The Pirate King and the Rose Queen
Chapter 6
~Oh, No! The Ship!~
Cereza was running faster than a panther through the dark alleys of the town, the wind blew through her hair and her warm breath became visible in cold night air.
Cereza was fiercely angered up to the point that she couldn't even see Nova and Spade struggling to keep up with her.
"Spade, are you pained?!" Nova yelled out to her friend, Spade nodded.
"Not pained enough to stop running!" Spade answered back.
Nova was worried about Cereza, but she was more amazed by that guy! The bullet bounced off of him! He was like rubber or something! Cereza was very upset; her honor has been punched in the gut. Every time she thought about how Luffy claimed her, it made her mind burn.
Cereza stopped dead in tracks, she started thinking about him…how he grabbed her arm, she looked and saw that there was a bruise on her forearm where Luffy snatched her.
"Dammit,…Goddamn him! ARGH!"
Cereza yelled out to the heavens, she pointed her gun to the skies and started shooting it into the stars as she wept quietly, with every gunshot she screamed.
"Damn him!... Damn him!... Damn him!... Damn him!..."
Cereza cursed Luffy as his image constantly found its way back into her head, Nova and Spade finally caught up to Cereza and see that she was angered and highly irritable.
"Now, now, Cereza…Look, that guy was inhuman! The bullet bounced off of him, you saw it! Any normal person would be bleeding out on the ground by now!" Nova tried her best to calm me but it was of no use! I was royally pissed! I've never been treated that way! Even the men of Loana treated me with more respect that that bastard monkey boy and that's saying something!
"That bastard dare to claim me?! I am a woman of Loana! I will not be humiliated! I will kill him! Tenma zoko, tsien koho diaktoeht! Ugh!"
Spade walks up to Cereza and slaps her across her face, Cereza is taken aback by this at first but then she angrily glares at Spade with eyes of pure anger and hate.
"What's your problem, Spade?"
Cereza's voice sounds like the growl of a lion and the hiss of a snake, Spade scoffs at her rage.
"As I recall, Nova has already told you that this type of guy would come around one day. Are you stupid, there is no way a woman like you is going to be without a man for too long. You are pretty, Cereza, but you act as a man and that is disrespectful to those who actually are men! For this era, the way you act is wrong. For our culture, the way you act is wrong. Everyone realizes this but you…" Spade explains.
Cereza's face flushes of color, she then looks back at Spade and a smirk crosses her face. Cereza quickly pistol whips Spade across his head, she misses because Spade knew what she'd do. This wouldn't be the first time he's pissed her off.
"Don't get cocky, you bastard! I am the ruler of the Loanan Seas, I will not be disrespected by some skinny punk in a straw hat nor will I be harassed by one of my best friends! You are either with me or against me, make your choice, fool!"
Cereza turns from Spade with her shoulders cutting the air like daggers; Spade whips his head to her.
"You don't act so cocky! Even as you act like that, do not forget what Chieftess Almirierre said! That type of guy is destined to you; you both have the same determination to go for your goal! That guy had the eyes of the Ebony Lion, the same eyes that Almirierre predicted-"
Cereza sharply turned her head to Spade, her eyes were infuriated and her expression was pure annoyance and anger.
"Don't talk to me about that bitch, Almirierre! I do not believe in her predictions and neither do I believe in her authority, so don't you think I know that?! Do you think that I ran away because of his eyes, don't be stupid! I ran away because of his strength! His determination rivals that of even the great Ebony Lion! So don't think that I'm that ignorant! I know!...I know…"
Cereza continues to walk away from Spade but her legs start to feel heavy, she kneels to the ground…
"I just…I didn't expect for such a person to appear so soon…"
A tear flows down Cereza's cheek and onto the pavement, Nova walks up to her and pats her on the back.
"Hey, don't be too beat up about it. How do you think I feel? You got the Ebony Lion while I was bound to a man of Asura."
Nova mocks Almirierre's prediction to cheer me up, when I thought about it, her prediction was significantly more…dangerous than mine.
I mean to be predicted a man of Asura, that's pretty rare for Loanan women…There are only three known men of Asura on that island and they are all taken.
But even though her mocking made me laugh a tiny bit, I already know why she even came along with me to the Red Line.
She wants to find him, her man of Asura…a man with six arms and three heads…It doesn't sound too attractive.
"Listen, Cereza…Chieftess Almirierre gave us these predictions eight years ago, but still…she also told you that women of Loana are easily noticed on the Red Line."
