By time Leroy caught up to her they where in the middle of the town. He grabbed her hand stopping her. She turned around tears in her eyes. Leroy looked away he saw an outdoor café.
"Come on let's sit down" he led her to the café and sat her across from him. She wiped the tears out of her eyes. Her eyes were red and puffed.
"If you don't want to talk about it…" Leroy started
"I wasn't planning on it" She replied. They sat in silence for a while.
Fay sighed "I am originally from Everwind, well before it was Everwind, when it was originally on the Grand Line."
"You don't have to force yourself," Leroy told her
"No it's fine, I would have had to tell you eventually. Anyways yeah when the whole island was forcibly moved my parents died in the chaos that ensued."
"How does one forcibly move an island?" Leroy interjected. Fay shrugged
"Devil fruit I guess. That's why I have to get back to the Grand Line to kill the bastard who did it" She said angrily
"So I'm assuming that once the island got here is when the weird weather conditions began. Do you know why he moved the island?"
"No does it matter" Fay scowled
"I just thought that it would be easier to track him down if we knew his motivation" Leroy explained
"Wait so you'll help me?" Fay asked surprised
"Yeah, of course I mean you are apart of our crew" Leroy replied. Fay got up and hugged him. Leroy blushed. She pulled back
"With someone as strong as you there's no way we'll lose" Fay stated "Now let's get back to the rest of the crew" She took Leroy's hand and began pulling him back to the ship
They went back to the ship and headed back to the kitchen. Both Octavius and Azrael sat at the table their heads turned when Fay and Leroy entered. Azrael got up.
"I would like to say sorry, for pressuring you and making you feel like you didn't belong in the crew" Her said scratching the back of his head while not making direct eye contact with Fay. He looked at Octavius "Don't you have something to say" Octavius stood up
"Yeah, I'm sorry too for what I said" He muttered. Fay smiled
"I forgive you Azrael you where just doing your job, it made sense that you didn't trust me. But you that was just uncalled for" She reprimanded Octavius
"I said I was sorry" He replied. Fay sighed
"Where did you get this kid? How old are you?"
"Seventeen" Octavius said
"Really because your acting like your five" Fay told him. Octavius sucked his teeth.
"I'm sorry ok, what I did was wrong. I just felt everyone was coming after me and…" Octavius started
"That doesn't make what you did excusable" Leroy said he was leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. He opened them "I'm not sure how they treated you on the island but here on my ship you will treat your crewmates with respect. And you will follow my rules. Do I make myself clear"
"Yes sir" Octavius replied
"Now on to the plan. Fay if you would" Leroy took a seat the rest of the crew followed.
"Ok but first I want to explain my backstory" Fay started before repeating what she told Leroy
"Wait sorry to point this out but it's been bugging me why did those Marines need you if they could get off the island already?" Azrael said
"Actually I might have the answer to that." Octavius said "You see through my information gathering I found out that the Marines have been using something called seastone in their ships to get off the island. It also repels Sea Kings so that might be the reason the Sea King attacked that ship because it could have been a Marine ship without the seastone. Which explains why they would need you to leave the island. That or they wanted to eliminate someone who could threaten they way they've been conducting things on Everwind."
"Why would the Sea King attack the ship though?" Azrael asked
"It makes sense if the winds push the waves into Everwind, it stands to reason that the Sea Kings would get dragged here too, but if every ship that leaves Everwind repels Sea Kings imagine how much of a headache that must be for them." Fay explained
"Now that's that out of the way can we please move on to the plan on how we get of this island" Leroy stated
"Oh yeah sorry" Fay stated, before explaining the plan.
Azrael thought for a moment "Is there another way? That plan is essentially suicide, the worst part is that once you begin you can't stop."
"Oh it gets a bit worse. Besides the danger of colliding into rocks and the island itself while on our journey to gather enough wind to escape the island's pull apparently the Marines have stationed watchtowers around the island, and unfortunately each watchtower comes equipped with it's very own canon" Fay told the group
"When did you find that out?" Leroy asked
"Oh you thought we just walking around the island for nothing. I took the map from the Marine base because I knew it would highlight where each tower was. Now here's the thing I know the plan can work I've seen it work before. When this island first became Everwind nobody could get off until somebody had came up with this brilliant idea, I was there when they sailed around the island and made it work. The biggest problem in my opinion is these towers; as soon as we attempt something like this we would face massive amounts of firepower and get sunk. So before we even try anything I think we need to get rid of these towers" Fay explained
"So we do that. How many towers are there?" Leroy asked
"Six in total there not heavily guarded so I'm sure it would only take one of us to render them usable. However I'm not combat suited so…" Fay began
"So your saying each of us has to take down two towers each" Octavius interjected
"Well I see that we're going to go with this plan anyway so I'm going to need to strengthen the hull, I'm sure if I'll have time to do both" Azrael said
"Six towers split between me and Octavius while not impossible highly improbable. By time we each get to our last tower they'll be on high alert and I don't like those chances." Leroy stated
"Leroy you said you wanted to recruit a cook while you where here right?" Azrael asked
"Yeah why?" Azrael took a flyer out of his pocket.
"There's a cooking competition tomorrow maybe you can find a cook there. And maybe they'll be willing to help us with our little tower situation" Azrael said
"A cook, how is that going to help us no cook knows how to fight" Octavius exclaimed
"There's no harm in trying at worse him and Fay could go in together after all it's just a sabotage mission" Azrael said. Leroy took the flyer
"Hmm… I guess there is no harm in trying at least we'll get a cook on this ship" Leroy said "Well everybody it's time to get some rest, we have a long day ahead of us. Octavius you take the first night watch"
"Why do I have to take the first watch?" He complained
"It's your punishment, wake up Azrael to switch, then Azrael wake up me," Leroy instructed
"Why doesn't Fay get a turn?" Azrael questioned
"Because he knows better" Fay responded with a smile. Azrael rolled his eyes.
"Ok guys let's go to sleep"
Sorry this Chapter came out later than usual for my weekend upload schedule. Also sorry that it's a bit short I just kinda had writers block until the last second. Anyways...
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