Conrad and I boarded the ship that was going to be going to Bandarbia. Gunter was the only one that came to see us off and he was crying. Conrad and I were currently in disguises. He was himself, and, well, I was disguised as a boy. A boy with Auburn hair and brown eyes.
"We should go to our cabin Mitsuzyamon." (I think that's what it was in the anime...) Conrad said.
I nodded and we walked down the hall to the cabin. When we opened the door, we saw Wolfram inside.
"W-Wolfram! What the heck are you doing here?!" I yelled.
"I'm your fiancee, I can't just let you go off to somewhere by yourself and risk the possibility of losing you to another guy!" Wolfram exclaimed. Conrad urged me to go into the cabin, then shut the door.
"Wolfram, you really shouldn't have snuck on board." Conrad said.
"What he said." I said.
Wolfram glared at me, then at Conrad. "And why shouldn't I-" He stopped mid sentence as the boat rocked a little and his face turned green. He immediatly ran over to the toilet in a smaller conjoined room and vomitted into it.
"I get it," I said as I tried hiding a giggle, "He gets seasick."
"Shut up." Wolfram said.
My eye twitched. He had his back turned to me, so I went up behind him and put my elbows on his shoulders and leaned onto them. He yelped, then pushed my elbows off his shoulders.
"What the hell was that for?!" Wolfram yelled.
I ignored the question and asked, "Feel seasick anymore?"
He looked at me confused, then shocked. "No... but, how?"
"Accupressure." I stated. "Perfect punishment yet treatment at the same time."
"Might I ask what accupressure is your majesty?" Conrad asked.
I sighed and said, "It'd take too long to explain. Besides, I want to explore the boat." With that, I turned towards the door but Conrad held it closed.
"I'm sorry your majesty, but we can not risk your true identity being revealed." Conrad said.
"No fair Conrad, I can keep it a secret!" I said. I pushed his arm away from the door and went outside the room just as a person in a neighboring cabin did.
"Oh, why hello there." The man said. Conrad came out too and closed the door. The man continued, "I'm Mr. Heathcrife, and this is my daughter, Beatrice." He gestured to a small girl that was hiding behind his leg.
"Pleasure to meet both of you." I said. The man smiled, then took off his hat- and hair- and bowed.
I was a little shocked and said, "I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your hair fell out..."
The man laughed and Conrad said, "I'm sorry for my master's rudeness, he has not experienced a cavalcade greeting before."
"It certainly makes a shining impression..." I said.
"What a funny young man. You know, I heard a rumor that your fiancee snuck on board just to be with you." Heathcrife said.
"The rumor's spreading already?" I mumbled to myself.
"I'm sorry, we haven't properly introduced ourselves. This is my master Mitsuzyamon and I am his devoted servant, Kabunoskay." Conrad said.
All the sudden, I heard someone say, "I have half a mind to throw you overbaord!"
Conrad looked at me, but before he could stop me, I ran in the direction I heard the voice come from.
"Master! Wait!" I heard Conrad yell. I ran onto the deck to see a crewman beating on a trainee.
"Hey! You! Leave him alone! Don't you have a better way to discipline him!?" I yelled at the guy.
"You just be qu- oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were a guest, I thought you were another trainee... I'm sorry you had to see this, but he made a bonehead mistake and needed to be punished." The crewman said.
"Still! You didn't-" I started, but Conrad put his arm out in front of me. He walked over to the crewman and handed him some money and said, "It's an eyesore, my master is offended."
The crewman said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I hope he isn't hurt." I was pissed at the lack of sincierity in his voice.
"Don't you have somewhere else you're supposed to be?" Conrad said.
The man nodded his head and walked off. The boy stood up and smiled at Conrad, then me. He then gave a short bow and ran off.
"I can't believe everything's solved with money." I said angrily.
"Not everything Yuuri. We know that particular man can be swayed by it, but that doesn't mean everyone can be." Conrad said.
"Yeah, and those are the people who need their as-" I started.
"Yuuri." Conrad warned me. I blinked at him in amazement. Since when did he scold me for swearing?
"Since when did you scold me for swearing?" I asked.
"Just now actually. It isn't right for a young lady such as yourself to be cussing." Conrad said.
"You're sure old fashioned for someone in their twenties." I said.
"I'm actually ninety six, so it isn't that old fashioned for me." Conrad said with a smile.
