This will NOT EVER get written!
Chapter Ten
Mer glared harshly at him.
Though he couldn't tell, really, it was so dark.
"Nice going, you jerk!" Mer snapped suddenly after hours of silence.
"How is this my fault?" he asked exasperately, sitting on a crate with his elbows on his knees. His sandy blond hair falling into his dark blue eyes.
"Well it's clearly not mine!" Mer said swiftly.
Mer and this boy were sitting on opposite ends of the small rectangular room with the low vaulted ceiling. There were a bunch of crates in there that Mer and the boy were sitting on. Mer was sitting against the wall on a crate with her feet up on another crate. The boy was sitting hunched over with his elbows on his knees. He never looked at Mer, or that Mer knew of. She was glaring at him the whole time. And it had been hours.
"Why do you say it's mine? What did I do?" the boy asked her, looking up at her with his piercing dark blue eyes.
"If you hadn't of gotten in my way, than we wouldn't be in this stupid room with a locked door."
"If you're so powerful, why are we still in here?" He asked her, sitting up.
Mer sighed, "I hit my head when they threw us in here so I can't do anything." she said, looking away for the first time.
There was only one gas lamp, the flame low, over their heads in the middle of the room across from the door.
"Are you ok?" he asked, genuinely concerned, which Mer found odd.
"Yes! I'm fine!" she snapped, turning back to him.
He didn't flinch, or take any offense to the snap. Which Mer found even more odd. She didn't like him. You could go as far as to say she hated him. Which she did.
"You sure?"
"Yes."
He let out a long breath and said, "So... what's your power?"
There was a long bit of silence.
"Telepathic Telekinesis." she let out finally.
"Really? I can run fast!"
"That's... wonderful." Mer said, looking at the wall to her right. The wall the door was on.
He smiled, which irritated Mer. He had a nice smile. He had little dimples and his chin was scratchy. His long sandy blond hair fell into his eyes in razors. His eyes were looking at her as he smiled.
"Why are you smiling?" Mer inquired loudly.
His smile broadened. "No reason!" he said.
Mer snarled.
"I'm just remembering how I met you."
FLASHBACK
The boy was walking down the stairs and into the kitchen of his family's restaurant. He stretched while walking through the door, grabbing his blue apron as he did so.
"Sleep in again." his sister said, her back turned towards him as she was cooking something.
"Shut up! I'm not that late! The place doesn't even open for another hour!" he said loudly back to her as he started getting the chopsticks out to put on the six tables they had in the small restaurant.
"Still." she said and he sighed loudly and walked out into the room that you could see from the kitchen over a counter with a row of shelves above it.
He started placing the chopsticks into a cup at the end of the table against the wall in handfuls when he heard the bell above the door chime, signaling the entrance of a customer.
He didn't look up when he said loudly, angrily, "We're closed, come back in an hour!"
He looked up and saw, standing there, a tall gangly boy about his age with an attractive girl beside him, around the same age. They were looking at him like he was crazy. Well, the boy was. The girl was looking rather bored.
"I TOLD you, Luffy! It said CLOSED! Plus you just had breakfast!"
"I did?" Luffy asked, turning to the girl.
"Yeah. What was that thing that Sanji gave you ten minutes ago?"
"Well I'm still hungry." he declared and the girl sighed and rolled her eyes.
"I don't care if you're hungry for another hour. Come back then."
"Why not just feed us now? You're food's all prepared and in an hour it might not be as good."
"How did you know our food is prepared already?" his sister called from the kitchen, looking at the girl as she rested her head in her arms on the counter. Her red hair pulled back in a tight ponytail.
The girl shrugged, "Lucky guess." she said swiftly.
"Why not?" the boy's sister said, looking at him.
"Fine, fine, fine." he said, very very annoyed. He was never good in the morning.
"Calm down, Caleb, and just serve them." his sister said as she threw a dish towel at him.
He growled and turned to Luffy and the girl, who were already situated at the table, looking up at him with small smiles on their faces.
"What would you like today." Caleb said in a robotic voice, looking up at the ceiling, angered.
"Uhhh... Everything!" Luffy said brightly.
"I'll have just some tea, thanks." the girl said.
As Caleb turned around to go back to the kitchen where he knew his sister already heard the order, he heard Luffy say, "Why didn't you order anything, Mer?"
"Cuz, Luffy, I already ate breakfast and I don't expand like you do."
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Caleb came back out fifteen minutes later with everything on the menu and a cup of tea.
"Here you go." he said, calmer than he was earlier, setting down all the food. Twenty different items sitting there steaming or cooling or chilling.
"Aks!" Luffy said, already having a mouthful of food.
Mer nodded at him.
Emma watched Caleb walk back into the kitchen, his shoulders slumped.
