Ch.5: Marines and a Slave Stuck in a Cave
Disclaimer- One Piece isn't mine…and I've come to the conclusion that I own none of the characters of this story except Emily.
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2nd sun, 21st day of Pearl Roses
(Monday, June 21)
I had a nightmare last night. A man and a woman holding each other's hands, were running from a large forest. From behind them, a large group of people were screaming at them to come back, but the man and woman kept running. Then everything turned black. Not too long afterwards, the man and woman were in a cabin, their new home I think. They had a little boy with them, looking into a cradle. They were happy…until a large group of people with weapons entered and screaming came…
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Emily woke up with a gasp and sat up in her hammock. The nightmare she just had really scared her, almost as bad as some of the memories of her past did. She was breathing really hard, trying to forget the dream she just had. Emily looked around the room, checking the time and if she woke up Nami and Robin. It was 4am, the sun was not rising, and Robin and Nami were soundly sleeping.
Emily laid back in her bed and tried to get back to sleep, but couldn't. The nightmare had completely woken her up, preventing her from sleeping. She stepped out of her hammock and changed quickly into a pair of clothes before leaving for the deck. The sea air would probably calm her down. She tiptoed across the boards of the ship as quickly and quietly as she possibly cold to avoid waking anyone else up.
The door to the entrance of the ship slowly opened and creaked. Quickly, Emily stepped outside and closed the door to avoid the cold night air entering the ship. She softly walked to the side of the ship and stared into the sea.
The tranquil waves of the sea softly beat and rocked the ship and the cold air chilled her cheeks and that's what she used to fall asleep to when she was younger, but it just wouldn't work. The nightmare kept playing in her head.
"What are you doing out here?" A voice from the crow's nest called out to her.
Emily jumped and stared at the crow's nest. She didn't say anything.
Zoro looked down at her, "Couldn't sleep?"
Emily shook her head and answered, "No. I had a nightmare and thought that the sea would help get me sleepy."
Zoro didn't say anything after that and Emily continued to stare off into the wide, open sea.
She stared for two hours at the waves and didn't get tired. The sun was now starting to rise, but she couldn't get to sleep. Umiryuu came up to the surface and talked to her for a while, but still she couldn't get to sleep. Of course she didn't really want to now for everyone would have to be waking soon for breakfast and work. And Emily would only be given two hours at the most to sleep.
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At 7:00, Nami opened her eyes and looked around the room.
Robin was still sleeping and Emily was nowhere to be found. It didn't really bother her, though. Emily was not her responsibility and the girl would have nowhere off the ship to run to. Not like she would have wanted to anyway, Nami would tell and so could the rest of the crew.
A delicious smell from the kitchen found its way around the ship.
Nami quickly dressed and woke up Robin for breakfast. Within twenty minutes, the entire Straw Hat Pirates were seated at the table in the lounge eating the breakfast that Sanji had prepared.
"Hey, Nami? Are we nearby a town?" Luffy asked with a full mouth.
Nami put a disgusted look on her face and replied, "No. But we are three days away from an island that doesn't seem to have a name."
Luffy swallowed his food, "Then let's go to the island!"
"What?" Nami asked.
"I wanna go to the island! I wanna go on an adventure!" Luffy announced.
Nami let out a long sigh, "All right. We'll go to the island." She really didn't feel like arguing so early in the morning.
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"Well, Ryan. We're getting some new recruits on this boat from boat 88213." Tashigi told her sullen cousin.
Ryan didn't say anything. He'd been bummed out since Emily was set free almost a month ago, but he promised himself that he would get her.
Tashigi heard the sound of boat 88213 come by to drop off the recruits, two of them, and dragged Ryan up to the deck.
A large smile formed on Ryan's face when he saw the recruits, his two best friends.
"Here are your new recruits: Himura Kim and Uchiha Kelly." The captain of the boat said to Smoker.
The girls immediately walked over to Ryan and started talking of what happened since they'd been separated from him.
"You're not going to believe this", Ryan told his friends.
"What?" Kim and Kelly asked excitedly.
"I captured my first pirate." Ryan said smiling.
Kim and Kelly both squealed in joy.
"Oh my gosh! Where is the pirate? Is it here?" Kim asked.
Ryan frowned, "No. My cousin didn't believe that she was a real pirate and let her go." He didn't mention that it was a month ago.
Kelly looked at Ryan, "Don't worry about it. We'll help you capture her."
