Chapter
Meanwhile, a young teenager was struck with a severe case of extreme boredom. There she was, standing with a group of other ladies as the drums began to play.
She sighed, internally of course to avoid a cross look from one of the other prim and proper ladies in the group they huddled in like penguins.
The banners were raised and everyone straightened them selves, Relena blowing air on her slightly flushed face with her feathered fan, courtesy of the Commodore. 'I don't want to be here…'
The ceremony lasted for what seemed ages, Commodore just having to do a spiffy sword routine to show off his skills. Ladies swooned in the crowds. Relena blanched under her fan, a stern look from one of the ladies to this. She forced a smile, making the woman gasp and turn away, her feather twisted the wrong way by Relena.
'Serves her right…' Relena snarled internally. 'Blasted heat…so hot…' She panted slightly, her head growing faint before she blinked the clear the haze growing in her head.
"Miss Relena…?" The now-official Commodore Marquise questioned, resting a hand gently on her forearm before pulling away. T wasn't right to touch a lady without her permission after all.
"Yes Commodore?" Relena said, mask now in place with barriers up. The mask she wore in front of everyone except Heero… she closed off her emotions, forcing a smile at the Commodore.
'Here it goes…' He prayed to himself silently, fingers crossed. Then he started, speaking to her lightly, the woman he found himself infatuated with.
"Commodore…" Relena said breathlessly after he said the words 'would you marry me?' "I can't breathe…"
Commodore flushed slightly, "Well…" He stuttered slightly, a blush creeping slightly along his slightly pale face.
"No…I can't breathe…" Relena gasped, Commodore still flustered, turned away from the teen and looking not at the cliff below but at the fortress he was standing on.
Then, Relena fainted from the heat, her body going limp and toppling over the cliff, dropping over twenty feet to the water's below, sharp rocks near the cliff's edge.
"Relena!" Commodore Marquise cried, ripping off his OZ jacket as he prepared to jump, only to be held back by Noin.
"Don't, sir!" She cried, "The rocks!" She pointed, a whitish spot where Relena had landed in the water. "It's a miracle that she missed them." Noin tossed him his jacket, which he quickly put back on.
"Quickly!" Marquise snapped, rushing past the shocked crowds, soldier's and Governor Darlian following quickly behind.
"And that's when they named me their Captain." Jack said, believing he was a very charismatic speaker with his hand motions and his body language in his story. Or maybe he was just a good storyteller.
"Ooooh…" Duo said with wide eyes, entranced by the story with sparkles in his eyes.
"Injustice." Wufei muttered, snorting at the whole story while adding his degrading comments here and there.
"…So…" Jack said, breaking the hushed silence after his wonderful retelling of a certain event in his life, made up of course. "You all are soldier's for OZ?"
"Yes." Duo blurted out, rather quickly for the likes of Jack as the braided teen got a glare from Wufei.
"Uh huh…" Wufei caught the non-believing tone in Smithy's voice and drew his katana once more, leveling it with the swash-buckley man before him. On his ship.
Then, a sudden form caught all of their attentions… a unconscious girl with lots of skirts and frills on.
"…Relena?" Duo raised an eyebrow, noticing the girl.
"Probably trying to get Yuy's attention again." Wufei retorted, getting a skeptical look but then believing shrug from Duo.
"Yuy?" Jack questioned, wondering why the name sounded faintly familiar…
"Heero." Duo explained. "Better ship than Nataku here."
"Wing is not better than Nataku!" They argued, the fallen form of the girl hitting the water with a resounding splash.
"Um… shouldn't you be saving her right about now?" Jack questioned, raising an eyebrow as he twiddled with one of the many trinkets in his bandanna.
Wufei shrugged, muttering something about weak woman and Duo just stared at him blankly before muttering something under his breath also.
"That would be Heero's job." He mumbled, "You stole the words right out of Quatre's mouth." He said, referring to someone Jack didn't know of, and also at the same time referring to what Jack said about rescuing a certain golden haired girl.
