Chapter 25

As the train speeds across the water, Nathan and girl were on the way to Water 7. "Wow, I never imagined that there were sea trains. The trains in Magnolia don't compare to this one." Says levy.

" You mean there are more boats like this?" Asks Temari.

"Yes, just not ones that run on the water. Trains are usually land vehicles. But this train is special, it is one of only two in existence. Trains are steam powered vehicles that run on a track. They follow the track and only go where the track takes them. Normally they only run on land, but that changed like 15 years or so ago when the shipwright Tom built the sea train. Tom was built known for building the Oro Jackson, the ship used by the pirate king Gol D. Roger, and sorry for the rather long explanation Temari. " Nathan answers her.

"It's ok Nathan, thank you for the information."

Suddenly a voice comes over the den den mushi loudspeakers. "Next stop Water 7, all passengers getting off please proceed to the exit doors and exit the train in a orderly fashion. "

Marine HQ

" Admiral Kizaru!" yells a Marine running into said Admiral's office. "I have just found out some important news about the demon pirates. "

Said Admiral turns in his chair. "Oh really, and what information would you have about them? "

"Do you remember that town in the North Blue that got bombed?" The marine asks.

"Are you referring to Dawnstar Village on Dusk Island?" Kizaru asks in reply

"Yes sir."

Already knowing where this was going kizaru asks. " Oh really, and what might that village have to do our young pirate prince?"

" Well Admiral sir, on my last voyage to the North Blue, my crew and I came across a Survivor from Dawnstar. They impersonated marine officers, and stole suplies under the guise of being marines, then bombed the village as they left."

"Hmmm, I see. Impersonating a marine is a serious crime. Did he say anything else?"

"Yes sir, he also said that when the demon Pirates left, they took a village monster with them."

"A monster? "

"Yes sir, he said they took with him a red-haired girl from an old mansion on the outskirts of town. He said that this girl was a vicious blood-sucking monster. He said she was a vampire. If it was indeed them then the vampire he's referring to may very well be Akane Seto."

"I see oh, very well then issue an order to the bounty commissioner to raise their bounties and make the prince worth 200 million. He can figure out the rest."

Water 7 with Demon pirates.

They disembark from the train and look up at a big sign that says" welcome to Water 7, The city of water."

Nathan turns to look at the girls." Okay ladies what do you want to do in Water 7?"

The first to speak is Akane. " I would like to see if they have any book stores. Levy would you like to join me?"

Levy nods. "Sure thing Akane."

"I wonder if they have any cool stores with exotic foods and stuff?" Asks Yoko.

"Girls we should probably look around in groups of two." Says nathan. Immediately after he says that he gets 4 volunteers to go with him from Tayuya, Xenovia, Yoko and, Mizore. When each girl realizes the others want Nathan to themselves they start yelling at each other. Nathan seeing that he needed stop this before it escalated, he gets an idea. "Girls! I have a solution to this. " He pulls out a Ruyo coin left over from the elemental nations.

" We flip this coin. If you call it right, I will spend time with you. Wrong and I will spend time with you at another port. Now call it girls."

Mizore and Tayuya call heads, and Yoko and Xenovia tails. Nathan tosses the coin into the are the air. The coin lands on heads. " Heads! Tayuya, Mizore call it again!"

" Heads! " Tayuya calls quickly. The coin lands on tails this time. Mizore puts her hands near her face, closes her eyes and smiles.

"Looks like Mizore wins." Nathan turns to the purple haired yuki-onna. "Where would you like to go my queen?"

"We are going to a candy store!"

Tayuya just sighs "I need a drink! Im gonna find a bar. Hey blondie you wanna join me?"

Temari shruges. "Sure, why not Tayuya!"

" Looks like it is you and me." Yoko says Xenovia.

They all walk off in different directions.

With Yoko and Xenovia

"Anywhere you where you wanna Xenovia? "Asks Yoko to her blue haired sister.

"I don't know, but I was hoping to be with Nathan. "

" Huh! Yea I know what you mean! By the way, why do you like Nathan?"

"He is the strong and thefore will produce very strong children. Combine that with my strength and our children would be unstoppable. Plus he is not a much a pervert as Issei."