"After all, we are your best friends." Kim finished.
Ryan smiled, "Thanks. That really cheers me up."
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"Umiryuu, have you ever heard of the Almani?" Emily asked the sea dragon, who was following the ship. She read the book she bought in Nanahana, but didn't know very much about them. She didn't know why, but ever since Ryan told her about the Almani, she had to know more about them.
"I haven't heard of them," Umiryuu answered.
"Oh." Emily mumbled.
"Because I've seen and talked to them." Umiryuu told her.
Emily's eyes widened, "You did? What did they look like?"
"Last time I saw them, a small group was flying around on angel wings freely and with smiles." Umiryuu said.
Emily looked confused, "Wait, I thought they weren't allowed to leave the forest."
"They weren't." Umiryuu told her, "I used to enter the forest through a river in it connecting to the sea. It was blocked off 15 years ago when the Almani were eliminated."
Emily didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say to him. There were so many questions that plagued her mind about the Almani, almost too many. She didn't have time to ask him one of the questions.
Umiryuu told her that he had to go then disappeared into the sea before she had the chance to ask him one of her questions.
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A woman sat at a desk, her hand on a large orb. "Is there any living Almani in the world?" She asked in her head. The woman lifted her hand and the orb glowed a deep green. "I knew it! I knew there was another alive! Now all I have to do is find it." The woman cried out. In her head, she was disappointed. Her orb that she used would only answer yes or no questions with colors and nothing else.
Shaking and screaming came from outside of the room. The woman put her hands on the orb to avoid it from crashing to the ground. The door busted open and two girls ran into the room screaming.
"Mother! Tell Sabrina to give me the magic mirror!" The younger screamed.
"Forget it! You spent two days looking into it at your fat body. I deserve the chance to look into it." The elder screamed at her sister.
A vein started to pop on the woman's head as she yelled at them, "Lyssa! Sabrina! Stop it! Just give me the damn mirror!"
"But Mother…" the girls whined.
The items all over her room started going berserk. Bottles exploded, bookshelves shook, and cards and papers flew violently around the room. The girls shook, but gave their mother the mirror. Then they left the room for their own.
The woman looked into the mirror and saw a beautiful woman with silky brown curls and sparkling hazel eyes. Her face was smooth and her lips were cherry red. But that picture was a lie. That was the mother, but it also wasn't. The magic mirror only showed the person who looked into it how they wanted to look. The real mother was extremely ugly with filthy, greasy brown and gray hair and dull hazel eyes. Her face was plagued with wrinkles and her lips were pale.
In the beginning, the woman looked exactly how she wanted to, but not anymore. In fact, not many people liked her since the beginning. The woman was psycho, greedy, and cruel and her two daughters (aged 17 and 19) were just as bad as she was. All their attitudes got worse since they all ate the Devil Fruits. The mother ate the Psycho Psycho Fruit, which matched her attitude and could cause anything she wanted to go psycho or berserk. The eldest, Sabrina, ate the Ugly Ugly Fruit, which could make anything around her become ugly. The youngest, Lyssa, ate the Fatass Fatass Fruit, which could have her gain extra layers of fat to block her from attacks, but she cold always shrink down to her original weight, which was 300 lbs.
The woman had been the one to destroy all the Almani that everyone knew about 15 years ago plus a few others three years later that very few knew about. All those years ago, she tried to steal the Almani secrets, but was unsuccessful. Yet, she was positive that at least one Almani was still living and now her special orb had proved that she was right. All she needed to do was capture that one Almani.
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7th sun, 26th day of pearl roses
(Saturday, June 26)
Our ship came to this large island two days ago. And after one day, our "adventure" started turning into a nightmare. And it's nothing like the nightmare I've been having for the past few days. No, this nightmare is scarier because it is real. The weather is so bad that we can'' take our ship out to sea. I hate to admit it, but I'm afraid of this island, everything on here scares me, but I can't leave…
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The Going Merry landed on the large island three days after Emily talked to Umiryuu about the Almani. The island was completely uninhabited with people. The only things on the island were animals and plants. The animals were dangerous ones, too. The only good thing about the island was that the lush green made the island look beautiful.
Within the first few hours of being in the forest, dangerous fights erupted between the pirates and the animals. It took a lot of energy and strength to take down one of the animals, and once one went down, another took its place. The crew was suddenly surrounded by the animals and had no choice but to run from them. Each crew member ran as fast as they possibly could, stopping look back and see if anyone was left behind.
