Oooo... what to do, what to do...
Chapter Twenty-one
"W-wedding?" Skie asked, looking up at the 'father-in-law-to-be.'
"Yes. Surely if you two love each other, you must be getting married soon?" Shanks said.
The two stared at him and then Ian, being afraid of his father's anger, piped up, "Yeah! Of course! We've been planning this wedding for six months! We plan on getting married in June! June 2nd!"
Skie turned sharply to him, shock on her face.
"Can I talk to you in private... I just thought of something for the wedding and I don't want everybody to get excited incase we... uh... can't do it!" Skie said, and flashing a grin at Shanks, pushed Ian into her bedroom and slammed the door shut.
"WE'RE GETTING MARRIED?" she yelled, angry that he told his dad before her.
"NO!" Ian hissed back.
Skie looked like she might cry.
"No... what I mean is... uh..."
"I know what you mean! I was... kinda hoping that if I married someone, they would be from my world," then seeing Ian's face she added, "but I love you! I do!"
Ian smiled, "I love you too!"
They kissed and then Skie asked, "So what are we going to do?"
"Plan a Wedding, I suppose!"
"But what if we tell him we're not ready to get married? For crying out loud, Ian! I'm 19! I'm not ready to get married yet! I live in an apartment with my best friends and we just so happen let our two best guy friends live downstairs. And when you guys came along, it was as if the Going Merry fell into our living room! I haven't finished my manga lately, nothings been going right, apparently Ia and Sanji are now missing!? What's next? Now I'm getting married? I'm not ready for this!" she said and buried her face into Ian's collar bone. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close.
"It's gonna be ok, Skie. Don't worry. We're not getting married just yet. I picked that date cuz there's no way he'd be with us for another six months! I promise! If we ever do get married, I'll actually propose and you'll be the first to know! Deal?"
Skie sniffed and said, "Deal!"
P-R-O-M-I-S-E-K-E-P-T
Out in the living room, Shanks was glaring everybody down. Not saying a word, them not saying a word either.
"So..." he started but was cut off when Ian and Skie came back out into the living room.
"Dad! Shall I give you the grand tour?" Ian asked and swivelled his dad towards the stairs and down them.
"Alright everybody, I need your help!" Skie started as soon as she heard them get downstairs. "Shanks now thinks that me and Ian are getting married in June. You've gotta make sure he keeps thinking that. If he doesn't, we wont be able to go out anymore. Got it?"
Everybody stared, "That's easy!" Chey shouted, looking positively devious, smiling in a way that made even Zoro crawl back slowly. "Right, everybody!" she shouted and they nodded in agreement. Scared otherwise.
A-N-O-T-H-E-R-S-T-O-R-Y
The next day dawned clear and bright. The deck still slippery from last night's rain. They found that they were docked on a deserted island and that the sails were slashed. They were marooned with a ship.
While Ia was trying to track down a pistol of some sort, Sanji went around the island looking for fresh water or fruit or both.
When he came back, he found Ia on the beach with a fully loaded pistol on one side of her, the book Jane Eyre on the other.
"What are you doing?" Sanji asked as she lay there, wearing one of Nami's bikini tops and a pair of Luffy's shorts on as well. She had picked a red bikini top as if to mimic Luffy. Her hair was now in pigtails and she had her eyes closed.
"Laying in the sun. It's a very nice feeling after being in winter for a month in a half. It would be better if we came in March. That's a great time to vacation on a deserted beach." she emphasized the 'deserted' part.
"Why are you wearing Luffy's shorts?"
"Amazingly they're the only shorts I found that didn't look like the bottoms of this," she said, pointing to the red bikini top. "Did you find anything?"
"Yes. A lake back there and a whole grove of fruit."
"Good. You cook, I'll fix the sails." Ia said and stood up. Belting the pistol and placing the book in her arms. She smiled smugly and went back off to the ship. She wasn't wearing flip flops.
T-I-C-K-E-T-T-O-R-I-D-E
"What's going on again?" Ia's mom asked when Skie and Ian brought Shanks over.
"Well, Ian's dad's here," Skie made a motion for Ian to take Shanks to the upstairs, "He thinks we're getting married because we're going out." Skie said simply.
"Where's he from? From... they're world?" Ia's mom asked, emphasizing the fact that they aren't from this world as if it were a bad thing.
"Yes."
"When- er- How did he get here?"
"We don't know?"
"Where's Livia?"
"She's... uh... she's on a... vacation with Sanji right now!"
Ia's mom stared and then asked, "Why?"
"Well... she and Cam have been, er," Skie coughed "Fighting a lot lately and they needed some time... away from each other. Sanji and Izzy have been fighting too, so they decided to get away from each other for a little bit..." Skie said, hoping Ia's mother would believe her.
"Why is she with that guy? Why isn't she with... Izzy, is it?"
