Sun's mind was all jumbled up with everything that she just heard. And also with what she had done. She had actually had sex with a merman. She felt sick to her stomach, literally.
"I feel sick." She brought one hand to hold onto her stomach and the other to cover her mouth.
"There is a bathroom right across the hall."
"Can I have my clothes back before I go?" The vomit started coming up from her stomach to her chest, moving more north. She didn't even wait for his answer; instead, she wrapped the cover all over her body, making sure to cover the important sacred parts. Then sprinted her way past Choo to the door. Finally out the door, she opened the door to the bathroom, locking it for safety.
"Well, she seemed…confused." Choo sat back down on his bed. Hachi was back to normal and Kuroobi was still looking away.
"She'll get over it." Arlong handed Choo a different set of clothes. "Go give those to her. We'll be departing from this place shortly." Choo walked over to the restroom door and knocked on it softly.
"Sweetie, are you feeling ok?" Said 'sweetie' was leaning over the toilet, trying to catch her breath.
"Sort of. And don't call me sweetie." She answered him.
"Hey, open the door. I have clothes to give you." She grabbed onto the counter to help support her. Opening the door slightly, she put out her hand to grab the clothes. Instead of giving her the clothes, Choo grabbed onto her hand and pulled her out a little further, to where he could see her face.
"Get ready fast. We're leaving the island." He kissed her hand gently before handing over the clothes. After closing the door again, she immediately started to cry. Her head, her heart, her body was all hurting. It took her a little while before she was able to calm down, she pulled herself up to look at herself in the mirror.
"This isn't the girl I remember." she told herself. With her fingers, she combed through her tangled hair, trying to make the hairs on the top of her head stay down. Suddenly, an image of her father popped into her head.
" 'Sweetie, whenever you have trouble with your hair, just use a little bit of water.' is what he would say." While fixing her hair a little more, she started to talk to herself.
"You aren't the girl your father raised." She rinsed her face off with the water. "He taught you better than this. He taught you to never be taken down easily." She leaned closer into the mirror, now looking at her eyes. Those red eyes were her favorite of her father. That was it.
"No way am I leaving this island." She examined the clothes carefully, just find that the shirt was sort of revealing. It was a purple and black striped shirt, with an extremely low cut V-neck and the sleeves were just about an inch long. The pants were normal black that clung to every single bit of her lower body.
"He only wants to show off the tattoo, of course." She paused for a second when she felt cold air hit her stomach. "Why do I feel cold around my stomach?" Sun had failed to notice that the shirt only came just a few inches below her breast while the pants only came to rest on her hips. That left all of her stomach uncovered.
"Now's not the time to worry. I have to find a way out." She looked around the bathroom. 'Let's see. Sink, toilet, bathtub, window, closet, and…WINDOW! And it's opened. How convenient' the window was placed perfectly over the bathtub.
"Let's see." She took a step on the tub's ledge, being careful not to slip. The window was not as low as she thought it was. With her pressed firmly against the wall, the window was still higher than her.
"How high can I jump without slipping and killing myself?" Mentally, she counted '1 for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready, and 4 to GO!' She jumped as high as she could. Her hands grabbed onto the edge of the window. With all of her strength in her arms, she pulled herself up just slightly to see if there was anybody guarding the building.
"Wow, we're up high." To her luck, the mermen had forgotten that she was still there. And therefore, left the building unguarded. "Perfect."
The last box of cargo was loaded onto the ship. And all of Sun's stuff was on there already.
"We're ready to go." Kuroobi tore up the list of the names of the villagers. He won't need this anymore.
"Good. Hachi, could you go get my girl from the bathroom? I think she's still up there." Hachi nodded at the request, but before he could go, two other members of the crew came running towards him.
"She isn't up there." One of them said.
"We checked already." The other one put in.
Yup, Sun had jumped down from the window, and nearly broke her ankles in the process. She had gotten over the pain though and immediately started bolting to her house.
"Got to get there. Fast." She came to a stop when she realized that two figures were running towards her. "Now I got to hide. Geez, the adventure never stops." Looking at her surroundings, she decided to hide behind tree. When the two figures get closer, she was going to ambush them; it didn't even matter if they were mermen.