"EH?! You're ninety six!?" I exclaimed. "Wait, if you're ninety six, how old's Wolfram?"
"Wolfram is eighty two." Conrad stated with a smile.
My eyes widened and I exclaimed, "I'm engaged to an old dude?!"
We were at the ball the ship was having and I was quite disgusted by the... etiquettes?
Everywhere you looked, you saw disgusting bones, leftovers and other unidentifiable things.
"How... Grotesque..." I stated. Just then, a woman with red hair and wearing a dress that showed her stomache and had huge bisceps yelled, "Hi-i!" She ran over to me and said, "My, what a cutey, I could just eat you up!"
I was slightly shocked, so I said the first thing that popped into my head. "Your bisceps are huge!"
The woman then said in a deep voice, "Thanks, I worked out. Say, wanna dance?"
"Hey you! You're not playing fair!" I heard a woman yell. I looked around the he-girl and saw a bunch of woman staring at me. "I saw him first! Come to mama sweet heart!"
"He's the man in my dreams, he must be my destiny." Another woman said.
"Dance with me!" All the woman yelled as they crowded around me.
"Conrad! Help!" I yelled.
"I'm sorry Yuuri, you're just too hot to touch in this world." Conrad said with an amused smile.
"YOU ARE SO HEARTLESS AND SO DEAD WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE!" I yelled at him.
"Well young man, it seems you're having some trouble choosing a dance partner." I heard a familiar voice say. I squeezed through the crowd of ladies and saw Mr. Heathcrife.
"Mr Baldy- er, I mean, Mr. Heathcrife!" I exclaimed.
"If you don't mind, would you dance with my daughter Beatrice? She's feeling a bit out of place." Mr Heathcrife said.
"Uh, sure." I said. I escaped from the mob of desperate ladies and walked over to Beatrice who was sitting on a bench. I knelt in front of her and held out my hand and asked, "Would you like to dance?"
She looked at me, then jumped off the bench and ran past me. I turned around since I was confused and said, "Eh?"
Beatrice looked at me and said, "We are going to dance, right?"
I nodded my head and went over and started dancing with her. I had to lean down a little, but not alot because of my short stature.
I took the lead and we danced, even though there was no music. Note to self, introduce this world to music. Maybe rock and roll first?...
"Is this your first time dancing?" Beatrice asked me.
"Well, I was taught how to dance, but I never really danced with anyone before..." I said.
"No wonder you're a good dancer. But your hair looks funny." She said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"It doesn't look natural." She said. I chuckled nervously, then realized what time it was. With how much time had passed, Wolfram was probably feeling seasick again.
"I'm sorry, I have to go." I said as I let go of her hand. She looked at me, but merely nodded. I turned around and ran towards my cabin. I ran into someone as I turned a corner and felt my contact slip out.
"Ah! I'm sorry!" I said as I quickly stood up. I noticed it was the boy from earlier and offered him a hand. He accepted it and I pulled him up.
"Are you alright?" I asked.
"Yeah." He said avoiding my gaze. I knew he was hiding something, but I didn't have time to pry.
"I'm sorry for running into you. I hope you're alright, but I have to go." I said as I ran off towards the cabin again. When I got there, Wolfram was looking green again.
"Hey, you okay?" I asked as I walked over to him.
"I'm fine." He said arrogantly. I chuckled and said, "You sure about that?"
"I said-" He started. He then turned green and ran over to the toilet and vomitted. I again walked over to him and put my elbows on his shoulders and leaned on them. Again, he yelped and pushed me away.
He then looked better and said, "Why'd you come back to the cabin? You should be at the party!"
"I knew the accupressure was going to wear off and that you were going to feel nauseas again." I stated.
"Wait, you came to make sure I was okay?" Wolfram asked a little calmer.
I gave him a sincere smile, then my instincts kicked in and told me something bad was going to happen. Just then, the boat rocked violently. I fell into the wall and Wolfram fell onto the bed while the tea set fell and shattered.
"What was that?!" Wolfram exclaimed.
"I don't know, but by the sound of the screaming, I can tell it wasn't good." I said as my mind started trying to figure out what happened and what I should do. If it was an iceburg, I'd have to find something that could float. If it was pirates, I'd have to find a weapon since all mine were at home and the spikes I had brought were hidden at Voltaire castle.