"Well... Cam and Sanji are on the verge of killing each other." Skie said simply as they stood there in the kitchen. Ia's dad sitting next to the fridge on the other side of the room, confusion on his face.
"Ooookkkaaaayyy?" Ia's mom said.
"We really have no more room in our house. Is it possible that some of them stay here?"
"Which ones?"
"We were thinking the ones that are the most like us. Like Izzy and Ian. Cuz if Shanks finds out that we sleep, even if we are a floor away, in the same house, he's gonna flip out!"
"Ok?"
"Yeah, since Ia and Sanji aren't... uh, here! Shanks can sleep on the... davenport?" she said, not use to using that term, "And now Nami won't have to sleep on the floor in our living room!"
"You don't have any beds in that apartment, do you."Ia's mom said.
"No, not really. Chey and I now share my bedroom and Ia's had her own small bedroom. We've had Izzy and Nami in the living room. They've been alternating between floor and couch."
"And the guys?"
"Sanji's been on the davenport, I will not get use to that name, Chopper's been in the chair, Cam and Zac are in the bedroom on the two twins, Zoro's in the back room, Luffy and Usopp and Ian were on the floor. That's all we can do."
"Yeah, Izzy and Ian can come stay here." Ia's mom said and Skie thanked her and she and Ian left, dragging Shanks back across the street and into their house.
"Izzy, you and Ian are staying at Ia's parents' house." Skie said when they got back.
"I have a question, where's the wedding going to take place?"
Skie looked surprised and then Ian yelled, "In here!"
"What are you going to be wearing?" He aimed at Skie.
"A pair of white pants and a white shirt." Skie said quickly.
"No. You've got to be wearing a dress! A big nice elegant dress! And Ian, you've got to be wearing a tux! A nice elegant tux!"
"Well, dad, we don't want a big fuss over the wedding. We're just gonna have a simple one with just the crew and her family."
"No big wedding?"
The two shook their heads.
Shanks looked around the living room on the main floor and said, "Fine. If you two lovebirds want a simple, small wedding, that's ok. Or we could just wait till we get back to the ship, however we do that, and have a big wedding then!"
"Nope! We're fine!" Skie said quickly, looking as if she was trying anything to get off of the subject.
"How's about if we get back to the ship before the wedding date, we'll have a big wedding on the ship?" Ian said, really not know what he was doing. He was with his father, for crying out loud! He never really knew what was happening.
"Alright!" Shanks said and then laid down on the davenport and took a nap.
When Skie and Ian got back upstairs and into Skie's bedroom, she exploded, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Do you really think we're going to get back to the ship before June?"
"Where do you think Ia and Sanji are?"
"Wait... he did say that he was on our ship... That's probably where Sanji and Ia are!"
"Ya think?"
"How did they get there, I wonder?" Ian asked himself aloud.
"Could you pay attention to this problem we're at?" Skie yelled.
"We'll just have to pretend we're planning a wedding when dad's around, ok?"
Skie glared then said, "Fine." and sat down on her bed. She and Chey now permanently shared this room so they got twin beds. Skie had a sky blue comforter and Chey had a dark purple comforter.
Ian sat down next to her and put his arm around her.
H-E-R-E-Y-E-S
Cam sat there in the kitchen on the chair on the checkered floor.
"Are you eating an onion?" Izzy asked as she walked in. It was about two in the morning and she was wearing a pair of red pajama pants and a matching white pajama top. Her hair was in pigtails and she looked like she never had fallen asleep yet that night.
"No, I'm just holding it."
Izzy stared then said, "Alright. I kinda figured out why you're sitting here in the dark."
"Oh."
"Yeah. Gosh, I wish I was here from the beginning."
"What?"
"Yeah, when this whole thing started. Sanji told me about how this really annoying 16-year-old came on the ship. She just appeared, and apparently that's Ia?"
"Yeah. I remember that. It was like around the end of Junior Year. She just went missing! Then during Senior year she and Skie just appeared in Lake Superior during November. Then all the weirdness started to happen again. Then I got sucked into all of it!"
Izzy listened carefully to Cam's story, thinking there might be someway around this. Nobody knew this, but Izzy was very smart. She just had so many identities that it just so happens, she was taught about science for the month before she got on the Barati. She spent it traveling with a Science Professor from the University on Cailo Island on the Grand Line. He taught her about these random portals that appeared in the Grand Line due to the Grand Line's weirdness. They were very anti-climatic and were invisible. In the worlds that they exit in, they're huge and are very climatic. Like they were showing off. But then there's the fact that they keep targeting Ia?
"So... where was she when she first got sucked into my world?"
"She said she was going to Science. The hallway was empty and a giant cyclone appeared in the hallway and she got sucked into it. She got back on the ship... it steered clear into the lake."
Izzy pondered over this as she leaned against the counter. Maybe the way to get back is the way Ia got there in the first place. But then how did she and Sanji get there if they were in the kitchen at the time?
