Notes: Hi!
Okay, this is chapter two! Enjoy it, but first a few lines with my usual
waffle: I was really happy about your nice reviews.
(But almost everybody said something
about my 'confusing' grammar *snif* Is it so bad??!)
I won't stopp you longer from reading
the second chapter, so I'll finish now. Servus! (- For all
the German ones)
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Lonely Island
by Latrisha
CHAPTER TWO
"GO ON NOW!! Don't sleep at work!"
Akane's eyes were closed and she
was half asleep but she could hear the whip banging very well.
Slowly and little by little her
memories retourned. She wondered if everything had been just a crazy dream
but then she heard something which made her heart jump: The hissing of
the ocean!
"Oh my God!" she wispered. "I am
on a ship?"
She left her eyes closed and hoped
no-one would notice that she was awaken. But after half an hour it got
too boring so she decided to get up. Deep inside she hoped just to be at
the harbour or at the beach. She sat up, yawned loudly and streched her
arms. Or better, she tried to strech them. The problem was that they
were tied together, and also her feet. She noticed that she had slept on
a pile of ropes which hadn't been very comfortable.
Her drowsy eyes passed over a large
white sail which seemed to be as big as the whole sky.
"Damn!" Yes, it was definitively a ship. A really big ship, to be honish.
Disbelieving she watched how some sailors were scrubbing the large, wooden deck.
"Why do we have to clean this shit deck? Is that our ship?!" a weedy sailor complained.
"Do your work and be quiet! Do you want Captain Joe to hear you?"
Neither of them noticed that Akane was already awaken. When they were speaking, a third sailor appeared. "Oh, Mario, good that you're here. Help us to clean this damn deck or we'll never be ready."
Akane slipped down the ropes and
jumped quietly behind some barrels, which wasn't easy with her bonds. While
she did, she tried to open them, but they were too strong. Everything she
wore was her underwear and a much too large t-shirt. But it was not the
right moment to be outraged about that. 'Damn, damn, damn!!!' she thought
discouraged.
Suddenly she felt something tickling
her nose softly. "Oh no!"
*"HUTCHEEEE!" A loud sneeze made the sailors jump.
"That was a girl! I swear, that was a girl!" the weedy one said. "I'm sure! A girl!!!"
"Si,si. We are not deaf, boy!" the sailor called 'Mario' said annoyed. It was not to overhear that he was from Italy.
Akane sat behind her barrels and
didn't breath in fear of being discovered. Didn't the sailors know about
her? She must have been sleeping for hours on their ship and they didn't
even notice her?
It was very hot and Akane started
to feel grateful to the one who pulled off her warm clothes. 'Where on
earth am I?' she wondered.
"Okay, lets ask the captain if he knows something about a girl on the ship. If not, search for her and she is ours!" the weedy spoke again. Laughing nastily, he walked away.
"He is a little pervert, isn't he?" Mario asked carefully.
"He hasn't seen a women for years. I think he's just really, really happy."
Akane hadn't any succeed in
getting rid of her bonds. She was too interrested in the short conversation
of Mario and his sailor-friend.
As they finished and went on scrubbing,
Akane concentrated on her bonds again. If she just managed it to escape…
but that was a bit difficult if you see the fact that she was on a ship.
She decided to hide somewhere on
the aforementioned ship. It was the only chance not to end on an island.
Perhaps nobody found her until they reached land.
Okay, maybe that was a little far
away from the reallity but it was her only hope and she hold tightly on
it.
Slowly jumping she moved forward
until she reached the deck-rail.
Soon she noticed that it would have
been better to think more about her escape. She wasn't the only one on
this ship, and unfortunately the other sailors happened to be very happy
to find her.
A large, powerful man stared at
her as if she was an alien. And then, after a few minutes of realizing
what he saw there, he started grinning.
"What's your name, beautiful lady?" he asked. Then he tourned around and shouted at the others "Hey, look at what the Captain has brought with him!"
Twenty seconds later at least a dozen
pairs of eyes stared at her. "The Captain is too nice!" one said.
