Ch.12- Kidnapped
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, but Emily is and always will be mine even if for some reason, another writer or Eiichiro Oda decides to use her (but it isn't going to happen).
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3rd sun, 5th day of brown chrysanthemums
(Tuesday, November 5)
I spent all day playing my flute, trying to find the "Melody of the Seas", but I haven't been able to find it…although, I am happy to say that I HAVE made up three new songs since I first heard about the melody from my mother's diary. The pirates don't seem annoyed with my constant flute playing because I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Nicole doesn't mind, either. She's just waiting for Molly to come back.
Ever since Zoro had called me "Sis" nearly two weeks ago, I've been feeling a lot safer, like he'd protect me from anything…especially since I know that Pam wants to capture me to find the Almani secrets. I like it when he calls me "Sis", I really do. He acts like the older brother I don't remember. It's just like Aron is right here on the Going Merry with me…
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"Aren't you out of breath yet, Emily?" Nicole asked the emerald haired girl playing her flute.
Emily shook her head and kept playing. Emily had played her flute almost non-stop for five hours, desperately trying to find the "Melody of the Seas", but never did. She tried making classical music, jigs, and even lullabies on her flute, but it never did any good. Although they had some effects on the crew: Sanji and Nami danced alone to the classical music; Usopp, Luffy, and Chopper danced to the jigs; Luffy even fell asleep to the lullabies.
It had been nearly two weeks and Molly had not returned from Yokuna. Both Nicole and Emily were starting to worry. Nicole was afraid that something had happened to Molly. Molly had delivered letters from her mother in Wenatchee to her aunt in Newport, which was just as far as Yokuna was, and came back within a week. Emily was more worried about Misao. She'd written Misao a letter requesting something very special to beat Pam with. Now all she could do was wait for a response.
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On November 1, Molly had made it to Yokuna. The weather was terrible on the way and really slowed her down. But Molly was a loyal and reliable Mailing Cat and got the letter to the Morimura mansion. Misao was surprised to get a letter from her younger sister. She thought she'd never hear from Emily again, now that she was wanted. Misao led Molly to the parlor and let the little cat take a nap on a cushion by the fire and read Emily's letter out loud to herself and Haru:
Dear Misao,
Over the past few months of traveling on the sea with the pirates, I have encountered some good and bad news. For the good news, I have finally learned a bit about my parents: two runaways from the Almani forest(wherever that is). I even had a brother, seven years older, who was murdered along with my parents. I am the last Almani left in the world. Just a few months ago, the man that last bought me as a slave freed me and sort of adopted me as his younger sister(he calls me "Sis").
Now, for the bad news: because I am the final living Almani, I'm the only one that can unlock the Almani secrets. This psycho woman named Pam wants that power and is doing all that she can to capture me to use me for the secrets, and I fear that she will kill me when she gets them. Now, I have a request for you: I need to borrow your Dark Diamond bracelet.
This may shock you a bit, but our navigator was given the last Dark Diamond bracelet two months ago and now on the Going Merry, we have two and you got the final one. I know I may ask a lot, but now I'm more scared than I ever have been. In my past people wanted me only for my power; in the present, Pam is sending her servants to capture me; and without the 3rd bracelet to trap her, the future is going to become Hell on Earth with my power and Pam will be unstoppable.
You don't have to give me your bracelet, but if you do, I promise that I WILL return it to you as soon as I can.
Your beloved little sister and pirate,
Emerald Emily
P.S. I hope you like the circus carts I gave you.
Misao stared at the letter in shock. The sister she had known the longest, the one that gave her the first chance to be free, was asking for one of the most precious thing that had ever belonged to her.
"Are you going to give the bracelet to Emily?" Haru asked Misao.
Misao hesitated, but thought about what Emily's letter had said, "Without the 3rd bracelet to trap her, the future will become Hell on Earth…" Emily had never lied to her sisters before, so Misao believed it. She nodded.
Both Haru and Misao walked to Mama and Papa's cart and took four things out of the desk: a little black bag, a piece of paper, a pen, and a little bottle of ink.
