Chapter 1 – Far into the distance
The gold fragments of the setting sun's light glittered on the surface of Grand Line. The high cliff was lonely except a girl who was standing alone silently at the edge, watching the ocean fading away in the distance eternally. Only the sound of the waves lashing the rocks on the seashore and the cry of the seagulls could be heard as the girl was deep in her thoughts. The sunshine was still glowing on her expressionless, melancholic face but nothing could reach and light up the mourning and the darkness swirling in her soul under the surface. Because the flame what always was able to do it had gone out since a long ago. Dana felt like she lost everything. Nothing was last… only the hope… the last hope of seeing him again one day. Maybe, somewhere… far into the distance…
Only the Roger Pirates were able to sail through that terrifying ocean. But still, she felt that she has to try it. There are parts in the New World what have not been discovered, even not by the Yonkou. This part of the Grand Line where she was now was called as Paradise and the New World was called as Hell, but it did not matter to Dana because wherever she was every seconds passing were the hell to her if she needed to live them without him. She didn't fear from the afflictions, the unknown, the struggles, and not even from the death. She felt she lost everything important to her so if she has to risk her life in order to get everything back, she didn't mind it.
- You would have deserved to live more. Whatever you thought about yourself, you deserved to be loved and live. I'm so sorry for I was too weak... – her voice trembled, and she hanged her head a little. Her blue eyes were filled with the mixed feeling of guilt and sorrow what ran through her like a poison destroying, eating her up inside. She suddenly closed her eyes trying to ease her dark thoughts about the unbearable feeling of missing that man. No matter how hopeless it seemed now, she felt she can't give up. - But I will try everything to reach you again. If I lose and die while trying to revive you... at least I can look inside your eyes on the beyond life without regret, knowing I did everything I could for you.
Two long years passed but the ring she got from him was still glittering on her ring finger. It always gave her power bringing up the memories of the time when they could be together. Everytime she looked at that ring the past were flooding her and filled her heart with warmth. His gentle laugh… How his lips widened to that happy smile on his face… The taste of his kiss… These memories were burnt inside her so deeply that they could not vanish, not even if the time passed. Even if he didn't exist anymore, nobody else existed for her. She saw him in everyone and everything. She heard his whisper in the wind, she felt his tears in the rain and it was his warmth what filled her soul as the clouds vanished on the sky and the sunlight shone on her skin.
- I will revive you… - she whispered as she was glaring at the ocean fading to the distance. The surface of the sea was dyed to red by the sunset.
Suddenly the waves lashed the rocks of the seashore strongly and wildly, and the wind blew so hard that intensely raised her long, straight blood red hair and her black scarf as the girl was still standing at the edge of the cliff without a move under the dying sky. The waves that lashed now very high sparkled in the front of her eyes, before they fell back and faded away again.
This long story what began 12 years ago, started as unexpectedly and suddenly and it ended 2 years ago. Like their meeting was the play of coincidences or destiny, and the time they spent together affected both of them deeply, not letting them forget even when the fate separated them again for a while. They loved each other and this bond between them could not be destroyed. Not even by death. Dana had no proof about she will find anything in the dangerous, hidden parts of Shinsekai what can bring him back to life. But there was nothing else she could do… Only believe.
- Maybe… Our story still can have a happy end…
Some seagulls flew up toward the huge sun-disk and the girl raised her head a little, with that melancholic dreamy look in her half closed eyes watching the birds vanishing into the light. As her lips softly widened to that weak smile, the sunshine sparkled in the tears falling down on her face.
- Right… Ace?