Just then, Conrad opened the door and said, "I'm glad to see you back here safely, I was really worried."
"What happened?" I asked urgently.
"Pirates." Conrad said.
He then walked over to the closet and ushered me and Wolfram inside. I reluctantly agreed since I had no weapons. Once inside, Conrad was about to close the doors when I said, "Wait, what about you?"
"I'll be fine your majesty, it is my obligation to protect you." Conrad said as he drew his sword.
"I want to fight them too!" Wolfram said as he stood up. Conrad put his hand out to stop Wolfram from exiting the closet. "Conrad, don't you believe I'm capable?"
"I believe in you, that's why I want you to take care of her majesty." Conrad said. "Now, don't try anything rash and don't come out until it's safe. If you were to die your majesty, this country would cry."
"Then you don't die either." I stated.
Conrad looked at me confused and I said, "If you were to die, even if no one else cries, I will."
Conrad smiled and said, "If you were to die, I would join you soon enough."
He closed the doors before I could decipher what he meant by that, then I heard him walk away and towards the deck.
Wolfram and I waited and listened to the cries coming from above. I grinded my teeth together. I was completely defenseless and I couldn't help any of them!
It slowly got quiet and I said, "It's quiet, do you think they're gone?"
"Of course not. Now listen, if the pirates find you, don't resist." Wolfram said.
"What?!" I whispered angrily.
"They won't want to take your life away because you're too cute to kill." Wolfram stated.
"Then you better not resist either! Besides, you're cuter than me..." I said.
"Nevertheless, as a member of the demon tribe, I'm not allowed to survive without a fight to decide my fate." Wolfram said.
"That makes no sense!" I said.
"Shh!" Wolfram said.
We heard footsteps coming into the room and then heard some pirates voices.
"Do you think the lad escaped the ship?"
"Nah, I checked with the kid who knows this ship inside out, he says it's impossible."
What kid? "What do you think happened to the fool who tried to take us all on?"
"The captain's probly already cut him to pieces."
Conrad! My leg twitched and hit a box and my eyes widened in shock at what I had just did.
"Hmm!? Who's in there?! Come out!" One of the pirates ordered.
I thought for a second, than went, "Mrow, m-r-r-row. ME-ow."
"It's a dragon! Even a baby one is big enough to eat us!"
"Let's go get some help!"
"Why?..." Wolfram whined.
"What? I thought my cat's meow was perfect!" I said.
"Cat's do a Ba-ah sound." Wolfram said.
"That's a sheep!" I said.
I immediatly heard footsteps coming into the room and heard a pirate say, "Hey, come out of there now!"
He opened the door and Wolfram jumped out with his sword unsheathed. He scratched the arm of the pirate and immediatly struck swords with another. He jumped onto the bed to evade their attacks and I stared at him. I could tell he was outnumbered.
"Wolfram, back off! There are too many!" I yelled at him.
"I won't!" Wolfram yelled.
My eye twitched and I resulted to the method I didn't want to use. "Wolfram! That's an order!"
Wolfram stared at me shocked and the pirates chuckled. Wolfram dropped his sword and we were both immediatly bound by ropes. Damn cross-dressing pirates... I thought to myself. They immediatly led Wolfram off and looked at me closely. "'Ey, he has a black eye! He'd make us a fortune on the slave market!" one of the pirates said. That's when I remembered one of my contacts had fallen out.
"Put 'im with the other valuables." Another pirate said. Three of the pirates led me to a room that was filled with young girls. Beatrice was one of them. They immediatly closed and locked the door behind me and everyone that was captured looked at me with tears in their eyes.
"Mitsuzyamo!" Beatrice yelled over to me.
"Beatrice!" I yelled back. I ran over to her and sat beside her. "Are you alright? Did the hurt you?"
She shook her head, then said, "I want to go home with daddy!" She started crying and I said, "Shh! Shh! It's okay! I'll get us out of this mess, I promise you that."
I starte working my hands out of the ropes and had them free in a few seconds. I then untied all the children in the room and thought of a plan. If they're pirates, that means they used a ship to board us... half of them are probly still on the pirte ship... I could go take them out, but what about all these girls?... Then I remembered, I had invisible string! I pulled some out of my sleeve and tied it all around the door so it couldn't be opened.
