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Chapter 20: Leaving Enies Lobby
Shan held onto Elsa's slim waist with all of her strength , making sure the color impaired girl bunny girl didn't go running off and get herself killed. Now Shan always thought Elsa always had a mental problem…not like Endo…one that's caused by an extremely traumatic incidents in her life, and from what little Elsa , Mac, and Razz told them about there first year on the sea, events like that could defiantly cause problems in the three's mind…thou there were holes in their story that were just starting to fill into her.
"Fucking let go of me Shan! I to find my Melcom!" Elsa screeched , her eyes wide in panic after hearing the announcement over the speaker, and the pain they felt in there tattoo's.
"He'll be fine Elsa, but are job right at this moment is getting Kazuya out of his critical state, while simultaneously finding a way off of this fucking island!" now Shan was one to cuss, but she felt like she needed to make a change. Shan was just as worried as her friend but someone had to keep a level head, Kazuya was near death, Penny was just a kid, and Elsa…couldn't lead anything with her unstable emotions and frantic attitude without Mac around, and she him.
So that left her, Shan, the somewhat quite, every now and then sarcastic level-headed doctor and girlfriend to there groups insane leader. Add what there tattoo's said Shan was very worried but she at the moment had her priorities strait, so now Elsa was freaking out, Kazuya was bleeding out, and Penny was starting to pace and worry also.
Elsa was started to become a problem, and her yelling might as well be a signal that brings them unwanted notice. So Shan did the only thing that came to mind, she backhanded the younger woman.
The yelling stopped, Shan let go of the black haired girl, since she wasn't acting like a woman at the moment…and also trying to figure out how she managed to hit Elsa while keeping hold on the girls waist.
"Shan know you listen-"
Something inside Shan just seemed to snap inside her at that moment " NO ELSA! You listen to me! Even thou you're the senor team member I'm taking charge. I had to have Penny fucking watch over Kazuya while I had to search for your ass, for thirty minutes Elsa! Thirty fucking minutes! Kazuya could have died during that time, and if he did I would blame you! Added on what could have happened to Penny, Elsa! Some sick yet powerful men with seastone could have found her, what do you think they would have done to a young child, hell a young female child, just entering puberty! We might have come back to mind Kaz dead, as well as a dead raped Penny, maybe no Penny at all they could have captured her and sold her to a even sick fuck! This isn't some story or fantasy world Elsa, this is life and it can be fucking sick!"
"B-but t-the marines h-have Mel-" Elsa was shocked out of her mind, Shan's rant did seemed like it was getting threw to the emotionally unstable zoan.
Shan growled under her breath, literally growled, out of anger. She already planned to deal with Elsa's separation issues but her anger and frustration with there navigator was so…so…she didn't know what to really calling it. Shan actually reached forward, grabbing a fistful of Elsa's shirt bringing the younger, yet taller girl down to her height until they where touching noses and looking into each other's eyes.
"No Elsa." her voice stern and ice cold now, the rage was still there it was just…scarier " What we need to do is get ourselves and are wounded family member to safety. Yes the marines probably have Mac, hell they most likely have the others also, Endo, Siamon, Razz, Meku, Mars. From what the tattoo's say, there still alive…so calm…the fuck…down and if it's Mass Claw that's got them, then there going to stay alive until whatever he wanted us for is down and finished with…but does have and all of us, no…will he capture all of us, hell no." Shan jerked her thumb to the building behind her, voice starting to warm up a little " I promise with all my heart and soul that we'll do whatever it takes to bring them back to us, but fist we need to survive this. Now we have a kid and an injured man relying on us, get in that building and help Penny stop Kazuya's bleeding so we move him, I don't want her to keep using her powers and cause mental strain."
There was a small cough from behind her, Shan turned her head a little bit and looked right at Penny. The young girl looked at them for a second before asking " So should I come back and let you to finish what your…doing?"
Shan had no idea what Penny meant, it was probably some sort of innuendo, but at the moment she could care less. Letting go of Elsa's shirt and grabbing her hand, they walked towards the building…or Shan drag Elsa…kind of fun seeing a shorter girl drag a taller girl aground.
"What do you want Penny?"
"Managed to stop Kaz's bleeding…thou he's turning very pale right now."
Shan cursed under her breath "Okay…I'll look over him, Penny I'm going o need you and Pan to look around this building for something to easily transport Kazuya on. Like a sled or something."
Penny smiled slightly and gave a mock salute as did Pan who stood at her feet "Yes Madame I shale find us a Rosebud!"
"Cut it out Penny…" Shan held back a small smile and forcing her humor back down placing her cold indifferent mask back on, while dragging Elsa into the building. Placed near a turned over table laid Kazuya's motionless body. His skin was a deathly pale and his breathing was rapid. Shan could tell as she walked over that his checks and forehead where red from a fever, or maybe infection.
Releasing Elsa and then hearing the girl dropping to her knees, Shan walked a few more steps and pulled out the few medical supplies she had left on her.