"You can say so." Another one agreed.
"St…stopp! I'm not a present from your Captain or something!" Akane interrupted stammering.
"Oh, the little girl can speak?!" the big one asked surprised. "I remember the last girl the Captain brought with him. - "
"You mean the cute Chinese who was deaf and dumb? After all we didn't have to muzzle her to get her on board." The sailors started laughing.
"GO AWAY!" Akane shrieked in horror. She could imagine very good what they had done with that girl.
"Don't be so arrogant." he said sweetly. "Come on, let me take your shirt. It's too hot to wear one."
Akanes only wish was to vomit up
at the moment. She had never heard something more disgusting than that.
Without these bonds she would have showed them with whom they were handling.
But with them she was more or less helpless.
She couldn't do anything as two
sailors came to hold her. Even as the large one started to stroke her legs
she had no chance to stop it.
But when he tried to kiss her she
had enough. She bit hardly into the hand of the sailor who tried to muzzle
her with his hands.
"PUT YOUR DIRTY HANDS AWAY!!!" she shrieked.
Her cry was to hear all over the
ship and she wasn't sure if that would help her. Helpless she tried to
roll away and to stand up. Unfotunately it didn't work. This was too much
for her.
Tears of fear filled her eyes.
"Eh! What do you do there?!" an angry
voice demanded. "Is that how to treat a lady?"
Mario and his friend had appeared
suddenly. "The Captain is about to come and to look what's going on here.
I don't think he's glad to see you guys bothering his little girl-friend."
The sailor gulped briefly. "His…his girl-friend?"
He looked down into Akane's eyes. "Please, Miss, please don't tell him. Take my apology. I'm more than sorry, really, Miss."
Akane didn't understand why she was the Captain's girl-friend, but at the moment this was surely better than being this monster's playgirl.
"I'll foregive you. But now go on working, you wretched idiot!" she said chilly.
Mario helped her to get rid of her bonds. Afterwards he said "Follow me.", and walked over the deck. He hold her hands to make sure that she wouldn't be able to run away. When they were alone, Akane couldn't help asking the good-looking guy why he had helped her.
"It's just, uhm…, I can't stand people who are misstreating young ladies.
"Then, where do you take me now? Won't the Captain do the same things like HE did?" Akane nodded backwards.
"Dunno. But it would be better for me to take you to the Captain because he knows that you're around here. He brought you on the ship. If I tried to hide you, he'd kill me."
"Oh." That was everything Akane was able to say.
Sulking she followed him along the
deck-rail and thought about a plan, which should of course be a little
more effectfull than the one she had before.
They reached an dark, old door and
Mario knocked carefully.
"It was nice to make your acquaintance.
Go in and try to survive. – Only a joke!" he whispered and chuckled a little.
"Very funny." Akane replied dryly.
From inside the small chamber, on whose door they had knocked, a voice
ordered the two of them to come in.
* * * * *
Ranma got up early that morning. It was the morning after his bath with Ryouga. In silence he dressed and ran down the stairs without washing himself before. It got really serious when he even left out breakfast.
"I go now!" he shouted and hoped that Kasumi had heard him.
He ran out of the house and kept on behaving strange. He even forgot to jump onto the fence. He seemed as if he was somewhere else, but he ran as fast as he could down the streets, exactly knowing were he wanted to go. Ryouga decided to start searching for Akane right after their bath, but before he left they made a little plan. Ranma wasn't sure if Ryouga had already found at least one of his aims.
Finally he reached the Ucchan. Ukyou was the first he had to talk to. He entered and was surprised to see that she was already awaken.
"Hi Ran-chan! What do you do here this early?"
Ranma gasped for breath but finally was able to speak again.
"Hi U-chan. Would you please help me and Ryouga to find Akane."
"She hasn't appeared yet?" Ukyou asked surprised. "Hmm, that's odd." She put her spatula on a table and thought for a while.
"I think I'm able to close for a short time. It's been little traffic here in the last few weeks."
"Thanks! We'll search in groups. You, Shampoo, if she can, Ryouga, Mousse, Kunou and me."
