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Welcome Aboard

Chapter: 2

Hello there, little one

Johnny continued to approach the shiver figure in the alley.

"Hello?" Johnny said hesitantly, hand still on his sword. The shivering figure didn't respond. Johnny finally got close enough to see that there was no threat at all. It was a girl, a little girl, no more then 12 or so. Her long, dark hair, soaked from the rain, she sat among the abandoned garbage cans in the alley, clutching a teddy bear tightly. Johnny, being used to finding orphans, just went right up to the girl, this time without any hesitation.

"Hello there!" Johnny said with a smile, getting down on one knee in front of her. The little girl just looked at him, bewildered and sniffling. "Are you here all alone?" Johnny continued to ask the girl, but she just looked down at her teddy bear. Johnny smiled and tried to part her wet bangs so he could see her eyes. When he touched her forehead she just looked back up at him. "Hello?" He repeated himself, still with a soft smile.

"H-hi… " The little girl replied.

"So you can talk!" Johnny said sarcastically with a light chuckle.

"Yes…"

"So… are you all alone here?" Johnny asked again. The little girl just nodded, and looked back down at her teddy bear. Johnny looked around at their surroundings. "So… What happened here?"

"I don't know…" she said quietly.

"You don't know?" Johnny seemed almost shocked that a young girl, living on the streets of an abandoned city wouldn't know what happened.

"No…" the little girl said under her breath.

"So, little one… Why were you crying?" Johnny asked, still smiling comfortingly as he took his thumb under one of her eyes to wipe away a remaining tear.

"My tummy hurts…"

"You're tummy hurts?" Johnny replied.

The little girl just nodded and looked down at her teddy bear again.

"When's the last time you ate?" Johnny started to get a slight sound of concern in his voice.

"I don't know…." The little girl said, hugging onto the teddy bear even tighter, now looking away from the strange man.

"Well, My dear…" Johnny, still smiling, got to his feet and knelt over the little girl, holding out a hand to her. "How would you like to come with me, and I can get you a nice warm meal, and a nice warm place to stay!"

"I… I don't know…" she replied, continuing to look away.

"Oh common" Johnny said, now standing straight up, he looked around the alley and the desolate wasteland that was once a city "What do you really have to lose?" The little girl also looked around, with a worried expression on her face.

"I guess you're right…" she said as she looked back up at him standing over her.

"So what do you say?" Johnny knelt back over her, holding out his hand once again.

"Alright… " The little girl replied with a nervous smile, and took his hand as he helped her to her feet. Johnny went back to the street to pick up the bag that he dropped. He slung it back over his shoulder again and smiled down at the shy looking little girl who was standing with a careful distance from him. Her eyes followed him as he walked closer and put a hand around her shoulder. "Let's get back to the ship, I'm sure the girls will love you!"

"The ship?" she looked up at him, questioningly.

"Of course my dear, I'm a pirate, and pirates have ships." He started to explain to her as they walked. "I think you'll like it there, all the girls are very nice."

"S-so there's other girls there?" The girl asked, curious now on where exactly he was taking her.

"Oh yes, the ship's filled with girl, a lot of them like yourself!" Johnny smiled at her reassuringly.

"Like me?" she questioned again.

"Exactly like you! I found a lot of the girls in a similar way as to how I found you, and now they are my crew. Those girls and I make up the Jellyfish pirates!" Johnny rubbed her shoulder as the walked. The little girl chuckled a little.

Johnny just smiled down at her "What is it?"

"Oh, um, well, it just sounds like an … interesting name, heh" she replied, now starting to open up a little to the funny man in black.

"Well, you're more then welcome to join our crew, we're always open to more members!" He patted her shoulder, still smiling big as they got closer to the ship. The little girls' eyes went wide when she saw the giant, rusty, flying apparatus.

"You live there?" she said in a surprised almost excited tone.

"I sure do!" he looked down at her, amused at her sense of shock. "Shall we go up there?"

The little girl just nodded, still starring wide-eyed at the giant ship.


There we go, here's the second chapter, I hope you like it, and reviews are welcome, but just one thing I ask, please refrain from reviewing others reviewers… I'm not sensing the love… :(