Chapter 2
Next Morning
Nami had awoken. The light from the ceiling above showed sunlight going the cracks though the wood and into her eyes; it was unpleasant since it was the cause to make her wake up. Not only that...But the seagulls were really loud and kept making annoying sounds as they flew around. Nami felt the hard wooden floor underneath her and finally took notice how uncomfortable it was. She got up off of her back and for seconds before fully waking up she felt strange and annoying feelings though out her body. Thanks to the floor she had to wait until the blood in her body started to fully function again. Then she felt better. But there was that one thing she suddenly noticed.
She wasn't on the Going Merry. She was on another ship meaning... She was with another crew...And by the looks of where they had put her, this cabin with no soft bed or food or water anywhere. She was on an enemy ship. Not her own ship where her friends were and where her nice big bed where it was remarkably soft like a cloud. No her bed was a remarkably hard wooden floor on another ship, she was not certain what they were going to do to her.
Boy isn't life just great sometimes?
Nami flung herself to the door; twisting the door knob hard. It refused to open. Nami knew this fact that it would be locked; she tried so anyway. But why would a kidnapper easily leave the door unlock so his victim can escape to safety?
Before Nami tried to find a way out, a pair of footsteps walked up to her window and then a face revealed itself. A man's face. It appear so suddenly that Nami was nearly spooked when she saw his face. She reconized him. It was the captain. He had tricked her and Luffy;anger spreaded across her face. Nami hated tricks unless it was her doing the fooling. She wasn't really into horrible tricks to kidnap anyone. Just tricks to fool some rude pirate to get his gold.
"Ah...You're up." Captain Dye gave her a cocky smile which ticked off Nami to no end. "How was your sleep?"
"Most sleep I ever had! Where is Luffy?" She gave off a demanding aura that even Dye backed off. She was so angry at him for the moment Dye could've swore that if he led her out of the cage she would have killed him on the spot. He pulled himself together and responded. "Your captain is..." Nami was eager to hear him answer. Just by where her captain was, it would've been enough for her to calm down a little. At least a little. She hoped he would tell her...She felt she would go crazy if she didn't hear about the where-a-bouts of her friend. She grew excited when Dye commenced moving his cracked lips. His old-snared like voice slowly came and succeeded to tick off Nami the next moment.
"Somewhere on this ship." His facial expression and voice became like an actor. A horrible one. That stupid act of his! It was enough to make her nearly go completely insane! She unleashed her arms and her hands went easily though the enough spacein thebars to grab him by the throat and threaten him!
"WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS LUFFY?" Her nails dug deep into the man's neck and the man instantly began to suffocate. Others on the ship stopped moving and full fledge talking commenced. Even laughter was heard. No one was coming to this man's aid! She was choking him right in front everyone could see!
"Help..." He couldn't yell. There was too much force around his neck. "Hel...ppp..." Still no one came to his aid. Laughter and talking was all the help he could ever get.
"He's...In..." He was starting to talk. Nami calmed herself and release -just a small amount- force from his neck. Her hands still clasped closely to neck and when she wanted to...She could threaten to choke him again. "He's...in..."
"In what?" She demanded. She again threatened to kill him if he didn't answerer fast enough. His eyes looked as if they were going topop out pretty soon. She really didn't want to kill the man and soon released a little more force with him being able to at last catch his breath. It took him so long just to have air come though his throat again.
It suddenly occurred to her, Nami knew it. She definitely knew it. From his stupid acting to his weak appearance and now...Him, supposedly, one of the top pirate captains on the sea...Was just a weakling...He wasn't even trying to fight back her attack on him. How could this man be a respected pirate captain?
She asked again. "In what?" She gave him another moment before forcing him to believe she wasreally going to kill him. All she was gonna do was sorta choke him then he cough up what all she needed to know. Sheunleashed her strength onto his neck and he finally began to speak...With difficulty...
