Hello everyone,
Sorry about the wait (at work atm), but here it is, as promised, another chapter!
I can't thank sarge1130 enough for always giving me feedback on this story and it's chapters, and now adding me to their favorite authors list. really, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Dear sarge1130,
It's great to be back, uni is scary but exciting as well ( ^_^ ). Yes, Law was indeed proud but I didn't get into it because I thought it would make the chapter drag on a bit, I'm sure she'll reflect on what he said later... Enyo can hold her own in some circumstances like with those thugs and Orlov's guards, they were brutes but easy pickings. however it has been established that aside from her devil fruit she has no fighting capabilities, and as she is now, against a trained opponent especially one adept at fighting DF users she would probably lose. As for the dress Eyno needed to acquire some clothes that actually fit her, so she thought it would be nice to get something sporting the crews signature colours. Perhaps that's why she had the fleeting thought as to whether Law would like it. Yes! dominatrix! I didn't specify what she looked like because I wanted the reader's imaginations to be able to go wild, and Penguin and Sachi are pretty bad yes, but they're still gentlemen... sometimes. I don't think they would actively be the BDSM type but if the opportunity presented itself they would be like "yeah kinky.". I really wanna incorporate dom Enyo with Law into the story now, maybe ill find a way to sneak it in later }:3 . Finally, as for what is lurking behind the door, you're about to find out...
Chapter 16 Bump in the Night
Enyo's teeth clenched, the hair on the back of her neck stood on end as the handle slowly turned. The thick water tight door began to open, pulled back by the unknown force on the other side. She panicked, grabbing the handle with both hands Enyo yanked the door shut, trapping whatever it was inside. The entity however was not ready to give in, and pulled at the door with equal force, both sides seemed at a stalemate until a feminine voice was heard from inside the room "C-mon, Open damn you!" ... Enyo's brow inclined in suspicion and she released her grip on the door handle, allowing it to swing open and sending the mysterious voice behind it falling onto the floor.
The woman was dressed in a dark blue catsuit with a black domino mask around her striking yellow eyes. She had wavy chocolate brown hair that was slicked back at the top and flowed freely down her back, then Enyo notice something weird poking out the top of the strangers head 'are those ears?!'. The woman stood and dusted herself off "Well now, I wasn't expecting company." the woman spoke confidently
"Oh I'm sorry, am I interrupting?" Enyo's voice dripped with sarcasm .
"Actually yes, you are." the woman stated, picking up a very large, very full backpack. "So if you don't mind I'll be on my way." she slung one strap over her shoulder and began walking towards the door, but Enyo stepped through and blocked the exit "I'd be happy to let you pass. So long as you leave what doesn't belong to you.". The woman chuckled, she tilted her head to the side and smirked "I don't think so." She dropped the bag and Enyo felt the air go tense. The burglar lunged, swiping with her right hand, Enyo dove to the right, narrowly avoiding the claws that had appeared on the woman's gloves. Landing in a crouching position Enyo's hair slithered down her back and beneath her form, curled into a fist. The thief pounced upon her, intending to pin the pirate down but was trumped when a grey blur came flying up out of nowhere with incredible speed, uppercutting her and causing her to stumble back "A devil fruit user?!" Enyo seized the opening she had created and grabbed the woman's right arm, swinging her around and slamming her back against the wall. With the intruder still in shock Enyo captured her wrists and pinned her to the wall. Both women breathed down each others throats as adrenalin coursed through their systems, nose to nose their stare-off didn't last long when Enyo broke the silence "I guess you weren't expecting that either?" ... "No, but it won't make any difference." the thief said casually. Pain surged through Enyo's arms as the woman dragged her claws up towards the hands that bound her, tearing the flesh along the way. Enyo pulled her extremities away and immediately received a boot to the stomach, sending her flying across the room and into a crate, smashing it on impact. Gold coins trickled down either side of her, spilling onto the floor as she heaved herself upright. During that time the thief had produced a rope dart and swung it around playfully "I'll come back for those." she teased.
"The hell you will!" The pirate strained, still winded from the kick.
"Oh dearie, what's it gonna take for you to admit defeat?"
"(pant) As long as I'm still breathing, I'll never admit defeat!" the defiance was evident in Enyo's voice.
A demonic smile twisted its way onto the intruders face "I was hoping you'd say that.". Not a second later the woman sent the dart straight for Enyo's head, the world seemed to had slowed down and Enyo could see the dart coming, effortlessly she leaned her head to the side, allowing the projectile to glide past her face causing a slight breeze. She couldn't explain it but it felt... Natural. As soon as the dart sped past her being time returned to normal and Enyo willed her stormy tendrils forward, wrapping around the burglars legs and waist stopping any means of escape "you missed." she commented with a smirk. The thief mirrored her look "Did I?"