Emily was the farthest behind. She was struggling to run, her hands were at her sides, and her face was covered in pain.
"Emily, run!" Zoro yelled at Emily as he saw the monsters running up to her.
Emily tried to go faster, but couldn't. The pain was just getting too bad. She couldn't stand it anymore. Before she could do anything else, she started to fall to the ground.
Zoro dashed to the falling slave and caught her in his arms before she hit the ground and started running towards the ship.
Emily whimpered and apologized for being so slow before she fell unconscious in her new master's arms.
Zoro quickly brought her into the Going Merry and gently put her on the couch in the lounge. "What happened? Why couldn't she run?" Zoro asked out loud.
Robin sighed and walked up to the unconscious girl, "Zoro, I think you should see this." She then quickly lifted up Emily's shirt to reveal the deep bruises, which got darker and larger and worse than last time.
"What the hell? How?" Zoro asked in shock.
Robin took a deep breath, "Nami and I found the bruises almost a month ago before we went to bed. Emily didn't tell us how she got such terrible bruises and begged us not to tell anyone about them."
"Besides, these bruises look worse than the last time I saw them." Nami included.
Zoro shook his head and muttered, "Emily…"
Chopper stood next to Zoro and started examining Emily's bruises with his hoof. After a minute, he shook his head.
"What's wrong with her?" Zoro asked the small reindeer.
"I have medicine to cure the bruises, but I also have to do an operation on her."
"An operation? Why?" Zoro asked.
Chopper looked at him, "I need to get a better look at her bruises and her sides. And to do that, I need to give her an operation." Zoro hesitated, but agreed.
Zoro lifted up the still unconscious Emily and carried her to her room. Usopp, Nami, Robin, and Chopper followed him. Usopp placed a table into the room and left. Nami and Robin covered the table with clean sheets and a pillow. Zoro softly put her onto the table and left the room, only returning to bring in a bowl of water and basket of clean rags, but left afterwards.
Chopper opened up his special doctor's bag and pulled out a shot full of anesthetic. He stuck the needle into her hand and released the anesthetic into her body. He didn't want her to wake up during the operation. He looked over at Nami and Robin and ordered them to hold her still in case her body started to move during the operation and cause him to do something wrong.
He then put the shot back in the bag and pulled out a small knife and made his first cut into the little girl's skin (Nami and Robin removed all of Emily's clothing but her underwear to make it easier for Chopper to get to the bruises). Only a tiny bit of blood came out, but he cleaned it with a clean rag. The first thing Chopper wanted to have a look at was Emily's ribs.
As he expected, there was definitely something wrong with them. Two of them were fractured. Gently, he took care of the fractured bones. His next objective was to check on her waist. To his surprise, every single bone along her waist was covered with bruises. It had been a while since he saw a bone bruised, but he knew what to do about it. He doused every bruise with one of the strongest medicines he had gently.
The next thing he did was stitch up the cuts he made in her quickly and carefully. He put some medicine and ice on the large bruises. After bandaging up her waist and ribs, he started putting his medicines away.
Nami and Robin put a loose pair of clothes on Emily and carefully placed her back on the table.
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It had been a whole day since Emily's operation before she awoke from her deep sleep. She started to sit up and only felt a tiny bit of pain, but was pushed back to her table.
"Careful, you need to rest for a few more days." Zoro said with her hand on her shoulder,
"How did you get such deep bruises?" Emily blushed, "I got the minor injuries from one of my later masters for trying escape. My really bad ones came when his sons beat me with metal rods."
Zoro didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say.
She seemed to have gone through a lot of pain and suffering, both physical and emotional, in her life…and she was only twelve.
The door to the bedroom suddenly opened and in the doorway stood both Sanji and Chopper. Sanji was holding a tray of food. Chopper came up to Emily and gently pressed his hoof on one of Emily's bruises, "Does this hurt?"
Emily winced, "A little."
Chopper quickly undid her bandages and gasped. Almost every bruise was gone and the ones that were left weren't deep at all and would heal within a day. There was something weird about her. With his medicines alone, it would take a week to completely heal the bruises. Chopper looked at Emily, "You will be able to move around by tomorrow, but until then…don't try to move around." Then he left.
Sanji walked up to the small girl and placed the tray on her legs and helped her sit up.