Cereza's eyes widened as Nova spoke, she remembered what Almirierre said…How would she know that Cereza was going to the Red Line eight years before she does so?
"I know…She told us that on the Red Line, we are nearly too different…The women here are light while our skin is dark…they are tall when we are short…But, you are different, Nova…you didn't come from the Islands of Loana yet…You share the same blood as me."
"That's true, I came from the East Blue…It's strange but…I feel like I was meant to come to the Islands of Loana, if I hadn't come to you guys, I probably would've died." Nova said. Spade laughs.
"You girls are so pitiful,…you two are the only girls on Loana that actually minds of their own. Your blood is Loana yet your minds are both so different than those of our predecessors. I am sometimes proud of the things that have happened in my life. If my parents hadn't left this world, I would be complete wimp-"
"Yup." Cereza and Nova nod our heads into agreement.
"H-Hey! Don't be so quick to agree!"
Cereza, Nova and Spade laugh as they dust themselves off and continue to walk back to the docks. The sun was already coming up so nobody got any sleep and it appeared that Cereza was about to be put to a gruesome test.
"EHHHHHHHH?! M-MY SHIP! MY BEAUTIFUL SHIP! WHERE DID SHE GO?!" Cereza screamed as she walked to an empty dock where the Rose Queen once was.
Nova yelped as she pointed to the north, "T-There it is, Cereza! Way out there!"
Cereza screeched as she tried in vain to swim to her ship, she quickly came back to the shore when Spade dove into the water after her.
"Calm down, Cereza!" Spade yelped but Cereza was wigging out extremely, she's never been without that ship. Ever! This is one thing that is too weird to be seen, Cereza without the Rose Queen? That's like Spade having a girlfriend, it just can't be!
"Ha ha ha! I see our little rebel has finally regretted her actions!"
The trio froze, turned and saw an arrogant marine captain along with a rather large squad of marines. Cereza glares at them fiercely.
"Where's mah ship, you basterds…" Cereza's mouth was numb from the anger of losing the Rose Queen.
"Don't you see it, it's out there! Going someplace you'll never find it! That's what you get for murdering Sir Stewart and injuring Captain Albert! Not so hot anymore, huh?"
Like fools, the marine squad mocked Cereza, an act that they'd soon regret.
"What about my crew? Jeffrey, Tony, Aiden and the others?"
"They were arrested on the grounds of piracy and accessories to murder of a marine official." The marine explained, Cereza's hand was already hovering over her pistol.
"You really are a fool! Do you think you three pirates can stand up to the might of a complete marine squadron?! Huh? Huh?" Another marine dared to open his mouth and speak down to us. I felt my staff hand twitching, that ship meant everything to us. How dare they put their filthy,…putrid,…disgusting hands on it?
Nova unlocks her Tsuki-Shiromaru and gets into a fighting stance, only listening for Cereza's orders as her signal. Of course, Spade's whip was unsheathed moments before the marines even started speaking but Cereza wanted to resolve this as much as she could with words…
"Why did you take…my ship?" Cereza spoke with her hand still shaking over her pistol.
"Because you are now a criminal of the law. We've been given special permission to kill you if needed so-"
"Permission?" Cereza chuckled, "Permission?" she said. "Permission, you say? I don't think pirates ask for permission when they decide to kill you and I don't think that I'll ask for permission either. I guess that shows how weak and arrogant the marines are, who the hell asks for permission to kill somebody else!?" Cereza yells out, the marine captain chuckles.
"I think it's good that some people ask for permission for things, why if we didn't ask for permission, we wouldn't have those…"
The marine captain points to the sea behind Cereza, they turn and see that there are three huge marine ships all for them.
"One…for…each of you. Do you think that after all the hell you raised, we wouldn't come back prepared? You fools will never get out of here unscathed! Prepare for retribution! Ha ha ha!"
The marine squad laughed as Cereza, Spade and Nova all prepared to fight them.
"No!"
In a split second, nearly the entire squad of marine is completely wiped out while the three marine ships are bombed and sink to the bottom of the sea. When the dust clears, the figures that appear shock Nova, Spade and above all else, Cereza… Three people that the Rose Queen pirates weren't expecting so soon arrived like angels from above…
"The only fools here are you…" Nami…
"So, you're the ones who'ad better prepare yourselves…" Zoro…
"Cause Imma about to beat you like a ragdoll."
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Luffy…
Author's Note: OH SINNIGITY SNAP! This is so effin tense, you guys! Shout outs to mah reviews on the last chapters but don't forget you salty sea-dogs, Reviews = Chapters! XD