"He's...He..He's..In the.." Nami wasn't really choking him but she could tell he was acting once more. More likely to make her believe she was making him suffer enough. Yells from the crowd around the turned into taunting's for Dye.
"In the jail...Below inside.." She loosed her grip on the weak man. "Inside the ship..."
BANG
It was then a shot was release into the air...and killed Dye right in front of Nami. She screamed and let go of him. He fell hard into the floor beneath him. Nami could feel chills crawl her spine, heart and even though her neck. She had touched a dead man. Hoots of cheer became all over the place; from every direction. It was just sad, toostupid to explain anymore.
"It was sad enough he was too stupid not to try and back your attack." A rough and powerful voice approached Nami's ears. A shadow appeared over Dye's limp body. The shadow made its way over closer to the barred window and revealed another face. It was someone she didn't recognize, didn't remember a gruff face and narrow pointed eyes that were shaped as sides of arrowheads. A nose shaped like a witch's own in fairytales Nami remembered when Bellmare read to her and Nojiko. He had a nose just like a witch's.
"He could've saved himself. Spare himself of all the stupidity. Too bad he was too weak." This strange man peered down at Dye and next; kicked him. Dye's body completely flipped over and more red blood oozed out of his skull. Nami didn't want to show any sympathy for Dye; but couldn't help have a little pity on him.
"I can't believe it...You killed your captain..." She could only say those few words...She didn't know what else to say.
The gruff man started at her with a smirk. "I killed the captain? No...I didn't. I just killed the messenger of the ship."
What?
"You didn't think this man was a real captain did you?"
That wasn't really a surprise. It was true, Nami known it was suspicious for a man like Dye to ever be a captain over a successful crew like that, due to his character.
"If you did...I don't know what to say." He continued.
Nami curved an arch at him. "I did get a little confused...I admit..."
"Hmm...Say would you like to get out of that room? I am sure you must really want out. Do you?"
'Yes that would be nice. Very nice...'
Still it seem strange when the gruff man asked her if she wanted out. Should she agree?
"Come now...This is your last chance."
'Oh why the hell not? I might be able to get to Luffy instead of just staying here.'
"Yes let me out."
"Good! Lets get you some fresh air!" Declared the man. He reached into his pocket and took out a few keys, sorted though them until he found the right key and used that key to placed into the rooms entranced. Thus releasing Nami.
She walked out of her little prison and onto the deck of the ship; out of that pale, dusty room with no comfort anywhere. There was something wrong however. It was very bad when she finally noticed it as she saw...The ship was moving.
She quickly walked to the side of the ship. And from where she could see... No land in sight. The sea was only thing she could see.
'Wonderful, just great...' This was going to happen when you are a victim of a kidnapping. The kidnapper was to try to take you somewhere else where there was no help to obtain. Exactly like this situation.
"From where we are...We are already miles away from the island you and my deceased messenger boy met. You can't escape unless you found one of our emergency rafts. But I am not going to let you get away that easily." He knew he was right as did Nami. Nami now had more to worry about and made her feel moresickness in her stomach.
"That is true...Hold on though..." The navigator said. The man turned his head towards her." Since you are the captain of this ship...You are the real Captain Dye of the Skull Pirates?"
"Correct."
"I just have a question..." Nami had more than one question to ask and she needed to know them desperately.
"Why did you send that messenger of yours in your place instead of showing up yourself?"
A grin, which didn't show or seem to not show any wickedness, arrived over his face. " I was feeling not too good."
'Okay...' Now the second question.
"Now could you please show me where Luffy is in the jail?" Nami turned to stare the real Dye in the face ;realizing she could not fight him, without her Clima Tact, she was weak. Not in mind-thankfully-but in body she was. She tried to trick him with her puppy like stance.
"Don't worry..."
"Argh...Tell where he is! Don't just tell me 'Don't worry!'"
'Oh crap!...If only I wasn't so freaked out about Luffy's whereabouts...'
"You are forturnite I am not another captain or head marine, I would have beaten you for yelling and demanding of me for when it is "I" can determine your outcome."