Her eyes widened and a smile formed on her face when she saw all the food in front of her. She timidly picked up a fork and started to eat what lay on the tray. She finished eating and Sanji brought the tray back to the kitchen after whispering in Emily's ear, "Don't say anything to upset Nami-san."
Emily was confused. 'What does he mean?'
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Ryan, Kim, and Kelly were standing on the Marine's ship practicing swordsmanship(Kim was better than Ryan and Kelly). The sea was calm, the air was calm, but the sky was a bit cloudy. They brought the swords down in front of them one final time before a huge gust of wind knocked them back. They stood up and looked around them. The air and sea were no longer quiet, waves were jerking the ship around, and the sky was covered with darkening clouds.
Smoker and Tashigi ran up to the three of them.
"Glory! Himura! Uchiha! Get inside NOW!" Smoker yelled.
The three of them didn't need to be told twice for they knew what happened if you refused to follow Smoker's orders. The three of them sat in Kim and Kelly's room, grabbing hold of the bedposts to avoid being thrown around the room.
They heard the yelling from the top of the deck as the older marines struggled to keep the boat afloat. Rain was heavily falling on top of the ship and thunder was roaring from outside. One large wave smacked against the floor of Kim and Kelly's room and opened up a hole. The girls screamed and pushed their hands against the hole to block out the water. Ryan joined them.
The water stopped flowing when the ship landed with a thud on the uninhabited island. The yelling form the deck stopped and Kim and Kelly's bedroom door opened. In the doorway stood Tashigi and Smoker. Their hair and clothes were completely soaked form the rain.
"What happened?" Ryan asked his cousin.
Tashigi sighed, "Because of the weather, we're stuck on this island."
Kim, Kelly, and Ryan groaned. How could things get any worse?
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A crashing sound came from the sky followed by heavy drops of water, even though the water had been going all day. A strike of thunder struck and tree nearby the Going Merry. The tree collapsed onto the ship, making a huge hole in the side…and Emily didn't even know about it. She at first thought the sudden crash was just Luffy running around the kitchen, so she didn't bother to ask and nobody told her of what happened to the ship or that they'd be stuck on this horrible island.
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The mother was sitting in her room, reading a large book when the door opened. She looked up in annoyance and saw one of her workers, "Yes, what is it?"
"Lady Pam," the worker said, "This package just came for you." He thrusted the package into the woman's hands and left the room, afraid that she may use her powers on him. She had done it before.
The door closed and Pam opened the package in her lap. Her eyes widened. Inside the package was a glass ball the size of a soccer ball. She grabbed the ball and stand and brought it to her desk. She put her hands on the ball and chanted, "Oh, spirit of this glass ball. Awaken and answer my call." The ball glowed yellow and the face of a dark haired boy with brown eyes appeared.
"Spirit, what is your name?" Pam asked.
"My name is Mark," the boy answered, "Is there something you need, Pam?"
"Do you know everything that goes on?" Pam asked.
"I do."
"What things that will happen?"
"I do not see the future."
"Do you know about the final living Almani?"
"I do."
"Are they old?"
"No."
"Young?"
"Very."
"How many are left?"
"Just one."
"Describe it."
"The final Almani is a little girl the age of 12. Her hair is emerald green and just an inch or so past her shoulders. Her eyes are blue-green. She has lived a very cruel life and knows nothing about who she is."
"Wait, 12 years old? How could I have missed her 12 years ago?"
"You did indeed go to her home 12 years ago to kill her family, but you failed to look inside the cradle that held a sleeping baby, who was rescued by pirates after you left."
"Dammit! How could I have missed her? No matter. Ow I know what she looks like. You make go now, Mark."
Mark sighed and his face disappeared. Pam smirked. With that new glass ball, it was going to be a lot easier to capture that final Almani.
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The sun rose and a new day for the two ships on the uninhabited island. The weather was perfect, but none of the two ships on the island could leave. On the Marine's boat, two strikes of thunder were made into it, but luckily the boat still floated and nobody was hurt.
There really wasn't anything for Kim, Kelly, and Ryan to do since they were pretty much limited to what they COULD do and all the adults were fixing the ship. So they got permission from Tashigi and Smoker to take a walk on the island…as long as they brought their swords with them and didn't wander too far from the ship. The three of them agreed, grabbed their swords, and ran onto the island, unaware of the dangers upon it.