'Wait for it…NOW!' She threw herself onto one of the figures; they started wrestling all across the ground. She was on top of him, and then he was on top of her. The other figures decided to finally step in and tried to pull her off the other.
"GET OFF OF DAVID!"
"KRIS, GET WHATEVER THIS IS OFF ME!" The two figures yelled at the same time. Sun stopped rolling around, getting a good look at the two.
"My bad. My bad. I'm so sorry David." She apologized quickly to him. The two paused for all of this to register in their heads.
"SUN!" The both of them crushed her in a big bear hug. Yelling stuff like 'we're sorry' or 'I missed you' or 'are you hurt?' There was too many to count.
"I missed the both of you too. But right now, I need some help."
"Of course, anything for yo..u…YOU HAVE A TATTOO!!" David stared at the one on her arm. "AND IT'S THE MERMAN'S NAME!"
"David, you think that's bad. She's got on a very low shirt and has one on her…"
"Sun, please cover yourself." Sun brought her hands up to cover her chest, in a protective manner.
"I would if I could, but Choo picked out my clothing today."
"Why is his name on your arm?" The two didn't let Sun get past this question. They needed to know everything he has done to her.
"Well, yesterday we had a picnic together. I was forced to go. But afterwards, he tried to, sort of, propose to me. I turned him down and he wouldn't take no for an answer. I tried to run but two of his friends caught me. Then they inserted some kind of liquid into me, saying it would make me lust for Choo. And then everything after that is blank. This morning, I found out that…"
"You're leaving the island. We know that part, everybody is gathering around the river to see them off."
"Even my mom and sis?"
"We think so."
"Let's go." Sun turned around to head to the river, but Kris and David held onto her arms, pulling her back.
"Are you crazy? This is your chance to escape."
"No, this is a perfect chance for him to attack the villagers. I escaped already and for sure, he knows I'm gone."
"ALL OF YOU LISTEN UP!" The villagers' emotion quickly turned from happy to fear as Arlong yelled out loud. "What you heard about us leaving is true. We are leaving your island, but…" Arlong motioned for Choo to start talking.
"My girl has mysteriously disappeared. And if she doesn't show up in the next five minutes, you are all going to die right here and now."
"Mom, Sun is really going to be leaving. Isn't she?" Katie looked at her daughter, realizing how badly her daughter wanted to do it. "Mom, I don't want her to leave me. I've never been apart from my sister."
"Honey, if you could, would you go with your sister?" Rae gasped at what her mom just said.
"Mom, but that means I would be leaving you." She clung onto her mother's arm.
"If you want to…then go."
"But..."
"Sweetie, I'll be fine. I'll have the villagers to help me, but your sister would have nobody."
"I love you mom." Rae hugged her mother for what probably would be the last time.
"And I love you; now go find a way onto that ship." Thankfully, the mermen were too caught up in finding Sun that they didn't even notice Rae jumping into the water.
"TIME'S ALMOST UP! WHERE IS SUN?!" Choo's voice roared loudly, growing impatient with every passing second. The villagers looked in every direction, hoping that they would see the young girl.
"Countdown Kuroobi. Mermen, Get ready." The mermen all stood with various weapons. Kuroobi held up his hand counting down from 5.
"5." He put down on finger. " 4." Another finger. "3." Another finger. "2." Just one more.
"Wait, I see her." And indeed whoever yelled that did. Sun somehow slipped into the middle of the crowd, with Kris and David right by her sides. Some of her hair was sticking to her face, due to the massive amount of sweat. Her breathing was un-even.
"I'm right here. You better not put that last finger down."
"Sweetie." Her mother ran up to her, hugging her tight. "You're ok and…exposing too much skin. Cover yourself!"
"Mom, I'm sorry of everything that you had to go through. But now everything will be better." She hugged her mother, then her two friends who were always trying to help.
"You two have been the bentest friends I could ever ask for. Take care of my mom for me, will ya?"
"You know we will. And you don't have to be afraid anymore of saying no to that merman." Kris felt himself getting ready to cry. "I'm not gonna cry. I won't cry."
David elbowed him in the side.
"Kris, it isn't like it's the last time we'll ever see her." David felt that somehow he would see Sun again.