Indeed he was right.
" Well you are anxious to find your captain, enough to make me feel bad. Alright I will show you."
The red-headed navigator felt relief in herself that she would get an explanation. An explanation she would finally relieved; she was so lucky she wasn't on another pirate ship. Dye paced forward and Nami eagerly followed. After she saw Luffy...Time to start thinking for an escape plan!
"By the way..." The captain of the Skull Pirates turned his head to view the navigator. "Your captain..." He was making the suspense build by slowly speaking of Nami's crew mate and Nami really had all ears at him. This time the true Captain Dye wasn't pretending to be all that. He spoke with truth and no trickery; like a man he spoke, like a true pirate captain. "He may be unable to identify you quickly..."
Nami had no clue to what he was speaking about and that was something she would figure out once she sees her captain once more. Although...She began to wonder..Deeply..Worrying...Could they have possibly...Beated him badly to cause him go into a coma? Another question soon to be answered. Another thing to make Nami worry about.
And Dye...He was suspicious...He did let her out of that prison; but probably knowing she couldn't possibly swim back to shore and the ship itself was too high for anyone to be jumping off...
It wasn't too long for the navigator to see her captain at last.
There was, however, a slight problem upon the look in his face. He looked rather confused. But Nami didn't seriously took it as a threat...Until...
"Luffy! Luffy!" She cried out and she imagined the next moments that were to happen...
He was gonna respond and tell her, "Hey Nami! Where are we?" Yes that was going to happen...Then she was to explain to him they were on another pirate crew ship and now they have to find their way to one of those emergency rafts...
It didn't...
Turned out to what was most not likely to happen. When she yelled his name...He didn't look back at her. She was shouting his name from a short distance for it to be enough for him to hear. Plus He should've known his own name...However...He didn't seem to...It got really odd a few seconds later...
First: Where was his hat? Luffy would never go without it unless he gave it to her for safe keeping. Why was he without it?
Luffy was on the deck of the ship with a pair of taller bodyguards at his side. Both was standing near him. Luffy was looking around in a confuse manner; it wasn't strange for him to not know where he was. The strange part of his behavior was him not noticing Nami calling out his name. Now that was strange.
"Luffy!"
Nami grabbed his shoulder and turned him to face her. She at the next second smacked him and made him quickly put his hand on his cheek. "Ow!"
He glared at her. "What was that for lady?" He massaged at his stinging cheek.
"How dare you try to ignore me! I should bash you in the head a few more times for that!And..." She noticed something another thing strange.
'Did he just call me lady?'
"Well how was I suppose to know you were talking to me! Besides my name isn't Luffy! Its Mi Shi!"
'What?'
A couple of vains popped out of Nami's head. Luffy must've really been bashed in the head for this act of stupidity. Frustration became her only emotion right now this bizarre moment.
"What on earth are you talking about? I don't ever recall you ever having a twin brother named Mi Shi unless you got way too stoned into thinking you're him or something! Now snap out of it!" Luffy didn't know what to say and couldn't when Nami grabbed him by the shirt and started shaking him out of control. Again...
Remember last night?
"Mi Shi!" A girl jumped out of the scene and pushed Nami off Luffy. "Get your hands off of him!"
"Mi Shi" Got his chance to breathe again. The girl who pushed Nami instantly began asking if he was okay. Nami looked at her and frowned.
"No I am okay...But what did I do to make the lady go mad?"
There he went again, this time, he sounded innocent. Like he actually didn't know what was going on.
"You did nothing wrong..." The sudden girl assured Luffy; but the confused boy still turned his eyes to Nami in puzzlement.
"Anything wrong?" Asked Captain Dye.
"Yes there is! What is wrong with Luffy? He calls me lady when he perfectly knows my name!"
Dye made a chuckle. "I should've mentioned something..."
Nami looked at him straight into his eyes.
"Last night he got hit by amnesia."
