"Well this happened a few months ago before we set route over here, during a stormy night…"
Everyone fell silent, only the small movement of the waves and the sound of the light breeze was heard. Yahiko started to get very interested this was what he had been waiting for!
"The clouds had suddenly changed...the blue sky and turned black, thunders roared like the screams of an angry God while bright flashes of light illuminated the skies and the sea itself!" Eye-patch raised his voice making some of the kids jolt in surprise.
"...Everyone in the ship ran from stern to prow trying to keep the ship from turning, but since all the crewman were so focused on that, they failed to noticed that they were not alone in the seas..." Alex looked over to the kids, every single one of them, boys and girls, were completely hooked on the story.
"Aye from the middle of the recent grey fog another ship appeared, its sails were black, ripped almost like a ghost ship..." Cloak whispered the last words to give it more...effect. All the kids gasped, correction all the kids and Kaoru upon the looks of Sanosuke and Kenshin she smile sheepishly and blushed.
"The ship approached us fast, like the tied it self was moving it. In a few minutes it was on or tail! Then the thunders roared even loader and the canons of the other ship soon hit us..." Eye-patch was getting a bit too exited for his own good, after all he was no youngster.
"It a war cry the other pirates boarded or ship and an intense battle began. Swords clashed from both sides and gunshots were fired. The sounds of the storm and of the fight clashed together thus creating an almost war like environment..."
"Aye it did looked like a bloody war..."
"The deck was starting to be covered in blood..."
"Hm yes but it was mainly their blood..."
Both brothers started to ramble on the story, everyone on deck sweat dropped at this, these guys had some serious problems.
"...Sires could you please go on with the story?" Both pirates looked over at Laura and with a small nod and an apologetic smile.
"Anyway both crews clashed on the high seas, many were the ones who got injured during said fight..." Cloak looked at his brother with a confused look on his face Eye patch leaned over so his brother could whisper him something, they both looked at Alex, who raised an eyebrow, and nodded in agreement.
"Well you see a young lady boarded our ship, she had the looks of an assassin and she was an excellent swords woman, fast and flexible and no man of ours could possibly face her..." Alex looked at the men, surely they weren't going to talk about her fight against the female pirate during that night!
"So our best swords woman attacked her and soon a violent fight began..." Alex groaned and face palmed herself while her crew mates laughed. Sano looked at the girl, she sure didn't like the attention, he looked over to her waist to see her swords securely strapped on a belt to her slender waist...
"What are you looking at so deeply?" Kaoru asked while looking at Alex from behind Sano with a little smile.
"T-The swords! What else would I be looking at!" He roared at the girl while turning his face away to hide the little blush. He was a man he couldn't help it.
"Violent fight...yeah right special when she fell on her butt!" Laura began to laugh at the memory of Alex slipping due to the rain and almost losing the fight.
"I dare you to say that again..." Alex got up and in a flash drew one of her swords and pointed it at the relaxed Laura. The blond looked at the sharp point of the blade and with the point of her finger moved it way like it was nothing.
"Yes that did happen but soon Alex challenged the woman again pointing her sword at her face daring her to do it, fight her." Eye-patch started the story again as if he was whispering to the group of kids.
"Seriously?..." Laura directed an almost desperate look at the storytellers, they shrugged and pointed to the group of kids whose puppy dog eyes were very hard to resist.
"Deves-me uma Alexandra..." Laura hissed to her friend who only rubbed her head and smiled innocently. Laura turned to her father and he threw her sword towards his daughter who unsheathed it with elegance.
"Wow! Oh man this is going to be one Hell of a fight!" Yahiko beamed at the expectation of seen actual pirates fighting.
"Pff don't get your hopes high kid, pirates only fight dirty and messy. They have no technique..." Sano suddenly stopped as Ortiz came behind him.
"You say that because you never saw Alex fight my friend, using a real sword." Ortiz eyed Kenshin's katana with distrust.
"No offense ,marmoset*, but I think that those swords are way to thin for a real fight." Kenshin raised a brow and released a 'Oro?' at the name Ortiz had just gave him.
"But hey who am I to talk? I've seen a guy killing another with a spoon so there isn't much that can surprise me anymore!" Ortiz sat down next to Kenshim and Sano while giving both a pat on the back.
Meanwhile both women stared at each other none was willing to give up now, Laura made the first move by advancing at Alex full speed with her sword in front of her to which the brunette smirked and jumped to the side, Laura quickly turned to Alex still in the middle of her attack, this surprised the younger girl as she struggled to avoid the sharp blade.
As the girls made their moves the elders kept telling the story describing every move they made like it had happen in the other fight without even looking at the pirates, who clashed in the deck.
Laura continued to strike over and over again, just like a snake fast and deadly. Alex on the other hand kept avoiding her hits all the while smirking and taunt her for missing, Laura getting sick of it raised her sword above her head and swung it down with all her force, Alex gave a powerful roundhouse kick to the blade throwing it away. The kick and been so strong that Laura even lost her balance and fell to the ground, Alex quickly got next to Laura and placed her sword to the girls neck keeping her from moving.
"...and so with one of her powerful kicks Alex was able to disarm her enemy and claim victory!" All the kids cheered and applauded, Alex helped Laura up and both bow at the crowd while laughing.
"See what I mean. That wasn't a fight, Yahiko...no even missy could do better." Kaoru tried to kill Sano but Kenshin had the decency of stopping her, ending with a bump on his head instead of Sano.
