Saturday, December 15, 2007

A/N I am sorry about the wait, but I had to rewrite most of this chapter! I am now thoroughly satisfied with it. Enjoy!

(Chapter 15: Bloody Battle)

The sun was just about to disappear when the pigeon returned to Ma-kun. He reached out a hand to the approaching bird letting it land gracefully in the palm of his hand. Quickly untying the metal tube, he read the note attached to it.

'Be ready.'

Ma sighed in relief. Short and sweet, just like K did every thing in his life.

The pigeon suddenly took flight and vanished into the dusky sky. Ma stared curiously after the bird. 'Why had it flown off so quickly?' He was about to turn his attention back to the helm when a voice answered his question.

"Tisk, tisk, Ma-kun. I thought I knew you better than that." A chill ran up his spine and his body froze is horror. The voice was relentless; it held every clue as to what the mere mention of his activities would lead to.

Ma slowly turned around and came face to face with Aizawa staring at him with a deadly gleam and a lustful reproach. "So, tell me Ma-kun." Taki stepped closer and rubbed his groin against Ma's pleadingly retreating body. "What kind of goodies did that birdie bring you?"

He was shaking. He knew Taki could feel his body protesting every move he made, but that only fueled Taki's sadistic pleasure. "Oh? You won't tell me? Well, then let me guess." Taki grabbed a fist full of the frightened blonde's hair and tugged it hard enough to make the frozen man fall to his knees. "Are you communicating with Bad Luck?" Taki sounded angrier than his previous mocking, almost playful taunts.

Ma-kun gasped in pain and whimpered as Taki placed his foot directly over his crotch and applied pressure. Ma weighed his options as his manhood was becoming slowly, painfully pressed into his thighs. He could either tell the whole truth and betray the people he loved and trusted or tell a lie, a half truth and suffer what ever punishment Taki had thought befitting such "mutiny".

Taki was growing impatient. He slammed his foot down and smiled as Ma let out an agonized scream of pain. Letting Ma's hair fall from his hands Taki bent down and pulled the blonde's painfully contorted face towards his. "You will pay for your betrayal."

Ma had one last thought before he was forcibly dragged down the steps of the helm and slammed onto the deck. 'You will pay for your sins.'

Taki threw Ma down on the wood of the main deck and watched as the sad man skidded across the space. "Do you see this?" Taki spoke to the whole crew which by now had gathered to watch as the respected first mate was kicked and punched by their feared captain. "This is how I punish those of you that betray me."

Taki snapped his fingers; two men out of the crew stepped forward and pulled Ma to his feet restraining him against the main mast. His mind was racing he knew what was coming, but his mind didn't fully comprehend what was going on. He heard the slither of leather over the wooden deck and felt the air being sliced through, but didn't understand till pain laced across his back as the three tailed whip cut straight through his shirt to slice his back.

Ma opened his eyes at the piercing agony. Black spots hazed in his vision, but the one figure he could make out had heavy tears pouring down his paled cheeks. Ken-chan watched as his beloved took the beating they should have shared. His heart broke with every slash of red now painted upon his lover's back. He knew if he spoke up Ma would get beaten twice as bad. Perhaps even be killed and he wasn't willing to take that chance.

The blonde could feel blood seep and pool in the waist band of his pants and on the torn fabric of his shirt, but he didn't care. The only thing that he was concerned with was the look of pain and heartbreak that reflected from his lover. Ma couldn't care less what happened to him as long as Ken was safe and unharmed. It wasn't until the whipping stopped and he felt his pants being yanked down to his ankles did he start to panic.

Ken could hardly breathe. They were pulling Ma's pants to the ground and Taki was unzipping his trousers. He didn't have time to think before he rushed forward and screamed, "Stop!"

Taki had his hand down his pants about to pull his snake of a penis out when his head turned to confront a very stricken looking Ken-chan. "Ken-chan, this doesn't concern you, now be a good boy and step back and enjoy the show."

Ken clenched his hands into fists and stood his ground. "You have punished him enough. Look he is exhausted and bleeding every where. The humiliation alone was worse than the beating." He tried to make his self sound calm and logical, but could tell that Taki wasn't buying it.

Ma whimpered and said in an almost inaudible voice, "Don't... Ken..."

Aizawa took his hand out his pants and walked over to his other first mate. "I think you and Ma are lovers. Why else would you care if I used his body?" He raised his fist and slammed his knuckles into Ken's cheek bone sending him skidding across the deck. Ken coughed and spit out a mouth fool of blood. His cheek had ruthlessly split on his teeth causing metallic red liquid to fill his mouth. Taki shoved his hand back into his trousers and walked back to Ma, stroking his self into an erection. "Lock him up in the cells." Then an evil smile reached his lips, "after I'm done with his whore."