"For the love of rum!" Jack sighed, throwing them his sword. "Do not loose that." He threatened, throwing off his pistol, belt, and his beloved hat.
Rolling his shoulders, he flailed his arms slightly as he jumped into the air, doing a perfect dive as he entered the water.
Making his way to the unconscious girl, he tried to bring her up, reaching the surface. Gasping for air, he gulped in fresh seawater at the same time, being pulled back down. While floating between the bottom of the seafloor and the surface, he ripped off her outer dress, leaving her under garments on as the heavy articles sank to the bottom like a cannon ball.
Reaching the dock, Wufei and Duo helped the man pull the lass—er—woman onto the safety of the wood.
"She's not breathing!" Wufei proclaimed, checking for any signs of air from her mouth or nose.
"Move." Jack shoved the two annoyances out of the way, reaching into his boot for his trusty knife and slitting her corset up the laces.
Relena's eyes snapped open, gagging and spitting out seawater as she coughed up the small amount of water that got into her lungs.
"W-who…?" She wondered, noticing the forms of Wufei and Duo but not recognizing the other man, obviously the one who saved her since his clothes were soaked to the bone.
"Relena!" She faintly heard Zechs Marquise shouting, rushing towards her.
When her father and the other soldier's also saw her; partially naked, her father was outraged beyond belief.
"Arrest him!"
"Really father!" Relena said aghast in her father's sudden orders. "Do you really think to do something as drastic as that to the man that just saved my life?" She threw a glare at Duo who whistled lightly and grinned like a cat at her. Wufei snorted at her.
"Duo Maxwell and Chang Wufei." Zechs Marquise glared, soldier's surrounding them. "What an unpleasant surprise."
"But you were surprised." Duo added with a malicious grin and Zech's face flushed slightly as he sent a flustered glare at the two.
"Arrest them." Zechs said, still glaring at the grinning Maxwell.
"Am I missing something?" Jack said with a raised eyebrow, wondering what the hell was going on. Why would they arrest some of OZ's soldiers?
"Forgive me, I think proper thanks are to be said." Zech' extended his hand an Jack slowly reached for it, getting it turned over rather rapidly.
Pushing his sleeve up, Zechs smirked inwardly, just as he though. "Had a brush with the East-India Company?" He questioned with a raised eyebrow as Jack flinched. The burned in 'P' mark for pirate was visibly showing now.
"Hang him." Darlian said, stiffening up as he caught sight of the mark on his daughter's savior.
"Really!" Relena protested with outrage, stomping a foot on the dock. Soldier's raised their weapons at the newly found pirate.
"'Ey!" Duo shouted, soldier's putting some irons on his wrists. "There's nothing wrong with space pirates."
Jack glanced at him, Zechs pulling the man's sleeve up even more to see the tattoo of a sparrow over the ocean's waves. He threw the hand down in disgust, "Well, well, Jack Sparrow."
"Captain." Jack reminded, a habit from saying it over and over again to correct people.
"Well," Zechs said snidely, "I don't see your ship."
"I'm looking for that 'special' one." Jack retorted. "Like your Peacecraft girl or whoever she is." Relena glared at him, making Jack wonder why Zechs was so protective or her if she didn't love him.
"Perhaps now would be the time to escape?" Wufei wondered aloud, getting everyone's attention as he grinned evilly. "Nataku would never forgive me if I lost to weaklings like you."
"Talkin' to your ship now, Wuffers." Duo grinned, "Rock on."
"Shut up, Maxwell." Wufei growled, twisting out of the loose irons. "NATAKU!" He shouted, his ship roaring to live.
Solar sails were released as the cry had woken up the two people on board. The thrusters in the back of the ship fired up, the hull floating in the air as a blonde-haired teen with blue eyes sailed over to them, waving slightly despite the bullets being fired at the ship. (1)
Cannons were brought out and a girl with golden braids waved to Wufei, blowing a kiss at him. "Looks like this woman's saving your ass again, Wufei!" She shouted with mirth.
