The Pirate King and the Rose Queen
Chapter 4
~We Need A Medic!~
In the middle of the sea, Spade and I still continued our conversation...
"But, you both like men!" Spade exclaimed.
"Whatever! What are you saying, you act like a woman, Spade? Or are we more man than you?" I started laughing so hard I could barely contain myself!
While Spade and Nova are laughing, Cereza steps out of the Captain's Cabin with a captain's hat on and a long trenchcoat.
"Nova! Spade! What's up with this? It's already nightfall and those marines haven't done anything!" I state the obvious to them, they take one last sip of their brandy and come to the side of the shrouds and notice that no marines are at the docks, only civilians.
"Well, gosh! I wonder what's going on down there." Nova covers herself in a white shawl and docks the boat.
"H-Hey! We can't just go down there! What if they-"
"Oh, hush, Spade! Just follow along! It'll be fun!" Nova stops Spade in his worries as I jump off the boat by the railing, trying to be a smartass, I laugh.
I turn to see Spade helping Nova down the steps of the ramp by taking her hand and guiding her down,...like a gentleman.
That must be nice...
I-I mean, how gross! She could've done that herself, spoiled thing! Hmph!
I strutted away from the scene and into the crowd of people.
"Hey, are you that woman that jumped from the top of that galleon?" A excited man asked me.
"Uhhh..." I froze up, Spade come up behind me and took my shoulder.
"She's with me, sorry." Spade spoke to the man with a matter-of-factly tone in his face and a cheeky smile, the man groaned and left the scene.
"Hey, I can speak for myself!" I tossed Spade's hand away and slithered away.
What was up with that man? Couldn't he see me and Spade on the ship before? Why was he acting so sly, the old crone!
Nova laughed at Cereza as she catwalked away from a dumbstruck Spade, she patted Spade on the back and they continued to the Bazaar of the town that was full of talkative people, lights and all kinds of food.
"Wow! This place is amazing!" I was in awe by the creative and outspoken noises of the area, I turned and saw that a bunch of random men were flirting with Nova and looking at like she was piece of meat!
Spade walked up behind me.
"It must be nice, huh?" Spade said, I punched him in the crotch for his rude outburst, "H-How unlady-like! Urgh!" Spade fell to his knees as I walked away angry.
Cereza was walking through the Bazaar trying exotic foods and drinks while Spade and Nova were being flirted with by random strangers, something that Cereza thought was uncouth and disgusting. But she was very scary to some of the townsfolk so it wasn't unexpected, but Cereza had a kind heart still...
A little boy was crying a little ways away from Cereza, she glanced at him and saw that he was crying because his candy apple broke on the cobblestone ground. She turned to see that his father was too busy talking to women to notice his son was in distress. Damn adults, she thought as she scoffed. She took out a small pouch from her back pocket, she walked up to the vendor and bought a candy apple.
She kneeled down to the boy and gave him the apple, his eyes light up as he ate the treat, Cereza smiled as she patted him on the head and took her leave.
The people in the Bazaar were very confused to why she did that for the boy, Spade and Nova even more so.
Cereza walked up to her confused friends and laughed.
"What's wrong with you two?" I asked, Spade chuckled.
"What was that?" Nova said, I turned to see that the little boy and his father were talking as they walked off.
"The boy was crying so I fixed it. Nothing more to be said." I explained the situation to those two but they still wanted to piece things together, it annoyed me how nosy they were but sometimes nosy is required at sea.
Just then, somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see that it was a Marine.
"Hey, are you Cereza Ann Lucrezia?" The marine questioned, I bowed to him and nodded.
"Indeed I am, what do you want, Mariner?"
The marine stood up straight and gulped.
"I am Staff Sergeant Allen Ten, ma'am! I am here to apprehend and arrest you on the grounds of thievery, murder and above all else piracy! Come silently and you will not be har-"
In mere seconds, Cereza put her boot heel to the sergeant's adam's apple with angry grimace on her face.
"And what makes you think i'm going anywhere with you quietly?..."
The marine chuckled, "Because you are without a crew and..."
The sound of marching men surround the Bazaar, screams of women and the growls of men filled the air as a small marine fleet surround Cereza and her friends.
"...because you're surround. Give up silently or prepare to be killed."
Cereza turned to her friends who had faces of pride and laughter. She chuckled as they did.
"Well, then..." Spade said, Nova continued "Today is a great day to die!"
Spade took out his whip and in no time at all, twenty of the marine squadron fell to Spade's silver-tipped whip.
Nova was no better, she pulled out her compact sword staff, Tsuki-Shiromaru, and like a bullet cutting the wind, Nova sliced five marines with each step she took.
But Cereza was a killer at heart, she danced through the squad of marines, with each pose she shot three men and with each kick she shot seven. Cereza opened her locket and applied her mother's lipstick to her lips...
She kissed a marine on the cheek and before the other's eyes, his skin started to burn, deteriorate, and burn.
She turned fiercely and glared at the frighten marines as a few retreated but the sergeant became frustrated. He called in riflers, after a few minutes, about fifty rifle carrying marines came ready to kill.
"There's too many!" Spade explained as he snapped his whip against the face of another enemy.