Placing her hand onto Kazuya's forehead, she talked to herself "Temperature feels over a hundred, rapid pulse, more blood loss, body starting to go into a state of shock…"
Shan was worried, Kaz was knocking on death's door at the moment. If she had some ice she could bring down his temperature to a safe level, but she had no such luck which meant she needed to move fast.
Elsa broke down crying in the background, her sobs mixing with the chaotic sounds from outside as Shan started a field operation.
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"All the prisoners you brought in sir are as healed as we can get them sir, it's safe to transport them to our cells." said a doctor scanning over some papers in her hands. Hiro, Bravo, and Sanders were also in the room getting there wounds fixed and bandaged.
The ground was all back on James' ship in the medical ward. James himself was looking over a small map that showed all of the prison cells on his large ship, it was basically a small prison that could be used to travel at sea for months until they reached a more suitable prison.
"Okay…" James sat the papers on a nearby table "From the information you three have given me and with my own experiences." The three other marines gave a nod, each were extremely tired from the fights "I want the musician in a regular cell, the blind man but put one of those…shock collars like the one they were going to use on the White Dragon on him." Bravo gave a silent nod when James looked at him and left to go prepare that cell and it's prisoners, taking the doctor that was in the room with him who wanted to study the blind man's odd body.
"Sanders I want you to get seastone cuffs for the large man and the mime…make sure they chain the large zoan user to the wall with seastone chains, be need to make sure we limit his physical power." Sanders left the room with a salute, he said something but James was to focused on the task at hand to hear him.
"Hiro have some seastone chains sent to me, I'm going to see over the transfer of Tragto and Ordam to the high security cells on the lowest deck."
Hiro saluted "Yes boss!" and started to walk out the door following his comrades when James stopped him again "Also…tell the helmsman to set sail for the prison."
"Impel Down right?"
James gave a smile that said 'close but no cigars' "No old friend were going to our prison…"
"You can't mean the-"
"…Asylum."
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Shan and Elsa ran, ran as hard as they could. Actually Elsa was running just fast enough for Penny and Shan to keep up pace, her face was covered by her skull mask and Elsa's usually life filled eyes were as cold and dead as a frozen tree fallen in the forest.
Shan didn't care about Elsa's feelings at this particular moment, all she cared about was protecting there lives and saving the life of her patient. It didn't help that a Buster Call was called, or that the island was being destroyed by marine ships, yep that didn't help one fucking bit.
Chains were wrapped around Shan's left arm and Elsa's right, the other ends were connected to a metal slab with Kazuya tied to it. Penny was up ahead with Pan slashing and cutting at people who tried to get in there way, even if she got in danger they weren't that far behind.
"Where are we heading?" asked Elsa as calmly as she could muster, her eyes shifter to Shan from under her mask.
"Some place safe."
"Safe for us, not the others." Elsa growled, Shan suppressed a slight wince, steeling her emotions even further… she was positive what she was doing was right, she could feel it. Endo and the others they'll have to get later.
"I've said this before, we already are doing what's best. If there in danger or captured as are tattoo's suggest then we can save them at a latter time." turning her attention from her brooding friend to the pre-teen blonde girl in a blood covered dress signaling them that she's found something.
"Penny's given us the signal, lets go." the two sped up pulling Kaz behind them. It seemed Penny actually found some help, it was Arisa and a few members of the Franky family. The two women came to a halt close to there young teammate, Arisa gave the two a forced smile.
"Glad to see you guys made it." the Water 7 native said "We found a way off the island , so if you guys want to you can catch the ride…"
Multiple explosions were scattering the island. The attack has been going on for twenty whole minutes now.
"We'll be glad to take you up on that offer." Shan said as politely as she could "I heard that cheer over the intercom you guys did."
Shan saw the other woman's face glow red for a very brief second from embarrassment or anger she couldn't tell. "Yeah…men are idiots. We could have gotten away quietly, but never min that we need to leave."
Shan let a soft chuckle escape her lips "That would be a good idea." She turned to her friends "Got that girls we're following Arisa here."
Penny forced a smile, Shan wasn't liking how the young girl was masking her emotions, were did she learn that (Shan even relies she was doing the exact same thing), she'll have to have a talk with the girl later.
"Got ya Shan, need me to take your spot pulling Kaz?"
"That'll be great Penny thanks…" Shan handed the chain to Penny and turned her attention to her other friend "…do you understand what we're doing Elsa?"
The black haired woman gave Shan a cold anger filled glare "Yeah I got it……Boss."
Shan covered up a wince by turning back to Arisa , Elsa was going to be another thing she'll need to fix at a later date. The Water 7 native didn't say anything about the little exchange , just started to lightly jog away followed by the Franky's knowing full well that the merc's were following behind. Arisa was a little surprise when Shan or as Arisa knew her 'Heart' matched her stride perfectly.
Shan looked at Arisa from the corner of her eye, this was actually there first real time meeting "There's something familiar about you…."
Arisa laughed "Odd world isn't it.'
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A knock on James' door broke the marine out of his thoughts "Enter……" a lone marine rookie entered shaking in his boots.
