Chapter 12- To Kill A Mocking Bird
Author Note: Thanks to Kari-chan for letting me use her awesome OC! Hope you enjoy her OC and this chapter!


"Without the presence of the dark, the light would increase and drown all in its blinding grace. Without the existence of light, the dark would become eternity in itself. One can not exist without the other; much like oxygen to the flame."

- Grim R. Levy

from Edge of The End Chronicles


Off on the calmer waters of the Grand Line, a ship sailed forward.

Its sails billowing in the wind while its flag breathes terror.

"We're almost ta Call's I'land, Cap'n!" One nasally voice shouted from the crow's nest down to the deck below.

The wind blew into the ship's sail, sending the pitch black flag flowing the other way.

"There be treasure in 'r eyes, boys! Sail! Sail, you scurvy boys!" The Captain shouted from where they stood at the helm shouting to the men in front of them. "Aye!"


Keyana's claw collided with a metallic clang against Ian's steel tentacles as he chuckled to himself.

Keyana gritted her teeth as she jumped back to the wall. She placed her feet on the wall, bent, and sprang back towards Ian while Usopp scurried for cover.

"S-Save me, someone…!" He wailed quietly as Keyana was slammed into a pillar near him.

"Why the hell are you hiding, baka!?" She snapped down at Usopp who jolted as she glared at him with two cat-like eyes.

"G-Gomen!" He shouted before Ian impaled the pillar with the five tentacles.

Keyana had evaded the tentacles and was grinning as she was crouching on one of them.

She sprang towards Ian and sunk her claw into his head angrily.

Usopp turned a pale shade of green as Keyana skidded on the ground while Ian lay on the ground.

"That's for capturing me." She spat until Ian's body suddenly shot up into the air.

Keyana and Usopp watched in shock as Ian's body landed back on the ground feet first.

Ian's body twitched greatly a few times before he raised one hand to his neck.

"Oh, that felt good…" He muttered while licking at the blood that rolled down from where Keyana's claws had impaled his forehead.

Usopp turned greener as Ian cracked his neck loudly while Keyana stared at him wide eyed.

"W-What are you!?" She asked before Ian's foot found her face and she collided into the wall.

"Naughty kitty. You killed me." Ian said before licking more blood from around his mouth.

Usopp slowly and shakingly looked around to find where they had put Kabuto, but he couldn't find it when a terrible thought rushed through his head.

'What if it is still at the park!?' He thought before Ian chuckled again, and Usopp looked over to see Keyana slowly getting back up.

"You…!" She muttered before sending her claws into his chest over where he heart was and then punching him in the face again.

Ian's body hit the ground, but didn't stay down for long as it repeated what it did before.

Ian slowly turned his head to chuckle at Keyana again. "How many times are you going to kill me before you get it?" He asked as Keyana had lunged at him with her claws out to slice him apart.

Which she did.

Keyana looked back at Ian's slashed up body as blood covered the floor around him.

She glanced over at Usopp for one second when she felt something sharp pierce her back.

She slowly turned her head to see Ian grinning at her through the blood on his face.

"That's three times I've died in five minutes." He stated while making the tentacle that had impaled Keyana drive deeper into her body right below one of her lungs.

Keyana gritted her teeth so hard from trying not to scream in pain as another tentacle pierced below her other lung as if taunting her to move and make it worse.

Ian chuckled again before glancing towards Usopp and licking some blood from lip.

"Too bad you ain't got that slingshot, boy. You might have been able to kill me for the fourth time. Too bad, too bad." He stated with an eerie laugh as the two tentacles he had impaled in Keyana slowly and torturously dig further below her lungs.

"What a hero you are, boy. The damsel in distress is near death and you're powerless. How does it feel? Being so helpless?" He asked with a large grin from his seen face.

His free hand disappeared into his cloak and he pulled out a common flintlock.

He tossed the gun to Usopp and chuckled. "Come on, boy. Man up. Shoot right here." Ian said with a poke to his already bloody and wounded forehead.

"I'm sure you could do it. Come on. You're a pirate ain't you? Shooting that thing should be old to you." Ian stated as Usopp slowly reached out for the gun.

He quickly took the gun and pointed it at Ian. Ian grinned again as he stared at the end of the barrel as Usopp looked at Keyana and then Ian.

"Man up, boy. Prove you got what it takes to take a life." Ian said as Usopp slowing put his finger on the trigger.

Keyana cracked an eye open slightly through the pain but quickly closed it again as she gritted her teeth harder till the deafening sound.

Usopp has pulled the trigger.


The townspeople were silent as they stared at the port where the ship was tied down by two large men that towered over some of the buildings in the area.

A plank was placed down and the sound of footsteps was heard as someone slowly made their way down the wood.

Some of the townspeople backed away quickly when they noticed the ship's flag, while others backed away after seeing the ship's captain approach.

