Author nothes:
#1. I'm trying to give more detail into the events. In the last one, and this chapter also. I hope the story gets better by it.
A few minutes before…
"Sir! Please! Listen to me! He escaped from his sea-stone cell, the whole prison is from that, but he could still use his power!" – a man shouted. – "We have to act! All the Den-Den mushis are showing him now! He really is a threat! Please sir! He was in there in a second ago, but he could easily get out. We might lose our other prisoners too!" – when this man was done with the shouting, a calm voice was hearable from the other side of the Den-Den mushi.
"I said you should catch him. You don't need to worry about Salud, I can send you to Impel Down myself, I don't need his approval. Got it?" – he said, and started to shout just like the other before – "I am the owner of this town! Everyone and everything that's in this town is mine here! So, don't try to lose or harm my toys. I told you before, and don't you dare lose that new one." – he said and with a second pause, he continued –"If you lose that fruit, I'll torture you before I send you to that forsaken prison. Send everyone against him, or trick him, I don't care! If you lose him, you are dead. Understood?! – the voice ended, and a loud click was hearable, as the other one slammed down the Den-Den mushi.
The man who was in fear now, was in front of several screens, that showed cells, all containing at least one prisoner. Among the perfectly standing cages was one, that was different. It was shattered into pieces and was torn apart. This one was the boy's who was now, out of the cage, and the screens showed him, how he started to free all the prisoners inside the hall. The man stood up from the desk and started the go in circles.
"That bastard! He really freed them." – he murmured, and in his angry state, he gritted his teeth and cursed the mayor for some time. After he was done, he started calling several people on the Den-Den mushi, to go and catch the escaped prisoners. After he was done with calling the best fighters and the guards, he stopped.
'I might call him too…' – he thought, and hesitantly picked up the handset for one last call.
Close to the desert island, on the sea…
"If you are telling the truth, that's good, but I'm warning you. It's better if you flee before I get there if your story was all made up. If I set my foot on that pathetic piece of sand for nothing, I will sink the whole of it along with all of you." – a man said, and hung up with a great smile on his face. He was laying on a bed and his eyes were closed, while he called out loud:
"Bon! We have a new destination! It's Misei!" – he shouted, and it was hearable in the captain's courter, as the crewmember cried out in agreement. He heard a few others too, that started to talk about Misei. He tensed a bit for one of their sentences.
"Wonder how Nikolai goes with the research." – one of his crewmen said. The captain, still on the bed, opened his eyes, and called out again.
"Sherry! Come in." – he said.
"Yes!" – came a woman's answer. And a minute later, the door of the captain's room was opening. A tall woman came in. She was wearing a deep-blue dress. Her brown hair was so long, it reached her knees, and she was holding her hair while she folded her arms, as she stood in front of the captain. The man was still on his bed, and he only looked at her for a second. After that, he looked at the ceiling.
"What do you think?" – he asked finally, after a few seconds of silence. The face of hers, was not showing emotion. She didn't even talk, nor make any move. Only did she answer, when the captain looked at her with his piercing eyes for the second time.
"If we get close to that island, the marines will not tolerate it." – she said, with a slight of tense in her voice, probably from the captain, and his gaze, that was enough to make her nervous.
"You mean what? I shall stay and watch, as one of the ancient fruits releases its powers?" – he asked. Although he was talking slowly and calm, the woman's nervousness increased, and her tenseness told the truth about the man's inside, that surely was not calm at all, like his voice. The captain was fearsome, even more with his calm manners.
"I'm only saying, you should take care of him on the ship. If we are to fight against the marines, we might even…" – she said, but didn't finish it. She didn't stop, because she thought the captain would be angry at her for such speak. She knew he would be, and already is. That was no the case. She stopped, because she was afraid of the future, because she knew that the time will come, when they have to fight against the marines, with a captain like him. The man did not even hide his feelings anymore and looked at her with a predator like grin.
"We might even? What? Hm…? Lose to that pathetic bunch of idiots?" – the tall woman looked much shorter now, as the captain's words weighed on her shoulders. – "You mean that I would lose against those dimwit fools? The so-called admirals? The fleet admiral? Or you are afraid of those assassins? The CP-0?" – the man asked with the same grin on his face. – "How long were you on this ship? Don't you remember the things you saw, when you were with us?" – he asked, and looked at the ceiling again, while he folded his hands on the back of his head and got comfortable. He wasn't smiling anymore.
"I can't be defeated by such trash, even if they would make their hands dirty again, that they cleaned and washed with me. They won't make me lose. I will kill them if they'll try to use me as soap again. That's the way of mine. I chose it, because they all claimed me as the enemy. I would like to see their faces, when the rebellions will start." – he said and chuckled at that.
"Even after they did try everything, all they can do at that time is, to pray and die horribly." – he laughed at that again for a minute, and after he was done, he looked at her only with his eyes turning to her direction, still with a smile on his face.
"You may get the hell out of here, if you have no good comment." – he ended and waited her to leave.
"If… I go alone?" – she said suddenly, but with the same nervousness.
