Kiteria: Hey guys, so I wanted to apologize for the wait on this chapter but a lot happened in my life away from the computer lol. I got a car and I recently got asked out on a date by two different guys. Who knew single life was so active right? College is kinda monopolizing all my time and any free time I do have goes to work, so that left very little time for this but I still tried. Hope you all enjoy, leave me a good review mkay? See you all at the end for shoutouts!
-Two Years Later-
The small figure of a six year old stood silently in a clearing she'd happened across. Once more she was being tested though this time she wanted more than a simple hug. Naria had gotten her father to agree to find her a friend to play with so she wouldn't be so lonely. Initially he had said no, that she was to unstable to be around other children. It was so bad that even the yellow-suited handymen that shared the island they lived on kept their distance from her. Finally, she managed to persuade her father to allow her her wish, but with one condition.
Taking a deep breath, inhaling the summer time air currently surrounding the island, Naria closed her eyes to focus on the sounds she heard. Her skills had improved greatly in the last two years and she was going to show her father just what she could do. She had no doubt in her mind that she could pass this test, even with the condition her father gave her.
Calculating yellow eyes watched the screen showing his experiment with interest. The request she'd made that morning had caught him off guard. Never had he imagined she would ask such a ridiculous thing. At first he'd old her no, but she was quite persistent. So he agreed, on the condition she was able to capture all her targets without spilling any blood. this was the first time he was testing her with any kind of restriction on her. If she was able to show that level of control then it would be time to start her field training.
The blonde and black haired girl stood still for what felt like hours, her hair blowing around her as the wind picked up, but still she didn't move. The sound of pens scratching against paper filled the room as everything she did was written down and recorded. Just when Caesar was starting to wonder if this test was going to be a flop, Naria disappeared in a wave of black smoke that shot up from the ground and enveloped her completely.
"Find her!"
He shouted at the nearest hazmat wearing scientist working under him and looked back at the screen as the man worked on switching between the different cameras throughout the island until finally a familiar figure was shown on the screen.
"She's by the coast Master Caesar. That's well over three miles away from her original position."
Humming in thought of the information he just gained, Caesar waved off the questioning and uncertain looks of his subordinates as he relaxed in his chair, keeping his eyes trained on the screen to see what other tricks his experiment had under her sleeves. It was quite apparent to him now that her abilities far exceeded his own.
Naria had come to rely on her hearing more than her eyesight, she'd taught herself to be able to tell whenever someone was walking down the hall towards her room and most of the time she could tell who it was by the sound of their footsteps. It was because of this that she could tell where her first few targets were. She saw them, three men hiding beneath an overhanging cliff, and could hear their frantic heartbeats at not knowing when she would show up.
Silently sending her smoke forward, crawling along the ground Naria watched as it moved closer to the men going completely unnoticed until it was too late to react. The sounds of their cries of surprise let her know she had them. The smoke moved with her will, she imagined it in her mind's eye and it did what it was told. In an instant the men's cries were silenced briefly followed by the sickening crunch of bones as her smoke twisted their heads until their necks snapped.
Moving on, not taking the time to dwell on her actions, Naria headed further inland. She didn't sense anyone else along the coast and knew sooner or later this game would end and she would be the victor.
By the time Naria reached the woods on the outermost part of the forest the weather had changed, instead of the summer breeze that had been blowing her hair about earlier, the air had turned chilly and the leaves on the trees in front of her rapidly lost their lush, green color and changed to a variety of reds, oranges, and browns. One might think this would help hide the men trying to escape from her, but if anything, it helped Naria to be able to identify her targets.
The sound of branches snapping made Naria turn to her left, pausing mid-step and saw one of her targets trying to get away. Choosing this time to show her own physical skill instead of just her power, Naria chased after the running man. Her steps silent as she trailed him, steadily closing the distance between them until she was right behind him. Unable to help herself, Naria tapped the man on his shoulder, making him cry out as he whirled around with wide-eyes. She moved with him so she was standing behind him and could hear the slight whimper that escaped him when he couldn't see anyone around, but sure he felt someone tap his shoulder.
Repeating the action a second time, Naria waited patiently as the man slowly turned to face her. The color drained from his face and he opened his mouth to scream, but Naria's hand flashed forward before he could put voice to his fear, crushing his windpipe and kicking his feet out from under him all in one movement. The man landed with a loud thud, the leaves that had fallen to the ground with the sudden shift of the weather crunching under the weight of his body. Iridescent violet eyes watched as the man struggled to fix his throat, there was no use. She had used enough force to make it so he could not make any noise and could not breathe. It wouldn't take much longer, especially with the man panicking, for him to die.
"Die!"
The sound of a voice so suddenly interrupting the silence that had fallen around her surprised Naria who turned to see who spoke to see a man charging at her with a stick in his hands, aimed straight at her. Moving to avoid contact with the stick, Naria frowned at how difficult he was making her test when another three men appeared from within the woods, all carrying weapons similar to their friend.
"Four against one? I hardly think that's fair."
Naria said as she started circling the man who originally attacked her, he instantly started doing the same.