Enyo's brow furrowed and she turned to see where the dart had ended up. Her teal eye widened "SHIT!" but it was too late, the long thin pyramid shaped dart that was embedded deeply into the glass was yanked out, shattering its integrity. The previously ostracized sea-water rushed in through the compromised port hole, cold salty water splashed over Enyo's back, soaking her, weakening her. The silvery hair fell dull and limp, and the clawed intruder cut it to shreds, freeing herself again. Meanwhile Enyo collapsed to her hands and knees, the water still saturating her she sluggishly crawled away from the broken window, only to look up and see the woman slinging the bag over her shoulder once more and step over the threshold into the hallway. "You might as well concede now. Y-know since your whole breathing thing isn't gonna last much longer... "
"Fuck you!" Enyo snarled.
"Fine, but I'm not a complete bitch, I'll save your ship from a watery grave... Buy plugging up this nasty leak."
Enyo's eye rivalled the moon as she gasped "NO!" and with a burst of energy lunged from the shallow water and ran to the door that was being closed before her. SLAM! "Fuck!" she spat as her palms stopped her from running into the door. CL-ANK! The watertight door and her fate was sealed "Shit, shit, NO!". Enyo beat hard and furiously on the thick door, hoping somebody would hear and come to her aid "HEEELEP! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" she cried as she beat her hands numb... She waded over to some of the intact crates and tried to climb to avoid the inevitable for a bit longer, by the time she got there the water had already risen to her waist. Her efforts were in vain, Enyo was far to weak to even lift herself out of the rising depths. Suddenly red lights started flashing and the rooms fire extinguishers activated, "Great just what I need. MORE WATER!" she said glaring at the roof sprinklers raining more doom upon her. She pushed herself back over to the door, each step painfully slow 'Shit! The water's already up to my chest, once it goes over my head I'm done for.' "AANYBODYYY!" She pounded on the door again and again but to no avail. Enyo turned her back on it, leaning her head on the cold steel, the water had already reached her neck, her face looked up to the celling, 'At least the rain stopped.' she thought before taking in one last gulp of oxygen as the ocean swallowed her whole. Enyo drifted forward and her waterlogged body sunk slowly to the floor as her vision blurred. Black splotches began to encroach and soon she was engulfed in darkness.
. . .
CRASH! Sleepy eyes opened to the strange sound that came from below "Hmmm... Huh?" he sat up wearily and tugged on the arm dangling from the top bunk "Oi, (yawn) Penguin?" the man in question groggily raised his head and tasted his mouth, looking down he sighed in frustration "Dammit Sachi, go to the toilet by yourself! There's nothing in the dark!"
"No, it's not that!"
"Then what?"
"I herd a noise..."
"Oh god!" Penguin face-pillowed.
"It sounded like it came from downstairs."
"The ship males noises Sachi. IT'S NORMAL! Now go back to sleep." Penguin muffled.
"o-kay..." Sachi returned to his pillow and closed his eyes SMASH! They sprung back open. "Did you hear that?!"
"NO."
"We should check it out."
Penguin pushed himself up to address his bunk-mate, "We are not going to "check it out" because there is nothing to check out! NOW GO TO -" THUD! Both men froze, just staring at each other, CL-ANK!
"We should check that out." Penguin said and Sachi furiously nodded, jumping out of their beds the two put pants on (coz these boys sleep in their undies :3 ) and rushed out the door. The pair ran down the hall towards the stairs that lead down to the storage area, but they stopped. In the middle of the hallway was a strange woman, one they'd never seen before "Uhhh... Who's that?" Sachi thought aloud "I don't know." Penguin said in all seriousness, which disappeared in an instant "But she's beautiful!"
"Ugh! I don't have time for this!" she said agitatedly, the woman ran at them, throwing a black sphere between the pair. The device exploded into a thick ashen cloud which the thief ran through and straight past the pirates who were coughing and spluttering. The smoke rose and clogged the nostrils of the fire system, causing it to activate and spray water wherever installed. The sudden showers shocked the rest of the crew from their sleep and soon the sub was crawling with pirates to their emergency stations. "What's going on?" Law said sternly as he entered the control room, he too was roused from his rarely occurring sleep and now stood, wet, and only in his pyjama pants demanding an explanation, "That's what we're trying to find out captain." Bart stated "The fire system was triggered on LF3 in section C, I've sent Bepo and Spaulding down to investigate "
"Why aren't the alarms going off? " (L)
"We don't know yet, but the comms system isn't working either." Dorian answered.
Law frowned "Sabotage?"
"It's possible, but we cant know for sure yet... Has anyone seen Enyo?" Bart inquired
"You think she did this?" Dorian spoke in an accusive tone.