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For the first time in three days, Emily was able to stand on her own feet and walk around without feeling any pain at all. She lifted up her shirt a little and noticed that every single bruise she had along her waist and ribs were gone. She changed out of the clothes that Nami and Robin put her in after the operation and walked to the lounge.
Nami was sitting at the table with a sulk pasted on her face. She told Emily that she was happy that the small girl recovered after her operation.
Emily thanked her and left the room to avoid getting Nami even more upset. Emily walked upon the deck and saw Zoro staring at the island, which now seemed empty. She joined him for a while, but found just sitting around boring.
"Master Zoro?" Emily asked her master.
"Yeah?" Zoro now turned his attention to Emily.
"May I go wandering around the island?" Emily asked him.
Zoro paused. She had just recovered from an operation, "Welll…" He looked at her eyes, which seemed to sparkle and look pathetic and he just couldn't say no, "Okay. Just bring your boomerang with you and come back to the ship soon."
Emily threw her arms around Zoro crying out, "Thank you!" She ran to her room and took her boomerang out of its case. With a piece of clothing, she tied her boomerang to her body like a purse along her back. She waved good-bye to Zoro and ran off to the island without any pain at all.
"Man, what's wrong with me? Why am I being so nice to someone?" Zoro muttered before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
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Ryan, Kim, and Kelly ran through the forest of the island and stared in amazement. The trees and bushes were bearing fruit they'd never seen before and strange but beautiful flowers were blooming alongside the trees. None of them were touched, though. Not one of the three marines were sure if any of the plants were poisonous.
"I wonder if any people live on this island." Kelly said out loud.
Ryan shrugged, "I don't know."
"By the looks of it," Kim said, "I don't think anybody lives on this island. All the plants are overgrown and I'm positive that somebody would have chopped some of the trees if they lived here."
"Yeah, you're right." Ryan told her. The 3 kept walking.
Emily was not far from Kim, Kelly, and Ryan. She stared in amazement at the trees, bushes, and plants that grew around her. Not even when she was in the traveling circus had she seen such amazing plants. She felt the urge to just reach up to a flower and touch its petals, but stopped herself to avoid accidentally getting poisoned. She was so fascinated that she forgot that she was getting farther and farther from the Going Merry. Raindrops started to fall, but she ignored it.
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The rain was falling harder on Kim, Kelly, and Ryan, making the ground underneath them wet and muddy.
"Maybe we should go back." Kelly said to her friends.
Ryan and Kim nodded. They turned around at the same time and managed to get their feet stuck in the mud. Kim was the first to free her feet, but fell backwards into a large hole just a few feet away from her and let out a scream.
"Kim!" Ryan and Kelly screamed. They removed their feet, but fell down the hole like Kim.
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A loud scream filled the forest followed by two others screaming, "Kim!" The water was already up to Emily's ankles and Zoro would yell at her if she didn't go back to the ship, but she couldn't leave these people alone. She ran towards the hold and looked down. She saw two dark haired girls and a blonde boy on the side of the hole, grabbing and holding onto a root for dear life. The rain water was splashing on their faces, trying to knock them off.
Kelly looked up at the figure looking down the hole, "Please help us! I don't know how much longer we can hold on!"
Emily nodded and looked around for something, anything to help them. A long, strong vine on a tree caught her eye. Emily grabbed and pulled on the vine until it was no longer connected to the tree. The water was now up to her knees.
Emily ran to the hole and held one side of the vine and brought the other down the hole, "Someone grab this and I'll pull you up!"
Kim grabbed the vine and Emily pulled her up. On the second time Kelly was pulled up. Emily needed Kim and Kelly's help to pull Ryan up, but they did it.
By the time Ryan was pulled up, the water was almost up to Emily's chest. There would be no way for any of them to get to their boats.
Ryan noticed a dry, empty cave by them and pointed, "Over there! Hurry!"
The girls nodded and followed him inside the cave. With the little light they had in the cave, Kim, Kelly, Ryan, and Emily managed to build a circle of rocks, put dry branches and twigs from inside the cave to the inside of the circle and lit them with the flint Ryan had in his pocket.
"Nice to see you again, Pirate." Ryan smirked.
Emily sighed, "I'm sorry for making a fool out of you in Nanahana, Ryan."
Kim looked at Ryan, "Wait, so this is the girl you told us about? Man, she's tiny."
"Don't rub it in." Emily muttered.
"So you're the pirate that none of the other Marines believed that you were a pirate?" Kelly asked. Emily slowly nodded her head.