" I see." Yoko says not getting the answer she was expecting. " But yea, I did hate that Issei guy." Her Whole body shivers at the thought of Issei's powers.

"What about you? Do you like him for the same reason?" Xenovia asks Yoko.

"No, before I joined Nathan I lived on an Island called the Horseshoe Islands. It was ruled by people who half man and half beast. They suppressed and controlled us humans with fear and giant machines called gunman. I was part of the resistance group. Things started turning in our favor when, when we met Kamina and Simon. With their help, things finally started to look up. I started falling in love with kamina. we fought a battle where we got a giant gunman called the Dai-Gurren, but at the cost of kamina's life . shortly after that Nathan, Akane and, Mizore and helped win our war. Simon key to winning the war and Kamina believed in him when no one else did. Nathan reminds me a lot of Kamina. So I guess, the reason I love him is because When I look at him I see kamina. That and I also got killed by a beastman but, he used the power of his evil pieces to br9ing me back to life. I owe him everything for saving me."

With Tayuya and Temari

" Look there is a bar, Blondie. " Tayuya says pointing a sign for a bar called Blueno's. They walk in and see a girl with a long nose and Square shaped hairdo. running the bar. Tayuya runs to the bar and yells. " Hey box head! Gimme the strongest sake you got!"

Temari comes walking up to the bar and sits down. " Tayuya, be nice! Bartender I would like a shot of sake"

The bartender pulls a bottle of sake from behind the counter and pours both of them a glass. " Please don't call me bartender, I'm kiwi, I run this bar with my twin sister Mozu. However she is out stocking up on supplies to make drinks. "

"Thank you kiwi." Temari says as she takes the glass. "So Tayuya, did ever think your life would take this kinda of turn? "

"What do you mean, Blondie?"

"I mean when you became a ninja. Did you ever think you would eventually become a demon pirate!"

" Not really, but I didn't become a ninja in the same way you did. You went to your village's ninja academy, I didn't. I come from a small ninja village, not one of those bigger ones. That Snake bastard raided my village, and killed my family. I was only about 7 at the time. That was probably the only good that bastard ever do for me. They hated me because I had inherited a rare kekkei genkai that had not been seen in generations. That is my ability to summon and control my Dokai. One night I overheard my parents talking about killing me, only for Orochimaru to attack a few hours later. He killed most of my village. I tried desperately to defend myself with my dokai, but I found that I couldn't control them. the snake bastard found my powers useful and kidnapped me. At first I thought he was a nice guy for killing my parents and getting me away from that awful Village, but then I found out how wrong I was. I realized what a monster he truly was. He threw me and a bunch of other kids into a room and told us to fight to the death. Eventually only the other sound four members and I remained. He gave us each that Bloody curse mark to control us. I served him because I had no other choice, or at least I thought. After serving him for about 7 years, Nathan showed up out of the blue and saved me, and I can never forget the debt I owe him for that."

Tayuya finishes her third glass of sake as she finishes her story.

With Levy and Akane

" So levy what kind of books do you like reading? I've never really bothered to ask."

"I pretty much read anything, though I'm kind of partial romantic novels. Most girls who read them and fantasize about hot guys sweeping them off their feet. But I don't I already have my Prince Charming."

"You mean Gajeel, I really wouldn't call him charming, no offense."

"Well yea, he may seem kinda rough around the edges, but he really is a nice sweet guy when get to know him. You know how I met him. The first time we met he tried to kill me."

"He tried to kill you?"

"Yes, before he joined Fairy Tail he used to be in a rival Guild called Phantom Lord. They declared war against Fairy Tail, destroyed our Guild Hall, and attacked Jett, Dory, and myself. After we beat Phantom Lord, Master invited Gajeel and Juvia to join Fairy Tail. The thought of him being in Fairy Tail scared me a bit, but I trusted Master's judgement. A few months after that, Master Makarov decided it was time to hold the S rank competition. Gajeel volunteered to be my partner, although I know it was only just to fight Natsu. After the competition, and all the events that followed, Gajeel and I started growing closer. I think when I died fighting Captain Kasu, it made Gajeel realize how much cares actually for me. But anyways sorry I got a little sidetracked there with my story. What do you like to read Akane?"

