at his friends over his shoulder, "You know what to do..."
Naomi saw them make their way to the makeshift bridge. 'I have to warn them somehow...' Without thinking she grabbed the gun out of Camus's hand and fired off two shots into the air.