"Kunou? I didn't expect the situation to be that serious." Ukyou giggled. "Sorry!" she added realizing the fact that the situation was serious.
Ranma already wanted to go and ask
Shampoo to help them when Ukyou shouted:
"And, Ran-chan! Don't worry too
much. I can't imagine that she is already far away. We will find her."
She smiled softly as Ranma ran away.
"I'll see you later with the others."
Ukyou slowly walked back into her restaurant. 'Oh Ran-chan. Why do you love her so much? Would you search for me, too?'
After hanging out the CLOSED-sign,
she sat down on a chair sighing.
* * * * *
Meanwhile Ryouga went through a dark part of a forest with a map in his hand. He scratched his head, looked around and sighed. The huge trees didn't let much of the sun's light through their leaves.
"Where on earth am I?" he wondered. "Akane! I have to find you! My love will show me the way."
He tried to get through the dense undergrowth, soon realizing that it had no use. He mumbled some words which are better not mentioned here and climbed up a tree. Jumping over the knots he continued his journey. He already had a big scratch below his left eye, and his feet were hurting, but he simply had to find Kunou's house.
"Strange. There's no forest here on the map." Ryouga wondered whether he was right but he found the fitting explanation for that: "It's an older map. Perhaps the forest wasn't there before."
As the third knot crashed into his face he began to feel pity with Kunou. His school way was indeed very, very strenuous.
He went deeper and deeper into the forest. After a while he even got used to the huge mosquitos. They were as big as flying rats and he first wasn't sure if he could match them.
After a hours of searching he was nearly about to give up when he suddenly saw a little house in the middle of the forest.
"There it is!" he shouted happily
and jumped back on the ground. But in the moment he got in touch with the
ground, a large net caught him and pushed him up again. The net was tied
up on one of the trees and he dangled to and fro.
Dismayed he tried to get out.
"I doupt I can reach Kunou in time." he groaled angrily.
A bee as big as a plate passed by humming loudly. He was hanging up there for about twenty minutes when suddenly a male voice from below asked him gentle:
"Hey? What are you doing there?"
Ryouga had difficulty in looking down so he only shouted back: "Whadd'ya think I'm doing? I'm hanging in a trap and enjoy the view."
"Oh. Then I'll not longer disturb you."
Ryouga heard the steps go away. "Hey!
Come back, idiot! Will you please get me down!?"
After half an hour hard work, the boy had managed it to free Ryouga. Finally back on the ground, Ryouga looked at the his rescuer.
He needed a moment, but then he recognized him.
"Aren't you the boy with the three scratchs on his back? The one who loves Akane?!"
The boy seemed as if he wasn't very interested in what Ryouga said. But hearing the name 'Akane' he suddenly looked up and nearly jumped into Ryouga's face.
"AKANE?! Did you say Akane???"
"I knew that I know you from somewhere." Ryouga said proudly.
"My name is Shinnosuke**. Why are you here? And what's the matter with Akane?"
Ryouga imagined what would happen if Shinnosuke heard that Akane had disappeared. But wanting to find her as soon as possible Ryouga decided to tell Shinnosuke the truth and to ask him to help searching.
The two of them soon set off together. Shinnosuke was very outraged about Akanes disappearing and he decided to help Ryouga. Ryouga, who was proud of having found one of his aims, thought that it would perhaps be better not to let Shinnosuke know that his 'enemy', Ranma, was the 'leader' of the search. He doupted that Shinnosuke would be happy about this.
"I hope you find out of this damn forest. I won't, that's sure."
"Oh, you can trust me. But be careful,
there are a lot of traps here, and believe me, they're dangerouAAAAAAaaaahh!!!"
* * * * *
"Shampoo? Are you at home?"
Ranma knocked on the door carefully. He knew it was early in the morning, but he couldn't loose more time. He imagined what Shampoo would say. He was about to ask the girl who loved Ranma more than everything else on the earth if she might help him to find his fiancee.
'Hmmm. Perhaps Shampoo isn't the right person to ask.' he thought and turned around. In this moment Shampoos voice shrieked out of the door.
