CHAPTER 28- Lonely Road
Chapter's Quote: "Keep on going to find the light, and you'll lose yourself in the dark."
As Morris glared at Rune who calmly returned it with a stare, Lock was smiling as her captain stood between Morris and her.
"Good old Rune always needs to save me. I really have to stop being so reckless." Lock happily thought as Rune turned his head until his face was facing her.
Rune grinned and quietly muttered. "You might wanna stand back."
Lock nodded and backed away a few feet and put her hands behind her.
Rune grinned as his cloak flowed in the wind. Rune raised a hand and the wind around his hand started to swirl.
"Fuuka Kobushi." Rune said and then jumped down and smashed his fist onto the ground.
Morris, Raymond and Bell all jumped back and gasped as they saw that Rune's fist had made a small crater.
Rune looked up and grinned. Lock continued to watch from the roof as she watched Rune fight.
"Heh, 15 years with him and I can still remember everything."
-Flashback-
Lock was walking through a busy market as she looked for things to steal.
She might have only been four, but she was already good at stealing from people.
She noticed a man who was sleeping and grinned. She walked by him casually and tried to grab their wallet.
Suddenly, the man's hand grabbed her arm and Lock gritted in pain.
She pulled her arm away and stared at the ice on it.
The man was Aokiji, and he wasn't very happy about being woken up.
"Little girl, stealing is bad. Now go, and I don't want to see anymore stealing."
Aokiji motioned for her to walk away. Lock nodded and turned to walk away.
"Hold it. First, give me back my wallet." Aokiji said and Lock grimaced.
Lock took his wallet and tossed it to him. "Thank you." Aokiji sat before returning to his nap.
Lock was rubbing her arm where the ice had been and muttered. "I should have just ran for it. Ow…"
Lock flinched in pain as she found a place where her arm had been frozen under the skin.
"Great, just great." Lock muttered bitterly. She walked by a group of people and looked as they put their wallets away.
Lock then sighed as she muttered again. "That would have been so easy."
She suddenly bumped into somebody and she said as sweetly as she could. "Sorry."
"It's okay." Lock froze as she recognized the voice. She glanced up to see Aokiji standing in front of her.
"Just be more careful next time." Aokiji said and then got on his bike and rode away.
"Jerk." Lock said and stuck her tongue out.
Lock walked away from the city and toward a small run-down house behind a hill.
She entered the house and curled up in the corner. "At least it's warm." Lock said with some sadness.
Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep. She felt something warm suddenly and opened her eyes to see that somebody had put a blanket over her.
Lock sat up and a note fell off her head. "Why was there a note on my head?" she asked herself as she read it.
"You'll freeze if you sleep like that." The note said. Lock smirked and curled up in the blanket.
Lock fell asleep again and quietly muttered. "Thank you whoever you are."
Lock was woken up again by something poking her on the cheek.
She opened one eye and looked into the face of a boy around her age.
"Ah!" Lock said and quickly sat up and faced the boy.
She noticed instantly that he looked terrible, and that his pitch black hair covered one of his eyes.
"Who are you?"
The boy just stared at Lock and said. "Do you like it?"
"What?"
"The blanket."
Lock suddenly realized that he was the one who gave her the blanket.
"Yes, I… thank you." Lock said and quickly blushed.
The boy didn't seem to notice the blush cause he sighed in relief and then grinned. "
That's good. I was hoping it'll help."
Lock stared back at the boy and tilted her head. "What do you mean?"
"I got that blanket a few days ago and I've been looking for you ever since."
Lock blushed again and the boy smiled. "You got it so you could give it to me?"
The boy nodded and Lock smiled. "Thank you."
Lock kissed him on the cheek, which caused him to blush. "It was nothing…"
Lock smiled and said. "My name's Lock, what's yours?"
The boy looked away and muttered. "Rune… Nico Rune."
Lock smiled and said. "It's nice to meet you, Rune-kun."
-End Of Flashback-
Lock smiled as she remembered her past and then focused on the fight below her.
You couldn't really call it a fight, it was more of an exercise for Rune.
A terrible exercise.
Morris was firing one of the soldier's pistol at Rune who just caught them, Raymond was slashing at Rune who simply kicked him in the head, and Bell was staying out of it cause her powers didn't do a thing to him.
Lock smiled and then jumped down next to Bell. "You're kinda useless, huh?" Lock asked smiling.
"Hmph, I'll show you useless." Bell said as she started to move the flute to her mouth.
"Too slow." Lock said and Bell crashed into a building as Lock's steel boot was where Bell's stomach had been.
"Told ya." Lock said and looked over as Rune quickly hit Raymond and Morris in the neck, and caused them to faint.
"That was boring." Rune whined and Lock smirked.
"Yeah it was." Lock walked over and put her arm around Rune's and smiled.
"I did my part, now they have to do theirs."
-At The Prison-
Two guards were standing by the door to the prison. One was leaning on his lance and yawned.
"This is so boring." He whined and the other one sternly glared at him.
"It doesn't matter. We must defend this prison from everyone. That is our job, remember?"
The other guard yawned and looked over with a bored look.
"Yeah, whatever. I just wish something happened."
"You're not cut out to be a guard then."
"I'd rather be out here than inside taking care of the prisoners." The lazy guard muttered.
"If you want excitement," a voice said from behind a building.
The guards perked up and raised their lances.
"Who are you!? Show yourself!"
The voice's owner raised a katana toward the guards and grinned.
The guards prepared to fight the person. "Heh." The person said and twitched his wrist so the blade swung down.
The guards' eyes widened as the katana glowed for a moment and a shockwave shot out and smashed into the guards.
The person grinned wider and walked toward the prison.
"Nice doing business with you."
A flash of purple hair showed in the sun before the person quickly entered the prison.
-B5 of Prison-
Luffy was still pondering the question Morris had given him when the building shook violently.
In the cell across from Luffy, Zoro yawned and opened his eyes.
"What's happening?" Luffy shrugged and Zoro went back to sleeping.
Sanji had managed to light a cigarette with help from his teeth.
((A/N: Never try to light a cigarette with your mouth alone, it'll probably hurt))
Usopp stood up with difficulty and went to the bars on his cell. "Is somebody coming to get us out?"
Sanji looked at Usopp and muttered. "Maybe…"
Roland just sat in his cell quietly while the building shook again.
Varen was sound asleep as Chopper weakly looked at the basement door.
Robin remained sitting as she calmly waited for something to happen.
Franky was trying his best to break through the steel covering him, but couldn't.
"Whoever it is better be coming to save us." Franky said as he tried to break the steel again.
Hehehe, who could be their savior? Find out next chapter! Ja ne!