"Shut up, weak onna!" Wufei shouted, jumping up to grab a rope dangling from the ship. He also grabbed Duo, by the braid.
"Ouch!" He cried, flailing slightly in the air before Wufei's threat of dropping him made him stop jerking around so much. He grabbed onto his braid as they were raised towards the deck.
Sticking up a certain middle finger at Zechs, Wufei grabbed his hat, with a giant feather mind you, and put it on his head, doing a mock bow.
Taking the steering wheel, he turned back to Zechs with his eyes slightly on the exit that let him leave the colony. He tipped his hat, "You should try harder next time, Marquise. I think you're starting to slack!"
Snarling, Marquise ordered all ready ships to go after the two criminals and block their escape.
"Who were those two?" Jack questioned.
Relena turned back to him. "Two of the most notorious Space pirates to ever roam the colonies and earth." She said quietly. "Their two of the pilots."
"The Gundam pilots! You mean that ship was a gundam! One of the strongest ships?"
"Yes. The one with blonde hair was also one, Quatre Raberba Winner."
"Who are the other two? Aren't there five?"
"Trowa Barton, who was most likely also on the same ship, and then pilot 01. No ones ever seen him and lived. His ship is supposed to be angelic though. One of the best pilots in the galaxy but ruthless as well."
"If no ones ever seen him and lived then how do they know he exists?" Jack shot her a toothy grin, getting a glare at this question.
"Because they always talk about him. His ship is called 'Wing Zero' or 'Wing'. " Relena bit harshly, crossing her arms.
"Well," Jack said, taking a few steps back. "I do believe that I should take my leave right about now…" Jack grinned, despite the shackles now on his arms he turned and hit his foot against a level, going into the air and a cannon crashing down on some soldiers.
"It's been nice, but I really have a tea party to go to, Commodore Marquise!" Jack shouted with a merry grin. Throwing the chains connecting is arms together, he grabbed hold on them and went flying down a rope that connected to the mainland and the dock.
Just his luck.
Then the bullet's started flying and soon Jack found himself running for his life. Damned 'luck' wasn't luck.
Quickly he ducked behind a creepy dummy of a sword smith. Guards rush by and he silently let out the breath he had been holding. His eyes darting around quickly for any other OZ henchmen, he quickly rushed out from hiding, looking at the sign reading 'black smith' and rushed in.
"There's got to be…" A snort stopped his thoughts and Jack turned to look at a large man snorting away, bottle of alcohol loosely in his hand. "Hm…" Jack mumbled, stealthily as he could with boots, made his way over to the man. Checking the bottle of alcohol first and glaring at the man to find it empty.
"He poked him, then again rather roughly to make sure that he didn't wake up. And to get out his anger. "Wo-oah!" He shouted, smirking a somewhat forced smile at the missed chance. He had drank anything since…he flinched at the angry face of Scarlet. Wrong time!
Rushing over to the tools, he gawked slightly at all the tools, half of which he didn't even have to use. Hell, even the hammer didn't look like a hammer! Taking some sort of instrument, he slammed it against the shackles, snarling when the chains in question didn't even bend.
"Stupid bloody Ozies…" He muttered under his breath, looking at something that caught his eyes. Taking off his hat, he put it on a hanging instrument, placing the hammer-like thing he picked up on the anvil. He reached for a shiny gold object and drew it and smirked a knowing smile.
"Well well, what have we got here?" Turning he looked around for any other devices to free him until he saw some giant wheels and stuff. A donkey was hooked up to the contraption and Jack pondered for a moment.
"What a pirate would do…" He reminded himself, picking up a burning piece of metal and jabbing it at the donkey. Squealing in pain, the mule moved forward quickly to get away from the hot metal.
Rushing over to the wooden gears, Jack flung his chains into the ridges of the cogs, smirking when he heard the chains snap under the pressure. 'Perfect.' His mind chanted. Then he heard the sounds of the door being opened…
Author's note:
Yea! I got a lot done so far hopefully my creative streak won't stop soon! thanks everyone for the encouragement-Love, Red Tail