"You might kill yourself…" – he said, looking at her and he suddenly blurt out in laughter – "Well I like the idea, not that I don't, but what if you really kill yourself, hm…?" – he stopped the laughing in a few seconds, and looked at the ceiling again as he thought. – "I have to get another navigator. I don't like that you see. You are not to be wasted, even for that fruit." – he ended. The woman thought for a few seconds, and became tense, so much, she left marks on her hands, while her arms were still fold together around herself and her hair protectively, but she seemed even more tense in her whole body from fear, or something else. She made an angry face, but just for a second, so the captain didn't notice it. She closed her eyes and opened them several times, before she talked.
"This one thing is my wish." – she said while she closed her eyes for the length of the sentence and opened it again. She saw the wide evil grin on the captain face one more time, smiling like a devil himself, when he knew he won, and that terrible gaze was at her.
"Good girl. You shall go alone, but only this time." – he said. The captain stayed on his bed, while she left the cabin, and let out a big sigh, after the door was closed, but she soon tensed back again, as she heard a great evil laugh from her back, through the cabin's door, and she instantly started to run away from it as far as she could, with at least as great anger as the captain's laugh was.
She was running, but as she reached the railing, she could not run farther, and she stopped and looked up at the sky. A tear was in her eye, but after a second, she wiped it off, and looked down at the ship.
The cabin was at the highest point on the ship. The manmade vehicle created to conquer the seas, was in her view, and was easy to see the whole of it from this high. There was no crow's nest, but the place where she was, it was the highest point on the ship.
It was almost a perfect circle shaped massive and enormous place, with fifty-two turrets that were guarded by several person. 30 feet high stone fence with 20 feet thickness, was the first guard, that protected everything inside, against anyone or anything, common man and cannon was not enough to destroy it. The turrets and the walls were at the edge of the ship, giving a massive protected island look to the great ship. It was looking like a town, surrounded with great defenses, and ready to war. Next to the town was a palace too, that gave the look to the place, of a kingdom, from the outside. At the top of that great palace was the captain's cabin, that the owner usually used, just like at this moment.
The ship did not only look like a town, or a capital city, it literally was a ruler's town, with a few thousands of citizens. Not just with houses, but with everything that needed to survive on the sea. There was a river too. It was from the huge lake, at the palace, that was always filled with water. The river was big enough for the whole population and it was filled with fish and crabs. It also nourished a not so small lake, that was surrounded by trees and several houses. Duo to the manmade plans, to create such place, the town was greatly symmetrical, along with the palace and the lake. It also looked great from the palace's top, because the town was closer to it, and the lake was after the middle-town showing everything for everyone who was up at the palace.
The river that went through the way to the town, was divided into three, before the main river entered the streets of the town. The water separated next to a small hill, which was filled with animals usually, just like now. It was about a hundred or so roe-deer there. Close to that hill started the forest, in a way, that the town and the lake was also hugged by it, and the two rivers, that was around the town and the forest were hugging the whole place, except the turrets and the walls. The three rivers had also a lot of gates, and the civilians made them crowded, but not just the gates, but the whole town was active, like if it was some festival going on.
Around the town, were fields, that fed animals, and gave herbs, grains, and vegetables to the whole town. There was the forest around the fields and the town, that started at the hill in front of the place. The huge forest was also filled with life. It held all kinds of animals, but no predators. The market was filled with meat this way.
The main river was headed into the lake. The two tributaries went deep into the forest, at their last section, and flowed into an underground lake, that was also designed. This underground lake was to stabilize the huge ship, that would overturn from the great powers that the sea and the storms exerted on it every time a wave, or a small rain came. The huge lake under the surface let out only a small amount of water into the sea, when it was filled. The great machine like half iron-made lake was hid by the ground and was greatly working while thousands of people were unknowingly depended on it.
The lives of everyone on the island like place, was at this machine's designers' and builders' hands, when they made it, but they did a perfect work, because the storms didn't even push the island-like ship, when they roared, and the speed of it was also amazing despite its size. The ship was bigger than the smallest islands of the East-, or the South-Blue, and it could go by the power of sea currents, almost as fast, as a marine battleship. It was greatly designed and held a great power, weapons, arms, and manpower also.
While the woman looked at all the places she could see from here, she noticed a small thing in the far, and felt, as the island was starting to move.
It really started to move, because the speed was accelerating as the woman on the top of the palace, behind the railing of the cabin, was still looking at the great fortress and the island. She could not think of its beauties, nor the greatness, or the perfect design. She could see only the place that held her, and see the one place that would make her free for one last time in the far, where they were headed.
Author notes:
#1. I think it's obvious who owns this island.
#2. I tried to describe the place, that I'll call just island or ship from now on, but I failed in my eyes. Sorry.
#3. I already mentioned Nikolai, in the first or the second chapter I guess. Be aware, that almost, or every character I mention is important. Even the unnamed patients has their role in the story. (Detective Conan is the perfect example of this in my mind, that Everything is important and only has a connection with the specific episode's main case. If something was mentioned like Naoki the football star, it is connected to the case that happens in that story, that needs to be solved by the main character. Actually, I hate this, and so my characters are not only making things for the story. They are making things that are not necessary, but fun, or had to be said because I want to make them appear more visible to the you. I also mention things, that are important in the late-story. Hope this note didn't anger you.
#4. Next chapter is close, but might take a while, because I wrote the chapter I wanted to publish next, and here I am, publishing something else. This might happen again, so I'm not promising the date.