Immediately, Kim, Kelly, and Ryan took out their swords and started to walk towards her. Quickly, Emily took out her boomerang and held it in attack position. "Prepare to die, Pirate!" Ryan said to Emily, "The three of us have been fighting with swords for three years."
Emily stared at him, "I've mastered the boomerang when I was eight years old. And what gives you the right to act like that after I saved your lives?"
Ryan put away his sword, "Fine. Whatever." Kim, Kelly, and Emily put their weapons away.
"How long are we going to be stuck here?" Kelly asked the small group.
Kim shrugged, "I don't know. It looks like the water isn't going down. So it may be another day or so."
Ryan, Kelly, and Emily groaned. Kim, being the cheerful one, piped up, "Well, as long as we're here together, we might as well get used to each other."
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"Did Kim, Kelly, and Ryan come back yet?" Tashigi asked a nearby Marine.
The Marine shook his head, "I didn't see them come back…or leave for that matter." Worry struck Tashigi right in the face. Those three were just kids and the water had risen greatly. Smoker wouldn't let any Marine leave the ship, so all Tashigi could do was hope that the three were all right.
- -
"Hey, did any of you see Emily return?" Zoro asked the rest of the crew, excluding Emily.
"Return?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, I let her walk on the island a few hours ago." Zoro answered. Nobody said anything. "So, nobody saw her on the ship aside from this morning?" Zoro asked. Everyone shook their heads. "Dammit!" He yelled. With this depth of water, he couldn't possibly walk around in it.
Luffy put a hand on Zoro's shoulder, "Don't worry. I'm sure Emily's fine."
Zoro looked at his captain, "I hope so.
- - -
"I'm Glory Ryan, aged thirteen. My hometown is Okuhaabaa, where I live with my parents and little brother. My best friends are Kim and Kelly. I love to draw and I also love weapons." Ryan announced.
Kim took a deep breath, "I'm Himura Kim, aged twelve. My hometown is Okuhaabaa, where I live with my parents and older brother. My best friends are Ryan and Kelly. I love swordfighting and making others smile."
It was Kelly's turn next, "I'm Uchiha Kelly, aged twelve. My hometown is Okuhaabaa, where my parents and little sister live. My best friends are Kim and Ryan. I love reading and being with my friends."
Now it was Emily's turn, "My name is Emerald Emily, aged twelve. I don't have a hometown, but I have two sisters living in Yokuna. My best friends are Morimura Misao and Umiryuu. I love playing my flute and green apples."
"Wait, you don't have a hometown?" Kim asked Emily.
Emily shook her head. Even if she did have one, she didn't know where it was.
"Oh well. The way you travel, it's no wonder you don't have a hometown." Kim said.
Ryan looked out the cave entrance. Water fell down the entrance like a waterfall, "It seems to be getting worse. I wonder if the other Marines are worried about us."
"I hope that Master Zoro won't leave me here." Emily said softly.
"Wait…" Kelly started. Kim, Kelly, and Ryan started laughing hysterically.
"What's wrong?" Emily asked.
Ryan caught his breath, " 'Master Zoro'? You're not a pirate, you're a slave!"
Emily blushed, "Yes I am."
"No wonder you don't have a hometown. Slaves never do." Ryan laughed.
Emily stood up in embarrassment and walked to the other side of the cave, away from the three Marines, but she didn't cry. The laughing eventually stopped and the three Marines felt guilty for laughing at Emily for being a slave.
"We want to apologize for making fun of you…" Kelly started.
"Even though you are a Pirate-slave." Ryan finished.
Emily looked into his eyes, "Thank you."
Yawns came out of the four mouths of the members of the cave. The four of them lay on the cold floor of the cave around the dying fire. Their eyelids grew heavy and they fell asleep shivering. The fire died and the cave became pitch black.
- -
Zoro looked up into the sky. It was now 9:00 and the water had finally stopped rising. The sky was dark and Emily hadn't returned.
"Five hours. It's been too long." Zoro muttered. He thought of how Luffy told him that Emily was okay, but now he really wasn't sure.
- -
"Is this her? Is this where she is?" a small voice asked.
"It has to be, Janelle. The king said that she's here and the one with the green hair." A second voice said.
"Then, who's the other ones with her?" Another voice, a deeper one asked.
"I have no clue, James." The second voice told the 3rd one, "But let's just take care of all of them."