Misao slipped her Dark Diamond bracelet off her wrist and placed it in the bag. With the rest of the items, she wrote a letter to her pirate sister.
Molly woke up not too much longer after the letter was written and placed in the same bag as the bracelet. She had the bag placed in her mouth and she left.
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It was now November 6, and Molly had finally returned to the Going Merry from Yokuna. Emily quickly thanked Molly and removed the bag from her mouth. Molly leapt into Nicole's open arms and rubbed her face against Nicole's, purring loudly. Emily opened the bag and took out Misao's Dark Diamond bracelet and smiled.
"You asked her for her Dark Diamond bracelet?" Zoro asked her. Emily nodded and read Misao's letter out loud:
Dear Emily,
You know that ever since we were little, it has been difficult for us to lie to each other and I won't lie now. I was very disappointed when you asked me for my bracelet and upset when I found out that Pam was coming after you because you're an Almani. But I remembered that you were always giving me things and never asking for things in return. So I made up my decision and will give you my Dark Diamond bracelet.
But please send me the bracelet back to me when you're finished using it. It's the only thing I have that can make me smile when I think of my poor father that was killed nine years ago. Oh, and I should tell you this: I found out the truth of my father's death. The man that accused him of murder all those years ago finally confessed that he did it, not my father. He confessed while visiting Yokuna, at one of Mr. and Mrs. Morimura's parties.
The man felt so guilty that after nine years, he just told everyone. He said he didn't want to get caught, so he accused a slave from a nearby plantation and naturally, that slave was my father. The man who accused my father never knew he had a daughter until five years later. At the party he said that he'd give everything he owned to the missing daughter.
I started to cry. I went up to the man and yelled at him, saying that he had no right to arrest an innocent man who happened to have a three-year-old daughter still alive and if he hadn't have killed my father, both you and me wouldn't have been in so much pain and had less beatings and slave trades. Needless to say, the man WAS arrested and he gave me the only thing that belonged to him: ten slaves.
I told Mr. and Mrs. Morimura that I wanted all slaves freed and let them live wherever they wished. Mr. and Mrs. Morimura agreed and helped me fill out papers to free the ten slaves I was given. Half left for different towns, but the others asked to work here at the mansion as servants so they could get their first paying job and can afford their own homes. Now the mansion has five new servants. I miss you so much, so please keep writing in your diary.
Your beloved older sister and artist,
Morimura Misao
P.S. Beat Pam twice as hard for me.
"Oh, Misao." Emily sighed. She turned around and handed Misao's bracelet to Zoro.
"What?" Zoro asked.
"I don't have enough power to use two of the bracelets at the same time, so I want you to have this one…until we have to return it to Misao." Emily explained.
Zoro nodded and put the bracelet on then looked at her again, "You said that she's your age, but older. How much older is Misao?"
"Oh, she's four days older than I am." Emily answered.
"Wow." Zoro said.
Nami smiled as if she looked up from the map in her hands, "Well, I have some good news. We should be in Wenatchee in a few hours."
Nicole jumped up with Molly in her arms, "Did you hear that, Molly? We're almost home. Soon we'll see Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, and Karen."
"Who's Karen?" Emily asked Nicole.
"Oh," Nicole answered, "She's my sister. She's a year younger than I am."
"Do you think your family will be able to help me learn more about the Almani?" Emily asked.
Nicole nodded, "Of course they will. You just wait!"
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The Marines had gotten to Wenatchee a few hours before the Straw Hat Pirates did. By now, all the physical injuries on Ryan had healed, but he felt bad inside about Emily: once a friend, now an enemy. But it didn't make much sense of why she attacked him so quickly. The Marines had tried over and over again to convince Ryan that it was all Emily's fault that he was injured so badly, but he had a feeling that they were wrong.
That feeling came from three figures that visited him as he recovered from his injuries: a man, a woman, and a little boy. None of the three were Marines, only came when Ryan was alone, and disappeared into thin air when one of the other Marines came. They were never seen all together, but the little boy was seen the most often…and the only one of the three that actually spoke.