Two grave faced men grabbed Ken, but were both knocked back as he slammed the back of his fists into their faces. They flew into the deck, after regaining their wits they jumped to their feet in time to witness Ken lunging through the air toward Taki. Without blinking an eye Taki pulled his pistol from of his waist band, swung it through the air causing it to collide with the side of Kens head. He went spiraling over the deck and landed on his stomach in a crumpled heap.

Ma began to struggle and received a punch in the face. Taki replaced his pistol and continued to pull his organ from his trousers. "I'm going to be twice as hard on you now that I know what a little slut you are." He snapped his fingers once again and the two men lopped over a slowly rising Ken, securing his arms and turning him to face their captain. "I want you to watch me break your lover." Taki thrust his dick into Ma's entrance causing the blond to scream in pain.

Ken struggled miserably as he watched his lover being pounded into drawing haggard screams and whimpers out of him. He watched as his lover's beautiful dark eyes darken with tears of pain. He saw Taki throw his head back in ecstasy and grunt with every piston like thrust.

He felt his heart break as he watched the spirit leave Ma's eyes to make way for dark voids of dirty foul feelings. Ken became nauseous as blood began to seep out his lover and coat his rapist's erection like a putrid paint. He cried, and screamed as his love was reduced to little more than a broken soul.

There was no cheering and laughed as Taki grunted in release and pulled out. After wiping his disgusting tumor-esque organ on Ma's abused and bleeding backside leaving sickening red tracks on his otherwise unflawed skin, he turned and faced his crew. They looked back at him. This was the first time they had seen the extent of his cruelty. Most looked deathly pale and the rest had locked their eyes onto either the bleeding and broken Ma or the hysterically crying and struggling Ken.

Taki took a look at his crew. "That is what will happen if you betray me." He pointed back toward Ma and Ken. "This is how I will punish you." He turned toward the men still restraining Ma. "Take him and throw him in my cabin. I will probably need him for later. Lock Ken in a cell. We'll shoot him tomorrow morning."

Shuichi awoke to the sound of a body being deposited on the other side of the room from him. He gently cracked his eyes open and was met with the sight of blonde. His heart pumped furiously with panic till he noticed this blonde hair was long and delicate.

Waiting till he heard the thick iron lock on the door bolted, Shuichi lifted his head off the floor and winced as pain raced through his body coursing from his back to his other various and severe wounds. Shaking his head to clear away the on coming nausea he studied the slightly shaking body across from him.

The man laid on his side with his back to Shuichi in the fetal position. Shuichi gasped as he took in the severe whip lashes criss-crossed over his back. He clasped a hand over his mouth as tears streamed down his face when he saw the blood that had dripped all over this man's thighs and rear.

'Oh, my God, what has he done to you?' Shuichi willed his aching and painful body to slowly carry him over to the injured man. He limped around the man and kneeled down in front of him. Finally recognizing him, he brushed a stray, bloodied lock of golden hair away from his face. Ma's eyes just stared unblinkingly as Shuichi petted and soothed him. "Ma, what has he done to you?"

Ma blinked as though he just realized Shuichi was there and turned to meet his eyes. He tried to sit up and move, but yelped in pain and collapsed back down to the ground. Shuichi gasped and scooted over to his head, lifting it up and placing it in his lap as he adjusted the white sheet still draped over his naked body. He cradled the shaking Ma's head in his lap and continued to brush soothing stokes over his scalp and temples.

He felt like he was finally able to breathe. Something about Shuichi's touch helped him breathe and eased the pain in his back and lower body. Ma coughed to help his vocal cords to perform and spoke in a whisper. "They are coming. We have to be ready."

Shuichi's gentle touches stopped as he looked down at Ma in surprise and confusion. He cleared his throat and spoke louder. "General K and Seguchi-san, they are on their way to rescue you and take Aizawa down. Bad Luck went to Seguchi and he brought in K."

Shuichi's heart was beating like a rabbit. 'Eiri! Eiri's coming!' then a question popped into his head. "Ma, how do you know this?"

Ma gave a dry smile and said, "Ken and I, we are K's agents. That's why Taki punished me. He caught me receiving a message from K by currier pigeon." Then Ma gave a strangled cry and stiffened.

Shuichi put his hands on Ma's face, his eyebrows nit in worry. "Ma, don't move. You are hurt really badly. Why did Taki hurt you like this?" it sounded like a stupid question, but to Shuichi it was a serious sin to treat someone like this.

Ma looked up into Shuichi's eyes. "Taki is going to kill Ken at dawn. I only pray K gets here before then."