"Could you show me where?"
W-E-L-C-O-M-E-T-O-T-H-E-J-U-N-G-L-E
"Are you done yet?" Sanji yelled up to Ia, who was sewing the sail back together with the sewing kit she found under Usopp's bed.
"No. I just started! You try to sew the tattered remains of a sail back together!" Ia shouted back down to him.
Sanji shook his head and walked back inside the ship.
J-A-I-L-H-O-U-S-E-R-O-C-K
They reached the High School rather quickly. Thankfully, it was still open.
It was the next day, around 6:00 PM. The radio was playing through the halls and there were a few kids from Drivers waiting for the 7:00 class to begin. They were finishing their homework for the class.
There were about a dozen older people, bigger people, walking around the halls. The High School's main floor hallway wrapped around in a big circle with classrooms in the center and on the outside of the circle. They entered in the lobby, a big opening where you could see down the first hallway, the big trophy cases, the big brick pillars, and the Principal's office.
"Where do we go now?" Izzy asked and Cam led her past the main drag hallway, past the pillars to another hallway that the pillars kinda hid. This hallway led to the left, the stairs and the Guidance Office, and to the right, the Commons, Auditorium, and more lockers. These ones yellow.
"589 was her locker, she said that she was at Skie's locker when it happened," Cam then led her down the long hallway, past the bathrooms, the chorus room, the band room and round a corner to Skie's old locker. "Those stairs lead upstairs to the science rooms so she said that she was about to walk when the cyclone appeared. She grabbed onto a locker but was then sucked down." Cam said, pointing out the stairs behind them and the big area of carpet that the cyclone appeared in.
"What's that sound?" Izzy called out into the emptiness.
K-I-D-N-A-P-A-N-D-R-E-U-N-I-O-N
"What's that sound?" Ia asked as she slid down from the top mast.
Sanji looked around and on the horizon he saw dozens beyond dozens of ships heading their way. He couldn't tell if they were navy or Pirate.
"That doesn't look good." Ia said, backing up to the railing of the ship.
"We have to stand and fight!" Sanji called, turning back to her, determination on his face, trying to get her to be brave but it wasn't working.
"THERE'S LIKE FIFTY THOUSAND SHIPS THERE!" Ia screamed, her eyes popping with fear. "PLUS WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY'RE NAVY OR PIRATE YET!"
"Calm down," Sanji said, walking over to where she was standing.
The ships were coming in quicker then they had expected and they started firing at them. One cannon ball blasted the water five feet from the ship's starboard side.
"HOLY FRICK THEY'RE FIRING ALREADY!" Ia screamed angrily and swung her arm around in a flat semi circle in front of her and the ship that had shot the cannon ball's bow smashed in and it sank instantly.
Anger swelled around her and she picked up the next two ships with giant swells of water shooting straight up about 100 feet in the air, dropping the two ships. One somewhere in the island and the other way out to sea.
The next row of ships had five ships. She took them all out by pushing them over like dominoes using her mind. Sanji had never seen her like this. Being able to push over five giant navy ships from this far away blew him out of the water.
The ships behind the first three rows were starting to catch on that they probably shouldn't continue forward and they were all trying to turn around and speed away from the psycho girl on the Pirate ship but she blew up one ship, imploded the next. Sent the next ship flying and the ship after that, she submerged that like it was nothing. After that, the rest of the ships were too far away.
"Oh, my God..." was all that Sanji could say. He looked over at Ia, who was still fuming. "The hell was all that about?"
Her neck snapped towards him, her face still steaming with anger as she said, "They all got on my last nerve," she said slowly yet forcefully. Scarily. "Thank God that it wasn't you." He didn't know how to take that. As an order, or as her saying it to him. He silently took it as an order and was happy that it wasn't he who had gotten on her last nerve. Then he would have ended up under the Grand Line.
"I don't think I've ever seen so many ships taken out so quickly." He said, still in astonishment.
Ia still continued to glare at him when she started saying, under her breath, "I wish I was home." over and over and over again. She had on flip flops yet she still tapped her heals together three times. Over and over again to see if it would really work.
Sanji walked over closer to her as she continued to mutter under her breath. He gently tipped her head up by her chin so she would face him.
They didn't notice as they leaned closer to each other the chocking feeling around them and suddenly, it was cooler, the air felt thinner, and two people were standing four feet away from them on the dark multi colourd carpet.
4-18-08
Ooo. Bad. But, look on the bright side! I did NOT write this part on the 14th! does happy dance
Tis not a happy day for them.
SONgTimE
Promise Kept- From Titanic
Another Story- From Harry Potter and the Goble of Fire
Ticket to Ride- The Beatles
Her Eyes- Pat Monahan
Welcome to the Jungle- Guns n Roses
Jailhouse Rock- Elvis
Kidnap and Reunion- From Anastasia