"Ugh! Cereza, orders!" Nova growled as she impaled three more men on her staff.
Cereza cursed as she shot another marine in the chest with her boot, she scoped out the area and scoffed.
"We can't stay here, we must-"
A marine shoots his rifle, the bullet misses Nova's head by inches but it ricoquets off of a pole and hits Spade dead in the stomach. Cereza's face drains of color as Spade hits the ground with a thud.
"ALEXANDER!" Cereza screams out as she runs to her friend, Nova curses the marines as she quickly helps Spade up.
"Cover us, Cereza!" Nova scurried off with Spade on her back.
Cereza agressively turns to the marines and starts dancing to a mental rhythm, she dances and kills as she is steadily holding the men back but one of the marines get close enough to punch her square in the face knocking her hat off and revealing her face.
The men ooh and aah at Cereza's appearance.
"She's a woman!" One said in surprise, another licks his thumb "A beautiful woman at that!" The men chuckled as they looked at me with weirdly offense expressions, what in the world was this heat in the air?
Was this...what it's like to seen as a woman?
What the hell is up with this new level of danger?!
Cereza was amazed and froze up at the treatment that was being presented to her. She quickly stood up and ran, for the first time, she ran from a man's eye.
This was a new feeling to her but it didn't feel bad, it felt instinctual, it felt...obvious.
Cereza caught up to Spade and Nova, they shook off the marine squad, Cereza took up Spade's other arm and they held him up the best they could. Was Spade always this heavy?, she thought.
"There! A tavern, we have to get a medic!" Cereza yelped, but Marines started to reappear pass the alleys.
"Crap! Take him into the tavern, i'll distract them!" Nova glared at the marines as she pulled her staff back out.
I took on Spade's full weight with amazement, either he was fat or I was weak...he did have a bit a lovehandle, though.
Cereza walked up to the tavern and opened up the door slowly, however from the other side, a man clad in a black cloak steadily carried in another man on his back. The tavern owner was drying out cups and a few other pirates were glancing at the cloaked man.
Luffy's eyes widened when they caught the man's appearance, he already knew...
Zoro, Sanji and Usopp were watching the man silently while Nami was sort of drooling.
"Please, help him. We need water, please!" The man pleaded with a light and high-pitched voice, the man lifted his head and he turned out to be a she.
The other guys were amazed and shocked, the bartender nodded and gave the woman a cup of water. She hunched over and put down an injured man, he wasn't noticed until she put him down.
Zoro stood up and walked to her.
"Need help?" he said, the woman glared at him and shook her head as she poured the water over the man's wound. Maybe that was her lover?
"Don't worry, Spade...everything'll be fine. I promise, as your captain, I promise you that your story will not end today." The woman cried as she pulled a bullet out of the man's stomach. I stood up and scurried to her.
"Here, apply pressure to his wound to stop the bleeding." I ripped my shirt and pressed it on the man's stomach.
"W-Who are you?" The woman shakily said.
"The name's Nami! Nice to meet cha!" I said, she didn't smile, she just nodded. She was very cautious and watched me closely as I touched this guy, gosh, he's been hurt real badly.
As Nami bandaged Spade, Luffy sat in his chair watching...He didn't look directly at her, just out of his peripheral vision. Luffy's heart was racing even when Cereza sat only inches away from him. He glanced at her and the first thing he saw was her eyes, they were glassy like she was about to cry.
At that moment, he learned that those glassy eyes would prove to be his greatest weakness...
I stared down the pale hands that handled Spade, this woman, Nami...she seemed to know what she was doing so for now, I will trust her.
Just as I was glancing down at Spade, I noticed that there was a guy sitting at the table, he wore a straw hat and he kept looking at me.
What were they planning? Are they with the marines?
Just then, Nova ran through the door covered in blood and cuts, I gasped and ran to her.
"Are you okay?" I exclaimed as I helped her into a chair.
"It's not as bad as Spade, how is he?...Who is she?" Nova glared at Nami with anger and caution.
"That's Nami, she's helping Spade..." I silently explained, Nami sighed and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"We have to take him to the Thousand Sunny, he needs rest." Nami says, the man in the green bandana picks up Spade, Nova and I gasp.
I draw my pistol quicker than lightning and point it at the man in green.
"Where are you taking him?" Nova said, I kept my finger on the trigger, were they on the marines' side?
"We're taking him to our ship to get properly treated-" Nova pointed her staff to Nami's neck, Nami yelped.
"No, thanks. We can handle him from here-" Nova said, but another man came up and took her wrist, she glared at him but then her eyes seemed to melt.
"Hey, i'm Sanji and I promise you that nothing will befall your friend in Nami's care. You can't go back to ship because it's likely to be guarded by the marines right now and you can't just wander, you'll get caught faster that way." Sanji explains but Nova growls and jerks her wrists away.
"No matter! We'll make it, give him to us immediat-"
Before Cereza can finish her sentence, in what felt like mere moments, Luffy appeared before her and grabbed her by her pistol. Cereza gasped and stepped back.
"Who are you?!" she yelled.
Luffy glanced to her with eyes of determination and an innocent lust, he smiled at her...