"Let me introduce you to the real pirate within Alex..."Ortiz whispered to Sano and no soon after that he threw one of his daggers in the direction of the unconcerned Alex, the girl aware of the knife turned in a fast and fluid movement turned around and grabbed the dagger by the blunt side of the blade.
"...WOW!" All the kids stared at Alex for a few seconds until they showed their surprise at her speed. Even more when she started to do small tricks with it.
After that a deathly silence fell upon the ship, both Ortiz and Alex were looking at each other with a challenging look their eyes narrowed daring one another to make the first move.
"Whatever gets broke, you'll pay, fix and for the next couple of nights you'll be the ones to clean the deck." As soon as those words came out of the captains mouth Ortiz threw 3 daggers at Alex, in response she threw the one she had in her hands to stop one of his and did a back flip to avoid the other two. One of them scrapped her cheek a thin trail of blood fell down her face which she proceeded to lick with her tongue. This earned her a wolf whistle form the rest of the crew and a seductive grin form Ortiz.
Even Yahiko, Kenshin and Sanosuke got a bit flustered with that, women around there did not do such things so it kind of surprised them. Kaoru on the other hand was more like embarrassed.
Ortiz took out his big sword, and I say big I really mean it! The blade had most likely one of Ortiz arms in width. In little less then 2 seconds Ortiz was in front of Alex ready to strike, she drew her right arm sword and blocked his attack, bad call. Ortiz's attack was to strong for Alex do stop it so she had to recede a few steps backwards losing some balance, the Spaniard used that opportunity to attack again but this time Alex was fast enough to avoid it and get behind him, the man was able to jump away from her attack and from Alex herself.
"See the guy's just muscles and no courage!" Everyone laughed at that and Ortiz used this moment to attack the girl by giving her a sweep throwing her to the ground, this made her loose her sword and Ortiz gave it a kick to get it away from Alex.
Seeing the opportunity Ortiz proceeded to perform powerful strikes which Alex rolled away. Upon watching Ortiz scratching the deck of his beloved ship the Captain's eye twitched severely.
When Alex finally had an opportunity she got up and drew her other sword using her left hand. Both pirates started to cross a few attacks while running around the deck, climbing on top of barrels and such using any and everything to their advantage.
"They're really good and fast, but I think Sano's right they don't seem to have any fighting style." When Kaoru looked back at the guys all of them were giving her look like she had grown another head. She had to be sick to agree with Sano.
"Well Miss Kaoru I don't think that's exactly true, look at Alex feet." They all looked at the young pirate's feet she looked like she was dancing even her right hand seemed to take part of the fight, even doe it wasn't armed. Her hand and her hole arm flooded around her in a dancing manner, her feet and her hole body seemed to be in perfect harmony with every move and every breath.
"That...that's impressive..." Sano had to admit she did look very skilled and fast, not at all messy like he had thought and said.
In the mean time Alex and Ortiz had taken their fight to the ship's bridge, right now Alex was standing on one side of the helm while Ortiz stayed on the other. He tried to go by the right but Alex would simply go to the left and the other way around, getting pissed Ortiz tried to stab the girl thru the helm.
Alex grinned at this, it was exactly what she wanted, she grabbed the helm and flipped since Ortiz's sword was still in its middle he had to let go of his sword, this gave the young pirate the excellent opportunity to grab a rope that was there cut it and swing over the deck and all the people that observed the fight from there. Meanwhile Ortiz fowled her from below until she landed and grabbed her other sword and pointed them both at him this made him stop and raise his hands in defeat.
"OK,ok I get it. You win." Ortiz sheathed his sword and returned to the group side panting slightly.
"Why did you gave up?" Kaoru asked the big guy a bit surprised.
"Alex's dual fighting style his very dangerous and hard to defeat I would be sleeping in Davy Jones Locker in just a few minutes." Everyone looked at Alex, she was completely calm and happy smiling at the kids.
Alex got up on the railing of the ship and looked over at the kids with a toothy grin and said that big bad Ortiz was nothing more than a scaredy cat who would never defeat her. As he realized what would be the result of this the Captain got up from his seat and walked towards Alex.
"Dá-me a tua pistola e espadas." He asked firmly for her weapons, Alex just stared dumbfound at him, until he gave her one of his famous death glares 'I'll-throw-you-to-the-fishes-limb-by-limb-and-make-you-watch-them-having-you-for-lunch' kind of look which made Alex gulp and she gave him what he had asked without hesitation.
When he walked away Alex turned back to the kids to be greeted by a very unfriendly Ortiz, she tried to look innocent but of course it didn't worked so with an evil smile Ortiz pushed Alex out of the ship.
All you could hear was a loud shriek and a splash. When Ortiz turned around all the kids were looking at him like he was the devil himself.
"Oh please she's a pirate she knows how to swim!" He rolled his eyes at the kids and rejoined Kenshin and the group.
So did you like it?
* a species of a really small monkey, some have bright orange fur.
I really hope so cause I just spent all night writing this. I don't know what came over me but well here you go.
I'll probably won't update in a while cause I don't know what I'm going to do after this.
I hope the fighting sequences weren't to crappy ^/^
Well I should probably go to bed or something bye bye...
Translations:
Deves-me uma Alexandra- You owe me one Alexandra
Dá-me a tua pistola e espadas- Give me your gun and your swords
Oh I nearly forgot Review please!