"I didn't say that, but isn't she supposed to be here with us?"(B)
Dorian realized that Bart was right, Enyo had no emergency duties yet so in the event of one she was to meet in the control room with the captain, Bart and himself. 'Something's wrong' he thought as he swiftly got up and made a bee line for the door but before he could leave Law caught him by the upper arm "Dorian, go and check the main circuit board and find out what's going on with the comms and alarms." the young man opened his mouth to protest but Law knew what he was going to say "I will find miss Enyo" the young man closed his mouth and nodded, grabbing a mini den den mushi and a repair kit he ran out of the control room.
Law ran down the halls towards Enyo's room bedub bedub bedub, the mini den den mushi in his pocket went off bedub bedub gatcha-
"Captain."
"Bart."
"I just got word from Bepo and Spaulding, they're with Penguin and Sachi who say they were attacked by some woman that threw a smoke bomb at them." (B)
"An intruder? So it was sabotage." (L)
"seems so." (B)
"Have you found Enyo yet?" (B)
"I'm just coming up to her room now. Get in touch with Dorian and get our systems back online!" (L)
"Yes captain." gatcha-
Bang! Bang! Bang! "Enyo-ya, can you hear me?!" Law shouted into the door but no answer came. BANG! BANG! "ENYO-YA!?" with still no response Law opened the door to find the room empty "Shit!"
Circuit repair . . .
Bedub bedub bedub bedub bedub, bedub bedub gatcha- "Dorian, have you reached the circuit board yet?" (B)
"Yeah, I'm just opening the cabinet door now... Aww man, everything that makes a noise has been slashed." (D)
"Can you fix it?"(B)
"It'll take me a minute or so but yeah I should be able to" (D)
"Good. Keep me posted." (B) gatcha-
"Alright, lets see what we can do here..." Dorian mused aloud as he got some tools out and started fiddling and soldering.
Control room . . .
"Find her?" Bart said to his captain who had just reappeared slightly puffed.
"She wasn't in her room. Any progress with the alarm systems?"
"Well I got the sprinklers to stop, but the wires have been damaged. Dorian is repairing them now."
"Ok good, I'll-"
"But I think we may have a bigger problem captain..."
"What is it?"
"Don't you think the sub is leaning to the left a bit?"
Law bolted down the stairs to Lower level 2 heading for the bottom of his ship 'you've gotta be kidding me! We have a botched alarm system, no comms, an intruder, Enyo is missing AGAIN! And now were taking on water?! Could this night get any fucking worse?'
Circuit repair . . .
"aaaaaand bingo! Emergency detection systems are back. Now to move on to the comms. Man, whoever did this rrreeeally didn't want us talking to each other, what a mess." (D)
Control room . . .
The sound of systems re-booting brought music to Bart's ears, and he checked over all the necessary lights and switches, mainly leakage detection. His suspicions were confirmed when the screen notified him that storage room E, which housed mostly treasure was almost completely full of water, however the door was already sealed. "It must have been Bepo and the others, but why didn't they call and tell me?" Something wasn't right, Bart could feel it in his bones.
Lower floor 3 . . .
Bedub bedub bedub bedub bedub, bdeub bedub bedub bedub bedub, gatcha- "Hello?"
"Spaulding, it's Bart. Where are you guys?"
"We're still here. Sachi thought he was having an asthma attack."
"He doesn't have asthma."
"I know." ( -_- )
"Did you guys seal the door on storage room E?"
"no why?"
Jean Bart's hands went clammy ,his brow knotted and a heavy frown weighed onto his face.
"Bart?"
"listen to me! You four need to get down there and open that door! Be careful! The room is full of water and if you don't re-close it fast enough the ship will flood!"
"Why would we open it if it's full of water?!"
"BECAUSE ENYO'S IN THERE!"
The men all heard what was said but there was a moment of stunned silence, did they really just hear that? "GO NOW!" Bart yelled into the snail and the four of them hauled ass to and down the stairs to the lowest level of the sub. They reached the door to store room E and saw that it was indeed sealed, "What if she's..." Penguin paled "We'll deal with that when we get to it! Just help me get this door open!" Spud snapped.
The men and bear strained their muscles turning the wheel at the centre of the door that locked the watertight seal in place, the more it turned the more water came spitting at high velocity through the sides of the door. Clank! The door was unlocked, but the pressure from the immense body of water behind it kept it shut. Penguin, Sachi, Spaulding and Bepo pushed the door with all their might and water began flooding the hallway, the strength of the current caused Penguin to loose his footing, he slipped and was pushed back to the wall by the rapids. After loosing one pair of arms the two men and bear gave it their all, pushing even harder and got the door mostly open. As gallons of sea-water poured into the hallway, the three pirates fought to keep the door steady until they heard there comrade shout from behind "I'VE GOT HER!" they had failed to notice her body being carried out by the surging waters but luckily she washed right into Penguins arms.
Law heard the rushing of water as he approached the stairs to the Lowest floor, he was halfway down when Penguins voice echoed through the metal halls "SHE'S NOT BREATHING!"