"What's wrong?" she asked him as she leaned on her arm that was holding her up via the counter. Her right hand on her hip as she examined her twin's outer appearance.
"Nothing's wrong!"
"Something's wrong." Emma said clearly.
Caleb looked up at her with annoyance in his eyes.
Emma just smiled, it small and over her teeth. Her matching blue eyes closed.
"I'm tired and I hate working here. I'd rather be ANYWHERE else!" he said, leaning up against the door frame, catching a part of Mer and Luffy's conversation.
"-don't see why you had to." Mer was saying.
"They were being jerks!"
"You could have just, you know, kicked them away from her! You didn't have to continuously beat them up! I don't think they deserved that, even if they were being slimy jerks."
"Since when are you so nice?" Luffy asked, laughing.
"I am not!" Mer said, falsely appalled, which made Luffy laugh more. "I'm just saying you don't have to show off. I don't."
"I like to!" Luffy said proudly.
Mer sighed, "I know."
Caleb wondered what they were talking about when he heard the bell ring again.
He and Emma bent over to see over the counter the three large men who walked in. The twins glanced at each other and Caleb swung himself nimbly over the counter and into the dining room.
"We're closed." he said loudly, forcefully, his arms crossed over his chest.
"I don't care!" the one in front yelled then turned to Luffy, who had his back to him. Mer was staring at him over Luffy's bent down head, her eyes wide. She was leaning back in her seat, but she looked more disgusted than scared.
"Straw Hat!" the man yelled angrily and pounded his hand down onto Luffy's head, smashing his face into the food and to the hard wood table. Food splattered everywhere, but not hitting Mer.
The man stood up straight, chuckling in his very deep voice as Caleb looked over at Luffy, who was picking his head up from the table. Food was smeared all over his face, but he licked it all clean off and grinned at Mer, who was giggling silently in response.
Luffy stood up and faced the men.
"You want more?" he said, holding his fist up, grinning.
Caleb was frozen. His eyes managed to look over at Mer, who was leaning up against the wall, her feet up on the bench she was sitting on, sipping tea and eating the sushi, that didn't get smashed or eaten, lazily, as if this were all a show she had watched already. She knew what was going to happen.
"AHHHHHHH!" the man started yelling, swinging his arm up to pound Luffy again, but Luffy already took the chance and yelled, "GOMU GOMU NO," swinging his back, "PISTOL!" and punching the man so he went flying out of the restaurant through the door, taking most of the door frame with him, across the road and stopping when he hit the side of the building across the road.
Emma screamed.
Mer chuckled softly and said, "Would you like any help, Luffy?"
"Oh no. I've got it, Mer." Luffy said simply, turning to Mer, who said, "Alright."
The man on the right ran back to help the leader while the man on the left took out a knife, which was swftly kicked out of his hand by Luffy's stretched out leg. The stretching of his leg caused Emma to scream again. Caleb just watched in horror... and in awe.
"The hell, Rubber-Man!" he yelled and sprang across the table and was about to tackle Mer when he seemed to hit something as solid as a brick wall.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Caleb and Emma screamed when the man fell to the table and all Mer said was, "Come on! I was gonna finish that sushi!"
Luffy grabbed the man by the back of the shirt and spun around a few times quickly and, using that speed, threw the man across the road, smashing into the other man so they were all a heap of unconscious men.
"Thanks, Luffy. You threw most of the eatable food out with him!" Mer complained, standing up. Not a bit of food on her.
"We'll go ask Sanji for more, than." he said and turned to go with Mer when Emma yelled from behind Caleb, "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!?"
She was standing next to Caleb now and Luffy and Mer, who were walking towards the open door, turned towards them and stopped.
"What did you do? You just destroyed my restaurant!" Emma shouted.
Luffy and Mer looked at each other and Luffy turned back to Emma, saying, "I had to fight them!"
Emma's glare hardened and the next thing Luffy and Mer knew, they were doing menial tasks around the restaurant.
"We should go get Usopp. He could fix this." Luffy said as his job was to fix the doorway.
Mer was in the kitchen, cleaning the floor on her hands and knees.
"Nice, Emma. How did you get them to do that again?"
"I don't really know!" Emma said, smiling blissfully as if she were drunk, but she wasn't.
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Hours later, Mer was laying on a middle table as Luffy finished up with the door.
"DONE!" he yelled joyfully as it slammed open and standing there were the rest of the Straw Hat Crew.
"Hey, guys." Mer said sleepily from her table.
"Mer-chan! Where have you been all this time! I was becoming worried!" the blond cried, appearing next to Mer, and holding her hand as if she were dying.
"I'm fine. I've been here cuz Luffy destroyed the door fighting and because of that the psycho owners made us work here to pay it off."
Sanji glared up at Caleb and Emma standing there but was beside Emma in an instant when he realized one of the psycho owners was a girl.