The sun had gone down a couple of hours ago. The ASK and Uesugi fleet had soldiers and pirates alike scurrying across the decks hurriedly loading cannons and sharpening swords. Taki knew Bad Luck was coming he just didn't know when.

Although he knew defeating that one measly ship would be no sweat off his brow he still wanted to end this little inconvenience quickly. He might even be able to take on some more fuck toys. You never know.

Although Taki prided his self as a learned man he could hardly even comprehend what was waiting for him till a load echo bounced off the cove walls surrounding his forces.

As the first barrage of cannon fire began to rain down upon the Uesugi and ASK forces, K was feeling good. The sounds of Maiko screaming widely at the Bad Luck crew was urging his troops as well as Seguchi's to work twice as hard and ruthlessly. They couldn't tell if the angry teenage girl was serious about her threats or not, but they sure were affective. He felt a sensual touch on his rump and turned to have his lips crushed by Judy.

She released her husband and pulled her gun out her holster. She randomly aimed and shot a Uesugi soldier flying through the air. A scream then a splash was heard. K smiled and grabbed his wife dipping her backwards and smacking her on the ass. "I love you, Judy. That's why I married you!"

She smiled. "Like wise K. Now let's get our asses over there and kill some dirty pirate bastards!" They both grabbed a rope and lunged over the railing raining hot fire down upon the panicked enemy bellow.

The Bad Luck crew had attacked first, surrounded with Seguchi's forces and the Imperial Navy bringing up the edges of their strategically formed assault.

Suguru was wielding a gun and shooting down anyone in his path while Hiro was cutting down men left and right. Eiri and Tatsuha were back to back fighting off a circle of their father's best soldiers, much to the soldier's dismay. Ryuichi and Kumagoro were splitting open stomachs and slicing open guts all around them while Rumiko was busy distracting men with her amply cleavage long enough to hit them with brash knuckles to the jaw and a three bladed dagger to the gut. Maiko was hot on Judy's tail as both women showed off their skills and inventive ways to kill quickly.

Hiro thrust his sword into a man coming up behind Suguru. Suguru turned and smiled widely at him then shouted to duck and shot a guy over his head before he hacked away at Hiro's. Hiro stood back up and continued to fight. "I love you Suguru!"

Suguru shot at a mountain sized man and pistol whipped another. "I love you more!"

Ryuichi stabbed his sword into a man's gut then wrenched the weapon to one side with an angry yell. "Ryuichi and Kumagoro don't like bad people!" Kuma let out a terrifying battle cry as he jumped onto a soldier's face mauling his already ugly features.

Tohma was standing on the railing of his ship and yelled out to his men. "Board the Uesugi ships and kill anyone in your path! Eliminate your enemy and die with honor!"

Mika walked up beside him and fixed the troops with her angriest stare. "If you dishonor our name you will answer to me." The men shuddered in fear then rushed the decks of the Uesugi ships and ferociously swept through its soldiers with a bite like a wolf's. Mika smiled and chuckled. "I knew that would get them going."

Tohma grabbed his gun and sword. Leaning over to kiss his very pregnant wife he rubbed her belly lovingly. "Stay safe, my dear." He lifted his bowler hat off his head and placed upon Mika's perfectly sculpted hair. Tohma leaned in and gave his surprised wife a long soft kiss before flying over the railing and ruthlessly slashing three men down upon his landing.

Mika reached behind her and set up her rifle with its scope. She rested her left hand that was supporting the barrel on the railing and began to pick off enemies. Paying close attention to the areas surrounding their allies she would pull the trigger on anyone that was unseen by their prey.

Eiri and Tatsuha stood taking a breather and staring at the mass of dead and bleeding soldiers around them. Tatsuha patted his brother on the shoulder. "Nice work Aniki, you've been practicing."

Eiri smirked and looked at his brother. "So have you." Tatsuha smiled and turned away to assist Ryu.

Running off down the main deck of ASK Eiri could feel his heart pounding. He didn't know what kind of shape Shuichi would be in when he found him and that scared him more than anything. Lunging over bodies and cutting down men he fought furiously to make it to stairs leading bellow deck.

Mika had picked off more than thirty men when she saw Tohma being run through by a particularly good swordsman. She screamed in fright and grabbed the rope next to her. She held her bulging belly tightly and struggled to swing her legs over the railing. She slung the rifle over her shoulder and adjusted the strap before she took hold of an idle rope. Wrapping it around her fore arm she held onto her over sized belly and kicked off from the ship. She went sailing through the air and landed surprisingly gracefully on the deck of the enemy vessel.

She stormed through the fighting men, shooting anyone in her way. "No one and I mean no one, gets in my way." She waddled even faster when a path cleared for her and she caught sight of her bleeding husband lying on the deck.