The first time the figures came was just a day after Ryan awoke from his coma. Ryan opened his eyes and saw a little boy. The little boy was crying his eyes out and holding a red marker. "Who are you?" Ryan asked the crying boy. The little boy kept crying. "What's the matter?" Ryan asked.
The little boy didn't look at Ryan, but spoke through sobs, "My sister…why is everyone so mean to her? She didn't do anything wrong…"
Before Ryan could ask the little boy another question, the door to his room opened and the little boy vanished.
"Ryan? Are you okay?" Kim asked from the doorway.
"Yeah, we heard you talking." Kelly added form behind Kim.
"What happened to the little boy?" Ryan asked.
Kim and Kelly were confused, "What little boy?"
"There was a little boy with green hair in this room. He was crying." Ryan told his friends.
Even though they didn't believe him, it didn't stop the little boy from visiting. Every time he visited, he cried about his sister. He never said what his name was and always cried about how mean people were being to his sister.
Ryan talked to the other Marines about it, but they didn't believe him and suggested that he ignore the little boy and that the little boy would go away. That was a big mistake.
Ryan ignored the little boy and the boy began slamming drawers and shaking the bed. The crying got louder and almost turned to screaming. What's more, the second time Ryan ignored the little boy, the little boy went into a tantrum and threw Ryan's food at the other side of the room, books were hurled at the wall, the bowls with food were broken, and glass figurines were shattered.
The next day, a green haired woman came instead of the little boy. She was staring at the walls and disappeared. The day after that, a green haired man did the same thing the woman did.
The little boy returned two days later. He was crying loudly and drawing a picture on the wall with the markers from Ryan's desk. The picture on the wall looked exactly like Emily's cabin when it was aflame. Looking at both the little boy and the burning cabin, an idea of the little boy's identity came in his head as he thought of an earlier argument he had with Emily:
"This is my house. And now I want to know why you're in here."
"It is not your house!"
"This is so my house!"
"It is not! This place has been abandoned for twelve years!"
"I was born in this house and left when after my family died in it twelve years ago!"
"So, you lied to me. You aren't really twelve."
"Yes I am! I was a month old when my family died."
"Then, what is that paper in your left hand?"
"A map from my brother. My brother's name is Aron."
"Yeah, right."
"If you're going to keep on acting like this to me, then I want you to get out of my house!"
If Ryan's instincts were correct, which they usually were, this little boy was Emily's deceased brother, Aron. There was only one way to tell, "Aron?"
The little boy sniffed and turned his head. "A-are you m-mad at m-my s-sister?" Aron asked through sobs.
Ryan thought for a moment. If it wasn't for Emily, he would have been dead months ago on the uninhabited island when the rain came and knocked him and his friends down a hole and it most likely wasn't her fault that he was hurt, so he shook his head.
Aron was still crying, "Everybody was so mean to her. They beat her because she was special. She stood up for everyone else, but since she was a special slave, she got beaten even more. It's not fair!"
Ryan wanted to do something, anything, to help Aron stop crying. He tried patting Aron on the shoulder like he did to his little brother in Okuhaaba, but Ryan's hand went right through Aron. Aron then disappeared.
The man and woman came back a week later, frowning and shaking their heads at Aron's drawing. The man and woman closed their eyes and removed all of Aron's drawing from the wall. They then disappeared and didn't come back for a while. The last time Ryan had seen any of the figures was on the last week of his recovery. The man and woman were standing by a wall with Aron in his arms.
Aron was scared and spoke a final time, "A mean, old woman is trying to take away my sister. She wants to kill her. I know it. Please help my sister!"
Ryan nodded, "I will help Emily the best I can. Don't worry, I won't let any of my friends die."
For once, Aron stopped crying, "Thank you. I'm glad my sister has a good friend like you." Then he disappeared with the man and woman.
For the rest of the trip to Wenatchee, Ryan defended Emily like he promised Aron. When he got to Wenatchee, he insisted on looking for Emily.
"Are you crazy?" Kim shrieked.