"I forgive you for making Luffy do all that menial work!" he said, kissing her hand, "But I'm afraid I can not forgive you for making my Mer-chan work!" he said getting all choked up because he could not forgive a woman.
Emma giggled. "It's alright!" she said and the blond's eye was a heart.
"Who'd you get into a fight with?" green haired dude asked Luffy as Luffy was taking Mer's idea and lying on a table.
"These three giant fat guys who were messing with this girl. I beat them up then and they came back."
"Hey! We are not giant fat guys!" some booming deep voice sounded behimd them.
The crew parted to revel the three giant fat guys with a lot of bandages on them with a bunch of other fat men behind them, all looking menacing.
"Ah frick." Mer shouted, sitting up at the table.
"Hello, girly! I remember you!" the fat man with a bandage over his nose said, stroking under Mer's chin. She jerked her head away but he suddenly, with his huge sausagy hand, grabbed the back of Mer's head with her short choppy hair and held her up so her feet were dangling off the floor.
The leader of the fat men called out, "Take the other three. Get rid of these others and let's get back to the ship."
The fat men took out weapons as did the crew and was about to fight them when they heard a clatter and looked at the middle of the room on the floor where a small black cannon ball was bouncing when suddenly it exploded.
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BACKFLASH
Mer and Caleb had woken up in the little room. Not knowing how long it had been since they were in the restaurant. If the ship is out to sea. Where anybody was?
It was scary, but neither let the other know that they were scared.
"That was stupid. Your sister's insane!"
"I wonder where she is." Caleb said quietly, sadly.
Mer, seeing the small amount of hurt Caleb let show on his face, felt like being a nice person for once and closed her eyes and explored the ship. She heard dozens of thoughts, none sounding like a girl's... for a while.
"She's... up near the deck." Mer said, straining to hear. It was hard. She was at the bottom of a very large ship (belonging to the Fat Men Pirate Crew, ironically) so she was deep under the surface of the water and the fact that she hit her head didn't help in the matter.
"She's alive?" Caleb asked, a shred of hope in his voice.
"Yes." Mer said after a moment.
Caleb let out a sigh.
Mer looked at him out of the corner of her right eye, "I got the impression that you didn't like your sister?"
Caleb looked up at her and said, "She's still my sister. We're all each other has."
"You remind me of my brother." Mer said simply, still hating Caleb's guts.
Caleb grimaced.
Mer smirked.
"What's your captain like?" Caleb asked suddenly, turning to Mer as he sat hunched over again.
Mer closed her eyes and smiled.
"He's goofy and silly and immature most of the time but the other times he's caring and he takes charge and is all about the crew. We're loyal to him because he a good leader and has saved us countless times and had done so much to make us happy that we couldn't not join the crew. He was there for all of us. Even when he found out I was part of this evil group bent to kill people. He still stuck by me!"
Caleb looked away. This was his way out!
Mer closed her eyes and said, "Wake me if people are near, kay?" she said swiftly and drifted off.
If it were any other situation, Mer would be the one who was listening at the keyhole, but being semi-powerless made her wary and the only way to get her powers working again was to sleep. So she did. She did anything that made her more powerful, especially when there were enemies near.
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Mer awoke to Caleb shaking her foot.
"Mer!" he hissed as she opened her eyes and heard the walking outside the walls.
She froze as Caleb looked under the door through the crack between the door and the floor and remained still.
Suddenly, he flung himself away from the door silently as it opened quickly, banging off the wall and standing there were the three fat men.
"Come, skinny people!" he called in his booming deep voice and Mer and Caleb stood up and walked out with him, not wanting to get hurt any more.
They led them up to the deck (the fat men were panting by the time they made it there there were so many stairs to climb) where Luffy and Emma were already. They were being held by other fat men. Luffy was tied up at the ankles and around his torso and the sky was an inky black. It was about to rain, and rain hard.
"Come come! We haven't got all day! We would like to execute and dump your bodies before the rain comes!" the Fat Man Captain, the leader from before, said.
"Why didn't you do it earlier?" Mer asked angrily, not mad that they didn't execute her earlier, but mad that they were stupid. Stupid people annoyed her.
"Because your stupid ship was following us and it took us a while to shake it! That's why!" he snapped, grabbing her hair like the other man did earlier and dragging her over to the railing where Luffy and Emma were being put. Caleb was brought over last.
"First you, Straw Hat!" the captain said, pointing a pistol at Luffy's heart.
Something snapped in Caleb. He couldn't let Luffy die! Even if he didn't know Luffy very well and knew he was just a captain, he knew that he was a good person. And, though he could be Caleb's way out, he was also Mer and the rest of his crew's hope for getting out. Getting out and staying out. And he couldn't let Luffy be shot. Not now. Not ever.