The man that ran him through was standing over Tohma about to bring the final and fatal blow to the dignified business man when Mika screamed in furry and shot him dead with her rifle at short rang. The uglier-than-sin pirate buckled at the knees and crumbled to the floor. Tohma's head snapped over to look at his pregnant wife red with anger, one hand holding her belly and the other holding a rifle tucked under her arm horizontally aiming where his attacker once stood.

She waddled her way over to Tohma and collapsed down beside him. "Mika, you shouldn't be down here! You could be killed or have a miscarriage!"

Mika slapped him in the face and screamed at him. "Shut up you idiot! Did I ever tell you that you could go and get your self wounded?" Tohma looked bewilderedly at his angry wife as she applied pressure to his bloody shoulder. He gasped in pain. "Serves you right you bastard." Mika's voice was wavering with the strain of keeping her tears at bay.

Tohma looked up at his wife and reached up to stroke a warm salty tear away from her cheek. "Mika don't worry, I'll be fine." Mika smiled slightly and leaned into his palm.

Tohma took his hand away from her cheek and rested it on her belly. No sooner had his hand touched the deep blue silk covering her bulging belly had his eyes widened and he looked at her in surprise. "The baby kicked me!"

Mika scowled at her husband while she wrapped him shoulder with a ripped piece of silk off his expensive shirt. "Of course the baby kicked you. It's as pissed at you as I am!" Tohma smiled then struggled to his feet and bent down to help his off balance wife to a standing position.

He picked up his sword and sheathed it pulling out his pistols. "Mika stay behind me and shoot anyone that gets near you." She nodded and they set off to head toward safety.

Eiri ripped through an ogre-esque man and took a flying leap down the stairs to land on the floor of the hull. Hissing as pain raced up the back of his calves, Eiri struggled to regain his balance and limped his way to a running pace.

The hull was practically deserted as all the remaining members of ASK were above deck waging war with Seguchi and K's men. Eiri was able to run freely to his destination: the brig.

He burst through the door guns blazing only to find a single unguarded inhabitant. The battered and blackened Ken rose from his sitting position on the cell floor and leaned against the rails. "Eiri Uesugi?"

Slowly putting down his guns Eiri took a couple of steps toward the cell. "Do you know where Shuichi is?"

Ken smiled brightly and straightened his posture. "We must hurry. I don't what all is going on up there, but it sounds bloody."

Eiri raised his pistol once more and pinned Ken with a suspicious glare. "Who are you? Why are you helping me?"

Taking a cautious step back Ken spread his fingers in the air to gesture no harm. "My name is Ken, I work for General K." Eiri's glare didn't lessen. He slowly raised his thumb and placed it on the hammer. "Uh... Uesugi-san?" He pulls the hammer back letting the ominous click echo through the brig.

"Eiri, Don't do this. I will take you to Shuichi, just help me out." His finger pressed slowly on the trigger. Ken's stuttering continued to grate on his nerves. He tightened his hold on the pistol grip and squeezed.

An explosion of metal and smoke erupts into the tiny space. Coughing and cussing clear the haze of fear and annoyance.

"What the fuck?!" Ken was growling while he waved an arm in the air to clear the smoke.

Eiri lowered the pistol and surveyed the swinging cell door. The bolt on the door was completely blown apart and shrapnel littered the floor. "Take me to Shuichi." 'Shuichi is all the matters.'

Ken lowered his arm and shoved past the mangled steel door leading the way through the hull toward the stern of the ship. "K said you had an attitude problem, but he didn't say you were crazy."

Reloaded his pistols and following Ken through the hull, the only thing Eiri could think about was getting to Shuichi. He didn't know whether he would be dead by the time they got there or wounded beyond healing, but he did know he had to get to him no matter what. In front of him Ken was having much the same thoughts about Ma.

Shuichi carefully helped Ma replace his tattered and bloodied clothes for pilfered ones they stole from Taki's wardrobe. He had already donned the over sized and rather smelly pair he picked out and now listened to the fighting and dying of men from just out side the door.

He itched to join the fight even though the locked door and his tattered body wouldn't allow it. Ma finished buttoning the last button and collapsed on the floor from pain and fatigue.

Shuichi rushed over to him and slowly helped him to a sitting position. Soon they would be out. He didn't know how but they just had to get. He had to get to Eiri. Had do see his Eiri!

Just then a gun shot rang out and a familiar voice yelled in fear and searching. "Shuichi!"

Shuichi's head shot toward the door, the only thing separating him from the man he loved. "Eiri!"

A/N Not the end yet, unless you want it to be. I hope the rape scene wasn't scary or graphic. I didn't want to make it a very large part of this chapter it was meant as a precursor to more events. What events you ask? You will just have to wait and see.

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