" Mainly stuff about but Adventures across distant lands, and history stuff. I loved all of my father's books on history. I kind of want to discover what happened in the void century. A period in history where there is literally no record of it existing. Before the void century the world government did not exist. Then after void century, 20 kingdoms came together and became the world government. The only record of what happened is written on the poneglyphs and the government made it illegal to read them. Not only that but they are written in long dead language. The government even wiped out an island in the West Blue called Ohara because archaeologists that lived there were researching them. The only known survivor of that Island is that Nico Robin, the strawhat that we met back Whistling Rock."

With Nathan and Mizore

" So, where would you like to go, my queen?" Nathan asks.

"Well, first the candy store and then I want to go get some ice cream." Mizore replies as she grabs Nathan's arm with both hands and snuggles close. Nathan could feel her body temperature as she grew closer. Her body felt cold against his.

"As you wish my lady." he says as they start walking to the candy store.

When they arrive Mizore, starts running around the store, she stops in the lollipop aisle, and stares in awe. She grabs some bags and starts filling them up with lollipops of all different flavors. She come back with a couple of Ice dolls, they each had 5 bags in there hands, including the 5 she had for a total of 15 bags of lollipops.

"Ok, Nathan I'm ready to pay for my candy." Nathan just let sighs at the thought of how one girl could go through so much candy.

Nathan walks up to the cashier, as Mizore and her ice dolls place the bags on the counter. The cashier rings it all up, and says. " That will be 4,500 beli."

Nathan turns to his queen. " Mizore make the ice dolls fly the candy back to the ship and then I have them dismiss themselves." She nods and sends the dolls off as they leave the candy store. "Now let's go get that ice cream."

Mizore just makes a really big smile and latches back onto his arm. Nathan notices men and women staring at them. They people we're making comments about how cute they were.

"Mizore-chan, What flavor would you like?" Nathan asks as they find an ice cream shop.

"I want a double scoop of mint ice cream." Mizore replies.

The shop clerk grabs a cone and scoops her ice cream. " and what would you like sir?" she asks Nathan, as she hand Mizore her ice cream.

"Oh no, I'm good. I'm not really one for sweets, but Mizore wanted ice cream."

They leave the ice cream shop and continue to look around Water 7. The took in all the sights from scrap Island to the Galley-La shipyards. The eventually head back to the train station. When they arrive, they see the rest of the girls waiting for them.

"It's about time you guys showed up!" Yoko says rather loudly.

"Sorry Yoko, we lost track of time." Nathan replies.

"Yea, Sure!" Yoko says with a little a sarcastic emphasis on the word sure. "And what do you think you're doing holding on to Nathan's arm like that snow girl. "

She just pull an Ice kunai out from seemingly nowhere, and Chucks it at Yoko's head. "Watch it, sniper girl."

"Calm down girls!" Nathan says as he approaches the ticket booth." 8 tickets to St Poplar please."

The man in the ticket booth takes Nathan's money and hands him the tickets. " Your train should be here in about 20 minutes or so."

"Thank you, sir." Nathan replies.

After a bit of waiting the train pulls up into the station. Nathan and the girls get on the train oh, only to notice that they are missing Tayuya. "Girls where is Tayuya?"

"I thought she was right behind me." Says Temari."

"Did she get on the train?" The all look out They window to see her helping an old lady with her bags.

"Well, there she is, but why is she helping that lady? That seems a bit out of character for her. " Says Levy

"I don't know why, but she has been acting a bit like this since we left the bar." Temari replies.

"The bar? How much did she drink?" Asks Akane.

"I lost count." Replies Temari.

As she says that Tuyuya walks followed by the lady. She was carrying three bags of stuff with her. Tayuya sets it down on one of the seats. "Thank very, much young lady."

"Your welcome ma'am, it was my pleasure. " Tayuya says as Nathan and the rest of the girls stare at her in utter shock. She turns to them and says "Sorry but that lady looked like she help. "

"OH MY GOD! Tayuya is a drunken Tsundere!" Says Yoko.

"Didn't see that one coming." says Xenovia as Yoko, Mizore, and Akane snicker at the sudden revelation. As they continue to laugh at Tayuya, everyone takes their seats. The train whistle blows, as the train starts moving.