-1So just want to say thanks for reviews and all and I got to say that some people can really seem to read my mind in what's gonna happen but soon enough. Anyway sorry for months of nothing but I had a few prior engagements. It seems I ran into someone that I have to see everyday for now that plays a certain role in this story and it's depressing and disheartening so I couldn't bring myself to write for awhile. -But you guys don't care, just an explanation of the absence.(No torture here just plain blood)
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Quiet sobbing was faintly heard through the crackling fire that engulfed the walls. There was nothing left untouched except the backroom of the small house. There were men laughing outside running through the streets. They were pirates.
Inside the house a 5 year old girl was curled on the ground surrounded by a 5 other men. She had her hands over her face with her knees to her chest making herself as small as possible against the wall. Her white nightdress was stained red by the pool of blood accumulating around her. She peeked through her fingers and glanced around her at the people in front of her, but her eyes rested on the two bodies behind their feet. Her parents lay dead and were inhumanely murdered before her eyes...in a way she had never seen before. They were killed by a monster with strange powers that seemed to be the leader of these pirates. Strangely enough his skin could turn into metal into any shape on his appendages. Her parents have told her of these people before, they were called Akuma no Mi users.
"What's your name girl," whispered one of the men through his devilish smile.
The child looked up through watering eyes. "M..my name is C..Cai," she stuttered before breaking down again, "I..what did you do to mommy?"
The one she marked as their leader kneeled down in front of her. "Awh, I'm sorry baby, your mommy's gone forever," he said patting her head, " just look at her over there." He turned sideways to give her a better view of the bodies watching her with delight cover her eyes once again.
Her father's body was brutally beaten with his rib cage completely smashed down. Cai only remembered seeing the leader turn his metal hand into a sledge hammer shape and brought it down on her father's chest. She couldn't even recognize him now that his whole body was splattered with blood from the implosion of his internal organs. Her father had tried to protect his family and paid the price.
Her mom was bleeding through the throat, her eyes wide, and her nightdress inside out. Her mother was brought into another room with 3 other pirates while her father was being beaten and murdered. All she heard behind the door was her mother's strained whimpers and screams and the strangers laughs and grunts, and then silence. When the little girl saw the door open she watched the leader drag her mom out unconscious. Her nightdress was then, for some reason, inside out and ripped in peculiar areas. The leader dragged her limp body next to her father's mangled one. Just as abruptly as her father was taken away her mother was killed with a simple slit of the throat by the leader's hand.
The pirates roared in laughter above her as she cried for her parents. She was scared, and lost, and filled with rage. The beams of the house began to crash down while the fire raged on. She looked up at the men with fury as she stood up slowly suddenly filled with a rush of adrenaline. The men laughed harder watching her run to their legs kicking and puching at their shins.
The leader grabbed a fist full of hair picking her up off the ground to his eye level while she kept flailing her limbs trying to punch his face. She glared at him while he simply smirked at her hopeless attempt to avenge her parents.
"I don't like those eyes you're giving me," he said turning two fingers into needles, "I' hate it when people give me that look."
A blood curdling scream echoed through the burning town. For Cai it's when her world went black forever.
"Damn that was fun stuff!" cheered a pirate juggling boxes of loot towards the ship, "that was pretty awesome what you did back in that house, Captain Slyver.
The captain snorted and took a shot out of the liquor bottle he jacked from the town winery. His men followed obediently dragging the stolen goods from the burning town behind them. They were already on the docks walking towards the ship; half the men were drunk and the others were just on a regular high of adrenaline cavorting around. Suddenly the men around him stopped abruptly behind Slyver with confusion and disgust written on their faces. Slyver looked up to find a small figure blocking the entrance to the docks. It was the girl that he had left for dead in the last house they raided but how could she still be alive?
She lifted her head slowly revealing the horrid image of the depths of her absent eyes. Dried blood was smeared down her cheeks contrasting with her pale skin that glowed in the moonlight. Her nightdress was slightly singed probably from walking blindly in the flames but what surprised Slyver the most was her impassive facial expression.
"What the hell are you doing here child?" he barked. She slowly tilted her head to the side perking her ears to the sound of his voice.
"Bye-Bye"
Slyver fell to the ground with a thud while Cai sat on his chest cross-legged with her hand drenched in blood. The men were shocked to see her use the captain's powers as they eyed the metal ax that was her hand while Cai mirrored her own expression of surprise of her newfound power. Their captain's head rolled on the deck stopping in front his crew to show his face screwed up in surprise and fear.
"How the hell did she use Slyver's powers?!"
"She's a demon!"
Panic broke out as all the men ran past the little girl and Slyver to pile on the ship while Cai made no move to stop them. The Akuma no Mi user was her only enemy. She only sat there smiling to herself while the yelling from the ships slowly receded as the ship drew away from the island. She stood up and carefully walked to the end of the dock and sat on the edge over the water still smiling innocently to the sky.
"I never knew I could do that…"
She rubbed her now normal hands curiously kicking her legs over the water.
"Mommy always said I was special"
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Yep, just wanted to get Cai's past out of the way so you all know her reasons for being all revenge- like and cynical. Anyway, sorry for the length- I promise the next chapter will be much longer but I was busy with the piles of school stuff and a whole bunch of other stuff so Sorry again. Based on the last chapter or two I'm sure you figured out how she can copy Akuma no Mi/ Devil-Fruit users and on basic knowledge that once one sense in gone the brain focuses on another (loss of sightbetter hearing) so I didn't bother to explain it in the chapter.
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