"Now Beatrice, I'm going to go help everyone. When it's safe, I'll come to the door and say olly-olly-oxen free. I then want you to say sleeve, and I'll say cheese. Then you say, 'In the middle of July?' and I'll say, 'Never tell a lie.' It will be our secret password, 'kay? When we say the password, I want you to pull on that string and open the door, but don't pull on the string until I say the password, 'kay?"
Beatrice nodded and I smiled. I then went over to the closet and looked for something the pirates wouldn't recognize me in. I found an old brown cloak and thought, Perfect! I hastily put it on, then looked for something I could use as a temporary weapon. Amazingly, there was a sword in the closet. I unsheathed it and looked at the blade. It was recently sharpened.
"Must be my lucky day." I said to myself. After I stressed the importance of not pulling the string until I said the password to Beatrice, I opened the porthole in the room and climbed out. I used other portholes and holes in the hull of the ship to climb up to the deck. I climbed over the edge of the deck and saw there were two pirates with their backs to me. I quickly stabbed them both throught the chest and threw them overboard. I didn't hesitate to kill anyone who called an innocent little girl a valuable in the meaning of money. I worked my way to the front of the ship and peaked around the corner and saw the front was infested with pirates and all the passangers were there. Then I saw Conrad and Wolfram tied up near a pole. God*Bleeping Bleepit*. I thought to myself. I then noticed that there were a few swords near me and realized they must have been confiscated. I quickly took the heaviest one, and a light one that had a sheath. I put the sheathed one on my belt and carried the heavy one I had just found up onto the roof of the cabin. I walked over to the mast and slowly climbed up it till I was at the top of the lowest sail. I tied one of the strings to the heavy sword and used the sharp sword I had found in the closet to cut the top of the sail from the mast. I threw the sword over the heads of the pirates and quickly dropped down and cut the bottom of the sail from the mast and held onto it. I was on the roof of the cabin while the sail trapped most of the pirates under it and most of the passangers seemed shocked. I then dropped down to the first deck and unsheathed the other sword I had found so that I had one in both hand. The pirates immediatly saw me as a threat and started attacking.
I immediatly slit the first ones throat and blocked attacks with one sword while using the other to attack. It wasn't long before the deck was becoming stained with blood and the bodies were starting to pile up. I was now panting since I had never done this much work before. I had several scratches and the pirates still had the advantage in numbers.
I was tired, but I wasn't giving up. Beatrice was depending on me. A sweet, innocent little girl. I gritted my teeth together, then lunged at the pirates with newfound energy and attacked the rest of them. Miraculously, I defeated all of them, and only mith minor injuries to them too. I wanted to collapse, but I had to free everyone. So I went over to Conrad and Wolfram and cut their ropes. They looked at me surprised, and I hoped they didn't realize it was me. Conrad stood up and said, "May I ask what your name is? I haven't seen someone as good as you with two swords in a while."
I stared at him, then held out a sword for him. He looked at me confused, so i pointed the sword towards the passangers and he immediatly understood what I meant. He took the sword and walked over to them. I then held a sword out for Wolfram and he stared at me.
"Who are you?" He asked. I had to hide a chuckle, but of course, I couldn't tell him. For one, I didn't WANT them to know who I was, and two, he'd recognize my voice.
I dropped the sword in front of him, then walked over to a lantern, grabbed it, then walked over to the ledge of the ship that was closest to the pirate ship, then threw it over and caught the pirate ship on fire. I the turned and ran toward the back of the ship and ran down to the lower levels to get Beatrice out of the room. I removed the brown cloak and went over to a porthole and threw it out into the sea. I didn't need anyone knowing who I was. I went over to the door and knocked on it.
"Olly olly oxen free!" I yelled.
"Sleeve?" I heard Beatrice's voice say.
"Cheese." I replied.
"Umm, In the middle of July?" She continued after a moment of silence.
"Never tell a lie." I stated. I immediatly heard sounds on the other side of the door, then it opened to reveal Beatrice and the other young girls who were there.
"Mitsu-chan!" Beatrice yelled as she ran over and hugged me. "Is daddy alright?" She asked me.
Immediatly, all the girls started crying about how they missed their parents.
"Shh, it's alright. If you follow me, I'll take you to them." I said calmly. They nodded their heads and I started leading them to the front of the ship. When we were on deck, any person who had brought a daughter on board was looking frantically for them.
