After Marco had calmed down and resolved on getting his wounds healed first then he'll plan his escape after, Amelia had took the boy out of the deck and to the sick bay. Silence fell to the commanders and the Captain, they're thinking how their First in command got turned into a child and why he's acting all hell bent in killing people. Whitebeard broke the silence and spoke "Does anyone notice Marco do anything out of ordinary this past week?"
Izo asked: "Like the explosion incident?" Right, the incident was the start. Many things had happened after that like accidentally mixing the gun powder barrel at the condiments section. Good thing somebody had noticed that day or else the cooks might have added the gun powder in their dishes or the moby dick might be nothing but ashes now.
Whitebeard nodded. "These past few weeks Marco have been acting like that so what is the cause?" He thought to himself. They didn't encounter anyone who has a power like Jewelry Bonney who can turn anyone to an age she want. Be old and wrinkly or a hairless baby. They have heard a lot of news about her too and the other rookies now known as The Eleven Supernovas, well how could they not. Ace have been bragging about his brother countless time and could go to a non-stop babbling just about his brother.
"We haven't docked for a few weeks... And it's before he acted like what he did in those days" Atmos said, all nodded in agreement. They didn't bumped to something interesting, either. No marine attacks, no pirate crews except for the one yesterday... Wait, does the one yesterday has something to do with this. As Id reading his comrades thoughts Thatch spoke "No it's unlikely, the effect was only a few seconds. Well, base on Ace's reaction and nothing happened wrong with Marco when he got touched"
Whitebeard nodded, but they can't crossed it out yet. He got a feeling it still has something to do with what happened. The rookie captain doesn't have a big name or anything. They didn't find any files about him which is odd for a pirate in New world.
Ace scratched the back of his neck and an idea came to his mind. "Maybe we should ask the First division about what happened yesterday"
Sick bay
"Don't move, okay?" Suprisingly the head nurse, Amelia. Is being gentle than ever. She isn't like this to other children, she often snap at them and tell them to shut their mouths but today is different. She held Marco like a fragile glass that a simple push will break him. The child's face was unreadable, electric blue turned into a slightly darker color and his eyes were more hollow like the eyes of a porcelain doll. So hollow, so unlively.
The blond boy did as what he was told. Not even a single finger was move. He's wondering why they were treating his wounds, supposedly they were acting bad at him. But no, they went to a tub with no people around. The tiles were bright pink and it look like sparkling with its cleanliness. He wasn't used to this. The bathroom in the headquarters where they bring him is not tiled, just bare stone walls, blood painted the cold stone walls and the floor was littered by things like, dead rats, poop, urine or whatever smelly. Taking a bath in somewhere so clean was a total foreign feeling to him, usually they just squirt the water hose at him and throw a bucket of soap and in their hands were brush that was for cleaning the floor, all dirty and moldy. This was different. The woman was holding a clean sponge with soap and their was this tub where she commanded him to sit in, of course he did what he was told.
She sat beside the white marble tub and start taking the boy's clothes off. The boy's eyes widened in fear as she try to remove his clothes, scared that they might see the forsaken mark on his back. He never lets anyone to get a glimpse on the mark.
The petite blond woman gritted her teeth. Her patience was really running low when the boy tried to push her when she was removing her clothes but sighed, she needs to be remind that this boy was different, she don't know anything about this boy, he's so different than the Marco they know.
"Now, let's get this filthy clothes off. Hmm...?" She tried to pull the shirt off, her hands wrapped at the collar of the worn-out shirt, she pulled it firmly yet gentle as possible. But the boy is too stubborn!
Marco was trying his best to get out of the nurse's grip, he wouldn't want her to see what it is, what's he's truly hiding.
Before panic blind his senses, he pushed the nurse to the other wall, cracking the sides of the tiled white wall, without giving a glance at the nurse he took off and ran to find somewhere he could hide so they wouldn't bother him.
The commanders and their captain had decided to turn to the Island for further investigations, the Island, hopefully, have a clue for them to know what is truly happening. Aside from the ruins, the Griffins were acting like they weren't supposed to. First they were about to attack them, but after they have seen Marco set his arm aflame, the bird had calmed down and flew away. They don't know where they've gone, but after they disappeared the bushes that cover up the view where the ruins is cleared, like the bushes moved and made a way for them.
Then just when they were making their way out and give orders to the crew. The vice-head nurse, came running to them. Trying to catch her breath as she speak, "T-The c-child! Is gone! He escaped!"
Their eyes widened, they could imagine the troubles the boy could bring, all of them aren't pleasant. Without wasting a second they rushed and searched for the blond.
Ace and Thatch went at the storage room, both were running as fast as they can, they don't know if the blond had escaped or not and they wished he wouldn't.
"Shit, Marco! Where are you?!" Thatch shouted, his voice echoing in the dark storage room. He turned to Ace who's blindly searching for the boy, he couldn't set his hand aflame because the storage room has a lot of dangerous things too. If he accidentally set a barrel of gun powder aflame, then the fire would spread and the barrels of gun powder here is a lot more than the ones on the deck storage room.
"Ace try the light switch if its still working! The switch is right there at your left!" Thatch shouted across the room, the storage room at the under floor of the ship is more spacious than the one at the top, it's mostly for emergencies because they could never be sure about what could happen.
Ace did as what he was told, he turned the lights on and luckily it's still working which made the job for them easier than before, well not that easy but at least they could look at the surroundings easier than before.
Izo and Haruta had searched at the left half of the top deck, trying to find where the blond is. They had searched the other ships that's connected to the Moby Dick, but the boy wasn't there. They asked for their division's help and warned them because the blond could be dangerous. They are worried for the blond, yes. But they need to look for themselves too. They don't know why he's attacking but for now all they could do is deflect his attack or avoid any of his assaults. It was worst than Ace being there hellbent on taking Whitebeards head. But Ace was a different case, he didn't include any other crew members at his assassinations and was not crazy enough to kill whoever came to his way. Izo had seen that the boy could kill without a second thought, even though he could see the fear on the boy's eyes, hidden behind the anger he used to cloud the fear so it wouldn't be too obvious.
A/N: I'M VERY SORRY~!
I had to cut this up, because I have classes tommorow and stuff... Ugh school sucks :p
And a review will totally help!, Writer's block is troublesome!
Oh and check out my new story! It's mostly MarcoAce, but some pairing will surely come... It's called Valentines!
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