Chapter 4: The Captain with a Stone Heart
Lil LoveStar: Sorry I haven't updated on any of my stories, I've been busy with my competition…my boyfriend gave me an original story and I loved it so much that I started my own to beat him.
Sakura: We thought you didn't like us anymore at first.
Lil LoveStar: Never, I just got caught up. Here we go.
"Are you alright Michael?" Roxi asked his door; Michael nearly sealed himself away from everyone and stayed in his quarters. He looked up at the ceiling as Roxi asked him for the fifth time today. He got up and opened the door. Roxi gasped but looked up at her brother.
"I'm fine; we have a task to complete." He said as he moved to the main deck. Roxi looked at her brother with a little worry but more so with admiration because he was willing to carry out his task instead of sulking over Destiny. She followed him to make sure he was still the fighter she grew up to know.
Meanwhile Sakura was in the mess hall examining the food, if you could call it that. "Jesus Christ Neal did they force you to make this?" Sakura asked the cook.
"It's the only thing I could make with our food rations." Neal said giving some crap to another sailor. Sakura rolled her eyes and went behind the counter to the kitchen. She didn't see anything extra that could be used so she moved to the freezer. She looked in and pulled out a bunch of meats and vegetables.
"Neal take a break, I'll handle this." Sakura took Neal's apron and put on a hair net and started to get to work. She made domburimono, yakitori, and sushi. The sailors were thrilled and ate seconds and thirds and they praised Sakura for her work. Rio soon came in the peacefully atmosphere that was the mess hall. Usually the men were playing with their food or forcing it down their throats. But today it seemed that they were engulfing it.
"Sakura what did you do?"
"I cooked, plain and simple, now what do you want?" She asked. Rio got some sushi and stood at the window to the kitchen to talk to Sakura.
"Do you think Michael is still upset?" Sakura asked Rio. Rio shrugged his shoulders as he crewed his sushi. Sakura rolled her eyes at her friend. As Rio ate an announcement from Michael came through the PA telling everyone to come onto the deck.
Michael
"Amazing one week later we come upon the other Captain and his ship." Michael said seriously as he saw Syaoran Li's grand ship of the starboard bow. Roxi moved toward the ship at full speed.
"What if he runs away as well?" Roxi asked her brother.
"He won't, he's Li after all." Michael smirked, he knew Xiaolang Li well. Syaoran prided himself in everything he did. He knew no fear and could gut a man without remorse. Syaoran had chestnut colored hair and amber eyes that were covered in a thick layer of ice. At one point of their lives they were all friends, Michael, Roxi, Kalvin, Destiny, Syaoran and Meiling but that all changed after Destiny renounced her engagement to Michael and Syaoran declined his engagement to Meiling. Destiny had been lied to and Syaoran didn't love his cousin that was basically the long story short.
As the Japanese navy approached the ship Sakura noticed something similar in the two pirate ships. Destiny had an all female crew, whereas Syaoran had an all male. (AN: Funny isn't it?) Nevertheless they had to bring Syaoran back to his mother, as with Destiny.
"Hello my friend, come to bring me back for a twenty-one gun salute?" Syaoran asked Michael as the ships came very close to each other.
"Not this time, I came because your mother wants you to come home." Michael told Syaoran calmly. Syaoran laughed at what he said.
"Mother wants me back so I can become the clan leader and marry a woman I will never love." Syaoran laughed at it.
"Meiling is on Destiny's ship, your mother just wants you to come home and stop this. She doesn't want to see you dead." Roxi said to him.
"Well then you'll just have to take me then." Syaoran smiled with his arms out. The pirates attacked the navy and vice versa. Many of the pirates were captured thanks to Rio's new tactic. Sakura on the other hand went onto Syaoran's ship she met his first mate Eli, his was very handsome with his midnight blue hair and eyes. Sakura started to fight him and she proves to be equal in her abilities. Roxi noticed Sakura fighting as she and Michael went after Syaoran.
"Be careful of Eli Sakura, he's very clever!" Roxi yelled. Syaoran heard Roxi call a girl's name and looked toward his first mate. She was beautiful with her auburn colored hair and emerald eyes, green being his favorite color. Syaoran whistled at Eli and his nodded while still fighting the young girl. Michael unsheathed his sword as he came in front of Syaoran. Syaoran blocked him by back flipping then kicked him back.
"So you want to play that way." Michael said as he put his sword down and got into a fighting stance. Syaoran smirked as they began to spar a little then fight. The battle raged on for another hour and a half before one of the pirates threatened to slit Roxi's throat if Michael didn't order the navy off of the ship. Syaoran laughed at Michael's compassion for his men and his sister.
"You really haven't changed a bit my old friend, still fussing about the condition of your dear sister. It's a shame really." Syaoran said.
"You have sisters as well Syaoran you know exactly how I feel when my sister's life is threatened just as you would for yours." Michael growled. Syaoran's eyes showed no sign of agreeing with him only cold amusement.
"You may have a point Captain but that portion of my life doesn't exist anymore." Syaoran said as he walked toward Roxi. "But considering we were friends once I will let her go." He added as he personally threw her toward Michael. Michael caught Roxi and asked her condition before Syaoran interrupted him.
"Oh Captain, I hope you don't mind if I keep a little reminder of you?" He asked as he held up a captured Sakura.
"SAKURA!" Rio and Roxi yelled together.
"Give her back Li!" Michael yelled his eyes almost on fire from his underhanded tactics.
"Defeat that woman and I'll consider it." Syaoran said as his ship was set to full power and sailed away. Michael swore as Roxi started to tear and Rio held her, his eyes glaring at the fleeting ship.
Sakura
Sakura was stripped of her navy clothes and given raggedy shorts and a shirt that had seen better days. Her legs and wrists were chained and she was thrown into the brig.
"LET ME OUT!" She screamed.
"Be quiet wench or you'll have more to worry about then your quarters." One of the men told her before he left her. Sakura sat on the floor before she heard the door open again and footsteps moving toward her. Sakura looked to see the same man with the midnight hair and eyes that captured her and glared at him.
"You're lucky that Syaoran didn't feed you to the men." He said. Sakura's eyes widened as she understood what he meant. "I'm surprised at his actions really, normally if he caught another woman besides Roxi on his ship he would have her killed or made for the men's pleasure." Eli took a close look at her. "Maybe it's those eyes of yours; Syaoran has always loved green, even as a boy."
"Help me please." Sakura begged.
"Wish I could really I do but Syaoran would have my balls." Eli told her. "But there is one thing I can do for you; I'll be your friend while you're here." He added. After he spoke his words the door to the brig sung open with a bang and an enraged voice yelled.
"ELI BRING THAT WOMAN TO MY QUARTERS!" Syaoran yelled before he slammed the door shut. Eli sighed at Syaoran's obscene behavior before he unlocked Sakura's door and let her out.
"Come with me." He started. "Oh by the way what was that name that Roxi and that guy yell?" He asked.
"My name is Sakura." She said. They walked across the ship; the men were gawking at her. Some whistled and tried to touch her only to have Eli pull a sword on them. As they approached Syaoran's room Eli told her not to speak unless he was speaking to her. He opened the door and brought Sakura inside.
"Welcome to my ship." Syaoran said with his back to them. "My new slave."
Lil LoveStar: Well for the most part I am back. But we shall see. R+R