Immediatly, the girls started running off to their parents yelling either, "Mama!" or "Papa!" Beatrice stayed beside me and tugged on my shirt and said, "I don't see daddy anywhere."
I looked around and spotted him near some strange people in uniforms. I grabbed Beatrice's hand and started walking over to him. I was straining my ears to hear what he was saying to them.
"... out of nowhere and saved us from the pirates. But, I need to find my daughter! Oh, my poor Beatrice! She probly scared to death!" Mr Heathcrife told the people.
"Daddy!" Beatrice yelled as she ran over and into his arms.
"Beatrice! Oh, Beatrice! Where were you?! I was so worried!" Mr Heathcrife said.
"Mitsu-chan saved me!" Beatrice said as she pointed over towards me. "She saved me and all the other girls that were trapped."
Mr Heathcrife looked at me with pure gratitude in his eyes. I smiled and asked, "Have you seen Kabunoskay anywhere?"
"He went off looking for you with some blonde haired boy." Mr Heathcrife said as he held Beatrice in his arms.
"Okay, thank you." I said to him. I thought for a moment and figured it'd be best to look around. It take long to find Wolfram. He was leaning over the side of the boat puking. The strange he-woman was standinng beside him, patting Wolfram's back. I felt angry at that moment, but held it back. I walked over to Wolfram and grabbed his shoulders and squeezed them to get rid of his seasickness, but mostly to relieve my anger.
He yelped and smacked my hands away and looked at me. "Yuuri!" He immediatly said as he hugged me.
"Hey!" I said. This was unexpected.
"Hi there cutie, remember me?" The he-woman said.
"Yuuri! You know him!?" Wolfram yelled accusingly.
"Not exactly. He asked me to dance, but I refused I guess." I said. Wolfram glared at me accusingly and I said, "Where's Conrad?"
"Probly still looking for you." Wolfram said. He then realized something and said, "Where were you anyway?!"
"The pirates locked me in a room with Beatrice and a buch of other little girls. I waited until I was sure it was safe, then got them out of the room." I stated.
Wolfram looked at me suspiciously. I pinched his cheek and said, "It's impolite to stare."
After all the comotion about the pirates had settled down, the ship continued on it's journey to Bandarbia.
It didn't take too long to reach it. As soon as the ship docked, Conrad, Wolfram and I were leaving to go to the hot springs where Morgif was supposedly located.
I heard Beatrice's familiar voice say behind me, "Mitsu-chan!"
I turned and said with a smile, "Hi Beatrice."
"Mitsu-chan! Olly olly oxen free!" She said. I immediatly caught on and realized she was going to make it our own inside joke.
"Sleeve." I said with a smile.
"Cheese." She said.
"In the middle of July." I said.
"Never tell a lie!" She finished we both laughed when Conrad, Wolfram, and Mr Heathcrife looked at us confused.
"Bye Beatrice." I said.
"Bye-bye Mitsu-chan!" She replied.
"What was that about?" Wolfram asked confused.
I laughed and said with a smirk, "Wouldn't you like to know." I then spotted the he-woman again except she was dressed as a he. He walked over to us and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you your majesty."
"Hey! You're that he-woman." I said.
He laughed and said, "Glad you recognize me." Then something dawned upon me. "Wait! How'd you know who I was! I'm in disguise!"
"Your majesty, this is Josak (Yo-zak) Grie. He is the lead spy for the Shin Makoku kingdom. He was sent as backup in case we needed it." Conrad said.
"Although, thanks to that stranger, whoever they were, it seems I wasn't needed. I wonder how they ever thought of trapping the pirates under a sail..." Josak said.
I kept on a straight face, but was cracking up on the inside.
After some brief planning, we started heading towards the spring. Halfway there, Wolfram started acting dizzy.
"I'm sorry. When you use accupressure on someone, the side effect is vertigo after a while..." I trailed off.
"You knew that and you still did that anyway?!" Wolfram yelled.
"Wouldn't you rather be dizzy instead of seasick?" I asked.
Wolfram looked angry but defeated. We found a lodge nearby and checked in for the night.
Here's your objective to complete until the next chappy, tell me something humorous you want to see someone in the story do and the funniest one will be put in the next chappy. You have until April eight teenth, midnight.
Note: Cannot be an R rating or higher.