Piracy
Chapter 9
Rival
Orb
The small town of Orb was bustling with the chattering of friends, store owners and children playing in the street. At first look no one would have guessed that town was the residents of some of the most wanted men and woman.
The town was actually quite large, many homes where large and local shops where highly stocked with rare items. The advantage of coming from a family of crime was that money was plentiful and rare items could be shipped in by relatives or friends who were willing to steal for them.
A woman with red-hair dressed in a long green dress with white cuffs walked down the street a small basket slung on her wrist. She hummed a tone that was only known in her head and made her way down the crowded streets.
"Look! Look!" She heard a small voice of a little girl call out to her right, turning she saw the pigtailed girl pointing her small arm out towards the ocean.
The red haired woman was shocked to see a ship approaching it was almost all black with a dark wood, but what caught her attention was the flag that hung proudly from the mass. It was red and had two A's joined together in what looked like fine calligraphy and underneath had two swords clashing.
"Archangel!" She gasped excitedly and without another thought she ran quickly to the decks to wait for the ship to dock.
Archangel
The large ship slowed down as it neared the harbor and once they where nearly fully docked men started throwing ropes down to the other men who were stationed to help pull and try the ship into the harbor.
"Finally! It's good to be home!" Cagalli said with a smiled as she gazed at the town in front of her as she looked over the ships edge.
"Glad to see you're excited." Athrun said sounding amused as he joined the girl at the edge followed by Stellar and Lacus.
"Well why wouldn't I be? This is the place I grew up in." Cagalli said still smiling she was really glad to be back.
"Aren't you happy to be back, Athrun?" Lacus asked wondering why the blue haired boy didn't seem that too happy to here.
"Oh, I am glad to be here, it's a nice town and it's a nice break from sailing but I didn't grow up here like most of the crew did." Athrun explained.
"What do you mean?" Lacus asked curious.
"You see I grew up in large mining village, that's also where I met the captain, but I did travel here with him to meet his sister when I was 12 and that's when I became a pirate." Athrun said giving a very brief summary of his life.
"A mining village?" Lacus asked
"Yes, its named December perhaps you have heard of it?" Athrun asked looking at Lacus.
Nodding her head Lacus said yes, who didn't know of that town it was known for rare minerals and also for its great wealth she was surprised that Athrun would have came from such a well off society but during her stay on the ship she learned that surprises where all around.
But then something clicked….
"What! You said you met the captain in December." Athrun nodded his head. "Well then why was Cagalli in Orb, but Kira wasn't?" Lacus asked looking back and forth between Cagalli and Athrun.
"I can answer that" Cagalli spoke up after a moment. "You see our parents separated after we were born. Our father took Kira with him and they sailed the seas for some time but then he dropped Kira off in December to be under the care of Murrue, I on the other hand was taken by my mother to Orb and I grew up here until my brother returned and then I became a pirate as well."
Lacus looked down taking in the new personal information. "That's so sad."
Cagalli merely shrugged. "Its how we grow up and we didn't even know of each other until we got a little bit older, plus we had happy childhoods so no harm done."
Lacus smiled though she felt it a bit unnerving how many of the people on the ship seemed to brush off their past as nothing, but it was almost admirable to be able to move on with life and focus on the present and not the past, a rare gift not many had the privilege of having including herself.
Looking back over the edge she saw a woman wearing a green dress and red hair standing behind the men as they worked, looking up at the ship with a dazed expression but her eyes didn't stand still as they were to busy scanning the entire ship as if she was looking for something or rather someone.
"Who is that? Do you know her?" Lacus asked pointing with her finger and looked questionably at the others around her.
Athrun gave a small smile and looked at Lacus. "Oh yes that is Meyrin." Cagalli snorted as he spoke. "You'll most likely meet her once we dock or maybe a little while afterwards."
Cagalli glared at the woman below. "I don't see why you are so nice to her!" She snapped.
"Huh…" Athrun looked at Cagalli barley.
"She is a little weak wench and gets sea sick! What? Dear Athrun do you find so great about her?" Cagalli asked in a sickly sweet voice.
Groaning Athrun slapped his hand to his forehead. "Cagalli just because you don't like the girl- for no apparent reason- don't mean that I have to be rude to her."
"YES IT DOES! I KNOW THAT SHE IS NO GOOD AND YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT ME ON THAT!" Cagallli bellowed.
"WHY?" Athrun shouted back both glaring stubbornly.
"Ummm who is she exactly?" Lacus asked if this where rubbing the back of her head sorry for bringing the topic up.
Cagalli huffed. "She's my brothers "love interest"." Cagallis voice was bitter sweet as she clasped her hands and blinked rapidly at the words "love interest".
Lacus felt her mind freeze….love what?
"What?" Lacus asked very confused.
Sighing Stellar placed a hand on Lacus shoulder. "You see Meyrin has liked the captain for some time now and whenever we return she always clings to him and tries to spend lots of time with him, apparently they have been courting." Stellar explained.
"Courting?" Lacus asked in a sad voice. Then why did he kiss her? Even if was only a kiss on the cheek.
"THEY ARE NOT COURTING!" Cagalli screamed at the top of her lungs, obviously she did NOT like the idea of her brother and Meyrin together.
"They aren't?" Lacus asked even more confused on whom to believe.
Shaking his head Athrun took pity on Lacus and decided to clear things up. "Cagalli is right they are not courting but Meyrin has had a high interest in the captain for a long time and sense Kira has never shown any real interest in any girl it is assumed that he returns the feelings."
Lacus gazed at Athrun questionably. "So does he like her or not?"