"Sir all of your orders have been followed" and Ordam is locked in seastone bracers and a straight jacket down bellow thought James "and I also spoke with Agent Bravo, he wishes to speak with you."
"Good I'll get to him in a second. How far away are we from Enies Lobby?"
The boy stuttered out his answer " About half a mile sir."
"Dismissed." the marine was out of the room faster the blink of an eye. James soon left shortly afterward heading form Bravo's room. Bravo didn't live to far away, about six rooms down. The odd thing about it thou was it was the only room with a red door on the entire ship.
James gave three knocks before entering in without permission or answer. Bravo sat calmly on a perfectly made bed in a nearly spotless room. Just seeing the room James suspected what Bravo was going to tell him, he's surprised it hasn't happened sooner.
"I'm leaving." see he could see the future rather well…maybe he could put that skill to use on other things.
"Really couldn't tell." Bravo ignored the obvious sarcasm , and started to cry.
"Oh I know you'll miss my wonderful Bravoness with a Bravo! But I must! My own team needs me!"
"Bravo-"
James was cut off again "No don't…try to convince me to stay I must leave with a Bravo!" with an exaggerated sigh Bravo left the room.
He didn't know how to act…but he felt rather happy…one headache gone. He knew Bravo was going to leave…just didn't expect Bravo's attitude.
" I wonder how he's going to get off the ship?" asked a familiar voice to James from the dark corners of the room. A smile cracked across James' face, it definitely wasn't a coincidence that Bravo left and he showed up.
"You have very great timing Waldo." said James turning to look at the rooms darkest shadow as a figure emerged. A tall lanky figure walked out into the room with a small smirk on his face. The man wore rounded glasses that seemed to make his eyes larger, dark hair hanging loosely around his head. Even thou this Man, Waldo, hid so well the only black on the him were the shoes he wore. What he did wear were blue jeans , a red and white stripped sweater plus a matching hat.
Waldo Where,
Mass Claw James' Squad,
Head of Intelligence, Counter Intel, and Spy Network
"I know, I just love appearing when you aren't really expecting me boss." the grin stretched even more on Waldo's face.
"Yes…exactly. Any news I'll need to know?"
"Least or most important first?"
"Lets go with least important…that is probably something that don't really matter." James sighed sitting down on the rooms bed.
" The Warden and Big Al are prepared for there new guest, and your room there is ready for you." Waldo said that news lightly……it didn't really matter to him.
"…Good…tell them we'll be the at the Asylum in a week." Mass Claw pressed his fingers in thought, for what was to come he was glad he was prepared.'
"The the rest of it."
"Yes sir, now you'll never believe what happened 'Fire-"
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Yeah I personally think this is a bleh chapter. But it was important so I could take out one character to use for something else and introduce a new one (Other than Chess there have been no new OC in this story and that just can't be.) you can probably guess who I based W.W on. This chapter was also important for some character building on Shan. That last line of hers with Arisa was actually just a little reference in that I made both characters, even thou Arisa isn't a DR character she's a CotA character.
Well Read and Review. Now. Got it. Good.
P.S. To this new fan of mine who doesn't review and only PM's me for some odd reason and asked two questions that got on my nerves a little bit, but I'll answer them here just incase some of you other readers where wondering this. Those who already this are my friends, so they should already know my answers to the questions before they even read my answer.
Now to answer the two questions that annoyed me number 1 ' Did you create other OC's for kilnorc's story's other than Azu?'
Answer: Yes, and I'm honored that he even bothered to look at the OC's from a wet behind the ears rookie who just joined that site back when he was writing Desert Storm. Azu was made an given to him after I got finished reading what he had completed so far…which was the chapter before Azu was introduced…I'm still surprised to this day he even responded to my review, I was a newbie, a nobody he even said he already had an OC for a shipwright but he'll still see mine (I still wonder about that unknown shipwright OC). Anyway getting off topic yes I did create more then Azu for kilnorc's series, but it's up to you to find which should be easy if you're a fan of his story and read the notes.
Now this question royally, still Question 2 'Did you make the DR crew for kilnorc's CotA series?'
Answer: No, they started out as me wanting to try my hand a making a story, I admit that Living Tree Pirates was a train-wreak or so I think…which is why I decided to just kill the characters and bring them back as something I haven't see before, Mercenaries (I also like making characters where people have a hard time deciding if there good or bad…I also like making super villains…I'm good with that), I like originality, some of my friends can attest to that and how I get annoyed with un-originality and how when I notice something Un, I change it.
So no I didn't make DR for someone else, I did it so I can enjoy writing yet be original. Where as Living Tree's was made because a kid wanted to write an idea with characters that have been just laying around doing nothing.
Tip of advise Pm…er does ask a writer a question like that.
P.S.S Since DRNA is come to a close in 2 chapters I might as well thank everyone who's reviewed, and most of you helped shaped Death Root into what it is today, violent, funny, bloody (yes that's different than violent), somewhat original, and with…odd OC's.