"Ranmaaa? You want to ask Shampoo for date?"
"Oh, Shampoo. Well, it's just… uhm, forget it, okay? I'll ask someone else."
Feeling a little stupid, Ranma walked away. Shampoo followed him. She wore her night shirt and she really looked good with it. But a strange expression showed up in her face. She didn't seem as lively as usual, more a kind of shy.
"Ranma tell Shampoo why he is unhappy?"
She smiled at him, but her eyes showed unhappiness.
"It's… Akane is gone and she's nowhere to find. I wanted to ask you if you want to help us searching, but if you don't want, you don't have – "
"Of course Shampoo help Airen. Shampoo do everything what Airen want."
She laughed briefly and tourned away. The strange expression on her face stayed.
"OK, this is …uhm… very nice of you." Ranma said baffled. "Then, uhm, go to the Ucchan! We meet there when we're complete. And… thanks."
When he was gone, a tear went down Shampoos cheek. "What did I do?" she asked herself.
Colongne was standing behind her,
extremely pleased, just saying: "You'll get him. He'll soon forget Akane,
and then you're the only one for him.
* * * * *
After about two hours they were ready.
Kunou, who was very dismayed when
he had heard that Akane hadn't reappeared yet, sat sniffling on one of
Ukyous chairs.
"Akane…sniff! Why did you leave me?…sniff… I love you and the pigtailed girl."
Shinnosuke had somehow managed it to find out of his forest (after stepping into nearly all of his own traps). He didn't recognize Ranma and Ranma didn't want to tell Shinnosuke who he was. The problem was soon forgotten. After all Shinnosuke wasn't there to make new friends but only to find Akane. Ryouga, Ukyou and Shampoo were sitting around Ranma, waiting for his plan.
"Okay, we're six. This isn't very much but we HAVE to find Akane. So we will search in groups. I'd say… Shinnosuke and Ryouga, you two stay together. Shinnosuke knows the forest, so go there."
Ranma heard Ryouga's sigh very well, but he didn't want to go with Shinnosuke either. He was a nice guy, but when Ranma and Shinnosuke first met it nearly ended in a disaster.
"Kunou...-"
"I go with this young lady." Kunou interrupted and pointed at Ukyou. "We are searching in the neighbour-villages."
"Okay, but please look for her in every house, every room, everywhere."
Shampoo hugged Ranma short and asked: "Where do Airen and Shampoo search?"
"We will go to the mountains."
"But where's Mousse?" Ukyou asked. "Didn't you tell me that you will ask him, too?"
Ranma grinned for a short moment. "Well, he won't be very useful with his bad eyes. But he also has a very important job. He just started with it."
As if that would have been the headword, Mousse entered gasping.
"I have them. And what shall I do now?"
A few mobilephones were put on the table.
"We have to stay in contact. Mousse will stay here and tell the others if one group found a hint of Akane. You simply have to phone him, clear?"
Ukyou rolled her eyes. "Ranma, you're looking too much TV."
But Kunou was very interrested in the mobiles. He played with them like a little baby.
"And now LET'S GO!"
"Aye aye, sir!" Ryouga said sarcastically. Then they set off, every group in a different direction.
'Akane, I'll find you. I swear, I'll search until I found you, and when it needs years!' Ranma thought, not noticing Shampoo, who was hanging at his arms, staring into his eyes.
'You are mine, Airen. Airen just
do not know yet.'
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*I'm really sorry but I don't know how to spell it in English when someone is sneezing. Perhaps you could tell me in your reviews…?
**This is the German name of him. Dunno what's his name in Japanese, I'm very sorry. Kunou for example is 'Kuno' in German, Ukyou is 'Ukyo'. There are a few more names which are changed a little.
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Thanks for reading this. Since
I started writing the story the dictionary got my best friend. But it happens
that there is one word in German and five or six for it in English. So
that's the reason if some words don't really fit. *it's not MY fault*
For all the ones who are learning
German in school: How about a German review? (Than I can make fun of your
Grammar! *shakes with evil laughters*)