Shrugged his shoulders Athrun replied. "I really don't know, I wouldn't think so since Kira tries to avoid her sometimes and doesn't show any real affection towards her, but I could be wrong it's not something he discuses."
Nodding Lacus tuned out any other conversation topics and Cagallis shouts of protest; she only fixed her mind and eyes on the woman below. She couldn't help but feel a pain of jealousy well up inside her.
Was she worried that Kira already had an interest in another girl?
Orbs Harbor
Meyrin bounced on her heels in excitement as she saw the crew start to get off the ship she saw some familiar faces that she knew by name like Shinn, Cagalli, Athrun, Mwu, Stellar, and Dearka but others she did recognize but didn't know them personally. She glared at the famous "hellcat" of the archangel as the blonde passed by her. She didn't let it faze her though as the thoughts of certain someone was keeping her mind elsewhere.
Smiling widely she let out a girlish squeal as she saw the man she was waiting for step off the ship, running towards him she stopped about 100 feet away when she saw him approach a pretty no beautiful girl with strange pink hair.
She glared slightly as she how warmly his eyes seemed to glow as he talked to her and how the girl seemed to blush and lower her voice in bashfulness.
Something was fishy between the two and Meyrin could smell the salty order from a mile away.
Her smile returning she bonded up to them and grabbed the violet eyed mans arm tightly.
"Kiraaaaaa!" She squealed causing some on lookers to either roll their eyes or whisper soft awes.
"Uh….Meyrin…..how are you?" Kira asked taking his eyes off of one blue eyed girl to look at another. (Are Meyrins eyes blue? Oh well they are in this story!)
Beaming brightly Meyrin nuzzled her head into the crock of Kiras neck. "I am fine, but I am doing better now! Did you come to see me?" Meyrin asked with a hopeful look.
"Uh…." Kira dint really know what to say, Meyrin always put him on the spot and he never liked to hurt the girls feelings. "You could say that…." Kira drilled.
Smiling even brighter- if it was possible- Meyrin blushed for a moment before attempting to drag Kira off. "Come we have soooo much to catch up on."
Staying firmly in place Kira shook his head. "No that's alright I have matters to attend to at the moment."
Meyrin pouted. "Cant it wait? I haven't seen you in months. Surely you can do it later or have someone else take care of it."
Shaking his head Kira refused. "I have to deal with it now, and later tonight I promised Lacus that I would show her around town." Kira said.
Lacus stood dumbfounded Kira never promised her anything of the sorts but a wink and an almost pleading look from Kira for her to play along made her understand.
"Oh, yes he did and I won't allow him to go back on his promise!" Lacus said firmly.
Kira chuckled while Meyrin shot a slight grimace at the other girl. "Well there you have it. I will spend some time with you another day." Kira said before quickly leaving.
Standing beside each other both women watched the brunet male leave. Meyrin looked between confusion and anger. Shooting a nasty look at Lacus for stealing Kira away for the evening Meyrin spun on her heels and marched out of the harbor.
Sighing Lacus allowed herself to calm down. Her heart was racing as the red head made her feel rather uncomfortable, what really bothered her though was the look Meyrin gave her before she left.
Though Lacus had only gotten a small glance at the others face she saw several emotions running threw the blue eyes that mirrored her own. They were filled with anger, hate and a bit of worry. If Lacus didn't know better she swore that the girl felt threatened by her. But why? Because of Kira?
If that was so Lacus couldn't help but feel a bit of confidence from that, if the other girl felt threatened…did that mean she had a chance?
Yunna's Estate
Yunna's study and office was in a complete mess. The purple haired man had trashed the entire place after hearing that the ship was indeed destroyed and that the crew was found weaponless floating in life boats on the water by local fishermen.
"They are to powerful!" Yunna shouted to the only other occupant of the room, Commander Le Cruset. "We need to get rid of them soon! Before they get away with my fortune and my bride."
The blonde man looked at Yunna calmly. "Don't you mean "her fortune"?"
Yunna snapped his head to glare at the other. "NO! She will be my wife so what hers is MINE!"
Nodding the Rau chuckled. "I guess you're right."
Slamming his hands down on the wooden desk- probably the only thing that was still intact- Yunna glared at the other man. "So what do you plan on doing?"
Smiling Rau answered. "If this was any other pirate ship we wouldn't be looking to much into it, however sense we have a long line of crimes and kills committed by that ship we will be taking serious action against it. We have our finest soldier already preparing for departure in search of the Archangel."
Yunna smiled. "That's wonderful, who is this man? Some experience war hero of sorts?"
Amused the blond commander smiled. "She my lord."
Yunna blinked. "What?"
"Our finest is a woman a fine Lieutenant." Rau said proudly. "I trained her myself."
Yunna only stared for a moment before… "A WOMAN!"
It was Rau's turn to blink even if was hidden behind his grey mask that he always wore. "Yes a woman."
"I woman can't do this! She cant defeat a captain of the Archangel!" Yunna huffed.
The masked man only laughed. "I beg to differ. She is extremely well trained and has a cold heart. No remorse for anyone and to make things even better her family was killed and betrayed by pirates when her mother re-married."
"So she can do it?" Yunna asked still uncertain.
Rau smiled. "Defiantly."
A/N I have just started a new job so updates are hard but don't worry I will do my best to get them up as soon as I can.
Some info:
I named the town or village where Athrun grew up December because that's the PLANT Patrick Zala was representative of (I think).
Also I bet you NEVER saw the whole Meyrin liking Kira thing…..come on be honest it was a shock!
Anyways the name of the mystery woman Rau and Yunna where talking about will be reviled soon, maybe in the next chapter!
Till me what you think and REVIEW!