"You two always knew how to make me laugh." She placed a soft kiss on their cheeks. "And please, I beg you, don't work in that fish place forever. You guys now taste like fish." The three shared a small chuckle before Sun left to go stand in front of Choo.
"I'm sorry I ran away." She looked down towards the floor, refusing to look him in the face.
"Look at me." She slowly lifted her face, completely scared of what he was going to do to her. He looked at her for a long period of time; finally, he lifted her high enough to where her lips were just a few inches away from his. The villagers, especially her mom, gasped as they saw the merman placed a rough kiss on the poor girl's small lips. He pulled away with a loud 'smek'. It was obvious that he was showing them what belonged to him.
"Say goodbye to your home, cause you're never coming back here again." All the mermen boarded the ship in a hurry, incredibly happy that they don't have to be doing any more ridiculous gestures for the new couple.
Sun sat on one of the rails of the ship, watching the river flow by. She watched how all the fish would jump up in the arm, landing back down in the water with a small little splash. In a weird way, she was enjoying it. It was like jumping colors.
"Enjoying the scenery?" She felt two buff arms wrap around her, almost making her lose her balance on the rail.
"Yes, I am." She remained still.
"Good, so what do you say about tonight? You and I get together and…" Before he could finish his sentence, a loud trumpet noise was heard below them. It was Hachi.
"INTRUDER! WE HAVE AN INTRUDER!" Choo reluctantly released Sun's waist and headed down to the cargo area. Sun followed shortly, wanting to find out what was going on. But once they got down to the area, she had a hard time seeing was what going on.
"You guys are too tall. Let me see." She tried jumping to see over shoulders, but that didn't work. So instead, she pushed her way through all of them. As she passed them, she would either call them 'ugly' or 'fat'.
"I told you, I came to watch over my sister. Idiots!"
"Rae, My sister!" As soon as Sun had made it to the front of the crowd, she rushed to hug her sister. Who in return did the same.
"I've missed you."
"Me too." Sun pushed away from the hug just a little. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here because I didn't want you to be alone. Plus, Mom asked if I would keep an eye on you. And please cover yourself." Sun rolled her eyes now at this comment.
"Arlong, what should we do?"
"I'm not sure right now." Arlong lifted his finger to his chin, to think of any ideas of what to do with the new girl.
"I'm not leaving this ship." Rae grabbed onto Sun and held her tight. "And you can't make me leave."
"Yes we can." Kuroobi decided to cut in on this. He glared down at the girl.
"No you can't." Rae argued back.
"Yes we can."
"No you can't."
"Yes we can."
"Yes you can." She switched around the words, hoping to trick the merman.
"No we can't."
"Yes you can."
"I said No we can't. So we can't."
"Ok, you win. You guys can't." Sun and Rae held onto their giggles when Kuroobi realized what he just did. Arlong laughed loudly at this.
"Kuroobi, I think you've just met your match." Kuroobi growled at this. Some little human think she can just come in and show him up. Not on his watch.
"Anyway, I see no harm in keeping her with us. It'll make Sun happy to have somebody to talk to."
"Choo, are you serious?"
"Very. If it's ok with Arlong?" Both girls looked at Arlong, who was still thinking.
"Ok, she can stay. But she needs to get the tattoo also."
"YAY!" Both girls jumped up and down with Joy. So happy that they were going to stay together.
"All right, show's over. Everybody back to your stations." Complaints were heard as each members of the crew exited the room, except for Kuroobi. He was still at the same spot, still glaring at the girl.
"Something up?" Choo went to stand next to his buddy, joining him in the glaring.
"That girl." He didn't know what to say. No one has ever dared to go up against him, and then suddenly some small human comes into the picture.
"Who? Rae? What about her?"
"Nothing." Kuroobi walked past Choo to reach the exit.
"It doesn't look like nothing." Choo whispered to himself as he continued to watch the two joyous girls. Fully aware of what Kuroobi was starting to feel for the poor sister.
That night on the ship, Sun had begged Choo to let her and Rae borrow his room for the night; He let her at the cost of a certain price. Now he had to room with Arlong, which can be pretty torturous. Especially tonight, since he wouldn't shut up about the two new members of the crew.
"It doesn't look good for our image if we have two girls, did you think that over?"