"She almost killed you and you want to look for her?" Kelly asked.
Ryan nodded. The girls paused then said, "Then we'll come, too."
"Fine." Ryan answered.
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Nicole didn't waste a second getting off the Going Merry with Emily and Molly when the ship docked. Robin stayed on the ship while the rest of the crew followed Nicole to her house.
The house was average sized and sitting outside, on the deck, were two upset men, two somber women, and a frowning girl. All five of them smiled when they saw Nicole and embraced the girl.
When Nicole got free, she introduced the present Straw Hat Pirates to her parents, grandparents, and Karen. The five thanked the pirates for saving Nicole and bringing her home. They had searched around Wenatchee for two weeks and nearly assumed she ran away.
Nicole pulled Emily in front of her and announced to her family that she was the final living Almani in the world AND she wanted to learn the "Melody of the Seas". Only Nicole's grandparents seemed truly interested (Nicole explained earlier that her parents were busy finding out about the Uzumaki family history and Karen didn't care about the Almani).
Nicole's grandparents asked if Emily was part of royalty and Nicole said she wasn't.
Emily asked them if they knew anything about the "Melody of the Seas", but they didn't know anything other than Nicole's grandpa thinking that the eldest Almani princess was extremely close to finding it before she died. Emily also found out that the Almani forest was originally called "Almania". In Almania, an Almani's status was judged upon their powers, or what they could do, for instance:
Royalty: Controls all elements, has telekinesis, can shape shift, speak to animals and trees, boys have super strength, girls have super speed, and many more.
Nobles: Controls some elements, can speak to trees and most animals, can fly fast, can make anything built with their powers in just a mere few days or weeks, and a few more.
Average: Controls one element, maybe two, can speak to some animals, can fly sort of fast but has problems controlling the speed, makes really good art with powers in just a few hours, and some more.
Low: Controls no elements, can speak only to magical creatures(all Almani can speak to magical creatures) and other Almani, flies at average speed, and a few more.
The rest of the powers were secrets that only the Almani, especially royalty, knew, nobody else and Emily. Not even the fairies, nymphs, or the other magical creatures knew about them.
"Do you know anything else? Do you know where Almania is?" Emily asked.
Nicole's grandparents smiled and went into their house to get a map. The pirates and Nicole waited outside.
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Pam just walked out of a dungeon half filled with weak creatures. In her hands were three pendants. She walked to the main room and gave one pendant each to her daughters and kept one for herself. Pam, Lyssa, and Sabrina slipped on the rocket packs and floated up on the air. "And now, girls…to Wenatchee!" Pam called. Her daughters cheered and followed their mother to the city of Wenatchee.
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Pam, Lyssa, and Sabrina got to Wenatchee pretty quickly. By the time they landed on the ground, Nicole's grandparents were busy digging through chests, desks, and cupboards, trying to find the map to Almania.
"Hello, little Almani." Pam grinned at Emily, taking a step forward. Quickly, Emily pulled out her boomerang and put it together. Pam, Lyssa, and Sabrina kept walking towards Emily with their hands out and smirks on their faces.
"Get away from her!" Zoro yelled, standing in front of Emily.
"Yeah!" Luffy shouted, standing next to Zoro. Sanji and Chopper, now in human form, joined him.
"Haven't you ever heard the expression: Fighting solves nothing?" Pam asked peacefully. Nobody said anything. Pam's smirk got larger as she shouted, "Let's get 'em, girls!" In an instant, Pam, Lyssa, and Sabrina ran at the pirates.
"I'm getting dibs on the blonde and the red-head!" Sabrina shouted, dashing towards Sanji and Nami.
"Ugly Ugly face!" Sabrina shouted, pointing at the faces of Sanji and Nami. Instantly, their faces grew wrinkles and the skin changed color.
Nami screamed and Sanji yelled, "What the hell did you do to us?"
Sabrina smiled, "Oops, I forgot to tell you that I ate the Ugly Ugly Fruit. I can make anything become as ugly as I want."