"All right, Chelsea." James answered.
The three voices ran through the cave, waving their fingers, and making magic. In less than ten seconds, the fire was lit, blankets were covering the four kids, all their clothes were dry, and a pile of food was placed in front of them.
Emily's eyebrows twitched and she slowly opened her blue-green eyes. She saw the faces of two girls and a boy that weren't Kim, Kelly, and Ryan. The three faces gasped and disappeared.
Emily fully opened her eyes and they quickly widened. The cave was warm, she was dry, and there was food in front of her to calm her hunger. She stood up and shook Kim, Kelly, and Ryan, "Wake up!"
The three Marines obeyed her and stared wide-eyed at the things around them.
"What?" Kim asked.
Emily shrugged, "I don't know. I saw three figures in here, but then they disappeared."
"Wow…" Kelly exclaimed.
"Hey, the rain stopped. Maybe the water will go down." Ryan shouted. His stomach grumbled, "But…since we're stuck here, how about we eat this food before it spoils." The girls agreed and ate their food.
"Hey Emily, although you are a pirate-slave, do you wanna be my friend?" Kim asked.
"Mine too?" Kelly added.
Emily nodded, "Just don't try to arrest me."
"Deal." Kim and Kelly agreed and shook hands with Emily. Another yawn escaped the four figures' mouths and they fell asleep under their blankets and around the fire that hadn't gone out.
In the morning, the fire had gone out and the cave was cold. Ryan was the first to wake up. He stepped over the three sleeping girls and looked out the entrance of the cave and gasped. All the water was gone and the ground was dry. He ran and woke the three girls up and drug them to the entrance. "Should we go back to our ships?" Ryan asked the girls. Kim, Kelly, and Emily nodded.
Kim, Kelly, Ryan, and Emily folded up their blankets and stepped out of the cave. They said a final good-bye calling each other either "Pirate-slave" or "Marine". Kim, Kelly, and Ryan walked passed the trees, bushes and plants they had the day before towards the Marine's boat. Ahead of them was Tashigi and Smoker, calling out the missing Marine's names.
"Tashigi! Over here!" Ryan called, running up to his cousin.
"Oh my God! Are you okay?" Tashigi asked.
"We're fine. We were just trapped in a cave." Kelly answered, walking back to the ship with the others.
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Emily walked the opposite direction of Kim, Kelly, and Ryan did. She walked towards the Going Merry, but didn't see any of the crew. At first she was afraid that the ship left and she'd be alone on this island. She saw a figure with three swords walking back to the ship. Next to the figure was another with a straw hat.
The straw hat figure put his hand on the other's shoulder's, "Maybe she's back at the ship, Zoro."
Emily ran up to the two figures and pulled on the hand of the three sworded figure. "Master Zoro?" Emily asked.
The figure turned around and embraced her, "Oh my God! I thought you were gone. Where were you?"
"I was trapped in a cave with three Marines." Emily answered with a smile.
Zoro let go of her and walked back to the Going Merry. Emily was three feet behind him. Luffy, on the other hand, was seven feet ahead of him yelling, "We found her!"
It only took a minute to get to the ship and the rest of the crew was surprised to see Emily alive. She was pushed into the kitchen and told her adventure of being stuck in the cave. When she finished, Nami had announcement to make, "The weather is good and the ship is repaired. We will leave the island shortly." Emily wanted to cheer. Although she did make new friends on the island, she wanted to leave…badly.
Emily walked to the orange trees and sat within them, on top of her blanket from the cave. She saw the anchor being pulled up and the island getting farther and farther from the ship until it could no longer be seen, and she was happy. The island weather was terrible and the animals were scary. Inside her head, she sang as she waited for the next town.
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A/N: Okay, that's this chapter. All these new characters I introduced were actual people from my life(friends and enemies). My sister helped me pick out these new Devil Fruits, so partial credit goes to Kurama's Girlfriend11. I wanted to give Kim, Kelly, and Ryan interesting last names, so I picked the last names of some of the main characters from "Rave Master", "Rurouni Kenshin", and "Naruto".
And about the bruised bones that Emily had…when I was in health for my Junior year in high school, my health teacher said something about being able to bruise your bones, but since it was a Friday, I didn't pay much attention to what he said about treating the bruises so I had to make something up. And one final note: Okuhaabaa is sort of a real town in Washington.
R/R please, but don't flame me.