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Flashback Part 2
It was clear that he was unwanted here… but could Marco really leave…?
Yes, he could. He would find and make his own family. He could do it! He has too! It was clear that he wasn't wanted or needed here. His so-called family made that clear on more than one occasion. So it is easy, if he was unwanted here then he will leave and never come back. After all, that's what they want isn't it?
And Marco is going to go find the thing that he wants most in this world, he was going to go find himself a family. He was going to make himself a family!
The blonde hair boy packed a small bag with a change of clothes, stealing as much money as he could from the spot where his uncle and step-aunt kept their money and thought that no-one knew and some food.
Marco put on his sandals as he opened the door- it was pitch black outside and everyone was sleeping. They wouldn't know or notice that he was gone till the morning and by that time, Marco would have gotten on a boat and to a different island so that they couldn't come after him. And hopefully, on the next island. Marco can what is looking.
Family.
It doesn't have to blood. It doesn't have to be big. It doesn't have to small either. But its what Marco is going to look for. It is what he wants and what he dreams of. It's all Marco wants, is a family. Or at least people that he can call family and who would and could call him anyway. It was all that matter. Family…
On a different Island, South Blue…
A blonde boy about 7 years old smiled as he finally got something that he had always wanted that his parents could never take away. Something that his was his own choice. A tattoo. One that he had designed- a spade on fire- on the inside of his left arm. The tattoo is something that Eri has only ever dreamed of. Admiring it with his red eyes with a happy smile on his pale face. The boy didn't go outside much.
"You stupid child!" his mother shouted as he admired the tattoo. He knew that they would find out about it, but he didn't care.
"I don't care what you think," Eri told her as he admitted it. "It was my choice!"
His mother hit him across the face. His siblings all laughed as he was hit more, but Eri didn't care. The tattoo, it was his choice, the only thing he could do that was of his own free will and that was of his own choice. The woman could keep hitting the blonde all she wanted, he didn't care. He was just happy to finally have something that he was choice.
"I'll get rid of the stupid thing then!" his mother told him getting a knife to cut the tattoo off her brother's skin. She hated the ugly tattoo.
Eri held onto his wrist and watched his father who said nothing and as his siblings just laughed more. Eri backed right away from his mother. His father sensed something and watched as things unfolded before him between his son and wife.
"I WON'T LET YOU!" Eri shouted as his sibling suddenly fainted and his father smirked as the boy's mother wasn't sure what was going on. "IT WAS MY CHOICE! THE ONLY THING I COULD DO OF MY OWN FREE WILL! IF IT'S THE ONLY CHOICE I GET, I DON'T CARE! I WON'T LET YOU TAKE IF AWAY ME!"
Guards and the Marines with them fainted as Eri's father was staring and laughing at his son in amusement as the emotion of wanting to protect something as stupid and simple as the tattoo had brought out his Haki, and Conqueror Haki at that. It seems that at least one of his child was worth something. Though, the emotional display was disgusting.
Eri stood there confused as he looked around. He had no idea what happened… what caused his siblings to faint? What is going on?
"Eri," his father said walking up to him then slapping him across the face as his mother finally fainted and mostly everyone on their whole island without a strong will. "I will allow you to keep the tattoo." Eri's eyes shined for a moment until his father glared at him. "But you are to see a special doctor who will take away your emotions." Eri looked scared. "The training isn't enough. You will see the doctor and you will be my heir. You will not lose the tattoo if you do as you are told. Am I understood?"
His emotions or his tattoo? Was that really a choice? Was his father actually giving him a choice, for once? There was a choice? Even if it was a stupid one since Eri could care less about his emotions right now as all that mattered was his tattoo. But still, is his father actually giving him a choice for once in his life?
"Or I will remove that tattoo myself and you will still see the doctor," his father told him. "You are my heir from on now and you cannot have emotions- they are useless things."
So it wasn't a choice. It was lose the tattoo or not lose it? Was that all he was to his father? A puppet for him to control?
"I want to keep my tattoo," Eri muttered. Though telling his father to fuck off was more what he wanted to say. But he didn't, he knew that his father would punish him if he did. He has learned that over the years he has been alive.
"That's what I thought," his father nodded, happy that his son understood. "Come on. I will take you to see the doctor now. We need to get rid of those useless emotions that only hold you back as soon as we can."
Eri hated being a High Noble, not a Celestial Dragon, but something very similar to it. Right after the Celestial Dragons, would come what Eri's parents are. High Nobles of the Outer World. More powerful than the Royalty, but not as powerful as the World Nobles/High Nobles of the World Government/Celestial Dragons but still pretty damn close it.
After all, the Celestica Family is the World's strongest and scariest Noble Family there is outside of the Celestial Dragons.
Eri Celestica, Eri hated being it. He wanted to anything but a Celestica and if he ever got the chance, he will be anything but Eri Celestica. But who Eri be then…?
Eri looked at the spade on fire on his left inside of his wrist. Spade, that's who Eri will be once he is able to leave this life, if he is ever able too. He'll be Spade. That will be his name.
P.S guys, what do we think of the flashbacks so far? there are more to come. like how Marco and Spade acutally meet.