Sanji tried getting closer to Sabrina, but the girl just made everything on him and Nami ugly. Every time that happened, both were too busy worrying about their looks that they failed to notice Sabrina taking some of the power from her pendant and punching both of them so hard that they fell unconscious. Then, she turned towards her younger sister in case she needed help.
Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper tried beating Lyssa, but every time they tossed something at her, she grew bigger and the layers of fat blocked the attacks.
"What the?" Luffy asked, seeing as her body received no scratches or bruises.
"I ate the Fastass Fatass Fruit. There is no way you'll defeat me!" Lyssa laughed. With some of the power in her pendant, she grew even bigger than before. She was so big that she looked like a giant just big enough to crush them with a foot. Instead of crushing them, though, she kicked Luffy so hard into Usopp and Chopper. They fell unconscious when they hit a wall.
Zoro was busy fighting Pam, who was throwing item after item at him. He was so busy with Pam that he failed to notice Lyssa and Sabrina sneaking up behind him, grabbing onto Emily.
Emily let out an ear piercing scream. The scream was so loud that Robin heard it from the Going Merry. Quickly, she put down the book she was reading and ran to Emily's aide, but Pam wasn't to be stopped.
With Pam's powers, she hurled large rocks at Robin and although she was able to dodge most of them, Robin was caught off guard when a huge rock half the size of her hit her in the back of the head, knocking her out.
Now, it was back to Zoro, who really was a challenge. She had no experience with sword-fighting so she used her powers to hurl swords that were outside for some reason, at Zoro.
Emily was having problems fighting off Lyssa and Sabrina. Lyssa had knocked off her boomerang and blocked off all the attacks aimed her herself and her sister. It all seemed hopeless for Emily…until she got help. Kim, Kelly, and Ryan ran in front of her, their swords in attack position.
"Y-you…" Emily stuttered.
"Get your boomerang!" Ryan demanded.
Emily obeyed him without thinking.
Nicole disappeared for a moment and came back holding a loaded pistol.
None of that stopped Lyssa and Sabrina. With the last of the stolen power, they broke the young Marine's swords and Nicole's pistol. They knocked Kim, Kelly, Ryan, and Nicole into each other and the stone walls in Wenatchee. They were not knocked unconscious, but the walls started to crumble and fell on top of the four of them and trapped them.
Pam noticed that Zoro was beginning to look exhausted, so she took the opportunity to throw a barrel of swords at him.
Zoro fell bleeding to the ground. He struggled to stand and protect Emily, but couldn't.
"Now, Almani. Time to come with me." Pam smiled. As quick as lightening, Pam scooped Emily up in her arms, "Now, Daughters. Let's go home."
"No! Let go of me!" Emily screamed, struggling to free herself. Pam wouldn't let go and started floating up in the air.
"Emily!" Zoro shouted, starting to stand.
"Zoro! Help!" Emily screamed from Pam.
Zoro's vision blurred and he started to lose consciousness, but called one final word, "Emily…" Then he was out and Emily was gone.
Zoro woke up hours later in a hospital bed covered in bandages. All of the Straw Hat Pirates were around his bed, all conscious and normal(the ugly effect on Nami and Sanji wore off when Sabrina left, so they looked normal). He was relieved for a second before he found out that one of the crew was missing.
"Oh my God! Are you all right? You almost bled to death!" Nicole screamed at Zoro from the doorway to the room.
Zoro looked around the room, "Where's Emily?"
The room grew silent until Nami spoke, "She's gone. Pam took her."
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A/N: And that's the end of that chapter. Sorry if I made everyone seem weak, but trust me in the next battle with Pam, Lyssa, and Sabrina, none of the pirates will be weak. Newport is another real town. It's in Oregon and it's actually pretty cool. My dad took me, my sister, and a few of her friends there for a trip and took us to "Ripley's Believe it or Not", which kicked ass. I based the thing with Ryan and Aron on a true ghost story that happened to a family in England that I read about in one of my books. I hope ya liked this chapter, so R/R if ya want, but don't flame me. I just go back to High Hell(High School) a few days ago, and I'm already upset enough about it.