"So this is Call's Island, eh?" The captain asked gruffly with a large piece of meat in their hand that was the same size as the two large men's arms.

The townspeople frightfully backed away some more while others whispered. "It's her…"

The captain looked around from under their large pirate hat before taking a large bite out of the meat.

The captain took a step forward, making her large, short body look awkward for a moment.

"Why are they a looking at me like that!?" She snapped to the large men and they froze up in fear.

"I have no idea, Mama!" They said as they stood rigid at the captain's sides.

"I see…" She said with a look around at the townspeople.

"What is she doing here…?" One of the townspeople muttered a little too loudly.

The big boned captain quickly turned her head to look at the man who asked that.

"What did you say!?" She asked as she jabbed a plumb finger at the man.

The two large men rushed over and held the man down on the ground while the captain walked over to him.

"Why shouldn't I be here, dog? It's a free ocean sometimes." She stated with another large bite of the meat in her other hand.

The man looked absolutely terrified as he shook his head slowly.

The captain frowned before looking around at the others. "Anyone else think I shouldn't be here!?" She shouted and they all, instead of answering, ran for their lives.

"Mama. You scared them off." One of the large men said and she huffed before another bite of meat.

"Big cowards." She said before looking down at the man they still had on the ground. "Now tell me where I can find this treasure."


On the other side of the island, Sengoku was sitting down in his chair while a Marine nearby was on the Den-Den Mushi.

The Marine nodded and then put it down before standing up and facing Sengoku with a salute.

"Sir!"

"Yes?" Sengoku asked calmly and the Marine grimaced in slight fear before answering.

"We have sighted another pirate ship reach the island!" He stated and Sengoku raised an eyebrow.

"Well? Is it one of importance?" He asked and the Marine nodded quickly.

"It's the Mama Boy's Pirates!" He said and Sengoku looked at the Marine for a moment before turning to where Kizaru and Aokiji stood.

"Who leads that one?" He asked and Kizaru answered. "Momma Day. Female Captain of the Mama Boy's Pirates, sir. Her bounty is 589 Million. Her abilities are unknown and we know frightfully little about her." Kizaru stated and Sengoku looked away grimly.

"589…? What did she do?"

"She bombed the Holy Land several times before escaping undetected. Other crimes have been the destruction of several islands in the North Blue and Grand Line, the killing of a Shichibukai before Crocodile's addition to them, and grand theft of the Navy's best ship and weapon: the experimental Pluton." He stated and Aokiji whistled quietly to himself.

"A big timer, huh?" He muttered and Sengoku sighed before standing up and putting his hands on the railing.

"Kizaru. Find and eliminate her. Now." He said and Kizaru nodded before leaving the ship with Kuma close behind him.

"We can not let other pirates come here. This island will be pirate-free in a week, Aokiji. Make sure of it." Sengoku said and didn't wait for an answer before walking to his private cabin.

Aokiji sighed as his relaxation time had been cut short. "Oh well. I've be dying to check this island out anyway."


The gun hit the floor with a clatter as Usopp stared wide eyed at where Ian still stood with two tentacles still impaled in Keyana.

Ian suddenly grinned as he tilted his head slightly. "Yep. That's four times now." He stated with a bullet hole in his head.

Usopp fell to his knees in shock as Ian licked more blood eerily from around his mouth.

"Too bad really." He said before the two tentacles pierced deeper below Keyana's lungs.

She choked out a scream of pain that sounded more like a whimper as she didn't move except for the random twitch of pain.

Her eyes were clamped shut while blood trickled down from her mouth.

Ian's grin widened some more before a new tentacle shot out from Ian's free arm, wrapped around Usopp, and flung him into the wall next to him.

"Ah, the big talking hero can't save the damsel in distress. What a sad ending this is really. So… The evil bad guy defeats the big talking hero, kills the damsel in distress, then kills the hero and all his little friends. The end. What a nice ending, yes?" Ian asked with a cold chuckle to Usopp who just stared in shock at the hole in Ian's head.

Usopp's eyes widened more as the hole that he had made with the bullet suddenly close up on its own.

"W-W-What…!?"

"Am I? Good question." Ian said as he finished Usopp's sentence for him.

The two tentacles moved more and Keyana didn't choke back her next scream of pain as the tentacles had fully impaled straight through her.

Ian twitched his hand and the tentacles shot out of Keyana's body and back into his arm.

Keyana slowly fell to the floor with two holes below her lungs while Usopp looked at her with his face turning pale as she bit her bottom lip in pain.

"I'm the one who is going to kill you, big talking hero." Ian stated as the hand that the two tentacles had entered raised towards Usopp and the new two tentacles, completely blood free, neared his body.

"And, I'm going to put some holes in you like I did the naughty kitty." Ian stated eerily until a sudden footstep behind him caused him to stop grinning.


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