The shot fired and Caleb ran towards Luffy, crying out when the bullet lodged into his arm. He fell to the deck.
"CALEB!" he heard Emma yell angrily.
"Holy crap!" he heard Luffy yell and he looked up at him, seeing Luffy's face with wide eyes and a mouth the shape of a large O.
"KILL THEM ALL!" he heard the captain shout and then a very loud explosion. Screaming. Lots of screaming. Bangs and bashes.
Then laughter.
Why laughter?
He looked up, his head searing with the pain from his arm, and saw the green haired dude cutting Luffy's bonds and joining the fight as more explosions were heard.
Emma was suddenly in his vision.
"Cale? Are you alright?" she asked over the comotion of the fight.
"Yeah! Yeah I'm fine, Em!" he said, trying to sit up when the biggest explosion was heard and the sound of a lot of wood splitting sounded.
"WHY ARE YOU SPLITTING THE SHIP, MER!?" green haired screamed over the commotion.
"SO IT'LL SINK, ZORO! COME ON! WE GOTTA GET BACK TO MERRY!" she screamed when she looked down and suddenly screamed even higher pitched, "THE MAGAZINE'S GONNA CATCH! JUMP!"
BOOOMMM!!!
Caleb hit water hard and was sinking fast and there was nothing he could do about it and he knew it. But he still wished that he could get out.
He watched the light above him go from orange to red and then to nothing as he watched the ship sink just fifty yards away from him.
Then he ran out of air...
Strong hands grabbed Mer's ankle and started pulling swiftly till Mer broke surface and took in a huge deep breath.
"Thanks! Zoro!" she said between breaths.
"Yeah yeah yeah." he said as he wrapped her arm behind his neck and held her up that way. They looked over and saw Sanji holding up Luffy. Sanji looked very angry that Zoro was holding Mer. And Emma was a few feet away holding up the unconscious form of Caleb. His sleeve of his shirt soaked in red blood.
"Bring him to the ship, our doctor can fix his arm." Zoro said as he started kicking towards his right, the side Mer was on, towards where he knew the ship to be. Sanji followed, offering to help Emma, who refused politely.
S-I-N-K-I-N-G
Caleb felt himself breathing. That was a good sign. He was laying down in some warm place. Too warm... to comfortable.
His eyes snapped open to find a blue nosed deer over his face.
"What the hell?"
"Oh good! You're awake!"
"You can talk? Since when do deer talk?"
"I'M A REINDEER!" he shouted in Caleb's face.
From behind Chopper, they heard laughter.
Caleb looked around the de- reindeer and saw Luffy standing there, leaning up agaisnt the wall next to the door.
"Luffy?" Caleb said, confused as to why Luffy was there.
"Chopper says your arm's fixed now. The bullet's out and the wound will heal nicely!"
Caleb's brow furrowed, "That's good, I guess. But why are you telling me this?"
Luffy walked over and said, looking down at him, "You know... bullet's don't hurt me!" with his smile.
"What?"
"Yep! I'm made of rubber!" he said, stretching out his cheek and then letting it snap back, "So bullet's just stretch me and then I shoot them right back!"
"Oh..." Caleb said, feeling like an idiot. He took a bullet for probably the one man on the entier planet that couldn't die from a shot from a gun. Wow. Was he a smart one. The only person he'd take a bullet for didn't need it.
"But you took that bullet for me anyway! So... I was thinking. I needed a way to thank you."
"Hows about 500,000 belli and we'll call it even." Caleb said with a smirk.
"Hah! No! I want you to join my crew!" Luffy said proudly.
Caleb straightened his head out and closed his eyes as he lay underneath the comfortable blanket.
"Let me sleep on it!" he said with a smile. Knowing his answer.
Somewhere above Luffy, Caleb and Chopper, Mer was throwing a silent fit.
4-7-09 12:00 AM
-smile erupts onto face-
OH MY FREAKIN GOD THIS CHAPTER IS ACTUALLY FINISHED! IT TOOK ME THREE MONTHS AND SO SO SO SO SO SO MANY TRIES BUT I FINALLY FREAKIN FINISHED THIS DAMN CHAPTER! AHHH! OH MY GOD!!!!
8D
Ok! Some things I should clear up. It took me forever to find Emma's name and I picked Emma because the character of Emma is bassed off of my friend Courtney and her favourite Twilightcharacter is Emmett and when I googled the name it said it derived from the name Emma, so I chose that for you Courtney! You best like. The name Caleb? It just came to me and stuck so I was unable to change it. Sorry.
SONGTIME!!!
Humans Are Predators Too- Carter Burwell Twilight Score Soundtrack
Devil's Dance Floor- Flogging Molly
The Other White Meat- Jeff Dunham
Drift Off To Dream- Travis Tritt
Sinking- James Horner Titanic Soundtrack
PS: IT'S FINISHED!!!