"We're big things with freakishly big muscles that kidnapped two girls who are too scared to say anything. There, problem solved."
"Wrong."
"Wrong?"
"Sun was not afraid to speak her mind, but that changed. Now it looks like Rae is the one we need to worry about."
"No, not really. We just need Kuroobi to shut her up."
"Don't tell me…"
"Yup, Kuroobi likes Rae."
"Rae, will you stop staring at the tattoos already?" Sun and Rae were sitting right on Choo's big bed, both surrounded by different types of snakes. They shared a little big of laughter, anger, but mostly shared a lot of sadness. Then Rae asked about the two tattoos.
"I can't help it." Rae's eyes got closer and closer to her sister's chest. "It's a big tattoo, does it still hurt?" She poked the tattoo roughly with her finger.
"Ouch." Sun swatted her sister's finger away. "When you poke it like that it does."
"Poke it like what?" Sun started to poke her sister all over.
"Like this."
"Oh, so that's how you want to play, huh?" Rae tackled her sister to the floor, pinning her completely.
"Wrestling?" Sun was shocked; the last time they had wrestled against each other was when their dad was alive. He would come screaming into the room on weekend mornings, which would make me and her wake up with our hearts pounding like crazy; then he'd run out of the room in a hurry, knowing full well that we'd chase him; he would hide in his room, with mom, ready to attack us when we'd pass by.
"Yeah, it used to be our favorite weekend morning activity?" Rae was trying her hardest to cheer her sister up, but instead it was just making it a little worse.
"I'm sorry, but…I can't. Not without dad scared the life out of us first." The door busted open, slamming against the wall with a big 'slam'. The girls grabbed onto each other, screaming their lungs out.
"Why are you screaming?" Kuroobi shielded his ears with his hands, yelling through the screams. The two finally ran out of air in their lungs, making their screams disappear.
"Because you scared us." Rae stood up, walked over to Kuroobi, pulled her arm back, getting ready to hit him in the arm. He grabbed onto her wrist as soon as it came forward.
"You, me, talk now." He roughly pulled her out of the room, leaving behind a very confused Sun.
"Yeah, thanks, I'll just wait in here." She crawled onto the bed, wrapping herself gently in the big covers. And unknowingly drifted off into sleep.
The next morning, Sun was walking around the ship, searching for her sister. She didn't come back to the room last night.
"Rae!" She called out, almost tempted to actually open all the doors as she passed by. "Rae, answer me already!" The last door she had passed opened, revealing a very worn out Rae, with a sleeping Kuroobi on the bed.
"What…" Rae wrapped her arms tightly around her sister, crying her eyes out. What Sun went through, Rae had just gone through. Now any chance of either one of them escaping was gone.
"And that was our horrible adventure on how we both came to be in Arlong's crew." During the story, Sun and Rae had laid down on their sides, leaving just enough room in the middle for Nami to lie. Nami's eyes stayed widened through the whole thing, surprised on how many surprises and dirty tricks were used.
"And I thought Arlong was bad, but Choo is worse." Sun nodded her head at Nami's statement. In reality, Choo was the lowest of any mermen; never even caring on whom he hurt.
"But the only bright side to this is that Sun and I are still able to stay together." The two sisters grabbed onto each other's hands, smiling at little Nami.
"But whatever happened to your mom?" Sun's smile immediately dropped from her face.
"We don't know."
"I try to forget everything." Sun stood up from the bed, walking over to the window to look out at the forest in the back. It reminded her so much of her home, "But it's so hard to forget everything when a splitting image of it is right in front of you."
Nami took this as a small sign that the girls wanted to be left alone, so she headed straight over to her room. Sitting at her desk, working on a new map, the deal she made with Arlong popped into her head. Why had she been given a chance to get free and the two of them were left no other choice but to stay?
"This isn't right." She threw down her pen, leaving a huge ink stain right in the middle of the map and ran all the way down the stairs.
"Arlong, I want to add to our deal." She went to stand right in front of him, his eyes watching her every movement.
"And what might that be, little navigator?"
"When I pay you the 100,000,000 beli, you not only have to let me and cocoyashi village go; but you also have to release Sun and Rae."
Wow, this is the longest chapter i've written for this. I'm happy that I'm finally done with their past. Read and review. Please??