"Against you it's more than fair!"
One of the other men shouted before lunging at her. Easily moving to the left, Naria watched as the man struggled to keep his balance as he stumbled past her.
The men moved to confine her within a circle, each trying to attack her on their own, and each being made a fool of as she easily dodged them as if she were playing with them.
"Stop toying with us you witch!"
One of the men, a brunette, shouted as he charged at her. The small smile that had started to form on Naria's face at her little game instantly dropped and her eyes snapped to the frightened man's, staring him down as he charged towards her.
"I'm no witch."
She said before lunging towards the man, he brought his stick down on her head on instinct, but it snapped before it could do any damage. Now without a weapon the man started to back down, but it was too late, the damage had been done. Naria's fist connected with the man's face, sending him back a little and disorienting him.
"Don't just stand there, get her!"
One of the other men shouted as Naria advanced on the man who called her a witch. The other three tried attacking her all at once while her attention was on the man in front of her, thinking they had the advantage. They were wrong.
Smoke shot up from seemingly nowhere and wrapped around the men's weapons before they made contact with her. As Naria moved forward to take care of the man in front of her, the black smoke billowing behind her moved to wrap around the remaining three, restricting their movements. Grunts and cries of protest were heard as the men were forced to watch Naria kill the man in front of her. Once finished, she turned towards them and the look on her face made them all still in their attempt of getting free. There was a cold look in her eyes that made a chill run down their spines, it was like looking into the face of death as he stood over you, scythe in hand. And just like death, with a wave of her hand, the men's lives were over.
Caesar stared down at his experiment at a complete loss for words after witnessing the test she just went through. Twenty, she killed twenty of his men without spilling a single drop of blood and all the while showing just what she could do. Since the incident two years ago she no longer thought of it as a game, but she didn't seem to care that she was killing innocent men. She followed orders without question, just like he wanted. He had already sent the footage of her test through the underground world and the phones were going off like fireworks, all offering different things to buy her. His experiment was a success, he had created the perfect weapon.
"Daddy, I passed and didn't break the condition you set. That means I get a friend now right?"
Naria asked, breaking through the scientist's thoughts of money, fame, and success.
"What? Oh, right, of course dear. Daddy will find you a friend, you just have to be patient."
He said, forcing a smile on his face as he spoke.
"Okay. I'm going to my room now."
Naria said, excusing herself and leaving Caesar to himself. The second the door shut after her the smile fell from his face, replaced by a frown. He didn't want to chance some child interfering with all the work he had put into molding Naria to be the weapon he needed, but if he didn't get her a friend it would cause a headache he really didn't feel like dealing with.
"Master Caesar, the results are back! There's something you need to see."
One of the scientists in the observation room with him said, pulling his attention away from his internal struggle to the screen displaying Naria's body. One side showed the internal view; x-rays, blood vessels, muscles. The other showed the external view; her skin, hair, and clothes. The image his subordinate wanted him to look at was of Naria's bare back. At first Caesar didn't see what was so urgent until he noticed a black smudge on the screen over her left shoulder blade.
"Hey, clean off the screen. I can't see anything with that smudge there."
He ordered and when the man didn't move he frowned until the man spoke up.
"Sir, that isn't a smudge. That's actually on experiment 800's body. It's grown."
"What do you mean?"
The clown asked as he walked closer to the screen to get a better look.
"What I mean sir, is that it is a part of her that has spread further than it had before. What we first thought was a mole is actually a consequence of her using her powers. After taking a few samples we found it is under the skin, but not quite in the bloodstream. It doesn't seem to react to any prodding and has no other effect, yet grows after every continued use of experiment 800's power."
The man said, walking up and handing a folder to Caesar. Taking it with a gloved hand, Caesar scanned through it, his eyebrows rising in surprise at the data collected.
"So what? She has a natural mark that will eventually cover her body, so long as she still does what I say who cares?"
Caesar asked, tossing the folder over his shoulder, irritated that his subordinates were bothering him with such trivial matters.
"That's just it sir, we don't know if this occurrence is benign or not. For all we know, this could be harming her."
That made Caesar stop halfway to the door.
"Run more tests and find out. I can't sell damaged goods."
Shoutouts
Raindra: She doesn't realize who her father REALLY is. He's always been distant so the only thing she wanted was a hug. Her wishes get bigger and bigger and eventually will cause the change in her life that starts it all XD
xd9lizzy: What makes you so certain she will meet him? Oh who am I trying to kid, I'm obsessed with that tan fucking psycho. I'd love to read it, I've been wanting to read more One Piece stories anyways, it helps when writing my own haha. It sparks my own ideas and it helps me get into the feel for the fandom. Though I may have to go back and rewatch a few episodes since where I'm wanting this story to start out is well before the two year skip. (spoiler, sorry)
Suteruben: That was what I struggled with when I first wanted to start this story. I was half-tempted to write her already grown and reflecting back on her past, but it was so overdone that I felt it would be a nice refresher to do something different. Especially since in my other two One Piece stories I did flashback-type explanations of my OCs.
